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CASEBOOK
Chip On His Shoulder
TAMES is a tall, heftily-
JA
built young man, whom at a guess you would judge to be in his mid-twenties. But in fact on the day of this, his second appearance at Bow Street, he was still three days short of reaching his 17th birthday.
So instead of stunding in the
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THE SOUTH ASIAN CONFERENCE
Favourable Unofficial US Reactions
Washington, May 3.
American sources said today that the recently- concluded South Asian Prime Ministers' conference in Ceylon demonstrated clearly the intention of the small nations in that area to weigh interna- tional issues fairly and carefully and not accept
dock, he stood before it blindly the leadership of any one man or camp. bars; and instead of being o
his own. he had hus The User standing by his side
the week before, James
rather older young man
been found guilty
about the West steul from
Ead teving
care
Find
af hangia
The care of James's fengue had
packed
been diruosed of, but James bud been remanded so that it might be found out what could be said in his favour,
Now, as he came an for the second time, a probation offere went into the witness-box fur fell the magistrate, Mc R 11 Blun- dell, what had bem learned about James
THE BATHROOMT NO
THIS young
man,
before coming to landon." sard the probatkui officer, "lved with his mother at « resort in the South- wint.
There he earned his living a
by doing odd Jobs along the beach. He came up to London and lived In a hustel. The
of
made this
When
the hotel
report upon him air...."
The harkled the magistrate a sheet of foolscup. which Mi
now,
uld the
Blundell ca.rfully read through. The mother has come to live
London probation officer, and she says that she
put up her she could the single
she
1105. Alternatively she says he could sirep in the bathroom. I don't think
either wind
Er very
impossible," sa
satisfactory
"ON, quite
the magistrate,
HIGHLY-STRUNG
PICKING
the bestel warden's repræet, Mr Blund:t began to read it out aloud, rapidly as if to spare the feel- ing of James's mother.
" says here," he said, "We fund but shockingly boastful,
bully We
request
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เมรม.เts membo
nad from The
11
In
v his House for his val
something I have not known to happest before view of that we felt the only thing we could do was to renwove lum
James's mother bridled at the hard words used of her son, "it was the first time he'd ever bega nway from home," alic said, angrily.
"I know he is very highly strung, and he has told me the hustel boys were very hed. That's why I've come London...."
"WHAT
ไป
BORSTAL REPORT
do you mean hy highly strung'?" the magistrate asked her.
"The hostel bays were very bad, he told me that," James's mother sald, ignoran: the ques- tion. She
was a plump women.
neatly dressed in a two-piece suit. "That's why I've come to London," she said, "Now if you were 10 him into another
get hostel, where he could live, I could give him meals, and do his mending and washing........”
"Having regard to what the warden
has said," said Mr "I shall remand him
Blundell,
in
custody for a report on his suitability for Borsial."
James's mother inorled. Her son pushed bart her roughly, saying. ** 'Selise
mc.** as he
?
thrust her aside.
THA
AN EXPLANATIONT THAT was the end of the case. This, perhaps, should be added. James's mother is English. Hor husband, his father, was coloured, and he takes after his father in that
respect.
When the pair had gone,
found myself admiring her for
There was no formal State Department or White House comment. However, officials privately said they felt the final conference com- munique, which warned against the machinations of "Communist, anti-Communist and other agencies" in their area, was a good compromise.
most of
American officials have made than the declining colonialism no secret of the fact that they to which he devotes believed the Indiun Prime his attention. Minister. Mir Jawiduriul Nehru,
is
wrong in not that imperialistic
la a
recognising Communism greater danger to his area
Dulles'
Diplomatic Failure
Washington, May 4.
While positive results by
Bome
There has been cern in official quarters
con here
following that the conference, Mr Nehru's lead, would simply go onward with blanket con
and demnation of Colonialism make no mention of the Com- munist threat which the United States believes to be The greatest mencec to that area. I had been expected that the Pakistani Prime Minister, Mr Mohammed All, and Cey- lon's
Minister, Sir John
Koteine would resist
Mr
Nehru on the point. However, the action of Prime Minister Nu of Burma in Insisting, along with Ceylon and Pakistan, an anti-Communist
clause
קס
In
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1954.
Spectacular Royal Tour Scene
Saw 10,000
Prisoners Executed By Russians
Chicago, May 3.
A black-hooded, witness told a Congressional Committee today he saw Russian police slay 10,000 prisoners in a concentration camp when German troops threatened to overrun it in 1941.
The witness was a Pole whose identity was protected because his family still lives in Poland. He said he was arrested in the town of Lvov,
Nothing more specta- cular in the whole of the royal tour of the Common- wealth has been seen than at Ceylon which Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited recently. In this picture, for example, are Been Bome of the be- jewelled and magnificent- arrayed Kandylan chiefs arriving in pro- cession to attend a recep- tion given to the royal visitors in the Audience Hall, Kandy. London Express photo.
ly
the communique was somewhat charged with espionage and sent to the Russian Everest
nf a surprise.
more
US Secretary of State Mr
NOT A SATELLITE John Foster Dulles may
Omcials here interpreted Mr have achieved at the Geneva Nu's action as reflecting conference, he failed badly of a desire to show that Burma at the Asian talks in the is not a satellite of India than change in Burma's eyes of American commenta- any basic
position against becoming lined tors here who termed it a major disaster for American with the Western world. diplomacy.
One commentator even went as far as to say that Mr Dulles will resign.
tenled
The
necessity for the In- donesian Prime Mindster. Mr All Sastroamidjojo, to argue against the anti-Communist clause was
I
recognised by the American
government, which knows that This, however, has been he personally inclines to the entegorically
official anti-Communist in
position but quarters,
must recognise the Communist support receiving.
commentators,
his
government
There has been some concern in official quarters here that the Conference, under Mr Nehru's prodding, might adopt without alteration his personal six-point
03
Mr Dulles is due back here tomorrow night and returns at a time when the autcome of the Dien Bien Phu battle may soon demolish the strong fine which the Americans wanted the
નાઇટ Western
to take. Indicative ur the present for an Indo-China settle- trend, in the opinion of these Plan
ment
which 14
regarded Senator
somewhat
Ometals unrealistic. William Knowland's urgent call Bald
today, however, that the defence for a Southeast Asia
actually revised version | alllance which the Republican
conference majority wants with or without proved by the
compatible to a peared to be extent Large
with American views on the subject.
Officials here emphasise that In the meantime, he was sald to have been very surprised in they had no desire to see the Geneva when he heard Pre-conterence slap Mr Nehru down sident Eisenhower's statement but they were gratifled at the last Thursday to the effect that Independent thought and action one cannot hope for an entire demonstrated by the other fur satisfactory. solution to the countries present.--United Press. Indo-China problem.
British support.
Mr Dulles
will probably be consulted on this.
Observers here pointed pu that the Dien Bien Phu baltic has nlready shown that the modern military techniques of the US cannot be utiilsed against un adversary who is in a posl- tion to impose chaotic conditions of wor.
American military commenta- tors said that the Dien Bien Phu battle has proved the need of a new look in American military strategy.Franco-Presse,
No Exchange
Of Wounded
Paris, May 3. French troops defending the shrunken perimeter at Dien Bien
ap-
op-
concentration camp in Eastern Poland.
1
Optimism & Pessimism At Geneva
He told the House committee
on Communist aggression, headed
Rep. Charles J.
by
(R-Wis.), that when German troops approached the camp the Russian NKVD (secret poltee) began R systematic extermina-
tion of prisoners.
The witness said that of more
Expedition
Postponed
Calcutta, May 3.
On the Korcan question, both { the throw in the car during/reliable sources suld here.
Un-
the experienced
in
Falconer
Sheaffer's “SNORKEL”
Petition
Adjourned
The Falconer winding-up petition was adjourned sine dfe this morning as the result of an agreement between the parties, The Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice Gould
congratulated Counsel who had worked for the settlement.
The agreement provides that Mr Justice Gould should value the thareholding of the peti- tioner, Mr James J. King, taking Into consideration oll matters necessary to
arrive at a fair and proper value, and that Mr J. B. Ipekdjian should buy the shares at such value.
Mr Justice Gould's decision on the valuation will be delivered
In open Court.
The petition was adjourned last week because the Acting Chief Justica was not satisfied that the parties had sufficiently clorified
the position relating
to two civil actions in one of
which Mr
King is plaintiff and Mr Ipekdjian defendant and in the other Falconer's is plaintiff and Mr King defendant.
It has now been decided that these civil unil the continued.
actions be stayed valuation and thou
Escapes The Death Chair
the
ofi
Manila, May 4. The first woman sentenced to dle in the electric chair under revised Kidnapping Act yesterday won a lease Ufc yesterday when the Supreme Court commuted her sentence to 1lle imprisonment by one vote.
The high tribunal reviewing the death verdict of Carmen Licop failed to sustain the decision of the Court of First Instance for want of a single vote.
Eight votes are necessary to back the execution of the death sentence.
Carmen Llcop was sentenced to death during the peak of widespread Indignation against white slave traffickers in 1952.
Anniversary Observed
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TUESDAY, MAY 4 By Air Formoss, Japan, Koroa, OKITURE, US.A. and Canada, 6 pm.
Indo-China, France, 6 p.m.
By Surface Macao, 6 pm.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5
By Air
Thailand. am.
Indo-China, 10 am.
Formosa, Japan, Korea, Canada, 2 g..
Japan, Korea, é pan. Formosa, Okinawa, 8 p. Thailand. Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- traila, New Zealand, 8 p.m.
Durma Indla. Ceylan, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Britain & Europe, 6 p.m.
By Surface China, People's Republic, 830
Maeno, aum.
Formas. 1 p.m. Philippines, 1 pm. Burma. p. Malaya, Ceylon. Aden, East. Franco, 2 p..
Macro, 6 pm.
Middla
THURSDAY, MAY
By Air India, Caylon, 10 am. Japan, Korea, 1 p.m. Philippines, Guam, Itawall, U.S.A
Canada, 2 p.m.
Formosa, 2 p.
Philippines, North Borneo, & p.m.
By Surface China, People's Republic, 3.30 am.
Radio Hongkong
She was found guilty of kid- napping Nelia Ramirez, an 18- year-old working girl
and attempting to force the latter Into
0. prostitution. France-
Presse.
UNNECESSARY TOOTING
the
H.K.T
Time Signal Krajne Summary: with
the Stars;
Bandstand.
try
and From 0.03, Melody 4.30.
BBC Poden's Motor Works Morti- Frod mar (BBCTH); 7, "First Hearing“ presented
Bernard
Band cond.
by.
Hicka (Studio): 7.30, La Demi-Heure Francaise (Studio); 7.50, Weather Report: 6, Time Bignal and World News (London Relay); 8.10, Newn Talk
(London Relay) or Special Announcements: 8.16. Interlude for Music with Malonim Mitchell Trio (BUCTS); _ 8.30, Forces: Favourites (London Relay): 9. Time. Signal. Musical Notebook presented by Uhe Rev. Father T.T. Ryan, Bf. (Btudio); 0.30. This is Malta" (Recorded Lon- dan Relay): 10, Songs by Richard Tucker (fanor); 10.15, At the Ballet, Ballet from Taust (Gounod).. Orchestre Du Theatre National De
opera De Paris cond, by Jean Fournet; "Marout" from "lavotter Du Cairn" (Rabaud)...Orchestre Des Concerts Lamoureux cond. by
than 10,000 prisoners only a A third Swiss attempt on "handful" were left. Ho said Everest planned for this he and others spent three weeks Geneva, May 3.
summer has been postponed collecting bodies of the dend. The Geneva conference
Earlier three pretty Pollsh to the autumn because the portrays successively aisters text how the Russiane large number of expeditions bright optimism and the packed them and their parents to the Himalayas has caused blackest passimism, both off to Siberia in a scale
ex- tile an acute shortage of cattle car without sanitary facilities or developing in unexpected
perienced Sherpas, usually They said three other water. rapidity.
died persons
The
two Swiss mode trip from Poland sides got down to more solid to Biberia in 1940.
successful attempts on Everest work in secret sessions among
Mary Giballa did most of the in 1952. limited number of delegates.
talking, since she was nine years Most of In the plenary session yester- old and the eldest when the Sherpas from Darjeeling and day, South and North Korean Biberia trip took place.
A driver who sounded his car the Sherpa villago of Namche delegates bandied hard and most
10 TO A ROOM
for Bazar have been engaged horn unnecessarily on April 8 observers think that nothing can
She said the Russian secret three
expeditions major
the while driving along Laichikol in Geneva be achieved
on the
They Road was summonsed by police roused them out of bed Himalayas this summer, question of Korea.
on Police and fined $5 by Mr 1. T. However, this is not a certainty in the Polish town of Litinka in are the Japanese attempt
20,000 feet. the Morris at Kowloon this morning. Manaslu, and British Foreign Secretary Mr February, 1940, and herded the
His reason for tooting the car on four sisters, their mother and American assault Makalu, Anthony Eden is making every
father
and
highest horn was to summons a friend effort
foot, the second to make
2-year-oldt 27,800 a compromise
brother to the train.
pinnacle of the Everest group, living in possible.
house 204 Laichikok They were taken to a labour and the British expedition to Road, So far, he has refused to de-
clearly his country's post-Camp at Ushva in Siberia, where survey the unconquered 28,146- Defendant, Chan Cho-wing, Jean Fournet; 10.39, Weather Ra- the sisters said 40 persons were foot Kanchenjunga, the world's of 185 Fa Yuen Street, second port: Time Signal. Radio News tion. The second part of
crowded into four-room huts, 10 third highest mountain.
floor,
the Reel (London Relay): 11.15, Good- conference concerns
night Music; God Save The Queen; Indo China, and
a room. Mary sold their
There is also a New Zealand
11.30, Close Down. after a good start
parents worked in the labour Himalayan expedition led by lost wack, it bogged down over camp the French request for a truce alsters went to school.
while the three oldest Sir Edmund Hillary.
With his cvacuate ten Bien Phu
Compatriot, Mr George Lowe, "We are taught there is no who also took part in last year's wounded and over Vietnam's God and our religious medals conquest of Everest, Sir Edmund hesitations over attending the were taken away. Mary said. Hillary is planning to climb "We were not allowed to pray three peaks, the highest of which or sing religious songs."
is the 24,000-foot Chamlang. She said that one Christmas An Argentine team of 11 is to the school children were forced make an attempt on 20,180-foox to stage a Yuletide play in Dhaulagiri. which one boy "prayed" to God All these expeditions have for candy and gifts, When none caused an all-time boom for Vicinam's were forthcoming, the boy was porters and guides. The result Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc told to "pray" to Stalin and thes that few Sherpa leaders would Ding
by received
the teachers. then produced Los Angeles, May 3.
the be available to accompany the French, British and U.S. Foreign sweets and presents,
Swiss mountaineers in the early A man and a woman sued Ministers,""
The family was released In part of the year. He informed them officially 1945 and sent to Persia on 40different Himalayan peaks the Federal government for
More than a dozen expeditions $200,000 today on the that his country will be Russian-guarded train. The grounds that they suffered represented by a delegate who alsters said there was no food have been authorised by Nepal
Vietminh delegate. Im brother
dlod
RADIATION VICTIMS
SUE GOVT.
to
talks.
the
SPADEWORK COMPLETED
But it is certain that the con- ference on Indo-China will take place in a few days' time, for nlready the spadework has been
done.
This
morning,
was
serious radiation injuries as the
will sit at the same table with on the trip and their young for this year-Reuter.
for lack ot
a result of the atomic testsmediately after this, invitations nourishment and his body was in Nevada.
were sent to the Vietminh by thrown off the the Soviet Union and Communist Press.
Britain and the US.
Phu today made an unsuccess- The complainants aro Mrs China and to Vietnam by France, ful attempt to exchange wounded | Elma Mackelprang of San prisoners, the official com- Bomardino, California, and munique from the French High Dewey A. Hartt of Mesquite, Command in Hanoi announced Nevada. hero
today.
The news was contained in the
were The injuries
17 to May
vited by France alone.
Laos and Cambodia were in
Both_aldes have been readying plans for the meeting, and both suffered sides have been making pres from liminary contacts which they
train, United NEGOTIATIONS
TO BEGIN
British Cabinet Meeting
- Washington, May 3. The State Department today announced that agreement had been reached with the Govern- her stout championship of her opening sentence of the comMarch
during the tost period
London, May 3.
ment of Japan to start négolia- Bon, however far-fetched and un-munique, which said: "Today all War Mrs Mackelprung ved doomed at lave to the con Anthony Eden, Former scorxente ald rendered to Japan
useful, and even the The latest reports Mr
Цоли for the settlement of reasonable it may have been. was calen at Dien Bien Phu and
And also 1 thought how easily the only event was an attempt Hortt was passing the test area been doing their best to bring and those received from Indo-Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
in Hamblin Valley, Utah, and ferenc on Indo-China have tars, on the Geneva Conference, during the Occupation. explicable it was for James to which
failed to
Talk would begin in the the outsize chip on his wounded prisoners." almost dally while driving to about Molution of the Indo-China are, understood do
There was no other reference work at Apex, Novads, their China problem.--France-Presse. among subjects discussed at to the attempted, exchange in attorney said, the rest of the communique— Reuter
went shoulder that made him such a
bully.
FAIL TO REACH A VERDICT
Washington, May 3. An eight-man Army tribunal falled after more than five hours of deliberatiort to quais a verdict today in the courtmartial of Cpl, Kdward B. Dickenson. It res, Sweed until tomorrow. United
Nurse
NURSE HONOURED
Hanoi, May 3, Genevieve Degalord Torreube, the only woman in the belonguerod north› Indo- China garrison of Dien Bien Phu,
Hortt suffered
Lost Communist Party
nausea, all of his hair and lus boon Workers Sentenced under medical care since the tests. Mrs Mackelprang lost her Angernails, much of hair
muži.
'sad
Cabinet meeting held here to
.-
mid.
od May-11, the
the Depart-
It was learned that between meeting was held in the signing of the Japanese pesce the end at the war and the Prime Minister, Bir Winston treaty In, Apr, 1952, United A San Francisco, May Churchill's private room in the stated copomis aid, to Japan Your Communist Party House of Commons. The only toned about two thousand was sent to hospital as a re-workers today received sentence ritable absentes apart from Mr millors dollsHeuter.
ranging from one to three yenly Dien was the Colonial Serre- Matinde in prison on their conviction of lary, Mr Oliver Lyttelton, har been awarded the Legion of Tho mult medics #100,000 harbouring in they fusilyng Red The Minster of Blate, for Honour, one of France's Elghest damages for each and tamil | lender, Robert Thompson 550X z'oration (
Mr Bolwyn awards, it was officially armed meditat
Mr. Eden today'alleuter:
Pretz
pleaded guilty
charge.
to
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