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CABLE BRIEFS

Washington, Jan, 16. Kimball, a missile manufse- turer, was confronted with a long and involved question Ken. Leverett Baltonstall (Repub- can - Massachusetts) yesterday while testifying before the Benate Preparedness Subcom mitice.

"I don't believe I understand the question, Senator.“ Kimball said.

"I don't blame you," Salton- slalf repiled-United Presn.

Milwaukee, Jan. 16.

Army Sgt. Howard Rivers,

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY (17, · 1958.-

The Disarmament Deadlock:

BRITAIN SEEKS DAG'S

Secret Talks With

Selwyn Lloyd

Spark Rumours

London, Jan. 16.

24. found a friend in the owner Britain sought the backing today of the

of the Boltoms-Up Tavern which Rivera robbed Inst De- cumber walle wearing one

مرده

his baby's diapers as a mask.

Owner Harold Schumacher has hired his own lawyer 10 deferd Rivera because every- where

I 10 people (ell

U.N. Secretary-General, Dag Ham- marskjoeld, for an early Foreign Ministers' conforence with Russia to break the disarmament deadlock.

the wha nice guy the kid is." The Foreign Secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, pressed the

-United Press.

Knoxville. Jan. 10.

A mechanic quickly located

the trouble when W. L. Arthur's

car

refused fa

move even

though it was in gear and the

had

motor was running smoothly.

Somente

*Laten Ulic driveshaft--United' Press,

Atlanta, Jan. 10,

1 finally came out why Fred Ruppert installed a telephone bool in front of his home.

He borowed the booth from the Telephone Company to pro- vide shelter for a poliecinan

direct traffic assigned to front of a construction project neross the street, -United Press,

TE

Yamagala, Jna, 10, Businers was booming today for cereal and chareont whole- salers after they reverted to the pre-war custom of serving free sake to their customers-United Prest.

Ridgewood, Jan. 16.

The custodian of the Methodist Church here yesterday reported the theft of US$75 from the church safe.

The custodian is named Jesse- Jamer.Undted Press.

London Jan. 16. The Duke of Rutland Blunt had mixed luck yesterday.

Itunters were forced to quit chasing a fox when tog PR- veloped the area. Bus on the

way home they found another fox that had been hit by a car. -Vallel Prekn.

London, Jan 16. Antique denier Leonard Good- all. 85, was praised in court yesterday for catching a prow- fer and holding him for police at sword point.-United Press,

Chicago, Jan. 16. Hector Pierre, 27, kientifled himself as a policeman to three men playing pinochte on a bar and tried to confiscate Le money as "evidence."

The bar players were off-duty policemen who promptly arrest-

ed Pierre.-United Press.

plan in daylong confidential discussions with the United Nations chief, who flew to London this morning for a one-day visit.

The move coincided with a host of rumours that Mr Hammarskjoeld himself might be prepared to fly to Moscow to pave the way for new disarmament talks.

New British

Missile For Air Defence

London, Jan. 16. The first British “ground ta

air"

anti-aircraft guided missile will be put in ser- vice within two months. according to an announce ment today by Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Pike,

the Bristol

The missiles of the "Blood- hound type, manufactured by Aircraft Company, are "propelled by two "Thar

am-jets aided by four rockets which detach themselves after The lake off.

An ofkiti news blackout was

at

zlren་་ཕti over the discussions which opened

Mr Lloyd's private residence over lunch in the presence of his top dis- armament advisers, They were later continued in the privacy of Chequers, the official country resence of the Prime Minister. Diplomalie sources saiti Britain

stressed the vie

sht red by her allies in Natom BL dbarnment negotiations must be revived quickly as the first major move towards a broader settlement of the cold war.

Boycott

the

With Russla boycotting enlarged 25-member United Nations Commission, Britain sug- gested that the Soviets be per- suaded to talk over Foreign Ministers parley.

Lit

United

a For-

LIZ-A SECRET

WEAPON?

London, Jan. 10. Producer Mike Todd said today hn le taking his wife Elizabeth Taylor to Mostow becsute "She's the beat secret weapon we'vo gól”

"I thought it might bo good to show off Li to the Rusalans. It may under- mine their whole structure," Todd told newsmen at lære don airport. They will kpend a week in London

·before flying to Moscow.

Lis sported a diamond- studded fur hat and for cost-United Prosi,

Were Deadly Fumes Responsible

For Air Disaster?

San Francisco, Jan. 16. Deadly carbon monoxide fumes may have turned the cockpit of a Pan American Stratocruiser into a lethal gas chamber shortly before it plunged into the Pacific killing all aboard, a safety expert declared here today.

Experiments

For

Nuclear

Energy

Amsterdam, Jan. 16.

A

The Theory of monoxide rolsoning-a theory strongly laced with facle-was offered before Civil Aeronautics Board panel trying to solve the mystery of why the apparent- ly could alreraft suddenly fell from the sky on November last year.

k

The tragedy, which occured midway between San Francisco ard Hawaii, cost the lives

of

44 men, women and chlidren. Only 19 bodies and n few wreckage were fragments of

ever found.

BURNING FILM?

monoxide theory

WE

The offered by 1. H. Hoover, CAB who said ho

safety engineer, future

Sir Thomas sold that British air defences would be assured partly by supersonic "P-L" jet fighters armed with "air to air" rockets and operating within about a hundred miles of the British coast.

He said the balance of Britinis air defence would come from missiles like the "Bloodhound". which would be used against aircraft chal succeeded 13 smashing the horrler ol jul planes.

Sir Thomas

salt the "P-L", the last piloted Bghter that the HAF will build, will stay

IB

service for at least 10 years.- France-Presse.

A British Crossword Puzzle

12

13

14

18

19

21

22

23

ACROSS

3 Lead an idle life (8).

B Be frisky (0),

B Doesn't get up (4, 4).

11 That's quite enough! (8).

12 Short county (*).

13 A revolting person (5).

18 Alarm sounder (0).

19 OM (4).

22 The maximum (0).

DOWN

1 Almost a broakfast dish in

Surfey (3),

2 Giri of colour (5).

3 Masses of books (7).

4 Lamb of Belin!! (4),

5 Facility (4).

d Moves at an easy pace (0).

7 First-bom (0),

10 May be scit în hospital (5),

24 It usually comes to n, full 14 Wild ox (8).

stop (8).

25 Mark follower (6),

13 Brings down (7).

14 Bottle contents (8).

26 Con't deluded women see the 17 Items for consideration (8).

harm in them? (8).

20 His brothers are seldom re-

lated to himi (5).

Sho's precious (6). 22 Hair-do for pools fans (4). 29 Skin blemish (4).

THURSDAY'S ́ SOLUTION.—Across: 3 Amfenblo, 7 "Asent, Tominus, 10 Ocular, 13 Liberal, 15 gore, 17 Sainted, 18 Bar- ano-t, 20 I-run, 21′ Deprave, 23 Slewed, 27 Literato, 28 Alice, 28 Trembled, Down! 1 Carol, 2 Scrub, 3 Attar, 4 Camp, 3 Bounet, 0 Ensued, Ersod, 11 Cigar, 12 Lepon, 14 Latest 18 Snare, 10 Reeve, 15 Billet, 19 Ratio, 22 Flid, 23 Awelt, 24 Hågod, 25 Drab,

Mr Hammarskjoeld's reaction

has not so far emerged but it was underslood that he favours

a

carly resumption of disarma- ment negotiations and keeping ihem within the framework of the world organisation.

from

believed the fumes came from smouldering shipment of 4 motion picture film in the for ward cargo compartment.

smouldering fuselam fire existed in the forward cargo compartment or the con-

**

Such a meeting could show a way out of the present impasse tu free negotiations which would continue to be conducted under the umbrella of the Nations, the sources said.

kussin is opposed to eign Ministers' conference in which the tents the would be A Notherlands sclantist was cutnumbered.

reported today to have reached

a very advanced in oxperiments stago aimed at producing nuclear energy hydrogen and lithium. The scientist, J. Kistemaker, trol cabin, toxic fumes would has progressed so far with the tend to fill the control cabla new formula that the Europeon

and tourist cabin and some "Euratom" pool has dropped

overflow might pass through which he plans to set

door in up Q Special the

the partition Soviets for research centre in France to separating the tourist and first an immediate start on disarma- | perfect the method, Alderman

class compartments," he said. A. De Roos told the Amsterdam Mr Hoover said this theory ment preparations.

City Council.

WRE strongly backed by the fact Koos sald Kistemaker's that 14 of the

19 bodies rc- method, which is being studied covered showed high amounts

the mass spectroscopy of carbon monoxide: boratory here, would donise the nuclear energy field.

HIGHER AMOUNTS

Hydrogen and Ithium are both cheap and abundant,

Britain's approach was under- ined by Prime Minister Harald Macmillon's note to Soviet Pre- mier Bulgaria In planned with the

A Plea

Mr Maemilian pleaded for a Foreign Ministers conference to resolve the present deadlock.

Nevertheless Britain made it felvar in today's discussions that she is open to other methods, provided they promise to pro- duce a workable solution.

But she is opposed to the can- vocation of a special General Assembly, which she considers as too large a forum for delicate negotiations.

Britain, moreover, holds that the disarmament issue can best be tackled by the chief military and the nuclear powCTR.

et

Tivolu-

of

He said higher amounta monoxide were present in the Du Roos was speaking in a bodies of the pilot and passen- council debate on the purchase fors in the forward tourist of a plot of land to expand compartment. The body of the Kistemaker's laboratories.

stewardess, who sat toward the France-Presse,

rear of the plane, showed a relatively low monoxide con- centration,

MORE H-TESTS

BY BRITAIN?

London, Jan, 10.

The theory that the pilot and erewmen were unconsicious or dazed as the plane dropped to the ocean could account for the fact that no radio messago or distress signal was sent, al- though a routine position report had been made only 23 minutes) carlier.

account for the fact the plane

The same theory could also |

was 00 miles off course when

Further consultations among the Western powers were ex- The large tank-landing ship peeled to follow tho Lloyd-Narvik, which was the Royal Hammarskjoeld meetings,' Navy headquarters at Christus The two diplomats prepared Islands during the last British 10 continuo their talks at atom tests, is expected to sail Chequers tomorrow morning. Me soon from Britain to return to it crashed.-United Press. Hammarskjoeld is scheduled to the Christmas Islands, 11 was leave for New York tomorrow learned today at the Chatham evening-United Press.

New York

Under Snow Blanket

New York, Jan. 16. A thick snowfall shrouded New York's tall buildings today and the Weather Bureau estimated it would leave up to six inches of snow on the ground be fore nightfall

Two inches were measured by the Weather Bureau at the Bat-

tery by 9 am

Planes and trains were delay-

ed and auto traffle was already allthering into a jam,

The temperature hovered at the freezing mark.

Airport said the accumulation of snow was causing delays of up to one and one-balf hours in arrivals and departures, and might force cancellations of fights Inter in the day. Some airling were loading planos · In hangars on taxiing Bonded planes into hangers for last- minute de-icing precautions. United Pra,

Navul base.

This has given rise to further reports that new British atom tests are to take place in the Pacific, However, official er- eles continue stote that no such tests are planned al the

·moment.

The Norvik 16 at present undergoing short sea trials after

real at Chatham, France Presse.

Nicosia, Jan. 16. Hugh

The Governor of Cyprus. Sir Foot will return from London on Saturday, it was th nounced today.

con-

Sir Hugh, who succeeded Sir John Harding as Governor DI Cyprus last December, has been in the British capital for cultations on the Cyprus prob- tem with the Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd, and oficinis-United Press.

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CHAIRMAN WALKS OUT

HELP ROW OVER BRITAIN'S

PROPOSED NEW India Welcomes PURE-JET AIRLINER

Loan From The US

"But It Could've

Been Better"

London, Jan. 16.

The chairman of one of Britain's biggest aviation companies was reported today to have walked out of a stormy meeting which was deciding who will build Britain's new medium-rango jet airliner.

The

And De Havilland have taken

The evening stewspaper Stor reported that Sir Reginald its own stand on this meeting.

Vernon-Smith, Chairman of

Now Delhi, Jan. 16. Mr H. M. Patel, the Indian

Informed sources sald Do Government's principal

the Bristol Company which Havilland had sold I would finance secretary, today built the Whispering Glant" take no part in any merger in welcomed the U.S. State Britannias, walked out of which it did not retain completo

which control of the design staff. Department's announce- round-table meetings

This report, and the report of ment of a US$290 milliars began on Monday at the Minis-

Vernon-Smith's walk-out" would loan to India, mainly in try of Supply.

Spokesmen for Bristol, the appear to show that the expect- the form of funds.

'Ministry and other conference id clash has come, with neither **X ath certainly happy this participants would nat com-side at the moment prepared to assistance has

forth-1

ment on the report.

give ground.-United Press. coming," he told press con ference.

An Indian reporter added loudly: "But it could have been better!"

to

Mr B. K. Nehru, who will lead India's negotiating mission Washington, then interrupted: "Everything could be better."

MOST URGENT

The loan,

port.

onnounced

for

In

Attending the meeting are

representallyes of the Ministry Maria Callas

of Supply, the

Ministry

Transport, of British European Airways (BEA) and of the Bristol, De Havilland onil Hawker-Siddeley companies.

PURE JET

With deferice aviation con- trickle,

The conference is deciding Washington today, is designed who will bulld BEA's now to assist India in her second medium-range pure jet air- five-your development plan.

liter contract worth £20,- Mr Patel Gald the most 000,000, urgent projects

which assistance was needed included tracts dwindling to a rallways, power and road trans-the order was all-important India also hoped for a Zor the British Jet firms. US$100 million loan from the

The Government is seeking World Bank

to use it to force the larger Mr B. K. Nehru, Secretary of arms to merge so that futuro the economie affairs department research into je flying can of the Finance Ministry, said the be financad by these aid negotiators would have to groups without Government "pick and choose" from a "shop- subridy. ping list" of 75 projects requiring aid which India had submitted to the United States-Reuter.

Mystery Meeting

Amenun, Jan, 10, Members of the Jordanion of Parliament Lower House were today summoned to attend an emergency session on Satur day to hear a "very important" statement by Mr Samir Ritul, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister. The subject of the statement was not known. Reuter

Bristol The

and Huwker Siddeley groups quickly fell in with this and formed t new company especially to build the new plune for BEA.

However, It

Holds Up An Airliner

Paris, Jan. 16. Opera singer, Maria Callan,

✡

today held up the Air- France regular airliner for Now York for 45 minutos while harassed baggoge attendants searched for hor poodle "Blott". The prima denna was about to board the plane, after

briet slop-over here from Rqme, when the discovered that the bag in which Blotti travels had got sent in with the luggage.

To find it, the attendanta hud to unpack the stack of cases

Had the search lasted a few minutes longer, the plant might have been held up overnight as fog suddenly fell over the air- port.

Kenerally "The singer, who caused an krown in aviation circles that incident by walking out of a Lord Douglas, the BEA chair- | first-night performance of man and his advisors, favours "Norma" in Rome recently, sald the De Havilland design pro-

Jeet for the plane.

she was to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera onco In spite of the sad fate of a week until March and that the Comet airliners, which De she was to sing at a concert in Havilland had coming off the Chicago, production line in 1952, BEA) considers De Havilland the most advanced company in the world

in buliding jet airliners.

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