THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1956.
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Interesting News
Stories From
All Parts Of The World
New York's Chinatown
MONTMARTRE WINS REPRIEVE Is Gloomy
ANTIQUE ATMOSPHERE TO STAY
Artists Defeat Skyscraper
Plan For Paris Small Town
Mayor
Bohemian Quarter Has Outsize
Paris.
The battle of progress was raging on Paris's famed Montmartre Hill where many of the best known French poets, artists and writers produced their works.
IL
K Was aimost· <xzelly century aco in 1800-that the Butt Montmartre was incor- pera ed with the city of Paris and became
part of the 18th arrudelias entarni tdkielek,) Until then it had, like most of
the other arrondissentents, been a peaceful village where cows grazed on green grass and farms produced some Paris's milk and butter, Today, a farned tourist land- Dwark and the centre of much
of
of Paris's nightlife, Montmartre
in the site of a battle between
His Worship Led To His Worship
Melbourne.
A Bendigo publican, Mir Alexander Dougherty, found himself in court recently-all because he went to church one Sunday.
He failed le dirpiny a notke
at his hotel saying who was fix
charge during his absence.
Its
those who want to modtamise t arul thuge want to preserve picturesque character,
ROMAN COLONY
Problem
Emines.
is
Jenn Tapissier probably France's most worried mayor.
Jiis tiny village of Erainca (pop: 164) in the Calzado, De-
holds the partment
unhappy record of the greater prepor¬ fom of auicides, murders
deaths. suspicious
In ilve yours four hanged themselves, one killed
wife his
before
and
people
committing
Old Enough To Curdle
London.
THE Milky Way is estimated to be six hillion five hundred million years old, according to "Edlao," Cambridge University's electronic brain.
"The Brain"" took a year to compacte the calcula- tions. which,
says the university, world have been entirely beyond a human brain.
The robot based its exti- mate on the way which
a hypothetical star, d little heavier than the BUT, would change in brightness and colour is
it gradually grew older,
Flying Saucer Man
Visits Australia'
suicide and one died suspicious He Says (With A
In anelent history, Montmart w a wealthy Roman colony, the centre of a religious com-
and it munity,
simple, quiet country villag
About
a century ago, at the ly. Of these seven deaths Montmarine was in objec-look place this year. tive for pleking Parisians. The first suicide poor writers and artists seeking joccurred in 1961 when a rali-
to wade the high rents of Paris way
y-crossing
and the inspirullon which only himself.
six
by hanging
A
in week.
SPACEMAN visited
Straight Face)
Sydney. Adelaide by flying
guard hanged saucer, Mr Fred Stone, National Director of ven felcts could give them After four years of quiet the the Flying Saucer Research Society, said last made Montmartre their head-serica of hangings reamed
April when Ernest Rabet, a 15- quarters:
it rapidly became a Bohemian year-old farmer suffering from contre of artists, models, low- a serious ailment did the same price restaurants and literary in his garret,
rates
On
such frequented by
April 16. Georges tumous figures as Toulouse-Lomaltre, a retired civil servant of GD, also honged himself be Lautrec, Utillo and others, Overlooking Paris, Montmartre
cause, sick, ho refused to go to: 1Tors
Some ambillous hospital. businessmen a perfeet sile for skyscrapers, whose apartments could be sold or rented at sky-
:igh prices.
to
it these profit-lovers, gether with owners of some
shopa. restaurants und
That was a Victorian Licens-would like to see Montmartre
ing Act offence. He was fined
£2.
'The Licensing Acti require-
of
L in for the benefit travellers, or others who might hand to make Inquiries at the hate China Mail Special.
SHIPS WATCH FOR MONSTER
N
Boston.
to
[ORTH Atlantic shipping
This heen alerted watch for a giant reptile expable of Jumping more Hari seven feet from the water. The
900 monster W319 sighted the
olher day by the captain of a Liberian freighter.
He described it as 45ft. long, with 13. ns and a "soft spongy shell like a monstrous turtle."-United
Press.
who
modern residential become quarter of Purls,
a
BITTER PROTEST"
But in bitter opposition to them are
a group of beauty- lovers hended by Paul Yaki and Architect Claude Charpenter who organised Lu Comite pour la Sauveguarde du Site dies Montmartre
Мн Yuki und Charpentier been successful have thing for In killing all plans for sky-
They rempers
obtained the
the of
Paris ognition municipality that Montmartre must remain what it is by having It "classified," which that The spot Is R historic and artistic value aud cannot be changed.
But the pro-progerss putty has not given up the fight and the Yaki Committee has called for the "strongest vigilance" to
Saved In Time
who her
Three days later an 18-year- old girl, Yvette le Huby, did not get on well with prrents tried to hang hemelt in the cellar. But a friend who to visit her saved her ut the last minute.
came
On May 19, Gaskom-Alfred Coucgnas shot his wife Louise to death and then killed himself
'We're In
The Money'
That same day Rear Oclase****** Reput was found dead in his bed, his face swollen and black.
A huge ten-gallon container of RS MRS
A her
5-
The spaceman, a gentleman with very high forehead, visited Da Adelaide factory, where he asked many quK- ilons in excellent English," Mr Sinne added.
A Swdney newspaper reported that it had been given a tiny specke of Angel's Hair, said by Mr Stone to be the residue from the exhaust of a flying saucer, "One HAS Landed"
Angel's Hair-a furry sub- flance that looks like cigarette ash, or a tiny piece of cobweb-- has mineral content, according to Mr Stone.
(resses | Mr Sydney.
Enld Prendergast
Calvados brašidy was found on threw her arms about o chair next to his bed.
husband's neck at autopsy failed to reveal
an Mascot airport last week thing but the inhabitants mained convinced his death was and cried, "We're in the suspicious.
monoy !" As a result of these repeated deaths
Mayor Tapissiers com- was in the red this munal fund year. Since each of the burials was at the village's expenses Mayor Tapissier was complain- ing his 1,000,000 frans annual budget was proving insuffelent.
United Press,
resist all attempts at destroy WHO SNEAKED
the Butte Montmartre's pic- turesque
mixture of unpreten= tious architecture from the 17th to the 10th Press
century United ON THE GIRLS?
SPECIAL CINEMA
SHOW SAVED
PET SNAKE'S LIFE
London.
WHO
London 11,FHO was the sneak who told the headmistress that four her sixth formers wero watching the Australian play- ing Sussex at Hove?
of
That is the question that Is worrying the girls of Chichester High School.
Mrs Prendergast, an orchid exporter, said she had obtained orders for 50,000 orchids during her eight-week visit to the US and Canada,'
Four girls have been suspendt- Throwing her handbar about od because they played truant to her head, she shouted, "The watch cricket, Someone-be- orders are worth more than lieved to be from the school halt n million dollars. fold headmistress Miss E, Dynes "We have got to grow orchids they were at the match.
everywhere. They will pay any On Wednesday Miy Dimes price for them in the States. It told Ron and in us good as oil, three-foot-long grass snakę, was dead, “You'd better suspended them till Monday.
One of the girls was 18-year- "Among the best bury him," they said.
But Osca was a very special snake. Ho moant a lot Bognor Rovis, of Frith Road,
to a lot of boys-for he was the mascot of Rofsa Youth Club, Woolwich.
Then club landor Mr W. "Scotty" Robertson had an idea. He remembered how the snake used to jig about to the club radio...
Perhaps if he heard really LOUD music that would do the trick.
1
So club members went to arc, trick? “June is Bustin! out all Mr. George Cross, manager of Over,"
Woolwich Granada, nad asked:
"Please, please, máy we bring
our snake to the pictures?"
A SPECIAL SHOW
"No," said Mr Croce, "A
enako_can't' tonio to n' public
BAD TYPHOON
DAMAGE
performance. But I'll tell you EVERY 4 YEARS:
what I'll do........" and he agreed to give a special film show of "Carousel"just for Osca
So last week Ron May sat alone in die 2,500-seat cinema with a box marked. "Osca""" on
Tokyo. Disastrous typhicons and flooda. visit, Japan. Inin eyele spaced, approximately four years apart, according to research workers SỬ Itis lap
the Central. Meteorological Ob- At first which tho mereophonic fervatory after they had studied round boomed round the box, #alistics envering the last 40 the enoko didn't move years, or capering the date
The report soted that Japan --and · Osca TWITCHED, Angered heaby typhoon and few more notes and he raised | 'flood damago in 1917, 1931, 1930, his head and SWAYED MANHADA 1930, - 1934, 1930, 1912, 1946, 145 Omen had come back to -nfe. | 1940 and 1954.--China, Mali
MARIGOTLET Jong "tint slid” the fspécial;
old Mary
Hor
to
|er and is tremendously-locen - pri
Stone said he was "con- vinced that at least one flying saucer had made contact with Australian moll,
"WC
have nothing to fear from there visitantethey only here to help us," he said.
"The men who control lying saucers come, we believe, trom other
our planets in
solar system.
Greater Knowledge
They have far greater know- ledge than anyone on earth, and come os aur brothers.”
Commenting on America's efforis to Jaunch artificial satellites during tho Inder- national Geophysical Year, Mr Stone said: "They will not be the first artificial satellites the earth has,
"There are two already eireling 500 miles above the earth's surface-the mother ships of the flying saucers which aft keeping a constant watch on earth's progress' in the atomie
Meanwalle, in Adelaide, Flying Saucer Research Society mem ber Keith Cartwright has in- vented a flying saucer trap.
Hopes To Ring Bell
The saucer trap is a simple invention made from a doorbeil, magneila compass needle, and headlamp battery, de
Flying sauces, says Mr Cart- wright, will give warning of * their approach by deflecting the
from compass Doodle magncils north,
tho
" have so many orders. I am mother
wald: "Mary worried about whether I shall an ambition be be able to get enough orchids
The deflection will complete. como a physical education teach to meet them,
an electrical circuit and cauge sport She thought watching the can experts told her Australian
Mrs Prendergast sald Ameri- the doorbell to ring,
On June 30, international Australians would bo educalive." orchids were among the world's sighting day," Mr Cartwright
finest.
and enthusiasts in other parts of "Over there, orchids are part the world will keep watch for ....................................* | of a woman's dress," she said. Iflying caticers,
Toronto,
Rough: ! carried the Telegram
“Msiat nell or get divorce: Falz irona, pulter," three wooode, one bag, a pocket, full of balla
£12,000 LOSS ON GIFT FOR GRACE
Monaco.
A FTER an all-night sitting the Monaco National Council have agreed to forfell £12,000 deposit on a wedding present diamond necklace for Princess Grace rather than phy the full price of £88,000.
nocidace
FRANSKA } recently..., mòỹ an “ Quellon ·
The story starts just before The Prince had the necklace thio Prince-Grace Kelly wed- examined by "exports, we bo ding, when it was
told him that ti had been sold Rended to present the bride
for diamond
noushalt tho, price. - the Parisian Jeweller" wis Kiking they found it neck- Sonali wollen un Jace priced at 238,000,000
An ind he produced, R “They pala tha, deposit, then second necklace, for about: tán hurried back to Monaco, where saxar periods nib much more tleyan Alowed pikanto, Prineo hardcomojo This was shady
presented to the baldes
Two Paris,
wheelllora.
New York. Chinatown is one of the saddest places in New York these days, a semi-voluntary ghetto where Chinese strive hopelessly and pointlessly to preserve a way of living culaide of the normal American way of life.
Today it is
over.
toumier, than
The famous Mott Street res- taurants, raided over and over again by police in recent weeks, are empty.
fleason is the uncovering of a U.8, passport racket which gave Ha organisers a million dollars 4 year In prodits and which brought in thousands of tugees.
HUSH MONEY
TC-
The leader of the ring is said to have organised ⚫ system whereby Chinese visiting China or Hongkong reported having become fathers whilst visiting their native land.
Later the fetillous sons and daughters were brought to America. Prices paid for the passports were high, not only the fothers costed in but also Chinese-American employ-
crs.
Ia San Francisco. recent arrivals were paying as much as 30 per cent of their salaries to employers in hush money.
When the F.B.I got un to the racket, the ring leader is alleged to have had fathers examine their blood groups So
that arriving children would be sure to have the right blood.
Falling Tree Hits Man In City
Now York,
A man was hit by a falling tree in the centre of New York. The occupant of a car stepped accidentally on the driver's fout. The car surged backwards and knocked a motor scooter to the pavement.
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The scooter crashed into tree, one of several planted near Radio Corporation of the huge America building in Rockefeller Centre.
Mr Eugene Firnback, who had been near the moving car, jump- ed out of the vehicle's way, He. was struck by the tree.-China Mail Special.
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