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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1958.
RENO RUSSIA'S SPACE MISSILE SHOT Comment
Price 20 Cents
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world around
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PANAMARCIAN
THEME REKENINN, LAKE LİRƏR
REPORTED TO HAVE PASSED
PASSED MARS
Of The STRANGE SIGNALS FROM SPACE
Day
Exhibition Ground Wanted
NOTHER Exhibition
Hangkung products opens topurrew. In less than two acres of land in Kowloon 4
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cross-section of what the Colony produces view to the public and to is traders. This an important exhibition hut
do why, year after year, many displays have to hel
squished into such a con- Why do thu Aued space.
size of displays have to be limited. Is there not bigger exhibition ground available?
which
'Very Similar
To Sputnik's Beep Beep'
Washington, Dec. 2.
Mysterious new man-made signals have been picked up from outer space, it was revealed by scientists at the Lock- heed Missile tracking station in California today.
This announcement was made after Erick Ber-
gaust, Norwegian-born rocket and missile expert, said here that the Russians had within missile which the past two weeks fired
out beyond
"passed the moon and went on Mars."
etitor Bergmust.
phenomena
What Hongkong lacks in its buny central area is a farge
such በ። of Massles naturni wide
open space
been heard at the turve often could be permanently set and Rockets magazine, told the
Tracking
Was station. It Ad Club of Pittsburgh that U S anisle for exhibitions.
had Tracked the tree-step telgineter une re
ceived on a frequency of 20.003 megacycles.
need not be in longkong.scientists radios for three
A report has recently gone mus
Government
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days.
the OTE
the
question of moving Tsimshatsui railway station te lunghom. If the move Is made lot the Intid he kept open. 1 is valuable but I would be wrong to build on It.
Let Government turn
RN
signal
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satellites The spare.
Wednesday character,"
of both Officials
The I'm-
was highly unlikely, the tone tagon's Advanced Research Pro scientists suid, that the Jet Agency
and the civilian- could have come from any of |áirected. US,
ur U.S. National Arro | the Russian
10 be in nauties and Space Administra- known
heard tast tion said that they had no knew
had "different ledge of the rocket shot.
they satd. It was similar to "but not the sume" bs that froin the rst Soviet Sputnik which is known to have fallen the atmosphere and back into been destroyed
'The exhibition purk Arts Festival could move So could the over there.
next watch and clock ex- Police the hibition. Aad Foree Exhibition. When it
Unexplained
The Lockheed scientists said
inle the new "unexplained" signal was pleked up for more than 10 minutes beginning on Novon- ber 26, It was "yery similar 10 but not the same as the welemeter signal from Sputnik (." tie selentists sald
Lockheed said the signal was,
from a man-made definitely
outer
not wanted for anything particular, open the ground
to Chinese opera companies or let government depart
ments hold nightly exhthi-
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The Stone Age re- Lantau found could be shown there. The virtue of
exhibition
ground in this area is that
Lockheed said a report on the mysterious signal was turned
10 the
Research Ah
The Command Development
not elaborate
б
scientists would
on what kind of outer-space in-
WALLACE NOW ACTS AS
John Wallace (left) and Vince Edwards. -- China Mail Photo.
SNEAKED CIGARETTE CAUSE OF CHICAGO HORROR?
Chicago, Dec. 2.
space. strument may have given of the A schoolboy who sneaked a forbidden cigarette rather than a signal caused by signal.-U.P.i.
Instrument
U.S. Army Shoot For
May Sun
This Week
Washington, Dec. 2.
It is central. This is what The United States Army may launch a
I
t
Hongkong needs.
Too Far?
looks as ir General de
Gaulle has got mure then
he bargained for in the new
National Assembly. Despite
"sun
rocket" this week, informed sources said today.
The aim of the rocket would be to place an arti- ficial "planet" of about 30 pounds around the sun, avoiding the moon, the sources said. The "planet" would be equipped with instruments for the measurement of special radiations.
The
director
of the
Army
may be the unwitting "arsonist" who touched off the fire which killed 87 children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels Parochial School.
worst
This was the theory today aft police and fire department squads
Chicago's investigating
a holocaus years, Are in 55
two storey which swept the brick building yesterday shocked the nation and the world.
CITY OF MOURNING
The horror and pathos of the Are mounted as Chicago became a city in mourning. There were these developments:
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jured, 82 of them still in Five of the 100 children in- hospital, were not expected to live.
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the
rucket
would have a and would pass within {
80,000 kilometres of 10,000 xx
Teleguided from the
The
the 188 aents his own up- porters collected making rocket programme, Dr Wernher speed of 40,000 kilometres ber thent by far the biggest von Braun, In a statement made hour single group -- the centre at the beginning of November,
Baid he thought he would be the moon. and the moderate left which he was relying
to able to launch "un rocket" ground, the rocket would resch push through vital legia-during the first week of Decem-the lation on Algeria has been her.
virtually swept away by
Junon II
the massive swing to the lle said the "planet" would be right. The electoral system inunelted by a four-stage Jupler was framed to favour the intermediule-range rocket,
Socialists yet its represen· slashed tation Ax been from 100 to 40 seats.
of
De Gaulle even went so far as 10 redraw the electoral boundaries of M. Mendco- France's constituency Louviers to ensure his re- election
the lender of Opposition.
Menden- Jut France went on with a host of others of the
FLA
"old gang
and today the General must
ro-
be seriously assessing his chances of pushing through his liberal plans for form in Algeria against a ponsible solid opposition of 130 Conservative Deputies.
For behind the Conservatives and 70 deputien from Algeria In the Army, re- colute in His determination to make no concessions to nationalists. the
The Ann
pledge that the Army tacitly given thal It will keep out of polities HAR D far been kept but there are fears, that the Algerian problem will pro- voke a collision. De Gaulle's first tent will come soon.
and that there would be & 50 per cent chance of suCLOST,
review The informed U.S Missiles and Rockets, in a re- cent article, said the sun rocket would be called "Junon 11."
Russian Spies Coming Through HK?
Washington, Dec. 2. The Benata Internal Security sub-commitles enld today i would hold hearings tomorrow after- noon
on the matter of Russian refugees in itong- kong.
Bimlar bearings, held in the past, have been for 10 purpose of finding out whether or not active Rus- have been slan agents walng the refuges roule through Hongkong to in... altrate Into other
iclés.
It was not announced who will be tomorrow's wlinestes-U.PJ,
moon in 34 orea of the hours, about 24 hours less than the time it would have taken by the Air Force Poncer moon wekel to reach the same aren.
The rocket that carried Itussin's Sputnik III into orbit I expected to re-enter tho atmosphere somewhere in the Caribbean area tomorrow, U.S. scientists said tonight,
They predicted the big rocket probably would burn to a cinder in its death plunge. The 3,072- pound Sputalk H is still whirl- ing around Earth in company wilk three American satellites France-Presse and U.P.I.
the
Innocents section of Queen of Heaven Cemetery it their parenia wish,
Mayor
Richard
1. Daley
ordered all flags drawn to half mast on olly buildings unit the funeral. Appeals went out for donations of money and blood, although
blood masy
donors volunteered some bad to be turned away. A ofty- wide day of mourning wis
to be declared.
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Police had ali but ruled out the possibility that the fire was deliberately touched off by a deranged arsonist who somehow crept into the school.
MP Accuses
VILLAIN Peking Of IN NEW Rice Dumping FILM
By Tony Myatt
John Wallace, popular Hongkong radio compere has a starring role in "The Scavengers," a film at present being shot the Colony.
London, Dec. 2.
A Conservative Member of Parliament, Mr Robert Turton, said tonight China was using a rice surplus to break the economy of other Asian countries.
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Speaking
the House of Commons of a rerent visit to
Far the
East, he sald: Wherever 1 went, whether in or Ceylon, 1 lound Hongkong gical evidence of a concerted in Setion
by the Chinese Dul Russian. Governments to break the economy of the free world by under-pricing and hy eco- honic war."
This makes him a busy man, for he also has EL part in "Ferry to Hongkong," in which he plays a police inspector. managed to But, he has everything in.
Love Story
Mr Rhodes sald China waa emerging as one of the largest producers of raw colton the work.
Of his visit to Hongkong, he suid the cotton trade there, with its "drive, virility otick know-how," had no need to ex- ploit anybody.
If it would realise It could do belter by raising the standarda of its work people in hours or wages, It would do "a tremen- dous service to labour Lions in Asia and remove good deal of the stigma."-
China this year had a sarplus tot 15,000,000 tons of rice, he said, adding: "There is every evidence that she is using and going to use this rice surplus "The Scavengers," is an inter- | for breaking the economy of | Reuter, national love story and stars the rice-producing countries." popular Hollywood actor Vince Edwards the hero.
HK Fishermen
Mr Edwards plays an ex-flyer ⚫ Hongkong fishermen, he added, whose wife, played by Carol were unable to put to sea be- Ohmart, has disappeared and is cunse
of Chinese of the fear believed Uring In Mateo and gunboats and the fact that the Hongkong. She is involved with Chinese were underselling them a group of smugglers, however, in the markets. and though he tries desperately to get her back, she refuses to return to him.
Then comes an affair with a Eurasiat girl played by Tamaan Benemy, who in real life la a dancer
American on the stage.
CAROL OHMART John Beats Her Up
John Wallace, plays the villam-in-chief in the film. He beats up many people, including Miss Ohmart and the hero.
Also starring in the film is The possiblity arose that
Philippine actor Efrun Reyes, dcatlı count right
But their suspicious mounted who won the best actor award really be 91. Only three
that Somc teenage boy had in the Far East recently. Altlfully charred bedio ducked beneath the stairwell, The film is directed by John remained unidentified at
taken a few puffs on a cigarette, Cromwell, who has also directed the county morgue, awali and tossed it into a cardboard "Algiera" (Charles Boyer and "Prisoner of Ing X-rays In au attempi 19 container stuffed with discarded Ingrid Bergman),
give them names.
But examination papers before re- Zendo," "Anna and the King of "Caged," (Eleanor four of the school's child turning to bla cluss. ren were misslog. rotice
Parker) and recently, The said the extra missing child
Goddess," which is already up from had wandered
The school In state of shock
for an Academy award.
Vince Edwards had a sma and was being cared for by
Three Faces of part in "The living in
Eve" and has sorred in "Hil and Run", "Serenade" and was In the Broadway Musical, "High Button Shoes." ilc has com pleted we flims yet to be reż leased called "Murder by Con- tract" and "City of Fear,"
Bomptone neighbourhood.
The
SUSPICIOUS
Q
Police St Drew Drown, head of the Arson Squad, with the special polico sqund of 35 men. began intensive questioning of boys who had been assigned by Chicago Archdiocese their teachers to carry wasic announced that Archbishop paper fram classrooms to the Albert George Meyer will litter bins noir a stairwell. preside at mass funeral ser-
vices for the 67 dead cidid. By nightfall, he had found a reu In a National Guard few, boys who confessed lo Armory on Friday. The smoiding cutside the school, but church will bury the t3 none who would admit lighting girls and 34 boys, aged up a cigarette by the stairwell lo IG, together in the Holy yesterday.-U.F.I.
The World's Shabbiest
Dressed Men... Britons
London, Dec. 2.
British men, amongst the shabbiest in the world, are becoming interna-
tionally known as "Mister Baggy Trousers."
The Wholesale Clothing, said, will never employ a shab- jrough in manners and speech.. Some 20 per cent are rather Manufacturers Federation state Lily-dressed person.
somebody who is untidy intcruffy and 40
this today in announcing a new campaign to make men more clothes conscious.
per
cent
March Release
Carol Ohmart has starred in Home on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price, **The Scarlet Hour." "The Wild Perly) shown in Hongkong recently and has been on stage in Kismet. I
The actual locale for "The- Scavengers," Is Hongkong and Macao, the interiors will he shot in Manlia.
will be
released sometime in March next year!
The Alm
Grotewohl Nominated For Prime Minister
Derlia, Dec. 2.: The Central Committee of the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) Party today un- his dress is probably untidy in "rentonably neat and tidy."animously nominated Herr Olto hin mind as well," Bir Richard Only ten per cent are "perfectly Grotewohl for re-election
of the country's turned out." Powell, one best dressed men, is, reported lo have sold,
The campaign will have the
Many men folled to realise support of the man known as
that they mies promotion be Britain's "No. 1 bon" Sir Richard Powell, Director- The federation estimated that cause of baggy trousers or in General of the Insitute of lon per cent of ni Drilish then old raincoat, it stated-China Directors who, the federation! ure invailably badly drnisód and 1. Mali Spacial,
ba
Prime Minister, it was, sḍ- nounced,
This follows reports in West Germany yesterday that Herr Grotewohl was 11 and may not be revalected Premier,-Neulér.
were
condi-
SINGAPORE CAN STILL BUY RED GOODS
n
Fir farmers in Hongkong were having their livelihood, demolished through the im port of Chinese pigs, which
beld were being sold well the cost of production. The textile worker's losing their markets-especially in
Communist Indonesia- 10 China through under-pricing.
Lancashire, he said, febrod the competition of Hengkong.
"But I can assure Lancashire and the free world that will have to dear much more Malaya--supposedly because of The underpricing of Communist recent China in all the textile markets In Europe and elsewhere," he
Singapore, Dec. 2.
bellave |Singapore "fradore
they can got. Communist Chinese goods through Hongkong if they pay In sterling or Hongkong dollars.
said.
-A week ago, China stopped its Singapore und
to they exports
Mr Turton was speaking in a debate on the recent Common wealth Economic Conference at
Montreal.
Chinese Shirts
Mr Hervey Rhodes (Labour) said that while in the Far East recently he bought three shirts of almost comparable quality a temples, one in Japan and two In Hongkong.
Malayan Government against Low-cost
measures Chinese cement and textiles.
A leading importer said he understood that although China would no longer accept Straits
orders currency, placed in Hongkong.
could
be
This would mean, however, more money for freight handling and commission for Hongkong agents.Reuter.
UAR Charge
Gaza, Dec. 2. The one in Tokyo cost 20
The United Arab Republic shillings, one Hongkong shirt charged that four Israeli planes was 15 shillings and the other, violated Gaan air space for half made in China, cost five shill-an hour today.
Ings and three pence.
The UAR protested the alleged He wondered whether that violation to the United Nations' would be the pattern of other | mixed-armistice commission here. consumer goods Industries.
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