THE CHINA MAIE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1958.
A Weekly China Mail Feature
PEOPLE
in the news
NEW DEFENCE CHIEF IS DESCENDANT OF NELSON
By Richard Berry
TEDDY A great-great-grandson of Admiral Lord Nelson-
COPPERS
"People" Special
Weinsbury, England.
Teen ages are being recruit- ed as spietal constables in this town i bearby Darlaston to help in tar dight against gangs of their own age.
These two midland towns are
girls nccepting boys and "Specials" the age of 18.
British police forces do Bust normally accept recruits under the age of 20 or 21.
Eight teen-agers, all wearing uniforms and Mrcial Condable holding warrant cards are ul- rendy on duty.
the
t<
They have arrest, but work only part-time and get no pay.
The alm is to recruit 50 of Bem-15 boys and 15 girls-to reinforce the local police Iurers.
Alderman Arthur
Bissell, Commandant of the special con- stabulary in the two towns sald today: "We feel teen-agers understand the Way rondits
think.
Ca
"We need giri specials to deat with teely girl.
"Our girls specials will talk
to teddy girls known to have
morals to try and
Jax
make
them see the folly of their ways."
Fell Under Train
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Forster Dickson-is the first holder of the newly-created post of Chief of the Defence Staff in Great Britain.
He is the principal military and proinoled to Flight Licu- adviser of the Minister of De- traɛnt, fence, and plays a' major part
in the streamlining of the thres Services for the era of nuclear. warfare.
The boy who
Mishap Changed grew up
Future
Sir William's future was then No Serviccmen phys such a crucio;ly changed by a fortuitous responsible role in Britain to mishap. Following a crush on day. Yet Sir Willum, who has hla motor-cycle and a period in shunned publicity throughout hospital, he was given the post his career, is reutecly known of Staff Ofeer to the Then by the general pulilic, even most distin- though he has a Rushed Service record.
Won 'Wings' at 18
In 1910. at the age of 18. Dickson became a Temporary Probationary Flight Oficer and won his "winge in time to get
intensive 18 months'
wartime flying experience with the Naval Air Service.
Deputy Chief of Staff, Sir John Strel.
For the next three years he became professionally acquaint- ed with Air Staff Officers who were to play a commending part In World War II, and, in 1939, after five years' service in Indin, he moved to Whitehall,
A
too
soon
by LOGAN GOURLAY
FATHER was talking His active flying work during about his son. "He's had World War II eluded offen- live ruids over France and the an unusual childhood....he organising of defensive measure has been so long with more against South Coast tip-and-mature people he feels one
On the approach run ralders.
Da of them. No. of D-Day he trained
Sir William was closely 43- sociated with early develop- ments of sea flying und, while Group of the Tactical Air Force Serving. In HMS. Furlous, he for the assault on Europe. helped Squadron Commander Tactical Genius
Dunning in making the lundings on an aircraft carrier,
of
10
And
"Before he's 21 he'll probably meet dozens of girls,"
It wag
famous father, Ted Ray, talking about his almost- Dickson was billerly dis-as-famous son, Andrew, who said last week that he hoped to appointed on being moved away
his engagement He won his D.S. O, for his before the Group shared in the UKALITNO part in the first seaborne nir Normandy invasion, but in April, Susan Burnett,
They have been appearing attack of World War 1 on a 1944, he found ample scope for strategic objective the Zip-is tactical genius as Commander together in the West End play "The Flowering Cherry." She pelin base al Jutland. As one of the immortal Desert Air Force
Is 10. He is 10. oflicens who in Italy. only two returned from that high ad- After the war, os Asbiani But father sald "No."
to Join venture, Sir William, at the Chief of Staff (Policy), Sir Wil-he has taken Andrew age of 10, received the award liam was concerned in organising him in Bournemouth, where Ray
the down-build of the great Ser- senior is in variety. from King George V. Londen.
vice he had earlier helped to He said: "He has been told An express train roared over.
Dickson, still fallen a school-boy,
his teen, buld up. Next he was appointed by his doctor to rest, and he is who had
Squadron Avlation Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, and uut of the show for the time beening in its path and he mcaped with
Officer and later Fleet Aviation in 1953 he succeeded Lord Sles-being. He hasn't been well since shock and bruises,
Officer Then, in 1919, he was sor, with whom he had been a that last car crash, and he needs
ver a permanent R.A.F. com schoolboy at Haileybury, as Chier mission as Flying Officer, al of Air Staff. devoted himself mainly to the duties of ah experimental lest phot,
And Lived
The boy, 15-year-old Geofrey Talbol, of Elmbridge Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey, fainted and fell from a platform at Surbiton Station.
He landed between the rails and the fracombe Waterloo Train passed over him.
He was ken
Kingston
:
Hospital-People Special.
2
He was awarded the Dunning Cup in 1921, and the following year he was awarded the A.F.C.
A British Crossword Puzzle
18
11
12. 13
16
19
20
22
23
128
29
131
133
ACROSS
3 Not the whole role? (4).
7 Country bumpin, (5),
3 Playing cards in the RAF?
(4).
Deposit on a bed (4).
10 Talk too much (7).
12 Archbishop of York's signa-
ture (4).
15. Employing (5).
10 Mairie weight (4).
19. Sparrow's victim (6).
21 Bruce's spider, for example,
(G).
22 Put In by interfering people
(4).
23 Colour of fishy origin (5).
26 Nominal list (4).
20 Moving rupidly (7).
52
DOWN
1 Holiday trips
France) (5).
16
14
(not only in
2 Tooth plato (7).'
4 Ho's not at home in
country (5).
5 Gallery in the States (4).
6 OM Fiddler (4).
this
Such a chance is not a big ono (1).
11 Romanoffs, most likely (5).
13
Your unelel (4).
14 Where,
In the US.. a partnership may end (4).
10 A litle sand (5).
Move around (4).
17
18 Lustrous little pig (4).
20 Nell's wares (1),
30 Animals in the papers, by 24 Do an Etra7 (5).
22 Work to mix soup (4).
the sound of them (4),
"
31 German wito (4),
25 Grind the trein (5).. 37 Monier (4),
32 Feminine name (5).
28 A sickness (4)..
33 Tucky in (4).
Four years later he was ap- pointed Chairman of the Chiefs uf Stair Connaliice, the senior uffler on the Defence Ministry's milltary staff. With some sad ness be moved out of the Air Ministry,
a break."
Too late?
HATE to say it but perhaps
wag
father Ray has left it too late. Separating the young lovers Jan't going to salve any- thing. The problem crystallised when he said: "Andrew was a film star at 11" It is the old show business problem of what happens to chikt stars when they grow up. Can they ever advance normally adolescence und then
Sir Willem had the unique distinction of being the only Chief of Air Staff who was i pliol from the very beginning of his Service carcer. And at 57, while C.A.S., he was still Hying-in single-senter, Jet-tu fighters.
Tremendous Energy
A small, bald man, who will be 60 next month, Sir William hos formidable personality, tremen- dous energy and firm command. But he also has a lively sense of humour and A reputation for keeping a watchful eye on welfare of his men.
He has fought as hard for the Army and Navy as for his own branch of the Service, and he is
the
maturity?
PRINCE WILLIAM GİVES SCHOOL FRIENDS A LIFT IN THE ROLLS
It was
Bang on for the Eton Break-up
By PATRICK CAMPBELL.
A
Aummer
IL
T the inconceivable hour of 7 a.m. one Wednes- day Eton broke up for the
holidays with series of explosions that might well have brought out the police and the fire brigade in a town less nc- customed to the scholars' little ways.
For 45 minutes the main strect was alive with hundred Juvenile
capering
slation
several Prince William arranges the sooting for eccentries,
down to the rollway and my mates get into thed until they've gone, too muick for
He seemed
Wait for me!
the
bul.
me
well
There were small boys with they were the trunks, and large boys with this time." tiny airline bags. A child of 13 pleased. was pushing a porter's trolley, encouraged by friends twice his size. There were bursting paper parcels, cricket bats, violins, Jupe recorders, tennis rackets, I drove back to the, school, taluing rods, and string shop but by now the food had died ping bags filled with old boots. away to a trickle. A youth was a young toading a set of cidely mud- gentleman in an elegant tweed guards into a station wagon, suit dragging 4 cabin runic driven by a uniformed chauf along the pavement with one feurthe components, it up hand and clutching a pair of peared, of a Morris Minor, on antlers in the other."
which he'd been working most of the term.
There W
even
All aboard
for
But then I saw an even more interesting machine, parked discreetly down a side turning I singled him out from the black leviather of a Rolls, hurrying mob, wishing urgents XH 8888.
were
his friends in the family Rolls Royce.
The man from Sale boosts Perth
IN
IN 1912 Harry Howard, 22-year-old Sale-born clerk with the Manchester gas company, was seriously ill. He was given six months to live, yet this is the man who today leads Perth, Western Australia, to the promo- tion of the next Empire Games as Lord Mayor Harry Howard.
In desperation young toward to make a tour of all the events
to Australia. Now, within an hour, emigrated
"It will be even better than 40 years later, I can report that it was a very active Mr Howard whom escorted on a brief tour Cardiff" promises Mr Howard. who has high hopes that the ol London last weeks,
Half a dozen youths. to know the origin of such a
It, roundt trophy. He had, it seemed, that gathered
arguing A very successful business Queen will make another visit the steg himself in the earlier about who should alt where, I
recognlaed Prince man whose drive was respongi- to Australia to coincide with the not suddenly
that she will part of the year, and had yet been separated.
clearly ble for an electrical company's Games-and from the William of Gloucester,
the host. A amall, bespectacled turnover mounting trom £6,000 attend them.
the to a million pounds year, Mr. antlers,
ONE TEAM Unfortunately," he said, boy came tearing round
tear of being Left Howard has been Perth's mayor "the animal fell over a cliff and corner, in smashed his points, I'm sorry. I behind.. It was Prince Richard. for three years and has been in- climbed aboard vited to be president of the As they
of organising committee
for the can't give you his exact weight"
identified another member
1902 Empire Games. old friend He struggled on.
the party-an nine by the name of Jonathan, whose father is John Irwin, the commercial TV producer,
Prince Willam, by the way,
The having reached motor cycling age, hopes to make sole Continental four,
At the bus stop there was
sur queue of 20 or 40 more,
Another boy gets a lift in a mest forty.
Wanted. "A Rainmaker"
Melbourne.
of
RECOVERY
him His
Howard's first emigration stop was Sydney, where he stayed for 12 years, and be thanks a doctor there for the interest in which led to his recovery. interest in music and the deep breathing exercises be practised for his singing also helped.
Now he strongly refutes any idea that Perth will give a
touch "amall town"
to the Games. Grants of £200,000 from the State government Atwi the Federal for the new stadhum
The Commonwealth of Aus- £100,000 from tralia Selentille and Industrial government will pay Research Organisation Is ad- construction of a
to seat 52,000: world ertising throughout the for a man to run
rain-
making experiments.
All the odds are against it. Take the care of Elizabeth rounded by the litter of their Taylor. She was being feted as baggage.
His tlle will be "Officer-in- ustar at 12.
One of them, more resolute than the others, leaped in the charge Cloud-Seeding Projects." take His main job will be to oncoming torry, ifugged it down, ang his lug charge of rain-making work in
age into the driver's cab and the Snowy Mountains area was driven off, looking sternly New South Wales and in South
ie Australia. People Special. ahead. "Good old Rufus!" others cricd. "Trust him!"
At 10 he was telling me on alm set about her forthcoming an American engagement to football hero.
At 10 she WILS married to Nicky Hilton, heir to on hotel a disastrous fortune. It was marriage. It took her several years to recover.
A really prodigious worker. Often Then there is Judy Garland, his car has been seen outside the who advanced from child star- Air Ministry late at night. It is dom to three broken marriages. not unusual for him to settle for She is still a star supe a lunch of sandwichca when artist. But.
pressure of work is great.
Sir William has been married 20 years and has a 21-year-old daughter. He has litte ilme for private activities, but when he gets the chance he loves a garme of golf. His handicap is 12,
Here's
Why
Johannesburg.
At the nursing home in Johan- nesburg James Baker, aged 21, is called "Lucky Jira," This is why:
He was working on some wir-
ing at the top of a lift shaft in
a new building in Johannesburg
He walked for two men to leave
she's n unhappy human being.
unwell,
path of
MA
A vintage Invicta sports car, with bugs and Plled high Etonions, thundered by, deafen- its open exhaust, ing me with
it appeared, The driver, leaving the old school, in style,
WH5
for good. "Ho's had that car in a garage all term," one of my informants luid me, "Wall- ing until he was old enough to drive it."
Last word
mentioned too. Now In his [ICKEY ROONEY should be
thirtles after four marriages he is still trying to bridge that gap between
and child stardom maturity.
Egg barrage
At the station they were ex- No, I'm afraid that if you al- tended all along the platform,
of
HOUR'S TOUR
The West Indies Olympic Association WAS formed in London last week, in futuro Olympics they will have one team in keeping with their new poilical formation.
Herbert McDonald, of Jamalen, who is the first president of the association, telis me the 10 Islands Involved, Jamalca, Trinidad, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Antigua, Montserrat,
the
St Vincent, St Lucia and St Kilis,
may continue to hove separate representation In Empire Games.
British Guiana and British Honduras are outside this forma- tion as they are not included in the new pollileal federation.
NEW DISTANCE
The White City crowd may bail a new stör in the women's quarter-mile today. Molly His-
A new aquatic centre, with cox, the Spartan sprinter, does separate swimming and diving not faney her chance of selection pools, will cost about £230,000. for the European championship
Something like 30,000 will be at 100 or 200 metres, and it was able to walch the rowing events only through a light-hearted on the Swan River, and Mr training effort in the Empire Howard says it will be possible Gomes village at St Athan that she thought in. terms of bidding for a placé In the 400 metres.
Conch Dennis Watts suggested this could be her best distance, So she was timed with Dave Segal pacing her over the Last 330 yards. Her Ume, 55.9sec.. has rarely been bettered in England.
QUEEN MOTHER'S
PIPER ROUSES
THE HOUSEHOLD
"PEOPLE" SPECIAL
THE daily pageantry of the London scene is familiar to millions. But how many know low your child to take the with their incredible imped that the Queen Mother has an official House spotlight early then you must mento, waiting for the London. Rouser and Personal Piper?
expect problems, Big problems, train.
And I'm afraid that Mre Ray
was
i
mistake making when she said: "This is a moun- tain out of a molchill. Andrew thinks ar we do,"
For once father had the last -and shrewder-word-
"We hope so, anyway."
..
The train was already two Proud holder of this unpaid
and everyone else.
at
late. minutes
Peremptory and little-known job is 47-year-
Pipo-Major
Leslie do whistles rent the air, confusing old the guard, the
Scottish engine-driver, Laspee, of the London
ᎢᎪ
Every Tuesday, Wednesday, There was a disturbance at
and
promptly Thursday, the barrier. An immaculate figure in a dark-blue suit, with am, he takes up position a curly bowler and a briefcaze, under the Queen Mother's bed-
at window
Clarence burst through, cheered on by a group of horsey friends in House, blows up his bagpipes, check waistcoats and snap-brim and launches into a traditional
a cor air. hats. They plod Into
For precisely a quarter of an riage, one on top of the other, Budapest as the train started with a jerk, hour. he parades up and down a abort drive in full coremonial
A Pig With Four Ears
room
Then
he marches back to
Gate,
changes,
Miss Hiscox, a tobacco com- pany clerk, says that as a rule 220 she never runs more than yards even its training.
"I am a bit scared," says Misa Hiscox.. "Of course, even it I do well, the selectors might con-
perience at the distance."
had not had enough ex-
Harold Palmer
Neanderthal Man Found In Colombia?
Bogota, Colombia, Archibological excavations on the upper Magdalena River – in human Colombifs indicate that
oxisted in beings
the area POTR) 40,000 B.C. according to a statement made by tho the scaffolding across the top of: Farmer Kalman Vargo, who I thought it was all over, dress.
head of the Paleontological Do- deep lift shaft. As the men lives in a small village in south- but suddenly, as if by magic,
partment of the National Geolo- glen) Service, Dr Hans Burgle. stepped off the plank he stoped west Hungary called Zalaegers-writhing whorts of tollet paper Buckingham
as a clerk In
Burglo statea that "the on. There was a loud crack and zeg, would not be surprised now burst from nearly every win and begins, work he fell mire than than 100 ft. if his pigs suddenly sprouted dow, followed by a fullade of the quartermaster's office.
river at that time was flowing Pipe Major de Lapee first eggs. The target was immedi- through wrat
another wings and flew,
about 380 feet above its present For in the past few days ono ately
grinning | mot the. Queen Mother when he apparent
level and on the river banks plank half way down and landed TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD: Across-1 Con-Can, 7 Urgo, D
Auntie the zauntlet was Royal Guard at Bal
been Scrub 10 Sproe, 11 Dudo, 13 Ma-lingered, 15 Hyde, 18 Neat 10
the lift landing, between of his sons gave birth to a porter
told to Queen Mother (she is Colonel of that time tools have Later he was Dressy.
piglet with four
Scot-found Bars, and two down the platform. He dodged moral.
which several long protruding bolts.
correspond to Lighterman, 22 A-tom, 24 Inne, 25 Sleep, 20 Feet, 27
the 49
first personal in-Chief of the Landon He had a broken leg and a days later another sow littered the barrage with ease and came report
tiah) often comes out and those of the Pleistoceno. Down 2 Aprli, 3 Cab-in, Nested 3 Murderer, 6. Agod B
People Special. Ready, 12 Ocean, 13 Manni, 14 Intimate, 17 Alone, 18 Thread, 20
bia head-Poople 10 snow-white ontspring-Poople to a halt beside me, breathing piper at Clarence House.
Sald hard. "Usually," he said,
ho recently: "The sprake to me." Special. Enguo, 21 Moets, 29 Tied.
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Pipe Major de Laspee
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