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CASEBOOK
Tea Interval
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"Small City
In The Sky"
Satellite
Proposition
Chicago, Nov. 16.
А вре scientist today
E was a senior civli ser-outlined a plan to build
vant. So that the brief- | satellite that would become case he carried towards the "a small city in the sky". night express for Scotland The bold concept wan pre- was a black one, embossed, sented by Mr Darell Romick, of foodal Alremift Corporation's with the Royal cipher; and
Acrophysics Department, who the sleeper reserved for him outlined his ideas in a paper at a first-class one; and the American Rocket Society's when he had dumped his 25th anniversary convention. bags on his berth and felt thirsty, it was natural that he should set off in search of, a cup of tea.
WAR
Albert watched the important traveller us he disappeared into the swirling steam and gloom of the departine platform.
ALBERT ACTS
Bun
As
EN the broad,
din-
7
satellite be bulli progressively
Mr Romnick proposed that the from the bodies of fual-stage rockets fesed in on orbit around the earth.
any n
! Ho said the < 11:14 En 1: mal form would end up as a sment elly_in_the_phy, rivalling th of comparable populat.on.
de:ficated to fulhiment of special mission- serving
an quipost on a new frontier
The completed satellite could house crewmers and their tami-
he said.
tinguished back was quite out of view, Albert acted. Hees, darted into the alcoper, picked up the civil servant's beling- ings, nipped across the platform with them, and humped into train that was due to leave later for Manchester.
In the Manchester train, Albert sumped into the guard. "Sorry thate," he eati then, making to put the bags on the Luggage-ruck at the end of the coach, said: "All right to love these here?"
"Sure," said the guard. who was busy
Albert hopped out of the traus and back towards the Glosgow one.
A moment later, the Man- chester guard was surorined to выру бой stranger, distinguished in appearance but a little breath- less, enter his train and reach for the bags Albert had just de- posited.
WHERE'S HE GONE?
are those the
guard
"EXCUSE me sir.
asked,
засто
**Yes."
bugs?"
Husped the civil ser-
vant. "Just seen chap put them here, chased up platforms after him; where's be gone?" As his breath returned, the civil ser vant explained more fully. The station police were alerted,
"Bape?"
asked Albert, when The police chiscovered him. "What bags? I seen none."
At Clerkenwell Court Albert pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing the brief-case and a multcase.
olvil The
told his servant story, the railway guard and the police told theirs, then Albert went into the witness-ÞOX.
VIGIL
"LOOK here," he said to the
Frank M: magistrate. Powell, "I've been down to the station several times in the last fortnight.
*Were you travelling? What ticket
the had you?" asked
learned clerk.
THE FIRST STEP
First step in the construction would be to join in outer space two final-stage rockets in a nose to-nose position. This would probably have to be done by Aring small "anli-rockets" Jockey the two big rockets into position while they were circling the earth.
tu
To the "nucleus" other fol- ate yo rockets would be added. Ure whole would then be encased in a buge cylinder, construction
which would have to be done by workers in space suks
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HABITABLE
Mr Ranuck's plan was по 1.Jueprint for the immediate future, but was presented as “a preliminary engineering study of a satellite station affording immediate service with simul- taneous steady evolution and growth."
In other words, Itorick's satellite would be habitable and functional while It was being assembled, Mr Romick even presented rough usumates of the
of Cont
carrying passengers, nail, and freight to and from The sutelikte.-United Press,
Wire-Tapper Tapped By Wire-Tapper
up
New York, Nov. 18. One wire-hopper wound tapping the wire of another wire-tapper when millionaire aoci lite John Jacob Asto: hired a defective to eavesdrop on his wife's telephone con- second versations, a jury was told to- day.
The
District torney,
Mr Aloysius Melia, mentioned the Astor incident in presenting the State's case against detective John G. (Steve) Broady, who is on trial en charge of illegal lapping.
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Assistant
CHINA MAIL
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1955.
Sir Alexander Grantham is seen looking over a section of the Government mechanical workshops this morning.
Also in the picture, reading from left to right are Mr J. C. Brown, Chief Electrical Engineer, the Hon. T. L Bowring, DPW, Mr E. Greenwood and Mr K. B. Baker. - Staff Photographer.
H.E. Inspects Mechanical Workshops
And The New Stadium
H.E, the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, peered at the under- side of his own official ear this morning from a tiled pit in the Hongkong Government's new mechanical workshops at Caroline Hill,
The workshops, which were built last year, replace two other less modern buiklings with poor lighting and equipment on the same site, and are designed for the servicing and overhaul of all vehicles belonging to government departments.
The Governor
www sections The Governor was иссон- making and upholstering police panded by the Director of Pubile sideenra. and a large section Works, the Hon T. L Bowring. engaged re-covering Gov- and shown over the shops by crament heavy lorries withi
Mr J. C. Brown, Chief Electricai permanem altuainium roofing to
and Mechanical Engineer, and replace their present damaged leading engineers in the work- canvas cóVETS,
Messia К. Baker, shopt
E. Greamwood, R. Jaques and D. Huct. He w
wps taken over the stadium
Alexander, Acting Chief Eagloer, Mr W. C. Bil, Government Construc- tion Engineer, and Mr H. M. Omar, Storelacy of the flong- kong Football Association.
An official polated out that it coola $1,000 to re-cover In aluminium, which will not wear out, and the same price take
which
gets damaged every ume the vehicle passes under low treRES,
1.
cover,
at be
The Governor also held a visti to the new football stadium L'aroline Hill which will opened on December 3.
He climbed up through a hole in the roof of the grand stand
one
and walked down a eat walk to soundproof of the thire boxes. The boxes are designeri for police control, Radio Hong- kong, and Rediffusion.
PRESS BOX SEATS
The Governor also sat at desk in the press box to test it for comfort. His commert- "Back's too straight"
At Radio Hongkong
wire-
Astor has divorced wife No. 3,
since then and has married and broken up a third time.
"A platform ticket." Albert, Mrs Gretchen Gresch Astor, said. "You see it's this way. I divorced my wife, and she has custody of our daughter... because I thought it was better
that way for the child.
"And my wife's been on hol-
and I know she's dive
to
ndi
Mr Melia said that In 1954 Astor hired delective Broady to check on Gretchen's telephone 1 chitchat.
But Mrs Astor was one step ahead of her spouse.
day in London with the child. She had hired her own investi- I've been there night Kator, detective Thomas Tracy. So, Molin said, Broady tapped telephone line in "a case espionage and counter-
the
Tracy's of
back, after night hoping to sec weo girl"
"Look, shall we talk about espionage." the case?" the magistrate sug- Boosted.
"My wife's been cluding me..." Albert began again.
SOMETHING WRONG
THAT were you doing
the Manchester train?"
"I never was on it."
on
"The gentleman whose Cusco they were was wrong, was be?"
"Aye, must have been,
"The guard was wrong, too?” "Aye," said Albert, There's something wrong about all this, somewhere. I don't get ih" Ho threw up his hands.
1
is being triod in con- nection with an alleged clec- tronle eavesdropping operation in which almost every telephone on the Eastern half of midtown Manhattan could be tapped,... United Press.
UN MEMBERSHIP RESOLUTION
magistrate "Anything Nations.
A Tass despatch from Geneva
HX.T.
Mr by
LOVING FATHER'S TRAGIC ACT
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN
COURT CLAIM FOR MONEY
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF PLAINTIFF
· Cross-examination of the plaintiff in an action against a bank and two commercial firms continued "before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg in the Supreme Court this morning.
The action is being brought by the Kin Fong Hong, importers of 179 Wing Lok Street against the Oriental Development Company which was said to have "flown"; the United Chinese Bank of Ice House Street, and the Wah Shing Trading Co.
comparly,
mlango.
Chore
The plaintif replied that the words "per
cent" were very common in the business world. "Even a child could learn them,” he added.
+
NOT TRUE
Plaintiff admitted that all four of them, his brother, his friend, Fong Kwan and himself knew that he had not paid the $100 - 1800 deposit and that the words in the latter stating that he had were not true. The Bank knew the true position but the Bank and instructed them to word the letter in that marmer, he mid.
At that time he was trying to negotiate for the transfer of the letter of credit to him, but the Bank and it could not be done.
The case is proceeding.
Woman Killed
In Last Night's Fire
It was officially reported this morning that a Chi- abin women, Ng Kwan-tai, 50, suffered fatal injurita in last night's squatter huÉM Den at Lo Fu Ngum village, Kowloon City,
A police check today dis- clowed that 191 huts were destroyed in the blago, and that 1.184 people were made homeless. The home- lem comprise 264 familles and include 132 children.
Free meals are being Laura'today to the victima st the
Argyle Street social welfare centre. The blaze la believed to have started in noodle shop situated in the centre of the village.
Woman Arrested
With Heroin
"Somoone
gave the heroin to me to sell," a worinn frankly old Mr F. X. D'Almada at the Central Magistracy this morning when she admitted possession of 11 small pockets of the drtig.
The defondant, Law San-nul, 03-year-old unemployed of no
SUSPECTED fixed abode, was fined $1,000 or
THIEVES DETAINED
six months imprisonment,
Sub-Inspector C.K. Lam, con- ducting the prosecution, told the court that a police corporal Dnd two other constabies were an plainclothes duty when they saw the defendant acting in a re-suspicious manner in Sad On
The Police yesterday celved seven reports of lar- Lane. stated in cross-examine when the manager of Oriental ceny from the
person Development, Kwan, approached three in Hongkong and four proached her and searched the
him Ic A hoan on Apru 29 he showed him
In Kowtoon. three documents,
The three policemen ap-
black purse she held in her
thao import licence for the In the three cases which| right hand. In the punEE WÊTE fortiser A duplicato uf his occurred in Hongkong, sus
firm's application
10
the Bank
extension of
the
for a letter of crodit and a pects have been detained.
A Chinese stole a purse con- dupilcato of the
talaing $0.50 the letter of credit
from Chinese Showing the
woman pedestrian in Bowring- witness
ton Road, Eastern district, al duplicate of the application for
10.15 a.m.
Ai
3.40 p.m., the letter of credit, Mr McNelli Chicago, Nov. 16. put it to him that he never saw
fountain pen was stolen from a Chinese wallding along Queen's Dantis Pomonis, 62, who it because it had been with the
third defendants
Road, East. loved his five-year-old daugh-ary 29, 1952 when it was written.
A passenger on a tram car In Hennessy Road, near Percival ncrows the scas better
Street, had his fountain than life itself, was close to
pen stolen at 5.58 p.m.
ter
4 TRAFFIC death today.
ACCIDENTS
Pomonis
was the
Ho had
that hi
him
since FebrU-
RETURNED LETTER
gether with documents,
noon
found 11 small packets of heroin.
Wheat Conference Adjourns
Genova, Nov. 10. The 10-state United Nations wheat cenference ended its first series of meetings here today adjourned until next February, so that governments can study the results of the pre- sent session.
Dnd
The
watch,
It was icerned today that Britain will defer unti Fibruary her decision on whether to join a new agreamcrit,
from the
The plaintiff maltained that Kwan did show it to him to- In Kowloon, a wristlet watch leaped from the
the two other valued at $30 was stolen from third floor of a hotel, of which ho
Because ct that a Chinese woman in Hot Tan co-owner, yesterday, time he thought it was of no Street, near Boundary Street, al apparently despaired use to him he returned that about
yesterday. estranged wife would letter A motor cycle collided with
letter to Kwan and kept the snatcher escaped. bring his daughter back other two documents,
Another wristlet an elderly Chinese woman in to
from
By a Greece.
Mir McNelll pointed out that valued at $260, was snatched Queen's Road East, near Jubileo
strange twist of fate. Mrs
bad from a Chinese woman walking the plaintif Street, at 8.20 a.m. today.
was trying to reach today
Britain withdrew testifed
Street, Yaumati, at that him by trans-Atlantic telephone letter he saw was not signed by
the
duplicate in Parkes
2.10 p.m. At 9.30 p.m.,
Chinese prosent agromment on the ground The wompan
sustained at the very moment he jump- Oriental Development, who
pedestrian Peiho that prices sought by exporting alight Injuries, was treated at ed
what cas Street, Shanshulpo, had her countries were too high. Queen Mary Hospital but was
produced wristlet watch stolen from her. not detained.
Pomonis
the
documents
Court which Pomonių, a Greek immigrant,
married a woman who came accident from Greece eight years ago. In Reed, near 1948 she gave
birth to a tiny p.m.. yea- | daughter weighing ahly
sustained viFICES.
Diana, The little girl, was became the centre of her father's
he
Another traffic occurred in King's Lau Li Street at 2.50 terday, A Chines slight Injuries when knocked down by a tram car life. port: 0.00, Nursery Sing Song, with travelling from wrist to ctrl. Carson (BBCTS); 630. He was discharged after treat-
Halt Hour
(Studio)ment at Queen Mary Hospital GAG, Weather Report; 7, Timo Signe) and The Nows (London
8, Time Signal and Programme Summary: 6.43, Stock Market to
Violet
Portuguese
of
SAILED AWAY
woman
the plaintiff said The watch was valued at $50. It is understood
was the one he saw was signed.
that some
:
50
I
14
A suspect has been detained important wheat countries, in- by the Police in connection with chiding the Soviet Union *I do not know English.
an attempted larceny of pro- Argentina, are awaiting saw the signature was not that
at the British. decision before party from a Chinese of Kwan so I said it was not Bhamshulpo ferry whort at 4.20 pelves
Oriental Develop- pm, yesterday. signed by
and
the
them-
deciding
whether
to
jain. Reuter.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
But Pomonis 43-year-old wife
with her and
ment," explained the plaintiff.
Mr McNeill You said that, you
done business fend mot
with Kwan before this. I put it to you that up to April 20, 1952 you had not seen Kwan's sign- ture
Witness: I agree.
on
You say you do not read English, How can you tell that wo Dot Kwan's signature Pomonis weight dropped the letter?-As I said, I did from 180 to 140 pounds. He not know who signed it. I can- sent a, flood of letters and not tell whose signature was on cables to Athens, begging his thart Tations wife to return. Finally, she Wi agreed to put through a trans at 2 pan. yesterday. Atlantic telephone call to him
Helay): 7.00. Commentary (London At 4.45 pm yesterday, a yearned for her native land and Helay or Special Announcements: private motor car knocked down last October she sailed to Greece. 718, Boulevard Cafe: 7.30, Music
Chinese pedestrian in She took Diana Robinson and has for you. Eno Concert Orchestra with Monis Liter Morrison Hill Road. The man told her husband they would (plane) (UBCTS); 8. What's the sustained slight Dactal in-never return. Farm
(Recorded London Relay Juries and was treated at the 8.15, VOA Hit Parade; 8.40, no
department Recital by Elleon Joyce; 9. Tune outpatients
Besti Signa), Francis
and his Queen Mary Hospital. Orchestra; 0.10. At the Opera. "Don Giovanni act (Mozart). Pria- cipals with the Vietna Bymphony Orchestra and the Chorus of the Vienas State Opers cond. by Hana Bwarowsky: 10,43 Bedside Book "Unale Bilar" by Sheridan Le Fanu Read by Cynthia Nixon. Episode 9 Recorded); 10.59, Weather Report: li, Time Signal, Radio News Heni Muse. Good Bave The Queen; 11:30. London Relay): 110, Goodnight Close Dawn.
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оп
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Personality
In Kowloon, a Chinese ind, aged six, sustained serious in- juries when he was knocked down by private motor car in Berwick Street at 1.30 p.m. yesterday: The boy is now in The call apparently did not Kowloon Hospital.
in us if in fact that docu- ment was produced to you you would not know then whether # was Kwan's signature or not. Seeing it was of no uso come through exactly on time I handed it back to Kwan. and Pomoals crawled out отд
did not know who signed. It. window ledgo of the Pacific Hotel. For almost
"MORE IMPORTANT" minutes he hovered on the
friend told him the document Kwan showed you on So when you said that › the call had come through from April 20 was not signed by Athens but he refused to be- ilove it. Neighbours gathered below, begging him in Greek Yeung Koon-keung, 22-year-and English not to jump.. old deported, was sentenced to reman's not by ave feet.
But Pomonis leaped, missing a two years hard labour by Mr J. E. Durling at Central” this morning for larceny from person..
Two Years For A
Snatcher
At the telephone switchboard,
told theomcono
the Athens operator that Mr Pomenis was not in-United Press.
not true Yesterday you asked Oriental Development "it was
me if I saw whether or not Oriental Development signed it and I replled - No.
Did you ask Kwan for the receipt for the
of deposit $100 8007 No.
Would it not have becit prudent thing to do?-It was more important to nak the Bank
undertaking. That re for un ceipt Wvelopment
In the name of Oriental
and was of
(Continued from Page 1) sponsored by the West and the others by the Communist coun- tries to break the deadlock
Defeninnt, who had ten pro- "I find this coee proved," said over admissions to the United
vious convictions for breach of the
Violin Kelodies; 7.30, Coke Ting deportation orders and two for knownza
Biarring Eddie Fisher with Guest larceny, was ordered to be put FIRST ATOMIC "We are asking for a remand," sald tonight that Mr Molotov Art 745, Ralph Marterie and under Police supervision for two
had declared during talks with | H sold a policeman, stepping into
or no uso to me; Western the witness-box. "We have to
foreign
Hagrids Jackie Cicason; Me years on his release from gaol, POWER STATION ministere
The plaintiff agreed with, Mr Jachrino Musicale --- Presented by On Wednesday, Mr 6. C.
London, Nov; 16. make
that the Soviet Union favoured Cadbury-Tra; 8.30, Melody Magic
McNeill that the proposed loan inquiries about other
Karnick settlement of “this pro- Bongs For Herminiscing; 9, Variety
Пев.... The properly found in this
walking, Yalong man's
alomic
to Kwan "wisą "profitable power the Ahor with... Harry Locke from
Queery's tracted question", during
Road East, when station in western Europo matter to his firm. He bought Dosresalon,"
JLNAV. Victory, Featuring Benny UN session and whole-111 Betty Driver and the francesco
defendant brushed past, him, opstied its doors to newsmen and sold for customers and Albert was Let' away. The
Over 30, Square Dancing: 10. Mr Kernick, found his fountain today, at Colder Hall, Cumber mado a completion of cists were restored
supported the Canad their be
Cafe
on of two per Continental - Presented pen missing and he called out land, in the north of England.
by owner, who glanced at the clock
10.30, Old Time "At
samo time Mr Pagult Corac:
thief."
The power station, when it is
* Hanom solca the words "two and hurried away. Perhaps he
Ballrooms With Bidney Thompson mad another train to catch, or
the hope and his Orchestrat expressed
16, Date, with
complètely, equipped" and, fines per cent” in English - and Mr and Dreamlande Festuring the Bongs of
Two Police constables and a loning at the end of 1950, will- McNeal komediately asked him perhaps he had noticed it was that the United States Just about the hour when, in the Britain would
watchman saw the provide enough electricity to whether he had picked up at also, support Gay Blazers: 31.30. Prelude To district
Tour the Incident, chased defendant and light a bity of one · million In- least those few words in the 18
Midnight Popular Concert ... Maye Mintziries, the morning tea Canada's proposal" the
-Reuter,.
Queral Clow Downi
eventually arrested, him, say ·Habitants.----France-PressS. -message wild,
years he had been in business, Interval is, taken,
10
the
Molotov
whs
10-10"
"Why can't I use make-up, Mom? You've got a prettier face than I have mid you've been using it for yearaly
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