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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1950.
SCENE IN
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Interesting News
Stories From All Parts Of The World
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CHURCH MADE
U.S. AIRLINE WILL BUY COMETS BRIDEGROOM
De H May Take
Gamble
MORE ORDERS EXPECTED
by T. F. THOMPSON
London.
CAPITAL AIRLINES
of America has, I understand, decided to buy Comet IV. jetliners instead of turbo-prop Britannias.
T
deemoon
bear's wing: smer the 1954 Cugat
Ca.mamael, prese deal at Capsial. and has expils Mveyed the Beld of new ir- burn both tre and in Amerien, and devided bod
the Comel Wax
Havillands. have offered a diel.very date 1058-11 1 two years before Capital could m. Jetimer In The Ped S te
American
Ps with gave the 1414 2101 pblurs who decided to Truy the
1. na protinet
erdage"
Up to 30
O the strength of the Capital Airlines decision Mr A.F. Burke.
Uplifting
New York. Charged with malicious mirchief after he had rx- ploded two sticks of dyna- inite at a political rally in Anderson, South Carolina, ex-convict Andes
("Foot.
j0"} Wood explained to the police:
"I did it just to liven up the meeting
д
couldn't see who was talk- ing from where I was,”
I
Birds Force
Down Six Planes
Brisbane,
Birds over North Queens- land outback airfields are serious air-safely catring problems.
10 the last few weeks the birds have caused more than six air accidents.
•
Last wock
kite
luwk
new mannging director of thethod through the windscrven De Haviland Aircraft Company,
prepared 10
gabble,
-
Trans-Australia Airlines'
take a financial | DC-3 airliner at Cloncurry nir-
port, causing an Cinergates
a second landing. He will lay down production line on the assump-
on that more orders will now definitely come in,
will be Capital's first order
ip to ten Comets, but pro- vision will be madu for buying up to 30.
not order will The Capital Tect delivery of BOAC's 10 Comet IVs which are urgently wded on Empire routes. The lift that the order give De Havillands may result being ready evon Comedy
in the
urlier than planned,
will
•
A gukah stopped The en- French plane HYAT gine of a Longreach by flying into its in- take
Q
A curlow sucked into a fet
catleed A Canberra motor
bomber to crash-land during a night take-off from Garbutt air- baso (Townsville).
JKIST canser!
to
With the Comet, Capital will be the first domestle airline Introduce jet travel-just as they inter-duced furbe-proj
wilb
cowni
British besit
One Snag
travel
Vis-
1
Hawks again
A hawk crashing into the Canberra. unother forced
landing
Charleville Airport,
at
A hawk brought down an
RAAF photographic survey Musquito at Charlevlile
The
Director of the Acting Civil Aviation Department Queensland, Mr E. Huntley Fry. sud: "These birds are a menace and we admit we just haven't got the answer,"
Ouch: It Hurts!
ETON HEAD BANS
COFFEE CAFE
Were The Boys Flirting?
ET
Eton.
ATON'S 1,186 college boys have been banned from an Espresso coffee bar in the town by headmaster Mr. Robert Birley.
And the reason, calc pre-watched television in the after- prietor Mr Jimmy Cecil said, la noon."
the alx pretty girls behind the counter"
"It is said
Said the tall 43-year-old ex- pig farmer:
the boys were flirting with them,"
The cafe, the Coffee Cantata -in the narrow High Street—- has wood panelling tomato red and cream walls, soft lighting.
Mr Ceelt smiled at one of his j Atx protty Kiris-10-year-old Jill Waters, of Gloucester Place, Windsor.
"You see how very attrac- five? But the college boys cume here for other things, Thuy
A couple of Elon the banned as they pass
What can
we do if we can't Cantata? boys appear to be at a loose end coffre bar on the other side of the street.
Now the embarrassed boys keep a stift upper lip as they awing together down the High Street and
the "Coffee pass Cantata,"
a "Coffee Didn't Bach write Cantata"? Yes, and the words go like this. You
stubborn child, hog. wicked girl,
Oh, when shalt i have my way?
Give up coffeet
The caiata is the theme song of the Espresso bar.
The owner, Mr Jimmy Cecil, 43. who opened the ultra- modern cafe seven months ago, said last week: "The Elon head. Mr Robert Birley, asked me to see him, told me my pince was being put out of bounds, and. ha phrased
indicated that there had been some flirting going on.
amatically,
very
“Only normal'
"But the boys have got to be in school for the night by 8.30, and as the pretty girls involved, all of them part-ümers, don't there can come in until 6.30,
hardly be much time for carry -- ing on. The Eton boys are nor- mal and healthy and you can't stop them eyeing pretty girls, can you?"
One 18-year-old said: "Well, we're all rather baffled by the ban. We used to crowd the place to watch TV, cat, and listen to classical and jazz records.”
The contata has the last word: "Oh, how sweetly tastes the coffee,
More
lovely thousand kissos."
than
A No-Nonsense Driver
Whose Cab Is His Pulpit
Sydney.
THERE is a taxi-driver in Sydney who-speaking quite seriously-describes his cab Tas "better than any pulpit."
Jack
Sloan,
used
10
be
religious
"The Salvation Army picked me up out of the gutter-I'm
Owner-driver
# chronic bad well known in the Salvation alcoholic, and at that
for £1 Aizny as Envoy Sloan regards drunk-always looking The one possible snug is that
his taxi as "a sort of proving {urawl," he said, The American authorities might
Колвир
for relise a certificate of airworthi-
principles. es to the Comet because the
"I don't carbash anyone he engines are buried in the wings.
Doncaster. Bald, "but I often find that a The U.S. design philosophy
Village postman Richard Lyon passenger is only too eager to but it is butter to "bang" the
to to kindly word of has a red and black beard andilsten un pods beneath engines
a sign pinned to his chest which advice, wings. But presumably Mr
Please "Hardly a day passes without says "thly beard is real
somebody, as they get out of the cab, asking me to say a He prayer for them."
the
Car-
michael has made pretty
Bure
that a corticate would be tunable.
ob-
do not pull it."
Then Comes
This News:
"It's Trosistible," said house wife Dorothy Cryer.
"I'm tired of finishing a day's work with an aching chin," said Lyola-United Press.
BOAC TO BUY U.S. JETS
Minister of Transport and aircraft af the right time. Civil Aviation, that they
Softly spoken 60-year-ol Envoy Sloan, officer-in-charge of Salvation Army oclivities in the St. Peter's district, runs the city taxi T4427.
REALLY IN NEED
Fome 30
speaking literally -- years ago,
"Now, as a taxi-driver, I see plenty of sights to remind me of my own past weaknesses,"
REDS SANG: GOD
+
SAVE YOUR GRACIOUS QUEEN
London.
150 burly Red Army privates sang "God Save Your Gracious Queen," to a startled first night audience of Londoners.
The chanky Ruslane, sweat-
ing in full dress uniform under.
Ure the Empress Hall's are H£11 Painting
want to order between 15 come from De Havill,robably driver's seat of a taxi offers a ended the anthem with "Long!
nny
Sloan
may she reign over you, Cod zave your Queen.”
"A enbman is always seeing London. American have convinced him and caring things to remind have told Mr that nothing less than the State him of the number of people Barold Watkinson, the airline's survival of the right or helping hassl
linked up really in need of a idnd word
"For doing good, I'd say Opposition will
and far better field than Handley Page Ltd the two pulpit. 20 giant American British aircraft manufacturera
idea that Jack Any
Before the audience had time Jetliners.
who have offered BOAC a jet-might be an easy mark for pro-
fessional endgüre can be dia to chuckle, the Russians, up to They will cost between liner to fill the requirements
cab T-now. at attention, expanded Ho operates A senior executive of a Com-mised, $60,000,000 and 100,000,000-an
their chests, hooked thumbs in expenditure D vost That the monwealth airline told me re 4427 to his own strict code;
BOAC are not! "I have no money for out-belts, and roared the anthem of decision will have to be taken cently: "It
the USSR. allowed to have a fair number ond-out beggars. by the Cabinet.
The disturbing facts behind of big American jets, they will the corporation's decision to buy go bankrupt.'
and
• "Drula and street-women don't ride in my cab-it's a public vabilelo and. I've got an it in од obligation to run
EIFFEL TOWER SWAYS orderly
IN THE WIND..
Paris.
The 984-foot: Eiffel Tower wobbles, according to report from Parlo.
Experts estimate that the top movos, as much as seven inches in a high wind."
But there is ille danger of
the tower falling down.
a
NIGHTINGALES
FIRST VISIT
Then they begin their three-
this case don't sweat our concert.
•
The
The Soviet Army group (A printed notice
was instdo Say? KEEP IT CLEAN.)
cm ita first visit outside the iron don't know any aly-curtain after 20 years of touring "I Og joints"
in Russia, Communist China, Don't doubt that the code is Manchuria and the Soviet bloc.
consists of privates, strictly applied. Cabby-preacher Stonn, ex-Digger of two world threo N.C.OS and one colonel,
The troop's wara, is oft in and weighs 18
glamour boy 28-year-old
Artur stone:
Muscovite Eizner, a bass baritone with a herole stage manner, a lienvy sense of humour and a budding double chin.
Worth 11⁄2d -Munnings
London.. YOMMERCIAL. artist Stanley Froude spotted what he thought was an carly Sir Alfred Munnings : painting at
& Bury St Edmunds auction sale.
His wife bought it for £11. It was a Munnings. Under the ploture mount they found his digbature and the date-1899, And it's worth
1d.
enys so? Sir Alfred Mun-
Dedham. at Cheltenham, ho remembered painting the pfotune of a young girl in o Karden.
Whos himself. At his home in
Just
D
* painted it in my teens-it's little wash drawing like he
OUT OF THE GUTTER Typical of his helpful ways a the free taxi service he provides
OH NIET JOHN (driving himself) every Sunday. In Red Square Too afternoon for 50 or 60 St Foter's
a pqater. I aliould say £11 was children to and from Sunday Ho sings the "Voign Boatmen"
a terrifle price to give," Its bulldor, Alexander Gustavo
London. school.
with molst eyes and "Loch cald, Eiffel, clained it could stand a
The nightingales sang in Red In his spare time he is visit Lomond with a puzzled frown. But Mrs Froude doesn't think wind-force alx times greater
His best effort la "No John" so. She has hung it in the than any tornado recorded up to Square, and Moscow Rateing the clck, and needy and
layed the sound throughout the tramping the pub-to-pub bent which sooms to plouse
everyone
living room of har: Ingham, that time.testat
selling that War Cry" :(the onstage mightily,
Buffolk, home... Ironically, the construction of world.
they wore Salvation Army newspaper). Tlie Announcer-sold they.
The funniest moment of the "Whatever Bir Alfred rosy say a third life which is being con-
Timo⠀ was when the same evening is when a pudgy tenor, sidered will taloo as long as the singing near the Kromin. Ho
more attempts "Green, Grow Tho two years it took Eiffel to baliza added that Musoovitas often Jack Sloan was even the entire tower for the 1880 heard them warbling on their partial to a pub-crawl-but for Husher Oh? In a Russian-
a different reguoti,
Seattlub Racont.
sang, Parla whibition/United Fre very doorsteps-United Press,
consider my Munningsa goal bargain," he told me, "I' "wouldn't think of parting with two even Koë-5100)
TURN PALE
Millan.
in
Eraldo Belvatico, 28, was Just on the point of saying "I do" to his bride when 4 Wom tears gushed up to the altar with a baby in her
ld;
Arina
and
"Here, this is your child, take It with you
on your honey- TOON."
Selvatico, whose name means "untamed," turned deathly pale. His parents and the relatives of Lilinna Fontana, the 24-year- old bride, started a rumpus that. threatened to wreck the little villago church at Macherlo.
nearby
polico), uproar.
Carabinleri (federal. rushest in to halt the They persuaded the tearful interloper to leave the church, still clutching her baby girl,
The wedding went ahead scheduled.
In the confusion nobody asked the
with the mystery woman baby
nutrie what her
Wus. reveal it. --- Police decllnerl Uniter Press.
to
12-YEAR-OLD
FORGOT
ABOUT BRAKE
Turin
It looked as if a bomb Exploded but it was only a 12- the wheol ol a year-old at heavy truck.
who
Binello, truck driver,
Young Luigi wants to be EL thought ho had the chance of his life when he found an un- guarded truck recently.
He had no trouble starting it,
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TWO NEW FILMs from the rank ORGANISATION NOT TO BE MISSED this MONTH. “WHO DONE IT?”
BRITAIN'S NEW STAR OF TELEVISION BENNY HILL IN THE SIDE SPLITTING COMEDY OF THE MONTH. At the King's and Princess from July 18th
and
NEVIL SHUTE'S GREAT BOOK. A TOWN LIKE ALICE”
Starring
PETER FINCH and VIRGINIA 'MACKENNA
but he was not so sure how it At the New York & Great World Theatres
could be stopped. He succeeded
in grinding to a half eventually after (1) hitting a parked Fiat car (2) driving the truck on sidowalk,
A
No one was injured.-United Press.
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