THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1958.
PEOPLE
in the news
Train Bandit SHAH WAGES WAR AGAINST
Paroled After THE PERSIAN WAY OF LIFE
31 Years Gaol
Siam, Oregon, Nov, 25. Hugh Dautrement, 54. winner 47 A parolo after 31 years in prison for a 1923 murder train rubbery attempt in Southern Oregon. tou from publicity.
looked forward today as a printer and freedom.
aver
a purolo
ife sentences
By Ali Mehrawari
Teheran.
The Shah of Iran, 39-year-old Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, has thrown his whole constitutional authority, personal popu- larity and prestige into a war against corruption.
He to determined to put ex- ministration of the country on an honest footing.
Bilo
with
Majlle
which they wealth.
vequired
their
In future they will have to chances their wealth during October and November of every coming year.
Those who fail to do this may forfeit at only their possessions, but their jobs.
now been deprived of their feudal exactions from the pea-
sants
The Shuh has issued a decree ordering provincial governors and gendarmerie to stop land owners taking "gifts" from pen- sants euch as cattle, sheep. chickens, eggs and marriage pre- sente. No longer will they be able to moose fines and forced labour on farm workers,
The Dragon parole board voted The has ordered the Prime unanimously on Monday to grant ; Minister, Dr Manouchehr Eghbal, Da utremont
after ha to present a bill to the completes a pre-release training (Lower House) prohibiting all period, normally about 60 days. intnistera, civi servants, mem-
Partio ters of both houses of Dautremont was convicted
ofment umi
sullitary personnei nründer in 1927 and has been in į tran
The Shah, in a series of plain entering
business
the Нія prison
since.
pust eider transactions.
Government statements
several years, has told his people twin brothers, Roy and Ray, also agencies. bro under
Roy
of Parlament, that bribery and corruption are Any member Government employee
a menace which must be bentsh- tary officer entering into deals,
od compistely before leanian life can function properly. become increases recently promulgated tenders, hids and contracts with
universe by the Ministry of Labour. the Government,
will be pro- prosperous and secuted, and, upon conviction, respect. sentenced to between two
Enthusiastic Iraniana sny " four years' solBary confinement,
the Government can clop offcials The law will also apply
taking bribes, fores the rich to pay taxes and cut out pity eor mption at the bottom, It will be a miracle."
la in the stato hospital.
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The 1923 train robbery woo one of the classic crimes of the
20's West in the roaring Oct. 11, a Bouthern Paciflo mall train wap making
way through the Siskiyou Mountains. A tunnel, it was As it reached halted by three bandita.
PAL.
or mili-
anyone trying to participate such deals through agents.
A Decrse
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1
in
Threa trainman were shot la Goath and A m¬|| clark wRa ktiled in the dynamite explosion |
The Shah bas also issued of the mail
The bandita
| decree ordering the members of fled without getting any loot.
The Royal household to consider The threc Dautremonte were
themselves bound by the same Indicted for Assault
on a mail
In the clerk that December. But despits restrictions as provided
Government bill. ann of the West' biggest man-
For years past, Members hunts, the bandite remained at
Parlament, Ministers high large. Four years later, Mugh
In 10 Philippines tanking_government officials and
He army officers have had
Actions
was located farough wanted P
poster. was serving in the army under and assumed nama. The older agencies.
brothers were found ilving in Ohio. All were brought back to Oregon and got life for murdar. "I haven't had time for this to sink in. Perhaps It will begin to percolate after while. Dautrement said when Informed of the parois.
He has been working at the print #hup in the state prison and said he wanted a job trga from the glare of publicity. People Special,
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with
of
trans- government
Some have established big private enterprises by exerting İnfluence on various government agencies to sign contracts.
A bili now before the Majus
"How did you rar is entitled
AS
it?" It obliges all Government caployees to declare their per- sial property and wealth well as the belonging of their wives (Islamic low permits mi- tiple marriage) and chlidren,
They must reveal their sORITIES of income and the meats
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When Iranians
bay that a Governmont official is good they simply mean that he is not cor- rupt.
When they walk about a new Minister they ask "ls he rich?" If the answer is "yes" they tow he is honest, if he is poor, they ask "has he served the Govern- ment before?" If he has, then it follows he is honest, They firm- ly believe that anyone who has nerved in pollies for several year and remains poor, cannot be otherwise than honest.
The vast majority of Iranian eivli servents are honest and de- voted
workers-1} somewhat poorly paid.
There's Hope
There Is hopu. especially among the younger generation, that the anli-corruption cam- paign will be a success,
The new feeling of enthusinem is due to the fact that the Shah,
How at the peak of his power
and popularity. Is determined to wipe out corruption completely.
ife has set in motion a pola
committee headed by one of his closest aicles, General Morteza Yazdanpanah, to investigate and inquire into the grievances and
Employers will have to abide
for
wage by new regulations
ts
The State taxation system being overhauled and a unique bill is expected to come before the Majlis sovu introducing eff- cient methods of tax collection which would stop evasions the rich.
A Weekly China Mail Feature
African A COMMUNIST
Bus Manager
Baltabury.
An African who we a ploughboy, years ago, today has an Income of £80 a day. Bernard Vito, son of a policeman, wanted A town Job, so ho loft his village near Sailsbury and went to the pity. He first job was that of an office boy earning £2month.
In hie Broand job ho Barood 25 a month and managed to save £10. With thle he bought an old oar, converted it into a van and sold it for £25.
In his third job ho was his own boss and used the £23 to buy himself a lorry far haulaga work, With more money coming in, he bought more lorries and two bune. When arm took over att bumen In Ballebury, they pald Mr Vito £4,000 for his buses and permit.
Mr Vito efill had two buse after the company had bought his town anes Ho lived them to ply between Balisbury and the native
and steadily in
Now ho creaved his fleet, has Roven, employs
makes people, and
£30 a profit of
reserves
People Special.
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day.--
Flies
London
Baby
To
DICTATOR
FOR AMERICA
TE looked like a retired Kontucky
H colonel. Our eyes met through the
prickly haze of an all-American cigar. To the West End cocktail drinkers around us he looked a typical, though tired, American tourist.
But I knew him as the might-have-been Communist dictator of America.
For the tired man facing me was Earl Brow- der, formerly Aurica's No. 1 Communist whic on two occasions 1936 and 1940
US President on a Communist tickat.
run for
They called him the "Yonkeo Stalin,” Browder had just Bown in from New York
on a brand new passport withheld from him for
13 years. He is in Britain to launch his book, "Marx and America."
EARL BROWDER
Pare T
He followed Molotov
"But
Marx is still my great teacher. School Master
Ho said: "My old friend Marty He usded quickly: Pollitt would have a ft if he saw me now anyone spotted him talking to me, he would lose the few remaining followers he has." For, like Bulganin, Molotov, and Malenkov, Browder 135 top- pled and fallen under the “devia Honist" stigisa
'Best Turn'
What Mr B is going through now in Russia, Browder knows only too wel). But Browder hum avolded "confessing and is un- repentant:
"It was
the best turn my-
one has done me when THEY"
It was only with the help of his that I was able to teaching understand bla mlatakes."
I shook hands
this hos- been, this might-have-been, this lonely old man in the wilder-
ss of disillusionment.
He smiled and said: "I must
I am so ured."
sleep.
Dead After Smacking Boy
Eastbourbe.
-A schoolteacher who was re- buked by his headmaster after Stephen
Maucking a young boy class
dead ot later found
the Constant was
foot of Seaford Head, near East- tated at an East- bourne, it was
Lourne inquest.
and he looked over his shoul- Skouras Štars An open verdiet was record-
der-"kicked me out."
"What do you think of Krueb-
$
chev?i
I asked.
"Him"
I
13 he snorted, "he just a Johnny-com-lately. know the founders of the party. the tough old guard." And I
queried-Stalin? by
Another revolutionary land re- form bill will follow. This will carve up big catates.
The Shah is or was-Iron's Since 1950 biggest land owner. he has been distributing Royal estates inherited from bis father, the late Reen Shah the Grent, among the them.
who petsants
London, Nov. 25. Nine months old Christopher Halloway, said to be dying of un incurable heart disease, flew into London with his parents today from Salisbury, was given top London Airport priority by police today, and hurried through the customs to Central London. An ambulance which met the plane carried oxygen equipment.
The trip of Christopher and his parents to Londen was paid for till ny the British Anny Welfare
Fund People Special.
Mother Still Believes Son Gaoled For Killing
Is Good Boy At Heart
By PETER VANE
THE parents of teenage gunman Christopher Craig, who shocked Britain six years ago by killing a policeman, have given up their home in a London suburb and are now in New Zealand.
Mr Niven Craig, former Army captain, bank
complaints of the public against cashier, and crack Bisley shot, arrived with his
wife at Wellington in the liner Southern Cross.
Government agencles, civil ar military.
of in-
A hand-picked team
The semi-detached house in Just four weeks before they spectors have been given had sat in the visitors' room at tree-lined Norbury Court Road, been the prube authority to
into any Wormwood Scrubs Prison and, Norbury, which had ministry in Investigating illegal)-
through the wire mesh, had said Craig home for 23 years, is now tles.
"Goodbye" ta Christopher and empty. There is to be a campaign the elder brother he idolished, Other residents who stuck by against corruption in private lite | Niven.
the Craigs during their muffer- as well.
Both brothers were described ing are sighing with rellef,
For centuries landlords, fac- tory owners and merchants have underpaid their worker.
Somo estate owners, who be- have like little emperors, have
HOME COOKING
FOR ELVIS IN GERMANY
Frankfurt, West Germany. American rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley, ruw serving as a United States Army private in Germany, has changed hotols at Bad Nauheim near here so that he can enjoy grandmother's cooking.
by Old Bailey Judges "very "We are glad they are gone," dangerous young men." Both Bald one. "It is the best thing are still paying the penalty for We have nothing against Mr their crazy love of guns.
and Mrs Craig but people here CHEISTOPHER. TID aged who have children were worried 13 detained "during the bout the day Christopher and Queen's pleasure," for killing Niven would eturn homCY," Police Constable Sidney Miles For the past six years test-
22,
In a Croydon rooftop battle in dents of Norbury Court Road November 1052.
He
“A very great man. A very He over- criminal man too shadowed everyone--even my old friend Molotov, whom I last met in Moscow in 1946."
He chuckled: he is now."
"Look where
Mistakes
Browder was purged in 1940
Greek Queen
Gift Film
Berkeley, California, Nov. 25.
Queen Frederiku of Greece today was the star of☐ 20th Century Fox film production.
Spyros Skouras, Greek- President of the American moviescompany, had the build- ing housing the stom smasher turned Into A kleig-lighted record the Greek
sale! He
the
stage
to
and movies -
for "betraying the principles of Queen's visit.
Leninism and
Marxism deserting
ed on George David Mitchell- Duwson (39) of the Old Swan,
Rishangle, Eye, Suffolk.
He had
been missing ainco November 19.
His wife, Margaret, said they had lived happily together. Her
came home husband
from school on November 12. "Very upset".
"His classes are large and a
the little boy ut
back was making a nuisance of himself," She continued,
Her husband twice told the boy lo be quiet and then smacked htra.
"His headmaster noticed that
ter
in CinovaScope and and told hin If you cannot to the side of the colour would be a gift to control your class you had bet- take a week off," Mrs Glass enemy-American mono- polistic capital," Ho laughed this.
wryly
her,
The Queen left her $240-a-Mitchell-Dawson muld.
Frie day suite San Francisco's
There
headmaster gets a bit "Capital," he exclaimed.Mark Hopkins Hotel after baughty," she added.
the The East Sussex Coroner Dr "I am a very poer man indeed. breakfast to motor across
there I asked him about his book bay for a tour of the Radiation A C. Sommerville, and
wis no evidence of suicide and "It is an attempt to examine Laboratory.
she met
how evidence to show sume key mistakes which Karl some of the world's top nuclear no Marx made when we examine physicists, including Nobel prize Mitchell-Dawson came to be at the foot of the ciff. People his work in the light of Ameri- physicist Dr Glenn T. Seaborg.
Special. can experience."
-People Special.
World's Largest Producer Of
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have watched the Craigs ir be carry on life as usual.
to
B
to young wan too hanged. But his associate in tho After the imprisonment of his
Derek William Bentley, sons fight, aged 10, as hanged.
Kept quiet
Mi Craig still left tho
ACYCTL house at
ociock cach morning for the bank in Victoria, London, where he NIVEN, now aged 33, in worked. To ar him, militarily успга for armed erret and soberly clad in dark serving 13 robbery,
trilby and overcoat, it would The departure of the gun- seeni that nothing had chancgd. But there were changes. His men's tragle parenti-Mr Croto han #010 retired has been employers transferred him to And Mr Craig kept as quiet as possible. Only another branch.
the front a few clos friends and re- no longer stood at latives Jendw
counter of the bank to say His father and grandmother, bound for New Zealand. Mr Vernon Presley and Mrs
A
At his own request relative told me "They customers, Presley, flew | Mannie.
to do not want to come back here, he became one of the "back- Germany П few days after li know they Aro
hoping room stall." Private Presley reported for | Christopher Will Join them duty with a tank unit.
when he is released,"
The rat review of Christo-
that they were "Good morning"
to
Extra visits
tho
Now they have found a hotel pher's sentence is expected to be Then came retirement and whery Mrs Presley can cook hor
mado in two years. If he is the chance to plan his journey
10 Is it beloved of the artist inndron's favourite dishes, Mr released then it may coincide to New Zealand.
ls salad days7 (0).
21 Spokes (0),
24 Let in, one must acknowledge 23 Bone turned black (4).
(0).
20 Spain at Portugal (0).
27 All together now! Bang! (0),
29 Posibility of power (0),
20 How cook may put in an ap-
pestanice? (0).
TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD=ANG: 3
Scabs, 7 Estort,
Epee, Urge, 10 Prow-gas, 12 Trio, 16 Breed, 18 Hand, 19 Foote, 21 Bpate, 23 Acid, 23 Sower, 20 Ever, 20 Andante, 30 E, 31 DAY, 02 oth, 33 You Downi 1 Entry, a Crow-bar, 4 Cure, & Hool, @ Demi, 0 Um, 11 Erhes, 13 Rend, 14 Oven, 10 Diend, 17 Ims, 10 Hare, 20 Miracle, 22 Awns, 24 Earth, 25 State, 27 Vain, 20 Rely.
Presley told a reporter.
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with the release of his brother In the last month before their The army allowa poldiers with Niven, if he in granted full departure for New Zealand Mr and Mes Craig were allowed to relatives in the eren to spend remission. the night with them.
The relative sald; Jack
"I know pay extra visits to their son
"Mr Craig," said a relative, morning the Prenleys take a Mr and Mrs Craig Are dos
anxious
got Just to any mother, always ing to the borrack rato in verately
from the believed that her SODA WETE Friedberg. "They are very nico Chiristopher way, people," the tax-driver comfluence of his past friends and really good boys who had been to help him maken decent life, led astray, Bhe dotod on mented.
for himself. They think there' Christopher and told me ho war, But things will change soon is 'n good chance of doing that after a poor start, mottling down when Private Presley in due for | in. Now Zomland."
and behaying himself in prison. unit manoeuvren
The Cmim ate expected to
from both "Thn fast worde
porenta sald Grafenwoehr: - tratàleg ground | stáy with their daughter Jean, guns when the
Nuremberg. People who married a New Zealand goodbye was a promise to that? pictah
ex-Serviceman.
mother to be good boys," "
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