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DESCRIPTION OF THE HISTORIC FLIGHT
1. THE CHINA / MAIL. | TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1961.
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Moscow prepares to welcome spaceman
Moscow, Aug. 7.
Moscow is preparing its greatest-ever welcome for the new spaEE hero, red-haired Major Gherman Stepanovich Titer, whe landed safely today after spinning 17 times round the globe in 25 hours a journey as far as the moon and back.
"Hero comes the bus carry-
the spaceman," Ing
Titov
Mr Khrushchev promised him "On the morning of August | over the telephone: "We wil6, the sun, burning hot over meet you with the entire coun- the steppes. Ut up the silver try" and declared: "This is a spaceship, the cosmodromą, and happy time for the whole of the flowers growing beside the mankind."
pavement. Major Yuri Gagarin, the space pioneer, has hurried home from Canada tu greet Major Titov, who is expected here (a- morrow or Wednesday. Besides a huge airport welcome there will probably be a Red Square rally, a Kremlin reception and on International press confer- ence, for the man who made the most amazing day trip In his tory.
The 26-year-old cosmonaut, who is small in stature and looks younger than his years, sald be "tell splendid," is under- going detailed medical tests for the effects of weightlessness end radiation.
scene from launched.
The scone A Tase Soviet news agency special correspondent, Aleksandr Romanov, today described the the "cosmodrome" at which Vostok II was He wrote, "It is hot, our car devours kilometre after kilo metre of the road. Suddenly at a turn, En the distance there kind of filigree looms up a construction.
Tremendous girders careful- ly but Armly cradle it, as tr afraid that it may break loose into the sky without the per- mission of its creators. This is the launching pad.
rocket. propelled by samo' nn- believable” “miraculous" force, slowly —' || trems very slowly
leaves the earth.
Fiery glabe
"Gathering force, it streaka alights. crosses to the launch-more and more quickly upwards, ing ares and the lifi takes bin - like a "koaring" fèry globƐ,
up to his cabin. He is wear- log an orange-coloured flying auil with *USSE' written on it, And
walks rather' '' clumsily. The flying sult, of course, le not for strolling on earth. "Under the suit are various transmitters, which will send back Information about pilot's physical condition.
the
"Having said goodbye to hìn friends future commonauts-- Tilov walks to the Gherman
H. His eyes shine with joy, his broad amille does not leave his face
"We see Titov enter the cabin. The command take on will be given shortly.
To observe the spaceship
to take-off we go a special square about a mile from the launching place, but we are not cut off from what is happening on the
spaceship. The radio brings the Anal .commnazada,
Five minutes to go...and at inst, in the silence, rings out the last command, "Take-off!
"From a distance we can see the
silvery rocket, already completely free from the sup- porting gaalsy. Another second exactly 09.00- and the
FATHER, SON
INDICTED
IN TEXAS FOR
TRYING TO SEIZE PLANE
Washington, Aug. 7.
"Ats comparatively low height the actship" inclloes to the side and tiles on its set course inte orbis." The radio transmita Mlov's first words to earth
am from a co—'I trävelling över the earth, over- our native land."
After a few minutes there. is another prayer tho akip Is travelling smoothly, smoothly." His deep baritone is as audible
If ko werp here, not far from is, though many "mlige stready separate him from the Jaunching pad. Once again the voice of 'Gherman Titov: *All the best," comrades, ŢU we nieet again soon."
Major Titov, like his fore- runner Gagarin, cómo back to earth in a feld, Pravda closed tonight.
A
dik-
"Suddenly in the sky ap- penzu
ship of strange shape." a special correspon- dent of the Communist news-
paper said: "It comes down lower and people run to it, harrylor to see and to ment the man from cosmos.” "We embrace our dear fellow- countryman. He is a little bit agitated and looks at us with his clear shining eyes.” ***What did he see while flying planets? "I dis- round the tinctly saw seas, forests and the vast flelds of our dear home land."
He went to a nearby house to telephone Mr Khrushchev and the INFOLT said, a crowd of thousands gathered round the house shouting: "Titov, Titov." The correspondent said a big basin was put before him and cool water poured an his hands.
VIFE KILLED IMMEDIATELY
German church leader badly
hurt in
crash
Aabenra, Aug: 7:
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KAOHSIUNG PARALYSED BY TYPHOON'S FLOODS
Taipol, Aug. 7. Bainstorms from Typhoon June caused floods in southern Formosa, claimet possibly more than 20 lives and left thousands of persons homeless.
Pastor Martin Niempeller, German, Evangelical Big industrial
Church leader, was seriously injured in a car Accident in south Denmark today.
Dr Martin Nicmoeller
United States
to step up
His wife, Marin Elizabeth, 71, was killed immediately, as his car suddenly span across a rond and hit a tree at the ropdolđe.
Another German woman, Mrs Dorothea Schule, of Wiesbanden, died after reaching hospital.
Doctors refused to comment on Nipmoeller's condition, but uneimmied reports laid it was "extremely critical".
Jailed
Niamoeller was jailed by the Nails (or eight years" and was not released until 1945.
racket
exposed in Hungary
Budapest, Aug. 7.
A number of factory execu-
tives have been jailed for:
Оле ретвоп was known have been drowned. Twenty others were listed as missing. feared deed,
Hardest hit was the bustling port of Kaohsiung on the For- mosa Straits, second largest elty in Formosa in the southern) terminal of the aland's rol trunk line.
Rain
Police headquarters sald 21.6 inches of rain fell in Kaohsiung today flooding the entire city. The At (Love) River, which Bows through Kaohsiung to the Formosa Straits, overflowed its banks.
Some low-lying areas' of 'the
periods ranging from 15 city were flooded to a depth of 10 feel. All traffic within the ⚫ years to 12 months in the city was stopped.
biggest industrial racker, raveled in the 13 years of Hungary's Communist rule.
TSHOMBE
SHOWS
GOODWILL
Elisabethvillo, Aug: 7. President Molsa Tshamba of Katanga emphasised today that his decision sand representatives the Congo National Parliament in Leopold-
to
to
MEGA ho
villo did not All shops, factories and other establishments
were closed,
water The city's dornaged.
plant was
from his
would budge independence stand.
Palice sold the cause of the necadent
'hot'? been established ykk Onc police Source wald Niemoeller, who was at the wheel, may have Naplo sald today that the 15- The newspaper Hodju-Bihar!
The 11 Katanga Deputies and Allogether 14,503 fallen sick and lost control of
persoas Senators, duo to arrive in the car, which was wrocked.
strong group embezzled a total were listed as homeless.
Leopoldville
today uf 1,937,000 forints ($181,417 Rail and highway communica- travelling in a United Nations Niemodler, 69, is President i at · the official rate) over
tions with Kaohsiung were cut planc wlih a-written UN of the Evangellent Church of period of years from Jusag uff, even the road linking the guarantee that they would re- Hossa and Nassou. He and his Washing Machine Works in port with the adjoining Chinese Nationalist Naval base at family here reparted en route East Hungary. to a holiday in Scandinavia,
was rendered in-
Some sources said he suffered various injuries in the crash, and has lost a great deal of blood. They said he might not survive
space efforts Ivory Coast
Washington, Aug. 7.
Congress today gave Presi
dent Konnady $1,700,- 000,000 to stop up America's space efforts, including
a start on effort to boat Russia in landing a man on tho
moon.
dn
The request was part of compromise $8,962,850,000 In- dependent Offices Money Bill, The measure cleared both House and Senate by volee votes. The total was $208 million under the budget request,
CUT DOWN
celebrates
independence
The wide-ranging indictment | Toying Included fraud embezzlement, passable. criminal negligence, receiving, accepting and offering bribes, in the Kaohsiung area
More than 5,000 acres of crops illegal price
raising, forgery ruined. and blackmail.
Major sentences were handed
WETO
turn safely.
were
President Tshombe told 1 conference that the representa- tives were being sent to show the whole world our goodwill.” He added that Kalanga "will never give up its acquired gained during its in- Typhoon June, the cause of rights" down to Geza Varga, factory it all, blew itself out off the dependence of just over a year, manager, 35
Imre | south-east coast years,
of Formosa
The decision to send repre- Alfoldi, head of a department after degenerating into a tropl-sentatives of the, Katanga Gay- 13 years and Barnabas Szucs, cul storm.
crament to Leopoldville, Arst head accountant, 11 years.
The Kaohsiung city govern- announced yesterday, reverses ment ANOTHER TRIAL
proclaimed 'a state of Katanga's decision to boycott theatres the Central Parliament unless its The newspaper said all the and other buildings were com- silings were, preceded by
emergency. Schools, accused will be tried again in a mandeered to house the home summit meeting of Congolese civil action to determine less.
whether they will refund the
money to the state.
The paper added that their
tamilies will also have to suffer,
Timber
An estimated US$25,000 worth
waters..
This presumably meant that of Umber was carried away from their property. will be con- yard in Kaohsiung by flood Ascated.
The paper, disclosed, that most Nationalist troops, including of the money made by the 15 frogmen,
mobilised for resulted from illegal sale of state rescue, and relict work. property.
were
leaders-Reuter.,
'Miss Perfect girl can't be found
London:
Life was hectic for the chemist
Abidjan, Aug. 7. The Ivory Coast celebrated its first Independence Day today with the big-
It said, however, that they More than 500 out of who advertised for a £1,000-a- gost, most
colourful pocketed 130,000 forints ($10 Kaohsiung's 10,000 telephones year. "Mies. Perfect" shop asale parade in the history of 000) on the side by withhold wire put out of comraission tant. The phone never stopped
ing prize money the capital.
payable to Two amail. factories there ringing. Letters poured in, workers who had put forward coilapeod,
But five months after adver- tising, Mr George Thomas, ot Among the distinguished new ideas.
When they did hand out; Menwhile, more than 1,800 Farnham, Surrey, said: "I've House and Senate conferees guests surrounding
prize money, Hadju-Bihari | persons were left homeless in given up the search. Instead Aaked how he had felt alone trimmed $77,258,000 from the Felix Houphouet-Boigny in the Naplo said, I'mostly went
near-by Pingture `-area- I'll probably get a manager,"S extra $549 million requested by stand of honour were Robert their mistresses, to thehus-AP.
London Express · Service," Kennedy, US. Attorney bands of their mistresses to Kennedy to accelerate the space said: "I was not lonely. My
pect General, French Prime Minister hush up any scandals, or to programme and try to Aight was followed by Khrish-Russia to the moon. But space (Michol Debre; William Tubman, others
too, much chev, by all the Soviet people.
President of neighbouring about their activities. leoficials indicated this would not Liberia, and Karim Aga Khan "I had good links with
'PRAISED' earth....I heard radio
At dawn the African popula Ministry of Heavy Industries The newspaper criticised the casts from my native land, Soviet music?-Router.
Leon Bearden, 38, and his 16-year-old son Cody
were indicted in El Paso, Texas, today for the up there in the cosmos, piracy of a Boeing 707 Airliner last week.
and
They were said to have seized | the end of a nine-hour siege on the plune at gunpoint
an airport runway there, ordered the pilot to dy them to Cuba,
added were charged They transporting the stolen aircraft over state lines, and kidnapping the 87 passengers and six crew. The Justice Department here announced against the Beardens, who have (0,042) in fines for the father been held in custody In the and $25,000 (£6,900) for tho Texas town since their arrest at son Reuter.
The Justice Department said that an El Paso Grand Jury had
mother with
count, ot kidnap- conspiracy to commit ping.
Maximum penalties on these charges total life imprisonment
ав much Indictment; and
$27,060
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It said that the accountant, had in fact been praised by the Ministry for "good work."
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steet the mooñi programme.
'The action came amid some
demands for congressional further speed-up in the US, programme in view of Russia's streets and squares of Abidjan for fating to realise what was
on both sides of Houphouet going on at the factory. Puccess in hurling a second
Boigny Bridge, which crosses a cosmonaut Into orbit.
But other lawmakers said the pro-channel dividing the city.
They packed the sidewalks as In a remarkable editorial .an gram.me was moving as fast as possible. UPI.
a double line of honour guards the case, the newspaper blamed with drawn sabres, In the lay downfall of the 15 On traditional dress uniform of capitalist thinking," which it the colourful Republican Guard sald
still in "In some of Paris, saluted the arrival of people's minds here. the foreign dignitaries. Among "Exploitation is a crime in a them were heads other socialist society but in capitalism African siates which have - it is the very basis of society,"
Indepeh- the
·and newspaper declared dence.
President Houphouet-Boligny, "In a capitalist society the before mounting the stand, reacts which have been brought viewed lines of troops from a to ghr m the course of the escorted by month-long frial night havo command car formally
motorcycle boer classed in some respects as riders-AP.
virtucs.”—AP.
mixed marriage Open verdict
Capetown, Aug. 7.
London.
A special committee of the An open verdict was recorded
Methodist Church
in at the inquest on Miss Wilhelcently gained their South Africa sald today mina Trebesiner, aged 54, found It did not believe there Bed In her Mayfair model hat were theological grounds shop, where she traded as Miss 'for forbidding mixed
It was stated that she worried about an unhappy love affair London Express Service.
marriage. "Enter-racial marriages, pro- videa they are founded on common cultural attainments nat and spiritual ideals, are contrary to the law of God, and the law of man should not pro- hibit them," I said.
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SOBLEN GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE
New York, Aug. 7.
Dr Robert Soblen, convicted Soylet spy, was sentenced to life imprisonment today
by Federal Judge William §. Hørlande,
seriously-
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Soblen' has beer' riven less than one year to live by exa- mining doctors, who raid he is suffering From an advanced case of lymphatic leukemia;
the Methodist Conference. made the statement in a pub-
iication issued today entitled The
Sobien Chasin, threw her arms about Christian Convictions about a groaned aloud at the sentence her and shouted, "Don't Don't!" Multi-Racial Society."
and collapsed in the arms of as spectators about them rose and waiked, rapidly to the *We do not, however, two Deputy U.S. Marchala
aisles. advocate general ricio) admix- At the same time, his sister,
Fifty feet away, in a corner turb. Belleving that neither Mrs Anga Chuain, ecsted in the inside the railing, Boblan's wife, "The matter of the defen- European nor African desire spectators section, threw her Ding, wept and hid her face in dani's hoolth has received the nixed marriages,” the report hands above her head and a handkerchief, Bobbing uncon- court's close consideration be said. "The
fore, during and after the trial," essential founda-sercomed: "Oh, my God! O trollably, she was assisted to tions for a muccessful marriage my God Help me. Help, me" corridor in back of the court- | Judge #grlands said, "A mpy are khardd herliage or cultura Soblen's daughter, Mrs Jean room, where Bobler had been is a spy, no matter what his and religion."--Reuter,
Stuttman, scated noxiin Mrs carried seconds before.".
health may bè."---AP.
What
ITALIAN SCIENTISTS MAKE STUDY
makes roosters crow?
Mondori, Aug. 7. 3. Do cow give more milik | University hopes to all in the cow, a goat, a sheep, some dozen Italian scientists underground than in the open rest of the information before its chickens, and the like.
p?
members climb Back cut of the crawlód dewn into a deep
Traboša 4. How many days of total lightless
The scientists already hava
·Bepitana cave with a whole barn- darsorem does it take to make Caverns after 700 hours."
hack, rooster and a dock of yurd assortment of uni- s push colour blind?
The Italian Army supplied her downs in the damp, fack, mals today to stay for a How deep do you have to expedition leader Prof. Bilveno depths of the cavern for: 30 diys, month and try to find obemath the ground fue prow: Maletip will tants, sleeping
inction #galoet the dondly bags, bevarul' Hundred pounds of A University of Marerico pro- radioactivity if nucleur bimbe? foda and apparatus zur surfaces | femor, Giancarlo e Mosell. 1. Whe, do bene lay more Bime of itje answers Already | Jo-depth Testing of storie | prodiétui funt, the inonth,"long www known but not the wings radiation for this experimentator in the cave, would clim 42gs in the dark?
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