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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL » NEWS J ■ BRIEFS NATIONAL: Ike Wants Budget to Reduce Public Debt WASHINGTON, May 13. — President Eisenhower said today that he wants not only a balanced budget from Congress, but enough federal revenue to start reducing the staggering public debt. In *discussing federal revenues at his news conference, he did not ask for any new income taxes. He also told reporters he was sending an immediate request to the House and Senate for speedier action on badly needed legislation to increase the federal lending authority for insuring mortgages, raising the gasoline tax for highway construction and legislation to cope with the mounting wheat surplus. President Hopeful Russians Will Refrain WASHINGTON, May 13. — President Eisenhower expressed hope today that the Russians would stop using the Geneva For? eign Ministers Conference as a propaganda platform so the meeting could start producing fruitful results. The, president told his news conference he had hoped the Soviet would avoid using the meeting for propaganda, because he was very anxious to have the negotiations as successful as possible. Instead, he said, the Geneva meeting, now in its third day, seemed to have been used so far by the Russians for the purpose of propaganda. Lewis Vociferous Opposina Labor Reform WASHINGTON, May 13-John L. Lewis, opposing labor reform legislation, told Congress in a booming voice today that it cannot weld "a cast-iron chastity belt around the waists of 16 million men without their consent." The 79 -year-old president of the United Mine Workers said all pending labor bills stem from "the rich, wealthy, and powerful . . . with axes to grind" and would discriminate against the poor. He also charged that the Senate-approved legislation discriminates" against unions by attempting to regulate the "morals" of only one segment of the populations. U. S. May Absorb First Missile Blow WASHINGTON, May 13.— A high-ranking military official said today that in any future missile war the United States might have to absorb the first enemy blows before launching its own missile counter attack. Vice-Admiral £ H. Sides said many authorities believe "that the chance for mistaken identities, false electronic indications and other kinds of false alarms might dictate that we must wait until warheads have landed within our boundaries before we could retaliate." State Department Seeks Brain Trust WASHINGTON, May 13.— The State Department wants to set up a "brain trust" whose sole duty would be to master-mind global political and economic warfare against the Communists. The plan was disclosed today when a House appropriations sub-committee made public testimony given last February by State Department officials. I FOREIGN: j Algiers Uprising Anniversary Quiet , ALGIERS, May 13. — The first anniversary of the "Algiers uprising" that helped sweep President Charles de Gaulle to power was observed today with a lack of en- thusiasm reflecting the unpopularity of the , presidents policies among Algerias Frenchmen. Only a few thousand persons — most of them Arabs — turned out to watch the i military parade which opened the anniver- i sary observance. i „ i Soviets Reject Western Unification Plans GENEVA, May 13. — The Soviet Union again rejected Western plans for German unification and pushed its own demand for admission of Poland" and Czechoslovakia as "full and equal" members of the I Foreign Ministers Conference today. The I Big Four parley met for its third session — and second working meeting — still deadlocked on the Soviet Unions attempt to pack the conference room with its Communist satellites. Harriman Finds Moscow Different MOSCOW, May 13.— W. Averill Harriman, former governor of New York and one-time U. S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, was back in Moscow for a visit today and found things different. He had to get up early in the morning. Harriman conferred with Yuri Zhukov, president of the State Committee on Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, to work out a program for his month-long tour of the U. S. S. R. % Queen to Officiate at New Airport OTTAWA, May 13.— One of Queen Elizabeths first acts upon arriving in Canada June 18 will be to officially open the International Air Terminal at Gander, Nfldr, and meet some of the workmen who helped build it.
