GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 29 January 1946, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

MORSE MESSAGES TO MAN IN MOON ? WASHINGTON, January 27. _ Major-General Harold McLelland, Air Force Air Communications officer discussing radar contact with the moon, said: “I see no reason why eventually a form of morse code by radar could not be transmitted to some celestial bodies, about which there is conjecture that human life exists beyond the earth. Such signals should be answered. We might even find other planets had developed techniques superior to ours”. MIGRATION YACHT INSTEAD OF LINER. LONDON, January 27. Because he says so many people are clamouring for passages to Australia, Chief Officer Newcombe, 31 years, retired merchant seaman, of Middlesex, is planning to buy a 50-ton yacht to sail them out at £2OO per head. Newcombe warned it would be no luxury cruise. All passengers would have to undertake watches and other shipboard duties. He hoped to leave by June with his wife as chief stewardess. • ROME, January 27. An Italian Tribunal at Milan sentenced to death a Polish woman spy, Lena Ambrosick, who was found guilty of betraying patriots, causing numbers of arrests and at least four deaths. Amibrosick fainted when sentenced. LONDON, January 27. The famous Royal AJr Force station at Brighton, through which more than 60,000 New Zealand and Australian airmen passed on arrival in the United Kingdom, or again before leaving, has been closed down. Forty-two requisitioned hotels and other buildings are being returned to the owners. BERLIN, January 27. American Military Government detachments have been withdrawn from three of the six boroughs in the American sector of Berlin. The change means that although control of the administration of the boroughs remains, it is no longer exercised directly through experts giving orders to the burgomasters. The change affects the administration of 567,000 of 932,000 inhabitants' in the American sector. No change is contemplated in the administration of boroughs in the British sector. NEW YORK, January 27. The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation claimed the new plane XPBI, at present undergoing tests, is the world’s most powerful fighter, developing speeds exceeding 509 miles per hour, with gas turbine engine, driving nose propellor and jet engine providing a thrust through the tail. The Company says that a single engine has virtually the same power as the Superfortress’s four engines. The fighter, which weighs 19,500 lbs., and is the heaviest so far built, is designed to operate normally on the front propellor, using the rear jet for take off and high speed combat manoeuvres.