,ORIOSA L 1- Dtiu-ht IV\ • n,\,OJ-1, ' J 'f- ~ ... ~~. . . . The Chines~ ~~ ,:- "' a~;;"rc:!r-_ I\ < against a fleet of CoDDDUnist war vessels. Eleven - sunk. ~ . Three gunboats - and seven armed junks. The Red fleet consisted of more than seventy craft. Sighted - southeast of the mainland port of Amoy. Outside of which harbor - is the islaoo of Quemoy, that critical point held by the Rationalists. Today's dispatch says - the armada wu headed tor Quemoy. Chiang Kai-shek warplanes attacked - in the tace ot beav, anti-aircraft tire from the nearby coast. But they ti bombed the vessels on the turface with a deadl~ ettect. All warplanes - returning safe to their bases on Formosa. Substitut e !!k!A The State Department made a sudden switch, toni g ht, in the face of Democratic protests in Con~ress. The arguaent - concerning docu ■ e n ts pertaining to the Yalta Conference. Including - secret ■ e ■ oranda fro ■ that faaous Roosevelt-Churchill- Stalin aeeting. Earlier in the day, the State Departaent announced - that copies would be sent on to Congressional Coamittees. But - strictly confidentiaL lot - to be ■ ade public. Two years ago, the Eisenhower Administration said - it would publish the entire Yalta record. But that plan was changed. against it •for reasons Secretary Dulles decided ---e_, ,, a. - J , •• which A involve our national security and our relations with other powers.• Meaning, that a disclosure of the secret memoranda would be embarrassing. Instead, they hit upon a sort Substitute YALTA - 2 ----- of compromise - planning to send the Yalta documents to Congressional Co ■ mittees. For their own inforaa- tion - but not for publication. Today, the Democrats i■ mediately let out a roar. Speaker of the Bouse, Congreesaan Sa ■ Rayburn argued: •Jou can't give these documents to forty or fifty people and P~pect thea to remain secret.• Other Deaocrate declared - they wouldn't receive the docuaents. So ■ e suggested the best thing would be - ~ ■ate the Yalta record public, In the tace of the ~proar, the State Department executed a quick change. Announcing, tonight, that the Yalta documents would be sent on to Congressional Co ■ mittees ,~ only if a Committee requested the ■• ,,. INDO-CHINA The political crisis in southern Viet Nam is - w rse than eve Following - an assassination attempt against a powerful po iti al figure, the Governor of Southern Viet Nam. when a time bomb planted under his automobile exploded, a about to get into the car. This is blamed sects, bitterly hostile to Premier Diem. Premier Diem ordered forces of loyal troops to the city of lrjlk~ .. ~ Saigon - to guard against a possible revolt'\ ~--- --· - PUERTO RIC It reve a le d i n Washiniton that Congressman Bow or Oh i o cancelled a tri p to Puerto Rico last autumn, when the F.B.I. informed him of a plot against him. Three assassins - assigned to kill him, in P uerto Rico. Congressman Bow planned the trip to the island - on some business tor the Interior Committee of the House. But, hearing th a t from the F.B.I., he called it off. The plot to kill him - hatched by the fanatical nationalist party. The same outfit behind a11ts of terrorism in Washington. The attempt to kill President Truman - and, later, the shooting up of Congress. This is now revealed by Committee Chairman, Congress Engle of C a liforni a , who adds - that Committee members are not likely to plan trip s to Puerto Rico in the near future. :ia co t !.n ne e _ al, av. , !S e ndre, S C ee i 0 m ne 0 s fa r. 0 1 ' ove e e • ana • • - d one 0 uro 0 e C ~rea n~. . . a111 • e s ngular eature is - ·he ea 1 o 9.&es. ing vana died at the age of tor . -nine. R s son - ta t irt. -five. icb ans - the rather ·as only ou.rteen years older the son. Tribb.lvana was edded when ne wu hirteen - taking two wtvea. two sisters. - eleven. e other - nine. •••• R alt arries oung - tn far off epa. nnt1na,x~x:8~n•••xx1at1x1a1xtlktN1Nllx*••11b farx•ffxl■ ,a.t1 PRINCESS Today, for the first time, Captain Peter Townsend made a direct statement - about Princess Margaret. In Brussels, where he has a diploniatic post, the Captain declared - if the Princess has an . intention to marry him, he doesn't know h an.vt"ing about it. He put it tn these words: " the Princess has made no such decision known to me - nor have I anv reason to believe that she has made such a decision." Meanwhile, over the weeke d, a prelat of the Church of England, is reported - as making a declaration on the subject of the possible marr1sge of the Prine ss and C ptain Townsend, who is divorced. Dr. Alfred Blunt, Bishop 01' Bradtord is quoted as saying: "The legitimate church attitude would be - against such a marriage." Reason - a question of divorce. It was the Bishop of Brad~ord, b . the way, who nea1•ly twenty years ago, broke the ecclesiastical silence on the subJec of King Edward the Eighth and Mrs. • Wallis Warfield 1.mpson. The declar a tion from the Bishop was followed by the sequence of events - in that famous a dication. f ROME SUBWAY Rome has a new subwa . , and . re terda . was - the big day. The tube tarts out in the middle of the Eternal City, and ends no~here. The final terminu - in an open field, out in the countr . • But that's what made yesterday the big da . • Sunday - a fine time for an outing. So people took the subway - to that rural scene. Fifty thousand of them. The trouble was - that all fifty thousand took it into their heads to go home at about the same time. Sun-down! ~ M _£!t8Ult - a subwa,- jam, the like of whic~not even New York has ever seen. Mobs Jammed on the platform - people in danger of The Crush - 80 ~ ~ being pushed off onto the tracks. ~ - - · attendants refused to sell any more tickets. Which enraged the Romans on the out side . One train broke down. The electric power for the whole subway line failed - for a quarter of an hour. Rome hadn't seen any confusion like it - since the Ides of March. WALL STREET Wall treet had the worst br ak of stock rices, today - since the collapse of Kineteen Twent. -Nin e . rush of selling, the ticker tape ran aaXJDauaanblaxaulllllb behind - with stock prices tumbling all over the place. Later in the da . , the m rket ended with a rall . - which reduced the total of 1 s s. But, just the same, three billion dollars in values were wiped out in the day's trading. Bringing a total loss of mom than ten billion - since last Monda~r. 0 STOCK MARKET The Stock Market investigation brought a statement from the Chainnan of the Federal Reserve Board - William Mcchesney Martin. Who, toda, - spoke in opposition to suggestions that all trading in the Stock Market should be put on a cash basis. Right now, there's a margiq requirement of - sixty per cent. Some think - it should be raised to one hundred per cent. But the Federal Reserve Chairman argued - that this would only discourage capital investments. Thereby injuring - the national econom.v. He doubted, moreover, whether an "all cash basis" for trading would eliminate "excesses" in speculation. ~ A Federal Court in Baltimore has iemissed the treason char es against former ~ergeant David Provo. Ac cue ed of collaborating with the Japanese, while a prisoner-of-war in ~orld ar Two. .P rovoo was convicted, but the trial was reversed on a technicality by the rederal Court of Appeals• prison, without bail. .Provoo - still kept in Jzia■ So now - ¥ederal Judge Koszel Thomsen rules - that .Provoo, held in prison for five years, has not bean granted a speedy trial. As guaranteed in the United btates Constitution, the ~ixth amendment. charge dismissed. ' ! ' reason SUPREME COURT Today, the Supreme Court ruled - in favor of Jehovah's Witnesses. Their status as "conscientious objectors" is upheld. The court saying - they may be excused from military service, on religious grounds. This is in the case of one member of the sect, who was convicted of draft evasion in Chicago. But, in his plea to the court, he did not pose - as a pacifist. He did not say he was against all war. on the contrary, the umntxw■u argument was that Jeho~ah•s Witnesses would fight in a war (t. "on orders from Jehovah." They~re quite ready to fight in the Battle of Armageddon, in the war between the powers of good and evil - as prophsied in the Bible. Vice President Jixon made a blunt address to California Republicans, today. Returning fro ■ his trip to Latin America, the Vice President estimated Republican chances in these words: •The Republican, Party is not strong enough, today, to elect a President. We have to hav~ ■ an who is strong e oug to elect the party.• He said they cannot win in lineteen Fifty-Six - without President Eisenhower for candidate. ROSES Washington shaving its annual Flo~er and Garden Show. The perfume - enough to make people swoon with ecst a cy. Anyway, .. U,R1-ted Press Correspondent Harman Nichols virtuallv swoons - as he tells tt. A new kind of rose - on displa~. Called - "Love Song." Sponsored b~ Mrs. Gordon Fisher, of Woburn, Massachusetts. Who explains the name by sa~tng: "A beautiful rose is like a 19"e Song." This new flower is two colors. The rose petals are yellow on the outside, the color of scPambled eggs. On the inside - a salmon pink. So that's the 'Love Song" - scrambled eggs and salmon. ~ ~ M r s . Fisher says: are millionsmd millions of "Roaes are, like people. There roses in the w o r l ~ no two of " them are alike. They all have personalities." ),a; 6 a J)ONen&M: l . : G Pat or1 rity, on Si th ve ue , in ew York ad found a clever way to keep a u tomo iles from parking in front of his cop o s . Pat co s from Irel a nd, smart - in County Kerry. d the y must be s we 11 know, it's aga nst the l aw to park a car - in front of a fire plug. One of P a t's customers is a stage-hand a t a nearny the a tre, and he provided - a n imitation fire lu.g, stag prop. So, eve · , at about six P .M. - Pat would have the doorman put the phoney fire plu out in front. Which certainly kept the cars from parking . Then, at about nine, when the rush was over, the stage prop was brought back in. Well, at Moriarity's, a cop came along and saw a c a r parked in front of that a lleged fire lug. He made out a ticket,· tt ched it to the a utomob11. Then - went his way. Inside, Pat not1.ced the cop mnk1.ng out the ticket, n d aw him put it on the car. You c an im ag ine his feelings. He d the sf ag e pro fire plug brou ht in. - - .,., ... :le we his ,,. ~ J.. r r , , . he ti.re ,,. rat • Kee !le' cars fr - a ha s c • H e pred and ooldn' t>el_e e h s e es . ... re -was !le f re l.J • Be 1ng out of n1s w1 s - c , enchantaen·t . ~ l l n s . - the Little Peo le a work . '!'he co went over to he a ar1t1 , aoo • shed 1 • ..!'le ire oved . He ook Id of it , and . 'Sf now , tha was one 1nd &nan lice n - and into riari • s he we t . on.fro ting Pa - b , now, as a C barrassed Iris an. the case c s fore c.; r , d e scribed ae a . s ern Iris an . Vas Pa l!> 1 y Q s~ ct.Ing ha FIRE PWO - 3 sidew a lk o f New York? The case - the hearing, has been set for - St. Patrick's Day!