THE CHÍNA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY '17, 1961.
A REFUGEE BECOMES MISS UNIVERSE
Miami Beach, July 16. refugee from East Germany began her reign as Miss, Universe today-facing the problem of how to combine being the "world's most beautiful woman” and an electronics engineer.
Fraulein Schmidt, the platinum-blonde from Stuttgart, who escaped from East Berlin to join her mother and. 17-year-old sister in West Germany a year ago
to continue her studies in freedom," was still de- ciding how to resolve brains with beauty. Fraulein Schmidt, green-eyed, standing five feet oight inches with a 36-23-30 figure, received her glitter- ing diamond crown at Convention Hall here Inst night,
Miss Germany, favourite with the fans packing the nuditorium, took her prize with a poise that came from the experience of her 24 years she was the oldest of all the competitors from 57 nations who went through a week of non-stop parades and
pageants to try for the Miss Universe title. Despite winning prize-money of $5,000 cash, a $10,000 personal appearance contract, and a $3,500 full-length mink, the fraulein said she was wor ried about her $53 a week job with a heavy elec- trical equipment firm in Stuttgart.
“I shall have to ask for leave of absened for next year ́
in order to full my Migs Universe contract," she said. "I hope they'll unterstand. It is a wonder- ful thing to win this title-but I don't want to give up my electronics carcer."-Router.
ALGIERS ROCKED BY BLASTS
AFTER DAY OF UNEASY CALM
Algiers, July 16.
Renewed violence sprang up again in Algiers tonight following a day of uneasy calm and a night in which 22 plastic charge_ex- plosions badly damaged homes, shops and bars here and in Con- stantine, Bone, Blida, and Sidi-Bel-Abbes.
Rift in Japanese Communist Party leadership widens
Tokyo, July 16.
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An Insurgent here tossed grenade Into a crowded park kliling n Moslem.. In Con- stantine, Eastern Algeria, an Insurgent tossed a grenade at the home of a Mosiem professor of Arabic, but there were only superficial domoges And In Oran, Western Algerin, ал
"Woke up to find girl in bed,'
Old Etonian says
Johannesburg, July 15.
LIGHTNING HITS
PANAM
JET AIRLINER
London, July 16.
A Pan American Boeing 707
jot lost part of its tail |
today when it was struck
had taken off from Am- sterdam to London, the
pilot reported plano
pt
when the landed safely London airport.
foot-square metal "streng-
Insurgent shot and injured a When Old Etonian Bevil John Blyth Rudd, 34, again appeared, in the Regional Court here yesterday charged with an offence under the Immorality Act, his counsel said he fell intothening member" was ripped of
45-year-old European S De was entering his home.
during But
the day, Europeans and Mostems alike well to the beaches, as they usually do on summer Sundays, and crowded into cafes. Bul elnemas were only half-flied.
MOST SERIOUS
The most serious damage last
Of
a deep sleep on a bed and an African actress later did the same without his knowledge.
to an
Mr C, S. Margo was deliver, to sleep, went in to Rudd's ing his final speech on behalf bedroom and fell asleep beside of Rudd, a company director, him after locking the door be- who pleads not nudity to the hind her. charge under the Immorality Aet and not
Kulity alternative charge of conspiring to commit an 'immoral act. ("Dottie") Tivo 21. hos plead
The African actress, Dorothy ed not guilty to similar charges. 'STUNNED'
'I'M A LADY,' SHE SAYS Slap in the face
U.S.A. for Miss
Miami Beach, July 18. Miss U.S.A., Sharon Brown of Louisiana, received a slap In the face from another U.S. competitor for that title before the finals of the Miss Universe competi- tion here yesterday.
Miss Mississippi, Mar-one. She called me a Har lene Britsch, who formerly while I was sitting in a lived in Louisiana, said | chair, then slapped me in tho that Sharon tried to hit her face and walked out. I was and missed.
so upset it affected my whole performance in the finals.
She added: "I ducked and slapped her fuce, she foll back in a chuir and I walked
out."
'I'm a lady' Asked to comment, Miss |U.S.A. said: "I'm a lady and I've nover swung at any
The quarrel arose from a newspaper report that Miss Brown had questioned Miss Britsch's legal status in the compotition. Miss Brown said she told Miss Britsch that the newspapers had not quoted her fully."--Reuter.
POLICE SCOUR RIVIERA FOR ART ROBBERS
Saint Tropez, July 16.
by lightning just after it Police are scouring the Riviera tonight for a gang which stole paintings worth £750,000 from a museum here this morning in one of the most daring art robberies of the century. The biggestart theft ever Royalt; Utrillo, Vuillard, and. committed in France, I la the Dufy, cilmax of a series of Riviera art robberies which began 18 months ago when about £32,- 000 worth of pictures vanished from the home of the painter Amsterdam Drouant.
die tall section and the rounding sections when lightning apparently hit minutes after the Lakeoff.
Fur-
the five
A brilliant blue flesh Alked the plane's cabin but no one was hurt.
A rift in the leadership of Japan's Communist night was done to the home
Party widened at the weekend with four of here at . Robert Lejeune, u |
"the member 50-year-old the Party's Central Control Committee issu-special delegation, a non- ing a circular strongly criticising the leader-elected body which acts as the
he had not realised Municipal Council of Algiers. ship.
IT LOOKED LARGER AT THE TIME
Nice, July 16.
A panic-strickon
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woman
This followed the resignation | on July 5 of Mr Shojiro Kasuga, Chairman of the Central Con- irol Committee, over draft platform being prepared for the forthcoming Party Congress on July 25.
The circulor issued by the minority (netion of the Party today necuses the Party teater ship of using dictatorial methods to put through a draft platform for the coming congress.
It also calls on the leadership to postpone the congress until tolophoned the police hare the state over the platforma is and told them: "Thero's | suttled,
0 23-foot snake in my gardon,"
The circulur is entitled,
"'an
Appeal to all Comrades Cou-
Assuming that a boa-constrie- cerning the Party's Crisis."
ter had escaped from a nearby
circus, a police squad armed The spilt in the Japan Com- with torny guns surrounded munist Party between the "Old
the garden. Firanen sprayed it Guard"
leadership and the
More than four kilograms of plastic charge virtually destroy- ed his home and his two cars. But M. Lejeune and is wite were uninjured.
Police said it was the strong est plastic charge explosion yet recorded.
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Mail Special.
ONE GANG? Police think one gang may be
Police said the thleves had a perfect knowledge of the their haul at lightning speed. Museum lay-out and carried out
Muscum officials said it would be days before the value of the stcles works could be
worked out pecurately. Reuter.
responsible. "The probabilities are that
Today's haul was of 67 paint- Rudd hod. 11 in mind that the
AMAZED
from the Ings
Municipal two women Tiyo and a friend
Captain Nick Carter, 45, sald Muscum of Modern Art here- named Gladys whom Rudd foolt
the plane a converted chapel on the out- sleep in a to his home in his car should
was damaged.
skirts of this holiday resort. stable or in the
"The only sign was that the attic,
The Museum, unguarded, was compass turned turtle and went insured only against fire, pollee "One did reach the attic, and | wild," ho soid. "I have been said. The gang, who are bc- The prosecution nileges that it can be said that if Tiyo | struck by lightning about a dozen leved to have removed their A Rudd,
winner of the
35 "Sword of Honours, at Sand-ad been ablo, she would also times but nothing like this has loot in a lorry, left only
have reached the attic."
ever happened. The discharge paintings. hurst Military College and a former
The magistrate said he would must have been over a million Coldstream Guards
They
broke open a heavy give judgment on July 24, say-volts. I War amazed when ornamental iron gate Officer, committed an affeace
and an ing: "I want time to give a mechanies at London airport tald amoured door to the museum. with Tiyo ai his house in
Judgment."-China me the strengthening member A tramp sleeping nearby told It is a miracle that no one Bryanston, a
fashionable considered
had been lost. After the strike, was killed, police official | Johannesburg suburb, on the
the plane banked normally." night of May 19-20. After re- added.
One of the passengers, David have celving Raid: "I
an anonymous tele- M. Lejeune
Macdonald, U.S. economist, never received any threats, but phone call. police caled at the
szid, "All we knew about it was I suppose my position as a house on the morhing of May
the flash. When we. realised special delegate for the city of 20, they found Rudd wearing
towel, and Tiyo Algiers is reason enough why I only
Rudd's dressing should be designated like this dressed by extremist organisations." - gown — in a cupboard,
Giving evidence on Tuesday, Reuter.
Rudd sold he had been "alun- ned" to wake up and and Tiyo nude in bed with him, he had been drinking heavily the night before, he said.
Earlier,
CHANGED MINDS
An
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thert had been Kansas City, July 16. advertisernent in the evidence that Rudd and Tiyo drunk a considerable with petrol and set it ablaze to more progressive minority fac- classified section of the Kansas had smoke the serpent out,
tion who seek to expand party City Star today offered for sale amount of liquor on the night incmbership by basing their three rooms of "brand new of May 10. theory on that of Italian Coin- murit Fader Parmiro Togbalti has already drawn comment
an
TENSE
After overal tense
minutes, alarmed--but harmless grass snake slithered from the flames and beat husty retreat
to the next-door garden.
1rum abroad.
furniture still in storage.
The reason, printed in large letters above the advertisement: "We decided not to marry."
China hos criticized the UPI.
Two more fe engines had to manority faction while Moscow be called to druse the Are.-) was remuined silent on the China Mail Special,
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Issue.-Router.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
Isle of song.
4 Roues,
7. Very good one!
9 Bit.
11 Mlacral.
12 Kid that's drunkt
13 Part.
15 Replies.
18 Clot.
10 Require.
20 Fence losing colour?
23 Treviously.
24 Sad song.
25 Not accidental.
22
1 Forced.
2 Dlow that!
DOWN
3 Dessert, perhaps.
G Material.
8 Psychle power.
8 Border.
10 Pocket a ball.
19 Court ber?
14 Lettuce.
16 Promlua.
17 Moor.
18 Foreigner.
21 Weapon.
.28 General shelter.
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SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Acromit 1 Scrow, o Dates,
14 Sat, 10 Rid, 18 Poe, 10 Ralis, 11. Opine, 12 Ten, 13 Keg, Nation, 21 Nest, 83 Odes, 20 Encore, 30 Tor, 31 Aha, 92 Nan, 94 Lad, 30 Satin, 37 Spine, 38 Are, 30 Steer, 40 Boled. Down: 1 Bpakten, 2 Cope, 3 Reigns, 4 Wrest, & Ditto, 0 Alo, 7 Tear, 8 Shed, Aitch, 17 Ire, 19 Ale, 20 Nor, 22 Ewe, 14 Dental, 26 Slaned, 21 Nadir, 28. Oases, 29 Tips, 36 Eise, 38 Aire, 35 Apo.
Mr Margo said today: "It is in reasonable possibility that Rudd was submerged in a deep state of sleep and that Tiyo unable to find a bed in which
Squeezed through
Walla Walla, July 16. Sylvia Elaine Bannar, 19,
1 enjoying the benefits of dieting.
She wairbed 7 atones 216 when she entered prison on March 18 to serve a zon- tence for burglary.
She got her weight down to 6 stane llb then escaped- by squeezing through a cell riile measuring 7 by 10 inches. China Mail Special,
UK man among trio lost in Alps
Hopes of finding student
climbers diminish
Tiefenbach, July 16.
Hopes are fading of finding three London University students, including Bik Kwang-sung from Hongkong, lost on the slopes of the 11,745- foot Galenstock since Wednesday.
This eventing a Swiss moun- The three students had in-, treacherous tain rescue
| sign."
cavlisce and
team reported "no tended to scale the Galenstockchasms, and using walkie-talkie by a different route from that radio sets to maintain contact The students, from Imperial chosen by their nine com- among their three groups. College, are John Dagg, 20, from pantons. All 12 ore members
Attempts to use a helicopter Pembrokeshire; Peter Grylls, 10, of the College's mountaineering were abandoned today owing
from Woking, Surrey; and, Ilk clubs. Kwany-sung, 21, frum Hongkong. They have been missing since Wednesday,
The team were the last of 20 local mountaineers who fought against blinding snow, a cruel west wind and dense mist up on the wild Galenstecic,
Since the alarm was given on Wednesday night by the war- den at the Albert felm, hut- from which the three had set out-Karl Ruse, rescuers have searched each face of the peak. lowering thenatives into
RAF 'boffins' win £7,000 in pools
Doncaster, July 15.
A syndicate of British airman, at a bombar basa near hera learned they had won over £7,000 on national "foot- ball pools using 30 numbers, solpeted by an elec tronic brain,
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to the mist and relentless snow, The nine other students were still in the hut tonight.
Justified
Outside the hut, a Swiss fog drooped at halt, mast but Mr Russ, 41, a bachelor. who has XOSTS, kept the hut for seven' would not admit defeat.
He told Heuters: "After acatching four days in bad weather I feel "nyself justified, in fact duty-bound to search again with four or five colleagues when the weather clearA.
"There is at
chance,
The Eorilib'are a ̈hardy race. pitaleally
stronger
much
than we Hwing,'
'rafher'
1 have An Englishman
as a mountain compenfon
thann Swiss,”
He said the Imperial College climbors were well equipped, ́experienced, and skilful. Many
ing the same 30 numbra in al of them knew the Calenstock The syndicate consists of 32
members or due of the Royal | 00-shilling permutation.
from last year when they stay- Alt Force's top secrot They took the numbers from, ani ed at the hut. scientific and research units. alectronic urdin selection pub
They arrived in Switzerland
They have filled in their poots shed in a scientiae, journal. Inst Monday and had originally coupon-based on Australian | Their tálal - winningi. pero intended to leave on August 4—–—–—– foolball pequila...-regularly, us-! £7,208 China Mall Specia), Itéutor.
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police he heard a lorry drive away from the Museum be tween 2 and 3 am.
Another divorce
London, July 16. woman who divorced har husband in 1956 and then married him again obtain- ed a second decroo nisk against him in the Di vorce Court yesterday.
The Jenkins,
women, Mire Frances outer of Richmond,
The theit was discovered by London, remarried her husband a charwoman when she arrived in June 1957 after divorcing at the Museum, Detectives of him on the ground of cruelty.
The decree nisi was granted today on the ground of Mr. Jenkin's adultery.
the plane was still flying all, Marsejlics's Rying squad drove right we didn't worry."
to the scene in a column of cars with walling sirens.
The plane, flight 1010 en route to New York, was delayed at London for rentting the tall piece and for de-magnetising UPI.
The thieves' haul includes works by the painters Bannard,
Val Mallsse, Signac, Cross, Dongen, Derein, Vlaminck
in
The couple were first married 1958 and lived. in Malaya after their second marringo- China Mail Special.
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