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This May Be Beginning Of Man's Migration To The Planets New 'Hot Spot' U.S. PLAN SPACE HOUSE In East-West

COMMENT OF To Orbit

THE DAY

THEIR DUTY

THIS is a picture of threa

Around

Earth

Washington, Dec. 29.

The United States may soon

build a house 600 miles)

out in space for men

live and work in.

The

watikselused

(wo missile scientists

anbul meeting of

10

لاوة

the Ameri-

can Association for the avail- cement of Science today.

Le pre-

The house Would Tobrut: 1 and shot into space in pieces by rockets.

Space Lug bonts would b hol after the pieces and three- Rion crews would corral the pieces and bolt them together.

That done, 10 men would be put into the house and live and work in it.

be eclentists and

All would

the Jobs would be to find out what since is like.

The lough problems of un- kowa space life were wurk- ed cut simply.

The

take

space-men would the earth atmosphere and lem-

willi ratures

them they would be sealed into their s uhu house and get from one 15 the other by way air toeks.

This eliminated the need for space sults and the possible em- mien of being

Carrassments to

Tmen doing their duty, weightless in "uiriess" space.

ene, the Rev. Michael Scott, according to his conscience, and the two policemen on orders from above. Scott and a number of his pacifint friends picketed a new rockot in Norfolk by lying buse across the entrance. They defied the police when they were asked to get out. And they were carted off to court in the only way possible. Twenty-two spent Christmas in guol.

A typically, British reactinn followed. The issue 01 conscience versus authority was drowned in sentiment Cards and gifts flooded inta the Kaol izi which the demonstrators spent Christ- mna. This has been inter- preted by the pacifists us support for their cause. But It was not. It was just that the Norfolk martyrs evoked few soft sympathy in a hearts. And who denies that by a long process of venera-

Science Fiction

Some of these ideas have been discussed in science fiction and

a theoretical discussions,

Irian's

Today they were parts of a lightly, engineared plan which was presented as a practical project for beginning conquent of space. The plan came out of the misslies vision of the Lockheed Corporation, a

Govern- prime meni rocketry contractor, and was presented by two Lockheed scientists, Saunders B. Kramer and Richard A. Byers, to the American Astronautical Society. The presentation made it clear that plan was deep into the

.ueprint stage.

In fact, i can be achieved within 10 years, they said, and most of the exists now.

know-how

A 500-miles orbit would be easy for present-day rockets.

America's monkey and Russia's dog bave showed that can be tran- living creatures

without being ported in space harmed by the trip.

Re-Entry

tlon in Britain the underdog The problem of "re-entry

today is in reality the top dog. And it is officialdom and authority that is the butt of scorn and ridicule. How many people have said of the demonstrators "I admire

sately to be with lesser

that la, getting them back to cirth, Is about along solved, technical matters.

The scientists

emphasised the module type of construction perfected in pre-fabricsted earth houses.

them". For did they not Rims and spokes would be show with passionate inten-made of cylinders 10 feet in dia- sity the courage of their meter and 20 foot long. convictions and their ab- The manned "Astro Tugs" chot horrence of weapons of mass after them into the same orbit destruction. How many, we would be equipped with mechan- wonder, said of the Police leal grapples which their crews

could operate from the Inside. demon- the who carted strators off Συ prison, "I admire them".

For did not they also do their duty and demonstrate their obedience to authority? Or do we take the policeman's job for granted? ·

Spinning

The scientists said that all the cylinders could be put into one orbit and assembled in less than

wook.

Once assembled, the wheel would be set to spinning to maintain Itself above the autermost edges of earth's Who were right then? Not

gravity-charged atmosphere. the minister of the church They envisage re-entry whole being so irreverently vehicles which would Lake handled in our picture. He selentists and tug crews back obeyed his conselence and and forth between

ROK MP Knocked Unconscious

Doctors

Fight For

12-Ounce Baby's Life

Chicago, Dec. 29. Doctors struggled today to keep life in a day-old girl who, if the survivos, will be the all-time record for the tiniest baby who over livad.

The baby is Gloria Hanses, a of flickering 12-ounce handful

ble who was born yesterday to Mrs Mabel Henses, 23, wife of a shipping department worker and mother of two other child-

ren.

Gloria came into the world a half months pre- three and

in Chiengo's Swedish mature

Hospital. At first it Covenant

Was bejloved she

dead Then an alert nurse notice-1 signs of life and the baby wea Lushed to an incubator.

was

INCUBATOR

Gloria was still in the in- cubator today, receiving a con- lant supply of oxygen, but her condition was critical,

match

It she lives, the will the all-time record for light weight bables set by another Chicago infant 22 years ago. The record holder is Jacqueline Benson, now a suburban palatine school teacher, who also weighed only 12 ounces when she was) born in St Anne's Hospital on January 14, 1930.-U.P.1,

A member of the South Korean, opposition De- mocrats, showing his face upward, was knocked un- conscious in n 10-minute fist-swinging fight in the National Assembly between Democrat members and the Assembly Guarda. The fight started when the guards attempted to clear hedding off the dias where the Democrats had staged a sitdown strike over a con- troversial bill to amend the Security Law. The bill was eventually passed-UPI Photo.

King Midas's

Palace Believed

Found

Cincinnati, Dec. 29.

A group of American archaeologists believe they have found the palace of King Midas, the

Tokyo Police Expect 'Huge Drug' Shipment From Hongkong

on

Cold War

New York, Dec. 29.

The Antarctic was about to become the new "hot spot" in the east-west cold war, columnist Robert Allen wrote today in the New York Post.

the

Allen in his column "Insido 4 could get through to. Washington," said Russia and Bellingshausen Sea first. the United States were "squar= The sea is 1,300 miles directly ing off" to

uf the stage a momentous north

South Pole, Paimor tho

and race to be first to penetrate the between Ballingshausen Scu.

Thurston Peninsula, on the sido of Antarctica nearest South America.

He added: "Winner of this contest will have the busis to claim possession of this crucial unreached by ex- region, stili ploration."

The Race

Allen said the United States Jolut Chiefs-of-Stiff considered the Jace to be of the utmusl sigaliçance in the efforts to keep the Antarctic out of Rus- sian hands.

He said Intelligence authorities aid the Russians were planning to assert claim to a major part at the vast ley continent if they

Cuban Rebels

Claim Big Success

Discovery

For most of the year the Bellingshausen Sea le frozen over and not navigable. But fights over the area during the Inter- national Geophysical Year dis- closed that in late January the ico appeared to break up suff clently to allow lee-breakers to get through.

explore

This discovery triggered the United States-Soviet race, Allen wrote. Ho sald United States Navy ships had orders to pene- They would trate the sca as far as possible. as much as possible and then pull out.

Allen added: "This explora- tion, If the U.S. Navy gets there Ars would be suelent for a U.S. claim to the coast line and adjacent territory,

area.

Reds

The Russians are understood to be planning to establish permanent base in the Intelligence reports the plan to use this base for the greatest exploration operations in Antarctic history."-Reuter.

Prince Charles' Cast Removed

Havana, Dec. 29. Cuban rebels claimed to- night that their advance patrols had entered the city of Santa Clará, capi- tal of the key province of of Wales' Las Villas, "putting army forces to flight.”

A

Kings Lynn, Dec. 29. The plaster cast on the Prince unkle, injured at was removed

today in

school recently, kcro

at a hospital Norfolk.

rebel radio transmitter Prince Charles motored here operating in Las Villas sald in- for an X-ray from Sandringham surgent advance units, reached where he has been spending the University of Santa Clara the Christmas holiday with the and other public buildings today Royal family, China Mail and that "army forces fell back towards the Leonelo Vidal bar- recks," headquarters of the Third Military District.

The rebel

anne uncement came after A day in which President Fulgencio Batista directed an almost steady stream of war planes against rebel- held towns in Las Villas vince, in what appeared to be a pro- major attempt to mnash the two-year-old revolt.

Tokyo, Dec. 30. Tokyo police announced to day a new your crackdown the marcotics traffic

The Intensified air attack was following reports that huge Illegal shipments are intended to bar the rebels from Las Villos province. Possession expected from Hong-of the strategic province would kong.

split the island in two-UP1,

They said they would set up irania special narcotics

legendary king whose touch turned every-proventative department thing to gold.

Reuter,

Dr Machteld Mellinic, leader ( said. “They ought to add im- of a recent expedition to a site mensely to our knowledge of of Gordion, Turkey, said in a the Phrygion language." — ; report ca the Archacological Institute of America today that Midas was a real king who lived about 715 years before Christ.

He declared that Midos was ruler of Phrygia, now part of

he that ond Turkey, fabulously wealthy.

A

The Legend

was

MAKARIOS, TO

VISIT JAPAN

Frank Scolinos, Iegul asb-

with

headquarters in Asakuun, Tokyo's entertainment district,

CONFIRMED

The polleo did not disclose where they got the Information, but said they had "confirmed" that large quantities of narcotles are due here early next year frcm Hongkong.

Up to

per

o!

In

Sunday, officers had arrested 440 smugglers in 1958.

cent

these Eighty arrested were Japanese, 13 por cent Korean and seven per cent Chinese, police said, Tokyo, Dec. 30.

The police believe there are Archbishop Makarios of

organisations Dr Mellink said the legend Cyprus will arrive in Japan about 10 well-organised narcotic

Emugglag for a short Tokyo, about Midos probably grew up early next montå because the Greeks Junew he visit it was learned today. had a fabulous tranmire "mid apparently the facts are that he wanted everything he touched the house

Copenhagen, Dec. 29. made of gold." Doctors

reported tonight ile said his expedition hoped the palace contain that the conxlition of 19-year- to start uncovering was coming to them. The complete scientific equipment to old King Frederik of Denmark itself next cummer.

physics,

ant "quite satisfactory"

"But what we hope for in our study the chemistry, comment to

hip

gold but magistrate's

hung search is not the and electronica. of space, along that the damage to them was: "You must learn with

Midas's archives," Dr Mallink 11 effects on thewan healing-outer. to keep your protests within physiology of both men and

Britaln Inw."

has plants. decided,, and the Government The scientifle residents would has a large enough majority be specialists in those felda.

flouted authority.

The and earth.

demonstratore knew what

The house would

the

to emphasise it, that rocketa are carential for the nation's £efence.

The Follce did the right thing by ejecting tlie demon- strators. They were amo right to bundin off women demonstrators in the same unceremonious way as the men. It In the Police who dbsorve the nation'a support, When will wo learn,,to rospact the men who have to do the dirty work, and carry out the unpopular but noceaanry decisions?

or

They'd probably live there for xix months

No At A time but will a ready eniry available, the time could be shorter.

The scientists pointed machinery and techniques would be perfected to tako spoco mon to the mann and the plancla beyond.

out

WEN

King Improves

viser to the Greek Government in Japan, said he was informed of the visit yesterday.

Mr Scolinos said the Arch- bishop was expected on January 6 or 0 but 11 was not known how long he would remain' in Tokyo.-U.P.I

Second Marriages Popular

With Divorced Englishmen

Second marriage after a divorce is more popular with the

Englishwoman, according to a report published today. The Anni review of the 1931 1 In 1951, there were

moro more

London, Dec. 30. Englishman than the

than doubled their

Indood, additions could be put onto the space house in- commus nguren for England. and Seats and Irish in England and numbers between 1931 and 1951 women definitely, as additions are pul Wales shown there were 79,000 Water-180,000 Ecots compared and the number of

biznismische compared with 360,000 in 1931, the date indoor domestic servants war divorced onto an earih house. And this enlarged and re- with 180,000 divorced wives, of the previous consum, and | bairedk

The ernicus cost £1,000,000— Теге were Inforced structure could then

niko 2,819,000 027,000 Irish, raising the fl become the launching pad for widowa compared with 729,000 born proportion of the popula- about eight pence per hood of women, in Lon from 10 to 14 per thousanch, the population. China Mail manned rockets outward bound, widowers because

general, lived tonger than men." Female clerks and typists' Special --U.P.I.

NO INFORMATION These organisations, invertiga- tors said, are now eencentrating on the 20-20-year-old age group in a search for new customers, whereas last year they concen- trated on the 25-30 ege group.-- U.P.I.

In Hongkong this morning, the Director of ine Anti- And Narcotics Corruption Branch of the Hougkong Police said he had no information fc- gording these "huge illegal shipments."

He said that in

liis, they

cases ilko worked in conjunc- tion with the Japanese police, 'but he repeated that in this case, he knew nothing about it.

Their Plaything

Bridgend, Wales, Dec. 29. A bomu diaporal aqund today got rid of a magnelle minio on

here which locat the bosch children had clambered over for Pniore than five years. It had always been thought to be an aid baller, wedged · In the rocks,mi | Reuter,

Special

Chaplin Settles

Los Angeles, Dec. 29. The United States Treasury suit against actor Charlie Chap

in, due for hearing here January 8, has been settled out of court, Federal Tax offcial, Earl Crouter, announced.

The Treasury claimed $1,242,- 532. Chaplin, who now lives la Switzerland, has agreed to pay "geveral hundred thottsand dollars" Crouter sald. -- France- Presse.

Off To Sandringham

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, smiles over the head of the dachshund she is holding when, she arrived at Liverpool Bireet Station, London, to, travel with other members of the Royal Family to Bandring ham for the Christmas holidays.--Heuterphoto,"