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OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
Cancer Victim's
A Start Will A Poignant And
Human Document
In Life
COMEWHERE in North
Londou # middle-aged man and his wife will have heard by now what has hap- pened to Richard, and the news will sicken them.
They have known Richard for a long time, this married couple, When he was 3 baby they actritext tatt Who his true parents were neither They nor The have ever known,
From H. King Wood
Sydney, July 14. From the Probate Court this week came a story from what has been described as "one of the most human documents ever lodged".
Jeff James, who was secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Journalists' Association, bequeathed in his will a "special warning to the public on cancer".
Jeff James, who died of cancer in April this year, was one of the few men for whom all journalists throughout The couple in North London: Australia had considerable affection. He died quite bravely, brought up the baby into child-| but rather bitterly beenuse, as he said in his will, three hid, saw him through boyhood, doctors in turn bad prescribed for him medicine, hot water
steadied his course, and set him bottles and auring. towards being a man. He len them to undertake his mullitary service, and he was hurdly out of their sight before he got into trouble, was arrested for
and
But when
charged with the Meali friends that He was punkbed. Presently he came out of the Services, be eame a criminal again, and was sent to prison. Several this happened.
SPURNED
HCHARD'S
RIC
times
the cumter was
At
the
Board! is
present the final verdiet, Jeff accepted it, told paying the man, a carrier, £5 a he would record week. In the summer the Bourd everything he possibly could paid £10 a week.
The carrier has a contract for until the last moment, with the
ashes and soot hope that what he wrote down the removal of might be of some use in the from
Board's future to cancer victims.
pumping station at Ryde. When the Journalists throughout Aus-Board decided to call for tenders tratia tried to save Jeff, They for the job, carrier was the
the heard. that US doctors might be only one to put in a claim. He able to help. There was a call foster-parents for a pound a head to send him offered 10/ a week for the right.
60i|to remove
Ho emove the ashes and soot. were well-to-do, the father to America. Not only did news- He was given the job, able to give the boy every chance) papermen subscribe, but also The carrier explained the in the world to make good, and newspaper proprietors to whom situation this
"Until re- wanting to do that.
Jeff had been a friendly enemy,cently I had a stockpile of ashes Richard rewarded everything for so many years,
which 1 lo people wanting that was done
Somewhere for him, every
about £5,000 to fill in building land. The chance offered, with scorn. He was in hand when news cane demand for ashes
has been so in the United preferred to go his own way- that specialists
great that now I am short <if able to keep stocks and it is worth into prison, out of prison, living States might be
my while Junger. on the fringes of life.
him alive six months
to buy them from the Board. When he came, bu
but that was all. out of prison
"It's a bit hard to get rid of last Richard went up to the
soot, though. Only cama. are interested in
Rut
"Sut]
His friends in the game loid. Jeff. He made the decision. the north. He claims that there Keep the mones" for his family. tion growers
There was little to
be gained it." pain for at- In prolonging the other six months.
Jobs as a trawler-lund in -the boats sailing out of Hull, But He could not ve that fe for long, with a chip on his shoulder the size of a biblient beam in the
eye.
seaman
He swapped the hurd life of a
for something easier and became a street photo- trupher in on Mast Crust resort.!
TO PICCADILLY
THER
HIS WARNING
So Jeff died in April. In his will, made pubile in the court this week, he saith
"On the subject of the dread scourge of cancer I bequeath a special warning the public
W couched in terms warranted by he was not good at my own tragle personal It. The other day he quit the past eight months.. wast coast and returned to London.
E' This job x-
"I warn every citizen who has experienced a pain for a wick
spol, no or more in one
way:
ODDS AND ENDS A Japanese law student of Kelo University, Tokyo, Hilary M. Uyehara, who is touring Australla, this week gave blood at Hebart as a token of friend- shelp fictween Australia and Japan.
Established 1845
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1953.
'SIDE GLANCES
4.25
Opr. 1963 by MEA Burton, L
By Galbraith
"I'm a Democrat! Since the Republicans are in, Dad has got so excited about budget talk he has lopped a buck off my allowanoo!"
East German Govt Ready To Take Part In Elections
Berlin, July 15.
The East German Council of Ministers (Cabinet) today declared readiness to take part in all-German elections.
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
LADY WOLMER STRANDING INQUIRY
Aids
Ship Had No Modern
Navigational
Says Captain
The British merchant ship, my Lady Wolmer, had none of the modern aids to navigation, it was. revealed today at the inquiry into the stranding of the ship, which went aground on Cheju Island off the South Korean coast on May 19, and was abandoned as a total loss.
In the witness box at the Marine Court, her Master, Captain W. E. Jones, said that the ship had no gyro-compasses, no radar, no echo- sounding gear and no direction-finding gear. She had, however, two excellent magnetic compasses which were compared at every watch. These compasses had not been swung by compass-adjusters since 1951, although they had been swung frequently, by the ship's officers. The ship, owned by Wheelocks | Captain Dunn gave Capinin from his Marden and Co. Ltd., met with Jones. Information disaster while on her way to charts regarding the position of Inchon from Pusan with gen- minefields and the route recom-
cargo.
mended by the MSTS, of which The Court of Inquiry com- the latter made notes. He ob- prises Mr T.B. Low, Marine tained information about lights Magistrate (President), Captain and hazards which might be met -R.C. Lewis, RK, Queen's with.
Harbour Master, and Captain W. Lumsden, Master Mariner, Marine Superintendent of the China Navigation Company Ltd.
Assisting the Court charting of the vessel on maps is Mr W.D. Leighton, Marine Omeer.
cra
in the
Mr R. F. G. Dennis of Messrs Brution and Co., repre- sents Captain W. E. Jones and his First Male, Mr Fish..
Questioned on his back- ground, Captain Jones, who is 30 and lives at 4, Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon, said he first went to sea in 1930 at the age of 10, and since that time had been continuously at sca except for short periods employment in the 1930s. He ained his Master's Certificate
un-
of Competency, in October 1949. WAR SERVICE During
the
timo
Captain Jones said that while in Kobe he had tried to get US Naval charts, which were better than the Admiralty ones for North Korea, but had found it impossible
charts.
lo procure such
Back on his ship he supervised the marking of the route by the Chief Bosun, and liimself marked in the minefield areas, He observed from the chart that there were a number of to port and starboard lights both to on the route, and checking w
with
the Admiralty Light List found that one of them was marked temporarily extinguished 1947." The Lady Wolmer salled for Inchon from Pusan at 05.27 hours on May 19.
The Inquiry is continuing.
The East German news agency ADN publish-
war. Captain BROTHEL ed a communique of the meeting of Ministers in Jones said, he served on a cum- He is a regular donor to the which they proposed a meeting of East and West ber of ships, and at one
was Second Mate of the Union German representatives,to prepare the way for all-Castle Company's German elections.
United Nations blend bunit in Tokyo, which supplies blood to soldiers in Korea.
Uyehara is the first Japanese to enter Australia as a tourist since the war,
•
Sydney proudly presents gang of men exteriding sewerage service in a suburb.
They
21
the
Sen
IN HOTEL,
CHARGE
vessel Dun- drum Castle on tho voyaga when she exploded in the Red
camo to For waters at the end of 1940, since when he has been Chief Officer,
The House Manager of First Mato or Master on a number of ships. the Hennessy Hotel, Yim
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THURSDAY, JULY 18 Dr Air
Philippines, North Borneo, ď pm... C.P.A.
Slam. Malaya, Indonesia, Australis. New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Middle ESKT, Afrien, Great Britain
and Europe, 6 pm. C.P.A/D.0.A.C,
Formosa, Okinawa, 6 pm, H.K.A/ N.W.A.L
By Busines Macao, a.m., 6 pm, Lee Hong Tax Shing.
North Borneo, pini. ne Hai Meng.
FRIDAY, JULY 17
By Air
Stem, Burning 10 almų via T.A.C. Indo-China, France, French Norih Red West Aldea. 11 am,, Air France.
CAR. USA. & Canada,
Indo-China, France, French, North and West Africa, 0 p.m., Air Vietnam, North Borneo, Australia, Now Zen- Jand, 8 pm, Q.E.A.
Siam, India, Pakistan, Great Bri-
By Surface
tain & Europe, 6 pan., B.O.A.C.
are three and a hult is ready for discussions with had gone to make the German He received-his first appoint-{ Cheung, 35, appeared before] Hong/Tak Shing.
Sixteen of the 21 are New Australians.
He joined the seedy company that centres itself upon Piccadilly matter how slight, immediately Cireus, and was caught there to have a thorough overhaul by within
his doctor. a day or two of arrival, trying
This warning is not out of months ahead of schedule. to sell an ex- posure-meter, value at £4, that place because since September he had come by in some way he last I have reported to three could not explain.
doctors my loss of weighi ̄and Richard was charged at Bow the presence of pain in the Street next morning with being back ribs.
the three doctors:
in possession of the instrument "In turn
ENVIOUS
for my left
The
would be
report sai tut
comunique
A POLICEMAN went is with din smarper and Its
ow lamp...sharper needles The Danc, Mr Jens Bjerre. for injections.
I of to the wildest part of one table." Ho
offered to the pain.
At
Alm and study the tribal life of Grotewohl,
witness box, and said: “This man's foster-father has tried to give him all the help that any
a patient often re- Arnhem Land where he will man could ever need to start off colved 150 in 200 injections in well in life."
the upper leg muscles. There the natives. The officer - sounded almost were not enough needles and envious, as if he wished he him- many were only sharpened once self had had half of the chances a week, inflicting considerable
that had been man in the dock.
"There are five previous con- Fun of the air: Radio Quiz- victions, the ofleer went on, master Jack Davey to
con- and he detailed Richard's testant: "Which American city crimes.
did King Kong terrorise?"
Contestant: "Hongkong".
20-A-WEEK PENSION Sir William McKell, wito re-
retired as
Talks Resume, Then Recessed
the
the
such
that an All-
the.
ment
1947.
In
Macro, @_a.m.; 0 p.m., ka Leo
China, People's Republic, 3.30 am, my Master In August Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central train via Canton.
Slam, p.m., a Bandviken. January 1951 he joined this morning charged with
Japan, 1 pm. Nagasaki Maru. Messrs Wheelock Marden and keeping a brothel in the Indo-China, 3 p.m., a Sun Dn. Co. and took command of the hotel, and permitting the
-SATURDAY, JULY-II By Air Lady Wolmer in July 1952.
Philippines. Guam, Hawaii, USA. & Canada, a a.m., via P.A.L. The gross tonnage of the ship, second floor of the premises
India, Malaya, 9 am, C.P.A. he said, was 1,883 tons, and to be used as lodgings for
Hawa, USA. [Seattle & Weer her net tonnage 1,014 tons. She prostitutes,
States), Canada, 0 pm., II.K.A./ was a motor-vessel of unusual
Chan Kong, the No. 1 Boy of | N.W.A.L.
Siam ferro-concrete construction.
Burma India, Pakistan, As the hotel also appeared in Court Middle East, Africa, Great Britain &
defendants, represented RAF Fighter
Plane Crashes
Her normal in the offences, which were speed was 94 knots.
alleged to have taken place After
explaining the lay-out yesterday. of the ship, number of boiler Both rooms engine-moms, masts, etc., by Mr P. 3. Grimths, were re-
sald she had none manded until tomorrow. Captain of the modern navigation aids. Two women, Cheung Yuct- He had never had cause, how-ying, 30, of 108 Shing Woo Road, ever, to doubt her two mognelle ground floor, and Li Yuet-fong, compasses
and three men, Ip Sun-chor, 33, y totests which were frequent- 34, of 20 Sugar Street, first long Apart from the Chief Ofeer, of 27 Li Tung Street, second Mr Fish, who joined the ship in floor, Chiu Sing, 43, of 20 Sugar 1958 there were no other certi-Street, first floor and Li Kwan, Beated officers on board. A man 20, of hut 100 in Cheungshawan called Leung Yiu was the Chief Village, were also remanded for Bosun who performed duties one day on charges of living off
the earnings of prostitutes.
Mr F. X D'Almada appeared for Ip Sun-chor.
chor
Singapore, July 18. An RAF Hornet fighter from Butterworth airfield crashed into the sea off Penang Island during a practice dight yesterday,
The body of the plot, whose name was withheld unifl - the next of kin were informed, was recovered and taken back to Butterworth.
This is the second Butter- worth-based plane to crush this year. On May 14 a Hornet
strike on a Communist hide- out, killing the pilot, Lieutenant Dennis
"The Government of East This referred particularly to Germany declares that, despite Germany which today, cigh Adenauer's (Dr Konrad Aden-years after the end of the war. auer, the West German Chan-was still divided and without a cellor) provocative dealings....peace treaty, he added. All this most pressing representatives question the plenipotentiary of West Germany on the ques-international problem of the day sion of
a peaceful
"AT ONE TABLE" preparing reunification of Germany by It ended by saying that, das-
policy of The sheep-carryieut capacity means of free all-German elec pile the provocative of New South Wales
tions and on the question of the Dr Adenauer, the East German prace Government was ready to dis- doubled or trebled, according speedy conclusion of a a report issued by the Croaren- treaty with Germany.."
cuss the peaceful reunification of which was fabelled "reasonably prescribed for me (1) & 3/6 wealth Scientifle and Industrial "The East Gemian Govern-Germany and the speedy sign believed to have been stolen." To bottle of medleine, (2), two Research Organisation.
#n ment proposed that all-ing of a peace treaty.
и мене It this charge he pleaded guilty, hot water bottles
German conference of East arid д
_suggested before Mr Bertram Reece. boot od (3) advice that "apectacular increase" could be West Germon
far as he knew she representatives German Council should meet ag Richard is a chunky. fair- should recommence surfing
Amicie by repleeing pon: quality should be called as soon as pos- soon as possible to discuss these vessel of that type. Her normaal elarged with aiding and abetting Europe, 6. p.m.. DOAC
under native pastures with adequately sible to discuss complexionel young man, 23 now, soon as possible.
motto the above questions with curly hair and eyes that đú "None of these doctors ad-fertilised improved pastures. mentioned
"Germans at one table,"
of the East not hold anything for long at avised X-rays."
The Politburo The
also de- Mr James urged time in their gaze.
the end of A
Dane who for the past clared
the readiness of the German Socialist Unlly (Com- economy campaigns in
NSW seven years has studied native East German Government lo munist) Party
after a meeting hospitals and these comforts customs in three continents. is discuss Germun
yesterday with representatives of unity and very bed should be provided now on his way to live and bunt
the Communist-dominated trade with Australian aborigines.
peace, treaty for all
Geunions, proposed to the East under the motto "Germans al
German Government that the special meeting of wages of the four lowest wage Council the print camming groups be raised, the
ADN
tonight. reported sald that despite
The groups were workers un United States "policy of
transport, building, the international Industry,
and forestry, and agriculture had slackened in lepaso in the state-owned trading ston
American projects in Europe, and retail distribution systems similar to those of a deck officer, The Chief Engineer, Mr with effect from August 1. na the North Atlantic
unions also pro- The trade
Kennedy, was not certificated. Treaty
the Organisation,
COMPETENT CREW posed special bonuses for Sun- European Army and the Bonn day work.
Captain Jones added that he Conventions, had proved а The Politburo suggested that had never had any cause for Panmunjom. July 15. flasco, he said, Armistice talks here opened 15
wage cuts cffective from last complaint in his crow, most of "CHEAP FOOD"
whom had been on the vessel January should be cancelled and minutes late today. The meet.
He charged that now that the back pay given.
longer than he had. There were after only
no "green" men-all were sca 24 Americun efforts Governor ng recessed
to throw the
HIGHER WAGES
Politburo communique soned sailors and very satis The don't know anything more about to draw his 20
day, a week Parlia→
factory hands. confusion with the riots of said higher wages were pos- The delay this morning was June 17 had so Ignominiously alblo nientary pension.
On the voyage on which the tried before a graft court on a pro through increased Sir William was the Labour Nations delegates having to wait ment
apparently caused by United failed, they
occursed were trying by duction and the "reorganisation disaster
.the Lady Charge of corrupting the political Premier of New South Wales
means.of
Egypt, the Army "cheap propagandn of the national economy." They Walmer was part-laden with life of
publica receipt of a message. for appointed
trick" to achieve the same re-nimed
the living enoral conge of 326 fons, takon tion Al Tahrir announced today, Governor-
to improve North Korean General Nam i,sults with cheap food.
at Japan and bound for conditions of the workers,
The King has been Ilving in said Mr Rerce.
The ADN said the Council of Inchon, South Korea. On her Italy since his abdication and so in that office continued paced impatiently outside the to the
Herr Grotewohl was referring усака "If you
route she called at Puram offer of
presumably $15,000,000 Ministers Irsued
will be continue like this, when you to pay
tried in his contribution into conference tent, looking at his (£5,350,000) worth of food by muniqua after discussion be
Captain Jones said that it had absentia. The Army paper suld| attain the requisite uge, you will the Pension
Fund to preserve watch, until an Allled helicopter President
occurred to him that the waters the responsible authorities were Eisenhower for East two Herr, Grotowohl, who get a long sentence of preventive entitlement.
Arrived.
Germans. His application
against him. detention. That's what you're
The East German co-Chademan (with President on his Inchon route might have
been affected by the war In Preparing the Wilhelm Fleck) of the Socialist Korea. The plot handed a yellow Government had turned hending for. Go to prison for the
It also said the former Pre- pension has
He hind never be- caused teletype imessage to the Allied offer down.
mier, Ibrahim Abdel Hadl, would some resentment among private
Unity Party, and the head of two months.
the trip in dark-be tried on a charge of being delegation, and after they had Richard shrugged, and went MP's. They say that, firstly, a studied it for about Ave minuten people recognised this offer for Bolt.
He said that the East German the other parties Dr Lothar for made
ness and Natioanl Democratie
therefore made
an accomplice, in the alleged former Governor-General should the talks
From his began.
what it was, because there were
Herr Party, The couple in North London not draw on a political pension,
Payl Scholz, enquiries
agents, corruption alted Prem." presently, of the and secondly, that when Premler yongyang Radio this morning at Germany who lacked the Nuschke, Christian Democratie Fiêwey hack nefibar; the only people in Peasants Party, and Herr. Otto asking for charts and informa- 1,000,000 unemployed would hear.
said the Unlied Nations had
than. The agents, however, said outcome of the case, and begin he was very much opposed to twice requested recesses in the WOSE
Cruddas Flies necessities of
ilfe. no doubt
parents always do, the formation of the pension current series of talks
Party
| who could help were the MSTS up to East German efforts to arrange Anotable omission was the (equivalent of the Sco Transport
To Okinawa. to apportion between them scheme.
yesterday. The radio said the East-West German trade had name of Herr Walter Ulbricht, Omer) who, Captain Jonce said, Major-General R.. C. Cruddas, blame that was not their due,
constant demand for recesses been thwarted by the United Secretary-General of the Com-to the best of his lawvledge did GOC, Land Force, Hongkong, left for the things their adopted son
war in Korcs.-Reuter. would unnecessarily prolong the States and West German Goy-munist Party, who has up to not had done.
provide information for for Okinawa by Qantas plane ernments, he
said.
America hád now been the "strong man" of Masters on private voyages. The en route to Japan and Korea on blocked East German
Dmuch. dollar East German politics and has Lady Wolmer was on a private a routine visit this morning.
German policy voyage, although two cargo wes accounts and West German firms guided East who tried to trade with East along Soviet decreed lines.
for the troops in Korea,
Opera—"Fausti Dance Cancelled Germany were persecuted.
After the concessions a monta
The agents helped · the Cap- The Soviet Union had declared | 98o, 'it was rumoured that hetain by introducing him to
Orchestra of the Owing to unavoidable cr San Diego, Calif, July 14. "there were at presset to inter-was to bo purged, as he had Captain Dunn of the Empire cumstances, IL. has become A 00-ton flying boat crashed national questions which could always been the exponent of Wallace, who had been in South necessary to cancel the informal Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GRAM for into the sea six miles west of not bo solved by peaceful "Sovietisation," the polley In Korean waters for six months, dance which was to have been and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 here today. Four survivors were negociations," Horr Grotewohl effect shotved by the rew and whose vessel was under held at the KBGC on Saturday Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong. rescued.Reuter,
decrees.-Reuter.
charter to the MISTS.
next,
"What do you want to say?" Mr Recce asked Richardi.
"Just that a chup gave me the meler to knock off, I mean sell,cently in the Circus," he answered. "General of Australia, has begannutes until 2 p.m., on Satur-East German Government into
it but plead guilty all the Game,
A SHRUG ·
when
"You have a shocking record," General, and during his five chief Communist nogotiator,
off.
'What's His Lina?". Solution
INTERPRETER.
London Express Bereice.
to now draw
•
STRANGE SITUATION
A strange situation has arisen in the Sydney suburb of Ryde where a man, who for some time has-been paid by the Water Flying Boat Board to do a job, suddenly turne round and pay the Board Crashes Into Soa Fo that he can keep it.
zaidi.
the
com-
of
on
Ex-King To Go ghter crashed during a routine
On Trial
adr
Parsons
which later led to the tragic killing of the two Parsons Cairo, July 15.
and the children
attempted Former King Farouk will be suleide of his wife-United
Press.
Gen
caso
Radio Hongkong
ILK.T
Pro
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