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Cables In Brief
Australian Associated Press And Our Special Representative
LONDON, Juno (i.— Sir John Hacking, vice
chairman of the British Electricity Authority,
told an engineering conference yesterday of a
'back to the windmills' plan to bring electri
city to the remote parts ot Kritain. oir John
Hacking said that, tin* Organisation for Euro
pean Economic Co-operation had set up a com
mittee in Britain to investigate the use of wind
to generate eledtricitv.
SRAEL'S TROUBLES
LONDO N— Whether
Jewish shepherds or Welsh
sheepdogs will have the
bigger language puzzle is a
question interesting a
North Wales farmer Justin
Price. He has just ex
ported four sheepdogs to
Palestine, accompanied by
a list of commands in
Welsh as the dogs do not
respond to any other lan
guage.
IUMPS RAILS
MANILA. — An express
;rain jumped the rails on the
Dridge at Mabalacat, 65 miles
north of Manila, yesterday.
The engine and a coach fell
SO ft. and two persons were
filled and 24 injured. The
train carried about 1,000 pas
sengers.
51M. JOBS
WASHINGTON. — The
number of unemployed Ame
ricans dropped in May to
1.609.000, the smallest total
since the end of World War
EC. There are now 61.193,000
employed civilians.
LOAN FOR BRITAIN
WASHINGTON. —Britain
has been granted $7,700,000
(£3,437,500) for the develop
ment of overseas territories,
the Economic Co-operation
Administration announced
yesterday. Object is to in
crease production of raw
materials in Africa and Bri
tish Guiana.
ROYAL PHOTO MISSED
PRETORIA. — A gift
shotbgraph of the Royal
Family is missing from its
usual place in the City Hall.
An Art Gallery official took
it down and replaced it with
i painting of copper pots,
rhe Mayor (Mr. Jan Vlsse)
;ays that he will have the
photograph— a gift from the
King— restored immediately.
BAPTISTS WANTED
LONDON.— The Rev. G.
H. Morling, principal of the
New South Wales Baptist
College, told the Common
wealth and Empire Baptist
Congress hi London yester
day that many Australian
Baptists wanted . English
Baptists to .bring more
English tradition into the
Australian churches.
MID-AIR CRASH
DAYTON (Ohio).— Three
ah* force fighters collided
in the air near here yester
day. The pilot of an F51
Mustang parachuted to
safety, but the other two
airmen were killed. One
was flying an F86 Sabre jet
and the other an F82 twin
fuselage Mustang.
RECORD FLIGHT
PARIS. — The world's
largest airscrew turbine
airliner, a Handley Page
Hermes five, yesterday
flew from London to
Paris hi the record time
of 59 minutes for commer
cial aircraft. The plane
covered the 215 miles in 4'
minutes, but was delayed at
the airport for 12 minutes.
PACIFIC PAINTINGS
HARTFORD (Connecti
cut).— An exhibition of Aus
tralian and Pacific Islands
paintings by the Australian
artist Sylvia Patricelli will
be opened here tomorrow by
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. The
exhibition will be open to
the public the following two
HflVK.
)EATH LEAP FAILS
WASHINGTO N.— A
)yjama-clad woman physi
:ist, Helen Dean. 27,
iscaped death when she
umped 80 ft. from
;he seven-storey flat of a
Pakistan Embassy cipher
:lerk yesterday. Landing in
i hedge, she suffered mul
tiple injuries. She told the
wlice that she leaped because
Salim Khan, 24, had broken
i promise to marry her.
U.S. VISITORS
SAN FRANCISCO— Three
US Congressman and two
Government officials left
here by air yesterday for
Canberra to represent the US
Government at the Jubilee
celebrations.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
NEW YORK.— Mrs. Lora
C. Rathvon. of Boston, has
been named president of the
mother church, the First
Church of Christ, Scientist.
Mrs. Rathvon has been ac
tive in Christian Science for
almost 40 years.
MARJORIE LAWRENCE
FILM - '
NEW YORK. — Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer has acquired
the right to produce a screen
biography of the Australian
singer Marjorie Lawrence.
The title role probably will
be played by Kathryn Gray
son.
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