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CM the) NEWS around ja if I I'M Si A 1 Food Riots In Red China HONG KONG (UPI). Chinese mobs have stormed a food rationing station in Communist Canton and other rioters battled police who blocked refugees from ffeeingr the hunger stricken city, reports from there said today. Reports received by a Chinese language newspaper here said Communist riot squads opened fire on the crowd, wounding at least 10. More than 6,000 persons were reported arrested and "man" injured. Washington Democratic congressional leaders, after meeting with President Kennedy, vow to push through as much of the Administration program "as humanly possible" this year.

President Kennedy receives official visit from President Roberto F. Chiari of Panama. Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del.) charges that either a "deal" or "blackmail" appears to be behind U.

S. Savings and Loan League's decision to drop letter-writing campaign against key part of President's tax revision bill. House Foreigr Affairs Committee scoffs at argu PROVING THEY'RE STEEL FRIENDS, President Kennedy and U. S. Steel presi 3 to to i UJ 2 a a dent Roirer llloiiph smile in Washington a.

meeting to Force's Task: Turn Off ger a "gold rush" on the deficit dropped to $2.5 bil-Treasury in late 1960. lion after exceeding $3 bil- In 1961, the net of dollars I lion during the three previ- the balance of payments ous years. 'Required' to Be B-Girl, Phila. Singer Testifies Special to the Daily News WASHINGTON. A pretty singer today told Senate investigators she was asked only three questions when she went to work for a Philadelphia night club.

The questions: ments that big cuts in foreign aid will help stem outflow of U. S. gold. House group to probe decision by auto makers to abandon 1957 industry resolution banning "horsepower race." Mexico City Newspaper reports Mexican Communist groups are organizing hostile reception for President Kennedy on his visit June 29. "Can you drink? Can you drink champagne? How much can you drink?" aniKci.

rn it ii rrequently are shunted out Hackett, of 15th St near OI tne union on trumped-up Delancey, Philadelphia, said charges when thev speak out the questions were posed to against Injustice, she her when she went to work 1 charged in the Bon Bon, a Philadel- Sne said thp J3 ft0o-im m-phia night club. ber AGVA had become She added, "You are re- ing more than a dues-colk ct-quired" to solicit customers infr agency that paid no heed 3 Rival Laotian Princes Sign Coalition Regime 'Peace' Pact TV. Tn Pniladelphia clubs where she worked MISS HACKETT was a principal witness in a jam- discuss dollar-drain problem. Gold Spigot a lUl oi uie IHKf Members of AG A. Including a growing number if striDDer and exotic rianccis IH 1 formers.

"FOKMEIM.Y. Me nkht clubs provided entertainment," she said. "Today, solutely no talent, Miss Singleton said, can become union members by paying a $150 initiation fee and minimum dues of $36 a year A-a result, she said, more and more exotic dancers hold union cards and now appa, ently make up the majority 0f members. JACK BRIGHT, administrative director of AGVA. said earlier in an interview that, most of the girls in his union never would stoop to WASHINGTON (UPI).

President Kennedy's business task force has agreed to try to find ways of shutting off the foreign drain on U. S. gold. Kennedy met with the group, headed by U. S.

Steel board chairman Roger Blough, with the White House calling the meeting, "most helpful." White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said the task force agreed to examine steps the government is taking to stem the flew of American dollars abroad. The businessmen will make sug-gestions on the subject to Kennedy when they feel it i would be "helpful or perti-! rent," Salinger said. KENNEDY, Salinger said, feels the cooperation of the task force "is most impor tant, the kind of cooperation that can be most helpful in business and government." The task force was set up by Blough several weeks ago Kennedy's suggestion after Blough asked how business leaders could help economic growth. I It was dpne shortly after the President turned on the steel industry for its planned price increase. KENNEDY ALSO met with his Cabinet after returning from Yale, where he made a commencement address strongly urging an accord between business and government.

Government financial experts are cautiously optimistic that the dollar drain can be cut off by 1964. The problem has plagued the nation since 1958 and helped trig- Irish Times, in Dublin, O'Sullivan -aid "ordinary educated Irish people" consider McCloskey's announcement as "brash vulgarity." His eal beef, his letter indicated, was that he feels a career diplomat should be assigned to Dublin. McCloskey, one of the nation's biggest building contractors, got the post after serving with distinction as chief fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Algiers Moslems and Europeans appear near compromise that could end six months of violence and set pattern for future cooperation in an independent Algeria. Lima Rival candidates in Peru's presidential election issue conflicting claims of victory while no official vote figures are expected for several days.

which Souvanna Phouma will be premier of a coalition government, drew blessings from such diverse capitals as Washington and London and Peiping. Officials in Washington said the U. S. was considering quick resumption of financial aid payments to Laos to help Boun Oum's present government meet its financial obligations before turning over power to the coalition. The U.

S. suspended the $3 million monthly payments last February in an effort to persuade Boun Oum and his deputy, strong man Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, to proceed with the coalition negotiations. Whether the coalition could actually bring peace and maintain a truly neutral country remained to be seen. because he said, at a Washington dinner, that he would land in Ireland shouting the ancient battle cry, "Fag a bealach." "Wonderful," was the reaction of most in the Auld Sod.

They said the Gaelic cry meant "clear the path," "get out of my way," or even "hurrah, I'm here." But author and lecturer Dolar O'Sullivan was abetter to the KHANG KHAY, Laos (UPI). The three rival princes of Laos today signed a formal agreement designed to restore peace to this tiny Southeast Asia kingdom. The agreement was signed in this rebel-held headquarters by "neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma, his half-brother( Prince Souphanou-vong of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, and rightwing Premier Prince Boun Oum. In it, the leaders of the three factions, which have heen warring for years, agreed to share the burden of bringing peace to Laos. (A Communist New China News A broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said ths formal agreement was signed today by the three rival princes.) THE AGREEMENT, by packed hearing room before there is an ever increasing Sen.

John L. McClellan's number of so-called strip Senate Rackets subcommit- clubs. The legitimate enter-tee. The group is investigat- tainer. dancer or singer who Jng charges that some lead- has talent and can put on a ers of the American Guild of good act if she is booked Variety Artists have cooper- these clubs is soon told that ated with hoodlum-con- if she does not conform to trolled clubs and burlesque house rules, that is.

mix with houses. the customers and solicit Miss Hackett was asked by drinks, she is not carrying Sen. McClellan if AGVA rep- weight and they do resentatives in Philadelphia want her. did anything to expose or "The result is that the correct the conditions she de- bonafide entertainer, unless scribed. she is illing to degrade i "They don't do a thing," elf- cannot find work." thp sinter rpnitprf Entertainers who have ab- McCloskey's Battle Cry Finds Foe in Eire The committee also hea.d actress Penny Singleton accuse AGVA of abandoning its dues-paying strip-teasers to the degradatoin of the B-girl's trade.

"I charge here and now that the exotic and strip artists have been abandoned and made outcasts by the very union to which they pay-dues for representation and protection," Miss Singleton declared. As Philadelphia's Matthew McCloskey surely is knowin', the easiest thing in the world to do is get the Irish to squabblin'. As newly-appointed U. S. ambassador to Ireland, however, McCloskey is anxious to see that the Irish don't get their dander up at any Americans.

But and it could hardly fail to happen he's got one mad at him already. Simply SHE RECITED a list of drinks from night club pa-alleged union abuses ranging trons for a cut of the take from failure to collect social He the union could security taxes to non-en- not be responsible for those forcement of union contracts few of its 400 to 500 strippt which forbid women enter-1 members who do double as tamers '1o cnoge1 drlhks' for bar girls..