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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950, 1

JUDGE'S ORDER

SUBJECT OF APPEAL

London, Jan. 12.

The court of criminal appeal was told today that "a substantial miscarriage of justice occurred” when a judge gave a jury ten minutes to reach a verdict or be locked in all night.

LAOS INTENDS

TO REMAIN

►

NEUTRAL

London, Jan. 12. The newly-formed Govern-

ment of Laos assured Britain tonight It Intends remaining

The court heard that six min- tates after the judge's remarks, the jury came back and found In three men guilty of cliniges connection with the theft of tele- Vain sets, All the men appealed against their convictions.

Counsel for two of the men said the observation by the Jutger Justice Stabic, al Nottinghamı Assizes ~~ con-

thren that stuted

the Jury would be "imprisoned" il they had not made

up thel nunds in ten minutes

For the

Mic prosecution. Fitizwalter Butler agreed that the judge's language had been "unfortunate."

neutral and But it was another question, respectful of the six-he saki, whether the observa.

year-old

Indo-Chincretions amounted to a threat.

armistice agreement.

The British officially w、'- comed the Laotian pledge which swept awny London's fours WHE a new East-West crisis might flare in the region,

Britain and flustia Man special responsibility for en-ucing the terms of th "Ineo-fine sa armistice are kept. They were the Geneva co-chairman of Conference that produced the Agreement.

Some leader of the Royal Laotian Government lately have be toying with the kira of abandoning some of the obliga- tions set forth in the armistice EGNEETENÉ,

The British have ben curas selling restraint.-AF.

9 DIE IN

TRIBAL FIGHTING

Leopoldville, Jan. 12. Nine Africans were killed and huts sucks and villages and/ set ofre recently in the Tshi kapa and Lurbo-areas of Kasat province, officials reported to- day.

They said century-old inter- tribal fighting has flared again between the Luluas and Balubus.

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The three appeal judges are

to give their decision in the case on Friday-Reuter,

He wouldn't back down

San Francisco, Jan. 12. Dave Brubeck is passing up an estimated $10,000 in bookings because he re fuses to drop a Negro musician from his jazz group for a U.S. southern tour, the San Francisco! Chronicle said today.

בלמן

The

planiet, who has circled the globe with U.S. State Department sponsorship. bad planned about 25 performane?t

the current four. But he cut the bookings tr 10 AS U.S. southern enlles and universi ties learned his quarit is out Call-white. Eugene

Negro, play: Basa.

Wright,

Prubeck sud he felt the ean- cellations do not reflect southern i stud antiment, but that

officials--AP.

Confession

Vierma, Jan. 12. Johann Rogalsch, 27-year-old building superintendent, alleges ly conferaed today that he killed pretty 18-year-old ise Monthner and dismembered her body with a hand wow.

The casualty Bgures can Baluba and Lulua chiefs signei un agreement.

The Balubas, 1! Is reported, Police arrested Rogalsch on will acknowledge the rights of suspicion of murder within 12 the Luluas to large territorios hairs of the discovery of the and

will order their fellow ¦ backed-up body of the girl.

A police communique said tribesmen to leave the ground.- -AP.

Rogatich had confessed.--UTI,

A British Crossword Puzzle

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TO JURY Brother's bid to

RUNAWAY MURDERER IS A MILLIONAIRE.—Thirty years ago, Ibrahim abd'al-Bir was sentenced to death for murdering a neighbour who had socidentally killed one of his cows. Sentenced in absentła, because the wily Ibrahim had fled Into hiding, and couldn't be found, But his family had been prominent In Egyptian politics, salt when the world war broke out he secretly approached the then Prime Minister to offer bis services as organiser of political meetings. The minister agreed to hire him, and ordered the police to look the other way if they came acrom him. With this freedom, he built himself up a thriving busi- ness as contractor to the British Aring Ordnance Corps. By the end of the war he was a millionaire; but a change of government forced him inte hiding again, this time masqueraå- ing as a retired businessman in a stali village on the Red Sea coast. Until recently when Douri ho returned to Calro a free man, under a statute of lenitation which mufliles any verdici noi enforced within 30 years. Here he is pictured with his family in the palaİİNİ home which he has just bought in an exclusive Cairo residential quarter--Express Photo,

Mac and

a 'mammy' go for

a stroll

Lagos, Jan. 12.

Mr Harold Macmillan, Bri- tish Prime Minister, strolled hand in hand with a turbaned African "mammy" here today and discussed with her the finer points of her neat little north Lagos house. She recently moved from a slum dwelling in the crowded city.

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With pride the rehoused slum dweller, Victoria Bala George, a buxom and smiling young woman, showed the Prime Minister aver her three-roomed apartment dwelling, where in the front room she had Mr Mac- millan's pleture, surmounted by two flags, in the place of honour.

The Prime Minister even offices," inspected the "usund taking great interest in the kitchen with sink and boller.

FRIENDLY CHAT

Then he went into a bedroom for a friendly chat with Mrg Peters, 83-year-old mother

Mrs George,

of

jailed

Professor,

for poisoning wife, is freed

Warsaw, Jan. 12.

A Polish professor twice sentenced for poisoning his wife was today set free by the Supreme Court which said he should be given "the benefit of the doubt."

Professor Hazimierz Tarwid was jailed for 15 years in May 1957 by a court which found he had given his socond wife cya- rude in a headache pill. Bul in June 1957 the Public Prosecutor

appealed

that on the ground the sentence was too light.

The cour agreed and BCT- tenced him to life imprisonment, But today the Supreme Court said he should be released im- af mediately, because evidence guilt was missing.

The Court said it was more likely us wife who also had access to poisons in a laborn- tory--had committed micide

and the finding that he murder- cd her to marry a girl student was "unjustified.”

"Proofs of gulit are insuffi- elent to Justify sentence thongh All suspicions against Tarwid have not been elimin sted," the Court found, But If acquitted him "to avold any tragic Judicial error." Professor Tarwid was Biology Professor at Warsaw University, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and author of + His She laughed and joked with score of scientific works. him and after they had toured Arst marriago ended in divorce. the house they wandered hand-Reuter.

Victoria received the Prime Minister with a complete lack of self-consciCARNENS,

Escaped from

South Africa-

caught in U.S.

Los Angeles, Jan. 13. Harold (Baby Face) Goodwin, sought by Scotland Yard and sround police organisations

kla the world since

escape from a Bouth African prison, has been captured,

naturalisa- Immigration and tion

arrested service agents Goodwin on Monday on a tip from Vancouver polles. US. Attorney Laughlin Waters was | exired to prosecute him for un- United into the lowful entry Blatce

John

pa

Goodherin, 35, was serving a nino-year term at Pretoria con- tral prison in Johannesburg for fraud. He "walked out" of the prison by presenting a forged relcase order showing bond had been posted for up appeal. Goodwin, also know! Robin John Sherwood, Harold

am Grimley-Goodwin Kenneth Jack Taylor, claims South Africa as his birthplace. Central London's experimental He was convicted in South Victoria told the Prime Minis-" "Pink Zone" traffic scheme, Africa for fraud in 1845, 1953,

they were renting their under which parking of vehicles 1850 and 1950. house but her mother would like, is severely restricted, has been In addition to Scotland Yard to buy it.

so successful that it is to con- fortes. Goodwin, was sought by At this rehousing scherne a linare until further notice, the Interpol and officers in England, great crowd of the inhabitants Transport Ministry announced Canada, Israel and France, turned out to greet Mr Mac- today.

} His United States record in-

in-hand through the garden and

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acrems to Mr Macmillan's Rolls- Royce.

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Acto69

3 Made an eloquent movement.

(8)

7 She's a

learner 'with a dis

('nctive air. (5)

8 Certainly not hostile, (8)

10 Attack-from the air. (0)

13 Ironed out? (7)

15 Means of conveyance. (4)

17 Sounds like

kangers. (7)

a quartet of

18 Judge wrongly. (7)

20 Besi princess, (4)

21 Ultra-Liberal roof. (7)

20 Antisepti element. (0)

27 Asking in an attractive way?

(8)"

ti Me in a Statė, (8)

29 Italy's toe province. (8)

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DOWN

1 Clutch & supplementary

coratiun. (0)

2 Filthy cash? (5)

3 Fish hooks (5)

4 Growth of a 'family? (4)

5 Metalle element, (8)

ter

London, Jan. 12.

millan, who took a cur of tea It was introduced last Novem- cludes a 1944 conviction in New in the community hail

ber to cut down traffic jams York for passpost trazid deports. Earlier he had plunged into during the Christmas holiday tion to South Africa in 1945- one of the worst slums in 12,0s rush.—China Mail Special.

to see for himself the conditions |-- from which citizens are being transplanted 10 rehousing

de-schemes.

0 Poet with a cosy study? (8)

9 Cigarette for a tailor? (8)

11 Prepare for contest on dixed

lines (6)

12 Remark by a town? (5)

14 Crudely dispose of a parent

-and where! (6)

15 Hardly what one would call

enthusiastle. (0)

18 Made a start. (5)

18 Mac, in a crazy condition.

(0)

19 Whimper. (6)

22 Doctrine. (6)

53 Pertaining

to

bar, (5)

either way. (5)

DANCING DISPLAY

At night Mer Machilian was feted and treated to a display of Nigerian dancing during a visit listing more than an hour Imitat multiracial in Lagos Island Club.

In a speech

acknowledging the welcome from the cosmo- politan crowd, the Prime Minis- ter said he was privileged in [coming to Nigeria in the year of her destiny, when the coun“ try was looking forward, with pride and determination to o great future.

"This club is in itself a de- citizenship monstration of how the world should live," be sald. Although

24 Come back for revel in the the divisions of the world were

25 Stump or bust, posibly. (4)

-------YESTERDAY'S....CHOSSWORD—Actos: 1 Cother, D. Bonch,

8 Altar, 9 Malice, 10 Liste, 11 Hello, 12 Scit, 18 Allom 10 Lönder, 18 Erases, 20 Error, 23 Anil, 25 Silar, 25 Quota, 20 Tersed 27 Ether, 28 Tears, 20 Bevern. Down: i Camisole, a splutter,

3 Each, 4 Bleeves, 3. Ballads 6 Oriole, 7 Delta 14 Ironware, In Skeleton, 16 Lariats, 17 Aata:ds.. 19 Röster, 21 R-out-E, 24

great and the problems which divided t #OriGUS, They must look forward and strive for

final unity and a way out

its

wards peace and progress.

"The Bellish people curtainly wanted to play their part in that move forward,” said the Prime

Minfiser.—Reuler,

UPI.

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BEVERAGE

COLLINS

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PRINCESS.

break off romance ANNE SIGNS of runaway heiress A PLEDGE

New York, Jan. 12.

The estranged wife of Andre Porumbeanu and the brother of Gamble Benedict reportedly will go to Europe in an effort to break up the romance between the Romanian-born chauffeur and the runaway 18-year-old American heiress.

The

World-Telegram nud Sun reported this today.

Tho newspaper quoted a close friend of the brother, Dougins, 19, om trying he would leave later today. The Uma of Mrs Porumbeanu's departure was not

starbed.

As for the brother's trip, the bowspaper said:

"He reportedly has been com- missioned by the girl's grand- mother, who bitterly орревез Gamble's plan to marry Forum- beanu, to persuade his sister to give up the man she has vowed wed. The chi and hor brother are known to be close." Concerning the estranged

wile, the paper added:

"Mrs Ponabeanu's presence in the planned confrontation of the couple apparecitly was mim- ed at convincing Gamble that she should relinquish Porum- benu to his legal wife,"

IN PARIS

Minor fires

on the Ark Royal

Plymouth, Jan. 12.

A Royal Navy spokesman here Bald today that "a number of minor Brer's had occurred in the Ark Koyal, Britain's largest and most powerful air-, craft carrier.

"The number is in no way excessive," he added when ques- tioned on local the fires,

rumours about

The 43,000-ton Ark Royal, recommladoned recently

an extensive rent at Devonport, Meanwhile the New York left for trials last Friday and debutante and her chauffeurapent the weekend moored out- friend are somewhere in the rite the harbour-China Mail Paris area,

#lowyer for the Special Romanian indicated.

The attorney for Porumbeanu refused to say where his client is or whether he is with Miss Benedict.

"With the Press in full cry after them, they had to sleep ouldde Paris to get a Me quiet," said

Cosacesco, Jean who said he had been retained by Porumbeanu.

Search has been tode In Paris for the pair since they

reported to have left Antwerp on Paris-bound ex- press last Sunday.

Miss Benediet, who had left Manhattan her grandmother's home, and the chauffeur cross- [ cd the Atlantic to Antwerp aboard a freighter.

The New York office of Robert Hofrican, counsel for Ee the Benedict family, said Пере .to Paris on Monday night in an effort to prevent the marriage.----A.P:

LOWER PRICES

VESSELS

TRAPPED

IN ICE

Quebec, Jan, 12. The Danish freighter Helga Daxı, trapped in ice Msion Saturday, was freed by the Leebreaker Wolfe today.

London, Jan. 12. Princess Anne has signed a

pledge not to run out in the road and get hit by a car, it was disclosed today. Tar nine-year-old Princess put her Bame on the pledge during a visit to Rosya Hous training centre of the Royal So- clety for the Prevention of Accidents.

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She made the visit with troop of Brownies of which sha i a member.

Defore signing the pledge, Princess Anne hnd to take, a test to prove that she knows the rules of the rond.

HRH PRINCESS ANNE

10

an

The Princess wag bright answering the questions,” official told a reporter. "She was up to the standard of most children in her age group."

The Princess then paid four pence, was enrolled as a mem- ber of Bespa Blouse, and re- eived a lapel badge to prove it. -AP.

ON HOLIDAY

Kingston, Jan. 12. British Labour Party leader Hugh Goitskell, refusing the The Egyptian freighter Port Governor's offer to be driven Said, caught in the EATO ice by a chauffeur, drove himsel feld about 1,000 yards from the today to n north coast tourist Helga Dan, was unable to fol- |resort where he said he'll spend low through the close-packed the next four days.

ice and remained trapped. The He said he intended to "1090 breaker N. B. Mclean was went | myself?" and Hot in a lot of from Quebec to guide her out.

swimming. He will leave on -AP.

Sunday for Trinidad---AP.

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