In Congress - a surprising development in the question of a tax cut. Last night, we heard_ it was virtuallv a sure thing in the House. Toda,, however, the Republicans were claiming - thev•d beat the bill for an inccne tax reduction. Democrats now admitting - it will be a close thing. Today, the debate was bitter - over the MUllN which President Eisenhower has called "the height of fiscal irresponsibility." Repl.lblican Leader Congrea111an Halleck described the Democratic proposal as - "a kind ot blackjacking operation to put the President over the barrel." Well, hitting the President with a blackjack WOllld be,indeed, unseemlv. Putting hilll over a barrel - even more so. The Halleck blast was countered bJ Democratic Leader Mc Cormack, who shouted: "If it comes to blackjacking, 7 you are an able master, and we•re onl, copving a page out of _,.,,,,,..- Your book." TADS - 2 Forceful words - followed b, more angry jibes. Later, Halleck said: "We will beat it. I am now positive of that." That prognostication followed a break - in the ranka of the Democrats. Featured - by seven Virginians lining up w ith the Republicans against the plan tor a cut ot twenty dollars for each income · tax payer, and each dependent. lJ>red1cts / Conaressman Ne Cormac~ A.. that all the De■ocrata will stay in line, except "fourteen, fifteen or sixteen." Which is the basis tor the Democratic adlliseion - that it will be a "close thing . " Tomorrow - will tell the tale. f - There is a co ■ ic ■ystery in laahington - concerning one cause for quarrel between the White Bouae and the Congressional Democrat,. Tonight, De ■ ocratic Leader Congreas ■ an McCor ■ ack - denies, indignantly, that there was any snafu in hie office. •the aesaagea,• he says • ■ ust haYe got lost.• f }'fh{)U J-'~esaagea - aent by the lhite Bouse to Congr••• The Democrat• co■plaining - *•s* they were not getting adYance copies. President !isenhower replied - with an expression of surprise. Said - he thought 4 ~ Ufl, e ul- - •••••«e• had been sent~ yaybe there was a copies .C-- slip-up in the White Bouse routine. So Presidential Secretary Ji ■ Hagerty ■ade a check, and reported - the aessages had been sent. Stacks of copies - forwarded to Democratic Leader UcCoraack of Uassachusetts. Today, an explanation came out - most embarrassing. The clerk in Congressman McCormack'e own office declaring - yea, copies of aesaagea had been arri•ing. Bad been placed neatly on the table - where anybody, interested, could pick the ■ up. But - nobody e•er had. Including, Congreaaaan lcCoraact. So, at the end of the day, the aeaaagea fro ■ the White Bouse - were thrown in the waateba1tet. in Ba1dhad, a treaty was signed, between Turkey and Iraq, the two Ioele ■ countriesr• ia a lataal 8••••itr Pee4. In signing, Iraq the Arab League of which Iraq ia a ■e ■ ber. Arab states - objecting to the treaty. The other Turkey is a ■e■ber of the Western Defen1e Alliance - the Pact now signed put, Iraq in the leatern line-up. News from West German.v tells - ot riots in a snowstorm. Street battles - in , a blizzard. With powerful streams of water - to complete the chilly, violent picture. At the city of Bonn, the West German Parliament went into session today - tor a showdOlffl d~bate on the Paris Accords for the rearmuent of West Germany. The Parliament - called upon to ratify the treaty.'f'Ibe Co•unists, ot course, are bitterly against it. The Red Radio in Eastern Germany - b011barding the Western Zone with proµttganda broadcasts. S~ tbe defeMe fereea et tae Wea,: la; today, there was a Communist rally - in Bonn. Reds - flocking into the cit~, from all ove1· West Oerman.v. They were a marching mob - shouting slogans, and displaying connunist banners. Snow was falling - a ver1tabl9 blizzard. Buildings - frosted with white. The Red parade - b advancing S)lng through the snowstorm. --- - GER - 2 The . tried to make their WJI. . to the arl1ament building, where lar ge forces of po ice were on guard - and, soon, the battl was on. Police versus 6ommun1sts - in the The Reds were beaten away from the Parliament buil ing, but kept on rioting. The police - using clubs and " a ter cannon. " The latter - hard driven streams of water, from fire hoses. That broke up the riot. With - a drenching - of Communists. tu tlWlHlivf enowrm. Altogether too cold - s n o ~ ice water, on a wintry da . in terma~v. A FRANCE The new Pre mier of F rance, E dg a r Fure, was installed in of fice tod~ . 1t h statel . ce rem o ny - which, however, had a sour n ote . Ac cording to custom, fo rm e r P remier Mendes-Fr a nce turned au thor i t over to his successor. But there wer e graphic signs -of a split between the t w o , ~ They both be long to the same Part . , the R dical Socialists. But, :ves terda . , a curious thing was not ... c ed - when the National As sembl . voted Edgar F a ure into office. Mendes-France did not vote for him,- ije abstained. When the National A ssembly acclaimed the new Premier - Mendes-France did not J oin in the applause. So the story got around - that the former Premier did not like the kind of ministr . r lined up by his own successor. The Edgar Faure c a binet - having too much of the R ght \i'ing in i t. M e ndes-Fran ce being -- a Left-of-center politician. The ceremon.v, today, is described as - decidedly cool. Usually, wh e n a new premier goes in, there a r e ~ news ~ R . 1 1 1 % ~ pictures_ showing him shaking hands with FRA CE - 2 the fo rm er Pre mi er . Toda . , howev er, h news phot o gra phers were not let in ror tti hand-shaking scene - if there was 'lff A • A ccording to tradition, the fonner remier should have a c co mpani ed the new remier, upon departing from the ceremon y . But, toda . , Mendes-France went out through a side door. Premier Faure making the formal exit - alone. All of which promises a possible new political feud - in the always tangled affairs of government in France. CUBA s dent o ~ todav . / I . I /)Bat is ta "99 inaugurated as The third time - the Cuban ~t r ong Man has become President. T w ice before, through revolution. This time_ aft er an The ceremon . in Havana - statel . . Attended by one thousand local and foreign dignitaries. But the atmosphere ,a s tense. Th pres idential palace guarded by forces of police - armed with submachine guns. Following - a violent ) affair in Havana. A gunbattle, the discov3r . of a secret arsensal, and the killing of - Cuba's public enem . number one. Earl . this morning, an automobile driver, on a highwa . near Havana, found - two men, both injured. One - had three fingers blown off. The other - a hand so badly injured, it had to be amputated at a hospital. B a th had also sustained - head wounds. The police immediately suspected - the . had been assembling hand- g renades. Injured - by an accidental explosion. • fhich turned out to be the case. Upon being questioned, the two men told of a hiding CU BA - 2 p l ace of weapo ~. P resided ov e r - b "E l C olor a d o . ' Me a ni - the r e dhe a d. " 1 Colorado" - a revolutionarv, a d es petado f or whom the Cuban police had beens a rchin g . L:tsti ng him - a the Cub a n public enem . r number one. ( The ' p ol ic e r i de d the hiding plare, tnxnIRmm a house in I Havana. '-llriere they found hand-grenades, rifles, pistols, 1 ~~s-u~m ~ achine g uns, and fift . bottles of nitro-gl , cerine - for makin g bombs. "1 Colorado" was there, but managed to get out of the house. Which was followed by a pursuit - and a running gunbattle. "El 6olorado" - finally kille . . That was the overture to the ceremonv at the presidential palace - the inauguration of Colonel Fulgencio Batista as President of Cuba. F L R S - ATO M I r e ' s a r p or t with a stran ge so und - a n atomic e xpl os i o n o v e r th e A lantic c ea n. or_ so it se med. Witnes s e d - b.r a pilot of Pan American A irways, and his navi g ator. A t Frankfurt, German . , toda . , Pilot Melvin Fuller of N o rwalk, Connecticut, and Navigator J o hn Thomas of Huntington Bay, New York - gave their account. They said their airliner was flying at high altitude, at night, one-hundred-and-fifty mile off the west coast of Ireland. When, in the distance - they saw a tremendous light rise above the clouds. They describe it as a pale ellow glare - with an oval shape~t the top. Soaring - to a height of about four miles. Then - sinking back below the clouds. They sa . it looked - atomic. Pilot Melvin Fuller says: "The only thing, I have ii . A MIC Th A m m a k e s publi c a s tu d of the a ttitudes of sol d iers tow a r t he a tomic born . Soldiers w ho pa r t i 1 t d - c pa e in atomic m a neu rs . And iAu th re ' s one surprising feature.~ T h e soldiers are pa ratroo pers who were in the atomic / exercise ii.t-~ IA-' trenches ~ Aadva.,,._ll'W& e curious thing is - they wer less afraid at th& time, than t,irey were l ate r on. / A'6prehension incr by. Immediatelv after the maneuver, eight~-one per cent ~ - paratroopers~ - the . were "not worried at all." /1 of the Three weeks later, only fifty-six per cent were of that opinion. Still saying - the y were undisturbed. Right after the explosion, fort . per cent thought the heat and the blast effect were "not dangerous", where the y were stationed. Three weeks later - onl. twent , -five per cent _ ~ _ _ w _ · ·~ ere s1m1lar 1 . confidant. ATOMIC - 2 h e m o re the thought about the ato mic expe rience the . 1 d been through, the more it orr ed them. The A rm . repo rt put s it in thes wor ds : "A fairl . consistent trend towar d decreased conf i d a n ce . 11 So now the recommendation that ite:MU!Ps ee gtrJ&'ff " constant indoctrination to off-set th e increase of ~ " unwarranted fear" among troops f!M.t hav e been on atomic I \ maneuver. Something - to check this curious turn of ps~chology. LIBER I 1 a uk e , h oli c ar nve tig n the death of h m n - w o t t d Lb r a on h s mil l io n do ll ar ca re e r. s h h e ke d own? Or did he s u sta in a fata l f a ll - a c cid n tall . ? W · lt er L udw i - a ta ve rn k eeper of C e d ar bur g , isc ons n ~ ga v e Li b r a ce th e fi rst p a no-pl a~ tng job he e v er ha . R - ma tn i ng - a close friend of the t e levision p ro d i His if e was r eturning from a visit with the Liberace family, on the st coast - at the time the fatal incident occurred. Ludwig was in Milwaukee - spending an evening at a ZIIJl~QJ« s upper club. The proprietor of which - is a~cused of having hit him. Jimm . Fazio - who sa . s they were sitting a t a tabl e in the s upper club. And - had an argument. About what? Well, the argument was about - Liberace. The su~per club keeper says he told Ludwig that, havin g discover e d L iberace, he could have got a share of the b i g mon e . (, LI h n, . · 2 o r l a e , "t at e a sk . d '} . . iffe n m&k , 111 toll m ~ ~ ha h wa o k ng , 8 e a . L b C Q a um t e s to h ve grown ~a m, nd end d - when Lu ig f 1 o he c oncr L fl or str ~1ng hi head. 1 her - b e f lo , er a ce dent 11 . . W · ll, th r have boen plenty of argwnents abo ut Liberac • Wno tic ea t h e ivor es - hlle the candles flicker. Thi one - ending with a fatalit . . g rl 00. 0 r to ck ' d t 0 n a other t u 1 bou th t t V r , a . . But t h s la affair . A st i t - e ld . cro e A to cki ng h a n tng co et io n. T i o fa ho mode l in th contest - Beverlee 11 on v e rsus Micke Mar s . Beverlee - wtnni o ut. She chang d her s toe kings - in twent. - eightr-and-a-half seconds. ... Girls, . ou might e e how uickl . ou can do it. Contest - nationwide. An tional stocking changing champion - to be proclaimed. µ_ What's behind all this? The National Association of - ~ ~ <" ~ ~~~~ Hos er Manufacturers - Wt\& want to show the ladies, how , . j \ ~ . . . . . - - quickly the . can ch' nge~ - ·