1960-06-28 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAID, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1960.

TEXAS FLOOD

Police fail to

DRAMA

Disarmament negotiations

'Redskin' torturers

brand

find mystery RUSSIA'S REFUSAL TO

water skier RECONSIDER WALK-OUT boy of 8

Houston, June 27.

Swift flood waters raced through a huge section of the Texas gulf coast sweeping people to their death and forcing thousands from their homes.

Electronic medical brain

The floods, caused by steady. and heavy rains since Thursday, were called the worst disaster to hit some towns since a 1945 hurricane.

Eight people have been drown- ed since Thursday, two are missing and presumed dead.

Flood water began to recede Sunday night buf more thundershowers were forecast

on

for today.

Geneva, June 27.

An appeal by the West to the Communists to reconsider their decision to walk out of the East-West disarmament negotiations failed here this evening.

Mr David Ormsby-Gore, Bri- Uish Minister of State, weni per- Bonally to talk to Mr Valerian Zorin, the Soviet delegation. lender, at the Soviet villa.

The two men were together for three-quarters of an hour. Later, a British spokesman, sald that Mr Orimsby Gore's demarche had been "without result.",

NO CHANGE

Four captured in

Jamaica

manhunt

Kingston, June 27.

London, June 27.

Two schoolboys tortured un eight-year-old tod in Red Indian style, then brand- ed him.

And В possible reason advanced for their cruelty was: "I might be that they were suffering from an abundance of television"

nt

The torture boys, one aged 14, the other 11, objected to the eight-year-old playing with another boy, it was cald Birmingham juvenile court. So they took him to a garden shod. Then:-

Bound his hands with rope:

beam Tied the rope to a across the roof:

Secured one leg to the side of

Up to 30 inches of rain fell in some areas since Thursday fore- ing the Brazos river at Columbia 10 feet above flood British delegate had gone with Four men wanted for questioning about the slaying on a wooden box. stage.

wesl

Philadelphia, June 27.

The spokooman stid the An electronic medical brain, which diagnoses diseases

the approval of his four fellow AID SENT

Western delegates "to make an within 30 seconds after it "receives" patient's

Port Lavaca. where some of urges.t demarche" to Mr Zorin ascertain whether the last been the heaviest rains fell, requested to has symptoms,

aid from the US, army and word had beca sald shown here by a research

Both sent cots scientist who spent six years developing it as a hobby.

than

navy.

and

It is

understood

that

of two British soldiers were captured today in a remote hamlet.

They had been hunted by 500 soldiers and policemen during the the week since Brian Metterell, blankets to the city by helicopter Soviet delegate informed Mr 18, of Torquay, and David Phil- Ormsby-Gore that the Compott, 22, of Sholing, were killed and trucks.

While the floods caused wide-munist bloc refused to modify in an ambush. spread hardship many young- its attitude, which led to Mil The machine, smaller

Communist delegations an office desk and weighing less sters considered it an occasion five

for joy. They paddied down, walking out of the conference than a ton, is the prototype of a model which Dr Gustav Jooded streets in washtubs and Marlin hopes eventually will be Boated in Inner tubes. able diagnose more than 1,500 diseases known to man.

At present, it questions only about ailments of said a water skier was running up and down the street in front the gastro-enterological system.

pf her house, Police investi- Known as a diagnostic com.

they couldn'i find puter, the machine gives an in- gated but sight into the future of anyone to arrest."

medicine.

can

100 SYMPTOMS

Assistant civil defence direc- tor. Floyd Miller of Houston answer said "A woman, called me and

SNAKES Snakes crawled from flooded It is capable of handling 100 bayou and creek banks search symptoms, which are punched ting for dry ground. They crawl- out on a small card. The carded on sidewalks in Houston giv- is inserted into the machine and ing some people more trouble 30 seconds later, the diagnosis than the foods. There were no Press another button reports of people being bitten, however, and alternate diagnoses appelt.

Some parts of Port Lavaca, a When all the symptoms point to a specific disease, the com-city of 10,000, were covered by puter tells" the doctor that it more than five feet of water

appears.

is 80 to 100 per cent accurate, When other disonses are dicated, the machine lowers its own accuracy and "tells" the doctor so,

following 30 Inches of rain there.

accused

United

room.

In Washington, the States

Russia shattering "the hopes of all peoples" for progress ward peace by walking out of the

to-

disarmament: conference.

It appealed to the Soviets to retum to the negotiations.

U.S. STATEMENT

The soldiers, of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, were shot down after searching the camp of a terrorist group known as the Rastafarian Sect. The am- bush occurred in the hills north of Kingston.

SHELTER

Jamaica's greatest manhunt for the killers led early today to

the unidentified hamlet where the fugitives had entered a lone- A statement Issued by the U.S.y house and demanded shelter

denounced from the owner. State Department Russia's wrecking of the 10- nation parley in Geneva as "botb deplorable and disappointing."

The action shows a deter- mination to avoid any further discussion on problems of con-

in

Typhoid serum was flown into the city.-AP.

K blames

Kumla, June 27.

got

Dr Martin, who is associated Rorer

21, with the William H.

Soeren Lithell, Pharmaceutical Company and married yesterday and walling with the Sindon Foundation, to kiss the bride were his father month machine with Dr who got married last built the William Kleinberg and Charles and his 74-year-old grand- Brannick, of Princeton Science father who took a bride Associates.--China Mail Speciat months ago.-UPI.

A British Crossword Puzzle

20 21

18

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15 6

2

10

13

114

16

89

26

777

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29

ACROSS

.1 Strike tents and disappear?

(6).

5 Home-help paper (5).

8 The spirit of broadcasting,

by the sound of it (5).

8 Sooner or later he is sure to

Είνα outt (6),

10 Residence for the poorly in

Virginia (5).

11 Small shoot (5).

12 Work hard at a snare (4). 13 Members of a flock (5),

16 Salutes

up North

124

22

DOWN

1 Like Thomas (8);

2 End game? (3, 5).

3 Disfigures a god (4).

4 Get ready

to strip

material inside (7),

5 Schemes something (7).

Burning to land (6).

two

Боле

The French centre occupied

by

the sick (5).

14 Ex-PoWs (8).

15 Is he quicker with his lines

than the actor himself? (8). tearfully, perhaps, 16 Romanies (7). 17 Come in with (0).

fever (7).

18 They're not at home (8). 20 Dance featured in Portgual

operas (5),

22 Cool and collected as well?

(4).

23 Willow (5).

25 Middle East personage in

divvies (5).

20 Grow less sovere about the

pre-Easter period (8).

27 Spectral (5).

28 Goee in front on the roof

(5).

29 Many a loser not far away.

19 Rifled (6).

mally after

21 As an acpent it's the reverse

of grave (5). 24 The dance of the inebri-

ated? (4).

the West

Geneva, June 27. Soviet Premier Nikita K. Khrushchev, in a note sent to the heads of Western governments 10- day, blamed the West for the breakdown of the Geneva disarmament talks. The note charged that the five Western powers in the talks wore using Soviet parijclpallon "as a serren to cover the kema race' un- leashed by the West, and for deceiving the peoplex." Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin mentioned the note in his bitter speech preceding the Communist walkout at Geneva, Al the same time, Buviet Ambassadors in the Western capitals delivered identical copies of the role to the heads of government of the United States Bri- tain, France, Italy, and Canada --A?.

When the fugitives fell asleep, the villager hurried to a point two miles away where he contacted police. Royal Hamp- shire troops and police ringed the house,

Singapore rebel

group suspended

the shed and placed his other

was

Then, 65 the boy suspended. paraffin heater was placed below him.

A

HEATED KNIFE

It burned under him for 30 minutes ville the boys went for a haircut. When they returned one heated a penknife over a hester and branded the lad. He was severely burned on an arın and knee.

Later the same day the two took a 12-year-old boy to the shed and branded him because he wanted to be a inember of their gang

And both branded boys were told that if they talked they would be tortured again,

Said Mr Roy Dunstan, prosecuting: "It was wouring

manner akin in a activities of backwoods

to the

Red

Both boys admitted doing grievous bodily harm to other lads and the case was adjourned for probation reports-London Express Service.

Singapore, June 26, Singapore's ruling Peoples Action Party today sus

Indians. pended all members of its

"If the shed had caught fire branch committee in the while the boy was tied up there constituency of Mr Ong could have been serious con- Eng Guan, the suspended sequentes" Minister for National Development and a rebel in the left-wing party." A policeman smashed a win- A statement issued by the dow, awakening the fugitives. Party headquarters said that One of the latter was seriously the branch committee had "fog- wounded

by the policemen rantly douted the party dis- when he tried to reach for a cipline" by not attending three The others surrendered meetings called by the central committee. the meekly and all were taken to executive Kingston under heavy guard. supreme policy-making body.

Mr Ong Eng Guan's central All four were said to he city party branch yesterday American negroes, who, police issued a statement criticising said, came here to train the party leadership for sus-

Tokyo, June 27. Rastafarians for, Insurrection pending Mr Ong on the grounds Two leftists Zengakuren activities. The sect is led by the that he had challenged the col- Rev. Claudius Henry. He and lective leadership and discre- 15 of his bearded followers are dited the party-Reuter. on trial on charges of treason and felony. They have preach- ed a back-to-Africa movement for coloured people here,

gun.

THREE DEATHS

Vote for bikinis

Portsmouth, June 27.

Japanese arrested

student organisation officials were arrested to day on charges of direct- ing the bloody Diet riots on June 15,

This brought the total June 15 riot leaders arrested up to 16.

They were suspected of direct- ing the students who broke into Meanwhile, security police The all-male city council the Diet compound by forcing Investigated the deaths of three voted unanimously yesterday open the front gale. It was men who had been strangled to alker guy strollers on the during this riot that a Tokyo and buried together in the hills Southsea beach where the soldiers were killed wear bikinis-UPI, last Tuesday.

Police said one of three was Calvert Claude Beckford, sought for several weeks on a other charge of treason. The two also were followers of the Claudius Henry movement.

The identity of the four men arrested was not disclosed.-- AP.

trolled disarmament within the meeting, the statement said. At the same time, it announced that allied representatives in- tend for the time being to re- main at the negotiating table." "If the Communist side is prepared to seek a solution tó the disarmament problem the way is still open," the statement lover's declared.

"It is our earnest hope that

Outburst

New York, June 27. John Curtin, 25, had

row with his fiance, Beatrice McCarthy, 21,

the Soviet bloe will reconsider ring from

Sunday took

the engagement her Anger anc

its irresponsible action and join tossed it from the window of a

with the Allied nations in taxd. determined and continued search for a just and durable peace."— Reuter & AP.

Curtin still

was looking for the $355 ring today,-UPI,

200 injured as

strike flares into rioting

Palermo, June 27,

Stone-throwing rioters battled police in the streets of Palermo today in fighting over a 2-hour city. wide general strike.

The strike was originally as many as 200 persons were called by the city's labour unions Injured.

to protest against "the gravity of Traffic was blocked in one of the economie situation in PalerPalermo's main squares by

Downtown stores closed their But the demonstration flared doors and shuttered their show into rioting when strikers began windows to protect the glass attacking buses which operated against Aying stones for

side."

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Addict, SW-mo and the surrounding country- tumultuous crowd of strikers. help, 8 Hide, 9 Laurel(s), 11 Label, 13 Rided, 14 Bear, 18 Roses, 18 Pride, 10 Espy, 20 A.M.-ours, 24 Inert, 25 Prawns, 28 Eyes, 27 S-and-S, 28 Sample(r). Dow 1 A.B.-le, 2 Dour, 3 Chet, 4 Tiller, 5 Welders, 6 Embassy, 7 Palmist, 10 Biled, 13 Spirits, 14 Bibian, 16 Amtates, 17 Opera, 18 Mlopes, 21 Ursa, 22 Swap (and rev.), 29 Isle,

in defiance of the strike order. Moses were stared, and tynne

Police estimated that perhaps| deflated/AP.

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