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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1959.
Farmers Fight For Water As Europe Thirsts
London, June 22.
Farmers in Denmark are demanding moves to produce arti- ficial rain as a two-month drought over most of northern Europe seriously threatens the year's crops.
Mass Killer Denied Hearing
Washington, June 22. The Supreme Court today denied R hearing to Charles Starkweather, condemned murderer who terrorised the Midwest, year and half ago with a series of 11 slayings, Today's brief order leaves Nebraska free to carry out the electrocution.
Starkweather appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court from Iwo lower federal court decisions denying him a writ of habeas corpus.
District Fetteral Judge Robert Van Pelt of IJn- coin denied the welt op May 21. He was later upheld by the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court Appeala.
of
DISSATISFACTION
Earlier, the 20-year-old killer and his family had dismissed court-appointed trinl lawyers because of dissatisfaction about the way the defence was сол
ducted. The defence мле argued that Starkweather was insane at the time of the mur- Jers
In his habeas corpus plen in Judge Van Pell's court, Blark weather cantended his trial counsel was intoxicated when he interviewed the accused youth in gaol,
The petition
sajd the lawyer would Rot tolk 10 about the facts
Starkweather
Some Danish farmers say the dry sunny weather
has already cost them, 20 per cent of their
corn - and it was announced today that 70,- THE CRIES
000 young Christmas trees, for 1962, had died in the drought.
In West Germany over 5,000 people, including West Ger- man Army units with tanks, explosives and hellcop- ters, are fighting a large forest fire near Lueneberg.
In mather forest tre north
of Brunswick a fire engine and
an army lorry were destroyed when an army depot in the are aren exploded.
While the northern half of Germany was experiencing tern- peraturis of inore then 80
raln at Stuttgart the south. degrees, there was heavy
West German farmers expect their com and frult harvests to be well below the average of
he dry spell. the last few years because of
four
from Fire brigades villages and military units with bulldozers were fighting woodfres as ifolland entered Its sixth week of drought,
that
trop
the con-
Farners report country's
cherry suffered most from tinued dry spell.
the
The Queen
And Duke
Sizzle In
Smelter
Arvida, Quebec, June 22. has The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, both wearing goggles and flushed from the in- tense heat, today wat- ched the world's big- gest aluminium smel- ter in operation.
Muy Norwegians in the south of the country will have tʊ celebrate Midsuniner Eve tomorrow without the tradi tional Saint Hans bonkro-un- authorised fres tomorrow wil Incur é Anc of at least 800 kroner (bout £25).
Most of France sweltered in a heat wave today with the country's highest temperature, 84 degrees, recorded Marseille,
Sweden was the odd spot out
ile danger -there is
of drought, there were no heat wave conditions and the risk of forest or beath fire was about normal for the season, experts said.-Reuter,
Protest
London, June 22.
The Duke, obviously ab- sorbed by what he saw, broke away from the party of escorting execu- tives to talk to workmen - in many cases In French,
the Duke's French was
One machine operator said "very
good."
The Queen and the Duke removed their walches as their bubble-top car entered the hull- mile long plant, which produces 700,000 lbs of metal daily from bauxite..
of the case but said only that The secretary of the Society his confession to all the mur- for the Abolition of Laquor ders would be used in an effort Traffe protested to the British to do insanity.
Post Office today about its new Starkweather was under a stay form for delivering wedding of execution granted on June 10 telegrams, by Justice Charles E. Whitaker until the
and cleared cuse Supreme Court-UPI.
The form shows two bottles the of champagne and ave bubbling
full glasses.-UPI.
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The huge quantities" of "elee- tricity used in processing the metal play havoc with watches, an official said.
The Queen also dotted white woollen topcoat before the Duke approached the blazing furnaces.
his kept on The Duke zoggles most of the time, but the Queen removed hers at times, even when only a short distance from the white-hot Hames.. Both listened intently as the works
D. H. Mr manager, Ferguson, explained the smolt- ing process,
Timing Error
Overalled workmen lined the
visitors' royal
CAME FROM
THE SKY
Frolicking in the ven near Cowbridge, Glam- organ, holiday makers heard cries for help from the sky.
Display parachutist Michael Richards was drifting down helplessly 100 yards off-shore.
Hitting the water, his harness began to drag him down, but quickly 20 swimmers set out to help him; and another 50 men and women formed a long chain out to sea. A boy scout's knife cut loose the harness and
in just
time Richards was dragged ashore,
Ile was making his 86th jump a 3,000 ft delayed drop.
(Top) Holiday-makers many in long trousers, form a human chain out to the stranded man and (below) Michael Richards is helped ashore.
Fuchs Has Been Taken From His
Prison
London, June 22. Klaus Fuchs, German-born
Sailor Thrown
To The Sharks
KILLER GETS 10 YEARS
New York, June 22
A merchant seaman who admitted throwing a ship" mate overboard into shark-infested waters was sentenced to 10 years in prison today in the Federal Court.
Cecil C. Robinson, 37, of elec- Brooklyn, a chief
trician on the transport Lieut Robert Craig, had
- pleaded guilty to volun- tary manslaughter on
June 8.
by the Sea-Military Transporia. tion Service to bring supplies to American overseas bases.
One Catholic
Church Open
In Tientsin
convicted atom spy, wAN The dead man was James T reported to have been Hill, B1, of Whitestone, Texas,
WGS he
Robinson's assistant moved from Wakefield
aboard the chip, which la used prison today under strict security guard. The move WON an apparent preli.
Vatican City, June 22. minary to his release,
Travellers
Tlentein from have reported that only Newsmen waiting outside
ont Asst. US Attorney Richard | Catholle Church remained open the prison gates were told they were wasting their A. Green charged that Robinson in the time since "your friend and Hill were members of a group that played poker for has gone."
high stakes every payday.
Reliable sources suld that Fuchs was being escorted from the Yorkshire prison south to Wamwood Scrubs Prison near London where formalitles with allens normally are completed.
till vanished from the ship off Saudi Arabia on Octuber 29, 1958.
Green said Robison was a consistent lower, and ITILE
regular winner, route as they passed through the noisy fac- tory to the potlines, where they were to have seen ingots heing poured.
But an apparent error In timing upsel the pouring schedule and they missed this part of the process,
The Queen and the Duke had arrived aboard the royal yacht Britannia in pouring rain for their 41⁄2 hour tour of the Port Alfred region, Canada's "Little Ruhr".
Formalities
won
city, the missionary agency Fides sald today.
This church was the cathedral which was in a very bad stole of repair. The travellers also sold that In Swatow where the cathedral was reportedly trans- Hill was sadd to have
formed at the beginning of this year into an exhibition hall, not $1,000 before his death. money wasn't found, but Robin a single church was open. Eon mpde deposits of $400 and $500 with the ship's purser shortly after Hill's death.
The
The city's bishopric was After he goes through the
occupied partly by a commie- formalities art Woraweed
Robinson admitted he had slon of chomlesi fertilisers and Scrubs Prison, he will be taken thrown Hill overboard, but he partly by a patriotic association. under escort to
the travellins sald. ---ATP, barkation for the continent.
place of emaild Hill
was dead before bu Went over the side,
Robinson said he knocked batch after the Mill down man made: a homosexual ad- vance, then returned and dis covered ll was dead. Robinson said he panicked and threw the body overboard. Robinson had been indicted for murder, but was allowed to
guilty the fourticy to East Berlin to plead
10 voluntary manslaughter-UPI.
He has said that he wants to be reunited with his Bi- year-old father. Prof, Emil Fuchs who lives in Leipzig. But the rain, first of their
Eastern Germany. 43-day tour of Canada which began last Thursday. cleared The father of Klaus Fuchs Is away and the run was struggt-in East Berlin, members of his ing through the royal household in Leipzig sald today, It was thought possible in couple were piped ashore to
a cordial but relatively re-West Berlin that Fuchs made -sfrained-welcome..................
The white and blue Quebec. meet his son. Ne provincint flog was more in
evidence than the Union Juck.
A student group which had
planned
Rarely Leaves
Prof. Fucha" rarely leaves his
line the royal roule home and seldom lectures at with signs regretting that Leipzig'o Karl Marx University. Canada had no notional sag, Last month the elder Fuchs awarded the "Order in abandoned their plans when was
Gaoled For Attack
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Brewery Chairman Out Of Job: Gets £60,000
London, June 22. Lieutenant Colonel W.H. Kingsmill will, receive £60,000 for losing his chairmanship of Tay- lor Walker and Co, the London brewers, whose £65,000,000
with merger
Ind Coope will form Britain's
biggest
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brewing organisation. Shareholdera of Taylor Walker were today told drcular letter of the compensa- tion payment to Colonel Kings- mill, one of the biggest made to
any retiring director.
Eton educated Colonel Kingsmill, DSO, MC, former Conservativu MP and Guards officer, la 53.
Ho has been with Taylor Welker for 29 years and chair- man and managing director for the past 10 years.
On resigning his chairman- ship, he will join the board of Ind Coope as joint tenuty chairman.
Colonel Kingsmill said last night: "It may look a large sum, but I am giving up the chair manship and managing director- ship of 12 companies and for- felling pension rights for 12 years. I am under contract up to the age of 63."
Asked if the £80,000 would be lax free he replied, "lin keeping my fingers crossed, bui it all depends on the Inland Revenue. China Mail Special
BALL WILL BE "DEMOCRATIC"
Bydney, June 22 Organisers of a ball here for Princess Alexandra Maxi Beptember have Timiled at- tendance to 1,000-and called for written application for the five-guines tickets from young people in every walk of Lice
The organisers, the Royal Now South Walca Institution for Deal and Blind Children. want the
ball sa "demsata-
tie" as possible.
They are inliing numbers so the Princesz doesn't have to "dance on a threepence."--- China Mall Special,
Fancy Dress
Chiengo, June 22, The Mid-Continent Associa- tion of the Pet Industry 10- nounced today that merchandise to be displayed at its forthcom- Ing convention will includo harnesses for parakeets and cowboy suits for dogs.—UPI.
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Bagged Bears Braised For
Timmins, Ont., June 22. DEAR meat was the main
BE
dish at a banquet hold here over the weekond to
20 Possibly mean designation mark the end of Timmin's
Banquet
Big Bearhunt to supply the braised baby bear liver with
42
marrint
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LI LI+KUA
in the hunt, in which bears were "bagged" enough to provide 124 bear- skins for the Brigade of YIRN CHUEN Guarda.
Mayor Leo Del Villano of
YESTERDAY'S BOLUTION -- Aerosus 3, Mail-bags; 8. Buckingham Palace guards onions and baby bear bread-Timmlas organised the hunt" Iran; 9, Immobile; 11, Sonicout; 13. Jest; 18, Dovolan; 10, with new bearskin headed brain with lemon,
Enlisted; 19, Gale; 21 Denchers; 25, Linger-le; 20, Molo; 27, Ploughed. Down: 1, Miss: 2. Calm; 4, Arma; 5, Loot; 6, A- side; 7, Sheet; 9, Trene; 10, Me-D-al; 12, Omoga; 14, Spour; 18, Intur, 17, Nloco; 19, dalop; 20, Lingo: 21, Berg: 22, Nice, 25, Eyot; 24, Ston.
gear.
wlien lie learned that the For those who can't bear | Guards were worried... over. bear there was also caviar, the dilapidated state, of Six different begr dishes Invited to the banquet their headgear.—China Mail were on the menu, including I were all those who took part Speciat.
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