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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 24, 1989

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TO BE DEANNA ALWAYS

Deanna Durbin, young film⠀⠀⠀⠀

actress has filed a petition at Les

Angeles to have her Christiani: xames Edna Mão changed ì to Deanna, by which name she has earned world fame.. DOAX

The petition was filed through her parents. Miss Durbin, who was born in Winnipeg, is sixteen,

DOCTORS ASK FOR YOUNGER "RULERS:

Doctors are rising in revolt againat Britain's General - Modical Conncil, autocratic prbiter of their profession and guardian of the so- called ethics of medicine.S

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The Medical Practitioners Union (one of the doctors two chief so- cietes), issued memorandum on the constitution of the Council. They suggest that an entirely new body should be set up to exercise dis- ciplinary control. Half the 'mem- bers would consist of directly elected medical practitioners, and there would be an age limit of sixty-five.

Copies have been sent to the Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Minister of Health and Members of Parliament. ⠀⠀⠀⠀

The average age for the whole Council now is 67.7 which is des cribed as a low rather than a high estimate. The oldest member is eighty-three and the youngest “a mere thirty-nine."

“It is quite impossible for these elderly gentlemen-really to under-

TRADE FUTURE IS BRIGHTER

The cost of living is going down and Britain's economic outlook is more hopeful, say experts, but political uncertainty is preventing the country from joining in America's progressive recovery."

ON A BICYCLE MADE FOR SCHOOL

Blackpool police have just fine ished the task of issuing nearly 3,000 permits to children to ride their bicycles to and from school.

Any boy or girl who wishes to do this must have a permit, simi-

lar to a motor licence. produce a machine which, basses

To get a permit a child has to

a strict test imposed by the police, wlto already have condemned

Commenting on the latest trade returns, Lloyds Bank Monthly Review says: Rearmament cuts both ways in any attempt to look ahead. It provides a new though unremunerative outlet for the nation-casly and bicycles an being un- al savings, and savings are absorbed by taxation as well as borrowing.

Visitors to the Rockefeller: Mu-

·seum of Industry and Science in New York have the opportunity of seeing the Belgian Wonder | Clock which was made for the late King Albert. This rémarkable fitime

stand the conditions under which Piece has 96 dials which give 'by

the general practitioner of to-day has to work," they say.

QUACK DIET

Where would you expect to find: Two pieces of wire, three inches long;pisode at Bak vir di

Wire nail;

Lump of gines; and-

A large assortment of brightly- coloured scraps of pottery,glass and stone? JARRUAN HARISHA SANA

This collection was in the giz- zafd of a duck” found Cad Bat South Molton, Devon.

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WINDSOR SKETCHES

FOR ITALY

Nineteen sketches by Leonardo da Vinci will shortly be sent from Windsor Castle to Milan for the Leonardo Exhibition there,

Leonardo da Vinci, so-call be- cause he was born (out of wedlock) at Vincí, near Florence, lived from 1452 to 1519. He was painter, sculp- tor, architect, musician and engincer perhaps the greatest genius-of the arts of all time.

WHAT A YOLK'!

Major J. R. McCrindle, managing. director of British Airways, Ect Customs officials at Heston Air- port (Middlesex) a poser when he returned from a survey fight to West Africa. Asked if he'd any- thing to declare, he produced rolls of maps and two ostrich oggs. The «Customs lista: gave no - clue as to whether the eggs were dutiable or not, Colleagues were consulted in vain. So at last the eggs were passed as curiós free of duty.

synchronization all the hourly di- visions of the World, the more ments of the sun, moon and planets, besides a calendar calen- Iation from 1/100 part of a second to the next 26,000 years. It was. made by Ludwig Zimmer, Photo shows | visitors & watching the 96 rotating dials of the wonder clock.

BASUTO HAS £6,000 HOUSE

Israel Alexander, Basuto - native who came straight from the

om the raw

fosters

ride.

WALKED 3 YEARS

On the other hand, some industries at the expense of WRONG DIRECTION. others and leads to an unbatanced development.

Muslim pilgrim, Mohamed Jalil.

The long continued decline in so devout that he must say a prayer grain prices has at last come to an after walking every five steps, has end, and this, it is stated, should passced through Bombay by mis improve the purchasing power of take on a walk to the Holy City of many of our Important overseas Mecca, in Arabia. markets.

Among the Board of Trade re turns just issued' are the follow- ing

Of

-He set out from Jamalpur fat the foot of the Himalayas) three years ago, but instead of taking the Khyber Pass highway he took the Total imports for the year ended his journey is about 850 miles in a

road to Bombay. This stage December 31, 1938– £920,437,586 & decrease of £107,386,842 as compar ed with 1937:

Exporth470,883,489, a decrease of £50,508,005 as compa

CITY: CLERKS COMPLAIN

OF NEGLECT IN ARP

City clerks, up in arms against the A.R.P. muddle, have sent memorandum of complaints to Sir John Anderson, A.K.P chief

The statement is signed on behalf the National Union of- Clerks ́and Administrative Workers.

direct line. Now he intends to re- trace his steps to the Khyber and go across Afghanistan and Persia to Mecca.

Before him lies a journey · now- 4,000 miles. At his present rate of progress he should reach Mecca by 1948. Not the sort of chap you would send for a jar of cream Hurry but he lines up with the Yank who flew the Atlantic in mistake thinking he was going to California.

GERMAN CATS GET

THEIR ORDERS

It is alleged that during the cri-

All cats in Germany are to be. sis, although arrangements were made more rat-minded." They made for the protection of proper- must be trained to catch rats and ty, jewellery and important docu- mice, says the newly-established the clerks that they would be ex- Breeders." Tinjil ments, it was clearly indicated to "Reich Professional Group of Cat pected to carry on if air raids came. ♬ It adds that 150,000 people would In one large office, where most be required to repair the damage of the employees were young girls done by rats in Germany one and boys between fifteen and twen- year. ty-five years of age,

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arrangements

life of the veldt to set up business app in Durban as a herbalist, lives in a £6,000 house and employs twelve typists. His business herbalist is done entirely with the natives

were made for the staff to work in HALLS LET TO NAZIS PROTEST The fact came out when he applied to erect a block of flats, for a fiative the memorandum.

shifts in the event of raids, says

cannot acquire land without the permission of the Governor-General.

LONDON TO HAVE A TATTOO

Legion are to run a four night tat Surrey branches of the British

too at Wimbledon Stadium in June.

THE HAT TRICK WORKED ON INSPECTOR

Giving evidence - before: the Youth Commission in London) milliner said that while making sulova hato in a West End shop

obo worked in a basement.

During the season about fifty girls were employed, and come bad to work in the kitchen and

spector called, some of the girls stockrooms. When the factory In-

were told by the proprietress to go upstairs and fit each other with bats, representing to the laspsc- tor that they were customers, i

Action of the University of Lon- don in letting halls to the Anglo- NEW GERSHWIN SONGS FOUND German Academic Bureau for their Christmas festival is deplored in a Enough unpublished music for resolution to be moved at the con-

hooks of the late George Gershwin, at least two complete musical shows vocation of the University. has been discovered in old ^note-

composer of "Rhapsody in Blue,' says Reuter.

PEER IS SECRET DONOR.

It is revealed - that the secret donor of 7,500 pullovers and jackets to unemployed South Walos miners as a New Year's gift, is Lord Por- tal, one of the trustees of the Nuf- fleld Trust Fund for the Special Arens, Distribution of the gifts has already begun, preference be- ing given to men over forty-five.

HE CARRIED

A HORSE UPSTAIRS

Janis Bulis, a retired farm wha

once carried a

to

the top floor

nt Riga" (Latvia)

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