ZUM4878546: Sep. 09, 1953 -” 725 M.P.H” Says Neville Duke, After World's air speed record attempt. Neville Duke made anew attempt on the world's air speed record this afternoon, in his swept-wing Hawker Hunter jet fighter. He made four runs ever the course off the Sussex coast - then did three victory rolls over Tangmere R.A.F Station. Duke said afterwards:” my average speed was about 725 m.p.h, although the official figures may be several miles either side of that”. A speed of 723 m.p.h. was necessary for a new record / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4878729: Sep. 09, 1953 - Press Gets” Open House” on the Batory Owners of the 14,000 tons Polish Liner Bory - described by her former captain as a” ship of terror” - today invited newspapermen aboard the ship when she arrived in London - to prove that the ship has no secrets. The secretary of the company said” We have nothing to hide. Our policy has always been to hold out a hand of welcome.” Keystone Photo Shows: The new captain of the Batory - Capt. Meissner, seen addressing pressmen during today conference on board the Batory at Greenwich. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4878807: Sep. 09, 1953 - Motor Cycling Championships At Monza; Eric Oliver and Fergus Anderson, both of Britain, won the world motor cycling championships for the side-car and 350 c.c. classes after riding in the Monza Grand Prix, Italy. Oliver won the 500 c.c. side-car event and Anderson was second to Enrico Lorenzetti (Italy) in the 350 c.c race. Geoffrey Duke, also of Britain, won the 500 c.c. event on an Italian Gilera machine to establish an unbeatable points lead for the world championship / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4878880: Sep. 09, 1953 - SENATOR McCarthy GOES AFTER THE COMMUNITISTS... INVESTIGATION SUB-COMMITTEE IN SESSION... SENATOR JOSEPH McCarthy the well-known communist hunter - in New York to question men known session at the Federal Court where his investigations sub committee sat. The investigation of ABRAHAM UNGER a lawyer who was of the defence council for 11 top Reds who were convicted of violating the Smith Act, was the main business of the day - but as UNGER refused ordered a Guard to remove him from the session and said that he would file papers siting him for contempt. Unger challenged McCarthy's right to question him on his political beliefs, and did not claim the Fifth Amendment as a justification for his refusal to answer. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: DAVIS SHINE (Chief Consultant) SENATOR McCarthy, ROY COHN (Chief Counsel) and FRANK CARR in a huddle during the session. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881136: Sep. 09, 1953 - First Of 500 volunteers for medical duties with the W.R.A.F.V.R. Miss Pat Lynch: Miss Pat Lynch, aged 21, was the first of 500 volunteers required for medical duties with the Wrafvr, to control at the British Red Cross Headquarters at Grosvenor Crescent, London this morning. Reservists undergo one week's training at an R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve general service training in each of the other years / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881146: Sep. 09, 1953 - In the western zone it is the best to stage. : The former manager of the opera of west Berlin, Ernst Legal who fled some times ago to West-Germany staged in the playhouse at Dusseldorf Carl Zuckmayer's rock-dance-play 'Katherine Knee' After a six months stay in west - Germany during which he staged plays Ernst Legal yesterday went back to West-Berlin to devote himself at his home his already began work of the reorganization of the 'Hugenotten' from Meyerbeer. Our picture show from left to right: Ernst Legal, Solveig Thomas (Katherine Knee) and Ulrich Haupt (lgnaz Scheel) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885243: Oct. 10, 1953 - French and Belgian International Dancers Arrive... Complete in Costume... Les Cramignons Liegeois of Belgium and Les Dancseurs Chanteurs die Marais Vendeon of France arrived at Victoria Station this morning... They went direct to the Royal Albert Hall - Where they are taking part in the International Dance Festival. Keystone Photo Shows: Three of the young ladies from Belgium - at Victoria Station this morning. They are L-R: Gaby Davin (as 'Market Gardenerer'); Thiry Raymode ('Coal Heaver') and Heresse Marthe ('Market Gardenerer')... They all come from Leige. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885389: Oct. 10, 1953 - Huge cake in the shape of Windsor castle for Royal Society of St. George Banquet. A cake which is five feet long has been prepared for the banquet at the Savoy Hotel which is being held for the Royal Society of St. George. The cake modelled to represent Windsor Castle, will be carried in by pikemen from the Tower of London - and took four weeks to make. Viscount Montgomery will preside over the 500 diners and the food and wines will come from all parts of the Empire / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885598: Oct. 10, 1953 - The” Swiftsure” and” Diamond” arrives.: The cruiser Swiftsure and the Daring Class ship Diamond, which were involved in collision during Exercise Mariner - arrived off Sheerness today. Keystone Photo Shows: - View of the hole in the starboard side of H.M.S. Swiftsure, seen at Sheerness today. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885635: Oct. 10, 1953 - Allied ships run into heavy going: Gale winds and stormy seas made it rough going in Exercise Mariner, a test of the defenses of nine N.A.T.O. nations against a simulated Communist attack. The U.S., Britain, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Portugal contributed some 300 ships, 1,000 aircraft and a half a million men to the exercise which ranged from the Arctic to the Mediterranean and was described as the largest combined maneuvers ever had. Pictures show: H.M.S. Vanguard, flagship of admiral Sir George Creasy, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic, digs her nose into a high wave in the Denmark Strait. Bottom: Heavy seas sweep over the docks of H.M.S. Vanguard as one of her lifeboats is smashed by the gale. / Bridgeman Images