THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1957.
Senate Committee Promises Full Consideration;
Race
America's Plan To Win Space Race
'Scrap Red Tape' Demand To
Defence Dept.
Washington, Doc. 15.
Sonate investigation today promised full consideration of Dr Wornher von Braun's proposal for establishment of a national "Space Agency" to beat Russia in the race for outer space supremacy. Several members of the Senate Preparedness Sub- committee also indicated that they might be interested in hearing more about a proposal that the joint military Chiefs of Staff be scrapped in favour of an organisation along the lines of a general staff.
Sen. Lyndon B. Jolinson, chairman of the Sub- committee investigating missile-satellite pro- gramme, and Sen. Stuart Symington, a Sub- committee member, demanded that the De- fence Department get rid of bureaucratic red tape and make prompt and firm decisions.
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Dr von Dinun's space agency, Gavin sald it would give the proposal was termed "Good" by Defence Secretary better inform Sen, John C. Steonis, also
Subcommittee sald i "must be explored fully
und something positive because the space baltie is regi
He Gavin also warned
Braun, that the United States
the done must gel to
moot: and occupy it ahead of the Russians. He said it would be disastrous if the Soviets followed up their satelito victory with t 1031- quest of the moon,
the
Stennis sked whether US$1,300,000,000 annual budget suggested for the agency by Dr von Bruan would be needel the first year or two. He said "sounded! excesive its alarter," but added that the programe undoubtedly would be costly.
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Dr von Blaut, the rocketeer from the Army's Redstone Ar- senal, Tok the Subcommittee last Saturday that his proposed space agency could put a in outer space in five years and build a space platform in ten years. He warned that the U.S. would be in "moitit dager" if Russlu won the space Kee.
REACTION
Several other witnesses have offered proposals simli to Gavin's General Staff plan, ́On the other hand, Navy Secretury Thomas S. Gates Jr. and Adm.
Arleigh Burke, Chief. of U.S. Naval Operations, have testified In opposition.
RED TAPE
Sen Johnson, in calling for
an end to missile red tape, said
He Hated
School -So
He Blew Them Up!
Trieste, Dec. 15.
The police here tracked down today the "mystery dynamiter"
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who has made ten at- tempts to blow schools in nearby Villa Opicina village.
He turned out to be a 12-year-old boy called Zarkos. "I hate school,” he told the police.
The police today ralded the boy's house and found among his toys, dynamite sticks, detonators and other explosives. France- Presse.
Singapore, Dec. 15. Benyove will have its first Arian Archdencom next year The Rev. Canon D. D. Chel- lith, Anglican Diocesan Secre- tazy for schools,
He is one of two churchmen appointed to replace the present Archdeacon in Singapore, the Venerable Robin Woods. Reuter.
BABY AND THE BEAST
Russia Empties Its
Prisons For A
A
year ago, Yvonne
Avalanches
Cut Off Four Alpine Villages
Sion, Switzerland,
Dec. 15.
Time Runs Out For Mothers Of US
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Prisoners In China
Washington, Dec. 15. Time was running out today for three American mothers who hoped to make a Christmas sea- son visit to their sons in Chinese prisons.
Peking so for has failed to give the three women peimila sion to enter China.
Mrs Hugh F. Redmond, of Yonkers, New York, whose son, Hugh, was arrested in Shanghai on April 21, 1951, and sentenced Two of them, it was learned, to life imprisonment for alleged aiready have received hard-to-spring. Mrs Redmond said she Ket US. passports to visit China. had applied for a Chinese visa. The third mather was walling But she said she would "walt to for permission before asking to see whether she gots one before have her passport validated for applying for a U.S. passport." travel to China.
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| Avalanches thundering down the snow-covered slopes of the Swiss Alps have cut off four Alpine communi- The State Department, re- ties with a foto! popula- versing previous policy,
nounced on December 6 that t tion exceeding thousands, would permit close relatives of
The State Department Officials · gald today that the the six Americans still gaoled in
phasised that none of the close relatives of the six Americans vilinges of Saas-Almagell," Bina China to visit them. Previously,
Zwischberten have been the Department had authorised would have any trouble getting omeinis Bald completely Isolated by such travel for only a small passports. But
assurances the avalanches since "the middle of group of nowman and an at-hoy had no
Communists would let them into torney,
the
country. They hoped The newsmen, whose pass-originally that the
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last week."
China by Christmas.
to
Chinese
to be in
still
The State Department has received no word that ro |·latives of the other three gaoled Americans plan to visit them at
Robert McConn, arrested in 1951 and moled for a 15-year term at Tientsin.
His wife, Flora McCann, lives a Altadena, California.
SUPPLIES They said that there are suff-ports were validated in August, would act rapidly enough clent supplies at the villages to never have been given entry permit the relatives take care of the Topulation's permisalon by the Chinese.
The three mothers are: needs and that glacier pilot Herman Geiger has been aleri-
Mrs M. Downey, of New ́Bri- ed to be ready to fly supplies und mall to the villages as count, Connecticut, whoses,
John, was sentenced to this time. The others are as the weather permits.
Imprisonment for alleged spying, Meanwhile, 21 report from
A civilian employee of the Casemotta on the Swiss-Italian
was reported border sald
Swiss Army, Downey that three
missing on November 29, 1932, siders have been injured in an
when
the plane in wilch he accident and were now being
fying disappeared on WIN taken care of.-United Press.
nicht from Korea to Japan brother, William Downey, 25, June 15, 1933, in Shanghai for Ave years. His next of kin, u sald in New Britain that his
Edward McCormack he lives in Palmyra, New York.
Rev. John P. Wamer, an- ather Catholic priest arrested in 1953 and gaoled in Shanghai for five years. His next of kin, a sister, Mrs Joseph Kiøber, Lives
Honour For
Mrs
Rev. Joseph P. McCormack, a A Catholic priest imprisoned on
mother had not hard yet from brother,
the
Chinese. Therefore,
Kruse made news when Miss Baker said, "nothing definite is set
one of the Bertram Mills Circus elephants pushed her into Olympia-inu pram,
18 Now, aged months, she's managed to pick up enough from her elephant trainer
Slave-Labour Scheme father to put the animals
Vienna, Dec. 15.
there had been a "common re- Russia is emptying its prisons to provide
frain" in Subcommittee The Senate testimony so far. Democratie lender
said it was
to the effect that "A request for a decision ana was mado
it got lost somewhere in the Defonce Department,"
He cald he was conßdent the nation had the technical skill, the resources and the necessary enthusiasms among our techni- clans to build any missile that De nood and to build t 00
thousands of slave labourers to build a 55- kilometre (33 miles) canal to link the Ukrainian iron mine centre of Krivọi Rog with
through their paces in Ascot Keystone.
ABDULGANI
the Dnieper River, diplomatic sources aald "BROADCASTS
today.
These
are
The whole slave labour operation is being handled by Die MVD (Scoret Police).
TO INDONESIA
The Subcommittee resumes public hearings tomorrow with
BAIrces, quoting re-tration headquarters in Krivol poris received from Russia, Rog, aro Bragin, Karosten, testimony from the Navy's
sid there are about 180,000 Shitomir Uman, Pervomajsk, missite and research experts. Scheduled witnesses Including
persons held in the nine main Ingulez, Novi Oskol, Starobelak, camps that Assistant time.”
And Nortor Garrison
"recruiting" Isjum
whe Saporoshe Inmates for slave labour.
canal will be completed In Secretary for Air Rear Adm.
"What we have been lacking William F. Rabora, Chief of the
They said the camps, com- 1980, the sources said. are hard, Arm decisions at high | blhed under a central adminis- 1.500-mile Polaris missile pro-levels," Johnson said. gramme; and Rear Adm. John E. Clark, Director of
guided misalles.
The Navy officials were ex- pected to be asked for their reaction to the proposal by Lt-Gen. James Govin, Chief of Army Besearch, that the Joint Chiefs of Staff be supplanted by
General Staf
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Symington said it had become "Increasingly clear from these bearings that no individual can do an efficient and effective job as Secretary of Defence unless the structure and functioning of the Pentagon is re-organised on the basis of progress, instead of continuing on the basis of tradi- Organisation. tion."-United Press.
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Krivol Rog an important centre of iron mining in the Ukraine, USSR, with estimated reserves of over one billion tons of iron ore. The installations in- clude an iron foundry and cook- ing plants.
DESTROYED
Djakarta, Doc. 15. Ruston Abdulgan), Deputy Chairman of the Indona- sian National Council, said in a radio interview tonight that "wo should refrain from using the Forme nationalisation, con- fiscation or seizure" in reference to Dutch enter- prises taken over in the present "reprisal" com- paign over West Irian. He said the use of these terina would have far-reaching inter- national complications. He told During World War II the city | that "confiscation" could only be was held by the German army | erected in different circum- from 1941 to 1944. Its industrial stances, for instance in a war, Installations were almost com- while "nationalisation" implled Washington, Dec. 15.pletely destroyed during the war. a kind of promise for compen
cation of nationalised proper- The population reference Major construction projects tes"
bureau,
private the Soviet Union are usually organisation using United carried out by slave labour comp Inmates under the supervision of Nations statistics, said the secret police. today that the world population may reach 6,000,000,000 by the year 2,000 if the present birth rate continued.
Six Million
The bureau sald that between 1051 and 1956 alone the world population increased by 172 million persons (from 2,519,000,- 000 to 2,081,000,000).
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INTERESTS
Abdulgani said: "Our present The most notorious Soviet relations with the Netherlands canal construction was that o are indeed very queer and the the White Sea Canal during the present situation his not yet Stolln era. According to re-reached the stage to enable us Hlable sources more than 100,000 is declare that the actions we prisoners died during the con- have taken are a kind of con- struction of the canal.-United Ascation or nationalisation." Press.
Abdulgani suld Indonesian actions could be explained by the fact that because the Netherlands "has unilaterally taken its grip the interesia of
BIRTH-RATE KING SAUD TO our people in West Irian, poli-
Given the increasing birth- rate and the decreasing death- rate (especially in the under- developed arens of Africa, Asia and Latin America) there may be 13,000 million people on the earth by the middle of the 21st century.
The report, signed by Dr Kingsley Davis, of the Univer sity of Californio, Bald the population of South America showed the greatest Increuse, amounting to about two and a hair to three per cent yearly France-Presse.
VISIT TAIPEI
Taipei, Dow.. 15.
A Chinese language news paper reported today that King Soud of Saudi Arabia and two
oiler leaders of Middio Enst countries are scheduled to visit Formosa.
The Shing Son Dally said be. sides King Saud, King Husseln of Jordan and Turkish premler Adnan Menderes will visit Taipei sometime next year. United Press,
tient conflicts have emerged at variou Dutch enterprises in other parts of Indonesian terri- lory
He said these political con- by were spearheaded fiets workers and youths. In this might disturb law and order if way, tension emerged which allowed to go its own course.
Abdulgani, former Indonesian Foreign Minister, sold that for these reasons, the Indonesian Government had decided to take ulf Dutch enterprises under its control. Thus the Govornment's action 14 poll- tical" he said.--France-Presse.,
Disaster In Mongolia
GIANT EARTHQUAKE KILLS OVER 1,200 PERSONS
Tokyo, Dec. - 18.-
Moscow Radio reported today that more than 1,200 persons died in a plant earthquake which stenak :Ontor Mongolis' on FTASY, December. 12.
Two hundred persons were reported dead in one mall villige. Also Sande, apcording to manlincs here.
The 'qunks, was the second of dimales propar- tions to steiks Outer Mangolls this month ́and was believed related to the 'quaĀZU reported in Elite on Déoìmber 12 2:35. The Moscow bralesst said that area oratst≥bit
was'nggihwari of Ulan Bator. Dosp mow-ronde 1t:, dilontà ta 'grasp the full
Unlinë Pris
Paris, Dec. 15. Former Inusio hall and cabaret atar, Josephine Baker, was named a member of the French Legion of Honour today in recognition of her military service during world war two,
The singer performed many inngerous missions with the rank of Lieutenant (in the army
on her hoped-for trip.
SAME PLANE
Mry Philip D. Fecteau, of in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania. Lynn Massachusetts, whose United Press. con, Richard, was sentenced to 20 years in gaol, also on alleged
Bone, Dec. 15. He was on the A total opy charges.
Europeans of throe Samo plane with Downey, were wounded when terrorists Both men are imprisoned in threw a grenade at a roadside Peking Mr Festcau Bald in
The three men were wounded for a visa from China. She in the leg by splinters as they applied for one about two sut in the cafe which was Crowded at the time, They were weeks ago to the Chinese Red
The Cross,
American Red all taken to hospital, Cross originally made the ap- plication, but it was turned down. She said all her plans "wait on a Chincus visa."
of French General Do Lattre De Lynn that she also was waiting calo in the centro, of Bone today.
Tassigny).
The 61-year-old former star, who triumphed on music hall stages all over the world, loft the entertainment field several years ago to dedicate herself to the education of her adopted children.-France-PresPCI,
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