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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH ́25, ́ 1958.

This Is America

N.Y. (By Airmail).

From JOHN THOMPSON

́attitudes. And grol, authorities

HAND-PICKED police from New York's Morals the planning to experiment with

by

records on prisoners.

FOOTNOTE: So far there · is

The only people to complain Are the disc

about all this

jockeys.

They tear they have abdicated the to the record shop on

Most radio stations how only allow the disc jockeys to play the top 40 on the local hit list.

Squad are accused of racketeering protecting a millions-a-year betting syndicate, no news of any device for keep

Americans awake at their corner.. A

working a high-interest loan system on the water-work front, and covering up on illegal operations by some Brooklyn doctors.

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The Morais Squad was set up after the break-up of a huge police-protected belling combine back in 1050.

chord. Philharmonie played a

broke a pleci of Kaye

The orchestra played baton. more softly.

By a strange coincidence 42-

When the playera could not year-old Harry Gross, bookle

straight face, Kaya boss of the 20,000,000-dollar-a- keep a

ordered one musician Year (£7,140,000) graft scandal ordered: "Serious, boys, serious."

released from And he

off the stage for laughing out prison today.

He was serving a three-year loud.

in 1950, was

sentence

far

breaking parole given him by strong-man Judge Leibowitz, the terror of New

If not propald booking to Yurk's underworld. of 60 cents is charged.

POSITIONS VACANT

On appeal it was ruled he should have had only one- year sentence.

In the Morals Squad Investi- ration District Attorney Silver

ACCOUNTANCY, BOOK-KEEPING, I claims to have conclusive

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Off-The-Track

ns

"Y

he On

weal-guying and miming and above the

uproar rang his own comment on New York's concert of the year: don't know about you people out there and I couldn't care less but I'm having the time of my life"

BIGN on dopvalt safe

during the day.

NEW TREND h

New York'a centrally hosted apart. ments is to

the empty fireplace with a fish tank.

Nuclear Check

COASTGUARDS have comped

Styling themselves "electronic Jukebox volees," the disc jockeys bak: "Is our prime requisite the ability to count up to 40?" OUT OF WORK pay In New York State will go up from $86 £12). wook

Out $45 (10).

the time limit to the payments remains at 26 wonke,

Pick-Pocket

down an intense nuclear check on all ships entering San Francisco harbour-which points directly across the Pacific to warda Russia.

They are swarming over the with geiger counters, boats

the listening for

click-click which would tell if the boatsTTLE OLD LADY carried Indioactive material. Similar tests are being made at Los Angeles and San Diego.

The reason? "More or less bank night a

training exercise for port In Loulaville,security personnel," said Com-

enostguards' information

to

looking

at least 80 threw herself into the arms of a Los Angeles man and cried: "You're the spit- ting image of my long-lost son." Then she apologise for the

Kentucky, read: "Out of mander Arthur M. Davidson, mistaken identity, and hurried

with

the

order. Leava depoelt portor." Throe depositors officer. obeyed.

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Persistent Blackmailer Has Plagued

Vienna For Eight Years

By HANS JANITSCHEK

Vienna, March 24. WEALTHY and influential Austrians have been receiving letters for the past eight years from a stranger who calls himself "Mr Longfinger" and who appears to be "the most persistent blackmailer of postwar Austria."

According to police experts, somewhere in the Vienna woods, ¡ to describe in so much detail the the receivers of these letters are For, so far Mr Longinger has places where the money is to promised "death and disaster if never come to the places whero be hidden

to deposit they do not meet Mr Longfinger's he told bis victims

Mr Longinger's existence has their money. For many con- demanda.

its consequences among secutive months, policemen, dis-had Some of Austria's greatest guised as wood cutters, tourists, Vienna's high society. He is industrialists, landowners, artists mushroom collectors, and so on, putting a great strain upon their and even politicians have ro- have been watching the places nerves and at big public recep- latest letters often Altogether, appointed ceived his letters.

by Mr Longfinger,tions, his

constitute the main leple of tank, more than 150 leading Austrian But he has never appeared.

Sometimes several millionaires personalitics reported to police that they had received The pollee have used electrical are in a sanatorium at the same mail from Mr Longfinger threa-traps, radar systems, even a hid-time, not because they are real- tening them with murder, den television camera placed y 1 but because they have from Mr near a spot where a "vletim" received had burfed a packet of faked Longinger and are recovering money. Only once has a hid-from the shock.

With den alarm bell sounded. revolvers rendy, policemen

No Trace

the

His

the

letters

Threatened

These letters are now all in Jumped out of their hiding the possession of the police. But places. But I was only a rabbit no trace has been found of Mr which had tripped over

Many threatened persons have Longnger himselt whose de- electric wire,

been given polles protection day mands are all for money, and

At the same time, the polles and night during the period in rather large sums at that.

they were threatened Later the man found $22 favourite figure seems to be began to check the places from which

Longfinger's lettern with murder by Mr Langånger. 100,000 Austrian missing from his

Echillings where Mir

Post offices and But no attenut were mailed.

has yet been wallet. But he admired the pick- (about £1,400).

But mall boxes were watched.

thrown, no made, no bomb "Everybody else waits pocket

"No one will prevent me kill-he changed the places so often arrow shot, and not even a around for the Government to

impossible 10 pulsoned take care of them in their old

poisto found in the ing you," he declares in his that it became

Yet the coup of a millionaire. old letters, written by hand and con- follow him. the

grammatical

police, and the "victims," fear age, he said. "But lady is employing a real techal-taining numerous

that it Mr Longinger is really cal skill to take care of herself." errors. "If you do not pay 100

mad, he may one day be crazy enough to carry out his threats.

Now they and the He also said that large ships (£7 17.) FBI are looking for the porter which had called Al Iron and $1,000 (£360). The chute Curtain ports were checked as was IN order.

a routine massure "but occa-

check we simally

even the fishing boats and small yachts to get

our men acquainted with the geiger counter."

Latest Fashion

NIGHT and day the American

pressure

DRESSMAKING LESSONS: Sewing cutting, patiem, drafting, fiting.

never slackens. "Complete training.

Latest fashion is for Interesting.

lessons easy. (Terms modenate). Agoly:

while Road,

One firm sleep. you "Ja", 39 Worgnelchang Happy Valley.

hopes to do a million dollars worth of business in bedside record courses this year.

STAMPS

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To ADVERTISERS

TN New York.

In most other States, off-the-truck betting is legal. Now Silver is out to discover if police who quit, or

attor the were Arod, Gross case are "pulling the strings" smong the State's bookles this time.

Despite talk of "eican up."

bucked -by Judge Silver, Leibowitz-who is also taking a hand in this investigation fears the police may have teamed up with leading underworld figures.

The

waterfron! of value rackets in Brooklyn alone is

lessona. at $10,000,000 (£3,- estimated 500,000) a year. Both Brooklyn and the Red Hook and Eric Ersin areas are thought to be "rampent with loan sharks and shakedown muscle men."

arc

More than 100,000 Americans already taking sleep-disc

I hear of a Californian model whose curves are now running to fat who drifts off to dreams- land with a Big Brother volte playing softly from beneath her the pillow..

The three areos are

ground of Tough BUNDAY POST-HERALD Stamping

the Tony" Anastasia, boss of Space for commercial

Union

and Longshoremen's advertising should

binther of the murdered Albert booked not later than Anastasia of Murder, Inc. noon on Wednesdays.

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For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hour bafore date of publication.

Special Announcements

and Classified Advertise- ments as usual.

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Authorised Distributors of South China Morning Post Bouth China Sunday Post-Herald Cins Mall.

While in Macau, stay at the POUSADA INN, Praia Grande." Cable: Pousada,

CALIFORNIAN mother, 29.

10ln Socorro year-old. Banchoz, has given birth to eleventh child, boy weighing 161b 30%.

her

д

Danny Kaye

of

The firm male voice reminds her: "Correct weighi is a maiter

good

will health. You develop an instinet to select the foods you cat."

The record player has a pre- set iming mechanism. In the middle of the night it starts again for 15 minutes and then again just before the alanın elock goes off in the morning.

AN INDIGNANT mother from Atlanta, Georgia, has beaten up the schoolmaster who enned

had her 11-year-old son-and the teacher arrested on charges of assault and battery,

80 MANY people ard visiting the New York exhi bition of 41' paintings by Str Winston Churchill that the paintings have been rearrang- nd to allow for a "one-way traffic" only at viewers. Aevli

famous REMEMBER the

her Bette Davis lins befora party in the film "All About Eve”—“Faston your' safety bolts, folke, it's going to be a bumpy avening"?

She nak

went down to the school and beat the

I was so angry 1 out of him. don't remember all of what did"

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The teacher was arrested and released on bail,

At

A PORTRAIT, valued $1,000 (£357), of Texas-born President Elsenhower HEB been found stashed in a clob in Houston, Texa À note fixed on the frame read: "We don't like Ike in Toxa”

NTT-SLUMP NOTE: Detroit A business man Samuel Schiff has been giving his employers an extra Ave goliary (sbout 359.) with their pay cheques as “con=

deme spending money."

He makes it a condition that

DO they work, these learn-the monry must be spent in a while you sleep records? week on something the employee There is ho dennita

would not normally buy, ciualon yet

But

many

con-

OMEDIAN Danny Kaye, took

to conduct the stand

the

people believe New York Philharmonic, and I people can be taught by repeti- essure you conducting ation and the power of suggestion symphony orchestra will never while they are drowsing off or be the same again,

In a light sleep,

assumes 10

Wisely. was announced ut Carnegie Hall after Kaye's name! "The management responsibly for this portion of the programme."

The audience, paying extra

the fur charity, led

hall. Muestro Kaye strode out with a dazen balons under his arms.

He shook hands with the then leader of the wruhestra, worked his way back, greeting his men with a firm handelesp

lady When he reached the harpists he kissed them tenderly. He wound up for his úrsl

lin downbeat-and his stick back into the audience.

Another baton, another down beat, and the 100-strong

The sleep-dises aim at a wide variety of targets. You can learn Ruslan by them--and this 17:3 day when is revealed here that while 10,000,000 English, Russians are learning

anty 8,000 Americans are study- ing Russian.

Older subjects include: how to relax deeply, and how to breaks habits like smoking and nail-biting.

A number of firem are using self-confidence courses played during sloop, for bolstering the morale of their saleemon. Some education experts be- lieve the records could be used

The idea to put more money into circulation and thus pop up business.

Now Mies Davis has found bumpy basement and la suing her landlords for $85,000 (£30,000) damages.

ranted

She save when she har hours she was shown a

schillings, neatly wrapped in waterproof linen, you will die a terrible death. Try to make the package as small 48 possible...

Frightening

Longfunger Lately, Mr been frightening his

In the meantime, the affair is hos vletima" putting an ever increasing strain with detailed descriptions of on the Vienna police force. They Then follows an exact des how they would be killed if they sometimes have a dozen men out cription of the spot where the did not pay: "You will be shot in remote parts of the Vienna money should be deposited,

Awoods watching hidden packets bomb will be thrown into your Invention. car," or, his latest

under a stone; a tree trunk, or by a poisoned arrow.・・・ of "money" while a dozen more

bushes in the Viennn woods.

have to be spared to watch the "the poisoned American potato houses and movements of people "If you

been threatened, -- do not comply with

tiny piece in your who have this demand, death and disaster-only

China Mall Special. will overcome you..." the letter soup and you will be dead." concludes,

"We do not know from bow he netually got many people money, one police official said. "We know only of those cases where the receivers of the letters refused to pay and told the police,"

Many police believe that Mr Longinger is a madman, though; his skill in distorting his own uses only handwriting-he

avoiding capital letters in lingerprints, and in choosing dif- ferent post o lees, indientes that he must be intelligent,

door lending to the basement and was told it was a cup- board. But when abe opened

One thing is sure by now: he the door she fell

So, Mr Longfinger may be a) down the

enthusiastic staire and hurt her back,

rich man today, But the police must be n

woods. doubt it. At least, they think, tourist of the Vicuna his fortune still lies hidden] Otherwise, he would be unable

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The advertisements were paid for by Richard Baker, boss of a Dallas

store. department has had a flood of congratula tions from Texans who read his | nati-slump message.

In other parts of the country also people are reacting to the unemployment (now present

over 1,000,000 lorent (w of the Government to give them a firm lead, by taking steps themselves. In Now

towentien England

their have a second string to bow. In Vermont workers have been paying their way by de- veloping what they call "stand- by skills."

They turn to work like house- painting, decorating, brick- furtna, Jaying, helping on the

They are prepared to travel long. distances to cam a wage.

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INCLUDED in the красо ∙age dictionary published last week by the UB Air Foren is "Unobtainium." This la do- fined as = "ubstance That elthar theoretically cannot exist or that cannot be pro- duced because technology lo Insufficiently advanond.”

Boycott

QETY recruits staged a week- long boycott of the mess hall at a camp in Virginia in what the army described as a protest against military neatness and routine.

Most of the rebels are opilego selence graduates,

They are doing Juty at the army's Engineer Research Laboratory. Trouble really bolled when NCO's told them they would get no more pay until they

mortened themselves up.

Sold their colonel: "Some of these men think it is beneath their intellectual status to peel potatoes."

The

adjutant minced words, "This is muting," bo sold, and the punishment for muting to dentă gîteszt,

no

But the roerulis went on get- ting Shake meals elsewhore until ins one put it; "Most of us ran out of money so we had to go back. "

very

China Mait Entertainment Guide

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT

KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Joker Is Wild." Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor and Jean Cruin in the story of a night-club entertainer who makes good, STAR & METROPOLE: "The Land Unknown."

Pro-historic Mousters found in a valley.

"Count Five And Die." ROXY & BROADWAY:

Jeffrey Hunter and Nigel Patrick in a spy thriller. "The Pride And The HOOVER & LIBERTY:

Passion." Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren in a technicolour drama. ALHAMBRA: "Scarlet Doll." A Chinese picture. LEE & ASTOR: Cantonese Operas..

CAPITOL & RITZ: "The Delicate Delinquent."

Jerry Lewis in a comedy,

ORIENTAL: "Hell On Devil's Island."

MAJESTIC: "Blue Murder At St. Trinian's." The

Belles again.

Audio

Enterta

Visual nt.

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TUESDAY.

BY MARCH 25 Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middie East. Africa, Great Britain, Europe,

p.m.

Canada, USA., §. v.m.

4pm.

Korea, 0 p.m.

By surface

Macsó, i gm.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26 By Air Formcam. Okinawa, Japan, 11 .. Philippinen, North Homeo, Noon. Indo-China, 1 pm.

Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, Now Zooland. 3 p.m.

Hewall, U.S.A., Canada, 0 p.m. Formosa, Kores, 8 p.m.

By Surface China, People's Republic, 9 a.m. Macao, 1pm. Irwby-China, Taitand, Laos, 2 pmu Sarawak, North Borneo, 2 p.m. Macao, d p.m.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27

Laon, 6 am.

By Atr

Peking, Shanghal, Hankow, Kun- ming. Hollow, 8.30 a.m.

Thailand. 9 a.m.

Japan, 10 ...

Malaga, Indoneda. Australia, New Zealand, Ocylon, Pakistan, Africa, Great Britatu „& Buroge, 1 p.m.

PRINC. 1 p.mi

IS.A., 4 p.19.

By Surface

China, People's Republic, a.m. Macas. 1 p.m. Burma, 2 p.m.

Mulays. Coylon Bodia, Pakistan, Aden, Egypt, & Italy (Switzerland, via Genoa) (?". India, via Korechi de Mibe via Bombay). 3 p.m.

Mecas, 8 pm,

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

Dy Surface China, Peoples Republic, © a.m. Macso. 1 p. Cambodia,

Malaya, India, Pakistan. Iraq ( Chulf Poria, Patosis vin. Kuwait) (nabe via Bombay & P, India, via Kasohl), 1 p.m.

| Auntie Ray; 8:20, Progvendvo Ju~~ RADIO HONGKONG

preeted by Ray Cordeir

Orders 630. "Not for Squaros"; & Tiredney Torch and hli Bignal. Le Demi laura" Francalve 0.25, Birthday

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de 21. Castel: 5.30, Call-George Bag: 8.30, Hand Mich pallier His Chorus. and chestars; 2. Personality Parade............Fred Orchestra; 6.45. The Music of Kaatre 1.16 Evening Bernede

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11.20,

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Tod Thomas; 2.30, "Cinderella"

From

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KOMPLE

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Prelude To Midnig®i;

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Korea, 3p.in. Maci, p.m.

BATURDAY, MARCH 11 By Bintara China, People's Republic, 9 a.m.

Malaya, Adon, Egypt, Great Bri-

Indo-China, Fralind, Laos, 9 pm. Philippines, # p.m.

Nether-

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"Bokary of Colonel Jacky", North Borneo, 3 pim.

Macau, 5 93.10. China, People's Republic, id p,m,

SUNDAY, MARCH M Macho 1 M.

"Look What des Found" presented | Close Dewa.

19.00, Seatbor by John Wallacer

Signal. TERCISO pack 11, Time Newcod: 11.1. And Bo To Zed; 11.30, Close Down.

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