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UNITED PRESS 1 NEWS BRIEFS NATIONAL: Half-Million Auto Workers Idled DETROIT, Michigan, May 11. — Sagging car sales and resultant production cutbacks today idled about half a million auto workers throughout the nation. General Motors Corp., employing some 390,000 hourly rated workers, shut down all its automotive assembly operations until Monday "to balance production with current customer demand." Ike to Attend Conference in Panama WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11.— President Eisenhower today formally accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of the 21 American states at Panama on June 25-26. The Presidents formal decision to attend the meeting was sent to Ricardo M. Arias Espinosa, president of Panama. The announcement was made by the White House. Truman Carries Passport to Europe NEW YORK, N. Y., May 11.— Former president Harry S. Truman left for his third trip to Europe today with his very first U. S. passport in hand. He hadnt needed, one as a World War I. artillery officer or as president of. the United States, Mr. Truman explained. This time, he said, hes going "as Mr. Truman from Missouri — to be shown." Growing Cost of Farm Program -WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11.— The House Appropriations Committee recommended today that Congress hand the Agriculture Department almost billion in cash. Congress promptly put two and two together and discovered it is being asked to put up almost billion this year to meet the growing cost of the farm program. FOREIGN: More Defensive Arms to Israel LONDON, England,. May 11.— Britain and France soon will ship more defensive arms to Israel with United States approval, authoritative sources disclosed today. The shipments will be carried out. in close coordination among the Western powers and will be "on a moderate scale," the sources said. Britain is expected to send Israel the new shipments, chiefly ground weapons and anti-aircraft guns, "in the very near future," the sources said. Seek-Step-by-Step Disarmament PARIS, France, May 11. — Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and French Premier Guy Mollet agreed today to seek step-by-step disarmament. They said this "would lessen world tension and permit more aid to underdeveloped countries." The two leaders met in the Yugoslav Embassy for their concluding talk on the fifth and last day of Titos state visit to Paris. Red Press Hits at British Frogman Act * MOSCOW, Russia, May 11.— The Soviet press accused Britain today of engaging in "shameful underwater esponiage" against the Soviet cruiser that took Nikita S. Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin to Britain. The official Communist Party organ Pravda and the government organ Izvestia broke silence for the first time on the case of missing British frogman Lionel Crabb who swam out and vanished April 19 near the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbor. Consider Joint Allied Scheme LONDON, England, May 11.— The United States is consulting with its major allies on a new world economic development scheme closely resembling the Marshall Plan, diplomatic sources said today. The United States was reported here to have under consideration a joint scheme on a global scale with its European allies. Emphasis is on co-operation rather than aid. Dulles Sister Accused of Spy Work BERLIN, Germany, May 11.— East German Communists today accused the sister of Secretary John Foster Dulles of masterminding a spy tunnel to "tap" Red telephone lines. The East German radio said Mrs. Eleanor Dulles "actively supported the construction of the wire-tapping tunnel" between East and West Berlin. Report Two British Soldiers Hanged NICOSIA, Cyprus, May 11.— The pro-Greek underground leader in Cyprus announced today he has hanged two British soldier hostages in retaliation against the British hanging of two Cypriot gunmen yesterday. The news electrified British headquarters from Nicosia to London despite threats by the pro-Greek underground Eoka to extract biblical vengeance for the hangings— an eye-for-an-eye. There was no immediate British confirmation of the underground announcement that British corporals Gordon Hill and Ronnie Shilton had been hanged.
