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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1952.
DRAMATIC RESCUE
OF 32 SEAMEN
the Dritish, scientists have Call For A Storm Breaks Ships
that
at last, constructed an
atomic bomb. It
зая
British research which
leided the first principles for harnessing the atom to
General
the production of great Strike Over
heat in such a way that it could be made into An explosive weapon, and it
was these principles which Oil Pact
guided the Americans ini their construction of the original ntomic bomb. Since those early days of Anglo-American co operation the
Uniled States has set up an Iron Curtain around the atomic bomb project; Britain has been denied access to any of the American secrets relating to the construction
of the weapon consequent
to the adoption by Congress
of the McMahon Bill. Mr Churchill has long been particularly sensitive about Britain's position in the
of development
war weapons. remember how we ahead in that we were able to deal on equal terms with) the U.S. it ie indeed
By Frederick Ellis
London, Feb. 18. Three Iraq opposition parties have called a general strike for tomorrow in pro- test against
the new oil
pact with British Interests, The agreement, which splits the oil profits 50-50 between Iraq and the oil companies was ratified in Bagdad yes-
terday.
Street,
In Halves
MANY MEN STILL TO
BE TAKEN OFF
Boston, Feb. 18.
Thirty-two seamen were saved from an angry sea on Monday night but many more remained in deadly peril after the Winter's worst storm split two big tankers in halves.
Electric Cable Kills 4 Persons
Douglasville, Georgia, Feb. 18.
A man. his wife
and their son were electrocuted
after the other in
*
fuille attempt to save •
kroond Bon
from fallen: titch tension electric line liere.
A third child ́llves, lay« ing stopped short of the cable after seeing the four hedia.
The Police mid thal-one cf the children wanderen Into A
Gold Jesterday
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where the high voltage
As tie had fallen. leaned over. snapped
scross his walet and killed hlm. The others died in succession as they teted to pull one another · awBY.---
Reuter, Those saved were taken off the stern section of the tanker Pendleton in rough seas by Coast Guards in small motor whaleboats as a plane dropped flares to illuminate the scene. was lost overboard during the rescue, off Chatham on Cape Cod.
One man
Another eight of the Pendleton's crew of 45 were believed by the Coast Guard to be alive in the vessel's distance away. bow section, floating a considerable This would leave four of her crew unaccounted for.
Windsor May Live In England
The oil, which is expected to flow nt more than 30 million tons a year by 1955, is owned
the utomic! by
million Iraq £ 180 "When we Petroleum Company, a British were firm run from offices in Oxford The company is owned Ave ways with Britain holding the Coast Guard officers said thore highway huddled in a restaurant Speculation Aroused major stake. The Anglo-Iranian -depressing to feel that we Company-controls 23-per-cent; sections of the other freighter, pike at Kennebunk..
Snow depths varied from eight have been outstripped by with its Dutch partner the Fort Mercer, rocking and the Soviets in this field," another 2344 per cent; and rolling six miles apart, before inches at Boston to 31 in sections gale-driven sca5, Sha was of New Hampshire-Associated he observed publicly last French and Americans ench an-
to, have carried a crow Press. your. Nevertheless, even other 23% per cent. The odd five believed at that time, Mr Attleb, per cent is held by Mr Calouste of 43.
Both tankers, 10,000-ton ves- then Prime Minister, In- Sarkis Gulbenkian, engay, my sels, were bringing oil to New sisted that British atomic stery all men.
England.
to lift in some
change
of
anction
by
اله
But
ОБ of the
were
survivors aboard both an oasis midway on the turn-
the Pendleton
here today.
|
---·-· London, Feb. 18. The possibility that the Duke of Windsor, the elder brother of the late King George VI who has lived outside Britain since his abdication 16. years ago, might shortly settle in Bri- tuin was being discussed in well-informed-circles today:
The speculation to this effect Follow the long talks which the. Duke of Windsor had with Premier Winsion
Churchill at
the end of last week. It is sug- gested that the Duke's plan to stay in Britain Indicates that he is settling this question,
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Guns of the Royal Horse Artillery fire a 56 gun salute in Hyde Park, London, during the funeral of the late King George VI which took place last
Friday.-Loadon Express,
Secrets Of
Of Britain's New
Jet Fighter Leak
By HUCH DUNDAS
London, Feb. 18.
Air Ministry security officials are to hold an urgent investigation into a leakage of information about Britain's new top secret jet fighter super- marine Swift. '
The plane, about which nothing may be
written in this country, has been described in detail circulates beyond the Iron Curtain. by the Swiss flying magazine Interavia, which
Service and other aviation exportare anxious about the magazine's report which la illus rated by photographs and sectional drawings, tabbed and indexed, to show 100 different points in the construction and equipment of the plane and its Rolls-Royce Avon engine.
The Government of the Yugo- slay Federal Republic of Slove- nio, in an emergency session at Ljubljana, today ordered the general mobilisation of man
awer and transport to combat he unprecedented snow.
Mr Churchill is an old friend The village of Gorja, near of the Duke of Windsor's and Kobarida, in the Tomino displayed an important part in the act, was almost entirely buried abdication crisis and it is point-
More than alf the houses in the neigh-
ed out that he would be strongly in
of the Duke being favour have
permitted to remain in Britain. allapsed.
The
decision final
must Two men and one waman were buried by snow in the village of depend on the feelings of the The fact that Reyal Family. Bove. Avalanches demolished the Duke of Windsor walked three houses, killed two men and injured one seriously in the with the other Royal Dukes in wearing the funeral process appears Russian MIG15. his Admiral's
by an avalanche.
LION. TAMER MAULED
n
Cannes, Feb. 18. The "Great Manzano," Spanish cabaret performer, who
Out
Times Wins Freedom Of Press Case
London, Feb. 18.
The Times today won a court netion here described as a test case involving the freedom of the Press.
A High Court judge found the newspaper not guilty of breaks. ing the law in publishing a pro- Conservative nävertisement dur-
ing last October's election,
Under Britain's election laws
As the Swift may not be inputs his head, in a lion's mouth squadron service before Jale every night, should have quit next year or carly 1954 the when he was ahead. Last night no expense may be incurred m
favour of a candidate unless it Information in the Interavin- the lion shut its mouth. assuming it is accur, te--will be Horrised Riviera night-club is declared and is within limits invaluable to foreign powers, patronis, who were separated governed by the number
a constituency. will help designers to from the act by a sheet of plate volers in determine the range, armament glass, saw the ilon tamer wrench cost of the advertisement con and armour plating desirable his head from the beast's jaws.cerned was not included in any
candidate's expenses. in their own new lighters. The Blood streamed from his gashed Swift is Britain's answer to the face.
AVALANCHES KILL 25
Belgrade, Feb. 18. Last year the five partners in
Allogether 26 people were. laboratories were making the world's most powerful The Fort Mercer met disaster killed avainneer in a deßnite progress towardla bloc fixed up the 60-50 pact about 30 miles east of Chatham, Slovene Alps, Western Yugo solving the riddle of atomic under which the Iraq Cover plates were putting, and her slavia, during the past three bomb production. This has ment was to have collected £15 plates and deed days, according to press reports. now been accomplished and million this year, rising to £60 immediato nesistance."
But the Pendleton's
blight none will deny British million by 1855 when full pro-
was unknown until her bow and -expected. scientists the credit which
Iraq stern sections were seen floating Persia, the in is rightfully theirs for the Government has faced the prob- through blinding snow just oft
lem of getting the pact ratified the Chatham shore, achievement.
by Parliament.
Lights glowed brightly and And
steam was sections certain
up in the derelict WASHINGTON reaction to Persia,
as it the news is not without Iraq political machine have been stern of significance. Already the clamouring for full nationalisa- drifted toward the beach, Coast suggestion has been made tion. But, unlike Persia, where Guards rigged a breeches buoy, that it might be advisable the oil riches had been flowing intenting to fire a line if the stern came close enough. If not, measure for years, production in land-
locked had been curtailed rescue attempts in the Coust
Iraq Congress's ban on the ex- difficulties in getting the oil Guard's rugged motor whale bouring village of Jagu
information of
boats were planned. relating to the atom bomb. out of the country.
In the Iraq dispute the Ameri- Britain has shown
cans are directly involved with again that she is capable heir near-quarter stake owned of making independent and faintly by the Standard Out of and Amenca s Jersey positive contributions to New
The lion had apparently been powerful Secony-
to indicate that the situation 19 atomic developments, and richest and
Vacuum Company.
upset by the flash-bulb used by that her knowledge and
evolving favourably for him.
The only information here is a press photographer trying to research in this field is not forelin
It would seem likely that the
that it exists in to be ignored or regarded written a letter deploring the Boatswain Daniel Cluff, head-
Duke himself is anxious to live only stan prototype form. get an impressive shot. Three carefully vetted photos hours later, with his face stitch- disclosing the minimum disdainfully. American International Bank's plan toing the combined life-saving Seine area were today preparing in Britain. Two years ago ne
to solve crew from the Chatham and to evacuate villages threatened had started looking for a house have been released, detaled up. Manzano went back into the lion's cuge, hoping to wean policy to date has forced negotiate with Perala
oil dispute. Nauset Coast Guard stations, with flooding from the river, in London, but nothing came of
teravia gives minute details of it from its dict of Manzano. The Britain. to becomo. the Anglo-Persian
from rain this plan. People are new re-
construction, engine mounting lion made a vicious swipe with competitor in the field of He fears it will encourage other made the first rescue from the swollen with water
membering the piece in his ab- to confiscate ship nearly two miles offshore, and melted snow.
Streets in some villages were dication speech when he said dimensions, radio equipment and its paw, knocked him down and
fuel capacity. It ever
even describes pounced. atomic development despite governments
and alrendy under water
that if ever he could serve the the close alliance which the foreign property-London Ex-It was not known immediately
the plane's armament which Manzano was in hospital to- press Service.
how many men were saved.
Bays, represents an "almost day.-Reuter, Still adon in the tempest, number of main highways were sovereign of his country in a United States has fostered
private capacity he would glad-revolutionary" improvement on In other forms of military
wind, waves and cut,
the In Paris, where the river hasty do so.-France-Presse.
20-mm
cannons which for the snow, were the two bows and the London, Feb. 18.
the two sterns
501-foot overlowed
past 11 years have been standard tho дивул. silent for vessels from Wilmington, De-Invaded pos Big Ben will be
low-lying pro-
in all RAF
fighters. to inware. severni hours after 8 a.m. morrow. Twelve rubber buffers
once
FIRST RESCUE The initial rescue was made by lifeboat off Chatham Bar from the stern of the Pendleton, twin of the Fort Mercer, which split in half.in a wild storm that
26 lives ashore in New Eng
Senator Wiley, Republican tole
affairs expert
has
defence. The lateat British Repairs To Big Ben swept by
achievement calls, for partnership on a new basis. American · 09 well as British interests can now which the quarter and hour be served by co-operation bell hammers fall are to be re- replacing competition.
nowed-Beuter.
Coronation: No Early
Announcement Likely
village of Socha, Reuter.
I
BEINE IN FLOOD
Paris, Fcu, 18.
The authorities in the tower
and
*
The Fort Mercer, which had perty, the level dropped slight Heroin From dashed a distress call earlier inly today.
an the
A winter sports resort in the
cut off by the day to give the first alarm Pyrenees was nt the tragedy, was rolling in the sca 25 miles southeast of avalanche, which blocked the Cape Cod. Her bow and mountain roads and fore down stern
sections were about six telegraph lines. Workmen were tonight struggling to clear the sxey and reopen the road to traffic-Reuter,
miles apart.
Nearer shore was the Pendle ton, which had 'split so swiftly that it was impossible to flash word of distress. Her stern sestion tumbled crazily about two miles bff | Chatham" Bar. moving South from Nauset to Queen Elizabeth today received the Duke of Nor-Chatham. Her how was heeling folk, who as Earl Marshal is responsible for Coronation, heavily perhaps five miles south- plans, but an early announcement of the date of the ward, twisting past Pollock Rip
toward Nantucket ceremony is unlikely..
London, Feb. 18.
report relayed to "Rear- Admiral H. G, Bradbury, Com-~ mandes of the First Coast Guara District who is directing opera- tions, Indicated that there was someone alive in each of the four
for been responsible the Earl have Ancial of Marshal's Office sald: "We may planning Royal ceremonials for not hear anything until the many generations, mut await period of the full Court mourning her word before launching their ends on May 31.
préparations
HK Seized
San Francisco, Feb. 18. How heroin valued at half a million dollars was smuggled from into the United States Hongkong was described today in the Federal court trial of John R. Brown.
ft
MINUTE DETAILS
Only one, Swift has so for fown. It was damaged in a forced landing last September and isn't yet back in the air, No one outside the firm which
builds the Swift and a few RAF unen of the
experimental establishment has ever seen the. plane...
Where then, did Interavla get the Information? This question will be thoroughly Investigated. From Amsterdam, John Bpsan reports that Rudolf and Robert Dat 23-year-old twins, who write for Interavia, told him how they succeeded in making tanda paddressed to the de-
Each magazine bore drawings of, the Switt
**VERY more than $1 in postage.
Customs agent
Kahn Myron
87, is accused of
STOP PRESS facilitating the s
shipment which
Agreement · At Panmunjom
was hidden in bundles of
"It was very "LE"
We know of the from the publication in all sorts und aviation technical
aid he became that Fot
magazines and
Hit press reports have said pieces of the ships.Associate-The UN and the Communis15 \imagazine contained threq ounces) and 835, We collected all the The Coronation of a sovereign that the Ministry of Works Pross and United 2 In Westminster Abbey, is not which has to put many of the usually performed until a year plans into effect, will soon o more after the Accession but submit a draft plan to the Queen. many people believe that Queen Ellabeth will be crowned late this summer
A dato in the
the summer
for approval.
Artists will be invited in the next few weeles to submit de-.
· Betmadiermediary in the dollvery chalḥ, duced. It was easy, for instante,
EXPERI
Large sections inside each Und magazines that the Swift will boca cub out to provide a space differ very slightly from older Panmunjom, Feb. 19.
types, for secreting Harcolles. Each
like the Supermarine 610 reached a "full" solution on the
pr
facts and stetalls connected with heroin. Another customs agent seized the new type magazinice,
could fifth and final item today an BLIZZABI'S TOLL
we which what to recommend to their Brown upon delivery of the Boston, Feb. 18;
find in aviation magazines, He said, that Brown The Winter's worst snowstorm governments after a Korean
"Lots of details were publish- armistice is claimed $21. Ilves in the northeast
admitted serving as an intered before eccrecy was intro- A UN United States on Monday.
to deduce what sort of guns the Twenty-two died in New Eng. / General WLiam P. Nuckols but refused to talk about? Who
told newmen during a recess Also was involved in the Swift
would have 95 "signs" för, postage stamps and land, four in New Yorks and one l'ot today's plenary session on sourcing, schemo-Associated || Tho twins, havo laps usually chosen because the coins bearing the cfigy of in New Jersey as a result of tho Arth and final item of the Press
which reached near
ence with drawings of new accompanying pageantry includes ·Quserí
procession. colou
through The
Blizzard proportions., Many, a? ¡¡armistice agreement mince:
planes. They once made an there Is
elaborate dra
ate drawing of the Thun-
•:0f, London to the por rait, soon to help in the i tho deaths were due to over meds) suggest that it be
they Abbey from Buckingham Palace
Palace designs.
exertion from how shovelling
der jets which were published turned over to staff, om
officers' to Flood tides and and tank agein.
00-milo.
Stockholm, Feb 18, who construction A Coronation this summer be fated in Britain and in the hour winds accompanied the work out the detalls."
authori Gen, Nuckols sold'
Felice officials revealed today secret. The American Vice-Adm would leave the now Queen colander in about nine months Winter's worn storm, which
mogozines which and her husband, the Duke of time. The coins will not be in abated over most of the area C Turner Joy
during the 10-minute first been askcod by their Norwegian
them with the Edinburgh, free to make their use until next year All, now Iste Monday,
Southern Maing and Capo Cón action. It appears that the colleagues: to take part Are the hand
search; } for the Norwegian facts. The
The Americans had 20 Dooned tour of Australia and Post Office vans will bear the
wo have scientist auf mom researcher, admit that the boys did is not New Zealand next year, AN monograins "ER, 1". From next were hard hits Power and tele agreement which
The Queen herself decides week vare taken of the road phonen libes were down on the reached to a full solution to this For Warcakiold, 30, who disponses secret information; only the date and the Once of the for maintenance and repainting Cape. In Maine, 500 stranded item of the agenda, United appeared, ander mysterious cir- material publicly available, Duke of Norfolk, whose family will be restancilled Router, mótortata monum new super- Press
cumstances. United Press. London Express Service!
Elizabeth 11. Queen may alt for a
storm
The new postage stamps will
an
"It appears
Scientist
Missing Scr
was
told the Rode that the Swedish polico;
have ties tackled them,
of
The
The Times was sued jointly with the mining firm who in- and serted, the advertisement the company's Secretary.
All threo defendants pierdea
Mr Justice McNair. said, "No not guilly and were discharged. reasonable jury on the evidence could And that the advertise- ment in question was presen ed to the electors of any particular constituency for any particular candidate." Reuter.
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