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No. 37788

WEDNESDAY

1845

EXC 5, 1960.

MAIL

Price 20 Cents

Only on Pan Am .

JETS

ON EVERY

FLIGHT

From Hong Kong • Phone 37031

Fully loaded airliner plunges into sea

Of The MANY FEARED DEAD IN CRASH

Day

ATTACKS ON

A

WOMEN

PARTICULARLY vicious

and horrible form of crime is coming before local courts in an In- creasing number of cases. We refer to attacks VII women

in which the

assailant AREA

razors,

Disintegrated in mid-air,

says

witness

Boston, Oct. 4.

jagged tin edges, bruken An Eastern Airlines Lockheed Electra with

hotties or acids to disfigure

them. It is

the une of

most cowardly, brutal and

Savage erimes

has stooped to,

that

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It turns an attractive woman

into EX repulsive fund

hideous looking person,

72 people aboard crashed on take off

from Logan airport tonight into Boston harbour.

Initial reports indicated all but 12 or 15 people

perished.

The

It was the first fatal acciden! | apart in mid-air, and fell into The mental distress and in history at Logan Airport. the water near # yacht suffering it causes is even

sank, One person at the airport said anchorage.

plane more damaging. It is the he ran to a window when he but some debris and luggage. most hateful and bitterheard of the crash. “I saw the was left floating on the water.

rescue Frogmen and

teams sear a woman can possibly spray as it hit the water," he

rushed to the scene to try to bear and for the rest of sak, "and I could see the tail her life she is the object of of the plane sticking out of the save the passengers.

when I тал horrified and pitiful stares, water,

another window to see if the We aak: are the sentences front of the plane was still up provided for this kind of the whole thing had vanished." crime sufficient to deter those who seem to be

re-

But

Frogmen

to

Porting increasingly to The pine apparently sank animal tactics to in within minutes.. timidate, peraecute

Budles were and

being taken vindictively punish others?away from the harbour by all

Life in any fail these days manner of craft.

The plane,

cannot be described as 9

severe hardship.

N

fact, throughout the

world today, the prisoner

is coming to be regarded somewhat sentimental

In

terms as a mist in society and that given a little kind- ness, education and pay. chiatric treatment, more can be achieved than by making him hew rocks or indulge in other forms of hard labour. Whether the local authorities subscribe to this is im- must material. But they agree that the man who in cold blood can sit down to plot the mutilation of a

en

route

to

Philadelphia appeared to fall

Runaway Mig

pilot dead

Amman, Oct. 4. Flight-Lieutenant Adnan Madoni of the United Arab Republic Air Force committed suicide in Am- man today, a spokesman for the Jordanian High Command announced. Madani janded his MIG 17-F woman's face by an act of jet fighter plane in Jordan on vengeful savagery, does September 28 and had asked

Bot deserve to he Jordan's King Hussein to grant

The Electro" planes, mana- fuctured by the Lockheed Air- craft Company, were involved in a series of accidents last year which cost the lives of several hundred people.

Several of the accidents were in the caused by weaknesses planes' structure which caused wing vibration at high speeds.

The company began a pro- gramme dor

modifying the planes, and the "Electras" still in service were limited to speeds much lower than its normal cruising speedUPH- and AFP.

HAVOC IN DEVON

COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE

U.S. hurls Courier

into space orbit

Cape Canaveral, Oct. 4.

treated as a human being him political asylum in The US, hurled a 500-pound military communications satellite into orbit

- at least until he has learnt to behave like one.

country, the spokesman said..

today, making America's 28th and most complex space success since Russia launched, its first sputnik exactly three years ago.

Violant thunderstorms with hoovy rain brought fresh havoc to flood-stricken Devon in the 'curly hours of Saturday morning. Tho worst hit area was around the mouth of the Exo-the eight-mile delta where the outspill from the river and the tide moet.

Rain and lightning hit Exmouth at 1.30 am. Ninety minutes later rain was still falling. Many families on the coast side of Exmouth

7 DEAD,

65 HURT IN BLAST

Kingsport, Tenn., Oct. 4. At least sever, people were killed and 65 injured to, night in tremendous explosion which shook the giant Tennessee Eastman Chemical Works plant.

into The building erupted flames shortly after the blast.

The Highway Patrol said the, death toll was expected to rise. Wilnesses at the scene' said minor explosions occurred after the first blast, Company of- clals said they did not imow what caused the explosion.

A glant black cloud hung over · the Eastman area which is northeast of Kingsport. The big company manufactures cheruicals and synthetic Abres,

tem- Electris

Was power

DE porarily disrupted in parts the city by the explosion,

The firm employs about 12,000 people on a 24-hour operation. Witnesses said fumes and smoke went as high as 100

the fect into

that ain and almost every window near the plant was blown out.

A munber of plants in the Arca manufacture butane gas and police did their best to dia- perso curious crowds. that gathered at the scene-UPI.

Evacuation ordered

French flee

from floods

| were still stranded from the previous week's foods in up- stairs room. Water 3 ft. All deep swirled through their homes. Nearby villages, were

under Sft-6ft water at times. The floods are the worst since the Lynmouth disaster aight years ago. Picture

ot

Limoges, France, Oct. 4.

the villages along a stretch of the Creuse River below Aubusson, in Central France, were ordered evacuated tonight, as cracks ap- peared in the overstrained Chantegrele Dam nearby, after days of torrential rain.

was over-

At the same time, flood Others injured included eight

turned in the raging waters. Exton (near Exmouth) dams in the same prea. which collapsed when a great

the before

dama AFP. Even torrent of water swept threatened to collapse, the area serious flood Was suffering through its foundations.

and factorles

He said an Investigation was underway into the circumstances The fairest request is that of Madini's death and that a these people are subjected representative of the UAR em-

It marked to a long enough term of bassy in Amman-has been invit-

the first step in transmit in 10 minutes word imprisonraent to ensure ed to attend the proceedings of providing US military men with age equal to a 50-page news-

xanuumleptione dystem which paper supplement, or the 773 MAC MEETS K the thatched church waters overflowed two other soldiers whose car this. Ten years would not the inquiry Madani had been

srid would be 899-word standard version of

the King James Bible. be too long. Nor would a talking to officers of the Royal scientists

Jordanian Air Force this after "practically unjaminable."

One of its first jobs was to sentence do justice unless

An 80-foot Thor-Ablo-Star

back Dover volca it insisted that these able in the offers mess, the

spokesman said.

rocket carried the ball-shaped relay

Including 2 The UAR Flight fleutenant inch satellite into orbit. messages, bodied and animal-minded

'announcement, had brutos are caned. Because had excused himself and

Dr Donald A. Marx, u scien- gratulatory"

advance by Army those who perpetrate this gone alone to the room of one sist connected with the Courter taped

"We are re- Secretary Mr Wilbur Brucker, programme said particular form of crime of the officers.

́geared to relay It was also Shortly afterwards a shot was relving, and the information is are often those who have

news dispatches of rushing very good." heard and

"regular officers not been disciplined enough to the room discovered Madant

The base function of Courier United Press Enternational and children. If parents dend with a bullet in his head. is to receive and record high- the Associated Press sunt by ahirk this responsibility tHe had shot himself with the speed radio-teleype and voice high-speed radio-teletype

and Ft. Monmouth, New Jerney, to Is the duty of the state to pistol which had bom on the messages from one station make up the deficiency. table Inside the roon, the relay them to another, It has an Army Signal Corpe station

Ulie capability to memorise and! In Puerto Rico-UPL OVERNMENT has taken spokesman said,-AFP.

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steps in the past to

stump Oul particularly

nauseouя forms of crime.

In

racent memory, flick

kuite exponents have bean dealt with. Many years ago there was a spate of

houk attacks. cago possession of

cargo

ench

In-1

) such an Instrument was as much an offence as its use. But against acid, Jagged metal edges, broken bottles

and even razors, possesalon and criminal In- tont are less eusily. associated. The main deter

rent must therefore rely

Gaitskell's policy in

H-Bomb danger

Scarborough, Oct. 4.

Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell's H-Bomb policy stood in imminent danger of defeat tonight following a decision by the huge Amal gamated Engineers Unlon to vote against it tomorrow at the Party's annual conference here.

at

decides tho This decision, taken by

In a situation, as unpredict final authority which

"Labour | policy. out the premoni on suffer sentences in engineers at a three-hour long able

On the surface this might cluding action to make the meeting means it is virtually crisis, the possibility of some

of mind acem like a defeat for. Mr Galt- criminal

certain unicas some drama lastminute changes the

of aware diabolical nature crime,

We are

!

Occurs

LONG AND USEFUL DISCUSSION

Now York, Oct. 4. Prime Minister Mr Harold Macmillon and Soviet Premior Khrushchev had a "long and useful dis- cussion today on problems of disarmament and the possibility of a summit conference next year.

the

In contrast to their meeting

last week, which ended in statomate, a British spokesnan made it plain that Mr Mac- millas considered today's meet- ing, to have been successful in starting to restore good East- West relationa

Khrushchev himself said the moating had been "very pro- ductive.

POSSIBILITY

(See also P3)

damage. Homes

have been flooded, communica- tions

wero disrupted, thousands were stranded

SHIPS FOR HK homeless in the region.

and

or

STRIKERS' MOVE

London, Oct. 4. A new peace move to avert a natimal rail strike in Britain, threatened for October 17, was A flood death was recorded made today when union leaders today at Aubusson, the famous decided to ask Sir Brian Robert- of the British tapestry and rug-making centre. son, Chairman

flood waters there Transport Commission, for an. swept into a home on the river other meeting. bank, drowning

Rising

Liverpool, Oct. 5. The Liverpool shipping firm of Alfred Holt announced today it had ordered four motor cargo

a woman who This action was taken after Iiners of about 11,000. fons each

was unable to escape in time an emergency meeting of the for the company's For East run from here to Malaya, Hongkong fler husband was in hospital in executive council of the National

serious condition.

Union of Railwaymen-Reuter. and Japan-Router.

ALLEGATION IN TAIPEI SEDITION ROW.

LEI CHEN'S LAWYER WAS

VISITED BY KMT MEN

Taipei, Oct. 4.

Formosa's most critical newspaper said today. two ruling party leaders attempted to give pre-trial instructions to the lawyer who defended opposition leader Lef Chen against sedition charges,

What does The Kung Lain Peo, strongest will announce its verdict and by defending Lat?

IL. matter, if Lel la sentenced of his le last-minute voting switch aimed to save the leadership shell, who was opposed to the that the conference from defeat cannot be ruled resolution on the grounds that it

Briti

foreign

dmce critte of President Chiang Kai- sentence at 5 pm on Saturday. would lie the hands of himself

The Kung Lun Pao, owned fo ten years as he will bo re»' will pa a unilateralist. re out.

And the other Members of Parckesman said Mr Macmillan shole's administration, seld the not suggesting that

at solution demanding that Britain

liament.

and Mr Khrushchev considered ruling Kuomintang sent Instruce by native-born Formosans said leased in two or three years. *

Zu Thao-balen and Tan Chen-

The newspaper claimed two 'But in fact 1) But ovon if various smaller

the Party, the possibility of another Big- tions to the lawyer, Llang Shu-yi, Kuomintang Members of

-violence la the best cure pans the bombon

TACTICAL

for violanco. And corporalTonight's

the by unions at the conference make executive had first of all made Tour summit to be helt after the yung the night before Lel's friai. Parliament, called at the de. of its reporters were in the punishment is measure Union,; which commands nearly alt-minute wing towards it clear that they would, back American Presidential elections, to be used sparingly. That 700,000 votes at the conference Me Callskoll in the votes, the the resolution only if it was but with a species

lators arrived. They claimed the te and "Lol, a magazine publisher and Leto lawyer house on Bwyer's house when the legis

to attempt to put tepliators wore wearing badges. It has value and efficacy, was

was a blow to Mr Gaitskell. goers decision must greatly understood that nobody at all place hot mustioned founder of Formosa's first op day night pah odnoty lube however,

His supporters had hoped horrow the verdict.ed

had, any power, to instruct, con-

The Insproe was hot at horné identifying them as participants "They had long and useful pestion pollucal party, was party pressure on him Callskel), wonin doubted. Government must the engineers would save Earlier,

trol or ulciato to the Parlia discusion with the principal tried with twe associates before

ference, then underway, A

The newspapers · said - the? make it plain that the policy from defeat tomorrow by tactical victory when by a mentary unbour Party on the alm of establishing how how a military telburial yesterday on but the Kuomintang legislators in the Kuomintang Party con- Spade toda a legillators: alaimed they were ainaher who carvos'i

racling both ways" decision, barge majority,500,000 votes way it carried out a responsecull best make progress with charges of attempting to incite met his with, the 'nowapeper

we diestmoment both now and in zlot against the Government and, said..."

The newspaper said du fold

carrying' Kuostintang orders on woman's face out of alioor backing. Both official Labour against:41,674,000-dicate to abilities.

the-Inwyer's : wite “why should. How Lai should be defended, su #miniicious, spite. deserves and unilateralit policies, the Party annual confence The way accepted by the the future, the spoicommian Communist espionage connwo, no mercy, whatever the thy die at the Trade - Unión named aution declaring delegates despite some murmure; said. "It we a serious technical onwysadzkieg

·balk,"

The military court said it your husband oftard all people up partist. the conference itself, is the of protesteetaten. pretext.

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