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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1958.

'Democrats Will Plan Own Missile Programme'

-He Lost His Appetite-

Now They Know Where

THREAT TO IKE'S LEADERSHIP Those Pennies Went!

WARNING: PRESIDENT MUST LEAD THE NATION IN MONTHS AHEAD-OR ELSE

Senator John J. Sparkman said

would hammer out its own miss.to threat it President auuquate plan.

Washington, Jan. 5. ' today the Democratic Congress moet Russia's programme to Eisenmower failed to provide an

The Democratic Senate Whip, Mike Mansfield, made clear he thought Mr Sparkman was right. But he indicated he believed it would be uiflicult-and possibly dangerous-for Congress to shape basic policy. Both Senators called on the President to provide needed leadership. And they pledged the co-operation of Congress if it was forthcoming.

World's Biggest Non-Atomic Explosion

"The country and Congress looks to Eisenhower for lender- hip," Mr Mansfeld said. “The Duinocrats will go more than half way in meeting Eisenhower if he exercisμ 11"

Senator Sparkman said the President would and Congress 'most co-operative." Bul he said it the President d not "Congress provide leadership

will take the lead."

Mr Mansfeld pointedly warn-

jur

Little Valley, Utah, ed of the dongers in any attempt

Jan. 5. by Congress to substitute

"be- leadership More than 3,000,000 cubic Presidential

yards of ruck were the Presidency." blasted from a cliff here

21 cause of powers inherent

Statements

today in whut was claimed to be "the world's But the largest non-atomic plosion in history."

statements under- ex-scored earlier Congressional the President warnings that must provide strong leadership in the months ahead or face an almost certain attempt by Con- gress to provide it,

The engineers used 2,138,000 Pounds of dynamite to blow up a 300-fool high cliff to get rubble to build a causeway across greft Salt Lake,

The charge was set off by a battery plunger which sent a charge of electricity racing into prepared tunnelling.

Primacord, a rope-like fuse which burns at 22,000 feel per second, detonated the pockets of explosives-China Mail Special

The LWD Senalers both members of the Senate Forcin Relations Committee-shrugged off the proposal by the British Prime Minister, Harold Mac- millius for an East-West non- aggression pact.

Mr Sparkman said the United States had learned in dealing

with Russia that more Was Leeded taan "a plece of paper." But he called Mir Macman's

She Fell Off A proposal on the heels of the Nato

1

Moving Train

Rome, Jan. 5.

staumit conforence "a momentous statement" in its implications.

"I am afraid that it means we

do not occupy the position of

A school-teacher looking forecognised leadership

the

the dining car in a dark tunnel past," he said, "It shows a lack

stepped off the back of an ex- press train today--and picked herself up virtually unhurt.

Was

train The

of co-operation."-United Press.

traveling Sputniks' Progress

slowly at the time because of the risk of landslides at the tunnel exit.

The school teacher, Egle Abrami, 32, of Turin, stepped cut of the door of the train's rcar coach. She got a ride in to the a passing automobile

Moscow, Jan. 5. Sputnik i will bave made 901 revolutiona

by of the earth 0300 GMT tomorrow, the Tass news agency said tonight.

Tass falled to make any men- tion of the fate of "Sputnik 1”. nement hospital,-United Press-France-Presse.

Sedgefield, Jan. 6.

JAPAN'S WEATHER: WORST A 64-YEAR-OLD man admitted to hospital here

IN LIVING MEMORY

Tokyo, Jan. 6. [ILLIONS of Japanese today shivered

MILLION

inside their flimsy houses as gule force winds, swirling snow blizzards and huge seas battered the country from coast to coast,

the National A spokesman for Observatory in Tokyo said Japan's pre- ent weather was the worst in living memory.

The only centre enjoying fair weather was Tokyo. In northern Japan, mountain police rescue squads con- tinued to make slow headway in their attempts to rescue scores of skiers and amateur mountaineers trapped in the mountains.

Latest reports said 10 bodies had been dug out from beneath a number of avalanches. Eleven seriously Injured persons were being slowly evacuated down mountain slopes covered with deep.

show.

Tired railway offcials attempting to restore some sort of order in the national communications network told Reuter: "The system is in complete chaos."

Trains were hours running · behind schedule while main arterial roads wers choked with stalled buses, trucks and motorcars. A National Maritime Safety Board spokesman

and said gales blizzards had forced "every single ferry oncrater in the country to suspend their, services."-Icuter.

suffering from "loss of appetite" was found

to have 424 coins and 27 pieces of wire in his stomach, it was disclosed today.

The total weight of the "jackpot" discovered by sur goons inside him was five and a half pounds.

The coin consisted of 306 half-pennies, 20 supóneos, 17 threepenny pictes, 11 peunies and four shillings-total valus 21, 171. 5d

"Human Money Box”

The "human money box" is to be described in the Britch Medical Journal as an exceptional surgical caso,

Ere is a mental patient who for a long time was paid 2a, 6d. weekly in pocket money. He always inslated on being paid la small colas — and, now the authorities know where the change went.

Today he is eating heartily again -- but he will not get the money back that he swallowed.

A hospital spolcosman said: "The coins are crown property. They will not be returned to the patient."-China Mall Special.

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A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

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20

DOWN

1 Remember to bring back (0) 2 Continue to be (5).

7 Stamping tools (4).

B Suspect's claim (3).

10 Dwelling (6).

11 Final equipment for the cob-

bler (4),

1 Ho's and to have lived 989

years (10).

15 Heavy volume (4).

10 Kit in a box, maybe (4),

10 Apartment which cauced a

war? (10),

22 Way of moving (4).

24 Intended to convey (5).

25 Prophet, who sounds boring

(5).

26 Medal struck before meals

(4).

3 Last word in French rallway

slations? (0).

4 The

one lo follow in the newspaper (0),

5 Worshipper of Images (8),

0 River for golfers (4).

4 One of the U.S.A. (9).

12 A certain amount of heat

(6).

13 Cigantle elty figure' (5).

14 What our ancestors left us

(0).

17 Frenchman in England for

fristance (8).

10 Bits of rubbish-but only

little bhes (0).

20 He was home in the war (5).

27 in the saddio in Yorkshire 31 Wind Instrument (8).

(0)

23 Tu a frenzy (4),

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