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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1956.

Interesting News Stories From AR Parts OF The World

BID TO CUT DRINKS ON PLANES

American Airlines Take Action

INTERNATIONAL CARRIERS 26-AND

VOICE OBJECTIONS

New York.

America's airlines are cracking down hard on passenger drinking during flights.

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airlines

Midnight Closing

wine

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while cock- Ca be had both before after meals.

On first class service, Pat- to settle the drinking terlent serves free Issue A bill to prohibit drink? jenis with meals, ing in fight is being Muded in feils Congress and the afflies new ind policy in

10 police peterally closes themselves before polienur sight done for them

The

Like arouzid mach-

Commenting on the airline'# about passenger drinking,

The new polies, set forth by ja Pan American spokesman said the Air Tratport

last month, Pobranes son mujor points. They are

Associations Tad ka something the passengerA + Ex! As long as they want Itquor. we'll provide it We're I th service buŠÍDEOS.

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No the wi}} grante The ailablity

In its flights

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Na drink will evitary mate than 1. angoas aj alenholte beverage.

he added. particularly by foreign carriers. Is Kiift. particularly whey they serve whinky and caviar. For us or any airline, it would be risky to discontinuo liquor.”

Pan American is strutly Д foreign currier.

KOTVES free drinks on

WA certain Ambassador { super Not more than fun drinks (deluxe) non-stop Coast to Cost will t

passenger.

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behered to be PasgeRgjera intoxicated Airlines will Pontiacke paliny ot

wilt to

alrehobo

Pompton

beverages,

This agreement as gone into viTect,

but

jani overstas Bights. Drinks can be purchased on some Brst class fights, while no liquor at ul) is Iserved on tourist flight

'No Problem'

the Arcording to In airline Tepukom iman, TWA consichers

liquer un problem

The liquor consumption is so s the spokesman Kaich, alvendy !*${ There is no problem. A

be passenger

board line inay Broken by any airline giving the loodeel or with a bottle ennetaled ATA six months prior notice 28, in a hip pocket, but the amount welling. It has been signed by ensued on board is no prob- all United States airlines and in now subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Board.

The airlines appear to be split on whether to charge for drinks. In antelition to TWA. American United Airlines serve free Exanisation of the policies of

anterl

Eastern two major carriers. Pan Amer-liquor, while National, Can Airways and Trans-World asid North-Western Airlines de- Airlines, reveals anung other mand that passengers pay.

Next-Fungus Soup

How do the pilots feci about passengers drinkler aboard their fights? They oppose It.

What Pilots Say

Testifying before the House Interstate

and Foreign Com- merce Coinmitice on April 20,

Londos Clarence Sayen, President of the

Fugas soup my suon be Airlines Pilots Association, de appearing on British menus,

and

burden

created hazards.

of

A report by the Department Sayen testified that the Union

Scientific Of

Industrial passed resolution at its conven- 1954 opposing the serving Research told of initial suc- tion cases in experiments to "proof drinks aboard aircraft, duce cultures of the spawn of The bill to end airline drink-

ing has been approved by

edible fungi".

were now being

STILL A 'MISS'

By ROBERT MUSEL

London.

Princess Margaret reaches her 26th birthday next week and the royal matchmakers, affeind and unofficial, are about remly to surrender,

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The little Princess has now met almost every eligible male in the Kingdom without visible spark, Two years ago Inside Buckingham Palace Bource, predicted

might never marry. Even Incurable optimiste are ready to concede this is very possible.

she

The

now

Bro

Tried To Keep It Under His Hat

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Bombay.

A Customs official arrested two friends at the docks here when he saw them change hats in the midst of an apparently joyful re- union.

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Inside one hat he found smuggled gold worth £225.

SPIVS CASH IN

ON WHAT'S

MY LINE' STUNT

London.

the

"Psst, want some good ancestors?" Anonymous-looking men hovering in shadows of St Paul's Cathedral are apt to hiss with questions like to this to American tourists.

If the matchmakers worried, the Princess is!, She altends cocktail

parties. the theatre and night clubs just s she always did except that the people she runs around these days are "amusing" rather that eligible.

a

Oddly enough, it was all started by that stald and The other day she sang and

dollar conscious organisa- dunced to gramophone records till early morning at

British Travel small tion, the party in the flat of art student Association. Geruld Bridgeman 20 who The BTA Lecently published also cooked the dinner. Bridge advertisements in many Ameri- man is a clansman of the Earl on publications urging would- Df Bradford family motto be lourists to look up their

ancestors "Neither rashly nor timidly."

Brian broadly intimating they might Then she discover a lincal descent from attended King Arthur or a distant cousin, EL cock - ship to Sir Anthony Eden. "I tall party at you don'L have

British which guests ancestor, why not invent one,"

ncluded added.

In They Come

`BETTER LOOKING THAN

Amen

GRACE'

can who that

obylous

сап screen end (elev). slon One Ameri-

while

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The Association says the idea people met with instantaneous success and helped boost American actor, asked tourism by 13 per cent so for

his this year.

**Margaret who?" he inquired when he was presented.

drunkenness aclared that

The boom has extended to the

feld Government publication reveal-passengers placed an additional name be withheld for

and obscure arrived late

of genealogists. Bight on

and reasons, стена

pre-advertise- ed recently.

breathlessly raced through intro-To the regular

ment crowd hovering around the ductions.

records contre at Somerget House has been added a variety of new seekers after the past.

Many of them charge up to The hostess nearly collapsed, USAS for a

The tracer Job. the Houst Committee on Foreign A close friend of the Princess' regulars in the field are more It said some of these spawn Commerce and 'cared for "a conilded recently that she did scrupulous, but still charge ec- cording to what the traffic will Com- nut believe she has ever really bear, starting at about $3 per grown in

Boor vote by the Rules

The Group Cap family tree. Commit-tain Peter Townsend episode is

being described in the One of the old-1lme pro- dwindling Margaret set as "a (essional ancestor hunters serious infatuation" - bul no Vivian Ward-Jackson),

bowhiskered old man who be camo interested in the neld when involved in a legitimacy sufi over his own most immediate ancestors. Ward- Jackson's investigations proyed that he was the son of a Member of Parliament.

pilot project, and were expected mittee, A similar bill is before been in love.

to produce suitable food

dried soups-United Press.

for the Senate Commerce

tee-United Press.

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As proof they cite the in- disputable fact that a few nights after her highly dramatic act of renundation the Princess was back on the bubbling night club circuit happy as usual. Townsend, still brooding nearly your later, is about to embark on an 18-month "getting away

Since

And Protests

READ THIS

-Then Drop That Cigarette

London.

Two men fainted recent-

on

ly during the showing of a 30-minute horror films lung cancer.

MEN

The film, In colour, tells the story of a

FAINT 40-art

AT

SHOCK

15

A

FILM

then, he has devoted helping

from #tall" car tour of Europe his working life to

and Asia.

At the moment the Princess

is preparing for a dx-week air-

others find out about their untecedenta "I've just helped

ses journey to the Indian Ocean one of my clients, a London bus

Not Going To U.S.

of

mour

was

driver,

trace his ancestors back and Africa starting Into next |***

to a -French

Countess who month. Shiq will visit Mauritius eloped. with

work- n British and Zanzibar in the Royal

man," he said, tak Yacht Brittanjo and Lour

But trong the tourists a Tanganyika and Korya..

storm of protest followed the Travel Association's ancestor ad- vertisement. They said.

It. vulgar and in poor taste.

underland what has can't Recently a report was widely!

happened AV

British to the

senso circulated that she would also visit Hollywood late this year

Travel Association or early next. This is not truc,

meant as a Tho Princess

"It was obviously would

joke. "Ifkcơ to visit the United States

And it has brought in dollars." Tourism is, as & but such A trip is not y matter of fact, Britain's biggest possible.

dollar-carner,United Press, As the approaches 20 Princess is sui o miniature footnothing, 95 unds) whose photographs do her so little Justice her face-to- face impact is, apt to be quite surprising

.

the

Coco Barker of Los Angeles,

tes-a-day journalist who gets lung can- cer,

h operation

TEINOVO bis infect- ed lang 19 airown all its grud

some detall the scalpel cutting into dripping his body, blood from the incision and the surgeon lifting the smoke- blackened lung from his chest.

Midway through the sortening, one mân feil to the flour in a faint and a few seconds later another man joined him,

A panel of doctors later aniwbred.

and questions reaffirmed ........ their opinion fist smoking definitely caused cancer.

The Medical Director of Middlesex Hospital. ·· Dr. Hormon Juin mid: “Kinlong we do something a million people will die in England and Walts from lung cancer before the end of the cen fury, enque

"No nation has ever been faced with an epidemio of "this nature."

HAS NOT SLEPT FOR 30 YEARS

Manila.. Goonzon said he started Fabiano Geonzón claims that | beyling hondachni'ns el child; and, producer of the Rodkelton he has not slept for 30 years found it harder and harder to Television show and com

moimour, of beuky, owa)) DID- Three doctory "baclore the 40- vented to her lug month and year Intor-faueck, ihla communji

knockout if she worked

Woolworths Instead of a Roy

Palace. I rate her batter/look

Mindanao) resident's

By the timo ho was ab could not sleep at

How Rainier's Ancestors Won Monaco: Ancient Claim Found

Boston, July 20.

A document which may prove to be the legal claim of Prince Rainier III's family to the principality of Monaco has been discovered in a Boston bookstore.

The 79-page manuscript, niong with A $1,000 price tag, was offered to wealthy" John B. Kelly of Philadelphia, father of her

highness Prinonge

Grace.

Sérefe

The former Hollywood Alma 8000~ actress married into the

family year-old Grimaldi

in April this your. The wedding to Princo Rainier III mndo the blonde Philadelphia girì a mem- ber of one of the oldest royal families in one Europe's

od smallest states.

said

Bookseller Milton Starr

Mr Kelly planned to ecrud photostats of the manuscript to the Prince and his bride before making any decision

written In The manuscript, Latin, present the claims of Giovanni Battista Grimaldi for rights 10 the territory of Monaco It is addressed to the Emperor of Germany and King of Hungary.

Histories

the

the Grimaldi family record that such a claim wes presented around 1218 by

Grimaldi IV. But he was never further identified.

From Peer's Library

Mr Starr said the document originally came from the library English of an 18th century nobleman, Lord Guilford

"} found it here recently a pile of while going through

old books," he Bald. "With hundreds of books coming in overy week, it's hard to tell where we picked it up."

Giovanni Battista Grimaldi may have been a pretender and not

whose the Grimaldi IV rights to the then feudal terri- tony were historically estab- lished, but he wrote Intereating-

ly

enough of his family.

He tells of one of Rainier's ancestors who, temporarily Ousted dron his castle home, gathered some comrades, dress- ed them en Franciscan monies and passed through the orchily Unca

Once inside the fortress they ahed their robes, donned armour and won back the castle.

"Great story," says Mr Starr

about "If those rumours Prince expecting on heir are

the

true, what better gift could he give than a copy of his birth- right?"-United Press.

Solomon's Problem For High Court

London.

claimed Two inventora ownership in the High Court last week of an arbi- ficial pig mother which even grunts at its "children."

The "mother" - an electric machine fitted with an intra- red lamp and teats for feeding 14 piglets at a time, stood on the atenographer's bench while lawyers for farmer John Percy and the Nicrotherm Electrical Company anguet the claims of their clients to be the father of the "mother".

Percy strengthened his claim by testifying he could even make his pig-mother grunt. But he said the feeling piglets had shown no interest in con- versation.

The company sought an in- Junction to restrain Percy from manufacturing the machine,

The case

was actjourned..... United Press.

Her Eyes Really Change Colour

Chicago,

Margin, Adama, beautiful brunette mcdial, changey #the colour of her eyes to match her costume,

It's confusing, to say the

** least,

Marge, an katructor at the Patricia Vance Scho

ling, wears contact

blari as a bat withe

them, "ather said.

contact - "lebs "odmpany's.

nere. She owns five

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