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No. 36366
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956.
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SAXONE
·Shoes for Mon Whiteaways
MADE IN SCOTLAND
HONGKONG G KOWLOON
IKE'S BIG URANIUM OFFER Peron Men
$1,000 Million For Peaceful Atomic Development Girl Meets
according to expectations: HALF FOR USE OUTSIDE U.S.
Washington, Feb. 22,
President Eisenhower today ordered the release of $1,000 million worth of uranium 235, kalf for use in the United States and half overseas for the development of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
It will be either sold or leased.
Uranium 235 is a fissionable material used as fuel in
an atomic reactor. Forty thousand kilograms will be re- leased under the President's announcement,
Ikewine Government's i willing acceptance of the Unofficiala mondments to the recommendations made in the White Paper. Summarised, the Colony can expect sometime in the future: IL more powerful traismitter; longer hours of broadcasting and more varied programmes on the Chinese Rection; a more flexible method of financing the station's operating costs; the appearance of a privately run commercial brondensting station, These are improvements which will meet with fairly reveral approval. Nevertheless, jected into the Unofficials' amendments yesterday was
condition which creates | powerful Immediate raisgivings.
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COLONIES
hendquarters at would be distributed outside the TO MAKE OWN
"It is an emnest of our faith that the atom can be made
instrument for
It promotion of world peace."
a
the
DECISION
ON HANGING?
In a statement issued nt his He sald 20,000 kilograms holiday Thomasville, Georgia, the Pre-United States.
said: "This action de- sident
Mr Eisenhower said the monstrates the confidence of the 40,000 Lagrams (about 88,000 United States in the possibilitles pounds weight) would be mode of developing nuclear power for
available "over period civilinn uses,
years" either for sale or least under candilluns prescribed by the United States Government.
London, Feb. 22. In America, 20,000 kilograms
made
Mr John Hare, Minister of would
be
avollable
for Colonia) Affairs, Mir Eisenhower said it was through lense for all leensed State was that any Governmentį
not intended that nations At civilian purposes.
enfd today the Government subsidy needed to cover the
conference follows would keep the colonial difference
Present producing uranium 235 Between
Union and At The ur the Sovie!
unanimous
by the approval
informed of Hongkong's
governmenta revenue And
share in the United snielilies should
Nations Generat
il took about expenditure shoukl be spent | distribution abroad,
3 of uny decision Assembly last December are programmes that
moves to set up on interna abolishing the death penalty. cultural,éctucational and in-
tional agency on the peaceful
Mr Stephen Swingler, a uses of atomic energy.
Labour member, had referred to the House of Commons decision te abolish or suspend banging and asked what would be done In the colonies.
OT!
formative.
Radio
Listeners to Radio Hongkong
whether Chinese or non- Chinese, will want to know why.
The
White Paper
freely admitted, and in so doing confirmed
exlating
publie opinion. that Radio
Hongkong needed to improve!
itu
programmes,
those
channelled
ZEK.
notably
through
And by improvement,
the fisteners MIN pro- grammes with a more wide- ly popular appeal.
Most listeners will take issue with the proposition that Radio ilongkong's
prime
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functions are to educate and informt. It is a radio station and essentially exists to entertain; to give listeners, far na possible, what they desire. And there radio station in isn't the world that has found and cultural, educational Informative programmes to attract the attention of more than three per cent of its llsteners.
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We believe heavy super- imposition of this type of
NEW SOUTH
SEA
MYSTERY
Buva, Feb. 23. Another SCI mystery came to light today when it was disclosed that a tug which left Sove, оп short sea voyage that Bun.. day had not reached its destination.
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The missing lug in the the "Shell 40′′ owned by
ILM Shell Olt Co, Ltd. destination was an island
takes
In the Lau groun trip normally
daya.
The task of the conference, which has been twice postponed since December, will be examine a draft statute for the proposed agency.
PRELUDE TO MEETING
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will
Mr Hare replied: "Local law and practice are the responsibi- President Eisenhower said theilty of the colonial governments,
The Colonial Secretary release of uranium 235 was in
govern- keep these addition to the 200
kilograms of course
ments Informed of any decisions already made available.
Govern which Her Majesty's The distribution, would be subject to "prudentment may take in this matter."
Reuter. safeguards against diversion of the materials to non-peaceful
purposes.
satd. he
President Elsenhower's an-
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb 22, five days nouncement comes
A woman went to a State before a 12-nation conference is Sales tax clerk and sold baR due to open in Washington on wanted +
to sail to permit his "Atome for Pence" plan. This
England. two
Mr James Hagerty, the White The clerk said lowa did not House Press Secretary sald much | Issue "sall permits" and advised
had been released in the
her to apply to Federal Au- past but he did not know how theritics for a passport.-United much,
Press.
She was to have assisted on Tuesday in the salvag- ing of a wrecked yacht.
Royal New Zealand Air Force flying boats searched for her all day yesterday without succËSI.
The search is continuing. -United Press,
"entertainment" on existi Fiancee's Phone
Plea For
Life Of Hostage
Admiral Lewis Strauss, Choir- mon of the Atomic Energy Commission, Issued
azcom-
as "the towards
panying statement the President's action most important step pezceful uses of atomic energy since the passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1054."
OFFICIALS ASTOUNDED
Observers in Washington were astounded today by the size of President Elsenhower's dona- tion.
One ometal said: "This will give the boys in the Kremlin acmething to think about. The Russiana can't possibly hope to match this,"
For The First Time
SUDAN DISASTER Boy (Alone)
194 Die In Prison Barracks
A Sudanese
Government
among
Cairo, Feb. 22.
ይሆና
com-
And She Is 24!
Blamed For Huge Explosion
Buenos Aires, Feb. 22. An Army arsenal blew up today in the suburb of Miguelete, rocking the en tire city with the force of an earthquake and shaking more than 2,000,000 real- dents in their beds.
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Major Louis Gazzoli, who was in charge of the arsenal, said · London, Feb. 22.
he was positive the blast was Pretty 24-year-old Kath the work of Peron
Peronist saboteurs, The leen Rutty talked to a man
explosion
opened alone for the first time in crater 30 feet across and 30 feet deep. It showered a vast area her life last night. She also with unexploded bombr and had her first date and her artillery shells but beyond some minor injuries, nobody was hurt. first glass of champagne.
Ont policeman and the Government since she was cyclist found near the three years
Kathleen had been a ward of
the
were arrested.
one 52c00
A Sudanese Police official said tonight that 194 farm workers arrested after a violent week- end clash with Police had died in the Army bar
old. Under racks where they were being detained, the Arab
terms of a legal order, she was news agency reported from Khartoum.
FUSES REMOVED even forbidden to speaks to "male person" alone.
Major Gazzoll said a holo- Others were in n serious The Deputy Police
But the Chief Justico Lord caust was averted duc the. condition
quoted by the Goddard yesterday
struck off mandant
precaution of removing fuses agney as saying the dead were the legal bonds and Kathleen when storing shells, bombs and
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farmers lost arrested
little time in enjoying her mortar, missiles so that they fell Barracks, yes-new-found "freedom. moved to Kost
barmlessly up to 750 feet away terday and put in one room.
Last night she walked
froin the arsenal. Eight other workers were in in-arm with Joseph Beckwith.
While mary revolutionary serious condition.
22, a a friend of her step-brother, government officials shared He said he did not know the Later, they toasted for release Megor Gazzoli's conviction that cause of the mass deaths but over a
blast was the work of out asphyxia,
Peronist suboteurs, the Army the barracks' ventilation.
also investigating possibility of spontaneous cord- bustion setting off the arsenal. -United Press.
statement later announced with deep regres that the workers, held for interrogution after the clash, had been found dead to day.
It wius believed they had died from asphyxla résulting | ruled from beat and overcrowding.
REPORT TO CABINET
was good.
{Sm-
Lord Goddard's order climax-
was
0s the they talked of champagne, and the according to the agency. Heed a long fight for Kathleen's said the workers' deaths might freedom, waged with the assis have been dis to poisoned food tance of the National Counell oaten before their arrest.
for Civil LIGEFUCS;
·
Put In Poor House
The statement said medical nuthorities were making investigation and a
A total of 638 workers were report would
after the be made to the cabinet, | detained
clash last Kathleen was taken from her in which 20 workers, mother and after which the Government |Sunday
In placed I poor |would publish a full report. two policemen and a village house, at the age of three months. She was later assigned guard were reported killed. The statement appealed to
to live with relatives but under the public to awalt official in- The clash was said to have the strict
of the supervision occurred after workers of the Royal Eastern Counties Institu formation.
Gouda scheme, awnod by a -Dr Amin el Sayed, the Sudanese company, refused to Health Minister, flew deliver the season's cotton crop Surduncre to Kosti with doctors and senior to the company, offelals to investigates the mass deaths.
He
Polter intervened and tried to way accompanied by the disperse the workers, and were Sudan Police commandant, Amin armed with spears and sticks, Ahmed Hussein.
the agency said. -Heuler.
HOW SHIRLEY LOST DONALD (HER
OUT OF THIS WORLD BOY FRIEND)
London, Feb. 22. and blood spiritualist A desh
woord a pretty cockney girl away from a boy friend who was out of this world tonight. Spiritualist Harry Hanks claim- dakter A one-hour seance attended by reporters and angry pelicemen that he had drmyn
Shirley 15-year-old Hitchings from her sweetheart, Donazo, & ghost,
childhood
playmate who loved her, died, and loves
her still.
"I feel an atmosphere of love sround me at all time" Shirley had said,
Shirley lost Donald during the session at her south London home tonight,
"All of a sudden. I felt my mind clear," she said. "I'm as go happy as can be.".
relayed plaints much
tion of Colchester.
Paratroopers
To Battle
She was held under: a rullug With Rebels
in the Mental Deficiency Act which gives local authorities the right to decide where she lived, whom she what she did and could cee.
John-
of
lo de Janeiro, Feb. 22,
hundred Government Two paratroopers!flow; to the month of the Amazon today for opera- tions -against Brasiliar Air But her counsel, Mr Platt Mills, sald Kathleen could Force rebels who have revolted.
The rebels were today re spell and do arithmetic just os well as the doctors who judged ported to have taken over air-
feldy at her and found her lacking.
Gualcurus and Ford- Kathleen is employedt In a Jandia, giving them a total factory. She lives with her seven "bases fer operations former "aupervisors," her half-the Amazon valley. brother and his wife.--United So for there has been
violence or bloodshed in the of revolt, apparently, because Government reluctance to use force against the rebels, but Brazilians are wondering whe- ther
the revolt will blow over or touch off a major explosion, The rebel declaration of
Press.
MP's Question On Mui-tsai ghostly
came
Mr
no
presence of
of re- a crowd porters. Three other mediums and Shirley's father who
whole thought the romance was "neriscose."
London, Feb. 22, At one point reporters made so
Sorensen, Reginald much noise that polle They (Labour) asked in the House of revolt la related to use of troops banging on the
when com Commons today how many fast November neighbour's
War Minister was too cases of Mut-tast bondage of "strong man that there
children noise at the seance.
now existed in Hong- General Henrique Teizeira Lott, Shirley's father admitted the kong and what action had been led two military coups which
seance was “uncanny."
taken to secure the progressive resulted in three men occupying Shirley, a 15-year-old London Donald put up no fuss at all,
witaln the Presidential Stirley said "I couldn't feel the abolition of this institution. told 4 salesgirl,
although he had been known
Mr John Hare, Minister of three days. spirit leaving, but I felt tho throw things. audience recently
whenever
Affairs, State for Colonial power."
The November coups anyone tried to get rid of him.
said Donald would have replied: "No cases have come aimed at preventing disruption said earlier Shirley
that she Hanks didn't want to
to take his unrequired love to light fer a number of years." of the instalation last month shake off
and olsewhere,
she
Ha ssid Mul-tsal was illegal of the elected president, Senhor Donald. But she changed her
Donald well.
Juscelino Kubitschick.-Reyter. mind after the seance.
in Hongkong-Reuter, not an evil spirit," Despite warnings that publicity "He was
might spoil everything, the
sald the medium.United seance was carried out in the
from Radio programine:
trans- two Hongkong's
Lic dis- would mlasions astrous. The costly existence of the station is, in the nat analysis, justified only by the number of listenera it
London, Feb. 23. can regularly attract to its programmes. Once use n
The flancee of Corporal Ilstener because of
Gordon Hill, held prisoner
Senator Henry Jackson said IL would programmes, appetising
"unequivocally de- monstrate to doubting Thomases then, as any radio station by Cypriot terrorists, last
Arch- abroad that
wo art staunch manager will confirm, it is night telephoned to
of re- bishop Makarios, leader of advocates
the peaceful extremely difficult to
the
Cypriot nationalist alum," capture his attention,
Senator Jiekton, a member of Unofficials movement, pleading with Some
the of
the Joint Congressional Com-, Sho ahim to intervene with the mittee, said the uranium would to envisage appeared
future situation in the
save Corporal "hep pump water terrorists to
to' irrigate where a commercial brond-
arid regiona" and "do much to ensting station would serc
The terrorists have sald dispel the vicious propaganda; all local listeners in the fieldcorpori Hill would be killed that has associated us CX- of popular radio entertain-if one of their number, at pre- clusively with the military ment, leaving Radio long sent held by the British and alom." kung to
on under sentence of death for kill- cultural, educational and ing a policemen, is excruted.
And
while
security forces searching Cyprus were
concentrate
informative subjects.
Hill.
Senator Chairman gressional
for Commit.02,
Clinton Anderson,
of the Joint Con- Atomic Energy hailed the Presi-
television that the
to
ghost, named Donald, made love to her by rapping on her bedroom wall,
said she
the wrole alphabet on a card and asked Donald to tap at
the right letters. This way, she said, she learned that Donald wag ä
Lethal Candy
Nashvilio, Tennesee, Feb. 22. atient's move as a "valuable step ceries and drug stores of what The sale in Nashville RTO- in the right direction."
looked like small sugar-conted Senptor Anderson said: "As candy drops was barred today long as there is a guarantee
by Pollee chler John Millron. that this U-235 used abroad will not be diverted to other Mr Milliron said they were then peaceful uses, this pro-Japanese-made torpedocs an gramme can only be beneficial could blow a child's mouth to to the United States and to the shreds. He said the torpedoes development of the atten as a had been sold frecky in Nash peaceful unit in our society."-ville
recently.-United Unit PreJS,
Press.
If such a development ever Corporal 权 yesterday
transpired, Radio Hongkong British
MP began talks with might just as well close
Archbishop Marlos. down. It would attract at A final reply from the Cypriot the most three per cent of Ethnarchy to British proposals the listening public, and for self-government for Cyprus from the financial point of is expected to be delayed pend- between the would be no Ing further talks view there further justification for its two men.
Mr Noel Boker flew suddenly existence. If (and it is probably quite a to Cyprus this week in an at- tempt to mediate following re- big if) a commercial station ports
the Ethnarchy becomes operative in the Council, ruling body of the Colony, Radio Hongkong Greek Orthodox Church In Lo reject in Cyprus, planned must treat it as a competi- tor. It cannot afford to lose substance British proposals to colony a self- llstenera because its pro-give the island grammes do not measure up government constitution,
He had talks last night with
Archbishop, the
and
later
to popular demandla
that
Very truly the Colonial Secra- with the Governor, Field Mar- tary pointed out yesterday shal Sir John Harding-France- that a radio station's pro- Presso & Reuter,
grammes must be balanced,
and one of the most difcult tasks is to maintain that balance with cultural and educational broadcasts.
To Go To Gallows
Fallnburgh, Feb. 22. The last man to be sentenced to death in Scotland before last
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stores
Young Doctor Stabbed By Chinese Patient
Chicago, Feb. 22.
An aged Chinese, who cried "you cut me once, now I cut you." stabbed a young doclo: to death
Officers sald Go pulled a knife from beneath his coat and stabbed Dr Epstein in the abdomen and chest.
Protestants Dispute BBC Claim:
London, Feb. 22. The Protestant Alliance to- day protested to the BBC for "disseminating
the
Koman
Pross.
wished
'IKE RUNNING AGAIN' REPORT
IS DENIED
Washington, Feb. 22.
A White House spokesman Catholic propaganda" that St today denied that Mr Sherman Adams, assistant to President Peter was the first pope.
The Protestant Alliance, in Eisenhower, had "pased the their statement, called on the BBC to apologise and withdraw word" that the chief executive a radio "quiz programe slate- would run for re-cléction. ment that St Peter was the first
pope.
The Press Secretary, Mr James
It said the BBC was "know-Hagerty, was asked about a re ingly or unknowingly using its port that Mr Adams and Mr organisation for Roman Catholic Leonard Hall, the Republican propaganda."--Reuter.
National Chairman, had in formed top Republican leadors that Mr Elsenhower was willing to stand for re-election.
New Bid To
The Detroit News, in a dis-
today in Cook County Hospital, Dr Epstein staggered a few feet Break `The Bank Patch by Martin Hayden from
The victim
WIS Dr Bruno Epstein, 20, a native of Vienna, Austria, who had been at the hospital since last July. his appeal The Chinese was Jim Go, a 70- dishwasher, who spr-old was a patient in the hospital from January 9 to February 9 for a hernia operation. Police said Go returned to the hopital today for a check-up and approached Dr Epetein as he passed through a cor- ridor with, thrua 'other' doctors and a make nurse,
There is room for the judici- week's Parliamentary free vote ous Inclusion of programmes for the abolition of the death such as the Unofficials sug-penalty
today lost gost, but it would be wrong here before the Scottish Court to regard them as the raison of Criminal Appeal,
Who three Judges decided d'etre of Radio Hongkong,
ovidence that
from ample and we trust in the alloca- tion of subsidins for the separate sources had justified the jury's verdict at the original atation, Government will not trial of Robert Doyle, aged 24, allow itself to be hold of Paisley for murdering his rigidly by that part of nine-day-old son, China Mali yesterday's amendments...
Special.
The
ENCHANTE
CLEANSING MILK
Washington, said there were "no mel fell dead. The other men
ifs or ands or buts about It." sclzcxt
Nice, Feb. 22, Go and disarmed him. Hospital officinta
The Police announced they Mr Hagerty cald ho checked said they wate at a look to understand the found 80 pairs of leades dice in the story by telephone with Mr дла attack, sireo Dr Epstein did the luggage of one of three men Adong in Washington
American bearing
passports, "Adams said he had never made not operate on Go,
any
Buch statement.** Mr man was taken to Police picked up here today on hoa quarters whero officers charge of trying to cheat, the Hagerty mild he did, notịchock
him Query
Monto Carlo Cano
with Mr. Hall. The men ware arrested after sald de wes vague in this roa- having allegedly used a pair of
attack; but loaded dice, marked appeared to be "irritated" at Carlo," to win some 3,000,000 relayed by the President to allergic to alkolie. delays encountered in the wnes (38.500) at the dice tables anybody, Mr Hagerty repilad 'crowded hospital and at his of the Monte Carlo Casino!--{"Not to my knowledge."--United treatment there--United Preis.| Franco-PreRDE
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