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DAKS

THE FARGUS COMFORT IN ACTION TROUSERS

Whiteaways

RUNI KUNG

AC DE WE MON

A-BOMB DROPPED ON US FARM UK's Relations

With China

WORDS WITHOUT Explodes CIGARETTES DON'T CAUSE LUNG CANCER Let's Bury The Could Improve

END

the West the major criticism or policy is that we appear to have abdicated the initiative to the Krem- lin and contrived to foster the idea that it is only that industrious letter-writer his Bulganin and boisterous boss who want

Mr

peace. The Russians profit little from this, however, because of the poverty of ideas that these repetitious screeds botray, and the resolute ban Moscow imposes on discussion of Germany or really free elections in any

any

of the regiona the Com- munists occupied by armed force.

Moscow Gets In First

M

roscow might have obtained a better hear- ink for its verbose commen- tary on the SEATO

conTM ference, especially በክ Peking

faithfully reiterated the mass line set by Moscow In where the Chinese ought not to have waited on Ita ally,

an

area

After alt Mr Chou Enlai him- self made the proposal of a Collective Peace Treaty- whalever that may mean in aubatance-more than once In the

past three

But No

Mushroom

Cloud

By RICHARD W. HATCH

un-

Florence, S.C., Mar. 11. A B-47 bomber accident-

ally dropped an armed nuclear bombi on a rural homestead! today and its TNT trigger exploded, in- juring six persons in o shower of dust and debris. But there was no atomic explosion.

Air Force personnel rushed

to the area under the per-

sonal direction of Major- Gen. Charles Dougher,

Commander of the 38th Air Division at Hunter Air Force Base, Savannah, Georgia. The plane was hased there.

All persons wore warned to year stay out of the Immediate area This in any case looked toolest the explosion had destroyed much like sheer sabotuge — but not detonated the

of

device. There Was

MANUFACTURER BELIEVES

Washington, Mar. 11. Cigarette manufacturer Lewin

Gruber, President of “Lorillard Co., predicted today skat medical research "will fully

cigarette exonerate smaking of any and all con. nection with king cancer."

This

whole cigarette-health controversy will, I feel cer tain, resolve itself in the not 100 distant future," Gruber mait in a speech to the Wash- ington Advertising Club. The Club presented him a special achlevement Award "for his

Matrimonial

precedent-setting

really believes they are" Bo- leadership

cauro there has been no "mass abandonment” of elgareites.

in cigarette research marketing.

And

He said the tobacco industry is than con- "more concerned" gressional committees, medical statisticians or even individual the 11 consumers health

"bo- question polved cause wo hayo more at stake."

"We do not belleve I do not belleve that elzarettes sro a cancer," cansative of lung Gruber sald, "I do not even think the American #moker

While the question is being re- tobacco solved, he said, the industry will continue to_con- centrate on Improving fillers that will rezave

Larger amounts of lootine and tor. Xin said that

allers now con-

stitute an estimated 44 per

cent of all the tobacco 10. dustry's sales, compared with Tess than one per cent in early 1952-United Pr

Crisis Between Shah

Soraya Persists

And Empress

Teheran, Mar. 11.

Nothing short of a miracle can solve the matrimonial crisis between Shah Reza Pahlevi of Iran and his childless ›Em- press Soraya, a high court official said here today.

Industrial Development In Colony

a potential danger of radioactive Slows Down

contamination of a small area.

of a principle conccded at nuclear Bandung instead Hincere peace geature. But there is a growing im-

This was the rst time an patience with the stale Atomic bomb, the weapon that

Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 11. mate in Asia, and already bought Japan to Ha kuce A United Nations economic there arc rumours io overnight in 1945, had been survey released here said London of a plan by Maoooed on U9 gol armed or Hongkong's pace of Indus: Tse-tung to call a summit otherwise. Another B-47 jetü-

trial development slowed conference of all Asian soned a nuclear bomb off-shore

down a little in 1957. nations as a further build- near Savannah, Georglo, last up after the withdrawal month but it did not explode. The survey said this was due from North Korea.

But

in part to industrialisation in The bomb struck in the yard neighbouring countries, coupled whether that would tempt of Walter Gregg, in the rural with restrictive import measures Japan

1s very doubtful Mars Bluff area five miles north adopted by its trading partners. Indeed.

of Florence, in South Caro- The survey was prepared for Japan failed in her effort to ma. It wrecked hia house, the annual meeting of the rally other nations round injured himself and ave Economic Commission for Asia her on the basis of a large members of his family and tore and the Far East. scale development plan, and a yawning erator 75 feet wide she has now been forced to and 35 feet deep in his yard. give up the idea of a Con- ference of Asian Foreign Ministers.

So there has been another

Staked Out

"The Air Force has the whole cautious step backward and arca staked out tonight," sald from McLeod Gregg, 37,

He was

at the Ecafo conference in Hospital at Florence. Kuala Lumpur Japan sug struck twice in the side by fly- gested that experimental ing timber as the bomb landed

while he was in this garage.

inter-regional talks should

be instituted early next year for the promotion of trade.

Poverty Not Ideology

THE main problem is not so Tuch ideology, as poverty,

"Mechanical malfunction of the plane's bomb lock" caused the four-joi 1-47 to let go the bomb, sald a brief announce. ment from Straterlo Air Force headquarters ita Omaha, Nebraska.

Chr.

but the Communists simply In today's mishap, SAC sold, cannot allow coexistence a "high explosive component" conventional TNT in the to go beyond ideological of frontiera. They would as nuclear triggering device did rundily agree to free explode. This explosive is

ali nuclear weapons, ried in whether or not they are armed. Gregg, the unintentional frut American victim of an "Atomic Bald ho was in his bomb", garage and his wife was in the house when the B-47 came

wooching low overhead.

elections in North Vietnam and North Korea as they would in their own country. Long talks about the theory and practico of regional free trade that got nowhere in particular are no answer to the urge for unity either.

His little boy, Waller, Jr., 6, Many will consider it for better to accept the divisions, who was injured, was just and to create over them alde the garage. federations or confederations

which will allow of certain

common action ani

operation, especially

economic and

matters.

-00

Foggy Haze

In "About five seconds after financial saw it go over, there was

explosion," Gregg said.

I said the proportion of locally produced goods in Hong kong's total exports fell from 20.8 per cent in 1955 to 24.3 per cent in 1950, and 23.2 per cent in the first 11 months of 1057-Reuter,

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IN FLOODS

Was

Sydney, Mar. 11. damage Widespread

revealed today as Sydney's floods oased.

Between midnight and 9 am. today Sydney recorded only 15 points of coin, compared with more than four inches for the corresponding period yesterday,

Since Saturday, 12 inches had been registered by the Weather Bureau but some suburbs in the "abnormal wet."

have

Many market-gardeners been practically washed out of business.

In all suburbs, roads and foot- in-paths have been seriously dam- aged and repair gangs are clear- ing choked drains and storm- water channels.

an

The example now being not by blow out the side and the top Europe will not be lost on of the garage just as my buy the larger trading nations ran inside with me.

like Japan and China, but will hardly influence the smaller units which do not

The Weather Bureau forecasts a slow improvement-Router.

Zhukov Seen

-D1

Every hour that passes with- out a return of the Empress iessena the chances of a conciliation, and time is clearly working against Soraya, the official said.

The Empras is

at present

staying in Cologne with her father, Iranian Ambassador to West Germany.

Can't Sacrifice

Now that the dynastic prob- lem has received such intense publicity fee his duty as head of state to the requirements of his wife Torever attempt # TET HOP Aft

her attitude conciliation while apparently affords him no en- couragement whatsoever.

the Shah cannot sacri-

18-Year-Old Black-Haired Beauty As New Queen?

Milan, Mar. 11.

A black-haired, 18-year-old beauty is expected to re- place franlar Queen Boraya as the wife of. Bhah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, a nationwide cir. culation magazine claimed here tonight.

In its edition to be publish- sd tomorrow the Milani magazine, Gante, said the Shah's prospectiva now wife was Mira, Manurr, daughter of the Chieftain of the Manurr Tribe.

Donte's Tohoran correspon- dent quoted unidentified "mourcos" as saying that beautiful Manurr **E destined to replace Boraya In the Bhah's heart." "it was believed to be the first time the name Mira Manure was linked with the crials allegedly con- fronting the Iranian Royal Family," Ganto said, but did

the not identify sources who claimed Mira would become the new wife of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi United Press,

Moreover, the opinion of the Crown Council is categorie: The heir to the throne must be a son of the sovereign. In other words, a union of seven years' duration, which was very happy In Moscow, Mar 11.

many respects, but which Soviet Vice-Defence Minis-brought no solution to the suc "The Umbers were fallin ter, Marshal Ivan Bagcanian, cession problem is evidently around us. There was said tonight that he had re-bound shortly to be succeeded green, foggy hata around us and then a big black cloud of centy seen the former Defence by a now union.

Morshol Georg! No doubt Soraya will have to ginoke. It ted about 80 Minister,

Zhukov, in Moscow. He said make way for a new Empress, that Zinkov Wo well.

Ho capable of producing an heir to "When it cleared up, I looked added that he did not know the Iranian throne within to make vory effective at the house. The top was Zhukov had laken on any now short time.

what such now Too sure, perhaps of her plea against such relative blown in, and a alde blown off. dulles, nor

duties would be. Bagramian beauty, but also haunted by her woman" complex, Indifference. Neither a large I saw the other children on the

about "sierlic rematics nor a series of small bites other aldo of the house about made

at the qualition, has perhaps somewhat at the apple of discord and 100 yards from where the bomb Zhukov to a journalist during Boraya, In spite of her great

tonight's reception disunity Boems practical.

Embassy. France- neglected her duties as Queen, Gregg sald. the point of impact Danish

and in ho destra to be above all the sovereign's

she

Buffer the urges that afflict Japan and are not uncontent with things as they are.

It was hard for Mr ShibuBAWA

seconds,

hit."

But it is not easy for the way about 60 yards from where Presse. pragmatist and pure politi- he was, on the edge of his smalt

cian who has small patience garden,

with ideological doctrine to

Grezz, a former paratrooper

understand why the two in the 13th Airborne Division, ho never dreamed his halvos, running their own sold domestic policy in their own place had been hit by an Atomic way, cannot unite on semo

of the many things that they ought to hold In coumen, with trade to begin with.

bomb.

the

Thai General

A

Erroll Replies

To Complaints Against HK

Hatchet Of War: Mikoyan

London, Mar. 11.

Soviet Presidium member Anastas I. Mikoyan

called on the West tonight to "bury the hatchet of war,

"Radio Moscow reported.

The broadcast sakt Mikoyan,

spealding as an election enceting NO OBJECTIONS

told his audience that a BUM- mit meeting "probably will be held" between East and West

In the near future,

The theme of such a meeting, he said, should be “let us bury the batchet of war so that no one can dig it up. Let us ter minate hydrogen and atomic bomb tests.

TO MEETING

OF FOREIGN

"Let us ban atomic weapons MINISTERS: K.

altogether and tackle disarma- ment in all seriousness."

UNACCEPTABLE

Mikoyan des ared that the Us proposal to ban use of cosmic space for military purposes WAS mode in the hope it would be

the "unacceptable to

Soviet Union,"

The Soviet Union was the only nation affected at present by such a ban, he said, since it was the only one with on operational Intercontinental ballistic missile.

in

"But we have agreed to dis- cuss that iskie as well it it is connected with the question of elimination of foreign bases," London, Mar. 11,

Mikoyan was one of several The Board of Trade said to top Russian leaders who spoke

day that no baals had yat to political gatherings boon found for sugges-Russia tonight and whooe ad- toss, which it had Inves- dresses. vero broadcast in part by Radio Moscow. United tigated, that Japanosa

Pro goods were being exported to Britain through Hong- kong falsely indicating thair place of origin as Hongkong.

A Labour member, Mr Re- ginald Sorensen, had raised the subject in the House of Com-

mons.

RE-EXPORTED

He asked what complaints the Board had received from British manufacturers and exporter over Japanese and other goods being imported into Hongkong and then exported to Britain with falco and other markets descriptions.

These, he said, purported to Indicate their origin was Hong- kong.

Mr Frederick Erroll, Parlis- mentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, replied:

"Two, from manufacturers and traders, with four from other ZOUICES. No basis has so far been found for the suggestion of misdescription. One case is still to be investigated."-Reuter.

Race Between SAS & BOAC For Moscow Route

Copenhagen, Mar. 11.

between Bri- A major racO tain and the Scandinavian Air- lines System appeared to be in the thaking today when inform- ed Scandinavian source report- ed British might try to beat SAS to become the first airliner to stablish a Europe to Japan route via Moscow.

This prediction was made to day shortly after representa- tives of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish aviation authorities had met here to discuss Russian and British applications for landing rights at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport on the London-

Moscow roule, British Euro- pean Airways and the Soviet

signed Acrollot recently agreement for such a route

There were suggestions that the British Government: might seek an extension of the route to enable the British Overcas Airways Corp. A link through

Government- BOAC are both Moscow with Tokyo: BEA and owned-United Press.

bas lost some of her popular Planes Grounded

In fact, she has created surious enmities for herself in certain Manila, Mar. 12. palace circles.

Moreover, in the eyes of the A Thai general will replace

Brig. Gen. general public, har frequent trips the Philippines "It sounded just like a big Alfredo Santos as the next chief alone to Europe have not been artillery shell or a big con- of the Seato military planning only understood and hav

shadow pier vendional bomb," he said. "I dep in Botadok, the Manas certainty thieryon feel real lucky, for me and my Timba reported today.Fince the emony of the Imperial

couple-France-Préket. family United Fanse, "

Norfolk, Mar. 11. Vice-Admiral W. Rees, Com- mander of the Naval Air Force for the Alantic, ground 200 jet fighters today because of duel system "fallurce"

The planes hit by the mora were Dosadan A-4-15 Guzbawice: Grumman F-11 Tigers ang "jed

A

Recognition

was

Warsaw, Mar. 11.

Mr Nikita Khrushchev de. clared in an Interview published here tonight that he and Marshal Bul- ganin were not afraid of flying to Washington for a summit conference for "we can eat breakfast at home, lunch on the plane, and supper in the United

States."

He

Bald the Soviet Union

"'or-

favoured a meeting of foreign ministers to undertako ganisational preparation of a summit meeting of heads of state but added we are not

rojecting negotiations through diplomatic channels."

FACILITATE

was

Paris, Mar. 11.

The Interview, with two luncheon given by the Franco-Aslan Chamber of Com- Folish journalists, took place in merce

"It" the occasion for Moscow yesterday. former French Premier, Edgar; published in the official Polish | Faure to deliver a speech in Communist Party nowspaper, which he strongly advocated Trybuna Ludu, carrying to- early diplomatic recognition of morrow's date. Peoples China by the French Mr Khrushchev said the So- Government.

viet Union favoured using all Faure prosided at the lun- channels which were likely to cheon which was given for the facilitate the holding of Chinese economic and technical summit meeting, "but we are mission now visiting Franco and afraid diplomatic channels may of become channels of unerding headed by Vice-Minister Railways, Yu Kuang. Sheng-- correspondence

neglia- tions."Reuter. France-Presse,

and

a

Says Chou

London, Mar. 11. China would be willing to establish full diplomatic relations with Britain, if Britain would vote for China taking "her proper place" in the United Nations Security Council, Mr Harold Wilson, MP, said in a BBC broadcast tonight.

Mr Wilson,

the Coppollion) Labour Party's chief spokes- man an economie affairs, was reporting on tile recant two- hour interview with Mr Chou En-la), Chinese Prime Minis- fer.

UNITED NATIONS

"He told me," said Mr Willson, "that if Britain in the United Nations would vote for Chinx faking her proper place in the Security Council and in the Assembly, then China would immediately agree to the ox- change of full arabaanadors and not merely charge d'affaires,

"Even if Britain were defeated in the vote he would still be prepared to improve diplo matic relations."

He said that a "delicate situa-

tlon" existed while American troops remained in Formosa,

He added: "I think the danger period has probably passed, but as long

as American! troops are in Formosa I think the position will remain, con- slicrably delicate."

FOUR THINGS

Questioned about China's at-

titude to

trade, Mr Wilson. said: "They are carrying for ward a very big development DIVERTIDO. They intend to be the equivalent of Britain in 15 years." │"They

спострои

want zn amount of capital but so · far they are getting it xii...” from Kusala and Eastern Europe.”

Mr Wilson said there were four things kinderiar the relations between Britain and Chlua: Britain's atulado towards China in the United Nations;

the

whole problem of Formosa; one or two problems the About Hongkong; JLIG question of the trada emburgu.

Icuter.

BIG THREE FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET

TODAY ON SUMMIT TALKS

Manila, Mar. 12. The big threo Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain And Franco meet today for the first time in three months to discuss the next step in ·

setting up summit confer- once with Bussip.

:

US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, French Foreign Pineau Minister, Christian and British Foreign Secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, will get to- gether for a private moeting at the British Embassy ́here following the second day of closed serviti s of the fourth Braual meeting of the Scalo Council of Ministers.

A warning by Dulles on Tuesday that the Communists may De plotting new aggression in Asia Scato's

brought demands by Aston members for

the

the tensions brought on by French-Tunisian deadlock and renewed Soviet

.pro- at the paganda broadsides free world.

more economic ald to block But the big three meeting will the Red menace.

The Philippines, Pikistan and Thalland raised the demands for ald at the afternoon acsalon of the South-East Asla Treaty Organisation's Foreign Ministers' meeting. Today's session will be devoted to an "exchange of views" concerning the Treaty area. Up for discussion will bo everything from the deepening crisis in Indonesia to world

get the major international attention.

said.

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"The next step is up to us," an

American spokesman

While there are agreements with our allfer, there must be an agreement on the next 'approach which will be made to the Russians.” The third exssion of the annual Beato conference" got under- way today at a few minutes. after 10 am. Tho session - WAS a closed one-United; Press,

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