SUB SHOOTING An investigation of the shootin n Congress afternoon shows tbat there were four Puerto Rican fanatics 1n the plot - three men and a woman. Three, including the woman - in the actual gun plai One man - assigned to reload the pistols. The leader was the woman, Mrs. Lolita Lebron ot New York city. She's u . th1rty-three years old - and colleague of the wife of one of the two terrorlata 1n . C the atte . . t to assassinate President Trwlari ••••~1 ~• Oscar Collazo, who is now serving a lite sentence ln l!M One unconfil'Md report is that Mrs. Lebron 11 the wtdoW of the UM terrorist killer in the Truman shooting. Jlew York rooming houae where she lived, police tm\Sgbt tound ,_,. letterheads llatlng her as - "President ot the Pu.erto Rican WOlllen tor liberty." The letterheads list Mrs. Collazo - - aa - "the aecNtary." other stationery is marked - "'ftle lat1ona111t1 PartJ or Puerto Rico, Junta of Mew York." SUB SHOOTING - 2 Recently, the to women we re arrested for picketing the UN along wi th nine other w omen. Carrying placards demandin g "freedom" for Puerto Rico. Moreover, Mrs. Lebron had been arrested several times for larceny. 'llle police have ascertained the plot was fol'lled on February twenty-second - Washington's birthda1. Ila - - ~ M l ~ Tonight, Mrs. Lebron stated that they picked ~•1 tor the shooting - because this was the opening of the Pan Allertoan conterence at Caracas, Venezuela. They wanted to lliake a terrorists demonstration. 'ftle7 proceeded troll New York to Wuh~an thia aomlng - with one way ticket■;expectihg to be killed. They had no trouble p b b p getting into the Visitors gallery of the House ot Representative■, wb10h 11 open to the public. They sat quietly, until Mra. Lebron gave the signal. She Jumped up, waved a Puerto Rican tlag ' and ahouted "tree Puerto Rico." Then - started shooting. SUB SHOOTING - 3 Firing a pistol w ith t w o hands - swee pin g lt like a machine gun. Two of the men w ith her joined in the fusilade their pistols. raked the floor in the House of Representat1 dred Congressmen were in session. As lll8DJ aa thirty shot fired. Congressmen ducking to cover. SOiie - One - striking him Ill in the leg. piercing h1a -IQ body Just below the rlbe. the doctors Congressman Bentley baa a tltty-tl!IJ chance ot Repreaentll.ve Ben Jensen of Iowa was shot 1n bac and had to be given blood tran1N1lona, apparently. Five legislators, · 1n all, were h1t SUB SHOOTING 4 Davis of Tennessee, and Kenneth Robert s of Alabama- hit in the le g . Co ng ressman Fallon of Maryland, shot in the hip. SHOOTING-VAN ZANDT ~ y .... 1, A,_an . Zandt of Pennsy] 1 ania - a d ecorated veteran of Two World Wars, a»d former_commander of the veterans of Foreign War~ ~4-~~ - - ~ · "'All the news dispatches are telling how the fifty-five year ol . legislator went a dashing to the spectators• gallery, Ind helped to disarm the terrorists. When it was all over, aa toD>wa: "I was sitting about tour or tive rowa back ot the House chamber, when I heard mat appeared to tireworkaj he relates. "! saw a group up 1n the gall•ff• waYing guns, and tir~. I lnnediately hit the noor 1n a11le on my - atomach - and crawled to the Repu11can - cloak room door, on my hands and knees." So there you have the veteran soldier, bow to advance under tire. "Th n - ' en Van Zandt goes on, 'I ran up the 1tep1 SHOOTING VAN ZANDT - 2 the gallerie s . A gi rl as Just coming out, an d several people g rabbed her. A six foot Puerto Rican came out next, and I grabbed him - and took a Luger pistol away from hiiD." Then the Congressman saw a spectator wrestling witb a smaller Puerto Rican - who had a Luger in his hand. "I ran to help the spectator," the Congressman relates, adds: "The little Puerto Rican wouldn't let go ot the 111.,_ • • S011eone stepped on his wrist when we had him on the . anotller pulled his fingers, and I yanked b1a th\lllb. how we got the gun away rran him.• SHOOTING NATIONALISTS The W shlngton police sa y - oday's terrorism was the doing of the same fanatical outfit that attempted an assassination or President Truman several Puerto Rican gunmen killed a White Mouse the "lationallst party" in til'carl _ _J ~ ~ ~ ,~~~ ....... ~~~ 'l'he d er iron, . te ttae p great econGlldc adwantage tllltr enJor to C°"9 into thia country•• theJ Pl••••- But, 1n aplte ot all that, a small nlllber ot fanatic■ conttnue to deaand independence, and follow a policy or murderous - terrorl•• POLLOW SHOOTDfG - NATIONALISTS Tonight, Congressman Wingate Lucas, one of the legislators who helped• disa!'ffl a gUnman, declared: it takes to put a atop to this mass 1nn1gratlon. then•• should give them independence." WARREN The Senate has confirmed Chi e f Justice Warren - and there's not much to tell. Arter ll all the weird proceedings connected with the nomination or Earl Warre - theN was no argument, no opp _ os1t1on today, the S contll'iling .m..-...-:1 ......... Warren - by a voice vote - nobody saying, no. ATOMIC The atomic tests have begun in the Far Pac1tic,- ...-.-.....~ c._({J _so J "device" tried out today. l h ~ announced by Chairllan ' Lew1a L. Strauss of the . Atomic Energy Com1sa1og, who gives no further intormation. The tests _. "top aec:ret•. But 1 t11e understanding was that the first explosion, int-be prnent •erlea, would be - a large atomic blast • . , . _ .Qur __ ne tiaYlng twenty-five times the destructive power ot tba llr.olhllla t1", now called •pr11l1tlve.• But they are Nlatlve11 teeble - COIIPINd • • -- '$ bJdropn. An R-b~M be detonated out tllere 1n Ult - ~ lnlwnok-Blllnl aeotor. A new tne - undent• '° lie ; \id l • l • u Ytolent u the bJdropn -.a balti mlcb •obllteraltNI• ID laland 1n the tNtl of llneteen Pitty-two • ... IMDIA Indian Prime Min is ter Nehru, 1h rejecting an otter from President Eisenhower - explains the refusal on logical grounds. 'nle United States ls giving military lid to ta Pakistan, which Moslem country 1s feuding with India• iulil the Nlhl".U government has been protesting loud1,. Where.,_. President Eisenhower conaunicated with Hehru, and otteNd • IMrlcan military aid to India. ' ' But lehru says he o~Jecte to the mole thW on pr1nclple, and today told the Indian Parllaent: •tt ob3eot to *11ltal7 aid given to Pilklatan, we would N oureelvea." on to say - that Allerican obae"era 1n Kaahllir are no 1...- . welc0111. 'Die ch1et quarrel b8tween Pakistan am India la offl'- laa•ir, and the UN has a mission over there - trying to,., th~ u. n t ln l • t, \ U . S • rmllft nt 1 t ~ r kl t n, h mission cannot b ntt•• lnu · l, SUDAN Toni ht , hav a v ri fi• ation o f reports fran the Su an - report s o f s av a e blo o s h e . Attendin g - a visit by the E g yptian President, N o hamed Na g uib, to Khartoum. Naguib had been having an excitin g time in Egypt - w here he w as eposed, tossed out of power, and under arrest. Then, just as suddenly, restored as President - by the same army o'unta which had overthrown him. Down again, up again - for a dizzy reversal. Having been put back in power; in such surprising fashion - Naguib, promptly, proceeded from C · iro to lharto111 by air. His purpose - to attend the opening of the Sudanese Parliament. 'Dlat primitive African land was granted freedom by Great Britab - and, in an election, voted for some kind of tie-up with Egypt. But there's a strong minority demanding complete independence - no ties w ith either Egypt or Britain. So, at the capital city of Khartoum, a seething excitement prevailed - when Egyptian IZD Premier Naguib arrived. . . SUDAN - 2 The r e . e r ~ . 'l l d c h eers for ypt, but t h e re ere o ther shouts - t e llin g N ag u i b to o ho m e. The minority, as it happen ed , c on si ste d lar g ely of tr i besmen from the southern Su d an - w arr i or s c arryin g spea rs . They w e n t on a rampage, an d tried to storm the Governor G eneral's masnion, where Naguib w as bein g entertained. The police tried to aQXD stop them w ith tear gaa, but the frenzied assailants dashe d right on through - charging with spears. The police opened fire, and rioters tell, ,.. as they slashed at the police w ith their primitive wearpCl'ls • . Today's dispatch says that t w enty-five persons were killed, and one hundred wounded. Fourteen pollcemen,f-, k l ~ . Among them - t w o hi g h police officials, one British, one Sudanese. Toni g ht, Khartoum 1s under strong military guard - after the battle s■xuk bet w een tear as and gunfire on one si e, an d tribal s pears on the o th e r. MARQUETTE Michigan Ci ty, Indiana, has acquire d - a forgotten statue. For twenty-nine years - lost to memory, gathering dust in an old freight w arehouse in Chicago. Back in Nineteen T ' enty-flve, Chicago's Union Station decided to set up a statue of the discoverer ot the ' present site of Chica g o, Pere Marquette - the Jesuit explorer. It arrived, a terracotta figure, fourteen feet high - but was never put in place. Stowed in a warehouse - where i t . _ remained for twenty-nine years. Which seems like au a sad neglect of Pere Marquette the first great explorer of our own middlewest. The history books tell of that famous Marquette-Joliet expedition. The ~1ssionary priest and a fur trapper, uxaq navigating 1n a canoe - from the upper reaches of the Mississippi, and on down the father or the Waters. Far enough to ascertain the tact that the great river in the north was th~ same as the mighty 0 MARQUETTE - 2 stream far to the south -- w hich the Spaniard Desoto had found, flowing to the Gulf of Mexico ~ Later, the great LaSalle navigated all the way down the Mississippi, from near the Great Lakes to the Gulf. Recently, the statue of Pere Marquette came to mind again, and the manager of the Union Station, made an lnqulrr • to find a place for it. Twenty mid-western cities, put 1n bids. But Michigan City, Imm Indiana, gets it. That was where, only a few days before his death, Pere Marquette preached to the Potawatomi Indians. FISHERMAN The man who went on the lon g est fishing trip - announces his retirement from the art of angling. Alexander Kirkpatric, now ninety-one, w ent fishing forty-four years ago, and just stayed on - fishing. Back in Nineteen Ten, he was a telegraph operator at Pottsboro, Texas and, one day he telegraphed his district office, and said : "Going fishing. Send rep~ .:ement. !I · The District Office replied: "can't let you go fishing now, sorry." He built a cabin deep in the woods near Rock creek, where he lived on fish he caught. He also did some hunting - and trapping. But now, after all those years, he's back at Pottsboro. Saying: "I'm too old to stay in the woods any more, and I've lost my desire to do any moa,fishing." FISHERMAN - 2 One fi s herman w ho has had enough - after forty-tOlll' years of it. In Chicago, Albert Ku c ht a sa y s - the p et s hop wi:D. haTe to take back that lion c ub. They gave him instru- ctions how to handle the young ling of Beasts. That was the trouble. They told bia the trick wa s - to deaonatra\e - his own superiority. ~how the lion - who'• the boas. luchta, who is ■eTeaty two yeara old, tollowe4 the iastructioaa. Woader if he gaYe the lioD a poke la the noae? AaJbow here's what happened. lhe cui ,1t Iii . hi ■ aad clawed hi ■ on both hand s , scattered tbe furnit•r•, pulled the tableclothes oyer the tablea, aal horror of horrors /ripped the DJlon atockinas ott the leas ot luchta•a daa1hter. : lhereupon luchta called the police! But the7 re- fuaed to take . the lioa. ~o did six •••erinariaaa. The city dog pou■d said - no! absolutely no! . . So now luchta speaks a s follows: •The cub goes back to the pet ahop.•, And he adda:-•Tbat aan aaid - to assert ■J superiority! But, be didn't say the beast would clobber•• when I did.• ADD LION Well, Kuchta has ha his ~ ay. Toeay he traded the lion in1Mike. But ta not for a new, younger model. He traded it for a cocker spaniel!