LONDON DIARY

TWO Socialist MPs have the arm, will "look in two or

signed the Peace Peti- the times

tion being canvassed by the

thetr.

week** to stu

con-

Sir Georg: Aylwen, 69, hins British Pesce Committee: many public intercits, Mr Ian Mikardo and Mr R. siders himself too young to re- W. G. Mackay, the membersquish all his City

for Reading.

They are unperturbed by the fact that the National Execu- tive of the Socialist Party have Committee on put the Peace the offical! 19 genisations ni

of banned ot- described the

petition as n fraud.

tions.

Surrey.

lives at

rolince-

Chiddingfold,

Songs for children THERE are strange songs for

children in the Woodcraft Foll: Song Book. Leader of the Woodcraft Folk, Mr Henry Fair, į

dentes that there of with-on-hirted children are fei

Neither Mr Mikardo nor Mrį strongly

Mackay is thinki from the With Left-wing propaganda. Ile

drawing hbr name

petition.

W the Socinlist Party com

them to withdraw ther ames? At Tranport Bous. they were saying today

would be laken.

It was

raye they meet anil-amonc other thingsing.

What do they sing? Their song book contains the Inter-

(Arine, yo nationale

nirve- Ings). 11 A Red Army

ton soon to say what tech--

Planning rotiroment

BRITAIN'S former

reprezen

Hunger and chains were our

portion.

Feeling like beggara cri

tative to the Balled Nations! back in England from Ameri- New

Cadogan... retiremen

en to rent anti then plan my ietirement." Lady Cudogan is

with him.

His Brat tack, he says, is to "look for some sort of dwelling London." Meanwhile he and live in a Lady Carloan will London hotel,

He wants to heart of títols. buy yourself in

live near the "You cannot the country

thefe days; much is happen- But he ha he says. anall cottage near Rye, Sussex, for occasional visits.

Sir Alexander is tic normal Furm

yekre more than

in Office retiring age.

Manon is passed

That London is to see the French n Manon, 1839, Winner

Film of the Venter Festival Last year R was re- fused a tirate by the Board of Film Census.

Now Lention County Costinell alma comanie have given it an adults only licence for how- ng in their area. Childi en un der 16 will not be admitted.

Manon will be shown in the Weed End raid-September.

The only cut ordered by the

12

Al

of the moutes.

from the burial recne at the end

the til

Eighteen-year-old Cerile Au- bry, blunde par of the flus. will probably be back from Holly wat in time to attend

the pett JC.

City men hand over TWO

DWÒ giants of the City retire

from Delive

baleno

crumbs,

light

darkness,

piercing The

Dawn of deliverance coment

Belts and cranks

15

To the tume of There Tavern in the Town, this is what the children snje There is a factory In the town Where befts and cranks nove

up and down,

With that dull life Thever di

agree,

Fifty hours of that's enough

for me

Another Russian song is The Searlet Banner: "Baire then starlet banner triumph- The

There are new words antly.

the line music of Cwin Rhonda: "We have bowed tou ton; already, slaved the idle to maintain, Sold our lives to forcin masters, scarred Iand to get them gain."

10

And when the children sing of the Land of Freedoin know not of my other country where man's freedom can with iours compare," they are sloging:

about Russia.

Mr Hugh C. Serimgeour ond Sir George Aylwen, Inst year's bord j

U.S. want our jumpers

OLIVER FRANKS, nur Washing- Ambassador in

for, has asked London to send

Mavor They were the most; Fronics, teith denighter Alison, sashior parters of one of Lon- elem's arlest fit1115

stocks- of brokeys, J. and A. Scrimgeour.

Aylwen... hands over

wants jumpers

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1950.

They had to GOAD the bull to keep that cliche alive

ROSEBUD THE HERD BELLE

She looks on, with escart

FINDING OUT|

ABOUT THE YOUNGSTERS

THE Government Social Survey is carrying out an investigation into leisure- time activities of adoles- rents. It will provide in- formation for the Ministry of Labour.

The Ministry hopes to End what has the greatest influence on Yout Jude when

they seek their first jobs. A sample has been taken of 2,000 youth. aged between 15 and 20 in 70 or 80 tovint,

The survey

is also expected ↑

1. The

to give endo,hierament

ffect of the call-up. The in- formatum gathered might help the

me vytaithesi if volunteers

to the Sea VIENS.

The Murtry alsa dejes fur

Infor teation on 'dead-end” juus

kup

ank from data which vi the Coung endentes proponed Re- Azad the Education Act, port are most likely to be avail able until the late winner or

JOB CHANGING SURVEY

the British team of horse how A report an unsther survey Jumpers to compete in Ameri-curied out for the Ministry of Letor will probably be pub- 1330 Foreign

bave lished carly this calamer. This | Oflice passed on the request to the wa

tnto job on investigation

an events.

ון ינו!

British Show Jumping Associa- chamat201 by working iron, but can promise no linan-TwvIve lionland workers were cial help.

trifen viewed and

employment

The informalion

histosel

is holy to

The team, now in Virhy, are them #ten the finest in the world, taken. Their leader. Colonel H. M. | Llewellyn, is without a peer,

Who pays the xpenses of tesist the Minitry in its long-j hose riders showing the Bus term

policy for employment broad? The BSJA cover only now that the Government has the basic costs of shipping thờ| given up its powers for the hurren Mest of the other out-direction of labour. Hay the riders pay themselves.

Ameries would be high. heard it pai at £2507.

The 125 Civil

Playful

With a beckoning fore- finger, curvaceous Betty Tuncil. a playful beach sprite, invites you to come and play on the sands at Miami, Fla.

Emphasising unity

WOMAN With a social con- schence is Miss Elsa Max- Weil, American columnist and indefatigable party thrower.

In Parin she said, "I feel

C

THE 'CHAMP' PUTS

IT IN DOUBT

"SHOW THEM AN EXECUTION”

Sheriff Grosch and

the convicts

By PRESTON McGRAW-

HERIFF John J. Grosch, who used to coax con-

SH

fessions out of drug addicts with a gold-plated hypodermie, would like to make attendance at- exécutions compulsory for every convict in the Orleans Parish prison.

as

"Every thief in here"executions in front of his prl- long as six official Grosch said, "is n potential sonera,

witnesses: are present. But ho murderer. If they had lost he had public opinion to look at a man getting 2,700 consider and persons he had volts in the electric chair, talked to about the plan were

half for it

and half they'd think a long time be about

Grainat 11. fore returning to crimo Groscl said he had when they got out of gnol, seen an, execution and never If they did go back to intended to.

We, I can't even read crime, they wouldn't pack a death warmouts to condemned

gun,

nover

men," be said. "My brother "They'd br Binking about|1it has had to do that. I'd that man in the electric, chair break down and cry." when he got the juice. Look at

this way: when you execute a man, you don't accomplish anything outside of taking Iman's te for killing another man. But if you prevent a murder, you save two lives- there of the victim and the life of the murderer.”

Prison Made Attractive|

Grosch keeps an average of 500 prisoners for as long ng

AT last it's settled. What happens when then

lo

and blue, the doors waxed and

old cliche comes true and a bull gets into as the walls painted in orchid events near | flowery cirapes over the bars, china shop? Well, to judge from

becaus de believes a modri. Malvern, the answer is-Nothing.

gaol helps reform prisoners.

But ul the Game

convinced Grosch said, he is

ghol with a memory that Will last him a life-time.

Six guard

dlais land

time. FROM the edge of an ice- cliff two shy chumols

Nothing, that is, until the bull is goaded to he have according to conventional ideas about bulls that a prisoner ought to leave look out over the will crags

in china shops.

Mudersfield Champion, a four-year-old prize Red Ayrshire, demonstrated for 35 minutes that a one-ton bull. can be as safe in a shop stacked with 1.000 pieces of crockery on plywood stands and in glass cases as-oh, a Pekingese dog.

Police Constable Bill Ainge shepherded villagers in the yard of Hayeswood Farm, Madersfield, to watch the "xperiment.

Stockmen took up positions around the shop built for a film set. They carried stout six-foot staves in case the champ escaped.

Tom Rone, 45-year-old stockman, led the champ by a rope through the safety gates leading to the three- walled chlia shop.

belle

Rosebud, brown an walle Dorrell's from Farmer herd, was thered at the other acle of the shop, so The chump could see her.

"The scent was thus set for the opening sequences, of_u_20- minute documentary on the his

of Worcester tory Two cameramen were ready.

Tom slipped the

poreclin.

haycarts

rupe-and

rutted the five-barreck gate,

The cameras whirred

The champ limbered, but 2.cintily.

towards

Robud

cing his way between two Liles tucked wich chiņa cups. Cartel mucers.

He

Tail flick

successfully manoeuvred round a four-tier stand display- ing flowered fea sets and vices. and carefully avolder crockery

the shelves.

THE CHAMP—“JUGGED”

He shook it of

Finally celman Roñe jabbed

And seeing An execution probably woull make a more Iasting impression thinu pastel decorations and shiny floor.

of Andorra, a tiny country guarded by six policemen, perched in the mountains between France and Spain.

This little land, which gives us the Stamp of the Week, uses

All the cell blocks in the French and Spanish money parish prison look out on the because it has none of its own. Bark in is narrow streets you Prison Courtya:ti, Therefore,

clothes brought Groseh sald, all he would have can buy chic to do to make prisoners attend from Parls to be smuggled into And luxury U.S. cars execution

hold Spun. would be to

ruise around, Wem in the courtyard.

"Some

the

people tell prisoners

Woulet

me tha look the

and acroplanos

other way when they put the Now Andorra has built an man in the chair," he said, "I airfield antong its mountain don't believe Pey would:

peaks and this stamp is the first would look. Why airmail Issue.

tion.

insta

Away

2,500

think they every time we have an execu- Perforation: 13 x 13; face value: 100 French franes (about 2s.); price: 38. 9d. (unused), A week's pockel money, but n very nice stamp.-J.AA.

people."

Matter of Psychology

paid that what he

Grosch was proposing is simple Psychology. He said he learned about psychology when he was chick of detectives tu Now Orleans for 10 years and caught 13,000 crisis who were fronvicted. Twenty-seven <!

them were executed.

he

hop-heads

זיי

10 business. Finally,

-London Express Service),

66,000 MORE IN. EMPLOYMENT

London.

EASONAL demundu for "When I was a detective." labour have reduced the

said,

took

and the enqugh number of workless hypodermies and dope from Easter school-leaving period Co into has increased the total working I - KO! Apopulation, nccording to man- figures issued by the roid-plated hypodermic and power started me thinking.

Ministry of Labour recently,

The number of unemployed suspected of rometting, I put registered on May 15, the day was 314,700, him in the cooler for awhile. of the last count,

Cold-plated compared with 329,000 in the Then I'd lay my

The previous hypodermale out on my desk and previous month.

300,255 last have him brought in. He'd take lowest figure was

look t

that ypodermic October, 1eil me everything he

J

"Everytime I got a hop-head

one

and knew.

Some Oppose It

The success with the four-dier the chinp thereely. Then and

head. It only the did he behave like nog, I'd and went to hig

tie Alcked buli in a china shop. railed for Jubliation.

hie tat-and knocked over a Irupstand.

Cheers from the onlookers.

"The champ then stood still.

Cuin The cameras stopped. plained Mr John Stewart, dhee- tor of the film: "Can't we have Imore actiou?"

So sucbody waned a red The plate before the bull.

hamp stopped to kick a cook- my dish,

Blende Lysbeth 1arley, 22- Iyear-old repertory actress, who Estimates should no something about the had played the shop assisten

at the ca-

Llewyn is a rich man Buti the cost of taking his team to showed that £50,000

I have provided during the anciul year ending March 31, 1951, for social surveys. These are carried out by the Sucial Survey Divi atsion of the Central Office of In- of formation.

£1200 for 3s. 4d. price HIGHEST

puid Glending's auction cold coins owned by the late Air

is being grim international altuation. I who had reamed

am herefore giving a dinnerrance of a bulf, watched from party & the Hotel Ritz in Paris behind safety rails. to cmphasise the new unily be- France, Britain and week America in the face of Com- munist aggression."

of In addition to a survey J. V. E. Ryan was £1200 for n Henry Vi Half Gorge Noble. elekness (conducted every

Guest of honour will be Lady Diana Cooper. Ninety-five bave them the

Scrimgeour (Eton and Mr David Spink, the buyer, says month for the Registrar-Gener been invited, among

Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Oxford) founded the firm 20 it probably was the first coin al's Offee), the Division takes the United Sintes and Italian

an investigation into consurnet

rear ago, became a

Ambassadors in

Like a dancer

the sound

Now she made Tchas though calling a cut. Tom Rone, getting desperate, linked two labies full of croc kery with steel wire and lol Hearst. Tho champ never moved.

Paris. two

member to carry the device of St Georgexpenditure. Subjects Turveyed members of the French Cabinet, Kosebud to the front of the shop.

cousin. Memes S. Se 3. 4. It is about the size of a hold coal, clothes rationing. Sen.. and Mme. Montnez do

of the Stock Exchange in 1900.net the Dragon.

Value in the 16th century was in the past have included house- Mrs William Randolph

เท Now 07, be hands over in his

abrother half sovereign, only thinner.

children and Hoz He leaves

and the Countess geour. and several other relatives in

Falaise. --(Lordon Express Service)

K. O. CANNON

OPES THE YOUNG LADY INSIST ON COMING? ALL THE GREMLINS I SVEM MET WENE OIL 5,

DON'T WORRY ABOUT CARAMELLA! &ME'S IN

MY CONFIDENCE..SKE WON'T REPEAT ANYTHING THEAT

SHE HEARS |

(TA AFRAID SHE WONT DE HEARING ANYTHING FROM, ME, GANNON { S'VE NOTHING TO TELL · YOU AT ALL!S

farm work, and the cinema,

de la

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

BUT, HOLLIS..LAST! JM10HT YOU SAID..

STEADY, OLD MAN! WHAT THE DEVIL LARS VÕU DOING?)

I CAN'T DO A THING 1..SHE WON'T PULL OUT OF ITS COME ON. WE'LL HAVE TO JUMP POR IT!

(149)

led in. Now Rosebud wILY

and a coW there were a bull

Dil was in a china shep-and pence.

More prods with the stayes, and the champ stepped over the wire, Arst the front legs, then the back, elegantly, like an 19th century dancing master,

Thanks, Anyway

N

appreciative

burglar

A runs on

Panhorst, where he found romai food but no money...

He fixed himself n sandwich, then departed after penciling the following:

Thanks for the food. Where you ld your money le alvory good pics, Sure- cân't-And. it.”

But when director Stewart aid "Cut." the clump stepped gingerly over the fragments.

Hxpress Service) →ilancion

Thais

The May Agure represented 1.5 percent. of the total number of workers Insured under national insurance schemes.

The total number la elvil' em- increased during by 00,000-27,000 men There wera

"After he got through talkployment

cive him a hol-of April pure warm water, He'd get a and 30,000 women. big smile on his face just like rises of 3.000 in transport and

was tire real thing.

In building and

conmunication, 5,000 in clothing Grosch said there was no law and 6,000

prevent him from holding contracting.

Piggy

Got

TO

Market

GOO

WIT

Rescuers are shown helping a hog out of the wreckage of an overturne livestock truck near Elkhart, Ind. The hog was one of 107,animals belar cürriec to market in Chicago in a semi-trailer which overlurned while"; negotiating? curve in the road. The driver was not hurt, but 15 of the ah[chulg.

3d talven died in the wreckage.

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