Huge Crowd Sees ,
Nimbus |
Epsom Derby
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^Continued from Page One*
Volterra, and Swallow Tail, own
ed by Lord Derby, almost caught
the flying Nimbus after he had
led most of the way.
Nimbus closed at 7 to 1 in the
betting. Amour Drake was 10 to j
1 and Swallow Tail, whole mud;
running ability was doubted, was;
100 to 8.
The running time Saturday was
2 minutes 42 seconds, far off the*!
record of tw’o minutes 33.8 sec
onds set by Mahmoud in 1936, as
it was bound to be in view of the
going.
Showers fell intermittently be
fore the race but the sunshine
came out at intervals to the relief
of a huge crowd estimated at more
than 500,000.
Among them was Queen Eliza
beth and a Royal party which
traveled by automobile from
Windsor Castle. Princess Eliza
beth and husband Prince Philip
decided at the last moment to at
tend.
Richard, who failed for the 24th
time in a derby effort, brought the
favored Royal Forest home fourth.
The colt closed at 9 to 2.
’Hawaii Has Passed
Acid Test For
Statehood”
* .
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for 49 years. Hawaii has more
than passed the acid test Of state
hood, economically, socially and
politically.”
In all respects, he said, Hawaii
is further advanced than any of
the other 29 states that formerly
were territories, at the time they
were admitted to the United
States.
"Though the fashionable Holly
wood version of Hawaii is a land
of grass shacks and sarongs, Ha
, waii is a highly developed Ameri
can community, where white tux
edo jackets are as much in vogue
as they are in Hollywood,” Tsu
kiyama said.
He declared Hawaiian internal
revenue payments to the tederal
government exceed $100,000,000
annually. Federal expenditures in
Hawaii are about one thirteenth
of that amount, he said.
"Hawaii is at a specific disad
1 vantage in this respect ‘ because
Hawaii is at the whim of Con
gress on appropriation measures,”
Tsukiyama declared.
"In this respect Hawaii in ask
' ing for statehood, is only asking
i for fair play.”
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BOUTS
Howard Hughes To|
Construct Largest
Helicopter
CULVER CITY, Calif. l^P) —
Howard Hughes, who has a pen
chant for doing things in a big
way, has his aircraft engineers
working on a twin-jet helicopter
which dwarfs all previous such
craft.
Hughes spokesmen confirmed
that it is a restricted air force
project, but declined to comment
on a Los Angeles story which
said:
The ship, the XH-17, is designed
to hoist tanks, field artillery and
the like, weighing up to 10 tons,
on short hauls. It will be as big
as a railroad boxcar with rotor
blades measuring 136 feet from
tip to tip.
Power will be supplied by two
J-31 jet engines producing an es
timated 4000 h.p.
The cost is “confidential,” but
Hughes purchased design and pro
duction rights from the Kellett
Aircraft Corp. of New Wales, Pa.,
| for a reported $150,000. General
| Electric is building the J-35 jc*
i engines.
Hughes’ other monster, the 200
! foot flying boat, still lies at Long
Beach harbor awaiting final tests.
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World's Largest
Yacht Becomes
I Ferry Boat
; SEATTLE, (/Pi—The Vixen, the
world’s largest yacht and the war
time flagship of Adm. Ernest R.
King, will soon leave its Seattle
berth, where it has been moored
for two years, to enter service as
t an 800-passenger ferry between
Key West, Fla., and Havana,
Cuba. When built, she was intend
ed to accommodate 17 guests.
; The 333-foot vessel was built
for Julius Forstmann, New York
woolen mill operator, at a cost of
$2,500,000 in 1929 in Keil, Ger
| many, and was christened the Or
j ion.
Many of her expensive furnish
ings. including a swimming pool,
a vast, panelled library, parquet
floors and marble wash basins,
still remain.
In ,1947, the Vixen was acquir
ed by Skinner and Eddy Corp., as
sociates, who planned to inaugu
rate luxury cruises from Seattle
to Alaska and Central and South
America, but she was consigned
instead to a berth on Lake Union.
The ship goes to a Panamanian
i company for one year under a
| bareboat charter with option to
bujfc.
Repairs, expected to be finished
in about three weeks, will include
the lettering of her old name, the
Orion, on her sleek prow.
Try To Fire John
L. Lewis Home
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (/P)—Some
! one tried to set fire to John L.
Lewis’ home here Friday but he
I didn’t have much success.
Ah unidentified man called the
Washington Post—just across the
Potomac River—and said he’d set
fire to the home of the united
mine workers’ chief. Then he
hung up.
Police found that newspapers
had been stuffed under a rug and
set fire, but the rug had put the
fire out.
Lewis is in Bluefield, W. Va.,
negotiating a new contract with
southern coal operators.
Senator Charges
Espionage In
Uranium Loss
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Senator
Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa) saw’ “the
possibility of espionage” Saturday
in the atomic energy commission’s
loss of four grams of uranium 235,
but Senator McMahon 'D.-Conn.*
questioned that.
McMahon heads the Senate
House atomic energy committee,
which is in the midst of an inten
sive inquiry into the management
of the atomic agency under chair
man David E. Lilienthal.
Hickenlooper. the top commit
tee Republican who instigated the
probe, insisted that spy work
must be considered as a possible
factor as long as atomic material
still is missing. Of the ounce of
enriched uranium originally lost,
all but one eighth has been re
covered.
i “That’s 4,000 times the amount
of material involved in the Cana
dian spy case,” Hickenlooper said.
“Therefore, the possibility of es
pionage cannot be discounted.”
'The Canadian case involved
! Dr. Allan Nunn May, a British
I scientist sentenced to 10 years im
i
I prisonment by a British court for
[giving one thousandth of a gram
| of fissionable material to Soviet
j agents in Canada.*
But McMahon retorted that the
*
1 FBI said it found no evidence of
spying in the disappearance of the
U-235 from the Argonne atomic
laboratory at the University of j
J Chicago.
A porcupine has about 30.000'
quills.
Judge Orders Wit
nesses To Appear
In Bridges* Trial
'Continued from Page One’
front strikes since 1934, was in
dicted May 25 on a charge of per
jury and conspiracy to defraud
the government in testifying that
he was not, and never had been,
a communist, in obtaining his cit
izenship in 1945. Two union offi
cials were indicted on a charge of
aiding the conspiracy.
Since the indictment, the grand
jury has been delving into other
aspects of the case as well as com
munist influences in West Coast
unions.
Resner, who also represents
Bridges, said he would appeal
Roche’s decision on the validity
of the indictments. The court de
nied his motion for a stay, pend
ing appeal.
Judge Roche ordered five of the
witnesses, present Friday, to ap
pear before the grand jury today.
F. Joseph Donohue, special assist
ant attorney general, said new
subpoenaes would be issued for
, the six other witnesses, who were
; not present.
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