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NEAPOLITAN BANDIT SHORTENING QUEUES THE DANUBE MIGHT
CHASER HAS TO
GUARD VIPs
VIPs NOW
By HORACE CASTELL
Rome, Jan. 22.
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banditry and lawlessness in the most crime- ridden parts of Italy has been appointed police chief of Rome.
BY A FORMULA
Copenhagen, Jan. 22.
became QUEUEING
almost a national sport in Britain during World War II and few people there know that if queues in When "Operation Marzano"
of life 1955, 9pheres November in Calabrio had been thoroughly shorter today, it is due, in part at least, to the statistical methods enunciated by a Dane, Agrar Krarup Erlang.
Erlang formulated basic prin- ciples for controlling the size of queues as long ago as 1909.
Ile is Dr Carmelo Marzano, il 47-year-old Neapolitan whose ended, drastic but effective anti-crime methods have become famous in Holy in the last three years.
ur
cleaned of outlaws, at least for the time boing, and the majority ni local Molla leaders were "on holiday" at Ustien.
Appolated
pollee chlef
of
Now, however, Dr Marzano will have to change his tacties: ond whole approach to crime Naples, Dr Marzano launchert prevention, for his new job is another major operation in this the most delicate and exactli port city, Infented by pick- in Italy. Instead bandits, he will in
chosing pockets and smugglers. future be
Police squads toured the city largely occupied with guarding at night summarily detalning foreign personalities on state or anyone found without identity
visits to private
the Halia documents. capital. And the vigilant eyes
the Vatlean will always be or hlen, urging him to ever greater
this cradle of Christianity.”
If not prepaid a booking fas efforts to "alac the morals of of 50 conla is charged.
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ons operation, but mɖunwhile foreign tourists, for perhaps the Arst me in many years. Hule risk of losing wallets and | belongings in Noples.
run
Compared with most other World capitals, Rome is largely Nearly free of serious crime.
fr Marzano takes over
of Dr Arturo Musco, who DOSÍ has been Rome's police chief since Dr Saverlo Polito retired at the height of the notorious north Montesi "drug orgy" seondal in 1954.
Dr Museu was suddenly pro- noted recently and transferred In another job, with less respon- sibility.
all the big bank robberies occur In the wealthy, industrial kid- Highwaymen and nappers operate in Stelly and Calabria. Vendelto murders are rare outside the islands of Sardinin und Sielly.
Main Headaches
The new police head, known The main hendaches for
the as " Marzano"-walch could pellee chief in Rome are ület, Hongkong and BallbALTY be liberally translated to mean occasional reverberating scandals
political the Man from Mars has given with
or "society" STAMP ALDUMB "Balmoral"—313 | his ne to spectacular police background, like the Montesi From South China Morning Post Lld..
ease, which cost the polles chief Wyndham Street and Ballory Head perations in the past.
After occupying comparatively of Italy his job in 1854. And tumble poste in police stations the more recent drugs case in
of Trieste, volving members Rome,
Roine's Leghorn. Mudena and Naples just before cafe society,
Kowloon,
NOTICE
|
Mafia Society
The
exact
BECOME THE SOURCE
OF EUROPE'S POWER
By WILHELM KRASSER
Vienna, Jan. 22. Plans have been drawn up by the Austrian Water . Power authorities to utilise the Danube for
both power and pleasure. His studies of the
Do
self-service stores to decide how service without unnecessary ex- many assistants are necessary to penditure. keep queues at the pay counter fron exceeding certain limits, Erlang worked for 20 years it likewise offers
as head of the Inboratory of the question of how long an assistant ed a large number of physics- mathematical answer to the Telephone Company and publish- can leave the counter at a technical works of a ploteer moment when there are no cus-character, tomers without
Under a new queue theory of telephone traffic were
thia scheme, the cover her needs five times over, many forming and exceeding the set translated into several European Danube. described by aorce they have been harnessed.. are limit while she is away. langunger and his formula for medlacval geographer 101 Already the great water.
the probability of loss in tele-lazy glant", "would become one power schemes at Ybbs- phone trame was accepted by of the biggest sources of power Persenbeug Фл the Danube, the British Post Office shortly in centrul Europe. A series of Kaprun high up in the Alps, at after publication as a basis for dams, of which the first have various points on the river Drau ciculations regarding circuit already been constructed at and elsewhere produce nearly facilities.
Ybbs-Perrenbeug and Jochen- 8,000 million kilowatt hours steln, will turn the river basin peor. Soon, the Ybbs-Persen- into a chain of lakes.
beug station alone will be pro- Water falling over the dams ducin, 1,275 kilowatt hours w, it is calculated, generate a
year. minimum of 14,000 millon kiko- wait hours a year when the scheme is completed. This would more than cover the
Today, working on his method of calculating probabilities tran- sport officials, for example, endeavour to "beat the Caxi qinues,* Londoners are prol- nbly unaware of it, but it is his priuciples which are used to re- qulate the supply of taxis at, for instance, Euston railway station.
Calculating
Complexity
The complexity of the calcula- tions involved is obvious from the following example: If two nesistants
are at the pay desk and the queueing limit is set al three people, one assistant may leave her post for nine minutes. when there are no customers,
By CAROL
COGHILL
Original
15 Dams
D
A French scientist, Dr AE Voulot, even learnt Danlah in
It is estimated that when 15 to translate whole of Austria's present con- dams have been built across the order to be able Erlang's works while a research smption of electric current Danube, production from this worker at the Bell Telephone which totals about 10,000 river alone will be over 14,000 Laboratorics In the United million kilowatt hours. States did so simply in order to
be uble to read Erling's work in the original,
Erlang died sud only in 1928 and it was only nearly 20 years later that his contribution to statistieni methods began to sprend from the inner clreto of telephone engineers to scientists skating in other felds. The prozess started in 1948, when the Inven
ot
Playground
nililion kilowall hours a year. Austria's total hydro-electric production by then should reach
over 20,000 inilton kilowatt
of
The chak of lakes would hours a year and should sallafy ot even the greatly increased needs provide the 1,200,000 people Vienna with magnificent) of the country at that time.
rowing The main obstacle to realisa- playground for sailing,
In summer and tion of all the plans is Onance. and bathing
winter. In
The pre-Austrin will need capital freen By entculating that a row of
sence of so much water might abroad to enable her to com- taxis is taken up by a certain
somc experts belleve, plete these schemes, As various number of people per hour and
International financial organim- that
the rate of
Tele- modify the climate favourably incoming without disturbing the queueing'ternational Consultative
shown in- taxis 19 such und
such pattern." If, however, the phone Committee decided that A present Vienna has weather tions have already
the development per
hour, the statistician queueing limit is stretched to the unit of telephone trame typlett of the centre of a large terest in
land-mass with extremes of Austria's wnter-power, it is supply the
should be solution to live people, she may leave for "Erlang" in tonour of the Dan- summer,
Intensily
named
between winter hoped that the money will be the problem of how many
and summer, and day and night. forthcoming. minutes without causing an in-igh scientist. Another tribute to taxis there should be on the rank
The series of Danube power Ong of the lakes planned, will ccense in the queue, time to prevent at any given
his work come nine years later,
at tho begin tervellers from being kept wait-
in the form of an International be within 13 miles of the city stations will
frontier, near ing for more than a certain fixed Agtar Erlang became delenit congress in Copenhagen on the boundary, while some of the Austro-German
others
where one of the would be only an hour Jochenstein, period while at the same time c adviser to the Copenhagen application of his theory
or two away in a car.
first stations has already been avoiding having
taxis standing Telephone Company at the be- probability in telephone engin
Austrína consumption of constructed, with joint Austrian
German ginning of this century and bis eering and administration.
Bancal electric power has been increas- and
year by year. I operation. Other dams would A there is the case of the statistical principles were first
bronze plaque, Inscribed rapidly
has been estimated that the pre-be built at Aschach, where telephone boxes. If a row of applied to iclephone trafic, His
first basle first contribution in this field, with his
af scnt consumption
about French financial assistance may telephone boxes is used by so
which he made at the age of formula was also set up at the
10,000 kilowati hours a year will be forthcoming, at Ottensheim, many people per hour, each per-
31, consisted of a work entitled time in the Copenhagen Tele-
be doubled in the
ten Linz, Mauthausen, son talking for such and such
"The Theory of Probabilities and phone Company's transit centre.
years, as a result of Increasing Ybbs, already partly in opera- time, and people Telephone at average
Conversation." in
Industrialisation and
Rossatz, Gralon- a rising tion, Melk, crdinary Even today, few who find all the boxes occupied
which he dealt with problems tť
Klosterneuburg, woerth, Tulln, refuse to wait for more than a
Danes know much about Erlang, standard of living. congestion and waiting time,
coal, Vienna, Petronell and Wolfsthal and fower all realise that his certain time, Mr Erlang's method
great-where the scheme would prot- makes it possible
gradually being methods are to ascertain
on depend
Austro- applied all over the world to
states ably solve such practical problems as
from Czechoslovak co-operation. thereby able to establish exactly the organisation of road and air how many operators to employ traffic, the supply of hospital in- at any given switchboard and beds, the rationalisation of calculate how many lines were dustrial production and even to necessary in order to give sub-speed up routine paper work in cribers à particular standard of l-offices-China Mall Special.
idle.
Or
I Sweden, Erland's statisti- cal method is used in a chain of
d during World War I,Dr Then, there are the frequent Notles hereby given Marzano found himself deputy visits of foreign heads of State, that CHEUNG WAHI WOO chief at Palermo at the time Government personalities, Alm other celebrities, CHEUNG When the palice campaign against stars and (張華) alins
Princess CHAN HON({RÍAIR) of 94 Salvatore Giuliano, the Stelian many of whom, like
bandit "ezar", 'was in full swing. Grace and Prince Rainier of & 96 MacDonnell Road,
Monuco, enjoy walking alone Hong Kung. is applying to
apparently unescorted how many boxes should be sup- piled in this particular area to the Governor for naturallon-
through the city streets.
Finally Rome's police chief ensure that only a certain per tion, and that any person
behind-the-scenes park has to consider the
centage insistent
of
would-be the who knows any reason why played by Dr Marzano In
the calls by
fur Vatitren for "customers" give up. naturallention should not be final extinction of Giuliano and improving the morals" of the
special
*P* "capital of Christianity." Under granted should send a writ- his band led to a
hend come campaigns ten and signed statement of pointment in August 1955. He th
was given the task (and full ranging from attacks on "lewd" the facts to the Colonial powers) of prising about 200 film publlelty posiers to ou!- Secretary, Colonial Serre- bandits from hideouts on the raged comment on the "immoral heavily wooded Aspromonte short shorts" of foreign tourists. tarlat, Hong Kong:
(the Bitter Mountain), in Sumping up the many and Calabria, in the "toe" of (tely responsible tasks at the police
At the same time, Dr Mar- | chist of the Halle capitol- zano had to eliminate, or at who will be second only to the SUNDAY POST-HERALD least reduce to Impotency, the chief police, of Italy in the Space for commercial powerful branch of the unde Public Security branch of the *dvertising should he ground Malo Society irt the Italian administrative machine booked not istor then Calabria region. Polke suspected crime reporters in Rome pre- noon on Wednesdays. that the bandits hiding on the diet that Dr Marzano will often Aspromonte carried out kid- dream of the relatively happy nuppings, murder, blackmail days which he spent chasing and exiuitions on orders, from bandits on the Bitter Mountain, local lcoders of the secret-China Melt Special.
To ADVERTISERS
For the BOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours
before date of publication, society. Special
mente as usual.
Fri their
But the police, Announcements and Classified Advertise-periodical operations against Madu, have always been seriously hampered by the re- fusal of terrified local In- habitants lo give
H. K. S. P. C.
· Naeda financial support for the
sake of poor children
information
about the society. Consequently
|PHOUMA TO LEAVE
they rarely collect enough proof FOR PARIS
to bring suspected
trial.
leaders to
Banishment
for
with
London, Jan. 23. Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Prime Minister of Laos, leaves this here this afternoon by air Dr Marzano got round
banishing Parls after his three and a half major obstacle by suspected criminals to the tiny day stay in Britain. isolated Island
During his unofficial visit, of Uslich, 45
the Prince had talks miles north of Sicily, for from one to five years. Without fur Senior British Ministers, in- ther ado, prople
who strongly cluding Mr R. A. Butler, suspected of being members of is presiding over cabinet meet- Malia, or closely connected withings in the absence of Mr Harold the organisation, were
Mr dis- Macmillan and
Selwyn pelched to Ustica
under 11 Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, communica
Fascist law which has since The Prince will atay In Parts Hongkong
been declared inconstitutional until January 29 before relum- Society for the Protection by Italy's Constitutional Court. ing home via Bangkok at the
At Ustica, they lived in
cell-end of a Western "goodwil?"
Please addresa
tions:-Secretary,
of Children. P.O. Boz 250 Hongkong. Planes send us your unwanted toys. Collection centre at Rediffuafon.
Ilke rooms which were locked tour, which has already taken
at night and were kept under him to the United States and 24-hour police surveillance.
HARRY
Canada. Fleuter.
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As Austria is short of and has to limport it at cost trom neighbouring and even, sometimes, America, any increase ki cur- power rent derived from water Is advantageous, Fortunately, this mountainous land has potential water-power enough
1 her rivers and
streams
GOOD LOOKS TEND TO
BE A DISADVANTAGE IN COMMUNIST SOCIETY
By JOSEPH FLEMING
Berlin, Jan. 22.
Navigation
со
Wellsee,
The regulation of the Danubo from the which would result to construction of this series of Jokes would also, It is believed, improve navigation. Each of the Danube power stations will have locks of standard site, and much bigger than those used in central Europe up to now. Tho locks will have two chambers, each admitting a complete string of the long Danube barges so that a continuous flow of traffic
lo could be maintained
both directions.
Harnessing the river wouldī also eliminate recki, narrows and shoals which at present seriously hinder traffle, especial- ly when the water is low. It would also make navigation possible day and night, summer and winter in both directions,
provement on the present.
A further beneft from the Danube scheme is that it would at eliminate the floods, which present cost Austria millions of schillings every second or third ot year, and delay cultivation
argó areas of fertile land near the river banks,
"My boy friend thinks I'm beautiful. What which would bo a great
should I do?”
All four letters published in A Soviet Zone girl put that question to the Communist answer told Sonja she was in equivalent of an advice-to-the- | great danger and to break off
the relationship fast. lovelorn column,
There is good reason to be love both Sonja's letter and the answers were plants designed to The question and the answer combat the tendency of youth to disclose a strange Communist ape Western customs in looks, attitude toward beauty, love and clothes and love. life in general.
"Leave him."--was the cm- phatic answer,
Party Line
Good looks, grooming, nico clothes tend to be a disadvan- tago in a Communist society.
The Communist Youth Or Since the death of Stalin thoganisation in effect was laying Communists have abandoned the down the party line on looks iden that neatness was a sign of and love for its members. anti-Government activity,
They now tell men to wear New emphasis of the line bas ties and girls use cosmetics. because club
sual They carry fashion columns in houser increasingly have become
their press.
a place for boy to meet girl in- But deep down inside they stead of to take part in serious still have a dark suspicion that discussions. people can be too good looking, The Youth Organisation ha too neat, that time spent on complained that many attended grooming could better be spent Communit youth gatherings
merely to seck “affairs."
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