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lL 2 'FED 1967 LATE EDITION Thursday, February 2, 1967 FORECASTS (lor the 24 hours from 6 a.m.): CITY: Mild. SE winds. Temp, range: City 59-76, Liverpool 54-78. N.S.W.: Mild on the coast. Warm to hot inland.

SE to winds. SUN: Today rises 5.17. sets 7.00. MOON: Rises 11.28 p.m.. sets 12.42 p.m.

TIDES (Fort Deni-son): High, 1.51- a.m. (4ft 8in), 2.10 p.m. (4ft), Low. 8.11 a.m. (lft Sin).

8.16 p.m. (1ft 4in). No. 40,289 PRICE 5c Telephone 2 0944 One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Year of Publication 26 PAGES STUDENTS' ANTI-SUKARNO DEMONSTRATION ecision today I Column I a on whether LI I Australia's new aid to Vietnam From Our Canberra Correspondent CANBERRA, Wednesday. Australia will spend $2m on civil aid in Vietnam this year a 70 per cent increase on the 1965-66 spending.

The program for 1966-67 includes as SEATO aid and $700,000 as Colombo Plan aid. han to Ryan a iff-w mw The Victorian Cabinet and Executive Council will decide this morning whether Ronald Ryan will hang. The Premier, Sir Henry Bolte, announced this last night after a 5 p.m. Cabinet meeting called to discuss all fresh evidence submitted in the case. Informed sources say Ryan could be hanged at 8 a.m.

tomorrow if Cabinet rejects the new evidence. The deadline for submissions of evidence expired at 1 1 o'clock last night. Indonesian students and soldiers demonstrated in Djakarta recently bearing placards and banners demanding President Sukarno be put on trial. The students in Djakarta have now suspended major demonstrations but, in Djatiwangi, West Java, 32 anti-Sukarno students were wounded in a clash with armed paratroops still faithful to the President. Meanwhile religious leaders in Djakarta have called on Congress to dismiss the President because he has "gone against the teaching of Islam." Delay in family New commitments which the Minister for External Affairs, Mr P.

M. C. Hasluck, announced tonight will require in creasing sums in future years. The new projects include: A water supplv for the important Mekong Delta citv of Can Tho, more medical aid and the equipment of a resettlement centre. Mr Hasluck said the Government's encourage ment of voluntary aid efforts Ihrouch the Australian Council for Overseas Aid could be expected to pro-; luce substantial and wel come increases in voluntary aid efforts.

Following last week's discussions the Government is also confident that co-operation between the Commonwealth, New South Wales and Victorian Gov- condition loans for home crnmcnts will supplement thciCambodia, Laos, South A Sydney building society has introduced a scheme of home loans for newly married young" couples with repayments based on the joint salaries of the husband and wife. But to qualify the couple must give a written statement that the wife intends to work for three years after marriage and that they do not intend to have a family until after that time. on the grounds of affi davits submitted by Mr Freadman, claiming fresh evidence in the case. Mr Justice Starke gave Mr Freadman 48 hours to submit his fresh evi dence to the State Government. Sir Henry said Cabinet had looked at the new material, including the copy of Tolmie's affidavit, but Mr Freadman had written a letter to the Government saying he did not submit it as evidence and acknowledging it to be false.

Cabinet also considered Cane's statement. Sir Henry said Cabinet had to abide by the i ourt order that any-i thing could be submitted to them up to 11 p.m. NO ACTION The Government would take no further action on the case over-l night. "I have not decided on times, but we will be meeting as a Cabinet to morrow," he said. Asked if there would be an Executive Council meeting afterwards, he said: "Naturally." In an earlier Press con ference.

Sir Henry said there was no statutory time limit between the time the Executive Coun cil reached a decision and the time the execution could be carried out. DIFFICULT Referring to Cane's affidavit. Mr Freadman yesterday that a plan of Pentridge showed it would be very difficult for the former prisoner to see the No. 1 watch tower because the cookhouse would seem to block the view. Mr Freadman said the confusion could arise be cause the prisoners seem cd to call the watch tower nearest to them the No.

1 tower. "That tower according to the map is known to the warders as No. 2 watch tower, so we don't think there is any inconsistency in Cane's affidavit," Mr Freadman said. Ryan, yesterday, spoke with his priest, Pentridge chaplain Father John Brosnan, and had visits from some of his sisters. Sir Henry said Ryan's solicitor, Mr Ralph Freadman, had admitted that no notice could be taken of an affidavit submitted by John Henry Tolmie, who has been charged with false swearing.

Tolmie appeared in the Melbourne City Court yesterday, and was remanded in custody to next Thursday (see page 4). PRISONER An affidavit from a former Pentridge prisoner and a number of otner statements were submitted yesterday as fresh evidence to the Crown Law Department oy 1-readman. The former prisoner Allan John Cane, 35, now in Brisbane, claims in his affidavit that he saw a warder on No. 1 watch tower fire a shot during the time Ryan and Peter Walker broke out of Pcntridse. Two statements came from private citizens, who said they were outside Pentridge at the time and saw a shot fired from a watch tower on the gaol.

A statement has also come from a man who was a prisoner with Cane at the time of the breakout. His name has not been released. It is believed that the statements by the two private citizens are those which Sir Henry Bolte described on Tuesday as "of no consequence." Ryan has told his family he believes he will still be hanged, probably tomorrow morning. He is said to he cheerful and resigned to his fate. CABINET Yesterday's Cabinet meeting, which lasted just over an hour, was attended by the entire Cabinet.

except one Minister who is overseas. Ryan was due to hang on Tuesday for the murder of prison officer George Henry Hodson. who was shot outside Pcntridee Gaol on De cember 19, 1965. However, the execution was staved at 11 p.m. on Monday, under an order by Mr Justice Starke, the trial Judge, would have to renegotiate the acreement.

"This is a risk we have to face up to," Mr Ward said. He said home-purchase loans were currently based the husbands salary alone. In negotiating a loan, a iiuMium mien i 'Z HNew Zealand. UNBREAKABLE. It's a bet that one of the thoughts in Sir Francis Chichester's mind after his ketch was thrown on its beam ends was for the 16 dozen eggs aboard.

Not to worry, though. The Egg Board, with ad mirable foresight, nan provided 41b of freeze-dried egg for the food locker. In 70 packets; each a breakfast-worth, they were rushed though by the hoard's technicians tvho installed its new frccze-drying equipment in time for Chichester's sailing. TOO POPULAR? One theory has it that that savings bank teller had no 50c pieces in his till (Col. 8, yesterday) not because people don't like them, but because they do.

"I have had two in my change recently," says a Mosman man, "both have been impressed into my wife's collection she has saved every 50c which has come her way since last February. "With a limited minting, collectors alone could account for the scarcity of these coins." Reserve Bank figures show that 36.5 million 50c coins have been minted, and at the end of September only 25.5 million had been circulated. The trading banks are not calling for them. ast week the flow of 50c pieces was INTO the Reserve Bank, not out of it. LO, POOR DINAH! When the tropical cyclone Dinah crossed the 32 degree south latitude on Tuesday she automatically ceased to be a lady.

Under meteorological lore (or law) her code name and her gender were dropped, because she had ceased to exist as a tropical cyclone. "She" became "it" a mere "intense depression." BLESS MY SOUL! There'll be angry mutter-ings in the peaceful lounges of the Australasian Pioneers' Club a strictly masculine institution. The City Council's new and otherwise excellent City of Sydney Guide (it answers the tourist's every question) publishes a list of most of the notable clubs: Union, N.S.W., Millions, Tatts, University and the rest. But it omits the Pioneers', which will be 56 years old in May. Then, insult added to injury, the reader finds it: classified under "Women's Clubs." NIPPONTSED.

Seen In George Street yesterday two Japanese youths, possibly from a merchant ship, dressed like Western youth: jeans, thick belts, jackets, beards, long hair. Their thongs were Japanese type: wooden, with chocks at each end, but with rubber toe-straps. INSIDE Pago Comics 12 Crossword 12 Data 6 Enlcrtainmcnt and the Arts 8 Finance 9, 10 Law Notices 13 Mails 13 Radio 13 Shipping 12 Sport 11, 12 Television 13 Weather 13 CUSSIFIID ADVIRTISIN0 INDEX, Peg 13 lOK'nilfHONt ADVtKTt. DIAL 2 0944 PriMtd end pwbliihttf by Jolwt FaMot nd font tMtat4, of itrm Sf, IrtNtl. way, at tvtt SrM4, ffroedwoy.

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Most lending agencies re quired instalments to be within 25 per cent ot the male borrower's income EXAMPLE This would make it difli-1 cult for a person with a low income to get a loan. I he new plan would en able a couple to obtain Frost. B. Jarman (S.A.), larger loan initially and.lBitmcad, A. Connolly, Aust.

ships caught in ice From our Canberra Correspondent CANBERRA, Wednes day. An American icebreaker is on its way to rescue two Australian Antarctic expedition ships stuck in the, ice off the Australian Antarctic station at Wilkes. The two ships, the Nclla Dan and the Thala Dan. are carrying men to relieve Australians who have served more than a year in the Antarctic. If the ships cannot be freed by winter, about 80 men now at Wilkes and Mawson will have to stay there another year.

The Department of External Affairs announced to night that the U.S. Coast-Etiard cutter East Wind was expected to reach the Wilkes area on Saturday. FRUSTRATED Men on the ships were in no physical danger, the Department emphasised. The East Wind was on its way from the Weddell Sea to the American Antarctic station at McMurdo. The closinc of the ice pack has wrecked Australia's chances ot Duuaing a moaei Antarctic station near Wilkes this year.

The Nclla Dan is carrying a construction team which was to have been landed to start work on new buildings The construction team was to have been dropped bv the Nella Dan on it wav to Mawson, and would then have been picked up by the Thala Dan. More than 80 Australians are involved in the delay to the two relief ships. STORM The Nella Dan has the Wilkes construction party of about 16 as well as a relief party of about 25 for Mawson. The ship has made no progress since January 6 and has been stuck fast since January 18, when a severe storm packed up the ice. The Thala Dan, which earlier had dropped a French party further along the Antarctic coast, did not reach the Wilkes area until January 27, when shifting winds then caught her in the ice.

The Thala Dan is carrying the relief party for Wilkes. LATE NEWS U.S. sailor killed in ship collision HONOLULU, Wednes. day One sailor was killed and at least eight others hurt last night svhen two U.S. Navy ships collided during a training exercise 75 miles southeast of Honolulu.

A Navy spokesman said one of the injured died aboard a helicopter that was taking him to hospital in Honolulu. The destroyer McMorris was holed in its port side when it collided with the tanker Tom Bigbee. but was able to return to Pearl Harbour under it own I team. Second Asian tour by Holt CANBERRA, Wednesday. The Prime Minister Mr Holt, is planning a second tour of Asian countries.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said today that Mr Holt's itinerary would probably include Korea and Formosa. It was planned that Mr Holt should visit these coun tries either in March or in May, with March being the more likely. INVITATION Last April, three month: after he became Prime Minister, Mr Holt made 10-day tour of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and South Vietnam. the invitation to visit jCambodia was made to Mr K. of the National Bank of Cambodia, Mr Son Sann.

Mr Son Sann is visiting Australia as the personal bodia's Head of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Cambodian neutrality defended, P. 4, PANCAKE RECIPE Next Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday, so don't be caught without your pancakes. On page 5 of today's Women's Section is a basic recipe that can double for cither savoury or sweet pancakes. Why not treat the family to pancakes for a delicious main course or for dessert? baker my grip," Mr Perry said in his hospital bed.

"It washed me right aft bumping me from side to side. I just slid and slid." The wave flooded both the bakery and the galley and nearly swept one of the cooks inio the ovens. The Triastcr is carrying 1 8 Chinese victims of Cyclone Dinah and will land them at (jcelong probably tomorrow. They are survivors of Ihe foundering of Ihe 80-ton Formosan boat Anfon off the New Hebrides last week SHOOTING THREAT TO RACE FAVOURITE, niirXTTTa WINE. IV WOLLON GONG, Wednesday.

The owner of an odds-on favourite at Bulli dogs tonight grabbed the dog from an attendant shortly before the race, and tried to leave the course. The owner, Mr Les Niclson, was reported to have been threatened by a group of men with a gun who said they would shoot him and the dog. Pacific Kidge, if it ran in the race. Pacific Ridge was at 6-4. on for the race, the Loddon Stakes.

When the chief steward arrived at the kennels to take the dogs to the starting boxes he was told of the incident. INQUIRY He stopped Mr Nielson with the dog as he was leaving the course. After a hurried conference. Pacific Ridge was scratched five minutes before the race. Bookmakers were ordered to refund all bets on Pacific Ridge with bets on other dogs to he reduced by 50c in the dollar.

The Bulli Racing Club said stewards would hold an inquiry. Skindivers inspect sunken boat Police skindivers yester day inspected a large house boat which sank overnight in 50ft of water at Pearl Bay near The Spit. The houseboat, converted from a 110ft cruiser, is be licved to belong to a Vau cluse man who used it at weekends. The skindivers who in spectcd the houseboat said it had apparently foundered after springing a plank. Lady Chichester was speaking about the wave that almost overturned Sir Francis' yacht Gipsy Moth IV on Monday night Jabout 32 hours after he left Sydney on his 14.300-mile passage back to England around Cape Horn.

Shortly after his lifc-or- dc.Hh battle with huge seas nd 50 m.p.h. winds in which Gipsy Moth's keel came clear of the water, he talked to his wife by radio telephone. When the wave struck Gipsy Moth, its masts were submerged in the water. The fore hatch burst open and the sea poured into the yacht. Sir Francis' lip was cut by a saucer when crockery was hurled around the cabin.

Cupboards burst open in the galley. CRICKET TEAM SELECTED FOR N.Z. Unorthodox spin bowl cr Johnny Glceson among live N.S.W. players selected yesterday in the Australian team to tour Clccson, 28, a P.M.G. technician at Tamworlh who propels the ball off a hent-up finger, is in his initial first-class cricket sea son.

The 14 plavcrs arc: Booth. G. Davics. J. Glee- son.

N. O'Neill. P. Philpott im.s.w.i.. K.

Cunningham i-avcn, freeman, Shcahan (Vic), P. Burge (Q.l. Full report, page 11. Capital spending still high CANBERRA, Wednes day. New capital expen diture by industry in the September quarter was maintained at a high level of 5434.6m, the Commonwealth Statistician, Mr K.

M. Archer, reported to day. Although lower than the expenditure rate of $461. 6m in the June quarter it com pared with the $435. 8m ex penditure in the previous September quarter.

Of the new expenditure this September quarter 5 1 47.7m was nn new hui H. tal equipment. Manufacturing industry accounted for $224. 8m of the expenditure and non-manufacturing industry 5209.8m. Commonwealth's efforts, particularly by making available valuable expert assistance," Mr Hasluck added.

Mr Hasluck said today's Cabinet review of Vietnam aid embraced measures de signed to ensure that aid was given where it would be most effective and to facili tate forward planning of the aid program. A senior position would be created in the Australian Embassy in Saigon to co ordinate all forms of aid and to co-operate with voluntary aid services. WATER PROJECT Ian Filchett, our Political; Federal Cabinet is under- stood to have decided to provide the major part of tne runas required to give a Vietnam city of Can Tho. The city is the capital of the province of Phong Dinh in the Mekong Delta and is ihe largest town in the province. The present population.

now estimated at 85.000, is being swollen rapidly by refugees from the Victcong. It was reported today that the cost to the Australian Government over the next three years could reach more than $2m. At Can Tho as at Bicn Hoa, an Australian engineering team will advise on con struction. Can Tho is a university town, a naval and fishing centre and a marketing centre for the region. At present about one- third of the population is served by a purification plant but the remainder have no supply of good drinking water.

never see his wife and two children again. The wave, whipped up by 80-mile-an-hour winds, struck the ship at 9.3 a.m. on Saturday and in sweeping Mr Perry 70 feet down the alleyway fractured his right arm and dislocated his right shoulder. It left him on the after-deck. The Trisslcr.

bound from Nauru to Geclong, put into Sydney at 5.48 a.m. yes terday to get him to hospital 'There was no warning. I dived for some pipes on the floor but the wave broke (I i Mi. yS- -ruHs. Con Tho I SOUTH VIETNAM South Sea with their combined sala i ries, to reduce the debt so that the husband could carry lower payments from his salary alone later on.

To obtain the loan, both husband and wife must not be older than 35 and the property must be in their names jointly. Mr Ward cited an ex ample of what could be done under the scheme for a couple having a combined income of S6 a week. SUPPORT The husband's salary in this example would be $50 nd increasing bv 52 an nually, and the wife's salary would be 536. "If we are prepared to make a loan of $10,000 on the combined income basis, with weekly payments of $27.42. the loan will re-duce to $7,700 after 3 years and this balance will require 3.98 weekly over 201 vcars with the breadwinner's then income of $56.

Mr Ward said. The Slate Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Mr G. J. Borcham, said The plan, the first of its kind in the State, was announced yesterday by the general manager of the St. George and Cronulla Co-operative Building Society Mr J.

S. Ward. Mr Ward said: "Most young couples start married life with every intention of owning their own home, but the onset of family responsibilities prevents many from achieving this laud able objective until much later in life. or. indeed, ever at all." He said that if a wife indicated that she would work for three years and her husband gave evidence that his salary would in crease regularly, they could obtain a loan from the society.

'NOT CONTRACT' Sneaking of the written agreement the couple must give the society, Mr Ward said: "We would expect them to confirm their intcn tion in writing. "It is not like a contract and could not be enforced. It wouldn't be a condition or term of the But he said that if couple were unwilling to give a written statement "this plan is not for It a child was porn to ine couple within the three year period, the society husband battling last night said: I am sure he is Lady Chichester said: "From what my husband has told me this was an ex ceptional wave in very broken seas. "It has been terribly bad luck for him to strike such weather. But I think the worst is now over and he will start sailing acam.

'Before he left Sydney we looked over the charts together and concluded that he would miss cyclone Dinah. But he has certainly run into part of it. "I think that what he has now come through is iust about as bad as anything he can expect on the voyage." In his own words, page 5. CBien Hoa 4UMJt. 1 rtV MEKONG RIVER NSs, DELTA -2 EfP? China thaikno Vsvr Undaunted, Sir Francis revels in his lonely fight with the sea lastjings and structures and night: sny pian to on other new capi After a chat with her storm-tossed across the Tasman, Lady Chichester "I am not worried about my husband.

perfectly all right. wave fells ship's "When I spoke to him he was very tar from being downhearted. "In fact he seemed elated. You know this is tiic kind of thing that my husband seems to enjoy. "He delights in being in a tight corner and getting out of it." LADY CHICHESTER young couples acquire their own homes should have all the support in the world.

The scheme was new in concept and could be very successful. Rogue SAMUEL PERRY if" I i 't 'I NO WITCHCRAFT Samuel Perry, ship's baker, stepped out into the main deck- alleyway from the galley with a cup of tea in one hand. He checked his watch, then looked up to see a wall of green water sweeping down the four-foot-wide corridor. Cyclone Dinah had thrown up a wave which swamped the main and upper'decks of Mnwith the wave was some Naval architect Warwick Hood said last night it was no miracle that Sir Francis Chichester's yacht had righted itself after its keel came clear of the water. "It is inherent in the de sign." he said.

"There's no witchcraft or magic about thing that Sir Francis knew he might have to cope with. "I do not think he is a foolhardy person, he said "I think he figured his chances of surviving this vovage were rather good Mr Hood said his modifications to the Gipsy Moth were made to improve its ability to sail in a straight line. the phosphate and passcneer ship Triastcr. Mr Perry, 30, of Alexander Street, Box Hill, Victoria, was sure he would said that the incident -1 i i. 'J.

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