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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1957.~
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
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A New Season Opens With A Warning: Now His
Friends
WHALING FLEETS SPEND Won't Let MORE BUT GET LESS OIL Him Rest
London.
The season for catching blue whales in the Antarctic waters opened at the begin- ning of this month.
INGRID WON'T MEET PRINCESS
INGH
The International whaling fleet, consisting of 20 factory Ahips of Üve nations Accompanied by 222 calching Loats, is already in position after a month of catching the smaller, but more numerous, Fla and Sei whales,
Humpback
The season for whales, fost dying out as specles, also opened in February, bul is very brief and closed four days later and the catel- ing area is limited to a amall
HARD BATTLE
continue the
The season will until the entch of all Expeditions Totals 14,500 blue Whale units when all the buils musi stop nishing under the International Whaling Com- mission's regulailona,
A "Blue Whale Unit" equals ona Blue whale. LWO Fin whales, 2% Humpback whales and six Sei whales.
This year with one Extra being pen by the internationa}
London, expedition,
Japan.
The British whaling "mother ship" Balaena
The Things People
Leave Behind
Chicago.
INGRID BERGMAN whading fleet is the largest on surprise packages, every day."
Joe Baksha's job is like "opening a bunch of
turned down an invita- record," although the number of
tion the other day to be pre-reduced by 35 10 222.
catching bonts has been
sented to Princess Mar- garel.
This reduction was only talainei after a
hard-fought From Paris.
she is bulle by the Norwegiats at the playing in "Tva and Sympathy," | International Whaling Con- she stut her apologies to Mr ference inst summer. And Billy Walince, friend of the even then the Russians refused Princess-"I KLITY very
red to enter the agreement. after my recent American tr" Mr Wallace proposed Miks Bergman should be presented at the charity showing in London next Thursday of her new film "Anastasia." He is helping to organise the premiere.
The Cost
The average
tonnage of the Catching boots this year is 512 tons, compared with 513 tons last year and 295 tons in the 1937-38 season. Each Your The equipment board the whithiog
leets berumes
more and
efficient
the and catch 4
pro-
of
In addition to Miss Bergman's certainty present commitments and hergressively greater, so that ench
iredness, there
the cust. When she went to Americs to York critics' receive the New
15
award for her "Anustasia" per- formunce 20th Century-Fox had
to lake
ake out a 4100,000 personal
Insurance.
year the actual calching season becomes shorter as the total is reached sooner.
THE RED LIGHT
more
subtetbun drug
store. And once he helped trap
□ serviceITAN who used the lockers to store a huge supply of marijuana.
Bakaha. 29, checks the 1,800, stolen from coin-operated storage lockers at the Union Station, He opens those to which customers have overstayed the 24-hour Ilmit,
"And you never know what you'll find." he said.
Must atte It's a traveller's ruilcuse, n shaving kit or
erviceman's Gurracks bag,
But minor surprises included a bowl of goldfish, a turtle in a partially zippered shaving kit and eight parascets in a cage,
"I had to feed those goldfish for
Jays before
and Indy showed
elnimed then. Bakshu said,
Лус
עון
Rattlesnake Too
surprising
RIOTS
But even was the rattlesnake,
"Naturally, thought it was alive," Baksha said. staring me Fight in the eye But it was a stuffed make some taxidermist had left."
WAS
This Inevitably leads to an A battle has just ended be-increasingly uneconomic catch tween 20th Century-Fox and since the whales, and the Blue Often the Police or FBI are German company who produced whale in particular which 1%
interested In Baksha's dls- another version of the story of the most valuable, gel fatter coveries. Once he found $17,000 the last Czar's
and daughter.
of oil as the neatly bundled in a full
shopping Both Alms were to have had season progresses and the bag. It had been taken in a their London premiere on the plankton and other foox! UTI hold-up at the Western Electric. same night, Then the distribu-which they feed becomes riclier Co. tors of The German version as the summer nears Its end al axed a date
close of two days: earlier the
March and early "to avoid embarrassing Princess | April. Margaret."
THE STRANGE
CASE OF THE
BATHROOM
whating
more
So each year sees the world's companies spending and more money. On expensive new equipment 10 cutch inner whales producing each year less and less oll.
"still remember the locker number," Baksha said. "J-341." Another time Baksha opened the door to happiness for a Milwaukee camera shop owner. The man's
been store had rubbed five years previously.
Five Keys
One day he got an anonymous Already the Norwegians und letter from the thieves, who British whaling companies have said they had been unable to seen the
red light and have sell the loot. They enclosed five repeatedly wamed the International Whaling Com-
keys to Union Station lockers, mission and interested govern venience they had caused
and apologised for the incou BLACKMAILERS ments that if drastic alterations
When we soon made in
those opened whaling regulations the end of lockers we found them crammed Norwood.
$10,000 worth of the whole and all its economic with about blackmail with
cameras, lenses and other stuff” difference the blackmailers value is in sight.
Bakan said. were prisoners and their victim was free.
I was
they
aro
4.
not
TURNING POINT?
the
PREMATURE
Swindon.
On another occasiony Baksha found a drawer full of narcotics
But the job has its druw. backs, Baksha said,
Vacationers collect rocks, theo tire of carting them around and leave them in the lockers,
And Rocks
"I could start a quarry with the rocks I've found," Baksha said,
Suburbanites often leave
wives prepare, lunches their rather than eat them.
tho
But the worst offender is the man who stores his lunch in a lociter each day. And each day he brings a limburger cheese sandwich-United Press,
-Free Taxi- Service To Church
A marish organised a
Minehead priest
Sunday
has taxi
service to take parish- ionere at Minshead, Soyner- set up the hill to their church.
The taxi service. will continue for the next six monika, says the vicar, the Bev. E. C. Mortimer, in his parish magazine,
bu
He thinks 14 is the steep
which hi koeping
people away from church." Well-off persons are ex- pooted to give a sbilling for the trip, but those who cannot afford it need not pay. The vicar Kaya the cost of the service has been guaranteed By 1... churchgoer.
London. Three weeks ago Ronald Macdonald, 40-year-old clerk of Hertfordshire, waa leading a norimal, contented Life.
to
make
Then his 38-your-old wife, Rosemary, accided him a nightshirt. Noj a con- ventional striped nightart but a "shortie" in blue with red trimmings.
Ronald was
pleased, becauDE he hates wearing pyjames. But the colour and the design were two things ha would rather have kept in the family."
And that might still have boon the case today but for his nimble-fingered wife,
She was Do delighted with the Anished results that she simply had to Well somcone about it.
So she wrote to a newspaper, riving all the intimate little details, like the
alllching (in red), the cost (£1-1-6) or HK$17) and the material (blue poplin).
The letter was printed with an artist's drawing of Ronald wearing the nightshirt,
That did it.
He was ragged by his friends, his neighbours, and his pals at work.
People in the street stopped to pull his leg about it, ond tough Rugger friends rang him
Ronald's new nightshirt
as TV viewers saw it.
up at work to say: "Ronald, it was lovely, you looked so sweet and fresh,"
Bald Ronald; "I don't think I'll ever live it down. I can't go into the local without Bombone mentioning it, and as for the chaps at the club. heaven knows what they'll
to
Over
Mrs Macdonald. People have been pulling my leg unmercifully too. Whoever would have thought that nightshirt would cause all this fuss?" .
а
Does Ronald wear the night- shirt regularly?
"You bet I do,” he said. ""It's just the thing if you can't stand Pyjamas."
DUSTMEN TOLD
PRISON RECORD NO BAR NO ‘PERKS'
TO PERFECT BUTLER'
London.
I
A South American diplomat said he would not fire his butler with a prison record because "one doesn't gel rid of perfect butlers these days.”
THI
London,
THE dustman's right to "perks" was tested in
the High Court last week.
Six Bristol dustinen were op- pealing against convictions for stealing house refuse.
man,
Three-year-old Ain Campbell, with her baby brother, Stephen, Already the South Africans locked themselves in the bath-have sold their only wholing room at their aunt's house in fleet to a Japanese company Maberley Crescent, Norwood and the largest British whaling Then they refused to come out, company recently attempted to
"Sweels,"
demanded. nell one-third of its entire fleet "We want
sweels or we start to a Japanese firm. screaming." Down on her knees
This season may well be a went their aunt, Mrs licather turning point in the history of Todd.
Under the door went the whaling-United Press. sweets.
Never give in to a blackmailer, The bathroom garrison do manded picture hooks and more tweets. An hour later Mrs
Their counsel, Mr Henty New- Todd called for reinforcements.
defined "perks" — also known as 'totting-picking out The are brigade arrived, on came the bathroom door, Out A letter date-stamped Argentine Minister Carlos' convicted of taking part in pieces of rage from dustbins, marched two
und sticky-fingered "Bromley
Beckenham, Echogue, said he knew all about £53,000 jewel theft from
to tham the selling
dealers, and children.
Feb. 6, 1037," was received atį the past record of 30-year-old Duke and Duchess of Suther-sharing the proceeds. The case
of the Bathroom Swindon, Wiltshire, on February Victor Sparkes, who went to land.
The appeal was dismissed with Blackmailers was closed,
gaol in 1952 after being
by the Queen's Bench Sparkes was the valet, and Divisional Court, Lord Goddard, got the nickname of the Lord Chief Justice-with the portfect butler because of his agreement of Mr Justice Cassels elegant dress and manners,
and Mr Justice Lynskey-ruled The London morning news that refuse put out by a house- paper, the Daily Mail, reported holder remained his properly til the local the servant's criminal record, talren away by: but Sr Echague and he would authority. not Дго Sparkes, who still Therefore, despite their state- maintains that he was wrongly.
mont that they had! convicted.
He also made it clear that the "abandoned" the Romen "One doesn't got rid of perples of the dustmers that rofure Catholic Church, under the feet butlers those days,” the in dustbina
abandoned 1953 Spanish concordat with Argentine diplomat said, "and property was "wholly untest the Vallcan
cantot as long as the authorities have able.” basis
validly contract marrisgo ex- no objections I certainly have Footnote: Bristol dustman, wil sept in its canonical form." none. He is a most excellent stil get thair perks through the Catholie Archbishop of The couple are considering the butler."
corporation. It pails mivago. Madrid-Alcola which pointed possibility of an appeal The Argentine embassy said able material and part of the
against the
municipalit considered the butler's affair proceeds is shared out among authority's decision, EPC said. “strictly a personal domestic the men. Average bonus: 100. -United ProD,
problem.“-United Press,
Per Week.
Protestant Told Must Be Married In Roman Catholic Church'
Geneva, A Boplist minister who was Once a Roman Catholle has been refused permission to marry outside the Roman Catholic Church in Spain, the Ecumenical Press Service re- parted,
The press sorvics, published by
tho World Council
OL
Churches, sald.. this was. the first marriage application filed
under a new Spanish decree, issued last October, which for the first time permita civil marriage for non-Catholics. But it said the application, in
the town of Villaverde, refused on the
of a lelter from
the Roman
out that the Baptist couple, had boon baptised as Roman Catholles,
"they
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Watch Factory at Neuchatel, Switzerland, on occasion of the visit by the
African Prince.
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