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The Sad Girls

AROLD felt excep- "I do," Harold answered with

Hionally well-pleased

feeling

the

"Well, you bohaved in a very with life, and it seemed to

extravmdinary manner," said the him, as he sailed along the magistrate, and the officer was Strand, on his way to a entirely justifled in taking theatre, that only one thing action ho did. But I think in all the circumstances, the charge is marred his mood of exulta-not made out. Case diamlased. tion-the faces of those who "Thank you, sir," Harold sald, passed him by in the street. and he took his leave as gravely alanda The faces of the girls he saw, as a native

English in particular. How gloomy, and might, for glum and woebegone, most of winter lay ahead, Them

looked. True, for most of them, a long English winter was beginning, while he, within few days, would be heading to- wards the sunshine of his native South Africa. But still, it

wak

surely a crime for pretty girls to ruin their looks with pouts and frowns as so many of these were doing.

A BIT OF FUN FAROLD decided to do what

He could we brighten up are for the and-looking girls.

picked upon

lie

pretty one who

of these whom un

CHINA MAIL

1949

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1955.

PARATROOPER'S ORDEAL Spends Five Days

Mountains

In

Tacoma, Washington, Dec. 23.

A plucky paratrooper and his doll- like Japanese wife embraced today in a kiss reunion-a Christmastime warm made possible through the sheer courage of a man who refused to die in the frigid mountain wilderness.

1

TURKEY FOR LAST

OF HITLER'S AIDES

Berlin, Dec. 23.

A dwindling group of top Nazi war criminals will eat GI turkey this Christmas in the four-Power Spandau Prison.

Two years ago there were seven of Hitler's aides in the prison. Last year there were six. This year there will be

most four.

Red Accepts started when gt John M. Horan of only five. Next year there will be at the

Challenge To Debate

Communist

It was a happy ending to a story that Maynard, Mass., leaped from a spinning plane last Sunday.

the was the

by

8 Feet Deep

the

The Americans occupy prison's rotating chairmanship His wife, Teruko, and

so Rudolf Hess put is in December, way Horan couple's three children arrived version of "a routine jump when and the four other inmates will at Madigan Army Hospital bed-1 bailed out. But what happened get just about the same type of side at noon today. Horan was afterwards was one big night-turkoy dinner American soldiers saying "How are you" when he mare

get in their mess hall, was smothered with kissCS

Whether Hess will eat his Paris, Dec. 23.

dliner nobody knows, Occasion- Jacques his wife, who wept in joy. leader

Horan also heard acceptent "

good news

ally he goes on a brief hunger The hospital's cardiology com-challenge to

his gaolers a political debate from

strike the Halleni-Socialist chief. Col Robert D. Dickerson

with quotations from "Mein Issued by leader, M. Pierre Mendes who said the paratrooper would

Kampr." "completely recover" from the France.

Trostbite he suffered trampling In a Jetler

to M. Mendes

through the deep snow of the France, the Communist leader

for Cascade Mountains took up the challenge with Uie

days. terse phrase: "I will be pre- sent,"

was staring despondently into a strup-window. He addressed to Duclos her a string of exquisite pliments.

But he did it in Afrikaans, and the girl talled to catch the gist of what he was saying. She fled. So did several others whom Harold, similarly screnaded.

a policeman was All the tias, watching. As the girls scattered, the slicer approached Harold. "What are

you doing?" policeman asked.

the

"Having a bit of fun," Harold said frankly.

CAREFTEE

THE policeman told him to go THE

and Haruld did, away, marching up to another girl. He hud hardly begun his set speech in Alkains, when the police

hum for man arrested

drunk and disorderly.

being

next

day, TU

At Bow Street Harold pleaded not guilty that charge before Mr Bertram Reece.

The policeman told his story

him, Harold asked "Tell me," "ak I try to resist you ai nii?”

"Oh, sir, you were very

police carefree," answered the

JUST A COUPLE

YOU haven't told me what

made you Utink he

drunk wal disorderly,"

magistrato reminded.

wns

Ute

drunk

"Well, sir, he wasn't and incapable, but when i went that his to him noticed breath smelt, and he was a little unsteady on his feet."

"You Dilly enticed that when to him?" went up "Yes, sir."

you went

Harold went into the witness box. He told of the ticket for

his homeland he had just

re

crived; of his happiness,

"What had you had to drink?" {

asked Mr Pegg. the learned;

clerk.

"Oh, just a couple of beers."

A WAR DANCE

"PINTS,

or quarts, or what?"

"Well, say ive beers." "Perhaps the South African 'couple' varies from ours," the magistrate said. "It means "Ave,' evidently."

tonight

No Loss

five

10-

Horun

feet deep

"I guess the snow was eight in some places," he said. "It was soft and I sunk in up over my hips on occasion,"

The Sergeant leaped out of an Air Force C-54 on Sunday story

after noon, when the craft went into a spin over the bleak Cascades. He was relieved to learn the pilot of the plane righted the craft and landed it

Big Donation

For Air Fund

Earlier this evening the In- dependents refused the contest "He has second degree frost-safely-United Press. on M. Mendes-France's terms bile of moderate severity," Cal "but he will said, La Dickerson brut said they were ready take part in a "loyal and ob-havo no loss of digits and he |jective" debute, organised by all should recover completely."

Col Dickerson said he planned parties.

to have forun hobbling" The challenge was issued on day.

is a word Hobbling Faeht

M. when Thursday

the in- knows well. He did it through Mendes-France Invited

on n pair Antoine the mountain siH/W louder,

until dependera

MRP (Catholic) of make-shift suuwshoes Plixas, lender, M. Georges Bidault, and he found US Highway LO and

roadside #

place called M. Jacques Duclos to attend

meeting Rustic Im yesterday afternoon. Radical-Socialst big

The "nightmare" next Tuesday night in Paris.

M. Mendes-France said that, for Horan, who leaped from

they attended they could spinning acroplane last Sunday. "I knew I couldn't stop i 1 reply to the speech he plans

was going to walk out alive," to deliver.-Franco-Presse,

the

Wis

tha

OVET

Was Prison Warden

Master Imposter?

Huntsville, Texas, Dec. 23.

Texas prison officials are convinced they are the latest to be duped by master imposter Ferdinand Waldo Demara,

Washington Dec. 28. *TV entertainer Arthur Godfrey

Dent has $100,000 Christmas cheque

the

Ala to

Alr Force Society to help Air Force familice in need, Society officials said today.

العد

The cheque

represented Godfrey's proceeds from a series of Saturday Evening Post articles about his life.

officials Society Godfrey notified hem that he carlier this week

Society the Was sending the cheque. The Society is a semi-oficial Air Force organisation which pro- financial aid to air- their

families and widows-United Press.

vides men,

Rediffusion

and defice

Religious Services

Religious services also will be but Hosa held at Christmas always boycotts them,

For Admiral Karl Doemitz, Hitler's successor as Fuehrer, 11 will be his last Christmas at Spandau. His 10-year-term ex- pires next October.

con-

And if the four Powers tinue to release the prisoners as they are now doing there might

no one in the prison

Western year. However,

be

off-

ctals deny there la any plan to close the prison down.

They are the only inmates in a prison built to house 580 prisoners, Out of 40,000,000 Germans they are the only ones lert still under four-Fowey rule.

In the British sector prison, the tensions of the East-West conflict aro forgotten and the Soviets join the Western allies there in guarding the survivors of Hitler's clique-United Press,

BOYS AND GIRLS PAGE SOLUTIONS

CROSSWORD:

Re

BEHEADING8: Flag. leg:

Howl

Grand Admiral Erich Raeder was released three months ago

after he owl. because of ill health

1-Water QUIZ: CANADIAN served nine years of a life term.

Street in St. John's Newfoundland. Baron Konstantin von Neurath, Wheat was legal tender in 1963 Nazi

Miniator Foreign

and 3--Food costs show that turkey sold on tad queber "Protector of Bohemia," was for 30 cents each released because

of health market in 1794. Joseph R. Ball-

wood

Thomas Sterry Hunt, a ho served professor at McGül University, in two years ago after

was first used of a 15-year term vented green Ink. eight years

In 1803. 0 Canada's first lighthouse imposed

the by

four-Power was opened for service on April 1. Allied

1734, at Louisbourg, N. 8. Military Tribunal |Nurnberg in October, 1040.

Only Inmates

at

Still in the prison are less, for life, Doemitz, Economics Minister Walther Funk, serving a life term, Munitions Minister Albert Speer, 20 years, and Nazi Youth Leader Baldur Von Schtrach, serving 20 years.

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11---England. 12- Candy - caNER Misweton.

O. B. Ellis, state prison system manager, said

13 noon,

Tube Time: 12.15 Christmas Calendar: 12.30, an assistant warden known as "Dr Benjamin W.

Music by Roth Special Christmas Jones" left in a huff on Wednesday night after Show: The Music Box Featuring Julian Gould At the Celeste; 1.15, with magazine photos of News and Weather Report: 1.30, being confronted

Mantovani Memories: "Hospital

Madrid, Dec. 23. Demara, to whom "Jones" bore a marked resem-Requena, Bar Show from Evelyn train schedules with his whistle, sit, Sioz, Bol, Sole Son

presented by Jean; a "Pepito" the parrot, who upset blance.

Knight, Mindy Carson, The Satisfets

is dead. Pepito, who was ro- and a Boat of Other Popular Re- difturion Stars; 4, Christmas In the nowned throughout Spain, Ilved Morgan Manor; 30, Malody Maxic: near the railroad station at the 4.40, Football CommentaryMD V. small town of Cestona near Ban The Army: 6.10, Melody Magic, (Continued); 5.30, Birthday Hall Sebastian. Rhythm Parade: 8.45,

"I'm not going to stay around here and be insulted Jones sald, and stalked out. He hasn't been back.

bearing "Demaza."

al

"No, I had three beers lunch-time, and two in the even ing," Harold said. "I was feeling full of spirits, so I spoke to these

laundry

"This is the clincher," said, "though there hasn't been a doubt in my mind since I saw his picture."

in

operation during combat Korea while posing as a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy.

posing

In

the

ba Festival of Nino Losson and

Stein,

MALTOE WORD HUNT: Hera Is the ust of words we found: se, Emat, item, Lest, Lime, List, Last or Lose, Meet, Melt, Mue. Malot. Mite, moli, Mule, Moit. Most, Mote, Dinit, seem, ble, bit, Mate, Him Stet, Teem, Test, The, T. Tune. Toll, Tome, Tote.

SECRET YUS CHRUTMAS: At Christrous play and make good cheer, but orice a For Christmas

year.

comes

DARTWORDS SOLUTION

"CHUSTOPHER Wren Jarry Spin- ning up Tom Max alingia Tingle

Dapper

Pamper Connie Moxy Malone Alone Lune

Damper

He made a perfect imitation Since then, Eills has found "Dr Jones" was hired by

of the station-master's whistle clothing left behind by Jones prison system last June 1 and Carols, from King's College Chapel, and caused train

Leave to Cambridge: 7 Time Signal and the ahead of time. marked WOS quickly promoted

assistant warden because of his News: 7.09, Weather Report, Al-

The

local railroad nouncements and Interlude; 7,15,

company smart handling Ellie skill

"tough" "Juke Box Parado presented by lodged a complaint against the Wolf Flow Ebb Decilne Fetuse oners, He bolstered his ap- Nick Kendall: 145 Story of The owners but they could not stop Heute Repute Character Leiter Bed plication for work with im- Carola; 8, One Bilent Night-The

credentials and

Btory Of The. Nalivity; B, Raw Pepito whistling. refer aufusion's Voice of Sports, The Today the parrot died after an ences.

Shriro Hit Parade; 930, Hongkong's attack of Indigestion-France- Fashion

Parly. Christmas

Recorded "We have a dossier hero on

at Presse numerous Chrisimas parlles hald him equivalent to anything a

during the holiday Season: 10.30, bank president would require on Santa Claus Rides Again—Testuring д man whose job includes Christmas Music by Allen Roth's Chorus: 11. Trims- large

of Orchestra and amounts

ming The Tree: 12 Midnight, "Merry said. United Christmas Carols; 1250, am, "God

Save the Queen". Close Dows,

girls in Afrikaans. They looked Performed Operation

at me as if I had been a South African barbarian. I almost did

An unidentified convict first

a Zulu war dance for them." called attention to the rese!“ "You realise now, no doubt, blance after seeing stories about that this is a somewhat hazard-Demara in a national magazine, handling

form of fun," "said the which sald Demara had per money," magistrate.

formed

an extraordinary lung Press.

Ov

Ellis

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