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THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1958.
41
The
World
Her Beauty Drove Men To Suicide
A
BUT WHO IS SHE?
The Italian trigate Velore was cruising in the Atlantic on Weather was good and the led comparatively, calm,Old sallors sald the statue, inclusion in
that day.
La Spezia. since, she appeared in mid- WOODEN statue of Atlantic one day bock In 1964. a woman of striking beauty may remain hid- den to sight forever in a basement of the Naval Museum bere in Italy.
Iter beautir is dangerous. Over the past half century, two men madly in love with the
fell
statue and because of her.
All of a sudden, the man on watch duty kaw what looked ke a human body copping ap and down in the waves,
Calmmi Captain Aristofone took a quick look and sent out a sloop to recover the "body." What the saltors brought back
wooden statue beautiful, sters looking woman, diapest in classical Greek gar
which left her right menta
With her right bosom bure. hand she raised her dress just above her knee.
wooden
#06 committed suicide
The more than e-aze statue would make one of the finest exhibits in the Museum, due to open shortly for the first the since the war. But think- ing of what she did to people in the past, oficials are in doubt whether to display her.
*The story of the statue han been shrouded in mystery ever
FOUR GET
THE CANE
AT FAG-END
A
WVD!
of
nume
Sculpted cn
inc pesestil, "Atalanfa," a Greek word which "invaluable" Dr
"matchless."
Musco
Tall, handsome German. They had not to go far. When Wehrmacht soldier Erich Kurz they smashed the door of his room, they found the had been placed in charge of rented the Museum exhibits, stored young blond saidler lying dead Á new
at the foot of the statue, z pistol away in a warehouse. He fell battet, through his head. The picted here.
even oversize statue looked enormous It was not until 1924 that the love with Atalanta
more desperately than the in the kmall room. tatue claimed its drai vietimuardian hed. A guardian of the Museum com-
Ind
Ald
"twitched"
•
A bote in Kurz's simple. determined handwriting clutched in his left hand.
was The
aute, now exhibit N. 2509 in the. Naval Muscum, read;
usines no wothon except you
price undoubtedly adorned the brow of some railing, vesad named Atalanta, But that was all cnyone could and out. The nationality of the ship it come nitted suicide by drowning him- One day, Kurz could no from,
and its fate, havo- te-air in one, of die bie docks of longer stand the temptation. He moined a mystery, to date. La Spezia Arsenal. Friends sald placed Atalanta oh on stay
hod been continuously truck and corfled her to bis The sailors Igoked at the statue as If fascinated, During talking about Atalanta lately, all tented room.
the statue. had him to the point
A few months later, Kurs can give me the like of dreams, the return trip, some of the men
that he bad lost interest in failed to report for work, HO Amianto, I sacrifice my life would sit in front of the statue, Kazing at her for hours.
He spent hours commander fearing that he to you." Soon some of them becaine Ferything else.
Quarrels and hours carefully dusting the might have been killed by of others.
and looking at hee Italian pariisons, sent military Signed Erich, Kurz, Oct. 13, jealous started, and Cap! Cammi even- stutue wally had the statue docked in beautiful face. a cabin to avert licuble.
Twenty your Inter, during War Two German. The status was placed in the World Naval Museum in Genon, then occupation of Italy, came victim moved to La Spezia in 1897 for Inumber two.
THEY DATED A
police to look for him.
1
1044,"—United Press.
By ERNEST SAKLER
GHOST
The Strange
Case Of
She Came Im But She Didn't A Man And
A Crinoline
SCHOOL To The Garden
London.
THE "fog-end" revolt
A fared again last week
London.
---after four boys were THE three nights 45-year-old George Hesketh cabed for patting NO spent in a deserted country mansion were, SMOKING Bolleesh the said a judge last week GHOSTLY and GHASTLY. I
windows of Portsmouth
Grammar School.
storied
when
ย
Trouble cigarette-end thrown from a window felt on the head of new master.
He found
several prefects smoking. They were "do-capped" removed from office. The upper school staged a protest. -stamping their fect of prayers. Last week the headmaster fald the boys: "Your prefects were not decopped because they smoked-but because they allowed others to smoke."
RIDICULOUS
But the 15-year-old leader of the protest grup commented: What a ridiculous thing to say. It just makes the punishment geeniinoru hurch,
Parents Dare
Not Repress
Children
Their
Bristol.
DARENTS of today dove
not rapress their children in case they get some kind of sex complex, vatoran magistrate Sir Ball Henriques told a girl guide audience last week.
"Instead of the parents
He
He heart-or thought Jie heard-supernatural noises. Faw-or thought
ghost,
he saw
It was a somewhat cerle ex- admitted Mr Justice pertence, Salmon at Cardiff Assizes.
Hesketh had told the court: that he tried to sleep in Bush Rouse, Pembroke. because he could not find lodgings in the town.
With him was his 25-
year-old HE TAPS
On the first night they saw a vision of a crinolined lady walk- ing the gardens..
On The second night their parar-lamp was turned down four times, and their conts were valled from their shoulders.
"We are intensifying our pro- tests against individual musters as well as making u din during bringing up the children, the Street, Beswick, Manchester, had
meaning assembly."
On the third night strange wells aid en the toppings windows finally drove them out, Heskeths of Hessup
work as -gony to Pembroke to child rules the parents," he sald.oor layers on a new school,
From the mansion they moved At assembly one day last week,
There la a great dauger of the headmaster, Mr Dennis
darkness. the Hibbert, stopped the pianistys and girls losing their sens into the school to sleep. Three
of responsiblity for their own digals later in
father fell down 11 steps and factured his skull.
THE RATS "There wa9 atline when a
His claim for damages against Today it is n
council "There was 150
county
after the third verse of a hymn actions, Sir Basil sak). to tell the 600 pupils to "sing properly."
One boy said: "At Brst we sin was a sin, mly player up the new master.complex," he said. Now we are taking it out on the a time when a mun and women dismissed. other masters. We have decided were free to choose their own not, 10, boycott the school play because inembers of the public would be there."
they think they Ure. Today cannot help doing wrong." United Press,
THEY SET OUT
FOR FRANCE
was
The Judge ruled that though he slep! there by Invitation of the clerk of works, he was not entitled to roam the unlit, dirty, and rat-infested building.
Ag he left court Hesketh said: "I didn't believe in ghosts but I de now."
-
Turn Up For This Waiter
By JACK CHRISTOPHER
Pembroke.
KEPT a midnight date with a ghost last week -a pretty girl in a red crinoline and a bonnet.
For 70 minutes I walled under dripping, trees for the Belle of gliding Bush Manor to come through a bricked-tsp archway in an old stable. But she stood me up At least, I think she did
My blind date was the dery, mischievous girl ghost who terrified a father and his 16- stone son when they slept in the old mansion.
GARDEN PATH
When they saw her, they fled, and the father claims damages nt the assizes for injuries received running away.
he
The creeper-covered stable was black against the night-sley
bush #longside the garden path when I tucked myself under she should have walked at mid- 'cight.
At 12 o'clock exactly a pair of barn owls hooted above my head like lump-eyed heralds of the ghostly maldas. Nething hap pened. Brek to the car for a drink of black coffee,
And huge chunk of masonry sailing through the cir from nowhere and struck the 1oof as I was getting in! It was 12.10 am.
Wee not a
1
ONLY A BICYCLE WAS ALLOWED!
Mortlake.
The policeman who -backed 20 year old Becretary Margery McKay for riding har, blcycle ön the aldewalk, wasted his timo.
A Baby
By COLIN LAWSON
Rome.
TOP Italian surgeon
Ettore Sacco, operating on a man who complained of stomach trouble,
removed an embryo baby boy weighing 14 lb.
Professor Sacco, telling of the operation, said that the baby was in about the seventh month of development.
"It obviously had a separate existence at some time," he said, "but is growth ceased some limo
BIO..
"Such cases as this are rare but not unknown.”
Explained the professor: "Ap- |parently the man's mother con-. ceived twing but one of the babies started to form inside the other. In
Margery appraared court. She fumbled in her handbag, took out a klip ór paper, and read aloud: "I'm afraid the section under which I have been “Summoned, dooy-not-cover-
the offence."
Magistraté and clerks lekfed through their books and found she was right. The law made It eget for horse, sledges, carriages, automobiles and many ather. vebiztos to travel on footpaths, but did not cover bikes.
Magletrate C. W. Barrel diamined the cass. Margery explained later that Ther dad was a retired, polleo Inspector United Pres.
It became part of the man in the form of a pomsite." The man, a 40-year-old farin- er whose name Is being kept secret, frst went to hospital at Genoa, complaining of stomach trouble, Three...... years ago.
He has completely recovered,
THEY WERE 'FAMILY MEN TOO!
London,
"I that you Mark?" called Mrs Winifred Day, thinking sha heard her husband's footsteps outside her bedroom, Stirling. There
breath of
"No, we're burglars," replied a Farm worker Gordon Fairey cheerful volen. wind in the trees. But the door accidently pierced his foot with
violence that Bish House, built 53 years elamumed with a
The prowlers kept Mrs Day garden fork, went to a doctor locked in her bedroom while Ago on the site of a previous rocked the car on its wheels. I
they ransacked the house mansion destroyed by fire, was jumped out and my feet crunch- and find it treated.
home of
When theed on gravel. Nobody could have formerly the
the Woctor Anished, stole more than £1,000 worth Meyrick family.
crept up-to the car without my Fairley got up, walked into the of jewels.
dead. street-and fell
Police "You don't have to worry," Said Sir Thomas Meyrick, 67-hearing....unless....
said today he died from shock. they told her. "We're family year-old third' baronet: "In 10
men ourselves."--United Press, I never saw a years there
But I do not believe in ghosts-United Press, ghost."
-even she is supposed to have a Diana Dors Agure.
IN A ROWBOAT THE CURE
Tadley. TWO boys, aged 12 and 13, nervously awaited punishment for stealing a rowboat and with two setting out for France equipped compasses and a slingshot to "shoot game.”
WAS WORSE
Bristol.
40. MINUTES
•
For 40 minutes more I'walted, Cider used to be the curse of: No more bricks, no more slam- I looked at my Mrs Iris Jenkins, a local house- ming doors.
watch. It was 1210 am. It had it was wife. But
the cure
stopped when the chunk of which landed her in court.
masonry hit the roof-just two She was charged with stealing hours after I had wound it,
doctor's signature to get And that watch has not lended in supplies of a stimulating tonic stopped in 15 years. It's going
her medical adviser prescribed fire now.
Thirteen-year-gid Richard | slingshot. Robert sald they 20 prescription forms and forg Comber and his school chum planned to use it to shooting Itobert Edwards, 12,
they were game" when brought back to this village France. from
Channel Port of the Folkestone. A freighter picked
them up
+
and
GAY LOTHARIO DYED
HIS HAIR BLUE
London.
to break her of the alcoholic And U girl in the scarlet SIXTY-YEAR-OLD Ernest. Burns Gay
other lucky fellow.
Lothario" who refused to grow old, said a That night, they "borrowed"? a habit
ziarted She told the magistrate the crinoline? 1 think she stood me
and went to haunt sonic divorce judge recently. as they drifted small rowing boat and
from rowing. But as the British cliffs tonic, "bucks me up to end."-ur
receded loto the gloom the United Press, going got tough. The rowboat. tossed widly and shipped water, and the ide turned against | them.
choppy was three miles their starting post after, spend Ing the night adrift and hungry, HOPED TO ROW
They had hoped to.row. 23 "We wore, not making any miles to the nearest French progress and scas wore break- trip that normally ing all over the boat," Nobert beach takes cross-channel steamors| sula. "We decided to retum to 13 hours with good weather Folkestone but we couldn't."
and favourable des.
It was the second time the
boys had run away from their
EXHAUSTED
TV makes these children naughtier, says doctor
ENTALLY
+
He seemed to spend most oli "His wife got something from his: time having affairs with the kitchen to bleach it, and he different women,
cells, that cruelty
he husband's firet affair was He even dyed his hair with à young girl fie met on that young girls could not so holiday, The wife found a letter it had turned white, But Nonom her which said: “Now I roade some mistake, and turned await your arrival, my darling, it blue:
in the hope of an evening of} Mr Burns, now living in » hotel.. Bought, a He says that the large lacrease. Coventry defective became of incidents against the person divorce at Birmingham from his
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CHINESE OPERA IN ENGLISH
WAH YAN DRAMATIC SOCIETY
presents
THE GOLDEN BOUGH
A full Chipers opera in English
A Tamda old Chinese story-e
Gorgeous Chinese costumes
Chinese Theatre conventions Later the wife found another But all the dialogue and wards of songs in Engbah
Love.
100 Kisses
M children
They Anally foli osteop, ex-/ naughtier after BBC chil. ~tram 70 tó 291, among the boys, wife, Mrs Annie Burns, fetter, containing, about 100 || inst time, two weeks ago, they hrusled, and. Mopt until day-dren's` television was introd from, 24 to 60 among the Binley Rood, Coventry, on themes, and the phrase: "ThDEO
homes to seek adventure. The
girl-wo
to ground of cruelly..
Dismissed
probably
duo
are all for you, my daring.!! duced at their hospital. scenes and conversation on TV
There Were her Aftaisi. Qol brutality,
aghting, and
she found a protograph mum, a got in for a Worthing, another break.
Dr Gerald Rudolf, consultant of Constal town, but returned after
Before long crewmen of the
Yation Hall killing.
Mr Justice Barnard dismissed mate message on the back
girl called Nan with an affec=" spending a cold night on the reighter, Pint, poliod them psychiatrist al
Incidents were grouped into. beach
A BUÍDANA on those laying With picked them up, and took them hospital, Bristol, gives details in
the spring number of Mental seven types: bgainst the person, the petition, Ruchird and Robert set out back to Fulkestone.
Health
against objects, noise, excite-"One of the charges rande
complain that he was builda, from home one day hoptas Their fathers arrived there to He writes that misbehaviour ment or hot temper, disobedience against the wife is that she put
of barred or rowed, said the to ad excitement and warmer take them hemo. Villagers Increured
the judgestone LG weather da rince then they were
over whether eldents among the 20 boys, and Indefinite,
The Arst includes being out of "When you sort out the truth -The wife had not made rus-, found in Britain on the last day they should bo, punished--or from 20. to 104 among the 12 of Winter MATHESON
praised for showing the sort of girir, at the hospital for a year, bed at the wrong times, and of the matter you find that this bishy charges of cruelly against They had only few randy spirit that won the Balile of before and a car after the 10-Windefinite" suobb tarts as vala old man dyed his hair him but almper donira INE
troduction of LV.
indughty" and "troublesome." blue by mistake. bars to eat, but took along a Britain."United Fren.
Wih Yah Collage Theatre, Waterloo Raed, Kowladin
& NIGHT
TO-MORECW NIGHT AT 8.00 P.M.
women had he cause i to BOOKING AT MOUTRIES from 520 to 071 0 burliness, wandering, and peroxide in his hair-oll," said
Tickets $8,
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