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2* STREET or di*. on te;i: tabs-J •' n a lax fo •• IOR hey olhc ALL MODELS gt ON DISPLAY (lpH0IORS(1Jt2)lTD. THE D EWS No. 183 THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962 (Price: 7 Cents), last And West Berlin ice Battle On Border last Berlin Police Kill Lone. East German Attacker bleed rrind. I haij ii this finitely r than tee cd themselves a period. It is 4Jjj (;\pi-A gun battle raged Wednesday ' 'communist watch tower on the Berlin bor- 1 uvo East German guards were wounded be- V v i-i gimning to death a lone East German .- a day that saw West and East Berlin ] tear gas i-renades at each other along the •t wall. A'"! the Communists accused West u shooting to death a Red border guard Capt. Vcstadt. 35. Tuesday. ;.(.«ei .jid the -hn.it- ;., i-f j-.-ioo: 1/ommu-! of Wcst Berlin, touches on the ....;, i.vitr broke o'U j Communist zone, i -in-bcltcvcd a mem-1 Wcst Bcrliners ,ivinR ncar „,e ... East German l ro- hordw betwe(m E;ist Germnny ■.cMoencd fire appar-. am| Wps) Bcr„n hcnrd many ttempt to shots fired. escape. I Thc tear gas fight occurred fflsH ZONE i on the southern fringes of the - German news!wall when Communist guards IDS' made nn mention '■ threw grenades at a West Ber- /•■-; which occmred lin loudspeaker truck broad- to the borough of; casting news. The West police ■ •« the British sector I hurled grenades back. Fleming Named for Treasury Board j l; REN' KF.I.1.V Aug. 27, a month before Par ti tCPt— Jiistlrr Min-1 liament meets. He said later regained 'Vcdnv.v . thc caucus is being called at such an early date solely because he will be in London for RUSSIAN SPACE TWINS RETURN TO EARTH Land Safely After Epic MOSCOW COMPARISON OF U.S. AND USSR MANNED FLIGHTS Russia—Two manned Soviet spaceships, with Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and Lt. Col. Pa- Flight By JOHN MILLER MOSCOW (Reuters)-Russia's twlfi Cosmonauts came safely back to earth Wednesday after their epic flights around the globe and were greeted by the happy tears of their parents and the exultant cheers of Soviet people. The new space heroes—33-year-old Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and 32-year-old Lt. Col. Pavel R. Popovich—made "pin-point" landings within six minutes of each other in a designated area in the Kazakhstan desert. monwealth prime ministers conference which starts Sept. 10. number of days at the Com- i vel Popovich aboard, orbited the-Earth at almost 18,000 miles an hour August 13th, in a marathon" space 'test pointing to longer voyages to the Moon and Venus, and with no indication of when they would return to Earth. Both Nikolayev in Vostok III and Popovich in Vostok IV reported they felt fine as they continued to loop around the globe in an orbit whose plane was inclined to that of the Equator by 65 degrees, as shown in newsmap here. For comparison, orbital paths of Americans John Glenn and Scott Carpenter are shown. (UPI Photo) ' Soblen Still In London t W tingle vacancy Wafer board. Minister Diefenbaker W Un appointment foi- 11 tor-long cabinet s-*s- f*J lo plans for Ihe -Say session opening t ci discussion of Eii- i Cemmon Market orob- Wenbater said that '« ministers—Im-1 LONDON (Reuters) - Untied Minuter Richard A. j States legal authorities Wednesday appeared to have given up hope of taking convicted Soviet spy Dr. Robert Soblen back lo the United States before next month, Two U.S. marshals who had been waiting here to accompany the 62-year-old psychiatrist to Ncw York where he faces life imprisonment flew home Wednesday, Soblen was on a New Vork- bound flight from Israel when he stabbed himself and had to be taken to hospital in London. World Leaders Praise Spaceflight DUBLIN (Reuters)—U Thant United Nations acting secretary general, met here Saturday with President Eamonn de Valera ,„„,„„„„„ a, Thant arrived Friday night from technology is strained to the rt- Geneva on a short official visit, I most but in spite of that, not ' LONDON (AP) - World leaders hailed the successful end Wednesday of the long voyage of the Soviet space twins. A British expert said the Russians now are so far ahead in space that the United States likely to catch up in the next 10 years. Radio stations in Europe broke into regular broadcasts to give the news of the landing of Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and Lt.-Col. Pavel Popovich after their historic flight. n twin spaceships said to weigh more than eight tons each. Previous Soviet manned space craft havc been listed-at about five tons. The space feat brought out headlines in Western Europe along with the praise of Western leaders, but there was some uneasiness expressed. "The A merle, COSMONAUTS IN TRAINING MOSCOW, Russia—Soviet cosmonauts are seen together during recent parachute jumping trials at a training center. They are (left to right): Maj. Andrian Nikolayev, Lt. Col. Pavel Popovich. <UPI Radiotelephoto) ( only has very little progress been made in reducing the "oe- way but we now have these further astonishing events of the last few days," said Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Britain's Jodrcll Bank radio astronomy observatory. VENUS PROBE NEXT' " . . . I think one must say lhat this Soviet cxpoit has added a new and agonizing dimension to the world's troubles," Lovell continued "I think I could best llustrate this by saying that two years ago the Soviet Union shot down a U-2 (spy plane) which led lo a tremendous international cri- . "I can sec no reason at nil why the Soviets should not now very. quickly be in a position to dispatch American spy satellites in the same manner." ' Lovell urged that the United i From Washington. President States and Russia get togetner Kennedy messaged his congra- in a joint attempt to conquer J filiations to Premier Khr ' the moon. j chev. "More than ever," hc said, ] But in London former "one L? appalled by the foolish-1 President Eisenhower disagreed ness of these two countries al- with the theory that the Rv tempting a common problem in sians "have a space lead competition." I that there is a gap." Indonesia Signs Pact With Netherlands According to Tass, the official Soviet news agency, they landed inside their space capsules. Both Russia's earliei astronauts were ejected from thcir capsules at a low level and floated to earth by parachute, but the Tass announcement of Wednesday's landing said: . . The spaceships Vostok with cosmonaut Andrien Nikolayev aboard, and . Vostok with cosmonaut Popovich :d landed in the predetermined area. lie spaceship Vostok Ul Vostok IV have landed normally." The two men came down south of Karaganda, an industrial town in Kazakhstan, a So- j viet republic in central Asia I larger than thc whole ot West- I ern Europe, and werc believed i to have been flown to the i modrome at Baikonour, 'miles away, from where they jwerc apparently launcicd into (space last weekend. I After several days of res they were expected to undergc the most exhaustive cries of medical tests ever given space travellers to determine the effects of thcir record - breaking journeys. But first official reports wcre that both Nikolayev, wi h 64 orbits and 90 hours of space travel to his credit, and Popovich, with 40 orbits and 70 hours under his belt, were in perfect condition. Tass said thc two men, who grew space beards, ate "an enormous water melon" and wcre given a spontaneous "table-top" reception shortly alter they landed. The reception, Tass reported, was hcld in front of a house close by the landing area. A table was brought out of the buil-.l- UNITED NATIONS (AP) Indonesia and The Netherlands d an agreement Wednesday night for the transfer of West Ncw Guinea from ■ Dutch to United Nations and then to o n esian' administration by 6 Die In Jet Crash CP from AP-Reuters) MELBOURNE - Four Royal Australian Air Force vampire jets crashed near East Sale-Air Force Base, 134 miles from Melbourne, Wednesday. The six pilots aboard were killed. The men were members of an aerobatics team known as Red Sales and were rehearsing toi- mation flying for an air force week in September. An' air force spokesman said the planes ■ crashed "apparently still in formation." Two were being flovn solo and other two carried an extra' pilot as passenger. An inquiry is being held. The formation was • regarded as one of the best acrobatic teams ever produced by the AAF. The planes were believed lo bc doing a barrel roll about nine miles south, of the base when they hit the ground and expind- Air force officials said lhc pilots had-flown-that formation before and it was not considered _erous. Each pilot was of a high rating and widely experienced in several types of aircraft, they said. next May 1. Their action ended a 13-ycar dispute over the territory. Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio signed the sheaf of documents for his government. J. Herman Van Roijen, Dutch ambassador to Washington, and C. W. A. Schurmann, ambassador to the United Nations, signed for Thc Netherlands. The signing was in the Security Council chamber. The UN Acting Secretary - General, U Thant, who had promoted the settlement, called the signing "an eventful occ-i- " It was his biggest diplo matic achievement since hc took office last November. AUTHORITY TEMPORARY Thant said the agreement would give the United Nations "temporary executive authority over a vast territory for the first time in its history" and that all expenses would he shared by the two parties and not "impose a burden on any' of the other member governments." He remarked that with the; gning, Indonesia and The j Netherlands would resume dip- j lomatic relations. i ing and the two men mounted it to receive the cheers of tlie scientists, technicians, journalists and sports officials who had watched the descent. A Tass correspondent interviewed the pair inside the house where they wcre resting. The room was hot and Popovich said "my word, in space it was so much more comfortable." Nikolayev said "'yes, and there were fewer peopl* and less noise." Popovich said "the main result of our flight is that everything ended well and that the program has been fulfilled ar.d that we arc the first in the world to achieve a paired flight ... in a word, everything is fine." Later they talked with Soviet Premier Khrushchev by phone n g an acquaintance they made in space by radio. Without official informatio.i, observers believed the space twins' Vostok III and Vostok IV _. vier—possibly twice as heavy—as the five-ton vehicles that carried Major Yuri Gaga- n and Col. Gherman Titov on ieir record-setting flights. Nikolayev totalled more than 1,500,000 miles in space and Popovich more than 1,250,000 without apparent ill - effects from the prolonged wcighttess- ess or from space radiation. The experience of both men appeared to show that the space-sickness suffered by Ti- his 17-orbit trip more than a year ago was a personal reaction and not an inevitable hazard of space flight. To the Soviet man - In • the- street the scientific aspects of the achievement could not compare with the overwhelming sensation of relief and pride in what had been done. Chile El Teniente is the world's largest underground copper mine and contains 212 miles of tunnels. HULL, Que. (CP)— Medical director Dr. Royer Lachance said Sunday night Sacred Heart Hospital will crack down on persons using its emergency ward as a substitute for a doctor's consulting office. Dr. La- chance said persons with minor complaints were using facilities which should be reserved for emergency. Bomb Kills 26 Persons In Bus BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Twenty-six persons were killed and an undetermined numscr injured by explosion of a bomb Tuesday in a bus carrying civil- passengers near the town of The bus was enroutc from ci) department of Santanda to M: department of Boyaca and about {Bandits Rob Mail Truck Of $1500; RANDOLPH, Mass. (AP)-An ight-man bandit gang armed vith machine ,- guns looted a United States mail truck Tuesday night and escaped with $l,500,000-the biggest cash robbery in the U.S. The haul surpassed the $1, 219,000 Brink's robbery in Boston in 1950. Tlie Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to which the mail truck money was consigned from' Cape Cod banks, reported the amount taken. The Federal- Reserve made,it I clear the money was its responsibility and.that the Cape Cod member banks would stand jio losses "on shipments made in compliance with applicable rules." The holdup team, well rehearsed and acting with precision and speed, was spearheaded by a man in police urn- form, it was hc who caught the two men on the mail ruck off guard. As thc mail truck proceeded along route 3, a bypass in Plymouth on Cape Cod, a car sped I by it. Other bandit cars apparently set up detour signs behind the truck to keep motorists from using the highway while the holdup was in progress. A short time later, the truck came upon one holdup-car in the breakdown lane of he highway and a second car parked nearby at an angle—making it appear to the mail truck guards that there had been an accident. FLAGGED DOWN As the mail truck approached, the make-believe policeman signalled the truck to hal. When Patrick Schena, thc truck driver, slowed down, other gunmen moved into the roadway with menacing machine-guns.. Schena and his fellow guard, William F. Barrett, .were tied, and forced into the rear of. the truck. Some of the gunmen' got in the truck and ' made three stops on the highway northward. Each time they tossed out to confederates some of tl c sealed ; containing the money. There were about 16 bags in all. I 100 miles northeast of Bogota when the blast occurred. Tlie bus was reported blown to pieces. Londono said it was not known who planted the bomb. Tuesday was thc Roman Catholic feast of the Assumption and a national holiday in Colombia. The bomb incident was the worst of its kind since last Christmas Eve, when about 5C persons were killed by a bomb that exploded in the Buga army garrison while families of the troops were celebrating. " The bus passengers were mostly peasants taking advantage ol the holiday to travel to public markets for. shopping. ... Eyes of the pronghorn antelope are as big as those of a horse and it is able to see small objects several miles away ^>-**«ietJimiLMiU**m**aJ'i
Object Description
Title | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1962-08-16 |
Date | 1962-08-16 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
Time Period | 20th Century |
Language | eng |
Type | Text |
Resource type | Newspaper |
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Collection | Daily News |
Sponsor | Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
Source | Microfilm held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies. |
Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries. Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
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Description | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1962-08-16 |
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Transcript |
2*
STREET
or di*.
on te;i:
tabs-J
•' n a lax fo
•• IOR hey
olhc
ALL MODELS
gt ON DISPLAY
(lpH0IORS(1Jt2)lTD.
THE D
EWS
No. 183
THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962
(Price: 7 Cents),
last And West Berlin
ice Battle On Border
last Berlin Police
Kill Lone. East
German Attacker
bleed
rrind. I haij
ii this finitely
r than tee
cd themselves
a period. It is
4Jjj (;\pi-A gun battle raged Wednesday
' 'communist watch tower on the Berlin bor-
1 uvo East German guards were wounded be-
V v i-i gimning to death a lone East German
.- a day that saw West and East Berlin
] tear gas i-renades at each other along the
•t wall. A'"! the Communists accused West
u shooting to death a Red border guard Capt.
Vcstadt. 35. Tuesday.
;.(.«ei .jid the -hn.it-
;., i-f j-.-ioo: 1/ommu-! of Wcst Berlin, touches on the
....;, i.vitr broke o'U j Communist zone,
i -in-bcltcvcd a mem-1 Wcst Bcrliners ,ivinR ncar „,e
... East German l ro- hordw betwe(m E;ist Germnny
■.cMoencd fire appar-. am| Wps) Bcr„n hcnrd many
ttempt to
shots fired.
escape. I Thc tear gas fight occurred
fflsH ZONE i on the southern fringes of the
- German news!wall when Communist guards
IDS' made nn mention '■ threw grenades at a West Ber-
/•■-; which occmred lin loudspeaker truck broad-
to the borough of; casting news. The West police
■ •« the British sector I hurled grenades back.
Fleming Named
for Treasury Board j
l; REN' KF.I.1.V Aug. 27, a month before Par
ti tCPt— Jiistlrr Min-1 liament meets. He said later
regained 'Vcdnv.v . thc caucus is being called at
such an early date solely because he will be in London for
RUSSIAN SPACE TWINS
RETURN TO EARTH
Land Safely
After Epic
MOSCOW
COMPARISON OF U.S. AND USSR MANNED FLIGHTS
Russia—Two manned Soviet spaceships, with Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and Lt. Col. Pa-
Flight
By JOHN MILLER
MOSCOW (Reuters)-Russia's twlfi Cosmonauts came safely back to earth Wednesday after
their epic flights around the globe and were
greeted by the happy tears of their parents and
the exultant cheers of Soviet people.
The new space heroes—33-year-old Maj.
Andrian Nikolayev and 32-year-old Lt. Col.
Pavel R. Popovich—made "pin-point" landings
within six minutes of each other in a designated
area in the Kazakhstan desert.
monwealth prime ministers
conference which starts Sept. 10.
number of days at the Com- i vel Popovich aboard, orbited the-Earth at almost 18,000 miles an hour August 13th, in a marathon" space
'test pointing to longer voyages to the Moon and Venus, and with no indication of when they would return to Earth. Both Nikolayev in Vostok III and Popovich in Vostok IV reported they felt fine as they
continued to loop around the globe in an orbit whose plane was inclined to that of the Equator by 65
degrees, as shown in newsmap here. For comparison, orbital paths of Americans John Glenn and Scott
Carpenter are shown. (UPI Photo) '
Soblen
Still In
London
t W tingle vacancy
Wafer board.
Minister Diefenbaker
W Un appointment foi-
11 tor-long cabinet s-*s-
f*J lo plans for Ihe
-Say session opening
t ci discussion of Eii-
i Cemmon Market orob-
Wenbater said that
'« ministers—Im-1 LONDON (Reuters) - Untied
Minuter Richard A. j States legal authorities Wednesday appeared to have given up
hope of taking convicted Soviet
spy Dr. Robert Soblen back lo
the United States before next
month,
Two U.S. marshals who had
been waiting here to accompany
the 62-year-old psychiatrist to
Ncw York where he faces life
imprisonment flew home Wednesday,
Soblen was on a New Vork-
bound flight from Israel when
he stabbed himself and had to
be taken to hospital in London.
World Leaders Praise Spaceflight
DUBLIN (Reuters)—U Thant
United Nations acting secretary
general, met here Saturday with
President Eamonn de Valera ,„„,„„„„„ a,
Thant arrived Friday night from technology is strained to the rt-
Geneva on a short official visit, I most but in spite of that, not
' LONDON (AP) - World leaders hailed the successful end
Wednesday of the long voyage
of the Soviet space twins. A
British expert said the Russians
now are so far ahead in space
that the United States
likely to catch up in the next
10 years.
Radio stations in Europe
broke into regular broadcasts
to give the news of the landing
of Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and
Lt.-Col. Pavel Popovich after
their historic flight. n twin
spaceships said to weigh more
than eight tons each. Previous
Soviet manned space craft havc
been listed-at about five tons.
The space feat brought out
headlines in Western Europe
along with the praise of Western leaders, but there was some
uneasiness expressed.
"The A merle,
COSMONAUTS IN TRAINING
MOSCOW, Russia—Soviet cosmonauts are seen
together during recent parachute jumping trials at a
training center. They are (left to right): Maj. Andrian Nikolayev, Lt. Col. Pavel Popovich.
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