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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1958; BET

News

Stories

rom

Paris Of

'The

World

THE SPACE-AGE CHESS SET

The Queen Becomes A Space Ship

Rome.

THE ancient and international game of chees ́entered a space-age orbit today with new chessmen designed by a California artist,

FOOTBALL

WITH BOTTLES!

Hallston,

The annual football ge takes place here next wask -and да USURI

they're

using boulos Instead of balls.

"Bolties" aren't rexily bottles they're amat bear filled kege. Object of the two teams, one from Haṭṭa- ton and one from the Nearby village of Med. bourne, le to get the kega Into the stream which sur- rounds the field of play.

One A kea la In the water the team which put If thera can drink the biar. No one is quite sure how the game larted more then 400 years ago but a good time was confidently fore. cast for alt-United Prosa.

He Liked Riding Trains In The Nude

MA

Billericay,

Arthur Ellloti, oner animator for Walt Disney and row living in Home as a part. ralt painter, has ake.ched and turned out raceful wooder. pleces for o "Spare Chers" sel in which;

*

The Fawns are ground-to- air defence rockets;

The Castles bre rader

The Bishops. are Intercon- tinental ballistic missiles. The Knighta are space

clite.

The Queen is A space. Pháp.

The Kink

Is

station.

spack

Elliott, a 44-year-old artist

STUDENTS BROKE INTO GAOL-TWICE 'We made enough_row.....No one came'

Edinburgh.

from Hollywood sold his ideas TOUR Aberdeen

for

space-nge chesimen more than just a stunt.

Instruments

wore

Fo

University students -they prefer to re- main anonymous-told last week how they broke into

"I'm chess player_myself," he said. "ond

TWICE I aimed at designing pleges wisten would Curry out the centuries-oli form of chyssmith, whether they be English or French ひず Chinese.

The Californian pointed out that the shape snd style of

chessmen had changed through-

out the ages to 1 new develop- mente in instruments or war

Peterhead Prison, Scotland's toughest gaol, and escaped with- out challenge.

They made their valda in the carly hours of the morning. They...

and politics "because chess is a SCALED the 20ft, outer Eume of strategy like war or politics."

"Once there were chessmen designed us fortifications like the castle, and armed men, Jiko the knight or the pawns," Elliott Bald. "Now we think in terms of rockels and sputnika

wall by forming a human ladder;

PAINTED white footprinta in the courtyard and on the walls of the "escape- proof" prison;

and ultimate weapons and there|RÁISED "enough racket to

in no reason Whỳ chess pieces

etno interpret those cas."-

waken the dead" when

Elliott's pieces, varying in they accidentally jumped height from about two inches on to sheets of corruga. AURICE CATHIE, for the pawn-rockel lo sted from;

Inchies for the king-sphe 47, kes riding stallon, are not meant to be RETURNED for the fun of nude in trains. He's realistic representations of e been doing it for two pace-age cbjects of their new

years.

has "Everybody

own his peculiarities. This is mine," he suit,

But he won't be indulging in his "hobby" any more. Court here in England has remanded him for a medical report after two police officers burst into p cumpriment of the 6.40 4.m. Suuthend to London train and found him naked,

Detective Sergeant Basil Nichola sold Cathie had been seen several times riding the 6.40 to town In the nude.

names,

The wooden pleece of "Spacy Chess" pre gracefully carved, tradi- following generally the tonal lines of chesamen.

Satellite

The knight-satellite, for - bi- stance is a spherical sputnik supported by a awcoping curve of wood which gives the general shape of the old-fashioned knight pleze.

Frhe rules, or these, perhaps our most international game, basically have not changed for Ellott centuries and will not," said, "and new pieces must conform to the character of the beengame.

NO COMPLANTS

had No complaints received from women but there were females in the same car ringa the diny Cathle was arrested and they could have grasping the space Ideas of our seen him if they passed along | the corridor, Nichole said,

Nichols zald Cathie told him he had been travelling naked in trains for two years but didn't think anybody had seen

him.

"There are more than 10 million chess players in America alone," he said, "and new piepor

age are likely to make even more dévotees, especially among young people who think in terms of the slacs tolny."

Elliott, who calls him eit 11 rezist painter, altended the

Th evidence Cathie, an Aircraft Academy of Fine Arts in Phi- Indelphia before dist going to Inspector said he took off his Europe in 1934. He volumed to clothes because of a compialut

work for Disney from which he had suffered for America to

a number of years. He hadn't and on animated training ms gone to hospital for treatment for the Navy during the war

because he worked seven days

n week and hadn't the time.. United Press,

BALLISTIC PEAS, BUT NOT CABBAGE!

Scarborough.

NEARLY 100,000 British

teachers insisted lost wask it was not part of their Job haring to face a barrage of ballistic peas in an odour of "stale cabbaga," -

United Presi

TV-Watching Dog Becomes Sick

it after escaping to safe... ly and claimed the paint pots and brushes they left behind.

"I ran into a bin or some- thing on the second trip," "salu""""one" invader, who wore a comic "convict auit" with brand arrows. "Lights went on all round usbut no one canie and we got away easily." THE OBJECT óf it all: It was a warming-up stunt for the students' charities drive.

HE

How the student invaderî scaled the Prison Wall »

CALLED IT ROBBERY

BY MACHINE

By DENIS HOLMES

London.

WHEN the Electricity Board overcharged Mr WE

Peter Currie a halfpenny they really started something. Now the board are offering money

back to a lot of people.

THE BOY WHO SAW NO LIGHT FOR A YEAR

PARIS. FRENCH general's wife kept hár 17-year-old adopted son in a darkened bedroom FOR ONE YEAR |because she thought he had done poorly at school, say Paris police.

The

woman, 63-year-old Mme, Adelo La Grange, had heen accused of filegal restraint and ordered to be examined by psychiatrists.

It happened in a wealthy area of Paris, just behind the resi denes of the French President.

FAMILY HONOUR

Mmė. La Grange accused thin, dark-haired Jacques of letting the family honour down by not getting better marks.

She sent him to bed and sald she would teach him herself.

For several weeks she tried to give him lessons in the small bedroom. But she soon tired,

The lessons stopped-but the solitary confinement went on, with the shuitors closet and locked,

Jacques lived in his twilight world, taking his meals alone, until he lost all sense of ikine. His chooks grow palo and sunken.

Neighbours, worried because they never saw the family, spoke to relatives of 78-year-old Pierre La Grange,

Three polico inspectors arrived and hammered at the heavy, door of the flat,

-WAS-FILTHY...

At last the door was opened. The flat was filthy. Jacques, on

his beð, lay staring at the police." -They wore the first people he had seen, other then bla adopted parents, for a year.

Tho police opened the shutters. Jacques's hand flew up to his eyes. The daylight blinded him. His hair Wea matted and unevenly cut.

"He looked liko n scarecrowW," the police sald. The mother called bim 10 malignant growth,"

Doctors" found-that-Jacques- had acute anaemia and that his mint had "suffered a terrible sl:ock."

At Jacques's school hia musters sald he had received excellent marks.

Hand Grenades SOCIETY OF

With A

New Look!

•

Flensburg

ITALY has developed hand grenades that "emphasise more than ever the aesthetic side,” the magazine The Ger- man Soldier reports in its current issue.

QUADS, TRIPLETS

AND

H THE

TWINS

Frankfurt. President of West Germany's "Society of Quadruplets, Triplets and Twins" called "for tox Toductions for parents of twins.

The report recolled how "un- Irind, cold, and dangerous" Friedrich Majera rallway German hand grenades looked i offelal, und hilf father of in World War Two and criticised twins, i also urged special

It began when Mr, Currie, 49 the September quarter, over- year-old clerk, of Douglas Road, charge. Sq he wrote again. This the unfriendly appearance of medical care for twins..

Handsworth, Birmingham, was time he was sent a three-half-pineapple careiades,

records twins, triplets or quads.

In his hometown of Munich, Mujer sald, 12,000 of the city's OTAN million population are twins.

CONGRESS

The next "World Congress of will bo

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The Italian grenades, made by Mejor vald that one out sont a bill for £2 122. Od. He penny stamp with the explanathe Confin Company, of Rome, of 80 births in West Germany replied: "I only nwe London.

£2 129. tion that it covered the Septom-have modern plastie cases or a 60."

·ber overchargy," and would put A doctor reported in the

The bill was for the December March and June quarters.

things right for the coming body formed of iron rings, the

roport said. -authoritative British

quarter at his seven-room hound,

*** PACKAGING Modical Journal 'that his

Houses with an odd number of Mr Currie. dog became

said: 44 ill after

have .rooms haVO an odd halfpenny got satisfaction, but

It also praised their packag thère watching a televiılan pro on the quarter's bill.

are 1,200,000 Midland consume Ing-they come wrapped in a gramme showing another

ers. I estimate that possibly hair cellophane bag with a blue band, But the Midland Electricity that number have an odd num. dog with rables,

The magazine'editors said "Twins," Dr A. & Leslie-Smith said Board's electronic accrunting ber of rooms and are therefore that the report was not intended held in 1939 in Munich, his 14-month-old Golden alem cannot

deal with half-paying a halfpenny,Loo much as a joke. They said the writer Irst congress took place in accounts are made fench quarter.

of the article was no longer Eindhoven, Holland. "Many of us aro fod up with Retriever, ndy, often watched | pennies,

employed on the magazine but Majer said his federation In it," apokesman said at the TV. His rald Lindy recently was out to the nearest penny above.

further comment. also planning a soap-box derby Nations! Union of Teachere, watching when DNOCTUMME

for twins United Press. Conferengs here. A Temlution featuring the work of French that was outvoted demanded doctor. -- Louis Pasteur, and

that ❘ a rabid, dog was chowni "Immediato i stopa" so

Mr Currie wrote 10 the An electricity official said Inst

Residents **Our dog w promptly. turnéd | Board; "Robbery is robbery | waelis "Vło, have the endorse- teachers should no longuy be Nollect to supery.co school sway and vomited her dinner, whether committed by an elec-mont of the Midiand Consumers' | housing project asked the local

| the doctor, a general --pragʻle trio machine or otherwise,” Electrlekly Comeli-in. charging council to tell them where they twice as The majority or teachers florer, parted, and

The board bent him a half-to the neurest penny above, live, Thờ contractors who built children born apart thought they could-stend „ika mshia wife, Belly, told reporters penny stamp with its account,

| their houses, eructed a sign on Fir, thaleronson, he said, lax pen barruan, Rousewhat longer, that anorgandy war alsk jeho usking him to pay the f "But if anybody wants his private land proclaiming it to be reductions should bollowed. The motion towar: dafonted by just don't displays the same amount..

| halfpennies bacic, hir húe only tö, Cumberland · The council the "barents because of their Site Distelbutork? Sardine, 26,814:10/97,858 deisgnier proxy interest in

. That put things right, bút Zir frd to his electricity offer ibe | bandort Up: Motheeymaran median ang moedfalk - joongsoraibiliti Chris started thinking about mones, will be refunded Z Oherdliw Rost -- United Presa | UNILNE PRUE,

dianere

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United

-HALF PENNY

"What about all the other refused electricity boards?"

Loadan

West German law presently allows no tax réductions for paronia, of twins, triplets now quadam an

twin cout (Mujer (sisald

much

than two