THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1959.
IKE OPTIMISTIC OVER NUCLEAR TEST BAN AGREEMENT
Washington, Dec. 2.
President Eisenhower reported today that he is more hopeful now than he was a few months ago about getting some sort of an agreement with the Soviet Union for a nuclear test ban.
Negollations had been under-powers
way at Geneva
States.
between the Gerava Hussia United Brian for more than a year.
Mr Elanhower said
" That
arc
meeting in
new
ABAC of the inspection thmlysis
Imeasures
be which woul movary to enforce nn e few months Lack It looked waliment that covered underground the whole thing would have nuclear weapons tea explosions,
the i to be abandoned but now
had stalled a new cutlook is bright:
His epime the seement in round of sekutifie talks for have no doubt that some time months, before finally agreeing
a few days ago this month he will only a new
the new study, extezudou of the Urated States prohibition on clear windons
testing.
MORE HOPEFUL
Russia
to andulke
'EARTHQUAKES'
dry
Mr Eisenhower however clined to be drawn into a dis- Other administration leaderscussion of reports last weekend have recommended that the ex-from Moscow that Soviet slen.
hach
artificial errated tension be for a matter of a fewd ¦ fists weeks only.
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Is in
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dry, (8)
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10 Is again in the river (4)
20 Messy Bort of brood (6)
24 Active in Leith (8)
28 A Revere test or distribution.
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princess from
Iran.
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Atrom; 1 Races, 4' Strand,
8 in-step, 10 Icing, 12 Aroinas, 14 Stentor, 17 Vest, 19 Talents,
20 Singlet, 22 A-Gog, 23 Signore, 27 Men-tor, 2 Trade, 30
Nolle 31 Beside, 32 Eater, Down: 1 Ralik, 2 Caste, 3 Swent,
5 Trim, 0 Arisen, 7 Digits, 9 Protest, 11 Cave-R.N., 18 O-ratio- n, 15 Twig, 19 Nogged, 18 Stir, 20 Salter, 21 Nomads, 24 Grave, 23 Owlet, 20 Alder, 28 Neod.
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attitude The administration's toward continuing to ban U.S.
during negotiationa 435
tran Geneva has been that the would be extended while there were good prospects of getting
alremly at Baitain have International agreement. Russia serted their intentions of con- timing test bans in effect.-AP.
Claims Payment
For Nude Statue
Miami, Fla., Dec. 2. Joseph (Sopy) Dubronyi, Hungarion sculptor of nude actresses, complain- ed on Wednesday the late Errol Flynn commissioned statue of Beverly Aadland but made по arrangements to pay for
it.
Exhibiting the shimmering gold 18-inch statue of Beverly in the made. Dubronvi said plans to sue Flynn's estate recover the $5,000 he claims die him.
be
10
Wax
T 17-year-old blonde with Flynn whom he died last
·October in Vancouver, British Columbia.
said Didatangi
Flyin had wanter the statue for the mantle piece of his demien home, but had signed no contrart for the work.
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ATTRACTED ATTENTION
Dubrony exhibited photos of und Miss Aadland Flyan gether and said he used them to work from. Flynn wan clothed in the pictuUTES.
to-
Fleid-Marshal Lord Montgomery, who is at prement visiting Africa, is seen in this picture "taking the salato" from a march past of enthusiastic African children in the Ortanda s primary school kere. The Orlando Township is Naive Township during visit to situated near Johannesburg. where this pleture was taken-Central Press,
Girl
Goes Blind, Life In Danger
Stockholm, Dec. 2.
The world of four-year-old Birgitta Torngren blackened out on Wednesday after desperate attempts to save her sight had failed.
suffering from Birgitta, tumor behind her mye, now can
Last! not even see her mother. week she could see "quite well." :
Frid Mrs Ingegerd Torngren Birgitta had been in her room with her, then suddenly rushed out and called: "Mama".
"I called, and she came back -but she couldn't see me", said Mrs Torngren, " was only a lew feet away from her".
Birgitta gained world-wide sympathy two weeks ago as per- sonal occulist to Queen Elizabeth of England, Sir Stewart Duke- Elder, agreed to operate, though later withdrawing his offer, four-year-old Japanese boy re- layed presents via air hostess Fall way round the world. SEVERE HEADACHES
Mrs Torngren, "Now," says
on the floor "Birgitta just sits
over her holding
time she
eyes,
thing".
her hands Time
after
The sculptor attracted atten-eries: "Mamma, I can't see any- tion two years ago when he
"Every night she cries her- was punched by Anita Ekberg's
And now the is husbaru! He had just complet-self to sleep
ed nude statue of the Swedish suffering from severe headaches
as a result of the tumor”. actrees.
Duckers in charge of the case have now mid the ques- tion is not of saving the girl's sight but of saving her life. A new drug known as THX has been injected so far without result,
Near the statue of Beverly In Dubronyl's hotel room to- day was an unciothed one of Brigitte Bardot. The sculptor said it was ordered by the producers of the French star's latest movie,—AP.
INDIAN PENALTY FOR KIDNAPPING
New Delhi, Dec. 2. Parliament on Wednesday enacted a law providing deterrent punishments for kidnapping children and maiming them for the purposes of begging.
The Act provides ten years imprisonment for chlidifiers and faol for life to those malming children
Boys below
and
10 years girls below 18 were classified us children under this law.
even
Members demanded greater punishments, including
ihe death sentence.
CANNOT TOLERATE
*Malming children, is
WOTSC
than murder," members pleaded
The bill was submitted
by
Mrs Violet Alva, Deputy Home Minister, who
formerly
was
one of India's leading social workers.
are
But
Birgitta's parents hopeful even at this late hour. "Bray to God it will help. It
is our last hope. This medicine
Turin Avalanche
Rescuers Recover
9 Bodies
Turin, Dec. 2.
A terrille avalanche of snow thundered down an alpine mountainside today bury- ing 37 workers in a power barracks in the isolated Valley the Ogre.
China Had plant
Longest
Drought
of
The hundreds of tons of snow amashed down great pine trees In
and hurled its path
the wooden buracks 50 feet fran Its foundation before burying it. Twenty-two men, awakened by the roar of the slide in time to run for the doors, dug their way to safety and skied fot miles to summon aid.
the
Tokyo, Dec. 2.
Workers who dug iniu China confirmed today that giant how heap for 12 hours the drought which affect found five more workers still They recovered rine of alive. ed the rice granary
bodles. One man still was miso- Central China this year ing. was one of the longest, and in some places the longest in the history of that area.
The New China news agency reported that the dry spell land- ed from 80 days to four months in Hunan Province and 140 days in Kichun county, in Hupch
Province.
In Kichun, the broadcast said, it was "the worst drought in history."
Peking claimed that dam construction and water conser-
new vation projects under £}{ regime had kept down
and damage
enabled mos! comunes to increase their rice
is her last chance," they said.harvest over last year. AP.
Birth Of Delayed Identical Twins
was
Cambridge, Md., Dec. 2, Mrs Wayne Foxwell
simply "worn out and too tired to talk" on Wednes- day.
The 19-year-old
Cambridge,
Maryland, woman gave birth
on Tuesday night to her fifth
son. The unusual thing about
the
The drought struck when the rice seedlings were being transplanted and lasted 20 10 90 days in most parts of Human and four months in Some places, the news agency said.
"By mid-September, ponds and small reservoirs dried up," It reported,
In the Chuwatien area of Kichun County, in Hupeh, rain fell only twice during a period of 140 days. The drought end- ed on October 30-AP.
RECOVERED
New York, Dec. 2, Joseph Lyons Jr., 33, has
This camera
and
"Those rescued OFICT hours under the herp of snow smashed timber were reported in fairly good condition.
The huge slide broke loose high up on the mountain after 12 hours of storm had piled up six feet of mow in the Valley of the Ogre ——AP.
Algiers Bomb
Outrage
Algiers, Dec. 2. One person was killed and
Pagd á
Woman-Hater
Gives
Up Fast, Not The Ghost
Los Angeles, Dec. 2. Elmor Simrell -who vowed to "fast until death" to dramatise his campaign against female supremacy has not given up the ghost.
the up
fast
Ho has given instead.
Elter the woman-hinter lot about 10 pounds.
Sumroll
hng been
In the Dounty- gaol a week, awaiting court action on charged fant he used the inalka to make death Ureats.
He vowed fast Wednesday that he would särve himself to death it newspapers did not publish his long-winded theories on the menace of womnuhood,
The 47-year-old tailor started his fast at 128 pounds, Tuesday night, down to 112 pounds, he was transferred to a hospital. There, he naked whether TE might have a bite of something They gave him a meal and he att it.
WON CUSTODY
TRAGIC GAS POISONING SCENE,
An
5 KILLED
space
Nowark, Ohio, Dec. 2.
unvented
gor hoator they were using to warm a house they had just moved into
onded lives of two
young womon and three little children hore on Tuesday.
Eline:'s
the wife divorced him several years ago and won cus-
Eimer tody of their children, was enraged, He sald women were always the winners in domestic courts and charged the entire society was "over- feminised."
Last May he wrote the judges involved in his divorce and custody
proceedings and threatened to kill them unless they
his supported
views. A warrant was issued for his
but he arrest sight. Then.
dropped from last Wednesday, he surrendered.-AP.
Censure
Motions
Rejected
Colombo, Dec. 2.
William Thurman came home at night to And his wife, Jean Marie, 27, their children, Nancy Lynn, 4, Terrance Allen, 2, and Timoliy Randall, three months, and a girl who lived with the family, Memphis Mae Mabe, 19. dead.
Dr
Carl
Frye,
Deputy
WIES
Coroner, ruled the cause carbon monoxide poisoning from The heater.
Ironically,
Thuman works for the Burcus Coal Company and may have been out making deliveries to keep other homies warm, He leti for work in the morning. His family died around noon, according to Dr Frye.
TRAGIC SCENE
The tragic scene that greeted Thurman was this:
His wife and the boy, Ter- rance, were on the living room floor near the heater-Mra Thur- man's hand outstretched toward
were
The Coylon Sonate (Upper the heater evidently in a des- perate but vain attempt to reach House), tonight rejected it. two opposition motions of Miss Mabe and Nancy
ол the
bed-la censure one
the living room the Thurmans apparently Government and one on
hadn't had a chance to arrange the Minister of Justice, Mr Volantino Jayawick-
reme.
on
against
the
motion The Government seld hud no moraj right to continue in office ss it did not command the sup- port of a majority of the House ef Representatives.
Opposition members asserted that the Government survived two censure motions-the same in the two that were defeated Sentate today-In the Lower House within the last two months only with the support of the six nominated members The majorities then were five and e
as
the furniture.
on
The baby, Timothy, was another bed, his nursing bottle in his mouth.
All windows
AP.
were
closed.-
Ex-Deputy Sent To
Prison
Hospital
The second censure motion criticised the rejected today seven wounded today Justice Minister for permitung when a timebomb explod- a statement to be issued by Mr
Zoysa, Deputy In-Former ed near a gate of Algiers Sydney De
spector-General of Police, University.
inquiries into the assassination of Mr Solomon Bandaranaike.--- Reuter.
Six of those wounded were Europeans and one was Mostem. The dead man was identified as Paul-Rene Coudert, 23, French (student from Marocco.
The explosion cure ten minutes after a blast of a small bamb placed near a haberdashery store on Rue Michelet several yards from the university gate. The crowd gathered to watch (a, bomb disposal, squad survey the damage of the first bomb- which claimed no victims---when the second exploded. It had been buried near a tree planted
Blue Michelet was the scene
when one
it was the fifth boy's identical been notified by Police that heat the sidewalk's edge. twin was born on November could pick up his stolen camNCTI
and 12 hours at Mineola Police Headquarters of a major time bomb attack 23-8 days
was stolen last on April 18, 1959, sport.
spring in England when Lyons person WDS killed and 19 The delayed twin births was on a vacation there UPI. wounded—AP, curred at Cambridge, Maryland, Hospital, which said that Mrs toxi exhausted Foxwell after the ordeal to talk.
WES
The first boy born last week weighed 5 pounds 2 ounces. The second one weighed pounds 134 ounces.
Dr Lawrence Maryanov, the attending physician, sald the
RARE
Mrs Alva sald the Govern boys were about a month pre- ment's sample survey of 1956 | mature. showed there were organised gangs operating in some parts of India for kidnapping children with the abjeet of maiming them for the purpose of begging. · tolerate such cruelty," she said. "No civilised socloty con
~AP.
Eviction Threat
Iowa City, Iowa, Dec. 2. Two University of Iows law students, Tasso Coth and James
that
rare,
show Medical records such delayed births are but there have been cases of an clapse of up to 10 days between the birth of the first and second twin
the
NOT FIT TO STAND TRIAL FOR KILLING ADOPTED SON
Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 2.
A psychiatrist has testified a British war bride is unable emotionally to stand trial for manslaughter in the death of a six-month-old boy she and her husband had adopted.
Dr Albert W. Sherman ofter-courtroom
Indictment
Of
PI Appeal To Stop Smuggling
Manila, Dec. 2. The Secretary for National Défence, Mr Alejas Santos, soid today that he would appeal to the Bri- tish North Borneo GovaETI- ment for "greater co- operation" with Philip pines anti-smuggling units operating Philippine waters.
ira
Paris, Dec. 2.
rightwing Deputy Robert Posquat, who wont on a hunger strike after being guoled on Sunday in connection with a 1958 attempt to blow up the National Assembly, Was transferred to the prison hospital today.
The hunger strike reportedly had a bid effect on his health because he had his gall bladder removed earlier.
E Pesquet originally
the headlines as a central figure in Ari alleged attempt on the life ot
Justice Minister Senator Francois Mitterrand last October 10.
At the time of "hls arrest lib was provisionally frood of charges of illegal possession of firearmia after he had ad- rifled taking part is the machine-guaning of Mitter- rand's car.
The Mitterrand case developed into a major political scandal which resulted in the lifting of the leftwing Senator's parlia Southern mentory inminity-AFP
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Me Santos, with a party of Government Law enforcement sboard the agencies was now
APS Philippine Navy, ship, Pangasinan en route to Borned for an official visit to Sandakan and Jemelton,
CHUSAN RESUMES VOYAGE
London, Dec. 2.
Mr Santos told newwmen that with her husband,
intelligence authorities had re- The 24,000-ton P und O liner ed the testimony at a hearing Constantine. They were marriet
kumuy Churɑn which has been shelter- dctermine said he has to
whether Mre on November 17, 1945, while ho ported that banded Dr Maryanov
goods and counterfeit Philippine ing from storms with the Bras- with the North was serving overseas delivered about 20 sela of twins Evelyn Grantia, 31, of
currency were being smugged mer Castle in Algeciras Bay has dairing his medical career but Bergen, New Jersey, is men- U.S. Army.
Mrs Gragila also is under into the Tawitawi Islande how resumed her voyage and this was really an experience." tally competent to stand trial.
portedly through Britists North Will be 24 hours late reaching " charge of
Southampton. Borneo.
She is carrying Sherman The young mother and the
fold County Judge cruelty to a four-month-old wil bables were reported in
Jam Rosen Mrs Grogila is The couple adopted both infanta, cials in Romeo could help to
Mr Santos said British god)- 520 pasEJATI FORUM,
The Union Castle Company conditioli.
riat isnt condition fa. go on
checks the inflow into the islands here said today, that the iner of particularly of counterfeit Braemar Castle, refloated after pitate a psychosia”
Philippine pesos' bring pridied randing aground at Gibraltar, | either" in Japans or Hongkong would probably repch Tilbury and posing through Singapore on the River Thames next Sun- Ur Borneos-Eleven,
they-Beraber.
good
beeb. with the
The other Foxwell boys are tid. He said it might "preal-who hod
Children's Horse Boolety L. Chopokus, face an eviction Ricky, three, John, two; and threat today because they al David one.
The father is employed at in their apartment by biting Cambridge pest exterminator golf balls around UPI:
companyAP,
Jegskly, hanged up the furniture
Trenton, She is accused of causing the Judge Hosen pot December 11 the duto for death of the bay on July 14, tentatively as 1987. The Woinni sát is the remazhing the hearing--->AP,