1958-12-22 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1958.'

FBI CHIEF FLAYS APATHY TO Pasternak

RED THREAT

THREAT One Atlas Two Buses

Washington, Dec. 21.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover charged today that public apathy en- couraged "dupes and sympathisers" of the Communist Party to attack America's law enforcement agencies.

Hoover, in a year-end report to Attorney General William to newspaper and P. Rogers, apparently referred magazine articles critical of the FBI,

Diseased Mice Taken For Pets

Atlanta, Dec. 21. Three people were bitten to-

day

by

possibly rabid

white mice stolen from a State Health Department laboratory here by a band

He warned that apathy towiad The threat of Communist version 1950.

continued to grow

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a more favourable "Sensing atrisphere." Hoover sald, "the Communist Party, U.S.A. and sympathisers dupes and

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Kard further courage and be eattie vocal in their attacka upon Juw forcement And other professions which are doceated to preserving our freedoms."

Nation," magazins Liks year

caused a slir carly

when i published a lengthy article on Che FBI: but the mugaalne dented It was at. tempting to discredit either Hoover or the agenoy bo beads.

The entire October issue of

of Teenagers who thought "IPTS' magunine, officia; publi-

they wouhl make nice pets.

ENDL

Eva Haryad Thy eafigation, bud He piged the case of Ung

D. race within an hour of

bung fu and that

todent were usinging.

2 of the

1 h added that even this

was not fast enough to perver The bites

The Laboratory Director, Walter BSA werk,

Three

sald the bitten prople. the father, a brother and a sister of ole of four youths who stote the mice, would have to

lake rabies treatment,

Mr Holley sald the

four

juvenlies, ranging in age from

13 to 15, catered the lab jale Saturday

by night

crawling

trough an unlocked window. They gathered up the from a series of cages.

Injec

He said he chanced upon one of the youths involved walking down the street this morning-- UPI

J. Edgar Hoover

cution w the Emergency Cavit Liberties Committee,

wils de- voted to an astiele critical of the FB1.

"Gestapo Tactics"

Last sumRE, a charge

کروائیے

Grandpa Bing Cleveland industrialist Cru: J.

Santa Monica, Dec. 21. Bing Crosby became a grunub. father uxday when the wife of

ls son Dennis gave birth to boy.

Baloni that the FBL used

<i

Amerita's mightiest satellite, the 8,800-pound Atlas missile which la elr. eling the earth is 85f1. long-five feet longer than two average highway buses. By way of illustration, the Atlas satellite which was launched on Thursday Is shown compared to two buses in this composite picture. The photograph of the Atlas was made as it sat poised before firing.-U.P.1.

Paper

Owners

Defy Strikers

New York, Dec. 21. The Publishers' Association of New York City firmly stood its ground today against truck drivers who have shut down #tine

Frogman Swims 600 Miles

In Three

Says Home Teemed With Doctors

The

Bonn, Dec. 21. Rasstan auther, Boris Pasternak, has described how he was "surrounded by doctors" In his home when a politi- cal storm broke over his hend last October after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

"Perhaps they were afraid I would do something to myself," Mr Pasternak told the Moscow correspondent of A Hamburg newspaper.

The correspondent quoted the author, who rejected the Nobel aword an

saying that ho had not bothered to consult a doctor About A nerve inflamination in his left arm which vecasionally troubled him.

"IL will go had enough in October when raging over me. WJA simply

Poster sold.

away again. I those days in the storm wus Then my house

hospital,'

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"A woman doctor was puti by me. I told her Kile could zo home. She had no need to worry about me.

"But she

She did not kо. could not go because sbe hud ben ordered to stay with me.

Weeks Weeks They Were Afraid”

Vancouver, Dec. 21.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of New Westminster, B.C., today to cheer a French frogman as he climbed out of the water after swimming 600 miles along the dangerous Fraser River.

The Boy

major daily newspapers in Who Liked

n 12-day strike,

A

Big Fires

The association issued a state- ment on behalf of the publishers of the nine papers, which have a combined daily circulation of 5,500,000. Sunday papers affect- ed have a total circulation Gestapo-like tactles was brand-neurty 8,000,000.

by Huover as slandervus

Yesterday, nearly all the other violent and hateful."

unions representing 15,000 news- In

Rogers, his report to Hoover said that

paper workers who have been formulating

luid off because of the strike by positive programmes to in

unanimously deliverers 1,500 moss organisations and

appeal for help turned down Com- a new

from the strikers. munist youth group were ARTION!

The Newspaper and Mail De-days. the party's most ambitious acti-

ilverers' Union, an Independent es during 1958.

labour organisation,

The mother, former showgirl rale Pat

and the elght-establishment of Shechun.

pound 13-unro baby were re- parted doing well in St John's hospiltul. Ker

the

murny

Belgian-born

He said while the Communist Paily elund to be a legiu- inal US political organisation,

Louls Lourmuis, 38, took two weeks and three days to complete the marathon swim from Prince

JKE George,

northern British Columbla. He first entered the water at Prince George on December 4.

The 600-mile river section is the roughest stretch of water tu Caneda.

Eburiati wife Lliian and hits helper. 40companied him on his last lap of 20 miles on the tur Grey Swan which wia on land In cate there was trouble with the strung opftents in the river. Lourmals made good time in test lap in spite of appear- ing very tired.

Lowestoft, Dec. 20. 15-year-old boy who ad- nitted setting fire to four buildings told a court here: "I like the excite-his ment of watching IL." The court was told that one and a card- Arena paper

for three board skore-burned

The

its

court adjourned asked the decision for three weeks and nous affiliated with the AFL- sent the boy to a remand home

CIO to join Itz picket lines and for examination. Londen, Dec 21.

to give financial support. The Detective-inspector R. J. Prior said that before the last vi

cabaret tart/st

ub-

answer was a liat "no.

Donald Curbel1, holder of "Its rudership reins are firmly by pro-Soviet elements water speed record, želu work

The publishers followed this the four fires the boy told alhounencl tonight would end the party's ultimate

he

the overthrow up today with a statement say-another that he had attempted 1i• ; Torila Bern, Jective renes

ng they had voted unanimous earlier to fire the building and at war stovETT) → television and and destrucbal

ly to reafirm their support of ac

added: "I never went. It would Del Christmas ment by fm and violence."--

the position taken by their have made a lovely blaze." UP.#

negotiating committee,

About the charge of attempt- Negotiations "Will resume ting to set fire to a warehouse,

Federal the bos sald: under auspices of the

"L1 got u ploce Mediation Find Concillation of paper from our bonlee site, Service at 2 pm. on Monday put 1 through a grating (in the pavement) and set fire to it with a match."

Rve Heuter.

A British Crossword Puzzle

12

4

20

23

24

ACROSS

Frozen atur finn]ly! (6).

7 River of Getmahy · (4).

One end of the Nile, for example (3).

10 But does the Blihop wear it

at an angle of 45 degrees? (5).

11 Suppery customers (4),

13 Certlers of note, thaybo (10),

1 Man 19 one (5).

id Flat ntisic? (4).

1 Foundry owner (10).

22 Can do! (4).

24 Turning machine (5),

25 What a

(3,2).

DOWN

2 Regulations for straight lines

(5).

3 A Dortingi (6).

4 Injure (0)

5 Cliques (6).

Sulp off (4).

E Use sauce? ́(5).

12 It carried a sharp tip (5).

13 Comedian agencies (3).

14 Put out of night (8).

17 Mr Marner? (0).

18 Mako beloved (6).

20 Ilace pinca (5).

21 The lot (3),

bad driver may do 23 Cold nihicle? (4).

26 Súillétrigo (4).

27 Supporters plaything (6).

SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acrom: 1 Colter, 4. Odour, Afmtää, 8 cois, 15 Gala, 12 Dilemuis, 10 frked, 16 Poop,

17 Roar 10 Basil, 20 Siréét-ts, 21 Ture, 28 Wheth, 24 Posner,

28 C-rude: 20 Trysts. Downs: 1 Chargers, 2 Familiar, 3 Eddy, Derauit, & Vitimo; 9 Midas, 11 Arrested, 12 Debts, 1 M.O.- Ines, 1 Appellaci; 10 Etener, 22 Fair.

U.P.I.

TIME TABLE FOR PARTIES

Parla

Public relations offlcors and Press attaches in Paris have set up a new, or- Banisation to co-ordinate their cocktail parties. With more than

1,090 publicity organisations in the French capital, at. taches

found that their parfles, designed to launchi perhaps a now bat, a new author or a

new bulla- Lux.

foil often

Tat all the journalists wero being wooed by rivat group at another cocktail party.

So 250 of the Préis at- taches have banded 10- gether and set up a cen- tral office to plot dates and prevent a clusii of times, for parties and press conferences/Bouter.

ONE SWEATER... KNITTED IN 3. HOURS

P. C. Levett continued that in a statement the buy said he get re to a bonfire before Guy Fawkes Day, and the Fire Brigade had to bo called to put the fire out,

About another Are at a wood yard, the boy's statement added that he went into a shed where there were chopped stick for kindling, put in à plece of fish and chip paper on top of the sticks, and lit 11.

When he got home he could ste smoke and sparks coming from the direction of the fire.

that The statement also sald since he fired the Guy Fawkes bonfire, he liked to sca tho smolce and the Fire Brigade."

F. Detective-Constablo C. Keeble, said that the boy made B statement that after he bad set fire to the ble paper sifa cardboard store which burned furtously he went back with sonte other boys to watch the fire and the Fire Brigade. Dolbetive-Inspector Prior said that this big Are burned · for and days continuously, the Fip Brizado had to make brecautionary visita for a week

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| -China MSIL Special.

Unconcerned

When he stepped from the waier he appeared unconcerned that he was the first man to have zvrtim the Fraser Alvor as well as being the first man lo swim through Hell's Gates. опе of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world.

Later today Lournois, accom- panied by his family, went to the Vancouver City Hall to be

with presented

11 frogman's watch by Vancouver Mayor Fred Hunc.

The Inscription reads:

"Bre- sented to Loula tourmals by the City of Vancouver in recogni- tun of his unprecedented swim down the Fraser River and through Hell's Gates in Decem ber 058.U.P.I.

Ticket

To Gaol

Canterbury, Dec. 21. Cornellus Davies, who Hikes to spend Christmas In gaol, kicked in the glam wall of an outdoor felo- phone booth yesterday and got the number he wanted a prisotier's seridt huita- ber.

Tho samb ofletico has been Davier Jcket to phol - för two months each time in the last two De- detibers. THE Judge AS glad to oblige again this year.

“Do rád álìjšny wint to spend Chrkalmas în pit- son?" asked an increduthin court clerk.

Davies nodded, iha grinned broadly as he was led away-URI.

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"Perhaps they were afraid 1 would do something to myself, So i was all the time Gurround- ed by doctors. They even slept under my root.

correspon- The newspaper's dent also quoted Pasternak as saying: "I believe I have made a contribution to the develop- ment of Russia. That is why 1 am so composed.

"Political storms vxist at all times and everywhere....such storms are natural events. One has to put up with them.

"My Doctor Zhiyngs' was my life's work. I put a lot of effort into it and so I knew this book would be a success.

is no

ot

"But if people wish to print something by me there need to dip into a chest mothballs, I am not yet dead. I am still working.

not un-

But Pasternak sald that for publishers shenaid elto

"immature or publish

of his worthy" pieces literary work.

earlier

Such publishers could contact "a good acquiantance of mine" -a woman living in Paris-who had a copy of a small volume of poerna itled "In the Mean- time" which were "unpolitical and something

personal."

Reuter,

Hoop Record

Poltiers, Dec. 21. Claude Gachel, 23-year-old plumber today sel up what he claims Is world record for hula-hoop, gyrating of 13 hours, 49 minutes without a stop.

His seconda sold he turned the hoop 100,000 times at an average speed of 124 whirls a minute.-Reuter,

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