THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY,” DECEMBER 30, 1955.
CHINA
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From Prison Cell
Sao Paulo, Dec. 29.
Prisoners in a gaol here gazed open- mouthed through the bars of their cells at
an unusual scene.
On the prison patio they HOW one of their fellow- dark and prisoners, tall good-looking as a film star, and held for alleged compli- city in a murder, embrace and kiss a glamorous blonde who is a real-life Brazillan film and radio star.
What the prisoners had not scen WIL the brief marriage ceremony which now made the prboner and the actres, men and wife in a small, crowded
notary's office not far from the
guol
The newly-weds kissed again,
fund that kiss made the front pages in headlines and pictures in Brazil, where some weeks ago a big news story was con- comed with an editor running his newspaper from his prison vell.
Court To Decide
The bride was $1-your-old Theo Bragu (full
Sebastiana Thereza Braga Couta) who was born in Brzilian town of Jau, and the
bridegroom
Martino.
Was
Jorge
WORLD
COTTON
MARKETS
New York, Dec. 29. Cotton futures worked irregularly higher today
mixed start, after a though overall activity re- {mained on the quiet side.
NEW YORK Prices of cotton futures closed today as follows:
Spol
Mar
May
July
Det
Ure
Mar
May
33.00
33.00
3329
31.87-88
30.14
20.06
29.70
ZU 37
NEW ORLEANS
Prices of futures closed today
as follows:
Spol
Mur
the
May
July
Oct
de
Die
Mar
Mux
Jorge was
A few years ago. sentenced to a 21-year term of imprisonment on
LIVERPOOL
33,00
3390
33.01-37
30.11
20.01-92
29.73
2967
Future closings, in perice per
a charge of | Ih, were as follows.
Old contract,
being concerned in the murder
of
agiri. That sentener sabeequently suspended
WHE and
December/January
March/April
May/June July/August
early next year the Courts will: New contract.
dodde whether
Bouth
can go free.
Chine Morning Post Ltd, Wyndham Street
arou Hongkong
Salisbury Hund Kowka.
NOTICE
BANK HOLIDAY
The Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of
ur not Jorge
Theo Braga Some time ago,
Walk- was viæfting the prison,
ing along a curridor, she saw Π young man on one of the cells. It was Jorge,
May/Ju
Oct
29.00
TRADE and
QUIET TRADING IN LONDON
London, Dec. 29.
COMMERCE SECTION
WORLD RUBBER MARKETS
Rubber
Now York, Dec. 29.
futures today closed
Stocks closed mostly firm in quiet unchanged to 13 points higher dealings on the London Exchange today.
Activity centred on industrials, although English Government stocks and foreign bonds also had brief moments in the limelight.
and Electric
with sales of 438 contracts.
Speculative activity on the terminal market, between com=
mission houses and dealers was promoted by the impending
uncon
weekend holidays and Armed rumours of en Increase in the Indonesia export duty on rubber.
continued
WALL STREET WAITING FOR FORD STOCK
New York, Dec. 29.
Stocks made a stab at a year-end rally today but again failed to carry through under pressure of a noticeable lack of enthusiasm.
Industrials generally moved automobile shares weakened on higher, with engineering shares | reports of possible cutbacks in attracting good support. Hud 1950 American son's Bay, Borax Consolidated, Ford Motors felt heavy selling Musical In- and were off, two shillings at dustries posted gaine. But its worst.
Oils wavered a bit, and closed going unfold. Spot importance to affect the market and more mostly tower. Royal Dutch fell were quoted nominally at than one noted that investors are saving nboul £1, and other leaders cents a pound.
their money for the forthcoming Ford stock offering.
production Tho spot market
slow, with small sales in the Wall Street commentators blamed forenoon including some Marth dullness on the absence of news of sufficient three sheels at 43 cents, wil
offerings
No. 1 Iss
New York Sugar Market
lest around one shilling,
and Coppers metals issues were
other base In demand. but gold cased in quiet trading. Japanese lens were active all
New York, Dec. 20. World No. 4 sugar futures to-day and finished with gains rang- day closed I point lower to 1 point higher with sales of 36 con- to act.
Domestic No, & closed I point Iwer to i pain higher with sales of 90 contracts.
In world raws, dealers under-
ing up to £1. Germann shared to the activity and a few issues
advanced sharply. Press
Futures:
March... May July
Bent Dec
45.20-50
39.60
40.9% $8,00
quiet but afternoon United
stood bid: for further quantities London Foreign
placed with the Cuban
Sugar
Institute at 3.25 cents a pound
YAT without
Institute.
action by the
Other Havana trade reports nute propese has been made to-
of the werd settlement
mill and dock workers
Cuban
strike.
Some agreement reportedly has been reached to permit dock
25.70 workers to resume loading of 25.00 sugur pending a final settlement, 23.00 Futures:
Contract No. 4 (world)
Sep! ...
321
ត្បិតប៊ុន
Exchange
New York Montreal Copenhagen
Frankfur
Lisbur
Miten
Parts
Stockholm
Zurich
Others
Press
were
London, Dec. 29.
2014-2009 2.00-1/10-33-3/11
10.3918-19.33 21.711-11.724.
D0.05-80.15
1701-1702
1631-904
14.824-1458
22.244-13,24 unchanged. Untied
New York Foreign
Exchange
200
20.00
24.03
Egyptian Karnak,
January/February
SAO PAULO ' Future closings,
March
39 34
May
July
Ju cruzeiroS
Kpod-teents per ih tob
per kilo were s follows.
Cuba)
3.23
March
20.20
May
29.25
Contract No. 8
July
20.23
Morch
6.32
October
31 30
Canada
I
May
England official
July
1.40
30-day
-
of 15/16 middling cotton of 14 designated spot markets was 83.17 cents. Sales totalled 18,032 bales.
...United Press.
Sept
0.41
90-day
Nov.
Spot-cente ex-duty,
per
5.52 ct NY
5.23 United Pres.
Belgtum
Uruguay Other PTUS,
"I thought he was very good i looking." she said later, "and he gave me big smile, which returnci. That was the ginning of our romance."
with blan The courtship side the prison and her Dut- recent
public business on Munday.alde, ended for them on the 2nd January, 1956. (The frat week day in January 1,
Hongkong, 30th Dec., 1956.
sunny morning when they met
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on the prison patio preparatory to making the short trip to the marringe office.
The
her
bride exercised privilege of being a few minutes late. She was wearing a light laffeta summer dress and a wile brimmed black velvet hat.
A big crowd
the followed betrothed couple from the the marriage office. prison 10
bridegroom Walking near the wis Senor Fernando І сес Fernandes, Director of the pri son, a big smile on his face.
The procession had to cross one of the busiest avenidas in bustling Sao Paulo, which now claims to be bigger city than the capital, Rio de Janeiro- and stopped the traffic.
The ceremony was conducted by a serious young notary who admitted that he had just com- pleted his law studies.
"I never imagined that 1 should start my career with an unusual wedding like this." said.
The newlyweds returned
he
lo
a
the prison, where there was marriage Acsta with Un elaborate wedding cake, Then, after a brief honeymoon, Jorge went back 10 his celt before dusk,
just
Second Wedding
de
Senhor and Senhora Martino will now be seeing one another on prison visiting days. They are hoping that *s result of the re-hearing of Jorge's case, he will be set free, IN that happens, they will a second wedding. this in church.-China Mail
have
time
Special.
In the US, the average price
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CHRISTMAS
SPIRIT WAS
MISSING
Bonn, Dec. 20. Increased American military and Gorran police patrols will do "everything they can to prevent
RECUITENICO" this weekend of German-American triction that brought a rash of incidents over the Christmas holldays, American officials
said today
The officials sald German authorities met with US military and civil affairs representatives today to work out a solution to the disturbances which were culminated last night with the throwing of stink bombs into local
· hood- military police Quarters
At least 15 nights between Germans and US soldiers' wend. reported in the last few days, and at least 'one German · was injured after he was hit by a thrown bottle-Unitest Press.
JOHNNY HAZARD
CABE
EURDE
2:00 AM. ENJOY YO
YES--BUT FOR A MOMENT I IMAGINED I'D LOST THEM. BUT I HAVE THEM ALL RIGHT!
~ERNIE BUSHMILLER
ANOH
New York, Dec. 29,
**
SINGAPORE The market opened steadied during the with sellera reserved. No 1 rubber per th
Jan. Feb.
Futures:
Mar
Jan.
No. 3
rubber per in rubber per 10.
Jan.
No. 4 rubber par lb
Jan.
[2015-12346 12744-128 unquoled
120-170
12445-125 117-178
Spot rubber unbaled Bankel crepe
128-1285%
-10
130-140
No. 1 pale erepo
LONDON
The market was dull with spot at 37-7/16 penco per lb. Prices:
No Ras root
htruse
Industriel stocks closed slight- ly higher on average; rails and utilities 'lower. Out of a total 1,168 issues traded, there were 527 lower, 380 higher on the day.
American Stock Exchange volume was 1,000,000 shares,
Dow Jonce closing averages WETC:
30 industrials
102.15
20 rails
28
I utilitie
88 stocks
40 bonda
Comm. future price index,
Comm, spol price index Moody's Index
406.50
Only handful moved
政 much as a point either way but there were a few features. US Gypsum fell 18 points to $805 on realising after mockholders approved the proposed five-for- one spili. Warren Foundry lost more than 7 points, also profit-taking after a stock split proposal.
Trading Increased
on
Closing Prices
Alden Inc. Aey. Allied Chemicals Allied Mla In
All Chalmers
American Airline
Trading increased somewhat American Cyamide Co.
Am. Much, & F dry. but over yesterday
still was American Metal light at 3,100,000 shares com- American Smelting 331-352pared with 1,900,000.
American Tel
3726-3716
Settlement
term:
February
March
37-3716 3015-3016
April/June
July/September
October/December
3146-314
General marketa, clf basin, ports; January
303-37
Februnty
3814-37 Estate Crepe thick and this bath unguuted
AMSTERDAM
The market
stoady
Priecs closed today in guilders
Jan. kilogram,
$1.00-3/32
280-8/10 per futures 200 futures
follows: 2.70-3/16 No. 1 rubber 0200 No. 2 rubber 2000 No. 3 rubber
No. 1 crepe
unchanged.-United WETE
I DIDN'T LEAVE HEЯ SIDE FOR A MOMENT. I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIGHTS!
Was
cif
拉燥
3.64 paid
3,66 buyers
Bình nam,
3.76 num -United Press.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
MR.HIGGINS,
THE GENTLEMAN
FROM THE POLICE AGAIN.
HA HA
HA HA HA
YOU POOLT! SANTA CLAUS?
IN TWO HOURS. GUT DOWN TO THE RAILROAD DEPOT.NE MUSTY'T"
PENALIZE HYMNOSTI TALE
SHE'S
PANICKER...
HELLO, CHIEF, WHAT BRINGS
YOU BACK AGAIN
AGAIN? I JUST GOT HERE. WHAT DO YOU
MEAN. HIGGINS
WATCH CAREFULLY, NOW!
By Mik
HONK
By Ernie Bushmiller
I WONDER WHAT'S SO
FUNNY
DEAD END
FAGOT: JUST THE BRAINSTORM TO GET
·YOUR EXCLUSIVE STORY)).
By Frank Robbins
SONIERE REBRİ FOR
A 203 MAKYOU THRNICAM
some
There were few featured American Tod. "13"
Anaconda Copper Papers groups.
hid
Armco Stee! strong spots with Crown Zeller- Armour bach and Union Bag around each.
2 Baldwin-Lima-Ham
Baltimore & Ohio Bendix Aviation Corp. In steels, Youngstown Sheet Benguet Cons
fell 14. Motors Bethlehem Steel
and Tube
moved narrowly,
General Motors again was the
issue, followed by
and Electric &
most active Sperry Rand Musical Industries.
New York Stock Exchange bond volume was $8,680,000,
EVEN
MAGICIANS
Beat
Cantt Carlsberg
Couldn't be fresher!
Libby's
try.
.FROZEN PEAS TODAY
I'M OFF TO APARTY
AND I'M TAKING
ROWNTREES MILK CHOCOLATES AS A
PRESENT/
situation
Can Miguel
Boeing Airplane
Burroughs Add Machine Capadin Pacific R. Case (3. 1.) Co.
C.LT. Financial Corp. Cat. Tractor
Celanese Corp. Chase Manhat. Bank b. Chrysler Motors Colgate-Palmolive Co. Commercial Credit Commonwealth Elec. Consolidated Idlaon Continental Oit at Del. Continental Steel Corn Prochucia Grape Co..... Crown Zelerbach Cuban Amer. Sugar Qurus Weight Diamond Alkal! Dow Chemniçala Dupont de Nemours Eastman Kodak
El Paso National Qas Brio Hallroad
Family Finance Corp. General Electrio
General Foods
General Motors
Gen. Pub. Um
Gillette Safety Razor Glidden Co. ... Goodrich (B. F.) Ch. Goodyear Tire Heyden Chomieni Homstake Mining Co. Ingersoll-Rand Inland Steel Co. Interchemical Corp. Int'l Business Machines Int Harvester International Nickel International Paper Inta Tel & Tel John-Manyšla Co.
Kansas C. Power & Light Kennacott. Copper
Liggett Meyers Tob. Co. Lockheed Aircraft Loews Incorp.
Lone Star Cement Co. Loustilo de Nashville R. Lowenstein & Bons Mesabi Iron Corp. Minnesota Mining Midon Development Monsanto Chemical Co. Montgomery Ward Motorola LG. National Cash Reg." "A" National Dairy Prod. National Distillers. National Lead
National Steel Corp, New York Central [Olin Mathiesona Otis Elevators Owen-linola Glass Pacio Gas & nec. Pacific Western Oil ........ Pan American Airways Paramount Pictures Parka Davis Co. Penny J. C. Co.
Perin. Salt Co. Phillp Morris Philip Petroleum Procter & Gamble Sto Pittsburgh Plate Gla Publicker Industries Pure Ot
Radio Corporation
Republia šiest Reynolds Metal Shell On co Saint Reg. Paper Sinclair On
Boceny “Vizagam South Porto, Rico. Sugar Southern National Ow Southern Railway⋅ (Com.) Bandar Brands Standard Oil of cổ, Standard Oll of Ind. Standard Oil of NJ, Sterling - Drug Co. Stobaly Van__Camp Studebak-Packaid: Corp. Bwite à Co.
Taxas Co.
Tide Water Ann. Oli Twenty Century Fox Extens
Union Chibida
Union Pacilāc
United AlrerKTE U, B. Lane Co. UB. Rubber
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