"THE CHINA MAIE,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1959.
WHY UNSEEN FACE OF MOON DIFFERS FROM
OTHER SIDE
Moscow, Oct. 27.
A leading Russian scientist gave three reasons why the unseen side of the
moon differs from the side facing earth.
Storm-Battered
Round-The-World
Yacht In
S'pore
Singapore, Oct. 27.
A former American army sergeant and his family are now in Singapore after battling seven storms in a 51-foot weather-beaten yacht in the course of a round-the-world voyage to the
United States.
The yacht converted from a Islands, Mozambique, Capetown, fishing vesel-solled into Sing- Peru, the West Indies and the apore waters over the weekend destination, Mlami.-Reuter. after a turbulent 14-day trip; from Bangkok.
Bearded and sun burnt, the former, pergeant, Mr Robert Slevens, ald he had been! working in Bangkok as an en- gineer for three years before he decided to quit his job anil take his family back to Liver- pool, Hinels.
He had set out with his wife,
his two children-Mork, aged 9, ned Iurn, and a
Swedish
the
Fund-the-world cyclist, Cari Wild,
height of nt the
monsoon season,
The
"Kim" yacht-named after a friend of Mr Stevens in Korea-stays in Singapore for two weeks.
Allegedly Smuggled
Ammunition
Into Cyprus
Nicosia, Oct. 27. Three Turkish sailors were It will коом
charged to Indonesia, and then to the Seychelles.
Earl Is Found Not Guilty
today with at- templing to smuggle nearly 100,000 rounds of ammunition into Cyprus. Resin Ylavouz, 25, Oghouz Kotoglu, 31, and Murat Kunduz were charged before a special Nicosia court and pleaded not guilty.
The sailors were crew mem-
Aylesbury, Oct. 27. The 77-year-old Earl of
Roseberry, former Ste- ward of the Jockey Club, was found not guilty here the vessel.
bers of The Izmir-registered "Deniz" which they settled as
to search
in party attempled soon as the British naval beard-
sank,
yesterday of dangerous Before the "Deniz"
Rolls-British sailors managed to seize
driving
Royce.
in
A jury, of five
his
vromen and
two cases of smununition.
The formal charge against the seven MIC hnd Luken 26 three men accuses therm of al- minutes to reach their verdiel. tempting to import after which the Earl was dis-imately charged.
approx-
75 boxes each contain-
ing approximately 1,250 rounds
It had been alleged that ts of British 303 War Department overlook a cor in ls Rolls-
ammunition."
Royce and that a woman driv- The "Deniz" incident has led
ing the opposite direction
to a near.complete rupture
He is Alexander Markov, loader of The planet mudy groups í the big Pukovo Obervatory near Leningrad,
He gave these reaSOILS,
• Grealeľ temperature Auctuations on the earth side during lunar eclipses, causing extensive crucking.
The other side was not sheltered by the eurth from meteorites.
Influenced by the earth's ravitational pull, tidal waves In the lunar erst and
cora would be stronger on the earth-
ward side.
Markny
sald the
photo-
graphs showed that the other de of the moon had nothing in common with the chart "cum-
piled hypothetically by scientists Franz of Germany and Wilkins of Britain."
(Dr H. Perey WIDtins, a dis- tinguished British astronomer published in 1053 a chart of the "other side" of the moon show- ing a large plain or sea in the Í northern area and great craters
and mountains in the south.
(He said in an accompanying article in the journal of the Bij- tish Astronomical Association that he deduced the chart from areas revealed when the moon **swayed" and "nodded." Mr Wilkins is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society).
It showed the incorrectness of i Franz's supposition that thero should be a huge sen in the centre of the other side. Tho question of whether there are craters in places predicted by vestigated," he added--Reuter. Wilkins' chart in now being in-
Edwards Air Base Calif.,
Oct. 27.
A test of the aircraft-rocket X-15" was postponed indefinite- ly today after a technical fault was discovered shortly before the scheduled take-off.
A leak was located In the fuct feeding pipes-AFP.
Mao Tse-lung's engineers, with Russian help, are about to start the world's greatest hydroelectrio project tho damming of the mighty 3,000- mile Yangizo river as R hurt-/ les at three yards a second through the Ichang Forges west of Hankow. The dam
will be nearly 500-feet high. and two and a half miles long: It will take 20 million tons of cement (from a factory to be built on the spot), and will be twelve times larger than the Grand Coulee in America, seven times larger than the Braisk in Rumia, In seven your time, Anished, it will not only supply 22 million kilo- watts of power, but will also control foods, nöjbly irriga. tion schemes for hundreds of miles and open up the Yang- tze for 10,000-ton akipe. Plo- ture shows the building tech- nique-few machines, but thounds upon thousands of antlike Chinean, carrying orment in panniers, rocks in baskets-Express Photo,
Bought Second
Skyscraper
For $18 Million
New York, Oct. 27.
had to brake to avoid a coili-Greek-Turkish relations on the Mr William Zeckendorf, who already owns the
slun.----China Mull Specul,
island.-UPI.
A British Crossword Puzzle
18
14
4
6.
18
20
22
29
26
ACROSS
3 Without any inclination (8).
7 Do some footwork (5).
6 He's a killer (0).
10 Strike tents? (0),
13 Take your seats, please! (7).
15 Smoke deposit (4).
17 Love affair in Cranona (7).
18 Pusa from Central Europe?
(7).
20 Epithet for a needle, for
example (4),
21 Ltd fully (7).
20 Would-be
rollers (6).
controller
of
27 French river sh catcher?
(a)..
28 The chances are you'll win,
as likely as noll (5).
29 They're put up only to be
knocked down (8).
DOWN
second tallest building in the world, today bought the fourth highest for $18,150,000 at a public auction that made real estate history.
Award For Quemoy Newspaper
Taipei, Oct. 27.
The millionaire-owner of the 77-storey Chrysler building look just 34 minutes of spirited bid- ding to gain control of 40 Woll Street, a 70-floor skyscraper.
Mr Zeckendorf was successful on his 80th bid against
one
other competitor who withdrew after Mr Zeckendorf topped bis | bid of $18,101,000 with "Ühe final
figure.
LAST $1,000
"That was the last $3,000 1 would have paid," said Mr Zee- kendorf. "Another $1,000 and} they could have won it"
A Quemoy newspaper, which never missed, a deadline even while under the
The sale of the building and saturation Communist
one-half the land on which it! artillery bombardment stands was the largest and most last year, won an award valuable unit of real estate ever today from the Southern auctioned in the United States. Illinois University.
It was valued at $18,750,000 for tax purpoJCS, The award for community The building has 820,000 service and leadershly was pre-square feet of floor space and sented to Chen Chi Chung Hun brings in about $5 million a year Pao (the Newspaper of the in rent. The main tenant is the Righteousness of China) at a Chase Manhattan, Bank; which eremony attended by Chinese pays $1 million a year in rent for and American officials and the first six floors. newspapermen.
Mr Zeckendorf opened with The accompanying citation $17 million, the minimum set for sald "Editorials news stories bids. and features carried
Ho this
labor told nowemen he newspaper after the beginning thought he had "bought 2
of the Communist shelling on marvellous property and paid a He added,
1 Self-called by the forthright! August 23, 1938, helped to give fair price for It."
2 Proclamation
(5).
dictator (5).
from. some
3 Give a pound to a priest for
this animal (5).
4 Vehicle in uliramarine (4).
3 One end of a line (6),
6 Deliberative body (6).
9 Serowy? (8).
11 He shows there's nothing in
jealousy (3).
13 Equipped for embracing? (5),
14 Not trozen, we observe (G). 30 A chair is often this
material! (5).
16 Sort of double foursome?
(3).
18 Ho's a character (8),
19 Soldiers,
(0).
British or Foreign
22 Marine consorta (0),
23 Potato, for instance (5).
I
EX-
the readers an understanding of however, that the final price the war."—UPI.
was "way higher thany pected to pay higher than I was cheerfuil about going”--- UPI.
Fire Razes
4
UN Hospital
Gaza, Oct. 27. Fire swept through the Norwegian U.N." Emer- gency Forces hospital at Rafah last night, burning it to the ground within an hour.
BIRDMAN IS GROUNDED Cranfield, England, Oct. 27. High wins today grounded birdman Emiel Hartman, 39, who hopes to fly in his "Ornithopter" with foa- thered birdlike
wings which can be flopped by the pilot.
No casualties were reported Sculptor Hartman, has been in the blaze, which consumed 15 years developing his cract and says that now it is ready he'
24 R's very thick, stupidi (5), 25. The
year of the bounder? the converted tank hangar.
A UN Emergency Forces has no intention, of breaking
(4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Famous, 5 Mul, pletely-equipped, 80-bed hos
communique sale The com the machine or my neels,"
3 R.E.-dan, 9. Absent, 10 Icing, 11 Stall, 13 Tart, 13 Bared, 16pital was Decade, 18 Seu-dog,, 20 Titan, 22 Pa-qe, 23 Steps, 25 Caste, 20 loss." Leinn-ét, 27 Eawed, 20 Yearn, 20 Tender. Downs 1 Flautist, 1 Mistrust, 3 Urs, Settled, Mall-bag, Unchal, 7 Annie 14 Regained, 16. Decanter, 10 Dantean, 17 Couplet, 19 Exeter, 21
Iname, 24 Bido.
- ད་སྟེ་
He has made ground, torts on declared a "total the jet runway of the College of Aeronautice, ofrfieki here. In
the Hospital's pharmacy but the hopes to take off like a gilder The sudden fro'originated, in his 26-foot again machine, and
cause rómained unknown, thà↑ from a cur tow-China Mall
communique walch--UPI.
Special
To Investigate
Executive Kennan Says West
Acquitted
Of
Murder
Newburgh, New York,
Oct. 27.
Malcolm White, a 49-year-
old business executive, to- day was acquitted of mur- der in the fatal shooting of a convicted thug who sought to force recognition of an independent union at Chester Cable Com- ралу.
After hine hours and
12 minutes of deliberation, a Jury of seven men and five women
agreed that White, who headed the plant, WR3 innocent of slaying Alfred Dugan, 64, an ex- convict and organiser for the Interstate Industrial Union.
SEVEN SHOTS White, testified he thought Dugan was going to pull a gun 03 him the morning of the shooting, November 13, 1950.
Seven shots were fired from a 32 rallir uvolver at Dugou, Police said.
Shortly after the slaying on a lonely rond nent the cable com- pany plant, White told state troopers:
" was better for me to do
Assassination this than for my workers to
Colombo, Oct. 27. Two Scotland Yard experts
are expected here from London on Thursday to help in invest|- gations of last months arenarina- tion of Mr Solomon Bandara- naike. the Ceylon Prime Minister, it was officially stated today.
Chief Detective Inspector James Mackay and Detreive Inspector Herbert William Pugh, are coming in response to a re- quest made by the Ceylon Gov- ernment-Reuter.
suffer. They are loyal, humble people, I lost my head- went berserk."-UPI.
Suicide Rate
New York, Oct. 27. Every minute someone in the United States tries to commit nuleide, and co or 70 times per day the attempt is successful, the magazine Newsweek reported today.
The suicide rate was more than 20,000 per year,-AFF.
Must Not Dismiss Soviet Proposals
Mr
London, Oct. 27.
George Kennan, a former American Ambas- sador to Moscow, said in a radio talk here to night that the West should trust Russia in an effort to reach international agreement on the abolition of nuclear weapons,
Speaking in the British Droadcasting Corporation's Third programme, Mr Kennon said he thought
in the matter of sincerity -- at least when i came to the avoidance of major warfare the evidence "weighted definitely Khrushchev's favour."
atom had become an even more frightening problem.
FRESH APPROACH
In these
circumstancee, said was Mr Kennon. a fresh approach
Mr was needed In
to the problem of disarmament in the weapons of mass destruction.
agreement would remove the disarmament
He considered that such an Dusing Mr Khrushchev's main obstacle to ending the cold Keenan said that although they proposals, Mr war and would go far to meet invited a number Russia's anxieties over the re-questions, the West
of anxious must be arming of Western Germany.
enceful not to diseni them summarily because they might appear "prototical ond in- sincere."-Reuter,
BERLIN SITUATION
The situation of Berlin was "a most abnormal, precarious and dangerous one." To per- petuate it was not in the in- terest of those living in the Western sectors of the city.
No permanent solution was possible excopt within the framowork of some wider process of great-power disen-
gagement In Central Europe.
such disengage "Barring ment, Berlin must be expected to continue da a source of re- current nervouméas and con- tention," he added,
Big Order For New Car
New York, Oct. 27, Rootes Motora announced to- day that advance orders worth about £8,335,000 had been re- celved in the United States for His new Sunbeam. Alpine sports Cars,
Introduced today to the American market.
Mr John Panks, Managing Director for North America, told
Extensive integration of the German Armed Forces with reporters ordera had been Nalo made a solution far more placed for 9,000 cars, virtually a difficult. At the same time, the full year's production-Reuter.
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Demonstrations at: THE DAIRY FARM (Windsor House, Hong Kong: Manson House, Kowloon), FROM OCTOBER 26th TO 31st