1950-11-11 — Page 5

WHAT'S GOING ON

By EPHRAIM

HARDCASTLE

THE girl who sold Pro-

TH

fessor Pontecorvo the which took

airline tickets

bim and his family from Rome to Stockholm hag arrived in London.

She is a dark, small, attractive, and animated Central European. Hor family is on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain and sho la Stateless. Her name is Ani Radimska.

She remembers the Pon tecorvos well, tho told mo, because they caused her so much trouble In the Rome Hicket office where she works.

They came in on August 30 and made previsional bookings. far themselves and their three children for September 1.

She says: "They didn't look very interesting. I was struck moro than anything by their shabbiness. They seemed kind of crumpled,”

Returned alone Because Ani thought them. too poor-looking to afford the tare she bot a colleague that they would not come back. And

by поет එක් the 81st. which was the deadline, heri bat seemed won.

Pontecorvo had not returned. the bookings wore can-

end

called.

THE CHINA_MAIL," SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1950,

"Son-go toll Pa that Truman says all Amoricans have got to quit luxury building.”

The

London Express Service

Drill' to protect

Mr. President

on

Presi- THE guard

dent Truman will have to be strength- Victor E. Baugham, ened. head of the U.S. Secret

At four o'clock, however, he Service, said so following came,

alone. And had to get the

busy renewing the bookings

assassination bid at

The price of the tekels was Blair House..

equivalent to £175. and' Pontecorvo produced it in lire.

President has The

18

She told him that foreigners Secret Service agents, each booking in Rome must pay in an expert trigger

man dollars, and remembers bat guarding him while he is at

very angry Blair House. But he returned with hundred dollar bills.

this made him

PART OF A MAN'S TRAINING IS TO DEAL WITH DUMMIES WHO 'JUMP OUT' IN MOCK ATTACK ......

by

PERCY

HOSKINS

Secret Service, says it was United States," adds Reilly

his book, "I part of the duty of every in

RUMOUR

PARALYSIS

CORRUPTION

CITY

THE

WITHOUT

NEWSPAPERS

PITTSBURG.

HEN I got off thei

train at Pittsburg I;

That has tho. florists wringimi their hands too,

"by............... Perthops the

most

pris.ng effect of по now

carried a newspaper C. V. R. THOMPSON P is that people tal

I

under my arm. Soon noticed that everyone was looking at me. But I found out a minute later, that they were really looking at the newspaper.

less.

People no longer order bar golos by mall. The absened the habita women, They have begun

of thousands of of society news has given we to men jess reason to gossip buy from the local shops which 'There are no calls in reply. can do all the.r advertising in cmall advertisements. their own shop windows. By the time I reached the

the main waiting room two " men had offered me half a ordinary.

chunge crown for it. And out in the the street the price went up avenue to 33 G.

Yes, in Pittsburg

man with a newspaper is

had

One

consequences of this

Films

company told me their receipts were down by a third.

Revenue

U

now, the

every bit as popular, an the tobacconist with cigarettes crack shot. Part of the train-fever was in Britain. ing is to walk along an avenue That is because Pittsburg, from which at certain points, which likes to calf Itself "the hidden...dummy figures would industrial heart of the nation," suddenly "Icap" out in ង is a newspaperless city, position for attack..

in habit are extra-THE majority opinion of the The management `of vanished newspapers was biggest store on Sixth- against the party which is

told me that business power locally, the Democrats fallen off by £100,000 a Yot the Local Government This during the three hended by Mayor David There was a queue wait- week.

heat

shopping weeks of the Lawrence, is doing its best te ing for the out-of-town ycar.

end the strike, papers that my train had

There ате soveral reasons. brought in. Top price for a

First, the Administration de 100-page Sunday edition,

pends on · prospering businem for a large part of its revenue. comica, magazine sections, THE strike, of 'course, bas

There is a mercantilo tax on and all, was, they told me, caused a serious drop 313

everyone in business, and 148.

the bus companies' revenue. local amusements tax

Pittsburg.

With ordinary business down) The pour cinema managers 4.3 .percent, and with the are sure that nothing can now amusement business down' 49 save them from the bankruptcy percent, because there are court. Bad enough that

the newspapers, fower taxes are women shoppers no longer drop coming in.

for a rest and 10

(The most irgent reason pro a look at Clark Gable. But now there

vides

a fine example of how Usually it has three of them is nowhere for the cinemas to dangerous it can be to deprive with a total circulation

of its Prosa. _A_community 755,000 a day. But for nearly.

There is a big graft probe go- month now their pressLE All entertainment, except ing on in Pittsburg. nave been silent.

football, Is slumping. Always It happened that the graINÉ A strike of the men who' gulitons for culture, the people jury which started the Inquiry bundle up the papers as they are usually in such hurry made its first charges a few theatre come off the press in the cause to book tickets for the run days before he goes to a

Bymphony concert season that stopped publishing. member of the theatre of it all.

by now there is not a ticket Icft.

Since the end of the war elaborate precautionary

DE- sures have been instituted for the safeguarding of the President.

When

every

staff is screened, those sitting

A

within four rows of him ara Shopping checked, and agents examine

of

advertise.

was the back-mago and basement WHAT

WHE happens in a city

which

news-

130

the newspapers

They Say

But not this season, Hardly

RUMOUR starled, as ra enyune knows even that the Amours do when a citizenry conductor of the year, Victor is

suddenly returned to the de Sabato, has been having back-fence area. Ellis Island trouble.

The rumour said that the city Government had every policeman in liberately ordered the strike in

Nearly

the

de-

He of the theatre, man who joined the White Roosevelt's Shadow."

suddenly loses it When ue President

That goes Press? House bodyguard to use his goes on:-

Is a question abroad he is preceded (aften, which should be of more than body as a shield for the

to "I guess the President is two or three weeks in advance) academic interest President if necessary.

by a posso of these Secret paper readers. most vulnerable when pasa-

Service agents. They survey This is eight more than

What, then, is a newspaper- the force turned out for How did Pontecorvo, B

"If the agent didn't think ing slowly through a city in the routes the British tourist rubject to strict are on duty when the Pre- the risk was worth his a motor cavalcade. We al- take, and screen the

President will less town ikke? My first am traffic jams they expected for order to escape the bad publi- Doople pression as I stralled around the opening of the Interna- city. It had been getting from

the inquiry. currency regulations, get so sident is in residence at the

the famous Golden Triangle Honal Air Show. But though much money after five weeks White House, which is now salary, and I can under- ways had one car in front of he is to meet.

stand how he might think his, filled with Secret Ser- The purpose of their mission was that I saw so few women. it was the first show in...tucloned being redecorated.

How was that? Well, there years the crowds-lide not tur find anyone in town today just that, he could work in vice men and local police is contained in this permanent

instruction: "Ellminate all are no newspapers, and there- up.

who doesn't believe that entire Michael F. Reilly, former any of fifteen other Secret officials.”

which may constitute fore no department store ad- Even the attendance oly falso rumour is absolutely head of the White House Service districts in the

the ilfe of the vertisements. And in just a funerals has fallen off. There true."

month that fact has changed are no more death notices,

touring abroad?

Maximum allowance for Mim his wife, and children would be £205, plus £10 for the car. But when they left Pontecorvo declared only £150

Another car, loaded in- side and out with Secret

hind the President's car.

in travellers' cheques and £10 3 WERE ASSASSINATED.. Service mon, followed be-

in cash.

Latest reports suggest that two men, a Czech and an Italian, who met the professor at Como, provided the funds.

Stella the star Star rola at New York's biggest society function of the ecaton, to take place next month, will be played by 10- year-old Stella Jebb, daughter of Britain's UN. delegate, Sir Gladwyn Jebb.

She ,will represent Princess 'Elizabeth' In a tableau of the coyal wedding to be staged by couturier Normun Hartnell By permission of the Queen, Hartnell is flying from London with duplicates of the wedding ; and bridesmaids' dresses.

The news had revived American offers to buy the: duplicate wedding ensembles. But Hartnell will say "No."

*Parting friends

For many peopla In London the evening of No- vember was a bitter-sweet oc- casion. Retiring Ambassador and 'Mrs. Lewis Douglas gave

THBEL American Presidents naTE

been killed by assassins' bullets. In addition to the fatal attacks on Lincoln. Gar field.

McKinley, armed and attempts were made on Theodore Romerelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

was fatally wounded on April 14, 1865, by actor John Wilkes Booth as bi was watching a performance al Furd's Theatre. Washington. Booth was hunted and slain by soldiers.

Abraham Lincoln

James A. Garfield was wounded In Washinrion on Jaly . 1881. a disappointed office seeker

br

Puerto

... THE LURE OF HARLEM DRAWS ITS MEN AWAY

by NEWELL ROGERS

NEW YORK.

asmed Charles Guitema, Garfield died on September 19. and Guitend was hanged. Wilmṁ Mckinley

fatally wounded at Buffalo, New York. In September 1981 by Leon Crolgown. The demented. Caolgoz execpted

Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a manise In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1912. while he was campaigning for a come back to the Presidency. ・・・ Ifis wound was slighi and he went with his cheduled sprech before going to hospital for treatment an hour and a half Ister.

מפ

Rico

U.S.A.

Puerto_Rico

Bahamas

WEST

Jamaa INDIES

Ocean!

dent Truman's would be

Pacific THE EQUATOR

SOOTH AMERICA

Ocean

MILES -609

a farewell dance for theirHE first thing you need daughter Sharmon and her

young friends,"

No U.S. ambassador has been assassins is that they do not botter loved in London, No ambassador's daughter has be speak and act for the Puerto

come so well-known.

the dance.

Rico people.

of

''America took over the island

More Secret Service. agents rode on the running boards of the President's car "if the cavalcade WOS moving Al speed."

Reilly accompanied F.D.R. on his meetings with Churchill and Stalin during the war. He sold the Secret Service men were instructed rever to look at the President. "We knew he wasn't going to hurt himself."

They watched the crowd along the route, the rooftops, windows, and politicians lo cars behind the President.

"Each man knew what to do in a given situation, the super- vising agent was the quarter. back, calling the play with bis fingers. and later with a short wave radio.

"There WIS no room for strangers in the middle of such a complex co-ordination.”

In action

WHEN things

were normal,

danger to

hazards

President."

1928

Sald an editor of one of the won't papers: "You

--(London" Express Service)

Frigidaire

and crowds under control | The FRIGIDAIRE Refrigerator illustrated on

Position One was adopted. This called for four Secret Service agents to trot along- aido, the President's.

far, two each side.

Position two, adopted when everything Was going well, was taken when the President's

'She is genuinely fond Britain, and has made many The two and a quarter in her war with Spain In 1898, car quickened speed. Then the friends. First among them is million people crowded on he

gave Independence to four agents would jump CAT Princess Margaret, who was at that lush, tropical isle on Spain's other Caribbean colony, to be running-boards of the

Cuba, but kept the smaller car. Sharman has her critics, the edge of the Caribbean Puerta Rico as a colony. So But a man dashed out 'Parlicularly among the more are no more represented by the Puerto Ricans became of stald Palace officials, who the gangsters than all the Americans

stumly condemn her as uppity."

But she is gay, bright, and Jews in Palestine were re-

the crowd from a point directly in front of the Presi dent's car and to his right;

Imning or riding in the forward- postion on the right-hand, aide would take the interloper.

charming. And hor crilles presented by the Stern crowd into New York without the Secret Service agent run-

well to remember Gang terrorists. -

as a normal American

oral reg-ot: that her father must by America. Joavo she w]U: not be forgotten.

matendom Retirais - DETVICE)

of

.

visas,

Tals to why they can

disregarding the migration laws.

laland:

might do that, girl, the was not brought up The core of the trouble in

“1O¤ of the boya in the to, the strict outward conven- that the Nationalists seek th

front car would drop. back to tions of Court life. In the goa- end government of the Islant The US, keeps on trying replace the busy agent and of the boys would ...Pedro Albizu Campos, to make things botter-for them another

come out of the second Secret Tender

Nationalist in their home the

Service car to assist with, sub- Party has bren under police

In 1900 Congress passed n duing the man from the crowd. siege in his home in San Juan, law to -break up sugar. "Wɑ. tools no prisoners,“ haciendas into 600-acre peasant says Reilly, "We'd just knock Albizu is a Harvard-educated

down,

with a usually Puerto Ricans know almost flying 27al years form in the Federal nothing about growing any local police hands them.

Penitentiars Atlanta, Georgia-food-exempt sugar” *****her werd simijar set-upm for insurrectionary activity.

contingency. Again and again. commandóna

trien charged. with turited from the laland in des- guarding the President batwi would-be killerüyor? pati?? wall the Pueblo Ricans to aen his car php ↑

Tévolutionary who hen served farms. But it is a tough batle, the face and let the

The:

adrong. the 1,000 to

a month

teland home for

whern half a million Neg

¡They pay atribes, 420

like to eat is cxion. Ther disdain, other - oda? 2. KdWing

Check-ups

WIE President's guarda woar. pivyles, such app

controlled

1

the right was installed some 22 years ago for

The Hong Kong Jockey Club and though still capable of giving service has now been replaced with its 1950 equivalent of the same thoroughbred strain.

FRIGIDAIRE

1942

THE BEST THEN!

1948

THE BEST NOW!

1949

1950 You just can't

2733WR...

daganed salt o

match FRIGIDAIRE!

0323380

Americas No. 1 Refrigeratok

to bring them.fl

DODWEL

Page 5Page 6