Macmillan Calls Parley Valuable, Has Little Hope for Berlin Truce; McDonald Favors Shorter Hours

KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 27--British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declared tonight his Kremlin talks were "a valuable preparation for wider international negotiations which must follow." But he said the Soviet Union must show it is ready to reach fair agreement if it really wants peace.

Sources close to the British delegation said Macmillan his abandoned hope of bringing East and West closer together on the Berlin crisis in view of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's uncompromising stand.

Macmillan flies to Leningrad Saturday.

Steel Union Official Favors Short Work Week

PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27--David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, talked with enthusiasm today about workers spending less time in mills. But he said the USW policy makers must decide if reduced work schedules will be an issue in forthcoming contract negotiations with the basic steel firms.

McDonald, at a special news conference, said even reduced work schedules would not entirely solve the unemployment problem in the steel industry.

Democrats Choose Los Angeles Convention Site

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27--Democrats settled today on Los Angeles as the site for their 1960 presidential nominating convention, but only after a five-hour wrangle.

The Democratic National Committee rejected competing bids of Philadelphia and Chicago for the convention scheduled to open on July 11, 1960.

Moscow Calls Boarding Unlawful

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27--The official Soviet news agency Tass tonight described a U.S. Navy boarding of a Soviet fishing vessel as an unlawful action, but the State Department indicated it won't apologize.

Moscow radio and Tass, for the first time, carried factual dispatches from New York reporting that a Navy boarding party had inspected the records of the trawler about 120 miles off Newfoundland.