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Brazilian Olympic New Colours HAMMARSKJOLD

Swimmer

Starts Crusade

By Haig Nicholson

Rio de Janeiro, Apr. 30.

The Brazilian swimming champion, Piedade

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LEAF

Meeting

the

country in the Olympic Games, has now dedicated her life to the rehabilitation of child and adult victims of poliomyelitis, generally called polio, by teaching them to swim.

Dona Pledade--a Christian and he himself has become name which incans Piety--has different person.

been helping polio victims

fur

The boy who was so short a

20 years, but now she has turn-time ago timid and shy, and

14

od her back on the competitive who in boleg sorry for himself swimming which has brought mads others sorry for him,

now a different person.

her fame and has big plans for the future,

Bhe was still a teen-uge girl when her sympathy for polio

first aroused. On

"The Orst thing to do,"

sald Dona Pledude, "is to gain the confidence of the children and I seem to have the knack of du-

the fashionable, sun-drenched ing that. The children, too, gain Copacobana beach, where she confidence in themselves, usual- was lying, there came a mother |ly in a week. helping her crippled doughter

The Beginning

"She was a beautiful girl of eight," said Donu Piedade, "but she had a twisted and tortured walk resulting from polio.

how "When they learn

to swim, they develop a new feel- irst of independence and there is a great psychological change after all, when they are that, they are not so different from other children.'

The pool, which is the only The mother helped her pollo rehabilitation centre of its daughter into the water but the kind in Brazil, is used not only kuri was cousing her deulty by children but by grown-ups Dona Pledude went to the [as well. There is, for example, mother's help. The mother re- a teen-age girl who was attack- cognited Dona Piedade as the ed by pollo three years ago, She rising winning star she then could only move about

on two WAY, and asked her if she sticks and always with someone would help to touch her daugh- else's assistance. ter to swim.

Strict Supervision

She said she would. That was the beginning. When she was in nut occupied in training or compotitive swimming. she helped child vielima of potio to As swimm

At first, she used club pools but in one after another parents ubjected to their

healthy children swimming with children who were crippled with the disease.

Then the mother of one

of

She, too, come under the care of Dona Plodade a few weeks result of exercise in the pool she is already walking alone with only one stick.

"I hope it will not be long before I throw that

вле жду

she told me,

Piedade's work is done under striet medical supervision, a card Each of her pupils has recording accurately the extent

the of disablity and

DTVETESS made under her care.

If they have

for u pay

the moner treatment

they receive, they But there are many poor wasted children starting out on the road to full health just because Donat

her pupils placed a private pool in the garden of her house at the dispani of Donu Pledade. It is not a big pool, only fifteen feet by nine, but each day it a place where laughing children bring back strength to

limbs while their mothers look

pay

on with smiles which show theledade wants to see them well.

load that is being lifted their shoulders.

'Catch Me'

from

Standing on the edge of the pt at 55 Hua Martins Ferreira

"Catch

They pay nothing.

Even though it is a small pool there is a time and a place for everyone.

There are many exercises of Buld beneft to polio vletimą," Dona Piedade, "but I think

Ja the io suburb of Botafogo has been proved that swimming today. Paulinho (Little Paul) is the best of all, I am treat- Nather ia hereby piven may be seen saying to Dona ing not only polio victims but in the niso girls who have spinal in- Extraordinary Piedade as she stands that

wateri

meliere 1 Juries and mothers suffering General Meeting

come." He Jumps luto the water, from the effects of childbirth." Shareholders of the Society is caught by Domu Piedade, and Dona Piedade's dream is of a will be held at the Head starts swimming. Only a few larger rehabilitation centre with Oflee of the

not moven bigger swimming pool and all Society, works ago he could Alexandra House, Ice House thinner than the left. Now he proved value to polio victims. --- his right leg which is much the other modern equipment of Street, Hong Kong, on Thura moves easily through the water China Mall Special. day the 24th day of May 1956 at 11.45 am. or su soon after. wards n the Ordinary Yearly Meeling to be held at 11.30 um. un that day shall have concluded when the subjoined Resolution will be proposed as

Special Resolution:--

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de 1931. Picture left shows Rear Admirai Kolov,

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ON

CONFERS

DRAFT AGREEMENT

Cairo, Apr. 30.

United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold conferred this morning with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mahmoud Fawzi ̧ before leaving this afternoon for Israel.

Well-Informed sources said the meeting concerned Mr Hom- marsicjold's draft agreement

for

measures to relieve the

| Egyptian-Jenel border tension.

The cources said that during carller discussions with Egyptian negotiators, Mr Hammanijoid took up

the various nieustres proposed by each side to tighten border security.

River Question

wns Ports

at оп

tho

mouth, parade; pictured right is the Duke of Edinburgh, in full regulla of Captain General of the Royal the parade ceremony. - Express

Marines, leaving ground after the

Photo.

WOLF WHISTLING PARROT GETS JOB

was

East London, Apr. 30. Because he

80 "foul- Mid-mouthed", Wiggil the parrot was fired from the musical show "Hit the Deck" to be staged in the East London City Hall,

Maleys. Ceylon, India, Aden, die Ehet, Great Belta & Europe,

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China, People's Republic, Macau,p.m.

Macao, p.m.

Baturday, May 5 By Surface

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China, People's k.m.

Jainatca, Noon.

10.30 azn.

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Hits successor, who was chosen at a parrot "parade", is named

The Woodle.

new parrot startled the cast at a rehearsal by letting out a long piercing

They said Mr Hammarskjold dis- and the Egyptians also cussed the attitude of the Arab towards countries

as a whole

their safeguarding

common borders with Israel.

Among the points raised by the Egyptians, the sources sald, Syria's demand for Guaranteea that Israel would not divert the waters of the Jordan River unilaterally.

The Egyptians were reported to have sald Syria nad Lebanon have adopted common stand on the Jordan River

question,

tho end Egyptians have supported them

negotiations with Hammarskjold.

Ju

Safeguard Rights

Mr Attache

aald the

A

Mr

Progress On Indo-China

London, Apr. 30 Authoritative sources reported "slow progress" today, in the Anglo-Sovlei negotintions on the indo-China stalemate.

Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis- ter Andrel Gromyko and Lord Reading, Minister of State at the Foreign Ofice, held another session today as representatives of the Geneva-Indo-China con- ferences co-chairmen.

(1

Their mission is to seek means to get free elections going In both Communist North and pro-Western South Vietnamn,

No details of the negotiations were revented but informed sources said there had been pro- gress in the three-week talis.---- United PreGI,

SOEKARNO

FOR U.S.

His

President Eisenhower's planc, Columbine III, will be in Hono-

Washington, Apr. 30. The White House announced Hommarskjold's Press today that Prealdent Soekarno Secretary of the Republic of Indonesia will General will spend two days in arrive here on May 16. Israel and then will fly to Rome

official visit to the United elther via Calro or Beirut, de- States had been, announced pre. pending on airline connections, viously. He said Mr Hammarskjold will spend two daya in Rome.

Dr Fawzi,

on lulu commenting Egypt's stand in the negotiu- tions with Mr Hammarskjold ton said, "Egypt is co-operative and The Indonesian President will willing to maintain peace, but stay in Washington until May at the same time she is deter- 19, and then will travel for two mined

safeguard all her weeks in the United States. ---

France-Presse,

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VAL,YOU ALWAYS FED THE BEE. DID YOU EVER SPILL ANY OF THE FOOD? THINK HARD.

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