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MR HERTER

STEPS IN

N the face of it, Mr

ON

Eisenhower's choice of a

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DISCHARGE OF LOCALLY ENLISTED RATINGS Search For Dame Margot NEW TAMAR INCIDENT Begins As The Duke

Arrives At Panama City

Man Hurt When Car Ferry Tragedy Gate Jams

His Finger

new Secretary of State was A man tried to force his way into HMS

fairly

clear-cut. The

Hearst Press called for a

"vital" personality in the face of a British "threat" to take over leadership of the Western world's diplo- matic negotiations with Russin, but very few others In In either political party rated Mr Cabot Lodge or Mr Robert Murphy us serious contender to Mr Christion Herter,

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Tamar this morning, as he and about 20 other locally enlisted mon de- monstrated outside the entrance to the Royal Navy section, Queen's Road. doing so, the man was injured slightly when his finger was caught in the wrought-iron gate as it was being closed,

Al about 3.40 am. about

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20 men due for discharge from the Royal Navy gathered Mr Eisenhower's dependence side

out- the entrance of HMS upon Mr John Foster Dulles Tammer. When a man tried to hia foreign Affairs force his way in, the gates closed, and heavily belief that gave rise to the were

that America's chief padlocked. exponent of foreign polley Then a larger number was more important than Chinese ratings collected on the the policy itself. And to a other side of the gate, inside

HMS large extent this is true.

Tamar, There Weco, however, по further The President relied upon his Secretary of State to turbances and the ratings dis- give not only a clear interspersed shortly before 9 am. pretation

American

Disappointing

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policy on every topical Last Tuesday, about question but also the de- Chinese ratings held a demons- sired emphasis to suit the tration against the discharge of occasion.

Incally enlisted men from the Royal Navy. In January this year it was announced that the Royal Navy base in the Colony was to be reduced, and that a number of Chinese ratings would be discharged.

WVGA

Mr Dulles

finely adjusted, highly complex precision machine. He will not be easily replaced, but the President's best bet for 4 successor was clearly the man, who had worked mont Navy spokesman has said that closely with, and best understood Mr Dulles who response to the offers far been disappointing.

not only expressed policy but largely fashioned it during his six-year term of office. Thus Mr Herter was a fairly obvious choice.

Commentators

have been puzzled by the delay in an- nouncing Mr Herter's appointment. This they felt Implied uncertainty and perhaps even reluctance. But from published state- ments it was clear within 21 fow hours of the

announcement of Mr Dullos' resignation that Mr Herter would succeed. Perhaps Mr Eisenhower wanted to ascertain first how

popular

Jobs have been offered to men, but » Roymi discharged

has su

Endurance

Swim

Bid Fails

Revolt

Put Down

In Bolivia

La Paz, April 19.

A brief revolt flared in

the capital of econo mically-shaky Bolivia today. But the Govern ment announced that loyal militia intervened quickly toerush the uprising staged by the Bolivian Socialist Falange party.

Heavy shooting broke out in La Paz this morning and insur- gent forces of the Falange,' a rightwing Socialistle party, solzed the stato radio station...

Within a few hours, thu National Revolutionary Move- ment Goverment of President Herman Siles Suazo imposed a stale of stogo and announced officially that it had suppressed the revolt.

Heavy Shooting

The Government said the re- bels were crushed by armed Imilitia men and that there was

The heavy shooting broke out Just before" noon in the north- em outskirts of the city which anti- was the scene. of bitter American movement last month, touched off by an American magazine article.

Quebec City, April 19.. French frogman Louis Lour-no need for the intervention of

mais omorged from the icy |the regular armed forces, St Lawronco river at Threa Rivers today after an un- successful attempt to complate his 175-mile on duranco, swim from Mon- troal to Quebec City. the new Secretary shows after spending nearly 45 hours. He left the water at 3.45 pan, that the President's choice in the loe

flecked river and Wasin nccordance with coating miter pf the general expectations.

the appointment would be. Today's cables telling

of

Arm bipartisan support for

There has also been

ewith:

He was immediately places Bom under a doctor's care and was

Most housewives were in the market places pt the time and fled in panlo to seek to- fun in nearby homes, Shortly after the fling broke out, the insurgent forces of the Falange seized the Government radiostation-in their attempt to

question about future Amerike to tospital.forumotionloveftrow the shies Sulizo GOV- enn foreign policy. The examination. State Department has been

telags, properly

emment.

The Government decree pro-

Lourmals appeared to be in busily insisting there will be good spirits but looked haggard no change. Basically He made the attempt to prove claiming a state of slegs had to

per- haps it will continue on lines that hurea

be read over private radlo laid down during Mr Dulles equipped can stand long

the "Altiplano" Ira-

because of tenure of office. But it merelon in loy water.

seizure of the regular Govern- will be remarkable if there

Lournais, a war-time mem-meal radio and the cutting of Its are no changes at all. Iner of the French underground, cables.

character Mr Herter appears through the

WOS the first man to swim The Government sent police to be very different

Fraser River's and militia trucks to patrol the from Mr Hell's Gate in British Columbia, streets while President Siles Dulles. In the past he has a feat he performed last Decem. Sunzo met in lengthy emergency

scomed reticent, un-ber.

at the Presidential willing to "stick his neck

The swim was sponsored by Palace with his cabine!. among a local brewery.—U.P.I.

(Could, on Back Pate, Col. 6) American diplo

out

other

Certainly

mats, he ranks na a poor headline-maker. If he con- tinues to follow this practice this will be a notable change in policy.

of

There has been talk

President Eisenhower him. Belt taking a greater part in foreign policy decisions in future. This would not be surprising. Mr Herter in to the job and would to take on

newly prefer

his

responsibilities gradual-

ly. But It is unlikely that American policy will be less decisiva or emphatic during Mr Herter's, term of office than during Mr Dulles. It Mr Herter's diplomacy is carried on through normal diplomatic channele, instead of the columns of tho world's Press, this. Is change which the world will have to get used to. But it

He for the good.

la

change that may well

sesslon

PHOTOGRAPH OF

A GHOST?

London, April 19.

The Sunday Pictorial said today it was certain it had a pleture of a street.

The newspaper carried a photograph of a woman sealed in a car. The woman was dead and burlod a work before the picture was taken,' it said. --

The picture shows a blurry face, idealified as Mrs Ellen Hammell, seated behind her son-in-law in the car.

Her daughter, Mrs Mabel Chinnery, 48, who took the ploture, said she and bar, hubband had boon', taking pictures of Mrs Hammell's grave.

"I decided to use the rest of the film taking pictures of! my husband and the osr.” the newspaper quoted her, jag

When the ploture was developed her mother turned up ta the back meat.

"I was terribly upset...there can be no doubt when the pleture wax takon” osid May Chinnery, DET EARN def My The newspaper: mid a photographle-expert slätmed he 'mróuld "staka hin: reputation - thai this picturo kumezaino.

U.P.L

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A pale blue and black. two-door car rolled up the loading ramp of the Baya terry, just as thousands do every holiday seakan,

But this one did not stop-li rolled on, crsahed through the ramp at the other end of the ferry, and toupled Into the water.

As fisherman Alexander Finlayson sped up in his motor- boat, a band resched out of the window, and a man appeared, That was the driver, the Rev. Donald Maclean, 38.

But the other passengers, Mla Christine Macaskill, 72, Mrs Kalle Murray, 35, and her children Iain, 4, and Catriona, 22 months, ail on their way to Ġinɛɛow, died in the car,

The car lleelf was scarcely damaged. The picture shows the car being raised two hours after the tragedy.

GOVERNMENT

Panama City, April 19.

As Prince Philip drove to have dinner with President Ernesto de La Guardia, the Panamanian Government launched a search for a fishing boat reported to be carrying British ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn and her husband Roberto Arias, son of a former Panamanian President, in connec- tion with a reported underwater cache of arms.

The police order to and tho yacht Nolu went out after the crewmen of a shrimp boat re« ported carly this morning they had helped the Nota raise a sunken launch loaded with rifles, revolvers, machineguns and grenades at a point 15 miles from the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal.

The Justice Minister Mr Max Bearlematte confirmed. that the pearch had been ordered after a Lewspaper quoted the shrimp crewmen os saying the arms were to be used in the projected capture of the National Guard post at Chorrers, the nearest sizeable Panamanian town wost of the U.S. Canal Zone.

Coinciding

Revolutionary

expeditionary forces have been reported pre- paring a lending in Patara to coincide with the visit here of,

the Duke of Edinburgh

But despite the recent talk of

a revolution in Panama the Government appeared to have takon only normal security measures which seemed adequate.

The Duke arrived aboard the royal yacht Briannnia and sped from the dock area through the Canal Zone and Panama City to the British Embassy in a leck cream.convertible.

Siren-Happy

The siren-happy motorcycle escort set such a pace that the crowds lining the sidewalk did not have much chance to get a good-look at the Prince.

The first showers of; the wat person in the short hours bo- fore the Duke's arrival ensured a pleasantly cool, tropic even- bg in contrust

recent sweltering nights here.

to

Boarding the Britannia when the royal yacht arrived

Dame. Margot

Prince Philip

Lonely Birthday For The Queen

London, April 19.

Tuesday will be a lonely day for the Queen. With all her close relatives abroad, she will have to celebrate her 33rd birthday alone.

Prince Philip,

aboord

the

were. British Ambamador to royal yacht Britannia now pass- Panama Bir lan Henderson, ing through the Panama Canal, the Governor of the

Canalis completing a world tour Zone William E. Potter and which has taken him from India, Panamanian Foreign Minister through Southeast Asia to the Miguel J. Morena Jr.

South Pacific. He returns at the

At a reception at the British end of the month.

Embassy tonight, the Duke's first

official engagement, Dame Fun- The Queen Mother, Queen

Rumours

Margaret

On

toya was conspicuously missing Elizabeth and Princess Margaret "Balderdash'

She was one of the invited are scheduled to start their visit guests but was apparently sill at to Horne on Tuesday, so they sea aboard the yacht Nola with loo will be unable to share the her husband..P.I.

birthday celebrations.

TO ANNOUNCE ECCLES FOR

SUBSIDY FOR LANCASHIRE

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

London, April 19. massive. Government subsidy is to be pumped into Britain's cotton industry, David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade,

A

Sir

MOSCOW

ondari, Apri: JB The_Flasnoind Timen, zaidi here today that Sir David Excles, President of the Board

trude mission to Moscow next month.

The delegation is to discuss ing Anglo-Soviet trade, follow- practical measures for increas-

ing Prime Minister Harold Mac. millan's recent visit to the Rus-

The leader of the mission has

sian capital.

is expected to announce, this in the House of not yet becc officially appointed Commons on Thursday when he answers question by Tory MP Sir John Barlow.

a-France-Prease.

Later, Mr Macmillan, speak; | In view of sustained foreign ing at Preston, on his Lan- competition, it is clear the cashire tour, will elaborate on 'Government accepts that suint the purpose the subsidy.

contraction of the industry is Inevitable.

the state old, To provide Regolation will be needed. A bill will be rushed through Parliament as quickly as posal. ble London Express Service.

He will say, it is intended to help the indusity to streamline itself, cut out waste and pro- vide compensation for closing huneconomic mills,

Cuba Plot

Quarantine

And although Prince Char- lex and Princess Anne are ni Windsor Castle, it is by no means certain that they will be able to be with theIF mother -- they have both been in chicken-pox quarum- line

However, Prince Phillip hopes to be able to with his wife "happy birthday" over the Bri- tannie's radio telephone and the court florist will deliver a spe clat bouquet with Philip's res rontal mertage-attached,

The Queen will also receive a gift which Philip ordered be- fore his departure in January. Own Money

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Rome, April 19. Sir Marcus Chake, British Minister to the Holy Soo, summed up the rumours that Princess Margaret would become a Roman Catholic in one word:

"Balderdark Pe

Rome had buzzed with spect!“ Visit the ty this week, might Jeton that the Princoas, who will se join the Roman Catholle Church.

en audience

Vatican sources declined to discuss the possibility. Margaret's with Pope John XXIII, which schedule Includes has caused a controversy among Protests izy Britain.

garet's stay will be

The big secial event of Mar- Wednos- day night party for 120 select guests at a swank night club.

Margaret's long-time friend. The Queen Mother and Prin-

Judy Montagu, kas fakan, over Havana, Cuba, April 19. A Cuban Army spokesman gifts to the Queen before they

Margaret will give their the entire Cabela Club for the

party. today announced the arrest of leave. Icaders of an alleged plot to

Margaret's Visit will tie If they cre well enough, crammed with activities, from asminate prominent supporters Charles and Anne will bo abis sight-seeing of Dr Fidel Charo, Cut' to give their gift-bought from and diplomatic receptions to the

dancing

portler volutionary Prime Minister, in their own weekly pocket money audience with the Pope-UPI, Blatunnus - province,

-personally-UPI. Havana, ---Reuter,

east or

Death Of Film Star's Husband

New York, April 19.

Alfred N. Steele, 87, húsband of

actress Joan Crawford and st <dvertising gentur who built

SOFT DRINK

the Pepel-Cola company Into TYCOON DIES

- a multi-million dollar concern,|

died in his scop early today.

Miss Crawford, found her · hus- band dead in bed this morning (ki Litir, laylah Fifth AveciOS pent-listus overlooking Cen- tral Park The couple, who were

were married In a Las Vegas: airpormente four your go, had just folshed a whitheinde dixi Zweckenpalibriwide??inIDERI

IN SLEEP

Mr.Steele began with Popri- Cola mi a first Vice-President and had risen to Chairman of theboord, and chief exoctiz, Live officer,

After her marriage to Mr. Sicels, Mia Crawford put her owni spectacular movie carver into the background and travelled with him.

10-day vacation in "Jarisalen" tomETTÓW,LE

spokesman for the family. sold: Mr-Stanle had been in "good" "health!" and had kept up “the vigorous schedule to bad.

fallowed alone in joining, i the kio

trip and had blandad to leave 3 – Poti drink company in 1949.

RACE DRIVER KILLED

Trentes, Now Jettoy, Apri: 19.'- Noted racing driver Dick Lin- dar, 16.7. wis killed: today when his car crashed; täTOKET

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