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AMERICAN SERVICE CHIEF SAYS:
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959.
RUSSIA FACES DESTRUCTION IF SHE ATTACKS U.S.
Washington, Feb. 25.
Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, said today that Russia could not attack the United States without "getting unacceptable damage in return.”
He Kicked
Me In
The Back-
Veronica
New York, Feb. 25. Actress Veronica Lake, 39, had her husband arrested today on a charge of "kicking her in the buck with his bare foot."
Police said Miss Lake, who became famous by wearing her long blond hair ever one cyc in, "peek-a-boo" fashion, called them about
pick up Joseph her husband, publisher McCarthy.
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She also complained that he threatened to throw a telephon at her.
Terror
"She is in mortal terror of him, Miss Lake's attorney, Iraf
W. Berin, told
Burke spoke for Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Treasury Department conference of industrial leaders.
in a geralised comparison of American and Russian military power, he also said the US, has adequate ground forees in com- bination with other free worki either forces
with to deal limited or general wars.
Adm. Burke sald intelligence estimates show Russia could produce more intercontinental ballistic mili than the
United States is planning in the 1955-62 period.
But, he added, comparing any
single weapon type was not a PRIJET measure striking force.
Ability
relative
He said the fact that Russin is capable of producing a given number of missiles "does not mean that they produce."
will definitely
tient *** Is no probable Russla possesses the ability to destroy
to attack us, 113, or without receiving
unaccept able damage in return, today or in the foreseeable future," hr xaid,
well
Adm. Burke said Russia has magistrate an army of 2,500,000 men,
in the trained and modernly equipped. Its navy has a large surface Mr. Gladwin McCarthy hold i forve and about 400 submarines.
Walter
diny.
Gladwin later
en $300 boil for a hearing on March 2,
The actress, who now wears her hair short, said she was going to the court hearing,
Bec
Stage's
11s air force has 19,000-15,000
doctor after) faetfeal aircraft.
She has ballistic missiles "in Miss Lake has a 17-year-old various stages of development daughter, Elaine, who lawe do not know how many
described as a "carbon copy" of her famous mother, complete with shoulder length honey- blonde hair. The girl is 1 model.-U.P.I.
"Wales For Welsh"
New York. Feb. 25.
A committee to "support the work for Welsh self-government within the British Common- wealth" has been formed here, --Chinu Mail Special.
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men
The US. Army has 870,000 divisions, Hight In 14 batile groups, 10 missile bat- 10 anti-aircraft talions an missile battalions Отстасия
and 63 at home.
The Novy has 884 ships, 7,200 aircraft and 175,000 marines.
The Air Force la reducing from 105 to 102 wings. But its D-62 bombers can carry 10,000- pud bomb loads to the
Enemy heartlands."-U.P.I.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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Troops Halt Riot In Africa
Mogadishu, Somaliland,
Feb. 25.
A high Somall police offer- Was
stomach stabbed in the
cm the head- curing a cald quarters of the Great Somalia
MECHANICAL BRAIN LANGUAGE WILL
INDUSTRY
BOOST
Cambridge, Mass., Feb, 25.
Top Air Force and science leaders today an
nounced the development of a mechanical! brain language which they claim is a. tremen- dous break-through in America's electronic superiority over Russia,
The language of 107 words will enable mechanical brains to supervise other electronic machines producing such items as aeroplane and missile parts in record time, the officials said.
system,
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A
the brain could casily use APT to produce a scaled down version or enlarged version of any machine or tool.
take "Detroit could foreign car and whoosh! APT would produce a scaled
he down model," Bald But APT
APT is a baby in science. the Irvine pointed out that system can now only be used economically in industries which work demand huge, complex but no mass production - for example, the aviation industry. U.P.I.
Italian trained native police
Ross said Lt. Gen. Clarence S. Irvine, arrested pro-Nasser lead- Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for material, told a news er today following a bombing attack and dis- conference the development is
"perfectly wonderful.' persed mobs., trying to
called Use of the foot native shops.
Programmed Automatically
enable the Tools (APT), will
war United States to "build
nobody would machine that want to tackle," the General maid.
will also Ho added APT enable better seroplanes and space missiles to be built at
in
COES, no Increase
and probably at great savings. Massachusett's Institute of Jerome Technology researcher Wenker, who helped develop AFT, sald" visiting Russion recently pentists had only
dowa their wrongly "looked.
League, a political parly blamed with stirring the unrest.
No fatalities were reported.
The Incidents came at n critical Ume in the life of this East African nation, due for Independence by the end of next year.
.
Elections
The first
#1 American electronic
elections in Somaliland's history, are cue in the next few days under the brain developmezils. "But now supervision of Italy, which runs I believe we are far ahead of the territory under an United Russlans," he said. Nations Trusteeship mandate.
The Great Somalia League, a one-year old party looking for Inspiration to United Arab Républic President Gamal Abdel Nasser,
to
refused participate in the elections charging irregularities in the Dresentations of candidates Hists.
U.S. Moon
Rocket
Another Boy For Princess
Now living happily In Mexico City with the hus- band
the she shocked world by marrying two years ago when she was 16, Is. Princess Ira Hohenlohe. Recently Ira's 18. year-old contentment wa
the further increased by birth of second son, Huberius, A new brother for two-year-old Chris- toplier.
Both are named after the patron waluts of Prince Alfonso's favourite sports -motor-racing and hunt-
ing.
Picture shows the new family group-Princess Ira, Prince baby Hubertus, Alfomo, and Christopher, -Exprta Photo,
Strike Stops Duchess
Lima, Feb. 25.
Page
Britons Hear Abdication Speech Again
London, Feb. 25."
Britons tonight heard a special rebroadcast of the historic 1936 speech by the Duke of Windsor in which he told the world he was giving up the throne "for the woman I love,"
- The dramatic words of the Duke. then Prince Edwart!, were broadcast on a programme called "Scrapbook for 1930."
The Queen gave the British Broadcasting Corporation per- mission 10 rebroadcast speech.
Crisis
the
tt was December 11, 1930. King Edward VIII, now the Duke of Windsor, had just abdicated the throne to marry Mrs Wallis Wardeld\Simpson of Baltimore,
Crisis gripped Britain.
Ble
John Relth, then Director-General of the BBC, #aid: "This Is Windsor Challe - Royal Highness Prince Edward."
Then the ex-king delivered his famous seven-minute fare-A well address.
"I have found, if impossible," he said, "to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king, the way I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love."U.P.I.
Campaign Against "Pin-Ups
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London, Feb. 26. Parents were advised today to ensure that their children were given pro- "to per acx instruction knock the bottom out" of sexy advertisements and "pin-up" magazines,
De Roger Pilkington, an ex- pert on adolescence, attacked sex in advertising in an article in the weekly medical journal, Family Doctor.
A threatened railway, wirike by employees of a British-owned railway company today
He said sexy advertisementa vented the Duchess of Kent
could Loster "a sadly warped and Princess Alexandra from visiting the ancient furs capl-attitude of men towards women, of girls towards themselves and of boys towards especially
tal at Cusco.
The Duchess of Kent is the girls," Queen's aunt.
Attempt "Genius"
Saturday
APT is the brain child of teamwork by MIT, the Air Force and the Aircraft Indus- tries Association.
Is chief developer, MIT T. Ross.
· researcher Dougind 29, was hailed as's genius by fellow scientists at top-rated MIT.
In brlet. APT allows a master
the The league appealed to United Nations to postpone the elcetlans and hold them under electrople brain to design and UN. supervision-U.P.I.
HOPE FOR THE BLIND
London, Feb. 28.
supervise another maniess machines production. Before APT, technicians had to spend hundreds of hours planning even the simplest work for an Butomatic machine.
APT will do away
with the servicce, of many, technicians and machinists However, Irvine and aireract company spokesmen
sald APT will create other work
for people whose jobs will be done by the giant electrice
A new "The Ireeze atraze
method may solve the abortage brains. in Britain of exen bequeathed
surgeon said here today.
for corneal ·grafting, an eye Simple Words
Ross produced the language Mr B. W. Rycroft, one of Bri-by simplifying, English words. tain's foremost specialists in In APT talk, corneal grafting, was writing right and "it" means lett, "kul" the weekly review Family means coolant. Doctor.
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Incans
Ross demonstrated how the He said there were still no! language is used by a technicien enough eyes avaliable for all to enable an electronic brain to the blind people who needed understand what man wanis them.
machine to do;
With present methods of Storako a week was the longest perfod for which an ego mould bo safely preserved for A
Deep-freeze was a new storage
The brain takes the simple directions and, in its fantás- to way, figures, out in a few seconds how another brain will do the work.
Washington, Feb. 25, The United States Army will make a new attempt 10 send a rocket to the moon from the Cape Canaveral launching base on Saturday. The Air Force today post- poned the launching of a Dis- caverer rocket destined to pass both poles from the over
Vandenberg California base, The launching is now due to lake place tomorrow.
The first captive flight of the experimental X-15 rocket plane will be made on Thursday. The term captive means the plane, which cannot take off from the ground under Its own power, will make its flight attached to
B-52 bomber.
Meanwhile, the newspaper Space BatĪDOES Daily Bald that Army solentisia would try to send the moon rocket within 20,000 miles of the moon. Like the Soviet cormle rocket, the U.E. rocket would continue into space and be- como a satellite of the gun........ France-Presse.
Titan Launched
A "Titan" intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Cape Canaveral rocket testing site at 1945 GMT today.. The test of the rocket, which
Ross flicked a switch and, in method being tried. If it proved a few seconds, the master brain entirely successful it would planned and another machine solve the shortage and a "graft | produced an ashtray, However would always be available for APT will be used by industry to has a theoretical range of more any blind person whenever re- produce sich complex items as than 5,000 miles, was limilled to quired, Mr Rycroft wrote, rocket bodies and aeroplano es- a range of 300 miles.-France- China Mall Special.
Preast.
gine parts.
“Moon Not From Earth
London, Feb, 25.
A Soviet astronomer disputed today the widely held theory that the moon is a dead body torn from the crust of the earth in some cataclysmic event of the very remote pasi,
In a personal coronaleation
to British selenographer (moon expert) Patrick Moore,” the
Hunian astronomer, Nikolai
an
notually in programs_on_the He observed, howald, supposedly cold and doedj eruption of ash and then a rush
ot
some heavenly body.
gas estimated $,500,000 fent, Dr.Kozyrev, who'ia beld in Ho took spectrograms of the thinks it quite possible the earth; hiạng: reused; by... astrophysicists, gas which enabled him to deter- and moon had different origina. - reported læst Novmilike, that ho mine that it contained a tar hwa gbaryad unusual setivity in higher percentage of the leotape
Kozárov
ando clear that he
Ike is convinood, that he wits the crater, or valphonsus, MORE carbon 15: than les common on smused |= Voteazle eripslew the sphilole in the inbon's, dino. | earth. — U.PL
The Brlilsh Embassy here said: "The Journey to Cuzzo bas been postponed. It is hoped that the railway Journey from Cuzco to Arequipa may still be undertaken without the danger, which exists at present, of its being interfered with by the strike, Reuter,
"Wondrous Shapes”
Hollywood
Divorce Scorecard
Published
New York, Feb. 25. scorecard detailing the major Hollywood divorces over the Inst 25 years
was
published to-day, giving the names and numbers of all the "play- ers."
In an article on "The Diagrace of Hollywood", McCall's magazine kave names, "dates and ressons for divorets.
The chart went all the way back to 1934, when Jean Harlow divorced her husband becanas he "ked to rond in bed.”
Here are some of the other rea-
sons listed for divorce in the McCall roundup of 230 maritat Bollaps
1957 - Lana Turner charged Lex Barker that he forcibly fed bør Sunday breakfast.
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Jayne Mansfield quoted her first husband, Paul Mans- flold "He said I should have been a scratwoman, nat an stress,"-+-+
1954 - Zsa Zsa Gabor divorced Motor George Banders because "ho said I spoiled his fun." --- U.P.I.
Agreement
On Pact.
Karachi, Feb. 28.
An American Embassy spokes-
Dr Pilkington criticised ad- man sald tonight that agreement
which vertisements
showed had been reached in principle on ind the proposed bilateral military "smooth, tapering legs, busts of wondrous shapes un-pact between Pakistan and the
Aims, United States. pature" and
Negotiations on some mirior cheap novels and ph-ups based "on the idea of showing a girl detalls were going on through channels, diplomatic in the rede."China normal almost Mail Special.
the spokesman added-Reuter.
known to
R
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