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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1956.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
Loosen Your Tongue?
ASS TO BE
EVICTED
Leica
PARDONED MAN DANCED MR EWERS FROM-TOMB
Now He Goes
Doctors Find Out
What Martinis Back To Gaol Really Do To You
New York.
Science has attacked and destroyed yet another of the ideas firmly held by most people for no parti- cular reason - this one being that a martini or two will "loosen the tongue."
He Hates
The Site Of The Place
puti bar
Dry Peter Dounla
Hartocollo
Joht on f Michigan State University. with cold- scepticism, hearted scientiñe but this hallowed bellet to the test.
They look 60 young men and fested them for the speed and with wideh thre cric mke words Poll
fit toignies Then they divated the Van meg into two rivage of 30 each
THE DOSES
To the men of en- grip Pey Down LO the
bo raise The In- Folpham's village pub the jorals į gave enough
&tula[ blood even bind en hands and asked its lund's
cl the, to 40 per cent Setener has "Do you think they'll
that
alexinel waps in, then Rare bit of fun established
between 'blood level anywhere Do take
005 0.013 per cent gives ang persen a morferate hangover
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score of the alcohol drinkers for three of the four
Garden View
Both sides inlend
The village is divided,
FOR building ure the
pertes of Buggur Urban Coun-
und felt it should
The next
"The them
t simply
to rattle
marne دعا
vil. who plunzied * £3,000 quirevi the jaydon for the sports ground words-any
words--for ture have all the minutes.
second losi re- proper conveniences at the back. quired
words AGAINST building #12°C the
beginning with one of the four followers of Mr Samuel Men- letters, either SPM, or T in
man, the third, they were duză, 63-year-old business Freeman of] Latalon, and mem
of classes name the members ber of die Worshipful Company of
objects-birds or 11x4's of PlumbeTA,
articles
In
The proposed ConvertionCOA
bis from will be most kurden, he says. When he looks FAIL 1 $15 dining-roons on his Jonge le wit be able to se nothing else. His five-bredt oom- est home will le : market valut,
£1000
Fifteen Feet
vegetables furniture
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asked
'QUESTIONABLE'
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of
For 7 Years
Lonxion
PACK to gaul lam week went
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Leonard Emery, the man who saved two yearS uf. pen-year sentence for a crimi he did not commit.
This time there was no mkatake. At Mudlisex Sessions he pleurl-
ed GUILTY to shopbrišiking. And as he left the dock free- dom and Leonard Emery weye
sejurulted by sovou years' pre- verive detention.
to
Ho
La October 1953 it was different. The 30-your-old contraďor had
GUILTY plauded NOT wooning policema wes gaokid for ten ycbra fant the tnpe of freedorn way
ways with h Warn a
parbon st July brought frvokiam and £300 Compressade The Martel romvrachura bustness
itu:
In a cell
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Double followed Enery Lost April he accidentally r over his father ll west days before Emry knew his father would have Nearly three years before he had sat in a prison ceti Wondering If the polterman i was ac cused of wounding would re-
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beutiful" houlwriting
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statod For the first time in my life I am begging for chuince to prove to my family and the giza 1 hope to marry that can be sonie gro
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But the man who *ook drink" aber bis **** years begged in veán Poller wen
twe
onering the 13th cunvleikon against the name of Laard Entry, contractor, nf Hylsion Road, Pulham, S.W.
Deadly Spider Drive
- CULLEN
St Sydney suburban county Council la menning a "catch-it-frennet web"
the fourth and
Pigu. las fest, they were given A standard psychological test based upon choosing from tive Jellets, the word. first letter
of a correc An
"A example,
place building for athlete Exercises: -CD GHT."
Already the first round in the Mr Lattic
fought has been
The one test in which the 30 £50 Teuloza paid the comment
of holding men "under the influence" out- the rest
lo cover
up building while the planning scored the 30 who weren't, was commit: c sheme,
mensidered!
the
Their the third.
margin for victory wasn't much and, the scientists pointed out, their way of winning was question-
"After all that they said they would move it to one side by Isit. Fifte feet! They must able.
think 'n mad.
as well be up against my wall, Fu Bight."
It might just Asked to name all the trees they could think of, they in- cluda such trees as "family tree," "big tree", and "Christ- mas tree, Asked to naine articles of furniture, they in- cluded "kitchen table," "dining table." and "study table."
Bull Upset Mayor's Procession
Levico. An enraged bull besieged the Major end police fore-e of Levico the other day unit was chased away by the Army,
The raving animal charged the Mayor of this Alpine town
he wor marching to shepherds hut at the head of Ave-man
а
municipal delegation to band It aver to the new tenants.
The
deicgation,
including
two policemen, scrambled for safety, The
town hall secre
tary climbed a
tree, and the
rest of the party took sheller
on a parked tractor.
The bull besieged
them,
hammering away at the tractor
and
tree with
horns. A
the
ram-
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A "funnel-web" ** sperties of deadly spilder found in pari, of Austraita.
Kurung-gai Touri Clerk Mr N. L. Griffiths, said lust week. "Wevë launched the carapaign to stamp out fix damper on the north side o the harbour.""
itor spiders
Once fo
"Captured will be sent Melbourne, where a German scientist, Dr Saul Wiener, 18
I
working
JCTILIN
afutb»Lrt¢u'b
"The Count! invites all residents who catch live spiders to put them in
screw-40% jur
and
at our offices.
It
leave
"A serum would mean # with awful lot to propte
Kids"
Dr Wiener has promised to have the serum ready by if he is ment
NASTI FELULIIDET
150 spiders.
Stx Sydney people have died from funnel-web bites
ince 1927.
Prompt treatment, along "snake-bite" lines, has saved
scores more.
I
LOSES HIS TASTE FOR
A PINT
London,
George Frederick Ewers was a man who liked his pint after the day's work as foreman gas-fitter. Thon, suddenly, he lost his taste for it in a day.
Ori
OF CICERO
Rome.
Italian officials disclosed today they plan to die. possess an ass now living in the tomb of Cicero, the great Roman writer and statesman
The officials said the square, Lower-like tomb, now covered with vegetation, has bom turned ferto a stall by the farmer who 11 happened
October 8. owns the land. But the Govern- 1052. He caught
Department the London-ment's Antiquities
to start rostoring it soon. Manchester express that cold,
Like many other grey morning
glories of tria fiz' business.
pagan Rome, Cicero's tomb has been descented in the Christian suffered into cra, althougr & never
the ultimate degradation of the Roman forsam
the
on
The EXPRESS ploughed
wrocitago of two other crashed trains at Harrow and Wealdstone Station. In the! chaos 113 people host their lives garbage dump and 181 were injured.
Changed His Life
Among the Injured George Ewers.
only
The forum was turned into a after noblemen and prieste had taken away the magnificent marble columns to build villas and churches.
The tomb of Marcus Tilus Cicero, who lived from 100 to 43 was BC, lies off the ancient Appian
Way near the town of Formla 11 is about 30 foot high.
Superficially he had cut in his Arehead, But the nevident changed his life- and his taste,
And in a High Court witness. box recently Ewers, now 83, of Colindale, Middlesex, told Mr Justice Pilcher about 18.
"Before the weeldent I got en- joyment out of drinking beer." ¦ be said.
a
Well-preserved
Local, authorities have already arted action to pot possession of the hectare of land on which the tomb is located.
Despite its long abandonment, the tomb is considered to be among the best plæserved of its time.
oratory Athens,
Cice, who studied and law in Rome and "But now alcohol gives me a bocame a consul and won fee headache and I cannot take for crushing the conspiracy
Catiline. He was the leader of the
Julius Caesar. Opixsition When Caesar was murdered Lin
BC Cleero denouerd Anthony. For this he was pro- |secubed and put to death.
He had also become bad-tem- pered, he could no longer enjoy his hobbles, he was subject to giddiness, his vision wae blurred.
'He Kids Himself'
He
WAR
bonger ab}< to work, He still had to attend a hospital for nervous diseases,
Five doctors gave evidence on the changed world of Mr Ewers, Three said his claim way genu- tre. No. 4 commented: "I do not regard him as profoundly incapacitated."
But the Arth, distinguished physician Sir Francis Walshe, said: “I contiot escape the con- clusion he
in considerable
He kids measure an actor himself."
The judge did not agree. "】 do not think he was
malingerer,
" he said.
**
he is a changed man
And he awarded
Or is a
"I accept
£2,237
I damages for injuries recelved British Transport
| against the Commission.
His writings include De Amicitia (On Friendship) and De Sonectute (On Old Age).- United Press,
He Chained
Himself
To Doomed
Gaslamp
Police
Stoke-On-Trent, were sympathetic with a man who fell in love with & “beautiful” lamp post here and chained him-
Why Cups For Cats? self to it.
Wellington.
Arnold Machin, 44-year-old acutplor and pottery design, chained and locked himself to one of the old iron gaslamps as workmen arrived to dismantle
The town council wants to re-
The Secretary of the Welling- lon Cat Club, Mr H. D. Adams, reports that he was standing
It x1
the trophies at the clubs
show recently when a small boy, after examining the place gas lamps with concrete collection carefully, offered dus clectric light stanchions. opinion: "I don't think cats would get
much fun out of those Wouldn't sardines be better?"-China Mail Special.
Why Stone The Crows! It's
A Magpie On The Phone
the
cross-arms 3d
Police listened sympathetical- ly to Machin but finally con- vinced him that he had made his point. Machin sent for his wife who had the key to his chains.
He got his lamp post. Authorities decided
be
liked the lamp post that mach be could buy it.
"It's such a beautiful thing," Machin said happily. -- United Press.
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Before removal of the curtain
What this meant,
Sydney. scientists said, was that alcohol had reduced their ability to
HATTERING magpies are "making" phone calls through automatic conform in "standard of per- formance." This, they added, exchanges, mostly dialling 211-what's more, they refuse to hang up. was what people were actually talking about when they main-
And stone
cows they phone wire, revealed that the are about nine tnches in dia- tained that martinis "loosen the don't even have to use m tie-magples were the culprite.
meter. tongue."-United Press.
phone to make a call.
They are suspended from the The linesmen discovered they The magpice had subscribers
top
telegraph different rural liked scraps of wire connected with
to bulid poles by a small metal bracitet, automatic exchanges through- nests,
The districts where the. Im "The magpies after flying on men build the magple out Australia baffled till
nests to the telephone poles worked recently.
Narrandera, Wagga, Armidale, but pieces of wire into the telephone Jerliderie, ring:
Junce and Echuca Gald a Postmaster have low trees for magpin linds when the subscribers answered
build their nesta. there was no caller on the line. General Investigator.
Technicians investigating at
wires caused a series the exchanges noticed that the
"Those, operated the switches automatic switches were bc-
on the mutomatic exchanges and having queenly.
| occasionally gave the required number of impulses to call sub- scribers."
But They're ones would rirur
Ready
For Rain!
Vi-nna.
SUSPECTS
jus!
Because these faults occurred Rockets are to save this during the megple nesting sea- group of workers who tried to year's wine harvest in eust-son, the black and white "uttle- help the Mayor were forced to
ern Austria.
¡tatile" birds became immediate
suspects.
retrent hurriedly.
Infantry soldiers training on After numerous the mountains
of
n impulses.
SOLUTION
Inexplicably tho telephone number that magpies have con- floods, Investigations by Postmaster nected with most frequently in finally rescued thunderstorms and a cold wave | General Linesinen, extending 211, the distressed Mayor. They hit the nation's rich wine-over kumireds of miles of tele- chased off the bull by firing yards this year's production revolver shots at lia. legs will amount to only. 50. per cent United Press,
of the 1954 harvest, experts said,
1
250,000 Cures
MP Ridiculed.
London.
Lad
from
Postmaster-
As fast an Postmaster-General Unomen pulled down the "tele- phoning" nests, dram telegraph poles and wires
the
magpies rebuilt them, using discarded brita of telephone wire s Twenty rocket-"base" were The Postmaster-General Mr longths of nest material. Just completed at the nation's Charles Hill recently rejected a Harried by complaints mast famous -wine-area of Brightors,
cast of Vienna, to Socialist demand he ban tobacco subscribers, Sungcon A Dickson Wright Langenlois,
advertisments before and after General "hit upon what oppor "shoot away" hall-clouds and told the British Medical. Äø-
ed a possible solution." children' Lelaviators pro
Build special nedts for mag- sociation conference recently thunderstorms,
grammes.
on telegraph poles in in Hill told. M.P. Patrick pl M.P.
Linesmen bruit more than 100, WAS KERKUNG, Derta on telegraph poles
out of wwwp pieces, of wire,
that there were 250,000 people Twenty rocketeers, trained
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the Idea provent Austrian wineries from Commons that
They are the silent people," any TOW losses, are now "grand motherly in approach
he mid They don't talk about anxiously waiting for cloud But reached it nothing Theinens, worked the mag- „it and sometimes they don't and lightnirige
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Wil acknowledged to statistical item duriame built, Soba-and they are tribute to what the However, at anumaat bent | Iationship; 2) between heavy times, por mortelephoning" mechies.
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