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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1957,

Interesting News Stories rom Al Parts

TALKING BIRDS DON'T Pure Luck When HOUSEWIVES

Certain Words

BECOME

FIREMEN

Fit The Occasion Doernach, Germany.

By ALFRED LEECH

Chicago.

Your parakeet doesn't know what he's talking about.

When fire breaks out in this village of 320 near Stuttgart, there are apt to be other minor fires in kitchen ovens.

town's volunteer fro de-

At the risk of disillusioning some bird lovers,partment is manned by 12 Austin L. Rand, Chief Curator of Zoology at the women.

The housewives rush to the Chicago Natural History Museum, has conducted

station when the gre horn blows, sometimes leaving reasta some research on talkative birds.

+ calces In the oven in their hugte.

la conclusion: "Birds don't know what they're saying."

Most people realise this, but they liked to persuade them- selves that

their sometimes

feathered friends understand u maltering of their own con- versation,

Don't Realise

Actually, Rand sald, there is a certain level of intelligence in Lurd talk, But it's not very high,

Most people don't realise It, he said, but there are lots of falking birds beside parrots

Man With The 'Gift Of Gab'

Springfield, Ill.

The World

UNDERSTAND

WHAT CAUSES Train Meets Truck, And

ACCIDENTS?

No One Knows

By WALT MCGOWAN

New Haven: THE Yale Bureau of Highway Traffic admitted that after 30 years study it still doesn't know what causes automobile accidents.

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FREAK MISHAPS

of

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Film Reviews Cont'd

cx-

(Continued from Page 2) his old team mate and smuggies bim into the army for just ano Richard Conte, Dianne show. As might be expected, Foster, and Kathryn Grant, Lavis gets trapped into the Is showing at the Queen's ouths, and against his will, is and Alhambra.

forced to partake of the rigorous training dished out... Conte -portrays DA

Lewin clowns; Tackoteer, separated from his and dances throughout. The beat mugs, WoSpA, former associates and trying to scenes are those involved with live normal decent life. But his feable efforts in his training his reformation is interrupted exercises; a wild ride on a run- when the stabbing ring of a sway jeep, and his predicament telephone in the middle of the when he falls from a plane. night tears him from his alcep wasting no parachute, because there is job to do. He must and his ydung brother opportunity

The camp shows provide the to put over the who Ima become involved in a congs, but you will know all murder committed on behalf of about them; they are old aft a crime syndicate, and get the now; Do a Little Parachute boy out of the country before Jump," "I Know a Dream When Erie, Pa.

the police can reach him.

I See One," and "Keep a Little Engineer S. R. Reid While absorbed in this des- Dream Handy." of

perate cross-country mankunt, the Bessemer and Conte learns the vasi, venom- Lake Eric Railroad won-outs organisation of crime, ac dered today if a rail-to the brothers so that they can tually want him to lend the way road's "right of way" kill him themselves. had any meaning,

Loses

Excitement

colourful Miami.

Reid was easing his

The

excitement of the aim coal and iron ore train exists in the breathless scarch which begins in a mall Florida along when he saw a town and goes to bustling and tractor trailer coming York's Greenwich Village and Then to New. over crossing. He Anancial district on to Floenix, Arizona, and to California's Im- stopped his train,

perial Valley, Raymond Borst also stopped is big truck, with

the iraller nerosa the tracks.

&

ends in Now Mulberry Stroet

The

chase

York's

if you think it still deserves it.

Here is an opportunity to peo

'WHATCHA

DOIN' MISTER?"

Seven-year-old

In

A

"Little Italy," this marks the

But the State Police Traffle right or left? What made the Division thinks

has the woman" driver stop on railroad answer. "It's that old feeling-tracks as u train approached, The women got into the five-j can't happen to me," said just to pick up a stray cat?"

But Hurd says, "No une has fighting business because the Officer Frank Dowling. of mon

discovered the specific causes of town early bereft

reeldents. We all know that cxcept on nights and Sundays,

speed and reckless driving kill NO INDUSTRY

thousands. But what males one Doernuch uns no Industry of I own and most of the males travel to larger towns several miles away to work.......

Since the women were called to the ladders and hoses nearly

Dowling insists he knows the LWO yearn 340.

there have "go out of their way to look for answer. "Probably the biggest a left turn onto 12th Streat! Dianne

mistake a driver can make is been no fires for them to putļa crack-up." Chat,

But ic re horn sounds re- gularly through the streets and A truck driver took the church bell adda loudly

to

Dowling has investigated hundreds of mash-ups and has thousan Is of accident recorde at his Angertips in his Hartford office. He says mishaps Indicate

some. freak that drivers

Director Frederick W. Hurd

driver speed and another rock- leas? Why are thousands of others non-speeders and non- recklesa?"

feeling that it can't happen to Ric." he saYE. of the Yole Bureau. the only

The Officer recalls how a high one of its kind in the country,

that some

driver returning home motorists school agrees

stors mined a curve, Idling caga-bird of the over a pay phone for the alarm. The women like to teemingly beg for trouble. Hee night with several young- and acks: "What makes them shout four. It was just a little crazy

out into traffic without looking

daring." cxplained Dowling. "The driver simply thought it couldn't happen to him."

and parakeels. The starlip, # favourite Chinese, is ar de any paraktel, ko said.

drop their housework

good a talker some 30 hours and more practise-Uniled Press.

than $300 worth of long distance calls, servico. station

And the mynali, a Jay-sized black starling with vivid yellow beak and lend wattles, is famed for its cloquence,

The mynah, which Bourishes from India to'Java, also is an "admirable mimie," and sald, "wide repertoire of notes, melodious, pisy Bud raucous."

with

•

Most Talented

operator LOVERS' SUICIDE

Clarence Wendling said.

"Be must have been just plain nuts," Wendling sold

He said the caller, a truck äriver about 35 years old, pulled his semi-trailer into the station about 11 am, on Tuesday and didn't stop calling " I kicked him out" at about

MANY STATES.

But the most talented mimic 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday. of-the-mocking-hird: Hand cited the case of a wild! The telephone calls were to mocking-bird who introduced 18 persons

PACT BECAME A FARCE

Alates many

and

Weidling said.

"Most

of his overseas calis razor

London.

car in

дго

THE ARGUMENT

reversal of the role for Conta

Asks Bandit

Dallas, Tex. bandit made off

has become the hunted instead With $1,000 and his wits Reid and Boral got out, Raid of the hunter,

the other night despite naked Borst to move his truck.

Conte gives a good account of ing first, and was trying to make Borst sald he was on the cross-himself as the eldest of the the heckling of a little Brothers Bloo" while co-star boy in a grocery store

and Kathry hold-up. paralleling

Foster the tracks and Grant fit into this kind of alm. couldn't do it with the train al-

The film reminds me of the The gunman held up Safeway asked Reid to back up the train. most against his tralier. He gangster crime syndicate Alms Store Manager, W. C. Walts, that enjoyed such popularity in and forced him to open the safe. Reid refused, Borst also re-

the thirties, If you like that; A little boy about seven years fused to get his trailer off the kind of thing, this is your choice old suddenly appeared at the crossing.

for this week.

bandit's ade,

"Whatcha doiry, mister?" he estend He was Ignorod, "Watcho puliin' all that money in tho sack for?"

While each man argued the merita of his case, traffic backed up at the crossing.

Borst finally got tired of the arquing, unhitched his trailer, left it on the tracks and eat in

his cab..

PATROL CAR

These Zanies

Jumping Jacks:

"Jumping Jacks", another re-issue, is now showing at the King's and Princess. This film, made in the happy days of the Martin and

YOU BOTHER US us," came the clussle reply of "Get away, boy, you bother the grocer, who feared the Ins quisitive youth might upset the bandit's trigger Anger.

About a half hour thter pollee patrol car zoomed up to Lewis partnership, showa Ho ran outside and obscrvod the crossing to see what had what can happen when

NEEDLESS CHANCES He added, "Too many people toke needlets chances. Ther drive too close to the front or drive when they tired. They make the mistake of feeling that it won't happen to them. But they're wrong!"

that Dowling grants

some times a driver hus E logical

The police stoned patiently armed forces. They do to the excuse fer on accident. He to Reld and Borut and pointed to one who

finally paratroopers exactly what purposely convinced the engineer to back they have already done to aldeswiped a car and rammed up his train

had a fight with my wife.”~*~* The best adrice for motor- ists, concluded Dowling, is

were manilacs."United Press.

n

proobedings through a window

caused trafic on both sides to couple of zanies get into the for a while, but soon was back,

back up for several blocks.

pestering and teasing.

Whatcha gonna buy, with

all that money, mister?"

At that he gunman grinned, The youth watched the money came out of the safe and edgod

Borsted hitched up his trailer the Navy and the Army, and made his left turn. Police That is create ̄havoc.”

closer for a better look. ""There's then held up the train Little The idea is that Martin andļa make in there and he's going while longer so the hotu-hoking | Lewis are supposed to have been to bite you," Watta said in -United Press.

in the forces gets in touch with the little boy-United Press,

drive as if all the other drives motoriste could get on their way, already teamed up, Marlin, now desperation. That got rid of

A young couple unsuccessfully tried-highway fence, explaining, "I Imitations in seven malules of several foreign countries, sleeping pills, a carving knife and a singing.

to commit suicide because the And a bird watcher, in Boston| recorded the performance of wore in Paris, France," Wendy draft was going to separate them. chother accomplished mock-u sald, where he apparently ing-bird whose repertoire in- quoted poetry to someone. eluded 30 bird songs, 60 bird culls and the notes of a frog und n cricket.

Yet mocking-birds don't talk, perhaps because they haven't been trained, Rand said.

Aside from the better known talkers, ravens, crows and joys semetimes learn to say a few But there's nothing to words the old story that you can make a crow talk by splitting its tun-) Buc, and sald.

Can Be Associated

didn't not like ho was "Hic crazy when he came in here, but he sat down in one of my chairs, propped his fect on the

and

started calling," dre Wendling paid,

SANDWICHES

They told their story in court at Kendal.

Davidina Taylor, 17-year-old HORROR FILMS

bride of three months, sald che and her 10-year-old husband, Edmund, wore, so much in love we could not

bear the The culler sent out for sand-thought of being separated." wiches, and didn't aloy calling until he was

asked to leave, Wendling said,

he

BEST THING

"Life would be hell for me Wendling said

cashed with Ed gone," she weat on.

takse me several cheques for the callor, "He could not

with and obtained proper identifica-him and he said he could not tine, but the service station leave me. We thought killing operator refused to identify him, ourselves would be the best

"It might make the trucking thing to do." Sometimes, he conceded, a

company he was driving for bird's conversation will seem to look bad," he said. "They ate

good customers of mr."

fit the occasion.

"Certain words can be United Press. nesociated with certain con- ditions and appropriate phrases can crop up in some circumstances,” Rand geid, "And this of course is the begluning of understanding the meaning of speech". But this to hardly us. far ad- vanced as the understanding of

a dog who learns to obey simple

:commands, Rand' said.

There are some stories about birds I simply don't believe,"

he said.

CUPID BAN AT NIGHT

Wood River, Ill. Cupid was advised in

For example, the yam about verse by the Wood River 'a sporrow Owned by a French City Council the other clergyman. The bird supposed- ly could recite the Lord's Prayer night that fines up to $50 When wild sparrows stole its will be levied against food, the truined sparrow sup- young lovers in Belk posedly cried out in righteous Indignation:

Park.

ord the Ten Commandments,

Thoubali ziot atent." United Press,

BREEZY BARN

El Centro, Calit. The University of California's Imperial Valley field station dis- clooed how It koops its cows contented in the nummer heat,

The cows aro cooled with 42- inch electric fans that whip up a four mile an hour broczo.

Field Bin Lon

specialist Nicholas It. Itiner said the cool cows gained 82 per cent moro weight dally over their untanned Alsters.--United Press.

F

·

Taylor, scheduled to stort ble National Service, cald they were "heartbroken" when he was to

leave.

"We decided to take sleeping pills and die in cach other's arms," he said.

But it did not seem to be working, he continued, so they sinched at their wrists with 4 carving knife that "turned out to be blunt."

"We then tried cutting our throat with a razor," he testified, "and that did not work out either, so we headed out lo u

quarry planning to jump off the edge."

PICKED UP

BETTER 'DRAW

THAN SEX

London.

A British movie critic claimed that the "shake, shudder and shock" of horror films has become a better box office draw than sex.

DTC

"Semi-censored - clinches be- twoen lusty lovers

stu okay? Columnist Bernard Mc- Elwaine wrote in the Tabloid "but today Sunday Pictorial, the really big draw is the sight of a monster ghoul or a creep- ing sludes slithering through the sewers to some ghastly rendez- yous with death"

McElwaing sald Hollywood was running full tilt in "the race for your shirklers" and "I Was A Tecnago planning

Police pleked them up in the Frankenstela" as a sequel to "I vicinity of the quarry. The Was A Teenage Werewolf." officers entled

at Davidina's home, where the newlyweds

live,

search of service-bound Taylor only to find what they

stained

in

MUSH GOING

“At this rate, Jayne. Mans- The council parted

described as "blood

field, Marilyn Monroe, Sophin ordinance framed as follows: bedclothes

and clothing,

a Loren and the other big beau "When la dark in the carving knite and a razor," ties are likely to wind-up with park, ve Lovers akail noo They said they then started rust on the bust the Column spark, the Clly's better

around and cruising.

found at said. "Shake, shudder and reputation to maintain.

ye shall not ambol on the Davidina and Edmund walking shock is the stuff mover mind

hand in hand in the woods in

In the mush." green, nor cavort in VOLLT

the query of machine, or your fine and lear the vicinity

McElwaine quoted-moviegoer will be the City's gain;

girl had question. Tho

throat Derek Haldon, a Northumber boy wrist and butcher, ng "You will find it rather wounds and the

giving the stupid if you play around wounds, the Court was told, reason for the honors growing with Cupla on Belic Park's The Court placed them both rating: kills or roads or precna. ¡ on probation. When Edmund

me every report for National Trims for "You shall not leg or hug has to

If you are 'with your girl-friend it is ten-to από she will cuddle in close for protecion it she gets scored!"-- United Press.

or play in any close and Service, the judge ordered, the carnal way, for if caught, a probation officer was to look out fing you'll have to pay.”— for his young wife-United United Press.

Press,

THE MAYOR FELL IN... CHAIN AND ALL

Poole.

was the moment that all

any woman would in tho clr- cumstances, She foll in

Indies from" Kas Queen And it was then that the men downwards dread, when theył. ty, stepping ashore from boat.

a

One nylon-clad ing was enfoly on the jetty, the other was on its way and then the boab a smart dag-declend launch called Toen filed with omelal's ---etartadi: to drift away, More Normax Alsh, wife of the Comanadors of Parkstone Yacht Club at Poole, did what

of Poole showed what gallan

Br try really la

Walter Halpigh would have been proud of them First Mr John Hiller, 42, Town

Clerk of Poole, A# D# "AM" disappeared below the surface

hes muraner drets, billowing about her, he grabbed..., her hand and pulled.

In went Mr Huller benido, her,

Artbur The Mayor Councillor.

Lloyd-Allen, 48, who 08 Admiral of Poola had just bosa starling Poole yacht "Hold race week, shouted - on" He too proffered a hand. Kira-Aloty grabbed it nodaplaati, Invent

the Mayor with chain of office -and-all.

Bull kors Alsh pulled harder, To the rescue came the Sharif,

thẳn he did and

Counsition Arthur Eutlet,

the. Mayor went over the side be caught his right, leg and hang on. Other passengers on the launch helped drag trim la.

Carefully this time, they took hola of Ms Aduh nach" "gently pulled ter aboard. The town clerk swam to the jetty aud hauled himags up,

He was there to steady the boat when, Him Alibi has another iry, at landing

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