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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1959,
Scientists NEW TRANS-ATLANTIC
TELEPHONE CABLE
In Race
To Reveal Secrets
Of Venus
Jadrall.Bank, March 15.
British scientists at Jodrell
To Replace One
Cut Last Month
New York, March 15.
Bank are racing against The Amarican Telephone and Telegraph
time--and Americo
be the first to tell the world what lies under the cloud around Venus. The British have a dead-lino of September 1 Then Venus will be 40 million miles from earth. It will not be as close again for 16 months.'
A three-man team led by 25- year-old Dr Johri Evand, will rent radar signals to the planet and "nich" them on the re- bound 11 minutes later.
them
The anals will tell how far Venus is from earth, how fast it is spinning, the nature DI its surface and whether sends out radio signals of its own.
Mon has never discovered those facta because of per- petust cloud over the planet. The British equipement in- cludes a 18ft. valve to boost algnals. The valve will get so hot that it must be packed round with water coolors and liquid air.
BRAIN
Apparatus will be hoisted 100ft up into the towers of Jodrell Bank's radio-tele- scope.
The echoes from Venus will be so faint that a special electronle brain being built to detect them.
Dr Evons and his two assis- lants are competing against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The
Americans
Co. announced today it is laying another trans-Atlantic telephone cable similar to the one cut last month.
Distraught
Boy Takes His Life
Riverside. March 15, A 18-year-old boy who saw his father commit siloldo, two years ago took his own life after leaving a note dedicating his body.
research or science.
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The body of Dennis James Henry was found in
a` field today 'behind' the home of his foster parents, Mr and Mrs R. F. Meter- . hoff.
A search was organised when the Melerboffs found a note which read: "To whom it may concern-I dedicate my body to re- search or science. Give my love to all" 'It was signed, "the late Dennis Henry."-- U.P.I.
Pow-wow Now
Montreal, March 15, Rebellious hereditary Indian chiefs of the six nations reserva here held "pow-wow" today have vast resources and govem to plan their next move såter ment backing. The Arlush are belig forribly ousted by Moun- making 90 per cent of the in- ties from the Ohsweken Coun- tricate apparatus themselves-cil house they selted in a mostly by hand-London Ex-bloodless revolt a week ago DISS Service,
Reubos.
Nasser: More
Revolts To Come
·
Damascus, March 16,
President Nasser in a speech here today predicted that the revolt in Mosul, northern Iraq, last weekend would
The new $40 millions all-
weather cable will be the first
SNAPPING SHRIMP EXPERT IS
WATCH FOR IT!!
Thli girl from nowhere is poling right up that stairway to storsione (the thinks!)
DRUCK.
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HONOURED COMING TO LEE & ASTOR
Washington, March 15.
one linking the American conThe National Academy of.
drent directly with the main-
| lahu of Europe.. It will stretch
| 2,400 miles underwater from Penmarch, France, to Claren- ville, Nowfoundland,
The cable-actually two Unoş, one for Eust-to-West volco clr- culls and the other for West-to- Fast flow-will provide at least 36 volcu circuits between the United States and continental Europe.
The current trans-Atlantic volce cable links the United Statca with the British fries.
Mid-Ocean Splice
The new cable will primarily strvo France and West Ger- [miany.
The cablbship Monarch, the world's largost cablo-laying vessel, was already at sep, ready to pay out the first leg of the onble, starting at France.
The frat part of the operation wis expected to take a month.
The end of the cable will be {buoyed in mid»ncoan unlit the two ends are spliced together. U.P.I.
SATELLITE RETALIATION WARNING
New York, March 15. The Soviet Union reserves
the right of retaliation If the U.S. sends a recon-
Sciances announced yas- terday the award of a medal to the man who solved the mystery of the snapping shrimp in the Pacific War,
The man is Dr. Martin_Wiggo Johnson, Professor of Marine Biology it the Scripp's Inality=" tion of Oceanography, La Jolla, California.
He will receive the academy's Agassiz Medal at ceremonies here in April. The sword was established in 1911 by Sir John Murray, British scientist, to honour his friend, Alexander Agassiz, an American oceano- grapher.
Like Boiling Fat
In World War II naval com. manders complained of a back- ground noted which jammed their underwater istening devices. It cauruled like "fal sputtering to a pan
Dr Johnson traced the noise to beds of a kind of shrimp, less than an inch long. This shrimp cocks his oversize clay and shuts it with a snap.
If the steady tattoo. of snap- ping shrimp upset U.S. acoustle devices, it did the same to those
of the Japanese Navy,
Johnson showed the U.S. commanders where large shrimp bedo existed in the Pacific.
They marked these areas on, their maps
and avoided them thereafter.-U.P.I. '
naissance satellite into Chinese Bid To
orbit over it, according to the Soviet magazine In- ternational Affairs.
The article was commenting on reports that the U.S. Afr Force was planning to send ro connaissance satellites into cust which could send back obser-
vations on the earth below to
not be the last as long as there is dictatorship, States, stations as the United
terrorism and apostasy" in Iraq.
It said the governments over whose territory, these satellites passed had a right to retaliate
Make Train
Travel Quieter,
Less Bumpy
Frezident Namer sald Communists In Egypt before the revolution with diplomatie representations Chinese ralfroad builders are
there "irled by all means to convince the free officers of their Ideology.
"They even tried with me, but I refused. i મેં ક
"I am not a believer in apostary.”—Reuter.
"as well as reprisals and re- taliations of non-military nature" not necessarfly. in, the cosmos, but on the ground and in the air. -Reuter.
Prince Philip's Programme
In The Solomon Islands
London, March 15,
Royal Yacht the same even- Ing. Other arrangements in- clude 'erulses in canoes and performances of traditional
Commissioner for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands on March 22.-LPS.
CAPITOL
When the Duke of Edinburgh valin Rho Solomon Islands he will underthie a programme sublobanelerntiinfimetersneefrescaneousarid-Barbaros bandas, DERNE nearly every activity carried on in the Projectorate.
„Tha.Dukausis dusurtocarrive at Gizo in the Royal Yacht Bri- tannia on Wednesday, when he will be met by the Western. Pacific High Commissioner, Sir John Gutcht.
Together they will visit the new
Gizo hospital and the Duke will later be entertained by o display of mission: school ́ac- tivities.
Mombers of all races will at- tend a reception aboard the
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On the following day the Duke will sail for Honlara, the ==-copitaly-where-he-er}]{#yest Advisory Counell members and their families and see a parade of local scouts and guides.
represent
Senior Melanesian
dtives will maite short speeches of welcome and pre- sont traditional gifts: Tho Duke's reply is expected to be recorded and re-broadcast to the Protectorate.
The Duko will visit a gathering of schoolchildren, and the Solomons Training College, mía see a demonstration of copra madingat Lever's Plantation, et Lainga.
He will also call at Mulaita and 'sco a demonstration of the making of shell money and· visit cutter bop
host construction
Always. Later he will call at Santa Cruz Pefore solling, with the High
POP-Social status quo
PEOPLE
VING IN PCOITE
Peking, March 16,
using extra long sections of tell-medsuring 550 yards to over a mile long -on some stretches of track near Peking.
Usually lengths of rail are only about 40 feet long.
An advantage of the Jong rails is that there are not so many Joints sad this reduces noise and vibration.
Also trains develop greater hauling power and long rails last Ave to seven years" longer than short ones, thus reducing demands on material and man- power for repairs.--Reuter,
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