THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, “AUGUST 4, 1950.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
WHAT AMERICANS DREAM ABOUT
READ ABOUT .
•THE MAN WHO WANTS A FUNERAL PARLOUR
• THE MAN WHO WANTS A SNAKE FARM
• AND THE GIRL WIIO WANTS A LAUNDRY!
New York.
The stuff of which the dreams of American people are made ranges from castles to racing stables to funeral parlours.
At least according to the mail received by Dennis James, of CBS-TV's new quiz show, "High Finance."
CHILDREN FAIL TO SAVE FOX
the whole thing flabbergasta 112 sold Mr James recently "When we decided to do a quiz show that would offer con- stands their fe-time dream Bra prize, we acked the people let tis around the country know what their dreams were
"We got 10.000 letters before the how even went on the air. And we've been getting them London. hy the thousande every week Huntsmen recently whip.siter
Mont
have Uit
Don's
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rooted firmly in the
catmerted with rend tip nest of the
"petzu
ped a terrified fox to death, reng then cut it to pieces, in the ground quadrangle of a grammar school after 30 children etate make
vhoices." had tried to save its life.
AL.Tone, model: and farme are we had ITTENT De ** Wanl
The childre
svere
they
standing neound the quad at Hookergate School, a Durham e seducational
when grammar Beard the yelping of hounds
It was the Braes of Derwent pack in full cry A few minutes
A later the fox
very appeared. frightened and desperate Martene McNestry. 121
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A DOLL HOSPITAL
But there stro may "offbeat" elrennet
One
In Women Wis sin wrote tes say she | Woslet The fo WIF pupil,hospital and doll museum on his A policemen in New show the fox went into the wood- work room and some of the boys York wanted a frozen ensiard and A woman in tow, wand-
tried to rescue_it_
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LONDON STUDENT WEARS
LLOYD GEORGE'S VERSAILLES FROCK COAT
LONDON.
A YOUNG ART STUDENT IS WALKING ABOUT IN A FROCK COAT WHICH THE LATE EARL LLOYD CEORCE WORE AT THE SIGNING OF THE VERSAILLES TREATY IN 1919.
The coat. Left, as Ear! Lloyd George tørre it; centre and right, with Andrew's new вонок.
16 Years After Battle Of Britain
AIR ACE'S CRASHED
SPITFIRE FOUND
London.
Group Captain Donald Osborne Finlay, DFC, the wartime air are and famous Olympic hurdler, learned last week that the Battle of Britain Spitfire in which he was shot down by the Germans 16 years ago had been found.
Fotbal 14f, under marsh-
The Master of the Hunt came ed to earn entagh to have laid Wisthere, near Canter-
An expurifiery fou uranium antbury into the quadrangle, bloove & Py
the huntsmits back at gold The lands
'DELIGHTED'
One hierly
frems
Jis
1 naetha-Mart LITI- damaged, a loaded with "one up the spout."
Ja 1 as fighter pilot Finlay had let them when he baled at 2,00010, shortly before
"One of The boys ran with Vir; Calibienia wrote f Mr James fux into the biology laboratory, saying he wonted to learn how
Ela enduiet an orchestra He thought he would save life." Malene MeNesty stud
dream -16 go to Heidelberg, Germany, wite his daughter 14
soprat with a born opfri 10 a 1 on Wednesday, August and conduct just one | 28, 1940, after being attacked by a warm of Messerschmitta, work for her
"There's one fellow who ha always dreamed of owning
of
Mi horses," stable James "Another wonted us to
He put it un worm radia tur and hstened for a heart beat Then the huntsmen came in and demanded the fox. Outside, The huntsmen beat the fox
to
deaths and cut off its head." help him win a vineyard and
The Muster of the 1ual, Mr.
A. Cowen, sald. "I think the castle in Ireland. children were delighted the tox
Andrew Mollo, aged 10. q Queen's Gate Gardens, bought it and had it uitered for of £4.
From A
total
They Spend Nights Watching For Saucers
Vancouver.
About 20 local residents] · described as "good, honest" people expect the little men in the flying saucers to get in touch with us soon.
The saucer-happy men and women
members of the Vancouver Area Flying Sauctor Club, a recently-formed or- ganisation dev ships from outer space and correlating overy bit of infor- ination about them. There are imilar clubs in other countries, notably the United States and Englund.
The club members recently
spr
devoted
to spotting
night sitting on top of top-quality full- Little Mountain and Seatinal length frock-coai it has been Hill in West Vancouver on their cut to a short coat and given a nist "aky watch" for suncers narrower waist.
They didn't see any, but that boom't damined their enthusiasm, anul another night
wil! watch
be held curly September.
Spoak English
The buttons have been EC- covered with the same material: the wide silk lapels have been removed because Andrew "dida' want it 100 dressy."
UNUSUAL DESIGN
cont
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The tailor told me that he bought the cout and four dress sults belonging Bari Lloyd George four years ago." Andrew sund suid.
According to the founder of
Andrew, youngest of three Bons of 4 company director, the locul club, Mr Herbert Clark. found the
n Farnham, the men who fly the sunQUIN Surrey, tailor's.
will speak English perfectly, look and dress like any heal young businessman and may offer
rides to interested free
their believers JIL
fantastle planetary vehicles."
Meantime.
Lias
club miela twice a month under the chair- mistikp of singing tencher Miss Margaret Fewster.
design
"I wanted coat of unusual I have been studying men's fashions since I had my inful two years ago.
by
"I am interested In perind ele tres--not the ones worn teddy boys which are a hotch- puitch of nothing.
At the last meeting, Mr Clark played a tape recording of the voice of "Lubert the Martian" was supposedly sent his message "So I retained the originalelepathleaily" to a member of
Pralines as far as I could
I
t
DIGNIFIED
The coat locks dignißed and sự la my taste. I have worn several times to dinners and arties."
The Dowager Countess Lloyd George saudi: "My inusband had
a California flying saucer group. carth's "Lubert" criticised
traffic system. suying that on Mars, truffle is all off the sur- Ice and runs at four different altitudes.
Miss Fewater ways the club "s no political, subversive T nly one frock Coal, which he religious but composed of good, used for cerimortal occasions. honest and toyul sobjeels." She
"It would be in good
19 condi- says that if a flying saucer tion because he never used
must To- sighted, the viewer after 1920
and place It was disposed of port the time when our house was Bold with inediately to press and
Is contents
and get it verified.
ind-
Fudio
UP AND DOWN ON THE FARM
CRATERS
ALTER
CONTOURS
Brisbane
The land around Murgon, 182
Speaking by telephone from Paris the 47-year-ohi Group Captain a Why Commander
here, is going up when he was shot down-aid; miles from
this is my old plane I'd and down, but it has nothing
to do with prices,
love to see 15
"Ir
Take men even wants to own
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was killed at their schoul. Some Mr
One Brooklyn woman James she hnd
taki
always
prietar
of them naked for the head and envisioned herself as the pro we gave it to them."
of the greatest pizza The bendmaster of the school palace in New York elly, Me John Troup, said the Muster
subterrancan di:-
Wing Commander Finlay had Strange Just jured No. 54 Squadronurbances for three months have Treat Hornchurch He had allered The Spitfire only three days,
to
V
The contour of the
on Mr C. F. Drahein's
On August 28 he flew with his dairy farm YourH
in Indiana mun
squndrom
materi invading (enfessed he had always wanted! | M BA
the Channel. It made to own a snake farm.
Spildren and M.E.s clashed In him feel "all king of choked up, combat. inside
He offered to renti Mr James a picture of himself posing with an eight-foot snake i with which he was acquainted.
of the Hunt had apologised
for fres- the school governors passing on the school premisca, The Durh m County Education Committee will consider a com- plaint by the school
governors and a protest by angry parents.
‘CHORISTER MAY BE OBSOLETE SOON'
Vancouver. Choral singers may be come obsolete in this mechanised age, Australian composer and planist Percy Grainger said.
A HEALTH STUDIO
Then there was a letter from upstate New York that went;
"Dear Mr James; I would like to own funeral parlour. I had one, but I gave it to my non who needed it. You see, he got matriezi Now I need one for myself."
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Among some of Mr James' other favourites were a fellow in Chicago who wanted to own a health studio ( he sent in a picture of himself flexing his muscles),
descur In
a
Pennsylvanin wanted to open solarium for tired executives and a school teacher in Florida yearned for a laundry all her "As machines get more ilke "complete with whing machines, ironing facilities and mangles.
the human volee there is no reason why choruses cannot be produced mechanically," he
said in an interview.
And James himself?
"I've
got a dream toa," he sald. "I've always wanted to
guy in this crazy business I'd
Mr Grainger, 74, arrived at Vancouver past week in the liner own a mote, Like every other
Orsova. He and his wife are on like to have a measure of their way from Melbourne to security waiting for me some- San Francisco, where he will where.
begin
stuge.
a concert series after two
Trouble is, my timo is so
1
A pause
*There
was a pause in the battle then the Spitfires re- fenned.
German hl.. cockpit, wounded him in the thigh, and set his plane on Are, He parachuted safely to a field near Sturry village,
bullete ripped into
He heard a boom and saw a plume of Emoke. Then the Spitfire vanished. For 10 years.
And
the other day, while Group Captain Finlay was at tending a conference in Paris. while workmen discovered it dredging Westbare marshes for ballast.
Said dredger operator Albert Ades: "I think I shall be able to salvage the fuselage in one piece. **
Batile note: After he was shot down Group Captain Finlay went into action again with a now squadron and was credited with four German planes.
Took It Out On
years' absence from the concert taken up with shows Uko this A Display Window
He claims
0
that I know that motel will
mechanically always be out of my reach.”—
played composition would have
more
"soul" to it than one played by human performers.
He has been working on machines in hopes of perfecting one that
can produce sounds
exactly As a composer hears them in his imagination.
United Press.
Watch Lost In
1903 Turns Up
Loch Ness Scares Kidd
For Italians
Hollywood, Unemployed painter Clif- ford Frazer, 31, says he drove his car through the big window of a motor car show room because he was "mad at the world,"
He fold police
that
rumblings-eyca
HELP
Stop Look]
Racry
Thunderlike
COP
often ass etcar days--ATC jenifest with changes in the once-
level land.
What was once level land 10ft high and now has ridges erators as deep as 250,
Mr Draheim
1w0
aerts to nearly 10.
said the puzzle aren had extended from
Cracks 7t đưẹp and 2ft wide had formed in the ground.
Mir Droheim said he bad to use a tractor to pull out a mlik- The biggest crater is about 44ing cow that had got caught In
a crack. Iyards wide.
ANGRY BEES KILL two horSES, STING MAN
the area appeared.
Officials at Mergey said Jean Troyes, Enraged bees killed trvo Colres, 19, slapped at two bees annoying him while ploughing.
horses and seriously slung a young farmer near here recent- |ly.
Then becs from 30 hives
in
flod
The
to
Calres, seriously stung, to a nearby farmhouse, but bees then stung the horses returned with about 200 more, death.---United Press.
The boca
disappeared
There's Something for a
failure to find work since Wollington.
coming to Los Angeles from three St. Louis, Missouri, weaks ago became just too much for him recently as ho cruised past", the agency.
A watch giolen from Vir when he was in Taranaki 53 years ago, waS TO- cently
restored to him in Invercargill
Ils recent owner, who bought Tronto. it from a pawnshop 400 Volunteer hunters combed the faith, know that it had another valley of Wire Noce Torrent re-owner's name scratched insido cantly for an Italian version of the case.
the Look Now monster,
Rood
Through a quirke of fortune.
Workers harnessing the tore te occupied the bed none : NO gent amid they saw the monster, that occupied by Mr Kid in
They described as a 20-foot Invercargill's pubile ? hospital
anake Salentiele frankly doubly
and discovered the real owners.
ed the, report,-United Prom China Meil Special.
cur
He turned the wheel of htt car, sharply, pressing down on the pedal and smashed through, the win- dow hitting a display vehicle inside, poller enidi.
Damage tear estimated. as $3,000 United Press.
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