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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1959.

FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT

by CUMMINGS

PLEASURE CRuise that enDED IN HORROR

"Unburnable" ship became A raging inferno

THE proud builders of the Titanic claimed their

luxury liner was unsinkable.

and she sank.

The equally proud builders of the Morra Castle, less than 20 years later, claimed that their luxury vessel was unburnable raging inferno.

7.

£

and she became #

of passengers to get them frean the 100 runk to Inferno. But, understand, the passengers fought back.

It happened off the court New Jersey on September 1034, Just 25 years ago-on blustery, mituma night is a way pleure-cruise was drawing to i love.

The Bre that pulled this proud ship cost 134 lives. was a pleasure-cruise ended in horror.

It

that

-

He

the

I was the ship's rowel afleer

who first gave the alarm.

saw smake belching frem stokehule, made a few brisk

- inquiries and pulled the alarm which sounded all over the ship.

He sent the officer of

the

J

The sleeping passengers, the Ponsel by the alarms and generul dm, poured from their

what cabins to find out happening Uncertainty became chac

Why

As the disorder and confusion Krew the wind whipped พ fanning the Burce flames, chop bag the sea and causing the boat to roll uncannily.

Chaos became blind panic...

Walch, Joseph O'Connor, ning No precautions

to investigate

pubile writing

for the

on "13"

Deck blazing fiercely, searing heat ad buckle door, and held back tre terrißed

Mary.

The In all this there won nu The supreme authnelly capable of ra all-out originising either

the flames, or assault on systematie passengers.

In a fiver of panie be razed along the narrow rurritos yell ing the grave news, But even as he did so the virious tongues of flame, fanned by the helpful air, were following and spread- lug along the deck.

And the terrible flames spread with far more rapidity than the drightened watchin's cries.

Too drunk

During the

</ the

Only a few hour: before the Captain had died after a heart attack and Chief Officer Willam

He carried her ashore, then collapsed and died.

by Graham Wilson

F. Warms had sumert mand.

com- control room and the bluering

heat was almost unbearable.

the privilege of watching the final hours of the dying ship.

But he went further than thok As the vessel had come to rest on is territory he claimed ownership-and threatened to

me the United States Govern-

THEN YOU · FEEL PAIN

LOCAL ANALGESIC 3

REQUIELD

"Thoro was a young lady of Riga, who want for a ride on a tiger...

London Express Service.

Are you a blue-eyed type? QUOTE

by Mr Arthur Exion, Derby magistrates' clerk, when Mrz Eva Thorpe, aged 59, of Noble Street, Derby, worin shoplifter, asked to have her name and

withheld from

address newspapers:--

the

THEY have a right to use it. When the freedom of the Press goes we can all watch out The free Press is something to which we have a right and of which we should be proud,

IF

LEAST -SCIENTIST

your eyes are blue ment when officials tried to you can bear more board the vessel.

Most of the crew were too

pain than people with At beat fighting fire at sca the closing hours of Caribbean

arduous task. For latent on saving their own skins 14 du

At the cubrequent lighthearted

clsc

court brown eyes, says an Aus- pleasure-cruise

of the Many

Warm it was made" absolutely to worry about anything imposible by the grim fact Many of them had just káned hearing Chlef Officer Warms and passengers had gone to, brd; but

List to that his ailing predecessor had the cruise, from Havana to New his Chief Engineer Eben 5.tralian scientist. I more of them wewe murry-

As suilors Abbott-one of York, to run drys. making in the ship's salons, taken no précautions,

escape in a lifeboat-were goofed they were hopeless,

for 10 years and each fro They had started in the

Tutu,hout the cruise

neglecting £2,000 for ryening, had early drinking walidly since then had been no fire-drill. Most of

been'

there

and it was now early morn the passengers had no idea where Sleepy with drink'

ing. They were lov

recrlerd

drunk

to lind lifebetts, or how to use them.

Fl!

duties that night.

AMOUNT OF PAIN

REACTION

SLIGHT

REACTEDE

0

REACTION

2

3

4

7

0

9

Blue Green Grey Grozn Hazel Ught Brown Dark Grey Gray Gretn Sutton discovered a

Browa

Browt

marked reaction and felt pain 80

by Mr C. S.

mun,

Mr

Marsh chair- at Wimbledon Juvenile

After testing more

Mr this while measuring the those who people their than 400

Philip Sutton claims that pain reactions of people severely that they had to

who were having teeth be given nerve-deadening court, in conditionally discharg were the colour of your eyes drilled at Melbourne injections. quashed later, on the hearing of and the extent to which University.

Bat the schienceo

Only a few, headed by

the

new evidence.

with

axes

you feel Was i subolage--or sheer folly that caused this needless tragedy connected. which cost 134 lives that Sep- tomber day.

pain are closely

to heed the many warnings.

But most important of

armed The Humes rested and raced through the passenger deck un- weting Captain Warms-obeying Purser Robert Tolman, hampered. And the crew were the written code of the time themselves not very competent to tackle the did not commaet the radio dcer. asked their way through to the with blaze. They had

no Net until 45 minutes after the Pangor: quarters.

"They were too sleepy

were else they are drill and arcording to sur si alarm did the Morta Castle drink or

Fanching เฟ desperate violently seasick," he recalled riors, did not even know how sturt

S.O.S. signals.

"It was hopeless- afterward. To lay out the vipment

By then fought and Many of them

with

-trotted Belting the door of the tiny radio we could do nothing." argued

"We tried to force themTI dock, id another member of the crew. "But they fought their way to the lower deck." That was certain death-for the lower deck was already a fur-

the flames

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Faced by the solid walls of

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which loomed every- the and choked by where, Kerid funics, screaming women all their own throats rather than allow the fire te have them.

Six young women, who had earlier been carried from the bar to their cabins, were never stan again.

Others, in their paze, were as they trapped In portholes struggled to escape, and died where they stood.

Lifeboats were putted as they were lowered. Some, through lack of maintenance, had rusted to their supports mild could not be moved.

As the screaming passengers

No one knows. To this day the cause of the Marro Castle unsolved

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ALL AGES

The different e y e

He divided the patients ranging from colours,

four groups those greyish-blue through hazel into

no pain during to brown, fit in perfectly who felt

ing four boys for driving away

His Ondings were surprisingly a bulldozer

he claims In the cunsistent, Journal Nature.

To make sure they were not than nukes he retested more 100

of the pallents Inter and to found tha. their reaction pain remained consistent..

The link between

pain and

between the two extremes the drilling, those showing recolour seems to exist a; ul} as shown on the chart. alight reaction, those

with

apex.

London Express Servlet.

AM fascinated by bulldozerw and would like to haVO R ZO in one. But I leave them alone because I don't know anything about them, Поре your parents will deal with you in that it will make such a way

I

you shudder the next time you Lee a bulldozer.

The Chemistry of Love

LOVE is the X-Factor. Such to the conclusion of today's expert. But pray do not be alarmod—algebra is not rearing its ugly boad. It is still the chemistry of love that is under Clicussion, by and who is a master at the mixing of emotional formulas.

by RONALD HANDYSIDE

icant into the turbulent WaterTHERE are only 39 people

10 members of crew

the elves by commandeering a

in the whole world.

lifeboat which could have held Don't ask me how I arrive at

70.

Children calm

Only the bhildren relainet? calmness, of any measure

Implicitly, orders obeying

trasting frightened but Most of them were saved.

The story of Mr and Mrs Fred MacArthur was one of the most

night poignant of that ghostly It was eight miles to the nearest

But the MacArthurs de cided to swim for it.

that figure! But, I repeat, there are only 39 people in the world.

Speaker Carl Foreman, 45, husband, father, nim writer- producer ("High Noon." "Bridge on the River Kwa!," "Thr Key"). successful survivor of the MC- all.

"No-some

CARL FOREMAN

WHEN THE

SYMPTOMS SHOW

ON CELLULOID. BY A MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA

Deborah Kerr-with Marilyn maybe, but not Monroe, with Sophia Loren-all Freud can't explain every of them wonderful.

"But I'm not in love with them any more!

pari.

And

"One of the sicknesses of almost terrible sophistication, of

that the carnality. pictures is motion public have been glutted with

"You

type all will see her

all over Europe, | Carthy purgos in Hollywood, thing only

any number of beautiful, destr

Hundreds of over France, able creatures. th! The cool: Swedish She is the product of a postwar and honoured guest in Britain chemistry-the genes and the

benullus, the English roses, the generation that grew up in an so long now that he might be chromosomes, the whole Men

atmosphere of deadful insecurity, described as The Man Who dellan system that can only

"When you've been in pic virginal American girls.

with a complete lack of regard Came To Tea,

explain a part too. There is tures as long as I have 20 years

"In the thrics and in the for anything that happened be- call the X-Factor. or so you can't deinch yourself Scene: s plecsantly clut still what

from your audience. And the turtles people could still go to fore their time.

n audience row is tered office above Piccadilly, Love is the X-Factor,"

different pictures and cut themselves off

the same "They have Hours later, he staggered populated at this moment by Gurgie, gurgle, Foes

the audience,

from the drab world and have

faces, faces not his out of the shallows with his himself, myself,

fantasies with childlike pretty

their romenile

focades of virginity beautiful maska, world's most "Look, the generation before the wife kis arms, and carried American assistant called Vir parrot.

concealing a vast amount of the safely

gurgling. of the ginta, and her to

mino-they went le the inovics

women or handsome men.

dreadful knowledge. beach. But the superhuman she-parrol called Stella (after

"It was the greatest collective effort had been too much for the girl in his film, "The Key"),

Subject under

harem ever created him. He collapsed and. died.

The Chemistry of Love.

Of the crew of 200 most of them-169 in all-werO saved. It was the passengers perished-a fact which

who

sub-

green

discussion:

Antipathy

pequently aroused harsh critic- "When

intensity,

"I've told you what I believe about the chemistry of attraction. There is also the chemistry of repulsion: Love that is based un hidden antipathy, aggression.

"1 don't think aggression is present in all love relationships; but it is in many.".

talk about 30 people," says Foreman, striding The telephone rings. Foreman,

under one' Ships which had sped to the to a far corner of the room and altiing at his desk rescue could only stand by while turning to address us with of those wry office-signs the "I Americans love-"It is better to the Morro Castle binzed. They Quiet-American picked up many of the pen mean that the same people are be rich and healthy than poor the call and to the same people and sick-takes gore who had thrown themselves | nitracted into the ser.

all over the world all through then buzzes to Comeone to their lives. We all fall for the arrange a flight booking, same physical types. When men

But the moot matabre of that

night's Incidents was still to be played out. The blazing ship drifted on to a sandifar just off the pleasure resort of Asbury Park.

"But now-well, you know what happens to Casanova? He gets tired. Bored. Harder and harder to late.

"The public Casanovo....

ФОРМА

DEBORAH

'

INGRID

MARILYN

"Brigitte Bardot," he suns

up. "is no accident"

The

The Inier-com buzzes. latest girl candidate for a part In The Guns" is announced.

13 now like Virginia and I rise to go on a

smooth, brown girl is shown in

Facades

Outside, Virginia and I look at each other and shake our *Sha simultaneously, heads hen't got it," we are thinking. "But Mr Foreman, Ackle "X-Factor missing." my generation is, we do have. What do you Brigitte Bardot,

think of her?"

Mr. Foreman's well-oiled

The al didn't got the part. Foreman goes on looking. But, as he said, there are only 30

brain slips almost audibly into people in the world... high gear again. CASANOVA FE GETTING RORED '

"In some

legg, lang

respects Bardot is

lithe

arki Women Ara unhappy "Mr Foreman," I say, "Vor- together and break up what ginta tells me you've still look- happens? They turn round and Ing for two girls to play in your bove an affair with someone of now Alm The Guns ..of exactly the same type as the Navarone.' You've interviewed scores, but you still haven't As dead bodies were being Derson they've just left. washeet ashart tho Park's

found the faces you want. Why? and fella Nevel, Wat Bush like the young Linda Darnell, Love "Genes call out to genes. I mean, aren't there any se- Baru, Foto Negri, Mac

sime allckest showman, Carl Bischoff, Chromosomes to chromosomes trenses with the necesary decided to oooh in on the,to It's inevitable. It exactly a chemistry?"

The next gendration my appearance hlin, heaven-sent "attraction." you say chemistry,”

generation went to the movies promise. He fenced off the beach and "But," I say, "aren't all men the

Walk--and | coally - Booking

picture Gloria Stewart, Mary. Ast for, their delighted to make Convention

with Bergman, with Deborah- but it isn't so simple now. charged 25 cents a head for mothers?""

of great sexual

"Look," he saya, "I would be and tell in love with Billie fove Lollte. The face of a child with "Bardot has the face of a

a very strong imputation of

Monday:

and the Sense.

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