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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959.

EXECUTIVE

KILLED IN SHOOTING

ACCIDENT

Montreal, Nov. 18. Harry Anderson, retired presi- dent of

Motors The General Buick noter var division, was shot and kilted today in n hunt- ing accident on St Anne's Island In the St Clair River, Ontario, police said.

They maid he and Mr Harlow

were

11. Cuirt ce, former President of General Motors Corporation, Together In a hide near here when a fight of ducks rame towards them.

Police grid both men were sooling from a nifting position when Mr. Aurieron stood ар jurt as Mr Curtice Bred.

The short-range

blast struck

Mr Anderson in the side of the head, the palice added, Anderson, was

Mr Reuter,

68.

Gregory

Peck

Walks Out

London, Nov. 18. The scandalous commer- cialisation ot Christ- mas might bring back Saturnalia, the wildest and most balstorous of the Roman orgias dur- Ing which drunkenness and vice raged supreme. The wookly British Metho- dist Recorder today suggested this.

The newspaper said the

commercia- Christmas

attempted

of lisation and Easter had long been a scandal and was growing wome.

the

trend present continues it could and

whole with the

year moving along through ever more flagrant ad-

"If

Christmas

Becoming

An Orgy

vertisements to these two focal points, with perhaps a summer and a winter sacrificial sale in between,” it do- clared. "Christmas b' now a sea- son when multitudes of people, borne on;a wave of sentiment and tradi

tion, whose very origin has become to them o little obscure, and cor- ried away by clever ad- vertising, Indulge in a spanding

the spree, more lavish the better." The newspaper 'said it

would be "an irrevoc able loss" if the process continued

raduce Christmas to "a

com- bination of a pagan festival and a public holiday,"

to

It added: "Is it too much

to say that it may be trug-that it may even bro terrifyingly true- that this commercialis- ing of Christmas could in the end bring back Saturnalia?"Router.

Richest Man Beaten

In Auction Sale

Of Old Masters

London, Nov. 18.

The richest man in the world set out today to buy up some old masters but the auctioneering pace of nearly £1,000 a second proved too much for him.

watched in adjoining American oilman Paul Getty Others

tele- closed circuit failed by nearly £10,000 to buy rooms of up the "Head

Bearded vision. Man," by Rubens, at Sotheby's When the Rubens was an- auction today.

nounced as "ot 33" the tension was clectție. The bidding was started by Agnew #1 £3,000 per second. Getty lost out two- thirds of the way through.

of a

Art dealer Edward Speelman Hollywood. Nov, 19.

pald £35,000 for the Rubens Gregory Peck left his ca

for himself one of the highest starring role opposite Marilyn

prices ever paid for a Rubens Monroe today amil Numours

except the celebrated "Adora- that he has fallen out with her tion of the Magi” 11 sold last over script changes.

Peck and Miss Monroe were! to appear in 20th Century Fox's! "The Billionaire," changed to

summer for about £250,000.

Not Enough

to

"I was ready to Ko up £25,000 suld Mr Geity in his Rita Hotel room, where he sat

"Let's Make Love." but the actor saki production delays conflict- ed with his commitment to do ou the sale.

hati art dealer of Navarenne" The Guns

for me. Agnew bidding

| Greece next year.

1

I didn't go high enough."

Gregory But

Word that Getty was bidding Rumours circulated in Holly-

*brough the wood that Miss Monroe's ad-spread quickly

elaborately visors changed the script, giving high-ceilingert.

her a more prominent role. The chandeliered auction room.

Dealers seated on gilt chairs slubo denied any such conflict; prompted Peek to quit.--UPI. packed the mala auction room.

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95 Seconds

The entire procedure took 95 seconds.

Agnew managed to take home for "himself" two other paint Ings which Getty would

ked.

have

"I was ready to bid up to £30,000 On Gainsborough's portrait of Anne and £5,000 for

Romney's double portrait," Getty said.

"But Agnew was able to go beyond me for himself."

The Bond Street deater pald Gainsborough £34,000 for the

and £8.000 for the Romney.

Hush-Hush

ATIer the sale he resold the Gainsborough to Mr Getty. hush-hugh about They Were prices. All they would say is that the sale was a "subsequent arrangement."

Total for the entire sale was £261,050, considered "plenty

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However,

this day of sky rocketing prices

one Sotheby's official remarked ruefully that the "Adoration of the Magi" sale fetched record total of -approximately £740,000.

Getty did manage to take home with him a garden scene of the Dutch school for £350 and an Anthonie Jan Van Croos landscape for which be paid

£920.- UPI.

Police- Public

Relations Inquiry

London, Nov. 18.

'Proof Of Our Friendship For Britain'

Pretoria, Nov. 18.

Dr Hendrik Verwoerd. the South African Prime Minister. told Reuler tonight that the fact that Mr Harold Macmillan had been invited to South Africa was the best possible proof of the country's policy to maintain and promote friendship and co- operation with Britain.

He said this was his Govern- ment's policy whatever the con- stitutional position of South Africa, which is committed to the earliest possible establish- ment of a republic.

that

[It was officially announced in London tonight that Mr Mac- millan would visit South Africa in January.]

Dr

sald Verwoerd shortly after becoming Prime Minister, he had indicated that A visit by the British Prime Minister would be welcomed by South Africa.

I would create an op-

top

portunity for personal level discussions of problems and future developments which affect both countries," he said.

Reuter.

Ice-Box 'Raiders' Paradise

Sydney, Nov. 18. multi-millionaire Grook ship ownar will intro- duce P round-the-clock service for "Icebox

raiders on one of his ships.

feci So it tourists

hungry during the night while travel- ling on the Patris, they will always be able to get a shack.

The shipowner is Dimitri Chandris (38), who has paid a The British Home Secretary, Mrying visit to Sydney,

R. A, Butler, said tonight that The "snack" service will be the time had come for re-introduced on the Patris which lations between the London will begin a regular Australia- police and the publie to be Greece run carly in January, examined by an independent "The Patris is a one-class authority.

ship with a luxury look," Mr He told the House of Com-Chandris said mons that he would be ready

1,000 PEOPLE

to talk to members about im.. He sold the Patris, bullt in plementing his suggestion be- 1950, and formerly called the fore deciding what for any examination should take.

The relationships of the police and the public were complex. And connected with them

were constitutional and legal prin- ciples of great difficulty and Importance.

sold

that

The Home Secretary my own impression IA the time has come to have them examined

the authority with

and impartiality of on indepen- dent authority."

Ho would consider, in the light of memberst views, what form this should take-cuter.

IN GERMANY THEY PLAY THE GLOCKENSPIEL

AND THEY DRINK

Carlsberg

Bloemfontein Castic, had cost £7,500,000 to buy and rest.

It would accommodate 1,000 travellers.

When Australian touriste arrive in Athens they will be entertained for three days on specially arranged might-me- Ing tours,

And-from there, cheap air travel has been provided to take them to London.

BRITISH UN OFFICIAL KILLED

Beirut, Nov. 18.

Mr Leslie Curver, the British deputy director of the United Works and Nations. Reiler Agency for Palestine Refugees, was killed kore today when ;; kila car, was in collision with

anarimotized car,

·Mr ́ Carver, whose age was given as about 50, was driving to a nearby, golf course when his car was in collision with the lust of u convoy of armoured cars at a roud function,

He leaves a widow and thres children a daughter and two

artackying in Belināts, Reuter

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