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BAILEY AGAIN CLASHES WITH CROWN COUNSEL
Stop Calling My Remarks Scandalous' Plea
An objection to the Prosecution constantly labelling his remarks as "scandalous" was made this morning by Albert Francis Bailey, 33- year-old merchant, charged with libel at the Criminal Sessions.
"I want to raise an objection to the constant repetitions that what
I am saying is scandalous. The fact that certain people may think cer- tain statements are scandalous does not appear to be a ground to object unless the statements are not true. I don't want to hear it again and again," Bailey said.
de-
Justice Mr
Reynolds clared that he was not going to entertain Bolley's objection. "um in your bands," sald Baliey as he went back into the box in be cross-examined.
is conducting his Bailey, who own defence, is alleged to have
detama maliciously published tory iltels in the form of letters P. H. Sia, Y H. Chan and SK Yee
to
The Prosecution is conducted by Mr Hote and Mr D. N E. Rea Crown Cinsel both
11
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***The fuct
Court of Mi that the
Toton's questiona were were chealed does not bind me fall if implications, he said.
"You are looking in my quez- wrongfully Judgment น
Itions for snags
which are not oblained," replled Bailey.
He maintained
his thore," said Mr Hootun.
"I regral that experience has ripiature
agreement the him and
Bank taught me to look for mags.' between undertaking to repay his over retorted Beiky.
March 17, i The cave is proceeding. draft of $35,000 by
obtained by undus; 12 was influence, and that he did not by 1. consider himself bound
The Courts were also misied by
this.
assisted by Det -Sub-Inspector the Bank
It. Dulman,
BANK SUED HIM Asked about his tigation with the United Chinese Bank, Halley agreed That the Bank sued thr for $38,000 und interest
พนง
uny
Mr Houten, Your case that you ji not Own
because the Bank money wrongly debilted your account.
Bailey Wrongly debilted, which the equivalent of
CARDINAL SPELLMAN LEAVES
Mr Hooton pointed out that ledger produced concerning the overdrawn ac- count.
Bailey declared "The books
the crooked,
Bank is aro crooked. I don't consider mys self bound by it
U
EVERYTHING CROOKED? Mr Hooton; In fact every- thing is crooked except your self.
Bailey Quite a lot is more
expected. I ដ ever learning something more today,
that He stated
the $7,000 which the Bank allowed him to rightly de- withdraw ufter signing the the Bank bitted this account there would agreement was his own money. be no question of the interest”........ ["It is no erime to withdraw My
wrongly one's own money," he added, debitted
Balicy alleged that his account
because uverdrawn Bank helped themselves
13
robbed
So if
account
WOR
CLASH WITH JUDGE Will you answer the question? I am not here to answer any- thing but facts. I am not here to answer questions like "if this happened what would happen."
Was
Austery.
IMPERTINENT
the
to his
When Bailey interrupted Mr Hooton as he asked
The Archbishop of New York. Francis Cardinal Spellman, after a four-day tour of Catholic centres and institutions in the Colony, left for Saigon by Air Viet nam this morning.
Mr M C
Blingsworth, ADC to E. The Governor and the Catholl Bishop of Hongkong
Lawrence Mgr
Blinchi, among the big crowd at the air- port to see him off.
werc
Prior to his departure, Cardinal Spellman celebrated Mass earlier Maryknoll in the fnoraakaug wt
Chapel. Nearly 150 School his ques-
guests from King's Park Resettle- tions Mr Justice Reynolds ment Area were invited to at. Bishop R. Lane, Mary- stopped him, saying that he had tend,
Society throughout knoll
Fathor-General' conducted himself
most impertinent also attended the Mass. the case in a
After the Mass they had break- Balley replied "I have had two fast at the school; and then pro-
One was to defendceeded to the airport, the second was to be a
manner.
Mr Justice Reynolds: You are, Bailey: I don't know what the answers to such questions are. Any question dealing with true fncts
gladly answer will On being
pressed to answer! the question, Badey replied that tholees. if the Bunk were right then herself, i
I have chosen not to would owe them money. "but as yes-muin.
be yes-man." it happens I don't owe them
He accused Mr Hooton of dis- money.
and repeated Mr Hooton reminded him that, torting the facts, the Courts held that he did awe that he did not wish to be trick-
ed mnie schning untruths, this money.
Some
Inquest Into Death Of Accident Victim
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JURY'S RIDER
TRAM COMPANY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1955.; Polio Victim Travels 5,000 Miles
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Mr John Taylor, 28, of Putney, London, caught polio in the In great pain. Ecuador bush where he worked as a geologist, though he did not know the cause, he drove 60 miles by Jeep to hle base. The base, at Gayaquil, sent out a radio 8.0.8. for an iron lung, and a Caribbean Air Command plane rushed one there. Mr Taylor was being kept alive by artificial ren- piration when the lung arrived. The crew rigged up an air* plant to keep the lung operating on the fight to Panama Fourteen days ago Mr Taylor was put aboard the Uner Rangit- ans at Bilbos, for the 5,000-mile trip to Britain, where on ar- rivat he was greeted by his mother, Mrs Huda Taylor,--Lon- don Express Photo,
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SHJAFFER'S
ADMIRAL
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PEN
Our Australian Newsletter POST-CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY FOR SHOP ASSISTANTS
From H. King Wood
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
On the house
EONARD worked in one
of those great London hotels whose managements have to be careful lest they offend their guesta by under-charging them,
Sydney, (By Airmail) It's the silly season in Sydney this week-men in hot-looking lounge suite mingling with holiday colleagues in coloured shirts and tight shorts; women in the height of fashion being smirked at had been spent in such hotels. by girls in backless summer frocks,
All Leonard'■' working life
He started as a page-boy In
now, at 29, bad floor-
waiter.
The streets are busy enough for Christmas ore, and
graduated to being a Eve but shop assistants stand first on one leg then on the other waiting for the odd customer to drift in. The buying spree is over and not even sales seemed to attract the women today.
in
Floor-walters in the hotels, it seems, start at the top and
work downwards.
-For the tips that may come The Davis Cup. on its way supplies before leaving for the the way of a walter on the back to America, was a well Antarctic.
tenth floor, say, where the carned gift for the US team. Tiny Captain T. Ueda, master | rooms are, à -chado less palaflai Don't listen to any Australian of the fleet, welcomed a re- than those below, are as nothing
Juck hard
stories,
gifts The porter aboard smiled, indicated compared to the lavish Americans played outstanding that he could not speak Eng guests bestow in the sultes on tennis and
a number of the lower floors, the doubles | lish, pointed to
went particularly, thoroughly deserv- empty beer bottles, then ed their win
to
sleep. From a strictly business'point Second Officer K. Vemura of view, of course, they did the deputised for the skipper and in
Nowhere else in perfect English regretted that he wrong thing. the world do tennis crowds keep could not offer the reporter any the turnstiles clicking as merrily beer because there was none left. as in Australia;
Uemura said he learned to 28,000 saw the cup each day, speak English in the Fisheries and if it was possible to erect College in Tokyo, His one ambl- the stands, as many more could tion in Sydney was to buy two be packed in,
boxes of coffee and cocoa, So
keen
are we on the game, In fact, that "scalpers" reaped a
More than
•
GOING DOWN
EONARD had progressed na
far as working on the sixth floor.
At the height of the
POJEON
But in
his lips there added up to some thing like 20 a week. the dog-days they slumped. cruelly, sometimes to as little aa
109, or £1.
IMMIGRANT'S GESTURE And now the final Christmas He still had his wages, and, rich harvest. Single seat tickets story unti next year. An with his long experience, should changed hards for as much as elderly New Australian stood have been prépared for the
on the first day on play. £40 on
looking over the heads of decline, ready with a fighter Since
1851 Australia and children gazing into a toy-filled budget, for the family he lived Amerien have shared a net pro-window of a shop in Bourke with his wife, small son, ait of £145,000-£12,500 each-Street, Melbourne on Christmas mother and father.
to which can be added this year a
of more
than
£40,000
car & Eve
proft
He walked into the shop and cach, and as Australia has held said: "Please, if I give you the Cup since 1951 it means £150 will you see that toya are that cash has come from
the sent to the children's homes of local pockets.
handed Melbourne?" Ho
the In America next year themoney across the counter in £5 teams, will be lucky to share notes.
£10,000. 50 from 自 strictly He seemed surprised when £. ad point of view the Ameri-the manager of the store shook
cans are going to drop quite a him by the hand and told him he had done a wonderful thing. lot on this deal.
Anyway, it was good tennis, and they deserved their win.
FEWER UNEMPLOYED
for the One reason
record holiday period is that Australia
Programme
now has less people out of work For Tonight's
than at any time in peacetime
Seating accommodation for the public has been pro-history. vided at Grantham Training College to the conference of
throughout the
the Sub-Committee on Trade of the United Nations Econo Loth measured
Concert by
mic Commission of Asia and the Far East, which opens those receiving unemployment tomorrow morning.
The hall
has
:
But this year, instead of dolog that, Leonard, devised a scheme which he hoped might offset his lowered earning power.
TN
BAIL
the hotel the price of French breakfast.—or" expe complet, as the house name was for the roll, butter, and coffeem was the same as that charged for a packet of 20 cigaretter.
By scribbling on guests' bills a penell scrawl that might have been deciphered to read either cafe complet or Sigarettes Leonard for a time obtained a free supply of cigarettes for himself and his father.
Then
to the hotel tumbled what was happening. A securit officer made his way to relief-fell from 12,014 on
Tonight at 9.30 at the Empire sixth floor, In short January 2
2,702 10
on Theatre is the first of Julius painful interview Leonard December 4,
Katchen's two-plane recitals; plajned to him his system. been arranged Above that, table, the emblem
The number of yacont jobs the second. concert is tomorrow At Great Marlborough Street hangs to hold more than 50, while the of, the United Nations
against next day' che case with the Common at the same time and place. registered balcony has about 100 seats. from the ceiling.
Tonight's programme will Leonard" Was adjourned. This is the first conference of For the opening, the tables wealth Employment Service hed the ECAFE to be held in the which the 110 delegates of the risen from 37,453 on January 2 consist of three major works, Leonard was sot free, on balls
to 05,732 at the end of November, preceded by two of Brahma's will sit, will countries 20 Colony.
Employment has expanded Intermezzos, Opus
A RISE 117, Nos. 1 When His Excellency the kept in two straight lines, with
open the pro Governor, Sir Alexander Gront seats for the public in between during the year in nearly every and 2, which
industry and especially in manu- the platform. facing
gramme. There follows Beetho- A WEEK later he was back in the dock, pale, dark, ham, will drive to the College to them,
facturing, building and construc ven's Sonata No. 23 in F minor, neatly-dressed
man. perform the opening ceremony After the ceremony, publle scats will be greeted will be moved to the back of the
tion and the retail and whole-known as the "Appassionata," tomorrow, he
Ho pleaded guilty to three and then another Sonata, the charges of stealing cigarettes with 81 flags of countries of the hall, and
the delegateo will safe trado,
great B minor
Sonata of HMAS AUSTRALIA SOLD Progressable of Imprisonment United Nations, which have been form a horseshoe.
from his employers, and asked Written and produced holsted along the steep hill to and Escape,
The same British shipbreaking Chopin, not the one. containing for five other cases to be taken At each table there is by Louis MacNeice (BCTS); 10.45,
firm that bought the old cruiser the Funeral March, but a work into consideration. One Night Stand, Arite Shaw and the College.
microphone, and special car- phones are attached to French HMAS Shropshire has now writion some years later."
The story was told to the his Orchestra: 10.59, Weather Re->
The second part of the pro magistrate, Mr Paul Bennett, old flagship Australia.. bought countries. Through
the
of Houssors VC. This vessel also will be towed gramme consists the delegates carphones, theso will
simultaneous in-
aky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." terpretation from English into French. Speeches In French and Russian will be interpreted
A three-man Jury returned an open verdiet and a rider addressed to the Hongkong Tramway Co., in an In- quest held at Central yesterday on the death of a 14-year- old girl who was knocked down and killed by a trumcar els amoureux, 843. Pop Inst year.
Rut
was
for
Green and his Orchestra with vocal:
Wednesday Theatro,
Save
SIDE GLANCES
27 NATIONAL FLAGS In the hall, flugs of 27 coun- tries are erected on each sido of the official table on the stage,
-hear
By Galbraith consecutively into English,
Yan-bot Mr Poon
909-calling as dial Coroner and Sub-Insp. Poulden ambulance and the Police.
Inquiry for the conducted fle
In answer to a question as lo
speaking port: 1. Time Signal. Radio News I whother a tram could be inoved feel Police.
Recorded London Relay): the . Goodnight The verdhet
accident before
Music: 'God "rause of ofler an why death due to injuries received in arrival of the Police, witness The Queen: 11.30, Close Down.
added that it a traffic accident. There was no sald "Yes" and undue negligence on the part of was all right as long us the in- the motormen of tram Cars 1 Jured person
put in the and 10.
charge of a train Inspector. 10." The ruler submitted by the The Coroner asked witness Jury was: "We, the Jury feet whether employees were also that the attention of the Tram- Instructed to make marks of the way Co. should be drawn to the tram's position 'and to gather irresponsible attitude of various DRY eye-witnesses before the employees
Witness 10wards their fu-arrival of the Police. structions na to what to do replied in the affirmative.
Further evidence revealed steps that these measures were not by the tramway gm- at the taken
ployces. This led to the rider being submitted by the Jury.
especially when
people appear
on the tracks and the
which should be taken
time of an accident,"
· MEDICAL EVIDENCE
Medical evidence given by Dr H. K. Li of Queen Mary Hospi tal at the first hearing on Mon- day was that a 14-year-old girl named Szeto Bun died on August 31, 1954, at the hospital!
of
in the brain spaces,
T's cousin, Yuk Kec
testified that she was with Szeto on August 23 and the accident, occurred when they were cross- ing King's Road near Sul Kok Street Street.
As they crossed, she said, they were caught between two trams and it was the east-bound tram which knocked down her cousin. despite her effort; të puli Hor" back in tipe,
to
A tramways Inspector who dentified that he arrived at the
the scene of accident in Umo see the unconscious girl being lald down on the pavement and make certain inquiries, was naked a number of questions by the Jury..
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Japan, 8 p. * Switzerland, Denmark, Norway weders, "a pun.jers formos, p
1bacao, 8 pm,
BAN THURSDAY, JANUARY
Thallied, Buriak, India, Pakistan,
Asked whather, he had ^. any sademont, Adrian, Grow Belania di apbcial butquction to follow in SuperELSEA cheo of a sceldent the witness
replied that. thela standing 30 ww3.com Broers were to help the instaed, Patri
Gisam
HAWAII,
afraid you'll rét, a bradelet
In a typewriter?!
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be
10
SPECIAL POST OFFICE Noar the conference hall, counter has been set where publications of the United Na- tions may be purchased, Another newly erected department is “That'
holds the
special that which post office and cable office. the same counter there
At
are
Three
boxes for documents, telephone booths have also just been installed.
There are also offices for the ECAFE staff,
and
Jorge general office. While in session, tho-doors of the hall will be kept closed, with a sign indicat-
to
rose.
Then Leonard's counsel
England.
"Only last week,” he said. This ship was in commissiori also familiar to music lovers in longer than any other Australian ita orchestral arrangement by the hotel put up this man's warship. She was commissioned Ravel.
In 1928 and paid off on August This work consists of a series was by £1,7 31, 1054-27 years. During the of
sketches
of
peoples and places
"He's been dismissed, I
"suppose he'll be barred from thefirst-class hotels?
FOLLY
war she served in the Atlantic, familiar to the composer; in be suppose," the magistrate asked. at Dakar, was in the Battle of twocn the pictures is s "'pro- Intended to the Coral Sca, the attack on menade" theme, Guadalcanal, many landings in suggest the onlookers who walk w Now Guinen and the islands, from one picture to another. was at Leyte Gulf and tame programune two nights ago Julius Katchen played this conquest of the Philippines.
Maceo to the Círculo de so badly damaged that she had Cultura Musical,
In the last operation she was in
The concert COUNSEL did not answer,
to return to Sydney for docking was attended by the Governor of
There has
My but went on to outline of. Leonard's
been considerable Macao and a large and appre-the excellence agitation to have the Austraila clative audience. A review of character, the highlights of his
踏 салест, tumed into a memorial for tonight's concert will naval men-but now
she has tomorrow's "China Mallar been sold to the breakers at an undisclosed price.
WAR VETERANS' TOUKS Ex-Servicemen of World War I
Arbenz Not Going
Between sessions, delegates, will apollon Anza Behind Curtain'
may relax in a lounge with a Day next year. The visit will bar attached, where they can
obtain refreshments.
US Carrier Leaves
"This was a case of folly us much as dishonesty," he said, "The defalcations were bound to come out
BAR BORU.conard
turned
the magis
enormous
rate You've done yourself
harm," he said.
Packs, Jan, 4.- Ex-President Jacob Arbenz of "Other hotel proprietors will Guatemala: held a press con- want to know why you left this
ence
be part of three tours to Fin and Steand-World War battle fields and will be sponsored by the Returned Soliders Longue for members and their wives,
The trips are all to Europe Intention of golig behind and it is understood that all ex-Iron Curtain, to make contacta lutely, but you must y
Our next bigg -
here tonight to deny Job You have a most excellent categorically that he had any record NDA
de the
#y shall discharge you abe
108: coats, to the *-year-old Arbenz Th
five-
Forty deponed
This is all a great;1 Guatemalan Presidency Inst Ledused. He hung hik haul
first went to Mexico Choly walked
Paris 2003 fréien.
The 38,000-ton American vair». penes are to be paid by those with Soviet leaders, croft carrier Wasp (Capt.making the ripe, y D. Welch) foft, port this mort- Ing in the company of four destroyers, after a recreational visit over the New Year holl- days, :: Theị: accompánying]: dos- werd the Ozbourn, troyers Hollier, Arnold J. Isbell and Frank. Knox,
The transport George Clymer
also lett
our hair down will be the Royal Easter Show and already. record entries have
ceived in many AMRICES
arrived
Amsterdam 15 day
He told repo taking part in The only thing likely to put EVIL ME the
a stopper on this Show growing to Switzer KENSORS ing each year in the fact that which will
* Chiarios port on a recrea- its area, and buildings cari monika.”
tional visit this morning the
paind no more,
fader, picket"submarine Spinax. BESJAPANESE WHALEEK Spike (3,070 dieplacemeen tons): Four Japanend Whalers, with Tubder the command of Com crew totalling 80, call
Sydney Map werk to
he hid