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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1958.
Whisky Restrictions During
Brussels World Fair
By DAVID WILLEY
Brussels, Apr. 21.
FOREIGNERS who want to drink whisky during the 1958 Brussels World Fair will have to retire with a bottle to their hotel bedroom if they want to keep strictly within the law.
Minor Changes
Although
This Is America
New York (By Airmail).
From JOHN THOMPSON
shorter work weeks, many Americans find they in Amerien, Recession begins
and ends in, the minds of men," the thunderbolts" of atomie Bre- cannot keep up with their instalment payments.
and other lenders report, too, a claims the
the
VARIETY, the trade paper, puts British fime at the top
foreign of a list of
dollar- wplinore.
It cutīmātos that last year 93 British flims gromed $5,347,000 (£2,200,000), almart half the foreign total $10,807,000.
GLAMOROUS gold-plated "do-it-yourself” kita, specially designed for housewives, being marketed by a UB firm.
эго
multi-million dollar campaign to Trudeau, the army's research #ght the slump.
and development chiet- Big business man Charless G. Ile will have a two-way HIRE purchase in the US has today become all
"We must helmet radio, and television and too often a question not of just the "never-Mortimer went on:
have
flying a four-month campaign Infrared equipment;" a never" but of the never-at-all. With lay-offs and bored confidence. In a grow-platlurin ve en zirlal jeep, end n shoulder, weapon which hos
Mortimer atressed the long-powar. term strength of the US General Trudeau also eald the
He sold his company US is "well on
the way
to Finacce
banks, trade unico and labour news, economy. companies,
of now (General Foods) had had the solution underworld
anti-missilo misalle problem.” steep rise in the number of controls at least seven per cent biggest Arst querier of a year in
is histery: CRI, weshing machines, and of the US economy.. other items which they have Today the names of some at An "end the recession" sale Pittsburgh turned into I would forbid the sale had to "repoSSCES,"
the most feared figures of the in For Belgium, the biggest beor- following year this was modified
American The
Collectors' underworld came out In the neur-riot. The department drinking country in the world, to allow purchases of two litres
in licensed wineshops of
announces today campaign launched by Attornoy-store's anti-stump tactics were the big sumption of 147 litres (32 gallons) than with an average annual con-
Among these loo successful, and or more of spirits (1,0, more miniature bottles and hip-Banks Association
That they have reclaimed 87 per General Rogers. the avernge Industrial of spirits. per head still has partial prohl-worker could afford) for home
goods being bought regarded as in the top 100 window at the front of the store Supporters of the proposal to cent moro
are Meyer Lansky, caved in under the pressure of Flye on hire purchase than in the mobsters uition in force for all spirits. consumption.
let bar-keepers haye spirits in
Arst months of last year.
deposed Cuban gambling king hundreds of customers. their own homes (not for public
in the Tatting back unpaid-for goods questioned
murder of women were injured. consumption) say this represents has become a major
Anastasia; cool,
Among the items advertised: American Albert
beers Costello; Joo Profacilelevision sets and fur cools at a very modest concession to the business. There are tome 400 Frank modern age.
They
point out Arms performing these often Brooklyn's "elive oil king" (ald five dollars (£1 16a. Bd.) each. that alcohol
to be the No. 2 in big crime); Finally police chiefs ordered the consumption has unpleasant chores. fallen from over ten litres per
fire purchase Amy And that and affable Vita Genovese, the store to be closed because the head per annum in 1808 to just calling in the repossession New Jersey figure. He is now 30 men on duty were unable to
la what I report. When and one half wires men that polite Americanism thought to be the reigning king control the shoppers,
all the talk is of a TC- in 1954, the last year for which for the brokers men—is putting | 9; _the_underworld.
cession here, radio is enjoying Deaths up their costa daily. Often, too.
Its best-over year: Thai old gures were available. attributed to alcoholism
they cannot resell the goods for
steam radio, for which there aver the same period from the amount of the Joan out-
havo bean so many gloomy pro- nearly 600 per annum to 137.
standing.
it calls phecios, is having rip-roaring But the "prohibitionlela”--- Supporters of the bill say if
bonanza of business boom. to drink spirits among them the widow of Van-
Why Is this? Because the anyone wishes
a senator.
Sald the sack-dressed woman
The plea advertisers in these he can legally so to his dervelde, herself
to
Gays of maneger of one big hire pur-Night-day trial in the New
York Criminal Courts has D was made last weelt to the recossion havo re-examined eres sed heart's content at home, and the retort that alcohollim has
only
of the chase because
Arm: "Mast of the Vandervelde law is now "out of
ended In loud laughter, The United States Government by every medium in their search Vandervelde law, ony amend- increase in repossession is in date."
prosecution lawyer, Assistant General Electric, one of the big for the best dollar's worth. ment of which would lead
businessca District Attorney
electrical Roberts, and five
Often they find they can get "Their buyers felt pretty the defence lawyer, Horacio America. It asked for suffer better results for their money stable, so they bought homes,
Quinones kept arguing bitterly. Import barriera more protection
networks radiu cars, and everything on credit,
each against such imports as electric and local radio stations than on They just got it In-for Now many
them pre
other.
transformers, The judge repeatedly generators and
the more expensive-to-buy tele- destitute.
warned them DOL to Interrupt Several British firms are among vision. How do the repossession
each other.
the most feared competitors. men
Sometimes Ko to work?
General Electric petitions the Well, towards the end of the have to they
use, extreme trial Mr Roberts gol
Defence Mobilisziion. sore Office of measures. For example:--
A Chicago baker was laid offer, and from time to time be It argues that electrical imports
glass of hot are going up and up. dunked it in a In December, Immediately le stomach salts to reduce the At the drove to California in his new swelling.
As well as being great beer- also drinkers, Belgians Gre
world's leading among the champagne-drinkers, with an annual average of ane bottle lu
the new bill pro- every five members of the population. Witte consumption poses only minor changes in the say it wil is also high for a non-wine pro-law, its opponents
open the door lo increased alcohollan. "Vandervelde be- trayed," cae Catholic trade union newspaper headlined its com- ments.
ducing country.
Hard Liquor
But no hard liquor is allowed in bars, cafes or restaurants, and anyone who wants to buy * boile gin or whisky for con- sumption at home must buy at least two tres when they make
their purchase in a wineshop. Briedy, the new bill, passed
In fact people who want to by the Chamber of Representa- | drink iquor las public can-andtives last June and now having do get round the law by join stormy passage through the
particularly
Ing one of the numerous "private senate proposes three changes in clubs" which flourish in at main the law: towns, Brussels. thing
Funder one
widespread drunkenness.
Quantities
of
fell
to
more
10 the
cars.
CET.
WESTPORT,
one
the of suburbs for smartost
New Vorkers, la thinking of charg Ing all newcomers an initia. tion fee."
THE Now York. Sanitation Commission has asked Its an. gineers to design public con ventences for dogs ("Canine Comfort Stations," them).
DUY AMERICAN.
Ittile
..
NEW cars for Americans that
in
on
flm
It
"greater
the
But, most Important, there has been a nation-wide switch
So successful has the indlo business been in matching the 12 new trend that these last months have seen radio adver tising at its highest peak. And more radios.have been produced and sold than in any year slaco 1048..
Liquor dealers claim that is and
In Members pay any-
It would allow bar and y case only a very small pro-
portion
drunkenness
in the way Americans listen. In from 45 Belgian francs
restaurant owners to Belgium 1s due to wines aw (6/da) upwards for a glass of keep spirits in their private spirits, much
They have a new attitude to wards their radio set. The old same time and days of endless soap operas like whisky in cne of these clubs. apartments. At present this is gargantuan quantilles of boer
"Port Faces Life," and "Just strangely the This loophole in the prohi-u punishable offence prevent that are, consumed, bilion low has been tolerated by f proprietors
cross-declares it does not believe the Plain Bill" are gone. from allpping A According to official statistics
Mr Quinones rose to Now, five months and 10,000 11,000,000,000 NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES | he authoritles because the cost bottle of liquor out of sight, with over
Belgian
cxomine. Unthinkingis, he scale at. Imports a hurting. miles later, he pulls into picked up the class, approached makes these points: well beyond the average the excuse that it was for frones (about £80,000,000)
garage near Washington-and
ard Bfted, the That United States heavy Industrial worker-at whom the "private use," if excise officers worth of beer was consumed la
after noisy argument hands his the Jury-box,
power equipment has prohibition legislation was ori- niade a sudden inspeellon,
In 1956-nearly (it Belglum
"Mr Quinones," began Mr proved rellability"; ~ ginally directed.
over this article in the bill much as the whole of the car keys over to a husky private glass to his mouth.
delective.
Roberts politely.
That there is difficulty in Damaged cargo ex this vessel will But now politicians, doctors,that the "battle of the bars" con- defence budget-which puts her
at the top of the beer-drinkingments on his car and
The baker had made no pay- be surveyed by Memes, Guddard &militant women's organisations|troversy is being fought.)
"Don't Interrupt," said the repairing and maintaining im- judge.
ported equipment; Douglas at Hong Kong & Kowicen
countries of the work zo
And that "changes In the Whart Godown at 10.00 am an
The new bill would also On per capita consumption the hire-purchase firm $3,100 Wednesday, 23rd Aprit and Thure-
(£1,300).
International situation may day, 240 April, 1933 and eunsignees
tighten up the regulations figures. Britain taken only th
deliveries trom Australia while
jeopardise represents!lves are requested fà be
A bil modifying the 30-year-of the "whisky clubs," Members; place.
Muroad:" present during survey.
uld prohibition Inw of the late would have to sign a member third place behind Luxembourg. A Rhode Island repossession Fanile Vandervelde, "the Father ship form eight days before a of Belgion Socialism," is causing drop of liquor was allowed to ali the trouble. In 1918 Vanderpuss their lips. This would velde pushed through Parliament mean the virtual exclusion of utaw for total prohibition. The most tourists from the clubs.
BUTTERFIELD® & #WINE, Agents.
Australian-Orient Line Lid. The Chips Navigation Co., Ltd.
H. K. S. P. C.
Negde financial support for the sake of poor children
Picane addrcar communica- tions: Secretary, Hongkong Society for of Children.
aud quor dealers have entered the lists for ú "battle of the bars."
*
THE SPHINX IS GETTING A FACE-LIFTING
By GERALD ARATHOON
Cairo, Apr. 21.
THE Sphinx is getting a face-lift-
ing.
the Protection Inch by inch Egyptian archaeologists are doing an exacting restoration job on the giant, enig- matic statue at Giza steeped in the legends of 49 centuries.
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Scaffolding has been rigged | Sphinx, which told him in his up around the Sphinx by the sleep
would archaeologists who take great rewarded if he cleared away cate to prevent any contact the sau drifts that covered between the wooden beams the greater part of the statue, and the famous statue for
is inscribed on a granite slab lying between the paws of the of Injuring it.
The present restoration work recumbent lon,
the is not the first undertaken on the Gita Sphinx, carved us one a rocky knoll piece out of which once stood.on the same
bite.
Colossus
Current restoration of Sphinx is under the charge of Zaki Nour, Keeper of Anti- quities at Giza. Nour, maid the Work is intended to give the statue a pruecd-up look "with- out modifying its value as 40 antique in the least,"
To preserve the reile, Nour Workers
The 240 feet long und 60 sald, the restoralion feet high colossus, comtaining a follow this code: never put in human head with a- llon's body, something new lu' the place of has been. altended to by re-missing part. 'novators in all ages to repair
the damages wrought by the piercing desest sand,
the sun's
scorching heat ·und seasonal
downpours,
Enigmatic
Nour illustrated his point Symbol of the sun-god Ra, about restoration by pointing the Sphinx
that michorologikis nevar iles on the outer cut
the fringes of the Giza Necropolis contemplated Bling est south of
the Great Pyramid, missing part of the Sphinx
touch of Its face looks fast where the nose which lentia sun rises at daybreak.
wry unconcern to the enigmatte Built around 2900 B.C. by expression of its face, the Phursoh Chophten, bulider Restoration is being carried B/Ta}} with a of the second Giza pyramid, the out by phaser, Sphinx' face
ropresonte area of the statue's huge form Chepton with his royal, houdbandied at a time. The archaico- draw and the cobrs as the logists have so far "Armed up" ruler's emblem on the forehead, the head, "nocle and tall, and tion's body #ppresenta tre now working on the Sphinx" power.
massive chest. They have been The Brak, restoration work on acaffolding and testing, their the Sphinx recorded in history way about the statue for was carried out in the wig of several months already Pharaoh Thuhmos de Vig who Nour put it this way. "THA raised the?" statue to the full Sphinx la: In good shape and [sank of a god about 16 con- must be kept that war. We pro turios atler it was built, keeping up the resto:ption work The initund - of \ Thalmopo's "hjista varna begun by the ancient drown in the linde, ocial perpilars, "ak United Press,
C
lakca
An amendment, to the new liquor bill tabled by a group of Liberal deputies proposing free sale of spirits in Belgium for the six months'__duration_of_the World Fair was firmly rejected by the chamber last year.
The Liberal deputies asked: "Would it not be, prest of has pitality to the millions of foreign visitors to the World Fair to allow them to partake of the glass of whisky to which they are perhaps accustomed?
The chamber evidently thought not, but observers, here forecast a certain toleratice by bor-
China Mall Special
owed
to
"I say Mr Quinones," raid Mr Roberta ugain,
And again the Judge said DON'T
What are tho-changes-in- INTERNUPT. By now Mr Quinones had The latter point is Generallistening habits? The post-war firm goes to work by "stealing."
taken two large swallows. Mr Electric's most lethal argument, pudience for old steam redio With special burgling tools,
Roberis
raised his hands in says the US must have, a has an away-from-the-fireside team of nine, and radio-con-
despair.
domcille electrical Industry in majority. trolled cars they get at locked
It consists of motorists--oflen meet Mr Quinones downed the rest good enough shape. cors-without-breaking doors, of the salls.
for-defence traveling-vost-distanees-alone "emergency calls windows, or locks.""
context scross this huge country -- and In this "I'm sorry, your honour," sold needs, and When the owner angrily rings Mr Roberts, "but
the proclaims that contrasts placed many, many owners of portable the police already tipped off by Interests of public health and abroad "Threaten to impair the
Jadios. the reperecesiun men they justice I must bring to the national security."
These American cars want to Gooily explain where the cit
court's attention the fact that The British Chamber of Com-be entertained in their cars and can be recovered on
payment ut what is owing.
my learned brother has just merce in New York issued a on the high-rohoci ezmgua and drunk a glass of salts in which statement denying that such on the beach, where the lack of
imports wore I was bathing my finger."
TV outlets effectively rules out endangering Judge and jury roared with security,
TV compatition. laughter. Mr Quinones moved for an adjournment
A BONGs you open tha drink cupboard that is the latest gadget here.
keepers to thirsty visitors. BLIND Victor
Riesel, the columnist who specialises in
China Mail Entertainment Guide.
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Children Of Love." A
French picture of an unwed mother, KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Bridge On The River Kwat." William Holden, Jack Hawking and Alec Guinness in an Academy Awards winning war picture.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Until They Sall." Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine and Paul Newman, in u romantic drama.
STAR & METROPOLE: "Man Of A Thousand
Faces." James Cagney as Lon Chaney, LEE & ASTOR: "The Naked Truth." Terry
Thomas in a comedy.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Beware Of Pick-
pockets." A hilarious Chinese comedy. CAPITOL: "Pardners." A Martin-Lewis comedy. RITZ: "The Curse Of Frankenstein."
Cushing.
Peter
ORIENTAL & MAJESTIC. "Peyton Place." Lann
Turner and an all-star cast.
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wearing aluminium veste for protection.
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LGER Iss. the
former
State Department official
A NURSE married a forry driver at sunset on the beach at Biloxi, Missouri. She wore a white straplow bathing suit, he wore black swimming trunks.
NOVERNMENTS are fur nuore stupid than are their people,
gooled for perjury, learned last sold President Eisenhower last
week. wock that he gets $15,000 (£5,350) from hlu mother's estate.
A STUDENT at Stillwater,
Oklahoma, will be looked in a box three foot wide, two feet deep, and five fast six Inches long to help research into liinesses.
He wrs telling 200 members (from both aides of the Iron Curlein) of the International Washington that most of the Aeronautical Federation
we can
In
What is the formula that the US radio now offers? Say's Dickens J. Wright, operator of a highly successful station across the river from New York in New Jersey: "I: Interrupt, the record-spinning with as
little talk as humanly possible, I out- Inw stupid and inane. mercials."
-Com-
To back up his policy Mr Dickens Wright turned down! $248,000 (£87,800) of advertis- bin ing last year. But still on small station he had a revenue of $1,000,000 (£357,000).
world's troubles will be over 1
And in this recession period. zet people talking to
his revenues are going up and each other, lving together, going to each other's homes....
up.
To back this policy of music About the same time bristof all types-played on many
NE of the "sights" of New Harry S. Truman was telling stations, night and day.
the
news
st Yale about the York is to disappear. The students
recession. Like this: "If I were no also gives short red bells and shiny trousers of
bulletins. And for out-of-doors President again I wouldn't be listeners the radio firms the Fire Department's band are
have or playing golf, I to be laid to rest, and the 40 siting still
been re-tooling their factories can tell you." musiclans oro being arsigned to
'on a big scale. full fire-fighting duly,
There in a boom in transistor
no radio sets that are
bigger. than a king-size packat of cigarettes. The head of one big
It is part of a drive', 'to cul down on non-essential activities (by the city's employees.
MOST of the now pistol permits issued in New York were to retired policeman.
Gradually the men who made PREVIEW of the American musle on municipal time and
Aghting man of the future, money, have been hard-hlt. The as given in Los Angeles last pallee band went in 1954. The week by Lieut-Gen. Arther Fire Department's glee club went in 1957.
Last week. the cold blast of economy came to the Fire Department's band, which had the reputation of being the best of the New York bands..
Firo Commissioner Cavanagh ordered the band's dissolution because of the stopped-up fire"; prevention campaign, the dcuto sherlage of firemen and the economy drive..
|
firm says that in a couple of
years the majority of America's radio sets will be this email size for portable listening."
RADIO HONGKONG
6.30 p.m... "Hat for Squares'; 4. presdive Jazz; #, Tanch Tone; 0.29. Tune Bigna), La Dani Heor Birthday Malibee: 6.30, Bordi Call: Francslis precantations de M. Camisi: 7. Parsonality Parade team Trod- 0.30, Youth Minions Music; 7, Franck bel; 7.15, Evening Berando; -7.30, Pourcel and tin Parlatan Strings: Bummertime: 1.48, The Story of Jene 7.10, The Noral, (ntroduced by Armitage; 2, Tine. Elgnal eri the Maxwell Knight No. 1 "Longevity* News, 1.00, Weather Forecast, An 1:30. Come bity the Parlour. aruste nouncements and Interfukte: BLE, from Noruefa". Irwinnat. 7.50. Violin, fecital; 2.30, On The Other Weather Iteport: B.VTtme Bignal. Side: 8, Bquad:Room-A. Sury Of Thy Nowa; b.10, Commentary: 4.14. Crime and Punthement My Word-No: 6 A panel gume in rphede):9.30, The Enchanted Limas troduced by John Arioli; 8:45, Con10, Meite» İtali, Vortice 19 corto, Pathetique for Two Place Moods In Muse: The With (Liszt)}}) 9. Time Signal. Brianelz
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Said the band's leader: "This le one of the best organisations that ever was, not some mud- gutter bond Our fellows will miss it. And so will New York. Without the fireman's band
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