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ATOMIC AGE
THE
HE Atomic Age in fifteen years old faulty. It was on December 2, 1942, thut a group of British, American and Canadian scientists, working under the strictest wartime aecurity at the University of Chiengo, lighted the first atomic fire,
The occasion marked the greatest triumph in the history of science. It open- ed up the promise of n practically inexhaustible Hource of energy with which
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IKE TO MEET
Fast Recovery
But Still
Needs Rest
By PATRICIA WIGGINS
Gettysburg, Dec. 1.
raan could build an indus: President Eisenhower decided today to return to
trial civilisation with IE
standard of living that
would satisfy all
material needs,
B
But it also started a new eraŋj
in the turbulent history of mankind. That new force was first used, after a testi explosion in the New
Mexico desert. for the destruction of Hiroshima
the White House tomorrow and preside for at least a "short time" over an important Cabinet meeting.
Hawaii Braces
and Nagasaki to end World i Self For
War II.
In the years since, nations have competed against each other to develop still more deadly weapons of destrue tion the H-bomb, the inter-continental ballistien) missile with nuclear war head which have stolen the headlines.
BENEFITS
N the background, however,
In the
ол
First Hurricane
While the decision marked another milestone in the Presl- dent's "excellent" recovery_from a slight stroke, hls Press Secre- tary said he still faced several weeks of rest and greatly re- duced activity.
Eisenhower, who drove to hla farm last Friday for a weekend af pasteral relaxation, took advantage of today's brilliant sunshine to motor around his acres and part of the Civil War battleground.
Planned
Honolulu, Dec. 1. Hurricane Nina, propelling
winds up to 100 miles an Press Secretory James C. hour, bore down on the Hagerty told a news conference that the President Hawaiian Islands today, afterward but latest indications norrow in time to sit in on planned to return to the Capital were that its 85-mph eye the Cabinet meeting. would miss heavily-popu. lated Oahu.
ing of atomic energy for peaceful
purposes.
The Weather Bureau said the October 1 this year in
eye of the hurricane was head- Vienna,
the
02-uationed for the Island of Kuual, 96 "Atomic United Nations"
miles north of Honolulu, where -the International Atornie 30,000 persons live. Energy Agency met in a hopeful atmosphere of de- clared pursuit of bencats for mankind.
did
Hagerty kald ho sill not know whether the Pro- Aldent would oftend bipartisan White House brief- ing session for congressional leaders of both parties on Tursday,
The Weather Bureau sald
He said questions about the that populous Oahu would es- Chief Executive's officisi acti- 1.000 miles an hour hitting wered on a "day-to-day basis. with gale force winds af villes would have to bo and the island between 8 pm. HST (0900 GMT Monday) and 2
The early promises of the beneficial uses of the atom are already being realised. Britain has made the fastest start and more than a year ago put into opern tion the world's first full- scale nuclear power station at Calder Hall. She is planning the establishment of some twenty additional i plants by 1965,"
ELITI
Kauni, directly in the path of
Evaluation
Asked for his own evaluation
the slow-moving hurrienne, was of how the President had snap- warned to expect winds of 75 fped back from last week's cere- niles an hour with gusts up to bral atinck, Hagerty 100 mph. The eye of the hur-looked
sald ho "Increasingly cleane was
better expected to reach euch day, and "I for one get a kick out of seeing him cachi morning looking better."
Kauat about 2 om
ISOLATED
The Hawalian Islands were virtually isolated from the out- side world by seo and air as both inilitary and rivilian flights were cuneciled and Honolulu harbour was closed to
traße.
But he said Eisenhower's physicians had not changed their judgment that it would be arveral weeks before the President could resume any. thing like the rapid pace forced on him recently by Kussia's missiles and space successes.
In Western Europe there are hopes that in twenty years there will be more electri- city produced by atomic power than is at present
Hundreds of military person- btained from all its coal, nel were evacuated from their
Hagerty quoted Snyder as oil and
homes today, Wind hydro-electric
gusts up saying, however, that "the miles 10
11 hour plants.
raked President had Honolulu
another good and hospitals
night's rest (Saturday night) and civil defence ngeneles went on his progress continues excellent.” the olert,
Hagerly
STANDARD
THE
and
reported that the
It was the first time in re- President's speech again "seaned
THE use of atomic power corded history that a hurricane-normal" to him-United Press.
not only can raise the type storm had closed standard of living but as| Hawail.-United Press,
time DRSALA there will
be less dependence upon Middle East oil. Thus one of the sources of international friction can be progressive- ly removed. Britain. having
established
Enquiries
In on
Algerians Raid
Rival's Bar
Death Toll Goes Up
Chicago, Dec. 1.
Cloudy
Price 20 Cents
RELAX IN
DAKS Whiteaways
THE FAMOUR COMEURT IN ACTION TROUSERS
HONGKONG
CABINET
NIGHT EXPLOSION WRECKS HOMES
A girl of nineteen was killed and three people including her parents were taken to hospital — when an explosion wrecked two homes in Liverpool Street, Salford, Lanes, last week. Hundreds of people in their night clothes helped to dig in the rubble in search of trapped people. The explosion is believed to have been caused by coal gas. Photo shows a general view of the wrecked homes after the explosion → Keystone.
ALL-OUT MANHUNT IN INDONESIA FOR WOULD-BE ASSASSINS
Djakarta, Dec. 1.
Indonesian security agencies launched an all-out manhunt to- day for the would-be assassid seven other persons and injured President Soekarno but killed seven other persons and injured 104.
The Russian Secret Policemen: Worst Insurance Risks
London, Dec., 1.
An official British census of top-level executions in the Soviet Union over the past 20 years shows that the worst insurance risks are Secret Policemen.
Of 68 known high-ranking | trial. Two others were execut-
were
го-
Several cuspects ported arrested in an investiga- tion started immediately after last night's schoolyard bomb altempt on the life of In- donesia's President.
Arrests Made
News reports quoted an om- clal spokesman us saying ar rests have been made, but Fave no identification.
KUWA O ON
Sputnik's Carrier?
OBJECT
Stevenson HURTLES OUT To Attend OF SKY White House IN HAMBURG
Briefing
Washington, Dec. 1. Adlai E. Stevenson, titular head of the Democratic Party, will participate in the White House briefing for congressional leaders on Tuesday, the State Department announced today.
The Department maid the former Illinois governor was in vited to attend because the pro- xrammes to be presented to the legislative leaders included pro- posals the US will lay before the Nalo summit meeting ih Paris later this month,
HAS ACCEPTED
甘
Stevenson, the terse 44-word announcement added, in ac cepted,"
The decision to Invlie Steven- ten to attend the talks ap- prrently underscored the Ad- ininistration's determination 10 let him participate in the Nato dcelsons to the fullest possible extent.
word on There still was no whether Stevenson would go to Paris.
Stevenson
is serving 48 n conmutant to the Administra- tion in drafting a programme for greater Allied scientific co- operation In view of resent Russian successes.
TWO PURPOSES
Stevenson's presence at the White House could purposes:
Hamburg, Dec. 1.
A red-hot glowing object hurtled to the ground near here today with a roar.
Police said it could have been The carrier rocket of Sputnik 1.
Eye-witnesses said the object appeared to measure about half a mere across.
It innded in a field.
SCORCHED TRACKS
Polleo went out immediately. to seek it. A police spokesman. said that they found scorched tracles" which Jed to a difch with water in 1. Mercury war toating on the water.
Eye-witnesses said the earth was scorched for more than alx feet round the hole where tha object enterod the earth.
The object, they said, had a glowing tail ce a comet as it turtled to the ground.--Reuter,
While In Montana
MASZIJN
Mysterious Sky Blast Rattles Town
Scobey, Dec. 1, A "terrific explosion in the sky rattled windows and shooked buildings
in this northeastern Montana town early this
morning. serve two
There was
ад
It
The unexplained blast lighted
with up the countryskie
white light for a few It would give him an op-eerle portunity to tell the D-seconds, then all was silli and mocratic congressional leaders dark again. who attend exactly what ha
peculation thinks about the Administra-might have been the rocket af tion's Nato proposals. If he Sputnik 1. favours them, it should be a boost for Administration chances of getting, Congress to go ulong.
be able to
SAME THING
"AL first," said
Burley Bowler, "wo thought It might have been our furnace explod- Stevenson, in turn, would ing. In fact, everybody in town
to think the determine scenel what the congressional leaders thing." feci should be done at the Paris meeting to offset Russia's mis- sile and satelite successes. United Press.
TREATMENT
Belgrade, Dec. 1. President Tito was tonight The toll of injured in the officially reported to be resting assassination attempt the frst
He said a farmer driving home from town about that time- Chet Jucl-reported seeing a brillant flash in the skies above him, then heard a deafening sound.-United Press,
In Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Dec. 2.
The United States Army an- nounced that the carrier rocket of the Arst Soviet car satellite fell today in the Fort. Greely
about ever made on Sockarno in his and undergoing medical treat
100 ment at his private island retreat | Reserve, Alaska, 12 years as President-spurted on Brioni in the northern miles south-east of Fairbanks
France-Presse, upward as hospital authorities Adriatic,~Reuter, assembled
reports.
A completo list posted this morning at Djakaria Municipi General Hosplial Ested a total of 104 wounded in a shattering series of four grenade explo- sions which ripped through the
her lend In the peaceful
The death toll on US highways application of atomic energy,
climbed slowly but steadily today has announced her desire to
as Thanksgiving vacationers executions since January 1937, ed that same month to make aid in the establishment of
Headed for home after holiday 18 were of persons in the March 1938 a "historie" period crowd watching Soekarno lesve trips. Lyons, Dec. 1.
Secret Police and State Securlly nuclear power stations in
in Soviet affairs,
a school anniversary celebration Hetween 6 pm Wednesday and divisions." French police iouty detalued
Biggest name in the secret other countries.
party. Hist" was have already been received Africans-some armed with sub-traffic accidents. Seven diod An five men after about 20 North pm Sunday, the United Press
counted 457 persons killed in Commonwealth
The foreign affairs section of police "execution
Soven persons were killed. Berla, bespectacled The list of injured Survey an Lavrenti. and one Italian firm is machineguns-rulded
gave the On Dec. reported to have placed a bar and hotel flied with other plane crashes and 81 in misc offelal Central Office of Infor- terror-man of Russia.
laneous accidents for an overall mation publication listed 14 23, 1953, an announcement saldames of 46 children, including
and Central. Com Beria and Politburo The raiders smashed the
Callfornia recorded the highest mittee Members, 12 ministerial been extcuted for high treason windows,
after a trial earlier that mönth bottles in sight and took iden-1 on the highways, with 42 rankers, nine Army men,
Kremlin doctors, in Air Forca-United Press. chler and 12 "various executed.
Arm offer of purchase up to North Africans. £20 million.
To under-developed countries cale
broke
Lyons
total of 543.
all
dead.-United Press.
man Nations I Liberation Association Rankin's New Post
and the hotel-looper and customers to the rival Algerian National Movement,
atomic power also offers a ty cards from the customers. practical hope of rapid Police said the raiders belonged dovolopment. From atomic to
the outlawed Algerian reactors are coming made radioactive elements, the radioisotopes, which pro- mise incalculable benefits to Industry, agriculture, blo- logy and medicine, EXPERIENCE
Knowledge and experience in the nuclear field are growing daily. Only last week fr R. A. Butler, Lord Privy Seal, informed the House of Commons that Britain was well ahead of other nations in experiments for har- nessing that even greater force, the H-Bomb, The difficulties that stand in the path are vast but not and the Insurmountable,
In Paris, one Algerian WDS shot dead tonight and another wounded in an incident involv
ing rival Algerian groups. The body of a third Algerlan was found in a sick on the banks of the Seine-Reuter,
two
six nasoclates had
"DISAPPEARED" Final Round
The census also tallied 11 *unnatural or. suspicious! deaths, ono assassination, five "imprisoned and disappeared" Unconfirmed reports indicated and 01 just "disappeared."
Washington, Dec. 1.
Says Whipple
Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 1. Dr Fred L. Whipple, Director
a one-year-old infant,
Incomplete
Identinéatica of those killed wes still incomplete, but it was believed that all the dead and wounded were Indonesians.
The President, us for an was. known, received no Injuries,
This morning Soekarno was seen speeding southward out of Djakarta toward Bogor, where the Presidential Summer Palace
FIAT 600 multipla
today that American Am- Andrei Vishinsky was credit of the Smithsonian astro in located. His black Cadillac bassador to Nationalist Governed with the highest one-shot physical observatory here, told was flanked by armed outriders The 600 Multiple can be considered ment on Formosa, Karl Rankin, execution toil. As State Pre-pressmen today that the firat in Jeeps with flashing rad would replace Jarnes Riddles ¦ seculor he scored 18 kills out Sputnik's rocket must have end- lights. Sunday motorists re-unique in technical development and berger as American Ambassador of a possible 20 in the notorious ed its round the world etseer ported roadblocks at various practical conception, in affording for to Yugoslavia.-France-Presse. March 1938 Moscow treason last night.
points where they were given Whipple, who is an authority | énreful scrutiny,
the first time ample seating accom- on comets, estimated that the The area around Tikini clemodation for six persons, or alter- rocket plunged into the atmo-mentary school, where the at- sphere in the course of its 870th tempt occurred, remained cor-natively 19 sq. ft. of luggage space round of the earth.-France- | dozed off. Presse
TEAMSTERS MAY BE KICKED OUT
arz-c10 Vice-President James B. Carey predicted today, that the AFL-CIO convention this week will vole almost un- animously". to expel the giant Tearasters' Union from the
Washington, Dec. 1..
next few youre may well see the beginning of the Hydro-Federation.
I
retiring Dave Beck as Union President. Both officials were targets of It
corruption charges by thi AFL-CIO and
Benate veallaxtorm.
"In some ways, Hoffa is; mora dangerous than Beck” Carey and
gen Era. Peaceful applica-11e made it plain that the ex- mid. "Io is youNIET tion of this force, in con- pected.. expulsion stemmed healthier,"
directly from the election of | The AFL-CIO Executive Coun. junction with the atom, can
Teamsters' Vioo - Proaldeni 'ell, already has suspended James E. Hoff to replace { the Teamsters, prinurily dön
herald an age of plenty and a fuller life for all.
Three of the wounded were achieved by the incorporation of Identified as members of the collapsible type rear seat. No other NO! Says Russia Presidential Palaca: guard,
vehicle in its class can offer such a variety of uses.
United Press,
GREEK SHIP
cause of the Union's fallure to oust Hoffa from leadership.
Moscow, Dec. 1. will recommend ・that? tho' The carrior rocket of Sputnik | › Union be · Cormaily ¦ expelled I will pass over Paris tomorrow at the convention opening at 0817 hours French thing, Tass next Thursday at Atlanto news agency reported today.
Cairo, Dec. 1. Cliy.
Predictions from other coun-The Egyptian lights and trics, today: had estimated that porta administration tonight re- Carey, Froaldout, of the Inter- the cartier rocket was on the ported" from Alcxandria that nallopal Union of Electrical point of passing Into the earth's the fireek ship "Nekytad?" was Wärkers, appeared on 's tele- atmosphotë ind "gither burning in distress in the Red Sea, nc- vision programme. --- United or falling into the ocean.cording to the Middle East nows ITEM.
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