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Wolverhampton, Feb. 11. Joginder Singh, a 22-year-old Sikh, saked by a pollos surgeon to walk along a straight LEA replied: "Thi be able to walk the line, but if I do, would you keep the line silli?**
Slagh was fined £7 for being in charge of a motor cycle under the influence of drink...... Reuter.
Milwaukee, Feb. 19.
Mrs Margaret Leow's new- born boy arrived at the Mil-. waukee County General Hospital two minutes before she did.
Mrs Leow, 20, gave birth in her husband's car last night.
She was transferred to an
bulance and a police car ape off with the bundled-up infant, arriving at the hospital frat United Press.
Tampa, Feb. 18. Alphonse Vigeault, awailing sentencing today for passing fake $10 bills, had a complaint of his own.
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He told arresting officers that ho used the blits to
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1958.
"Merely Expression Of Opinion, But...
Economic Merger Of The West?
Suggestion Should
Be Pursued, Says Mr Butler
London, Feb. 13.
Mr R. A. Butler, acting Prime Ministor, said today that a recent speech by Sir David Eccles, president of the Board of Trade, urging an economic merger of the British Commonwealth, Wostorn Europe and the United States was "merely an expression of opinion by the Minister."
him But he said it was one which ought to be pursued. He was answering Labour and Conservative Mem- bers in the House of Commons who had asked whether the suggestion made by Sir David Eccles at San Francisco recently represented Government policy.
Paris, Feb. 13. Alberl Valentine's wife has Asked him not to be her Valentine this year.
She led suit for divorce. United Press.
Laurel, Feb. 13.
J. A. Lowe, D2, says he is all through with matters Katrf. monial,
που that be has
Mr Butler said Sir David Eccles had suggested
that the free world had to organise its econo mic resources in response to the challenge from the Sino-Soviet bloc.
divorced bis 82-year-old wife. "With this we would all agree," he said,
Unlied Prem.
Twenty
Shimoda, Feb. 13. men who married brirectos und adopted their wives' names gathered here to protest against society gossip that they were henpecked fortune hunters.
A
The meating was broken up by flood of telephone calls from wives demanding that their husbanda return homes United Press.
Oligry
London, Feb. 13.
anthorf- Embarrassed Army ties admitted today that Derek Partridge. 22, whose ploture Jas been circulating through- out Britain on recruiting DOF- ters labelled "The Important Mai," served in the Air Force.
United Press.
School
don't
Grand Island, Feb. 13. children here object to their teachers getting 貍 raise, but they're noi ко happy that the added moacy is to compensate for ten added
days of school each year.→→ United Press.
Blackpool, Feb. 13. Walter Brough, 42, drowned in a bowl containing two inches of water, an inquest was told yesterday.
Police said Hrough apparent- ly was overcome by ran as he cleaned a gas cooker and lus head sagged face down into the bowl.--United Press,
Rebels Kill 15 Soldiers
Algiers, Feb, 13. Fifteen French soldiers havo been allled in a vicious counter attack by a surrounded rebel detachment, the Army andunted today.
The action took place neur Aumale, 60 miles southeast of Algiers,
According to French reports the rebel band concentrated its small section of the fire on Burrounding French forces, thus accounting for the high casual-
les.-United Press.
Sir Winston
Mr Hugh Galtskell, lender of the Labour Opponition, ques» ; tioned the desirability of Bri- toln's Trade Minister going around "making far-reaching prosposals of this kind without anyone being consulted in the Commonwealth or at home."
He asked if Mr Butler would repudiate this particular sug- gration.
Mr Butler replied that on the contrary he would do the very
reverse.
ha
"I think a little imagina- tion in the innguage used by Sir David Eoolen is of advant- aro to the world and to in-
relations," ternations! said.
Mr
Shinwell, Emanuel former Labour Defence Minister, thought the suggestion the most fruitful" which had come from the Government since: it came to power.
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DEATH_OF_EX-MOVIE |||Sputnik II Is
QUEEN
Middletown, Penn.
Feb. 18. NORMER movlo aubeni
Helen Twelvetrees died today at Olrusted Air Force base hospital at the age of
49.
The former actress, wilo of Air Force Capt. Conrad Payne, was discovered In at their home here shortly after noon, She was rushod to hospital and died there shortly after arrival.
The County Coroner sald the cause of her destă has not yet been determined. ile said a post mortem will be made.
Helen Twelvetrcos
Milan Twelvetroes, pelite and blonde, started her carver on the stage. She got into films in her early Ufo winning her first major role in a ploture called the "Grand Parado,"
Shortly afterwards she was co-starred with Meerloo Chevaller and Baby Leroy in "A Bedtime Story."
She slayed in Hollywood until about 1945. One of her lust pictures was "The Painted Desert" with Clark Gable.........-Reuter.
US
Plans For A Flight To
The Moon
New York, Feb. 13. The guidance system used on the Jupiter-C.rocket that carried the United States Explorer satel- lite into orbit could be used with supplemen- tary instruments to guide a space ship to the moon, a German-born rocket expert said here today.
THE DOLE RETURNS
Chattanooga, Feb. 13.
The
Breaking
Birmingham Strike:
One Man Halts Work For 25,000
Birmingham, Feb. 13.
of tho British Motor
Corporation's
Up, Claims A Half Teacher
Kettering, Feb. 13.
A school teacher here today claimed to have seen the second Russian satellite in two pieces early this morning.
Ho la Mr R. J. Gladden who thought the satellite was break- ing up.
Mr Gladden said: "Sputnik II camo over this morning alightly ahead of schedule in full view of the naked eye at the proper place and course.
It faded and became dif- ficult to see. This in qufte normal 05 the brightness changes as the angle changes.
"Suddenly another bright point showed behind it, on the suma course but slightly lower. "For a few seconds, I had them both in view.
"I think it is breaking up as Sputnik I did before it finally plunged to earth,”—China Mail Special.
The Bottles Are Still Popping
Phenomenon In
...
expert, Dr Walter For Havuzsermann, is chief Guid- ance and Control Laboratory at the
ballistic missilo Army agency at Huntsville, Alabama, and was largely responsible for developing the Jupiter-C's de Bleute guidance system.
Asked whether his system A month's supply of reiler was suitable for use on a moon- food Was distributed to 178 bound space ship, ho told a fornilles here today for the press conference here: first time in 23 years,
Tenth Day
Scuford, Feb. 13.
the tenth successive day, corks, and metal bottle tops flow off the tops of ali containers-in? the household of Mr and Mrs James Herman of Seaford, Long Island.
The phenomenon started on February 3. A bottle of holy water opened of its own accord and spilled nul Ita contents. Mr Douglas Jay, Libour,
The bottle
and was rolled Roquebrune, Feb, 13.
asked the Trade Minister direct West
Chancellor.whether the
"My feeling is that the sys-today the same thing happened. German
suggestion came
The food was given only to tem could be used on longer Konrad Adenauer, and former
from the Government British Prime Minister, Sir Win-
space Journeys. But it will be Bottics containing liquids of whether it was "another of his certified needy families, re- discussed the
It was necessary to ston Churchill.
have presenting 952 people.
further all sorts-perfume, liquid de personal indiscretions." international situation at
distributed
five from
goods checking instruments in addi- tergents, disinfectants, elc-lose meeting today here.
Sir David Eccles replied that trucks to People who arrived tion to the inerial instruments their tops without any apparent it was "not a matter of polley." carrying large boxes and bags. (used on the Explorer) for ย reason. He had been asked whether he
fight of several days." The Stato Department of was prepared to do anything to meet the 1,000 million Com- Employment Security here sald munists who were now having that the latest figures showed economic offensive. His 9,100 people, or 7.0 per cent of suggestion WAS "well worth the city's labour force, were Futting forward." Router. unemployed Reuter,
The meeting took place at the "La Pauca" villa in H- Winston quebrune, where Sir is now staying as the guest of his publisher, Emery Reves. also vacationing Adenouer is on the Riviera.--France-Presse.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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British Press Praises Mac's Tour
London, Feb. 13.
FOUR DAYS
Among the explanations ad- vanced for the mysterious ac- tivities of the bottle tops were: Radio waves, vibrations caused a subter- He said a moon voyage would by passing planes,
watercourse, CRUAINT rancan take about four days.
vibrations, or a magnetle feld caused by the wiring in the house.
Today, an electrical engineer went over the house to check all the fixtures.
Asked what type of additional instruments would be required, Dr Hacussermann said: "It could be done by radar,"
He and other civilian scientists and army experts declined to say what other space projects they were working on.
"We have a lot of proposals which I am not at liberty to disclose," Dr Haeussermann
id. "We have lots of ideas. brewing....f for guidance and payload problems."
said
He
.sold the latest estimato of the Explorer's expected -Ufc in space was four years, It had previously beca estimated
at between two and 10 years.
This had been revised as in- formation was received from transmitters aboard
Mrs Herman, whose husband works for Air France, said the business of the bottles frightened her, She did not even want to know what caused it, she merely wanted the phenomenon to stop. she sald-Franco-Presse,
Reprimanded
Helensburgh, Feb. 19,
Morris Lieut-Commander O'Conner, commanding officer of the submarino Tuciturn which went aground in Camp- beltown Loch last month, was the Explorer.
found guilty of negligence at "Presont indications load a court martial near here today. 10 expect a ilfetime
He of four
Was pentenced to he severely reprimanded. — Chlaa Mall Special.
Us
The Commonwealth tour of Mr Harold Macmillan was seen as a personal success for the British Prime Minister and a generally fruitful de-ty velopment for the future of the Common- wealth by several British newspapers today. years.' Dr Hacuserшuna said.} Summing up on the sign! East Asia Treaty Organisation-Router. ficance of the tour by Mr have given great satisfaction..." Macmillan who returns to The Yorkshire Post, another Britain tomorrow, the indepen Conservative daily, stated: "Mr dent Times commented: *In
Macmillan's tour has underlined many intangible ways it may be the true nature of the Com- sald, that all six governments monwealth as an association be- between whom on his travels he tween equal and sovereign na- Ww un intermediary
now tiond understand one another a little better than when be set out
flow
Fast Bomber
Fort Worth, Feb. 13, A B-58 jet bomber recently faster than sound for more than an hour and a half, the Convair Company, makers "The Commonwealth should of the plane announced today, have been made stronger, as it They said it was the dirt been made time that a plane had ever New has, in que sens, Mr Macmillan made more maturo, by this journey." Hown a;. such a spood for comprehensible
Australia and
"In Zealand more position `of' 'uncummlited' Com-
the-Reuter.
monwealth countries like India
and Ceylon than they had them-
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film alar? (3).
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FUTURE FUNCTION
"As the number of members it
of the Commonwealth grow
may well boçomné a function of
| future British Prime Ministers to be a kind of unofficial. in- terpreter between them,
ARBURANCES
The Daily Mail (Consarva-
that Minister's Britain will not abandon Mingue pore, opposes Indonesia's claim to Want gan Guines, and in- | becula ta' skoongthan the deuthin
Advances, 10 Nestis, 13 Express, is Port, 17 Entered, 18 Com-tive) commented: The Pame pare, 20 Aloc, 21 Templed, 20 Rosulo, 27 Peertoss, 20 Scoda, 29 Saturday, Downs 1 Alone, 2 Clamp, 3 Ghale, Adam, Doctor, Hanted, & Desert, 11 Exial, 12 Tripo, 14 Bneers, 10 Peope, 16 Rebel, 18 Campus, 19 Idoment, 22 Mossy, 23 Taper,
long a time—Branco-Presse,
The Thirteenth
of
Leeds, Feb, 13. Terence Gutta, ageń 20, tos night made his 13th escape by
the footwall climbing over Looda prison, a castle-uka saql Burrounded by a mont
Ho is serving a. three years sentence for and nine months trying to steal Mail Special
Simulates Space Trip
a car-China
VOLUNTEER ‘REACHES' MOON, EN ROUTE HOME
San Antonio, Feb. 13.
A 23-year-old Ale Toros. volunteer, who la
wizuulasing a trip in the Boon for test par pores, theprelimily, #wached the Moon Buday and surled back to mesh, › The airman," Donald Fierall, had by this
merning spent 100-baru); Ink Indan - klong : mar
· Mahi sones, cupide al Eandelyb Field near Mark buɔ the, esikankind lime. It wiu54 -
Destors who shocked Farzoll's roneLLOVEN.
said his temperature, patio and breathing werp entirely normal bai be was sotho wżuż sbergher than as tần “take-off? on Bunday,
De Grace Mieliskazip, chief of the Air Force'i one. zonlicing resourola: ssction," said : khai „Tan parhaps hosania Terryli le new cogn pletely fringed
Stripkapa enid the concita of the experiment
|
50,000 workers will be out of work tomorrow because of a strike of 800 engineers at a subsidiary plant, a company spokes- man sold tonight.
The two-day strike-over one. mari has closed the plant andį stopped production of rear axles for Austin, Morris, Riley, Wolseley and M.G. cars.
As the supply of rear axles dried up today, production slowed at the B.M.C, factories that normally turn out 2,000 vehicles a day.
The strikers, mostly members of the powerful Amalgamated Engineering Union, stopped work In protest against having to work with a member of the National Association of Toolmakers, a small break-away union.
A mass meeting of the strikers today turned down D back-to-work recommendation by their shop stewards decided to stay out.
and
"There appears to be no sign of any sciticment of the dis- Pute," the B.M.C. spokesman said.
The 3,000 dayshift man of the rear axle factory were the Arst to go home, followed by 4,000 at the Corporation's Morris Motors plant at Cowley, Oxford.
Both fadtories were also to be closed during the night. The Corporation also nounced that the Austin factory at Birmingham would be closed tomorrow except for heavy vehicle production, and 14,000 workers would be affected.- Reutor,
an-
Oxford, Feb. 13. Victor Riley, 82, former pre- slot of the Riley Automobile the son of Its Company and founder, idled here yesterday—
United Press.
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