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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

Jennifer's Friends

THERE were

odd!

Tpeople in the public at Jonniter.

on

gallery at Bow Street the morning Jennifer came up, so to speak, for the second time.

For the most part, those who queue for places in the public

way

Way

pre of the Rollerics

courts everyday sort of citizens. Some go out of curiosity, some have a genuine interest in the the law works. There are a fow arid work at night men, who spend an hour in the courts for

their on entertainment, home to bed.

morning The

Jennifer poard, after her week's remand, there was a thick sprinkling in the public gallery of young people about her own age-in their jate teens or twenties, who displayed no interest in any case but hers,

JOYLESS COMPANY

THEY

curly

The magistrate looked hard with who stood, eyes cast down, at once demure and tense, freeely gripping the rail of the dock.

thinking of an alter-

"Don't you think?" Mr Reece asked hor, "thai it is worth while native to this sordid life? It is lamentable that you, who have

scholarships, this." Jennifer nodded violent- Miss Jy'. Mr Reece anid to Hamilton, "You could get a job for this girl, couldn't you?"

won

should do

TOUCH AND GO "H, yes, there'd be no dim. culty, Miss Hamilton said. "because this girl is intelligent. I certainly help her, though is whole thing think the touch and go. She does acom influenced by these undesirable friends."

sald

the "You get a job."

"This magistrate to Jennifer, other sort of life can only lead to unhappiness, you know."

her, discharged

and 11y Jenniter went off to talk to Miss Hamilton.

The gang at the buck of the court left too, and hung about Gie street cutside in shifty, of

muttering groups, as if waiting i for something

Waiting for Jennifer, perhaps, whose courage would soon be put to a heavy test.

were rather depressing young people, the youths in Edwardian suits, the girls in tight black trousers that ended just above grubby bare ankles.

For though they were young there

nothing was

youthful about them. They looked as old us crime, A Joylear lot, who whispered out of the sides their mouths, and in whose fuces you could

only read batred bitterness,

and some. | thing else fear perhaps.

Jennifer, in whom these all Look so

much interest, entirely different from them, a fresh-complexioned, fajr-haired 18-year-old, who ʼn week before had been arrested as she hung around the West End streets, since and had spent the me then in Holloway, on remand.

SHE

WAR

someone.

"L'affaire Juin"

(Continued from Page >

a majority though defeat would

... not

came

the

THREE TIMES PARTED

CHE glanced towards the back

of the court as she into the dock, and seeing young people's eyes all on her, quickly looked away and faced Mr Börtrom Reace, the magis- trale.

The probation officer, Mias Hamilton, went into the wit- ncis-box: "This girl has not had a happy lito, sir," she said. "Her parents Separated when she was five, and again

when

she was seven, and when she was ten. Each time they went back to each other, but finally the mother divorced the father. "Jennifer was a very bright girl.

forced have

resignation.

The

helping the necessary.-Reuter,

She lived in the Home Appeal For Counties, and scholarships, but of course

won

several

Tse at Reinforcements

home she's had very bitter ex-

automatie

periences. She drifled from (Continued from Page 1)

good jobs on to the streets, and

IN GALLERY-DISDAIN

ONE

CHINA MAIL

Radioactive Jellyfish Discovered

Manhattan Beach, Calif.,

Apr. 1.

An amateur geologist presented a problem to local marine biologists today with his discovery of radio- activity in jellyfish cast

shore here.

B

Richard Zornow, whose home- Geiger counter began made ticking at the rate of one count per second yesterday when neighbour brought one of the sen creatures to his home, had no explanation

for . the "hot" Jellynah.

He agreed with officials of the Bureau

Fisheries, of Marine howeyer, that it was unlikely that it had been exposed to recent H-bomb tests at the mid- Pacific atom proving ground.

Officials sold It would take many months for the jellyfish to be swept here by ocean cur-

sald Zornow, who

he also found tracea of radioactivity along beach sands, declared). his counter at no time indicated a dangerous amount of radiation.

United Press.

rents.

40-Year

Sentence For Ex-POW

F. Leavenworth, Kansas, Apr. 1.

A 28-year-old former prisoner of war in Korea was sentenced to 40 years today an Army court-martial.

.to

NE or two of the young men another in reverse position, and

and girls at the back of tung himself to shelter. The two more than seven weeks, marked the court shifted the position rounds exploded in the barrel the first time in Army history of the gum they were chew-with devastating effect, mowing that a soldier had been court- ing, and grimaced at each other down the Reds with to show

their disdain for this splinters. The gunner survived

United Press.

sort of talk,

OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE

SHREWD LADIES ·

allegedly committed while prisoner of war in another country-United Press.

Divorce For Zsa Gabor

FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1954.

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

D. 1964 by MĽA Bervant, Int.

2-15

"The children are very quiet! In fact sometimes they sneak up and you don't see them till they're almost on top of you!"

Senate Approves Statehood For Hawaii

And

Alaska

Washington, Apr. 1. The Senate today approved legislation to The vote grant Hawaii and Alaska statehood. was 57-28.

The approval came after statehood supporters defeated a series of proposals designed to with- hold full statehood status or further delay the issue which has been before Congress for 50 years

to

The combined bili now goes But if statehood were granted to the House where its future they would have the right

House has vote in their own countries for is uncertain. The

of the US and passed a Hawaii statehood bill the president only. Its Alaska statehood bill could elect their own governors has been stalled in the House Instead of having them appoint- ed by the President.Ünited Rules Committee.

Press.

A floor controversy is expect- ed over efforts to send the com- bined bill to a Senate-House Conference

The Committee.

delay is a serious prospect of threat to statehood for either territory.

The admission of Alaska and

would to atatehood

the

McCarthy Dispute Latest

NEW

SHEAFFER'S

ADMIRAL

SNORKEL

PEN

$2 MILLION DEPOSIT CLAIM

Submissions By Senior Counsel

For Plaintiffs

Submissions that the debt involved in the dispute was localised because the defendant Bank was resident in the Colony were put forward by Mr John McNeill, QC, senlor Counsel for the plaintiffs, in the course of his arguments in the 2-million deposit claim before Mr Justice Reynolds in the Supreme Court this morning.

The plaintiffs, the China Mutual Trading Company, of 13-27 Ice House Street, are claiming from the Banque Belge Pour l'Etranger (Extreme- Orient), of Edinburgh House, the return (with interest) of HK$2,590,171.96, being the balance of margins paid in connection with the importation of certain goods into Hongkong.

Alternatively, plaintiffs claim the equivalent in Hongkong dollars of US$449,504.43, or damages.

The Defence is that the mar- at tho request of the tiffs, had been converted

E

plaintiffs account,

Today's

Gazetted Appointments

o US dollars and that they were held by the defendants in US dollars in the United States. As

of the a result freezing regulations passed in

His Excellency the Governor December, 1980, the

had monies

in accordance with instructions blocked. become

They were

from Her Majesty the Queen paid to

through the Secretary of State, which was consequently block-

has appointed the Hon. H. G. ed, it was maintained.

Mr McNeill, Mr Percy Chen Richards to be an Ometal Mem- Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, ber of the Legislative Council, instructed by Mr Y. Ht was announced in the Gov Chan of Messrs Lau Chon and ernment Gazette this morning.

In another announcement the are representing the plain- Hon, H. G. Richards was up- tiffs.

pointed Director of Urban Ser- vices and

of the Chairman Urban

and all

Ko,

The defendants are represent- ed by the Hon. Loo d'Almada,

both

instructed by Continuing

Mr H. J.

submissions,

HE. the Governor has ap-

Colborne, Assistant

QC, and Mr D. A. L. Wright, A. Barnettici, vice Mr K. M. Armstrong, of Messrs Deacons. pointed the following to be his Mr McNell submitted that in Honorary Aldos-de-Camp Mr the case of a corporation, and Superintendent of Police, and of a bank, more particularly, the branch Captain A. Donaldson, Royal

the debt was Artillery. It was also localised in the bank's place of nounced that His Excellency has residence, where the debt was approved the relinquishment of to be recovered.

the appointment of Capt. H. L Stamp, Royal Artillery, as his Honorary ADC.

+

DEBT LOCALISED In first place, the debt

the was localised where the corpora-

NEW COUNCILLOR

tion resided, he went on, and Mr Lawrence Kadoorie has

sre the been one did not look to

appointed, provisionally debi was deliverable or payable) and subject to Her Majesty's in America or in American cur pleasure, to be an Unofficial rency. This was a fundamental ¦ Member of the Legislative

had fallacy which the Defenco

Council, during the absence of made..

the Hon C. E. M. Terry;

of

that

the

01

Tonight's Centenary Dinner

7) The ✨ attention of

members of the Shanghai. Valunteer Corpe is drawn to the fact that the cen tenary damer will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club and not at the Hong- kong · Clab ss reported In car morning,contemporary..

The cricket match

the

pre-war Hongkong Volunteer: Defence Corps will be played on Sunday next ab the Hongkarid Cricket Club, beginuing at 21.30 a..

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FRIDAY, April z By Air Indo-China, a p.m. Japan, USA, de Canada, à p.m. By Burface Macao, J. pa

"BATURDAY, Arai, 3 By Air N. Borneo. Australia, and, am

New Zea

Malaya, Indonesia. û am. Philippines, 10 a.m. Burme, 10 a.m.

Thellend. India, Pakistan, Middle

Eet, Africa, Great Britain de Europe,

"Japan, 0 p.m.

10 4.m.

By Surface

China, People's Republic, 8.30 am. Formosa, Damm,

Malaya, Pakistan, Noon. Japan, Moon.

Burma, India, 1 p.m. Philippines, 2 p.m. Maced, 2 p.m.

China, People's Republic, 6 p.m. Macao, 6 p.m.

'SUNDAY, APRIL 4

By Air Formosa & Canada, 1 p.m. Philippines, Guam, Hawed, UBA., a p.m..

Indo-Chine, Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, 6 p.m.

Furyola, Okinawa, Japan, 0 p.m. Philippines_0 p.m.

By Ace Macao, 2 p.m.

Police Prevent Demonstrations

tiorts

Rome, Apr. 1. Police

ab were stationed strategic points all over Roma today to discourage demonstra

by striking transport

The city's municipal

024- hour strike, which started at sport was paralysed by

workers.

tran-

The stoppage was the fatest of a long series which has punctuated demands for more pay from tram and bus workers, Thousands of people had to

Reuter

submitted further that Oficer; Messrs A. A. Baggott, Radio Hongkong

of

H.K.T.:

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swisted by prepared by 9. X. Derda Bray

Wet Lan Hardy's

Rothwell B. Floyd of London, Finance Commillee

re-Kentucky, had been found guilty plied with a proposal for re of six charges, ranging from examination of the credits and maltreatment of other prisoners approval of all the modifications of war to striking a superlor made by the Senate. If all the officer while in a prison camp

February Senate changes were adoptd by trom

1, 1951. the lower house on second read- | August, 1953. ing only a relative majority The sentence automatically would be needed to pass the included the forfeiture of all

whole.

and dis- crodils bill as

pay and allowances charge. The Assembly agreed to this

The sentence Is subject to procedure and all the modifica automatic review and possible tions were expected to be hearing by the Court of Milltary adopted with the Socialists Appeals.

Government when The most serious of the charges agulust the 270-pound, was scholarly-appearing negro that of striking an officer while the latter was in performance of his duties in the prison camp.

Floyd was

of acquitted charges that he dropped one

After quoting from law cases It was also announced that prisoner over a cliff and mur-

on the subject, Counsel sald Mr R. C. Lee has been appoint- dered another fellow, prisoner

that where the position was that ed to act a Commissioner, got in with the wrong sort of render demand, As the Reds by drowning. He was found in-

a customer and the branch Civil Aid Services, during the people....

swarmed into his emplacement, nocent also of depriving pri- Hawall

of a bank, one could not recover absence of the Commissioner, he dropped one round of B1 soners of food and two charges mean the first change in

48-state organisation

the debt from the bank's head the Hon. C. E. M. Terry. millimetre mortar ammunition of stealing from sick and de- present

since. 1012, when Arizona was into the tube, followed it with ceased prisoners.

office, or any other branch of

The Chancellor of the Univer-midnight last night. the bank, except that branch

has reap- The Floyd trial, which lasted admitted to the Union.

In addition, it would bring

where the relationship with the slty of Hongkong, Washington, Apr. 1.

pointed Dr Dorasamy Kumara- the first non-contiguous areas

customer is established. The Senate into the union of states. Hawall

Investigations Mr MaNell pointed out that any Pilial to be a Member of Sub-committee today appointed the defendant Bank had no

Council of the University. Other appointments steel martialled in the US for crimes 18 more than 2,000 miles away, Mr Samuel Sears, a Boston law-branch in America, and

from the continental United States, while there is more than yer, as special counsel for its both the defendant Bank and were: Dr G. Graham-walk to work this morning 300 miles between the northern- investigation of the dispute be- the plaintiffs were resident in to act as Deputy

Health Servicea: Dr Cheung most part of the US and the tween Senator Joseph McCarthy Hongkong.

and most southerly

of regions

King-ho to act as Senior Health high Army officials. Senator McCarthy and Roy there was no evidence at all S. T. H. Stewart, A, F. Cochrane Alaska,

Both territories long have Cohn, chief counsel of the Sub that, in the event of judgment and H. V. McCreton to act as

have been accused committee, wanted statehood-even though.

Superintendents by the Defence Department of being delivered in favour of the Assistant Hawall once

was an indepen-.

plaintiffs, and the judgment was Police; Messrs Lau Lal-shang, dent idngdom,

They have felt trying to get favourable treat discharged. In Hongkong, the Wong Kwok-in, Chan Jim-ful that their present status leaves ment for Private David Schin plaintifa would be able to re- and Dr Ting Su to be Education them in inferior position, since formerly on the Sub-committee cover the debt in the United Officers; Dr Poon Yee-kit and they are represented in the US stazz, who was called up by the Santa Monica, Calif.,

Dr Lo Cho-yuen to be Medical by non-voting Atmy last year, Congress only

Officers. Apr. 1.

In "reply," the Senator and Mr Zsa delegatca, Hungerlan-born actress

announced that Gabor,

and dressed in black

Schine as hood, each will be represented tempting to use. crying today, divorced actor

connection with by two Senators, and Alaska will hostage" in George Sanders.

State for the Colonies, has Court, Counsel went on. The accorded formal recognition to She

told a court here that have one representative in the the Sub-committee Investigations one, in the documents before the structions from the Secretary of

House, Hawail will have at Into

Communiam in the Depart-

merchant for his part undertakes Mr Mary W. McKenzie as Vice- her third husband "was a born least two. bachelor"

The Sub-commitice has had to accept and pay drafts drawn Consul for the United States 61 Marden, Fath Bidder for 1410,

In accordance with the terms of America at Hongkong. He

did not

be want to married although I know hu

competent to undertake the in-

companied by the stipulated loved me very much," she said. 499,704, who live in an area of quiry and acceptable to both the

She added: "George said he 6,435 square miles. Its principal Democratie

documents, Republican pine

That rent That contract, members of the Sub-committee Anancing of the merchant I tried industries are sugar,"

as far as the wanted independence.

fishing, to make him happy."

apples, livestock and

Republican Senator Karl Explaining her black attire, and has a tourist trade worth Mundt, who will preside at the concerned, is the only contract she said: "I am a little bit in $30,000,000 annually. In 1952, public and televised hearings between the bank and the mer- mouming."

the islands raised $138,880,000 told a press conference that he chant. The bank makes its own. Miss Gabor was granted an worth of sugar, and $100,000,- believed the unanimous selection contract with its correspondent A heavy fog blanketed

000 worth of pineapples.

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