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JOHN CLARKE'S

CASEBOOK

Tea Interval

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"Small City

In The Sky"

Satellite

Proposition

Chicago, Nov. 16.

А вре scientist today

E was a senior civli ser-outlined a plan to build

vant. So that the brief- | satellite that would become case he carried towards the "a small city in the sky". night express for Scotland The bold concept wan pre- was a black one, embossed, sented by Mr Darell Romick, of foodal Alremift Corporation's with the Royal cipher; and

Acrophysics Department, who the sleeper reserved for him outlined his ideas in a paper at a first-class one; and the American Rocket Society's when he had dumped his 25th anniversary convention. bags on his berth and felt thirsty, it was natural that he should set off in search of, a cup of tea.

WAR

Albert watched the important traveller us he disappeared into the swirling steam and gloom of the departine platform.

ALBERT ACTS

Bun

As

EN the broad,

din-

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satellite be bulli progressively

Mr Romnick proposed that the from the bodies of fual-stage rockets fesed in on orbit around the earth.

any n

! Ho said the < 11:14 En 1: mal form would end up as a sment elly_in_the_phy, rivalling th of comparable populat.on.

de:ficated to fulhiment of special mission- serving

an quipost on a new frontier

The completed satellite could house crewmers and their tami-

he said.

tinguished back was quite out of view, Albert acted. Hees, darted into the alcoper, picked up the civil servant's beling- ings, nipped across the platform with them, and humped into train that was due to leave later for Manchester.

In the Manchester train, Albert sumped into the guard. "Sorry thate," he eati then, making to put the bags on the Luggage-ruck at the end of the coach, said: "All right to love these here?"

"Sure," said the guard. who was busy

Albert hopped out of the traus and back towards the Glosgow one.

A moment later, the Man- chester guard was surorined to выру бой stranger, distinguished in appearance but a little breath- less, enter his train and reach for the bags Albert had just de- posited.

WHERE'S HE GONE?

are those the

guard

"EXCUSE me sir.

asked,

засто

**Yes."

bugs?"

Husped the civil ser-

vant. "Just seen chap put them here, chased up platforms after him; where's be gone?" As his breath returned, the civil ser vant explained more fully. The station police were alerted,

"Bape?"

asked Albert, when The police chiscovered him. "What bags? I seen none."

At Clerkenwell Court Albert pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing the brief-case and a multcase.

olvil The

told his servant story, the railway guard and the police told theirs, then Albert went into the witness-ÞOX.

VIGIL

"LOOK here," he said to the

Frank M: magistrate. Powell, "I've been down to the station several times in the last fortnight.

*Were you travelling? What ticket

the had you?" asked

learned clerk.

THE FIRST STEP

First step in the construction would be to join in outer space two final-stage rockets in a nose to-nose position. This would probably have to be done by Aring small "anli-rockets" Jockey the two big rockets into position while they were circling the earth.

tu

To the "nucleus" other fol- ate yo rockets would be added. Ure whole would then be encased in a buge cylinder, construction

which would have to be done by workers in space suks

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HABITABLE

Mr Ranuck's plan was по 1.Jueprint for the immediate future, but was presented as “a preliminary engineering study of a satellite station affording immediate service with simul- taneous steady evolution and growth."

In other words, Itorick's satellite would be habitable and functional while It was being assembled, Mr Romick even presented rough usumates of the

of Cont

carrying passengers, nail, and freight to and from The sutelikte.-United Press,

Wire-Tapper Tapped By Wire-Tapper

up

New York, Nov. 18. One wire-hopper wound tapping the wire of another wire-tapper when millionaire aoci lite John Jacob Asto: hired a defective to eavesdrop on his wife's telephone con- second versations, a jury was told to- day.

The

District torney,

Mr Aloysius Melia, mentioned the Astor incident in presenting the State's case against detective John G. (Steve) Broady, who is on trial en charge of illegal lapping.

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CHINA MAIL

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1955.

Sir Alexander Grantham is seen looking over a section of the Government mechanical workshops this morning.

Also in the picture, reading from left to right are Mr J. C. Brown, Chief Electrical Engineer, the Hon. T. L Bowring, DPW, Mr E. Greenwood and Mr K. B. Baker. - Staff Photographer.

H.E. Inspects Mechanical Workshops

And The New Stadium

H.E, the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, peered at the under- side of his own official ear this morning from a tiled pit in the Hongkong Government's new mechanical workshops at Caroline Hill,

The workshops, which were built last year, replace two other less modern buiklings with poor lighting and equipment on the same site, and are designed for the servicing and overhaul of all vehicles belonging to government departments.

The Governor

www sections The Governor was иссон- making and upholstering police panded by the Director of Pubile sideenra. and a large section Works, the Hon T. L Bowring. engaged re-covering Gov- and shown over the shops by crament heavy lorries withi

Mr J. C. Brown, Chief Electricai permanem altuainium roofing to

and Mechanical Engineer, and replace their present damaged leading engineers in the work- canvas cóVETS,

Messia К. Baker, shopt

E. Greamwood, R. Jaques and D. Huct. He w

wps taken over the stadium

Alexander, Acting Chief Eagloer, Mr W. C. Bil, Government Construc- tion Engineer, and Mr H. M. Omar, Storelacy of the flong- kong Football Association.

An official polated out that it coola $1,000 to re-cover In aluminium, which will not wear out, and the same price take

which

gets damaged every ume the vehicle passes under low treRES,

1.

cover,

at be

The Governor also held a visti to the new football stadium L'aroline Hill which will opened on December 3.

He climbed up through a hole in the roof of the grand stand

one

and walked down a eat walk to soundproof of the thire boxes. The boxes are designeri for police control, Radio Hong- kong, and Rediffusion.

PRESS BOX SEATS

The Governor also sat at desk in the press box to test it for comfort. His commert- "Back's too straight"

At Radio Hongkong

wire-

Astor has divorced wife No. 3,

since then and has married and broken up a third time.

"A platform ticket." Albert, Mrs Gretchen Gresch Astor, said. "You see it's this way. I divorced my wife, and she has custody of our daughter... because I thought it was better

that way for the child.

"And my wife's been on hol-

and I know she's dive

to

ndi

Mr Melia said that In 1954 Astor hired delective Broady to check on Gretchen's telephone 1 chitchat.

But Mrs Astor was one step ahead of her spouse.

day in London with the child. She had hired her own investi- I've been there night Kator, detective Thomas Tracy. So, Molin said, Broady tapped telephone line in "a case espionage and counter-

the

Tracy's of

back, after night hoping to sec weo girl"

"Look, shall we talk about espionage." the case?" the magistrate sug- Boosted.

"My wife's been cluding me..." Albert began again.

SOMETHING WRONG

THAT were you doing

the Manchester train?"

"I never was on it."

on

"The gentleman whose Cusco they were was wrong, was be?"

"Aye, must have been,

"The guard was wrong, too?” "Aye," said Albert, There's something wrong about all this, somewhere. I don't get ih" Ho threw up his hands.

1

is being triod in con- nection with an alleged clec- tronle eavesdropping operation in which almost every telephone on the Eastern half of midtown Manhattan could be tapped,... United Press.

UN MEMBERSHIP RESOLUTION

magistrate "Anything Nations.

A Tass despatch from Geneva

HX.T.

Mr by

LOVING FATHER'S TRAGIC ACT

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PEN

COURT CLAIM FOR MONEY

CROSS-EXAMINATION OF PLAINTIFF

· Cross-examination of the plaintiff in an action against a bank and two commercial firms continued "before Mr Justice J. R. Gregg in the Supreme Court this morning.

The action is being brought by the Kin Fong Hong, importers of 179 Wing Lok Street against the Oriental Development Company which was said to have "flown"; the United Chinese Bank of Ice House Street, and the Wah Shing Trading Co.

comparly,

mlango.

Chore

The plaintif replied that the words "per

cent" were very common in the business world. "Even a child could learn them,” he added.

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NOT TRUE

Plaintiff admitted that all four of them, his brother, his friend, Fong Kwan and himself knew that he had not paid the $100 - 1800 deposit and that the words in the latter stating that he had were not true. The Bank knew the true position but the Bank and instructed them to word the letter in that marmer, he mid.

At that time he was trying to negotiate for the transfer of the letter of credit to him, but the Bank and it could not be done.

The case is proceeding.

Woman Killed

In Last Night's Fire

It was officially reported this morning that a Chi- abin women, Ng Kwan-tai, 50, suffered fatal injurita in last night's squatter huÉM Den at Lo Fu Ngum village, Kowloon City,

A police check today dis- clowed that 191 huts were destroyed in the blago, and that 1.184 people were made homeless. The home- lem comprise 264 familles and include 132 children.

Free meals are being Laura'today to the victima st the

Argyle Street social welfare centre. The blaze la believed to have started in noodle shop situated in the centre of the village.

Woman Arrested

With Heroin

"Somoone

gave the heroin to me to sell," a worinn frankly old Mr F. X. D'Almada at the Central Magistracy this morning when she admitted possession of 11 small pockets of the drtig.

The defondant, Law San-nul, 03-year-old unemployed of no

SUSPECTED fixed abode, was fined $1,000 or

THIEVES DETAINED

six months imprisonment,

Sub-Inspector C.K. Lam, con- ducting the prosecution, told the court that a police corporal Dnd two other constabies were an plainclothes duty when they saw the defendant acting in a re-suspicious manner in Sad On

The Police yesterday celved seven reports of lar- Lane. stated in cross-examine when the manager of Oriental ceny from the

person Development, Kwan, approached three in Hongkong and four proached her and searched the

him Ic A hoan on Apru 29 he showed him

In Kowtoon. three documents,

The three policemen ap-

black purse she held in her

thao import licence for the In the three cases which| right hand. In the punEE WÊTE fortiser A duplicato uf his occurred in Hongkong, sus

firm's application

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the Bank

extension of

the

for a letter of crodit and a pects have been detained.

A Chinese stole a purse con- dupilcato of the

talaing $0.50 the letter of credit

from Chinese Showing the

woman pedestrian in Bowring- witness

ton Road, Eastern district, al duplicate of the application for

10.15 a.m.

Ai

3.40 p.m., the letter of credit, Mr McNelli Chicago, Nov. 16. put it to him that he never saw

fountain pen was stolen from a Chinese wallding along Queen's Dantis Pomonis, 62, who it because it had been with the

third defendants

Road, East. loved his five-year-old daugh-ary 29, 1952 when it was written.

A passenger on a tram car In Hennessy Road, near Percival ncrows the scas better

Street, had his fountain than life itself, was close to

pen stolen at 5.58 p.m.

ter

4 TRAFFIC death today.

ACCIDENTS

Pomonis

was the

Ho had

that hi

him

since FebrU-

RETURNED LETTER

gether with documents,

noon

found 11 small packets of heroin.

Wheat Conference Adjourns

Genova, Nov. 10. The 10-state United Nations wheat cenference ended its first series of meetings here today adjourned until next February, so that governments can study the results of the pre- sent session.

Dnd

The

watch,

It was icerned today that Britain will defer unti Fibruary her decision on whether to join a new agreamcrit,

from the

The plaintiff maltained that Kwan did show it to him to- In Kowloon, a wristlet watch leaped from the

the two other valued at $30 was stolen from third floor of a hotel, of which ho

Because ct that a Chinese woman in Hot Tan co-owner, yesterday, time he thought it was of no Street, near Boundary Street, al apparently despaired use to him he returned that about

yesterday. estranged wife would letter A motor cycle collided with

letter to Kwan and kept the snatcher escaped. bring his daughter back other two documents,

Another wristlet an elderly Chinese woman in to

from

By a Greece.

Mir McNelll pointed out that valued at $260, was snatched Queen's Road East, near Jubileo

strange twist of fate. Mrs

bad from a Chinese woman walking the plaintif Street, at 8.20 a.m. today.

was trying to reach today

Britain withdrew testifed

Street, Yaumati, at that him by trans-Atlantic telephone letter he saw was not signed by

the

duplicate in Parkes

2.10 p.m. At 9.30 p.m.,

Chinese prosent agromment on the ground The wompan

sustained at the very moment he jump- Oriental Development, who

pedestrian Peiho that prices sought by exporting alight Injuries, was treated at ed

what cas Street, Shanshulpo, had her countries were too high. Queen Mary Hospital but was

produced wristlet watch stolen from her. not detained.

Pomonis

the

documents

Court which Pomonių, a Greek immigrant,

married a woman who came accident from Greece eight years ago. In Reed, near 1948 she gave

birth to a tiny p.m.. yea- | daughter weighing ahly

sustained viFICES.

Diana, The little girl, was became the centre of her father's

he

Another traffic occurred in King's Lau Li Street at 2.50 terday, A Chines slight Injuries when knocked down by a tram car life. port: 0.00, Nursery Sing Song, with travelling from wrist to ctrl. Carson (BBCTS); 630. He was discharged after treat-

Halt Hour

(Studio)ment at Queen Mary Hospital GAG, Weather Report; 7, Timo Signe) and The Nows (London

8, Time Signal and Programme Summary: 6.43, Stock Market to

Violet

Portuguese

of

SAILED AWAY

woman

the plaintiff said The watch was valued at $50. It is understood

was the one he saw was signed.

that some

:

50

I

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A suspect has been detained important wheat countries, in- by the Police in connection with chiding the Soviet Union *I do not know English.

an attempted larceny of pro- Argentina, are awaiting saw the signature was not that

at the British. decision before party from a Chinese of Kwan so I said it was not Bhamshulpo ferry whort at 4.20 pelves

Oriental Develop- pm, yesterday. signed by

and

the

them-

deciding

whether

to

jain. Reuter.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

But Pomonis 43-year-old wife

with her and

ment," explained the plaintiff.

Mr McNeill You said that, you

done business fend mot

with Kwan before this. I put it to you that up to April 20, 1952 you had not seen Kwan's sign- ture

Witness: I agree.

on

You say you do not read English, How can you tell that wo Dot Kwan's signature Pomonis weight dropped the letter?-As I said, I did from 180 to 140 pounds. He not know who signed it. I can- sent a, flood of letters and not tell whose signature was on cables to Athens, begging his thart Tations wife to return. Finally, she Wi agreed to put through a trans at 2 pan. yesterday. Atlantic telephone call to him

Helay): 7.00. Commentary (London At 4.45 pm yesterday, a yearned for her native land and Helay or Special Announcements: private motor car knocked down last October she sailed to Greece. 718, Boulevard Cafe: 7.30, Music

Chinese pedestrian in She took Diana Robinson and has for you. Eno Concert Orchestra with Monis Liter Morrison Hill Road. The man told her husband they would (plane) (UBCTS); 8. What's the sustained slight Dactal in-never return. Farm

(Recorded London Relay Juries and was treated at the 8.15, VOA Hit Parade; 8.40, no

department Recital by Elleon Joyce; 9. Tune outpatients

Besti Signa), Francis

and his Queen Mary Hospital. Orchestra; 0.10. At the Opera. "Don Giovanni act (Mozart). Pria- cipals with the Vietna Bymphony Orchestra and the Chorus of the Vienas State Opers cond. by Hana Bwarowsky: 10,43 Bedside Book "Unale Bilar" by Sheridan Le Fanu Read by Cynthia Nixon. Episode 9 Recorded); 10.59, Weather Report: li, Time Signal, Radio News Heni Muse. Good Bave The Queen; 11:30. London Relay): 110, Goodnight Close Dawn.

REDIFFUSION

оп

345 p.m. Meak House By Charles Dickens; 4, Tea Time Rendezvous: 4.30, Vocally Your Popular Bons: 4/45, Dowler

By Chiktren's Corner- Dumetrius: Cancheted by Aurtla Val: 5.30, Toon-Time Presented by Betty Sousa: 6, Tropicana-Latin Ameri- can. Rhylbums, 0.12, Birthday Mall bag: 620. What's in a Name--Pro- pented by Valerie Bolich; Shadows of Doubt-Presented by Colgate Palmolive Company: Time Bignal and The Nawa (London Relay) 2702, Weather Report, An- nouncements' and · Interlude: 7.16,

Personality

In Kowloon, a Chinese ind, aged six, sustained serious in- juries when he was knocked down by private motor car in Berwick Street at 1.30 p.m. yesterday: The boy is now in The call apparently did not Kowloon Hospital.

in us if in fact that docu- ment was produced to you you would not know then whether # was Kwan's signature or not. Seeing it was of no uso come through exactly on time I handed it back to Kwan. and Pomoals crawled out отд

did not know who signed. It. window ledgo of the Pacific Hotel. For almost

"MORE IMPORTANT" minutes he hovered on the

friend told him the document Kwan showed you on So when you said that › the call had come through from April 20 was not signed by Athens but he refused to be- ilove it. Neighbours gathered below, begging him in Greek Yeung Koon-keung, 22-year-and English not to jump.. old deported, was sentenced to reman's not by ave feet.

But Pomonis leaped, missing a two years hard labour by Mr J. E. Durling at Central” this morning for larceny from person..

Two Years For A

Snatcher

At the telephone switchboard,

told theomcono

the Athens operator that Mr Pomenis was not in-United Press.

not true Yesterday you asked Oriental Development "it was

me if I saw whether or not Oriental Development signed it and I replled - No.

Did you ask Kwan for the receipt for the

of deposit $100 8007 No.

Would it not have becit prudent thing to do?-It was more important to nak the Bank

undertaking. That re for un ceipt Wvelopment

In the name of Oriental

and was of

(Continued from Page 1) sponsored by the West and the others by the Communist coun- tries to break the deadlock

Defeninnt, who had ten pro- "I find this coee proved," said over admissions to the United

vious convictions for breach of the

Violin Kelodies; 7.30, Coke Ting deportation orders and two for knownza

Biarring Eddie Fisher with Guest larceny, was ordered to be put FIRST ATOMIC "We are asking for a remand," sald tonight that Mr Molotov Art 745, Ralph Marterie and under Police supervision for two

had declared during talks with | H sold a policeman, stepping into

or no uso to me; Western the witness-box. "We have to

foreign

Hagrids Jackie Cicason; Me years on his release from gaol, POWER STATION ministere

The plaintiff agreed with, Mr Jachrino Musicale --- Presented by On Wednesday, Mr 6. C.

London, Nov; 16. make

that the Soviet Union favoured Cadbury-Tra; 8.30, Melody Magic

McNeill that the proposed loan inquiries about other

Karnick settlement of “this pro- Bongs For Herminiscing; 9, Variety

Пев.... The properly found in this

walking, Yalong man's

alomic

to Kwan "wisą "profitable power the Ahor with... Harry Locke from

Queery's tracted question", during

Road East, when station in western Europo matter to his firm. He bought Dosresalon,"

JLNAV. Victory, Featuring Benny UN session and whole-111 Betty Driver and the francesco

defendant brushed past, him, opstied its doors to newsmen and sold for customers and Albert was Let' away. The

Over 30, Square Dancing: 10. Mr Kernick, found his fountain today, at Colder Hall, Cumber mado a completion of cists were restored

supported the Canad their be

Cafe

on of two per Continental - Presented pen missing and he called out land, in the north of England.

by owner, who glanced at the clock

10.30, Old Time "At

samo time Mr Pagult Corac:

thief."

The power station, when it is

* Hanom solca the words "two and hurried away. Perhaps he

Ballrooms With Bidney Thompson mad another train to catch, or

the hope and his Orchestrat expressed

16, Date, with

complètely, equipped" and, fines per cent” in English - and Mr and Dreamlande Festuring the Bongs of

Two Police constables and a loning at the end of 1950, will- McNeal komediately asked him perhaps he had noticed it was that the United States Just about the hour when, in the Britain would

watchman saw the provide enough electricity to whether he had picked up at also, support Gay Blazers: 31.30. Prelude To district

Tour the Incident, chased defendant and light a bity of one · million In- least those few words in the 18

Midnight Popular Concert ... Maye Mintziries, the morning tea Canada's proposal" the

-Reuter,.

Queral Clow Downi

eventually arrested, him, say ·Habitants.----France-PressS. -message wild,

years he had been in business, Interval is, taken,

10

the

Molotov

whs

10-10"

"Why can't I use make-up, Mom? You've got a prettier face than I have mid you've been using it for yearaly

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