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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1956.

RIO COULD

COULD BECOME NEW Disarmament DANES DEFY US

CHICAGO

Brazilian Papers

Sound Warning

By Haig Nicholson

Rio de Janeiro, Mar. 26. Warnings that Rio is in danger of becoming a "new Chicago” are being given by newspapers here.

of

As an indication of the trend organised crime in the Brazilian capital, they stress the protection afforded to gangsters and those who deal in narcotics.

The newspaper comment and created by the sale of marijuana, warnings rethert The concern or hashish, known in Brazil pa the growth of organised Cribre

felt by the man-in-the-street at maconha.

here.

A typlent comment from 0 Globo reads:

The wave of lawlessness in Rus and its suburbs is rapidly assuming the character of or Kanked crime sitting to that in which the Chiengo gangsters of a former day specialised

AROUND

3:34

GAMBLING

that

Kangsters often have shower ful haden protectors and they cleverly Hee Unbeas corpus as a weapon in their favour **

The

newspaper Sald chota banned gambling game which animals and numbers # backed)

proving * center

mound which bold en manuals gyrates

"Prohibitin

"The dripe situation." the re port said. "may rapidly create a naţional emergency unless the Armed forces 1ake concerted etion, for the drug perla are already selling their goods with- in the barracks.

Protection the growIDE

+( martinta was the subject of a leader witer in the Jornal <fo Brasil.

marijuana

To check this trafik effectively." he wrote, "it would be necessary

to destroy the plantations where the plant grows and prohibis further p thation But this is diffleult bton feause i mony Brazilien states

DOTULINSIGHT to cultivate mana is granted as a Electal support

LARGE PROFITS

70-

61 18+

wide- IN rit Iroperly ct tha Kathered who are prepared

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The

"Chizens 4 towns

Live Jakutanland who cast them vulos in recordhaner with the wishes

spread Rume pursued and round APTA for anything frien who

and cranes, and even restat to exheme of offering armed SEC to the police newspaper continued

"Ibrations

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of the polit.rul big-bols in the Legg me and molested

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TUESDAY, MARCH 27

Philippines, 4 p.m. Macas, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29 By Air

Japan. 8 a.m. Peking, Shanghot, Hankow, 10 am. Jodo-Chino, Franco, 11 a.m. Thailand, Pakistan, Lebanon, Germany, Great Britain. 1 p.m.

Philippines, 2 p.m. Pakistan, Middle East, Altiza, Great Britain and Europe, 6 p.m.

By Surface

China,

People's Republic, 10.30

post

.m.

Korea, 4 p.m.

Macao. Noen.

By Air Philippines. N Buiten, p.m.

Tailand. Burma, India,

Middle East, Alrien,

Creat

Pakistan, Britain

and Europe. 6 p.m.

Karen, p.m.

Canada, Up.m.

I..

By Surface

Ceylon, Pakistan, Aden.

Middle

Eust, Italy, (Portuguese India parcels v14 Karechii, p.m.

Macan,

WEDNE MARCH 2

Japan, & in.

My Air

Thorlanet, Malaya.

1 p.m.

Macao. 6 p.m.

GENERAL HOLIDAY

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

By Burfac

China, People's Republic, 10,30 am. Japan, USA., C. & 9. Amerien, 11.11.

Macso, 1 p.m.

Mincat, & P.m.

GENERAL ROLIDAY

SATURDAY, MARCH 31

By Surfac

Formosa, a.m.

nina, People's Republic, 10 30 a.m.

Thailand, il a.m.

Majaya, Indonesia, Noon.

China, People's Republic, 0 p.m. Macao. 6 D.m

Macao, I p.m.

11

when

they gow man

Beir

Judesin, Australia

N. New

Borneo, Zealand

Rabual, Noon,

thut maniasived

144

rel

and Doyle, D 2.211.

Fornosa, Chine, il a.m.

constitute

"Growing marijuana s and its sale yields large profis without any major effort

easy

US.A., Noon,

Philipples 2 p.m.

to the papala-

1

"The

nuthoritier know

the budden capital of the bicho bankers (nany of them wealthy

men whey nowW series Fenice

Mus

Lion of

The 1218-345

Formica, S.A, Canada. 6 pat Thailand, Jakistan, Middle

Atrics and Europe 0 p.m.

By Surface

East,

l

Chea People'

Republic. 10.30

N Horne, Noon. Mucho, 1 p.m.

burders way this, but they fail to take any against each other, members of (strpng nction." Chinu Mai the various gangs go woundest to Special.

hospital, and reprisals are con-

sidered normal amos

bandits

who cannot get along with each i other

"Wah things as they are,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

it

WHY DID YOU

COME BACK?

WHAT

is not too much to say that our gangsters

consider May

tin portlasg armoured

word building bull Are-proof i headquarters."

cars

SUPPORT SUICIDE

are

"Criminals

becoming bolder and Rso as in danger of becoming a sub-tropical

Chi- engo," declared A Noticia, which called for a reorganisation the police force.

"When the police find a body with the head ten metres away, they are inclined to support the theory of suicide unless the

murderer has left a card behind.

"They sustnin this

theory sometimes in suspicious circum- stances by announent the

dis- covery of a bottle of poison uk the scene of the crime a week after the discovery of the body. "The fault for the ineficiency of the Federal police force lies with successive Governmenta a most welcome and crime increase,

who have seen the enpital grow but falled handbook for ornitholo. to give policemen the specialised gista resident or station-training which they need and ed in Hong Kong. All supply them with the technical the hitherto recorded and scientifle equipment eceg- spreles are included;

sary to carry out their duties. plumages are clearly and concisely described, and

field

ad

a short account is given characters. habits, status

voice,

etc. The illustratio except for three plates of photographs, are all by Cdr. A. M. Hughes, and include four attrac tive plates of the heads of 43 specter and many useful drawings in the text

The writer of this review would

www

have

beneated greatly from

this book when station- ed in Hong Kong some years ago. Even now, on referring to it, some

on

40 unfamiliar species which notes were made at the time have almost all proved easily identiablo, ---D. W. S.

(Exu zot from "The Ibia", omola! stan # the British Ornitholegiata Unien, British Museum).

S. C. M. POST

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

» Bayer's « TONIC

"What is at stake is something very precious the security of the population of Rie."

DRUG TRAFFIC

So far as the drug traffic is concerned, the English-language Brazli Herald quoted the report of the Ro Vice Squad for 1955, which siresies the problem

FISH TOWS ANGLER 20M

Wellington..Mar. 20.

During a recent two-and-a- half hour struggle between A fisherman and a 502 lb broad- bill swordfish off Mayor Island in the Bay of Plenty, the Jaunch from which the Ash was hooked was tower!

almost twenty miles.

When landed, the fish wos measured at 12 foot six inches, -Chine Mail Specia).

Tokyo's Youthful

Sex Maniacs

Tokyo, Mar. 20. Tokyo police report that nex manines roaming in cinemas, crowded trains, buses, inxis and schools, and the majority of sex crime offenders in Japan are Juveniles

10 to 20 averaging 10

E campalgi ngálniť |

A

years

[thơm, is being considered,

During the first. Half of last your, 511 cases were reported by viatling, but the police, ențiimata | that the actual number of casts must have bom: 13 times "TORIKY"--CHIEà "Mall' Special:*~//

HAPPENED?

WHAT HAPPENED?

YOU TELL HIM.

YOU'RE THE

FILOT!

FERDINAND

•PRIVATE

NANCY

OH. PEEWEE RUN INTO THE KITCHEN AND GET ME A

BANANA

JOHNNY HAZARD

HEY! STOP!

"A GIANT HANO-- AND I MEANGIANT |--GRABBED US--

AND THREW US--

8-24

---AND PLEASE

STEP ON IT

SUNDAY, APRIL J

Dy Surface

Macao, p.im.

GENERAL BOLIDAY MONDAY, APRN, Z

By. Surface

China. People's Republic, 10.30 a.. Malaya. Burma, India, Noon,

Macao. Macao,

1 p.m. p.m.

ARE YOU MADY I WATCHED YOU ALL YOU DIO WAS CIRCLE OVER THE MESA, TURN AROUND AND COME BACK!

-ERN.

BUSHMIL.A. La

HOLD IT GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO SIGNAL THEIR COPTER FRIEND... WE WANT HIM TO FOLLOW THAT CAR

GÁAWAY FROM HERG J-

#-28

Conference

to

~Delegates pictured at Lan- caster Ilouse, London, for the opening of the meeting of the United Nations sub-committee

disarmament. on

Left right are Mr Anthony Nutting (Brliain).

M. Jules

Moch (France). Mr Norman Robert- son (Canada), Mr

Andrei Gromyko (Russia), Mr Harold Starsen (USA) and Dr D. Protitch (representing the UN Secretary-General). --Klarer-

photo.

Thai Delegation To Visit Formosa

FILM COMBINE

Copenhagen, Mar, 26, Danish. cinemas are now ' entering a crucial period which will decide "Can we survive économically without American films?”

British, French, Italian, German, even Russian films, have benefited here by a dispute about rentals between the Danish cinema

managers and the main Hollywood producers.

23

Since May last year Den- its entertainment tax from 40 to mark has been subjected to an American "im blockade." No further bookings have been accepted for Amerlenn which normally represent more than 60 per cent of the total showings on the Danish screen.

The Origin

ticket.

per cent of the cost of a In Denmark the Danish exhibi flimstors have flatly rejected the American demand, The Danish Government, not being directly Involved in the dispute and, axious to

foreign currency, has refused to sane- tion any reduction of enter tainment tax.

The blockade did not affect prior bookings, which are being gradually exhausted and with- drawn from circalation. Now, only about 30 Alms, mostly shorts, remain unused for dis- tribution.

of the

dispute

The origin #cs back three years when the inain Americon companies banded together in the Motion Picture Export (MPEA)

Increased

Association succeeded in getting rentals

from Nor-

wegian cinemas.

Nor

.save

On the contrary the Govern- ment tost April raised the tax eighths to dive-elevenths of the on cinema tickets from three-

cost of admission. This action, part of generat measures to combat inflation in the country. was followed a month later by the. American Alm blockade.

Not Important

"We simply cannot afford 10 out of our present and keep open,"

pay more

In Demark.not receipts exhibitors paid, a

flat rate of 30 per cent of their said Mr Harry Frandsen, chair- box office receipts after deduct-

man of the Copenhagen Cinemas ing entertainment tax. Now Association.

The

a

they pay 40 per cent while the Because of the general short- Export Association has the right age

of money In Denmark, to negotiate for

a higher per-exhibitors feel that they have centage

for up to 20 pictures no hope of making the public each year

which are expected pay the cost of the American to be big box-office successes.

rental demands by increasing Association

tried to prices. People will

Just stay similer so

sort of arrange-away from cinemas, they say. ment with Danish exhibitors. Denmark's 400 cinemas and they found a vital dif- 4,000,000 people represent a While cinemas in Nor-market no more important than

owned by the local the city of Chicago. But

authorities,

they In seem to regard the situation in cinema Denmark

But ference. way

ง

Bangkok. Mar. 20. Thalland's Deputy

Foreigny are

government Minister, Major Rak Payarachun, Denmark

individual has accepted

dangerous on huvitation by managers are their ow

own masters, precedent to other countries, Generatissimo Chiang Kai-shek | although they must

In no other market are flims havo to visit Formosa, it was learned licence from the state to run supplied so cheaply and with- a cinema and h various ways are strictly controlled by the Government.

here today

Major Payarachun and Thailand mission will leave on April 10.

À

Flatly Rejected

It

This will be the first Thailand In Norway, the demand for goodwill mission to the Na-Increased rentals was agreed tionalist Government since 1940, to, while at the same time the -France-Presse.

Norwegian Government reduced

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

NOW --WE MUST

GET ALL OUR MEN -- CLIMB UP THERE--AND SEIZE THEM--BEFORE THEY FINDIT/

FIND WHAT?

By MIK

By Ernie Bushmiller

JAN-14

By Frank Robbins

RECOVERING ALMOST, IMMEDIATELY FROM HIS SURPRISE, SNAP PULLS OUT THE FLARE PISTOL

THAT WAS A TOMFOOL GESTURE, TRYING TO STOP HIM' BY HANDI GOT

TO ALERT JOHNNY TO HIS ESCARRÉ

EVEN MAGICIANS

Cant Carlsberg

FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!

TRY

Libby's

FROZEN FOODS

TODAY!

ROWNTREES

YOU CAN

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TASTE FRUIT

this situation

calls for

San Miguel

to the Dar

Danish

tho' of

Danish

out a sliding scale, they point out. They acknowledge the difcutties exhibitors, but feel that it is up Government to help them out. So for the

Danish Govern- ment has not shown itself pre- pared to make concessions, and meanwhile the Americans are nut

prepared

to negotiate further with the Danish exhibitors.

lo

Significantly, in vlow of the Impasse, Copenhagen has been treated

important

three

publicity visits in the last three months from the rival British, Italian und French industries.

Alm

Combatting Blockade

First camo a team of Italian stars including the glamorous Sophin Leren; second a group of J. Arthur Rank starlets plus actor Jack Hawkins; while France sent its famous director- Rene Clair,

Danish cinemas are trying to combat the American blockade by booking as many new films possible from other countries; by reissues of old European plotures

of mkonky

which have never been shown

in Denmark. before (Roberto Rosellini's Italian clusste "Fals

is an example); and by expand- Ing Danish home film produc- tion.

Danish Alms are normally the

best box-office successes on the home market, especially in the provinces, and Denmark proudly claims to have the oldest film studio in the world in the

suburb of Valby. 10 to 12 Danish Alms

Ara

nually and pro-

ducers are now

contemplating

expansion to 15 to 20,

We think

we can manage without American ilme it wo are forced to" said Mr Frandsen. "We want to show American Alms, but not on the conditions made by MPEA."

American films had long do- minated the Danish market, but the public could be educated to accept European films in their place, he added, "In any case we shall still receive a few films from independent American producers, auch

Wot Clancy."

ILA

Due To Weather

Tho

Export Association is quito, confident, on the other

hand, that the Danish public is already missing the entertain-

ment value of American flimis.

They point to the full, ip office receipts in recent months.

Exhibitors admit the fall; but attribute it mainly

to the

exceptionally fine weather Inst summer, and the exceptionally cold winter, both of which drove cinema-goers away from the box-offico, China Maiz Special.

an

Karachi, Mar. 20, Pakisten Promler Choudh Mohammed All today, and

Invitation 10 VIRA res Germany in October next, was learned hare, men ha

The invitation, Wail exbaridod to the Premite by 8pwelate Voy Karl Arnolda on behalf of