THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950.
SWEET SUGAR
Casino.
CAROL L. Helnze, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, carries an ancient yoke on her shoulders as she helps to gather maple sap in the woods around Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont. The sweet liquid sugar is poured into buckets of snow and eaten as
it hardens.
Red Tape Makes Them Neurotic
A Melbourne psychiatrist believes a "Ministry of Uncomplication" would be the greatest gift any government could give its citizens.
ho explained, designed to boards,
boards and boards controlling
"Fifty
› Bouncers Frisk Gamblers For Hidden Bombs
By Robert C. Miller
Saigon, Apr. 20.-There is an added thrill to gambling in this Paris of the Orient: someone may throw a grenade in at any time during the play.
All weapons are checked outside the high-walled enclosure, and husky bouncers frisk the customers for hidden bombs or grenades. A dour Chinese matron probes the ladies as they enter.
Boom In Tortoises As Pets
usually the traditional while pantaloons and split skirt, is a thing of benuly.
Gambling is a state-con- dress. trolled monopoly here and the concession is given an
Large gas lanterns hang from nually to the highest bidder. The government's take ap- the ceiling everywhere, for the proximates US$25,000 dally. power situation in Saigon is far from reliable, particolarly as Of this, $20,000 goes to the the terrorists have a habit of French Government and cutting the lines into that part of $6,000 10 the French-town they have marked for supported Vietnam Govern-grennding.
is
bets
are the
Britain has a big boom in ment. At present the con- Government Inspectors keep tortoises. A consignment of cession is held by a Chinese close check on all tables to in- 4,000 tortoises which arrived corporation on a share basis, zure against any improper deal- Both the pavillon and the in London recently has al- Despite the threat of terrorist in.
a reputation for ready been bought up by bombinga, the casino is packed casino have pet shops in London and the every night. The block-sized honesty. The games have such Provinces. Ten thousand area is haived. One section is high percentage in favour of an open pavilion which caters the house that a fat pront is more of them are due to to the two-bit players; the other guaranteed if the labies are alt- an ornate, exquisitelyed, and they are, every night by arrive soon.
furnished night club where five-all walks of people all deter-
usual mined to do the same thing dollar
get something for nothing. Few of them succeed.-United Press. minimuin.
DICE GAME LEADS
The most popular game is the Indo-Chinese cquivalent of chuckaluck, using three dice in a black lacquered bowl which is chaken vigorously by the dead- "A tortoise can be laught to panned Chinese girl operators. answer to s nama very quick-Flanking 15, and
Animal and reptile importer Jolin Ford, of South East Lon. don, who claims to be the sole importer of tortoises in Britain, says tortoises have never before They been in such demand,
considered have always been
and pets of creatures Queer pampered children, but now if is being discovered that they have intelligence,
the bowl are the
are
voicca,
to know its layouts where the bets it gels owner," says Mr Ford. "It is placed, either on the total spoli, are usually three very nervous, Dough, and it a high or low, or the ringle dice. stranger touches it, in goes its The players
deep.
folded and the neatly head into the shell.
little plastres
piled in Arc "We find that, although there bundles on the selected numbers, is le difference between tor-
from South toises
Africa and Such a government agency, shortages, price controls, potato
The operators continuously eval boards. wheat
those from West Africa, the ring little warning bells, and unravel the present com- every avenue of production, dis- South Africap is most popular." finally, in high-pitched
Recently Cape Town put a cry out "stop" In Vietnamese plexities of over-govern- tribulion and exchange.
a ban on the export of tortoises, and the bowl is unlidded and ment," would do much to-
Pay-offs are ago a farmer so more West African tortoises, the dlco exposed. years wards improving health. grew his wheat and sold it. He will now be imported into Bri-made, collections taken in and
bought his fencing, posts and tal..
the bowl again covered and "We are ever-organising our- other equipment
without
shaken. selves into a community of bother. Today he
can hardly
Roulette is played with one rdly neuroties," the psychiatrist said, lift a hand without ling a
wheel and two layouts. Six at- This was why more than 3,500 form. He is completely ham-
tendants are kept busy committed strung by bureaucrats-all well-
gulating the play and distribul- meaning enough who
California movie stunt men's
ing chips. Practically every drowning, strangling him in a wage scales 10 ft fall from a number is covered on mass of red tape and paper," balcony, £30; fall in front of turn of the wheel. The system the psychiatrist idded-United speeding car, £71; head-on car players are here, too, carefully
crash £100,
each winning number. plotting The house obligingly Issues charts to help them keep track
wing of la
Australians
have suicide since the war.
Overworked
psychiatrists throughout Australia are freed
with an
endless now of dis- Press. traught housewives Isiness men, farmers and professional men. In 1923, there were only two psychiatrists in Melbourne, Today, tiere ure 18.
It is the same story in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and other Australian cities.
The Melbourne platrist gave two major reasons for the present lack of "nerve" among Australiaus. lie said;
3. Today's are chilen
adult generation War 1 of World parents. Many of their fathers, often improperly treated for shell-shock, were more suscep tible
euctional problems which, in turn, were detrimental to their children.
2.
Far more barriers againet freedom exist today. personal Taken alone, many restrictions were little entarth, but it is the cumulative efive! which for some creating a hopeless, hedged in feeling.
He pointed pul Australia's ration hooks; licences for sell- ing. licences for buying. com- pulsory veling, "Don't Park Here," "Ren to the
sign, Off the Grass," Keep
More Prague Guilty Pleas
Prague, Apr, 20.-All six de fendants in one of the biggest
in
public trials since the Com- munists came to power Czechoslovakia pleaded guilty today to high treason and spy- ing for the United States
The Inst two defendants, Becia Vackova and Karel Loris, pleaded "partial" guilt ata to- day.-United Press.
are
Danger Money
PIGTAILS & PAINTINGS
NINE-YEAR-OLD Gillian Knight, left, and her sister Susan, seven, are lending a family hand in London. They're carrying these oils by their father, Edwin Knight, to the Royal Academy on "handing-in" day. (Acme)
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POOR GAMBLE WAGES
The pavillon gamblers are
Judo China's from
poorci The coolies, rickshaw c'asses.
boys, clerks and labourers are habitues. A whole week's wages often will go on a turn of the dire. Gambling suicides are a Government secret, bat
unusually high.
Considerable criticism bas been heaped on the French and
| Vietnam Governments for kong gambling accessible to poorer classes. Business
1
the
men have been particularly bit- le, claiming the Government's
desire for
has blinded it revenue in the social menace of unre-
fristed
rambling. None of the avilion players looked as if he could afford to lose
The
The
The
casino
19
the
tory
It ኒ። reserved for weat thy who can and do squan- ter thousands at the plusti tables. Baccarat gets the big Rest play, and the bejewelled women of East and West gather around the curved table, come playing. others watching their men try to
to break the bank. Chinese
croupier wields a big rubber paddle, skilfully scooping up the discards and rating in the lost bets. The banker, also Chinese, wears a Hazing diamond and a detached Mona Lisa
smile as he deals. Not even a streak of bad luck for the house-and a streak here costs. thousands-seems to disturb him.
HOUSE GIRLS ENTICE
The house girls, wander around enticing play to the less populated tables. In between
U.S. TRANSMITTER
THIS. high frequency radio transmitter, capable of ensuring the flow of U.S. Army communications in case of another blockade of the German city, has just been put into operation. The tall, slender steel tower rises some 320 feet above the compound of U.S. Army Headquarters in Berlin. (Acme)
Australian Navy To
Play Bigger Part In Defence Of Pacific
By George McCadden
Melbourne, Apr. 20.-The Royal Australian Navy, which co-operated successfully with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific in the last war, is being reorganised to meet changed conditions. The Navy said three major steps have been taken:
RAINMAKER
JEANNE Carmen, great- granddaughter of a Com- anche chieftain, is now in New York to see what sho can do to bring rain to the drying reservoirs. But her method remains an old Indlan secret.
(Acme).
1. Introduction of nával itself or aviation.
In company with the forces of other parts of the British Commonwealth or ito
2. Two modern battle class ailies." destroyers have been launched
in Australian dockyards.
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of the 'Two
the loan specialists.
Theatre Children Warned
Parents who are planning theatrical careers for their children are warned that child actresses and actors must be kept "very busy" if they are to retain natura! possibilities.
Franklo Thomas, Jr., famed child actor of the 1930s, who rose to stardom in the hit play
and movie, "Wednesday
Child," warned thal succoss could be "dangerous" for stage am moppels,
"In the theatre, success can come overnight," he said. "It's difficult for an adult to keep his feet on the ground when it etmes, but for a child it's even tougher.
MORE THAN EVER
"Today,
there
children than
arc mora ever in show
businers. There are 18 or 20 un Broadway right now. corru more
are on the movie lots, The parents of these children should do everything they can to keep them from becoming swell-headed at their little suc- cesses.
"Once a child actor-or any actor begins to take the good notices too seriously, his work begins to deteriorate,"
He said a child with an in- ated ego would find it dimeult to adjust himself to the proh-
ems of adult life.
To stay clear of this danger
think le, a --which I
very serlous one for any person go- ing into show business-I think it's necessary to keep busy with studies, sports and other activi lies," he said,
SANE ATTITUDE
"It is also necessary to have a sane attitude about commend- abla notices. The child actor should be told that each gumene is just a minor epping stone in his careerand that he should turget it and look aboad to other roles and other successes,”.
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Thomas, who is 03, has made 35 movies and appeared in es many Broadway shows since his initial success in "Wednesday's Child." He is now a member of television's "Ono Mon'
mother, Family." His
whose
slage name is Mona Burns, and
four-year run of "Bom Yester
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father are still in show business.
Mrs Thomas
In the played
closed only which day," cently, while Thomas, Sr., has a television show, "The Black Rabe," United Press.
Attempt To Heal Breach
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The Royal Navy is handling 3. Three Bitish cubmarines most of the planning for the will be based in Sydney to por-RAN's naval aviation through mit RAN ships and crews to
Athens, Apr. 20. The new obtain regular anti-submarino
The first of two RAN carriers, Greek Premier, General Nicholas training.
sub-
met Yugoslavia's marines, IIMS Telemachus and HMAS Sydney, a modern light Plastyras, HMS Thorough, are already on fleet carrier of the Majestic class, Charge d'Affaires here today in. A nove to heal arrived in Australia in May 1949. what scomed
brrach between Although none of Australia's HMAS Melbourne is due in 1052, the four-year their nations. is numerically
Australla's present naval per- Reports from usually rellable armevices
that the largo in comparison with bigger sonnel has dropped from a 1945 sources Indicated countries, they are growing, all war-time euro of 30,000 officers Premier and M. Charif Schoyle, have extensive battle experience and men to less than 10,300. The the Charge d'Affaires, had dis and they are the most Impor-calistment target is 14,753 but cursed the renewal of diplomatic tant forces in the Parle except response has been insufelent.-relations, interrupted since 1040. those of the USA or Russia. United Press.
ALLIANCE PROPOSED
Aln, the Australian forcon can make the most significant contribution to a Pacific anti- Communist military alliance, an proposed by Australia's Exter ral Affairs Minister, Mr Percy C. Spender.
Under the Anzac postwar defence agreement, Australian. and New Zealand military and naval forces work closely to- gether. Naval units of the two countries were conducting joint exercises in New Zealand waters when Spender nnnounced his Pacific pact proposal.
The
of
the
rebuliding Australian Navy began under of former the Labour regime Prime
Minister Joseph Chifley, which obtained Austra lia's first aircraft carrier from Britain.
the Labour Similarly, the Administration of Peter Fraser in New
to 19 Zealand looked ramparts long before its defent last November, after 14 years of power.
Conservative successor regimes In both countries are carrying on these policies and expanding them.
CONDITIONS CHANGED
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A naval spokesman said that
"has been based upon a postwar defence policy determined parily by changed world conditions and London, Apr 20,-The Prime a recognition of the fact that Minister, Mr Clement Attles, Australia no longer can rely as today entertained the Egyptian much or formerly upon Great Parliamentary delegation to Britain and her allies for her lunch at No 10 Downing Street. security; and partly by a growing The nine-man delegation is national spirit which makes too visiting Britain at the invitation great a dependence upon other at the British group of the countries distasteful to her. Inter-Parliamentary Union.
The delegation arrived here feel that even though they luck "The people of Australia now yesterday and will fly back to sufficient numbers and resources Calro on April 26-Reuter.
Adjournment In
New Delhi
10
defend themselves alone against any heavy or prolonged attack, t
It Is, nevertheless, their duty to make a more adequate contribution towards their own New Delhi, Apr. 20-India's defence and that of the British Parliament ended its three Commonwealth and other peace. months budget Session today loving nations as a whole," he and adjourned indefitely: sold.
Thin was Parliament's first
be The aim of the RAN 110 ression since the inauguration fcome la balanced, and feptive: of-the Republie in Janurkry, steiking forve capable, in any fù-
-Reuter.
IN HIS FASHION
SPORTING a ten-gallon hat and high-heeled, bools, 65-year-old Herb Allen waves from his motorcycle as he prepares to follow the hounds on a fox. lunt at spent Melton Mowbray, Born in England, Allan most of his life in U.S., às 'n' cowinnaker
Utah. Now retired and back in England, he just TRBT Biay away from horse he joins the body THIS
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