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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1958.
REPLACEMENT THE QUEEN MOTHER MMM...
OF PRESIDENT
Rayburn Withdraws Opposition
Washington, Jan. 29. Speaker Sam Rayburn gave a reluctant go-ahead to- day for Congress to push | ahead. legislation pro- viding for the temporary replacement of any dis- abled President,
House Judiciary Committee cources said details of
the
legislation were si to *be ironed out. However, Mr Rayburn and other top House Jenders agreed in principle on a bill which would:
Allow un alling President, who anticipates that he will recover, to step aside tem porarily in favour of the Vice- President, who would beconte acting President,
Create a commission, com posed of both Congressionat leaders and Cabinet officers, which could make the necessary determination of Inablity in the event the Pre- sident is too ill to Bet for him self, as in cases of mental il- ness, In these cases, too, the Vice-President would
take office temporarily acting President,
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ADAMANT
the
Me Rayburn previously bud been adamant against such legislation. He held that existing constitutional provisions -although criticised widely os being vague-probably were ca workable as anything Congress was likely to devise.
His reluctant change of post- tion overcame a major obstacle
in the way of various proposals
for handling the problem.
The question has been pend- ing In Congress for some time but took an added Importance with i'resident Eisenhower's recent mild stroke on top of two other major inesses.United Press,
Italy Outlaws Prostitution After 10 Years Of Furore
Rome, Jan. 29. Italy outlawed prostitution today after 10 years of hesitation, misgivings and controversy.
The Climber of Deputies voled the Senate-approved anti-prostitution bill by 385 to 115 in a secret vallot,
The law, closing down 717 lecased brothels which employ about 8,000 girls, will become effective after it is signed President Giovanni Gronchi and published in the offlelut gozeite in a few weeks' time,
SIX MONTHS.
by
The 10-article law provided
that all brothels in the country must, clase within six months of 18 promulgation in the official gazette.
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CHARMS
VANCOUVER CROWD
Vancouver, BC, Jan. 29.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother stood in for a perfidious weathernjan this afternoon. She warmed the hearts of thousands by braving chill, drenching rain to complote a scheduled tour and chat with a countrywoman.
ETONIANS TO PLAY DOCKERS!
London, Jan. 20. Rough and tough Tooley- Giroat dockers will invade the playing fields of Eton next week for a footbal} gamo
with tha ultra. exclusive college's "young gentlemen."
Mr Robert Birtey, head- mpster at Elan, proposed the game and asked the entire school to be there.
to
"It will do my boys good play the gentlemen of Tooley-Street," ho Bald. "We will win, naturally,”
An official of the Dockers Football Club sald: "My footballers are gentlemon. We hope to wipe them up."
China Mail Special.
She later had tea with the Lieutenant Governor, Frank Ross, and was scheduled to take off in her BOAC DC-7C 1 8 p.m. For Honolulu, ending a 24-hour visit en route to Aus- tralia and New Zealand.
A highlight of her valt erme us she was leaving the Cily Holl.
D
She stopped to chat with grey-haired, 68-year-old woman In the front rank of the cheer- ing crowd that lined the ap- proaches to the building.
She found that she and Mrs Jean Mole, of Toronto, had taken dancing lessons from the same teacher in Scotland:
Near There
"I said to Her Majesty, I lived
at Newtyle Glamis Castle is near there," said Mrs Mole, who is now living with a daughter In New Westminster, BC.
(Nowiyle is in the Scottish county of Perthshire and Glamis Castle is the ancient home of the Queen Mother's family.)
The Queen Mather paused, turne and asked, "How leng have you been out here?"
chatted. Then They
the flashed her famous smile, waved and con-. tinued her leisurely walk through the rain to the waiting itmousine.
RICE DEAL Queen Mother
TO GO THROUGH
Manila, Jan. 30.
President Carlos Garcia and the Cabinet yesterday pushed ahead plans to procure 5,000 tons of rice from Hongkong despite the Senate's threat to in- vestigate
Signed Book
The chat followed a 12- mlaute visit 10 the during which Her Majesty
THIS IS TASTY!
Lady Bastyan has a taste of the congee distributed to children at the Society for the Protection of Children centre in Homantin this morning. Looking on are Mrs E. Edwards, Hon, Branch Secretary, Col F. E. Jewkes of the Salvation
Army Staff Photographer.
Never Agreed To Abortion
Hall A
signed the visitors book and met members of the City Coun- cil
Says Defendant
broker on trial with a woman for alleged manslaughter in the Criminal Sessions this morning declared that he would never agree to an abortion performed on his wife.
Waving goodbye to the City all crowds of more than 1,000 the Queen Mother stepped into the Leutenant-Governor's cur
*** "mysterious and moved on, escorted by the kinds" in the transaction, police motorcycle corps, for a
tour of the downtown area What these "kinds" meant or United Fress. were, the chler Senate Invest!- gator, Senator Mariano Jesus Cuenco did not reveal.
Authoritative sources, how- ever, Indicaled that the traus- nction, which involves bartering Philippine copra with the Hong- kong rice, was irregular there was no bidding and the Hongkong price was higher than other offers.
since
Doctors Cleared In
The Hongkong firm tied up in the deal is Nam Chiao HongA
The Cabinet also announced with the that negotiations
States
being United
over speeded up to bring
were
100,000 tons of rice to cover the rice shortage here this year.— France-Presse.
Ice-Thousand Years Old
---With Whisky
Wellington, Jan, 29.
Holland
Utrecht, Ján, 29. - яix-man committee of ex-
Lady Bastyan
Visits SPC
Centre
A short Informal visit was made this morning to the Homantin Centre of the Society for the Protection
of
Children by Lady Bastyan, wife of the Com mander British Forces.
Greeting Lady Bastyan on arrival were Col F.E. Chairman of -the and Executive Committee, Mrs E. That is not | Edwards, Konorary · Branch
have earned enough to "Furthermore, the $70 1 pald:
doctor was for her support a middle-class family, to the woman
the complete cure of my wife's Jewkes, and an additional child would make no difference
Illness to the gynaecological farofly," he said. He added that he had loved my wife very much and
would not have al- lowed my wife to take the risk of an abortion.""
The broker, Lam Po-sin, 30, is jointly charged with a woman, Kwan Kim-ying, 20, with the unlawful killing of Lam's wife, Hung Lai-fung following an alleged abortion on October 12
Lost.
Not Represented
Mr D. E, Greenfield and Mr perts today cleared of D. G. Wills, Crown Counsel, sre blame
at doctors
for the the conducting the case Dutch hospital whero a Prosecution, assisted by Detec
in- tive Inspector E. P. M. Hung. five-year-old girl was
Accused fected with radio-activity.
ure not legally re- presented. The girl, Joke Haansehnten, Lam, who had testifled yes
found to be radio-active terday on the Inidents on Octo- after receiving nasal treatment per 11 and 12 last, continued at a hospital at Pulten.
bis evidence this morning. He A radium needle had lodged spoke of his wife's gynaecolog in her nose and was later be- cal sicknesses and of her lieved to have been thrown into
vas
Woa
taken to
a staye et her home.
Нег family hospital and the house and garden combed by experts for radio-active objects.
FIRST CASE
The Investigating committee wald today the case was the first
Ice from snow that fell more of its kind in known medical
ago
than a thousand years clinked in whisky glasses at an Antarctic base this week.
The act put an end to years of legalised prostitution in
It popped and sizzled as Uny Inly. II
In 1800 that air bubbles escaped after being Italian law-makers frst
set trapped for centuries under the down the rules governing the polar continent's ever-increasing world's oldest profession,
"skin" of snow.
That was 10 years before Italy was unified. Then the The glasses were raised for Italian kingdom was composed a toast by a team of scientists of most of its present territory who have been boring deep
the exception with
of the beneath the anow's surface at southern states.United Press. Bynd, the American research station 000 miles from the Ross Sea.-
Cyprus Libel
Nicosia, Jan. 28, Settlement of an action against the London Daily Telegraph for alleged libel on Mr Ellas Kyriakides, prominent Cypriot Greek lawyer, was announced
DRILLING
Mr William Marshall and hi deep-core drilling team wert celebrating the "thousand tee: and a bit" they have now reached in their exploration of the polar ico cap.
history.
The accident had occurred when one doctor took over from another half-way through the treatment.
stomach aches. He said they de elded to see the woman doctor after reading an advertisement in a vernacular newspaper.
CANCER IS PRIME KILLER IN BRITAIN
London, Jan. 30. cancer, which has been becoming more
pre-
valent for the past. 20
it
years, is killing far more people in Britain
than
any other form, of
the
disease, official statistics showed today.
He had removed the needle which held the radium bead Lung from the girl's nostril, but did not realise that the head had He had never seen broken of. the radium head before as was seldom used in treatment.
found The committee
thai acted in ac❤ both doctors had
with hospital rules, cordance Procedure there had now been tightened up so that one pros Figures issued by the Minis- fessor was now in charge of try of Health based on 20 years rallo-active materials. -- China | researcis .showed, that...in that Mall Special
time cancer has been killing more and mare men of every age, but, that there have not been ad many deaths among
middle-aged wonten.
Ex-King Escapes
•
Brussels, Jan. 29. Ex-King, Leopold, of Belgium, In the, ave-year period 1050 his wife and three children es-to 1954 deaths among men por caped unhurt when the door of million population were: lung The scientists are able to the plane came, opru shortly cancer 836, stomach 211, 4 newspaper's counsel cstimate the age of each layer after take-off from Nike Airport testine 100.
yesterday, said the newspaper agreed to of snow from its depth.
The annual, death rate among M. Claude Walkeneer, Royal men in 1850-84 from lung can
in court today.
The
pay R730 damages plus coats
and to reaffirm the apology The layers, sometimes com-Household Information Officer, cor was: three times the rată in made in its columns a few daya pared to the annual growth of wald the plane began losing 1030-39. Among women it was After, the alleged libel was rings in a tree, show the depth height," turned back and made nearly double,"
The tables do not go into the published 10 months ago-China of each caion's movfall | an emergency landing at Nice Mail Special.
Ching Mall Special,
Airport,—Rep
causes of the disssssamitauler,
stomach trouble.
the price for an abortion. Every Secretary, and Mus MA. resident in Hongkong for some Meaking who is General Secre time would know an abortion tary and Welfare Supervisor would cost at least a few hun-of the Society. dred dollars," Lam declared.
No Knowledge
he
"As
Tule,"
continued, "whenever a patient requires an operation, approval of the next of kin must be obtained in the form of a signature. In this case, no approval or signature was obtained from me."
Sheafferm
NEW BALLPOINT. SWITH EXCLUSIVE
STERING SILVER TIP
CLAIM AGAINST SHIP ADJOURNED
.
Hearing of a claim for a total sum of $49,222.54 against the ss Rosita was adjourned to February 6 by Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Acting Senior Puisne Judge in the Admiralty Court this morning following an applica- tion for adjournment by Counsel for Carfung Shipping Co., Ltd owners of the ship.
The claim was brought by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd, who were represented by Mr Victor Gittins, instructed by Messra Deacons,
Mr Brook Bernacchi told His Lordship that he was instructed only 10 minutes before the Court' sat to appear behalf of the Carlung Shipping Co., Ltd who had entered an appearance on hehalf of the defendant ship as owners of the vessel.
Counsel sald ho W36 in- structed to apply for an ad-
Dance Hostess
Asked For Advice
Journament of a few days. | A woman on trial with a
instructing solicitors (Messrs. PD.A. Remedios and
Inte
Co.) were only Instructed last night and had therefore been unable to file the appre- priate notice which they would undertake to do this morning. cited two cases in Counsel support of, his application for adjournment,
that the
Discretion
Mr Gittios said malter was
entirely in His Lordship's discretion. He apposed the application on the ground of inconvenience. He
sald
that
one of the three directors of the defendant Arm BOW his instructing solicitor yesterday afternoon and had stated then that they were not opposing the claim.
Costs of the adjournment were ordered @gainst the defendants.
Plaintiffs' claim against the Rosita la for repairs executed and material supplied, towago services, docking charges and supply of fresh water.
Temperature Drops Nearly 16 Degrees
daughter, charged with using an instrument to procuro a miscarriage, zaid this morning that a dance hostess, Lam Ching, 'camo to her residence and asked
for medical advico.
First accused said that there was no mention of a sum of $200 on that day-October 25, last.
The case was heard before Mr
Justice A. D. Scholes and a Jury the Criminal Sessions.
of five men and two women at
Keung Chi-ching, 54, and her daughter, Ho Sau-mel, 34, aro alleged to have committed the once in a rear cubicle of No.
2 Russell Street, first floor.
Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr, Benior Crown Counsel, is prosecuting, salsted by Det, Bub-Insp. T Chalmers,
Me H. L. Hu is defending {, Cheung, of P. H, Sin both accused, instructed by Mr
and Co.
IN CANTON
First_accused testified that she had been practising as a doctor in Canton, for
over 20 years, and she stopped practig ing in 1831 when she came to stay in Hongkong,
sho had been Since 1951 practising in the Colony as a "black-market" doctor, accused.....
wald,
On October 25, last year, ac- cused sold, Lam Ching and another dance hostess came to see her. Lam asked her for a medical treatment on her body. Saying that she could not be available the next day, Lam asked accused for her telephone number and then left.
There is a difference of nearly 10 degrees F in the temperature in 24 hours ending noon today and the Weathermen, says that A tour to the bathing room, it will probably be cooler to- kitchen and store was con-night but again becoming warm
who after daybreak tomorrow, ducted by Mrs Edwards
at noon The temperature also explained the organisation
the
Accused mid that on October and distribution of free Cowlac yesterday was 72.9, and at
27 Lam called again with her to mothers of the Homanin same, time today was 57, ac-
cording to the Royal Observa- companion, Ting Ching-man, of area,
the accused's premises, where LOTY During the tour introductions The Weatherman adds that accused's husband, her daughter said he had no prior were made to Mrs B.J. Hodding, there will be fresh-moderate to and elder sister were present at that time. Her daughter, accused knowledge of his wife's state Mrs S. Silva and Mrs E. Alder fresh north-casterly winds blow.
aper. of pregnancy, He further de- who are voluntary helpers at ing today and the sky will be said, was then reading news- clared that he was not present the, Centre. when Kwan treated his wife, and he would not be able to know If, in his abance, his wife had personally requested the "doctor"" to carry out an abortion.
Hearing is continuing.
THO
SIDE GLANCES
overcast.
to
In 24 hours ending noon to- Accused was asked Upon tasting congee, a soup day, .00 inch of rain has fallen describe before Court how the The continental anti-cyclone, had examined the patient, Lam made for distribution to under- courished mouters and children, covers China, Korea, Western Ching. At one time her daughter Lidy. Haslyan expressed her Japan and the adjacent peas, (second recused) had assisted tha approval, and proceeded to feed according to a Royal Observa- by holding a torch beside
bed, Keung said, because the tory stalement today. a small baby with it.
light
of the lamp: was too Hearing is continuing.
By Galbraith
11:23 TM JE UK F01. OR`· © 197 by MA Harun
Yeah, my, saores are pretty weird, but I never' was
much of a bowler joined the team to ret
a night out once a week!”
UK Defence Expenditure
London, Jan. 28.
feeble,
Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Defence, sald today that the signing of a con-aggression, Pact with Russia would not by itsol! enable Britain, to reduce her defence expenditure in any way Mr at all.
On the other hand it might, together with other steps, help lo create n more favourable almosphere for disarmament..
He was replying in the House 10 of Commons
Emrys Mir Hughes, a Labour member.
Mr Hughes had asked how much British defence costs could be reduced if Russia nsreed to the British, préposal for a non- agirersion' Pacf-Reuter,
On Retirement
Mr William F. Waterman, Inspector of Works, left for the United Kingdom tils morning" in the RMS Churan on retire- ment.
Director Of Marine Leaves
A. G. Parker, Director of Marine, accompanied by Mrs Parker, left for the United Kingdom in the RMS Chusan this morning on nine months' home leave, During his absence Mr WRK. Collings will set as Director of Marine,
The couple were seen off by the Hon, GA.M. Terry, Mr Ďi Cairns, Mr D. L. P. Edwards, Mr. W.R.K. Collings and many friends and members of the Marino Department,
Dance Tonight
There is a dance tonight at 8.30 the Missions to Seamen, Mr Waterman had been with 40 Gloucester Road- *All '80%- Department for more than farers -- and † Servicemen ara 10 years. He was icon off by} welcomic. "Ladíon by Invitation. many friends,
the
ham
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