THE ́CHINA_MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,~ 1958,
I Predict
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
Who Covered The Space Flight
Conference In Amsterdam
I PROPHESY that the. world's map-makers will have to make some changes following in genious observations on the Russian Sputniks by D. G. King-Hele and Robert Merson, of Farn- borough, Hants. Observations on the Sputnik's fight-path from six points in Britain have shown that The distance, from the earth's cratre to the North Pole must be 200ft. lunger
than the map-makers bellive. So the earth is that much less fattened at its Poles-ce an binge-than we were taught in school
they
planes
These beat-the-clock plancers will not be British unies the Government moves funt to get Dr Bames Walls's folding-wing Swallow Into the air.
I PREDICT the Russians will came day. Superonle
concentrate on' manned with rocket boosters for take-off rocket light for military pur will make this possible. poses rather than on prestige- hullding robot shots to the moon. Leonid Sedov, the Russian team. lender here, insists he is little Interested in moon shols. U.S. intelligence men believe hún. Russ high-allitude rocket Bring detected by long-range ralur all seem aimed at U.S. solving the problem of safe re- furn to earth for a piloted rocket or saleflite.. The Russians have least 10 rocket recovered at
wideh have re oec'en entered the atmosphere relatively undamaged
br
I PREDICT that the Royal
advise the Govern- sifting to ment on whether it should get into space research will renom- mend that Britain cannot afford to be out of it.
Hoclely Committer now
The ultimate biedness as well likely as scientifle rewards are
¶ I PREDICT that the top co-
to be so great that a joint space- programme with the Cominon- 1 FORECAST (tiat Supply wealth, Nate, or bath, will be
Minister Aubrey Jones will wantly recommended.
unmercifully ribbed about some of the tali claims he made concerning British me i mad
ordinator of the Russian rocket programme will turn out press during lds Australian tour.
to be none other than Cam- Scientists here assure me there 1.
for negligible significance
bridge-trained Peter Kapitza.
under house defence in his dicclosure about Disgraced and will
artes in Stalin's later days, an infra-red "matic eye" which can pick up heat rays 1,000 mile: Kapitz is now among the top away. His dark hint about briss of Krushchev's alemir-powered rockels is high-cral The ly futuristic.
"techno
I PREDICT that in the great ponerer dereens of spee-fight women will once again take no active partex cept that of domestic support, But forvenst that atili trot out the new thread- Lare
they excure that
Word never given a chance. Selenite Fraining for women
technical experts who make up has been avalalle fore more
that within Russia's new aristocracy, than 2 years, but of the hand- PROPHESY
live years mrn will leave PROPHESY that in spite full attreding the space-light
Britain
reach Amsterdam
America of all the newly found extra eulaterener h
and
of dangers
radioactivity In carlier than they take off. eapneity
Beause of the five-hour time space, and the lowered human lag they will have Bellain of resistânce lo physical stress 1 touch down in there, man_wifi_be..on, the, moon mudday America before 11 am, on the by 1980.
1 1 1 1 technikal
none suggesting shows signs original leas which might cara Wornin honourable mention in the history of space-flight.
I
highly valued
Una turns on sounds
from Outer Space...
HAD never met n spectroscopist until Lina Kirkham came along. Like anyone else who has been around and about, I have talked to geologists, gos- siped with zoologists and
stared stood
with ornithologists.
But until I went to a preview
of Ure Jubilee Rao Show,
Earls Court, opening at
I
a
had never ve heard of spectroscopist before. This is
in Mist Kirkham, they said, treducing me do apety 20- year-old blonde with sparkling: eyes.
fer job, they explained. i examining the "make-up" of maette materials that help to make radio and TV tick.
"Are there may re in the firm like you?” i asked.
"Oh, yes," she said.
There
is Annette Robinson who in an electron microscopist, and gel- ting married shortly."
The theme
A 23, Annette
al e
studies 100,000 times larger than
metals and other substances used in muk-
the structure of
Jeg radio valves,
And this is a matter of great impus Lance in this
Age.
one
Electronic
by
ALEXANDER
THOMSON
As Unn Kirkham, one of the Muliardshowgirls."
in five years, they have ackied million to £120 more than their manual output Bs new sciences have been investigated and put to practical use,
the brain cells in the computors
that modern Industrial manage-
ment ean at longer do without
in calculating and supervising
its flow of work.
They will be the controlling mechanisms in the push-button
factorles of the future,
Where expansion is the theme, and there are so many new thresholds to cross, the oppor- and tunities for young women wondering about careers are immense.
Inch
their
The Radio Show, in a more serious side to its colour and
I
Cummingar
NOTTINGHAM
South
FAUBUS
AFRICA
LITTLE ROCK
Gov
"Now, perhaps, the English will stop giving us that 'more anti-colour bar than thou' stuff..."
Why?
FANS
THE
WHAT
HATRED?
HAVE soon nothing uglier, or nastier, than this. A young man, coloured, a student, walks alone in the middle of a Shabby road, Bramley Road, Notting Hill, London. It is three
the afternoon,
in
He carries a brown bag, for he has just come to the area. He looks about him, jumpily, wondering about the silent people, white people, crowding the pave- ments. He has not heard about the race riots.
The people watch him, violently. Suddenly a volee yells: "Get him." Other voices yell: "Get the nigger. The people sweep after him. Middle-aged people, but most of them young people. And many are children
They hit the student. A youth by.
Bings his cycle at him.
Ho
pleads and cries out, then breaks owny Into greengrocer's shop
he greengrocer locks the door!
entertainments. highlights this The student stands trembling and
in the biggest careers section says: "They'll kill me
has yet displayed.
The chances
Then police ears come and a police var with a dozen police- men. They take the student to Big firms, Ike the Mullard safety and the greengrocer says
Kirk-lo me:
"They'd have murdered organisation where Una
haim and
Annette Robinson him."
work, have extensive schemes for ambitious
training
sters.
young-
from
They cover everyone trade apprentices starting at 15. 10 graduates from the univers- ties coming in at up to 25.
It is a pay-as-you-learn sys- tem here. Fay rates during training range from £2 13. to
£13 a week.
Madness
MERRICK
WINN
ing now. First, Nothingham, now Notting Hill.
A lie
Why has it happened? One white man, middle-aged, enjoying his hate, said: "It's the niggers I'm
"We'll get you next, nigger-lover," they told me
And there is this to be added, The white people I talked to, the people who bocated they were niggerhalers," were not of very high intelligence.
But there are signs, I think, that some otherwise intelligent
people in Britain are being empted to join in the colour
hate.
And, if this were true, then This could be just the beginning. Ant something horolo come to Brilain.
ROUND-UP
BEGAN IN 708 A.D.
has
after our women. A white A Jamaican told me:
woman can't walk down the THE parish church of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, South not afraid now, in the sunshine, street at night without being London, hea just had its history written the first effort to tell But tonight I'll be terrifled to £9. molested."
its complete story since the present church's foundation in 1200. The history is the work of the Rector of Bermondsey, the Rev. out."
This is untrue, an old race-Geoffrey Gray, the sixty-fourth man to hold the office. The history
Told many times in begins with a letter written between A.D. 708 and 715 by Popa Yes, After I left him a gang war lie. of youths, just ordinary toughs America and now told here. The Constantine to Hedda, Abbot of Bermondsey. It was the monks of Boy B, gathered truth in Notting Hill is that there Bermondsey Abbey who founded St Mary Magdalen Church, Tho Teddy They would around me and the leader sald; are some white girls and some church's parish registers date from 1548 to the present day prac-
who seek ench
tically without a break. In the course of his researches Mr Gray have beaten and hurt him and "we'll get you next, nigger- coloured men
And hien stitches in his head. lover,"
another Bald: other oak
discovered that as Rector of Bermondsey he holds fishing rights off the Tooley Street wharves. But, he says, he does not intend to But not killed him. Not this we'll cut you up and burn
exercise them. time. Some other time? I don't down your house." know.
rol
I doubt this.
not
SECRETARY'S EXAM
NOMMANDING officer at Carlisle Castle has passed the first stage of the examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries.
The words were meaningless. But I do know this, The For those with ability and the
qualifications, there are murdering nood, the lynch-law But the appalling thing was right
the glare in those wide openings in research, de madness, was there all right, the hate and the violence. The velopment and selling that This was the ugly frightening fury and
was the thing I young faces told of a hysteria called at both houses and was He is Major Denis Sole. He says, "I know it has been puzzling £1,000-a-year jobs thing. bring
have not seen before in Britain. almost out of control. quickly.
The gadgets
The
Thele Cornerstones are
In its wider aspects, here valves and TV tubes--and their one of the industries that points
cousins, the tiny tran- to the way ahead for Britain.
So the rewards at the top will tors, These min! ture gadgets, olfen be high.
London Express Service). match heads, are smaller than
is
It is girls like there, and the A4
that celestists they work for,
the of possible make wonders of this Itadin Show.
Sound is Its theme. And one sounds they will of the
on for you are gaals
space that started outer
thelr way here before life
earl hund even begun,
Tay have been picked
from
11:
DN
and recorded by the Mullard Hadto Astronomy Observatory, wh; a is wart of Cambridge University.
So here is the oldest round mun has ever heard, alongside the latest in stereophonle production for radiograms at home.
ro-
The rudlo Industry has come a le way since the selence of valves was perfected to put it on the up and up, Radio volves are the frontier where elec- tricity ends and the vast
lew
feld of electronics begins.
From entertainment at home.
it has pushed, into navigational
alds in the air and at sen.
A modern aircraft carrier
neces £1,000,000 worth of radio
and electronic equipment
keep it in Oghting trim,
on
when they board
from New York; in less
to
air-
starl
thun
from
The new Comel IV jet
liners will have £50,000 worth
ztreating across the Atlantic
the time it takes to go London to Edinburgh by train. And when the first rocket succeeds in getting
peep at the man in the moon, it will be radio signals that tell us just what it is like there.
The radio and allied indus- tries now turn out £259 miilina worth of goods sooli year,
ASKING
This
Another man said, mouthing "They're just a lot of brothel keepers. I'll show you the two!
He believed his fe. But 1 worst brothels of the lot...."
to cellar in everyone why I have been carrying the books home after my dutie taken from atile ench Neither
were brothels at the castle but I have been swotting at nights I've heard I have there afc,
almost passed the first stage of the examination but there's a long way to although certainly, brothels in the arca, go yet." Why did he take it? Well, with the present situation, It is this kind of area-and was one must have two strings to one's bow," the Major explained. "I'm
adays." before the coloured people came, not expecting to be axed, but there is nothing like being sure now-
can't "It
It was spasmodile, unpredict And only a week or two back able. Some coloured people we in Britain would have said
Little no one of walked troubled them. Then came the happen here." We can never any that again. It is happen. sudden outburst, the frenzy.
about ard
Roel:
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(958 FOOD FAIR
999 DOUGHNUTS
PLEASE_TRY ONE
close-up
will
TAK
100
Londen Express Bereter
“STEADY, MEN, WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE RED OF THEIR TONSILS."
12.
Violent
WHOSE CROWN?
A NAVAL crown found on the rocks west of Beachy Head is now Aon show in Eastbourne art gallery. The Ander, fisherman Jack Hurd, of Northbourne Road, Eastbourne, would like to know what ship lost it, and when. It is a Tudor-style metal crown; 12 inches and high and 0 inches across, weighs 12 pounds and is mounted on oak. Inside are It is surmounted by an orb and cross and is hollow.
So I talked to many white people and always the answer was the game, in language that Was always vipient, obscene. And it all pointed to
e of the basic truths about two pulleys. this or any race war, Twisted rex, deep down, And usually the twisted Бек of twisted
adolescents.
But this is a very, very com- plicated problem. The problem
of people who must find someone
REVOLUTIONARY FURNACE
NEW-TYPE blast furnace at Stanton Iron-works, Ikeston, Derbyshire, may revolutionise the iron and steel works of Dritain. The only one of its kind, it is expected to burn for threa years and produce more than 300 tons of iron a day. It is designed to provent mollen metui penetrating downwards into its founda- lems of blast furnace operations today.
DUCHESS WRITES
to hate because If they don'tlons, which, an official pointed out, was one of the greatest prob-
they will hate themselves.
So now the coloufed people are the scapegoat, as the Jews | were in Germany and Bethnal Groch. They are
persecuted because they are few and the sadism of their persecutors must have its cowardly outlet,
It has nothing to do with It has nothing rape or colour. to do with economic threat, or that coloured men take the jobs of white men, or that they wear long costs and narrow trousers..
WOJTHOUSAND people in Britain, will be receiving letters from the Duchess of Marlborough with an American stamp on the envelope. They are invitations to Blenheim Palace to see Dior's winter collection of dresses, to be shown in aid of the British, Rod Cross Society, in the presence of Princess Margorot, on November 12. The Duchess, who is in America, has taken her "home work" with her. She will stage-manage the show, she did on the pro vious occasion in 1053 and she is sending out all Invitations with a personal letter. Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, has been described as the statellest home in Britain. Built by his famous ancestor the first Duke of Marlborough it. was where B
born. There is a strong link between Winston Churchill was Blenheim and America. The Duke of Marlborough's mother, Mr Consuela Balaan, now 80, lives in Amerlea and Sir Winston Chur- chill's mother, the beautiful Jennio Jerome, came as a bride from America to Blenheim Palace,
BATTLE HONOUR,
It has to do with the deepest drives in man, with obsessional fear and baie linked, as the whlio men of Bramley Road
TN the latest list of Battle Honours for carrying on regimental betrayed, with a lewd zadiaro.
colours issued by the War Office, the honour, “Koren, 1950-55," "There is no easy answer to has been awarded to the Royal Northumberland Faslilers, the this. The violence and the Durham Light Infantry, the King's Own Scottish Borderers and persecution must be stopped er the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Captain R. W. H. Crawford. It will spread. But in the end adjutant of the Durbana Light Infantry regimental depot at Branco. the police and punishment can peth Castle, Durham, says the problem to find room, on thein solve nothing. They cannot colour for the 1830-46 war, apart from those gained in the 1914–18. stop the hate,"
war and other campaigns,” hà pointed out.
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