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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1950.

SCENE IN

Pago

Interesting News

Stories From All Parts Of The World

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CHURCH MADE

U.S. AIRLINE WILL BUY COMETS BRIDEGROOM

De H May Take

Gamble

MORE ORDERS EXPECTED

by T. F. THOMPSON

London.

CAPITAL AIRLINES

of America has, I understand, decided to buy Comet IV. jetliners instead of turbo-prop Britannias.

T

deemoon

bear's wing: smer the 1954 Cugat

Ca.mamael, prese deal at Capsial. and has expils Mveyed the Beld of new ir- burn both tre and in Amerien, and devided bod

the Comel Wax

Havillands. have offered a diel.very date 1058-11 1 two years before Capital could m. Jetimer In The Ped S te

American

Ps with gave the 1414 2101 pblurs who decided to Truy the

1. na protinet

erdage"

Up to 30

O the strength of the Capital Airlines decision Mr A.F. Burke.

Uplifting

New York. Charged with malicious mirchief after he had rx- ploded two sticks of dyna- inite at a political rally in Anderson, South Carolina, ex-convict Andes

("Foot.

j0"} Wood explained to the police:

"I did it just to liven up the meeting

д

couldn't see who was talk- ing from where I was,”

I

Birds Force

Down Six Planes

Brisbane,

Birds over North Queens- land outback airfields are serious air-safely catring problems.

10 the last few weeks the birds have caused more than six air accidents.

•

Last wock

kite

luwk

new mannging director of thethod through the windscrven De Haviland Aircraft Company,

prepared 10

gabble,

-

Trans-Australia Airlines'

take a financial | DC-3 airliner at Cloncurry nir-

port, causing an Cinergates

a second landing. He will lay down production line on the assump-

on that more orders will now definitely come in,

will be Capital's first order

ip to ten Comets, but pro- vision will be madu for buying up to 30.

not order will The Capital Tect delivery of BOAC's 10 Comet IVs which are urgently wded on Empire routes. The lift that the order give De Havillands may result being ready evon Comedy

in the

urlier than planned,

will

•

A gukah stopped The en- French plane HYAT gine of a Longreach by flying into its in- take

Q

A curlow sucked into a fet

catleed A Canberra motor

bomber to crash-land during a night take-off from Garbutt air- baso (Townsville).

JKIST canser!

to

With the Comet, Capital will be the first domestle airline Introduce jet travel-just as they inter-duced furbe-proj

wilb

cowni

British besit

One Snag

travel

Vis-

1

Hawks again

A hawk crashing into the Canberra. unother forced

landing

Charleville Airport,

at

A hawk brought down an

RAAF photographic survey Musquito at Charlevlile

The

Director of the Acting Civil Aviation Department Queensland, Mr E. Huntley Fry. sud: "These birds are a menace and we admit we just haven't got the answer,"

Ouch: It Hurts!

ETON HEAD BANS

COFFEE CAFE

Were The Boys Flirting?

ET

Eton.

ATON'S 1,186 college boys have been banned from an Espresso coffee bar in the town by headmaster Mr. Robert Birley.

And the reason, calc pre-watched television in the after- prietor Mr Jimmy Cecil said, la noon."

the alx pretty girls behind the counter"

"It is said

Said the tall 43-year-old ex- pig farmer:

the boys were flirting with them,"

The cafe, the Coffee Cantata -in the narrow High Street—- has wood panelling tomato red and cream walls, soft lighting.

Mr Ceelt smiled at one of his j Atx protty Kiris-10-year-old Jill Waters, of Gloucester Place, Windsor.

"You see how very attrac- five? But the college boys cume here for other things, Thuy

A couple of Elon the banned as they pass

What can

we do if we can't Cantata? boys appear to be at a loose end coffre bar on the other side of the street.

Now the embarrassed boys keep a stift upper lip as they awing together down the High Street and

the "Coffee pass Cantata,"

a "Coffee Didn't Bach write Cantata"? Yes, and the words go like this. You

stubborn child, hog. wicked girl,

Oh, when shalt i have my way?

Give up coffeet

The caiata is the theme song of the Espresso bar.

The owner, Mr Jimmy Cecil, 43. who opened the ultra- modern cafe seven months ago, said last week: "The Elon head. Mr Robert Birley, asked me to see him, told me my pince was being put out of bounds, and. ha phrased

indicated that there had been some flirting going on.

amatically,

very

“Only normal'

"But the boys have got to be in school for the night by 8.30, and as the pretty girls involved, all of them part-ümers, don't there can come in until 6.30,

hardly be much time for carry -- ing on. The Eton boys are nor- mal and healthy and you can't stop them eyeing pretty girls, can you?"

One 18-year-old said: "Well, we're all rather baffled by the ban. We used to crowd the place to watch TV, cat, and listen to classical and jazz records.”

The contata has the last word: "Oh, how sweetly tastes the coffee,

More

lovely thousand kissos."

than

A No-Nonsense Driver

Whose Cab Is His Pulpit

Sydney.

THERE is a taxi-driver in Sydney who-speaking quite seriously-describes his cab Tas "better than any pulpit."

Jack

Sloan,

used

10

be

religious

"The Salvation Army picked me up out of the gutter-I'm

Owner-driver

# chronic bad well known in the Salvation alcoholic, and at that

for £1 Aizny as Envoy Sloan regards drunk-always looking The one possible snug is that

his taxi as "a sort of proving {urawl," he said, The American authorities might

Колвир

for relise a certificate of airworthi-

principles. es to the Comet because the

"I don't carbash anyone he engines are buried in the wings.

Doncaster. Bald, "but I often find that a The U.S. design philosophy

Village postman Richard Lyon passenger is only too eager to but it is butter to "bang" the

to to kindly word of has a red and black beard andilsten un pods beneath engines

a sign pinned to his chest which advice, wings. But presumably Mr

Please "Hardly a day passes without says "thly beard is real

somebody, as they get out of the cab, asking me to say a He prayer for them."

the

Car-

michael has made pretty

Bure

that a corticate would be tunable.

ob-

do not pull it."

Then Comes

This News:

"It's Trosistible," said house wife Dorothy Cryer.

"I'm tired of finishing a day's work with an aching chin," said Lyola-United Press.

BOAC TO BUY U.S. JETS

Minister of Transport and aircraft af the right time. Civil Aviation, that they

Softly spoken 60-year-ol Envoy Sloan, officer-in-charge of Salvation Army oclivities in the St. Peter's district, runs the city taxi T4427.

REALLY IN NEED

Fome 30

speaking literally -- years ago,

"Now, as a taxi-driver, I see plenty of sights to remind me of my own past weaknesses,"

REDS SANG: GOD

+

SAVE YOUR GRACIOUS QUEEN

London.

150 burly Red Army privates sang "God Save Your Gracious Queen," to a startled first night audience of Londoners.

The chanky Ruslane, sweat-

ing in full dress uniform under.

Ure the Empress Hall's are H£11 Painting

want to order between 15 come from De Havill,robably driver's seat of a taxi offers a ended the anthem with "Long!

nny

Sloan

may she reign over you, Cod zave your Queen.”

"A enbman is always seeing London. American have convinced him and caring things to remind have told Mr that nothing less than the State him of the number of people Barold Watkinson, the airline's survival of the right or helping hassl

linked up really in need of a idnd word

"For doing good, I'd say Opposition will

and far better field than Handley Page Ltd the two pulpit. 20 giant American British aircraft manufacturera

idea that Jack Any

Before the audience had time Jetliners.

who have offered BOAC a jet-might be an easy mark for pro-

fessional endgüre can be dia to chuckle, the Russians, up to They will cost between liner to fill the requirements

cab T-now. at attention, expanded Ho operates A senior executive of a Com-mised, $60,000,000 and 100,000,000-an

their chests, hooked thumbs in expenditure D vost That the monwealth airline told me re 4427 to his own strict code;

BOAC are not! "I have no money for out-belts, and roared the anthem of decision will have to be taken cently: "It

the USSR. allowed to have a fair number ond-out beggars. by the Cabinet.

The disturbing facts behind of big American jets, they will the corporation's decision to buy go bankrupt.'

and

• "Drula and street-women don't ride in my cab-it's a public vabilelo and. I've got an it in од obligation to run

EIFFEL TOWER SWAYS orderly

IN THE WIND..

Paris.

The 984-foot: Eiffel Tower wobbles, according to report from Parlo.

Experts estimate that the top movos, as much as seven inches in a high wind."

But there is ille danger of

the tower falling down.

a

NIGHTINGALES

FIRST VISIT

Then they begin their three-

this case don't sweat our concert.

•

The

The Soviet Army group (A printed notice

was instdo Say? KEEP IT CLEAN.)

cm ita first visit outside the iron don't know any aly-curtain after 20 years of touring "I Og joints"

in Russia, Communist China, Don't doubt that the code is Manchuria and the Soviet bloc.

consists of privates, strictly applied. Cabby-preacher Stonn, ex-Digger of two world threo N.C.OS and one colonel,

The troop's wara, is oft in and weighs 18

glamour boy 28-year-old

Artur stone:

Muscovite Eizner, a bass baritone with a herole stage manner, a lienvy sense of humour and a budding double chin.

Worth 11⁄2d -Munnings

London.. YOMMERCIAL. artist Stanley Froude spotted what he thought was an carly Sir Alfred Munnings : painting at

& Bury St Edmunds auction sale.

His wife bought it for £11. It was a Munnings. Under the ploture mount they found his digbature and the date-1899, And it's worth

1d.

enys so? Sir Alfred Mun-

Dedham. at Cheltenham, ho remembered painting the pfotune of a young girl in o Karden.

Whos himself. At his home in

Just

D

* painted it in my teens-it's little wash drawing like he

OUT OF THE GUTTER Typical of his helpful ways a the free taxi service he provides

OH NIET JOHN (driving himself) every Sunday. In Red Square Too afternoon for 50 or 60 St Foter's

a pqater. I aliould say £11 was children to and from Sunday Ho sings the "Voign Boatmen"

a terrifle price to give," Its bulldor, Alexander Gustavo

London. school.

with molst eyes and "Loch cald, Eiffel, clained it could stand a

The nightingales sang in Red In his spare time he is visit Lomond with a puzzled frown. But Mrs Froude doesn't think wind-force alx times greater

His best effort la "No John" so. She has hung it in the than any tornado recorded up to Square, and Moscow Rateing the clck, and needy and

layed the sound throughout the tramping the pub-to-pub bent which sooms to plouse

everyone

living room of har: Ingham, that time.testat

selling that War Cry" :(the onstage mightily,

Buffolk, home... Ironically, the construction of world.

they wore Salvation Army newspaper). Tlie Announcer-sold they.

The funniest moment of the "Whatever Bir Alfred rosy say a third life which is being con-

Timo⠀ was when the same evening is when a pudgy tenor, sidered will taloo as long as the singing near the Kromin. Ho

more attempts "Green, Grow Tho two years it took Eiffel to baliza added that Musoovitas often Jack Sloan was even the entire tower for the 1880 heard them warbling on their partial to a pub-crawl-but for Husher Oh? In a Russian-

a different reguoti,

Seattlub Racont.

sang, Parla whibition/United Fre very doorsteps-United Press,

consider my Munningsa goal bargain," he told me, "I' "wouldn't think of parting with two even Koë-5100)

TURN PALE

Millan.

in

Eraldo Belvatico, 28, was Just on the point of saying "I do" to his bride when 4 Wom tears gushed up to the altar with a baby in her

ld;

Arina

and

"Here, this is your child, take It with you

on your honey- TOON."

Selvatico, whose name means "untamed," turned deathly pale. His parents and the relatives of Lilinna Fontana, the 24-year- old bride, started a rumpus that. threatened to wreck the little villago church at Macherlo.

nearby

polico), uproar.

Carabinleri (federal. rushest in to halt the They persuaded the tearful interloper to leave the church, still clutching her baby girl,

The wedding went ahead scheduled.

In the confusion nobody asked the

with the mystery woman baby

nutrie what her

Wus. reveal it. --- Police decllnerl Uniter Press.

to

12-YEAR-OLD

FORGOT

ABOUT BRAKE

Turin

It looked as if a bomb Exploded but it was only a 12- the wheol ol a year-old at heavy truck.

who

Binello, truck driver,

Young Luigi wants to be EL thought ho had the chance of his life when he found an un- guarded truck recently.

He had no trouble starting it,

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A

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