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UNITED PRESS NEV S BRIEFS NATIONAL Approve Eisenhowers New Defense Budget WASHINGTON D C May 3 The House Appropriations Committee today ap ¬ proved with only minor reductions Presi ¬ dent Eisenhowers new 336 billion defense budget The committee called it generally adequate but not big enough to keep ahead of Russias growing air power The bill ap ¬ proved by the committee would appropri ¬ ate about a halfbillion less than the President requested The committee said the bill would support total defense out ¬ lays of about 359 billion in fiscal 1957 increasing the strength of all three serv ¬ ices The committee said the new military budget is geared to new weapons increased air power and greater emphasis on re ¬ search All told more than 55 billion will be spent on military research and de ¬ velopment velopmentHammarskjold Hammarskjold Reports Success a UNITED NATIONS N Y May 3 Sec ¬ retaryGeneral Dag Hammarskjold today reported success in his Palestine peace mis ¬ sion In a preliminary report to the United Nations Security Council Hammarskjold said his negotiations with Israel and her Arab neighbors for a cease fire along their strifetorn borders have in all cases been concluded with positive results The cease fire I have aimed at under my mandate from the Security Council Hammarskjold reported is one governed by a reaffirma reaffirmaiven iven to th UN to comply unconditionally with the fundamental clause of the various armis ¬ tice agreements and establishes anew the legal situation on which the armistice regime was to be founded foundedPan Pan American Proposes LowFare Service ServiceNEW NEW YORK N Y May 3 Pan Ameri ¬ can World Airways proposed today a new lowfare air service on international pas ¬ senger flights that would be 15 to 20 per cent below present tourist fares and 40 to 50 per cent below present first class fares Before it could become effective the pro I posal would have to meet with the approval approvali i nf tbp Tntprnnfinnal Air TVnnsnnrf AucnHn tion as well as the Civil Aeronautics Board BoardLehman Lehman Assails Administration AdministrationNEW NEW YORK N Y May 3 Senator Herbert H Lehman DN Y said tonight the Eisenhower administration has sold the country a bill of goods with its slogan of peace and prosperity In an address at the annual dinner sponsored by the Bronx said the GOP illusion that all is well is as dangerous as a dope addicts dream He said the world trembles with tensions while great numbers of our people have been lulled into a sense of complacency about the peace that we enjoy enjoyFOREIGN FOREIGN FOREIGNThirtyThree ThirtyThree RampageMARRAKECH Dead in New Rampage MARRAKECH Morocco May 3 Mobs of Moroccan Nationalists surged through the native district for the second day to ¬ day torturing and murdering residents in a bloodletting that left at least 33 persons dead First reports from the scene said five more followers of the late pro French Pasha El Claoui were shot cut to pieces or tortured to death this morning The rampage was similar to one yesterday in the same area in which 28 persons were killed killedFrance France AgreementPARIS and Germany Reach Agreement PARIS France May 3 France and Germany reached full agreement today jn a j jv11 11 itui vj iuir WUJ1U uisariiia uisariiiament ment to the reunification of the split Ger ¬ man nation The agreement was reached at an hourandahalf meeting this morn ¬ ing between Premier Guy Mollet and For ¬ eign Minister Christian Pineau with West German Minister Heinrich Von Brentano The decision swept away German suspi ¬ cions over French intentions on the eve of a crucial meeting of the NATO Council at which plans will be discussed io broaden the alliances purely military nature into political and economic fields fieldsNewsmen Newsmen OpenerKWAJALELN to Witness HBomb Test Opener KWAJALELN May 3 The 1956 nuclear test series opens Friday with the explosion of a small atomic warhead off Eniwetok weather permitting Fifteen newsmen and 21 civil defense officials will witness the test opener as unofficial observers They flew here today from Honolulu en route to Bikini to see Americas first Hbomb air ¬ drop scheduled for May 8 That shot is still on the schedule with no delay in sight However test officials decided to give newsmen a bonus shot Fridays shot will be a small atomic device in the Kiloton range That means its powers are equal to only a few thousand tons of TNT TNTDisarmament Disarmament Subcommittee Halts Talks TalksLONDON LONDON England May 3 The Five Power Disarmament Subcommittee voted unanimously today to break off its dead locked talks The delegates from the United States Britain France Soviet Union and Canada will hold a final ses ¬ sion Friday and then toss the unsettled question of farms and troop cutbacks to the United Nations official Sources said
