THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1958.
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY "MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON THRESHOLD OF PUSH-BUTTON AGE 27fathoms THE AUTOMATIC FLOGGER
Inventor Offers 'Auto · Cat'
For Free Trial
Sheffield.
AND now corporal punishment stands poised at
the threshold of the push-button age..
The Old Men
Are Turning Into
Greybeards!
Herman
Magistrate inventer Lundars has designed and built Lates an automatic val-o'-ning which can #Ir a "eclentif- number of ically controlled"
lashes administered to suit the age and health of the prisoner. And in private.
The 59-year-old magistrate who is also a factory owner, engineer and musiclan," said he has strong views on corporal punishment. "Birt magistrate
I don't think
should air them."
He said he has offered
MOVABLE TOILET PUZZLE
Berlin.
pubilo transportable tallet
• temporary abuliding ur structure?
An East Berlin court was con- fronted with that legal problem in trying a 25-year- old bricklayer identified unty as Werner who was scotisod of burning down #toilet
boollt on an East Berlin con- struction alte,
The prosecution demanded
A
cado set the punishment for Betting afire A temporary alructure at leas than -year's imprisonmeuk.
оле
prison sentence of from one to 10 years, the punishment provided for vesting a building | The court ruled in favour of a on fire,
The defence said the booth was
not a building bat a tem- porary structure. The ertminsi
"COLD WAR"
temporary
and structure sentenced Werner lo Ave monthy in gaol, the East Ger- man press reported.-U.P.I.
THREAT
OVER A GONDOLA
Naples.
Granny Loved Sitting On Her 'Hot Seat'
Chorlton-on-Modlock. RANNY Byma Idrad that Told, comfortable arm- chair. She used to sit happily In it near the fire-without Įknowing that she was sitting on enough dynamite to blow ap an apartment building.. Granny'à daughter Mra Cathleen Clarke, told about her mother's favourite "hot sent."
Mrs Clarke' bought a three- plece sulta from a neighbour who moved to the United States. Granny - Mrs Mary Byrne of Dublin, Exce-camo here on
THE fate of a gondola threatened today to cause a "cold
war" between two of Italy's proudest cities–Naples and holiday and "adopted" the chair,
I
"auto rat"
for a free trial
the In
Venice.
any prisuti.
old men DÍ this
A Bolog дож ordered only as punishment for (violetwe by a prisoner,
Inay
be
Letchworth.
THEburban
town
Discussing the reasons for his
England are turning into invention Lindars an "One of greybeards.
The town's four barber shops. are refusing to shave them and they are forced to grow wanted beards "It's no longer economieni," mokestats for
the burbers said.
"We just time from
cannot spare
the haircutting, which
costa 2/6 to do shaving for one shilling. It is no longer worth- while
have
the
most points nude against corpore) ment
frequently punish-
13 the degrading and morally damaging effect it hun on those who have to administer it."
Sciontifically
He said his machine "would do away with all that."
"The prisoner." he amplifted, "would receive a scientifically controlled number of lashes
with administered
severity
Many of the old men never shaved themselves.
Eighty-six-year-old Jack tee assessed in consideration of hisi had never shaved himself ix-
And no age and medical state, fore and when he tried he eat
In one need even be present himself six times before decid- the punishment room. ing to give up and let his board grow.
never
He had his first barber-shop shave 67 years ago when it cost only one penny. thought the day woul conc when I would have to let my beard grow because I could not And anyone to shave i anid,
Letchworth
Old
The ductor in charge could
the whole thing watch
on a clused television circuit,"
There was no comment from prison authorities. UP.I.
he JUST VISITING
People's
Culument Cily, III. Welfare Committee has 20-NOEL Pennington, 36, was re- ed to the Chamber of Trade siding in his fourth gnol in
1 persuade the barbers' to five days the other day.
reverse
their
"no-chaving"
He is charged with assault and decision, if only for the sake of battery but authorities can't de- old-age pen-cide where the offence took
place.-U.P.I.
the
unshaven
aloners.-U.FI.
Ty
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JAMES
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DOROTHY・ ・BRODERICK
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Fell Into
Police's Arms!
Vienna, Sept. 4. INSTEAD of landing
the Arma of a strip- tense dancer, an Italian tourist here fali Into the hand of the Viennese police.
of esteem.
Then one day the former neighbour Mrs Ann O'Leary, wrote to`say she hit learned
of explosives."
All because the Neapolitans worthy object offered as a mark that one of the chairs was "full are careless, say the Venetians. All because the Venetians are fussy, say the Neapolitans.
The cause of the current ten- slon between the two cities is an elaborately-decorated gondola donated to Noples by Venice seme six months nga,
Great Pomp
The gondola sent in great pomp, in return for a Neapolitan song to Venice's glory, was youn out of place in the busy waters | of Naples harbour,
What was a cause of ride to Venice was one of laughter to Neopolitans.
of
After д Zew gundola was sent to a rowing club's warehousd. There it
weeks
the
A police report said that
23, Olorgio Jogher, Triasto, wanted to flee out of one of Vienna's most fashionable,
night olubs bili. without paying the He had drank færge quan» titles of expensive wine and champagne.
Jegher attempted to dis. appear through the window of a toilet and landed in a strip-tease dancer's dress- ving room. But police were
welting there.
Afler Jagher's frlands had pold the bui ho was sat free, the pollon roport #ald.D.P.I.
was left to rot under stacks of dust and neglect, the Venetians* charge.
What Venetians
庭
"scandal" came to light recently when a couple of newlywed Venetians honeymooning Naples decided I would be fun to take a gondoin trip in Neapolitan Gulf.
11
Hideout
J.
the
But the gondola was in such a poor state that it appeared Napics did not dare to send it back.
Matters stood there'at present. But I was feured, they won't for long in view of reported Ire.-U.P.1.
Venice
It was Granny's favourite, The dynamito was cached there by a burglar who had rented a Hoogh from Mrs O'Leary. The burglar, since gabled, told pollen about it.
It's still Granny's favourite chair-U.P.I.
SCOTLAND YARD
DISAPPOINTS
MYSTERY FANS
London,
YARD detectives, disappointed SCOTLAND
mystery fans last week by closing the inves- tigation of an attempted murder attempt at the famed Yard.
the
But the gondola was nowhere "There is no question of n trayed by rubbing against the to be found. Finally they dis- crime having been committed," rough wall, sovered its hideout in the ware-sald a spokesman after question- Police photographers photo- house.
and uniformed graphed ing workmen
And scaffolding To their horror they found Bobbles to find out who cut a equipment used by the palaters rusted, filthy, with Its rope holding a platform trom As far as was known, it was lovingly-curved wood rotting. which
man wag painting the first time the Yord" had Furious, the angry couple window frames,
investigated ал Attempted "The examination revealed murder on its own doorstep,---- Mayor of Venice,
When news of, this "sacrilege that one of three strands of rope P
had been cut partiolly but it had reached the lagoon city a wave not been severed and was not GHOST CITY? of municipal anger shook the sumelent to endanger the safety city's already shally founda- of anyone in the cradle," said
5,000 Miles wrote off a sharp protest to the
For A Christening
A
Lions.
SPECULATED
"The stamination shows that the cut was an old one.
The
A sharp omcial note was sent the spokesman." La Neapolitan Municipal authori- London, Sept. 4.
ties demanding the immediate LTHOUGH he's 80 years return of the gondola since the old this year, nothing "City of the South" did not could stop
the Roy. Edwin show more respect for such a Chittenden performing an important christening
even though he had to travel COLD · STORAGE 5,000 miles to Africa to do
Denver. MRS Alice Sampson reported
it.
[ME
All the way from the rectory | AA her car stolen 33 days ago. In the little Sussex villago of Officers found it the other Lillington Mr Chittenders and day in the Foilce department his wife
went to Urambo in automobile found. It had been Tanganyika for the christening towed away for illegal parking of a granda012.
and patrolmon forgot to record lis daughter, Men Reave-the fact.-UPI Fowkes, is the wife of a tobačno plantar. Their
ja three months old.
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"Whom I got there they wanted me to slay and take chargo of the local church bo-
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A month," Mr. Chittenden,
"But it was too hot, and 1 have too much work at home-- looking after two big parishes."
BUSINESS FROM HOSPITAL
Canterbury.
TE
Verona, Miss.
E question arose at a meet- ing on expanding city limits actually as to whether Verona exlated'
a
Mayor Frank Beane made edges of the cut were dirty." quick check with the Secretary "Yard" oficiais said nobody os State and was informed that suspected the poller. They the town has been around a long that the would-be time, It was incorporated in speculated zaurderer was someone who 1860-UPA, hore a grudge against the painter. (It also was suggested DRY RUN that someone might have cut the rope for racial reasons, painter is
The
Bowling Green. 6. C. THERE was very little profit inter is a Ne technicians THE WAY to plans inside the building inpected the who stole a safe from the Port
горо under their Office.
ond nickal. It contained 150-foot
They decided it microscopes. definitely had been cut, and not 'UP.I.
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MYTHOLOGY
WHEN the first winds of winter whine through the mountalas above Amandola, the witches, and wizards of Abruzzi gather in the valley under the Grotto of the Sibyls for their dances on Saturday nights,
iruido the Grotto the guida This is the Jogond of this early morning and. emalt, unclent and almost for before surviel, As the valley restanes his motiral volce and Totten mountain town in con under the Grotto the miles are tolls of the fairies and nympha,
Vomal and the Bilgis tral Italy not far away from lot behind (and often refuse af
one women-prophets, of their waye and Rome.
to go any further)
path and their cortumas, And how mountain the 'fatrica, or tho All the sorcerers come from must walk up a stoop atar," say the mountain guides, across the mountain sida.
nymphe, under the direction of The intrance to the Grollo Tata nieinn, a wicked qudent, huge open-mouth like waded Amendolar insisting sounds and ocvecher is the folk of the town a couple of Din the wind that has been caught in bundesə” years ago.
nymphs Román mythology, however, the small caves high on the womenfolk drove the
with sticks wid or oven do a business doal (denoted the Grotte of the Sibyla mountain and which is united way from their bods,
outuide the Grotto is the dayw na night. cmplial in to pay £100. for the with her
HUGE STONES Installation of five mobile telo And there are people who be many voloes, the ortrelor of the
Hove that this story Inspired propheter, like A thousand • The inside of the Grotte fa 4 phones.
welbo his famosa demona, "according to the mase of huge wines with old The telephones will be mount-Wasmer to
German guide's Hille history pamphlet. drips of water calling from the od pr specially designed trollum "Tanninuser? A fow lo be whtaled round the wards, stulenta occasionally vlot the
At the oniratión a guide willyout roof, That is about all that I even for any objective, uns Twenty connections throughout Grotto here to compota the the hospital will enable all sterics and legstals with
deep voice: those jury out In
branginative vialior. fairy
or Alcina (or, Veruta in Germany
Outride once more the guide patients, to use the vice.
or whichøVET. legend
arri "Tut they como In the sum- Sibyl,
and at the entrance The patients will pay call box
we charges and the £62/16/-, an» mer time," pay the gulica, "And the side adheres to) éŋn
shouts in a deep volos: "Addio, num" rental_will be met by, the everyone knows nothing hap-enter?"
Fata Alcinal for Venus Bla). menogement committee. There rens then,"
That is to let them know, To visit the Grotto of will, a complete ban pe in-
the There is so one home and aos aregeding sa logarid, that the cuming galis, Chico Mail snyia 14 tai videossary, to travel always scouting to legend, ona vimizes have les) and they can Special.
on muien starting out fr the lean freely violate the domiollo, enter three Grotto,JIP.X,
as the home Vetus where
11e League of Friends of the the Gods of Leeld hurt through the roof of the Grotto: and now they no longer appear
moumain
nymphs.
whenco
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