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THE AGE, MONDAY, JANUARY1 19, 19S9 SOVIET LEADER HEARS Mikoyan, Eisenhower Meet U.S. ON BERLIN Mr. Mikoyan Told of Stand by West 51 Feared Killed in Argentine Air Crash; One Survivor Australian Associated Press MAR DEL PLATA (Argentina), January 18. Fifty-one persons were feared killed when a twin-engined Argentine airliner, caught in a heavy rainstorm, plunged into the Atlantic off Mar Del Plata, a summer resort, on Friday night. Last Sunday a German Four hours after the Lufthansa plane crashed From Australian Associated Press WASHINGTON, January 18.

The Soviet Deputy Premier (Mr. Mikoyan) has been told that the United States and her Allies were determined to maintain their rights and positon as occupyng and protective powers in Berlin. An authoritative Washington source said President Eisenhower emphasised this policy during his conference yesterday villi Air. Mikoyan ut the White House. and exploded while trying to land in the rain at Rio crash a man, apparently the sole survivor, was found on the beach.

His clothes had been burned or ripped off. de Janeiro's Galeao airport, killing 36 persons, Including The plane was on a flight from Buenos Aires to Bahla Blanca. 350 miles southwest of the Argentine capital, with a stop scheduled at Mar Del Plata. It reached Mar De Plata, 230 miles south-tuth-east of Buenos Aairesr at the height of the storm and the control tower ordered the Fourteen bodies had been recovered by late yesterday afternoon. The search for other victims was continued along the coast and over the pilot to remain aloit.

shower of questions and hope that I would hold The plane beaded away from the airport but appeared to lose speed. Suddenly It nose-dived into that Atlantic about 150 sea. Among those on the spntrer list was Senor 3 press conference I must say If yards from the beach at ardo Braun Menendez, one of Argentina's most famous scientists. There was no im mac i nave my coat on already and am not prepared for that. "I can say, however, that we held an exchange of views on many matters of mutual Interest.

swept Into the White House drive yesterday for his meeting with President Eisenhower. It was preceded by a secret service car and seven motorcycle outriders. Accompanied by the Soviet Ambassador (Mr. Menshl-kov), Mr. Mikoyan stepped from his car to be greeted by Brigadier General Andrew Goodpaster, White House staff secretary.

a spot wnere it is 75 feet deep. mediate confirmation mat he aotually was aboard. The plane, a Curtiss Commando 46 Owned by Aus Rescue Boats Rescue boats and frogmen "We did not conduct negotiations, but, rather, tried to find out what the tne American pnot. Plane With Faulty Gear Lands Safely KANSAS CITY, Mis--souri, Jan. 18.

A Super Constellation plane carrying 31 peopu made a safe belly landing at a naval air station at Kansas City yesterday after its landing gear and braking system had developed faults. Foam was spread on the runwav to reduce the fire hazard before the big Trans. Airiines plane surged along the tarmac and came to rest within 2000 feet. The passengers were unhurt. In Miami yesterday, an Gistern Airlines Super Constellation developed a fli in an engine as It took off tor Detroit and landed after three minutes in the air.

All 17 people aboard got out before flames enveloped the aircraft. A.A.P. tral, tiuvttw: ried 47 passengers, including were hampered, by tne choppy waters in their dash an uiianc, ana live crew members. tor tne wrecK. uars on uic positions of our countries were on various international matters.

Smiling beach turned their headlights on the waters and police floodlights illuminated the scene, but only a few- "As I said, those were not negotiations but a useful pieces of wreckage ana luggage were spotted on the water. Mar Del Plata, the most SOVIET DEPUTY PREMIER ANASTAS MIKOYAN, right, sits with President Eisenhower at the White House desk after they met for the first time on Saturday. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov is standing. popular seaside resort in Argentina, now Is jammed with summer vacationers. It was also made known that the U.S.

Secretary of State (Mr. Dulles) had emphasised during meetings with Mr. Mikoyan on Friday that the United States had the solid support of her allies in the determination to stay In Berlin. The same sources said Mr. Dulles had told Mr.

Mikoyan that the United States would not accept substitution of the East German regime In East Berlin for the Soviet Government so far as relations between the Soviet and the West were concerned. They said Mr. Mikoyan had told the United States leaders that the Soviet Union definitely intended to hand over Soviet powers in East Berlin to the East Ger. man regime if the United States, Britain and France had not ended four-Power occupation of Berlin by the end of May. Counter-Proposals Mr.

Mikoyan was reported have said many times that Moscow did not regard the Bxing of the May deadline is an ultimatum. The Soviet Deputy Premier at the same time was said to have urged the West to make counterproposals. The sun was shining and the thermometer was well Delow freezing as Mr. Mlko-yan's long, black Cadillac It was the second major Tear Gas Ends Meat Plant Strike air disaster in South WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF America In less man a week. Mr.

Mikoyan walked rapidly through lines of waiting reporters towards the President's ofllce, doffing his hat and smiling faintly but saying nothing. Waiting with Mr. Eisenhower in the President's oval-shaped office overlooking the snow-flecked White House lawn were Mr. Dulles, Mr. Livingston Merchant, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, and Mr.

Llewellyn Thompson, United States Ambassador to Moscow. Photographers, who were admitted to the President's office immediately after Mr. Mlkoyan's arrival, found both Mr. Eisenhower and the Soviet leader smiling and conversing animatedly through an interpreter. The meeting broke up after and hour and three-quarters.

After the meeting Mr Mikoyan, wearing his overcoat and plaid scarf, told waiting reporters: "If you have prepared a Australian Rally World Ready to Honor 'Robbie' Burns ALLOW AY (Scotland), Jan. 16. Devotees throughout the world of poet Robert Burns, are getting ready to celebrate the ZOOth anniversary of his birth in this tiny Ayrshire hamlet. As the bard himself sang, it was "a blast o'Januar wind" that on January 25, 1759, ushered the short-lived Rabble into the world to enrich his native country with a poetic genius such, as It had never known. In the two centuries that have passed, his poetry and his memory have been the inspiration of mn'e Scottish sentiment than all other topics in the world put together.

A.A.P.-Reuters. Queen Juliana Escapes Injury in Car Smash JJTRECHT (Holland), January 18. Queen Juliana escaped injury yesterday in a collision which seriously damaged her car. Drivers Doubtful LISBON, January 18. Australians Edgar Perkins and Gregory Cusack, who start from Lisbon tomorrow in the Monte Carlo rally in a Porsche car, think that luck will have to be well on their side if they are to win.

A van skidded on an exchange of views. Greetings "At the end we all came to the conclusion, the President, the Secretary of State and that the exchange of views was useful. "I conveyed to the President greetings on behalf of Nlkita Khrushhcev (the Soviet Prime Minister), best wishes for the President's good health and success on the road to better relations between our two countries. "The President thanked me most cordially and asked me to convey similar warm greetings on his part to our Prime Minister, which I shall certainly do." NATO Meeting Mr. Mikoyan declined to answer questions and broke up his meeting with the reporters by saying in English: "Thank you.

Goodbye." Mr. James Hagerty, the White House spokesman, announced later that the subjects discussed during the meeting were Berlin, Germany, disarmament. Increased trade and freer exchange of persons between the two countries. Shortly after the meeting, ambassadors of all 14 other Atlantic Pact nations were Invited to the State Department for a briefing on the Mikoyan talks, Mr. Mikoyan will resume his meetings with U.S.

officials on Monday with a call on Mr. Douglas Dillon, the Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. He will probably see Mr. Lewis Strauss, the Secretary of Commerce, the same day. Fast Life icy road and collided with Perkins, who Is from Cow- tne Royal car.

carrying angle, about 400 miles from Melbourne, said today: "We are going to do our best, but we think we would need a the Queen to Utrecht station to meet her daughter, Princess Irene, great deal of luck to win, as BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 18. More than 1000 soldiers and police battered their way into a meat-packing house with four Sherman tanks yesterday and threw out 600 sit-down strikers in a four-hour clash. Officials reported 30 workers injured in the furious melee, in which police fired tear-gas shells and animals ran loose through the sprawling grounds of the Government-owned Llsandro de la Torre packing house, chief supplier of inexpensive meat. Police were armed wifh submachine guns, but said they did not Are them.

Most of the injuries were caused by the tear-gas bombs and by police clubs. Most of the strikers quickly evacuated the plant when the tanks tore through the iron gates of the main entrance, but some took refuge on the fourth floor and it took police three more hours to dislodge them. The workers, who had threatened to reduce the plant to asheS in a dispute over Government plans to sell the enterprise to private industry, were met with a barrage of tear gas from a launcher on a small tank, as well as with standard tear-gas shells. A.A.P. who had been skl-ing at Val d'Isere, In France.

LYTHAM A 14-year-old boy, who at a Juvenile court on Saturday admitted taking his father's car on Christmas eve and driving it on a new motorway was alleged to have told the police that he reached 84 m.p.h. He was fined 3 sterling and disqualified from driving until he is 18. we naven goi expeneiiw: ui winter conditions in Queen Juliana continued Freedom-bound BONN. AT least 2,900,000 people have fled from Communist East Germany during the past eight years, the West German Government estimated yesterday. her journey in another car.

Europe." Cusack, from Canberra, said: "I do not expect that Black. Dau Atomic Device to Replace Batteries WASHINGTON, January 18. The White House yesterday unveiled a 5-Ib. atomic generator which the Atomic Energy Commission hailed as a "significant breakthrough" in producing electric power from heat. we will win, as it is not our typj of country.

We 'drove over nart of the rally route the start of the rally tomorrow. During the past 24 hours the lowest temperature was 45 degrees Fahrenheit, and it went up as far as 61 degrees as the sun broke through clouds. Part of Prize Perkins said he and Cu-shack were competing in the rally as part of the prize lie won in last year's Round Australia The sponsors offered the winner the opnortunity to compete in the Monte Carlo event, and Perkins, accepting it, chose Cushack, runner-up to hint in the trial, as his co-driver. ''We flew to Stuttgart, bought a new Porsche there an ddrove through Europs) oLisbon." Perkins said. A.A.P.-Reuters.

on our way to Lisbon, and Settlement by LONDON. The Clan Line steamers were fined 25 sterling in a prosecutiontrie first of its kind under the Clean Air Act yesterday, because their ship, the Clan Mackinley, emitted an excessive amount of black smoke as she lay at Tilbury Docks. we were pieasecr win me performance pf the, car on snow In the French Alps, but we do not know how that compares with the performances of European drivers, who have had past exoerlence of. such condi Britain, Egypt Lost Son at least a year. They said It would take 1450 lb.

of batteries to produce the electrical energy the new device could power without batteries. tions. In one respect at least the Australian pair are lucky. Forecasts predicted that the weather would be good for QUEEN JULIANA. CAIRO, January 18.

British and Egyptian representatives initialled the Anglo-Egyptian financial agreement early today. The device Kenerates heat. KNOxVILLE Tennessee). A lather with worry in his voice called the "Knoxville Journal" last night and asked if tt could "run a piece in the paper about my boy." "He ran away from home on Thursday and we haven't using a radio Isotope polonium in this case and has no moving parts. "Closer co-operation In THE 3 The model cost 6700 (exclusive of the fuel) to stead of the old hate campaigns would make i good start." A.

A P. heard Irom him since," he produce, but on a bigger production basis the cost The new device was presented to President Elsenhower for a demonstration on his office desk by Mr. John McCone, chairman of the A.E.C. The device Is known formally as a "radioisotope fueled thermoelectric generator." The generator, according to the A.E.C, has an efficiency 20 times greater than known before in the translation of heat into electric power. Its first immediate application was expected to be the power source for broadcasting units and instruments fired Into space aboard American satellites.

A.E.C. officials said the device was capable of powering the instruments in a satellie, for example, for explained. Asked his son age, the lather replied, "He's 37." could be cut to about 89 Secret Service to Check Story of lm Gold Find CORSICANA (Texas), January 18. Service station attendant, Mr. D.

E. Jones, agreed yesterday to take secret service agents to the spot where he claims to have hidden a 2,408,000 dol. (about 1,075,000) treasure in gold bars. lor eacn unit. A.A.P.

Three Die in Hotel Fire Home-made EXCURSION First Cldii there and back for li iingle fares: from Sydney by "Onova" May and Oct, "Orortsay" Arcadia" Deo, Speca eoinecirjjf ooi to or from Sydnty, DETROIT. Jan. 1R. Dead at 108 LONDON. Mrs.

Rhoda Harris, claimed to be England's oldest woman, died at Swening, Suffolk, yesterday In her 108th year. Three persons were killed but scores of others saved their lives by crawlinor on ANNESBURG-Using only a hacksaw and an electric drill, Derek Wlndell, Johannesburg lying enthusiast, has built a single-seat helicopter ol aluminium and plywood, weighing 100 lb: and costing 25 sterling. It will be tested today. their hands and knees The leader of the British delegation, Sir Denis Rlckett, signed for Britain and the Minister of Economy, Mr. Abdel Moneim Kalssuny, signed for Egypt.

Mr. Kaissuny later said that Egypt had agreed to pay 27.500,000 sterling for sequestered British property. He said that 3,500.000 sterling would be paid Immediately and the remaining 24 million would be paid after one year. This would leave Egypt with sterling balances amounting to 57 million sterling at nominal value and 45 million at the current market value. Most of this sterling was invested in securities in London.

Welcomed Mr. Kaissuny said that v.trvnt would make pay Mr. Jones claims he found the gold 86 bars weighing Lee's headquarters, but never got there. through smoke-nlled corri' 1 about B0 lb. eaoh while picking berries In east Texas on May 17 last year.

dors as Are raced through ueiroii's imier tiotei yes terday. tie said ne put tne gout where even the Russians 1 yl couldn't And It." Mr. Sorrels said the story was interesting, but he rather fancied the reported area of Mr. Jones's find was Spanish treasure territory. It was near the old Spanish trail.

The blaze apparently started near the first floor of the 14-story hotel. It All Ears Orient Pacific swept up an elevator shaft Mr. Forrest Sorrels, In charge of the secret service ofllce in Dallas, Texas, sent an agent to question Mr. Jones about the gold. "He claims he has got it," vlr.

Sorrels said. "He says Oscar Phillips, a feed store with amazing speed, and many of the guests in the 800-room hotel were trapped owner of Alto, two miles from where Mr. Jones in tneir rooms temporarily. Brilliant Scientist Died Penniless LONDON, January 18. Study papers found under the floorboards of an attic have established that a man who died penniless from near-starvation 34 years ago was one of the world's most brilliant scientists.

ROME. Mario Monti 59, a tree man alter spending 35 years behind bars, said on his release, "I should like to see a sound film." Talkies were invented several years alter he was convicted ot murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. says he found the gold, re NEW ANSWER TO STRESS Is quick acting yet harmless De Witt's Nerve and Pain Tablets. Take two and feet calm, serene and relaxed. With De Witt's there are no after effects, and they do not cause indigestion, nor Impair your mental capacity.

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And we HOUSTON (Texas). A ss. I I haven seen any gold yet. passenger train collided with smm a truck loaded witn steej rods at a oralrie crossing on ments to Sue Canal shareholders after the sterling was released. Britain's press today welcomed the signing of the agreement and called for renewed diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The "News Chronicle," advocating closer diplomatic relations, declared: 'This time it must be made clear that diplomatic relations will Involve some duties as well as some rights. washed away by rains during the night," he said. "Jones told me that when he realised it was gold, he got scared and covered It up. When it got dark, he went back to the place and uncovered the Erold again. Theories C.

W. Loyd. 76. a retired Saturday, killing the truck anver ana urine a train INVESTORS Large and Small passengers. Sheets of flame Dnable to get his work gublished, the man, Oliver eavislde, became a bitter and eccentric recluse.

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Henry Josephs, an ex town and the area where 2500 Illicit diamond workers NOW CONSIDER THIRD UNIVERSAL fUXIBlE TRUST Initial Dividend Payment BOOKS CLOSE 28th FEBRUARY, 1959. Trusteest A.N.Z. Nomineei Ltd. pert at the post office research station In London, have -been arrested in two She told the "De Tele-graaf" that she "often had rows" with her mother, who fought a legal 'battle through the Singapore courts to win custody of her daughter from the Malayan nurse who looked after her during the war. Bertha, now 21, married to a Dutchman, and the proud mother of two children, said: "I never felt myself at home with them her parents' for a single day." The Singapore court's eventual declson favor of Mrs.

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I law him for the first time on the day of our marriage. "I do not long -for "him, but I do tor Singapore." About the law suit against her Malayan nurse, Che Aminah, she "My grandmother can prove my mother gave me. away to her Bertha said her wedding to furniture maker Jo Wol-kenvelt In April, 1 1D56, was held In secret because her parents ontmsed thai mar. HOLDERS REOISTERED Mill FEBRUARY, l5. Today's price 1- per unit.

After a year's work. Mr. Josephs had published- his "On his Journey home, Mr. Baker traced the routes of the gem gangs and pinpointed In Tangier the secret warehouses where the smuggled diamonds are packed for distribution all over the world by woman couriers." A.A.P. In the prospactus.

The newspaper said that a private detective, Mr. Sydney Baker, was back in Britain after three months' undercover work as a mine foreman with a report commissioned for London and Amsterdam diamond merchants which would help police to end diamond smuggling in Ave count-tries. The Sierra Leone Government said ot this illicit trading last week, "It threatents the whole country's future." "Reynolds News" added: "Sydney Baker was briefed for the lob after merchants In Antwerp, Amsterdam, London and New York re- fiorted a sudden flood of lllclt gems," the newspaper said. "He surmised his client findings. YOU can HIM participate by sending this coupon NOWI Examination of the papers had shown that Heaviside was 60 years ahead of Einstein in attempting to explain certain aspects of gravity, said the "Sunday Proved for Linens Our Auditors, Messrs.

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