Ten nations or the UN Security Cow,cil tonight denounced Israel tor the Gaza battle in which tort1-two lgJptlan1 anct ten Iarael1a were killed Ruaaia waa the ' onlr -b•r of tile SecurltJ C011r1c111111a reru,if!.to ~oln 1n t~reaolutlon. It waa the 110at ,weeping cr1t1o1 • ewer iiNated aaalnlt one aide - 1n the lons 1erle1 ot Seov1t1 Council debate, on Palestine. U0'1'IIG ISLAND Today the C hinese Reda struck at an island 1n the Matau group - Kaoteng Island, Just a dot on the IIJ map or the Poraoaa Strait area. Porty Red gunboats and motorized Junke attacked the island - oving in under cover of a heavy tog. 'ftley hurled artillery shells aahore in a barrage that lasted twenty ■lnutea. The garrison replied with their big guns - and the attackera fled. Ramelld&.. .American and National11t officials 1n 'l'alpeb tu1,1-4'rj are~work1ng out a long range plan for the defense or Pormaa. 'ftle proble■ being - to arrive at• ech ... acceptable to both 1lde1. The top Amer1c~ oft1c1al on hand 11 Adlllral Robert Carney. our Chief or Naval Operations. II•• ,J a1111ted by Admirals Stuap and Pride - and by Genenl W1111u Chaae, _,,, military adviser. •~~laking up the probl• Dulles left off . ALBANIA Prea1dent Eiaenhower 1s offering surplus food to Ca.nuniat Albania. Almost a million dollars' worth or wheat and other products - to help Albanians aufrering fro■ the tlooda 1n the11ountry. The Prea1dent'a otter la 1n line with our policy ot ~•1dlng d1auter relief - ror the benet1t or the people who are regarded u tr1endly t~ th1a country, ••• thou,h their governanta are not. Mr. Blaenhowr, 1n aaklni public h11 otter, aa1d .atl there would be no atrlnp attacbed - u lOIII •• the Red Cro11 11 allowed to 1upen11• -~:t-- tbe 41atr1but1on ot the toodAN ~ people who need It. POH'l'I CORVO Bruno Ponte Corvo, the atomic scientist who once worked at Britain's famous Harwell research station - gave an interview today, in Moscow. Ponte Corvo was a British c1t1~en - when he disappeared sudd nly, five years ago. The gue11 wae that he had gone to Russia. Tllen last Tuesday Pravda contirmed thla - with an article by Ponte Corvo. Today, the scientist appeared before weatem newapapel'llen. He called hinllelt a "Soviet citizen." And declared that Ruaaian science now leads the world. He 1ide1tepped a queet1on about whether the Ruaalana are ulng atmlc energ tor military purposes - saying h6 h9d no knowledge about that. But he 1na1ated, that the only atcmic reeearch he knows about ln Russia - la research on peacetille uses tor atomic energy. Western newsmen who were there say that it's perfectly clear Ponte Corvo is a convinced Communist. So there's no reason to doubt that he will put all of his knowledge at the disposal of the Kremlin. CCIIIUJIST A top member or the American Communist party leavea voluntarily for Poland. Irving Potash~- a -ber of the so-called "politburo " or the 81 11 aa.t party 1n th1a country ---. n•••~uat _.. released fr011 Leavenworth - after aerY1ng aore than three yeara - for conspiring to advocate the oYerthrow or the American govemrient. low he'a granted leave to · ••ttle in COIIIIWliat Poland. le lett today aboard the liner "Sanon1a ' . the veaael, Potaah read a long atateMnt to reporters - declaring that he waa being exiled tor h11 ideals - alao becauae ot what he tel'Md "witch hunting and hyateria." He aa1d he•• gratetul to the people ot Poland ror accepting hill. AK-tstlw,.P8"W• ••-• k:MS111•'4tlle RIDGWAY General Ridgway may be on the way out as C hief of Starr. So stated in the Army-Navy Air Force Journal - which keeps a close check on trends in the armed services. According to the Journal, it 1 1 widely believed in Washington that General Ridgway ' ■ outspoken crit1c1s■ ot the adll1n1strat1on ua •Y hasten h1a ret1re•nt. . _ The General• reaches retireMnt age on March 'ftlirtHnth - and th• Journal beliewes that he won't be kept on ■uch beyond that date. ~ - - ~ - I..:;, F"""U T ~ But t h e ? Dia~ adda, that General Rt~y •Y be given a high diplomatic po1t · - becau■ e of h1a wide experience in international relations. IULITARY PAY The Hous e Arme d Services C omnittee approves a pay raise for the • ~ r y . • • ~ an average or twelve percent. The decision waa made &ta after witnesses, including three service wives - testified that members o f the Array, lavy and Air Force could Juat about make out, 1r they were given the increase. Mra. Faith Stoughton, the wife or an Air Poree aergeant, told the cmaittH that it her huaband'a pay wu ra11ed - it would, in her words, " almost pay our ■ilk bill." Arter bearing a rew 110re re ir. .rks like that tr011 ottwr witneasea - the aub-cmalttee unanillously approved the pay raiae. ldaiy of ftllll . , , , - OJQII . . . - - lllil ....... ■••• N 1ll:os ,11, "111 lsy 11•• ,-.,._ • -weCM» ~ .rz: t From W t Berlin , re p ort of, Sovie rmy troo train jum ng the tracks in th Soviet zone - killing seventy Russian soldiers, and injuring many others. The infonnation coming from the train's stoker - who fled to the West in fear that he would be arrested for sabotage. He says that the train was earning three hundred soldiers, and seven tanks. He says its wheels were worn and wobbling, fran side to side. He says also that tho engineer protested a Soviet order to make the run - but was told to take the train out anyway. The wreck near the city of Plauen Saxony. The engineer killed in the wreck. But the fireman, fearing what might happen to him - fled. o,, in West Berlin. 1 VO L v ANO he la t est on K i l auea, t he Ha w aiian fire m o un tai n. It has t urne he eas t ern t i o the islan of Haw aii in o a no-man ' s l a n d . A ispat h from Hilo tells of a iganti c new eruption hurling lava over the crest, sending lava and volcan1 ash hundreds of feet into the air. And down the ounta1n in a river of fire - that is real hot - •••eral thousand degrees. Roy Howard or the S c ripps Howard papero today flew over the crater 1n a Pan American stratocruiaer. He deacribee chunks of lava bursting like bombs - scatterin g molten rock all over the area. In his words, "1t would make Vesuvius look like a pinwheel." The river or lava ls flowing on both sides of the village of Kapoho. So far, there are no known casualties - the inhabitants of the area already evacuated. All the authorities can do now ls wait for all the lava from Kilauea to flow down, and g o si zz ling an hissing into the auai sea. STOCK ~,ARKET The Set te anking Committee he ttlmore testimony today. Edward McCormick, President of the American stock Exchange, mentioned one c a se here W a lter Winchell said, on his TV show, "that Pantepec Oil Stock was a good buy. The next day, at the opening, a block of more than three hundred thousand shares of Pantepec was traded - the largest such transaction tn history. And one man who sold when it was high, and then bought it back when it began to fall, made fifty thousand on the deal. After hearing about this, Chairman Fulbright of Arkansas mentioned another time when the columntst broadcast that Amurex was a good buy - because of new oil developments. The next day, the v lue of that stock showed a rise of nearly seven dollars a share. But shortly a fterward, company officials denied the report about the oil developments. a And at once, the stock began o fall. S CK MARKE_ - r h o ny, f he E t:ld t h of o c e inc 11 · tss ateme • - ric e n n or e v r nd Mother Mary Drexel - eire to the gre at fortune left y hr f ther, Fr ncis Drexel, artner of J. P. o r n. Drex 1 lef s d ughter half t e income from fifteen million dollar estate. But M ry Drex 1 never used much of her father's money. In E1 ht en l e l s · : ' There she 1 ved on less than a dollar day - although the Drexel Trust Fu nd could have given her more than a hundred times that per day. What became of the fortune? Oh the Reverend Mother Mary Drexel built Xavier University in New Orleans - exclusivel for egroes. And gave the res• to other educational charities. When she went to Rome, she asked Pope Leo the I Thirteenth to assi te chers to negro and Indi a n schools in America. Pope Leo asked her why she didn't undert ke NUM - 2 that task herself? Whereupon she founde the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament -an order that now operates thirty five convents, housing hundreds of nuns. In recent years, she performed simple household tasks at a convent at Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania. She died yesterday, at the age of ninety-five. And that's the story ot Mary Drexel, daughter of the partner of J.P. Morgan. GUNMAN I That bi Wyoming manhunt ended toni ht in the town of Green River. Ex- onvi ct, Melvin Gray, shot to death in a battle w th the poli c e. It all started when Marshal Frank Kulansk1 noticed a man tKp trying to break into an automobile agency. Marshal Kulanaki summoned the owner and a service station attendant. The bandit heard them coming - and fled. llmJxllln They tracked him through the snow to a small community Just outside Kenaerer. There they were checking a parked car - when suddenly the gunman appeared, with a pistol in each hand. He disarmed the Marshal, and forced the three men into a car. Back they went to Keftlllerer, where the gunman ordered the others out. Whereupon he went into a raging fury - and shot the Marshal, seriously wounding him. Then pursued the auto agency owner down the road and killed him. While this was going on, the station atten ant managed \ to es e, ave he lar - a a 1 he 011 e in the rea ere ut on he aler t . N on a ter, he unman ulle into a fillin station- where he kidnappe seventeen ear old R o bert D urant. He fled with Durant to Green R iver. An there, release d the hosta e - the unman u warnin the boy - 1 don t say anything to the " cops. But Robert Durant promptly notified the police and pointed out the gunman standing on a street corner. '1'1e police chased him into a house, where a short, savage gun battle book place - and he was shot to death. The police identified the dead man as Melvin Gray, who was released rom t h e ~ Wyoming penitentiary in \ Nineteen Fifty One, after serving a sentence for for ery. \~ MOOSE Hun res of moose roamin through the streets of Anchora e, Alaska s number one ity. The moose, some weigh1n half a on - came own from the mountains after re ord-breaking snowstorms. Half starved they are now in the city - looking for food. On one street they held the police chief in his house - lunging at him when he tried to leave. Finally, he managed to get into his car, and sped off - with a moose in hot pursuit. In another place, a photographer was knocked into a snowbank, as he was trying to snap a picture. The moose have even charged locomotives along the railway track. Anchorage folks are puzzled. Many are hunters who would like to solve it their way. But the hunting season ls still several months off. Meanwhte, Hugh, hundreds of Moose are having themselves quite a frolic in the streets of the Alaskan metropolis, a regular Moose parade!