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ur LATE EDITION FORECASTS (for 24 hour, from 6 CITYl Cloudy early, with coaiUl howan, clearing to fin, mild. Max. 72 df. N. S.W.i Soma ihoweri and (rath southerly winds alone coast.

Fina elsewhere, with modarata temperatures. SUN: Today, rii.s 6.19, tats S.31. MOONi Rises 4.23 a.m., sett 4.23 p.m. TIDES (Fort Danison)) High, 7.13 a.m. (4ft Sin), 7.37 p.m.

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37,543 "ty.n.s.yS'a'.t''?.' PSSiSST- TELEPHONE: B0944 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTYSEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION 26 PAGES SYDNEY. THURSDAY. APRIL 17, 1958 MENZIES' WATER POLICE, TROOPS USE PLANE IN FLOOD RESCUE EXERCISE ON SYDNEY HARBOUR CONFIDENCE CALL AS THERE'S a teacher in this town who's a wizard at multiplication. DEPRESSION mm IjL SSL, rfTS. I 1 ri mt iy i iii-h tfiiiiwi'i'iiii' HMUjiinii iViu-Vl 1 1 BULWARK CANBERRA, Wednesday.

The Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, said tonight that confidence in Australia's future by everybody was one of the key bulwarks against any economic depression. "The surest way to produce a depression, at a time like this when there is no depression, is to persuade people that one is coming," he said. Another major reason why there should be no new depression was that administrators today knew much more about managing a country's economy than they did 30 years ago. Mr Menzies, who was in his weekly "Man To Man" had pooled their skills and energy with remarkable results. There were naturally some who were encountering difficulties and there were many social ills still to be cured.

"But on the whole, our achievement is superb and our hopes high," he said. broadcast, said that Tasmania, which he had just visited, provided a good example of Australia's condition of balanced yet courageous and progressive development in which managers and employees With 30 Years Ago "Teasing" But Favourable A.L.P. To A Beaver amphibious aircraft in Farm Cove yesterday after taking on board 3 man "rescued" from a pontoon. Watching are members of the Water Police flood rescue squad in a new police flood boat. Troops of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps and the police squad were taking part in a combined flood rescue exercise.

Five Army "ducks," six police flood boats, and Dc Havilland's Beaver Amphibian were used in the exercise. D.L.P. Link, Says Evatt CANBERRA, Wednesday. The A.L.P. Parliamentary Executive had favourably considered his suggested "half-way house" link with the Democratic Labour Party "after a bit of teasing," Opposition Leader, Dr H.

V. Evatt, said today. FOUR DIE AS SNOWY LIFT DROPS 400 FT COOMA, Wednesday. Four men were killed instantly when a lift they were in fell 400ft down a shaft at a Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme project late this afternoon. But the leader of the "I will not worrv about the second and third groups.

bui i would like to say something to those who honestly and anxiously think back to the great depression i (i I. wiiiiu Dcguii in iyzy anu icai ibat it may happen again. "If those of vou who re- member the beginning and the course of the depression arc clear in your memory you will recall that, when the fall in world prices came, when suddenly became impossible to borrow capital abroad, the results of these misfortunes inside Australia were creatlv exaggerated ov almost complete loss of confidence in me tuture. "Worse Before Better" Mr Menzies said the man agers of business had then said things would be worse before they got better. Most had "shortened sail.

put off hands and hoped to riuc uui lue siorm. The celebrated "Lane of. repudiating interest on certain debts, had damaged public credit. It had only been in 1932 when a Government which possessed the public conn-dence came to office that con. Udence had begun to grow again.

Slowly, unemployment had fallen from the staggering yL icveis ano. aitnounh no thing sensational had been done, Australia emerged from tne depression rather more rapidly than any other country. I remind you of this be cause it points the moral that commence is vital, Mr Menzies said. A Different Australia 'Capital is a nervous thine, easily frightened away. Busi ness is deeply attected by the mental attitude of customers and customers will inevitably spend less if they fear the future.

'Confidence in the future is what induces oeonle to invest. to plan and develop industries, to start to build or buy house. it is tor these reasons. very nneny expressed, that I am preaching confidence The students have given him the nickname "Rabbit." DURING the peak-hour nt It I UO'lf u. young gtn a crowded compartment of a North Shore bound train, settled herself into a seat, propped a port able radio on the window sill, tuned in to some music and let tne rest or the world go by.

A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. On Tues day night, along with what appeared to be the whole business world ot Sydney, attended a function at the old Herald building in Hun ter Street. It is now know as Wales House and is a branch and a whopping big one of the Bank of N.S.W. The function was to wet the head of the new baby, which has cost a total of li million the three- quarters being the cost of transformation. And it certainly has been transformed.

Where the presses used to roar there is now a sweeping, uUra-modern savings bank and under that we're now getting near the old Tank Stream a car park. The floor on which you used to hand in your classified ads. is now a huge general banking chamber. Somewhere in the bowels of the building is a huge safe-door so built that, they told me, it would take a safebrcakcr's torch three weeks to get through it. pLASS.

Ad. in country hand pedigree prams for sale, 4 each. SEVERAL readers have phoned about Mr W. E. Bell's mystery picture, mentioned yesterday.

They say the name on the picture would be "Pip," not "Pit," and that it stands for Jimmy Butler, an Englishman who claimed to be the Earl of Carrick and who enlisted in the 1st A.I.F. in Perth. A Sydney doctor says that he knew him in Egypt and France. "In France," says the doc tor, "he used to visit my brother and me in our tents to shed some of his depressions. "When I had my first leave to England he begged me to go to see his mother, the Countess of Carrick, saying, 'I've never written since I left home and I'd like you to tell her I've made But I was young and shy and didn't go." fHE United Laymen's 4 1.

I tioned yesterday, is being held tonight at the As sembly Hall. It has been organised by the Baptist Men's Society of N.S.W.the only religious body concerned which I jailed to mention. But there you are! got my information from a Presbyterian! On Other Pages Few relaxations in British Budget, (p. 3) Preliminary summit talks likely this week. (p.

3) French Government resigns, (p. 3) Faddcn explains tax deduction position on medical expenses and school uni forms, (p. 4) Post Office shows big profit, (p. 4) Protestants to back anti-gambling candidates in State elections, (p. 5) Senior Public servants given salary rises of up to 374 a year.

(p. 5) Radio and TV Programs, Strips and Crossword, p. Law, p. Finance, pp. 10, 1 Weather, Shipping, Mails, Wool Sales and Serial, p.

II; Sport, pp. 12, 13; Advertising Index, 13. Watenddcrs' Fick-up, p. 13. Project Tl is a major work MAN TO FACE BASHING CHARGE BRISBANE, Wednesday.

A 29-year-old man, in custody in Sydney on another charge, will be charged with the attempted murder of Judith Mackenzie at Ascot on March 1, 1957. A warrant for his arrest on the charge was sworn out in Brisbane at noon today after a conference between the investigating officer, Detective-Sergeant P. Rhead, the Police Commissioner, Mr F. Bischof, and the C.I.B. chief.

Inspector F. Voigt. The warrant charges the man with the attempted mur der of Miss Mackenzie at her home at Ascot, a suburb jf Brisbane. The wording of the war rant was radioed to Sydney today with a request that a provisional warrant be issued there tor the arrest ot the man. Detective-sergeant Rhead flew to Sydney last Saturday to interview the man being held on another charge.

He returned to Brisbane yesterday. inspector Voigt said today! that extradition to Queensland of a man already on a charge in another state would be subject to the result of the action in the other State. went to New Zealand 1 searched for a Now she had to act back to her other children in Scot land "If only I'd found earlier -if only I'd known of ner troubles, i could have helped her all these years, she said. -t of the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme. It includes the construction of an underground power sta tion in a vast cavern below the surface.

Three vertical shafts from the power-house to the surface nd other connectine and access tunnels are to be built. A group of French com panies is working on the exca vations for the project, estimated to cost more than 5-million. Engineers have described Tl as one of the most difficult works of the Snowy Moun tains scheme. Contrast Mr. Menzies said some people seemed to get satisfaction out of prophesying depression and disaster.

He continued: "Some do this quite honestly, some do it because it's the smart thing to do, and some do it for political ends'. Visit By Miss America MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Miss America for 1957-58, Miss Charlotte Sheffield, will visit Australia next week as the guest of the Australian National Travel. Association. The general manager nf the association, Mr ftasil Atkinson, said today Miss Sheffield would arrive in Sydney on Monday.

"Miss' SHEFFIELD In the next eight days she would visit Brisbane, Surfers' Paradise, Canberra, Melbourne and Hobart, he said. Her visit had been organised by the association with New Zealand and Fiji as part of a "come to the South-West Pacific" tourist drive the three countries were promoting. Her Australian itinerary has been arranged to get maximum pictorial publicity for Australian tourist features in American and other overseas papers, on overseas television stations and In picture theatres. LATE NEWS Reds "Gain Ground" In Indonesia DARWIN, Wednesday.1 The Indonesian Ambassa-dor. Dr A.

Y. Helrni, ad mitted here tonight the Communists had gained ground in Indonesia. Dr Helmi was passing through by air after a visit to Djakarta. He said the Communist party was extremely active, "they could continue for some time in their drive for power but they will never have a really strong grip on the country. Dr Helmi said the Indonesian revolt was "going the right way with the Central Government forces in com Dlete control.

'The main issue now was to arrive at a just solution of differences, without bitter' Dess." i and justified confidence in our tuture. Mr Menzies said he wanted people to see that the Aus tralia of 1958 was very dif ferent from that of 30 years ago. It was stronger, better bal anced and much better fitted to meet any adverse winds. In common with those of other civilised countries, its administrators knew more of economics and of the monetary techniques of cen tral banking. Greater Economic I Capacity 'As we have demonstrated in recent years, the means of checking inflation and stabi lising prices are better understood, he said.

"Similarly the means of checking deflation and recession are better understood." Thirty years ago Australia was predominantly a farming and pastoral economy, and the collapse of farm income prices had a tremendous effect on business and employment in the cities as well. But today Australia was, in proportion to population. heavily industrialised country with a much greater capacity to withstand shocks and to stand, economically, on both feet. Best Place For Opportunity "These things do not, ol course, mean that we can ig nore the price of wool or butler or meat or wheat or metals," Mr Menzies said. These commodities pro duce most of our overseas income and their revenues profoundly affect our material lives.

'But there is much more scope for internal corrective puucics, iur ine summation 01 alternative activities in a country of our diverse and de veloping structure than there would be in one in which. metaphorically, most or all of our eggs were in one basket. there is a growing volume of evidence that people look to Australia today, not as a place for a precarious invest ment, likely to be destroyed by a drought or some temporary adversity, but as iust about the best place in the world for onnortumtv and a InrtnA flllltrA 'She was an obedient, lov able dog. We treated her very well, 1 assure vou. 1 nave several more dogs under training in Moscow tor future experiments but there will never be anothei Laika.

"When she died I cried." Three small mongrel dogs, each of which has rocketed up 300 miles or more, may come to the tair soon. LAIKA 19 DAY REUNION ENDS SEARCH MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A grey-haired, 69-year-old Scottish woman, Mrs Margaret Dunlop, today found her daughter for whom she had searched in Australia and New Zealand for 18 months. would probably take place in Brisbane late this month. It would go on even if the Australian Workers' Union did not take part, "but we still hope the A.W.U.

will join us, ur tvatt said. Dr Evatt has called for a conference of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the l-ederal txeculive and the A.W.U. to promote closer co operation between Labours political and industrial wings belore the elections. The A.W.U. general secre tary.

Mr T. Dougherty, has written to Dr Evatt refusing to attend because Communists would take part through thel A.U.l.U. Dr Evatt todav would not disclose the contents of Mr Dougherty letter. But in Svdncv. Mr Dougherty published the text in the A.W.U.

journal 'The Worker." Text Of A.W.U.. Refusal The article giving ihe letter was headed: "A.C.T.U. In The Red." After saying that the A.W.U. officials would not attend the conference, Mr Dougherty wrote: "We realise, of course, that whilst it is most desirable that the whole trade-union movement should work in close cooperation with the A.L.P, federal Parliamentary Party the present set-up of the A.C.T.U. is such that a strong douet is created as to that being achieved.

'It is well known that four members of the A.C.T.U executive are members of the Communist' Party and that one of Mr Henlvl is not only a member, of the central executive of the Australian Communist Party, but was a Communist Party candidate in a comparatively recent Federal election. is the implac able enemy of Communism and as the Communist Party and its members have on every possible occasion attempted to- undermine' and destroy the A.L.P. and A.L.P, affiliated the fact that four leading Communists form a powerful bloc on the A.C.T.U. executive does nof suggest that the full A.C.T.U will work in close co-ooera- tion with Ihe A.L.P. Federal Parliamentary Party." LABOUR WINS CARMARTHEN LONDON, April 16 (A.A.P.-Reuler).

The Labour Party yesterday gamed con- ftol.of Carmarthenshire in the current county council elec tions. Labour earlier had won Essex and Lancashire. Composition of i.ie new Carmarthenshire County council, is: Labour il, mac pendents .28. j-: i. But so far the D.L.P.

hasl issued no official reply, although senior officials have treated the proposal coolly and suggested rigid condi tions for any possible accept ance. Last Sunday night in a tele vision interview in Melbourne, Dr Evatt said the A.L.P. and the might heal the breach if they shared prefer ence voting in the election. He also said he would seriously consider relinquishing the leadership of the A.L.P. if he was convinced this would lead to a Labour victory in the elections.

After Caucus adiourned to day Dr Evatt reaffirmed his suggestion. He told a Press conference that the Parliamentary Execu tive had received the sugges tion "very favourably after a bit of teasine. Asked to comment on the doubtful D.L.P. reaction to his offers he said: "Mostly the D.L.P. is getting the op portunity for a little bit ol publicity, which is what they need.

D.L.P. Tied Bank Vote1 To Dr Evatt said the three D.L.P. senators had opposed the Government's re form' legislation- and the D.L.P. could scarcely give its preferences to the Menzies Government' at an election, The first act of the Menzies Government if returned to power would be to pass the bills. "I believe the bulk of D.L.P.

supporters will give their preferences to the Lab our Party, ur tvatt said. Later, Dr Evalt said the A.L.P. would give its prefer enccs to the D.L.P. and in turn he expected the D.L.P. to reciprocate.

younger man to take over and lead the party in the House before the next election." He had changed his mind about retiring from Parliament because of requests from all over the State asking him to continue. He said he felt his physical condition would enable him to continue as an ordinary, member. The Leader of the State Opposition, Mr P. H. Morton, said last night: "I would like to pay tribute to the outstanding contribution Mr Bruxner has made' as Country Parly "My association with, him has been very pleasant and 1 D.L.P..

Senator G. Cole, said tonight that the chances of the u.L.r. giving tvait Labour its preferences were almost negligible." Conference I 'Will Go On" The impasse would con tinue so long as the A.L.P. opposed the Industrial Groups, maintained its present foreign policy and permitted unity tickets with Communists in union elections. In Melbourne, the Victorian secretary of the D.L.P., Mr F.

M. Dowling, said the A.L.P. "had a cheek" to seek his party's preferences. The A.L.P.' should show that it really wanted to defeat Communists in trade unions by withdrawing its members trom the unity ticket al ready arranged in the Water side Workers Federation clec tion. Dr Evatt told the Press conference that the proposed industrial unity conference BRUXNER know that, although he will not be Leader, he will still give valuable help to us in any problems that may arise." Political observers last night said that the member -for Armidale, Mr J3.

Hughes, was most likely to succeed Mr Bruxner as Mr Hughes has taken an increasingly, prominent role in recent months as party spokes. man and led the party, in the recent debate on the contentious legislation, to impose a ton-mile tax on road hauliers, Other contenders for the leadership may be the present deputy leader, Mr S. D. Dickson (Temora), and Mr C-B. Cutler (Orange).

'4c MR M. F. The men were employees of a French company which building the Tl power station on the Tumut River. The accident occurred at Kenny's Knob, 70 miles from Cooma. Those killed were: Gui- seppe Rugulo, 27; Michele di Silvio, 23; Benito Pizzol.

21; and Antonio Guisdli, 23. The lift is one of two usqd to lower men and material into a tunnel from the Tumut River to the power station. The cage, which is about five feet square, is believed to have been near the top of the shatt when the litt tailed. All are believed to have relatives in Europe. Station In Vast Cavern Serieant O.

S. Lvnch. charge, of the Cooma police sub-district, and Detective-Sergeant Wi P. Holmes are investigating the accident. The High Commissioner of Russia's exhibit, Mr Dimitri njj.ui, las.

lib original intention was to bring Ihe dogs here as part of our exhibition. Then, due to the reaction of so-called animal loving societies in Belgium, it was decided to put the idea off until we could estimate public opinion. as soon as we are sure that the oeonle of the West would like to see them, they will be flown here and anyone can come and pat them." he oogs are a pale yellow Pomeranian known as Kozerf- ka, (Russian slang for. some. thing very tiny), a pug-nosed black and tan terrier named Muchia (Fly), and a miniature pale grey-brown Husky called iviyiusnka tutue unci.

loudspeakers all over the Russian hall at the fair omes the persistent bleep of a four-pronged shininj alum inium sputnik I ungini! high above a' bronzed lowerinn statue ofjLenii). Space Dog Trainer Draws Crowds At Fain From Our. Staff Correspondent And A.A.P. LONDON, April 16. The Russians yesterday introduced at the Brussels World Fair an "exhibit" which proved more attractive than the displays of art and science, including their own, says the "Daily Mail." OBruxner (Gives Up CP.

ILeadersliip Mr M. F. Bruxner at Tentcrfield yesterday announced his as Leader of the N.S.W. Country Party. But the reunion after, 19 years was tinged with sadness, because Mrs 'Dun lop will sail -for her home in: aaltscots, Ayrshire, in the liner Southern Cross to-morrow morning: The daughter.

Mrs' Mar garet Simms. 44. of Ihe Mel bourne suburb of East Coburg, answered a knoc'; On the door ot her home today and there was her mother. A moment later they were in each other's arms weeping with joy. Mrs Dunloo had found Mrs Simms after a Melbourne newsnaner published a story about her search.

Mrs Simms telephoned the newspaper, Mrs Simms told her mother today that she had deliberately lost contact with her family because she did not want them to worry with her troubles, She sa she bad marital troubles and travelled through the country looking for work to-support her two daughters Yvonne, now ii, ana rau-line. 13. Eventually she obtained a Housing Commission home in East Coburg. She said that annc in snc did not write home her thoughts were always with her family and her home in Scotland. Mrs Dunlop said she searched for her daughter for, six mqnths inAustralia, then The "exhibit" is Skouri- zina Zoya, the woman who trained Laika, the space dog which travelled and died in Sputnik II.

StKourizina has been brough from a Moscow laboratory to stand by the Russian pavilion's replica of Sputnik II to answer questions about Laika the first creature sent into snace. A 30-year-old research worker, Skourizina is dark, at- tractive, and married, with a two-year-old son. flease. no photography she said yesterday, "at least not until I've bad my hair done." Then she answered the question millions will want to ask: "Of course I was very sorry when Laika went," she said. I loved her very much.

With a sad. disarming smile, she added: but it was for science. It had to be done. "I trained her for several months in Moscow, i He told yesterday's meet ine of the tenterfield State Electoral Council his retirement would probably -take etlect at a meeting ot tne Country Party in Sydney next month. Mr Bruxner.

who is 76. was endorsed as candidate for the next State elections at the meeting of the electorate council. He has been a member ot the State Parliament for 38 years and with the exception of three years has led the Country Party since 1922, Mr Bruxner told the meeting he felt it was in the best interests of -the' party for a.