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Crime rate rises in Asia Costello appeals to
UN STUDY CITES
POVERTY AS BASIC CAUSE
United Nations, May 16. A special U.N. study said today crime has been on the increase in Asia during the last few years. It cited poverty and unemployment as
basic causes.
The study
was prepared for the second UN. congress an
prevention of elme and treat- ment of offenders, to be held in London on August 8-20.
It is the work of two experis on crime, J. W. J. Panakal of Bombay, India, and Ahmad M. W. Khalifa of the United Arab Republic.
Panukal is head of the De- partment of Criminology.
'Two-gun sister'
wants
to sue
film company
Tapel, May 16. A former Chinese women ruerilla leader in the so- Japanese war said today she planned to take legal action against à Japanese and Hongkong movie studio for depleting her as a "pirate" and a "Chinese traktor in a picture entitled "The Amazon of the East China Sea,"
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Juvenile Delinquency And Cor- rectional Administration, at the Tatu
r Institute
Social Sciences In Bombay. He focused his attention on Asia.
Khalifa, Director of the Na- tional Centre of Social And Research In Criminological Cairo, pul spechi astenon ca the Arab States and Africs,
Panakal cited statistics in different Astun countries show- the crime ng increase rate.
in
SPECTACULAR
The mast spectacular in- crease was in Bangkok, where cases jumped from criminal 42,270 in 1948 to 139,618 in 1967, or about 230 per cent. For Thailand as a whole, the increase was from 226,163 in 1948 to 433,076 in 1957, or about 92 per cent.
The Thailand official who supplied the report commented:
crime rates "While the Thailand are perhaps about among the under- averagy
and lower developed countries than those of some Far Eastern countries, its rates for both pelly and violent crimes are much higher than those for the most advanced countries.
of
Mrs Wang Pa-ntti, who fought
"This serves to further against Japanese occupation. forces in Fulien and Chakdang strengthen the notion that the provinces during the last war, basic root of crime is economic nearly broke down to tears at backwardness giving rise to a press conference this afternational poverty,
noon when she gave a lengthy account of her campaigns,
The 54-year-old WORDAN,
"Two Gun Siste known as aroused the Shiritabo Film Company of Japan of portray- ing her in its picture as a pirate the collaborated with
HONGKONG
Other figures cited included: Hongkong: An increase from 463,853 to 487,019 from 1953- 54 to 1954-55, or about 5 per cent.
the number Japan reported Japanese Navy against her own! of criminal juveniles had been
who
compatriots.
decreasing until 1950 when until again began to rise,
ib
She said the picture was showed more than 20 per cent released in Hongkong by the increase in 1958 as Shaw Brothers which
claimed with 1950.
Panekal urbanisation"
Queen Frederika, Honorary President of the Greek Girl Guides, recently officially opened the 17th World Girl Guides Congress on the Hill of Pnyx, the People's' Assembly of ancient Athens. Some 300 delegates from 44 countries are sitending the Congress led by World Chief Guide Lady Bad en-Powell and Countess Estelle Bernadotte, President of the World Guides' Committee. Picture shows Lady Baden-Powell talking to Greek Princesses Irene (left) and Sophie, boin Guide leaders, at the opening-Express Photo.
19 white women go
on hunger strike
Johannesburg, May 16.
Minister of Justice Francois Erasmus announced in Parliament in Cape Town today that 19 white women detained under the emergency regulations began a hunger strike on Satur- day.
Russians
step up jamming
He said the women were in Pretoria Central Prison and added that as there was sufi-
cient food available for them and continual medical attention nothing could happen to them.
Mr Erasmus announced that fourteen white male detainees in jail at Worcester, about 80 miles from Cape Town, had also gone jan hunger strike.
Aly Khan to be buried in Syria
Paris, May 16. Prince Aly Khan will be buried at Selenich, Syria, in accordance with the wish expressed in his will, the family announced to day.
A previous announcement had |
Prince's remains said that the would be temporarily interrel GL ht seaside chateau in Cannes pending construction of a mausoleum in the Middle East.
The burial ceremony at the chateau, which will be attended only by members of the family, compared
Washington, May 16.
OFFICER
will be held on Friday. There was in advertisement the picture
To indication when the mau- "controlled The Soviets have stepped up urged was based on the authentic
The Minister their jamming of as one means of
said the de-soleum might be ready so that U.S. story of the "Two-Gun. Sister, checking the crime increase. He
lainees had asked to see a ver- the boxty can be transferred Voice of America short tan police officer and said they for permanent burial Wang Pa-Mei.
"They have insulted me to said this would entail restriction! and control of population move- !
wave broadcasts, a VOA would cease their hunger strike The Prince was killed last such an intolerable extent that ments to urban areas, the pre- spokesman reported to if he was brought to them, week in a car accident mutside I'm going to take legal actionsvention of massing together of
immediately Paris-AP. Instructions were day. against them" she said:
population, and checking of per-
Moscow all but abandoned ks given for the afflar to see them, sonal and social disorganisation jamming of the Voice's Russian-
declared Erasmus, caused by maladjustment.
He announced that there were | language broadcasis after Pre-
94 white people and 1,813 non- S. Khrushchev mier Nikita arrived for his U.S. visit last whites detained. He told Parlin- September 15.
ment 8,454 Africans were held
Mrs Wang, who has been officially crafted to have killed more than 100 Japanese soldiers in the last war, is now an OwneȚ of a prosperous furniture shop near Talpei.-UPI.
Both experts stressed the need to raise economic and educational standards.-AP.
A British Crossword Puzzle
2
13
18
19
26
27
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ACROSS
1 Trees. (A)
5 Smart sound of the cane. (5)
8 The creature that doesn't
amount to much
scales. (5)
9 Play down to a
the
zoo animal
by the sound of it. (6)
10 In this country he would
never feel at home. (5)
11 Smile foolishly. (5)
12 Deeds of the Apostles? (4)
13 Writes catalogues? (5)
16 Agreement (6)
18 The Tast. (8)
20 General course for a singer,
(3)
22 Top dog, we heart (4)
23 Errors in the feld. (6)
25 Famous composer. (5)
26. A drink in a cup. (6)
27 Not an exclusive Invitation.
(B)
28 Rather more than a yard of
rhythm (5)
29 Real puzzle. (0)
5
6
13
114
DOWN
1 One should know it from A
to Z.,(8)
2 Do the people as a whole
make a gift? (8) They may be hard or soft, and sound fragrant, '(4) =
4 Conjecture, (7)
6 Pimpernel or runner. (7)
6 The sky. (8)
7 Exhausted--both
physically
But, the spokesman
is
Bribery alleged as appeal rejected
Washington, May 17. The US Supreme Court
Supreme Court over citizenship issue
Washington, May 16. Sicilian-born racketeer Frank Costello of New York was today granted a US. Supreme Court hearing in his attempt to overturn an order stripping him of his American citizenship.
US. District Judge Archie 0. Dawson in New York revoked Costello's citizenship on Feb- ruary 20, 1950. The US. Government charged the 69- doined his citizenship through year-old underworld figure had' fraud and misrepresentation in
1926.
fused to hear a acatis conviction appeal by Italo- American Vito Genovese in which the high tribunal was told story of attempted bribery of a major witness. Genovese has been charged with Mafia connections and old, links with America's under- world.
Genovese is serving a 15-year sentence for conspiring to bnport and distribute narcotics. Federal District Court in New York also fined him $20,000.
Counsel for Genovese in BB: pealing the Supreme Court asserted today the Government's chief witness, Nelson Silva Can- bellops, had made “a major re- cantation of the testimony he gave at the trial"
REPUDIATED
The story was that Cantellops
A
Castello was accused of con- cealing his recond as pro- bilion tra bootlegger and re- presenting that his occupation was "real estate"
Costello, was brought to the United States when four years
IN JAIL
Last of the
The
Mr
Stalinists resigns
Moscow, May 18. Soviet Finance Minister, Arsen Zveroy--the only Soviet Minister from the Stalin period still in power was to- day relieved of his duties at his own request because of Il health. Taas reported.
In recent years he has been target in numerous
fetieral drives against criminal
A decree of the Presidium of cle- the Supreme Spelet of the meats and is now in the USSR appointed Mr Vassily Alanta, Georgia, Penitentiary Garbuzov, First Finance. Vice serving a five-year sentence for Minister and evading $28,000 in federal in-Minister, to come taxes.
Counsel for pealing the
Costello
already acting replace 60-year- old Zverov, who had held his in up- post for 32 years almost with- denaturalisation out interruption. Supreme Court Mr Zvérov, in bad health for Costello had several months, has been twice actually been engaged in the decorated with the Order of Mr Garbuzov, replacing his chiến, presented the
cage to the argued that
real estate business "and the Lenin, in the presence of a priest in a Roman Catholic Church in New
Government's inquiry could York asserted major parts of his reasonably be interpreted as alling testimony for the government calling for no more than his 1960 budget to both Houses of was false. Three lawyers and a legal occupation" The appeal the Supreme Soviet in October, and will now be in notary public also were present also said the order of denatura-1958,
of and a tape recording was made. lisation rested in part upon charge of the introduction
Solicitor General J. Lee Ran-evidence tainted by wire- the new rouble, recently de- kio in a brief submitted to the tapping-AP.
cided upon-AFP, Supreme Court said the recanta- tion by Cantellops "has been repudiated as the product of duress and bribery, and the cir cumstances surrounding its pro- curement have been the subject of a grand jury inquiry" in New York—AP.
Actor seeks annulment of marriage
Santa Monica, May 16. British-born actor John Sut- ton is trying a second time to annul his marriage to the former Anita Rodney. Edon, ninth wife of play- boy Thomas Manvilje, Jr. The first action Aled on Janu- Lary 18 in Los Angeles was dis-
Reds in mass bid missed. The court held it was un-
said, under the pass system and to climb Everest
since May 5 the day Khrushchev movement control regulations had been announced the USSR
of these 5,154 had and downed an American spy plane, found guilty. A total of 987 the Soviet jammers have been had been discharged and 1,022 The aiming their radio interference sent to institutions or deported.
There were 897 cases at the Voice's Russian-language programme dealing with the pending-AP.
plane incident.
The end of Soviet jamming
last mid-September, after a de-
cade
still
of Moscow interference 203 students
with the US. broadcasts, had been hailed in Washington as further opening of the iron curtain which would give Soviets a truer picture of America-AP.
Fastest-growing car population
Singapore, May 17. This island city state has the highest birth rate in Asia. It may also have the fastest-growing car population per capita, outside Japan.
Motor car registration here, hit 59,532 last month- an in- crease of more than 1,700 cars since the first of the year.
Singapore now has a car for every 25 persons.
The Asian average, excluding car-consclous Japan, is about one vehicle for each 1,000 persons, the U.S. has at least one car for each three persons, and Great Britain pne for each 11 persons.-AP.
and financiallyr (8) Jumping frogs
14 Accents that cause tension.
(8)
15 His job is undoubtedly a
choice one. (8)
18 Planes for a diver? (7)
17 Scrap D certain favourite,
apparently, (7)
19 Roll. (6)
21 Do a marital fit (3) 24 How a tenderfoot feelg
YESTERDAY'S"""CROSSWORD~~A
~Mend~
are detained
Ban Francisco, May 18.
4 pear of South African jump: ing frogs arrived today for the Angels Camp festivities this fweekend and were held up in (4) Customs at San Francisco Inter
zational airport,
8 'Ouse, 9 File, 10 Oatmeal, 12 Swim, 15 Oriel, 18 Star, 19 A-mies,
21 Mokes, 22 8wpp, 28 Emend, 26 Tree, 28 Insight, 3D, Mielt,
31 Beau, 32 Storm, 38 Sink. Down: 1 Radar, 2 Promote, Exile,
5 Does, 6 Asti, 9 Fair, 11 Erase, 13 Whip, 14 M-as-8, 16 Lawns,
17 Smut, Skye, 20 Madists: 2 Bent. 24 26 Charm,
The frogs --- "Ding" Dars" {"Rock", "B-RA]],'! were valued at $140 by their own, Piem Foure;- Сестратать Transyand The
ment of a 71⁄2 per cent duty!
Hinnatis's of the Angela Camp dumpling fong geletaption, from May 10-22 were arrang elegance of
arrested
Johannesburg, May 16,
New York, May 16. Communist Chinese are planning a mass attempt to scale Mount Everest, Newsweek magazine re ported today.
fair to proceed without hearing Manville, heir to an asbestos
fortune.
The second was filed, today In Santa Monica,
Sutton
Eden
claims Miss Rodney- was not legally divorced. from Manville when she married the actor in 1957.
Counsel Milton Golden sald' Sutton's new petition charges that the Nevada court did not The magazine said that
have proper jurisdiction when it Chinese agents in Zurich have granted Miss Rodney-Eden a buying hundreds of divorce because the woman had portable oxygen tanks of the not established legal residence. kind used by mountaineers, and —AP. had also been seeking technical material from Swiss Alpine so- cieties,
A total of 208 African students The magazine alsa reported have been arrested in connec-in a note from Peking: "Watch tion with a fire at Tigerkloof na for Red China to grab more of tive
near India's Ladakh territory. Diplo- training college Vyrburg last year, it was an mats here report Chiese om
chals are smouldering because nounced here today.
The classrooms of the school Mr Nehru wouldn't agree to a were gutted and damage was satisfactory 'deal on the dis estimated at more than £10,000. puted areas when Chou En-isi
AFP.
was in New Delhi."-Reuber,
Picture shows the Aucer: Mulh
Shopify before she left the
rpesived
New atlas
New York, May 26. To chart the possibility of farming and mining the occans for new sources of food, fuel and minerais, the American Geographical Society here is beginning a new atlas of the North Atlantic ocean.
The half-million-dollar pro- ject will cover the North Atlantic from top to bottom and from the equator to the pole, showing the distribution and producu vity of PIRAL animals, as well As other physical and chemical oceano, graphic date. UPI
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