1959-12-17 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1959.

THEY'LL KILL ME!

New York.

UNDER the bright lights of Broadway recently 1

heard a man calmly forecast his own murder. He is Willie Reid, a Negro farm worker who, in a few days, will be back in the Florida chain gang from which he escaped seven years ago.

He and thousands of New Yorkers believe he

"I'M JUST A

"

DEAD DUCK ”

is returning to certain death. "The guards will SAYS

shoot me in the back of the head the first chance they get," he told me.

Church and trade union

leaders and Jawyers have

1

gls: Florida's detal

of Reid extradition

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ne what he experts when he will stop aside and the

will shent me down." go back to the chain gang.

They'll be cut to kill me n Iteid told me the story of his right he said,

bids trial. "Escape

"There wasn't nobody lone are sure tickets to death. in that courtroom except the 1 when you've pilled the gr. he Judge, and me," he bts about them, then they've said,

ally got it in for vol.

They go two ways of kill- ing me. A Hard

just Pround You Rovel 11 attle to walk towards in,

You When walk thuard will ahu se in the back.

The trial

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Bek odda place! train the

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i was ear prove ying to make another break. And I won't be able to argue.

"If they want to do it fancy well, thun's simple cnough of their Top. They'll have une Negro Trusty pusoners pick a Eight with me over nothing. At the ch moment the trusty

Mid Week Selection by Friell

The future

"And

the gaoleis corne to take him back.

His joker Ince cracked' Into in for the first time, "1'a

; mighty (campting thought, mister," he said. "But I'm sick of manning. And I woulhi't be running long. They'd get me."

As Be waike.f

Reid is Wily said: "Don't worry about me, mister. A loita people already dicte that and it ain't got them anywhere. I'm just a dead duck anyway."

Governor

Laut word from Hackefeller "The Chasteintion

the judge said "How do does not permit me to revie

the extradition warrant." lead, bay here

o my mouth the gander hicies know you guilty, nigger. co on and plead guilty,"

"And the jude he say Culily

No matter how he feels about the Negro vote in New York Buckefeller sal has to do his diuity.

ples accepted-17 yeath for But he has tried to save assault with intent to kill, and "few that was about it, muster.

of those votre has asked Florida Governor Le Roy Collins before safety,

I asked Reid l he will try to 112 for another State

guarantee Reid's

4.

"I'D CALL SOUTH AFRICA THE CAT'S WHISKERS

"FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY IN CAPETOWN ON DEC. 4.

APARTHEID

"NICE PUSSY . . .!”

Londos Exprese Sørvåer.

A

BUTLER AND! GAITSKELL IN PHONE TAFFING

"They are going to arrange a debate through the usual chonnels--I'll tell you as soon as I hear the date"

EAR PLUGS

"If the BBC are really going in for plugs on sound radio sa om 1”

SPACE МАК

KIT

"A difference as to the folly or otherwise of a space

programme who knows? The future of Britain may depend on the outcome!"

Just Fancy That!

CORPORATION dusteart pulled up, on fire, outside the Ritz Hotel In Piccadilly the other night,

The doorman shouted: "Get that thing away from here."

The three-man crew yelled back: "Watch out for the petrol tank," and look shelter in the hotel's colonnade,

Fire extinguishers were borrowed from the hotel but smouldering dustcari could not be shifted for half an hour.

the

Paris

Paris.

ACTRESS Odile Versois has re-

from a two months'

stay in New York "boiling with rage.

Newsletter from SAM WHITE

An accent loses

Odile her

Broadway role

The reason for her rage? After being asked to play with Rex Harrison in a Broadway production of one of Anoullh's latest plays call- ed in English The Fighting Cock, she was told shortly after arrival that she was unsuitable for the role. The reason given was that her slight French accent (actually more Russian than French) would have clashed with the im-

lose well off of peccable English accent

As it happens, her dressmaker women so rich are obviously enough.

is a prosperous but minor onc of the rest of the cast. interested solely in their charms.

It all works out in the end, who occupies minute premises have heard nothing tot however, with as in this case, on the left Bank. He is t Personally. } consider her food corerning her. She warms

contribution of 20 shillings present at work on two mater- accent so slight that it would to people who are hard drinkers, from the Baron Ely de Roth- nity gowns for her. frequire only a little coaching by She lives in a gloomy carle-like schild and of £10 by someone Professor Biggins for all traces chateau built by her father who cannot afford 10 shillings. for it to be removed,

which is protected by baying

Achard, stout and bearing Fur

hounds, nny actress to be found high-bred

and from behind his

enormous, bor- she launches devastat rimmed spectacles, unsuitable for a role after the which

has made a fist fusy rehearsals is of course, ingly lively attacks on fashion-

positive cuit of amiability all considerable blow. For

able Riviera resorts.

his life.

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actress as famous and as floty

tempered as Mlle. Versois : is CEORGES BIDAULT

more than * blow it's declaration of war.

*OUR MISTAKE'

However, she had subsided nsiderably when I saw her shortly after her retum here,

on

rot

Elving

The worst one can say of him Chancellor Adenauer: "This is that he has not an enemy in the world and his election to the old man whose only fault Academy can be considered as is that.ho is not callod Bis- the uhimate reward for this marck."

dreary condition.

REWARD

Marcel

nd ehr spoke more in anguish Playwright than in anget.

"I was hired for the play, having been elected

she told me,

Achard to that

INCIDENTAL INTELLI. GENCE: Not liking the overalls the stage hands were wearing

★ ★

It was a sad sight to see the

Aga

Khan's widow, the

late

ODILE VERSOIS "French plays

are poison

on Broadway."

Begum, unescorted and occupy- badly placed? Can it be that ing the rear seat at the Marlene Parisian society, now that the Dietrich gala performance here. Apa is dead, this it harder than What has happened that she ever to forgive her her modest should be balli" nione and so social origins?

THE A-BOMB WILL

FALL WHERE NO

Adrar, Saharu. Marlene Dietrich has bought T HAVE just flown around

I French them all pullovers From Dior. the

by Peter Brook august boxy

was Academy,

his friends.

last week

of the sword, which cost nearly

houses.

crcation.

LOCUSTS FLY

From SYDNEY SMITH

miles of territory where int minute desert rat

that might have survived, or the smallest. train of seed which might have Gaulle's fallin on to the tiniest patch of arc top damp sand." dusert at

For none of these are known

the Reggane area of and Rex Harrison. At that time presented with his academician's

this dead, least-known piece they thought I would be perfect word, which is traditionally in Paris is

One of the best kept secrets of Africa, where France will for the role; then shortly after bought for

the identity of an academician by

her atom-bomb cot to New York Brook told

Brigitte Bardot's dressmaker, explode me 'Socry, can't work. It was

She is the only an actress in early next year. our mistake in the first place."

Altogether, some 400 people France who has never pat- And I can confirm that it even locusts bother to fly. "He gave as the reason my subscribed towards the purchase ronised any of the big fashion looks like the death-bed of atl slight forcipi accent. which

According

fle 10 is really so slight that I lose it £800.

Meteorologists, after living in meteorologists, who almost completely after a few It is a delicate matter for a This is, of course, a tribute to the desert in the past year, re- priority men in the days in London. Now I have friend to decide how much he is her typically French middle-port that their graphs show this moment, France's A-bomb in the Tanezrouft-the Land of become self-conscious about my n subscribe ja these circLITY) –

prevailing winds-f dust will drift south-west over Thirst--which stretches From class sense of economy, and also that the

her rather reveals

attractive the proper date is chosen-wit! this kind of territory:-

the Reggane down to

French As usual the rich are afraid quality of not being too self-speedily disperse the borah'

the "Not even

hungriest Sudan border. don't think that was of being ostentatious and the conselous

radioactive dust

falcon could And the most- De Gnulle's choice for his the real reason. I think they

homb site and the confirmation of its wind and weather drift by -because just scared

his scientists makes the Ameri- French plays are poison on

con's Nevada and the Russian Broadway and they didn't

Lake of Balkhush look Uke the want to emphasise that it

rush hour in the Strand by comparison. French play by em- ploying a French actress."

accent

wero

was a

Mike, Versois has rejected an offer of a aettlement and is demanding the full terms of the joriginal, agreement,

I private life she is the Countess de Borgo.. He is Corsican and I should say he is quite ready to challenge Peter Brook to a duel,

TYPICAL

SWINDLER has dismantled a Copenhagen sports club belong-Raymond Chandler heroine

ing to the city council. For four days he and a helper tore up all they could. He sold doors, windows, floorboards even bricks then vanished

FOUR THOUSAND. Argentine children In Cordoba City's Stato schools have beyootled the local zou because President Artura Frandt has falled to keep a promise to supply a tiger.

Cordoba'n mayor has telegraphed to Frondial to please send a Uger before the children get out of hand.

Fronditi said recently he would make the tiger question Art on the lies of urgeni siste affairs,

The best description I can think of for 34-year-old blonde Jeanno Ricander. "other woman" in, the Onassis divorce case, is that she is a typical

She has bypiy, brains

and la the kinzi money and she jor glamorous American divorcee for whom wealth is the final and inevitable decorative touch. Such women are dangerous ta established

Europcar: institu- tions. They topple thrunes marry into the aristocracy, and provide a unique kind of soloce in European millionaires who vap reflect customladly, that

stances,

about clothes.

MOD TICKET

& for the Ind

MOORHOUSE MUSTUM

across

LET ME EXTEND THE HAND OF FRIENDSHIP

200

HUNGARY

Cummings

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I

flew over

endless sand dunca, block eroded Imola

tains, and the dry beds of rivers which rarely reach the surface.

Sometimes the mountains are jet black and smoothly creased.. Sometimes they are great, russet Some- sharp-edged plateaus.

Umes the desert is pale heigo and flat, dotted with minute

• pleces of shrub and thorny wild.

mimosas,

LIKE A SEA Sometimes, in the great, sand- duse areas, it looks like a stormy.. sen-pitted, fixed in a' moment

of high typhoon, furious, flames - coloured, with great ammooth. craters as big as the Wembley Stadlum, trackles, tiring, and somehow mengeing.

The A-bomb road..paler, sometimes nimost white--zig-

zogs from one patch of damp desert to another.

And I am - convinced of ong thing. Anyone who has seen the

ghastly stretch of nothing must- know that no harm can come fou anyone from the Franch A- bomb,

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