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PIONEER ASTRONAUT TO BE HURLED INTO ORBIT IN SPECIAL CAPSULE
Of The FIRST US. SPACE MEN PICKED
「
Day
"X" FOR
HORROR
TN the 6m industries of!
Taritain
America,
horror pictures are making
a big comeback. The event is on the most sordid kind of thrills. Publicity men
are suggesting all kinds of stunts to get the prople in --like
Free instrare, attendant doctors, skeletons dropping from ceiling trap- doors and other kinds of shork freatment inside c cinemas, Sa far this tomfoolery has not spread to Hongkong Though
film-makers are urging our to Tullow The managers fashion for added: "realism". In the meantime borror film- are parking the people in Asin-and playing to good houses here as well.
Flight Risks No Hongkong's Young Artist...... Macmillan Bigamy On A
Greater Than
In New
Plane
Washington, Jan. 27.
The United States have started selecting the pilot for its first manned space satellite, the head of the Governmont Space Agency disclosed today. He will be picked from omong 110 candidates. Dr T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration, said the group of 110 would be narrowed down to 12 by the time America's Project Mercury is ready to launch a manned earth satellite.
Dr
next
"AL 12 of the volunteers of the candidates be asked if they over the Mer dry team will be given | will volunteer,
and flight From those who volunteer, 38 the same freight | training."
Glen, will be given for the spid "Only immediately before the step. This Kroup will be given (first inbtine orbital Might will a series of intensive physical
thir Mercury astroboat heart psychological testa.
adeptes
But before the tunta reachs thin Colony let's do some- thing about keeping the
Tas pilot will be housed in a children outside. A correa-
special pace caprule that will pondent who saw "Heriors hurted into orlat by an im-
Dracula" of
the other proved verson of the Allen, or night said that he counted | perhaps 1/2
HO ranging from eight Continental Ballistic Missile. long period." months fo 15 years at a
9.30 show. And although
Capsule
The tests will include studies the candidates' ability 10 cope with the straing of space fight and "with the environ- mental and other biomedical aspects of Wight performed un- Titan Inter-der confined conditions over a
Dr Glennan suld that by late March
tha is expected
12 voltinteers for selection of available, the 5.30 and 7.30 The Space Agency announced the Project Mercury will have shows after school may be on January 12 that McDonell been made.
This team will begin & train-
that will attracting even more. Not Aueralt Corporation of St Lou's
would design, develop and building programme only do children go their own, they are taken the mucial space capsule. The lude bota simulated and actual fight conditions that proftes- project calls for the capsule to by their parents,
sively come closer to those of make one orbit of the earth.
orbital space night.-U.P.I. and Reuter.
there
figures
Affects Few
should
Tinema
1923
Me Glenn gave there char- orteristics for the nun wire will inally be seleted to orbli the i warth, The
stup, managements
cannot keep children out
unless the censors say All they can do is advise parents against it which they are doing already, In
meantime
the
11
me the censors Temuck: "Not suitable for!
children' young
afferis, only
few sensible the children parents. If Bre given their way. 21 comment like this is likely to make the film' not less but more attractive.
And they are going to insist on seeing what they are warned not to.
★ A
university graduate
with a degree in the phy- sical sciences or in engineering.
A graduate of one of the milliary test pilot train. ing schools with at least 1.300 hours of dying me. Younger than 10 and ant five feet 11 taller than
Macmillan Wants A Spring
Summit Meet
-
New York, Jan. 27.
said Newsweek magazine
today that Mr Harold In superb condition, will
Macmillan had overruled the physical and psycho-
the Foreign Office and was Ingleat characteristics best
now "pushing hard for a suited for space Night as determined by
springtime summit meet- the aero- medical scientists who are ing.
The mazing
Mr helping NASA in Project
Fold Mamilion would Mercury.
"skip pre- "Although the fret orbital iminary low-level talk, have tight by our modern Mereury the herds of government discuss will surely be plontering ven-only the big picture and leave
Mr Glan said, "we fure,"
it to their foreign ministers to
It la not enough for the censura to add remarks to the films they review. They should follow the British determined that the risks to Ret down to brass tucks later custom of designating films the pilot wil be no greater than "X". "A"
01)."
An "X" Herd experienced during the i Newsweek said the one big
or horrar film would her flight a new high pers banned to children, while furmance airplane."
an "A" designation would indiente that
it is for
adults only and unsuitable for children,
By this method
Jenst
children would be prevent- ed from seeing the worsi and most horrific Alms even if they could not be kept from
all the un desirables. And the Police should also keep an eye on any ghoulish gimmicks our elnemaa try to import from America. Let sanity prevail in this city.
First Step
Dr Glennan emphasized that "pelcelfen of the pilot-astronaut has already begun."
ren on for the rush was that a successful serien would give his Tories a badly needed if in the coming election campaign. -Reuter,
DeMille's Will
of
Movie DeMille
"The hits step in the selec tion
com. proces-already
percening pleted--was the the records of Navy. Marine fortune and have been graduated from their service test pilot schools.
Starting early next month, Dr Glemman sald. candidates will
Los Angeles. Jan. 27.
Producer Cecli
.aft
on
Ilis Prize-Winning Painting
This is 10-year-old Leo Man-sung, joint winner of
international pointing competition for deaf children, working at one of his Chinese brush paintings in the compound of the Hong- kong School for Deaf at Diamond Hill,
His painting "A Chinese Landscape" (a bo v o) shared top prize with an English girl in the cam-
petition which was spon- sored by the magazine Modern Hearing in Lon- don.
London art experts believe young Man-sung has a great future as a point-
er.
A Chinese restaurant own- or in Britain has offered to pay for the boy's air passage to London to attend the prize-giving on February 25 at the
London headquarters of the Royal Society of Arts.
There Loo Man-sung` will collect his prizos-a medal, a cortificato, a paintbox and a cheque for £5.
He will be accompanied an his trip to London by Miss Lí Luk-wah, princi- pol of the Hongkong School for the Deaf.— Express Photos.
NUCLEAR WAR MANIAC GOES
1.
WOULD LAST
left the bulk of his believed to involve
Air Force officers who ions of dollars to his ONLY 3 DAYS
Ko to Washinigten in groups of about 30 to be given full deccription of Project Mercury, Only after these briefings will
daughter Cecilia, according to teurs et his will Med today in superior court.
The 17-page document, dated SAYS GENERAL
June 21, 1958, noted that his widow, Constance, who is 84 and in poor health, had beca adequately provided for.-U.P.I.
Savage Worker Break Out In
Riots Italy
Florence, Jan. 27.
An estimated 10,000 demonstrators swept through the city streets today touching off savage skirmishes with police, who used tear gas to quell the rock-hurtling rioters.
At least 43 civilians and ending bystanders daching for, among the arches ringing the policimon WITO falcen to safety,
square. More than 100 riotera The Communut trede unionhid among the trches throwing horgils. Thirty perons were
police. arrested and about 25 persona concelled a previous oder fer a rocks received on-the-spot firsî alt. general strike tomorrow, limit-
ON SLASHING RAMPAGE
Tokyo, Jan. 28.
A teenage girl was killed and eight other young women injured last night by a 'maniac who rode through a crowded Tokyo street and slashed away with a razor sharp instrument.
Washington, Jan. 27. General Curtis E. Lemay, Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the United States Alr The attacks occurred so oud, the streets and the man's fast. Force said today that a denly that most of the victims progress, no clearer descripilon
did not even see the attacker. of the allant was avaliable, The attacks all occurred in less G.P.I. than an hour's timp in the eastern section of this city,
14-YEAR-OLD
total nuclear war could not last for more than two or three days.
General Lemay, speaking be- fore the House of Representa- tives Armed · Forcea Com- this thut after mittee, said perlod nuclear war would leave further trace of military potential.
au
Man Stabbed By
Armed Robbers
Two
+
Dead from excessive bleeding from alashes across her chest was a 14-year-old junior high school student, Yoshiko Tanabe, who was on the street in front of her house in Arakawa ward.
Chinese, armed with Another 17-year-old was In daggers, robbed a couple of m condition with chest wrist watch and A KUM of Thereafter, he added, there critical
money, to a total valus of $55, then wounds. could be little More
Several of the others, ali in guerilin activity.
in Boundary Street, ncor thelr late. teena
early
Flower Market Road, night. Laier General Thomas Whlie, twenties, were reported TIOUS
They slabbed the male victim in the hack and The riots were starfait by 500 | But the call to metal workers. Trouble began three weeks ago US Air Force Chief-of-Staff, ly injured.
chest told the Senate Armed Forces Witnesses reported that inot
when ho put up demonstration when the Galles Optical Fic- workers who marchet through
Commelios that thu
`atruggle. ́United | asonitant, a young man about 20 the early tory, which makes precision ins the streets protending Josa vr quieted
The injured man Was Jalor their jobs. The march quieldy evening and then
broke out strumenta for the army, Iafd off States Strategic Air Command yours old and dressed as
admitted to Kowloon HouDITA), swelled into a mass demonstra again un smaller scale in the 50 of it 1,000 workers
had plans to destroy more than factory worker, did not slop in
where bie condition is silà to lion and then buret into bitter elly's ancient Republle Squareples of insufflelent orders.UI. 20,000 enemy targels in case of bicycle during his 'attacks.
war-Franco-Presse, and where police tossed gas bombs ¦ and Reuter,
Due to the semi-darkness of trufe rioting, clogging
bo satisfactory,
The
day's
down Ju
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A
The
Under
Bitter
Attack
London, Jan, 27. Labour Opposition launched bitter personal attacks on Prime Minis- ter Harold Macmillan to day for alleged fallure to help
Britain's hard- pressed cotton industry, It charged
that 400
cotton n:ls have been forced to close and one-third the operativen thrown out of Jous since the Conservatives took power eight years ago.
The attacks were delivered in the House of Commolls on the heels of a serious new threat of mass unemployment in the cot- ton industry. The threat stemmed from Judgment handed down yesterday by the
monopoly breaking restrictive pinctives court set up by par-
Grand Scale
London, Jan. 27.
A 60-year-old Salvation Army officer was sentenced to the year's Imprisonment hy a Lancaster Cour! "to- day for bigamy on a grund scale.
The defendant, George Fletcher, said he did not know exactly how many wiver he lid but remem- bered baylog married at least five women in various parts of England since the
war.
His lawyer said he was absent-minded and had rather compleated Con- Jugal life.-France-Presse.
Peking Allows
Bishop Walsh
To Get Gifts
Tokyo, Jan. 28.
liament two years ago, The The American Red Cross
court ruled that a 10-year-old price Axing ring operated by the Lancashire Yarn Splitters Association is "contrary to pub- lie interests."
will begin to deliver food parcels on Friday to Bishop James E. Walsh in China, the Red Cross announced today.
The ruling was expected to result in the closing of many Asia Red Cross Headquarters mills and Increased unemploy- hev sald agreement on the ment in the £200,000,000 a year porcels was reached in cable Industry, where unemployment negotiations between General already is more than double the Alfred M. Gruenther, American nctional average of 24 per cent Red Cross President In of the woriting force.-U.P.I. Washington, and Madame
Tch-chunn, President of Red Crom Society of China.
UNAVAILABLE
FACTORY
FIRE
A fire broke out at a footwear
LI the
Bishop Walsh is head of the Marykno Missiour in Shang- hul bust it is not known de- finitely that he is still in that city.
In the past, he had been re-
Relephone
factory at No. 33 Belcher larly reached by Street, ground floor, in Ken-from Hongkong, but in recent been "unavail- nedy Town at about 12.15 weeks he has 1.M.
today, causing damageable," heightening speculation estimated at $15,000. There he may be under house arrest
have been moved were no casualties.
Shanghul.
The
minutes. 6ix appliances were rushed to the scene,
or
field
from
fire, sold to have bren Parcels for Bishop Walsh will caused by a short circulf, was be delivered nt Bic Lowu extinguished within 10 bridge, Kowloon, by the Red
Croes
director, Jacob Ho to Hildebrand, who will Hengkong from his station at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines-UP.I.
No Evidence
The
Brindisi, Jan. 27.
A four-engined airliner of a
alr British New York, Jan, 27.
cherter company Tobacco Industry crashed here today on take-off. Research Committee said today Two of the six crew members
were killed that exponents of the theary aboard
and the that smoking causes lung cancer other four were sent to hospital, have talled to provide any according to a company spokes-
min.-U.P.I. round evidenco.-Reuter.
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