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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-01-08, Page 3X95ce „raided,k the hide-eut and 1,500` lb, of raw opium and 140 lb', 'of morphine, on out- size haul: - Criminal gangs use cituga not Merely to debase addicts to their oWn great gain, but else, to drag young and attractive girls down to their own levels of depravity. A netorliaul t white slave ire, Acker from lVfareellles z ly toured cabarets and bars in respeAteWe'ctuarters of tho ci;tyc,, seeking'tilicel3Ploekheg. girle. Op spotting one, he ,used ell lots tie.•to,--ontice her to his tr -And there told he' r; "My dear, you look tired, You must take one of my golden liqueur speciale. You'll feel marvellous afterwards." The drink he poured out for her was heavily drugged. And when she came, to, she was the Mediterranean's width away in. North Africa, in an establish- ment of`evil repute, having been spirited there in one of the vice king's speedboats. Without money, without help and with almost no resources, such a girl's chances of escaping the life of degradation looming before her were slim indeed. Drugs are even being used in ,,ceetain districts to procure child reartas Or the 'North African slave trade.' Not long ego, while shopping in Lagos, a Woman, heard human cries issuing faint- ly from a large wooden box. She reported her suspicions to the police, Prising open the box, which had air holes punctured in it, they found four native children, each about four years old, All seemed doped. The police arrested a man evehee ehowed proprietary inter- teni ,lligjeox. When their in- qieetigatienel-4are complete they aY.:(kno.N more about a racket ;through eiThicli a iennbee oeena- tiVe childeen have been Mys- teriously spirited away. Egypt, for years a drug traf- ,fielcer'e par'adi'se, now regards dope:dealing as a crithe more serious than murder. At .es.lexan- .dria, not long ago, six drug teaf- tickers were sentenced , to life • imP‘risonment and fined $10,000. One of thefn, a ' caretaker, pleaded.; that his wage was only e. $*0 a month, and with a wife and five small children to keep he e peddled hashish merely to make .ends meet. The judge, however, rejected thie.taa; the man, he said, was .a traffieker in vile ,death. In same fast-living •crieles in America, where wealthy'.clients or irresponsible teenagers seek , spurious thrills, punch bowls full of • morphine are carried retind 'by robed attendants. This poison is not drunk; the attendant Merely fills a- syringe and helps each reveller, when asked, to ram home a "joy shot." But these orgies, revolting in the extreme, are nothing to the final curtain .which each person so addicted must take—a long , drawn agony of craving, pain and depravity. At the root of this evil are the wellefinanced dope gangs, known to Interpol and other in- ternational agencies, which use drugs to dope girls, for the bas- est of purposes and spread,ad- diction among curious, unbal- anced young people. 7 • Such gangs think nothing of destroying life for their own profit. BLOOD MONEY Alva Nicholas, 41, is a red- blooded he-man and boiling with ' wrath because the police of Kansas took a specimen of his blood — six cubic-centimetres of it — after he was involved in a car crash. The offended man claims that his blood. is worth the equi- valent of $10,000 per cubic centi- metre and he is now suing the State of Kansas for $551 000 for the blood taken from him, plus another for "puhitive damages," • BREAKINti THE' ICE — The icebreaker Glacier plows through the ice pack at McMurdo Sounck, Antarctica, making a path for supply ships, which bring in needed materials for members Operation Deep f=reeze ill. I .Z.PY? . $ft lee 10's MOH SCUOR LESSON By Rev n. Barclay Werrett B.11, welITZtterici Pleas. However, the Dilts told the cameraman, that whie corn ,, is, her favourite food, Zsa Zsa has a stomach like a goat and will eat anything that Won't .eat he r, Zsa Zsa also does a 'pretty good job of posing for the photographer. KORNY' KITTY — Mast people„vvould. prefer turkey and all the' fixings for Christmas, but not Zsa "Zsa, `the pet cat of Dwaine and Phyllis milts. For Zsa Zsa, just make it an ear of corn, 4 1 4 The Clnarch'S Power Acts 1:4-8; 2:1-11. Memory Selection; But Ye 0114 receive power, after that the' Holy Ghost is come 0011 you: and ye .shall be witnesses unto 41Juedebao,thaiiind Jerusalemrinsatern aanndd inueatlot the 'uttermost cart of the earth. Acts 1:8, e that have turned the, world upside down are come, hither also," (Acts i17:8). So said the envious unbelievers when. Paul and his party came with the Gospel message to Thesr salonica, What was the source of the amazing poever of the early' church? Jesus had promised his disciples on the eve of His as- :ceneion ehet they 'would receive, power to Witness when they re- ceived the powerl of the Holt Ghost. Ten days later the Spirit came upon 120 believers in the upper room. Their hearts were purified. (Acts 15: 8, 9.) They were filled with ;holy love Per one another and for their ene mies. They had power to suffer and be kind. Stephen, the first martyr, prayed as' he was being stoned to death. "Lord„ lay not this sin to their charge." "With great power gave the apostles witness of the resur- rection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.' On the day of Pentecost these men of Galilee were able to tell of Jesus to the people gathered in Jerusalem who spoke many different languages. Surely this was evidence to those who spoke and to those who heath that the. Gospel was for all men every- where. We heard a returned, missionary tell how that shortly after reaching the field the na- tive House Boy indicated that he wanted to become a Christian. Neither knew the language of the other. She started to pray and to her surprise found herself able to pray with understanding for the boy's salvation in his language. He.believed on Jesus Christ. But then she had to turn to learning the language in the, difficult way that all do. The temporary gift had met a definite need. We must admit that the church isn't turning the world upside down today. We are thankfut for all that is being done in the name of the Lord Jesus . But la the face of the world's need, it isn't enough. Peter, aftet ;;:tecost, spoke of the (HA:: Ghost; *.cvm;z1 God. hath given to, them that obey, inir.," 5:32). Are we failing in daft, ence? God wants to give Hie Spirit that we may have power to witness. 4 1 1 1 4 whenever he finishes the Wash- ington stint. * ' Mr. Benson has made it clear that he •cloesn't.expect this to be, 'soon. The- work he began 'years, ago; in Idaho—the promotion of fanner self-help programs such as the ., organization of coopera- tives and marketing pools—he is pursuing with, characteristic single-mindedness in the De- partment of Agriculture. He be- lieves in it, believes in other aspects of his program, and be- lieves in them so firmly that attacks appear to mean little to him. 4 4 A week or so ago I passed' cabinet officer. He' can return along to you an account of the latest United. States plan to, at; tack the vexing farni surplus problem over there. It "'the brain-child of that greatly-crit-- icizecl Ezra Benson, Secretary 0(„Agricuyure. So here,is.sonte,• thineliiO4 about Mr., Benson and his ideas — a dispatch` from Chicago to the Christian Science Monitor by Dorothea Kahn Jaffe. * * * Tithe: 1939. Place: A meeting of farm cooperative leaders in a Chicago hotel. A newly en- gaged executive secretary ad- dresses the rural' businessmen. —looks like a good man for the job. He has an intelligent, cour- teous way of speaking, a clean, well-scrubbed look, has had ex- perience as a farmer, a county agent, and organizer of coopera- tives 'in Idaho"; has M.A. degree • in marketing. Name: Ezra Ben- t son. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking * * This infuriates his opponents, but it wins respect in friendly organizations like the American Farm Bureau Federation. Here the comment is likely to be: "Well, you know he's sincere." To farmers that means a great deal. S 3 a 21 I 3 I 2:1 1. AVM S • * • No one can charge Mr. Ben- s= with inconsistency. From those days when he served ah, secretary to the organization of big marketing cooperatives to the present, he has stood for policies that will tend to give the farmer more control over his own affairs, policies which he declares are economically sound for the country as a whole. • Regarding these policies he remarked at the Farm Bureau convention in his quiet way: "I have no disposition to re- treat." Russians Launch 'Atomic Icebreaker As the massive hull of the world's first atomic surface ship slid, into, the cold waters of Len- ingrad's Neva. River last month, the Russians proudly announced `the long-awaited launching of their atomic icebreaker, the Lenin. The ship, 'Pass reported, ,displaces 1G,000 tons (as op- posed to 8,625 for the U.S.'s largest conventional icebreak- er), is capable ,of 19 knots in open water, and can crush its way thiough ice 6 feet thick. Powered `by a high-pressure esteani reactor; it "will be able to 'remain at 'sea for several months' without refueling. Some U.S. marine engineers feel that the Lenin's enormous size and weight are due to Rus- sia's more massive reactors. But whatever the reasons, the ice- breaker has at least one omin- ous implication for the U.S. She is scheduled to make Antarctica a port of call in 1958. If she does, the Russians will have available the first real power source' on the primitively equip- ped White Continent, Although the U.S. has a bill for a "nu- clear-powered icebreaking ves- sel" under study, it will not come up for discussion until Congress meets next year. The United States' first can- didate for a nuclear-powered Surface vessel was beginning to take shape at the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s shipyards in Quincy, Mass., when Adm, Jerauld Wright, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, 'was the principal speaker at the laying of the keel for the guided-mis- sile cruiser U.S.S. Long Beach. When commissioned in 1961 the Long Beach will displace 14,000 tons. For sailors used to gun batteries and smokestacks—the Long Beach will have neither— she will present a startling sil- houette with her thick cylin- drical radar towers packed with the latest in detection and elec- tronic countermeasure devices. Next on the Navy's list of mo- dern ships are an atomic air- craft carrier and a destroyer (to be called a frigate). When these are completed, the Navy feels' it will have prototypes for the task force of the atomic age, In a test-towing tank on Eng- land's. Isle of Wight, scientists of the Saunders-Roe Co. were putting experimental "fishlike" hull designs through brisk un- der-water paces. The goal of their studies is an atomic sub- marine tanker larger than the Queen Elizabeth and twice as fast. Lack of surface drag and wave resistance, shoUld enable to the' • huge sub to make 60 knots under water. Although the cost of a nuclear-power plant is high, British engineers point out that the use of atomic fuel eliminates the need for large coal or oil bunkers and leaves more cargo room; radiation problems are simplified by using oil cargo or water ballast for shielding; high speeds insure more round trips per year. If it is built, the tanker will weigh at least 100,000 tons and be driven by underwater atomic jets which engineers now feel will be more efficient than propellers.—From NEWSWEEK. '113,e4t jcpop%,.10_orae$4 With Trip e- ; . sow. CP;ni e ll.).;ieto'rius walked eely twentY''. l';.%; the ebank to collect her fir's cash elle little realized she would soon be in deadly danger. Voe a man had followed her all the Way from her office" and stow he Was lurking outside, waiting for her to leave, After five minutes, Connie re0q appeared parrying a leather satchel stuffed with caelle e d hurried back towards heredfire 'The man, who was well muffled up to avoid recognition, set off after her. As she was hurrying through a -quiet, side street, a short cut ,''``to -quiet, her ,office, she felt a sudden Alt Pain her right arm, and it began to feel numb. She trans- ferred the bag to her left hand and pressed on, though she was reeling fainter with every step. Then, through the mists, of unconsciousness, she was dimly aware 'that" someone was trying to wrench the bag from her grasp, but she held it tightly and struggled forward. , At 'last, 'still clutching the •Iprecious bag,., she stumbled -into hee pffice and collapsed, When doctor examined her he .found "tiny'puncture marks just above her right elbow. She had been ee;,' attacked bY a new type of pay grab bandit—he had jabbed her with,,; a hypodermic syringe,, hoping she would fall uncon- scious and drop the bag. That case, reported from East London, South Africa, reveals just one of the many evil uses to which drugs are being put today. And this trading in hue- man misery is on the increase' all over the world e , . . • • Aware of this, ethtelpet,edee a- ti 9P se:44 91111/1.10,0 q0AMI*Ae nerve' lierginge mernb eieeteverneeree m en tS to increase penalties for those caught and convicted of drug trafficking. The call for stricter penalties was initiated by France, Turkey, India and Yugoslavia, countries that suf- .fer much from the activities of,; ruthless dope Merchants, In Turkeye recently, an Amer-. ican Narcotics Bureau investi- gator posed 'as . a -Wealthy Arab morphine buyer 'to help smash a powerful gang which had its own secret drug conversion la-, boratory near Ushak:ze Here the e geng'i 0 che'rniste,, working.' in. a. 'cellar,' converted raw opiuni into morphine base from which herein could be produced, 'This was'srnOggled, at. fantas- tic profits; via 'agents in Syria and France, to meet teenage and other drug club „needs in, the United States.. • By dee/lone, tietaneellee Amer- icare arranged a rendezvous with the gang's leader. So completely was his.confidence won—or his greed excited by, the Offer of 60,000 Turkiih pounds—that he' consented, after„due haggling, to part with sixty-six pounds of morphine base. But, coming out .Of the gang- sters' lair and seeing the moe- phine package escorted to the car he was sharing with a dis- guised Turkish police agent, the American quickly sensed a dou- ble-cross in the air. A man with a rifle stood by. .About ten other figures lurked in the shadows. It was after midnight, The American thought quickly—and decided on a dou- ble-cross of his own. "Step in- side the car," he told 'the gang's leader, "and we'll settle up." As they got in, the engine roared into life and, driven by the dis- guised police agent, the car shot forward. The American crashed his fist into the drug carrier's jaw. The armed thugs, taken by surprise, poured a fusillade of ,hots after the car. But the po- lice agents had their money in- tact, an itriconscioua smuggler, and a highly incriminating sam- ple of merchandise, Later, a strongly armed pollee decision to offer it on passenger cars caused difficulties in adapt- ing it so as to be efficient at low as well as high speeds. A sports car driver doesn't mind engine roughness at low speeds; pleas- ure car drivers do. Chevrolet sold 2,570 fuel in- jection units this year, but get- ting servicemen trained to take care of them has been another problem, Edward N. Cole, Chev- rolet general manager, said it will be a long time before fuel injection will replace the carbu- retor, After the decision to de-ern- ,phasize speed and horsepower, there was some talk of selling fuel injection on its gasoline- saving features. It's difficult to make a case for this, however, when the high costs are kept in mind, VINE-COVEREDfi COTTAGE --Truly worthy of that title is this venerable building near Ash, England, The chimney of the old house, built in 1615, can just barely be seen peeking eu? from the clinging vines at the top of the photo. consent At:11O-..qti3 it. roe 16. Preceding I Possessive 67 unie sheet, nights ail:teethe 4 Dish of L'.111)84 In 20. At no time office 22 Table greens 28 32 ' . 27. Relieves CROSSWORD 6. Cover 7, Word of afftrmation 30, vesse l 13aelc of a 8. DeterMines 33. Liken PUZZLE It, Jiffy 9, IVIalte broader 34. More useful 36. Bazaar 11, Word of 37. Wharf 39 Advanced 4 I . gProawdcltlettr131,Y DOWN IS Lyric: 43. Bewilder IIorh 2 Denney 23. Singing voice -17. Ilefors 45 Rtc14 . 3. Piloted '24, trhyth m teal 49. Ocean I Past:411er stin t so. Trte 5 17,noNI, IMIrr 26 I-ntItlititif 53. WOO 35 38 39 42 15 I 2 1. 12 36 16 33 ' 4 13 4 29 5 6 7 44 30 41 25 8 37 18 34 14 31 IQ II 26 27 45 46 .14* 48 49 50 47 ,t4 kiamtier 32 MesKed re MI& in Offense itgalrtsf the law 44 Sititti rig neeessi i 5, Roof f 17. Oenipher.S. 16 tin turn, Cl, P,rdoti of phettsantS 22 ;44,3130re:1 25 Thick 23. fInglish rivet 429 reintyr .hobtors , Si I+`other 32, 1;esidell 33, Pennies, $3. Owns sr, Not 043,4 Or,. Compel' 87. Remove the skin 40, St oats 42, ftnmerseS 41, NegessilY 45 Ungrateful nersori 48. 110 ttr4. 81. nevoluttMiatl gen er:t1 at, Or the cotta try 04. tarnproy 51 Fuel Injection On 1958 Cars Fuel injection will be avail- able on some 1958 cars, but there won't be much talk about it. At last year's introduction of 1957 mOdels, when horsepower was still a big selling point, fuel injection was one of the most talked about options by firms who had it. When it came to buy- ing it, however, first it wasn't available — then the cost was staggering. Chevrolet and Pontiac's sys- tem cost more than $400 when it finally got into production. Earn-. bier's system was $395, but the Bendix Aviation Corporation which made it could never get it into volume production. For 1958, Chevrolet and Pon- tiac will still have it available for the racers and gadget fan- ciers, Chrysler will offer the Bendix system with modifica- tions, and Rambler has given it tip, Besides high price and pro- duction difficulties, the indus- try's decision last spring to de- emphasize horsepower added to the factors squelching fuel in- jection as a replacement for the carburetor. Fuel injection is a means — at present rather complicated — of squirting a spray of gasoline di- rectly into the combustion cham- bers of an engine, The carbu- retor, on the other hand, mixes the fuel and air into vapor which is sucked into the engine, writes Everett G. Martin in The Chris- tian science Monitor. There is some fuel-saving ad- vantage to injection — about 10 per cent — but the main selling point is Ile increase of engine ef- ficiency Alainly at high Speeds. On the Pontiac, for instance, the addition of fuel injection raises the horsepower of an engine tie- ing three two-barrel carburet- ors from 300 to 310, Chevrolet had originally lee tended its injection system to be used to get Maximum perform- mice out of the Corvette in sports car races, An engineer said the 54 53 52 2P.1* * Now it's 1957. Some of us who sat in that audience, nearly two decades ago are once again hearing this man speak. Ile still has the courteous approach, the well-groomed appearance. But now, as United States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Benson is a very controversial person. While he came here as the featured convention speaker of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation, which approves his policies, he is, to another farm organization, anathema. The latter organiza- tion pictures him as a man bent on destroying the prosperity of agriculture. Because of the op- position he has aroused, some political leaders within his own party want to get him out. * * * What are the policies which have called forth such radically different reactions? Mr. Benson reaffirmed them and defended them here. Standing before microphones on the vast stage of Chicago's Civic Opera House, before some 2,000 men and women, he reiterated the con- servative stand which has made for him violent enemies ever since President Eisenhower placed -him in his cabinet: • * * "To support prices of farm products artificially, continually and eubstantially above com- petitive levels—at levels which destroy markets and build up burdensome surpluses — this is clearly, contrary to the farmers' interests. We should prune the tree of enterprise, not uproot it." * * Mr. Benson outlined for his farm audience three proposals which he will present to the next. Congress. All are aimed at obtaining legislation which will relax certain governmental con- trols affecting faint operations and expand markets for crops. Nothing new, but wholly in line with the Secretary's thinking. As for this talk about demand- ing his resignation, Mr, Be11,8031 referred to it without ember- rassinont. "My personei attitude is one of resolution rather than resignation," he told the Pant Bureau people. 4, Mr. Benson does not need his present post to keep him been.. pied. Ite has' a job waiting for hint When in 1944 he left the National Council of Farmer Co- operatives, of which ha was ex- ecutiVe secretary, it was to' an- swer the call Of The Church of the tatter Day Saints. He had received a life ap- pointnieet to the church's Council of Twelve, He ac- cepted it ;expecting to remain lit this office' all his days. Actually, he has never given it up, for the church authorities granted Mr tlensori a leave of absence for the duration of his work at 55' 56 57 1111 .Answer 'elsewhere on. this .page.