U.S. ROCKET PLANE DOES 2,150 MPH
FOR WORLD RECORD
Burbank, Aug. 4.
The rocket-powered X-15 today carried test pilot Joe Walker to a world air speed record of 2,150 miles an hour more than three times the speed of sound on a brief flight over the Mojave desert.
MURDER FOR HIRE
Recife, Aur. 4. Brazilian Police reported that three members of 1 "yndicate of death" kad
admitted 150 murders for hire at prices ranging from $11 to $550 according to the importance of the victim.
The men were captured after
four-bqur *
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battle on a rocky hillside near their headquarters in
of state-
Varuaru, second city the Pernambuco
AP.
Kefauver leads in
Senate primary
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 5. Sen. Estes Ketauver tonight took an early lead over Judge Andrew T. Taylor
which
tested
primary
in a Democratic Senate southern feelings on equal
rights for Negroes.
With 522 of 2,850 precincts
"I'm sitting up there, watch ing the needle go amend, and saying goo" said Walker when asked how it felt to be the fastest mar alive,
The rocket plane broke j 4-year-old record during its 10- minute flight. The old mark of 2,094 miles an hour was act on September 27, 1956, by Capt. Milburn Apt in the X-2, a forerunner of the X-15. Ag: was killed on that flight when the X-2 disintegrated in the eir.
CONSERVATIVE
"I don't think I would have been able to tell how fast I was going if I didn't have an in- dicator," Walker sald The sense of speed is from watching the meter." He said he didn't believe he could have gone any faster today, and that he hit his maximum speed for "just the snap of a finger."
The X-15 began its record fight when dropped from the wing of a B-52 over Silver Dry Lake. Ten minutes later the plane was on the ground. and Walker, told he had, broken the record. shouted "Yippee!"
AUSTRALIAN
SINGER
THREATENED
Melbourne, Aug. 4. Police are guarding the Melbourne home of beautiful Australian sing. ing star Diana Trask, following an anonymous
threat telephone
murder her.
to
The caller said "unless she leaves Australia by the end of the week she is doomed;
"She will get a knife in her throt."
The 20-year-old Diano, who was discovered in Australia last year by Frank Sinatra, return- The National Aeronautics ed here last week for a whirl- And Space Administration said wind tour with American singer the 2,150 figure was based on and film star Pat Boone. preliminary fight data and could be changed slightly after further study. But NASA said, "the figure is on the conser- vative side,"
Asked how far he could see, Walker replied, "I didn't have any lime to look around. don't even recall looking out the window from drop time until I started looking for place to put her down."-UFI.
Indonesia bans
Red literature
Djakarta, Aug. 4.
tabulated, the returns looked The Indonesian army com-
!Kefauver
like this:
Taylor
45,071 22,165
Taylor, a racial segregationist, public criticised Kosauver's
record during the campaign. in which Ketauver sought nomina- tion a third ferm.
1
Celebes today mand in announced that it had im- posed a ban on all Cum munist Chinese publica- tions, Antara News Agency reported.
TERRIFIED
"I have been terrified by the calls since I have been back," said Diana today.
"My mother has refused to
I let me answer the phone after
the murder threat.”
The ban had been imposed "o safeguard public order and the announcement
Taylor has been critical of the civil rights portion of the security," Democratic national platform | said.
Communist Chinese publica- (statement of principles) and applauded the Tennessee deletions have been distributed on gation for signing the southern a large scale by the Chinese minority report. Kefauver said embassy in Diekārts and other only he thought the platform consular offices in the provinces. went a little too far.-AP. -Reuter.
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morrow,
She will have a screen test for Twentieth Century Fox for a lead opposite Pat Boone in a remake of the film "State Fair." —AP.
THE CHINA-MAIL. FRIDAY. AUGUST: 5, 1969.
WHAT lies behind the smiles of Stewart Granger and Vivien Leigh? Two people in the news whose lives have suddenly been changed by broken marriages.
Granger went to see Miss Leigh in her dressing. room in New York, where she is playing the lead role in “Duel of Angels.” He later went to England to start a new film.
He said recently he and Jean Simmons had. parted.
In the same dressing room, Vivien Leigh an nounced she and Sir Laurence Olivier had separated.
-Express Photo.
We hope to share
daughter, says
Klansman Stewart Granger
makes pledge
London, Aug. 4.
Stewart Granger, British-born Hollywood film star, said here today that he and his wife, Jean Simmons, hope to "share" their three-year-old daughter, Tracey, when their divorce is finalised,
Speaking at London airport on his arrival from the United States Mr Granger said: "Jean has gone to America and she | is going to get a diyorve.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 4. The U.S. klans, knights of the Ku Klux Klian, buried imperial" wizard Eldon L Tracey is our daughter. Her Edwards today, his casket name is Granger and we both draped with the hood and love her very much. We want rabe of the order.
A robed minister one of three officiating declared "by the grace of God" that his work will be carried on,
When the last shot is fred and the smoke is cleared away we will be standing victorious," he said.
her to be as happy as any little girl can be. We shall try to arrange amicably that Tracey will spend an equal time with each of us."
Miss Simmons left London for the United States yester day.
Mr Granger is in London to make a film, and will spend about a year in Europe. He has two more films to make in Italy-China Mail Special.
Big rush
for opals
Darwin, Aug. 4. Miners are rushing to peg claims од a newlys discovered opal field in Australia's northern ter ritory, according to re- ports reaching Darwin today,
The Opals have been found at Helen's Springs station, 80 miles worth of the copper and gold mining centre of Tennant Creek.
'MILLION MEMBERS' Virtually all of those having an active part in the burial were clad in sating robes. Many of the several hundred mourners
Washington, Aug. 4. Burial with military honours were rank and file klagsmen wearing their regalia of bed-was given today to the body of
Capt. sheet cotton.
Willard George Palm, One miner is reported to Edwards, 51. B car paint pilot of the US. RB-47 recon- have found precious black opali sprayer of suburban College naissance bomber shot down by worth £A400 an ounce, in a Park, died on Monday of a la Soviet pursuit plane over the 20-foot deep shaft,
Helen Springs station is the heart attack. He claimed that, Berents Sea on July 1.
Palm was buried at Arlington main holding station he had rallied a million mem bers into his kians despite a National
Cemetery outside British Vesey's Meat Company.
-China Mail Special. state no-mask law-AP.
Washington-AFP.
for the
Presents from all the
world for Queen Mother
London, Aug. 4.
The hard-working, but ever serene Queen Mother Elizabeth took a day off
today. It is her 60th birthday.
earlier this year.
Elizabeth
moment of relaxation she took the minds
Even in her unaccustomed Today she was very much in to Queen Mother
and hearts of an on some baby-sitting.
adoring nation.
Even in her sixtieth year, the But this is no chore for the British ships passing on the Queen Mother has been tireless gracious widow of King George high seas exchanged solutes. A in fulfilling royal engagements. VI whose admirers circle the 41-gun salute was fired in Hyde world. She gally opened the Paric ****
Unlike the queen she was no paperwork in governmental
A special playing of "God Save inclions, so she has thrown presents from her grandchildren, The Queen" in her honour open herself into the purely socia Prince Charles, Princess Aneed the day's broadcasting on the take of royally opening and the infant Price Andrew. British Broadcasting Corpora- fetes, laying cornerstones and
entertaining torden guests,
Prince Andrew, ave months
old, gurgled and waved his
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tion
SPECTACULAR
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New twist to an old argument
China
must join ban
on H-tests'
Geneva, Ang. 4.
The United States today made it clear that it con- siders it essential for Communist China to accede to a treaty banning nuclear weapon tests.
This came out during today's rather than encourage elates to 80-minute session of the three-accede to the treaty.
power conference, which was
discussing the.
United States
Sir Michael Wright, British
Copyrapid
Coples
anything
draft article on accession of delegate, supported the Ameri- Printed matter
countries to the treaty,
cân draft and said he supposed
the Soviet delegate was "speak-
In order to get round Ameri-s in haste "before having fully ca's non-recognition of Com-Added the text. munist Chim, the United States draft stipulates that "aný stafo or authority" willing to accept the treaty obligations and de- positing its Instrument ratification should be eligible for membership.
CRITICISM
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Mr Semyon Tsarapkin, the Soviet delegate, criticised the U.S. draft under which, he said, both the People's Republic of China and "the usupers tu Taiwan" could be eligible for accession.
Ink
“We are all trying to And out Low we
can ensure the perti- cipation of countries which would be needful, helpful and Coloured pencils right," he said,
The object of the US draft was to get a text of salelen! breadth to that all states could Rubber stamps be considered.
No decision was reached and the conference meets again to morrow. Reuter.
Soviet delegate, who Search for
The tabled an amendment to the US. draft deleting the words "and authority," sald Russia would never agree to the ac- cession of the Talwan Govern- ment.
"There is only one China and that is the People's Republic, which has been reorganised by many countries," he said, "There can be no question of two. parties to the treaty coming A from the same state.".
Mr James J Wadsworth, United States delegate, mid that it was precisely to avoid such difficulties as Communist China's accession to the treaty thst the words "state authority" were used.
MISJUDGED
Ox
the arms
of Venus
New York, Aug. 4. search for a lovely woman's arms has lured Mathon Kyritsis from his fishing boats and seafood restaurant on Lake
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Ball-pens
Drowing?
TIME IS MONEY!
the simple to use
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Michigan's shore into an is the greatest time javer Odyssey to Greece.
The woman is a goddess, Venus, her image, in the public
The words had been chosen Mind is en armless one, derived from the famous statue, "Venus being de Mio.
with the intention of
helpful and politically realistic
knows
and it appeared that the Soviet Kyrilsis thinks he delegate had "seriously mis-where her arins are. judged" the U.S. draft,
He departed today for New York.
The U.S.
delegate said it was essentially an over-riding necessity for all important slates to accode to the treaty, including those, with policies the United States did not necessarily agree.
On Saturday he will sall for Athens on the Queen Frederica Kyritsis confided that he thinks the statue's arm Lie on the sandy whose bottom of the Harbour of Klema, port of the Island of Melos where the Venus was found in 1820. The whole purpose of the The U.S. draft was to relieve the statue, Kyritsis thinks, were arms, found with the
control commission, which dropped overboard when French would decide on the accession sailors took the art work from a of countries, of endless argu- Turkish merchantman and ments about the policies of brigantine Sevret, for a trip to states, he said.
Marseilles, and an eventual; Mir Tsarapkin sald the home in the 'Louvre in París. Western draft would prevent AP.
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