THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1955.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
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AMERICAN CHURCH LEADERS SAY: LET'S PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON
MAKE NEWS The Real Meaning Of Christmas
Boston.
You don't have to rub two boy scouts together to start a fire.
Bul
you
cun
nchleve the BLMO effect with a pair of woolien Bocks and a puir of plastic bedroom slippers
Kocks
fact,
And
friction
between slippers metually
For 12 years the Jesuit Her- mitage of St. Andrews-on- Hudson, New York, had its own fire cogine waiting for a possible fire. It wen never used. The barn burned down and destroy-
started are in a suitcase in aed the engine. trunk of
Kentucky
car
Clinton,
That's just one of many Are i curiosities of the past year re- ported recently by the National Mre Protection Association.
There was the
from Alabama who did not realise
nan
A Playful Pup
At Syracuse, New York, n six- week-old puppy chewed through an electric cord and touched o D flic that killed blo arch
his trousers were aftre. He had destroyed a parage a wooden leg.
Mioranola,
With no water available fire-
nt Comstock, incen stopped a grUCTY fite from spreading to an adjacent tavern by amashing beer bottles and dashing the contents on the
A
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Fire drove 750 from a theatre In Boston's Rozbury District, Half an hour later, after the laze had been put out, the audience
This was readmitted. Ime it numbered 828.
Aller fining Д Woman do. fendent who had burned news. woman popera to smoke oul her pe the ranged badand.
San Francisco judge lectured her on the dangers of playing Are.
The judge spoke
walls of the saloon. New baked ** $700) value of enth and beads she had licioni the oven and forgot
1 to remove
Fire Siren Fire!
The New Holland, Pennsyl- Vann, Pipe Company was called to put out are that started in the fire siren of the nearby Churchtown Fire Company. The Churchtown Bremen were
nghting a chimney fire.
A Fort Erie,
paper
Ontario, news | reporter phoned and casually asked his wife it there was anything doing. "Our house is on fre?" she cried. The reporter went home and cover- ed the story
A fire hydrant was the scene of a fire
at Bridgeport, Con- necticut, Fumes frotu un under- ground gas line resped up around the hydrant base and burst into Game
A Slasher
Tells His Story
London.
Notorious gang lender Billy turned his back on villainy and crime. ге- cently to join the world of teas and high
literary Nociety.
Hill, who has spent 17 of his 44 years in prison, entered the literary whiri with a splashy party attended by literary #gures, society leaders in mink coats and hoodlums with razor- alasher faces.
Hill, who has two ruzor scars himself, held the party to cele- brato publication of his book The Boss of Britain's Under- world," in which he describes how he masterminded crime syndicates.
He explains in the book that he was always "careful to draw
my knife down on the face... so that if the knife slips you
don't cut an artery."
between
A Distinction
11111 distinguished criminals, who never uso fire. arms er klil, and mugs who do.
"Cutting an artery," he said, "is usually murder and only mugs do murder."
1:1 enchanted the society figures present.
Among them were Sir Bernard Docker, a prominent industri- alist, and Lady Docker, who owns a gold-plated car and is on acknowledged marble-shoot- ing champion.
The gangsters present made fun of the police by wearing cardboard police helmiela. Tho end of the party was signalled by two blasts. from a polico whistle.
British nowspapers expressed shock and outrage over the partyUnited Press.
St Clement Relics For Melbourne
of
Melbourne,
The Governor. ok Victoria, Sir Dellas Brooke- invelled Cross and two pieces, of stone. from the ancient bombed chitrch St Clement Danes, Fleet Street. in a ceremony at St Clement's Church, in the Mel- bourne suburb of Elsternwick
Father Danien conaut · -Mel-
bourne, ir E. Christentum,
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Washington.
The campaign to "put Christ back into Christ- mas" is making headway, a church leader said this week.
Dr
Frederick E. Reissig, Executive Secretary of the Washington Federa tion of Churches,
pre- dicted there will be more emphasis on the religious significance of Christmas; this year than there has been for a long time.
CARDS, TOO
to
From greeting cards
department store win- dows, he said, there is gratifying evidence that Americans are responding to church appeals to Teseue Christmas from "Paganisni." Church leaders woke
several years ago to the realisation that Santa Claus was rapidly sup- planting the ot
infant of
with! right
from the heart, too. His harute
were bandaged as a result burt suffered in u barbecue) blaze.
At Philadelphia, fire started in the Fire Marshall's offer and louched off an explosion of fre- crackers which had been seized i for safe keeping.
Powder Smoke
a11
At Danbury, Conntelicut, upset electric toaster set fire to ple of clothes. The Bues burned through a hose leaching to washing machine and the
were
called
up
Bethlehem as the central figure of America's Christ- mas celebration. They have been making vigorous efforts to re- verse the trend and to re- storo
mensure ณ
of worship and reverence to the observation of Christ's birthday.
The Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal Bishop of
said Washington,
the churches are not trying to take the joy out of Christ. mas, but simply to remind
Christians of the real reason for joy which the herald angels proclaimed nearly 2,000 years ago... "for unto us is born this day a
saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
A RECIPE
Jesus was "not a Puritan," the Bishop said, and would not have his followers shun the gaiety of the season named for him, No
Will Satellites Bring World-wide TV?
Chicago.
Man-made satellites could usher in trans-ocean tele- vision, a scientist said recently.
estimated that
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Scientists Mr. P. Haviland, of General: ensuing stream doused the fire. Electric Co., discussed the pos- satellites, circling the earth on
Al
York,sibility in a paper presented at different orbits "and Gloversville, New Bremen
could provide when the 25th anniversary meeting of alludes.
world-wide TV coverage. "sinoke" came from the window the American Rocket Society. of a house.
Mr Haviland said I turned out to be
satellites should prove valuable in com- a woman powdering her nose.
Firemen fighting a house fire munications, weather charling Mr Haviland pointed out at Montville, Connectient, were and cartographic work involving his paper on "application of the rurprised when water suddenly relatively unexplored areas of satellite vehicle" that present are inadequate for stopped coming from their hose the earth.
techniques lincs. They discovered they had He and other scientists have providing trans-oceanle tele- lald the hose across some rail- suggested the possibility of using vision. But he warned that road tracks and a freight train satellites as microwave relay costs would be a Umiting factor had just passed by. United stations for intercontinental tele-in the use of satellites.United Press.
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Press.
ong of the lemones because of the dodnebilens Barréen – St Clébent | 243. Papes and the Danish commning
long as it is kept in proper perspective.
The Bishop's recipe for a Christian Christmas: "Do not despise the tinsel and coloured lights; do not despise the wrappings, though try not to get wrapped up in them; do not despise the expectancy and joy of children. But do not let the tinsel hide. the kingly person."
ADVENT
In their effort to focus atten- tion on the true meaning of Christmas, many Pro- testant churches have re- cently been re-discovering the Advent season, long observed by Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans and other denominations.
Advent,
which means "coming," is the four- week period preceding Christmas. It is set aside
on
the church liturgical calendar for prayer and thanksgiving for Christ's coming into the world at Christmas. The 1955 advent season begun on November 27.
MIDNIGHT SERVICES
The National Council of Churches has been quietly encouraging Protestant denominations to develop more fully the possibilities for worship during such traditional seasons of the church calendar as advent and lent.
This year a number of Pro- testant churches are hold- ing special week-day ser- vices during Advent, while others are reviving in their Sunday schools the Mediaeval custom of children the teaching
Christmas story through the symbolism of Advent wreaths and Advent calendars.
The practice of holding mid- night services on Christ- mas Eve also is becoming widespread, even among tho so-called "non- liturgical" Protestant donominations which do not observe Advent. The campaign has not been confined to church activi- ties, however.
For several years, Dr Jesse
Bader of the National
of Council
Churches' Department of Evangelism has waged से personal crusade to get greeting card manufacturers to put more "appropriate" plc- tures and sentiments on Christmas cards. The re- sults can be seen in the 1955 lines now on sale.
SANTA COES
of Local federations
churches in several cities have also successfully urged leading stores to feature roligious tableaux
such as the manger scene-in Christmas win- dows formerly given over to Santa
and Claus
red-nosed Rudolph the reindeer.
In Dayton, Ohio, the Cham- ber of Commerce sponsors a number of "Christ in Christmas" projects in- cluding radio and telo- vision programmes, res- taurant prayer cards, and posters.
Many communities also are planning outdoor Christ- mas pageants which will
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