1958-03-29 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1958.'-1

Interesting News Stories' Front

Parts Of The

World

Husband Wanted To Be A WOMAN

London.

(VERY night Roy Williama prayed for a miracle. And

The Five-Year Secret

week, was that ho would wake up to find himself alle showed his wife a collection of women's clothes

MR. WILLIAMS

Wore gates and furion.

WOMAN.

Ha kept the secret from his wife fur five years until the day in 1952 when he read of an opera-

tion which had changed the sex of an American airman.

Then, said Mr Justice Collingwood,

he told hers

That he had always wanted to be a

girl;

That he used to dress in his mother's clothes, and that he would suve up to have the operation. Not unnaturally, said the judge, Mrs Williams was distressed by these disclosures, The husband promised not to mention the subject again, But after a few weeks he appeared at a party dressed in

her clothes, and wore lipstick and powder, Ile wrote to a doctor in Copenhagen, offered his life. story to an American magazine if they would finance the operation, and asked a bishop for advice.

Peg Is

By HENRY MACLENNON

PEG

Rome.

EG was recently eight years old. She cannot talk or use a pencil like any of us, but she can express herself quite clearly in the Italjan language. There are some people who think she could write a book.

Including an inflatable brassiere-and he wore them In the evenings. He also word them to work, under his ordinary clothes.

AMRS. WILLIAMS

Admitted misconduct,

And he told his wife he was looking forward to the time when he would be a woman, do the house- work. and get married again. And he sent his wife a birthday card: "To Mickey, from her girl friend, Janet,"

Mr Williams, of Brixton Hillcourt, Brixton, SW, had denied all this, said the judge.

The dressing up, he claimed, was a juke. The letter to the doctor was to ask for udvice on making himself more manly because his wife hat mocked his physique.

She said he had a slim waist, sang in a feminine voice,

and ran like a girl.

She insisted that he put his hair in curlers.

Old &

Eight Years

Educated-For A

the first to gather the fuels, she is hurt or excited her card, about Peg and wrote about her writing is sometimes erratic. recently In the Corriere della Sera. De told her he was aged

II Pei asked & dimcult

s

Quite Dog

On many occusions Peg has been star attraction at benefit shows and has appeared ot Brezels, Turks and Verona. She

a silver sup 55 and usked in what year he question she will ponder for a

with the had been born. Quickly Peg while foulding at her mistress inscription; "From the bewil- picked up the cards marked for inspiration. But when she dered admirers of the Turin one, nine, zero, wa

really Canadi answer she Canine Chub to Pos, a dog

prodigy." Signora Corrido:i immediate barks (wice which means no. Corridori of Chiuri near Broseley gave Peg a

Pelf is a dark brown poodle and belongs to Signora Ines

le minced

in the north of Haly. Signore beef which the poodle loves so Corridori hus educated Peg and her file dog has appeared on Hallon fetvision and has been met by many famous expert, In the canine world from all over the country.

Expresses

Peg Expresses herself by forming words out of jettered vards

naked Peg

The journalist

ather questions und

answered most of them.

Tell me what kind of wea- ther it is today, Peg?"

"Caldo," (hot) answered Fer

Signor Brocchieri asked il che know the name of the President of Haly (Glovanni Gronchi). Peg hesitated and looked at her mistress.

and

with her fitile cards,

suid Signora Curriduri. Slowly Peg can read printed works, Pes Went to her cards said Signora Corridori, and wrote out the letters: Gromel. ashe always listens and under- small ribbon aftached. She stands

human conversation.

which bus cach of

picks up the cards with her The parish priest ouce met Peg teeth and puts them in line and was astounded.

to form, the words or numbers

In reply to a question,

But this is not a trick. Pek

is actually a do prodigy. A

present she is studying history, geography und some trature. She has a mind of her own and

he said,

"J's frightening," the animal is possessed!

Was Hurt

Signor

An Appeal

But the judge grunted a decreo nisi to the German-horn wife, Mrs Meta Williams, 31, of St German's Road, Forest Hill, 36, on the ground of cruelty.

"I accept her version without hesitation," he said. She bud ample cause for leaving him when she did, in June 1956, after nine years of marriage.

MR. ALYN-JONES Stared the night.:

Mr Williams's plea for a decree on the ground of misconduct was rejected. The misconduct, said. tho judge, was admitted., It came about "in a remarkable Way."

Mr

William Alyn-Jones, under- manager at the store where Mra Williams worked, took her home one evening, and was invited to stay the night. After a while, Mr Williams went upstairs and returned with one blanket, remarking: "You can keep each other warm." Then he went to bed.

In the morning he appeared in a yellow nightie, and gave

them both a cup of tea.

The judge ordered the husband to pay the costs of the

five-day hearing.

THE TYPE OF MAN

WIVES DETEST

London,

A WOMAN will put up with physical violence from a man and forgive him. But she will NOT tolerate meanness.

де

Jealousy: "The jealous part- will ransacit the pockets

Mecuness for example, over, "Affection and respect the Brocchieri writing money-is the secand" of the erollenal mainstays of most "You should know, dear. If about Prg in the Corriere della e features of personally marriages of people over 68

rock murri are slowly undermined and are Sera made an appeal to Adriano which most often you answer right you can have

doctor.

replaced by hatred." all the minced beef at once," Olivetti, who is not only the ages, says

maker of Italy's famous type- The first is immaturily writer but is also a publisher of cording to Dr C.P. Blacker, phy-ner philosophical and social books. sicien to the Royal Bethlem and diaries and steam open the Brocchieri thinks that Olivetti Hospital and. Maudesley Hospit-eiters of the suspected person could make an electronic typing al and vice-chairman of the in

search Di incriminating auchine for Feg which she International Planned Parent-evidence. could use by pushing the keys hood Federation. with her nose. He is certain 11 was certainly near enough. that the little poodle under ex- The journalist sal he was pert supervision of scientists amazed. He promised to bring and teachers could write a present for the dog and askeabook. what

the

Near Enough

Would like. Por

Peg was hurt, She went to wrote out that she would pre- We think the tille would people cre free to ask Berher cards and wrote: "Pag fer the present sent to her certainly be; "My Secrets from what the thinks and it the good, devil." It

nu

Was i mistress. In the general In the Animat World", by a dog. subject is beyond her reasoning | Hallan and though one or two|thusiasm of that reply Lit powers she will say so at once, letters were missing and a "z" minced beet present had been The noted Italian journalist, was used instead of on "", the forgotten. So Peg caliinly wrote Vittorio Beunto Brocchieri, was sense, was quite plain. When out; Promises should be kept.

Distress Signal Goes Up And Faces Get Red

NOT

London.

[OT even Portsmouth, where they know what -sailors are, had seen a prank to beat it. From the top of the 60 ft. flugpole fluttered.... a pair of frilly panties, a bra, and some black silk stockings.

It was rumoured around the port that they belonged to nurse.

And as the flagpole is in the grounds of St Mary's Hospital,

a

it was as good a guess as any.

Medical und oillee staff spotted the far-from-navol signol as they arrived for work.

It was still flying proudly in

the breeze when Mr Lionel

Rogers, the hospital secretary, appeared.

Nurses and patienis watched

Stamp

Paradise For 2s 6d

London.

The £1,000,000 National

from windows as he gave orders Stamp Exhibition nearly bo- for it to be brought down camo a thiovos' paradiso at "double quick."

England expects, so a poster the Central Hall, West-

did his duty. And the usmen-minster, fast week.

tionables were retrieved.

to Mc

They

were taken

All the stompg on show pre Rogers's oftico and examined under glass and one of the for name tags. But there was stallholders was selling glass- no clue 10. the damsel in cutters. It was like having a stand selling bumbr's, tocis," distress.

gald the organising secretary, Mr Edgar Lewy.

'Dead of night

Then the full story emerged.

Think twice before laughing. saya Signor Brocchlesi--United Press,

Who Said PC Books

13 Was Unlucky!

Landoa. Supposedly unlucky 13 holds no fear's for 92-year-old Arthur Millen and his

89-year-old wife.

They were married on March 13, 1888 and celebrated their Seventieth wedding anniversary last week.

Their 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grand- children attended the

the celebration. Billen said he started.

work at the age of 13 and was awarded a British Railways gold. medal for long ser vice on October 18, ,1980. United Press.

Swordsman

London Antique droter Leonard Goodall, 85, was praised in court for catching

¤ prowler

The man was paying rent for and holding him for police at

There had been a Pollee v. his stall, The organisers did the point of a sword-United Doctors football match the not realise that half-n-crown Press. previous day. The doctors had spent with him would enable a triumphed 6-2,

thief to open all the showers”

'Later there Why a doctors' said Mr Lewy, Carly. A fow nurses were invited

And at deed of night unt doctor picked his neck to lash the "lags" beneath the weather- cock.

Commented Mr Rogers, with

a chuckle Tys got them in

"But the exhibiidos realised it

Good Deed?

as soon as they saw him. They

all started complaining to It

There was nothing we could

Sunderland.

Mr Jones

THEN

Mr Jones

'Books' PC

IT

London.

"If the marriages of such persons do not break down they ate precariously sustained in an Dr atmosphere of hostility which is one.cf the nearest approxima- intons to hell-on-earth alfainable

In modern life."

If they're shy..... The third is jealousy. Blacker has analysed all three.

these He gives

results The Lancet.

Timmaturity: One' form is characterised by excessive de- pendency, soclot timidity, n sense of personal inferiority... with an Insatiable need for re- 28surance."

The possession in common of there misgivings makes a bond of sympathy between young people which can lea'd to inarriage.

"But before long frictions develop, because cach is making vain demands for reassurance and moral support from the other."

Tantrums start

Another kind of Immaturity has "luor frustration or dis- appointment ... followed by explosions and tantrums, which fare adult equivalents of the komper tantrums of childhood." - Meanness "will antagonise and cstrange a woman more than will acts of violence.

"I have been astonished at the physical ill-treatment which

T was Police Constable some women will put up with from periodically intemperate Desmond Halls who husbands, provided that they "booked" Mr Christo-later feel and

express 'regret,"

pher John Henry Jones,

says Dr Blacker

The woman treats the put- Mr Jones had parked his carburst us somehow out of char- without lights and was fined acfer and forgives 11,

105.

"Very different is has reac-“ Last week Police Constableton to intractable meanness or Halls was fined 5e. for parking lealousy. These are felt to be

despicable traite, forming

part of the man's integral inture, which he makes effort to combat.

his car without lights,

And it was Mr Christopher [John Henry Jones who reported

him

Both Ilve In Montgomery Rond, Ipswich, about 70 yards aport,

The constable wrote to the magistrates. "I fall to see why the complainant should adopt the attitude he has in that, bè, cause he himselt has been re- ported for a similar offence, be conelders that anyone making a mistake, such as 'I hùye, should immediately be brought to book and reported.

UNNEICHBOURLY

But Mr Jones, 92, steel ɑrector, said: "P.C. Halls shouldn't telk about being unneighbourly,

think he was loo

1

HIS HOME

WAS A

an

no

JUNK PILE

A

London,

65-year-old bachelor ro- cluse, Tom Walker, looked tearfully at his home last week, and 'said, “It just doesn't look the same any

mono.

"On February 10 T parked my And it doesn't, either. Austin 8 on a green - about 20| Tom's relatives descended on yards back off the road, opposilo | hit. Žemo In Hothertail lost P.C. Halls's house, with half a week and carted of 16 tons of | dozen other, cars.

funk.

"He came to my house at tert Tom had been collecting the to eight, and I told him junk ever since his mother died couldn't buy a parking light at and left him living alone ten that time of night, and that my years ago.

**

battery was yory, very low, to Tom's farmer brother, Henry, 1 couldn't use my sidelight.urod his irasio to cart away "But I was pluched the five tons of rotting timber Tom szme, at midnight

had stored Inside the house, "When I saw his black Austin Another brofiler tracited

do,, becauso wo bad lot the When a dog ran out of space to him.

backyard heis, '17 - year-old "But we asked him if he Harold Williams • obligingly my desk drawer, but I can't would mind leaving. He didn't caught fi, delu ned #1, matchefs keep them for sver."

make iquch fun. He said ha Tailplace. The cylpeik need" thought it was going to bea

its mistress's purse and ran off. have no fear. No disciplinary do-it-yourself exhibition when He was put an probation/parked without lights rang up away more than 1,000 empty ection will be takin

United Drow,

The booked the stand.

the police stations:

Page. B

THIS is the Gin

ORDONS

DRY GIN

LONDON,

apparent

ག ę;འདལ >>> GUILşata,ila

Quality Incomparable

Gordon's

Stands Supremes ·

Sole Dhiibutor:

D4DWELL & COMPANY LIMITED

0-50-LITE

SELF-RAISING

FLOUR

Obtainable at Áll Leading Stores

FOR

· THE ONLY FAQUR CONTAININÍ:

NUTROPHOS

TELEVISION

TELEPHONE: 77-2021

BEAUFIGHTER CRASH

A war-time crash, and the way a Rolox watch survived it, is the subject of Mr. S. W. Martin's letter addressed to The Rolex Watch Co., Ltd., Geneva, Switzerland.

"I bought Rolex Oyster Baloigh No. 162275/3478 in March 1942 in Weyburn. Saskatchewan, where I was serving at a Flying Instructor In the Royal Air Force. The watch was never off my wrisc and gave perfect. service, but its biggest tast came in August 1944, when I was flying Beaufighters in Coastal Command. Returning from a mission, on one engine, I had to crash-land in a small field. It was a pretty rough landing and the Beau Immediately caught fire and blew up: Needless to say I got But as quickly as possible, bus" suffered burns which kept me

in hospital for nearly a year. Traditionally, the watch should have stopped at the exact time of the crash the Rolex, following its own traditions, kept going. It ran down normally, and when I was sufficiently Interested in. 'things to have it rewound some weeks later, it carried on keep- Ing perfect time. That there is still, eleven years after the crash, an unscarred ring on my left wrist will give you some idea of what the watch survived. The only effect of the intense heat "was to slightly shrink and gis-

• colour the 'glasy'

ROLEX

A landmark in the history of Time measurement

*