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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1957.
H. King Wood Reports In Our Australian Newsletter:
STOWAWAY GROWS UP AND TO GET
MARRIED VERY SOON
Sydney (By Airmail).
It was in 1946 that officials at Darwin airport found wedged noar the engine of a Dutch Dakota the badly burned body of a boy who had stowed away from Koopang,
Jack Webb NEW ZEALAND
As "The D.I."
CCFTIHE DA.” which comes
the Queen's aud Alhambra this afternoon is one of those service pic- tures, the interest lies with- In yourself, you either like them or you don't.
This Warner Bros release has Jack Webb ns a drill instructor
ABOLISH
LIFE
MAY
SENTENCE
Wellington, Dec. 16. Sentoncas of life imprisonment will, with few exceptions, be abolished in Now Zealand if, following the change of Government, the new Crimes Bill is considered by the now Parliament as originally planned.
The B, the outcome of the Overall, the Bill decreases | satisfied by the defence thai faced with the dimcult job Aral comprehensive review of more penalties than it increases | accused, though not legally of training a squad of young men the criminal law in 60 years, and its effect is to make the insane, was suffering at the time into the rough and tough leather was introduced by the National criminal law more liberal. The from a condition 20 near to neck" the lighting Marines Goverment shortly before Par- abolition of life Imprisonment, insanity that he could not be demand.
Hament went into recess in however, is not as beral a step held fully responsible. The role of Top Sergeant Jim October.
It might appear.
This is the first time that this He was 12-year-old Bas Wle, is quite obvious that all the Thirty, US Navy ships, includ-Moore
particularly who was rushed to hospital and publicity build-ups in the worlding a 48.000-ton aircraft carrier, fascinating one for Jack Webb bill would abolish life imprison-prisonment has, to nil intents Zealand legal code, although t Among other things, the new For some time, 14 years' im- provision appears in the New spent four months there re- will not convince people that heve so for visited Sydney who makes a point of casting ment, formerly applicable to 50 and purposes, been the rövering from burns.
term is an established principle in himself in unusual roles TV crimes, and substitule sentences served by the offenders sen-
other countries, viewers knOW him quite well of 14 years'
For some crimes, imprisonment or
penalties teneed to "life" teams. The Bill through the "Dragnet" Pro-
less. Life imprisonment, which") as Introduced by the National are substantially Increased in grammes,
is still not defined, would be Government makes no change the new Bill, particularly Dont Dubbins, Jackle Loughrey retained only in cases where
offences against children and in the death penalty, which re- newcomer (a pretty
to the the death penalty has
beca mains for murder,
BCX treason, certain
offericos. For Screen) Lin McCarthy, Monica | commuted. Although there is pirncy and piratical acts But example, the maximum penalty still provision for unlimited pre- | both the National and the or conspiracy to Induce sexual ventive detention, which can Labour party, in opposition, intercourse is raised from two mean a life sentence, for
promised during the electien years to five: the penally for second serious sexual offence.
review campaign to
capital intercourse with an idiot or punishment if elected at the imbecile woman, from two years November polls
Darwin "adopted" him. Later he
taken was
Bor
There was no
about 15,000 enllors have visited Sydney since the beginning of the year.
the Kramer brand of tennis is the the Inst 12 months, real answer to big tennis,
Four destroyers sailed from The play .0
was hard and fast Sydney this week after # five- They word manned Governmen: House where he ough, but it did not have the day stay. worked for many years in the interest of any major tourna by 1002 men and the bank gardens and later joined the monit
It was
Interest-ofBeial estimated that each mon Deparment of Works in Darwin. holding. To a lot of people, the spent $30 while in Sydney.
One day very soon" he is to my of zindag
When ships come omething
from the marry Margaret Brown, 18, of worthwhite was missing.
Antarctic, as many of them do days, the spending per Perth, who is also employed in
championship, these the Department of Works.
the no cup, nothing hinged on head jumps to about $50.
So for They are to be married by result at all except in few extra Father Frank Flynn in Darwin's | pounds for a number of young S: Mary's Catholic Church men already grossly overpaid where Bns was once an altar and To whom boy.
pounds means very little.
Kramer, no doubt, will go on attracting the crowds only be- cause the nunex of the people he has playing tennis for him is foster mother, Mrs Nor that one is likely
and not for any startling result man Bullard, admitted that Basuring the match. will marry soon, but refused to give details because they "don't want pubilelty.
A New Bike
Jay made his first visit out of the Territory recently when
an extra
tow
to witness
It is a long, long mile behind championship tennis for holding Interest,
Incidentally, the Lawn Tennis
he went to Perth to meet MarAssociation did quite nicely out
of the three-day tournament garet's parents.
its courts,
Kishi's Visit
The Japanese Prime Minister. Mr Kish new out of Canberra
week
and Government last officials, security police, embassy oficials and, no doubl senior ministers, breathed collective sighs of relief.
Japanese
his large
The visit of 11:0 Prime Minister and party hod progressed more smoothly than could have been expected, but it was a tour of tension and fixed smiles. Government officials
agree he was Australia's most controversiel visitor for minny long years and a great deal of thought WAS Elven to his
on
flint
10
While on the question of Dar- win, there is an interesting little from the takings which, over the It will nett at least £2,500 story about 74-year-old Tony three days, are estimated Petriceul who is returning noon have totalled about £12,000. 10 h honeland-Italy.
Tony has worked for Quta Bush Fire Fundry
in Darwin for more than 12 years and hus become the com Dany's Arst employed to retire
m the Darwin staff.
For the last 12 years he has ady one hobby-pushing a bike
at streets. around the miles of Darwin's
He averaged not more than two miles an hour, for Darwin Is a hot place, Tony is getting old and there is never any hurry anyway.
Kramer's Troupe
Quile a number of heads of Sydney organisations have sent
letter to their clients
saying that they do not propose this year to hand out Christmas presents as they have done previously.
Instead, the
money is being cent to bush fire relief funds.
Australian secondary in- dustries are annoyed that they arc' not represented on
Australian currency.
At present the only industries and fruit. depicted are sheep, cattle, wheat
It would be safe to say that 1.D visit from a VIP of any foreign country has received the attention and planning of this one.
war.
Much Hinged
Discussed
If the new Parliament passes the Bill, it will come into force on January 1, 1959.
Originally, the National party had made plans to hold a re- forendum at the same time 05 the election to decide the future
for
to seven; and that for inter- course or indecency with a girl between. 12 and 10, from five years to seVÉEL
Perversion
One of the most controversial of the death pozally in New features of the Bit is its reduc- When he introduced the BR Zealand. But that idea was tion of the maximum penalty for in the old Parliament, the then abandoned. Instead,
an- acts of perversion or Indecency Minister of Justice, Mr Jock nounced that if it was re-between males, from ten years Marshall, said that there would elected, it would introduce a Bill to five. be time for it to be openly dis-luto Parlament limiting the cussed and subjected to the death penalty to certain classes close scrutiny of the judiciary of murder, on linca similar to and the legal profession before the law in Britain. Members, it came before the House of added, would be allowed to vote 4. Representatives again next year. on the measure on a tion-party
The bill has been in the plan basis. ning stages for so many years and has already been subject to so much expert opkalon that it is unlikely now to arouse much criticism from either side of the House. The prese hos generally The film primarily concerna welcomed the measure, with Iself with the struggles of a reservations on the more lenient battle-hardened murine drili-penalties for crimes against instructor whe is faced with the property.
JACK WEBB
Lewis, Virginia Gregg, and men from the United States Marine Corps make up the cast,
T-p lask 1s made difficult by an unco-operativore erunt who threatens to destroy the sergeant's enviablo service record.
ck of Fardening a group of One of the purposes of the newly recruited youths into a Bill is to restore a more modem 6ghting unit within only a few balance between the penalties weeks,
for offences against the person more and the penalties for offences against property, Thus, the Much hinged on the fact that
maximum penalties for such Mr Kishi was a guest of the
crimes as theft and robbery are Governor-General, Sir William (
in general reduced, because Slim, whose name has long been Here the picture crases to they are not regarded in quite associated with the Burma pinko sense to the English the same severe light today 0 Campaign where troops suffered serviceman for he would know they were in the nineteenth at the hands of the Japanese or just how to deal with this type century, when property had a zeriously as any troops in the of man. However, if it were more elevated status. Each time he passed Qantas'
not for this boishie type, the film Darwin
The fact that all did go so would fold up. manager in his car, Now the Director of the well with really no serious in- Tony would it himself in the Associated Chambers of Manu-cidents of any pedals and bow deeply.
factures. Mr H. W. C. Anderson, speaks extremely well of how description When Tony announced that has asked the Federal Govern- thoroughly the ho was going back to Rome, ment to depict secondary in thete jobs.
planners did Quntas employees in Darwin dustries on one Australian note,
Jackle Loughrey, the pretty The NSW Railways Depart-young lady is, of course, Webb'a began taking up a collection and The visit of US Navy ships to when Tony arrives he will be Sydney has grown into a million registers at what they
ment is offering for sale 12 each girl friend. So there is the pic handed
describe ture, easy in the eye, undemand. by the manager of dollar industry, n bank officia!"sacrifice" prices. Quilas Rome office a brand new said this week.
The only thing wrong within the
ing of any mental strain, follow- conventional path as bicycle with all the trimmings. Provisioning of the ships and them Is that they will only straight as an arrow.
Jack
Such s Kramer's professional the money spent by the ratings register up to 9/11 and, as The D.I." lennis players have been attract-was worth just over a million most people know. 9/11d ing lukewarm crowds to the dollars to NSW this year, he there days is very little use on
matches at White City and it said.
cash register.
KING OF MOROCCO SPEAKS
Rabal, Dec. 16.
King Mohammed V said inst night that his talks with American leaders hnd convinced him of "their goodwill and understand- ing of the problems of Morocco and those of our neighbour. Algeria."
In
110
a radlo speech on inorrow of his return from a
Three-week visit to the United
Stutes, the King sold that his
AMERICA'S BIGGEST
CHRISTMAS TREE
IS A HEADACHE
By JAMES BAAR
Washington, Dec. 16.
Monica Lewis, a girl with a boosting lady who sings at a song, plays the role of a moralo
nightclub near the depot,
NEW FILMS
ANTHONY FULLER
No, Virginia, it's Earl C. Hargrove Sr-not Santa 'Secret Formula'
Claus-who has the biggest Christmas Tree
trimming headache in the nation,
address before the United Nä- Hargrove is In charge of de- you
get up there 60 feet the tions was a "historic event" for corating the 60-foot National wind will be swaying the whóle Morocco.
Christmas Tree in the Ellipse free," he said. The King made a single, vell Park Just south of the White "Sometimes you have to hold cd reference,
fighting that House.
on with one hand and decorate broke out during his absence in
The job calls for the combined with the other,, But we have to Ifni, Spanish enclave within abilities pt a juggter, an artistle keep going because Christmas Morocco.
| light-rope walker and an intelli- wont wall.”
Hargrove said in 1955 he de- that Crown Prines Rent incuntain gout. Moulay Hassan, who directed Hargrove and his merry help-corated the tree during the Government while he
ers from his display company | blizzard,
For the SOUTH CHINA He said
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scaffold," he said. "Then it be-
heaters and the men plugged 500 alno-inch coloured plas-them into the tree.” tle balls:
He said he gets lots of free 300 to 400 aandrted plastie | odvlog on decorating "Just like
(Hargrove's you do at home,"
snowflakes
snowflakes come In two sizes-20-inch and 7-inch): 200 clusters
of "glitter ornaments"; and ★one five-foot plastic star.
Suggestions
Hargrove's men already have do it our way." built a great scaffold around the tree. Workers will decorate from the top down, dismantling thele scaffolding behind them.
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Manila, Dec. 17. The Central Bank Governor, Miguel Cuaderno, under Congressional fire due to the Philippines' dwindling dollar reserves, yesterday told Sonato investigators that he had a "secret formula" to curo this country's economic plight. Although the nature of this formula was not disclosed, Cen- tral Bank sources said it would
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New heavily hinge on ů huge Zealand, Ceylon, India, Palatan, | stabilisation fund loan from the Entries; Great Britain de Europe,
United States to be secured by Noo
a mission he would head.
CAST DOUBTS "Everyone who comes by has some suggestions" he said. "We're very courteous and then repeated questioning that tended. Cuaderno, however, following
Central He said once the troe is de- to cast doubts on the corated "il's pretty hard to do Bank's ability to administer, this country's monetary policies, any trouble shooting on it.”
"But one year the star tipped said he was "ready to step out." over so far we had to do some- thing," he said. "We got a fire department hook and ladder "About Ave men can do the truck to shoot a ladder up." Job In alx days," Hargrove wald. -Hargrove sald undecorating Is
Six Days
"I direct 'em while watching much easier than decorating. through binoculars."
"We Just scoop that tree
He said by the four years he | down," havasid, “A big crane
Meanwhile, President Carlos Garela,yesterday entegorically denied that not even one dollar was lent of this country'e inter- paiionál reserve, and said that there were Bull US$80,000,000 left,
Garvin.ald that, this..., lafter
has been decorating the Nation- | grabs li In this middle and as it's umount
el Christmas Trees, the biggest lowered about 15 men strip it in and as a result ho had to problem has been the woother. a few hours
"You may not. Ihlak
"Don't. break
windy on the ground, but when olther, Landing Prom
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Traditional
offence.
Both
the On the other hand, for first time, penalties are provided
Or for acts of indecency per- version between an edult woman and a girl. A seven-year sen- tence
for this provided
The Labour party's traditional
thase new
provisions view is that the death penalty are in line with similar steps should be abolished. The Leader taken in Britain. The B!I also of the Opposition, Mr Walter creates a number of new crimes. Nosh, stated during the election. Sabotage appears for the first campaign, however, that Labour, time, with a maximum penally if elected, would allow a free of ten years. Drug peddling, vote on the issue.
with a penalty of 14 years for The new Crimes Bill retabos supplying perrons under 21, and he death penalty but mokes wilfully Infecting a person with a disesse, also with à penalty of changes in the law relating to murder. The law under which 14 years, are other new offences.
In addition provocation may be held to re-
to changing duce murder to manslaughter is penalties, the new Bill derifies extended to include "s wrong- Buch matters 48 the police. ful course of conduct" it 11 power of arrest and the urls- should deprive the offender of diction of New Zealand courts self-control.
over регвопа committing Murder may also be reduced offences outside New Zealand.- to manslaughter if the jury is China Mail Special.
China Mail Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Jeanne Eagels." Kim Novak and Jeff Chandler in the Roaring Twenties.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "The D.I." Jack Webb as the tough sergeant in the US Marine Corps. ROXY & BROADWAY: "Kiss Them For Me," Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield and Suzy Parker. Four riotous days of leave.
STAR & METROPOLE: “Enemy From Space."
More science-fiction.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Seventh Sin." Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers, George Sandors and Jenn Pierre Aumont, A powerful drama with a Hongkong setting.
LEE: "The Bolshoi Ballet." Galina Ulanova at the
Covent Garden.
RITZ: "Hellcate Of The Navy." Ronald Regan.
US submarine operation.
CAPITOL: "Gunfighters." Randolph Scott in a
Western.
ORIENTAL: "The Curse Of Frankenstein."
MAJESTIC: "The Deerslayer." Lex Barker, Rita
Moreno in an American classic.
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