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THE CHINA MAIE,
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1957.
Interesting News
Stories
From All Parts Of The World
A CAR FOR SALE. A JOB WANTED . THEN THE PHONES BEGAN RINGING
Boys
Of St Albans Fool Stinks
And Monsewer That's For Bookies And
A JOKE? IT'S VERY SERIOUS'
will
By CLIFFORD LUTON
London.
The 650 boys ́ at St Albans, Britain's oldest public school, be
tried to soll Stinks's car and get asked: "Who Monsewer a job as a gardener?" Stinks is Mr Geoffrey Pryke, master. Monsewer is what chemistry and mathematics
the boys of the 1,000-year-old school call their French master, Monsieur J. Garnier.
Both are strict discip- linarians.
Hongkong
Paris.
T mo control _the_expected Dow of curs on French highways during the spring and summer scusons police will usu brand new cars equipped with clcem
trente cameras to take automalle The Ministry of interior said Peugeot 403s electronte
Aims of faulty drivers.
30 of the now
equipped
the
with are already in service and more will follow.
cameras
The driver only needs press on a bution to start the
The Horse Ambulance
London.
The National Book- makers' Protection As-
sociation (NBPA) in- dignantly denied that a bookie tried to bribe the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) to
mern and its electronic ash- Smuggle a walkie-talkie ight-Unlled Press.
into the Grand Nation- al Racecourse aboard
Both were MOTHER TRIES TO KIDNAP DAUGHTER horse ambulance.
inundated by telephone calls after two mystery advertisements appeared
in a local newspaper.
ONE
Mr
advertit met:1
Pryke' 1963 Ford
'I Shall Never
fered Go Home Again'
Prefect
for sale at the ensable price
of £205, and gave hi private Says Girl In Love
telephone number.
FORD PREFECT, Jawn, 1953. Good cond§zlezte, One SWEET, £795.-Phone Barfield 2602 or en, Church Street, Hatfeld,
Manchester. Shirley Lerman, 17, of Manchester, told a Man- chester court that her mother assaulted her, threatened to injure her and tried to kidnap her -because she loves a this as a very serious matter boy of a different re-
THE OTHER need the M. Garnier would Be week- and gardening work, and rave his private number.
504 M. Garnier: " regard
tele-
not a joke.
"How
any people phoned to offer me gardening work? I will not tell you. I Was all over in an hour, but it was a great nuisance."
Pryke sold at his Hatfield hone: The whole matter has been put lule the hands of the headmaster.
WAS
There were
37mber
of phone calls, and my mother
p 10 great deal # trouble answering them. Some of the cillers were quite rude when she told them I did nul went to sell my car.
na
"We shall and out who put these advertisements Into the paper, I am sure
there is questam of expelling them. It is more likely that the head- master will give them a terrific blowing-up."
GARDENER, experienced, res quires week-end work.--Phase St Albans 53598. Evenings
H 1>!1,** he
ligion.
night
Last Wednesday Shirley held her sweetheart's hand as she said: "I shall nover go home again. nover want to 100 my mother."
I
This was after the chairman of the magistrates' court told her: "We hope you will think
very seriously about your life In the future and go back again to your inother."
her mother
Shirley accused
of using
abusive language to her, and threatening her with bodily injury.
Shirley's solicitor told the court: "For the past nine months there has been endices trouble which culminated in efforts to kidnap her or take her away by force in Albert Square, Man- chester, on March 4
"The bone of contention with her mother was her association with a respectable young man of 19, The cause of the trouble
In St Albans 1 found the bug' seems to be that ho is not a who arranged the whole thing. member of the Jewish faith, as "Feur of in decided would are Miss Lerman and her family." liven things U explained.
"Now they are having pre- feel meetings and making pretty feree inquiries. The advertisement to sell Mr Pryke's car cost us 6s, 4d, And Mon- sewer's advertisement cost 3.
"We didn't mean to do any hurm. We thought Monsewer would be fearfully amused,
"There was some talk in the nfth and sixth forms about the boys getting some of the other masters' jobs os baby sitters.
"But perhaps we had better not if they are going to be so nasty about it,”
-Hoot!-
Shirley told the court that she lest home three months ago and had been living since at the home of her flance, 10-year-old Philip Leigh, and his parents.
Solicitor for Shirley's mother, Mra Sylvia Lerman, said Mrs Lerroan did not intend to have anything to do with her daugh- ter in future.
The magistrate decided to bind over both mother and doughter to keep the peace for 12 months.
six-foot
Shirley Lerman and Philip Leigh
Αε Shirley and Philip, a molor engineer, sat to- gether by the fireside of his home, Manchester, on Wednes day night, she wore the £60 engagement ring he gave her.
Said Phillp: **I will marry Shirley and look after her al- hell. It's hard to tell what ways. I'll go through anything went through, because it's
hard for anyone to believe. I all my heart.”
had to resign two jobs because my fandły, called and sald
|Said The Owl for her because I love her with
And That Was That
Stuttgart, Germany,
An owl who has found a
comfortable hams in
chimmey is keeping an American fumity from. moving into thele леш apartment here.
The owl will not come out. The family will not move In until he dock, bedatio
nocturnal
hooting Maturba other occupants of the building who live farther from the chimney than they
employees have ordered to coax
WHL Army
boen the owt out but not to hurt him. "The bird Is to be removed peaceably without muffling feathers." Army orders say. This prevents them from trying the easiest evigilon method building mustil fire la the furusot---United Press,
Said Shirley: "My life was
so
I dreadful things about me.
couldn't face it. And all be- cause Philip is a Christian and I am Jewish."-London · Ex- press.
FAKED PROFESSOR DAZZLES
AUDIENCE WITH THEORIES
NO ONE UNDERSTOOD
at Belfast's Queen's University.
By the time the "bomb" went off "Prof Relily" was pately "erenied"
London, old Dublin student Owen the fake professor expounded on Homburg hatted "Professor Edwards.
geological metamorphosis; pro. Vincent Reilly, D.Sc.,
Ph.D.
and that his so-lebrand leo toplasma, and mesozole mam- {.M.A...,” hitch-hiked from Dublin ture was
lot of colemn mõis, to Belfast on a secret mission; | nonsenso cooked up by Seven of
Årefined There were
chuckice to plant an academie ilimo bomb them and from bookcs and 0.5 the "Professor" summed up: pamphlets borrowed from the "I am, therefore, pessimistic university library.
about human society in the "Professor
Reilly" was present. form, and I am almost bor members of tempted to advocate a retum to back in Dubit and chuckling Queen's University's Humboldt the glories of barbarism." happily over 藕 bold and Scelbly. Edwarda, in Dublin,
This Wald the statement, elaborate hoax in which he was chosen for the part and was
issued by tho Humboldt played the star role.
sent copy of the lecture,
Trevor Society's president, Before Edwards mounted the Vaughan,
and treasurer, Alan a highbrow audience at the rostrum
his hair was slightly | Milar,
revealed which
100 university's goology lecture greyed with flour and his face hoaxi theatre in Leeds,
rapt silence as he made up to look older,
We wanted to carry out a tonmedly on The lecture-lustrated by paychological experiment té toat Five toonngers who played discoursed.
slides and blackboard equations the reputed intelligence of the rock 'n roll on a Seventeenth Evolution-Whore Now?"... Century harp:
Thon- the organisers of the was very acidemis, very deep, mellfrontda od so-called Muscum were fined £2, each hoax: *** * group of Belfast So deep that even some of the informed public in Belfast. The loaturama in the succome of the houx speaks, for, for "malicious damage"-United students gave out the news that university
Press,
"Prof Rollly" was really. 18-year ) audience were rather bauloa sir
in 4
Leeds
The other night he hold
the
The gentlemen of the betting books are in the midst of a controversy with the gentlemen of fashion- able Aintree Racecourse over telephone facilities.
Bookies try to get fast racing results out of the tracks so that a elfent will know if he has won enough money in the first race to follow a hot tip le the second. The bookies claim Aintree officials want to charge too much for telephones et the Grind National Track.
One day RSPCA official, Richard Clitherow. Was at Aintree collecting funds for a campaign against stog-hunting. when, he said, a turfster ap- proached him with an offer.
The offer by "well-known firm of bookmakers" was £400 to smuggle in a walkie-talkie cadto every day to take the place of the telephones, Clitherow Faid.
"I tumed, down the offer on principle," the RSPCA man said, The NBPA announced it was by the RSPCA man's
story "ridiculous
"The figure mentioned is even higher than the exorbitant charge for the telephone facili- lies which is being demanded by [the Aletree executive," the bookies declared.—United Press.
般
THE CREAM CRESTED GOBBLER
STABS AGAIN
The dairy divor or spotted milk-packer at breakfast in Copenhagen. A US Navy man on duty there was the spotter. Evary day his milk supply was raided. He waitad with a and there's
camera
hiy thiof. caught head
first in the cream.
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ROYAL SPORT STAG HUNTING UNDER FIRE
HUMANE! RUBBISH!
London.
London,
Four members of GROWLED the chair- the Devon and man of the League Somerset Stag-Who believes that deer Against Cruel Sports: hounds Hunt are
are happy being hunted trying to stem the to death by staghounds?
not
rising flood of anti- What absolute rubbish! blood sport feeling frightened, what the hall do in Britain.
"It the deer Gro
they run away for?"
Mr Edward Hemingway, 06, newspapers of Minehead, Somerset, was re- have recently started a-campaign plying in Lenden recently,
to
Several
stop
"tonuro murdder"
Britlah
the
and
of
etags in Eng- land's weat country by hunt clubs.
Sir
Bernard Waley - Cohen, Chairman of the Staghounds, said "pernicious and grossly distorted pro- paganda has been spread by Bati hunting bodies which
Mis Molly Dudley Ward, 82-year-old ex-saffragette, vegetarian and cat loyer
unswerving said: "The
allegiance of the Queen to this terrible blood business in the bedrock bottom of the whole can- corn,
ky
"Burely recent events--- the outcry against atag- bunting -- move her as a woman? Burely she Averso to the horror that have taken place?" she added in London,
have not stopped at supplying tite press with fanciful and In necurate descriptions of stag- hunting and pictures of stag- hunting from abroad."
He said the hunting of the red deer is "in no sense cruel-it's the most humane way of pre- serving the deer.
to a statement by Sir
mado
the
Bernard Waley- Cohen, chair- man of Devon Sommersat stag- hounds,
that hunting did not Involve cruelty.
"I challenge Bir- Bernard Waloy Cohen to invite Press photographers to follow a stag- hunt through to the bitter end. The National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports also replied to Sir Bernardi
a
"HUB statements are pathetic attempt to justify the committed atrocities
by his followers and are fantastie perversion of the facis," they
A Sunday newspaper, recently declared. recounted how "fear-crazed"
stags were followed by "frenzied" Both the leagues and the dogs and hunismen on horse- Royal Society for the Proven- back and torn to pieces by the ton of Cruelty to Animals aro dogs when finally trapped.- | to co-operate in drafting a Bill United Press.
against stag-hunting.
Drunk Who Was Not So Drunk
London.
the
But when they smashed The five men couldn't shake window of the shop they had off the singing, staggering drunk
who insisted on following them come to rob, the drunic errested through the side streets of Bow them. He was young Scotland in London'- East End. They decided to get on with their job Yard detective Tony Holmes,
United Press. in spite of him,
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