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GILMAN'S

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Hospitals for

addicts

BILL introduced in the

A Legislative in the

Wednesday authorising establishment of medical treatment centres for drug addicts' is one of the most

important steps taken by Government in the current campaign. For what it means is that there will be, to begin with, two hospitals

with special wards avail-

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Way now open to get men back from space ORBITING CAPSULE RETRIEVED

Shot back to TRAFFIC

earth from

U.S. satellite

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Aug. 12.

The United States retrieved a man-made object from orbit yesterday for the first time.

Discoverer rocket No 13 sent

able specifically for addicts the 300-pound capsule spinning who can volountarily com-back to earth from about 200

mit themselves for treat-miles over the North Pole. K PROMISES

ment. In the past the only institution which has been able to attempt this is the

special addicts prison at Tai Lam Chung. The Government in taking

this

step, realises that

for

there is at present no com- pulsion on the part of 4 patient to persist with the treatment

long enough period to ensure his complete cure. At the two treatment clinica pro. posed-Castle, Peak Hos

An

pital and Shck Ku Chau Island-all patients will have to make such undertaking. Another pro- vision guarantees the patient protection against court proceedings. This is a clear essential for under the

and stricter

more realistic laws force it would mean that a confessed addict is able for prosecution whereas previously he had to be In possession of drugs. INQUIRIES made yesterday INQ as made or

now

in

ed that inability to pay will not deprive a person of treatment at Castle Peak

the

The capsule fell inside 200-by-60 mile recovery area between Hawaif and Kodiak Island, but outside the reach of waiting planes trying to catch

it

It fell more than 100 miles away from the closest ship- Haili

specially Victory D equipped radar-recovery ship.

Picked up

A helicopter from the Haiti Victory flew to the area where the capsule fell marked by three circling planes - and plucked it out of the water.

TO HELP

U-2 PILOT

London, Aug. 11. Mr Ollver G. Powers, father of American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, - said tonight he has re- ceived word from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- chev that "he will help" in the trial of his son on espionage charges.

The success coming after six failures had perhaps its most Important aspect in the prestige it would offer the US.

The father of the pilot shol down over Soviet territory on Bul technically, it

meant May 1 arrived in London by alr scientists had a workable way from New York with his wife, to get men back from space. Mr Ida Ford Powers.

Also, space medicine research- in

were to spend the night"

don before flying on to

ers could now look forward to Moscow to attend their son's trial

to place specimens which starts on August 17. being able

"I'will see Mr Khrushchev,"

in space for study almost at will

long satellite, the second

The capsule was carried yes- Mr Powers told newsmen at terday in the nose of a 19-foot- London airport. "He said he the rocket became the satellite, whirling over the poles of the earth at 18,000 miles an hour, 17 ümes.

hospital. This is essen- Then, somewhere high over tial and it must be hoped the North Pole-on command that all clinics set up to from the ground--the capsule treat addicts will comply was sent looping back to earth. with this principle for addiction is very largely a poor man's vice. There is another aspect: It has been frequently stressed that treatment alone 19 insufficient. The

DHMS,

Dr D. J. M. MacKenzie

At the speed the satellite was travelling, a miscalculation of a second would mean the capsule miles farther would go three then planned,

Voyage back

Explosive boits and springs

from

The instrument package, free orbit briefly, then retro rockets the satellite, stayed in broke it out of orbit and it was

made the point in a loosed the capsule after the recent address to the satellite had tipped its nose Kaifongs that the most down toward the earth at about important task after treat-a 30 degree angle. ment was the proper re integration of the cured person into every day life. For while in Castle Peak hospital and on Shek Ku

At the Air Force Ballistic Chau, the patient will have Missile division in Inglewood, no opportunity to secure California, where the programme drugs, the moment he is had its inception, there was a released he will In a tremendous. cheer when radio territory as confined as reports were received Hongkong it is impractical Hawaii-UPI.

to talk of placing him in a

different and more moral

environment. And while.a

on its historic voyage.

He declined to say how Mr Khrushchev's message had reached him-AP,

TRAPPED

DOG

CAUSES

EXPLOSION

Efforts to save a dog which

Devine, Aug. 11. had sought refuge in the cellar of a building re- sulted in a violent explo- sion today, and damages estimated at $10,000.

The dog, as far as is known, is still in the cellar where teams from of rescuers are trying to reach it through the rubble caused by the explosion,

cure does provide the MR K TO VISIT

former. addict with some

degree of resistance, a

relapse is still possible. NORTH KOREA

is not clear how the

I réhabilitation of cured

addicts is going to

be

.

London, Aug. li.

For reasons known to the dog alone, it sought shelter in the cellar, under the foundations where nobody could reach it. Its owners aided by fremen, thought they could force it to come out by filling the cellar with insecticide. The insecticide ap-| A parently exploded.

The entire building was des- troyed and wreckage was strewn Soviet Premjer Nikita all over the area. There were supervised and Govern-Khrushchev wili visit North no casualties.-AFP. ment has yet to clarify its Korea early in October, Radio thoughts on the matter Moscow announéed tonight, publicly. The Kaifongs The invitation from the Cen- have been approached to iral Committee of the Korean assist and there are other Party and the Government has voluntary welfare agencies been "accepted with great sutis. which can take part in this faction" the Russians said in n wórk. Individual employers broadest in Arabic-AP. have an obvious role. But

It cannot be left to the com.

munity entirely to com-

plete this decisive stage in Train smashes

the elimination of addie-

tion in Hongkong.

After going to the trouble

and expense involved in Jaunching a well planned

into buffers

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This traffic tobem pole shows five-signs- in-one. A China Mail photographer spotted it in D'Aguilar Street, Central District. In English and Chinese it says "One way Street," "No waiting" and to top it all, "No Learners."

Lumumba puts his DRAMATIC

police to work

'He is a dictator' says African

By GEOFFREY THURSBY

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Leopoldville, Aug. 11. Lumumba's democracy rolled on in the Congo today, with his police arresting one of the country's leading newspaper editors and seizing five Euro peans in Stanleyville and twelve in Luluabourg. Repor's add that Lumumba, correspondents attended but marskjold and his 300 Swedish arrested Belgians in the capital Lumumba failed to arrive,

Asked tonight what After a long wait the corres- of Leopoldville. His police have also searched MPs' houses. pondents left in a body.

thought about the incoming All day Lumumba and his Swedish troops, Mr Tshombe It he lasts long enough-for opposition against him is grow-staff have been in a state of gurgled and laughing aloud, Show nerves following yesterday's rints said: "They are Hammarsk- Ing-Lumumba plans a trias of some of the Belgians when Lumumba's car was stoned fold's personal bodyguard. He and his face was grazed. Certain is afraid things will be bad for He says the Belgians are or-ly he was not badly burt-but he him but I will go to the airport

and greet him myself" ganising a plot but in fact it is was badly shaken.

For the Africans rloting

So far the only Belgian Airican opinion that has

members o. troops to leave Leopoldville are turned against him.

against him were the two million-strong Bakongo four paratroops who disgraced tribe who inhabit the Leopold themselves by getting drunk ville area and whose political and were sent back to Kamina.

arrested.

the

HAN IN

NEWS

AGENCY

Leopoldville, Aur, 11. Premier Lumumba - to- night issued a statement announcing the suppression

of the Belga news agency · in the Congo for having ...reported-that he was “in-. Jured" in yesterday's demonstrations here,

Measures would be taken against those responsible, he said,

This was interpreted as meaning that the Congo-,, less Government, was con- templating expulsion mea- Bures, There have been Tumours here in the last 48 hours that expulsion orders were about to be applied.---Reuter.

A moment ago as I typed this message. In Leopoldville past

office, an African slipped up and said "Lumumba is a dictator, Tell everybody."

Twice today I have visited Hysterica! Lumumba's home. aider shouted "Go away. We don't want anybody here asking questions,TM

And this afternoon Lumumba

I called a press conference. Forty

Paving the way for

his gravestone

Manchester, Aug. 11. 64-year-old foreman, Mr Bil! Kempster, of. Acorn Street, Newton-le-Willows (Lanes) has said he will leave no stone unturned" until the local council allows him to erect his OWIL gravestone in readiness for his death-with the date left blank and have an epitaph put on his wife's gravestone.

HIS BATHI My Kempster has written to the

Warwick, Aug. 11.

A 16-alone retired polloemanı was recovering at his home here today from a whole night spent wedged in a bath

tub.

Dan Clifford, 74, who lives alope, stepped into his three foot by two-and-a-half foot tub at 9.50 at night,

Dublin, Aug. 11.. publicity campaign, step- About 60 people were reported

He found he could not get ping up action against injured today when a train

out, a neighbour "scovered manufacturers, traffickers, from Belfast ran into buffers him at 11 o'clock the following pedlars, and

at a Dublin railway station. consumers

morning. The police rescued and finally providing

Most of the injuries were him-Reuter.

and bruises,

medical treatment for superficial cuts

Minister for Housing and Local Government, Mr Henry Brooke, saking him to'inquire into the matter,k

The council refused to grant Mr Kempster's wish, because the intended: inscription on the beadstones were not Christian fit character, connell spokes. man said.

"My very dear, wonderful wife May-if I had thought or certain words in the Bible you would not have passed away at the early age of 48. Some day my very sweetest WOME the long sleep will come to me--I will 2201-14y goodbye but in some Tatrer cline, bid' yon good morning. Yours until the end of life's ́Woman, story, wonderful. your very loving husband, BILL"

On bla own headstone be wania: "WH. Kempster, börn. May 9, 1896, at Mastery *Manh, Shropshire, fled "

In his letter to the Minister het #ay: "I know you have the power to alter the fooble ressening of the local couns ell and grant me permlasión to have the headstoneR erected."

Mr Kempster claims he has had letters from all over Britzin and from the United States supporting his claim.

"Intellectuals are voicing" and,

writing abous freedem and Mr Kempuler, who is employed Newton-le-Willows /obunDil

at a local engineering" works, has already placed big order to have, the Inscriptions; "Put

addicts, it would seem 3 sustained when passengers were little pointless If Govern thrown against interior parti Mrs Downey leaves have heard them ment did not take. pains to lions and glass panels,

ensure that it is positively. Most of the injured were in. Mrs Maky Downey arpened, tha reducing the number of the lost two carriages of the Hongkong border foto China The inscription he wants, to put addicts as well as the local train. No carriages were this afternoon, to see her im-

renda: demand for these drugs, derailed-Reut

prisoned son in Peking

beer page mones wilch have.

to his specifientions.

party is the Abako Party,

The Abako Party has already-Landon Express Service. passed a resolution calling for a breakaway from Lumumba.

The

newspaper editor

ar-

rested today is Gabriel Makose of the French language paper Le Courrier D'Afrique.

KATANGA CALM

New President

of South

Korea elected

His offence was an editorial poking fun at stories that he himself was allegedly involved In a plot against Lumumba.

Russians have given The Lamumba a spanking new white flyushin aircraft for his per- sonil use. The joke tonight is | Kritish-educated Yoon Bo Bus,

be might need It,"

George Gale and Richard Killen cable from Elizabethville today that Katanga is quietly calm to meet Incoming UN troops tomorrow.

**Seoul, "Aug.'E

62, a descendant of Karean nobility, was today elected President of the Republic of Korea.

ESCAPE FROM AIR DISASTER

Rome, Aug. 11.

A London-bound British plane and a jet airliner from New York with 150 persons aboard al- most collided today within minutes of land- ing at Rome.

The British Viscount swerveć

so violently to prevent the crash that 23 persons aboard were injured. Twelve were sent to hospital, officials of British European Airways said.

The second aircraft involved, airlines sources said, was a Pun American Boeing 707 from New York with a five-man crew and

93

passengers, including, officials of the US. Olympic team.

Airport sources said the BEA flight from Malta, headed for London via Rome with 47 passengers and a crew of five, was flying at 7,000 feet.

40-degree turn

It was

in the Rome traffic pattern and under direction from the Rome tower when the near-crash occurred, they said, "The pilot suddenly saw the Pan American jet headed for him and within 200 yards," the. "urces, said. "He whipped the since into a 40-degree turn to. avoid the other aircraft.

Pan American officials here said they knew nothing of the near collision but were in- vestigating. The jet, direct thefrom New York, landed with

Yoon, who was favoured by The streets are packed with both major factions in women and children, Virtually Democratic Party, was chosen by none of the Belgians who had the National Assembly.

Within five days the President threatened to quit have gone.

the new Premier, Instead of the violent Inter- inust name tribal warfare which Premier who will be the nation's chief Tsl:ombe said would follow the executive under its parliamen- arrival of the UN troops last tary system of government. week-he now promises Ham- UPI.

tempair

passengers apparently unaware of the near tragedy.

Airport officials had no com ment on whether the two planes were mistakenly directed by the tower or

whether one of the aircraft was out of place in the traffic pattern,-UPI.

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