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Established 1845 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1961.
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Eisenhower's dollar-saving decree rescinded
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the KENNEDY's BOOST TO SERVICES
day
HIGH SEA
PIRACY
YING off the coast ol
Brazil today is an ocean
liner with 600 odd touristi
Families will not brought home
be
Washington, Feb. 1.
passengers on board. President Kennedy tonight gave a boost to the morale of U.S.
more than a week the ship.
has been in the hands of a leader Portuguese rebel
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service families by rescinding former President Eisenhower's dollar-saving directive to bring thousands of dependents home from abroad.
was the biggest news to come from the Presi
dent's second nationally televised Press con- ference.
The President Intimated that The
of Staff had been Chiefs most enneemed abdut the effect of the former President's order on service morale and enlist- cpent in tes.
Diplomat mid that the move m would also be welcomed
and Europe, Japan
where naijenal cronomes stood to inge frem a drastic reduction in the spending families
number org American
dollar
rely
tationed there,
Mc Kennedy said: This
concerned the many of which internal economic siluation
His replies were crisp and la many cases shorter than the queens.
1e defended against implied criticism the sombreness of his State of the Union message last
Monday painted the picture
I saw it," he said.
Wot, no noise!
CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Day after day, night after
ARREST IN Daily Mirror Group
QANTAS
MONEY
THEFT
CASE
Washington, Feb. 2. Arrest of an employee of Qantas Empiro' Airways in! the theft of $100,000) fram a safe in the Aus- tralian airline's San Fran- cisco office, was an- nounced by Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
Thu Federal Bureau ol
vestigation identißed the man night, month after month reglen as James Leslie Chap- man,20. a cargu agent For Mr Kennedy, en 150 ergaslons
the crash and hiss of ex-qantas. The FBI said some of during his second televised nwS
ploding steam from the the mency was recovered from concrence, save indications of
Ground'sate depull axes where Chap. i thinking toward China.
Murray Parade In response to one. question
pile-drivers resounded an had puced it, but pending conal $1 Was not known about whether his State of the
throughout the city.
whether it all was recovered. Union message implied some:
Lover, Middle and Upper criticisin of the sharp
The stolen currency was part Eisenhower's military play and levels residents complained that!
an, the noise interrupted their rest.cf a shipment of $180,000 sent judgment. he said than assessment is now being made They lay awake at night wait la Buat from a Hongkong bank the Crocker-Angio Bank to Francisco, One muslin- packet contained cevered $100,000, another $80,000.
change do not imply any weakening of our determination
to pretcer the value
Henrique Gaivno who has ruised the flag of revolution and proclaimed the seizure of the Santa Maria the It start of a revolt against With the Salazar regime. his political motives and aspirations, the world is not concerned. With his act of pirney, the world is extremely concerned. He in clear nhould be told forms that his refusal to allow the passengers and crew to leave the ship is building up considerable
-will and resentment. More than that, it has dis- credited the rebel cause. Quite apart from the futile gesture of seizing a ship and sailing it around the Atlantic, quite apart from the bloodshed with which this foolish escapade dullar." began, the fact is that hundreds of people being held aboard the ship against their will, rescue ships standing by being told that an attempt to take over the ship will end in it being scuttled. Galvao is trying to tell everyone that his intentions are honourable but he is behaving like a desperado, EOPLE in this part of the world who remember the piracies that occurred along the China const, the brutally with which the
treated, hostages who were invari ably taken for ransom, and the distress and anxiety esused to passengers to say nothing of the losses they sustained, will care nothing for the allegedly lofty inutives which pro- mpted this act of folly. Forcible seizure of a ship! lends itself
other to Bo
thusi interpretation moditated blackmail And robbery.
РЕОРИЕ
crew were
Other ways
about
بارك
President
T
most
He said it was the judgment whether the glam "we now have ing for the next thump, hoping of the Defence Deparunant that for the defence of the United that it would be the list, but savong made in other way. Slates are matched by the mili-comed that it would never end.
strength yare would be completely satisfactory tary
His, thump, hiss, thump. It to implement !
bec part of the city noises, to the Government.
thuse plans," The Presideni did not pake White Paying I would not It became part of our lives.
Even the newspapers' other criticire Me Eisenhower's plans, any observation economy measures imposed on Mr Kennedy declared, "I do avid complainants gave up.
The Colony, facing its noisiest the services by the previous think that
hour, decided to hear it out. administration such as unita- more serious,"
Yesterday it stopped. local purchases of 4712
There was silence and no out know why except the engineers on the site.
The let hole had been driven conerele into the ground, the poured in to complete the foun-
the 250w dations
Parade Ground Hote).
FOOTNOTE: Piling is expeet
the
tivus
the situation grows
"The Chinese Communist luxury items abroad and restric-strength increases, the interveni tions in the post-exchanges.
the
tion by the Communista in these He also deliberately avoided criteal areas which t muntioned committing himself
has grown greater, and, there. question of whether he would
fore.
to consider WO have meet Mr Nikita Khrushchev it whether, in the light of this the Soviet Prime Minister came conditional threat, the strength to this country in March for the
we now have, 1101 only our resumed United Nations General
nuclear deterrent, but also our
for Assembly session.
capacity Lumcient."
it
Emited war, is
of
At the same time he did not entirely discwn the comment
His second reference to China' made in New York last week by
came when a newsman asked Mr Adlai Stevenson that
what new effarts the United, would be a "guess" that the
States might possibly 'take up President would be glad to meet behalf of the Rve Americans stilt
if he came to imprisoned its Chinese jatt. Mr Kbrushehtey the United States.
Mr Kennedy replied that the. Mr Kennedy's non-committal administration
Presidens reply on this issue was that Mr Eisenhower, on many occasione.
Ene! brought pre-Stevensom had not discussed the botere,
up the matter with bin and that itį problem of the Americans who,
have been detained as far back would be more appropriate to wait and
whether 7.00
Mr 1051. The problem was dis
in conversationa with Khrushchev came. Observers re-cussed
eclved the impression that his the Chinese representative reply by no means ruled out a Geneva and Warsaw, Ambarsa-
dor Wang Ping-n. Beting iC Mr Kluushchev 1 travelled to New York.
Concern
There is only one way to en. sure the safety of passen. gera and crew on the high sens from piracies of this or any other kind and that is to make sure that the offenders are brought to justice. One must assume that some kind of thought and planning preceded the piracy and the world is to know what con- who those masterminded this fantas- tic coup
on the Spanish Main gave to the safety of the passengers and crew. THEIR behaviour strongly Tungest that the en
not a fig for anyone except themselves, that they were prepared to shoot to gain mastery of the vessel, to crush anyone who opposed
Lacked drama
in
"This Is a matter of con Unuing concern," Mr Kennedy said. "As long as these iner are held. It will be extremely dimeult to have any kind of!
relations normal
with the
San
on
It arrived after banking hours January 25 uk Was placed in the Quotas safe. A midnight check, thawed it intact but at noon on Thursday when the safe was opened again thei was missing!! $100,000 package although the $85,000 packet was sull in the safe.
IN TURKISH BATH
Chapman wo arrested yes-
ay in San Francisco tur-: kish bath and. the announce meat said, he took the agents Burlingame, Californin,
to his
tipped to
take over Odhams
London, Feb. 1.
Mr Cecil King, 59-year- old chairman of the
Daily Mirror Group, to- day appeared certain to succeed in his £32 mil- liou bid to take over the Odlims
Press ginnt combine.
By this deal, Mr King would emerge as the head of the biggest Press-empire In the work.
This would make the towering,
dynamic. Mr King-nep- hew of the late Lord North- cliffe- bigger power in the Press world than even ltis legendary uncle became. Victory for the £50 million Mirror Group was conceded Today by the veemonte cor- respondent of the Scotsman, a newspaper controlled by Mr Roy Thomson, a rival of Mr King's in the struggle for Odhams. Thomson newspapers last Wednesday agreed to merge with Odhams Press, pub-
lishers
of iwo national newspapers, more than 100
anu periodicals
numerous books.
But on Friday night Mr King entered the field with his take-over bid--an action which yesterday provoked a barrage of questions Parlament to Mr Harold the Prime
said
Macmillan, Minister.
ia
The Scotsman' article
that Mr Thomson, Canadian millionaire publisher, tele- vision and radio magnale. to announce was expected today the withdrawal of his "equal partnership-share exchange" bid for Odhams. It sald there was "no longer any doubt that the Daily Mirror take-over bid would 10 through.
This would create a £90 ml)- Ilon company which would be the biggest in its field in the world, the Scotsman added.
The newspaper's economic correspondent went on: "It would not be in Mr Thom-
SANTA MARIA
son's interest 10
take up
the challenge, 1 was told Jest night
"Mr King's interest in the feld of periodicals may make Odhams a worthwhile buy, but from Mr Thomson's point of view he would have nothing to gain by increas- ing the bid,"
Mr Roy Thomson's personal assistant told reporters 10- day: "Mr Thomson says he has sold no more to the Scotsman than to any other paper and what appears in the Scotsma
representa pure speculation CAL thele part."
The Daily Mirror Group is
ulready one of the world's Jargest press combines in terms of the number of publications printed. Odhams Press, a £40 million combine, publishes the Dolly Herald, national pro- Labour daily with a circula- tion of 1,407,000, and The People, a Sunday newspaper which sells 5,215,000 copies. -China Mall Special.
MARIA FIVE
PASSENGERS
WAITING
Recife, Feb. 1.
ed to start on Queen's Building home and newer them where The Santa Maria was still riding at anchor off
at any time,
FLU IN UK
NEARING
EPIDEMIC
he had hidden the keys to three safe deposit boxes in which he had placed the stolen. money. One of the boxes was in the |Crocker-Anglo Bank.
Chapman was charged under a Federal sintute covering theft from a foreign shipment and was taken to San Francisco city prison. Conviction under this law carries a possible penally of a $5,000 fine, 10 years' im- prisonment, or both.
The FBI said Chapman is native of Red Bluff, California, is single and was given an t- London, Feb. 1.
from derable discharge
the of Britain's growing wave
U.S. Novy.-AP. winter influenza, which killed 651 people in three weeks in January, was re- ported today to be near- ing epidemic proportions.
The President's second tele- vised Press vunierence lacke the drama of the first one, when he was able to unnounce the | Chinese Communists.
The outbreak is now spread- release by the Soviet Union of He said there are other mat-ing into Southern Counties the two imprisoned American ters affecting U.S.-Chinese from the north and Midlands RE47 fliers,
Communist relations also, but where it was first noticed.
In the south, doctors have re-
Bul Mr Kennedy
he dealt
the question of the prisoners "is Kave an
Assassin arrested
other polished „performance as certainly a point of the greatest ported a great increase of in-
Tokyo, Feb. 1. with 35 questions →→ possible concern."--Reuter and Buenza-like illness, but at this stage of the year it is very
Police arrested a 17-year-old
who killed hard to distinguish between boy here today "pproximately one a minute -AP
the true viral influenza and domesile servant and Injured a other communicable respiratory housewife in an unsuccessful Infections,
the attempt to assassinate a novellst who hnd written a book about in the Midlands, number the Imperial Family. of cases of Asian influenza -
The boy, Komori Kuzataka, of the extreme which was very widespread in
was a munber 7,500,000 people isolated--Reuter
Chivalrous President
Washington, Feb. 1.
would be future
eo
10 according Ministry of Health.
Recife tonight and there appeared little chance of her 600 passengers coming ashore as talks between their captor, rebel Captain Henrique Galvao, and Brazilian authorities reached deadlock.
A United States Navy spokes-
said: "It is stalemate at the moment."*
man
FIVE KILLED IN JAPAN
QUAKE
Tokyo, Feb. 2. Polico said this morning five
porsons wore killed and seven others injured in Nagaoka City, northern Japan due to an earth- quako which shook northern Japan carly this morning.
Vere
Police said 11 houses completely destroyed and x others damaged,
The new President of Brazil, under- Mr Janlo Quadros, is
The Central Meteorological stood to have telegraphed Capt Observatory sald the intensity Galvao saying he would exercise was two in the one to seven his constitutional right to offer seale or three to four in the asylum to all who wished for it. Mercall scale.
The carthquake occurred at 0350 hours local.
The observatory Bald the eplcentre was Nagaoka City, about six to 12 miles under- ground.
The Santa Murla, seized by Capi. Galvão 10 days ago in the Caribbean, dropped anchor tantalising two miles from shore
A birth this morning while negotiations
Meanwhile the parsengers are dingged on between the captain and the Brazilian authorics. beginning to become unnerved, and the sunitary situation on in Rio de board has worsened because (Earlier reports
The Royal Observatory in Janeiro had said that the Santa! of a shortage of drinking water. Hongkong recorded several Maria had begun disembarking A correspondant learned this to- earthquakes over the last three passengers and their luggage.) day during a brief visit to the days.
to
ship.
An AFP correspondent went
During the negotiations Capt
SMALL WAVE Galvao is reported to have asked for an assurance that he aboard the liner for 15 minutes
Early this
morning at 2.52, retain following the inconclusive visit would be allowed
of two Brazilian the Observatory registered a Maria to the ship possession of the Santa
emissaries who small surface wave lasting for and sail out again after dis- Government
rought to make arrangements ten minutes. charging his passengers.
The time was 1852 GMT ns the for disembarkinır
passen-
compared with the 1839 GMT the gers. consider A woman gavo birth to a tremor reported in Japan.
An Observatory the Santa Maria
spokesman bo n Maria 10 the
child aboard Santa "belligerant warship" and, in last night. There were seven said that "no readings could be primary and this status, grant the ship the cases of Hiness, most of a taken of the
secondary waves for the tre- nervuus nature, right to remain 48 hours Recife for repaks."
During the visit, numerous mor." passengers shouted: "We've had enough, we want to get off the ship."
He proposed that Brazilian Government
the winter of 1957-8, affecting nationalist "Great Jipas Patric-local With
them and to sink the salp President Kennedy broke
tradition at his Press can ference today in a chivalrutis gesture,
if seriously challenged. If these are the principles on which a new Portuguese atate is to be founded the perpetrators hardly recom mend themselves na a suit. able alternative to the pre- nent government,
If the rebels want to raise the fing of revolution in their own
country or to
As the conference ended with the usual "Thank you, Mr President" from the senior currespondent present, he nolfeed a woman Journalist trying to ask a luat question. He walked towards her and
shook hands.
As other reporters surrounded them the journalist, Sarah McClendon, said she wanted
to oak a question,
pinn the overthrow of Salazar in some other country, that is their own affair. But to commandeer"Well, why don't you ask fl," the
big tourist ship with passengers of many nation-
and alities aboard,
to
sail it defiantly around the ocean brandishing threats at their enemies neveral
thousand miles away is an nct not simply of piracy, but stark madness. Food
President said smiling. Miss McClendon sald statements snade by Mr Adlai Stevenson
there ordination in such statements, "And with that kind of vague and soft answer, I will leave you," he said. And walked out of the conference room.- leuter.
22 die in crashes
Milan, Feb. 1.
An International express was derailed
at 60 miles an hour
have been
Politician
rejects republic
Capetown, Feb. 1. near Milan today, killing 14 Mr Douglas Mitchell, Leader People and injuring 25, two of of the opposition United Party in Natal, told Parliament yes- them seriously.
would in future on the verday Natal
ruled by force a inotor code its i workers and not by consent and by a Mr Kennedy and did he planskidded Into e riyer, drowning hostile government.
In mother accident cancerning China did not ap- other side of Milan. pear in line with others by coach
elded in future?
loaded with
Eti
Admiral Fernandez Diaz, the
naval com7) Brazilian tle Party led by former Nation-under, is sald to have replied allet Deputy Alcbin. The boy that he had no authority to meet had been living at parly head- these conditions.
to the
quarters for the last month. The killer or Socialist leader Asamana had belonged same party.
Aknobin commented tonight: "Such things cannot be helped, for the protection of our race,"
AFP.
GAS KILLS 3 IN SHIP
Request
"This could be either due to the quake being too far away or loo weak in Intensity," he pointed out, "The surface wave usually comes much later as the third wave after the secondary Crowmen shouted to passing and primary waves, boats that the situation was "As Japan is not so far away critical aboard the vessel, and from Hongkong 03 far
there wa
Critical
The
latest tremor
**
recorded
only enough tresh water to last through tomorrow, Carthquakes aro concerned, one Brazilian oficials spit it also may gather that the tremor was was running, low on food for hot so violent," he said.
-1,000 peoplo by the Royal. Observatory this Rebel leader Henrique Galvao morning was at 8.40.
"That was the primary wave pulled up short at the mouth of
earthquake estimated
the more aboard.
thon
This evening Capt Galvao sent the admiral a letter which is j being forwarded to the Foreign Ministry in Rio de Janeiro with a request for Instructions.
But no quick answer is ex- pected as the new Foreign Reole harbour and began hold of a Minister, Mr Afonso Arinosing a series of conferences with about 2,000 Julometres southeast only Lock office today,
As the Euleying went on the passenger lined the rally and stared at the wharves sad palm- Sydacy, Feb. 2,
shaded streets of this morny Three men died and five were i overcome when carbon monoxide tropical port
Commercial airlines, meun Speaking during the debata en gas poured into a hold on the white, are trying to keep there to take steps to see they coin- at least eight and possibly i the becond reading of the Bill 7,174-ton British cool_freighter
of those on board.
planes al Recife airport should
or providing for establishment have lot this
The Transport Ministry
of Marine Discoverer early today.
which runs be-slandby basis and plan a big Discoverer, ints the de-a South African republle ke ference end," Mr Kennedy dered an inquiry
the republic tween Japan and Australia, was lift for the passengers once Paris-Teleste sald he rejecte Tailment of the sighed with another grin.
they leave the chip. fled up at a wharf here. low and the crow is talking He said Mr Stevenson had ex- express, which blocked the line and would have no part of it.
The fate of the ship, and the Milan and Venice at Natal would seek the first Police sold a lark in the en-
at of mutiny. The
Dited 70 rebels who seized her Hooner pressed his view to a Senate beliveon
to make its own gine exhaust apparently Galvno brings thin in- committee.
Cassano Daddo, 20 miles east of opportunity
remained, fo laws he added-China Mail the narrow hold with fumes-gun-point creasingly dangerous enter-"I didn't find anything to cri- Milan for most of the day. -
Special.
Reuter, prise to an end, the better, ticise," he went on, 11e hoped Router,
and water is now running
con.
clarinet,
Brazilian omcials,
seeking of Hongkong," he said,
The secondary wave arrived guarantors the ship would not
ut 0.49 am. But as far 1- be seized..
concernod, the naily
The US Navy withdrow destroyer hovering patrol and turned over the fate of the liner and Its 020 разделиств to Brazil,
15
mor was not so serious." FAIRLY FREQUENT The spokesman also salg flat ano surface wnvo was recorded at 12.40 pm on Monday.
"Two
Source sald the threat of mutlay by crowmen impressed
more surface. waves by the rebels to run the stulp were registered on Tuesday."- was the main reason Galvao At 1.30 am yesterday another falled to dock planned today.surface wave went on our re
his 70-man cunt, be said... Without a rebel band would be unable to These Email surface waves bejmen the 20,000-ton Portuguese | were fairly, frequent, occurring
ahip.--All agencies.
once or twice a day," he added.
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