THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961
Fare
Should U.S. press ignore K? Daughter starts
Tanker explodes: PUBLIC URGE SILENT
three killed
Rome, Sept. 13. An Italian tänker exploded Liv Venice Harbour today RITUng three people. Thirteen others reported dead by police were rescued from the sea by a passing ship.
The dead were the Caplan of the 1,537-ton tanker Rosa Pellegrino, the Chur engineer, and the chief engineer's wife.
The tanker exploded as it was docking. It brought a cargo of Kasoline and of trom the southern Itálian port of Bari.
Four survivors and the bodies of two men who had drowned were found as Aremen battled agninst the fire that raged on the ship:---AP.
New York.
Americans responded to charity appeals for health funds by giving more than $1 billion last year--UPI
TREATMENT BUT
EDITORS ARE
AGAINST
THE IDEA
New York, Sept. 13.
Should the American press ignore Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his expected pro- paganda fireworks when he appears at the United Nations General Assembly?
Letters, mostly from women and bearing some evidence of an organised movement, have been pouring into newspapers, maga- zincs,
television
and radio
stations asking that Khrushchev be given the silent treatment while he is at the U.N. He will arrive in New York on Monday for the General Assembly session which starts the next day.
Newspapers queried by Editor And Publisher, the Journalism trade magazine, don't think
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10 Mr. Crawley, I presume. (5)
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the Army, perhaps.
4 Sitting in court. (7)
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Beater of Midlothian? (5)
much of the idea. But some urge restraint in coverage of his propagande activities.
" am writing to ask you not to give Khrushchev any publicity white he is here in this country," said Mrs Ruth Chapman, of Albany, Now York, In
Jelter 10 the Associated Press, "He has in- sulted our President and count= try before the world and we know he comes here for a sinis ter purpose."
Former President Harry S. Truman agrees with Mrs Chap-
man,
"It would be best if he word completely. ignored (but there Is no way you can do it when the pubilsbers are in the frame of mind they now are," Truman Fald in an interview, He mug gested newspapers should report Khrushchev's notions but "don't give him glaring headlines."
PROPAGANDA
The Christian Science Moni- that all tor urged editorially news media refrain from lend- ing themselves to Khrushchev's propaganda during his U.N. visit, The international daily newspaper said;
"We shall refuse to give the Communist chlet the free ad- vertising he socks.. his official statopants will be reported.... we shall cover the news but try our best to avold propaganda.” Editor and Publisher got these responses on the subject?
Turner Catledge, New York Times, President ot the American Society of News- paper Editors"The primary obligation of the American press is to print the news. Mr Khrushchev's visit to the United Nations will, in our opinion, be important news. The New York Times will re- port to the ability."
best of its
Michael J. Ogden, Providence, R.1., Journal and Bulletin- "Ridiculous."
In the above picture taken early this your David Pratt is shown with his wife (left) and her sister. They were on holiday, in Austria at the time. - Express Photo.
Pratt: 'I shot
at
the
drive to free jailed father
Elizabeth, NJ, Sept. 13,
Mrs Emily Let Wong, daughter of magazine pub- lisher Lei Chen, has started a cdmpaign in America to win support for the release of her father, jailed in Formosa on sedition charges. Mrs Wong has already taken is not if the former is to survive her ples for add to the U.S. In a struggle with the latter." State Department
Mrs Won sald 'she has re- a number of telephone plan to seek the ald of people | ceived throughout the United States. calls and telegrams offering
nnd
now
Lei, mablisher of the mugn-help. She pinne to seek the sup zine Free China in Taipel, and part of her fellow workers and
others throughout the nation. three of his staff were arrested "They are taxpayers," she earlier this month. They could said, and the should protest be given the death penalty.
SUPPORT
monster of apartheid' ___--_--_--_--
Court orders observation
Pretoria, Sept. 13.
David Beresford Pratt, charged with attempting to murder the Sonth African Prime Minister, said to day when he opened fire he was "shooting at the monster of apartheid, which was gripping the throat
of South Africa,”
Praft was ordered to a men- tal Institution for 14 days observation by the Court.
The Supreme Court made the order on the second day of the trial after hearing a psychiatrist say in evidence that Pratt was unable to plead.
Prat made a long statement on oath, lelling the court about his Wife and his fits of epilepay and of the "immense
into my pocket. I certainly did not have any fixed intention of shooting the Prime Minister.
"From then onwards you have heard everything described.
Pratt said: "South Africa has got to come out of her wilder- She has great and Jess glorious future waiting for her as long no she observes the base laws of God and human beings which in the words of Mr Mac milian is rule by merit and noi by pigment of skin,
"South Africa has to throw of the silmy shake of apartheid
grasping Ita
throat which is Secondly, she had to Alap her policy of world isolation.
COMMITTED
Under cross-examination: Pro!, Hurst said although he examin- ed Pratt live moths ago he still thought he was certificable to day.
The court had heard evidence portler from another paychla trist, Dr B. Chester, that he had signed a certificate in which he said Pratt was "extremely dis- oriented and has acted in 3 dangerously
mon-
aggressive feeling
of reller" he felt after shooting Dr Hendrik Verwoerd at farm show last April.
VIOLENT URGE
At the time of the shooting he had felt a violent urge to apartheid, the sinking apartheld which
throat
shoot
inster
was gripping the
od After Pratt's statement the South Africa and preventing judge committed him to West South Africa from schleving is Koppies mental institution for 14 days, adding that a report sightful place among nations.
"But I did not associate that should be made to him "after stich observation by the physi- with the Prime Ministèr."
clan superintendent of the in- stitution."
Pratt said he only wanted to main the Prime Minister to "give him an opportunity to re- consider some of the things that were going on....if it had been my intention to kill him I could have:"
Pratt made his statement after evidence into his mental state had been concluded.
me, my
Pratt began by saying: "TO abnormalities do not represent insanity. There is n Felix McKnight, Dallas, Texas, pattern in everything that has Times Herald "The suggestion taken place."
that Mr K bé given the client
He described how a "pense
Ife then adjourned the hear ing until September 20.
Earlier Professor La A Harst, professor of psychologi cal medicine at Witwatersrand University and chler psychiatrist at Johannesburg Hospital, said Pratt had grandoise delusions and his intention to maim the Prime Minister "was formed int association with a mental disor- der of a megalomaniac de- lusional type." He said Pratt told him that in the past he had
Prof. Hurst also said that
14 Studios In Paris, pertinpa. (8) treatment by the American press of mission to give South Africa felt-like-a-prophet-in-the-Bible.
15 Reaps rich rewards? (8)
19 Did one's best to compensate.
smacks of Russia, It sounds like something they might do if 4 particular message! rose to a 10 Papal Chapel. (7)
The re- high degree. 17-Suitable quarry for grey-Ike went to Moscow.
sponsibility of the American "I had a personal guilt fa hound pups? (7)
newspaper is to report news my mind. Everything was go and K's visit to the U.N. will be ng wrong in South Africa not given Phim news. In reporting his visit the because I had American press will be perform-message as I wag meant to Ing its traditional service. The db." American reader can winnow out i the propaganda."
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forecast? 21 Cop. (5)
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peared with Boadicea. (5)
20 Browna off? (6)
27 Put up with no longer. (5)
28 Young swordsman? (5)
29 Loses that relaxed
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feeling.
24 Hop on a bus? (4)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Wrop, 7 Defoe, 8 A-bed, 9 (h) Alry, 10 Sniping, 12 Song, 15 Arena, 18 P-ruw, 19 Locus, 21 Siren, 22 Idle, 23 Yodel, 23 Alps, 29 Moronie, 30 Heel, 31 Solo, 32 Metal, 33 Puss. Down; Penny, 2 Compare, 4 (sov)Reign(ty), 6 Pays, 6 Bean, 9 A new, 11 irony, 13 On-C-e. 14 Gush, 10 Alder, 17 Asia, 18 Prop, 20 All-owed, 22 Idol, 24 Omuns, 28 Vital 27 Lion, 28 Shop.
FLY NOW PAY LATER
HORRIFIED
Pratt said that on his return
Alan J. Gould, Executive from Europe early this year he Editor the Associated
Press was "horried at the disintegro-
Pratt had told him that in 1954 be had heard organ music in- side his head, which lasted for Pratt had taken several days. up plano playing intensely in the hope of recapturing for humanity the melodies he had heard,
As his experiences developed, Pralt reached a sloge at which he felt disembodied."
Later he had been taken to a
he
said: "It is obviously absurd tion that had taken place dur-mental hospital, but, became to suggest that news about the ing the period I was away." violent and smashed windows. Soviet premier's visit to the In March the "position
Platt was Then
sald
bad United Nations assembly bo tense and acuse to a fantastic descended into "Miltonian hell ignored or suppressed in any degree.
the emergency complete with fires, prongs and way.. The AP will report his regulations were passed and howls of anguish." activities in this country, ns felt what is left to stop the
He would come out of that elsewhere, objectively and to the bottle bursting?
stage into one where he thought fullest degree that it adjudged "When I went to the show- of the world as a kind of play newsworthy."--AP,
grounds I slipped a revolver and everybody acting.
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against the use of more than a billion dollars in United States' money in the past to support a
enlist
Mrs Wong, who has been a dictatorial government." America about 10 years and will The Wong also will become a citizen in a few the aid of U.S. Senator Chifford months, went to Washington P. Case from the state of New last week and immediately rJersey, and Florence P. Dwyer, ceived the support of Mr a' representative in Congress Charles O. Porter, a Democra from the Elizabeth area,—AP. tle representative in Congress. {from, ito' state of Oregon.
the US. Secretary of State Mr Herter, to protest against the arrest of Let, leader of the new-
Mr. Porter said he had urged
China
ly-organised opposition Democratic Party in Formosa. Mr Herter is expected to reply to Mr Porter's letter in a few days.
Mrs Wong, accompanied by Mr. Porter, went to the State Department where she directed her plea to Mr Edwin Martin, Director of the Department, of Chinese Affairs. Mr Porter met Let on a visit to several years ago.
Formost
FUTILE APPEAL
Mrs Wong maid an appeal to the Nationalist Chinese Embassy In Washington was futile,
U.S. missile
goes out of control
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Cape Canaveral, Sept. 13. A Polaris ballistic missile fired from a nuclear sub- marine cruising beneath the Atlantic Ocean today veered out of control and plunged back into the water.
Dr Chesler said he had
various treated Pratt on casions from 1894 to 1958. He
periods of deep de Mrs Wong la employed by suffered pression and suicidal trends
Merck & Company, pharmaceu- The USS Patrick Henry became apparent.
tical manufacturers, in Rahway. [launched the bottle-shaped He added that he had Her husband, W. Hung Wong, a rocket from more than 50 feet warned Pratt's relatives of the construction engineering project below the occan's surface, It deterioration in his condition, co-ordinator, came to the US. 10 was the Patrick Henry's debut but they did not take his ad years ago and is a U.S. eltizen, as America's second Polaris. vice. He had
Shortly Before Le's arrest, firing submarine,
But the Koimintang Párty cited
split-second Pratt to seek treatment another psychiatrist,—Reuter.
several articles in his magazine breaking through the ocean's which they claimed wore "near surface, the 28-foot missile be ly preaching open rebellion." gan spiraling out of control.
Mrs Wong says her father is not a Communist and is not trying to overthrow Chiang
then
udvised
miners killed
from
Istanbul, Sopt. 13. Six mincts were, Billed today in a mina solapse In the Zonguldak ETTA QI north Turkey, according to reports reaching hero to- night.
Another miner rescued.--Reufør.
"He only believes that there should be come kind of op position party and nobody else ever dared to speak up. she said,
BROKE APART
after
It was driven horizontally across the water for about 2,000 yards before plunging. As thạ rocket hit the water. It appeared to break apart and one section flew off for about 3,000 yards,
Bank fri the The wreckage Ocean between the USS Obser- vation Island, a laboratory ship, said her father and à cruiser sent along with Mrs Wong feels that" non-Communist | the Patrick Henry for the test. government must be exactly The navy said officially that "a what a Communist government malfunction" occurred.--UPI.
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