1961-05-06 — Page 12

GAGARIN'S FLIGHT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1961.

JACKY'S DIARY'

They had lotsa Glowns)

there one of them

BY

•Mendelsohn ACKY

ase 33%

an other one owned a NOSE that would light up every time he took a drink, Which was onphan

After the Cloums went away, the Bad Guy Came out. again & intraduced Somebody else,

PRESENTING THE HUMAN CANNIBAL!

WAS

more

'EASIER

stuff

Was dressed up like

about

a real Fat Lady

THE

Who must of Waide

GIRCUS

about a Hundrid Pounds!

THAN TRAINING

By PETER FAIRLEY

MA

'AN is capable of do- ing for more during

a trip through space than scientists ever im- agined. This is the im- mediate conclusion of Russian doctors who examined Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, on his return from 108 minutes of orbiting, The experts are still analys- ing reams of medical data recorded during the flight.

Top space doctor Vasily Parin -who embraced Gagarin just before he climbed into his rocket-As in seme of the missing details of the epic trip in an article for the Soviet News service in London.

Man, he says, can keep fall control of a spaceship even dur-

l ing blast-of

vlotent

deceleration. Gagarin never

Her blacked out.

Nor was weightlessnes-flouting free of Aravity-any problem.

"The actual conditions," Pro- fessur Parin adds, "turned out to be much easier than those In training. The cosmonaut bad been trained with a Jarze 'safety margin.* which will probably be called for in more complex space routes."

He was whirled in a giant centrifuge, and jerked up and GOWN DI Lefore making the trip.

vibrating machines

Several suits

Professor Parin says Gagarin

ware "veral suits," the outer

one being hermeticall, sealed and contaming its own heating, oling, ventilation and water vapour abangation system -plus a built-in oxygen supply. 14 gave him "dibly profeetline" i ease the spaceship's own. plant failed.

into

I seen last Week.

but oliver Sudden The Cammon EX Ploded & he Wont flying in the Air

42

BOOM

But lucky for him there Was a net which he landed. in, or case he would of broke)

hie Neck

tys, King Eestures Synduate, ins, World riglas reserved.

Loo

Next & man got out his STRAINED ELIPANTS who Jungled) a ball & did other Tricks

Exsept he was a real Bashfull Cannibal, & didnţ eat anybody, but went & hid inside of a Cannon Instead,

[after that, everybody who

( was in THE CIRCUS came [out + did a Parade around, the noom, And that tomed out to be THE END, so then we went

Home

The Eliphants did all the work, but the Guy:

who owned Them got all.

The A Plause

do lives on after them...!

which men do lives

'The evil which

CRUSADE AGAINST DEATH

TF you had been in London recently and happened to be near the Albert Hall you would have seen a lot of people, most- ly women, crowding into that famous auditorium. But instead of happy faces anticipating an evening of orchestral or choral music there was a defiant look in their eyes which warned the passers-by that here was crusade.

And what was the nature of the crusade? The answer is brief but the abolition of the poignant. These people had gathered to demand death penalty.

To digress For a tooment

cheat

must explain that in Parliament we have a ruling which insists charge of murder to Wires led through the sults that an MI' must disclose

slaughter and thus ANY gallows. to convert his heartbeats. pulse personat ог financial interest

before he speaks rate and chest movement

in a debate. electrical simats,

Thus a barilder, who is also an Professor Parin also clears up

MP. would slate his interest confusion

how over

Gagarin in the price of hacks, just ay could see. He had a "all port-

the Directer of an Insurance hoie" with thick glas to Joods Company would declare his as- through.

ociation with this or that Com

In another article, N. A. Var-pany, if the debate dealt with vrov, top-ranking Savjet engis neer and astronautical consul-

tant

Russian

But to

Bred

INSLEVANCE.

2

of

Death penalty

a disgrace

to civilisation

if uch

extermination

has

-London Letter

Įby SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.

waters ulso tried to escape. But In no Ume the husband was in the mortuary and Edith and her lover were under arrest.

executed. It was from that mo- ment I became an anti-hanger and ultimately helped to carry through the abolition of the death penalty in the House of Commons. But in each ense the rope was ultimately restored.

not

for

between

Eventually they were tried to gether at the Old Bailey on the capital charge of murder. I went to the trial and one could feel Sume day our grandchlidren that the sympathy of the jury will read of all this and wonder man of maintaining a murderer 112 Then should we, the Western time when a romantle young

was for the young man, but what kind of people we were. The prison until he dies or if he is world, call for the extermination ship's steward named Bywaters there was no sympathy for the Curtainly the convicted murder- raee? Science drew a knife in the open street falthiess wife looking even older er must be removed from so- fall set free? The mere of the Gennan

so swiftly that of East End Londen and mur- than her years. There could be ciety until such time as there is All this presents a poignant posing of such a question is a has advanced

would dered the fanocent husband of

only one sentence. Both of them no chance at repeating tha problem to Mr Butler. By em- disgrace to our clvillsation.

which Mrs. Thompson. Actually hang murderers at be impossible. But

the would be executed. The day 'crime. prament and conviction he is a we are fo

of you, who is reading avoid the

these Thompsons were returning from would be Monday.

But some day the gibbetts will na-honger yet, as Hane Secre- merely in order to

1h order the theatre when Bywaters, in words, would give

As the editor of the "Sunday be chopped down and used for tary, he must administer justlee cost of maintaining them in

living uncontrollable jealousy, drew a Express" I was getting out the firewood, May that day come alinost within swgordingt to the law.

then You 718072

we are coming Yet

knife and killed the husband of paper when a message came that soon. should near the philosophy

Nazi hemory Germany

fought night contend that he

three negrasive wars. If you his stress.

Bywaters' sister wanted to see You may well argue that Edith not have accepted his prezent Germany,

odd to that the massacre of the By midnight the police had me urgently. So Into my office Thompson was an adulteress, post in the Government but in

nation arrested not only Bywaters but came a sweet, modest girl of and Bywaters was her fillelt the sphere of crime we need Inevitably just now in debat- dews why should such a

ing this is ud we are certain to allowed to continue to exist? also Edith Thompson. As for the about 19 years of age. It was lover, but in Dritain by law a

dull decent husband hits body hard to know what she wanted woman Therefore I shall disclos, o Minister who possesses courage,

hanged to the

"100 meet the question: in judgment anul a busie decency.

you

Conscience

was taken to the morgue.

because she was sobbing pliiful- adultery. force says that spaceships to you in that twice

think that Eichmann, the mur go to the moon and back must Parliament I led a breakaway

Well aware

derer of ten million Jews, should

To repeat the question is When the double trial touk ly.

There is an old saying that the which be "of huge size."

get Tory anti-hanging group

By showing her my sympathy the Socialists I am well aware at this point have been spared the gallows?" merely to prove its impossibility, place at the Old Bailey, Edith a craft weighing just over twler linked up with

conscience woult Thompson was revealed 3 a she, gradually managed to tell arent struggles are not between as much as Gujtärin's there and, as a result, twke abolished that many of my readers will I can almost hear the angry cry The human

sentimentalist who me that she had just left her right and wrong-but rocket weighing around 10,003 death penalty. In both cases wonder why we should show of people at the very suggestion, not permit it, and the human frustrated

Let us admit that probably the conscience would be tight. Then looked after her husband but brother in the condemned cell. the right and the partially right. b hanggan

tem- my consideration at all for a fons will be needed,

longed for romance. Somehow He bad asked her to say that That is why civil wors are so has con- two most vile murderers in all what should have been the sen- porarity anemployed but was no man or woman who

-she formed a friendship with the Bywaters, who always carried murder. Why prolong history are Eichmana and It- tence for Elciunan?

There are doubt duly malalained by

the mitted

strong arguments decent young Bywaters who was knife as a ship's steward, was so What excuse is Jer.

the We can search The their lives?

Civilisation should br too Welfare State. Eventually

a ship's steward. When Bywaters jealous when he saw the Thomp in favour of maintaining the there for cheating the mallows turies from the beginning of proud to choke him to death. We went to sea Mrs. Thompson sons together that he drew the death penalty but there arc gallows wire restored.

At this point is explain and thus being there eratures time and find no parallel. Their should imprison him in a cell wrote to him innumerable letters knife: the next thing he knew equally strong arguments for the alive in prison at the expense supreme crime was in fact un permitting no visitors, including in which she poured what her was that Thompson was dead. abolishing it. I want to take the

attempt Mr of the tax-payer?

to exterminate The Journalists. le murdered mil-

love for the young steward. Bywaters told her in prison that headlines out of murder. I want meant Again and again I have heard Jewish rate which

the ilons of innocent people and he Agals, and again her letters told Edith Thompson screamed when the condemned man of woman He adds "It is obvious that

R. A. Buller, as Home Secretary,

years in

to be removed from society until space engineering as it stands Is responsible for administering those words spoken by decent killing of women, children and should live out his

how she was feeding her hus- her lover drew the knife.

there is no probability of them today

band with ground glass so as to cannot yet build such the laws that deal with violence tren and women-it anything men with a cruelty and horror solliary confinement.

ever repeating the crime. Women than men. that outstrips language to de- But what has all this to do bring about his death. ships."

and murder. He alone can ad- more by

with The retention. or the London Express Servlet#). vise Her Majesty to reduce the Way aliuld we bear the cost

Actually there was not a word banishment of capital punish- of truth in it but the woman, ment in the elvilised world? My many years older than her lover, answer is that capilat punish- was trying to blud him to her. inent is a barbaric, blasphemous, Then one night when the spending the weekend. Some executions, and in fact to end and inefficient method of dealing Thompsons were returning from how the old fashioned plane did execuilons altogether. with convicted murderers. Yet, the theatre Bywaters confront 12s worit and landed on the lawn Therefore I commend you might ask, why should cons ed them. There were words and of the country house. But alast women who crowded the Albert vieled murderers be kept and suddenly Bywaters drew a kaffe because of the Shun Fein troubles Hall. fed in prison while the tax which was part of his sailor's the Home Secretary would not if it is true that the evil which payers stand the cost of the costume and drove it into open the doors.

men do lives after them. It is jailers, governors and doctors. Thompson's heart. Edith Thomp- Forty-eight hours later By- equally true that the good which

waters and Edith Thompson were women do lives on and on.

"Even if the ship is poprited by the best clemind the, with arorket exhaust speed of over the miles per second, a lunar Ship will tip the vals at less than 3,000 Lana and a Mar- than one at over 25,00

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Quite rightly the convicted murderer has relinquished hir_ rights to live as a freo man in a free society. He has taken lle and must pay the penalty of his dreadful, net. But Christ in His infinite merey would have said:

"Sin no more."

I am aware that many of you rending this London Letter will say: "What about EDING купи pathy for the widow of the murdered man? Why do you keep all your sympathy for The murderers?"

My answer

son shrieked and ran away. By

By plane 1 at

once arranged for an aeroplane to take a reporter to the country house in Wales where the Home Secretary was

deadly.

Look back to the days of Charles Dickens when criminals were hanged for mere theft, Dickens campaigned up down the country to end public

TELEPHONE SELLING-BEATS

TV ADS

THE

New York.

and

the

My answer to should be to SELLING-by-telephone" has suddenly become the U.S. businessman's best friend in helping to boost sales in a sluggish economy. Ameri- can firms are turning to their phones to sell everything from cemetery

this, that society should be too proud to take Vic. As I have isted before the murderer must be detained in prison_and

dented his freedom until death plots to milk and from tyres to insurance.

releases him.

Also there is this fact to keep

The results of this now em- phasis on selling over the tele-

delighted phone have

managers throughout the coun-

the

XBOW

California

which sell cemetery plots, burial insurance and also operate mor- tuarles, began selling help ser- vices over the telephons in 1958. "Our males have been from 19 to 20 per cent higher each year since wo started than they

In mind, that once the gallows

"The Hcence numbers of the Memorial Parks in pales have done their work it is im-

ears are sent to the alalo'o possible to review the crime if

capital which provides the owo- fresh unexpected evidence a try.

erframes at five pennies ench, revealed. There is no reprieve One of the most dramatie We then send out fetters to the from the verdlet of the rope.

exrumples of how

out their car owners pointing At this point I beg your weinique can build up

sales next for new tyres, Two days patience to recall how I became

even in the face of growing com- later, salesmen phone the own convinced that the gallows were

petition la the case of the Gen-ers." an out-dated relle of medieval eral Tyre Company of Los An- Bince General Tyre first tried barbarian? Therefore 1 call the relea:

this system, the company rained ghost of Edith Thompson of Eart

its sales from £85,000 a year London, who was exécuted along

(in 1963) to £425,000 last year with her young lover "Bywaters

and "most of the been due to

"During the day our company rends its 43 local salesmen to

on the charge of murdering her search the big parking lots for cats with worn lyrea" reports husband.

Fain has

would have been without the phone campaign," L. E. Doyle, general males manager, declares,

A small California company that cells popular recordings on ambeeription burls found that telephone phone calla bocated their sales

more then TV ada,

-¿London Exprera Søreic#).

I was editor of Lard Beaver-Willlom Fuqua, general sales work," Mr Fuqua believes. brook's "Bunday Express" at the manager.

The famous Forest LAWA