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: , UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP FOREIGN: Two North Korean Airmen Fly to Freedom SEOUL CITY AIRPORT, Korea, June 21. Two North Korean airmen, one of whom said he had received MIG fighter-plane training in Russia, flew a Soviet-built Communist Air Force plane through Red and United Nations defenses to freedom here today. A U. S. Air Force spokesman said he could not explain how the plane, with huge Red stars, on the fuselage, could fly across the demilitarized zone and nearly 30 miles into South Korea in daylight without being detected. Believe American Bandits Trapped NAPLES, Italy, June 21. The hush-hush international police agency, Interpol, claimed today to have traced to this Tyrrhenian port the. bandits who staged the largest all-cash robbery in American history. Interpol arid the Italian police said they believe the four "highly dangerous" gunmen and their Canadian gun moll are bottled up here after a cops-and-robbers chase across half a dozen international frontiers. Arrest may be made shortly, they said. Bulganin to Visit India: Nehru MOSCOW, Russia, June 21. Indias Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru announced today that Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin will visit India. He said no date for-the visit has as yet been fixed. "People usually come to India in the winter," Nehru said. The Indian prime minister made his disclosure of Bulganins intended trip at a press conference. He said he invited Bulganin to pay the visit and that the Soviet premier accepted. Nehru spoke to about 75 Soviet, Indian and Western newsmen at the press conference. Charge U.S. Backed Rebellion Organizers LONDON, England, June 21. Moscow Radio charged today that sources in the United States backed the organizers of the Argentine rebellion against President Juan D. Peron. Commentator V. Kharkov said, in an international review prepared by the Tass News Agency, that the bloody events in the South American nation "go beyond the framework of the international political life of this country Argentina." Churchill Optimistic for Future LONDON, England, June 21. Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today he is optimistic for the future, but warned the Free World not to expect too much of next months talks with Russia. He said the West should persevere in a policy of peace through strength, just in case the coming Big Four conference is not "a complete and immediate success." Churchill, who has been a long-time advocate of a face-to-face meeting with Soviet leaders in an attempt to end the Cold War, spoke today at the unveiling of a bronze statue of himself in Londons historic, 500-year-old Guildhall. NATIONAL: Reject Vinsons Compromise Reserve Bill WASHINGTON, D. C, June 21. The House Armed Services Committee rebelled against its chairman today and voted to send a watered-down version of President Eisenhowers compulsory military reserve plan to a subcommittee for five days .of study. By a 16 to 14 vote, the committee rejected an urgent plea by Chairman Carl Vinson D.-Ga. , for immediate approval of his compromise bill. Meany Says GAW Establishes Principle NEW YORK, N. Y., June 21. AFL president George Meany today hailed the guaranteed annual wage won from the auto industry by CIO president Walter Reuther as establishing a principle which "will hit practically every bargaining table in the next .couple of years." Meany made his statement to newsmen as he arrived on the liner United States from Europe where he attended the Vienna conference of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions last month. Molotov Agrees Ike Should Be Chairman SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 21. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov apparently has agreed to a proposal for President Eisenhower to serve as chairman for the first meeting of next months "Summit Conference" in Geneva, it was disclosed today. The proposal was one of several submitted to the Soviet foreign minister yesterday by the foreign ministers of the Big Three Western powers gathered in San Francisco for the, 10th anniversary of the United Nations. Eisenhower Signs Tariff Bill WASHINGTON, D. C, June 21. President Eisenhower today signed a bill granting him the power he wanted to lower tariffs. But some Democrats said the new law actually will put him under "terrific pressure" to raise them. It revives, revamps and extends to June 30, 1958, the Reciprocal Trade Program launched June 12, 1934. The program, previously renewed nine times, expired at midnight June 12. The new law grants the presidents request for authority to lower tariffs five per cent a year for three years to expand world trade.
