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Britain Is Building Giant Flying Boats

BID FOR TRANSATLANTIC

SUPREMACY

London, May 3.-Britain is building a line of giant "Princess" flying boats to compare in relative size and luxury with her two famous "Queens" steamships.

In her bid for supremacy in transatlantic passenger service, a 280,000-lb. winged luxury liner is now under construction at the Saunders-Roc Aircraft factory on the Isle of Wight.

F

Dubbed the "Princess" by her manufacturers, Britain's biggest flying bont will not be ready for But if her maiden flight until February, 1951. tests on the experimental plano are successful it is hoped that four others will be completed between 1952 and 1953,

FOCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"You've

got to aumatt, darling. that Maudie Littlehampton is really rather wonderful she's having all her kippers dyed bois-du rose to match the

breakfast-room."

School Must Open Doors To Negroes

JUDGE'S RULING

Lexington, Kentucky, May

3. The doors of the University of

The 10-engine, two-dcek ship wilt Parry 100 passengers at more than 350 miles an hour. It will have a range of 5,500 miles.

This is how the plane will rompore in ziza with other big ntrerat in the work,

Smaller than the flying boat recently completed by Howard Hughes in the United States.

Smaller than the U.S. Army'a EX-99 land plane now under Chosiruction.

Bigger Lockheed

181.000-10. than the

Inves Constitution plane which recently carried 100 passengers and crew of 12 cross the U. S.

225,000-lb. Bigger than the British laut plane "Brabazon" now under construction for the British government controlled Overseas Airways Corporation. I

BSAAC MAY BUY

The British South American Airways Corporation has said it provided may buy the plane,

This the tests are successful. would put the big ship into the hand of the British-

Corporation, Airways these two companies merke soon.

The

Overseas 'since plan to

"Princess", officially known as the SR-45, will be 148 feet long with a 220 foot wing-

Her 10 span.

EAS turbine engines will develop 3,500 horse- power each for the takeoff.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1949.

Deaf Muté Held For Questioning

Police Inspector Tom Cahill (left) hands a Neal 0. pencil to (Nancy) Hammack, 26, (right) a deaf mute so she can reply to a ques- tion he has written on a pad of paper concern- ing the bludgeoning of her aunt, Mrs Eme Payne, 62, whose condi- tion is critical. The girl is being held for went questioning and

to visit her aunt in San Francisco several months ago. She is from Los Angeles.- AP Picture.

Aggressive Japan Still

A Danger

Quick Vote For Israel's Admission To UN Blocked

Lake Success, May 3-The Lebanon and Iraq today blocked a quick vote in the United Nations on a recommendation to admit Israel to membership.

Only silence followed when the chairman, Mr Carlos Romulo (Philippines), first called the debate in the special Political Committee on the Israeli application. Mr Romulo waited two minutes, then commented that the reluctance of anyone to speak on an application was "unusual,"

Mr

Warren

Austin (USA) | favour of Israel's application. asked Mr Romulo to put the ap- In a draft resolution, to be plication to on imriediate vote. submitted later, Senor Munoz That brought Mr Majid Abbas said Argentina would propose (Iraq) to his feel.

that the Committee Invite the Vatican to present verbal or Mr Abbas asked that action be written views regarding security postponed until the questions of guarantees for holy

places. internationalisation of Jerusalem United Press. Melbourne, May 3.-There and its holy place, Arab rc- They will drive four double. controtating propellers and two is a real danger that an fugees and the slaying of Count

aggressive Single ones."

would Folke Bernadotte had Japan It the huge ship enters the passenger service, it is hoped she arise again in the Pacifle in solved satisfactorily.

fun.

W.

been

NEXT CHANGE

at the

Mr delegate, The Lebanese will go on the South American 10 or 20 years, warned

MacMahon George Hakim, vigorously pro- However, the BOAC can Professor

tested against Mr Austin's re- decide to send her elsewhere Ball, former British Com quest for a vote on the Israeli

terms Kentucky under

of the merger monwealth representative in application. He contended that about to be signed.

Committee had no draft Graduate School have been agreement

Japan and leader of a good-the with BSAAC.

in- before it and resolution opened to Negro students. Her fuselage should be slipped Federal Judge II. Church from the stocks in the Saunders- Ford ruled that Negroes Roe hangar sometime in June or of this year. The wing -were-entitled to entrance on July the same basis as

Tromponents.--with-their-retract- whiteable landing pontoons which a students until a Graduate into the tips of the wings will School for Negroes "sub-be put on later-Associated stantially equal to that at Press.

the University is provided by the State.

The University will be the Arst south of the Mason-Dixon line and cast of the Mississippi River to admit Negroes, unless the decision is reversed in un appeal to a higher tribunal

Co-ops And The

Labour Party

QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

will Australian mission to dated that the Lebanon would THE GREATEST OF ALL Southeast Asia in 1948.

offer one opposing application. PAKISTAN ARGUMENT

war.

020

the

was hp-

believe there has been no basic change in the way the

Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Japanese people teel and thick," said Mr Ball, who is professor of Khan (Pakistan) argued that political science

the at Melbourne į before.

UN General

act

the University; in a speech here, Assembly could

Security Council's recommenda- "I believe that all the appear- tion dn Israel, the resolution ance of democracy is a super should receive the approval of ncial thing that has been assum-the live permanent Council ed to oblige General MacArthur, members. He pointed out that "The groups who rule Japan Britain had abstained when today

fundamentally same groups with the same im the recommendation

proved and that therefore the perialistic ambitions as those General Assembly was "not Scarborough, May. 3-Polit- who controlled Japan before the bound" to act. ical observers here todny saw The ruling was handed down signs of uneasiness in the rela-

Sir Zafrullah and Mr Abbas the Israeil ap- inu suit tied by Lyman Joliations between the Labour OUTWARD COMPLIANCE suggested that

the son, Louisville Negro School Party and its 10 million-strong

plication be returned to teacher. Johnson was refused*****

wing, the Co-operative Move-

"All the world has been as-Security Council without action. admission to the University's ment.

founded by the amazing outward If the General Assembly decided graduate school to study for a It

announced WILS

at the compliance of the Japanese not to agree with this procedure, degree of doctor of philosophy.

Co-operative Congress, meeting people with the orders Issued they said, then it should ask the. The University Board

that a resolution would by General MacArthur. But International Court of here,

the reason for this for an opinion. Trustees, its president and be put to the vote tomorrow, believe

it was his the obedience is that orders from

Mr Romulo sald assurancea comptroller and several deans seeking were

Party defendants In

that Co-operative prin- through their Emperor-not be opinion that the Committee had ciples

would not be offended cause General MecArthur,

no right to question the recom- Johnson's sult.

to by Labour's programme at the uninvited guest, tells them

anenduion of the Security Coun-

sup obey. Counsel for the University next general election.

el. Canada and China and the State said the ruling The resolution will ask: "That

"Japan is well aware of the ported his view.

Senior Rodolfo Munoz (Argen- would be appealed it authority an immediate approach be made

friction between the United

said he would vote In in granted by the school. The to the Labour Party to secure States and Russia

and of her tina) State Attorney-General, Dr H.that the programme shall have indispensability to Americu. L. Donovan,

University Pres-the united support of the

"I am sure: the Japanese are! dent, who was one of the wit-operative, Labour

comment on Union Movements, and that the not pro-American. They nesses, declined

decision, referring the

all right of the self-governing con- pro-Japanese," said Mr Ball "AL sumer and co-operative organi-the moment it suits them to play to my lawyers** questions to

with decision Judge Ford's

planned economy is assured."-raising the price of their indis- suddenness, with unexpected

Reuter.

pensability."United Press. Johnson's attorneys, all negroes, asked for a judgment on facts after the defence rested, ils

case.

nated

Co-

and Trades

camo

the

aro

carno sations to develop autong, but they are continually

the

The judge announced: "Untli (for the State shall, establish Negroes) a Graduate School substantially

to equal Graduate School at the Univer- alty of Kentucky, it must admit

on the same basis negroes

whiles."--Associated Press,

Canada Ratifies Atlantic Pact

15

Washington, May 3.-Canada today became the first country to commit herzeit Inally and formally to the North Atlantic

trenty.

The Canadian Ambassador, "in Sinto a brief ceremony at the Department, handed the Secre- tary of State Canada's "instru- ment of ratification" of the treaty.

The treaty requires all signa- tory powers to deposit ratlilen- tions-with-thò-United Statos, - United Presa.'.

ROITORI PAKSA RERVICE.

1169 · ✪ VERSATONBAY REJONING PUWE

“All the trouble you go to just to look passable,”

of Justice

G..

U.S. Congress

Turns Down

Labour Bill

Washington, May 3.-The

House today rejected by a 211-

ADVENTURE DRAMAS!

183 vote President Truman's an

new

compromise Inbour

after Democratic leaders

a

Bill had

TAUGHT

made desperate effort to mus- ter the Southern Democrats be- hind the drive to repeal the Taft-Hartley labour law.

Several angry Northern De- mocrats joined the coalition of Republicans and Southern De- mocrats against the com* promise. It appeared likely the House would adopt the conll- Hon-supported Wood bill, which would repeal the Taft-Hartley, law by name but keep

Nost of its major provisions.

Rejection of the administra- tion measure constituted defeat for the Speaker, Me Sam Ray burn, who,

with other Democrn. lenders, had drafted the compromiso: bül..

The coalition objected to the it would compromiso becauso reinstate the Wagner Act and Northern Democrats from labour districts objected to injunctive Features United Press.

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Ottawa, May 8-Immi- fortune in smuggled monoy. gration Jumped sharply In the 12-month period ended March 31, Mr Colin Gibson, Minister of Mines and Re- sources, revealed today.

The total number of persons entering Canada was 123,003, 38.5 percent above the preceding year.

Air Gibson said about one out of every three, or 40,015, was from the Delish Isles, 7,300 fram the United States, 18,450 trom North Europe.

Of the Northern Europeans,

9,800 were Dutch, including 7,000 who came under the Joint Netherlands-Canada farm settle. ment plan. There were 59,832 immigrants from other including 15,420 Poles and

.10,408 Ukrainians,

rices,

A different type of break- down showed 60,610 displaced persons, of whom 27,004 Joined relatives..

Mr Gibson said Canada had taken in 04,860 displaced per- sons since. Use Birst one arrived In April, 1947-United Press.

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