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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1954.

President Eisenhower's Policy Flouted

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CONGRESS SOMERSAULT ON ANTI-RED BILL

Atomic Energy Bill Passed

Washington, Aug. 17.

The House today completed Congressional action on the administration's holly-disputed atomle energy bill and sent it to the White Clause for President Eisenhower's signature.

Final House action came on A voice vote after ilmited detale. The measure earlier had caused a historic 13-day Albuster in the Senate when fues called it a "giveaway" bill.

As finally passed the measure opens the Geld of alomlu energy to private Industry, permits a greater sharing of atomic scorets with America's allies and payer the way for President Eisenhower's stoms for peace plan.

The legislation was approved by the Senate last night, 59-17. two out by The chief compromise provisions, worked conference committees, would force private firma to share their atomis secreta, on a fee basis, with all competitors for live years. The conferees put a five-year limit on the patent pro- vialon instead of the 10 years the Benste had approved.

The chairman of the House-Senate Atomic Energy Com- militer, W. Sterling Cole, told the House the patent provision probably was unconstitutional. But he said he was willing to

to get support it

what he believes to be a much-needed revizion of the 1948 atomic energy law-United Press.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

The Trade Outlook

small improvement in 1

The Colony's exports in

July-some $4m

provides

វា

worth-

of

only transient satisfaction coupled possib-

reflection ly with gratitude and thanks for such a virile, bustling localf industry (whose exporta Increased 10% per cont in the month). Otherwise the figures tell us little more than we already know; they trade the confirm pattern of recent months with minor alterations but suggest no sign of a new trend, nor do present economic conditions Southeast Asia hold out any we can expect hope that anything very much better in the months to

same

in

come.

11

Representatives Nomination

Nomination Ike's Warning To

Capitulate

To The Senate

Washington, Aug. 17.

The Senate and the House of Representatives today overrode President Eisenhower's expressed wishes and approved a bill that would outlaw.the Communist Party and make It a crime to be a member of it.

The Senate approved the measure by 41 votes to 39, adding the provision to make party member- ship a crime to an earlier House approved version of the anti-Communist legislation.

the House Then in an unexpected move, accepted the Senate version by 208 votes to 100. The House action came on a motion by Mr Martin Dies, Democrat, Texas, to instruct House members of a House-Senate Conference Committee to accept amendments approved by the Senate earlier in the day.

For Hoover

Washington, Aug. 17. President Eisenhower, to day nominated Mr. Herbert Hoover, Jr., 10 succeed

General Walter Bedell Smith as Under-Secretary of State, deputy to Mr John Foster Dulles,

The White House said that Mr

Hooverson of the former Pre-

sklent would take over his new duties as soon the Senate has acted on his confirmation.

The Senate move, sponsored by Senator Hubert Humphrey, Democrat, Minnesota, would fix penalties for Communist Party membership at five years', îm-tial Press Secretary, sald Mr prisonment and a $10,000 fine.

the

majority

Certainly the drive to pro-As for payments for goods, both the House and Senate will

mote the sale of local pro- ducts in neighbouring over- Aeas countries does show that Hongkong is developing A sound banie for ita ex- difficult these in ports times. This coupled with the entrepot trade-such as

it in today-is keeping the bankruptcy. Colony from

no

to

Any broadening of local productive capacity in the

will tend future strengthen the basis of the Colony's economy. The in- crease of $4.2m. In imports from mainland China is of virtually Rignificance. Mainland trade, however, obviously offers the best prospects of development and promotion, yet even if were to be the embargo lifted Hongkong has much to do before it can capture this trade on any. thing like the pre-Korean war scale.

FOLLOWING the

ro-

recent

exploratory trade talks in London between Chinese officials and the Sino-British committee, it was confident- ly stated (unofficially) that the Chinese had accepted the view that fullest posя- ible use should be made of Hongkong's commercial facilities in all future trade between the two countries. At the time, the China Mail over- urged that these optimistic conclusions should be treated with caution. A fuller examina- tion of the discussions between the British and Chinese has Joft many experienced observers with the feeling that at tho moment, Communist China has little

for or no 'une Hongkong's trade facilities. Rightly or wrongly the

Chinese feel that trade between Britain and tho China mainland is profer- ablo firstly for political reasons—and here their

I have to act on the measure again; the Lettor of Guarantee after the

Senate-House con- system is likely to continue ferees report before the bill so long as the naval blockade) goes to the White House.

of the China coast

con-

tinues This system is hard-

PRESIDENT'S VETO

Qa

FC-

and

Mr James Hagerty, Presiden-

Eisenhower was asking that the Senate confirm Mr Hoover be- fore Congress adjourned possibly later this week.

Red China On Formosa Invasion

Washington, Aug. 17.

President Eisenhower said today that any invasion of Formosa would have to meet the United States Seventh Fleet.

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The The President told his Formosa.

correspondent weekly

amendments. conference asked the President what would press that his orders of January attack Formosa in force.

happen if the Communists did

MoRa

A correspondent

after

or February 1958 for the The President replied by Seventh Fleet to defend For-pointing to the instructions to

from

the Seventh Fleat by-his own Communist

administration shortly

be China attack wero still in assumed office in January 1968. force.

He said that these instructions drew the regarding the defence of For- President's attention to recent mosa reaffirmed orders which "threats" by the Chinese Com- had been in effect since 1850.

regime 10 "liberate" (These were the orders issued by Pros

President Truman after the outbreak of the Korean that the Seventh Fleet should prevent the use of the waters between Formosa and the Chinese mainland for

at took;)

munist

Gigantic Explosion In Siberia

Killed 200 Walrus

wer

STILL IN FORCE President Elsenhower said to- day that those erders wero stili La force.

Dock strike threat in Huli.

Typhoon Strikes Kyushu

39

Deaths

Tokyo, Aug. 18,

The typhoon Grace, which

He added that he therefore esumed that any invasion of Formosa would have i to: over- come the Seventh Fleet.

hit Kyushu last night caused The President was then asked an estimated, 39 deaths, in whether the United States Was

ni

om the cost of tinned nation Service biologist reported London Buses drugs for Kagoshima Oita

Lucky Escape

From

Huge Octopus

Crash:

Two Killed

and Kumamoto.

SHUP BAFE

The U.S. doskoyer Rowan raced through typhoon whipped seas in the East China Sea today in search of a small Japaneso: ship reported. In distrem, the United States Navy reported

London, Aug. 17. Two crowded buses crash- | here. ed into a truck tonight on a rainswept highway in subur

The Navy sold the Ebisu

Maru, No 12, of 195 tons, radio-

near the

ban London,

ed a distress signal The police said at least two centre of Typhoon Grace, then persons were killed, and several

about 200 miles northwest of injured. The

three vehicles smashed | Okinawa,

aim is to trade directly with

Mr Dies said the Senate House knocked it but yesterday the country that will be provision calling for the and overwhelmingly approved a

Anchorage, Alaska,

prepared to use other forces including 22. buried alive, it Instrumental in easing the penalties makes the bill "anbill to strip the party of its legal

Aug. 17. Mr Hoover, 50, has served in rights but not

addition to the Seventh Fleet it was learned today. trade embargo for them-effective and adequate answer privileges and

the last war as a special adviser:

Comununiata...... 'attacked A gigantic explosion, poe | the !| und for

manking_membership a crime. lenat nt

one to the Communist threat."

and -fifty-six Three hundred The Senate, in a second test to Mr Dulles.

sibly Intomic, was detonated Formosa. technical reason: that the

Republican

oday, stood firm on the mem-

He replied that this matterhouses were demolished, or badly streamlining

Mr Hoover represented the in Soviet Siberia in 1951, of

leader, Mr Charice Hallock, of bership issue, The Semple was which recently brought settire than 200 walrus in the emburgo

had not been brought up -- daroaged, 8,300 '. houses wore States in negotiation wiping out possibly more Reuter. regulations involving even Indiana, urged

flooded, and night vessels sank, minor changes in the goods vote down the motion saying

the House to to. That sent it back to the ment of the Persian öll dispute Bering Sea, a' Public Health

according to the latest figúres available for export In the révised Senate measure House which finally capitulated, effected in London Brst and would destroy

Internal The Senate passed bill also

I would

unions from post of States today. In Hongkong, unfortunately,

security Communist conspiracy

deprive labour lows.

found to be Communist Under-Secretary of State-woś second. This position miny

Everett Schiller of the Arctic of any legal standing understood to be due to ill dominated But the former have been remedied recently

Speaker of before the National Labour Re- health and not to any differences Health Research Institute here but nevertheless it is hard the House, Mr Sam Rayburn

had been said of polley-Router. lations Board.

he previously Texas) to undertsand why there (Democrat,

spoke in

umable to reveal details of the PREFERENCE Invour of the motion been

saying,

strange mass annihilation be- could not have

President Elsenhower did not "the time to do something

security re- is say he would veto the measure

cause of milliary simultaneous promulgation

when you have the opportunity: when questioned about it at his

strictions. The curbs were re- regulations for we mean of these

laxed recently and Schiller was what we say we news conference today. But, he obviously it did not tend to have the opportunity now to expressed a clear preference for

permitted to reveal details of a promote the confidence of vote up this motion."

study he made after scores of House-approved the original the Chinese in Hongkong.

dead walzus were washed dahere without version

Individual the menns that membership Technically, this

on St. Lawrence

Island about provision.

40 miles off the coast of Siberia Mr Eisenhower sald the Com-

on October 24, 1951.

SKULLS MISSING munist Party should be cognised as

a conspiracy

Schiller would not say not as political

party

whether the blast was atomic Mr Eisenhower said that the

However, he said he boltayed it bill which the House of Repre- Syracuse, Sicily, Aug. 17.

Undersea fisherman was other than conventional" together at a solut where The Navy sold the Rowan, at sentatives had passed yesterday

disclosed that

Gelget a

with favoured by British House

Republican

to outlaw the Communist Party narrowly escaped death to and

counter showed positive indica- manufacturers but the Chi-Charles A. Halleck predicted but not to set penalties for its day, when a giant octopus tions when held near the walrus

was satisfactory nese authorities apparently that the bill would never be members

grabbed him with several of carcases. He said specimens of the administration. take the view that as long come law. He deft the clear in- ference that President Eisen-

its tentacles, and tried to the animals were later sent The President sald his

the Atomic Energy Commission, is there la any risk of hower would vete it on the administration had been puzzled drag him into a deep cave which reported there was no losing cargoes through con- grounds that it would destroy as to how to recognise the Cem- The fisherman, Antonio radioactivity present. fiscation on the high seas the effectiveness of anti-Com-

munist Party a conspiracy Mlabella, aged 28, was diving The North Coast of St Law- by America or Nationalist munist laws already on the

and yet at the same time, show outside the port when he was rence island was littered with Chinn, with no privilego of statute booles,

of walrus concern for the rights of indivi-caught by a tentacle emerging large numbers redress to any international The Senate had approved the dual citizens required by the from an undoc-water cave.

cases, about

weeks after three Ho of Govern-

turned

the Eskimos organisation, it cannot be original bill last week, but the United States form

round to face

reported hearing ment

pair of glittering eyes, and ค terrine explosions

Inte expected to pay for goude

hint as to He added that any act which number of other tentacles.

September 1951. A before receiving them.

tended to vitiate or obstruct the He scized his dagger, and the enormity of the blast which certain cases, the Chinese

great work going on in the managed to cut off one of the wiped but the walrus herd was may employ the lettor of

Federal Bureau of Investigation tentacles gripping his arm. After contained in the fact that the Credit, however. Not much

and the Department of Justice a lengthy struggle, ha. Bnally akulls of many of the animals hope can be held for greater

under other existing legislation got free, and made for the were missing, flippers were rup. British

octopus. let out tured and carcases were crush. about Communism should not be surface, ng the commercial repre-

interfered with by the

a cloud of black fluid.--France-jed as if by a glant hand, Schil. sentation in China, either.

bill-Reuter,

Presse.

ler sald-United Press. As far as the Chinese are) concerned there branches of the C.N.I.E.C. In Shanghai, Hongkong and Berlin and following the establishment of the Chinese diplomatic mission in Lon- don, a new branch may bej established there and thin

ly

In

are

Is the medium they would

leader

19 Natives Get Death Sentences

Murder Of Two

Patrol Officers

Wowak, New Guinea,

Aug. 17. Nineteen natives of the prefer to use for the ex- Telefomin tribe have been pansion of Sino-British trade. Hongkong's merchant sentenced to death for the community will have to murder of two Australian -resign itself to trading milliary officers last Novem- under these conditions and ber.

Justice Gordo meted out the

now

саг

Mr Attlee Feted At Another

Mr.

Lavish

Banquet

Peking, Aug. 17.

to

Mr Clement Attlee and Mr Chou En-lai, Prime Minister of Com- munist China, attended a lavish banquet held tonight to celebrate Indo- nesian Independence Day..

✓

Sho said the

n

Chinese, of all ages The Labour Party leader and dents who are here to report secticides. to make the best of them death penalty to nine members Mr Chou sat on each side of the mission's Visit

participate, she said. They had certainly for the time being of the tribe for ambushing and the Indonesian Ambassador.

first principle also tried to clean up stagnant The next trade talks be- hacking to death a 22-year-old Earlier, Mr Attlee and his followed by her Ministry was water and rubbish dumpe. tween the Sino-British com- Cadet Patrol Officer, Geoffrey seven Labour Party colleagues the prevention of discase and Other Westeris ›› visitõri bëre mitteo and the Chinese in Horris.

were guests of honour at a re- soms headway has been made went to see the Paking Po

People's Ten natives belonging to the option given by the Indian against certain diseases, o Congress, roughly correspondin Peking in November may be

tribe were also ordered Embassy. expected to discuss the plac-given the supreme penalty for

cluding chalore and smallpox, to a elty council, assembled for Ing of contracts with British similarly, killing

FRONT PAGE NEWS Bome towns had not had a single the first time since elections Patrol Officer

Byear. Both The vizit of the British dele-

this year. There were firms. The duration of the Gerald Leo Syarka, · 82." ambargo is still unknown, officers were engaged in taking gallon continues to be China's

The emelni sufficient, doctors, and however. And one wonders a cehaus in the Telefomin last front-page" news. - + when they were "People's Daily today pube trained Reaching star, she said.

WHEEL THAT FIX ished verbatim speeches made 'how much longer it can be November onforced before responsible Eighteen other natives are by Mr Atties and Mr Chou at ho vistors, have noted an clamer given by the circles are driven to de-awaling trial on murder charges: Government dinner last night. sbance of nion, in China. Ii Proptera spant pars of was explained - that "kik (that | Contrer nounce it publicly as an

Aybabacomo a natural imeut, ver economic boycott. It is cer- daved men have trgot that the the day tainly a view that has been death, penalitas be commute 'in am with

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divided highway Intersects

exit from the last reports, had failed to make another major London metropolitan area about contact with the Japanese a mile from the London airport vessel. But the Japanese Coast Bome of the injured received Guard later reported that, the first aid on the highway during Ebisu Maru had reached safety a heavy rain. Soveral ambul- and had succeeded in anchoring ances were sent to the scene at sea outalde, the typhoon area...... United Press.

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