Page
THE
BLACK BOX CHINA
Radio Dept.
SEE IT, HEAR IT.
AT, GILMANS
Gloucester Arcade V
No. 36139
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Promising Start
THE Peking decision to
In
in
airmen (they arrived Hongkong yesterday) leaves about 51 American civilians und servicemen still. detain- કહે Communist China, according to official US Government assessments. The four airmen, it should +3 be stressed, are not in any way connected with the 11 airmen whose presence in China was announced last year as alleged "spies" and espionage agents.
Those released yesterday were
jet pilots #hot down during the Korean war. Peking claims they were actually brought dow in Chinese:
territory after being caught "intruding" but there is no, official confirmation of this. But obviously they are not in the same category as the other 11 who have been charged with an ostensibly offence. far more serious The civilians, too, presum ably come under a different category than either set of airmen, but little is known of the reason for their detention
The release of the
British
radio operator, Robert Ford on Sunday who was also charged with "espionage" gives rise to speculation that the 11 airmen may be given their freedom
Anon-
Ford's detention in China or Tibet for almost five years is a poor indicator to to be the likely sentence served by the airmen. For the most part, Ferd was in
THREAT
Ships Lie Idle In Docks
Some 20,000 dockers went on strike last week in London, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manchester and Hull. The strike is the result of an inter-union dispute, between the Stevedores Union and the Transport and General Workers Union. This aerial view taken from a specially chartered aircraft shows two of the big London docks, the King George V (on the left) and the Royal Albert (on the right) where many ships lie idle as a result of the strike.-London Express.
prison during a time when Ike Wants
Peking's relations with the West were very much more. strained than they are to- day.
MUCH therefore depends on
to
Early Date
For Talks
Man
Established 1845
THE WEATHER:* Moderate Northerly winda, Cloudy with few patches of drivile or light rain läter this evening.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1955.
Price 20 Cents
SAXONE
Shoes for Men
MADE IN SCOTLAND
Whiteaways
HONGKONG
MOWAŁO ON
TO STEEL INDUSTRY
May Be Forced By Strikes Rain-Making To Close Down
CAN LAST ANOTHER EIGHT DAYS
London, May 31.
Britain's steel industry is in danger of having to shut down because of the crippling railway and dock strikes, which have tied up the nation's transport.
"The nation's steel mills announced today that they have only eight days' Two of the supplies of fuel and minerals. .biggest mills announced that they will have to close down their blast furnaces by next Thursday if the strike .continues, throwing tens of thousands of employees out of work.
thus
Other industries which depend on the railways for transport were also faced with the necessity of closing.
Meanwhile, the number of striking dock workers rose to 19,900 today, when employees returning from vacation joined the ranks of the strikers.
Goes Berserk With
.
Gun: Kills 3 People
داد
"Dayton, Ohio, May 31.
J
In Britain's principal ports, work had been completely sus pended on 154 ships, Work was partial on another 87 ships and normal on 119 chips.
Loented
The rall strike has caused an traffic jam in To the regular heavy flow of automobiles has been added food of bleycies, motor-cycles, army trucks and
buses.
Key intersections in the city and this
A berserk gunman who said he "did it for his God," charged into two banks today and shot and killed three persons, including a former football blocked reciprocal!
coach, before he was fatally wounded himself Police bullets.
the present attitude of Peking (and possibly Wash- ington, too, for the Chinese may well respond, as Mr
Washington, May 31. indicated Krishna Menon yesterday,
President Eisenhower said moves to reduce tension.) today that the United States The release of the airmen is had no definite position on however, a promising start the date and site for the Mr Krishna Menon
Big Four conference, but scribed it as a "first step" would prefer it to be held by China to lowering inter- national tension in the Far at a relatively early date. East. le continued:
de-
**15
Killed were:
Former University of Dayton football coach Gavin who died in the hospital shortly after being in the head.
by
suburbs were completely
morning,
and dozens of drivers abandoned their cars near the pavements with the apparent intention of returning to recieve them after the strike has ended-France Joe Presse.
shot
the
Mrs Fred Cramer, a Secretary at the Third National Bank, who died of chest wounds.
He reiterated that, as he saw from now we can reason it, the conference was intended ably hope towards an easing discuss general problems George Sawaya, a market operator, who died on the
with a view to establishing pro-scene. cedures for settling them
given of the situation, goodwill on both sides. It
The gunman was identified as but requires not bargains
cl the The
President was replying Richard Meytrs, 46, actions to lower tension from both sides. This could to a journalist who had asked Samu Hotel, who told the Polle on the way to the hospital that be like a snowball once it him if he had considered Lakhe "did it for his God." He started rolling."
ing along Senator Walter died about two hours after the Few, perhaps, will share his George, Chairman of the Senate shooting.
opinion, however Foreign last earnestly an early
Relations Cammitee,
The shooting occurred during con- when the President attended the the mid-morning rush hour at Dayton's busiest business section.
LIMITED NUMBERS
DI
Experiments
In Britain To Continue
It's "Back To School
Again" In Italy
Rome, May 31.
The Italian teachers' trade union tonight ended a strike for higher wages of 52,000 secondary school teachers after two days,
They thus dashed the hopes of a million children' whose annual examinations begin tomorrow.
After two days of inten~- sive negotiations a CO- promisc
the eve
The
was reached
was
of the examina- tions The terms will be disclosed later. The union ordered immediate suspen- sion of the strike,
government evidently surprised at the success of the strike ami si the amount of tympathy sroused among parents for teachers wage plains. The zaindarra salary teacher L 44,000 Lire (225) a maník.
The main force behind the strike was the power- ful Catholle Trade Union Federation-Reuter.
Segregation
Must End
Says Court
Important Ruling In Washington
VICTORY
FOR DICK
HAYMES
Washington, May 31. A United States District Court ruled here today that Argentine-born crooner Dick Haymes, husband of Rita Hayworth, is not able to deportation.
In Hongkong
Rain-making experiments in Hongkong are to be con- tinued for another two. weeks, the acting Director of the Royal Observatory, Mr C. S. Ramage said today..
The reason for this, he said, was that May was not. particularly satisfactory month for testing the water- seeding theory.
Only on about seven or eight- days could conditions be de scribed as favourable:
"There were too many days when there was either no cloud
else general
raft.” Mr
02
Ramage said.
Records of May rainfall were expected to reach
vatory
the Obser-
-be
soon but it was im- possible to say at this stage what conclusions would reached. Mr Ramage said the next two weeks might produce conditions which would enable meteorologists to arrive at an
answer.
DELAY IN REPORT
the decision to Because of extend Haymes has been fighting a
the period of trial, a government move to have him anal report would not be far- deported on the grounds that hewarded to Government until at entered the United States least the end of this month. illegally after a visit to Hawall If the results were clear and Today's ruling was that indefinite the compiling of the effect be never left the United report
would be relatively States when he went to Hawail, straightforward. Otherwise, it an American territory, in 1953, would involve detailed compari- in Haymes, 36, had gone to sons with past statistics and Hawal to see Miss Hayworth
might take former wife of Aly Khan, and making experiments be for a singing engagement in Hongkong last month. Reuter,
The experiments were conducted
alternate
days and the method used was to seed clouds with a fine water spray. The
Reached
this case the
report
gan
on
am
Freedom Minus operations were conducted from
Clothes
Vienna, May 31.
The Peak and Mount Gough.
A Czech citizen today chose Rush To Join
German Cadres
freedom by getting rid of all tris clothes.
Washington, May 31. The United States Supreme Court today direct- ed that segregation of white and negro schoolchildren be epded as soon as feasible. STRIKERS CRITICISED
But the court, whose ruling London, June 1, ".
Austrian customs officers of The Daily Herald, organ
was read by Chief Justice Earl
the Ringeldorf district ere Warren, said local conditions British 8,000,000-strong
astonished when they saw a Trades Union Congress and of could be taken into account.
naked man coming to them from Mr Warren said the high tri- the Labour Party, today co-bunal expected full compliance the Czech border. When ques-
tioned, demned the railway strike and with its decision as early
the man appeared to be 23 HO called on
prmal. He said his name was the 70,000 striking
practicable
The drivers and firemen to end the
court's opinion today Ladislas Pozgay, aged 22, and an
by trade. stoppage.
technically reversed judgments
strange He explained The newspaper said in of lower federal courts in thres
"Talk of states and the District front-page editorial:
of attire by the fact that at first be staying on strike three months Columbia which were based on used his clothes to avoid contact nonsense, Ruin would be the doctrine of separate but with the electric wires in the barbed wire natting protecting thorough after three months, equal" dacilities for negroes,
the border on the Czech" side, ORDER TO COURTS "Already unemployment caused by the strike is beginning in
district courts where but before crossing a river to
freedom, be reac
tied the socel
industry. It will these cases originated were
together and placed them grow.
few more days directed to take such proceed- the mines will have to cuttings and enter such orders and jover his heat
He swan and reached the decrees consistent with this
and opposite bank. The clothes did are necessary
-France-Presse.
Tito Defends The
is
West
Belgrade, May 31.
and
Only
The
electrician
44
Bonn, May 31 Some 170,000 Germans have now volunteered for the cadres of the future West German armed
Federal forces, the Security Commissariat indicated tonight
Among these are 130,000 for combat troops and 40,000 for services. No medical examina ficce have yet taken place, the Defence Office said, and there fore It was impossible to my volunteers how many of the would be selected.
The number of volunteers was increasing, West German added. For the Buthorities moment, the cadres have been
France
still
President Tito of Yugoslavia, the production of coal
The Daily Herald is a opinion as Bank and defended the West during coniunch friend of the railway- proper to admit to public schools not. The current was too strong, ❘ set at 150,000 men-
I not tolong the agony.
summation of a new and Big Four talks. more friendly relationship
The Police said that Meyers is to be wished. The United
the lobby of States, if for no other rea-
President Eisenhower, after just walked into son than that it will avoid outlining his ideas on such the Third National
Cramer point any move which could be conference, said the representa- first shot Mrs interpreted as compromising tives of the legislative branch blank in the chest. He then
at international shot Mr Sawaya and fired an or embarrassing its Nation- should sit in
at a Vice-President alist allies, may be expected conterence when it was dealing other shot
shots around the bank, to proceed cautiously. Po with litics and diplomacy dietate programme. fully nourished
de- made the point that he thought automatic pistol, Meyers walked fended by successive ad ministrations will not liquidated overnight. - AMERICA'S desire to
"a precise and detailed of the Bank before spraying sident Tito defended the United solo is of the Labour move-enough to cover segregation; ini
-:
that an alliance so care. President Eisenhower also Upon emptying bis 38 calibre and “aggressive".
The profound
and
end
as are Trust. Company, and shot
two others before being down by Police belets.
He stressed that the Govern-
The President
of
that the
wint 30 mld always caily wounded
change
death
In
...
ཀ
to
Supporters of segregation in the South Halled the Supreme
long time in which to carry out Court decision as giving them a
its 1954 ruling.
Mr Herman Talmadge, former | Governor of Georgia, said "ii won't be feasible, In Georgia for
long time."
versations with Soviet leaders
advise the strikerson a racially non-discriminatory basis with all deliberate speed here, sources close to the Yugo men We sla celegation said today.
"No
strike can be car-
involved ia. the The sources said that Frericd through
regroes unless the prin litigation" such that it engages States
against the Soviet charge
The decision while broad support that America Was "warlike the
ment as a whole.
The strikers have not the schools everywhere is not ex- support of the trade union pected to end segregation in all the delegations at the Big Four next door to the Winters Bank Soviet foreign policy, which has movement or the public and areas especially in some parts of
occurred
the since
it is the first time railwaymen the South. be talks should be as limited
in schools et Joseph Stalin has been accom have not had public support.
and states not profound equally possible in numbers.
panied by
say to them: however directly involved in the cases it changes in the Soviet internal just you feel your case may be will presumably be up to negro tension in the Far East, ment" chists' conference would He was placed handcuffed on system, the sources said.
They declared that the Soviet you cannot fight it out this way. parents to bring suits in school
"The longer the strike tests, districts which refuse however, cannot be chal- no doubt deal with the problema stretcher and rushed to the
the worse the public temperaVEN LONG TIME Jenged, and it can be ex- of the reunification of Germany, Miami Valley Hospital, where: delegation here, in private con- versation, strongly denounced
will become. pected that there will be but should not be expected to he died,
the past excesses of the Soviet
The paper sald reason must The Police said that the criti-police and even admitted it was settle this dispute in the end tense and possibly strained discuss the question in detail. negotiations behind the United States
wen Helen necessary for the USSR to re-
the strike off quiddy, scenes between Taipei, and take into account twice in the inforce the protection of the "The right thing to do is to call "Be wise. Be considerate of Washington in the next points
Western Germany, legs and once in the chest, and rights of individuals.
VICTORY FOR PEACE de W. C. Sherman, assistant Vice-
other workers and be speedy," few months to effect which, he declared, was
With the talks nearly ended, the Daily Herald urged.- China one of the President of the Third National smooth and gradual transi. stined to become
United States best allies Bank, shot under the heart. Yugoslav circles are ungamous Mail Special. tion of American policy.
in the belief that the meeting United Press, France-Presse,
of Soviet and Yugoslav leaders Mr Chou En-la's message to
cccstituted a great victory for peace.
The epokesman for the Soviet a makeshift postal service to ing a definite date would have. delegation,
Leonid flykhev, told day as Britain plunged into an been a handicap. Local com an impromptu press conference oficial state of emergency on murities now may be able to
things up. speed today
leaders declined to the talks had been the fourth day of a national
Strike.
comment pending a full study marked by a spirit of "mutual rall understanding.
He said that a joint press cos London and Bristol-made plain of the terms of Chief Justice
Sir Warren's statement Renter The Czechoslovak Interior Ministry, tonight anference would be held at the the
Anthony Eden's Conservative
essential MALIK RETURNS Finally, an observation on nounced the arrest of 13 espionage agents alleged to haves of the talks
Meanwhile, Belgrade radio government the Chinese decision: it been sent to Czechoslovakia by the American espionage said today that thy personal services operating in the
London May 31. forms a corollary to Mr service and a number of other persons with espionage contacts among Yugoslav and of the strike,
The Soviet Ambassador to Soviet leaders at Brioni Island: The Army is also being called Chou's Bandung peace connections".
im spite of certain into carry in a feel of 250 Britain, Mr Jacob Malik re- pledge wherein he pro
view,
permitted lorries many of the 25,000,000 burned to London tonight, by air differences of
discovery of
of la romumon des letters
and parcels posted in from Moscow
Mr Malik will head the Soviet the d
delegation in talks with Japanese nomination on whics agreement Britain every could be reache
Tila is scheduled to ang by to se
by to help in the rail stop delegates tomorrow in Londons The conversations are being Belgrade tomorrow page which, with a paralel rican from
Bied while the remaining strike of 20,000 dock workers, held for the purpose of bringing Yugosley and Soviet leaders threatens Britain's gravest in relations between Moscow - and will reum to Belgrade, on dustrial crials in this generation Tokyo back to normal-France-
Presse Thursday?--Irance-Presse.
Mr Hammarskjold yester- day suggests the visit of the UN Secretary-General to Peking early this year play- ed a major part in the air- men's release. Mr Lodge'e handsome tribute to him in New York was therefore fully justified...
THIRTEEN ESPIONAGE
AGENTS ARRESTED
Prague, May 31.
fessedly sought an easing Police investigations showed armed forces and economy and of tension in the Far East that the 12 were sent from West to photograph Important indus As such it is clearly a Germans with werpont and ex- tlat and midtery Building and welcome move and the plosives, and instructed to communfeat.cms. world will watch for fur build up a zpy net in Czechow ther evidence of the good slovakia, the announcement sald
The
14 added that confessions by long courses intentions of both China and the arrested agents showed they instructors the co America with hope and tract been dostructed to go. Que
Information about the Czech continual
optimism
2
in
RAF HELPS OUT
London, June 1- Royal Air Force planes began
The RAF fights based
"determination
to keep
of
gtand
- Mr. C. A. Scott, a negro
another view, say
editor, took
Presse.
Just ask for
Budweiser
LAGER BEER
BUD
The World's Most Famous Beer
Budweiser
LACER
BEEF
ARMELITEKRUTAH, ING ... 14 !()\\ PODEN CAST ANOTAS
CO., LTD.