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UNITED PRESS : 1 NEWS BRIEFS NATIONAL: New York Welcomes President Diem NEW YORK, May 13. — President Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet Nam receives the citys traditional welcome today— a parade up Broadway to City Hall. Mayor Robert F. Wagner planned to greet the 56-year-old foe of Communism at City Hall and honor him with a stag luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Diem arrived here yesterday from a four-day state visit in Washington where he conferred with President Eiesnhower who promised American protection for Diemis anti-Communist republic. Committee Planning Tax Cut WASHINGTON, D. C, May 13. — The committee for economic development called on President Eisenhower and Congress today to begin planning immediately for a tax cut in the 1959 fiscal year. The committee, a private lesearch organization, said in a policy statement that the upward trend in government spending must be checked to make possible not only a tax reduction, but a sweeping reform in the present tax structure. It emphasized that Congress should take no action until it is sure that a medium-sized tax cut of about ,000,000,000 would not result in an unbalanced budget. Adams Calls for End of Lagging WASHINGTON, D. C, May 13 —Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams yesterday told the Democratic-steered Congress to quit "lagging" on President Eisenhowers legislative program. "We think it is high time, in the interest of the American people, that the Congress ought to devote itself to this program and doing something about it," he said in a filed television interview. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson disclosed over the week end he is trying to step up viprk on a number of legislative proposals to get action on the Senate floor during May. First Test Alert Set for Friday CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. May 13— The first nation-wide test alert for satellite observers will be held Friday at headquarters of project "Moonwatch." About 1.600 members of 80 observer teams throughout the . country will practice the jobs they will actually perform when the first earth satellite is launched during the international geophysical year which begins July 1. Reports will be made directly to Cambridge. Libby Speaks in Behalf of Nuclear Energy UPTON, N. Y., May 13.— Dr. Willard F. Libby of the Atomic Energy Commission said today that nuclear energy, if handled wisely, can give the world "material benefits almost without end." He told the first inter-American symposium on peaceful uses of the atom that power and isotopes for medicine, agriculture and industry are the first, but not necessarily all, of the atoms non-warlike benefits. FOREIGN: Blow Up Main Lock on Newry Canal NEWRY, Northern Ireland. May 13.— Armed Irish Nationalists blew up the main lock gate on the Newry Canal today after ordering the caretaker and his family from their home on the canal bank. The canal links Newry and Carlingford Lough and is used mainly by colliers up to about 2,000 tons. I | Begin Debate on Newspaper Editor RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. May 13— The Chamber of Deputies begins debate today on a government motion asking it to deprive Carlos Lacerda, an outspoken opposition newspaper editor, of his parliamentary immunity. The chambers justice committee has approved the motion. i End Civil Strike in Colombia BOGOTA. Colombia, May 13. — Thousands of students and workers throughout Colombia resumed normal activities today, ending a "civil strike" which hastened the downfall of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week. Parallel "back to class" and "back to work" movements followed 10 days of turmoil during which riots in various Colombian cities killed at least 123 persons and injured more than 500. Coty in Official Visit to Pope VATICAN CITY, Italy, May 13.— French President Rene Coty called on Pope Pius XII today in the first official visit of a French chief of state to a pontiff in 1,157 years. Coty called at the Vatican in the full pomp and splendor of a state visit. The strains of the Marseillaise — long abhorred by the Catholic Church as a revolutionary anthem — echoed in the courtyard of St. Damasus as the French president stepped from his car. Papal Chamber Master Msgr. Federico Callori Di Vignale ushered Coty into the Sala Del Tronetto iHall of the "Little Throne for the papal audience.
