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"Is Temujin
so wanting for
a woman that he
must quench
his fire with-ice?"/
HOWARD HUGHES.
JOHN WAYNE SUSAN, HAYWARD
THE CONQUEROR
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Pedro ArmorgariZ - ÄÄNES MOOREHLAS - THOMAS COMEŻ - JONN FOYÝ» WILLIAM CONRAD - TED' IN CORESA
A DICK POWELL ProducOne - wiem ty DICAR MILLAND (Pssere iné dveret i DER POWELL.
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ĮSHOCK AFTER SHOCKI HOLE AFTER MILEIT
HIGHWAY
DRAGNET
M
CONTE-BENNETT
THE CHINA, MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956.
EXCHANGE DEALERS APPROVE QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
Beautiful Bookie
If you think that all bookmakers are hard-faced characters, wearing loud checked tweeds, and look at 24-year-old Jo Ann' Matthews will show just how wrong you are. Jo, now known as television's "Miss Racing", entered the racing world at the £4,000 football pool with three of LD. when she shared a
and most friends. She became the youngest
attractive girl Now Jo, who Bookmaker in Britain-if not the only ont. ilven at Maidenhead and has her own greyhounds, employs a As full sinff to look after her offter as ales fa frequently away. well as her television work she has also appeared in five, films, and show business is proving a rival to racing for her time- Reuterphoto.
'TWO GUN BERIA'
WAS JUMPED ON
Paris, Apr. 18.
THE BUDGET Sterling Hardens Against Dollar
London, Apr. 18.
The pound sterling today rose to its Kighest rate against the dollar since August 1954 in dealings between London and New York,
SHRUNKEN
* 30. 5.13, 7ARA NGA NI.
-AND HIS OUN. BROUGHT
LAW TO
A LAWLESS
TIMET
~ RANDULPH
SCOTT
11.
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VZDE MURIT!!
SA LAWLESS-STREET
***** ANGELA LANSBURY
OPENS
Foreign exchange dealers in terpreted this as one Indication that Mr Harold Macmillan's budget "message to the world TO-MORROW yesterday--that Britain wie
HEADS AS determined to protect the pound
A
REWARD
By John Church
London, Apr. 18. GERMAN explorer and anthropologist, Herr Alfred Boeldeko, pulled two tiny shrunken heads: from a bag to illustrate the a lecture here on head-hunting Indian tribes of the Amazon.
Herr
Boeldeke, 48, who has been exploring Amazonia for the past 30 years, told a meeting of the Royal Anthro- pological Society that in 1985 he was given the shrunken bearded head of a white man,
CHIEF'S SON
"gone home"
world's financial centres.
Lrs
Dealers also pointed out that Continental currencies were being
for offered
aterling throughout most of the day on
exchange the foreign here.
market
Tipped The Scale
From markets also as far apar?
Paris and Zurich,
other as
came new European centres that sterling was strong.
Usually well-informed circles said that yesterday's speech by Mr Macmillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had probably tipped the scale to favour of sterling.
Sterling had been showing g of strength for the past two
months, they said, "but today's rule against the dollar wen particularly good.
some extent
in
British stock markets surged
In shead particularly
the in- dustrial shares sections where cil shares were notably strong. Government socurifica gained
He explained that it was a 10-ground, too, over the day, after
ward for saving the life of an Amazonian chief's son,
The explorer also told how, in 1920, he came across a party of white men in the Amazon Jungle and heard them meŋ- tion several English names.
He learned infer that he
had seen the expedition of Colonel Percy Fawcoit, the British ex- plorer, reported "lost" a year before.
The independent evening newspaper Le Monde reported today that Mr Nikita Khrushchev had Herr Boeldeke said that the told the recent Communist Party Congress in Moscow that Presidium members once had to jump on the executed security chief, Lavrenti Beria, and disarm him of two revolvers.
Prisoners
Parade
Algiers, Apr. 18. Seventy-five Inmates broke out of the city Faci at Taza today and paraded through downtown streets, chanting slogans in favour of Uberty.
The prisoners de- monstrated in front of the Civil Governor's residence and then returned quictly to their cells.
A roll call showed that only
one prisoner, a local sheik serving time for Petty larceny, slipped away during the demonstration
France-Presso.
SPANISH
STRIKERS
The newspaper said 1: obtain- et this information from a full copy of the text of the speech of Mr Khrushchev, the Sortet Communist Party leader, to Congress in February at which the campaign against Stalin's personality cult began.
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According to Le Monde, Mr Khrushchov said Beria WES called to a meeting of the party Presidium a few days after the 1953 riots in Berlin and turned and up carrying two revolvers accompanied by a small escort.
he went alone Into the But meeting where other membera
white man's head, which he had brought back, could not be that of a member of the Fawcett exPERMÄDAY.
He believed it had belonged to a white slave trader killed marry years earlier by the Indians. On his last trip to the Amazon jungle Herr Boeldeko took his young wife and eight-year-old daughter, because he said the Indianes are less suspicious when they meet a family than
white
nry alone. described how he had ance lived for several days with the
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mar
tribe of headhunters which last January killed five Ameri- can missionaries in the jungle.
DEVIANTU le
WIDE KNOWLEDGE
KAUTINIAM
# strong opening.
The Rate
'Today's rate for pound sterling dealings between Lon- don and New York was between $2.81 and $2.61-1/16 to. the pound,
The official rate is $2,80 to the pound.
The rate in August, 1954, ranged betwem $2.81-1/16 and $2.81% to the pound.-Reuter,
IT WAS TOUGH SAYS CHANCELLOR
London, Apr. 18. Mr Harold Macmillan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, broadcast said in television
Introduced that he budget,
Hotise The
of Commons yesterday, was a "tough" one. Its object, he said, was to get Britain out of financial trouble for good.
in
"I am more ambitious than just getting out of a bit of rough
" he added. water,
"I know It is difficult.
of the Presidlum icopt on him He said he was sure the mission-/ Britain's
and disarmed · him.
Army Heard
Mr Khrushchev was reported as caying that Bonia, who was executed soon after Stalin's death, had long planned to take over power in the Soviet Union with the help of his security police but the Army heard of his plane.
Le Monde quoted the party chic! as saying that Stalin had once claimed: "I have only to raise my little finger and Tito
ories Were killed because they had aroused the tribe's suspicions by fortifying them- selves in a tree for the right, Herr Bockdcke, who showed films and slides of his travels, has a wide knowledge of the Indians of central Amazonia and has been to nearly ali parts of the 'region.
He has lived with tribes who
Tw
he
"We have a long way to go, but I am sure we can do it."
Mr Peter Thorneycroft, Pre- sident of the Board of Trade, in another budget comment, sald economic elination remained one of almost un- exampled prosperity.
Employment was booming- there was a job for everyone and wages were higher.
Need For Restraint
"It is not a picture of a na- tion unit in the depths of
at first economic crisis-but sight, at least,
of exuberant cannibals and believes
prosperity," he said. may have unwittingly
But there was suspicion caten human flesh himself. that the nation was expanding In three weeks' time he will faster than its real
return to Amazonia, ngain permitted. Hence the need for with his wife and daughter, restraint-Reuter. Mr Khrushchev added: "HO to look for rare plants for San Sebastian, Apr. 18,
British | took both arms to the job and
scientific society. Strikera in San Sebastian he did not succeed."Router. China Mail Special poured back to work today in ever increasing numbers, ond the walkout appeared to be cbout to collapse.
RETURNING (the Yugoslav President) will
San Sebastian, Pamplona and
collapse."
|SOVIET THREAT NOT LESSENED
Teheran, Apr. 18.
Barcelona were the chief centres British Minister of Defence, Sir
of the illegal strike which at one time last week capsed 40,000 men, jo deson, factories and avoritshops and demand higher wages.
The Pamplona and Barcelona strikers returned to work over the weekend, but In San Sebastian the dispute lingered on.
Today saw the first big crack in worker resistance und IMETOUS -factories and work- shops reopened—United Press.
POP
WHATS YOUR
EXCUSE ROR LOITERING AT THIS
HOUR
Walter Monckson today werned members of the Baghdad Part Courich of Ministers that
the Soviet
Не
threat had not lessened, In- formed sources disclosed." Sir Walter reportedly called on
Baghdad Pact members strengthen their defences. urged
they that
do nothing which might weaken the unity of the Western powers, Sir Walter's appeal
mier Choudhry Mohammed Ali airo ruled the Algerian and Kashmir questions bajore, the Council.
resources
Priest Made Getaway
Blantyre, Apr. 18.
At a crossroads in a lonely part of the northern province of Premier Nouri Sald noted that Nyasaland, a White Father, the while there had been encourag Rev. Van der Pol, was busy ing settlements in Morocco and adjusting the straps of the loads
motorcycle.
Tunisia, the Algerian question on his should be settled rapidly in to
Ha finished and straightened conformity with the destres of up to and a large lion, siting the Algerian people.
new him
and gazing at his Later in the day, the Council of activities with Interest.
Ministers mep in a restricted Novior before has a priest in session to which eachí minister a commock mounted a motor- was accompanied by only three | cycle with much speed and alder/---France-Presse,
We sup-
ported by the other members of the Council. · Pakistan Pre-
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