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UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP r i NATIONAL: Martin Says House Will Vote for FAB WASHINGTON, D. C, June 29. House GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., said the House will beat down moves today to slash President Eisenhowers ,285,000,000 foreign aid bill. The Massachusetts congressman told a reporter most House members will vote "with the president " particularly in view of the need for a show of strength for thq forthcoming Big Four meeting With Russia. The House prepared to start voting on -a score of amendments to the biliy but it was doubtful whether a final vote on the measure would come today. Call For Bolder U.S. Counter-Spying WASHINGTON, D. C, June 29. A Hoover Commission task force called today for bolder U. -S. counter-spying on Russia and other Communist countries as a matter of "self-preservation and to forestall the possibility of another Pearl Harbor. To this end, it recommended a reorganization of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA so there can be "complete, prompt and continuing information on the plans and potentialities of those jvho would enslave the Free World." Ike Believes Easing Tension Chances Good WASHINGTON, D. C, June 29. President Eisenhower said today he believes that chances of easing world tensions and fears are better than he thought two months ago. He told a news conference he based this at least partly on what he had learned of last weeks United Nations Anniversary Meeting in San Francisco. Predicts President Unable To Rescue WEST ISLIP, N. Y., June 29. Gov. Averell Harriman predicted here last night that President Eisenhower will not be able to rescure the Republican Party from "its own unpopularity" in 1956. Harriman referred to a recent statement by Vice-President Nixon which, the governor said, "In effect" announced that the Republican Party "is so unpopular that the only chance it has of winning is to renominate President Eisenhower." Testifies He Was Commie Member WASHINGTON, D. C, June 29. CBS news correspondent Winston Burdett testified today that he was a member of the Communist Party from 1937 to 1942 and engaged in espionage abroad for the Communists. Burdett told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee he joined the party when he was an editorial worker on the Brooklyn N.Y. Daily Eagle in 1937. He named 12 other employes of the now defunct Eagle who, he said, also were members of the Communist unit on the newspaper. The newspaper ceased publication this year. Steel Producers Hopeful of Settlement PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 29. The nations steel producers, still deadlocked but hopeful of reaching a wage settlement with the CIO United Steel Workers, slashed production today in preparation for a midnight Thursday strike deadline The USW posted picket schedules and stacked picket signs in local union offices near the big mills. FOREIGN: Korea Resolves for Approval of Aid SEOUL, Korea, June 29. The Republic of Koreas National Assembly today passed a motion to send official appeals to the United States for approval of Koreas 80,000,000 economic aid request now under discussion in Washington. The resolution also asked the United States to expand military assistance and to re-inforce the United Nations forces in the face of the Communist military buildup in North Korea. Lattimore Very Surprised, Happy STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 29. Owen Lattimore said today he was "very surprised and very happy" that the U. S. Government had dropped its 3-year-old perjury case against him. "I did not expect the decision so soon," he said when told of the decision by United Press. "But on the other hand, J think that they should have made a decision a very long time ago." Lattimore is vacationing in .Sweden after a lecture tour in Britain. Israel Premier Sharett Resigns JERUSALEM, Israel, June 29. Israeli Premier Moshe Sharett and his government resigned today. President Isaac Ben-Zvi immediately called in party leaders for consultations in an effort to form a new government. Sharett quit because the General Zionists refused to vote with his Mapai Party to stave off a no-confidence vote in the Knesset Parliament last night on the governments conduct of the "Kastner case." More Than 1,000 Enter Red China HONG KONG, China, June 29. More than 1,000 Chinese from Indonesia and Singapore, most of them students, crossed quietly into Red China today. All were loaded with luggage. Many had tennis rackets, thermos jugs and other parapher-, nalia that will be out of place under the austere Communist regime. Union Declares Dock Strike at End LONDON, England, June 29. Britains giant Trades Union Congress TUC today declared the 62-week wildcat dock strike "at an end" and ordered 18,500 striking stevedores and dock workers back on the job. However, there was no immediate indication that the stevedores union would obey the parent organizations order. The setevedores national executive committee said it would meet Thursday to discuss the order. Pope Blesses 100,000 in Square VATICAN CITY, Italy, June 29. Pope Pius XII today blessed a throng of more than 100,000 persons who flocked to St. Peters Square to mark the feast day of the first pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The 79-year-old Pontiff appeared at the. window of his study to impart his benediction to the crowd which gathered on the dampened cobblestones below. The sun broke through the rainy skies as the Pope appeared.
