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BEAUTY
GILMAN'S
THE ELECTRIC EYE
CAMERA
Comment Of The
Day
STATE OF
THE ROADS
MASSIVE job of repair
#stil resurfacing of Colony
roads is urgentlyA needed. Many
are u
shocking state with pot holes, tranghs, depres slons,
corrugations and various kinds of surface wear and tear. This is an
Krumble nut
to be confused with never-ending. schemes
widon und straighten ronda. This is another question al- together. Some of these schemes have been in the hands of contractors for months Hke the Castle
Peak
to
Road un the stretch before, the downhill run to Taun Wan-und it seems to muke no headway at all, in fact gets worse rather than better,
But today we refer chiefly to the surface condition af ronds
for there seems have been " marked deterioration ru recent weeks. This muy be
to the rigours of a particu- iarly destructive summer ineluding Typhoon Mary,
heatwaves und lust. Sunday's deluge.
nevere
THE
THE kind of repairs that
best in would be
Jong-term
A
the possibly
those which would be costly
and take time, but a good many troughs look It
they could be made far tha tolerable by
more
addition of a quantity of stones, and tar and a good press-down by a steam. roller. They would at lens: tide over the most bully damaged sections until a thorough job of renova
tion can be undertaken. A cartomist, compares our pock-markeil ronds with the mom's pitted, crusted sur- But riding makos
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Son and daughter snatched off liner in Singapore RUNAWAY FAMILY DRAMA
Father's dash after Test for space-girl
wife and children
Singapore, Aug. 29.
naturalised former Ukrainian, who flew to Singapore from Australia and armed himself with a High Court order, to- day snatched two of his three children off a liner bound for Genoa on which he said his wife was making her way home to Russia.
HEAT WAS
TOO MUCH FOR MARILYN
MARILYN MONROE
Hollywood, Aug. 29.
The father, who refused tu give his name tu reporters on the grounds that he "feared re- prisals from the Russian Em- bassy in Australla" belleved to be named Lylyk and to have come from Sydney.
Tonight, the main did not deny haal his name wan Lykyk. But he refused to discuss the sulting this evening of the 13,140-tum liner Australia and said he would have to consult his solicitor be [fore speaking to the press,
Inside his hotel room a buy and a girl were fast asleep.
Argument
The fight towards the Iron Curtain only came to unlookers' attention lite today when the father went on board the liner with police officers and his suli- eltor and a vigorous argument broke out in one of the cabins.
The actual facts of the story_ are hidden behind the family security screen.
The father few here
last-minute bid to overlake the ship which sailed from Sydney about a week ago.
According to harbour police and shipping company sources, the story began in Sydney be tween ten days and a fortnight
when the
Mrs ugo
mother, Lylyk, let home with her 14- 3war-ukt Jon (whose name cannot be ascertained), year-old Peter and three-year- old ficlun They were to RO for it holiday to Newcastle, North of Sydney,
Migrated
seven-
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HusseinTM
wants new
cabinet formed
Amman, Aug. 29.
11
King Hussein today asked
the chief of the Royal| Cabinet, Bahjat El Tul- houni to form a new cabinet, following the as- Bassination of Jordan's Premier, Hazza Majali. The King.
was to mako speech ever Amman radio to- night, a spokesman announced.
Amman meanwhile, was silent undLT the curfew and AL- all airports were closed. though announced, effect, a state of emergency.
The assassin's bob killed Premier Majall at 1130 om la- day.
it was not officiallyĖ:),,.~.
Jordan Was
Shortly after the blast wreck- ed Premier Majall's office, bury- In him under tons of debris, crashed explosions two other through the two-storey buliding the Foreign which also housed Ministry and the government
The father, who stayed at press allee. Film star Marilyn Monroe home, is understood
She has been making a flim Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift Her husband playwright Arthur Miller, wrote the script.
them
realise one that what the
Artigt trents as a laughing matter is really no joke at all. At nights, moreover, the-starring
dequate glare of a head- it lamp makes difficult to distinguish between roughness and a precipice which lands one with 2 jarring shock on to a sub- stratum of
Krivel rocks,
mer
to
י
Jorria Cobb, America's first woman astronaut, a Curfew was
who slim blonde of 29 Ammun notice and hails from Ponca City, Oklahoma, see-saws rapid- ly on the tilt-table during tests for possible cardio- vascular defects in tho space laboratories of the
Nixon troubled Lovelace Foundation
An immediate come entered hospital today from the Ukraine and to duve imposed in the entire suffering from exhaustion be captured by the Germans ara until further after working strenuous-during World War 11. I was armed cars with troops in bat- ly in desert heat, her doctor the war that he married the dress, patrolled the streets of
a the Jordanian capital-AP. nxt migrated to Sydney as for said.
"new Australian."
(See also P 3 and 10) According to these vurious The mother and the sources, three children had not been gone many days when the father dis- covered that they had not gone to Nowcastle but soßed in the The film, "The Misfits," in be..
is making for ng munde in Renu. Nevada, Australia which
und recently Gunca by way of Colombo to 185 degrees Bombay.
The father at once booked (F.). the studio said.
a jet airliner to Dr Hyman
Engelberg soldurisur and dirt, And anddenly Miss Munroe is suffering from Singapore and arrived here last it-is like riding springlessly "acute exhaustion and needs rest Friday to intercept the
which berthed this morning. over montal Track out and more rest.”
He then went on board with wooden wheels
A spokesma for the stil Part of the trouble is that rid tie 31-year-old, blonde did ronds are regularly being not collapse, she had intended dug up by the public utilita return to work today but ties to make necessary re- her doctor forbade her.
The Alm's director, Mr John pairs. Rarely is the result-
Huston,
:
where temperatures were around
Un
Iner
lol solicitor and demanded Custody of the children which his wife refused.
Wards of court
lie returned ashore and Aled And its producer na applicatim with the High ing excavation filled pre-agreed with the doctor.
Court and obtained an order. perts and subsidences “in-
Filming has been suspended making the children wards of sald the court. temporarily, the studio
variably catise a- bumpy surface, covers are often badly installed and like a hot penny
inL butter, Kink
Akain. manhole Router.
more than an inch below NO HOPE OF
the road surface, Yet some
mariage to
be flush with
the surrounding tar and are a joy to drive over. Why can't they all be?
WHILE the PWD are at
This evening he returned on board with she valleitor and and calcers of the Hattur Board police. He found his wife and children locked into the cabin lavatory and his wife refuted to open the door.
They argued for about
the door
hour and then SURVIVORS
ft, two more road prob-IN AIR CRASH
lema call for urgent atten- tion: the repeated__flooding
of Queen's Road East out- xide the Union Jack Club this has disrupted traffic seriously a number of times this year); and the silting of King's Road, North Point, which has been buried in mud following at Tonat two downpours thin your,
2
For Government department which shows that li in com- mendably quick off thib mark and efficient when it comes to clearing landslides and permanently shoring up loose roadside banks, the PWD should inckle the patching
of ruln stic potholes, the flattening of corrugated tar, the 'elimina tion of flooding in Queent's Rond and the fiting at North Point much more spendily,
any
an
was
opened,
The argument continued with the mother and the father In a highly emotional state and the children were crying,
with an infected knee
RICHARD NIXON Washington, Aug. 29. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon was admitted to Reed Walter
И
in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the test, - Jerrio's -un- strapped body moved from the horizontal to an anglo of 65 degrees and back again.-AP.
RAINFALL
ABOVE AVERAGE
The Royal Observatory corded 1.02 inches of rainfall
for the eight-hour period
A KIINNS, MELJEEF 24 "Cache ©
Lumumba's troops
clash with
Kasai defenders
Elisabethville, Aug. 29.
Ten soldiers of the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's army were seriously wounded in a clash with the forces of Prime Minister Albert Kalonji of the mining state of Kasai according to reports reaching here to- day.
WHITE OFFICIALS' Katanga hus virtually rented off ita northern borders against the threat of several hundred Lumumba troops said to be led by white officers in Kasai,
་
"we know
in
Europeans.
However, scalor Belgian diplomat sald here today we have no reason to be depressed about the military situation."
Meanwhile, the UN's deploy- reported virisalty ment
in the Katanga completa Reuter.
was
Explosion on British trawler
Oslo, Aug. 29. Unconfirmed reports
said that a British traw- for named St Hubert had exploded in the Arctic Sea north of the Varanger Peninsula, and that two of the crow had boon killed by the explosion.
Another British traw-
Prince lor, the
Charles had started towing St Hubert towards Vardoo in northeastern Norway, the and had reports said, taken the rest of the St Hubert's crew on board.
AP.
Typhoon Della takes heavy toll in Japan
Tokyo, Aug. 30. 1
whipped Typhoon Della
Shikoku
and western Honshu yesterday with "heavy windgi and --rain leaving two dead, 22 missing and 18 injured, one seriously.
The 76-mileя
-
per hour typhoon disrupted land, sea and air traffe.
The storm caused a landslide benr a tunnel on the. Ashlyn- arima toll. highway at Mount that Nishinonlya, • buried 70 construction workers alive.
Police
sald roue squads from Nisinomiya and vicinity. 350 miles southwest of Tokyo: managed to
save 40 persons although olight were Injured, one seriously.
HEADS FOR SEA Weathermen said typhoon Della, the 18th of the season, swept into Japan Sea, her 76- mph sweeping winds moving north northeast at 23 mph. At midnight she was spotted some 100 miles west of Noto Pentisula, western Honshu heading for western Hokkaido, Japan's northern main island.
Typhoon Faye was sighted in the West Pacile by weathen 100 miles north of Iwo Jima at
9pm. yesterday heading towards
Honshu
Weathermet maid typhoon Faye with centre winds of 125 mph was moving north north- west at 15 mph wat is expected to be 315 miles south of Tokyo at 9 pan. on Tueschy-AP,
POWERS WIFE
COLLAPSES
New York, Aug. 29. Mrs Barbara Powers, the 24-
·year-old wife of convicted U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, collapsed after she arrived at Idlewild airport from Europe this evening.
She held back her teara ́ús sho walked slowly towards the air- the direction of port building the public health section.
As she reached the wall she collapsed on the ground and had to be helped 'inside by wix off- clais-Reuter,
One offer said Mr Lamumba's troops were Almost two inches of rain opted to have fanned out in that scue Belgian officers of the the Force Publique stayed on in fell from midnight last ami detachments across
night till 8 am today.huge areo of southern Kosad, the various places, including Lalun- longest push being to Sentery' in Loung, the pivot of the Lumumba
drive into Kassi ra the extreme cast.
This adjoins the secessionist Another report said that
the 20-man "technical mission" In The heaviest downpour came province of Katenga anch
clothes arrived this forum of Korgalo, where many civilian between 5 and 6 o'clock
Lulusbourg about ten days morning when 0.97 of an inch Congolese are pro-Lumumba.
Belgian offlalais sodel they fear ago. was registered,
that May saccess for Mr The carly morning fall od
since last Lumumba there would bring the They were sold to include and other eastern the total brought
Jodall population up in arms Russians Monday up to 13.05 inchat.
his support. And the total since January was 66.09 inches-being more than an inch over the average Army for tuli lime of the year. Medical Centre today with The additional minfall. this further Improved severely-infected left morning
storage water to Hongkong's knee and will have
position, remain for two weeks.
All the reservoirs in the Mr Nixon's Prceu
Secretary Colony are overflowing except Kalanga troops have heavy Mr Herbert G. Klein, said the the biggest, Taj Lam Chung machineguns and other heavy
wha suffering
where the water level came up
arms in strong points along the to 190 feet six inches this
border. But so far there Nixon walked into the hoo-
been no fighthing between tho morning.
tha hoilday, no He curicelled 11 campaign Today, being a
two opposing sides on
Washington, Aug 20. echokduica and other public ap-figures were available from the border, authoritative
MokeTebombe," Prime A imgth" of about 05 feet of Water Authority,
anfd here tonight, parates for the
Minister of Katanga Provincomber staffolding belonging Bamako, Aug. 20, weeks.
More heavy downpouts, ate
Conflicting reports, elrculated we quoted here today as spying The Mall Federal Cabinot. to-
A statement from Mr. Nixon's expected in the next 24 hours.
taa kontrastór fall down and day lifted tho stato of emer
office said, he had "no com A spokesman for the Royal about white officers alleged to be that if Mr Patrice Lumambe,
blocked the txilway track in suiting (5 oppossta gency proclaimed on August 10 pilcations" chd "no fever, and Observatory said this moralnu saking the Lumumba okay Coro Prime Minister, stayou in
bo in excellent that occalonná, showers and Bomo report on three Belgh power, kero la no doubt that Non p
to bn ex-offieurs of the former Force Pub they Congo wilt go Communi by Mall and Sudanese Premier continues to
except for thunderstorma ore Modibo Kalta, following Series physical condition"
posted in the eternoon ur to- qus were serving with Mr. In/of copyrighted Interview In the magazine, UB. News and ol'e secession from the federa- the injury. tion, it formed with the Sudan. Mr Nixon injured hla knee on morrow,
The forecaster prodicted, the Bears 1omeinte sáld the dew Work Report, Mi Tishombo ssid: Since Senegal's breakaway, August 17, when to bangol it
agninat a car door duflrass ateriperature would rise slightly picoment of the ventral pover-Balo is notunity giving Bamako, capital of Berlon, hai
compaun apprennes-at-Gronem oboya 50 degrees In the next 24 mon forces, seamed, to include i frazrbertofi'cal political support tu been proclaimed capital of the
hours boro, North Carolina-UPL
the prostice of white officers, Lanrambe."-Reuter, Mall FederationAFP.
In the ent the oldest son re- fused to leave his mother and Dakar, Aug. 29.
the faller
the went down Navy rescue teams abart
gangway with the youngest son doned hope tonight of and daughter, Peter sad Helen, before the shore- survivors only shortly finding
cast oft and the omong the 63 people lines were aboard
an Air France Australia sleds for Genos to-
night-cutor. Super Constellation which crashed into the sea Whitle trying to land at Dakar airport in a tropical rain- storm.
Among the 365, passengers B clit crewmen who a Canadian executive of the Singer Sowing Machine Company, at least one Bron, two Italinine, une Dutch
Greek melly of man an a mother, father and small child, Air France offenib tall,
Among the victime were eight children, including an Irifant,
Rescue officials salih it appear- ck the plane explotted where it hit the water and that all aboort wore killed extendly--UPI.
Emergency inom a non-falignant infection
Mali lifted
pátal
next
two
RUSSIAN AID Scaffolding blocks
TO LUMUMBA?
sources HAM
all
railway track
omann reittiamant" aras mt 7.24 mm, today.
The track was cleared about
an hour later and traini'services started on mhadule, eh eh Traffic is how, binok hormal
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