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CHINA MAIL
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1956.
SIDE GLANCES By
Galbraith
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
WHY DID FADDEN
Order Of The Bath KEEP RIGHT OUT
A
and
hole
instructed that should go with him to prison,
he saying
was id need of
LEAN, tall man, with, He remanded Tom in custody,
shock of grey hair and hunger-hollowed cheeks, approached the counter of the Labour Exchange.
1La nime Wils Tom. said:
"Could you let me have something-just something Ret a meal with, and a bed?”
էլ
medical attention,
NO CONFIRMATION TOM looked much better next
bath
172
ne he appeared, but no one huit been able to confirm The elerk checked through his story about the order of the Tom's papers and found he was not entitled to be given me," said the magistrate, "that probation officer tells any money.
"Here" he said, "I'll give you you had tickets to go after five He handed Tom a ticket Jobs, Why didn't you do that?" thes
"The work of unlesion to reception
was usually 100 much for me." Tom said. centre
"What sort of work do you Kerryškloti centre
the Is
do?" modern prodite term for a work-
house.
נ
'GET STRIPPED' OM trudged off at at last reached the rreption 100
TOM
centre.
He felt terrible. Flere nches shot across his back end
down his artes
Ha head felt twice its proper size, and though the morning was mild be could hurdly control his shivering
"They told me to bring this
•
"Wieding, up, usually," Tom! sald gloomily. "If my health's good I get on quite well with people, But on this was quite se occasion walked a long way back to the
Labour Exchango,
"I
ITS THEIR DUTY'
1
OF THE PICTURE?
FROM H. KING WOOD
Sydney, Mar. 27.
People who are now paying 221⁄2d extra for their glass of beer, 4d extra for the packet_of cigarettes and stiff sales tax increasès on lines that are really every-day necessities rather than luxuries (razor blades and lipstick, for example), are asking where Treasurer Sir Arthur Fadden entered into the picture as far as the latest tax bite is concerned.
Not only did the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, announce that the country had inflation illness and give the causes leading up to it, but he also went on to prescribe the tax medicine that would allegedly
#cure it.
EXPECT It's their duty there to argue, but, being hers," he said to the porter at sick, 1 enuldn't quite, take the the centre, and handed over the strain. I was hungry too." card.
"Have you to family? No it. I friends?**
"No. sir," and Tam
The porter glanced Very
nt well." be said. "g
alripped, the bathroom's there." "Well, shall discharge you
M
But I can't strip, I can't have bath, Tum pleaded. I've
got 'tu, I'm running a tempern- Lupe
NO BATH, NO DED you have a bath and coine "IF
out alive, you'll know It's all right," said the porter with henvy humor
T
"I'm not
taking my clothes
"No bath, no bed," said the porter. Slowly, Tow turned and left, and sel out on the long walk back lo the Labour Exchange.
There he told them what had happened "Sorry, there's noth- ing we can do about that,' he was told.
Tom
red SW
then He picked up a chair and laid about the windows with R, dolog £4 worth of damage before he was bekl.
STILL FEVERISH
court,
conditionally," said the mugis- trate.
'Tom strode away, a trans- forned
Toni, the pleture of heath, who glowed pinkly like a man who has been at work on himwwif with a loofah hups he had spent his week in Wormwood Scrubs,
Court Quashies
Sentence
the
Over
was
WAR
Most observers believed that dithered" in building Canberra he would certainly
carry out and hug sometimes completely the first part of the programme fallen down on the job. and then, if only to escape the He sold that one Minister hack unpleasant publicity of himself one department in Melbourne announcing the extra taxes,
unct one in Canberra. It was have handed
10 the wrong to have is divided ad- Commonwealth Treasurer give the details.
mplstration, The fallure 10 bring the enpital to Canberra due to incets-inerta in members of Parliament, Minis- ters and the Public Service.
Senator McCollum said that under departmental control the of Canberra building haphazard and pincemeat.
had been De- partments had found "Insidious" ways of outwitting other au- thorities by using tricks which would win the
admiration of wou Machiavell
But Sir Arthur wasa'i men- floned nor has he in any waF supported the taxes since they have been an
announced.
Washington, Apr. 2. The US Supreme Court today the 20-year sentenre quashed passed on American Communist sponge. fender Steve Nelson by Pennsylvania State court under p state law for the repression of section
Federal against | Government, AT tite Clerkenwell
Tom pleaded guilty to wil- The decision was taken by a
Labour six-three majority, fully damaging the Exchange. The story of the The Supreme Court also con. threatened bath was told.
firmed on carlier decision of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court which had decided that the Federal "Smith Law" re- placed the Stale law on the re- pression of wedition against the Federal Government
"I'm still feverish, Tom said. magistrate. Mr Frank and looked at
The Powell, nodded him with sympathy- He asked a probation offer to check the
fnets,
"If they did insist on his having a bath when he had in- Ruenza, it does 'sound hardly reasonable," he said.
погея
Afrlen and
new
with
in NSW the
State Cabine: trus. got trucking following
h
talk pep
from Premier Joc Cahill At first meeting of the new the
Premier reviewed the economic position and told his
doubt as
to
over
to
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< 1968 by kta Menas, ma
"I'm on a diet and I couldn't have eaten another bite- but wasn't that a skimpy lunch she served us?"
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SHEAFFERS
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Shot Man Appeals Against Conviction
A man convicted of robbing a Police inspector, who shot and wounded him as he allegedly tried to escape," 'continued his appeal. against conviction before the Full Court this morning.
The appellant, Choi Chi-kong, alias Mer Tsai, was found guilty last December at the Criminal Sessions of robbing Sub-Inspector K. H. Wheeler in the Western District last year.
Mr Justice 3. Wielts and Mr Justice
J. Reynolds comprise the Full Cours.
Appellant is represented by Mr Brook Bernacchi, Instructed by
A.
Mr P.
Mc Remedios. W. S. Collier, Crown Counsel, represents the Crown.
The grounds
that in 1
of appeal arc D summing-up
other- wine favourable to the appellant, the Trial Judge misdirected the Jury or failed to direct them as to the law relating to robbery: and that the Judge, in outlining the nets to the Jury, falled to point out. two most
matters
have seen the
the
material favourable to the appellant that neither the in- spector nor the Police corporal who also
gave evidence could man they were the whole Chatsing
time and the corporal deliberately changed his evidence as to the position in which the appellant he had heard was lying ofte:
evidence before
that
the appellant's the Magistrate as to how came to be shot.
he
Game; that the fact that the
witnesses.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 3 By Alt Philippines, North Barnes, 0 p.m. Thailand, Burma. India, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great Brita and Europe. p.m.
Korea, 0 p.m. Canada, 6 p.m. Laos, 6 pm.
Dy Surface Macuo. p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 By Air Зарди, 1 к.т. U.S.A.. .. Thailand, Malaga, North Beracó, Indonesia. Australia, New Zealand
Philippines, 2 p.m.
and Ceylon, a.m.
Formosa, U.S.A., Canada, & p.m. Thailand, Pakistan, Middle Earh
Africa and Europe. 3. p.m.
Formosa, Okinawa, 11 a.m.
Dy Surface China, People's Republic, 10.30 am, Indo-China,, Noon, Marno, 1 p.m. West Australia,
mantle, 2 p.m.
Parcets via
Philippines. Rabaul, 2 p.m.
North Borea, p.m.
Macao, p.m.
Fro.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3 SUBMISSIONS
D7 Alr Hawaii, 6 a.m. Continuing his submissions,
Japan, 8 4.m, Mr Bernacchi said hia client Peking, Shanghal, Hankow. 10.a.m.
Indo-China, France, 11 s.m. was convicted on the evidence
Thailand, Pakistan, Lebanon, Ger. and the cormippines.p.m. of the inspector
Great Britam. 1 p.m.
Pakistan, Middin East, Africa, Great-
poral, both of whom claimed to
One of the Best repercusSIONIS at the tightening up Fer-annuncement that Great Wal- versal Stores "Gussies" of Britain, hus halted negotiations to Immediately enter the chain store war in this country.
Other grounds of appeal are that the decision of the Jury The complete reason
is that | Gussies could rot
was unreasonable or could not handle the
The advice of the economk restrictions
National
New York, Apr. 2.
be supported with regard to the recently imposed in Britain and inent Committee had been dis- Capital Planning and Develop-
A nine-year-old Boston New York, Apr. 2. at the same time cope
acquitted a second accused with
boy is about to enter his (Young Chi-hung) showed they minor echo in Australia.
regarded and treated with con- The Sperry Gyroscope seventh year of scientifical were not prepared to accept the But this huge British organisa-
¡tempt.
Co. today announced de- ly borrowed time, which is evidence of the inspector and tion, which also has wide In-
In spite of what the Senator has to say |terests in South
to velopment of a revolution- it is pounds
proof that science is going the corporal in relation to that peanuts that piecemeal building ary electronic system pro- to conquer cancer. Canadir, has not thrown in the will continue anyway, it is a viding
cused, and that therefore the Great Universal Stores
should not have been automatic, "split- (Aust) Lid., was
matter of grave registered in whether it s
Six and a half years ago, satisfied beyond reasonable Melbourne
com- doctors said Inst
this child had, at doubt of the guilt of the ap- week
not already too second" control of £2,000 quoted as initial capital
late to prevent the place look-mercial jet airliners which mest, six months to live because pollant, who was the first
Chinese puzzle. Ing like evidence enough that
are expected to take to the acute leukaemia, yet he is the evidence of the same two there
he had acute leukaemia. He still nocused, depending as it did on will be no big scale moves in the
DEAD COALFIELDS airways in the United States healthy and near future,
and flourishing. We visited the vast coalfields
in two years.
It is a PEP TALK
record. And also a on Kurri Kurri-Cessnock
The system, developed over an dumbfounding, seeming miracle. the
eight-year period, is designed for But there is clear-cut cause and weekend and talked bosses and miners
Jel aircraft flying at speeds effect. Science cbout the
Is interfering with the "food" cf growing wave of dissatisfaction ranging from 100 miles per hour successfully that is gathering in the area. to the speed of sound, 760 miles his concerous cells. So tre "lives
This calfield produces some of the best coal in the world fight through Sperry's integrated and scientific director
Dr Charles Cameron, medical have identifiert him as the man Betain and Europe, p.m. While the pilot monitors the but today f
of the they were chasing and who was thousands of tens of "pictorial" instruments, simpli- American Cancer Society, sald
subsequently shot. Ministers that there was need werds, cannot be sold.
it is lying at grass-in other fed radio beam-coupling equip science
Counsel submitted that the Radio Hongkong for "various cronomies".
out the was working ment "ties" the control system ways by which people some day their identification of another evidence of these witnesses, on The bosses say the high cost He told the boys to examine Supreme
to radio station facilities for of production due to high wages automatic navigation,
would live
with caner for as accused, was not such that the of their departments and lack of enthusiasm by the
long as they would have lived Jury could accept it beyond-ren- Summary: 0.03; Stock Market He and not ignore He told them im
system, called the SP-30, without cancer, The he did not
*roiners La forcing them out of contains a safety monitor which expeet everything to
business. Already be done overnight, but urged
He pointed to the discovery of sonable doubt, the guards against "wrong" signals. Insulin.
With Insulin people to get down to hard work. them
Which is all very good. As closing is permanent the little aircraft can respond to an erro-
-has closed down-and if its engages the
the sulin,, system before
they would dia of far as
as criticism of departments
of Bellbird will die be-neous signal.
diabetes, The Boston boy la 19 is concerned, they will have
of examining to do if either works at or depends up-
living because of aminopterin, a everyone in the town plenty
SAFETY MONITOR man-made chemical that in- they carry out the boss' orders on the wo
Omelais said the likelihood of terferes with the use of folle on the working especially the Transport De-
of the mine,
"missed approaches" to runways acid by leukaemie cells-United partment whose way of making
The bosses say they engaged in bad weather would be Press,
labourers three "various economies" is to start fencing on a Saturday morning monitor and the beam-coupling
some reduced by
safely a specia} working cut a plan
to bump They had to pay penalty rates up fores
which amounted to £5.10 a man
equipment. for three hours work £16.10. Those three mon in three hours The fact that Victorians voted dug two post holes each four overwhelmingly to retain 6 pm., feet deep. £8.5 a hole closing of hotels in that Stale about 100 had to be dug to com- did not surprise anyone greatly plete the fence, for Victorians are hard to shaice cut of any established groove.
Pennsylvania State had up- peated against that decision to the United States Court France-Presse.
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NOT SURPRISING
the
team
of the cnc
acid's greatest mines--Bellbird The monitor automatically dis- | live with diabetes; without in-ve a verson which offered a
town
cause
to do
MINERS' REPLY
and
It is not very surprising, The miners say the boss has either, that come Church au- accumulated too much profit, is thorities are demanding another shutting down the mines to work in NSW to test the some of it off and also to use efter 12 months of as an argument against their
claim for higher wages.
The system also has a "prac tically no-drift" gyro to insure automatic, pinpoint navigation even in normal hazardous Polat' regiona,
Boy Sent To
H.K.T.
Sent To planation of the accused. Also, choice. Hank Miller daterviewed
Training Centre
Down
REDIFFUSION':
0, Time Signal and Programme
port: 8.00, Junior Recital, Further Excerpts from Prize-winners Con- The accused, he went on, cert; 8.30, BBC Bandetand. The Royal Artillery. (Woolwich) Dand Conductor: Lt. Col. O.W. Geary, reasonable explanation as to
M.DE. (BBCTS); 7 International how he came to be shot.
Half HourBelgium (Studio); 7.30; (Choi had maintained that he
"First Hearing" presented by Alex at wan
ཐ street stall when he Borrie (Studio); 1.09, Wenthor Re- port: 8, Time Signal and Th15 News and that, immediately was bumped by a running man
(London Belay); 1.09, Commentary. after London Relay) or Special АПУ wards he was shot.)
nouncements: 6.15. Evening Star David Hughes: 8.30, Motoring Mr Bernacchi said there was Magazine. A Monthly Magazine. the evidence of an old lady Edited and introduced by Timely which gave weight to the ex- Birch (Recorded): 8. Time Bignal. The Muste Makare; 9.30, Castaway's It was significant that
one of by Nick Kendall; 10, the Crown witnesses, having Sarehade: 10.30 Book at your
"My Coutin found that the accused remained Bead
Jan" by Antonis Ridga consistent
read by Audrey in his stery through-endes. Episode 12 tiecorded); A three-position switch en-
out, deliberately changed his own 10.45 A Tribute to Dancers; 10.50, Weather Report: 11, Time Signal. gages the fight system. One
story afterwards.
The
Radio Nows Reel London Remy): position provides
evidence the accused 11.15. Goodnight Music; 11.30, Close full, auto- A 14-year-old boy, found matic centrel and another, en guilty of stealing $182 and two save in committal proceedings gages only control dampers is fountain pong, was ordered to and at the trial was exactly the the rudder, elevator and aileron be sent to the Stanley Training same, he said.
2_p.m. Variety Calls, the Tune; mechanisms to old the pilot in Centre by Mr I. T. Morris at
FIRED ON RUN
3. Musical Matinoo: 3.30. Freddy manual flight-United Press. Kowloon Juvenlic Court this
Martin Show with Murray Arnold. Referring to passages in the Merv Grian and the Martin Mou: morning.
Tumo summing-up. Mr Bernacchi sald 4, Tea
Rendezvous; 4.30 Mr Morris told the boy's the corporal in his evidence said Vocally Yours: 6, Children's Corner Conducted by Auntie Patricia:. mother that she could visit her he saw Inspector Wheeler chase 8.30, Plano Recital--By Freda Blank son at the Centre, but the length first accused (the appellant),-Presenting
some examination For trespassing in the Central of her son's detention there and that the inspector shot at pieces of the higher, Intermediate ful It has got the blame for certainly not rich; the towns lack Police station, Lee Wing, 20, would depend on his progress. the sheen of other towns, the was fined $30 or seven days by
the accused in the course of the and advanced graden of this Jour'a our rising road toll, but there
The boy had a previous con- chase and that accused collapsed. Board of the Royal Schools
examinations of the Associated homcy are litle botter are no facts to back ft SUD:
than Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this viction for embezzlement for The corporal said the inspector Music: 0. Band Call: 028,-Birthday... stocks while they have money hns bedn blamed for
the miners live well for they are morning.
which he was sentenced to three fired three or four shots. He fired | Mailbag: young people away from, their
7. Personally Parade not worried about somes at night, but again there days... but they should re- rainy
Insp. K. N. McLeod said Lee months in the Juvenile Remands he ran. In cross-examination, Melodies: Wis scen
Home last September, yesterday are no facts to prove that more member
going
the corporal had agreed that it el Merman) 7.13, Ray Anthony through a corridor refusal to
leading 10
was difficult to hit a target In Year Orchestra: 7.45 The Firtal
& Time Bignal and tho News going out at produce coal 10 years ago was Police Station without reporting young people are
the Juvenile
that way. Asked how many cells at
Weather Report, Announce night now, or if they are they the cause of industry looking for to the inspector on Duty,
hit, the ments and Interfude;"" 8.fo,”
chrico Muicale: 050 Pasting the are going to hotels.
now fuels-and it found them.
After
BECOMES PILOT
Buck-Conducted by: Prof., Dimples, What it has done is to lead to
Mr Bernacchi said that after with a panel including Jerry Lewis, being warned, he was scen better
hotci
Pretoria, Apr. 2. further questioning, the corporal Suphanie Tyler, Anna Briton and amenities and
going to the cells a little later, certainly
more comfortable
He was then charged... drinking. General opinion is that 10 am, closing is now e- cepted in this State and any referendum on the questies would give it far more satle- factory majority than its clos Ivictory in the first vole,
reeling
10 p.m., closing here.
met.
It will be surprising, however, ir their demands Generally speaking, 10 o'clock closing has not been
unsuccess-
A SLATING
taking
The miners are also demand- ing that a tax be placed on fuels
that are competing with coat.
The mining communities aro
that their
SKI LIFT ACCIDENT
TRESPASSED IN POLICE STATION
REMANDED FOR REPORT
ים
A GRANDMOTHER
people the inspector now.
corporal said he'
4.03.
0.30,
ok.
London Stadló
Mrs 1. M. Bridgens, 02-year-admitted that he did not have Paul Du Toit 9. Showcase Featur= old grandmother, who passed her the running man in view during Friend
Saving Selections from 116 Day and "Seven Brides for Qying test here on Thursday, has the whole of the chase.
Keven Broller"; 10, World of become a fully-fledged air pilot.
Episode 27_“We. Who Are About. To Dio. 11, Dale with Dreamiang: 2100, Frelude to Midnight; Ja mi- fight, God: Bavet
......tha› queen;""; Close
She | cokurs,” her instructor said,
Mrs
Special.
Water Situation
Down,
CHARGED WITH
ROBBERY!!
Counsel said there was an nim- Jazz: 10.50 Murdor Midnight.... came through with flying portant discrepancy between the
evidence of
Inspector and Lal Wing-chai, 17, was re-
Bridgens, reported to be the corporal as to where the Graz, Apr. 2. manded by Mr Hin-shing Lo atto only person in South Africa accused was found lying after he One person was killed and four Central this morning for a week to secured a pilot's licence had been shot, others
were seriously Injured for a report from the Commis remarkably well," according to
at that age, hands plane Hearing is proceeding.
'་ When a pollicion starts sini. today in an accident an the sloner of Prisons as to the suit-Pretoria flying men.--Chino Mall ing Governments, particularly Austria's Styrian Alpa
Goesting Plabutsch ki lift inability of his receiving training when he makes no distinction
at the Stanley Training Centro, The accident occurred when between his own
Lai had pleaded guilty to
Ho Ching Bling Chu Taut 25 and the op- the lift, moving at an excessive charge of
unemployed, residing, at 7 Cross position, it is refreshing and
stabbing his step- speed, sent som empty seats mother, Chieng Lai-tong, 39,
The Colony's waler storage ce Hoad, third floor und Cheng Senator J. A Mac Into a horizontal position, hitting during an argument at a copra
March 31. 1otalled 1,078.63 mil- Kam-bun, alias Tal: Chok-bun." Callum is one politician who four persons who were walling slall In
lion gallons, according to emcht 22, unemployed, Robinson Hload
of 200 can do the job extremely well, to get aboard.
Hen New York, Apr. 3. March 24,
figures colgated this morning. nessy Road, first floor, were ras the debate Opening
Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, president" Water
consumed during themanded, for thrós days by kin When the emergency brake report of the select committee was pulled, abruptly halting the
of the board of directors of the week ending last Friday amount D'Almada at Central of Benators, of which he was lift, one of the passengers, was packets of heroin, Mak Kem. Terday resigned huf post.)
Charged wits: possession of 39 General Motors Company, yes.bd to 180.18 malion wallons! moming on a charge of Tople
with c Printed and published by WILLIAM ALIEK GRIRHAM for Canberra's development, he told 40 feet Ho dies shortly after days (by Me 3 Durling At Me Albert Bradley was elected Yield from turiste dur Voeux Road and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 that Government departments words from Injuries-France Control this morning. He was to replace Mr Sloan, France, ing the fame seyen days totalled files, c Wyndham Street, City of Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong, had"; "dawdled, doddered ond
Talibgres Ball On $1,000,
exclusively at
Paquerette Ltd.
161 Des Voeux Road
Tal: 21-157
on the
off
General Motors Chief Resigns
choirman, which investigated hurled from his stint. He fell wing, 24, was remarided for two DeThe company's Vice-Presidenti dion of 2077 20)daży consume-10 It was, alleged': tiation Mai
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