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Intelligence

by

STEPHEN CONSTANT

The Americans are. coming-and how! The present level of

350,000 American visitors a year to Britain (see graph) is

expected to rise sleeply in the next 10 years to a booming 1,000,000.

That means an even richer harvest

from what is already one of this country's biggest dollar earners. By 1969 American tourism

will bring in

£200 million a year.

Eatskikbad 1049

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1959.

Report

AMERICAN TOURISTS

AND WHAT THEY SPEND IN GREAT BRITAIN

£38.8 m

£36.1 m.

£46.32m.

£57 m.

£64

350,000

$300,000

250,000

200,000

150,000

1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

Courmela

WASHINGTON--Expert big - KAMPALA.-British crease in American Navy anil- should expect a new treat at the end of this year; tender, tasty, salamarine patrols i Alicatle,

and lightly shy-Hippo straks, With the blessing of the Uganda Department, two wilte Game hunters have started

US 12 ter Department I seriously armed at maber of Russian subs shumping of North American coast.

JOHANNESBURG--A fungus growth will spread rapidly over Africa towards the end South

of this year. Next year ly the B01 anniversary of the Union. To celebrate the event, men in elvillan He, the police, and armed forces will start growing beards.

By

NOME-Italy's new ruad laws foree expected tu cone inter

July 1-will hot drunken drivers hard, it is sald, Drunk- in-charge Bue will be raised from about £15 to £57--many times more than most It: Hans monthly wage packets.

£80

7.30319

for

RESTIMATIZ

resuming talks on the evacuation of French troops in

zerta. De

Gaulle has so far ignored kim. ·

PRETORIA. Expect # new

to shooting rulliical party

emerge

Into the tuberkig herds on the Congo border. Averaging one to each, the homos should net profit a carcase, That is 80,000 a year for the hander planning to bring down three a day. 7 the hunters, dv not shoot them for the put they will die of starvation due to overcrowding.

CUBA-Bearded revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is to receive a strong rap on the knuckles by the Vatican. Reason: he has not yet backed up his promise to introduce religious instruction In Cuba'r achosis.

FIJI-Increased British invest- ments in Fiji Islands are likely

Colonial Koon,

Development there,

in South Africa. Its aim: to check presení policies of Premier Ver- woerd. Strongly tipped as the new party's leader is former Chief Junilee Henry Fagan, a Corporation scouts are prewar Government member. seeking to slak money in cocoa,

Coconut

timber growing auch

SANTA FF-American Air milling. Force is sking Congress for

12,000,000 to build giant "son AUCKLAND, N.ZCity busl- Furnace" in New Mexico. It ness men who dream of a "aloo PARIS-Tumbian Premier will consist of a huge nurror to little farm for weekends" are Bourguliza may bave "chance" reflect un's rays into Qulsizo facing a rude awakening, The meeting soon with General de dish, prochicing 8,000 degs. Socialst Government is draft- Gaulle, who will be visiting enough to inet nearly any ing a Bill to prevent city busi- Milan on June 24. The Tunisian metal. This "pure heat-like CSA C21 from buying farma leader tans holiday

that produced in outer Space as an investment. The Bill will Milan, wants to discuss with de will be

awnership space bar

unless Gaulle approaching deadline vehicle components.

owner lives on the farm.

used

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test

Mystery Ripples In The

Puzzle

The Radar

By THOMAS JENKINS

MYSTERIOUS ripples are appearing on radar screens in Britain.

NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXCLUSIVE

STERLING SILVER TIP

VACANCY FOR WORKING LAD From the Filos

Morrison

Speaks About His

Successor

By LLEW GARDNER

London, June 30. TTERBERT MORRI- HE

SON stood among

in

the rose trees in the gar- den of his semi-detached suburban home Eltham, Kent, and said: "You know, I hope they get a working-class lad to replace me."

"They are the people who will choose the Socialist can- didate for South Lewisham the General Election.

at

For a few hours earlier the "working-class' ind" who

rose from errand boy to Foreign Secretary and Leader of the Commons had announced that he would not again stand as a candidate.

The parliamentary career that began in 1923 was nearly over, but the cockney statesman was 71 ever. At as sprightly as he looked 20 years younger. A gentle breeze stirred the fomous quif-now pure silver.

We spoke of the revolution he had seen in the Socialist Party: the change from cloth caps to old school ties,

"I WONDER'

"I helped to bring it about,” he said, "I saw that we needed the other types: the intellectuals and the middle-class,

"But now 1 wonder if the lou far, gone change has not There are too few men, on the Labour front bench who begun life as manual workers."

It was with a twinge of sad- ness that he spoke of his return to the back benches after bring the defcuted by Mr Gaitskell in the 1055 election for the leadership of the parliamentary Socialist Ρητίν.

Sky

Men

London, June 30.

Scientists have seen them in

u radar research laboratory. Others have been seen on sets in the control room at London Air- port. But no one knows what they are.

"I miss the work, you know," he said. Then, proudly: "I WAS deputy leader of the Party, on the front beach....all that sort of thing.

back to being a back-bencher

It was a tle strange to go

Why had he decided to retire? ""To ind time for writing my

memoirs and to rest. I've had a

long carcer."

Diaries would help in the memoir wriling. But Herberi Morrison has kept none,

The ripples were first noticed at the research laboratories of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company at Great Baddow, Essex, when Dr E. Eastwood, director of the laboratories, was testing party secrets? It's difficult.... new radar sets with four assistants.

The date was February 17. The time: Sunrise.

It

was

As the scientists watched they saw an unexplained point of light appear on the darkened screen. just above Tunbridge Wells.

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In spite of propaganda campaign launched by the Orthodox Church and the Athanasios the Great reli-

gious organisa- tion, Grocco

25

years AGO-

the Royal Observatory AINFALL registered at

wont ahead in June was, with the excep and picked her tion of the phenomenal fall challengers for registered in June 1916, the Miss Uni- the highest recorded for varse and Miss more than 30 years. World con- Last month, a total rainfall

This was

almost two inches

the

tests. Twonty of 25.11 inches was registered, one-year-old over the average. The heaviest Zoo Kouroukli, fall occurred on June 22, when with the titlo 9.05 inches fell during of Stor of Hel- period. As against an average las, will fly out of 38.43 inches for the first six months, 40.04 inches have been' to Long Beach, registered (Comparative figurra California, to in 1959: June rain: 36 inches. challengo for Total for first six months 51.17 the Miss Uni-¡ inches. Average: 37.00 inches.)

title;

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will come to

Karavitis, 20, The house cleaning begun by Her at Munich and Goering Mins Grocca,

in Bertin was finally com. pleted last evening. No further moves, are now *x+ pre- pected. Complete arder valls throughout Germany,”

London for the

Miss World

title. Picture

shows: Miss This, briefly, is a foreign cor- respondent's summing up of

Groeco titio-

winner

Hya-

cinth Karavitis.

Reich

the situation in the after a week-end nightmare of revolt and death.

-Express Yet reports of executions and Photo,

ruicides continue to come in. Herr

who Gregor Strasser, broke with Hitler in 1922, 1 reported to have shot him- self. Captain Roebin, Chief of Staff of the Brown Släris, and formerly one of Hitler's mosi trusted alden has follow- ed General von Schlelober to his death. Hoshm was sum- marily shot after he had twice declined to commit mulclão.

Forced To Sell Out For

£55,750-Now

Govt Wants £1,000,000

I

By BERNARD HARRIS

More executions are expected

during the weekend.

Sirong language in used by the British Press, · ***ven Bolahe- viat tyranny could not be more absolute,” mata the Lon- don Morning Post,

A scheme to build new pre-

mises more in keeping wit

London, June 30, OOKING after llamas, wallabies, zebras, and

other animals in her private zoo at Sidmouth, its reputation as one of the Devon, is an elderly widow who had to sell to the in the Far East is announced greatest departmental atores Government for £55,750 a business which it now by the Wing On Company in plans to sell back to free enterprise for a estimated at about £1,000,000.

suma book

Mrs Alice Brown, recalling that forced sale 17 years ago, told me: "My husband and I created the whole thing. We had to work hard. And we took for it very much less than we ought,'

Now the company's profits average about £30,098 year after tax, and It has assets of nearly £2,000,000.

commemorating its business history from 1007 to 1982.

The scheme involves tho purchase of house-property in the vicinity of its preacut nite to the extent of 40,000 square feet, between Des Voeux Road Central and Connaught Road.

A

I've always had the feeling that people who keep diaries

The Government's plan to 1 put down silly things that they later regret," he told me, "Now, rid of the business S. G. Brown, Ltd, makers of gyros-

☆ ☆ ☆ I'm not so sure."

copic compass equipment and

PLEA of guilty to a NO SPITE

olher high precision instruments Will ho

technical offence, put be laying bare any

18 causing a Parliamentary Small wonder, then, that a

Mr W. A. row which will reach a ellmax number of big firms in the nigh forward by you have to decide how far you in a full-scale debate.

precision instrument business Muckinlay of Messrs Dea- are prepared to compete in this

are anxious to buy this co-

cons on behalf of Miss And he proposed sale is

ahead, thrusting competitor "People

και have

Yvonne Shenton," on a sum- into causing unrest among the firm's from the Government, habits: giving away 1,000 workers, who have set up

mons for speeding in a con- revealing things an action committed to resist Small wonder, too, that Mrs trolled area, in Whitfield,

the change from State to private | Brown looks back sadly in the memoire ownership.

days when she and her husband lost the business which they created.

and scerels

The point sprend into a cir spheric disturbances such as game. cular ripple-with precisely those enused by power stations the same appearance as the rip-rnd factories or possibly naughty ples on a pond expanding from groups of tomato houses, whose fold them in confidence. à peint of disturbanec," said Drglass refeels heat.

"I don't think my Eastwood,

"We travelled to various will be as spiteful or as exciting More ripples followed, until 18

places over which the 'angels as some of the others." of them had spread out from had been seen

could but wo the central point of light. Some And no trace

But he is quite realistic about of features that the memoir business: "I haven't extended as far as 20 miles.

The ripples which the scien- could account satisfactorily for sold the serial rights yel....

were thera And there was a twinkle of lists have called "angels--were the incidents. Nor photographed

eine geographical features to explain advance publicity when he was asked his feelings after his them." cainera.

Others have been seen on setsi What about birds? Dr East-defeat by Mr Gaitske!l;--- in the laboratory since then wood smiled. "I am a cautious over Ipswich, Canterbury, Read- man," he said. "I am also memoirs to find out...." ing Hertford, and Chelmsford, physicist not an ornithologist. Since May & they have been But If those phenomena are cbserved at the

rate of about caused by birds, then the birds errand boy and I managed

must have most unusual habits," 10 save....I've always had

The investigation is Kalug on working-class fear of being in

spokcanary for the debt.

"My proudest moment? Hard

three a week.

with

Near Airport

-estimated—the-héight of the

"angels" at 2,000 feel.

to the airport itself.",

and

a

-London Express Service).

an

You'll have to wait for the

Memories.

"I earned five bob a week as

Labour

my

Mrs Brown's husband, who died in 1948 aged 15, was one of Britain's most prolific inven- tors. He held more than 1,000 Patents.

'My Name'

Now her main later. little 200.

"Last summer I raised

for charity by opening i1 to se public. on Sundays," she salu

was not accepted by Mr Hamilton. in the Central Magistracy yesterday.

irst

MacKinlay said that Miss Jaughter of the Hon. An and Lady Shenton. hospital and could not Ein court to answer the $10

"I hope to do even better this alig herself. A fine of

Among his inventions was the year, first practical loudspeaker,

"1 invented the name for it," said Mrs Brown, "My voice was

the

DJ

heard

to be first ever

Sidney George Brown did the through a loudspeaker.*

took Inventing. Alice Brown -A special radar device bus Ministry of Transport and Civil

care of the commercial side. She was responsible for the business Aviation Whitch administers to my

"Perhaps it was in 1934 when Kirection of 11 companies forin. London Airport-said: "We Dr Eastwood told

my work in the London Laboured to exploit her husband's me: "1

G32) passing

ull have learned that similar ongels are

Party culminated in

inventions. 'angels' to

Important the most winning the LCC.

One of have been seen on the radar observations of the

Then there was the Labour, was a gyro compass for use in screens at London Airport. They Dr Eastwood." seemed to be located quite close

victory 1045. I played

warships and merchant Vessels part in that,

which Sidney Brown later adapted for use in aircraft.

He became governing director for life of S. G. Brown, Lnd, which was formed to manu- facture the compass. His wife was the only other. Allco útroctor.

But then the' war and the Admiralty, dinatis- fied with tho contribuilon that B. G. Brown Lid,' was making to the war effort, appointed a controller to run the firm.

Dr Eastwood and his team have been trying to find out! what causes the ripples In the

aky.

Several puzzling facts have! emerged from their Investiga- tlons.

In most cases, the "ungets" have appeared a few minutes before sunrise.

They have been seen in var ing weather conditions, includ ing widespread fog. But the wind has never been more than 15. knots.

LETTERS TO

THE EDITOR

Puzzled

"I think the (wo

greatest parliamentarians of my time Winston Churchill and Lloyd George."

were

・IN 1940.... The greatest Labour figure of his time?

de-

Ho smiled and admired his

Бо roses, Then: "We're Str.-Maybe I Just don't mocratle it's not easy to pick understand the Chinese tempera- one person out

ment, and I om no authority on "You know, I've just remem- Hardy, but to my mind Miss Lin beted. It was a great moment Dal's suitering in "The King-when Labour divided the House dom & The Beauly" is some- in 1940 and helped to defeat

come,

Early in 1942 a special meet-

In one case the ripples seemed Umes not dissimilar to Pamela's Chamberlain's Government.” ing of the company was called. Firown were re- to the distorted by the wind. whon pursued by Mr B. And, What of the future? A bit Mr and Mrs

The biggest "angel" observed spealding as à Chinese filmgoer, or golf,, some gardening,

some moved from office and Ad- has been 30 miles acrOGS,

viall to miralty - pemin veg I am moro puzzled than proud travel perhaps

appointed I in their place.. Eastwood mid: "We in regard to the awards the film Austenila and New Zealand. bo. a lecture tour.

For each of their £1 shares Printed and published by Terence GORDON NEWLANDS PEARCE thought at first, the angels has won at the recent Aslan would

xhould have to work my

the Browns were pold. Ei 17s for and on behalf of South China Morning Port Limited of 1-3 might be caused by high-flying Film Festival,

N. T. CHOW. passage."--Express Service, Za total of £58,750. Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong. Tocks of birds, or by atano-

Dr

"

was imposed.

This Funny World

"I shut that thing off long, ogo-

it was making an AWFUL, racket!"