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. . UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP FOREIGN: Thirty-Two Leave for Red China HONG KONG, China, June 16. Thirty-two Chinese from the United States today left Hong Kong by train for Red China. The group is believed to include a number of Chinese students whose return to the Communist mainland has been demanded by the Peiping regime. The Chinese repatriates were escorted to the Red frontier by British immigration authorities. Workers Losing Interest in Walkout SINGAPORE, China, June 16. The 17,000 striking workers paralyzing this important southeast Asia port showed signs today of losing interest in their walkout "without grievance." No new strikes were reported and the city remained quiet for the second successive day. A delegation from the Trade Union Congress and the City Council Federation of Labor Unions .met with Chief Minister David Marshall to discuss the general strike in protest against the arrest of six union leaders. Details of the meeting were not released. Queen Mary Cancellation Strands 1,750 LONDON, England, June 16. Wildcat strikers today forced the blue-ribbon liner Queen Mary to cancel its sailing for New York, stranding 1,750 passengers. Many-passengers complained they are "nearly broke." Wildcat strikes of dock workers, seamen and caterers have tied up 250 ships and have left thousands of American tourists "on the beach" seeking air or other passage home. The Cabinet met for two hours to consider what might be done to end the 24-day walkout of the dockers and seamen in six ports. British Sub Explodes; Thirteen Dead PORTLAND, England, June 16. The British submarine Sidon exploded today in a mushroom plume of yellow smoke and plunged to the bottom of Portland harbor, carrying 13 men to their deaths. Seven seamen were hospitalized with injuries. The explosion, apparently in the torpedo compartment, ripped open the 217-foot submarine and sank it. Start Draft of Striking Merchant Seamen LONDON, England, June 16. The British Government today began drafting striking merchant seamen into the military services after their unofficial strike had halted the sailing of the luxury liner Queen Mary and other passenger ships. Thousands of tourists were stranded. A Labor Ministry spokesman said that the draft of merchant seamen was a "normal procedure" and not an official attempt to "break" a 24-day-old dock tie-up. The spokesman admitted, however, that striking seamen were affected by the call-up of merchant sailors. Vatican Excommunicates Peron VATICAN CITY, Italy, June 16. The Vatican today excommunicated President Juan D. Peron of Argentina and all others involved in Argentinas campaign of arrests and violence against the Roman .Catholic Church. The action imposes on those responsible for the anti-church campaign the most drastic penalty possible under Roman Catholic canon law. Excommunication was formally and officially decreed in swift reaction to the arrest and deportation from Argentina of two of the highest dignitaries of the church. NATIONAL: MacMillan, Pinay Arrive for Confabs NEW YORK, N. Y., June 16. British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay arrived in New York today for conferences with U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at which the Wests strategy for the Big Four meeting -at Geneva will be drafted. i Adenauer Optimistic on Big Four CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 16. West German Chancellor Konard Adenauer said today prospects for next months Big Four "summit" conference with the Soviets are "better than at any recent Cold War parley.. He urged the United States again to take the initiative in proposing a sweeping world-wide plan for controlled disarmament. He warned, too, that unless the. United States and Soviet Russia agree on such a plan, "the present state of conflicts short of a major war will continue." Sinclair Reaches New Contract Agreement NEW YORK, N. Y., June 16. The Sinclair Oil Company today reached a new contract agreement with some 10,000 members of the Oil, Chemical and, Atomic Workers, CIO. In a joint statement issued early today, Millard" C. Stone, director of industrial relations for Sinclair, and Ben J. Schafer, vice-president of the OCAW-CIO said agreement had been reached on a general wage increase of 10 cents an hour retroactive to March 1 and substantial increases in sickness and accident benefits in addition to other contract improvements. Ike Confers in Secret Pentagon EMERGENCY WHITE HOUSE, June 16. President Eisenhower conferred in the secret underground Pentagon with his National Security Council today on the nation-wide atomic "disaster" which he said produced "more complications than I ever believed possible." The president moved with his top military and defense advisers to the huge man-made cavern in a realistic follow-up to the imaginary nuclear attack which theoretically knocked out the capital and 60 other U. S. cities yesterday. x Powell to Invite Menon to Meeting , WASHINGTON, D. C, June 16. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., D.-N.Y. said today he plans to invite roving Indian Ambassador V. K. Krishna Menon to meet with House and Senate members in an of f -the-record session designed to promote better U. S.-Indian relations. Menon, who recently visited Red China and conferred Tuesday with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, has been regarded with suspicion by some congressmen who think that he is too sympathetic to Red China, Drive to Overhaul Election Laws Hits Snag WASHINGTON, D. C, June 16. A new drive to overhaul federal election laws ran into heavy opposition today from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the Senate. Objections were raised to -a proposal to put primary campaigns under federal regulation and to requirements for campaign spending reports which Republicans argued would be much too burdensome.. The vehicle for the proposed rewriting of federal election laws was a bill sponsored by Sen. Thomas C. Hennings D.-Mo. and approved by the Senate Rules Committee yesterday on a party-line vote.
