The Big Dope Fifth Column Is Spreading
(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
R
user.
New York of every 200 Junior and senior ED China's $60,000,000 high school students was a dope A year dope fifth Senator Price Dunkel, who column in the United benen
345 witnesse 153 States is achieving its investigation, objeet-drug addiction is on
the Increns,
More and T
andiet s being claimed cried, mouth. Now a committee of the 'nited States Sente wants the death penalty for} Red China's akls.... the dope peddlers,
A year ago, the Federal Narcotics Bureau reported that. despite the Com munists triplest opium pro- duction from 2,000 tons tu 6,000 futes a vrar, adetion En forbidden drugs itt Arueyden was vjeclining.
Nove, Ewelve montis 201 r. Texas Senator Prier Daniel's Narcotic
has proved the rex ret
Addiction is spreading his
leaps and bounds;
More than 150.00) adult. tras believed to be varias.
Only
dor Equat
ar
burst.
Peddlers
W-21 VOLA PEIN
who become perdiers att 11
vicious circle
More Addicts
At the end the wat in every 10,000 parvajale wan
Last year there
1.
il
recommended
altres for dope peddlers from hee years Best to the electado
Dope stugglers and dealers Coming! Intarder
This instal- ment plan * he declared
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FIFTH ROW
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1956.
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NEXT
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"All we need nose is an Anglo-Soviet football match to trigger off World War III
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BRAINS BAFFLE BULLETS..... ON TV
THE REVOLVER
L LOADED
THE BULLET 18 FIRED
REPUBLICANS
You
IN A FIX
By ALEXANDER BROAD
Washington After 20 years out of office, the Itepublicams have not been very successful ni recruiting
"O might have thought that President Eisen- hower and his administra- tors would be about happical politicians alive.
The
to
was one to every Hubs The list of known addiets. col- tains 30.000 name the it is KNOW HAR
1 14742 month.
There has been no rusi Eisenhower's Washington Thirteen percent of the
there was once to Hoosevelt's victim are boys and grade,
There are plenty of reasons. After all the pollsters Roosevelt swept into office Intent Like the dancehall, it has
bookmakers are upon a revolution, He and his spawn hanguage of it and the
were fired with in own hopbead jargon The united
believing the followers
enthusiasm They were pledged odds-on needle and the syringe are President to be un
to build F new Utopia. the "apike and dripper;" a
Favourite for next Novem- breath of heroin "amort ber (and that despite the from the farm of horse" and an underskin rumblings
bell) injection is a “jny popx"
Furthermore, They can kark on gladly at the
Many tennialan
1
break
1:
Love and girls
Once, Roosevelt had dramatist Sherwood Anderson and poet Archibald MacLeish on The government payroll,
CAUGHT IN MIS TRETM
but
FAK TAN WANAPETEN AV DAYSTY
All right, it IS a trick,
why didn't it kill the 13th victim?
By ROBERT MOORE
MAGICIAN'S
people was
London.
trick which has already killed 12
by BBC television viewers recently. A 45 revolver WAX fired at 56-year-old George Grinumond. Ami viewers "caught" firmly between his teeth.
24 lead bullet
What was the risk of Mr Grimmondi becoming the 13th victim of the "bullet catch" trick? Well, it. WELY Friday the 13th. Mr Grimmond was given No. 13 dressing-room and he was Act 13 in the 45-minute programme.
"But historical facts, more than superstition, stepped up the suspense during preparations for the night's show.
At Wood Green Empire 38 years ago Chung Ling Soo, one of the greatest exponents of the "bullet-catch,” war shot dead during his net.
His trick was to rum a bullet down the muzzle
to the pugglers, then I Spectacle of the Democrats hower perrazacking, for instance, against a specially sealed breach,
a huge after a chewing +4 As farter att proves,
another
to
That, however, is not quite the
less costly lo dop then drugs directly into their
vein with haupins or eyedropper
The vicious rirele Sure fast. The problem which is exercis- To get my
for slope they ing the Admitustration just at
111veral i Ant they sell dope un
What happens steat comunision, sometimes at school, after west won? Their teachers are drilled to watch for symptoms-yawning. zaure and watery eyes,
Even Teenagers
Most of the prisoners of the furtive street corner dope world are in Manhatten, New York, year 3.235 were arrested-victims, smugglers and Sixteen were below the age of 10, 520 were teenagers, the rest were listen
where
sellers
pobre as "twenty-one wards."
Does anyone imagine Elsen-
TS Eliot to come back to the land of his birth and erve his government? Or Tennessee Williams to shandon Broadway for a tine?
ANOTHER PROBLEM
The bullet could not be fired, but when the trigger was pulled a "blank" charge was fired in the convertexl ram-rod holder.
who Chung Ling Soo,
had paired 11 previously marked bullet, appeared to catch the bullet fired from the gun.
He was shot in the chest when the alterations to the Government was going places | gun wore loose. in the thirties The Republicans, on the other hand, arrived office with promises to reduce, That is
The Administration 13 ал the Mxt of nging zachine, Cabinet's enders are the up not extend. government. psixties--pushlag 70
One
Brownell. He
retire regardless of the outcome
NO REPLACEMENTS by the
: -
networks.
Where are the replacements to cume trom'
top.
Below
the
There
Two of the
too The
Eighty-seven percent of them used heroin Then followed In there are very few bright young order of popularity,
cocaine, men on the way
הו
brains of the
200 years old
before Chung Ling Soo was killed.
In 1810 Hindu was killed in n Dublin theatre when some- une switched pistols,
A woman helping her magielan husband was külfed in 1880 when someone forgot to change the bullets.
In the Far West a "patent medicine doctor" used the trick to sell his encuetions. A bullet from his 45 pistol put him out of business for good,
war.
of the notable exceptions is the not an idee which is likely to THE "bullet catch" was created more than 200 years Attorney General. Herbert bring the best
is planning to country flocking in.
Boll Anderson and MneLeish, In November There are things by the way, were useful: They he would rather do than sit in supplied the ideas and often the the Cabinet
words for Roosevelt's famous
to the nation "Areside chats" Fireside chals are no longer
Another performer, using soap-loaded bullets, had his jaw regular fenture of the radio blown off when the soap failed to crumble. The "bullet catch"
Elsenhower can't
a "full- has been performed in various ways. Mr Grimmond spare the talent to prepare them. time magician" from Eastbourne, developed his method before the
another problem,
And what risk docs Mr Grimmond run? In my opinion he Republican
party gets no nearer to death with his "bullet catch" than I do flelding codeine. mest hopeful. Treasury Under when it comes to articulate sup in the lips at cricket. morphine, marijuana,
Chapman Rose port, has only big business to and the poor man's "goofhall" secretary H. benzedrine.
and Defence Under-secretary draw upon. Businessmen pre- The pills and potions of these Robert Anderson, have already fer to stay home and
get on drugs caused 50 percent of New left.
with their jobs. So for as they York's crime, as it did in all
concerned, the are
less the government does the better they the cities in the United States.
For the police, it was full-Winthrop
like it. problem. One mother, bassador to Britain, and James No doubt, they are highly | cartridge. pushing her perambulator along Conant, the Ambasador to West efficient administrators, more so 2. a city street, times by dope vendors.
On the city's pavemente, a pound of heroin cost
Again, among the $75,000 to $100,000. The average stalwarts, resignations are pend- depe lend spends $10 a day on
Among the diplomat:. the
is position
much the same. Aldrich. the Am-
THE TRICK HAD WORKED
MR GRIMMOND LOADS THE GUN AT 'BULLET CATCH' REHEARSAL
THE OCEAN CANYONS MAY
YIELD STRANGE SECRETS
A
My theory
WATCHED him rehearsing. This is my theory of how he does
1. The gun is loaded and shut. hand to remove the real cartridge and subertitutes
land coust. Mr Grimmond uses sleight of
Q
By J. C. GRAHAM
Auckland, N.Z. Already a number of weird it was hauled in, it produced a unknown to small deep-water squid with NY day now there may sh previously
science have been brought to huge bulging eyes a Afth an come sensational news the surface, and still stranger large as its entire body, a of weird creatures dredged things are likely to be found as brilliant shrimp
never Been up from inky black ocean the programme continues. before, and a black whale dish, One of the major projects was the first ever caught in the off the New Zen- canyons
the construction
of a
giant Pacifle. This fish was equipped marine trap with
rows of phosphorescent spring with of trials, loaded blank After years
doar able to work at lights and comb-like rows of scientists have now learned extreme depths. With this Itiny teeth, making a fearful creature which He "paims" the real cartridge and pushes out its bullet up the secrets of how to plumb was hoped to catch glant squid mazo for any was accosted three Germany, are both close to re- certainly than many |of| (which, is eardly removable).
sized eyes and tentacles 28 foot professors 3. He uses sleight of hand again to get the bullet up into his the depths of what may be fearsome creatures with plate- ventured within reach. and geniuses. But they just mouth, ready to reveal it when the blank cartridge has been fired the world's richest store long-and other deep
NOW THEN Viewers saw Mr Grimmond load SIX cartridges house of unknown species.
monsters,
At that stagō, how-
aw ridges Mr Grimmond uses have previously hat the explosive shore of Cook Strait, (between feet when, the ship rolled, the baited with 50 hooks, the 7,380
met a Into the pistol before he fired. What would happen if by accident the wrong one was frext? Shaple. ALL the real-looking cart- For many years strange sea ever, the compaign
The party hog, also been abló The trap had crvatures washed tip on the grave setback.
boon towered to more than 2,000 to let down a herap lino
from
his share,
One New York school official thought it probable that one out
Uring ago.
Roosevelt's
younger aren't interested.
college
lng: Chorier Bohlen, Ambargado geniuses, meanwhile, are still The college profesors and the to Russin, and Clare Booth Luce, Democrats. Ambassador to Italy are both. expected to resign shortly.
JOHNNY HAZARD
OH, THOSE UTTER FOOLS!
THEY'VE ALERTED THE SPIRS, [ AND HOW....THEY'RE MAKING ANOTHER PASS TO GET ME!
WAIT...WAIT. THEN GIVE IT TO HIMS, BAI THE ENGINEI.
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powder removed.
By Frank Robbins
(COPYRIGHT)
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel
That
#
Baited Line
the two islande of New peculiar condillons somewhere nearby, and a few under the strain. years ago marine surveys dis- seconds closed the existence of glant canyons in the strait, stretching for out into Pacific.
line jumped off the running feet, believed to be the deeport
Zooland) have hinted
must exist block, and the cable snapped net line fishing ever achieved.
ocean
1
Bearing Fruit
the
In a few It took an hour to lower the year's work was lost, ling, and five hours of careful, patient winching to wind it in However, on anonymous donor each time, offered the finance to build an-
other trap. A local firm offered One of its catches was a white to cast the stockwork free, and skate four and a half feet long, with the lessons learned from the first of in type caught any
had neodle-sharp greatly improved where. It
teolli and large, translucent,
the
first
design is almost ready for an- other try.
Meanwhile, the zelentists have
green eyes.
Professor L. R. Richardson, head of the zoology department
Until now the tests have been at Victoria University, Welling- learned a great deal about the "imed chiefly at learning the bom, realised that
here best methods to use, and they technique of plumbing the ocean was the most accessible area, have had
canyons. Professor Richarleon some notable anywhere in the world to study successes.
now thinks the major problem creatures living at extreme
A mishap, when a trawl-boat is set for now discoveries, •
have been solved and the
Stage an uncharted with the knowledge gained,
when the new giant marine trop comes Late
depths. As a result the Pro- grounded on fessor prepared a campaign to underwater peak, yielded eight and expecially search the ocean canyons for the specimens of a zúro spider crab strange creatures he was sure never chught before, lived there, and now, after Another expedition managed to use, even more spectacular diada several years, the campaign is let down a cone not to greater are expected. bearing fruit,
depths than ever before, "When