U.S.

U.S. accepts test ban proposal

Geneva, July 6.

The United States today formally accepted a Bri- tish proposal to establish a six-mon directorate to

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head future nuclear tests bon treaty organisa- tion.

THE CHINA MAHFHURSDAY, JULY 7, 1960.

HITS BACK AT CUBA High tributes

Ike signs emergency

act cutting sugar imports

Washington, July 6.

President Eisenhower today signed an emergency sugar act cutting Cuba's share of the U.S. sugar market and increasing quotas for the Philippines and other suppliers.

He cuts Cubo's basic quota dy 856,000 short, tons $10 million blow to Castro's shaky economy.

The President's prompt use of Castro "has embarked upon a the new economic weapon deliberate policy of hostility to- The Soviets yesterday accept-against Cuba's anti-U.S. regime wards the United States,"

opened the high-price U.S. ed the proposition. It calls for market to 100,800 additional tons the administrator and his first of Philippine sugar this year. ceputy to be neutrals and for At current prices, this means four more deputy admistra- about $10 million in additional tors, two from the Soviet and Philippine sugar exports above two from the Western side.

the regular 980,000-ton annual Philippine quota, which already is filled.

The proposal took into account Soviet demands for parity in the nuclear tests ban control organi- sation.

During the remainder of the 80-minute 226th meeting, dele- gates discussed general problema of selecting staff for the control organisation.----UPI,

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OTHER SUPPLIERS Eisenhower also implied that he would use the new law's nu- thority to turn to other suppliers to All the Hawal and Puerto Rico quota deficits, which in the post have permitted Cuba to Eisenhower said he was act-sell an additional 150,000 tors ing to reduce dependence or more to the United States, Cuba, which has been supply above its quota. ing one-third of U.S. sugar re-

The Philippines will be allow- quirements, because the governed to fill 15 per cent of the de- ment of Prime Minister Fidel feit caused by the Cuban quota cut, after US. domestic pro- ducers and five small-quota countries are given increases,

Government officials said the revised cugar-purchasing con- | trol will work this way:

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Domestic producers probably will be able to supply all or nearly all of the former Cuban share of the Hawali-Puerto Rico defcit, or about 180,000 tons.

Haiti, the Netherlands, For- Panama and Costa Bicą, whose quolas are be- tween 3.000 and 10,000 tons, will be raised to 10,000 each, This will total about 28,000 tons,

mosa.

Of the remaining require- ment of about 872,000 tons, 15 per cent or 100,800 tons will be bought from the Philippines and 85 per cent on a pro-rate basis from the following full- duty countries: Peru, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Canada, United Kingdom, Belgium, British Guiana, and Hongkong.

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Any further deficit bought wherever it found, including from countries which do not now have U.S. quota. The U.S. reprisal against Cuba broke a deadlock of confiloting interests which earlier had threatened prevent any change in the fixed Philippine quota. It does not, however, assure à permanent increase for any supplier.

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and House of Representatives agreed to try to work out a permanent sudar. quotes, les when Congress reconvenes in mid-August.

At that time, advocates of the competing dancstic and foreign suppliers will press for parmanent quota changes,

Eisenhower did not call the

MR K TAKES HIS EATING SERIOUSLY

Soviet Primo Minister Nikita Khrushchev takes a

U.S. action an economic re- drink (top) before picking up prisal against Castro, He re- icrred to the Cuban govern- ment's hostility without sped- fying recent uncompensated seizures of vast U.S.-owned properties in Cuba or Castro's propaganda attack on the U.S. government,

Ho concluded that "The American people will always maintain their friendly feelings for the people of Cuba" and "We look forward to the day when the Cuben Goverrunent will once again allow this friend- chip to be fully expressed in the relations between Our two countries."-UPI.

his knife and fork (centre) to get down to the serious business of eating (lower), The Russian leader sat down to lunch during his informal visit to an Austrian farm ai Rust, outside Vienna, recently. Beside him at Leopold Figl, President of the Austrian Assembly, whose two brothers

own

K WALKS INTO A

BOMB INCIDENT

Soviet the farm.

Khrushchev is FigAP photo.

Mrs Nina beside Dr

Another discovery linked with Amelia Earhart's plane

Anaheim, Calif., July 6.

Graz, July 6. Premier Nikita Khrushchev went out "to meet the people" tonight and walked into a momen-- tary bomb scare.

Someone dropped a brief- case at the Premier's feet. Fearing it contained a bomb, one of Mr Khrushchev's bodyguards snatched it and threw it into the face of an Austrian delec- Live.

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The Austrian, who under- standably felt little inclination die for Mr Khrushchev, hurriedly returned the brief- case to his Soviet colleague in the same fashion he received

It

Soviet security chief Gen.

A coral-encrusted generator found on the bottom Nikolai Gacharov is reported to

of a Saipan bay is "positively" the same type as be angry with Austrian security that ordered for the plane in which Amelia officials, Earhart disappeared 23 years ago, it was disat closed today.

Another incident happened

Gen Klagenfurt where, jr Sacharov

by was detained Austrian plainclothesmen who ignored his fawntity, and took him for a "suspicious person”

furious Sachatov released with many apologies after he presented his identifi- ostion papers-UFL

Paul Mantz, noted pilot who of photographic evidence to fitted out Miss Earhart's pigne, prove Miss Earhart and her said the model Es Bendix eclipse navigator were executed by the generator was identical to the Japanese, in Saipan. one he purchased in 1938 for Miss Earhart's plane.

In tearing down the generator, "I'm in contact now with the Mantz said he discovered the president of Bendix in New name plate was disintegrated. Jersey and they're going through But he said the iron-and-steel

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determine the exact serial num- | following, NK-17-(a ·Bgure ber," Mantz said at his office is

designating a clover leat)-999.

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fruit, maybe (5),

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the plane. If It isn't, that's it 28 In water it lies, of course (4),

DISINTEGRATED YESTERDAY'S - CROSSWORD,Acrom: 1 Port-RA-it-8.

The

Lines cut

SELA

Talpel, July. 6..

Chief of Congolese army quits

paid to late

Mr

Bevan

London, July 7.

Friends and enemies today mourned the death of Aneurin Bevan, the Welsh pit boy who became Britain's most fiery and eloquent Socialist leader.

loss to the Labour Party . he stood head and

Several newspapers attrikarte grievous of his death to caricer.

Leopoldville, July 6. General Janssens, Belgian

Commander-in-Chief the Congolese "National Force" has resigned. He will leave Loopoldville this evening by air for Brussels. It had been reported that the government of the new- born Congo Republic had asked for his recall following the mutiny of members at the Congolese Force who demanded Con- his replacement by a golese Commander-in-Chief.

The government request was reportedly made through the Leo- Belgian Ambassador in poldville, Jean Van Den Bosch.

Reports of the gentral's arrest were denied..

The government reportedly hoped that General Janssen's departure would calm the situation. But it was feared that other claims by the mutineers might prolong the state of insurrection.

The mutiny was reported to be more or less Броадения without for the moment, any controlling leaders.-AFP.

Dr Moore

enters NY

New York, July 6.

Dr Barbara Moore limped into New York City today after a 3,250-mile walk across America.

Russian-born. Dr Moore, British vegetarian, succumbed to weariness toward the last

The deputy leader of the shoulders above his contem- Labour Party, 62, died yesterday pararies in his capacity to excite afternoon at his Buckinghamshire as an orator, and to arouse deep farm-four days after the an political passions, taking second place only to Sir Winston Chur- chill as a parliamentarian."

MR BEVAN

nouncement that he had suffered a relapse.

At least one newspaper sit- gests he had sensed a year ago that his career was near its end His last public speech-at a Labour conference in Blackpool fast November-wus a plea for unity within his party.

Statesmen, politicians and newspapers of the right and left today unite in tribute to the politician, who, in the words of Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, was "a man who counted a big man."

The Labour Daily Herald declared "This man of leaping

BUTCHER'S BOY

"It is a bitter Irony for labour to have lost Mr Bevan, so often the rebel, at just the moment when he might have been its best hope of preserving unity.".

The sense of personal loss Was perhaps strongest lest night in Beyan's home town of Trende- gar, Monmouthshire, which is part of the Ebbw Vale con- stituency which he represented In Parliament since 1829.

One of his old classmates said last right "I remember him going to work at 13 as a butcher's boy for half a crown a week- and later to the pits. None of us suspected then that he was u potential prime minister."-- Reuter.

BEVAN'S

FUNERAL

London, July 6.

The funeral of Aneurin Bevan who died today has been set for Fri- day it was learned here,

It is to take place at the crematorium of Crossy- cvillag, 15 miles from Tredegar, Wales, Bevan's birthplace.-AFF. '

wit and towering personality China arrests

was unqestionably one of One with Britain's great men.

livening touch of genius". and rode six miles in a police

TOUCH OF GENIUS car to the mouth of the Holland

The Thoes commented that tunnel under the Hudson River.

gifts were great, his She resumed walking at the Bevan's New Jersey tunnel mouth and purpose sincere, and his passing leave the House of emerged from the New York would

Commons a greyer place. entrance.

The conservative Daily Mail described Bevan as "a great politician."

"I can't complete the whole distance today," the 56-year--| old doctor said. "I'm going back tomorrow to cover the six miles. I'm going to ride to the tunnel and walk through there and complete my regular route to Times Square,

"I don't want to disappoint all those people who are expecting me today,UPI.

The rightwing Dally Express referred to him as "a political genius."

Bevan

The leftwing Daily Mirror launched an Ancirin memorial fund,

Indonesian

Djakarta, July 6. Communist Chinese police

arrested an Indonesian student at Tientsin, China, on June 29 and stopped all Indonesian students there from leaving the DOW'S agency town, Antara quoting Peking reports said to- day.

The reason for the Chinese action against the student was not known.

The Indonesian foreign depart. inent has instructed its Peking The Guardian commented to mission to investigate the re- day "Aneurin Bevan's death is a port-Rauter.

Student. Ahmad Abdalak plads on to the emply examination marquée,—Express Photo

Abdullah was the

lone

honest

student in 52,000

Cairo, July 6.

A month ago, the director of the archives, department at the Presidency in Cairo, Ibrahim Shahin, asked his friend Mahmoud Wasfy, an official of the govern- ment press which prints official examination papers and other secret documents, to help his son Sami with a copy of the questions set in this year's UAR matriculation exams. ·

But they needn't have been Wasty obliged, and Sami in knew what the questions would his turn passed the questions on be. All that except one, a quite so fubflant for the

cousta Mamdouh; student named Ahmad Abdullah, Ministry of Education has Discovery of the generator Plice hasdquarters were par to his was disclosed last week by tially paralysed yesterday when Mamdouh sold them to a friend who refused to buy the nounced that the examination Columbia Broadcasting System the telephone company cut the for £60, that friend got £30 questions on the black, market, have been invalidated, and Will correspondent Don Morley, who new to three police phones be- for them, and within a fort Which is why in above picture, be held again in July And said he and other members of d cause they had pot paid their night the questions were being Ahmad is still sinuggling on in those who started the Grip, I'm-paired. 11 Assessed, 13 Demy, 15 Gun-metal, 18 The Manty vestigation came CBS team dives into a bay op bill sold around student estes for as his attempt to answer Wasty, Shan

The comparry said the unpaid itlle es ve Egyptian shillings, questions--long after all the Tolerant, 19 16-MB, 21 Passover, 25. Cachalot, 26 Stem, 27 on the heels of a statement poate an old Japanese naval Grand's on. Dowa: 1 Agra, 2:Mia, 4 OHMS, 6 Toad, Agree, here yesterday that an English base and found wreckage of a bill was more ann $250.000 The day before the exam, It's other entrants had jotted down Mamdouh, Today, 9-16-let. 19 Fendi-10 Spurs, 14 Manse, 18 Tonal 17 profert the Air Force plans to which the generator Chinese dollars (US$0.440) estimated that every one of the their prepared answers and gone trial and

country's 1000" - exaraizens) on hame, Least, 19 Incog, 20 Mecca, 21 Paid, 22 8. Q-80, 23′ Valo, 24 Hamp, academy said he was advijed i was liken, UPL, G4 W

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