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DON IDDON'S
A WEEK OF
IN NEW
DIARY
館
EXTREMES YORK
It has been a week of extremes jogalost New York's noise, han little matter called the quela
case of
און
Issue
mind.
S
inorc
Belief In Witchcraft And Magic
was
stream
frat
of
Brighton, September 12. Pressing for a more historical Belief in magic and witcheraft | approach to the study of folk did not die in the Dark Apos-illore, Mr. Sayce sald they wer is still very much alive in the witnessing today what might vo Twentieth Century, This is the called the reintroduction of an theory of Mr. R. U. Soyce, Keeper old custom. of the Manchester Museum, who
which "Cremation, propounded it here before the used in the Bronze Age, had a jannual meeting of the British long history in this country and Association for the Advancement it looks as though it may now of Science. In temperature and tension. ning the use of trucks equipped |responsible for that.
|ro-establish itself as F popular Everyone
Speaking as President of relief, with megaphoned.
the custom." hus craved
The boycott of British pictures
and Archaeology longing for a cool current of air The big argument In enter-comes at a time when American Anthropology
De altribulect Britain's back- to soothe the aching cities and tainment is still about
students of wardness in folk lore study to British Alm companies announce
he urged they Sertion, IL.K.$18.00
hoping for the wind of peace to
pictures.
expect a
a return of $30,000,000 folk lore to apply themselves to the failure of the universities to "In Britnin, Producers here have abandoned this year from distributors in the present day as well as the provide training. H.K.$36.00 blow from, Moscow und Berlin to
the alibt that it is the Palestine Britain. They get $30,000,000: we pat calm down Washington,
several universities are prepared The 17th Century folk-lorist, to study the peoples of Afelen, The Blupenclous heat-around ste ILK $72.00
and pressure by boycott get pickets and peanuts, *100deg, day after day-has frayel groups which have removed our. London's Palladium is now after who thought the belief in ancient the tribes of Melanesin or the
the offering him ment's tempers.
superstitions was on polni cultures of Asia," he said. filmg from American screens. The Bob Hope,
been The U.S. is suffering from excuse now is that our pictures money than it has paid any other of dying out, would have
"Why is it that no university national irritation, and luck audience appeal and quality, star. Hope hasn't
made up hix surprised if they could have can show enough interest in our
how much the known
20th own national Ïlfe and to assist her Impatience, previously directThey are not good enough, these In memory of FRED A, XAVIEHed, solely against Russia, is now experts insist.
Actually, the top comedian here Century was to remain connected the new generation of students W with magie ordi witchcraft, to bring us back to our rightful at the Catholle
toward Europe Cathedral on being expressed
This is the most dishonest ex-now, a bigger draw than either Thursday, 10th instant al 7.30
whole.
planation that could be dreamed lope or Danny Kaye on a stage mens, lucky and unlucky acts, pinces in the main
fortune telling and crystal gaz European scholarship."-Renter. The choleric New York Dally
Milion Dally. The simple truth is that Brior in a night club,
not only in the -News and New York
tish Alms have never been better Berle. Remember the name. He and that
districts but In the Mirror, striving to revive isola-or more popular with American is terrifle.
New York's Latin remotest the
great eltics. tionism. nre urging that
audiences.
Quarter is paying him $15,000 a
M. Sayer quoted a recently re- United Nations should clear out
week for filling the pince nightly. ported case brought to his atten- and stay of the United States
Sir Harry Lauder makes yet another farewell appearance in trom Liverpool because they It is quite certain that it and the United States, showmen here thought their ship was haunted;
will try to pair him with Sophie when urreement is reached on the water. The combination would Devonshire vienr who believed
ane had practised squabbleu
black editorials Anglo-Anterlean Dim
magle in his church; and own fumbling efforts during | under such titles "S "Uncle the boycot! here will end, what be irresistible.
I saw Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" Welsh farmer who was convinces | the past three years to dis- Sappo Pays and Pays") damning ever happens in Palestine.
the other evening. Recommended that his neighbour-a grandson cover a suitable policy to the Marshall Plan, European self- You can ignore the power and will tie you
suspense of a "well-known wizard"—had cope with the Soviet Union.shness, and all non-American influence of the Sons of Liberly knots.
a spell over his unimals. Ideas and netivities,
Hollywood supplies the worst
"Even if folk lore were thought In prior dealings with The intest French political crisis The Soos are still in action, of civilised nations, the world has aggravated this attitude, and course, and now they claim they pun of the week: The US, is be- to consist only of superstitious sive Party candidate for Prest- bellets in such things as ghosts, dent, said tonight that segre- .Footnule-ind reminder
wicheraft, amulets, there would gation could cost America its experience the steaming taxpayers are ask-ave virtually stopped the show coming a site for sore aples. with the Russian brand of ing: "What can you do with a of British films here. Well, "diplomatic relations."
lady," he said. bunel of foreigners who change showing of British Blms has Moscow: Agreeing to meet and be plenty of material for us to
virtually been stopped, but not meeting to agree are Government thea
every five The three Western powers;
because of the Sons of Liberty. A different things. minutes" sent top-level representatives
Britain herself is being given!.
About the to Moscow to try to thrash the silent treatment.
has been the Russian Foreign Office concerned with
and speculation on a pos and with Premier Stalin per-sible dance for Princess Mar- that garet. sonally. Presumably, high-level conference reach- Amerleuns have waited vainly British re- d some kind of "agreement for some powerful
of coll action to the severance sular tes between the U.S. and
PATIENCE
After watching the con- ft. duct of Soviet foreign policy for-the past weeks, observer" can afford to excuse their
has had little
'Uncle Sappo
There is a sh
کرده
out the Berlin problem with only news from home
the elgarette
in principle," and set in motion the Berlin conference
tion.
fanuine
Cven
Heat Daze.
the
Just the Quota
ULCER
Into
* tion of sailors · refusing to sali
to
two very
TROUBLE MOST LIKELY ON FRIDAYS
Brighton, September 13.
Antarctic Factory Reopening
Dr.
Peptic Ulcer
cast
Sunday Services
Suggesting that
14
Segregation Destroying America
New York, September 13.. Mr Henry Wallace, Progres-
life.
Mr. Wallace, summed up kits recent tour of the South in the modern folk first of seven 15-minute Monday Tere should be of interest to the night breadcasts over NIIC.
came out of the South with churches, Mr. Soyce continued: "We here frequently regret at the utter conviction that segrega-
prejudice and attendances at Sunday top, racial small services compared with those of Crow can cost America its life,"
I doubt declared Mr. Wallace, 60 years ago. whether this has much to do "I say our fallure to live by the constitution, our failure to abollstr with social changes or
with constitution, our
the
50
mental beliefs.
South
Jim
the roots is an Issue
shorter or longer services. It is segregation strikes at probably connected much more of America. This the U.S.S.B, and the drive against If your stomach ulcer perforates, it will most likely closely with changes in fund above polities, for whatever den- les freedom to the negro destroys of military governors to dis- Russian spies. Those who regard
happen at toa time on Friday, according to a
"His there been any thorough the freedom of whites cover practical means of us is niet
mere appendage
Glasgow University psychologist, who address- hoped
study
what the average men arul
the "Pils
persecuted. But pity making the broad agreement United States hed
It is a can- women-that is the folk-really the persecutor mare. ed the scientists at the British Association Con- that we would kick the Russia work.
and ap
believe about the nature of their cer that eats into the very moral forance here today. Com
ibre of the American people.” But while these facades of consuls out of Britain
Parliamentary
He_recounted strange_stories
Wallace sald that what im- diplomatic carnestnessTM were bitter to Bvestigate rising the results of an. People with ulcers, he salt, at-ils
300 pa-ways wanted to be in the "Frost told of men who had experiene pressed him most on his Southern being scrupulously maintain-activities, on the American model. investigation among ed, the Berlin Communists This dissausfaction with every-tients, the psychologist. Dr.ne of life. There was no adeel great strain und fatigue, and four was that the "basic human that someone should need of the South is reconciling in the the aleen formed at a bare-faced hot starred and striped is Philip Gardner, said that the quate explanation of how or why suggested were hard
ning coffee and publish them. "They our action with what we taught probably temporary.
mun suffering from an ulcer of the stomach, but it was known might have much to tell us about in Church and what we taught in effort to topple the German A steep dive in temperature was likely to have a lean ang that it related to glandular how SOMA age-old
stories school". However,. Mr. Wallace government of Bertin with international and meteorlogical
lar face, sharp.nose, a watch-cretion, dependent on nervous
made originated.
it clear that no mere. the intention of supplanting should crase it.
ful aggressive expression and behaviour affected by the sirain
"The two world wars provided preachment of the doctrine of it with a hand-picked Com-
ceaseless energy.
and stress of Iving.
many instances: during the great love could straighten out the munist regime representing
treat from Mons, troops march-racial problem in the South. ef almost to the limit of their "No," he said, "certain, viola- 10 per cent of the popula-.
Fur the past few
is recorded tons of the words of God may days New
referred to the guturance, Gardiner
ind it peptic ulcer, which, he said, was that many of them thought they have to be stopped by legislation The curious thing, from York has been a stricken city. At
some hours it has resembled
confined to men.
Isaw lights ahead of welcoming and, while, you cannot legislate
, the viewpoint of conven- Mexican village. Great shopping}
"Perforations are most frequent villages where there would be love, you can legislate against
certain nets of hale." tional diplomatic usage, is thoroughfares, such as Fifth and
in December, although they are rest and refreshment,
"Rreently
Atrienz Mr. Wallace said his recent tour bren al- that the Russian sector police Madison-avenues, have
with not connected
Christinas, It has been more
soldier escaped from of the South was the most eye and they who made possible the rape most deserted.
ure nest frequent to- aliye dificult get a taxi, as drivers
wards the end of the Working Tobruk and tried to make his opening of his many trips in that boiling of the Berlin City Hall by
rabs,
the desert to our region. abandoned their
week, and least frequent on Sun Way across Communist mobs get their than in war-time London.
Army. He suffered greatly from The Progressive candidate will days and Mondays. orders from the very Soviet
two-day London, September 13. The pulse of the metropolis
They are most frequent be-thirst and was nearly exhausted. go to Chicago for
"Then. The United Whalers Limited, {tween 3 and 6 pm, and leusi fro- leader who is participating hasn't moved so slowly since the!
condition, conference, (Tuesday and Wod- nesday) with Third Party, farm Christmas. Britain's biggest whaling con-quent during the night. In fact, everything appeared small: in the high-level conferences great blizzard last
Kinof
will perforate when 25in, of snow fell in a few cern, will spend between £4,-the uicer
lenders. He will speak in Buffalo very man looked about the size of -Marshal Sokolovsky. - -- but Everyone longs
hours,
on-Thursday, Rochester on Friday merlin At the most generous. this similar phenomenen now.
000 and £5,000 reconditioning likely on a Friday night about teafowl.
A Glass Of Beer and Boston on Saturday.--United old whaling factory
on time" The furious sun has burned the ita would present the paradox
Press. Ulcer patients felt wratched "We have heard of sailors who. of the Soviet high command bloom off the boom. Wall-street Deception' Island in the An-
on vacation, disliked lying lự
after spending days Vivion, Board and taretic, the sagged into apathy, stores throwing obstacles in
bed on Bunday mornings and weeks in open boats, had visions played very poorly, Dr. Gard of relief ships which appeared path of the peace effort to shops and restaurants have done Chairman told United Press
only a quarter of the business of today.
"They regard their to be visible to several members nor said, which the Soviet high com- last week, night clubs have shut- The plant which is in a run- work as extremely important of the crew. mand, in co-operation with tered, and theatres unguished down condition and bag not and are Interested In serious "On one occasion, a steereman the three Western powers, half empty.
London, September 13. mattors." operated for 17 years, should be
İsitting at the tiller saw a glass In all my 12 years here I've in production by January, 1950,
Colonel Sir John Shute, Com Professor Brinley Thomas, of of beer put quietly in front of is committed.
never known such blighting, blis- Sir Vivian said. He said, that Cardiff University, pleaded for him and he streciched out his servative Member of Parliament But that would insult the tering heat. It has been torture to plars also included the erection the admission of more European hand to it."
for the Exchange Division ok intelligence of the Soviet work-or-think, and many face of an annex_to_can_whale meat workers to Britain when he ad-
Liverpool, and a prominent par- sonality in the Gotion industry, high command, which usual-tories, offices, and shops have sent on the spot.
dressed the Geography and Ani- home their employees
died today at his Cheshire home. Eight Norwegian experts will thropology sections of in mid- ly knows what it is doing.
He was 73.-Reuter, go out to Deception on the Bri-sociation. The alternative assump- I estimate that at least half fish relief bant, John Bisco when
Good Strategy - tion, and the valid one, is New York's population has led she sails in October. Additional
Не влі that it would have that Russia is as determined the place. It is understandable. hands will go out from Falkland
been good strategy to have, wel- as ever to drive the Western There's a nauseating reek over island for pretrunury work.
thousands be comed
of skilled The new machinery will powers out of Berlin; that the Hudson and East rivers.
workers from Czechoslovakia "be- shipped froг.. Britain.
afternoon.
for
St
Str
the As-
in this
ог
even
INCREASED AUSTERITY FOR CHINA
OBITUARY
:
Calgary, Alberta,
September 13. Dr. George Kork, one of the last survivors cf the Shackleton Shanghai, September 14. down on that un-
Antarctic Expedition of 1914, has New rigid import controls died here aged 79.
A total of 95,000 foreign work-designed to take foreign-made Dr. Ross was the ship's sur-
the mob action against the smells unhealthy.
The Russians, blamed for The original factory was built fore the dark shadow of the pri Berlin city government re-everything else, aren't yet being about 1930, but closed down af- son house came presents the positive imple-held responsible for turning the ter a short run. The war pre-happy country.
from reopening. mentation of that determina-lown into
a sweatshop. though vented,
of the standard geen aboard Endurance and sur- When the factory is runningers obtained employment in Bri- luxury out
China' дго tion, and that the high-level there have been some dark hints
pro-vived with a few others when the in the Hearst Preas.
again, It is hoped to extract 7,000 tain in 1947, but this number was living in
the Ministry conferences constitute mere
of th foundered. The big political issues here, as lo 9,000 tons of whale all and almost counter balanced by the posed by
He once werompanied the ex- lp service for public rela-in
whale Britain,
moat. return of 74,000 prisoners of war Commerce and Industry subject) (with untold tons are Peace
to, Germany.Router.
to the approval of the Execu-plorer on a sledge, journey over Insles of les, known as the Ross tions purposes to the prin-honour) and Prices. The Ameri- United Press.
tive Yuan..
Shelf—Reutori ciple, "of international co-can people's demand for a reduc
If enforced it. wit mean that tion In the cost of living has operation.
there will be no imports, and no Fortunately, we have had reached a shrill scream.
sales of commodities such
we
have
Prices are now 73.7 more than
pre-war, and the cost of food is 110.8 above the 1940 figure,
ef
LANE NORCOTT
Feeling The Draft SINA ah English hotel hail porter condescended to notice bags for ladies, no plastic rain Haslund, Christensen, the
Herning
Has
some hard lessons in this
nylons. foreign cigarettes, silks, Copenhagen, September 13, We
cottons, wools and certain clas It was announced · in Copen- school of diplomacy.
SHOULD HOTEL GUESTS BE the dining-room or elsewhere, lift ses of automobiles. have seen it at work in Hun-
SPANKED?
attendant, chambermaid, page, or
There will be no plastic handhogen today that M. gary, in Italy, in France and
60- Dalush explorer, most impressively in Czecho-
manager who has been trained their existence. This very quick-coats, no 61 gauge hose and no ear-old And
Vast armament programmes are slovakia,
He had been en modern lines, 1 cannot agree is brought them to their senses imported liquora Celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistanvera
confined to punishment, par-and we no more trouble with undertaken Боте adjust-responsible for some of this in- that corporal
Chinese-made liquors day. His expedition, which set flation, and we had a reminder ticularly when administered by them. Either they left; bag and wine or
Lout. in October. · 1947, was "to ments of our own diploma of this yesterday, when millor the staff, is the best corrective baggage in the morning, or they and beer
The proposal on passenger have covered about 1,000 miles tic system in the face of of American men between
conformed to our ways. The for guests.
cars provides that none will be from the explored in previous When I took over hotel manag-i There have been those who ages of 18 and 25 began to sign
Today my guests are .under imported of less than seven-expeditions.-Reuter."
and, Bithough have been critical of those their names at military registra- ment some years ago I was faced perfect control,
at the passenger capacity but tion centres. This is n peace- with 1 very dimeult situation, some of them consider me to be same time the FOB. price equi adjustments and we're time draft and appropriately Due to the laxity of my prede a strict manager, this establish-valent to US$1,200 is set as the speaking of the Marshall September has been named the cessor the residents had com- ment is generally admitted by my makimum.
London, September 13. that the Exe- Lord Noel-Buxton, a former: Plan, the draft and the Youth Month.
pletely gained the upper hand, ata to be what Mr. Noel Coward is expected
cutive Yuan will approve some, Labour. Minister of Agriculture, thumping new appropria Married men are exempt, and and were constanty ringing their might call "a happy hotel."
Falihfully yours,
pro-world perhaps not all, of the
travelier and their fingers at
philar- extraordinary tions for the military ser-an
number of bells, snapping
Albert B. Scratchett
visions.United Press.
thropist, died at his home here vices. But their criticisms youths seem to have been aud- the staff, ordering pienle lunches,
Hotel Bon Temps, (Manager),
today, uged
70. carry, less and less convic-denly stricken with true love and coming in late for meals, using hours,
St. Swithin's-on-Sea, tion as the true Soviet philo-stampeding to the altars and the lift after permitted
and generally doing as ey Freedom, Hardly, and Unwilling `closed shop, ain't it? that's a sophy continues
pleased. to unfold.
I also have to report the intro-| All this I changed within the IT suddenly occurred to 115, The two-fold Soviet strategy duction of a new sweet, latest course of a year without allow-Elinor, while searching franti Four Norwegian fishermen entered Parliament in 1905. as a in Berlin is the clearest de- thing in lets you out chocolate ing a single guest to be struck or cally in the grate for cigarette- were landed at full today from Liberal and a few years later re- monstration yet of the utter, and grow thin; an offer by the even mented was simplicity it-famous Four Freedoms which we which picked them up after their a
threatened.
ends. that in addition to the the Hulltrowler Harrovian, presented the sine constituency cynical " expediency. - with | Tournament of Champlons of My
Ho became Minister of Laboué which the Kremin goes $500,000 to Joe Lauls if he'il Dght self. Whenever guests were te-all-enjoy-equally there has now ship, rklex, sank off the after what it wants. The again, which he'll probably as ported to me as being a nuisance, been added, for the benefit of the Lofoten Islands after being in in the Labour Governments
1924 and 1929. His wife, Lady breastwork to thwart that cept the Neat Look replacing ordered that they should be strivileged majority whacking collision with the trawler.
great Fifth Freedom-nothingThey salvaged only their Lucy Edith Nool-Buxton, is at the New Look for teen-agers no Bent to Coventry. drive manifestly must be of more Sloppy Joe sweaters
a Labour Member of or Thereafter they rang their bells less dear, than the Freedom from clothes' and 'n'ridis set before present
Parliament.-Rruter. equally tough-stuff.
tunglingshirt" talls; a
Their ship foundered-Reuter, driva in vain and no waiter, either in Tobacco.
offices.
· FISHERMEN RESCUED
Hull, September 18,
Lord Noel-Buxton was Aide dy Camp to his father, Sir T. Powell-
Buxton' when he was Governor. of South Australia in 1800. He
Labour Member..
of
1.
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