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TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1958.

SHEAFFERS

Skrip

SPUTNIK HOW EUROPE WAS SAVED FROM OWNERS GAIN

INFLUENCES UNION

Detroit, Jan, 13. The powerful United Auto- mobile Workers Union to- announced it day

was

postponing its demanil for a shorter working week "in the light of the realities of the world sfiantion", following Rus- sia's Sputnik successes,

At the same time the Union's executive ixard anavinced a new collective bargaining pro- gramme for 1958 based an division of all profits above 10 per cent of nel caplial be- *ween the Executives, Wir shareholders, the workers and the consumers.

I also proposed an imune- Ciate general wage

"based

OIL STARVATION

Peacetime Teamwork Between Companies And Governments

Paris, Jan. 14.

The official version of how Europe was saved from a crip- pling "oil starvation" following the blocking of the Suez Canal and the blowing up of the Syrian pumping stations in November, 1956, was told today in a report published here by the Organisation for European Economic Co-opera- tion (OEEC).

HK-PI Film

The

sald the success of the

fact remains that the rescue operation W2+5 largely Middle East contains the fargest due to the precedented pesce- | proven oll reserves in the world. line teamwork between the And there are no clear signs of various governments and the the" development of comparable

reserves elsewhere."

Premiere world's oll companies. increase,

on inerea -od produc- tvily" but gave no figure.

Present average hourly wage In the motor industry is 2.32 dollars.

Manila, Jan. 14.

sumber

The report said: "The safe-

sence 11211

Europe 10

measures of partiul

No

neglecting

Insurance,

So successful was this ven-guarding of European oil sug- ure that Europe could have plies will require the con- The Arst Philippine movie to faced the spring and

centrated efforts of beth ROY- danger to its

ernments med entirely in Hongkong, of 1957 without

and industry." Its South-Industrial Pagoda, will have

aclivity even if the

af false

security should East Asia galu premiere here Suez Calta! bad remained un- big three, on January 28, it was announced, usable, Fort and yesterday by the Sampaguita

(The canal. blocked Chrysler, nude no immediate j movie studio,

following are Egypt Pagoda

inditary outstanding French

WDS

10 reopened April, 1937).

The General

Industry's

Motors,

comment on the Chion's de- Bands.China Mat Special,

Court Martial

Yokosuka, Jan. 13, A vourt martial board i

sentenced

Sgt Robert Babuti, į of Schenectady, New York, lo eight months lasprisonment and broke him to private for abusing prisoners at the Sasebo Naval Base big where he acted as warden.

in Starring Gloda Romero, Filipina

movie Juancho Gullerrez,

actress,

and

The picture was jointly directed by Wong Tien-tim. of: Hengitons. und Eduardo de

Castro. France-Presse.

Resignation

Buenos Aires, Jan. 13. Senor Alfonso De Laferrere, Argentine Foreign Minister, has resigned following a Government squabble over the dispatch of a tride mission to Russia, it was disclosed tonight,

The board, which also levied US$80-2-unti ne during

confinement, The Government issued sentence for deeree Inday accepting Senor De three hours and 45 minutes-¦ Laferrere's resignation though United Press.

without giving details.-Reuter.

the period of the dekoerated The

Whiteaways

by

such as higher stocks, reserve Anglo- tankers and spare production

capacity.

The

intervention,

trafic

in

Great Efforts

The report sold throughout erisis the United the period of States made great

efforts 10 assist In overcoming Its con- sequences by Increasing ship- ments to Europe

from stocks, by re-activating a "mothball deer" (18 tankers) and by rais- ing allowable production in the Texus oll folds.

But the report warned

that "complete insurance against a Tuture crisis is impossible" and said Europe could not count on the United Stales always being able to divert oil supplies.

JANUARY

SALE

"THE BIGGEST-EVER"

COMMENCES

TO-MORROW

WITH

BREATHTAKING BARGAINS

IN EVERY DEPARTMENT AT ALL BRANCHES

DRASTIC REDUCTIONS

HAVE BEEN MADE AND NO EFFORT SPARED TO MAKE THIS SHOPPING, EVENT THE BIGGEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL OF WHITEAWAYS

IN THE HISTORY

COME EARLY

FOR THE SHOPPING TREAT OF A LIFETIME

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. HONG KONG & KOWLOON.

More Financial

of

The report said the impact of the Suez crisis was more Bnan- cial than economic. Europe's balance

came payments under strain but little damage was done to Industrial expan- ston.

This expansion was already slowing down before the crisis,

contributing to the general con- clusion that "the effect of the Sucz crists 011 the generat economy of Europe

was less grave than was at first expect- ed."-China Mail Special.

MURDERED

2 HUSBANDS SAY POLICE

Durham, Jan. 13. Folico charged here today that 66-your-old Mrs Mary Wilson, the "Merry Widow of Windy Nook", mur- dered two of her three husbands.

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

#1-20

TAIME, VA, PELOTE

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"I started some shopping today, dear-bought a new suit and hat to do it in?""

Students' Outer

Space Joke Backfires

Reading, Jan, 14.

The joke has backfired on university

POSSESSION

OF FLAT

Judgment for possession of a flat in Des Voeux Road Central and mesne profit amounting to $2,700 was given by Mr Justice A. D. Scholes in the Supreme Court this morning against Chan Chor-wan, married woman, named as second defendant in a claim for possession,

Mrs Chan consented to judg- ment.

The claim was brought by Mr Ma Yan, merchant, для Mr David Szeto, solleitor, owners of the premises, No. 307, Des Voeux Road Central, third floor.

The plaintiffs were sented by Instructed by Messrs Bruttons and Co. Mrs Chan appeared lu

person.

repre-

Night Club Combination

Mr B. A. Bonucchi, Breaks Up

Mr Bernacchi told the Court that the action had been settled and handed up to the Court a letter odiressed by the defen-

cant

solicitors. to plaintiffs' agrecing

with slight variations.

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The popular Billy Banks and Nick Demuth com- bination has broken up. Tonight will be their last appearance after which they have decided to go their separate ways. Most of the

Counsel further stated that plaintiffs would agree to a stay

Club

of execution for 20 days Iri

Colony's Night habitues will have seen

Banks going numbers which brought him

Itilly

through

respect of possession And of Iwo months in respect of the fame, while Nick Demuth ac-

mesne profit.

TENANCY

TRIBUNAL

companied him on the piano,

They first met up in London Wood where performed at the Green Empire and the Stork Club, and then left to tour the provinces before commencing a Continental engagemet,

FOUR YEARS

Interviewed

A Tenancy Tribunal pre- Nicic Demuth refused to state this morning, sided over by Mr H. H. D. the reason for the breakup of How with Mr W. their show which has lasted up Vaughan and Mr Wong to now for four years. Nick iz Sik-ching, this morning no strunger to Hongkong having arrived here with the 46th heard an application for Roval Marine Commandos the exemption of Nos.group. He returned to England 250 and 252 Sai Yeung to become a London bund leader, and arranger of music for his Choi Street, Kowloon.

own combination. Flans to replace the existing

Nick Demuth intends to stay students here who planned to hoax the three-storeyed tenement type in Hongkong and form his own buildings with twu eight-band with an individual styla world with the "landing" of a radio-storeyed blocks were placed and his own singer. active "thing" from outer space.

The students, it is disclosed

today, that one

before the Tribunal by the architect, Mr S.S.L, Yue.

said that the houses would take about six months to construct and cost $145,000.

Uis week, a yellow light would SWORDFISH KY, Yung of F. Zimmer.

have been fred into the sky near Swindon, Wiltshire, in the west

of England.

A weird noise would have teen heard from high fre- quency amplifiers set up by the students.

used to suggest the landing of

Blow lamps would have been

SINKS SAILBOAT

Manila, Jan. '14,

attacked A giant swordfish n spaceship.

and sank a sailboat with six Then, when the authorities people aboard,

one of whom rushed scient!e investigators died, In the shark-infested She was formally charged to- to the area.

geiger counters waters off Sinuyan Islands day with the murder of husband would have shown the pre- the Central Philippines in the No. 2, a 76-year-old retired sence

of radioactive material middle of last week, it was TC- estate agent. She is alleged to

in the area,

ported last night. have murdered him on October 3, 1950.

The survivors, Including a seven-month-old baby, were And,, to clinch the matter and picked up

by an Inter-islan make world headlines, a student vessel last Sunday night after disguised as

a "thing" from four days at sea. outer space would have ter

They said that the swordfish rorised the vincinity.

bere a hole in the hull of the vessel, causing it to sink.

Mrs Wilson, a plump woman whose cheerful manner got her logged as the "Merry Widow of Windy Nook"-her Just home lownis already in custody here on a charge of murdering husband No. Ernest Wilson, a 76-year-old retired, engineer.

She married him on October 28 and is alleged to have mur- dered him "on November 12", 1957.

Or

REMANDED

about

Clinch Matter

But instead today a handful of Reading University students are debaling anxiously: can we do with our 200.radio- active isotopes?

What

For these isotopes, contained In a lead box, were to have set the gelger counter teking-and the world Press beating a path to the scene of the "spacemen" lending earth.

on

Mrs Wilson has yet to face Irial on the first murder charge. She has been remanded in Bul the University's vice- custody by police court Chancellor, Sir John Wolfenden, magistrate several times since was told about the plot and im

2

The lone fatality drowned and was believed to have been caten by sharks.-France-Presse.

Engineer To Look Into KCR Removal

this

and Co. represented the ap- plicant, Mr Chen Yuen-dah who will give evidence after las spection of the premises,

Most of the opposing tenants

Mr V. A. M. Robertson, part- have

not yet agreed on com-

ner of a Grm of consulting en- pensation terms.

gineers, arrived here Representing the opponents

morning by BOAC from London were Mr F.H.B, Wong of C.Y. Kwan and Co., Mr P.C, Woo ment

In connection with a Govern-

announcement of P.C. Woo and Co., Mr P. possibility of the removal of the of the Mo of Peter Mo and Co., and Kowloon-Cantco

Railway ter- Mr A.5.C. Comber of Hastings minal from its present site in and Co.

Tsimshatsui to the north end of The case is continuing this the Hunghom Reclamation,

afternoon.

SNATCHERS ARRESTED

The consulting engineers aro Sir William Halcrow and part- ners of London who have been engaged with view of ascer- taining whether such a move could be made at an acceptable cost.

Mr Robertson had no state- ment to make at Kil Tak.

He was met at the airport by The Police have arrested two Mr W. A. Johnson, Assistant Chinese following the larceny of Director of the Public Works an carring from Chinese

Department. woman in Lol Chi Kok Road, near Pei Ho Street and the theft of a sum of monoy from another woman ip Eastern

Uganda Govt Street yesterday,

Moving

her arrest on December 11 te mediately forbade any students To Kampala

enable "further investigations" to take part in it.

to be carried out.

So the landing from another Her arrest at a tiny hotel world was called off and now where she was hiding from one of the students has to keep newsmen followed the dramatic the isotopes under his bed until midnight exhumation. a few their radioactivity has worn off. days previously of the bodies of the two husbands she accused of murdering.

The police have not yet re- vealed how the alleged murders were committed.-United Press.

CALL GIRLS IN MAYFAIR

London, Jan. 13, The existence of an extensive network of specially-trained"

call-girls and prostitutes in

Wear Off

After about three months, the radioactivity may wear of and the lead box can be thrown

away.

One of the students is quoted today as saying "We cannot re- turn the isotopes to where we got them. You can't have radio- active material in the dustbin. So we don't know what to do."- China Mail Special.

Commemorated

Loudon, Jan. 13.

Kampala, Jan. 13. The seat of the Uganda GDY“. ernment will be moved from Entebbe to Kampala, 21 miles away, during the next few years, the Governor of Uganda, Sír Frederick Crawford, said here today.

Two wrist watches were snatched from Chinese women perbestrians yesterday, one Ja Nathan Road near Waterloo Road and the other in Fa Yuen Street ntar Dundas Street. Another woman had her purse stolen in Kfu Kiang Street.

Singer Found In Mayfair In Underpants

London, Jan. 13, Nineteen-year-old rock 'n roll alnger Terry Dene, arrasted wondering through fashionable Mayfair in underpants and car-

No Fresh Pork pet shippers, was fined £2 here

Tomorrow

today on a drunk charge and conditionally discharged on n

| charge of malicious damage, The move was likely to start

Dene, appearing under his There will be no fresh pork real name of Terence Williams, in 1800 when the first of the new government buildings built in on sale in the market stalls pleaded guilty to being drunk Kampala would be ready, he said. | tomorrow as the slaughtering and disorderly and to mallefous-

|of pigs will stop later today. Addressing the Legislative

ly damaging a plate glass win- Council after the installation of

Members of the Pork Dealers dow worth £110. 145 94. Ha restitution Sir John Grifin, former chief Union are declaring a holiday promised to make

a dinner to from his approximately £180 a justice of Uganda, as the Legis- today to attend

maria the 37th anniversary of week net carnings-China Mail Inture's first spesker. Sir

the foundation of the union. Special. Frederick said the building up of a strong central Government. and Legislative Counell were

A plaque attached to High-essential steps in Uganda's pro- London's fashionable Mayfair wood House, Highwood Hill, once gress towards self-government section was discovered by the the home of Sir Stramfors China Mail Special.

Vigilante Soelety, the organi- Remes, founder of Singapore, sation announced in a report will be unvelled by the Mayer of published here today.

Honden, couneffior, S. E. Arridge, The Vigilantes, a philanth on Friday-France-Presse. rople and moral organisation

which devotes itselt benevolent-

Corinth, Miss., Jan. 13.

ly to tracking down "vice", sald Herman James was sentenced

NOT SANTA

Rochester, Jan, 13,

in its report that the Mayfair to ́she months in gooi hero today A suspected burglar, who hid prostitutes were "protected" by }, for turning out his wife and in n chimney hero today, powerful international gangs, † nine-month-old baby into the | amerged into room full of | directed from centres in several | rala on Chrisimas Day, ́n policemen who were just about

continental European countries.ri The baby later died.—China to give up the search for him--|

France-Prene.

Mail Special,

Unina. Mail Special.

Woman Hurt

Sailor Robbed

A Chinese woman, aged 20, A rickshaw coolle was arrested sustained serious injuries when by the Police following the she was knocked down by a theft of a sum of money from a moter-scooter in Jordan Road, sailor of the United States Navy near Cox's Road-af about 110 outside the Chion Fleet Club at pm yesterday.The woman, Lee 10.50 pm yesterday. Later Lai-ying of 42 Reclamation sum of money was stolen from

American Bailor fr Street, frat floor, is detained in onother Kowloon Hospital for treatment., Jaffe Road.

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