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TO THE MEMORY OF THE 173

pay

3,000 homage in St. Paul's

by HUGH DUNDAS

The great nave of St Paul's Cathestral was packed. From the west door to the chancel step hardly 4 chair stood empty.

Three thousand people had come to pay homage to the 157 men and women of the Air Transport Auxiliary who gave their lives in the Wac while ferrying planes from factory to battlefront

more

or this congregation than 300 wer wives and robe tives of the gallant band of volunteers who left their homes never to return.

Ex-pilots of the ATA, form-

ed a guard of honour cathedral

Me

entrance,

table!,

at the

Othera distin-

Mrs Diana Walker, the Dean, Lord Beaverbrook, and with the wreath-Mr Gerard d'Erlanger at St Paul's,

AIRLINERS RUN

'LIKE

BUSES'

By 1970 America's internal airlines will be carrying more inter-city passengers than the railways will bo. This is the forecast in a survey by the Port of Now York Authority, who are responsible for New York's airports well as docks.

Czech Plane

Disappears On Test Flight

Prague. Oct. 3.

Between the big cities U.S.A.. airliners now

38

in

Jesuits Prepare For Return To Russia

Rome.

• A little group of dedicated Jesuits is working in near-secrecy to prepare for the lifting of the iron curtain and the return of the Catholic Church to all Eastern Europe.

To "The Russipeti of Jesus" the return of the church to Russin and other Communist countries which have sought to wipe out Catholicism is only "a question of time." And time, for the church, is eternity. }

Scientists Solve 'Why' Of Sleep

Details of wint goes on insite the Russipetis' mo- dest building i Rome's Pizza of Jesus are hidden behind pollte but firm re- fusal to discuss the organi sation.

"Too many faise things have been vald about us." a priest mith "We do nut seek atten-

tion."

But it la tablished that the as they

Northwestern University scientists believe they have solved the mystery of sleep Ripeti are training.

W. Maroun, of the have for many years. eflected Dr H. University's medical school. sald his research indicates that Jesuit priests for the "certain to sleep is governed by the brain" rectolale in Iussia and other countries now closed to stem, which connects the brain

the Cathalle Church with the spinal cord.

The brain stem is about the size of a man's thumb and from four to five inches long.

I

a rituated at the base of the skull.

by D. B.

Loun, alded

sychologist of North western, and Dr Gulsepp Moruzzi, visiting professnt from the University of P's in Italy, experimented with ani- mals.

21

The Communist presa now and again aineks the Russipati, chures that the Jesults aro ploiting a revolution inside Rus- mia and other countries. A might call it a revolution if one Vntiean authority end: "You means by that a spiritual coun- ter-revolution."

· SPELLMAN'S VISIT

They found that by direct When Francis Cardinal Spell- stimulation of the brain stem man, Archbishop of New York, of skarpent mimals It pos- į visited Ilome earlier in the Holy ible to produce all the features} Year, a visit to the Russipeli et wakefulness. Destruction of school touched off new Com- the brain stem, they found, munist charges that the leaves the poimal in a state of Jesults were being directed by the pathological sleep.

J.S. "Imperialists" in n plot Thus,

they concluded that against Communist Kovern- the brain stem serves normally menti

keep the rest of the nervous system awake.

n-

The Russipet's background,

Having determined that [the| however, indicates that the en brain stem has these regulatory | fire motive for Ue unusual powers, Magoun and his

organization is found In the jociates believe scientists may Catholic Church's unswerving how be able to discover how belief that As line

it must prevail brain stem works to con- against all enemies, that even sleep and wakefulness, Russia must some day welcome and how sedatives work to re- Catholicism and that when that

Tension ur-duce

promote day comer, a corps of specially- trained priests must be ready to take up missions there,

with almost bus-service fre- trot quency.

Competition between lines and railways has beleen. described as "cut-throat."

Alr companies are still

angry about a recent commer- cial broadcast by a railway concerns which featured The story of an air crash and "plug-

and

Czechs Demand

Several people were tonighted that it was safer to travel Briton's

after.

the

by rull.

more revenue than most of the railways have.

BRITISH PROFITS

Withdrawal

MORE STUDENTS NOW

The name Hussipeti in derived from the Latin "Potere Rastam." It means "those who want to return to Russia."

The special school is not large. In the past, as few an

to

the

Ko out

NOT A DUMBO-BUT

BABY HIPPO FLIES 4,000 MILES

A BABY hippopotamus recently took a 1,000-mile flight to London. It was caught in Sierra Leone; was flown in a plane that carried 35 passengers; is to be named Bonc. Boac, a pigmy, will be a mite, at Edinburgh Zoo, for 19-year-old Maggie. Freight charges for the first baby hippopotamus to fly to Britain were £20 7s. 6d. Fully grown, a pigmy hippo weighs only four ewis, compared with the five tons of the ordinary hippopotamus. Boac squirmed about in the air hostess's arms, after the landing; was wet with swent. "That happens to all hippos out of the water,” sald

an expert. Air diet: Milk, greenstuffs, rice,

London Diary:

He

But

Lost

Became

His

A

Seat Peer

Who is the man most likely to follow Lord Trefgarne as chairman

of the Colonial Development Corporation? Whitehall tip is Lord Ogmore. Who is Lord Ogmore? He used to be David Rees-Williams, Socialist MP for South Croydon, and Colonial Under-Secretary, But he lost his seat in the general election last February.

The chairman of the Colonial full activilly at times of rearms- Development Corporation

get: ment, £5,000

The year. vico-chairman is

nt

was

showed relatives and guished guests to their seats.

Last of all came Lara Beaver- brook, wartime Minister of Air- reported under arrest and a The bister airlines now havel craft Production, whose task it uniber of former Royal Air

He became a peer in tool manufacturing frm of interests of the £30,000,000 was to produce the planes, and Force pilots were suspended or

June. He rejoined the W. E. Sykes, at Staines, Middle- British-American Tobacco Com- Gerard d'Erlanger.

City dismissedi

Czecho-

He is chairman of this pany. banker, who first conceived the slovak Air Lines Dakota failed

nine students year have been Government-as

Common-x.

company: they employ 700 Lord Trefgame never kich of the A.T.A. aful com-

to return to Ruzyne Airport.

nelmitted. In recent years, with wealth Under-Secretary →→→ When British European Air-

Prague, Ocl. 3.

workers making precision tools, signed fron this directorship, the near Progue, after a throughout

test flight. manded

other from Curtain countries The Czechoslovak Govern-

in July. Now Whitehall It is certain this forceful man but kept It while he war.

No trace of the plane has ways get their fleet of 20 Air-

following: Russia's to the Brillsh

example in believe Mr Attice will move will make a success of the job. chairman of the While the choir sing on an been found. The aircraft took speed Ambassadors, they should ment, in a note

attempting

Colonial out stamp begin to make big profits.

Machine-loo] compiles Embassy tonight, demanded the Saturday them, Lord Beaverbrook and Mr off on

morning,

are Development Corporation. Catholicism,

number Chief Executive Petor Mase-withdrawal, within 48 hours, of students is belleved

of him again.

buy now. They come into He is also by Captain Kaucky.

to have d'Erlanger were conducted lay piloted

on the board of feld estimates pilot

that each Am-Me Lawrence Gordon! Gaze, the: the Dean of St Paul's, Dr W. H. former Royal Air Force

Ideal Boilers. and Radiators, Matthews, into the crypt, where and chief test pliot

bassador can earn a potential British Vice-Consul in Bratis Town considerably.

MARRIED AT 69 £22,000 it year profit of

for lave. draped Czechoslovak Air Lines.

Russipeti graduates Mr Gaze was mentioned in into the world after fathing Stockdale (£3,000 a year), who

present RETAINED DIRECTORSHIP| MARRIED secretly the the Corporation, whereas Dako- apparently

Sir Frank

Crown Court Church of Lord Trefgarne is DISO a as doing the same work would the spy trial

which opened in Brno, Moravia, They must keep themselves pro- the special training course. Jose £14,000 a year, each.

Scolland in London: Socialist is 67. Lord Ogmore is 40.

director of Tobacco Securities BEA expect to lake delivery today.

ex-Minister and former General netent in the

£5,000,000

company special subjects of their first Ambassadors early

What will Lord Trefgarne doTrust, The note referred to evidence and languages they have now that he has resigned the founded by the late Sir Hugo ost Once Public Relations According to reports current next year.

Cunliffe-Oweri in other chairmanship of the Corpora-

late They will fly on the London-at the trial, which said that Mr studied. They work the plane tonight

one-time Lord Beaverbrook then

un-small abandoned military

Paris route after crew training Gaze and his Czechoslovak wife Jesuit seminaries, many of tion? He has many other in- Reginald McKenna,

had been bullding up a spy or- | which they direct, while awalt- | teresis.

chairman of the Midland Bank, veiled the tablet and read the strip about 15 miles north of and aircraft proving flights,

This company inscription.

was formed in His words

were Prague, where Kaucky is

With Ambassadors, BEA will ganization on Czechoslovak for- ing the day of the be-

1028 to lake over some of the Russia-United Press. carried by loudspeaker to

the tieved

to have picked up

at operate from London Airport ritory.--Reuter, massed congregation above:-

which is least two other Czechoslovak instead of Northolt, "To the memory of the one Air Lines' pilots. who were scheduled to return to the RAF BEA lost £1,303,504 in the de- year. The their wives and Just Anancial

hall compared with 1948-49, and It is still dropping.

FLEEP

the memorial with a`fing."Was flanked by two

als carried girls in ATA. pilot's uniforms. one mechanic and two or three civilians, believed to be 01- They were Mrs Faith Bennett feials of the Ministry of Trans-) and Mrs Diana Walker.

Both port

flew with the A.T.A, through- out the war.

flew to

Dit-

In two!

hundred and seventy-three men said to have arrived and women of Air Transport | vara with Auxiliary, representing many children, as well as their perficit was reduced by more than

nations, who gave their lives in sonal effects.--Reuter.

the Allied cause durin the

World War of 1930 to 1945,

"Remember ther that also we,

in a moon's course. are his- tory."

The Dean blessed the tablet and Mr d'Erlanger laid A wreath.

As I left tire cathedral the relatives of the dead fled down into the crypt.

Behind, the congregation wait

Frenchman Askod

To Leave

The

Prague, Oct. 3. Czech authorities have asked M. Leon Pommerot, Frenchman in his late sixties. to leave Czechoslovakela within for days, I was learned to

In Washington an acroplane firm has designed a "Fleep." Based on the Taylor Aerocar principle, it is a jeep to which wings, fuselage and propeller; can be attached to make It By.

A

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who already have fleet of aeroplanes, are now in- ed to salute the men and women migħi.

terested in helicopters. A new of twelve nations who bud given M. Pommerut, a librarian, has] Canadian-hullt "windmill-plane" their liven to that the R.A.F.lived here for 30 years. was demonstrated recently to could fly and night.

their air officials.

Reuter.

SILK

GARMENTS

FROM SHANGHAI

of eight Czecha

First

United

return to

Lord Tretgarne will give most of his energy to the machine-

Nations

POW

#

Camp

with the

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RINGED with barbed wire, the first United Nations Prisoner of War cimp:in history stands on of Pusan, In South Korea. - The 1,200 Narth Korean Communist fanates: live in clean MiS. kels on stretchers and receive five double handfuls of ries daily,

“? holdan many an $50,000" primomento! (acau).

The camp WANA COMMEN

Officer Sir Drummond Shiels, He is 09. His bride is 45-year- old Misé Gladys Buhler. She is employed at the Royal Empire Society, of which Sir Drum- mond is a member.

Sir Drummond's first wife died in 1940. He has UTC daughter,

He started ilío as

A photographer, "-qualified *** a doctor in middle-age, became Under Secretary for Todia and for the Colonies.

MAN WHO MISSED. IT

Biggest rubber jobber in Løn- don is Major Cyril H. Frisby, VC of the 1814-18 war. But he bu missed the excitement of the recent rubber- boom on the Stock Exchange.

Sixty - four-year-old Major Frisby has been fishing for tuna" from a small power boat off the Nova Scotia coast.

His son, Mr 11-1. Frisby, says that whenever his father goos on holiday, the rubber market becomes active, Stock Ex- change operators will-bo watching for his next date with 70015. fish in deep waters.

Who is making, or recover- ing, all the money during the bounding. rubber pricest? There are thousands of small holders Biggest shareholders in the rub➡ ber companies, however, are bariks, Insurance companies and groups llaled as nominees.

NO HOLLYWOOD GOWN

Raven-huired... 24 - year - old. Mies Gloria, Medina, a London

ben a wedding gown -

Her film

mkiwa want.

actress later, Patricia Median wife of Richard GromemwEE to have seat hor a beitial gow froen Hollywood.

Je was discovered the gown would cost the family a [100 percent Customs charge |whari ft reached: (22onlands. So Gloria has designed .... her! OWD "Foli tulla