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THE CHINA MAIL, HONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1958.

PEOPLE

in the news

The Sapphire

Needle

By DAVID DAWES

Batman

And The

Widow

A Weekly China Mail Feature

Heiress Of Amiens ABRAHAM LINCOLN

car a Holis

London.

It was D-Day plus live, when

Thomas Cax, a batman with

the 12th Royal Lancers, Jankiest in Normandy.

OF CANADA'

By RICHARD BERRY

Pogo J

The UNESCO Job

From Roland Pullen-

Paris,

LIVELY struggle is going on behind the scenes at the Paris headquarters of Unesco to. decide who will have the tax-fred 210,000-a-year job of directing the organisation for the next five years.

Dr Luther Evans, tall, 18st. An attempt will be made at Texen, who has been director- next month's general ssembly

new give the

director- general for the last five years, to

mid:

is fighting to keep the job. general a substantial rise.

A Unesco offciat But the executive board ut Unesco (the United Nations "With the rising cost of living hard for the director- Educational, Scientiße, and Cul- it is tura: Organisation) has just re- general to live on his present commended an Italian lawyer allotment.

Dr Vittorino Veronese, for the post,

Unexo's general assembly is expected to approve the board's

recommendation.

Tax-free

HER chauffeur and her side the swish The Aured advance took him to When John George Diefenbaker became PrimeThe Job money on tax-fre

hotel. Soon there will be two more cars. Another Rolla, plus chauffeur, and an Aston-Martin, which, of course, one can always drive oneself.

SHE 19 buying a £25,000 house (Tudor style) in the Home Counties three and a half Titten of round, three bathrooms, and garage

Amiena, where he bilieted for) six months the home of 05-year-old Мга Alphonse Webb. Нет husband, Mr Charles Webb, an Englishmen, whom she married ofter the 1914-19 war, had escaped Switzerland to evade capture by the German occupation forces.

to

for three ears, but I shall build a swimming During his stay with Mrs Webb, pool and have the thickest carpets all over the house."

SHE intends to learn to fly and may even SHE could, in fact, buy in buy her own plane, airline, though at the moment such a manve is little more then an interesting thought,

SHE might oven buy a Spanish-style villa ut Palm Beach - or if there isn't one to be bad build one.

For SHE is Mrs Maria Killick, without a shadow of a doubt one of the richest women in Britain.

How is it that this 30-year-old widow, who not long ago had to feed it four children on bread and milk for their dinner, pawn her last plece of jewellery to buy food and even allow her eldest daughter to work as a waitress, can now afford this port of thing?

The answer is simple. Mrs Maria Killick is the woman who last July won a mammoth legal battle in the High Court over the right to her own special-type sapphire stylus gramophone needle

The New Baronet

Sydney, Oct. 30.

A £24-a-week salesman here has just assumed the tle of baronet of Cusewick, Lincoln- shire.

He is Si Anthon/ Owen

Trollope Cinvering

who lives with his wife and two teenage BOUR in a small brick bungalow in a modest suburban arca un Sydney's North Shore.

from

Sir Anthony. 40, Inherited The ille

his father Sir Gordon Trollope who died in a Sydney hospital recently,

He said the title, which dales buck to 1842, would not

I

of alter his way in any way life-thor of an average middle- clues working man.

A

to

"1 only assumed the title [t would ignore because

insult have been

my family line.

"The only viable difference

Inclusion will be the

of the title on my busin.com carda-- Just to prest people."

The family home still stands at Casewick, but it is no longer held by members of the Trol- It was sold many lope family years ago. -People Special,

A British Crossword Puzzle

17

23

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Cross-country runners, so to

ACROSS

speak, between- (0),

#thieso financial inoliiu-

4

tions (6).

One way to get one's volco

back? (4).

Verbal chaft (0).

11 Near miss (5),

12 Teutonio substitula (0),

14 Obviously a pleassat resort

(4).

10 English gel in Frenco (8).

18 Mo, 11 neems,

strument (6).

18 Expectant (4),

a low

in-

20 Elliorately adorned (0),

24 I turn around in Italy (5).

21 Indiferenco (8).

20 suppery customers (4).

27 Should he got the measure

of his subjects? (0).,

20 Ti, a il were, à medium

Affair (0);

DOWN

I She's precious (4).

Cocky wind indicator7 (4).

3 Leading golfer (4)..

4 Dimoulty with the razor?

(α).

6 Knocking 'em back! (7).

Love (7).

7 Bples out the land? (7).

10 Prepare for a contest on

fixed lines (5).

13 Sprinkta (3).

14 Twenty-ONE,

moybe, and quite unaffected (7).

10 Crooner, possibly presiding

over a court (7).

17 Main blood vessel (5).

19. Altórical records (8).

21 Architectural recess (4).

22 School (4).

23

One of the English Actona" (4).

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION:-Aerom: 3 Rond hops, 8 Away,

a Cup of tea, 11 Composer, 18 Hirno, 16 Men-power, 10' Aeration, 10 hips, $1 Arrivals, 20 Presided, 28 Cher, 27 Drossing. Downt Lale, War-M, 4 Opur, & Door, 1 Qulet, 7 Beale, p Cerop, 10 Peter, 12 Okapl, 14 poll, 10 Weird, 17 il-bki, 19 Rapių, 20 Place, 21, Aude,, 22 ILR-JB, 29 Ache, 21 Spry

After the verdict it wus said

dialm that he could

ugainst wbo compostes gramophone have

manufactured her stylus all over the world.

Now her accountants are un- ravelling the tangle. They have already told her that she can expect her first £1,000,000 by Christmas. And there will be "many millions more."

And it will be tax free. Since a court order to recog- It took nise the rights of this "brilliant woman engineer" to her invention, all the royalties will be paid to her as damages--and are therefore free of lax.

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What do you do when you know that you've all the money you can ever spend?

of

allowance" sentation

GETS

11

Minister of Canada in June, 1957, he was and a tax-free £3,000 "repre- virtually unknown outside his own country which equal the net income of a He had been leader of the Canadian Conser-mionaire in Britain. And vatives for only a few months and he had me united froc

travel. never before held a Ministerial post.

critical Britain's Suez policy.

A GOOD MIXER He is Baptist, the first to become Prime Minister, and,

This is the linc-up>-

world

the

"I Dr Voronese gets job he will need larger living

Dr Evans, be quarters than enure he has a large family."

FOOTNOTE: Unesco flow has 80 member nations. Britain con- tributes £275,000 a year.

Australian Actors Keep Left

rodic

Sydney. and Lelo-

Australium

will perform at vision stars street corner meetings to support Labour Party candidates in marginal scats for the federal election on Nov. 22.

The Federal Council of Actors' Equity is to urgo members to vote Labour, the Federal Prost- dent, Radio

Television comedian

said

school. Later he worked as a shop assistent to pay his way through Texas University.

DR VERONESE has been n here, member of Unesco's exccutive board for several years.

Now he is fast becoming one, Conservatives were swept back

DE EVANS is 50. He is power by The best farried, and has a son aged 22. the best-known politicians in o

Before he became head

ut Mr Cox dared his rations and the world. In 10 months' office majority in Canada's history.

Diefenbaker, now one of the has travelled further cared for her

every he and

Unesco he was a librarian at the tha Christmas since his return to any of his predecessors, and in most secure Premiers In

United States Congress, a burning fallh in England he bas corresponded the next five weeks be will visit world, has

He was the oldest of nine with her. He lives at Conon- 15 countries and journey more Canade and the Commonwealth,

than 35,000 miles on bils first He sharply attacired the pre- children of e Welsh-born rai- ley, near Skipton, Yorks.

vious Canadian Government's way foreman. His first educn- Now, his kindness has tween ro- Commonwealth tour.

attitude towards tier was in a one-room village warded

through the will of

RELIGIOUS MAN Mr Webb, who died

Le

Diefenbaker is p distinguished- Touquet

on August 15. Mi Cox is to re-visit France to looking man, burly and over six renew his acquaintance with feet tall, with blue eyes, a strong 80-year-old Mrs Webb and to jaw, and waving grey hair. find the extent of the bequest. Hts admirers have halled him although he deca not smoke and rarely drinks, he is a good 'Abraham Lincoln of Mrs Cox, mother of six children the

mixer compared with the two Like Lincoln, he is aged from three months to 12 Canada,"

somewhat withdrawn Premiers years, said that £1,000 awaita lawyer who comes from farm

St Laurent and Mackenzie King. of the West, Like ed her husband in France, and country

Diefenbaker has been married that there was another sub- Lingold, he is à religious man,

twice. His Brst wife died in stantial amount deposited in with great sympathies for the

1950 after a long liness, and in en English bunk.

1993 he married Olive Evange Mr Cox bald: "I never actually A fourth generation Capadion,line Freeman, a widow with a

Mr Webb. Often I have John Diefenbaker was born on

They had daughter, Carolyn. been asked to visit the family September 18, 1895, at Leustud est met in the 1920s.

came in France, but with six chlid Ontario, His ancestors

Mrs Diefenbaker bas accom- ren I could never afford it. from Holling and Scotland, and

panied her husband on all his "Mrs Webb was

Ho has kindly old through hɩ mother-torn Mary A lady. She became cook to the Florelice Banatman he is con- election campaigns.

said that no man could wish with the two officers for whom I was neuled

family of batman. She was obviously Britain's Liberal Prime Minister for a better campaign manager. short of food and I did all I of 50 years ago, Campbell-

Bannesman, coutil for her." Mr Cox is a £12 labourer

night shit at the Barnold Swick Factory of Rolls Royce. -People Special.

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Air Regiment| Find New Jungle Tribe

Kuala Lumpur. Paratroops of the 224d Special Air Service Regiment have Lourd

tribe" in the a "lost North Malayan Jungle the elu- sive Jahai Negrito Aborigines.

The Government had known of their existence for years, but had never been able to contact them.

underdog.

WORKED AS NEWSBOY

In 1908, his father, a school- teacher, took the family to the of Saskatchewan, prairio lande Young John helped to pay for his own education by working as a newsboy, a farm labourer, and later as a temporary teacher.

During his holidays from Saskatchewan University he

I was

The Same

Young Man In Plush

London.

Behind the chair of the Lord rode a bicycle across the prairies Mayor of London at the Guild- from homestead to homestead 4 ball funcheon, given to wel- a book salesman. think I come the Kaiser to the City in

every slopt ja

haystack in 1907, stood a splendid young Saskatchewan when

man in a uniform of gold and travelling salesman," he said. scarlet plush.

In World War I, Diefenbaker Behind the Lord Mayor's served as an Infantry officer in chair at the Guildhali lun- France. He was invalided out cheon øven recently to wel- of the Army in 1917 and return-come the German President ed home to study law.

Dr Theodore Heuso, food the New companies

Starting his legal life in a same man, dressed more sober- Mrs Killick is going back to

town of 100 inhabitants, he reply in black jacket and stripped to become one of Canada's most trousers. work. "For ten years," she told

succesful criminal lawyers. He He is Mr Richard Johnson, a me, "I've been prevented from,

in the dignified figure, known to using my own invention. Now The 122 people of the tribe would go anywhere

their broad-shouldered country to defend people who everyone who is anybody in the working 16 hours a day led by

found themselves unjustly de-City-The Lord Mayor's Chief Penghulu Young starting new companies."

are prived of their freedom. Messenger, now in a scitlement.

Eighteen out of the 20 people

"Young Mr Johnson" The story of the discovery he defended on murder charges (He is now in his 70's, but wil of the tribe was told by

not-disclose his exact age) hod Malaya's Adylaer on Aborigines, were acquitted.

been Inte service for a

I'm

Life will mean business before pleasure

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the John

But the pleasures are siderable. Among thom pleasure of doing good. "I will soon be a multi-millionaiross, but I won't do rich."

The

tribe

(chief)

Mr BO.D. Noone and Major Watts, Commander of D. squadron of the Regiment,

was found by troopers who had been follow- tracks they The Misalonary Bociety, sheng for a month

thought would load them tu thinks, will get a million.

Communjet uærorists,

"For myself," she told

mo:

"I'm going to buy a Rolls and

And some an Aston Martin. thing I've wanted all my life...a Kit Louis XV grand plane. They're hard to get hold of but I'll pay £1,000.

Over

Tho

were

Lord Mayor's TWICE BEATEN

year when the Diefenbaker first

for stood

much more "Things Parliament in 1925 when he was Kalter camo to London. 29. He was beaten that year

in those days," he and the next, so it turned to elaborate

In 1937 he reminisced. "I wore a cost of provincial politics. was leader of the Conservatives scarlot plush, embroidered with ears of wheat in gold on white in Baskatchewan.

powdered hair. The aborigines room

Diefenbaker's surprise election breeches and deep lungle from North Perak, to the Federal Parliament in The coat alone cost £100," to South Tholland

ID40 was one of the tow Conser-

Double Six They live on Aah, Jungle vative glas in tho genol

At the 1907 luncheon, the fruit and small animals, and recufon. Ever since then be ha Lord Mayor look six footmen

in lean-to shelters of sleep

been returned to Parliament- banana leaves. To start a fire often the only Tory to succeed with him (they were oli over they rub sileks together, and in his province.

six feet) and there were six

under-sheriff. The Kolecr brought two footmen of his,

"One of the first things I'm they going to do is settle large suma pipes of money on my children.

Kicked around

**They deserve something after all we've been throughs in the past ten years.

and

"They've been kicked pushed around. We had to move house €60 times as things got worse and worse."

**

hunt with shart blow- Ho quickly won a reputation others with the sheriffy and

Apears and bamboo People Special

A Striking Scientist

D3 strong

own.

parliamentarian through his

cron- elever examining of Ministers. He was recognised as a first-rsto plat- form spraker, forthright and hard-hitting.

From U.S.A. something of a lone wolf and he Kaiser's visit was

was twice beaten in his bid for Emperor's

"I got on with them very woll," said Mr Johnson. "I re- member they were very enreful! about ing the trains of the A LONE WOLF ladies dresses when they got He had a strong pomonality into their carriages."

of But he was - Another memory

the and great charm,

the German own sparkling the Tory Leadership by John masello wine which he brought Brücken Plymouth,

in 1042 and George with him,

"I tested fi, but it was a bit An American nuclear physiciant Draw in 1940.

In December, 1050, Diofen- too sweel for me," nald Mr wearing, wille feather, hat,

The Kaiser alad black outh and high-heeled biker was successtul in his third Jolinson.

Bax onthe later he brought his own specini com- shoo-stepped ashore here on ) mitempt), the way to larweli.

anded 22 yours of Liberal bined knife and fork,

But he only "One of hia arma was useless.” Dr Jean Booit 'told inquirers: | Government. "The moment someone talia me helect a minority Governinent said Mr Johnson, and he had dia party won lip of thp 200 his place laid with a spoelal I look like a acientist, I quit."

She is the first woman selen- | sostaesnú many credited le corbined knife and forit which

that he could use with one hand." "Yes, I've had a lot of them, tist from outside the Common- success in

foot

I don't remember "exactly

Mrs Kalick smoked steadily as she talked about her threa daughters Dawn, 17, Cynthia, 10, and Tina, five, and her son, Nigel, right,

"liva nimedy bought them all 1 blcycles and all the clothes and

toys they nood," she said.

"What about proposals of mariaga!" I asked.

Ar

but I don't think I'll marry wealth to be employed, at Hor- Canadians felt like a change, again. I've americod frota this | well, and was rated one of the But the full extent of the what they had to eat that time," with a deep sympally for men et attractive PARKENGETI Populatly of Dierenbaker Kid he said, "but I do know they and à confempt for their bust aldard the French Hiner Liberto his party cojild, be appreciated had a baron of beef."-People Mesh methods,”

| From New York-People Special the following, fast witch the Special.

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and Hai Lashwood

Mr Lashwood said Equity was supporting Labour because it He is a tormer director of believed the party would help number of Italan banking provide employment for Austra- companies.

Ban artists. The Actors' Union

the From 1944 to 1052 he was also belleved

present president of Italian "Catholle | Liberal-Country Party Coalition Action," and is still a leading Government allowed too TARNY offelal in the movement.

American Television programmes

hë added. Ho his wife and seven Into Australia, children.

People Special.

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