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UNITED PRESS 1 NEWS —BRIEFS NATIONAL: Eisenhower Opposes Price, Wage Controls WASHINGTON, D. C, June 26.— President Eisenhower said today he vigorously opposes price and wage controls as a means of combatting inflationary pressures. Eisenhower renewed an appeal to business and labor leaders to show extreme, restraint in price and wage increases. He told his news conference that corporation directors should put price increases into effect only if they are absolutely necessary. Alcorn Reviews Democratic Platforms SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 26. — Republican National Chairman Meade. Alcorn said today that if 1956 Democratic campaign platforms had become effective, the present federal budget would be higher by 20 billion dollars. He said non-military spending bills introduced so far this year by Western and Northern Democrats "would conservatively add 5,600,000,000 to the annual budgets of the United States." Brewster Convicted of Contempt WASHINGTON, D. C, June 26.— Federal Judge John J. Sirica today convicted Teamsters Union Vice-President Frank W. Brewster of contempt of Congress. Brewster, head of the Teamsters 11-state Western Conference* was charged with contempt because he refused to give evidence early this year before the Senate Investigating Sub- Health Service Speeds Flu Preparation WASHINGTON, D. C, June 26.— The U. S. Public Health Service, still jittery from the polio vaccine row, is speeding preparation for a possible "oriental flu" epidemic. Public Health spokesmen said that as yet there is no way of knowing whether the mysterious new flu virus, which has afflicted millions in Asio, will cause a major epidemic in this country. Thus far, they said, there have been three known outbreaks in this country— at Naval stations at Norfolk, Va., Newport, R. I., and San Diego, none of which thus far have spread to surrounding communities. They said it will be another week or more before it is known whether the outbreaks have been confined to the naval bases. Part of Coconino Forest to Indian Bureau WASHINGTON, D. C, June 26.— The Interior Department announced today it is transferring 75 acres of the Coconino National Forest, near Flagstaff, Ariz., to the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Interior Undersecretary Hatfield Chilson said the action was taken to enable the Navajo trible to expand its industrial development program. The Indian Bureau will make the land available to the Nava-jos for an industrial site to provide additional employment opportunities for the Navajos, Chilson said. FOREIGN: Report Body of That Frogman Crabb CHICHESTER, England, June 26. — A coroner ruled today that a headless, hand- less body found floating in the harbor here was that of Commdr. Lionel Buster Crabb, the British frogman who vanished last year while apparently checking a Soviet cruiser. Crabb, a tough 46-year-old war hero, was last seen alive in Portsmouth in April 1956, during the visit of the Russian warships that brought-Soviet leaders Nikita Ksrushchev and Nicolai Bulganin j on a state visit to Britain. The body wask found floating in Chichester Harbor on j June 9, almost 14 months later. j ft Israeli Settlements ] Strengthen Defen:es JERUSALEM, Israel, June 26.— Israeli* settlements close to the Syrian Border were reported strengthening their defenses today against the movement of Syrian troops toward the border area. Farmers in the, area reported Syrian troops moving up reinforcements and said a large numer of infantrymen had been seen in the Kfar Szold area near the Northeast corner of, Israel. The armed settlers took turns patrolling trenches near the border while children practiced defense drills againsff the possibility of renewed Syrian gunfire from across the frontier. i- N. Korea Joins Red China in Unification PANMUNJOM, Korea, June 26.— Communist North Korea joined Red China today in calling for negotiations for the "peaceful unification" of North and South Korea, but the U. N.. Command dismissed the appeal as mere propaganda. The West ern Allies also rejected a Communist de mand that the U. N. Command cancel its . plans to bring new atomic weapons intdfl the Republic of Korea to match the Com J munist build-up in the north, and to withfl draw all foreign troops from Korea. m
