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FIRST PEACE TIME ACCIDENT IN ATLANTIC SINCE TITANIC TRAGEDY
Of The SHIP HITS
HITS ICEBERG-SINKING Day German Trawler Standing
RENTARAI U.S. To Send Manned
A Half-Holiday By To Rescue 130 People TODAY'S TIPS Rockets To Mars
THE Reform Club is spon- A petition to
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make Wednesdays a half holiday in summer, This is an idea we ought to think nbout seriously. The fact that we have gone without one for so long should not be rained as an objection to starting a new custom now. Many take the holiday al- -ready. The request in that
it should be adopted by all. Opponents may argue that Hongkong already gets for more public holidays than most parts of the world- particularly the long week- ends once a month in num mer-and nimust all ex- patriates get home leave: in tho
of Government officials, every 2 years after ten yearn service, THE spread of air-condition.
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ing may also be cited as an attempt to make
BUM- Why merk more bearable. then a mid-week holiday? There are of course not arguments against the iden, but for it. The protagonists of a Wednesday break are simply following established trend in favour of casing the burden of hot summers.
well-
Besides the long leave argu- ment is selfish. Many do not get it, and the
summer months impose a strain on the system that, grows with age and the duration of one's stay here. It is a fact that Jethargy and tedium increase sharply months and
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St. John, Newfoundland, Jan. 30. The 2,800-ton Danish freighter Hans Hedtoft with 130
iceberg off the coast of So Big persons aboard struck an Greenland today and was reported sinking.
The German trawler Justis Haslinger was stand- ing by the stricken vessel and preparing to rescue the 90 passengers and 40 crewmen. The S. coast guard cutter Campbell; speeding to the secue cf the disaster, received a terse message from the Hons Hedtoft Laying it was sinking and asked for immediate ascistance
WAR TRIALS
TO BE
SPEEDED UP
The
Havana, Jan. 30. Cuban Government suspended three articles of the constitution for 90 days today to give revolu- tionary tribunala sweep- ing jurisdiction over "war criminals" and speed up trials.
The action wiit let revolution. nry authorities arrest and hold spects for more than 72 hours without producing them in court
and will permit the tribunals to try plvillen as well as military defendants.
The trials were scheduled to he resumed in Havana's Cubana Comp and nearby Fortress Columbia tonight the summer celerated basis.
Firing squads this morning executed one soldier and four
efficiency
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Ebout 00 passengers and crewmen.
for
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The Royal Canadian Air Force teorch and rescue headquarters in Halifax, Nova Scotia, sald that seas in the area were running up to 20 feet high and were hamper- ing rescue operation.
Built In 1958
Powell Treason
Case Ruled
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Within Eight Years
New York, Jan. 30.
The United States may be able to send manned
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rockets to Mars and Venus within five to eight
years, the Defence Department's space expert said today.
Mr Roy Johnson, Director of the Department's Advanced Re- fave search Projects Agency,
this estimate during an address to the New York State Bar Ar- sociation here.
He said the necessary rocket engines were new in the research and development stage, but an- other problem would be the guidance and control of the space vehicle.
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San Francisco, Jan. 30. Federal Judge Louis
G-Mari Goodman ruled a mis- Thi Ping Shan trial today in the Powell- King A Schuman
trial sedition because of news reports that he had considered the defendants guilty of courter treason at first glance. As coon as the Judge ruled,
Hebert US.attorney
H. Grace Schnacke fled with the court a |Norse Girl' The Justis Haslinger, first complaint accusing the three Na Pazi ship to arrive at the scene, 1s | Americana in the case of incuson- a ratidi' motor vessel, 107 foot! -a capital offence,.. long. It was the third vessel
Ealler, the Danish Consulate in New Yorit reported that o Canadian coast guard plane was lying over the freighter, which was built in 1958 for treight and
service Copenhagen, passenger Greenland,
between Denmark' อเวน
to respond to the 8.0.8. call
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The defendanto
John Powell, 39; his wife, Sylvia, 38; uati! of the
Hedtof the, and Julian Schuman, 38, Fların
City. rdotally of New York closest to IL
They are accused of publishing és about alleged US. germ warfare in the Kerran war.
According to the court record, Goodman remarked yesterday that there
"prima facie sustain a evidence sufficient to verdict
the of guilty under treason statute."-U.P.I.
The coast guard in New York therefore declines-and numbers of former Sen. said the ship way large enough amount of air-conditioning Rolando Masferrer's private to rescue all hands aboard the is sufficicat to counter. army in Manzanilla. They were Hedtoft.
convicted of being "war assos- balance the effects.
fact that in sins."U.P.I. most people
TT is also
Hongkong
work both harder and longer hours than elsewhere, that
our summer is longer, hot- £20,000 Robbery
tor, moister and therefore
much more trying than in
the countries whese work- ing hours wo follow.
In
Australia, Saturday is a full
In London
An hour and a half after the Jusils Haslinger was reported to have arrived, the freighter sont cut another S.O.S. sayinz, "1 am slowly sinking and need as-
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planes and the U.S. coast guard culler Campbell reported they
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Visibility in the area at the timo was near zero tad 20-foot waves lashed the water,
iost radio contact with London, Jan. 30. Thieves broke into the Army
stricken ship later. holiday. That would be po and Navy stores, big depart- London, pular in Hongkong, ton, butment store in central the mid-week break would be during the night, blew open two safes and were believed to have more beneficial.
go away with nearly £20,000 The Reform Club have made
in cash, reasonable request which we approve, and urge Govern- ment and the business com- munity to consider a trial
1 to Septem from June her 30.
AS A POLISHER
The money included wages for the staff.
A reward of £2,000
today's
The 187-foot German trawler for in- was reported within short dis- formation cbout the robbery tance of the sinking ship' and was offered by an Insurance preparing to evacuate the pas-, company.-Chiña Mall Special.
sengers when radio contact was broken, The last word from the Justis arlinger said it had the Hans Hedtoft on its radar and would attempt the rescur despite the high seas.
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INDUSTRIAL FLOOR POLISHER and SCRUBBER
Search and rescue ofBelain in Halifax said anyone forced into the freezing Atlantic al this time of the year would last "Just over 60 seconds." It was the first time a chip had hit an icoberg in Atlantio during peace time since thie sining of the Titanic, the count guard sold in Washington.-U.P.I.
U.S.
Make Appearance?
The 21st Congress
Moscow, Jari. 30.
Communist Party rolled through its
fourth day today with a fan barrage of "sperches bombarding such millar targets ce Tugo. slav "revisionism" and the in- famous activities of the "anti- Party" group.
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A fresh attack against "anti-Party" plotters appeared to be setting the stage for a pos sible appearance of members of the group to confess their mis- deeds.
But late today there was no Indication whether or when such an appearance might takes place.-U.P.I.
Stamp Designs
London, Jan. 30. The Nigerian Government is the offering £100 prize for the best designed set of four alempa to mark ita independence; sche- duled for October, 1989.-Reu-
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SEVEN DIE IN
NURSING
HOME FIRE
Chicago, Jan. 30,
Seven people were killed and three others are miss- ing after a fire today in a nursing home, 35 miles from here.
About 20 people were in the, managed to Glenn Ellyn Acres Nursing propelling Home at the time. A number chairs.
beet were reported to have trapped on the second floor when the roof caved in.
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The dead included a businessman who acted voluntary fry-fighter and part in rescue operations. Ho collapsed and died of a heart altack.
reach cafety by their own wheel
Glenn Ellyn, an old timbered
known building,
119 the "Castle" went up like a torch. -France-Presse,
Peer To Marry
London, Jan. 30. Firanen were hampered in Lard Montagu of Beaulieu, 32, their efforts to fight the fames is to marry Belinda Crossley, because there was no hydrant only, daughter of the late Cap- close to the home. They had tain John de Bath Crossley and
Mrs Sibelle Crossley, to carry water in tank trucks.
Some - Of the home's 20 The engagement in
escaped, helped by nounced today.China Mail inmates nurses,
while a number Special..
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INDIAN ARRESTED
An Indian has been arrested in connection with the
theft of $117,000 reported to have taken place on Thursday afternoon,
The alleged theft was report-
The National Aeronautics and I cd to the Police by the Indian Space Administration, Mr John- siroff of an Indian drm whe said, was working to told the Police he was robbed Achieve a one million pound as he was walking near the thrust single-chambered engine Junction of Daddell Street and
which should be ovalluble Queen's Road Centret. the United States for space pur poses some time during the next five to eight years”
to
"Clustering of engines of such immense propulsivo power will provide the means for powering inter-pianotary manned space
three He had just eashed cheques and was in possession at about $117,000 when he said he was robbed of the money.
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fight to Mars ur Venus and REASON FOR CUT IN ARMED FORCES
other planets by way of space alations," he continued.
"Of course, we must recognise that propulsion is not our only problem. We must learn how to so guide and control a manned pace vehicle that we can, with reasonablo safety, propel it on a two-war trip to ragions milliona of miles from the launching point."
Space, Race
Washington, Jan. 30. Informed United
- Staten Eources expressed the opinion today that the announced re duction of 300,000 men luthe Soviet artard forces had been made possible by a "tremen dou" nereago in firepower."
But they said that it was al- most impossible to assess tha real significance of the an Washingten, Dr Wen-nouncement since the Sovies Von Braun
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Unioh, as always, had studious- take the United by avoided giving any Indien day it would
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Stater & year to overtako Husslation
of the overall in the rice into space if the armed forces.---Reator.
Soviets sloj still during that
time.
size of its
The German born rocket ex- West's Proposal
pert, head of the Army's ballis-
tic missile agency of Huntsville,
Geneva, Jan. 30. The United States und Bri- Alabama, joined Dr T. Keith Glennan, head of the Govern-tain today offered Russia a ment's divilian pace agency, in detalled plan for International warning that dusja is of control of peaceful nu the United
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