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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959.

The Queen Leaves UK To Open Seaway

London, June 18.

The Queen leaves here by air today to perform the formal HK To

multi-million dollar St

opening ceremonies of the Lawrence Seaway and to tour Canada.

The Queen

Visit to a supermarket

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The Queen, who will be accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, will have been in Canada for over a week before she and President Eisen- hower declare the Seaway open on June 26. The presence of the flueen of England - and Canada ----- and the President of the United States on the same platform at the St Lambert Dock, near Montreal, will be a symbolic tribute to the co-operation of Canada and the United States in the bullding of the great inland waterway.

to

the world's 16,000 can continent Completed by

Reets workers in five years at af deep-draught merchant

and hus brought posts like cost of about £168 million, Cleveland and Toledo closer to the project was opened to Britain than New York, shipping traffic of the work at the end of April. The Seaway has opened the heart of the North Ameri-

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ACROSS

1 Do the dishes (4, 2). 5 Has me, for a change, in dis-

Krace (5).

1 One way valdlers have of

holding their arms (5).

9 Miss Gibson? (0).

10 Colfers play with them (5),

11 Can be precious (3).

12 Thames Gandbank (4).

13 Mother-of-pearl... (5).

10 Expunge ().

18 Champs at the Qvob (5).

20 Part of port of a play (5).

22 The Three Wiso Men (4))

23 Revises (5).

25 Cut of meat (6).

20 Antlieptic,(0);

27 Medicinal plant (5).

20 It seems he was a bit of a

goal! (5).

29 Like a lawn (8).

DOWN

1 Character defect? (8).

3 Write ironically (B).

3 Those of adversity are sold

to be sweet (4).

4 Licked clean by the united

efforts of the Sprats (7).

Little wood (7).

0 Just where you aro (8).

7 Coolman, as it were (5), -14-Tho-putter's-art-(8)......

15 Without exception (0).

16 It could shift mud

pyder (7).

17 Allowing a leuse? (7).

or sift

18 Like a monarch's head? (0).

21 Hot drink (5).

24 Fly high (4).-

··YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORN-Across: 1 Couple, 5 Brest, 8 Oral, O'Lesson, 11 Ultra, 12 Attire, '14Song, 10∙Irale, 10 Tripe, 19. Stet, 20 Enrolé, 24 Hneks, 20 Immune, 20 Tonn, 27 Norma, 28 "Grated Dowp: 1 Cold, 2 Ursa, 3 Loot, 4 Ergină. 5 Blue 1j1, 0 Entreal, 7 Trailer, 10 Stoop, 13 Stephen, 14 Sidecar, 15 Nemesta: 17 Realm, TV Spring, 21 Umar, 27 Suet, 23 Weed.

Ships are now able to past from the open Atlantic Ocean into lake Erie and later, when the connecting chunnels

Lakes

be-

are

tween the Great opened, wil be able to go 09 to Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior a distance of some 2,350 miles inland,

The territory opened

In

SPECIAL TO THE

CHINA MAIL

In 44 Minutes

Singapore Singapore In 44

This Airliner

Airliner For 1965

Los Angeles, June 18.

Division, sold the airliner would ! arrive in Los

Angeles nt 7.45 | engines; ' a tall in front for carry about 80 parsongera and | a.m., depart from Southern miximu lungitudinal Irlm operate from today's "existing California at 9 am, and land control. airports,

once again In London at 0.45.

Mr Hibbard sald operating The airliner could fly between P.m. the same day.

casts would be less than present Manila- dia- "After a great deal of study, subsuale det planes and subston- Hongkong and tance of 701 miles at 2,200 analysis and wind funnel and tially less than today's best miles an hour in 19 minutes, | laboratory testing. we believe piston-engined airliners. kir- Hongkong “and Bangkok — that such ari aircroft is lin-

distance of 1,005 miles, in 20 minently feasible," he said. Its landing and take-off dis- minutes, and Hongkong and Features of the new plane, as tance would be comparable to, Singapore distance of 1,604 revealed in the above photo- or sherler than those for sub-

Kraph are its delta miles in 44 minutes.

wing, sonic jeta Mr Hibbard sold the airliner | mounted at the rear of the Ils cruising altitude would be| could leave London at 11 n.m., fuselage, four abreast turbojet / 80,000 to 80,000 feet.

LEADING American aircraft manufacturer today revealed plans for a 36-mile-u-minute jet liner to be flying by 1965.

Speaking at the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences here to- day, Mr Robert A. Bailey, chief engineer of Lockheed's California

GANG CONVENTION

HOST

DIES AT 53

Johnson City, N.Y., June 17.

contains 35 per cent of the Joseph Barbara, host at the Apalachin gangland

population of the United)

States and some of the con- tinent's richest farming and Industrial country.

The Queen and the Duke, who start their six-week tour in Newfoundland, face a heavy programme of engagements, in- to 85 centres, volving visits designed to show them some. thing of Conadian industry and something of the way of Ufe of the people in Canada.

At the request of the queen it well be as free as possible from unnecessary pomp and tediousness,

The Queen Find the Duke will visit A

in supermarket Toronto, go Inke-fishing, meet Eskimos and watch ore being relined.

Opening

uranium

will

After their two-day visit to Saint John's, in Newfoundland, the Queen and the Duke board the royal yacht Britannia at Seven Islands, Queboe, for

the opening of the Seaway.

convention of 1957, died tonight. He was 53 years old.

Barbara had been in critical

condition at the Wilson Memorial Hospital here following a heart attack on May 29.

the

The heari allment, which kept Barbara free from clutches of the low while associates where many of his

and gooled. being questioned

described as a con- had been

estive heart failure.

The one-time beer distributor had been in critical condition

since his arrival at the hospital.

Barbara was projected tota the beadlines on November 14. 1957 when New York Stale polles led a rakding jrly on his $130,000 mansión. The raid netted about 00′ men described as the clite of the underworld.

Questioned, the men insisted

After engagements in Ontario, they were visiting a sick the royal visitors will make

D

| friend, Barbara, who had already ont-day trip to Chicago the developed a heart ailment. Queen's first visit to the United On March 19, 1959, n Federal Stales sinco October 1957-Grand Jury in Syracuse indleted and then returned to Ontario. Barbara un 11 counts of income

They then set off for the -grain and all province of Alberta, the Canadian Rockies and the west coast province of British Columbia where they will have a two-day holliday la complete seclusion.

Walte she is away on tour the Queen will be in touch, almost on an instant, with London.

Stie may have to be consulted on affairs of State and she may wish to telephone members ol

her family, as she often does when touring In various parts of the Commonwealth.

Telephones

Special telephones have been Installed in the Britannia, which for the Canadian tour will serve in reality as n "uating palace," and "on Հեր special train on which she and

hef miles.

the Duke will travel thousands The Queen and the Duke will be seen off at the airport today by the Queen Mother and Prin- cuss Margaret but a Buckingham Painee spokesman could not say if the royal children, the Prince

tax evasion, charging that he failed to pay Rome $14,000 in taxes between 1953 and 1958.

Another Federai indiabment followed. On May 21 Federal Grand Jury in New York disclosed that all those who attended the gangland meeting were named in an In-

to obstruct justice.

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He's Been

Talking For

24 Hours!

Hull, June 17. A Hull University student, Gerard O'Donnell, had been speaking continuous- ly for over 24 hours by this morning in

an

attempt to set up a new world non-stop talking re- cord.

He hnd already beaten Senator Wayne Norse who in April, 1953, addressed the United States Senate continuous- ly for 22 hours and 26 minutes, Bat he still had a long way to go to beat the 133 hours claimed by David Sheehan of Limerick, Ire- land, at Dartford, Kent, England in December, 1955.

dictment cliarging conspiracy O'Donnel is pausing only for seconds to bite a sand. wich or sip a drink. He is keeping going on water, orange juice and Sherry, -Ching Mall Special.

Barbara and his son, Joseph Jr. were named as co-conspira-

not tors but defendants. The Indictment touched off a nation- wide roundup of the 27 men named as defendants-UPI.

Russian Car

London, June 17, A new Russion four-seater

to the

baby car with a petrol consump

on of about 38 miles gallon will make its debut at the Soviet Achievements and Prospects Exhibition which opened in Moscow yesterday, Moscow Hadlo reported.

of Wales and Princess Anne, The car named Zaparozh will would go there to say their have a four eyelinder aly-cooled farowells.

engine developing 20 b.hip. ond

He said, however, that both capable of about 50 miles on or one of the children might | hour.-Reuter,

bo at the airport.

There will also be an oficial

party at the airport to see the Thames Mystery

Prostitute Sobs As Killers Get Life

London, June 17.

A red-haired prostitute wept in court here yesterday when two, men were sentenced 'to life imprison- ment for murdering an ex-Guardsman who man- handled her.

The woman, Daphne Cantley. Was the chict prosecution witness against William James

Joyce, 27. and William Henry Heath- cote, 20.

Flocadilly

She said in evidence that sbe

soliciting hear Cirous early last Good Friday and agreed to zo with Graham John

Osborn, 20, for £3.

Then she said Osborn began treating her roughly

Liberace

and she ran down the road shouting for help.

Thac prosecution alleged that the two accused, who know ปาง Kiri. attacked Osborz-Joyce with his fista And Heathcote with a kalte, Joyce testified that he hit Daborn with

both men denied having knife and.. the knife which fatally wounded Osborn was never found. -- China Ma Special:

Pago J

Shell Of Gold Has Experts Stumped

Sydney, June 17. A Sydney man has stumped experts at the Australian'. Mu- seum by sending them a common pearl shell with a difference - it is impregnated with pure gold.

The man, Mr M. Patridge, sald he found the nhell five lo BOVEN years ago on the want * Botany Bay,-wheu. he was taking his dog for a walk.

He had used the shell DO ALG ashtray until recently, when a friend seated he get ex- pert opinion on the strange markings.

He

tried thn museum. The Curator of Molluses, Dr D. F. MeMichael, wrote back mying it was a golden-ipped Mother-of-Peart shell (Tine- tada Maxima),

impregnated

with gold.

Dr MoMichael wrote; "The

golden-lipped

pearl shell is Ibe common commercial species of northern Australia and, tropical Indo-Pacific,

Symbol?

does noi occur further south than about Queensland.

central

The shell submitted is, in my opinion, dropped shell which has beeri polished for ornamental purposes.

"The mineral in gold and it is quite insoluble in strong aolds and flakes off in characterina............... lie manner.

"We can offer no logical ex- planailon as to how the gold came to be in Its present position."-China Mail Sicolai.

Mobbed As He

Battle...

Wins Libel

London, June 17.

There were unprecedented scenes when the American entertainer, Li-

berace, left the law courts today after winning his libel suit against, the Daily Mirror and its columnist Cassandra (William Connor).

Court ushers and officials had

to clear a way for him as people tried to clap him on the back. and shout "Well done," stopped trafle in the Sunni.

The jostling, pushing crowd

Smiling

police cleared a way for him to Llberner was amiling AJ

his cur. Girls crowried round waving autograph books and scraps of paper,"

Liberace, who is appearing twice a night at the Chiswick Empire in Loudon, later issued a brief statement from the

which said:

Lee To Visit Savoy Hotel,

Australia

Mr R. G. Menzies, the Aus

Sydney, June 17.

tralian Prime Minister,

will

"Mr Liberace is delighted that his reputation has been vindicated by the verdict of a British Jury. In view of the possibility of an appeal, 'Il would be improper for him to any more."

The £8,000 damages awarded probably invite to Liberoce are far from the Singapore's new Prime highest in a libel sult in Minister, Mr Lee Kuan ago Mr Jaime Ortiz-Patino was British court. Only two years yew, to visit Australia given £20,000 against Kemsley soon, the Sydney Sun ̈re. Newspapers and Mr Terence ported today.

Feely, contributor,"

1 Was statext omelally in Canberra today that Australia would welcome a visit from Mr

Loc.

The Sun said Mr Menzies would spend a day in Singapore

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Ighest over-in this case to Brothers in 1907, when they wen company was 10 Lever

£01,000 from the Daily Mail.

Costs

Queen and the Duke leave)

London, June 17. _______£ll_bo_haaded by $50 The partly clothed body of aton_his way home from Londen Harold Macmillan, the Prime woman belleved have been early next month, Mr Lee prob- Minister and Mr R. A. Butler, strangled and dumped from aebly would be given a standing the Home Secretary, and will ear was found on a grass bank | Invitation similar to that issues Include the Canadian High Coin- | besida the River Thames in last year to the Prime Minister for are estimated at £14,000, missioner in London, Mr George | suburban: West London this of the Federation of Malaya.which will be divided in pro-

morning-China Mall Special.

Drew-Beuter,

It Wasn't Part

Of-Sabrina's Act

Parth, June 17. SHARPLY, British actres CHAPELY, BNitish actress

she covered her face with her hands and rushed off the stage, her lipstick smeared and her Blondo hair disarranged. She came back on stage for the finale, obviously upset Sho fell down, and her and with ono :: shipp

attempts to push the mân mitasing.

a man who tried to kiss her on the stage of Her Majesty's Thestro hero last night.

$

AWAY Wero hampered by The incident occprzed when When old rabbed her fost "Formunde" Me" and In- ** her tight-fitting rod dress, Jr Sabrina✨ was singing

Reuter.

Costs in the Libersca case so

portion between the two Itbel claims, according to today's judgment,

In midnight blue trousers' and gold tame Jacket, Liberace was received with applause, wild chcoring and cries at "Good old Libby when he appeared at Chiswick Empiro tonight.

He told an audience of several hundred: "I thank you, ladies and gentlemen. You make me happy, and I was very, very happy before you did that,

....BUT THEY WILL

FIGHT DECISION

found that the ones on the

wwo of the central figures in was a homosexual, The Jury the bdrado-Daily ́ ́ Mirror found that the impresion given bol action leave the Illgh by Connor was not frije, in fact Court in London.

and was not fair cyumbuk.. Tho are, the editorial

However the 13-man Jury director of the masa elruulation mat has been said many, many Daily Mirror, Mr Hugh Cudlipp, imes that Englial justice is) and the Mirror's ootannis diced libel was 60% the fairest in the world. I am abrolajely convinced of it now." Comandrs, William Connor.

The Daily Mirror announced Sabrina

Before the first house had after the verdict. had borg Ty vited a man from the begun, almost 100 women were turned that 11 was proposing to

11ờ malà: “Barely has the audience to join her on waiting around the stage door, appeal to the Court of Aposl the stage a routing But the object of their alien- Brainst part of the verdictár saored Bech so well marshalled

The jury found that words in viongside the profano," tions had atrendy' slipped In part of her skow China through another door. Chipa

und of Dennog's articlos, où - The Jury trung, thia was fale Mall Special

Mall Special.

Lábernbo means that Liberson comment.

broved. Thiła, was '«. Dommumi by. Conner on the listing in the London Times of a Eboraco dangert under ahurch, noblocs.