THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1959,
DE GAULLE FACES
ELECTION
TESTS
Paris, Feb. 24.
CAMPANELLA'S Two Parliamentary by-elections next Sunday and
SON CITED
New York, Feb. 24. The 18-year-old son of Roy Campanella, paralysed, former baseball star and Á leader in the WAT Juvenilo erime, fonight confessed that le parti-
on
cipated In a drug-store
burglary
which he stole money and cigarailes, police reported.
David Campanella was booked at a police station on the theft charge shortly after he was convicted in Children's Court of Juvenile delinquency for participating in an inter- racial street gang fight.
Children's Court Judge Wilfred A. Wallemade se quited three white boys who were involved in the Aghi and then told David he was free to Eo home with his mother,
Police took the boy In- sload to a police stallon for questioning about the February 14 barglary of a drug-store.
Li Terence Gaffney said David contested ital ho and George Delemos, a white boy, broke A plate plars door to enter the store.-U.P.I.
municipal elections the following Sunday should gauge the popularity of General Charles de Gaulle's new French Government,
In three constituencies the elections of November 30 were declared Invalid, and new elections had to take place.
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In the Alsation constituency They also come two months of Hunlogue, the result became after the austerity budget, with sub- cuts in agricultural known at the first ballot Instils Sunday.
ridica, higher prices for tobacco, wine. postage and farcs, abolition of certain veterans pensions, and a fairly shopp he in short-time as well ng In absolute unemployment--Reu-
The Popular Republic (Róman Catholle) Party candidate was again elected, this time with
higher percentage ot the tofal vrte, although the totalter. vote, as is usuni at by-elections, was much siniler than in November.
In the other Two cases. I Hoghelle In Western Erance, and Romaus in the Drome Department, the decision will be made at a second ballot next Sunday.
Tough Budget ·
The
three Clections come months after the height of the pro-Gauilist wave in November nen-Gaullist which swept the party, the Union for the New Stepublle, into first position in the new Parliament with 201
of a deputies out
total of 576,
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Earth
To Moon
In 32
Hours!
The Little Man Goes Home- After 35 Years
Seattle, Feb. 24.
A man who has spent the last 35 years in prison was put In the hands of three pretty stewardesses on Monday
on a flight to freedom, Guldo Grassi, 78-year-old triple slayer, boarded an air-
rouse
liner for London,
to his native Italy.
Grassi came to America In | 1910, almost 50 years ago, to fortune." -Instead,
Durham, N.C., Feb. 24. The chief of the Army
missile
programme de scek his
he found misfortune and spert scribed tonight a space most of his tline in America ship which could make a Walla Walla penitentiary, flight to the moon in three-and-a-half hours und the nearer planets in two days, Maf.-Gen.
Medaris, II. commander of the
Army Ordnance Misalle Command the in Alabama, discussed space ship of the future for students and
quests at the
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Duko University School off Engineering. Speaking of "education for the BEO of space," General Medarts
next said the would see years
something ather than the present chemical propulsion used. in space exploration.
Fantastic
enc
In 1923 Grassi went berserk
In ar Aberdeen, Washing- ton, hotel. Ile fatally shot two men and stabbed
an.
Docker
"Deplores" Report
other lo death, The 1m- migrant, who wtfli speaks sisite Engilsh,
found WRA insane, and sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Grussi was a "model prisoner” and In recent years spent much of his time lending the prison gardens. He nurtured the hope of spending his few remaining years with his sons in Italy, Pardon
Sir
Pipers Set New
Record
Twenty-four gally-tarlaned pipers and drummers set out from Okham one midnight this month with their eyes on the 23-mile world marching record held by an Austrailan band,
Their immediate target: holiday resort Blackpool, ta miles away. Through the night their pipes and drums were silent. by order of the aw, but with the dawn they started playing,
At 34 miles eight had drop- ped out, and were following by coach.
At Presion, after 1214 hours and 37 miles a quiet coll- ference called the rest of the march off.
recard Was Wielra
But the
YACHTSMAN HONOURED
London, Feb. 24. Bernard Docker, the British Industrialist, is- sued a statement here to- night "deploring" reports from Australia which he *said suggested that his Shemara luxury
yacht was in trouble during ajof the Duke of Edinburgh, was one of more than 170 men and recent Pacific cyclone.
women at a Buckingham Palace investiture today.
He stdd that he and Tudy Docker had heard from the cap
in of the Shonaro that
the
On February 5, Gov. Albert j Rosellini granted the aged man a pardon which culminated several months of efforts by Seattle Attorney Al Blanchi and others who wanted Grass to yacht was in no peril see his dream realized. As a Sir Bernard added: "We des "The most Tantaalle of the con-
ceivable propulsion Bysteme necessary step in the pardon,plore the publication by the Was found some lost Press of a story of this nature and the only
beyond Grassi
mutuinn and sentenced to hang without complete verification of presently-known techniques
Gov. Rosellini commuted the the facts luvolves the production thrust by
senturice and the pardon was the emisston of
charges The Shemara, chartered by after photona, that
by the granted is,
In the 1923 slayings former French film star Josette brought emission of light energy." he
were dropped.
wealthy Belgian Day and her nald.
It would be hard to pleture husband, M. Maurice Solday, the man who left Seattle as a salicd Into Bowen harbour, slayer. Grass is a bald, little Queensland inst Wednesday.
of
To illustrate what such a aystem could do in space exploration, General Medaris nald; "A photon-powered
new
eyes.
man with deep sunken space ship
He is also a bewildered man, should reach the moon in three-and-a-half hours.
for the world is far different the
today than when he last was 1wo days planets in and would require only
a free man. three-and-a-half tons of fact) for the long journey."-U.P.L.
nearer
Mix-Up
Miami, Feb. 24. The Sheriff's Department here has a good reason for not crack- ing down on drivers with 1053) licence plates, which expired last Friday.
He will be met in Rome today by one of his Kons, and will journey to the province of Lucca to live with his family.
He can never return to this country except by special per- mission of the Attorney Gen- cral, a condition of his pardon.
Grasal returns to Italy An old man, viriually penniless, and.no longer able to earn the fartune họ nét anh là
Because of the uns menyerang home, the department's own cars still But he is going haven't received 1059 plates. living in the shadow of
UP.I.
gallows.-U.P.I.
Nightmare
Miss Day reported then that the yacht, which left Cannes last December on a world cruise, had been bat- tered by waves and 110-mile- an-hour winds in a "night- mare" four days.
She added that the yacht escaped Injury and no one aboard was hurt.
The previous day, it was re-
from Brisbane that after | ping off the Australian cost the coast had been alerted to look
for the Shemara-Reuter.
Maria Visits A Rival
London, Feb. 24. Mr Ufa Fox, sailing champion
Gaol Terms Increased For Makarios Slogans
Limassol, Feb. 24.
an additional Four Cypriots were todny sentenced to
three months' gaol each when they began shouting “Long live Makarios, Dighenis and Eoka" from the dock after being given prison terms for rioting.
Mr Nathaniel Cohen, special cour: judge, had just sentenced four men and 10 women to pri- son terms totalling 120 months for taking part in à riot and un- lawful assembly at Agridhla village, southwest Cyprus, last month.
On hearing the sentences, the four men stood up and shouted the slogans.
Judge Cohen ordered: "Give them more prison, Give them another three months each." The women in the dock then rose and all prisoners began sing the Greek national anthem, Finos
In addition to their gaol sen- tences the 14 Cypriots were fined a total of £283 sterling or alternative Imprisonment total- ling 33 months.
The sentences range from six months for the women to 15 months for the men.
With the added three months given to the men their sen- tences will exceed the period of British rule in Cyprus which is due to end next February at this latest, according to the de- tails of the Cyprus agreement announced JOAL night-China Mail Special,
MOTORWAY RE-OPENED
London, Feb. 24. The Preston motorway, Bri- tain's first super highway, was re-opened to traffic today after bring closed for five weeks for repairs.
The eight-mile length of road, which cost £4-million sterling,
"I am very pleased to give you this for services.to yachting,' had to be shut seven weeks after Queen Elizabeth told Mr Fox, it was opened on December Investing him with the insignia because severe cold had damaged of a Commander of the Order of the surface. the British Empire (CDE). China Mall Special.
Park TV
London, Feb. 24. The newspaper "The Star sald today the London County Council would be asked on Friday to consider placing 27- inch [elevision sets in city parks as "The only way to get people out into the open air."-U.P.I.
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Several thousand "polinds fina the been spent on repairs to surface after erecks, ridges and bubbles appeared in it.---Chinn Mail Special.
Returning Soon
Stole
$100,000
Antiques For Pleasure
Easthampton, N.Y.,
Feb. 24. Edward D. Young, 36, picked up by police in the unoccupied summer man- sion of. Pan American World Airways' President Juan Trippe, confessed last night that he stole an. estimated $100,000 worth of antiques for pleasure, not profit.
Police chick Francis Leddy and patrolman Earl Derdelman spotted Young's station wagon parked in the rala in front of Trippe's
reakdxx MATTHEW yesterday.
Knowing that the estate was undecupled the officers inves tigated and captured Young da he tried to escape through n window.
Police said that
Young last to stealing night confessed antiques from 15 palatiol Youth shere homes over a two-year period.
Young mid ha .look. the antiques for his own plejepro and never sold any of them.
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Rainy Days
He also told polles he burgled on rainy days because he had read in à detective story. that rain washed away tyre tracks.
The
stolen antiques were found in the former homer of the acting Secretary, of State, Christian Herter, where Young bad been living with the estate's present owner, Filipino artist Alfonso A. Ossetic,
Young Waa charged with
larceny.-
London, Feb. 24. Mr Adnan Menderes, the Turkish Prime Minister, hopes to dy back home within a day (burglary and grand
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