CUBA The United S t ates tonight recognized the new u government of Cuba. In Havana the US Ambassador handed 1n a diplomatic note -- expresslng American good will toward the regime set up by Fidel Castro and headed by President Urrutia. CO?«iRESS The new eight y -sixth Congress went into session today -and interest focused on the n••wa democratic battle in the Senate. The perennial clash - over civil rights. The immediate skirmish concerned our old friend - the filibuster. Northern Democrats• insisting that they'll change the rules to prevent the southerners from talking civil - rights measures to death. The Liberals won a quick success, when Republican ~' Vice Preside~led - that the Senate can change its rules at the beginning of au each new Congress. Meaning - that the liberals would have their chance at the beginning or thla one. Then the civil rights advocates ran into a reverie - when Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas put across a maneuver to delay the beginnw.g of the battle. The liberals were all set - with the resolution to check filibusters) Wfian the Texan jammed through - a motion to adjourn. Putting off the conflict until tomorrow - u and giving the democratic - CONGRESS - 2 leader a chance to try for a compromise. Which - is his intention. In the House~ llsp101s12tatt,ss, the liberals ran into a sharp reverse - when the House voted 1n favor -ftN. of Dale Alford, the Arkansas segregationist. There, been a move to keep him out of Congress - on the charge that there was corruption when he was elected by a "write ln"vote. But the House voted overwhelmingly, today - to let him take his place. At leaat -until a Congressional committee haa had the time to make an investigation of the accusation of corruption. ALASKA For the two new Alaskan enators - it was a sort of lottery, today. Senators Gruening and Bartlett - drawing slips ua out of a hat. Or rather - a small box. To see - ho~o~ their terms in the Senate would be. According to the Constitution and legal formal1t1ea, the term of each might be - two, four or six years. So three slips were marked - two, four and six. Ernest Gruening drew the first - and got four. Making him - a four pz year Senator. Then Bob Bartlett had lla hls turh - and drew - the two year slip. So he'll serve in the Senate for two years. The six year slip, the best of all - remained in the box. SENATE REPUBLICANS The Re ublican fight 1n the decision - the Conse· ~ vat1ves winning. The battle- between Senator Dirksen of Illinois ' and Liberal Republican Cooper of Kentucky. In the GOP caucus, the vote was twenty na to fourteen - selecting Dirksen as leader of the Republican Senate minority. However, there was a turn of compromise - 1n the election of a Republican "whip" or assistant leader. A liberal chosen for that post - Senator Kuchel of California. The White H ouse d enies avin g pla y ed an part - in t h e efeat o f J oe Martin of Massac h usetts. Who was replaced ) yesterday - as minorit y leader in t h e H ouse of Representatives. The veteran congressman c h arges - that the Republican caucus was influenced by three members of the White House staff. ~ Who, he said - urged the selection of Congressman Halleck or Indiana, as Republican leader. He named the three members or the White House staff as - Gerald Morgan, Deputy Assistant to the President, and two la liaison men, Jack Anderson and Edward McCabe. T h e Wh ite H ouse d enial states - that the three F . sidential aides had no part in t h e fight for leadership. W h ite H ouse Secretary Jim Hagerty declaring: "I don't know where Joe Martin got that information. I know he is mistaken." Well, anyway, there'll be a difference ln the new H ouse of R epresentatives. Wit h Joe Martin - no longer lading t h e Republican Congressmen in legislative battles. There was MARTIN - 2 no C onservative - liberal angle in his overthrow. It was merely a matter of age - seventy-four years old. The Republic wanting - a younger and more vigorous chieftain, like Halleck of Indiana. QUEMOY Quemoy - under bombardment, again, today. The Chinese Reds firing - thirty-three thousand shells. Blasting the island - with the heaviest cannonade in two months. The Communists explain - they are not resuming a prolonged artillery attack on Quemoy. Today's bombardment - punitive. Retaliation - for nationalist shellfire hurled at the Red mainland last weekend. ROCKET Moscow states that the R~ssian cosmic rocket - haa gone into orbit around the sun. Today - becoming an artificial planet. After traveling - more than eight and a half million miles through space. The Moscow announcement adds - that the orblt of the rocket-planet will be closer to that of mars than to the - orbit of this earth. - We wonder - how they can be so sure about all that 1 . i"1nce they are no longer 1n u radio communication with the missile - and it's too tiny to be visible at such an ianenae distance. Probably figured altogether - by mathema ca. WELL DIGGER At Bakersflel , California, a man came back from the dead. Or - so it seemed. A well digger - caught by a cave-in at a depth of sixteen feet. Five feet of gravel pouring down o him - burying him. There seemed no chance of survival - for Leslie Stafford, forty-five years old. They started digging to bring out hid body - and, today, up he came alive. Saved - by a sheet of metal, whioh fell over him when the cave-in occurred. The sheet of metal, acting like a tent. Giving him - air space. The rescue so difficult - that toward the end Stafford had, virtually, to dig himself out. They lowered buckets, which he filled with gravel - and they drew the buckets up. BRITAIN There's a revolt in Britain against, of all things. "God Save The Queen". Protests - that the royal anthem la played too much. With - unseemly results. In Britain, they play it - after an event. While, in this country, we have the "Star Spangled Banner 11 before - Brltions, it seems, are tired of u having to stand up - when "God Save The Queen" is played. So a lot of them leave - betore the music begins. A rush to get out - before 11 God Save The Queen". f.tt!Z;P/.~e ,":!;,~ ~ ( Then there's a cry - of class distinction, At Covent Garden, "God Save The Queen" ls not played after an opera. The highbrows - don't get it at all. At ramatlc shows, there's a short version, only three lines. The audience - having to staid for only a few seconds. B ut, pt movie theaters - the lowbrows sure do get it. When the motion picture ends - it ls " God Save the Queen" at full length. . , , , , , , . 2 Soaeti••• l think - •• o••r-do the •star Spaacled Banner.• lhile ia 0 ritain Don the7 think tbe7 a•t •• o••r4oae of •God S••• lhe Queen!• L1BERTY BELL The Liberty Bell - will retain its famous crack. Jhe superintendent of Independence Hall in Philadelphia - rejecting an offer from London. Today, the foundry which cast the bell back 1n the Eighteenth Century made an H1 offer - to do a recaatlng Job and el 1m1na te the crack. PhU , adelphia replying - that the crack is part of the symbol of American freedom.