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UGHnNOUP TIME 6.43 p.m. Yesterday's Weather Maximum temperature 77.0 Minimum temperature .71 Rainfall 0.02 inches TIDE TABLE FOR SEPT. Sunshine 1.4 hours % HiSt- Low Oata Water ajn. pjn. Water Sun- Sun- M. forecast of today's weather was 25 9 53 t«J_. «Jn. pjn. riae set not available from the Meteorological 3.34 4.17 6.09 •.13' Station last night.) 28 10.43 11.03 4.21 _U« 6.09 6.11 27 1135 11.57 5.10 6.06 6.10 6.10 tt&elLe VOL. 33 — NO. 221 HAMILTON. BERMUDA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1953 6D PER COPY Eisenhower Summons Top Aides Re-Establishment Of Cedars On Considerable For Decisions On Problems Scale Possible; Most Optimistic Report Yet A relatively optimistic Posed By H'Bomb s Imminence All-Out Project report on the fate of Ber­ muda's cedar trees was made WASHINGTON, September Of Biological public yesterday. It is the 24 (TP). — Scientific predic­ result of studies made here tions that the hydrogen bomb during June and July by Dr. may soon explode into Control Of Pests W. R. Thompson, director of practical reality — a prospect the i Commonwealth Institute that set off soul-searching in Dr. W. R. Thompson, director of the Commonwealth Institute of of Biological Control. the Pentagon — steeped in Biological Control, investigated According to the report the significance today -an unusual pests of many kinds in Bermuda decline of cedar trees has meeting of the National during his visit here in June and latterly been markedly less Security Council." July. As a result the Department of than it was some years ago, The new joint chiefs of staff Agriculture is going to try a full- the Microweisia (Ladybird) already are overdue with rec­ scale programme of biological predator has become estab­ ommendations to tiie White control, rather than attack tte lished and some individual House on the size and shape pests by means of sprays, Colonel trees have shown an im­ of the armed forces for the J. C. Astwood, M.C.P., chairman of tte Board of Agriculture, told munity to the disease. Dr. year starting next July 1. a press conference yesterday. Thompson says it should be These recommendations it Predators or parasites have al­ possible to re-establish the was learned today, were ready been obtained for _ome cedars on a considerable j ordered by the White House pests, Mr. W. R. Evans, Director scale. of Agriculture, said yesterday. and Defence Department Investigation of other pests is The Agricultural Depart­ primarily because nuclear going forward. ment has a programme for experts warned that the In his report Dr. Thompson cultivating seedlings from H-bomb is well on its way to notes that in order to get satisfac­ tory results a certain definite pro­ immune trees under way, Mr. becoming frightfully reat. W. R. Evans, Director of President Eisenhower - sum­ cedure must be followed. moned an unusually large number "In the first place," be writes, Agriculture, told a press con.-* of his Government aides and ad­ "the pests must be identified witt ference yesterday. visers to today's meeting of the certainty and its life history ac­ Discussing parasites on the Council. curately determined in the area cedar tree scale (as opposed to Normally fewer than a dozen of infestation. , . predators) the report states that persons — Cabinet members and THOROUGH SURVEY the number of parasites in pro­ advisers from the armed forces "In'the second place a thorough portion to tbe number of male and other agencies — attend the survey must be made to deter­ International News Photo scales has lessened. weekly meeting. But today 26 mine whether any parasites or NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT. — President Eisenhower waves to 5,000 New England Republicans "Nevertheless," the report con­ I names were listed in addition to predators of tbe insect concerned after declaring in Boston on Monday that no sacrifice was too great to bear — including taxes tinues, "in spite of this fact tiie that of the President, who serves already exist in the area studied I— te provide a "logical and necessary defence against the most terrible Soviet weapons." At most pessimistic forecast made a as Council chairman. and these must be accurately the right of the President is the Speaker of tte House of Representatives, Mr. Joseph W. Martin few years ago, that is, that the cedars in Bermuda would be CIVIL DEFENCE • identified. When this has been Jr. and (extreme right) the U.S. Ambassador to tte U.N., Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge. At the left done tbe additional known natural totally exterminated (as hap­ International News Photo Today's National Security enemies must be introduced. is Governor Herter of Massachusetts. pened in North America with tte HOLIDAY IN FRANCE. — The British Prime Minister, Sir Council meeting was set against After a certain time has elapsed, chestnut owing to the chestnut Winston Churchill, being greeted st Nice, France, where he has a background of intensified civil another survey must be made to blight) has not been realised. defence preparations as thousands There is no doubt that tte cedars gone for a short holiday on the Mediterranean coast. On the determine whether tte insects of New York civil defence (CD) have become established, the ex- in tte western end of tte island right is the Mayor of Nice, M. Jean Medeciu. According te a workers converged on their secret Voice Concern At where tte infestation advanced Reuter despatch yesterday Sir Winston mixed freely with a large headquarters to make final plans itent to which they have spread, much more slowly than in the and tte controlling effect that Two Fishermen Rescued gathering of guests when he gave a reception for the French for tomorrow's mammoth atomic eastern end, continue in most bomb CD test hi Ihe New York they are exerting. If the control Rumours Hotel cases to decline and will prob­ Interior Minister, M. Leon Martimaud-Duplat. He had spent metropolitan area. is unsatisfactory additional intro­ ably die in many cases. the morning working on a painting of pine trees in the villa The test, which will start at ductions may be made." The Soft Brown scale, practi­ Closing Down DECLINE LESS RAPID garden. Then he launched with his daughter Mary and her 9.30 ajn. and is scheduled to last By U. S. Coast Guard "On the other hand the decline 15 minutes, will" immobilise an cally unknown in Bermuda prior husband, Mr. Christopher Soames. Sir Winston is to make an Ito 1944, has spread rapidly since *%! —_ i >ar^- - ha^ been remarkedly less rapid important speech seep after hfe return to the U.K. — to the estimated eight million New cern about rumours that tbe from the time of the initial in­ Yorkers either in their homes or the increase of citrus cultivation, St. George Hotel was closing, The U.S. Coast Guard cutter annual convention of the Conservative Party at Margate. Mr. Evans said. festation than in tte early years > in public shelters to which they I and renewed complaints about the Unimak and a Martin Mariner Has Already Set . ot tte work. Furthermore healthy will be herded if in tte open The scale is difficult to control state of the roads 1ft the town, Coast Guard plane yesterday or reasonably healthy trees of all when the sirens sound the alarm. chemically, but on tte other hand were voiced at the last meeting of rescued two Bermuda fisher- I |r\ HotPrtlVA ages exist in all parts of the Tomorrow's test, tte third of it ia not lethal. It has tte effect the Corporation of St. George's. U island. In some areas, for ex­ the city's history, end the second of leaving black soot on the leaves A report of the meeting, held on men. The fishermen Mr. WU-1 H **«««_. live ample on Paget Island and on within a year, will be the first to ef the tree. I September 23, was issued to the loughby Wright and Mr. Hawkins Island, large groups of Heat Restricts Tests For be held on a working day. "It is very difficult to get lid press yesterday. Kimball Gibbons, left Ber­ Agency Here trees in good condition still exist. Observers from Britain, ex­ of," Mr. Evans went on, "and can Arising out of discussion about muda on Tuesday for the My impression is that the new the St-George Hotel it was de­ perienced in CD problems from only be completely exterminated Mr. Charles W. Pantry, former­ growth is persisting better than five years of practice during the I when the foliage drop* off." cided to send a letter to the banks, planning to be out it did in the past." directors of tte hotel "informing overnight. ly Chief Superintendent of Police last war in oft-raided Britain, Introduction of a parasite has The explanation for the cedars World Speed Record Bid have participated in an advisory been made from California but them that the Corporation was in _ Bermuda, who recently greatly concerned as to rumours When they did not return attended the annual conference not being entirely destroyed, Dr. capacity in tte preparations for I the department, through tte Com­ Thompson thinks, rests on two the mammoth test. monwealth Institute of Biological that were circulating in respect on Wednesday evening Mrs. of the International Association to its closing" and expressing tbe Wright began to get worried for Identification is back in Ber- main factors. First, many trees! CASTEL IDRIS, Libya, Sep­ TWO A - BLASTS Control, is going further afield to tauda and last night te told are "more or less refractory" to Pakistan for otta* insects.

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