Page
{THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1959.
Pago
Negro Harassed At Little Rock Skipjack NEW YORK THROWN
Unionist & Others Arrested
In S'pore
Singapore, Aug. 17. Police have datained a vico-
president of the Singapore Trades Union Congress and three other men.
Tent-
The police secretury, Mr Wil- Ham Cheng, confrning this, salt; today the men were being held under the Criminal Law porury Provision Ordiamnee.
This Ordinance, introdured during crime wave in 1958, allows persons to be held for uji ta two years without trial.
The Trade union leader, Dr Le Yew Seng, 31, was for
time a driver for the farthes Chief Minkter, Mr Lim Yew Hoek.
He stood as on
Independent
in recent general elections, but
was defeated.
WENT TO PEKING
Mr Lee, a committee Member
Singapore
of the
Commercial
and Industrial Workers Union, has taken part in two
delega- tions to May Day celebrations
in Peking.
The other detainees Chua Treo Ann, 69,
ar{*
furmer
Justice of the Pener, and Mc Lim Slow Lay, and Mr Chay Усть
Tent, described buslarismen.
1
15
Me Chua is a transport cai- tractor and Chinese community Jenter.
Mr
Chen
trick reporters: They have been detnine because of their association with nctivitis of organizations of af eriminal nature which constitute a threat to public sulety, peace and good order."-Heuter.
Hot Spot
Kent Furnace, Conn., Aug. 17.
This town was almost as hot as its name yesterday when the Temperature rose to 90
The mercury also topped the no-degree mark in Satan's dom at New Hartford and Devil's Hobyard
Hadiem,—UPI,
POLICE CHIEF CHARGED WITH BRUTALITY
By BRUCE MILLER
Little Rock, Aug. 17. The first open harassment of Negro students at- tending integrated classes broke out at Central High School today.
A
group of white students jeered at Jefferson Thomas as he walked out of the school and stood waiting on a street corner for a car to pick him up and take him home.
U.S. $142,000
MISSING
FROM
TRAIN
Liberty, NY, Aug, 17,
The three Negro girls attend- ing Hall High School walked to and from school undisturbed, School officials reported, meanwhile,
apparently Litt
the white students are Ignoring the opportunity to use a State law which could keep them from attending classes with NeXTOLL
One Request
the
They said there was only Dita request to Invoke "sleeper" salate on Arkansaa law books as the school went into the second week of token Integration.
About 20 to 25 students elur-
side.
Thomas, 17, walked
out
A mail pouch containing red nerus the street at Central
$142,000 in currency has disappeared on a 100-mile train run, it was disclosed today.
of
in
Joseph Fersch, president the Sullivan County Bank Liberty, sadd the money was sent from here to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York by
agistered mult for deposit
But officials of the Auguest 6. bank in New York confirmed it never arrived,
#11
Mr Persch sald the money apparently lisappeared from an Erick Railroad train after it was put on at Liberty, but be- j fore the train reached Hoboken, New Jeray, an armoured truck was to have taken the money
New York. but the pouch was missing when the train r
rived.
Mr Ferah said the money war
Klog-in a variety of denominations
Enat
Soviet Loans To China
Washington. Aug. 17.
Association.
from $5 to $100 notes. The bank has no record of the serial numbers of the notes-UPI.
"What's the matter, Binckle,
come isn't your bus going to ohe girl shouted. Another shout- ed "Daisy's boy."
Mrs Dalsy Bites is the Negro integration tender in Little Rock. Police stood and directed traffic as the group Joered. They watched clteely but made attempt to run the group ofT.
Thomas ignored the cat-cals
until a girl, who and jeera identified herself as Elizabeth Doland, and a blond boy with a duck-tailed haircut approached him from opposite sides,
Returned
The girl shouted back at friends across the street: "I don't like i on this sido." She returned
other to the Blue. The buy cupped his sands so
newsmen couldn't
hear.
glance, and the buy retreated.
Thomas shot him a warning
A few minutes later a car ar-
rived for him, and he drove off. They yelled and joored as lue
left.
a
A group of white students who attended segregated private Russian indrs un crest Daughter For Taylor high school last year, while the China since 1950 have totalled
public schools were closed warn- $430,000,000 carcurilug to re-
Santa Monica, Aug. 17. ed they would cause trouble if port by the National Planning German-bomu netress Ursula they had to attend any integrated
Thies, wife of actor Robert classes. United Press International err-Taylor, gave birth to seven- On another front Mrs Dale four-ounce daughter Alford. wife of the U.S. repre- cil in reporting earlier (Surday's pourt,
The couple have a dispatch) that the report showed last night,
sentative from Little Rock, sent Soviet ald to China totalled $130, son, Terrence, 3.-China Mail a letter to Mayer Werner Ku 000,000.—UPI
Special
Idemanding action on charges of brutally brought against police chief Gene Smith by segregation- Ists who are angry at him for using clubs and are hoses to break up u demonstration on Wednesday al Central High School,
A British Crossword Puzzle
124
ACRO88
I They're little rascals (4).
4 Let off with one? (7)
10
They want some holding (4).
Ship's company (4),
10 Aprces to put a felter in "5"
(7).
11 Tongue from Jersey (4).
12 What a row! (4);)
14 Scholar (7).
17 Unniclodious (5).
19 Investment (5).
22 Very big, but disastrous (7).
20 Retreats
(4),
for the
studious
27 and a resort for the
fasticulous (+).
28 Admitted everyone's in debt
(7).
29 A former railway charity?,
(4).
30 Masculine repast, maybe (4),
31 Rn-th-tin, for examplet (7). 32 Window frame (4).
+
DOWN
2 Ancient kingdom of England"}
(U).
3 Seamstresses underground
(6).
4 Girl in form (ut the bottom!)
(b).
5 They may be floating (6).
6 Trample olla tyre (5);
ឆវ
Petition
She signed the letter as head the "Committee of
Harassed American Patriots at Little Rock."
It
The "sleeper" law is the latest Rytol werpon to prevent moes integration of schools, 15 a law passed among package of segregation bills in 1858 provides simply that no student will be forced to attend class. with members of another race.
In effect, it would set scuregated classes ia: integrated schools.
up
A spokesman for the patrons! of the Dellarway District said a petition is being circulated ap- pealing to Gov. Orval Faubus to Puse all the forces at your com- mand....for rollet of legal Federal Court orders,"
Denial
The spokesman denied that the petition was move by the newly organised citizen Council. He said it would be presented to Faubus later this week.
Faubus used National Guard troops al Centrul in 1957 to pre- ven; Integration. He is under a Federal injunction against inter-
with integration ference
In
耳
UK
The nuclear-powered submarino Skipjack, 2,850 tons, at Portland, She is visiting Britain at the invitation of Lord Mountbatten. The two diving planes, which can be seen projecting from the conning tower, control the submarino in the manner of an aircraft.-Express Photo,
U.S. ACCUSED OF UNFAIR
ATOMIC COMPETITION
London, Aug. 17.
Witnesses before an inquiry into Britain's peaceful development of atomic energy spoke of alleged unfair American commercial competition mak- ing it virtually impossible for firms here to sell any nuclear reactors in Europe.
KING TUT'S
TREASURE THEFT
CHARGES
Cairo, Aug. 17,
This was disclosed today
In Com-
a report by the Select mittee on Estimates Parila- ment's all-party watchdog on official spending.
Witnesses had drawn
atten-
to
tion to the assistance that American Industry received enable it to offer special terms Including "guarantees that are clearly backed by the United States Government,"
Windscale Accident
The commiites also report- of an Windscale
ed that repercussions
nocident at the
energy programme.
are
Former
Nazi
General
Arrested
Tis-
OUT OF GEAR
BY HEAT WAVE
New York, Aug. 17.
PEAK use of air conditioners and electric fans caused a massive power failure in the nation's biggest city during a heat wave today.
Police headquarters declared.
an emergency in the blackout zone, which covered a wide area of Manhattan Island,
Television shows were black-
ex out. Hospital equipanent was endangered. A monumental trafte Jam developed when traffe lights blinked out.
Doctors Hospital, one of the city's most expensive hospitals, overlooking the East River, re- ported that all electriclly was out. That meant no lights, no
ifts and no air conditioning.
Trains Halted
Some
were halted.
Election
Candidate
Drives Off Mob
underground trains Lifte stopped in mid-trip, siranding aweltering PARSONKETS. Rofrigerators, freezers, electric The fans, air conditioners and all other electricn? equipment went! off just before p. as the! mercury crept towards the 90's in a week-long heat wave.
Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 17.
influential Malay language newspaper Utu- san Melayu (Malayan Ro- presentative) reported to- day that
govornmont oloction candidato had been forced to open firo, with a pistol to drive off a threatening mob.
a
Frozen food In restaurants and grocery stores thawed out. Thuusands of gallons of lec Cream were in anger of melting. By the time the 3 o'clock rush hour began. the blackout aren
11 quoted the candidate, Mc was a mass of tangled traffic mehe Mohammed Idris, as say- with angry motorists leaning outing he had been stoned while borns and yelling of each other | driving to an election meeling and policemen almost helpless at Pasir Puteh (White Beach): to untangle the mess.
la Kelantan State Lights, radios and television The newspaper quoted him as sets were out in an areu that saying long had been placed in strelched from the East liver to the road, forcing him to halt. the Hudson and extended from 69th to 110th Streels on the West Side and 74th to 110th Streets on the Enal Side.
houses.
Mrxt
:
Then a mob closed in on him, hurling stones.
DREW PISTOL
CBD-
of
are
The newspaper quoted him Snail's Pace
s saying he drew a platol and air lo drive of Included in the area were red into the Park and Fifth Avenues, his attackers.
Police said they had no re- Central Park West, Rivoralde f Drive and the East River port of the incident clsewhere 1 Eastern Malaya, polico sald Drive. all lined with rows of lowering, expensive sparifereast 12-year-old boy had been struck on the head by a stone of the underground hurled at A government trains continued run on their didate,
cas! coast slates own independent power sys-Kelantan, and Trengganu tems, but were slowed in 3 anail's pace because the signals had been knocked out. Lights in the stations also were out.
One subway system, the I- dependent Line, was halted in the blackout area. A Police Department spokesman said the stricken sections were 'n mad- truuse.
Emergency
Police and Fire" Depart- ments
rushed
emergency squads to MIL 8nal Hospital. on upper Fifth Avenue, after the hospital · reports:l" thele Iron lungs in uso were about to fail
The lungs were operated by battery until the emergency equipment reached
the scene, --UPI
Officer Missing In Sea
The
cruded as strongholds of the Pan - Malayan Conse, valive Islam Party.
Elections are due on August 19.Reuter.
Grivas: 'We Must Clean Up Greece'
General
Athens, Aug. 17.
George Grivas, former Eoka leader in Cyprus, told crowds in northern Greece during the weekend that "the country cannot" live with its present leadership and Ponama City, Fla., Aug, 17.
he was ready to seek The navy called on today a 'power if the majority of altempi to locate the body of i
the people asked for him. 20-your-cldermy officer who may have been eaten by a
General Grivas, addressing shark while skin diving in gulf crowds of workers and peason's walers near hero,
on a tour of Epirius, near the Capt. Richard K. Anderson. Albanian frontier, suggested he commander of the Ming Defence | raight be called to power Laboratory, wild it was “almost through "resolution of popular Curtain" Lieut James C. Neal organisations and the working was eaten by n shark. He classes." fald the search would not be resumed unless it was requested by authorities at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where Neal stationed. UPI.
wad
LAWFUL. MEANS
pro-
Grivas told the crowd "I Am Oldenburg, Aug. 17.
ready to resume the struggle. If Otto Romer, who was pronotex
I am convinced that the majority plutonium plant, Cumberland, in October 1957
(of the people uetually ask for suti from Major-General for his part Six Egyptian. museum offi-
Nicosia, Aug. 16. me, I will not hesitate to respond affecting Britain's atomie in quelling the anti-Hitler
The ing of July 20 1944, has been ciola will reportedly face
Greek Cypriot leader to their call, using, naturally arrested on suspicion of finan-
Archbishop Makarios, to-day the established lawful means.""" charges of stealing pre-|
The committee said that the chal offences, police said here to received the "unreserved" sup- cicus golden objects from windscale accident det
Later he described his buck day.
port of EDMA, the political grahime as follows, "we must the tomb of Pharaoh Tut Britain's fast reactor programine
succeeded clean up Grecce from political the suspected organization which Ankh Amon, the Egyptian at Dounreay, Northern Scotland, offences wern
connection the underground Greck Cypriot rottenness in
and make her nowspaper Al Ahram said by over a year.
symbol of world respect. "We shall unreservedly sup- army EOKA tonight.
"visualize a powerful Grecce port Makarios in founding the that will include In Its borders Cyprus
Republie," said the all the enslaved territories, such EDM.A. Bistrict organiser, Mr a north Epirius and Cyprus."--
1 Reuter. Nicos Moushouttas-UP.I
was noticed earlier this
Palico sald
The report continued: "This with a farm machinery firm in meant the loss of design effort which Remer was a partner. Ho had been taken to Willen- at a crucial time and nito ahaven prison pending further It
created 25 certain pessimism
investigation.' month that copper bars had about the prospects of this sys- Last month, the West German tem. It became harder to re- Supremo disciplinary court in restraint n Pine Bluff,-UPI. gold Ingots which were part of crult scientists for work 41 Berlin deprived Remer of his
tho world famous treasure of Dounreay and this delayed the rights as a professional Ήτα Pharaoh, thought to have solution of the numerous prob- ofloer. The prosecution alleged
lems involved."
Little Rock, but under n such
been substituted for the Ane
7. About X I frequently speak Mrs Rockefeller Folged about 1360 years BC.
... (5). 12 Not this (4).
13 Formerly in another station
(4).
15 11 is used in fencing (4).
10 Fool ports (4).
18 Cume in from the
In Sweden
►
Reuler,
STINY
The accident occurred when then that Reme had said that Al Ahram said the rarer ex-one of the air-cooled reactor those who too's part in the 1044 'anti-Hitler plat "were "trallors hibits of the Cairo Museum in- pites at Windscado become over in the pay of foreigners."— cluding Tut Ankh Amen's tren-heated and released Kristianstad, Aug. 17.
radio- Steven Rockefeller and his sure had been hastily placed in active cloud which was sub- pictures Norwestian Buncee Anne-Marle the muscum ecllars at the time sequently detected right across
Rasmussen, whom he is to marry of the Franco-British attack Zurope. 20 Ladies have them, of course on Sunday, were at the airport against the Suez Canal in 1950, It was reported officially that
(8).
here today to welcome Steven's Only the museum custodians the accident cost the AEA al- 31 No rems for the goblins (0). Į mother, wife of Nelson Rocke had the key to the cellers, most £2 milion.-Reuter,
feller, Governor of New York According to statements by State when she arrived for their museum Keepers who were not wedding.
allowed in the cellars, the cura-
(0).
28 The White House? (5).
34 A sloo may be bliter (5).
25 is it almifer to apple-jack?
(5).
:
1
Docked,
8
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: Doubt, 8 Netic, B Benice, 10 Slom, 11 Saue, 18 Acre, 13 yen, 18 Turner, 18 Termil, 20 Ensue, 22 Camp, 23 Raiac, 23 Athos, 20 On time, 27 Pools (rev.), 26 Shoen, 20 Earned. Down 1 Dis tance. 2 Cantrips, 3 Eras, 4 Decorum, Dinson, Delave, Baron, 14 Arcadian, 16 Shepherd, 10 Trenson, 17 Nin-ple, 10 Europe, 21 Notch, 24 Ensi,
Scores of photographers clocked tors often locked, Hemoved In A Lather
round Mru Rockefeller who was the cellars which contained wouring an enormous straw hat, quantities of uncatalogued ob- as she warmly embraced herfecta dug up in recent exçava- daughter-in-low to be.
1
New York, Auir, 17. Police rushed to the post office The trio then drove off to the The discovery of Tut Ankh last night to investigate a ticking Bocgne home of Anne-Marie's Amen's muminined body and package and cautiously opened parents where the young couple sarcophagus was a world-wide it Inaldie www a battery
ecusation" in 1989, AFP, are to be married---AFP,
poweral electric #102-UPI.
Water Drink
London, Aug. 17. Two young Swedish naval officers - proved that the sea was | their element, according to the father of two debutonier who hold a swimming pool party at: Melton
Percy Legard' said yesterday that the young office "each dranic a bottle of champagne underwater."-UPI. ·
WEST BENGAL MPs
-ARRESTED-
Calcutta, Aug. 17. About 20 propio in West Bengal, including 17 members of the State legislature, were. taken into custody In early morning police raids today for "threatened. defiance of | the law."
They are members of the newly-formed Price Increoso and Zemine Resistanca Com mittee (a grouping of nil lag-, wing parties in the Stalo - cluding the Praja Socials! 'Party) which has announced 1
ก
A State-wido civil dis- obedience movement from next
Thunday to protest against the food policy of the
Statq's Congress Party Gov- Frument. The committee is demanding cheaper rice, and punishment for food hoorders. Mr Hemanta Kumar Boso, a member of the Stato Legisle- tive Amembly and sveretary of the committeo, said Jodny that the committee's pro- gramme would stand in ipide of a warning of arrests- Router.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.