THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1957,
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ON HIS WAY: THE FIRST MAN FROM OUTER SPACE...
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TT is the story of the year. It is human and it is melodramatic. It has simplicity T
and grandeur. You can look at it, as oue man's adventure. Or you can see in it
a new milestone in the sugu of mankind.
It is a simple story. One morning in the near future two young men will go on a journey. They will travel in an aluminium cylinder attached to a plastic bag filled with helium gas. This balloon will be released and will rise for one and a half hours or more. Then, when the two man in the cylinder have passed 100,000ft and have ventured further from the earth than any other before them, they will return.
One man will return to the earth in the gondola of the balloon. The other will come back by himself,
The plan is that a young maio human being shall cast himself into space the some 20 miles above earth.
Like a meteorite he will fall through the freezing void. He will hurtle through the cloud layers and only when he is 10,000f1. above the earth will ha parachute
open.
Outward bound, he should be moderately comfortable.
The gondola of the balloon will have been cooled with day This journey from space lee so that this body-heat will may inst 10 minutes. Ten not become unbearable. He will be poftly alung in nylon, ung
by TOM POCOCK
WHO HAS DEEN PRETTY HIGH IN THE SKY HIMSELF
high-dive will 1 of cournge.
This nightmare calis for courage nord a new port
Something of the cool courage with which the trove can face a slow death.
Something of the Bantboyant minutes is a long time. If the electronic entrails of the courage that can stir the blood This man, record like a bugle call. you fre falling through malo transmitters, the
preparing for his ordeal, space 10 seconds is a tong ing apparatus, and the macraus now
that will supply him with heat needs all of these. time.
und air.
It is a long, long, long
time in space.
PERILS
70,000rt. AS he pasTES
and
he will be already deep in the first denger zone,
This human being is to risic his life for a speci- A leaves behind the world of fie purpose. Scientists want neroplanes to know if men will be able to abandon safely the aero- planes which, before long, will fly this high.
The first field research into the future problems of apacemen manning project- ed man-made satellites must begin.
Other forms of life, from apes to fruit flies, have been fired into space, riding in rockels, and they have re turned with the stories that scientific instruments tell for them.
But before men can ven- ture into this no-man's land, one man must be willing to sacrifice himself on the first patrol.
The Court
will his
R
THE
of Last
Resort steps in
QOLUNDUR, ORIO, MONDAY 1-
THE GOVERNOR OF 1830, KA WILAYAN D'YRILA, TEAT
POOTPONED A LIK DETRUTOR TEST FOR DR. BARVE, DREZTAID, BỌN
KRIVER LOPA EMPRIDONIENT FOR TER MORDER OF HIS WIFE, BUTII00,
|30 1950, LOFTIL TER COMPRESTON MATH BY A FLORIDA DURVEST,
WHO CLAIMS IN KELLAD MERA BURPTARD, CAN BE DIESQUCED,
KP POSTFUSED TUN TEST AFTER HE RECEIVED A TREMAM
· FROM KILE STANLEY QAZOMER, MIX 0,0, MYSTKIE WRITER.
New York. THE U.S. is today being he It is probable that
shaken by u
murder never be able to describe journey
Only in words.
case verdict in a way that Byron in a space-sult could tell Britain knows well from contro the Evans-Christie versy.
of this fall from the heavens.
innocent men
RN JAM HEPPARD Convited Desember 1954.
uficials--they called us meddlers end wo had no official standing. But since that first case in which we cleared a man called Car- enco Boggie, in Walla Walla, Washington, we have been get- úing stronger support.
"Sometimes even we've cop- vinced the District Attorney who prosecuted that there had been a rakcarriage of justlee.
"We can tackle only about eight cases a year. There is an exhaustive check, of course, be- fore we begin. À prisoner must have exhausted
every
legal remedy, he must have no ordin- ary legal help.
"So far da we now there is no other organisation anywhere! in the world like the Court of Last Resort. But Gardner taking a deep interest on visits to Britain in the procedure
his
of the Home Office, and maybe some day in America we will have a system like that."
'Fantastic'
on
is running into TUIE court
trouble in Columbus. Judge vinced too that
Edward Blythin, who was bad been gaated.
the Bench during the 10-week The court has seven "Judges." trial of Dr Sheppard, protested: In addition
"It's nothing short of fantastic Steeper there are: Dr Lemoyne that a group of private in- Snyder, lawyer, and expert in dividuals who have no evidenca forente medicine, Alex Gregory, 10 offer should be allowed in- one of America's foremost pay meddle with a prisoner."
alde the Ohio penitentiary graph (lle delector) examiners;
10
Gardner
and
to
He will probably be curt, and
Raymond Schindler, for 60 years But the Court of Last Resort Laconic. His predecessor in the
Right into the middle of the a noted New York private de- is not likely to be held back by halghts, a Captain Jos Kit U.S. case now steps the Court tective: Park Street, an attorney; hard words. At this height the unprotected balloon, he reached 20,000ft. private organisation that in mine agent, now a lawyer
tinger, was so when, in another of Last Resort-a remarkable Marshall Houts,
former FB.I. .It never has been. And if
of the Erlo Stanley Gardner has any human body cannot survive
June,
years has won freedom for 30 fecully of Michigan University, thing to do with it, it never will. insulation of second. If the
Wffer two and a half hours men convicted of murder. pressure, heat, and air should
at this height he was It has proved they were fait, roe Qlings will happen, floating
descend wrongfully convicted. Can
the Innocence at once blood will bell and in ordered by radio
explosion He refused. Again the order. now prove single, Ci
fooming
He replied: "Come and get me!"Dr Sam Sheppard, gaoled Apr burst the heart and brain.
were
it
No fees
of
HELPING there
But that little joke made in life for beating his wife Marilyn Lowall, newspaper reporter
ore Geno Even if this physical reaction that vast and awful place is, toda death three years ago?
not inevitable, a human me, the most convincing proof: It was
trial that held turned Investigator, and Mrs body at this height would, in a that men can accept the chal-America spellbound: And when,
Lucile Wright, assistant to matter of seconds, die from cold lenge of the occans of space.
after being out for 102 hours. Steeger. or from lack of air.
the jury found Sheppard guilty of second-degree murder, he once more calmly protested his Innocence.
Into this dead reginn a mún. is now to go. He will, of course, be encased in all the trappings of selentiile caution.
He will wear a powerful G- su to press in upon his body, simulating the pressure of the atmosphere. A pressure-light transparent dome will encase his head.
He will be electrically healed. Air-prepared to an exact
The man who is wiling recipe will be puraped into lis Jungs The pulse of life in his
to do this happens to be a heart and lungs will be electri-
American. It would be just as exciting if he was a Russian or a Briton,
eally recorded.
He will begin his 20-mile dive with the best scientific insur-
ce polley that is now possible.
It is expected that he will be
fully conscious all the way
He is a typical, intelli- gent, healthy, male human being. He will be our re- down).
It presentative in space.
is likely that he will be a Captain Henry Nieleon.
The forces that Captain Niel- con will meet during his plungo into this unknown place would, a few years Jo have regarded as insuperable,
beet
He will move faster than any man, unaided, has moved. Ho may fall at 400 miles an hour,
Then the thick air around the erurth will slow him to a steady 120 miles an hour until In- creasing pressure triggers his parachute's ripcord.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
TUBS THE SMARTEST GROOK IN TOWN. HOW'D, YOU GET HIM/ INTO THAT TRAP?
HIS WEAKNESS
FOR MASIG, HE
GOT TOO SMART,}
THEY ALL POT
I STILL CAN'T FIGURE
| OUT WHAT HAPPENED?,
THE MAGIC WENT --HAYWIRE.
POCKET CARTOON
By OSBERT LANCASTER
"But it can't be the Ameri- can sarth satellite — it's carrying no advertising!"
Reopened
Lowall, explaining the set-up. said: "There is a constand dow of appeals for help. Maybe 20 a week
from prisoners, com relatives and do-gooders.
"Many of the appeals bare-faced' attempts to get out of prison, and Mrs Wright and can I, who screen the letters,
A 23-YEAR-OLD drug addict, usually spot them right away.
Donald Wedler, has now confessed to the murder.
The case has been re-opened. And the Court of Last Resort is moving into Columbus, Ohio, where Sheppard lles in gaol,
The Court of Last Resort was conceived by the world's most popular thriller author, 68-year old Eric Stanley Gardner, creator of famed Perry Mason, adventurous lawyer.
are
"But when we are convinced an appeal is genuine we put to court members by telegram and phone calls. They decide when to step in.
a
"No fee is ever charged prisoner, no matter how expen- sive the case. Somebody inter- views the prisoner, others call on witnesses and officiais,
and ile detector testa are made,
"When we have enough new More than 80,000,000 copies of ovidence to establish our case Gardner's mystery thrilles have it in presented to the proper been sold. He can think up a authorities and they take over, new plot in 30 minutes, but it
"These poor souls wo have was years of anxiety about mis- treed had gone through every carriage of justice that went into legal trick in the book right up his greatest work, the setting up through the Appeals Court and of the Court of Last Resort.
Even to the Supreme Court, and He was holidaying in Mexico lost out. Yot we were able to in '48 when he brought his satisfy everyone they had been idea to a head and explained it imprisoned, usually for life. on to Harry Steeger, pubílsher of mistakes.
Argory Magazine. They called in "We had a lot of trouble at some friends, who were con- first getting co-operation
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