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I i . | * i UNITED PRESS I NEWS ROUND-UP NATIONAL: Wolfson Claims Three Ward Sears Financier Louis E. Wolfson Friday claimed three seats on the nine-man Montgomery Ward and Co. board of directors on the basis of a stockholders vote as announced officially. Wolfsons slate got 18,496 proxies representing 1,793,398 shares. The slate headed by his incumbent opponent, 82-year-old Sewell Avery, got 46,710 proxies representing 4,033,481 shares. Avery last week stepped down as chairman of the board and his place was taken by John A. Barr. Convict Shot by Inmate in Riot GREENVILLE, N. C, May 13.— A rioting convict was shot and wounded today as he threatened to kill a fellow inmate who refused to join a noisy uprising at the state prison camp here. About 50 convicts were locked in a cellblock where camp officials said "about five" troublemakers began the riot fast night. Swarms of highway patrolmen, city police, sheriffs officers and firemen went to the scene. Eisenhower Nominates Two Judges WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13.— President Eisenhower today nominated a new judge for the Second Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. J. Edward Lumbard of New York, now the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was nominated to the Second Circuit vacancy caused by the elevation of John Marshall Harlan to the U. S. Supreme Court. Lumbard, 53 is a Republican. Howard F. Vultee of Ridge-wood, N. J., and a New York bank executive, was also nominated to be director of the Office of Economic Affairs for the U. S. mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Name Taylor to Army Chief of Staff WASHINGTON, D. C, May 13.— Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor was nominated today by President Eisenhower to be Army Chief of Staff, replacing Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway who will retire June 30. Taylor is now Far East Commander in Chief of all U. S. and United Nations forces. He will be replaced in these two commands by Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer. Lemnitzer now commands Army forces in the Far East and the Eighth Army. FOREIGN: Reds Take.OvjHdiphbng Base SAIGON, flflHhha, May 13. — Communist Viet Minh froftps waving clenched fists thundered triumphantly into Haiphong today in Soviet-built Molotov trucks and the Iron Curtain slammed down on Indochinas best naval base. France surrendered her last foothold in northern Viet Nam to the Communist regime of Ho Chi Minh today under the terms of the Geneva Conference. Dulles Joins in Treaty Signing VIENNA, Austria, May 13. — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Vienna today to join the other Big Three foreign ministers in signing the Austrian State Treaty and to arrange for a later Big Four meeting of heads of government. Dulles, almost mobbed by photographers when he arrived from Paris at 12:42 n. m. 6:42 a. m. CDT, told reporters* "I have traveled to many countries on many missions, but I have never felt more satisfaction than to come here to sign this treaty." Communist Countries Unify Defenses - WARSAW, Poland, May 13.— The Soviet Union and seven East European Communist nations agreed today to unite their massive armed forces under a single military command. A communique announcing the decision was issued after this mornings session under the chairmanship of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Polish Council of Ministers. The conference was convened to strengthen Communist countries through mutual aid and unified defense as a result of the rearming of West Germany. French Set Up Giant Airlift PARIS, France, May 13.— The French government set up a giant airlift today to ferry 2,000 gendarmes to Algeria to smash a rebel army. The Interior Ministry announced the field gendarmes will be flown within 48 hours from French airfields to the northern sector of the Constantine Department, where the insurgent "Army of God" is harassing French troops and villages in daring day and night raids. Interior Minister Maurice Bourges-Man-oury assured the Assemblys interior committee his government will spare no efforts to uproot the rebels who want to throw the French out of Algeria and establish an independent republic Elbe River Veterans End Reunion MOSCOW, Russia, May 13.— Nine American veterans of the Elbe River link-up flew homeward today with "friendly greetings and best wishes" for President Eisenhower from the Soviet chief of staff. The Americans ended a five-day reunion with the Russian veterans of the historic link-up of their two armies 10 years ago. The Russians provided vodka, caviar and American - style beefsteak dinners and photographing tours of the Moscow subway and the Kremlin. Discuss Foreign News and Reader COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 13.— The fourth annual assembly of the International Press Institute took up today the subject of "foreign news and the reader." J. M. Lucker of De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, and Mme. Dominique Aucleres of Le Figaro, Paris, and E. Carlebach of Maariv, Tel Aviv, planned to discuss the technical problem of interesting the reader in foreign news. Sir Christopher Hinton, director of the industrial and power group, British Atomic Energy Authority, was to speak at lunch on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. U. N. Command Protest Sent Reds PANMUNJOM, Korea, May 13.— The United Nations Military Command protested to the Communists today over the "unprovoked attack" by Soviet-built MIG fighters on American Sabre jets over the Yellow Sea Tuesday. The protest which was authorized by the U. S. State Department told the Reds "you are officially warned that if the aircraft of our side are attacked they will defend themselves." It warned that the U. N. command "will not be deterred by such hostile and illegal acts" from making flights over international waters. Such flights are the "unquestioned right" of the U. N. Military Command, said the note.
