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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1969.

Flash Flood In Wisconsin

London Diary:

Polo-Playing Doctor Returns For

Holiday

St Bartholomew's Hospital will have as a visitor shortly one of its

Bustani s

medical students of the twenties. He is Dr J. Willoughby Howe, chest surgeon, from Hollywood, Dr Howe went to California for his health,|| slayed to become chief surgeon at Los Angeles County Hospital. His hobby is polo, Spen-† treland, nuw speaks will: an has prospered; nav cer Tracy is one of his team accent which is called Ameri- ja millionaire, owns eight nera members. The surgeon has con by the British and British planes.

by the Americans, many trophies, has brokem several bones at the game.

six weeks

Now he is an a Enopesu holiday.

Dr Howe

went

for

is English-born, school in Southern

Experiment

THE young lad wearing this tartan lounge suit is n reporter in London, England. He had the job of exposing it to the pub- tic, and there were few heads that failed to turn around and take a second

look. (Acme).

A

He is an estimer by profes-

WATER flows through the downtown section of Darlington, Wisconsin, after a flash flood covered the area. At one time the water enough to

was high cover the gnage on the main Bridge. making it useless as a depth indicator. (Arme).

VICAR SAYS:

Women are a frightful sight at bedtime

PICKPOCKETS HAVE LITTLE ORIGINALITY

By Froderick Cook

Now York.

от

There is a dingy little room down at New York police headquarters which is the brain contre America's largest pickpocket squad. Most citizens do not know of its existence. The minority who do, know it all too well. They go thero with great re- gularity,, for pickpockets, it seems, aro Д criminal type with little or no originality in, their make-up.

Headquarters of the pick! There is the Moll Buzzer, specialises in opening pocket squad is a place the who

handbags, and the Sent Tipper,

late Damon Runyon would who tips # cinema scal have loved. For there is not which a woman has lald her £1 spot in what he called a unid then, if she does not Baghdad-on-the-Subway lice its fall, pleks it up and

departs. where more can be learned.

of the strange language of Lowest rings on the Indder

the underworld.

Bre the Dunnigan Workers, who specialize "aking the

Instructions in the argot of Wrong Jacke" from washroom the professional pickpocket and, and the Lush Operators, whose victims are mon who the men who devote their lives have drunk too much.

to catching them begins with

the very names by which the The Lush Operators them- various branches of the "pro-relves fall into four groups.

fession" are known.

There are the Muggers-these choke their vietim And the police dislike them intensely. for they often end up with a murder charge on their hands.

IN THE PARKS

IN THE SUBWAYS

The polles captain-in-charge uld: "Nobody calls 'em dips any more, Thret's A purely English word. Over there they use R because a pickpockel always dipa lightly 48 he The Boff Men are what Lon- reaches for his victim's waltet.doners would call cosh bandits. We en 'em ·Cannona"

The Ruusters are kindly souls home, and who help drunks poller rob them on the way, Cheapest

allif all, the Sacaks They speci werelise in robbing sleeping drunks' they trains and parks.

"Away back," the Heutenant explained, thieves on the East Side called Gonifts. whether were Jews, Irish, Atalan or German.

New York's pickpocket squad. aave made close to 800 arrests

o fur this year, Their experts|

Testing It Out

LETRIČIA King, 21-year-old dancer, is shown, trying out in the Sesquicentennial Amphitheatre in Washing- ton, D.C., where she will appear as one of the "Miss Washington" contestants. Beauty and talent will be judged in the contest sponsored by the city's junior Chamber of Commerce and a radio station.

(Acme).

Boy In Hospital Dreams Only Of Carrier Pigeons

"A pickpocket got to be called a Gon,

Gon gol e borrowed by other police! and corrupted to Gun. And when a orces all over America, Cun made a big killing he goti to be called a Cutnon,"

Members of the squat have

e habit that marks them out. The biggest Cannon now it They have no rear pocket on called a Pit. Dit is a slanghe "right hip. To a man they reference to

pocket carry their wallels in their A truc Pit can work any nside Jacket pockets. pocket, a man's or a woman's.

trouser

Lower-type Pits work In pairs, in the subways-on plut- forms and in trains. One half | of the team Is the Hook, the other the Tool.

He wears cults of American jaion, qualified at the Masso- cut which are British in their jehuette Institute of Techno-

of (lery.

A middle-aged Inchelor restrained colour, "Deing

1is recipe for success:

The Hook jesties the victim, chutnationality, although I am "Prompt d: livery.

I have vier went to a beauty de- who gets to angry he does not Tool fching his notice the now,eliminated bakra (tomorrow) monstration naturalised "American

for youngwallet. as its drawbacks. On both from my trading vocabulary."

And he reports in wives, les of the Atlantle I am held the personally responsible for

THE STAR WHO QUIT

his church magazine: “What. historical mistaken of the

a frightful sight a woman obber," he says,

is made to look before re- tiring for the night.

Dr Bowe as many Hollywood's RIDOAK

Tall William Ikinos. Fue of Hollywond's sitent days friends now in his files and bas Anjol made am since 1032. But he is all our of the ble Inemes of Hollywood

nalcers, inks that in America tim Mars are the popular sub- stilule for royalty. Ronald Colman, he says, is one of the List liked men in Hollywood.

19.STONE CANDIDATE

"I cannot help thildag that this may be the cause of some mariage breakdowns."

As the millionaire owner of The vicar, the lev Eric bi Hollywood interior Bailey, of St John's Church, decorating Erin, he gives the Upper Norwood, expialas what shownlace touch to the homes happens to a woman who is on jof the stars,

her way to bed. He writes: "The hair is eathered up into a kind of not strapped under the chin. and the face and netk emeared with crema.

nre

Air Waiter Fletcher, Carper- Why did he change careers vative MP for Dury, who is said "Well, I woke up one morning." to be the heaviest man in the says Haines, and realised I was House of Commons, neada to getting to be the oldest college leek to his purels. The So-joy in America. I decicted

emlists have adopted 19st. 1215. It was time to quit. And I've every prospective bridegroom Thomas Lester Aday Taylor as never been back."

their prospective candidate

Mid-Bedfordshire.

J01

Mr Taylor is in the timber

"I couldn't help thing that

should have the opportunity of seeing at this before the wed- ding. He would at least know that there were two appent- na ance to his wife just as there

MUSIC AND BOWLING

A musician as well

trude, used to play football and cricketer is Myron Kok, who are always two sides to every eticket. In the 1914-18 war took free wickets for Harrow question." he boxed us a lightweight.

Kainst

Eton at Lord's.

He

is 17, soon will go to Oxford love is blind, and lovers cannot He quotes Shakespeare: "Buf At the General Election he

to read Music and Modern opposed Mr Richard Law at

His mother,

see the pretty follies they them- Laguages. Haltemprice. fly opponent in J. Kok, hopes he will becs.ne

selves comuni;.” Mid-Bedfordshire will be Mir

professional musician

A. T. Leunox-Boyd.

60. IN SLOT RADIO

Two new gadgets for hotels:

a radio "Juke-box" and

"atomle" insect spray.

an

two of his brothers.

Mr:

New

Already Koit is distinguished Indian

na an organ player and pianist. At 13 he won the Wolsey Organ

Prize at Harrow, hus she won it tree more times.

The Koks are a South African

lived in Egiant

The radio fits into the wall family, have

of the hotel room.

By putting

xpence in the not you

can

her, for a determined length

of time, the radio programine

put out by the hotel's master

set.

It years.

FOR WOMEN IN VEILS

In London on a business tour Mr A.B. Moom, owner of 12

It is claimed for the insect cinemas in South Africa.

spray that it can clear a roomf

AT FUNERALS

Evidence of the plekpocket's lack of originality, said Jutenant, thing

was this

tor!

the i of

He was attending his brother- in-law's funeral. Hle saw से Pit trying to get at his father's

after pocket

the service, and

arrested him.

The very day he came out i the lieutenant was attending n Congressman's funeral The rame Pit was there, trying in rob a mourner again. He went! tool for that, too,

And, sairl the leutenant, believe it or not, on the very day he came out he was caught; again at another funeral.

At the moment this Plt is inside. The funeral notices will be read closely ai police headquarters the day before he Is released.

IN THE CINEMAS

A variation of the Irue Pit is the Fob Worker. He specialises on the little pockets-within-a- pocket that men use for small

Reds change

Accused

Calcutta, Aug. 8.

The expelled Communist Parly Secretary-General, F. C. Joshi, today accused the leaders of the Party of "planning an immediate armed guerilla strug- rural areas 05 le it as many possible"

Thee Arc ΠΟΙ ordinary In a bitter attack on

the

of files in about five seconds. cinemas: all of them are open Party's leadership, Mr Joshi ant

to non-Europeans only. The spray Is so ine that it

that such plans would meet

hanga in the air like a mist. Mr Moosa, 47, was born in with no effective response from

Insects cannot escape it.

BLACK CAT MAN

the pensants.

Indlu, went to South Africa when he was six. IIis first "A carbon copy of the Chinese business Intereals were in revolution is the Party's easy property.

He opened the first recipe for an Indian revolution,"

In London this month: Mr non-European cinema in the said. "Political apes can Emile Bustani, portly 42-year-Union in Durban In 1939. It never be scrious political old Lebanese building magnate has special boxes for Moslem leadern."

and Importer.

Bustani's trade women who come in veils, Symbol la 1 black cat:

ha

founded the Contracting and

In still

Mr Joshi was expoiled from Says Mr Moosa: "They are the Parly in 1948 after a meeting Trading Company (CAT)

in demand, but not no of Southeast Asian Communiste Beirut in 1938. The enterprise much as they used to be." In Calcutta.Reuter,

K. O. CANNON

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I WANT TO SPEAK TO TILE

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YOU?.. HOPE WE ARE NOT TOO LATE!

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WHAT DO YOU BAY, MISTAKEN, SIQROFI ALBERTO? WHERE THEY HAVE JUST Drag 19. THE COUNT?, LEFT FOR SICILY...

ON A VACATION).....

In London

AMERICAN cabaret star Julic Wilson with

the Sultan of Johore at

1 West End club. (London Express Service).

Swastika

Lying in hospital in Ipswich, nine-year-old David Finbow of Harrow Lane Farm, Thoberton, Suffolk, could talk of nothing but the pair of young homing pigeon, ho intonds to train to win races when he is well again.

Three months ago David, busy about his father's farm, found a bird lying in a field.

"Dear

It

said,

David." Thank you for the trouble you took. And I promise you that when the bird nests you shall

It was carrier pigeon have a pair of pigeons." which had struck overhead wires and broken a wing| 115 when flying, in a race from "When I get them I shall teach

Newark.

Said David-who underwent ago: operation-a week:

them to fly home from abroa And I shall get all my relatives to end me letters

David took the bird to a shed en the farm, bathed its injury Dont." and strapped up the broken i wing.

For weeks he fed it with caro three times a day. Soon i was able to Buller up to a perch in the shed-and of last David decided that it was well enough to be released.

*PLEASE SEND

by pigeon

One of his nurses commented: "ile can

tardly wait to be about again. He talks Ahoul

plitcons, pigeon racing and Fecret messages all the time."

CAPTURED BY CHILDREN

Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 8. Before letting it go, he wrote The Blond Devil," leader of this message on a piece of Sunday night's rovolt at Sao paper: "Looked after by David Jose Penitentiary at Belem, Finbow, Harrow Lane Farm,North Brazil, was arrested in Therion. I found him hurt. Belem today by a bunch of Please send a young in to me," children.

Pigeon fancier Mr Kempson) Baines, of Lower Park Road, New Southgate, Middlesex, was delighted when the bird he had Kiven

up as lost returned safely.

Meanwhile David had gone into hospital for a foot opern tlon.

The police were out in search Parties all day yesterday and today, with orders to shoot on fight any of the 14 prisoners who got away. Seven been recaptured and are back in prison.

have

The children recognised "The Blond Devil" as he was walk- ing today through the streets of Belern, where the escaped pri- soners have been terrorising the a Inhabitants. A fireman. holped

them to capture him.-Reuter.

And the other day his I ther, Mr Archio Finbow, took him letter from Mr Barnes,

Raises

Its

Ugly Head

THE once-proud swastika, surmounted by the German esgla, is innocently part in a sack race in Frankfurt... Five years after victory, Hiiler?"