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COMMENT OF
THE DAY:
REVIEW OF 1957
NINE
TINETEEN Afty-seven has been an eventful your for the British economy.. In the Arst months, although the exchange difficulties caused by Suez and almost passed, the economic bill had st
bo pald. The Canal 'wan blocked and the Iraq pigie- line was cut.
The outlook for the balanco of payments position seemed gloomy. In fact, the pay- ments balance weathered the crlais remarkably well and in the home front pro- duction was scarcely affect- ed, thanks to a tremendous l, organisational effort,made by both the oil companies and industry as a whole.
well The balance of payments
exceeded expectations with
current account surplus of £126 million for the first half of the year. Exports ran over the year at well above the 1956 level, rising In November to approxi mately £287 million, the trade
igures for thint month being the best for seven years.
Exporta over the eleven
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In Albania
London, Jan. 1.
Britain charged today, that Communist jet fighters forced down a British DC-4 Skymaster yesterday on a flight down the Adriatic coast near Albania..
Eisenhower's
Message
To Russians
The Skymaster. freighter re- ported that jetfighters were in- tercepting it, and then vanished.
Its owners, Independent Ale Travel Lid, said lonight that Nighters forced the plane to land at Albania's Vlone air- Neld.
Vlone lies on the Adriatic coast not far from Saveno, the | little-known Communist navul base which gives Soviet sub- marines their only base in the Mediterranean.
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Incident. In A
HK Hotel HOSTESS NAME CLEARED
London, Jan. 1. Miss Mavis Griffin, 28-year- old British Overseas Air- ways air hostess, who was dismissed aftor alleged incident Hongkong hotel,
d
an
in hoard
Army And Air Force Units Revolt
*
In Venezuela
Caracas, Jan. 1.
Air force and infantry units staged a
New Year's Day revolt against the Government in Maracay, 50 miles from Caracas.
today that her notice of RN OFFICER
dismissal had been with- drawn.
Miss Grifin, who Is Chair man of the newly formed
Union, London Air Hostesses told reporters that the Corpora- tion were not re-instating her in her old job but had offered her a post as airport recep-A
Gettysburg, Jan. 1. President Eisenhower to- day sent a message to the lenders
The owners wald six crew-| tionist, of the Soviet
men were aboard the Skymas- Union pledging the
ter, including a stewardess. It United States to "every carried no passengers. effort" toward world
The plane had been bought peace.
only a few weeks
from Californian Eastern Airlines of
П
Elsenhower, on an carly and frosty New Year's morning al his form home here, sent cable to leaders of the Soviet Union in reply to a New Year's message of greeting.
months also did very well In the important North American markets, running at elght per cent more in value than in 1966, Nineteen Afty-seven provided
trust that the "I earnestly more than one occasion for
New Year will bring a firmaer the British
to economy
and better understanding be demonstrate its resilience,
tween the citizens of the Soviet The flow of dollars which Union, the American people had helped fuance the and thoro of other nations,'
trude Elsenhower cabled growth of world
the Russian began to diminish and a leaders. number of countries, finding themselves In payments difficulties, imposed econo- mic restrictions. Grow Smaller
NHE fall
ASSURED
"You' may be assured that the Government of the United States will extend every effort to that end," the President sald
to the Hussians
The occasion of Elsenhower's Ties from the arintially incon occasion of Elsenhower'd high levels of late 1956 lust night through normal com- which would bring about a mercial channels from Chairman Klimenti Voroshilov of the substantial improvement in
Supreme Soviel Presidium; Britain's terms of trade, Prime Minister Nikolai Bul began to affect the incomes ganin and Nikita Khrushchev, of primary producers over- Sccrolary of the Communist seas, including of course Party-United Press. those in the sterling area. Their trade surpluses grew smaller, their deficits in- creased and, they began tp draw on their accumulated reserves in London,
At the same time the pay- ments difficulties in which many countries found themselves Kave rise
to
Red Skelton
Rallies
Oakland, California,
ugo
The incident was the first in-
volving a commercial aircraft behind the Iron Curtain since Bulgarien Oghters shot down an Israell Constellation
1955, killing all 58 persons aboard.
The airline gave this account of the incident:
in
"The plane is on an airfield called Vlone in Albania after being forced down by fighters. The Skymaster was on fight from Dusseldorf to Rangoon and first seeduled stop was Damascus,
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"It left Dusseldorf at 0518 OMT on Tuesday with 900 kilos of general freight for Karachi and Bangkok.
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"I have refused this." she add- ed, "Now I shall look for another job in dying. When 1 appealed i wanted my name "cleares and my old job back. I tot my name cleared but not the job."
DISMISSED HIS SHIP
Was
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JAPAN IN
SECURITY
COUNCIL
New York, Jan. 1. Japan
today became a member of the Decurity Council, Just a'year and
13 days after her admia- alon to the United Nations.
She look office in this most powerful organ of the United Nations along with Canada and Panama, which
werd also elected
terms 1.3 two-year
members non-permanent
for
at the last General Assem-
$17.
The three place
The national radio sald a re- bel plane was shot down when it tried to fly over the capitals
nailong re- The radio also made repeated
the broadcasts
Philippines, ondering elvillans
Australia and 'Cuba, in Aracay to stay Indoors be-
members Council te Casso
Government
servo on the 25-nation : preparing "another attack" on
Disarmar cult Commission rebel centres at any moment.
two Residents
thus, for the next the clly were DL asked to remain calm and were
years at least. Japan will nssured that the Government be able to maką ber volce heard on the subject of forces were concentrating their attacks on air force and Infan-
arma reduction and nuclear weapons texting in which sho is vitally interested -Reuter.
Portsmouth, Dec. 31. Royal Navy lieutenant took the "fatal stop” as a commissioned officer of try garrisons in Maracay only. A noon, all the capital not facing up to the fact radio stations were hooked up that lower deck customs to the Government radio
to
of tots of rum must be handle official news of the re- gono forever," the defence voll. said at a court martial hara today,
Revolution
Justifiable Homicide
Miss Griffin's dismissal follow- ed an alleged fight in her hotel bedroom in Hongkong, after a
Lieut. Ernest Jones, 49, forner Venezuelan sources in New discussion with iwa
male
San Jose, Jan, 1. stewards from her nirliner and naval Provost Marshal at Port-York said the navy had joined
Was serteneri to Jesul. Dorect,
In the uprising and that it Lule
Santa Clara County authuri- over the an American
be dismissed from his ship and had become a revolution. These ties ruled yesterday that 14- segregation
in sule Rock
severely reprimanded.
sources said that of the three year-old Lynden Parka com- Arkansas, -Reüter.
He had pleaded gulity to three
branches of the armed forces, mitted justidable homidde charges-failing to keep good order in the naval patrols head-
Macmillan
Meets Cabinet
beating.
LOVER
DOPED ROSES
Turin,, Jan. 1. A spurned lover spelled Now Year's Eve for 10-year-old Carla Musso yesterday with a bouquet of chloroform-sprayed roses,
The man, whose name was not revealed, sent the red roses to Carla's home. The girl pinned two of the roses on her dress before going to a dancing party.
She got po sleepy that she had to go home after a few minutes, and slept for 18 hours. A doc¬ tor called by alarmed relatives
traced the cause to the sleeping preparation от the
·United Press,
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Four Killed
In Traffic
Accident
Four persons, died and three
were injured in traffic accident on Clearwater Bay Road on New Year's Eve at about 5 p.m.
A lorry crashed against the the navy is most opposed who he shot his father to hillside on the right hand side quarters, at Portland falling to the dictatorship of Maj-Gun.death to save his mother from of the steepest section of Clear- water Bay Road between the enforce regulations resulting in Marcos Perez Jimenez,
The boy was released from a old No. 7 cemetery and Kow- The Government high com- service rum and provisions being
home spd loon Dairy. The immediate re- applied to private use, and traumand, 14sued a communique, or juvenllo detention
dering a brownby of Caracas his mother, Lillion, 41, from suit of the accident was two dulently receiving service rum.
He was found not gulity, of and its suburbs to reduce the county cool where she had dead and five injured. Several another charge accusing him of lighting and thus lessen the been held as a material witness hours afterwards, two of the being Brune in patrol head darfer of "alrattuitsnited since the shooting last Friday, seriously injured "died in
Prega.
hospital. quarters.
The court had accepted his pleas of not guilty to two further i charges of falling to use utmost endeavours to detect and bring London,; Jan. 1. Minister,
to justice three senior ratings and Harold others who Prime
had committed Macmillan met with his offences, and to accepting a re- Cabinet again today in an gular issue of service spirit.
On the one charge heard by clear attempt to
being drunk the court that major policy problems in patrol headquarters —–—– before leaving on a 30,000 evidence was given that mile tour of the Com-October 7 a rating under the In- fluence of drink was brought in monwealth. Macmillan is scheduled
up
on
to
by the patrol dnt interrogated by Lieut. Jones.
"The aircraft reported dis post. tion to Brindisi control centre on. air udvisory route 215 deading down across the Albanian coast out to sea and then Into Greece. The pilot såkl then he was changing from Brindisi control centre to Athens control centre, "AL 0935 GMT, a few minutes after his previous message, further message was received by Italian radar authorities which said that the plane
Was being intercepted by jet fighters leave on Tuesday on a flying visit The rating was slumped in a off the Albanion coast.
to Australia, New Zealand, chair and the officer repeatedly "This was
the last message India, Pakistan, and Ceylon.". It addressed him as "Cock." received from the aircraft, will be the first such tour by a The complaint against Licut. "It did not contact the Athens British Prime Minister while Jones also alleged that patrol to any of the five members stole rum and service flight information region, and in office
provisions from a ship and took after ile flight time was up-it countries.
fiel aboard- Before leaving, Macmillan the goods under cover of the had 18 hours'
hopes to lay the lines for his patrol wagon to their head Government policy as regards quarters, where they then dis-
talks with posed of them. participation
and This, Malta crisia
it was said, went on Russia, the
"under the administration of the Cyprus.
nocused either with his know- ledge or through his neglect of duty,China Maži Special.
Santa Monica, Jan. 1. Comedian Red Skelton greeted tulk of possible devalun- the New Year today from his tions and exchange rate he rallied from the shadow of Greek
bed at St. John's Hospital where adjustments rumours death
n severe
Collawing which produced speculative) "cardiac-asthmatic" attack. . Pressures to which
Hospital attendants reported because it Annners so that the famous Redhead was i much of the world's trade satirindtory condition and sald
a little was particularly vulner he was able to "joke
He was stricken on Monday fundamental night at his Bel-Air home. soundness of Britain's internal economy, the
able.
Despite
the
up-
ward movement of domestic
United Press,
search.
planes instituted
Crew List
"An Albanian broadens today said the plane was being held
da the airfeld for violating Álbanian air space."
crew 5:
costs and prices combined US DEATHS Bumber, Engineering Oficer talks und cutlining Soviet Ideas
with these other, inter-
NOT FINISHED Macmillan has not yet finish- The airline identified the ed drafting his answer to a Soviet 3,800-word letter from Captain M. Kosubski, Second Premier Nikolal Bulgania late Pilot A. Nicoll, First Officer D. Last year proposing
East-West
Hardy.
Mis Mon disarmament and other prob- Clancy, Stoward Sackell.
Kms. The Foreign Office Jaler con- Similar letters were received rates of exchange between
that tallan authorities by the United States and other More than 100 people dicu firmed sterling and other cur- in
throughout the relayed a radio message report-members of the North Atlantic
ing, "the alreraft was forced Treaty Organisation shortly be rencies, and this in turn United States during the 24-down by two Albanian fighters fore their "ummill" meeting
on the in Paris. led to speculative capital hour period up to 6 pm. local and landed at Vione
timė tonight, according to movements on a large scale. officla? estimates,--Reuter. morning of December 31."
The Western allies are co-
their replies ordinating
but each is answering separately. United Press,
national factors, to produce some uncertainty about the
Tho British Government responded to the situation with Bome far-reaching. -constructive decisions.
September the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised, the Bank Rate to seven por cont
New York, Jan. 1.
accidents
Weather
Queen's Honour cribed as mostly cloudy at the
.
Weather in the area was des- time. The planned route would New York, Jan. 1. have taken the Skymaster mid- Heading In the Dally News way down the Adriatic, weil and announced over a story on Queen Elizabeth outside Albanian air space,
Western planes are not nor- I's New Year's honours list, which included world feather-maily permitted to fly over weight champion Hogan (Kid) Communist territory,
number of new measures designed to protect the external and internal value of the pound sterling, BESTY: This action, together with the
"Queen is in Kid Bassey's
firm statements made by corner-United Press,
both Britain and Germany that no exchange rato adf- Justmenta
were
The Adriatic is ut. ils nar- owest-less than 60 miles between Vlone and Italy.
Diranto,
contem DOROTHY'S SECRETng at least 30 miles west of
plated, was successful In halting and to some extent revorsing speculativo pree.
that the sure against
pound. But the Intention was not merely to achieve this short term objective.
Hollywood, Jan. 1. Voluptuous actress Dorothy Malone revealed today how.sho keeps males ogling her pro- portions.
"I"cat ́n ́sieh, gooey banana: split each afternoon as a plek- me-up," she said.-United Pro19.
Double Disaster
In some quarters fears have been expressed that the emphasis on price stability may lead to a decling, in nativity. The Government dia however confident that stable prices are com
Charlotte, Jan. 1. atible with full employ Two marine sergeants were "Cand industrial expan-killad today when thele, cor resulting from a high crashed thio a standing train
It the plane were on course, presumably would have been
the Albanian coast. Press.
United
Ceylon Buses Nationalised
BELL FOR HAILSHAM
London, Dec. 31. When Lord Hailsham rose to address 2,500 boys and girls from British gram- mar schools here today, a boy in a side gallery sud- denly produced a large handbell which he rang vigorously.
1
Many Killed In Train Crashes
New Delhi, Jan. 3. An express train smashed into a passenger train to day at a railroad junction In Punjab state.
First reports sald 30 Persons were killed and 100 injured. Some of the passengers werd burned to death' in a to that followed the collision, ..
The accident occurred six miles from Ambala, In Punjab, at the Morkstation railway Junction, Tho New Delhi- Pathankot Janta express train was bound to Ambala, while the passenger train was travell- ing from Ambala to New Delhi, WARSAW CRASH
Six persona, were killed and
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