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It Was A Pretty Costly Trip
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Charles Silvertop, wealthy 36-year-old gentleman farmer and air research company chairman, was out £220' for trying to make the pilot of his chartered plan loop-the-loop over the Irish Sea so his children could look up and say "there's daddy."
Newspapers Cause The Mischief
xet
Frenchmco
along
Strasbourg.
and Germons flo imtit
they
read about each other In their
newspapers.
of
Magistrates ordered the fine after deciding he was guilty being drunk, gripping the pilot's wrist and thus endangering the plane and interfering with the pilot's duties,
Captain Edward Cairns, pilot of the two-engined aircraft, und stewardess Shella Puikinghom, 20, nald Slivertop made a "nuisance" of himself after he boarded the plane at Nults air- port, Belfast, for a flight to Newcastic.
According to
their story,
So deelded 10 leading Silvertop stormed aboard with a journalists of both countries who bottle of gin in his pocket.
pledged themselves to end press Over the Irish Sea, he sighted antagonism between the ancient enemies by fighting newspapereamer, Princess
tendencies to play up only what is wrung on the other side of the Rhine.
Margaret, on which his wife and children were parsengers.
The stewardess sak she had They agreed that French and
to hold Silverlap down in his German nowspape.s were most cat when
he shouted to the interested in each other's weak pilot, "loop the bloody thing." ness, crises and the "negative" news which only stirred up Silverlop then brushed Miss needless distrust and separated Pulkinghorn site, mad: his the two peoples.
way Intio the pilots cabin grabbed Cairns by the
wrist,
As a comedy, the Journalists and premired to write nothing which night Jeopardise "climate a understandley and 10 set up
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"Let's go down and have some fun," he was quoted as saying, and when the pilot declined he
was a wing
witching committees in Bonn and Paris to guard against fotsinod or bigoted about the other country parent shouted, "I
The newspapermen, conclaring 1 two-day conference here under the auspices of the International Press Institute, also decided to urge editors to print fully both sides of controversial franco. German questiDER.
The committees would call to the attention) of edites in a friendly fashion" any storics they considered unfair er pre- Jutil to Franco-German understanding.
CONTACTS EXCELLENT "Individual contacts between French and Germans are nearly always excellent whether they ore students, professors, workers farmers," Kurt Kunicker, ག་ Parls correspondent of the Kozinische Rundschau told the conference. "But when you open
a newspaper, you have exactly the opposite impression,"
com-
mander in the war.
"I've flown more bloody nights than you.
"if you won't go down I'll fly it. myself."
KEPT FIRM GRIP The pilot keeping a stiff upper lip and a firm grip on the con- trols, refused.
Silvertop gave up and went scat. back to his
When the plane neared the Scottish coast, Silvertop waved his arm ond said, "back to Nutts." so the plane flew back where it started from.
Constable Slivertop
There, testifled
Holmes, Jonathan staggered off the plane and fell to the ground.
In defence, Silvertop said, "I agree that the captain of the DUL ship is always the captain. Edflor Roger Massip of the I regarded myself as the ad- having chartered the Paris Fig said it was "not coairal,
I was to a certain bringing ship, und much a question of
to plan The together two opposed points of extent, entitled
often method of operations." because
1y that view,
"I wanted the pilot impossible, but we must begin
10 go by explaining on each side with down and circle the steamer so frankness and
the my wife and children would be objectivity other strie's point of view and able to say there's daddy!
"If you
add the £70 1 pold it was a Peter to hire the plant,
understand
try to und
Neutral
Durenmatt
Swise editor
of the Basler pretty costly trip." United
Nachrichten admitted he had Press.
feared the cditors themselves
might not get on too well in
their discussions. But he said
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Brand
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The high spot of the forth- coming American "Motorama" of 1954, to be held at the New York Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, is expected to be the first American-bulli
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fire engine develope 330 h.p.
The
Answer
To Smog
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The warld
Onion Skins As Guide To Weather
Alya, Oklahoma.
A very dry year for this aren was forecast by Mrs E. M. Rauh, 76, on the basis of her examination of onion skins during the 12 days following Christmas Eve.
However, Mrs Rauh, who has been making such predictions since the death of her husband In June, 1949, 'says. "It is not in my power to decídio the weather. That power belongs to Lord."
the
Her husband specialised in the predictions for many years and handed down the method to his wife just as his grandmother had passed it down to him.
Mrs Rauh explained the onion skin method of weather pre- dictiona this way:
On New take 12 onions, Year's Eve representing 12 months of the year, put a little salt in each
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and then at 0a.m. on January 1. examine the onions to see the degree or lack of moisture.
Saved By A Beer Tap
St Louis, Miaouri. A repairman locked 'in a rofrigerator in 'a 'favĶTI batement summoned "help by cutting off the flow of beer to the bar ̃upsikire.
The repairman, Robert Moore, was trapped in the large refrigerator in his shirlsleeves. The tempera- sure was near freeking,
He shouted snið beat on thế nch tranh la veln
for a half hour, before the ides struck him to shat off the beer.
When the taps want dry. Herbert Kempe, the pro-. prietor, went downstairs to investigate And' release the shivering repairman. United PressFide
Alligators Reach A Truce
Berlin.
"Swampy," the American
their biting war at the West Berlin zoo by keeping their mouths shut.
Her predictions came out this alligator, and two enemy way
alligators from Communist January, some rain or snow: China reached a truce in February, dry and cold; March, wet, moist and cold; April, dry, no rain for Alva; May, some rain, not much here; Jung, dry, very little rain; July, dry, very little moisture: August, dry, no rain here, September, dry, no rain here: October, dry, no rain here Novorber, dry, no coin hare Devember, dry, no rain
here.
Rauh's
Zoo officials Bald there still was some East-West tension in the alligator pool, and no sign that the American and Chinese alligators liked each other any better.
But the muzzles that were
12-day cloud-clamped on the three alligators watching technique is almost as last month when Swampy at- simple as her onion skin ob- Locked the Chinesa. pair and servations.
they bit back word removed after and all was quiet in the pool.
"It the first day Christmas Eve is bright and
-United PresS,
Rush To
water
pool,
temperature in the
REAL TROUBLE Real trouble broke out when the zoo first put the Chinese alligators in Swampy's pool.
Swampy refused to fratérnisa clear, January will be bright but there wasn't any fighting. and clear," she explained. She Keepers sald they belleved said the andòn skins and the they had cooled Swampy's A Harvard Public Health ex- clouds usually tell the same fighting spirit by lowering the pert say's selence can
save story American cities from the death- dealing smogs encountered in when the gas tur
London a year ago by isol turbine is te-
Isolation volving 21 20,000 rpm." and
of the deadly Ingredients.
Smoke and fog combining in the power turbine is revolving weight
cities and at 13,000 r.p.m. Total
valleys become engine unit in 775
deadly vapour when a mixture and overall weight of the entire car I 2,500 pounds. Is being tested at the General Motors Proving Grounds Milchford, Michigan, and the Proving Cirolinda of General Motors near Phoenix, Arizona. The first Jet Car in the world was demonstrated by the 'Bri- tiah
four Rover Company ycars AED,
of
pounds
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In this picture
two views of the Firebird, top
speed-and below-rear
af
of the unique construction-- very much on the lines of an aircraft-London Express.
A Youthful
he was surprised how much both Reds Don't Like Extortionist
French and German newspaper-
and ardently
"sincerely men desired a better understanding." -Unlied Press.
GUM CHEWING
CHAMPION
Marilyn
Berlin.
The East German Communists suid today that film star Marilyn Monroe is an agret of Senator Joseph McCarthy
"Zone's The Sovies
Berliner
Calgary, Alberty, Bert Rackett, 10, claimed the Illustrieto said she is a super
Chewing
Des Moines, Iowa.
of two sulphur compounds are Stake Claims
present, Dr Mary O. Amdur fold a sub-conference of the American Association for the advancement of science,
Results of experiments laboratory
with
Noranda, Quebec. Mines recorder T. H. Themerge disclosed that
more than 600 uranium claims had been staked near the towns of Cadillac and Walartle since January 1.
"Hundreds of prospectors are and I ex- invading the towns pect a similar number of claims to be staked in the next few days" he said.
They had just returned from the zoe at Leipzig in the Soviet zone where they had been sent for safekeeping during the war- time bombing of Berlin, and the East German Communists per- mitted their return.,
Swampy did not welcome the newcomers and he opened
the attack. Keepers separated alligators and tied a muzzle made of rope around their faws.
aut
animals indicate smog becomes deadly only when bath sulphuric add crist and sulphur dioxide are present, Dr Amdur said.
Swampy was flown over from Florida three years ago as Investigations of the London smogs, which killed hundreds
mascot for the Sixth Infantry of persons, and the 1948 smog
Regiment which is stationed which killed 20
at persona
here. The regiment has an alll- Uranium ore was found in Donora, Pennsylvania, showed
gator on its ciest na a symbol most of the victims had asthma,
the district Jast October by of Malartic,
of its part in the Seminole wars. chronic
or heart Stanley Skrzypek bronchitis
of the Malartic The regiment kept Swampy discase, she said United Press employer
In a bathtub in regimental head- Prospecting Syndicate. THE Company immediately
Buarters but he was presented to the zoo when he outgrew the 200 claims before, word of
Hbathtub.
Novel Model strike spread throughout the
Law
district.
Syndicate President J. Chartier Bald one group of claims embracing 2,000 acres had been sold to Ventures Ltd., Cleveland.
of Toronto. The price was not The Refrigeration Service disclosed. An 11-year-old boy was held Engineers' Society by juvenile authorities for try-
adopted Chartier claimed the org. con-- a model law that makes tained U-308 (urmium oxide).
of keeping
abandoned ing to extort money from a the 10-year-old neighbour because
boxes or refrigera
ice
the He said
percentage","di "he wouldn't play with me." tors with doors and locks in each ton had a value of $24.
oxide per ton was 0.10 and that tact a misdemeanour punishable United Press. by a $50 nne, 30 days' impri- Fonment or both.
The boy who signed himself "the Wolf", pinned a note to door of the younger boy's home Championship blonde offensive against culture," with a 10-inch daming needle, Gum of Canada after cramming 48 whose charms are used to make warning him to fill an accom-
rising prices into his Americans forget standard size sticks mouth and chowing
wrappers with money and leave life-United Press. three hours-United Press.
them under a tree "by the light
The
group urged chits and states to
the law. The
osity of such an ;
them for and other "evils" of American/panying bliltold and eight nicke | ordinance, the Society said at
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
of the mQOIL,”
actosy
He carried with him a martial spirit that at Idst seems to have cooled. United Press,
78 Bibles For Eisenhower
Washington.
The American Bible Society to Fresident Eisen- presented hower & collection of Bibles and New Testamente In 78 languages
OLD WOMAN'S ranging from Arkans to Zuits
ORDEAL
Auburn, Callt.:
New York
Daniel Agu
Ay Burke, attorney who is president of the
Society, told Mr Eisenhower
We'are happy to make this gift becalise we know how great-
its convention here, has been highlighted this
year by the The note and the 10-year-old accidental death of 28 children
A 73-year-old woman suffer ly you have emphasised the spirit would die
unless he complied. America in accidents in-
volving
ice boxes and ing from paralysis was pinned which the Bible proclaimis for aji The older boy said he never in refrigemi
for almost three days beneath the world.” tended to carry out the threat,
repeated The Society
the body of her husband Who. Burke but only to "beat him up.'"
noted that the collection The youngster sald he buckled offer to remove free of charge died of a heart attack will make it possible for the
Mrs Maude Wallrab was re. White House any door lids, hinges, locke
lo-offor visiting on his cowboy gun and holster
Bibles in their own for the money to be left under the tree.
its
covering in a hospital from her
and waited in vain one night request anywhere in the US or ordeal' during which she had ng zitarles
Police traced him by com- paring the handwriting with samples supplied by his teacher, -United Press.
Mind Finally
At Ease
Long Beach, Calif.
or Intelies upon the owners
Canada, United Press.
They Couldn't Bear The Idea
food or water the 19
The American Bible Society is She said her husband. suffer- a non-profit organism Hon }}[math. ed a spasm and fell across her ported by many" denun on the bed. Because of her which publishes and di paralysis, she was unable to Bibice in all Tanglickch move. The weight of her hus Press. band's body pinned her to the bed until Monday.
When Her plight was afda
Bonn.... A small, black boar caused an uprom" between the " former German capital of Berlin and Elmer
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Health
to home towns
as its ometal oymbol, accoth cut Why Waurab, the head small
cub to Bonn as a symbol gardener at the sanitarium, had of "friendship between the two not reported for work-United
Press,
Her wallet and the $35 she capitale. Jost five years ago were back Bonn authorities accepted the. in Mr Binnche Brandstetter's offer, but having no zoo, decided possession because » doctor to keep.. the tiny bear in the helped one of his patients suffer
Cologne animal"
milow away,
Park
Dus collapse. ing from
a nervous Dr Samuel
an osteopath, When Berlin heard their gift said that in questioning a woman would not be housed to Bonn,
patient who had cracked under they immediately called off the
a bervous strain, be: found she bear shipment
bad picked up the wallet at Now feelings are hurt in both Banta Anita race track In 1948 capitada.- United Press, and muffered from com
complex" ever since.
arrest kout Noces sald fear of the Woman from turning in the Walletïo be straightened out tha milk0uttons", by taking:It to; police)
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3 FRUSTRATED GOATS
Archein, France, Two aho-goats accustomed to. making a yearly: pilgrimigo "to the farm of a strong he-goat with "their" - owner were very: sors when Jules Kalth decided
he would not take them this
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