QUEEN'S XMAS MESSAGE FOR YOU-BRAEMAR!
Greeting To Peoples Of Commonwealth
#London, Dec. 25.
Queen Elizabeth today assured the people of the Commonwealth of har "constant interest and affection" in her shortest Christmas Day message ever.
The 33-year-old Queen who
is expecting her third child spoke early in the New Year, only 126 words in the traditional broadcast heard all over the workl The
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text of the message, recorded eight days Buckingham Palace, was;---
"I do not want Christmas to sending my
pass by without best wishes for a happy day to all of you who may be listen. ing, and especially to my own peoples In the Commonwealth. "Wherever you are ha wint
be doing you
ever you may
have my constant alerest and affection.
who was reported los: when "I am particularly grateful to the U.S. carrier Lexington was
years ago.
over
me
the many kind people all sunk in the South Pacific 15: the world, who have sent
their good wishes of this time,
ILITI glad to have Chia chance to thank you all very warmly indeed.
Eddy had been trying for years to find his mother who had moved several times cince the war.-AI.
TUC PROPOSES TRADE BAN
"As the old your passes, let us celebrate Christmas with thanksgiving and carry * message of peace and goodwill into the year ahead.
"All of us at Sandringham wish you a very happy Christ- mas. May God bless you all."
The Queen, who is spending a very quiet family Christmas Sandringham, did not appear before television cameras this
Two other members of the celebrating
Latulon, Dez 23. Oganised British labour has called for a one-month boycott year, of South African goods to pro-;
test the Union government's Royal Family: arc racial policies,
The general council of the Trace Union Congress (TUC. which laws 1 represent 8.600,000 British trade unionists, announced today that it will propose the boycott "to express their personal revulsion against the rectal policies being pursued by the government of South Airga in le political, cial
and dustrial fields." The boy
colt date wil} be tonoured allor consultation with the Labour Party -CPI.
13 Killed In Train Crash
Preclown, DN. 25.
werks Entert
Thinta: 1acple
and za njured when a crowd-
ed train crashed after Jump- ing the rally La curve at
Batiy
56 milc from here yesterday, according to reports received here today.
The reports and four car- ringes of the train were turned over. hayying many passengers. -Reuter.
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their birthdays today at Sand ringham as guests of the Queen. They are her aunt, the Duchess of Gloucester, age158, and her 23-year-old cousin, Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Also
Sandringham
Dujoo of
the In party are the
house Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne, the Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Duke of Glouces fer and his sons Prince Willian and Prince Richard, the Duchers of Kent and her other children the Duke of Kent and Prince Michinel.
A Sandringham the Queen and other members of the Royal family attended morning servien at the parish church here today-Reuter,
White Christmas
New York, Dec. 24. Snow covered wide areas in the northern half of the US, en Thursday.
The heaviest nowCalls of the FLOKON hit the midwest on Wednesday, dumping up to a
foot and more of know from the northern plains to the great Jakes.-- AP.
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Pilgrims
Visit
Manger In
Bethlehem
Bethlehem, Dec, 25. Visitors from the East knelt and prayed quietly before the figure of an infant In swaddling
Negro London Market
Admits
Rape Charge
New York, Dec. 25. A 30-year-old negro Laxi- driver was held in $55,000 ball today for the attempted rape and beating of Laura Haines, daughter, of prominent novelist William Wister Haines, Police Lald the driver confessod to Ave similar attacks during the last six months,
Robert Pearson, a husky, six-
footer. admitted the Monday night attack on the 20-year-olit Miss Haines after ehe identified
him as her assallani on Wednes- day, police said.
Pearson la married and has a five-year-old daughter.
the other questioning,
He confessed to !ttacks under
police saidh. Identities jelber women were not known.
UPI.
of the
More Chinese
Reported On
Indian Border
clothes lying in a manger in Bethlehem as Christ
mas morning dawned. They were Chrialians frem OPATICE. 1:dia the Philippirna
New York, Dec. 25. who joined thousand of other
in tourist pilgrims
attending The New York Times said Christmas services in Bethle-today
4.patch from hem.
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At midnight Christmas Mass concentraçons beton in St Catherine's Churli troops adjoining the ancient Church much of the Nattvity, When mas frontier. caded Ln päiriarch Alberto Gori carlfed statue of the infant Jesus anal led a proces- stou down T winding ston slainane to the rock-honI grotto which olice was stable in which Chulst born.
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After the patriarchal proces stor eft hundreds of Christians aled through the grotto and quietly prayed beoldo the man- ger.
Early on Christmas morning # bearded Greek Orthodox sex- ten carrying a silver incense burner walked through and perfumed the grotto.AP.
Police Chief's
Wife Fined
London, Dec. 24.
Mrs Zehla Dimlet, wife of the Istanbul Police Commissioner, was fined £5 on Thursday on u charge of shoplifting.
A store detective testified that Mrs Dimlel, 45, iried to walk away with a shopping bag full of socks, nail varnish, perfume, scurves and lingerie.
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the Chince were rellably reported! to have stablished strongly fortified positions well equipped te withstand the Rub-Zero and blizzards of tempormfures the Himalaya winters alfitudes up to 17,000 feet,
Heavily and units sad to
have moved in recent month into the Chumbi Valley ぴき焼き curtidered a particular threat, the report said Router,
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Ends Week On Strong Note
London, Dec. 24.
Businces in London Stock Markets during today's short session was at a much higher level than usual on Christmas Eve and the pattern was the same as earlier in the week. The Industrial market enlei Christmas week and the account on a strong note but giltedged securities lost fresh ground on renewed selling.
Foreign bonits and rails were neglected but dollar stocks ensed.
Banking and insuranco shores established many sharp cains while hire purchase Issues alto nevaneed.
There was a fairly large turn
market over In tie in lustrial and prices forged abood on TOTIC WRC demand, much which was In the new account which officially opens on Mon day next.
The leaders recorded some appreciable gains and Imperial Chemicals went over the £3 mark for the first time. Steel shares
were buoyant and engineering shares advanerd.
shares improved with Shell Transport a good feature but rubberg and teng were sub- cued.
Gold shares improved in res- ponse to a setective demand but other sections of the mining market attracted very little at- tention.
New York
Closes Strong
New York, Dec. 21, The stock market closed on a note of strength today in a session marked by light pre-holiday trading. Buyers switched from the
Arrested Forrectly favoured electronics to
Threatening Actor's Wife
Chicago, Dec. 24. Airs Violet Dembos, a 25-year- old divorcee, was arrested by Federal Bureau of In- vestigation agents on Wed- nesday on 2 charge ot threatening movie star Vietor forneTM Mature's wife, the Adrianna Joy Urwick. of A London
daughter physician.
The threat was contained in letter mailed to Mature from
Chicago on December 17, Mrs Dembos, an unemployed factory worker and the mother of a 30-
Her lawyer said he was ad- vised by the Turkish Embassy that Mrs Dimick-who pleaded year-old child, had purchased an airline ticket to Califomia Innocence came to London in and allegedly intended to carry September for medical treat-
out the threat. ment and was subject to perio- die mental blackouts,
"I sometimes lose myself," Mrs Dimici told the judge. “My mind gets confused.”—AP.
Mrs Dembos claimed the was a former wife of Malure. Mrs Dembos, in the letter to Mature at his home in California, threatened to shoot Mrs Mature or throw acid at her.-AP.
SLIPPERY Xmas Dinner PROBLEM
Venice, Dec. 25,
Things got confused on the mainland highway near here yesterday when 5.000 live ecis fell off fish truck and started reurrying for freedom,
Trame came
to a standstill as the driver and passers-by tried to round up the cels.
More than half of the slither-
Behind Bars
Cairo, Dec. 24,
blue chips. Steel; reacted to the stalemated steel talki with loses
more ranging to than a poin in seme of the lenders,
Motors, metals and oils held steady for the most part. Min- Resota Mining dropped mound iwo. Ampex was of fhote than 1 at its low. General Time featured a widely moving electronics section.
Cow-Jones closing
were:
30 Industrials
13 es
45 stocks 40 bonds
Comm. future price Index
average;
10.09
154.38
6701
217.08
148.27
UFI,
Arms Plot Uncovered
Washington, Dec, 23.
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FBI agents tonight broke up a plot to sell $180,000 worth of military submachine guna the Castro government in Cux by arresting two American airmen absent without leave, and
woman 15 North Carolina, the Justice Depart- ment announcvd.
The arreste followed a three- day Investigation. The FBI identified the persons arrested as Jack Barclay Frandsen, 35, an AWOL Air Face callsted maa, Luther Douglas Gills, 34, Mr Charles Palmer, British also AWOL from the Air Force Consul General here, today and Mrs Vivian Lake Fisher, visited James Zarb in Turah 40. of New Orleans-UPI. Prison and brought him Christ- mas presents from his wife In
London.
Zarb, 40-year-old Maltese
ing cargo escaped to a nearby businessman serving a canal-UPI.
Communist Bombardment
Talpel, Dec. 24. Communist guns facing Quemoy fred
10-year-
sentence for espionage, is spend-
U.S. Releases
ing his fourth Christmas in gol Part Of
He is allowed special food provided by the British Con. sulate General-Reuter,
Mine Disaster
Fukuoka, Dec. 23. 109 rounds on Attempts to rescue 18 miners the Nationalist offshore island
trapped in a cool mine were in sporadic
bombardments abandoned torfight as continuing yesterday, the Defence Ministry fire and explosions made it eer- said, The Red guns wero silent tain the men were dead. Forty today in line with the Reds'
were trapped one miners alternate-day cease-dre, the
Tuesday in a series of coal Ministry sold-UPI.
damp explosions, Nineteen were rescued and four bodies were recovered.---UPI,
"It's Your Fault"
on
Visby, Dec, 25. On the night before Christ- MS-Ex usual, here on the
Impounded Cars
were re-
San Francisco, Dec. 25. One-third of 168 French cars impounded here on December 1 by the Government Leased yesterday.
The French-made cars impounded on auspicion of be ing a part of a Chinese financial transaction.
were
The withdrawal of 200 of the Cars was allowed on payment of duty, The remaining 400 |were assigned duty-free to
bonded woITE SA CRIOR), ----UFPI,
Christmas Drink
London, Dec. 23. Lima, Dec. 24. -
Labourer Thomas Beban, 36,
Rumba,11 others injured today in a bus-
Seven persons were killed and Island of Golland Pape was was and HK$2 65 drunk and
off shooting at froca,
dimowtierly' charge after he e By custom, Gollanders scomplained to the court, "3 was
B Vane, 0 Mother, 11 Lager, 12 Se-nl-e, 14 Gray, 19 Satca, 10 track collision, near the city of Bute, 19 Legs, 20 Acting, 24 Molsi, 25 Totals, 26′ Eden, 27 - Chillayo, capital of the Depart- | Using RX.CH 40 choo down paying the rent and my land- Age-6, 28 kapped, Down: 1 Fame, 2 Tols, 3 Even, 4 Rarity, 5 mont of Lambayeque. The Christanas trees. They shoot | lord gave me bult a bottle of Ralease, Maggots, 7. Air-base, 10 Heart, 13. Decamps, 14 Gård- drivers blamed each other for them down with Bullete izatead. I whisky
• Christmas pre...] Ing, 18 Aerates, 17 'Agent, 19 Litter, 21 Jona, 22 Ghump, 23 Used. the crush--UPL
sent.
UPL
The Alligator And The Parking Meter
Sarasota, Fla., Dec. 24.
Pollee
are looking for the pmnksters who used à potential killer alligator to play a prac tien joke.
The alligator, eight feet long end weighing 300 pounds, was stolen from a tourist attraction centro and tied to a parking ineter in the heart of the city on Tuesday night. The replije was inter hauled away by the <WNET with the aid of two policemen.UPI,
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