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The Sad Girls
AROLD felt excep- "I do," Harold answered with
Hionally well-pleased
feeling
the
"Well, you bohaved in a very with life, and it seemed to
extravmdinary manner," said the him, as he sailed along the magistrate, and the officer was Strand, on his way to a entirely justifled in taking theatre, that only one thing action ho did. But I think in all the circumstances, the charge is marred his mood of exulta-not made out. Case diamlased. tion-the faces of those who "Thank you, sir," Harold sald, passed him by in the street. and he took his leave as gravely alanda The faces of the girls he saw, as a native
English in particular. How gloomy, and might, for glum and woebegone, most of winter lay ahead, Them
looked. True, for most of them, a long English winter was beginning, while he, within few days, would be heading to- wards the sunshine of his native South Africa. But still, it
wak
surely a crime for pretty girls to ruin their looks with pouts and frowns as so many of these were doing.
A BIT OF FUN FAROLD decided to do what
He could we brighten up are for the and-looking girls.
picked upon
lie
pretty one who
of these whom un
CHINA MAIL
1949
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1955.
PARATROOPER'S ORDEAL Spends Five Days
Mountains
In
Tacoma, Washington, Dec. 23.
A plucky paratrooper and his doll- like Japanese wife embraced today in a kiss reunion-a Christmastime warm made possible through the sheer courage of a man who refused to die in the frigid mountain wilderness.
1
TURKEY FOR LAST
OF HITLER'S AIDES
Berlin, Dec. 23.
A dwindling group of top Nazi war criminals will eat GI turkey this Christmas in the four-Power Spandau Prison.
Two years ago there were seven of Hitler's aides in the prison. Last year there were six. This year there will be
most four.
Red Accepts started when gt John M. Horan of only five. Next year there will be at the
Challenge To Debate
Communist
It was a happy ending to a story that Maynard, Mass., leaped from a spinning plane last Sunday.
the was the
by
8 Feet Deep
the
The Americans occupy prison's rotating chairmanship His wife, Teruko, and
so Rudolf Hess put is in December, way Horan couple's three children arrived version of "a routine jump when and the four other inmates will at Madigan Army Hospital bed-1 bailed out. But what happened get just about the same type of side at noon today. Horan was afterwards was one big night-turkoy dinner American soldiers saying "How are you" when he mare
get in their mess hall, was smothered with kissCS
Whether Hess will eat his Paris, Dec. 23.
dliner nobody knows, Occasion- Jacques his wife, who wept in joy. leader
Horan also heard acceptent "
good news
ally he goes on a brief hunger The hospital's cardiology com-challenge to
his gaolers a political debate from
strike the Halleni-Socialist chief. Col Robert D. Dickerson
with quotations from "Mein Issued by leader, M. Pierre Mendes who said the paratrooper would
Kampr." "completely recover" from the France.
Trostbite he suffered trampling In a Jetler
to M. Mendes
through the deep snow of the France, the Communist leader
for Cascade Mountains took up the challenge with Uie
days. terse phrase: "I will be pre- sent,"
was staring despondently into a strup-window. He addressed to Duclos her a string of exquisite pliments.
But he did it in Afrikaans, and the girl talled to catch the gist of what he was saying. She fled. So did several others whom Harold, similarly screnaded.
a policeman was All the tias, watching. As the girls scattered, the slicer approached Harold. "What are
you doing?" policeman asked.
the
"Having a bit of fun," Harold said frankly.
CAREFTEE
THE policeman told him to go THE
and Haruld did, away, marching up to another girl. He hud hardly begun his set speech in Alkains, when the police
hum for man arrested
drunk and disorderly.
being
next
day, TU
At Bow Street Harold pleaded not guilty that charge before Mr Bertram Reece.
The policeman told his story
him, Harold asked "Tell me," "ak I try to resist you ai nii?”
"Oh, sir, you were very
police carefree," answered the
JUST A COUPLE
YOU haven't told me what
made you Utink he
drunk wal disorderly,"
magistrato reminded.
wns
Ute
drunk
"Well, sir, he wasn't and incapable, but when i went that his to him noticed breath smelt, and he was a little unsteady on his feet."
"You Dilly enticed that when to him?" went up "Yes, sir."
you went
Harold went into the witness box. He told of the ticket for
his homeland he had just
re
crived; of his happiness,
"What had you had to drink?" {
asked Mr Pegg. the learned;
clerk.
"Oh, just a couple of beers."
A WAR DANCE
"PINTS,
or quarts, or what?"
"Well, say ive beers." "Perhaps the South African 'couple' varies from ours," the magistrate said. "It means "Ave,' evidently."
tonight
No Loss
five
10-
Horun
feet deep
"I guess the snow was eight in some places," he said. "It was soft and I sunk in up over my hips on occasion,"
The Sergeant leaped out of an Air Force C-54 on Sunday story
after noon, when the craft went into a spin over the bleak Cascades. He was relieved to learn the pilot of the plane righted the craft and landed it
Big Donation
For Air Fund
Earlier this evening the In- dependents refused the contest "He has second degree frost-safely-United Press. on M. Mendes-France's terms bile of moderate severity," Cal "but he will said, La Dickerson brut said they were ready take part in a "loyal and ob-havo no loss of digits and he |jective" debute, organised by all should recover completely."
Col Dickerson said he planned parties.
to have forun hobbling" The challenge was issued on day.
is a word Hobbling Faeht
M. when Thursday
the in- knows well. He did it through Mendes-France Invited
on n pair Antoine the mountain siH/W louder,
until dependera
MRP (Catholic) of make-shift suuwshoes Plixas, lender, M. Georges Bidault, and he found US Highway LO and
roadside #
place called M. Jacques Duclos to attend
meeting Rustic Im yesterday afternoon. Radical-Socialst big
The "nightmare" next Tuesday night in Paris.
M. Mendes-France said that, for Horan, who leaped from
they attended they could spinning acroplane last Sunday. "I knew I couldn't stop i 1 reply to the speech he plans
was going to walk out alive," to deliver.-Franco-Presse,
the
Wis
tha
OVET
Was Prison Warden
Master Imposter?
Huntsville, Texas, Dec. 23.
Texas prison officials are convinced they are the latest to be duped by master imposter Ferdinand Waldo Demara,
Washington Dec. 28. *TV entertainer Arthur Godfrey
Dent has $100,000 Christmas cheque
the
Ala to
Alr Force Society to help Air Force familice in need, Society officials said today.
العد
The cheque
represented Godfrey's proceeds from a series of Saturday Evening Post articles about his life.
officials Society Godfrey notified hem that he carlier this week
Society the Was sending the cheque. The Society is a semi-oficial Air Force organisation which pro- financial aid to air- their
families and widows-United Press.
vides men,
Rediffusion
and defice
Religious Services
Religious services also will be but Hosa held at Christmas always boycotts them,
For Admiral Karl Doemitz, Hitler's successor as Fuehrer, 11 will be his last Christmas at Spandau. His 10-year-term ex- pires next October.
con-
And if the four Powers tinue to release the prisoners as they are now doing there might
no one in the prison
Western year. However,
be
off-
ctals deny there la any plan to close the prison down.
They are the only inmates in a prison built to house 580 prisoners, Out of 40,000,000 Germans they are the only ones lert still under four-Fowey rule.
In the British sector prison, the tensions of the East-West conflict aro forgotten and the Soviets join the Western allies there in guarding the survivors of Hitler's clique-United Press,
BOYS AND GIRLS PAGE SOLUTIONS
CROSSWORD:
Re
BEHEADING8: Flag. leg:
Howl
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder was released three months ago
after he owl. because of ill health
1-Water QUIZ: CANADIAN served nine years of a life term.
Street in St. John's Newfoundland. Baron Konstantin von Neurath, Wheat was legal tender in 1963 Nazi
Miniator Foreign
and 3--Food costs show that turkey sold on tad queber "Protector of Bohemia," was for 30 cents each released because
of health market in 1794. Joseph R. Ball-
wood
Thomas Sterry Hunt, a ho served professor at McGül University, in two years ago after
was first used of a 15-year term vented green Ink. eight years
In 1803. 0 Canada's first lighthouse imposed
the by
four-Power was opened for service on April 1. Allied
1734, at Louisbourg, N. 8. Military Tribunal |Nurnberg in October, 1040.
Only Inmates
at
Still in the prison are less, for life, Doemitz, Economics Minister Walther Funk, serving a life term, Munitions Minister Albert Speer, 20 years, and Nazi Youth Leader Baldur Von Schtrach, serving 20 years.
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CHRISTMAS QUIZ: Germany, 2-England. 3-Cranberry, Shows, --Wixo men, —-France. 1--Nuest goose. B-katy, Lanark,
11---England. 12- Candy - caNER Misweton.
O. B. Ellis, state prison system manager, said
13 noon,
Tube Time: 12.15 Christmas Calendar: 12.30, an assistant warden known as "Dr Benjamin W.
Music by Roth Special Christmas Jones" left in a huff on Wednesday night after Show: The Music Box Featuring Julian Gould At the Celeste; 1.15, with magazine photos of News and Weather Report: 1.30, being confronted
Mantovani Memories: "Hospital
Madrid, Dec. 23. Demara, to whom "Jones" bore a marked resem-Requena, Bar Show from Evelyn train schedules with his whistle, sit, Sioz, Bol, Sole Son
presented by Jean; a "Pepito" the parrot, who upset blance.
Knight, Mindy Carson, The Satisfets
is dead. Pepito, who was ro- and a Boat of Other Popular Re- difturion Stars; 4, Christmas In the nowned throughout Spain, Ilved Morgan Manor; 30, Malody Maxic: near the railroad station at the 4.40, Football CommentaryMD V. small town of Cestona near Ban The Army: 6.10, Melody Magic, (Continued); 5.30, Birthday Hall Sebastian. Rhythm Parade: 8.45,
"I'm not going to stay around here and be insulted Jones sald, and stalked out. He hasn't been back.
bearing "Demaza."
al
"No, I had three beers lunch-time, and two in the even ing," Harold said. "I was feeling full of spirits, so I spoke to these
laundry
"This is the clincher," said, "though there hasn't been a doubt in my mind since I saw his picture."
in
operation during combat Korea while posing as a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy.
posing
In
the
ba Festival of Nino Losson and
Stein,
MALTOE WORD HUNT: Hera Is the ust of words we found: se, Emat, item, Lest, Lime, List, Last or Lose, Meet, Melt, Mue. Malot. Mite, moli, Mule, Moit. Most, Mote, Dinit, seem, ble, bit, Mate, Him Stet, Teem, Test, The, T. Tune. Toll, Tome, Tote.
SECRET YUS CHRUTMAS: At Christrous play and make good cheer, but orice a For Christmas
year.
comes
DARTWORDS SOLUTION
"CHUSTOPHER Wren Jarry Spin- ning up Tom Max alingia Tingle
Dapper
Pamper Connie Moxy Malone Alone Lune
Damper
He made a perfect imitation Since then, Eills has found "Dr Jones" was hired by
of the station-master's whistle clothing left behind by Jones prison system last June 1 and Carols, from King's College Chapel, and caused train
Leave to Cambridge: 7 Time Signal and the ahead of time. marked WOS quickly promoted
assistant warden because of his News: 7.09, Weather Report, Al-
The
local railroad nouncements and Interlude; 7,15,
company smart handling Ellie skill
"tough" "Juke Box Parado presented by lodged a complaint against the Wolf Flow Ebb Decilne Fetuse oners, He bolstered his ap- Nick Kendall: 145 Story of The owners but they could not stop Heute Repute Character Leiter Bed plication for work with im- Carola; 8, One Bilent Night-The
credentials and
Btory Of The. Nalivity; B, Raw Pepito whistling. refer aufusion's Voice of Sports, The Today the parrot died after an ences.
Shriro Hit Parade; 930, Hongkong's attack of Indigestion-France- Fashion
Parly. Christmas
Recorded "We have a dossier hero on
at Presse numerous Chrisimas parlles hald him equivalent to anything a
during the holiday Season: 10.30, bank president would require on Santa Claus Rides Again—Testuring д man whose job includes Christmas Music by Allen Roth's Chorus: 11. Trims- large
of Orchestra and amounts
ming The Tree: 12 Midnight, "Merry said. United Christmas Carols; 1250, am, "God
Save the Queen". Close Dows,
girls in Afrikaans. They looked Performed Operation
at me as if I had been a South African barbarian. I almost did
An unidentified convict first
a Zulu war dance for them." called attention to the rese!“ "You realise now, no doubt, blance after seeing stories about that this is a somewhat hazard-Demara in a national magazine, handling
form of fun," "said the which sald Demara had per money," magistrate.
formed
an extraordinary lung Press.
Ov
Ellis
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