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CHINA MAIL
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1955.
Hongkong Mystery Man's
Weather-Making
SEATO Agreement Reached
Manila, May 5. Delegates from the eight Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation countries will sign the framework of a collective defence arrange ment today for the protec tion of the "area against Communist aggresion.
This brings to an end the 10- day conference of military.j planners at Baguio.
the i The Chief of Staff of Philippines Army, Lieutenant- General Jesus Vargas, said de- finite commitments had been obtained from the Manila pact nations about the defence of the
area.
The
defence arrangements worked our during the con- ferece will be submitted to: the SEATO chief military advisers mecting at Banzkok on Jure
Recommendations agreed at the conference are understood to include:
1/
1.
The Philippines, Pakistan and Thailand to provide
the
core of manpower requirements for the collective defence force with
possible contribution a
from Australia and New Zea-
land.
NAVAL AIE POWER
Lo
2. Naval and air power to be stressed considering the geography of the countries be defended with an air defence triangle extending from the United States base north of Manila to Singapore and Bang-
kok
of
Claim
No Details: Says It Is
'Most Secret Project'
Washington, May 4.
Water-hungry, rain-making Hongkong may be interested to know that among its 2,500,000 people there is one man who claims he can make "severe weather."
T
And that not just for a few minutes or "for an hour or two but for "any length of time."
for his name has not been revealed
This "mystery "genius"
made his claim in a letter to an Advisory Committee concerned with rain- making experiments and whose Executive Secretary is Mr Charles Gardner.
Mr Gardner referred to the letter from the Hongkong resident în the course of a survey of rain-inducing experiments.
AUSTRIAN TREATY
Russia Makes Big Concession
Vienna, May 4. Russia was reported to- day to have made a big concession in talks here on Ari Austrian treaty. which had signs of slow- ing up in the face of East- West disagreement,
Conference
sources said
after today's four and a half hour session of the Big Four ambassadors that the Russians had dropped their opposition to changes in a treaty article limiting Austria's armed forces to A total of 58,000
men had They
earlier op: posed changes sought by Austria. But the sources sald the Soviet delegation announced today it had received new to agree to certain modi- fications to the article Reuter.
instructions
3. The immediate organisation Marine Says
a combined staff to
plement military plans. The main headquarters co-ordinating the movement of forces would
depend on the type of warfare, but Thailand and the Philip pines are mentioned as alterna- tives.
4. The United States. Britain
And France to guarantee the
organisation of the defence
He Will Be
AB
Executed
Washington, May investigating official of
or any
The Hongkong man gave no
Another would
pipe water details of his ability to make from *the Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers a sunny sky weep.
and *Lake He said in his letter that he Michigan to drought areas.
Thi would be expensive, he how to put the United knew States
other place cdristed. but not as costly as under "a spell of very severe loss of the land. weather for any length of it also has been suggested time. Only he, he wrote, could that the Army Corps of En- direct this "most
secret pro-riner cut
ditches pro-gineers
ENDITOOLS through the Rocky Mountains his overall survey,
Mr
trom
West to east to channel Gardner said that rain-inducing air-borne moisture from the
which began to Facific coast experiments,
to States east of drop off somewhat after 1951, the Mountains.
Some picking up again.
A man told the committee he Americans have come up with knew how to divert the Gulf
ject
are
larg
from the Gulf of
some new moisture-producing Stream from its normal course Idicas, some of them pretty far-northward retched, he added,
Mexico along the Atlantic coast The Biggest year for the rail and then east to Europe. But makers was 1951 when tests he decided not to reveal how to covered an area 12 or 13 flames do it. Mr Gardner said, "105
then
covered by fear was
that we might put it to Most some evil purpose." irrigation at that time,
DIVERTING HURRICANES of the areas that were irrigating then are still irrigating.
Another writer said that his Mr Gardner said that com- work with
solar energy has petent meteorologists co not proved that hurricanes can be claim actually to "make" rain, diverted and re-routed. He also but attempt rather to increase could cause rain, drought, smog, the amount of potential rainfall, tornadoes, hurricanes, or even
EVALUATING TESTS
earthquake or far as 10,000 The Advisory Committee is miles away, he said. now attempting to evaluate how
from Pennsylvania effective the dry ice and silver sad he could create weather at
A' maz
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$3.17
Exp. 1943 by KLA Bersin, thà
"With all these here new wonder drugs, it's like.old times when I sell a box of Epsom salts!”!
Rope Manufacturing Co. Meeting
SHEAFFER'S
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ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
Denies Being Afraid Of Getting Into Trouble Witness Cross-Examined In Lighters Claim
A suggestion by Defence Counsel that the witness was afraid of getting into trouble, and was giving the Court an entirely different version to his original report of what had occurred, was denied by a sailor in charge of a China Provident Company lighter at the Supreme Court this morning, when hearing of a claim for damages brought by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, continued before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg.
longer
but
next to moorings had was never
she
be declared. He said two
Kee
had
lighters of the Wang
The withess admitted having | lighters mcored by the Citos. made a report to his employers, With the approach of daylight. but said that since then he had the typhoon began to abate and an opportunity to refresh his witness went to sleep after memory and what he was now getting his own lighter into (alling the Court was the truth. position among the το ότι
Sitting with His Lordship as Lighters. There were no Wang Assessor is, Mr J. P. Hewitt, Kee lighters among these craft, Senior Surveyor of Ships, of the he added. Witness Marine Department,
repeated he remained Plaintiffs, represented by the calm throughout the storm and Hon. Leo d'Almada, QC, and Mr said there was no risk or danger M. A. Sturlock, instructed by in moving his lighter back to
18 Mr R A. Wadeson, of Messrs join
He agreed that
part Deacons, are claiming damages when his ropes began to totalling $70,533.15 from Wang he sent two of his crew aboard make their way to Kee and Co., stevedores and the Citos
No. 18. merchants, of 34-37 Connaught
By this time, No. 20
berthed Road Central
arising from was no
13 No. as her of four of their broken. the sinking lighters and damage to three others during the typhoon in the drift, Colony on the early morning broken adrift
This occurred September 2, 1953.
before 5 3.ID. His own A Net Profit of $363,189 for the year ended alleged negligence on the part of
No. lighter,
broke 13,
Loose defendants,
about 6.20 a.m. when the wind December 31, 1954 as compared with 3525,467 the
Co., are re-which had been blowing from Wang Kee and year before was announced in the Report of the presented by Mr John McNelll. north-westerly direction, chang
Witness had Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co. Ltd. A divi-victor Gifting, instructed by Mred to the south.
instructed by Mr Hig anchor
it was down, but Y. K. Kan, of Messrs Lo and
dragging. It eventually held when he managed to get along- In their claim, plaintifs side No. 18.- alleged that by the negligence
their ser
MADE A REPORT. of the defendants, and
lighters agents,
Witness agreed he had made vants belonging to defendants were a report to his employers to the. adrift and bore down and collid-effect that his lighter broke loose ed with plaintiffs lighters, at 5 am, and passed the bows of sinking four and damaging the Wang Kee lighters. He also three.
agreed he had said the Wang Chan Kan-tai, No. 1 sailor of Kee lighters broke
their ropes of Accounts for the lightLoan and Mortgage
No. 13" of the China about 6 am, and drifted away. Mr Wright: The story you Ltd on September 1-2, have just told His Lordship is
dend of $1 free of tax was declared.
In a printed statement the! The Company held its 66th Chairman of the Board of Annual General Meeting at 9 les Directors, Mr G. E. Marden, ex- House Street this morning.
Saying that he had nothing plained:
This figure takes into account useful to add to his statement the loss of $83,027 incurred by which had been circulated to- our new factory in Singapore-gether with the Report and Ac- the Chairman, Mr an outcome which was to be counts,
proposed that the of operation-also the higher depreciation because of the new ment branch as well as the increased year
anticipated in the early stages Matrale Report and State
ended
December
31,
Plaintiffs
#
lodide cloud-seeding has been. the turn of a dial....by the dis bank interest. Having regard to 1954 together with the approp | 1953, had given evidence yes- completely contrary to the ver-
It expects to have some pretty covery of a means of turning the cicar answers by June 30, 1958. cosmic energies of the iono- The committe itself does not sphere into acting over wide conduct tests. But all "rain geographical areas." United
and "rain increasers'
Press. jare required to submit detailed data to the committee for study Mr Gardner, said that there art four commercial outfits
arrying on several
operations simultaneously, 20
20 carrying or at least
and
others
one videa of
Operating
in co-operative ventures,
force, the United States bearing the immigration service today Mest of these are using silver
the major part of the burden.
5. Strategy for the defence of 15 take intu, account the area the deterioration of the political situation in South Vietnam be- closeness of the cause of the Associated States of Indo-China to Thailand, one of the SEATO countries-Reuter.
Declares State
Of Emergency
Peshawar, May 4.
recommended Nationalist
turned
that marine
a Chinese rodide particles wafted into the
Dairy Farm Meeting
officer, air from ground generators or The 55th Annual
Cold and
tlor
was
of
account
This
splayed by aircraft to seed Meeting of shareholders of the alleged to be a deserter, be re- clouds. The idea is for moisture Dairy Farra,
to Formosa, despite his
to collect on the particles until Storage Co., Ltd, took place this
the amount of $75,431 brought statement that he would be shot in
results. But
the com- morning at Windsor House,
forward. "Out of this your without a trial.
mitice gets many suggestions
a transfer Directors recommand The Company made a net pro- Licutenant
Wei, for other methods. Hsuan
ONE SUGGESTION Al of $4,538,312.21 last year and of $150,000 to Gerenal Reserve,
We have a arrived in the United States for
programme One man
he could declared a final dividend of said military training in 1952, While
on the old repairs as well as of some plant replacement for our Hongitong preparing to return to Formosa protect the entire United States $1.70 less tax
factory which has had to be against drought by converting Shares". An interim dividend of in 1954, he changed his mind, ocean water into a spray.. The $1 per share less tax was de- claiming that he faced persecu-
hence new provisions tion and a death sentence for spray would be shot 1.000 toclared payable last October.
The Chairman, Dr the Honstruction and $50,000 for plant 30,000 feet into the air, on the statements criticising the Chiang theory that it would fall as rain
N. Chau, saying he had replacement Kai-shek
Thevement.
rothing to add to his printed The examining official based
statement already circulated, solely on Д
the adoption of the legal
the Refugee Relief Act, which
Report, Statement of Accounts he
Balance Sheet and Directors' said did not apply to members
recommendations..
Afghanistan today declared his conten
state of emergency to meet possible threat from Pakistan, the Kabul (Afghanistan) radio reported tonight.
on arid lands.
Radio Hongkong
H.K.T.
*7
S.
proposed
BAY YOU for factory recon-
of
a
Woman With Varied
Career
Co
Clics
was
seas.
WEATHER WORSENED
rs
ww
my. business.
on
are
the
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present difficult trading conditions reccartnded be adopted
and that the balance of $117,- terday that when his mooring sion you have given your em- tions, I feel that the result can-
ropes broke while his lighter players. Do you agree? not be regarded with dissatisfac-421.81 be carried forward to the per
lying
the alongside
I agree
gree there next account,
Cilos
at. Kowloon dine because I made a berthed This resolution was seconded The appropriation
Waart No. 2 North, he was mistake at the time. What I' also brings into account a sur-by Mr Tsang Hung-tim and
able to manoeuvre back to have told the Court is the truth uhanimously. plus on sale of land amounting adeptakuhanimo
wards the Prays wall and, tied as I have since had an oppos. to $268,057.
On the proposal of Mr R. V.
another up alongside
of his tunity to refresh my memory. Owing partly to the transfer Leerhofer seconded by Mr.E. A.
Company's lighters anong
What I
suggest is the truth af plant from the Hongkong Tsenin, Mr Albert Rayanend and
row of lighters secured to the of the matter is this: at about factory to Singapore, a portion Mr Horace Kedoorie were
that day, at
at the height of the Hongkong area became elected to the Board of Directors, Wharf under the bows of the 5.30 am.
of the starm when you
say Messrs Peat, surplus to requirements.
Mitchell Marwick,
your ropes were breaking, you disposed
for the and Co. were re-appointed audi- satisfactory price of $327,337 ters for the ensuing year at a Under cross-examination by and your crew left the lighter and the bank overdraft reduced renumeration of $3,500 per Mr Wright this morning, witness and went on board the Citos
Yes, but inter we returned. I the proposal of Mr agreed that between 4 and 5 ordered the crew back to the by General
net proceeds of the sale. num the balance of $712,743 including Baker.
There emerges an available Marden soccoded by Mr T. E. am on September 2 the weather lighter when I saw the ropes
worsened with the waves getting breaking. An officer bigger and the winds stronger: Citos advised against this, but These conditions worsened still I told him if I should die further by 5.30 am, he said. It that was
then raining heavily and not yet daylight. His lighter
· DISAGREES : was securely moored, but was I suggest to you that never being tossed up and down by the happened I put it to you you abandoned your lighter at 5.30 Despite efforts to secure the am. when your ropes snapped, lighter, continued witness, it but I am not saying you were broke adrift in the storm which wrong in doing this I don' by that time was very severe, agree. These and the recommended
When you and your crew. with the winds changing direc dividend of $1 per share, the Mrs Kay Stewart of Denver, same distribution as last year, Colorado, has very definitely had did not frighten witness An-ship and proceeded down the weather conditions boarded he Citos, you left the tion. The bonus to staff and workers, her share of different jobs. provision for profits tax and Starting as a journalist-she No 20, was beribed outside Ehters which were drift, I other China: Provident lighter, Wharf and walled there, watch-
of ing the movements of your small provision for the Chinese studied this lo college--she
his own craft, and there were Benevcient Fund joined a local newspaper, Be Employees' will enable us to carry
some Wang Kee lighters some don't agree. for-ture long she bought two papers
18 feet in front of him and
suggest that wh
when your ward $117,421.
of her own and ran them com-
nearer the Praya. Witness sald lighter broke adrift you were pletely herself.
This insted for a couple of he did not think he was hemmed caly 18, fost from the Wang Kee I reported last year that we years; then she joined the Santa
as suggested by Counsel lighters and your lighter collided. had opened our new factory in Fe railway as a Hrison officer.
Asked if there were not in
with two of their lighters. - No. I put it to you, from lighter Singapore On March
fact three Wang Kee lighters and 17, "My journalis helped me in Eric Robiitson and his Concert Mr G. E. Marden and
before the Wang Dr 1854. It has passed through the all other jobs she sak, un citos, witness replied he Ker lighters. What I said in
junk named the Tal Lee next breks adrift & Orchestra (BBCTS): 750, Weather has Report; 2. Time Signal and The Chau, the retiring directors, usual difficulties associated with "including the liaison officer.
mistakes did not my report, was a News London. Relay); 6.09,
were re-elected on the. pro-
could im-mentary (London Rewy) or Special posal
After some
not say. He new venture.
Now Mrs Stewart has started
Chins Provi of Mr
junk.
One can well gappreciate why J. H. Hamm delay owing to late arrival of her own travel bureau in Dendentighter No. 18 was tied up you had in alter your story in Announcements;
8.15.
Modam seconded by Mr H. Durant Moods-Peter Munnings at the piano
plant from the United King-
yer, and
and has gone into partner next to the No. 1 hatch of the fit your present story because Studio); 8.3. The Nine Tailors.
Messrs Peat, Marwick, Mit dam, training of local workers, Adapted by Giles Cooper from the
shell
and Co were re-appointed etc. it reached commercial prop with Mrs Florence Strots, Citos, When the storm broke nobody would believe you that Novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Part
who has the business back No. 18 3 Lard Peter is called. Wrong uditors at a
fee of $12,500 duction in September, 1854, but ground. Mrs Sirots is travelling Preya towards a safer position around the Wang Kee, Highland moved back towards the your lighter drifted conveniently (BBCTS): 2, Time Signal). Spons on the proposal of Maj. S. M. nat in time to make up for with her. Their offices are, 23 and finally, tied up next to five which were in your way, and Review (Studio): 9.15, At the Churn seconded by Mr. Hudson the accrued
the storeys high, and include a Opera. "Orpheus and Eurydice" Chen Wood. (Gluck) Singers with the Glynde
months. preceding The following were present at
reprinting press as well the bows of the Citos: Witness later adrift first-
**** There were dour bourne Festival Chorus and the
Mrs Stewart i also moved back
Join this row Wang Kee lighters alongside Southern Philharmonic Orch, cond. the meeting: Dr the Hon. S.N.may problems to solve, unual offices. Hollywood, May 4,
particularly
still following her journalistic
Citos
Two broke adrift Arst by Fritz Stedry; 10.25
of lighters. "'* Actress Hedy Lamarr was Interlude: Vienna Radio Symphony Chau (Chairman); Mr G. E marketing, but
Die background. on the whole
Witness sued for $18,215 in attorney's Orchestra: 1030 One Night Bland Marden. Mr J. H. Hamm, Mr
the two other Wang. Kep Three Kowloon. fees yesterday in an attachment Waller (plane & Vocal) & B. T. Flanagan and Mr H. D. M.
we think that the Branch The press prints two small to there, he do not notice then, I broke my, mocinas, arid Rhythm: 1059. Weather Report: Barton (Directors); Mr G. Mline on and can look forward to with her advertising suit died in Superior Court
the point of consoilda- papers which help Mrs Stewart Godown Lighters berthed by lighters broke loose.tel
I put it to you it is absolutely Buenos Aires, May 4
Time Signal. Radio News Reel The complaint was
Goodnight and Mr E. J. Cowell (Joint a successful future.
The reason for Mrs Stewart's Whart No 3 South.
COUNSEL'S QUIP fantastic if we believe your who Musle, God Save The Queen; 11.30, Managing Directors); Mr A, A. - In the Balance Sheet the visit to Hongkong is that yearly
You appraised the Argentitia Chamber of Deputies said he had been remained to
Close Down
When Mr Weight suggested to, situation amly
Mimly and drifted Bremner, (Secretary); today called for the separation collent the fees
Fixed Assets in Singapore after she runs an Aloha, tour of the Shareholders present were depreciation are $2,830,179. The Hawailan Irlands and next year witness that two high officials of back to join No. 18 I don't of the Argentine Church and attorneys Jerome
Jerome Rosenthal and
Mr Hudson Chen Wood, Mr H actual new expenditure during they hope to extend this and the plaintiff Company had agree
crossed the Durrent Mr C. L. c. D., Sade,ing the remains payable some $24,000,
Mr the year was $938,104 and there come to Hongkong. They are testified there were four China
taking movies while they are Provident lighters among the row of lighters from the Wharf, and & Shanghal Bank, Stocks and Stores have been
ich they will show on of lighters under the bows of secured, No. 13 to the end of the (Trustee) Lid. Mr valued at cost or market value
that wi
Citos and asked if witness said return. The office has a The "Peronis, who sup actress were released when she Joaquim Rosario Santos, 64, of Lo Wing-long. Miss M. T. de whichever is the veteras isirs Stewart is aiming to d'Almada laughingly remarked afraid of
this
they were mistaken, METRO HARU TERO, you that you are........
W put: port President, Juan Peron, posted a surety bond guarantee 43 Nam Kok Road, top floor. Figueiredo, Mr D. Black, ge Each year I as
getting into trouble. mumber 158 Deputies out of sing payment if the should lose was remanded for four days on penting. Mesers Peat, Marwick, fitting, to the loyalty and zeal of sell her Alcha tours in Hong- this was verglog on intimidation and don't like to admit vita total of 183-France-Presse the suit United Press. Vt] bodi of $500 by Mr. T. Creedon at Mitchell & Col
collided Hart
with two of the Mr. Lam remain as high this year as ever take Mrs Dorothy Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICE GEINHAM for a charge of impersonating a King-fak (Chuen Tak Son Co. and I trust that the proposed Baker with her. This, how given by others might have Wang Kee lighters -- No. L'um
Elusions as there not afraid of any troubYS and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited 4, 1- Libole Officer on Testay. HojLd.), Maj. S. M. Chorn und forms to staff and workers will ever, will be later on in the bem-due-
Som Mr Je Wole. Wyndham Street, City of Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong, pleaded not guilty.
The hearing is proceeding) have your approval.
were two other Chiria. Provident years
"This
thren
Programme
of allied armed forces.
The
examining officer noted in The radio said that the Afghan
that the Chinese Consul- Defence Ministry had ordered a
in Chicago advised him 6. Time Signal and mobilisation of three that Lieutenant "general
Hsuan Sed by Robert Acheson (Studio); Summary: S, Jazz Half Hour pre- uge groups of Army Reservista. faced a maximum of
6.30. Protuguese Half Hour (Studio); The Defence Ministry sald
years' imprisonment In Formosa 7. mesta la Madrid. Orquesta step had been taken as
and that his death sentence Zarzuela de Madrid: 1.30, Music for security measure inasmuch as Pakistan is resorting to actions statement was "entirely ground you. Julia Shelley, Julian Brea
less." ghanistan."
endanger the secu- Afgharelations
between Strained Afghanistan and Pakistan re- sulting from mob attacks on the In Kabul. Pakistan Embassy exchanges between the two countries.-France-Presse.
which
rity int
Lieutenant Hsuan Wei the right of appeal to the migration service-Reuter.
have caused sharp diplomatic HEDY LAMARR
Want Church &
State Divorced
SUED
The pro-Peron, bloc in the attorney William Drought by (London Heley); 11.15,
Samuel
State resolution urged that Lamarr,
The
the Constitution: should be im- mediately changed:
fellow
to whom. Miss
brought against properties. belonging to
Attire indebted
Impersonation Charge
Come
Seconding the proposal, Mr C. D. Slade, congratulated all concerned, especially the Joint Mr G. Milne and Mr E. J. Cowell Managing Directors,
The motion was carried un- animously,
RE-ELECTED
B
now
USUAL DIFICULTIES
expenses of
There re-
regard
Is
which
purpose.
six other lighters under the so you have to say they broke
the
No.
P... | Kowloon Court this morning On Me Woo Chrison, the Company's employees, which | konís; and is also hoping to of the wilonated to the evidence you your lighter, or, Wint
Wstereus