1950-08-18 — Page 3

120 animals arrive in London aboard the 1950 'Noth's Ark

from Africa

Fust took round for the zebras,

tiraffe neck.

'JACK0' WOULD- NOT

STOP IN A CAGE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1950.

Blind-He Saw Guard

Changing

A blind American was ono of the 2,000 people who "anw" the Changing of the Guard in Whitehall August bank holiday.

on

Dr Lee Gardner, from Illinois, saw the colourful scene through tho eyes of his wife, Phyllis, who described it in detail

And Mrs Gardner would rather stay in "thit lovely coun- try" than return to the States.

"Except for the cold houses and wärm beer, London is friendly," she told me.

PARKS WERE FULL

sa

Stay at home Londoners thronged the packs-after lunching at home,

Regent's Park Zoo in many visitors, and Hyde Park deck- chairs were in demand.

Marble Arch orators hind very few hearers. It was too hot.

Two Londoners who spent a pleasant queue-free and care- free morning were Mr S. Pearce and his three-year-old daughter Judith.

the

They went botting on children's boating pool in Ro- gent's Park,

Said Mr Pearce: "This is the way I like to spend a bank holiday. No crowded, trains for mc.

'WE ARE ALL HAPPY'

**I am happy, Judy's happy, and my wife is happy resting of home. Only unhappy one is the dor, Susle: They would not let us take her on the boat, so she and to be tied to chair."

As the day wore on the re- freshment gardens Alled up. The Serpentlue lido was crowded with bathers and rowing boats. The Londoner did not have to go far to enjoy a day's holi- elity.

Greetings For The Reds

AMERICAN soldiers stack artillery ammunition in a dump behind the battle line

in Korea. Latest reports tell of savage battles, with U.S. troops fighting hard to stem 1 North Korean Communists assault on Taegu. (Acme).

STILL FOR

TIME STANDS STILL

BOLIVIAN ABORIGINES

It is never later than you think to the world's most primitive people, the "nomads of the long boy" of Bolivia. They keep no record of time. The tribe knows only yesterday and tomorrow, with any past time referred to as brother of yesterday and the future as brother of tomorrow.

Sanders' New Style For Men

. On the coming New Year's Eve, George Sanders saya, the well dressed man will wear:

A one-piece spun glass 12t waterproof, fireproof, and in- sulated, that he can wash out in the chower when he staggers In and wear again on Now Year's Day.

That's what he says. has invented

Ho this sartorial re- volution himself.

Sanders said he'll be the 'Brst to wear a glass suit. It will not surprise any woman who has baliled to get a man inlo flowery ties, pastel shirts or bright bath- ing trunks if Sanders is also the i last

"I'm going to do away with shirts, tea, tight trousers, belts, vests and all the other claptrap we have inherited from a dead past and wear as a monument to that past," he said.

The new

glass sult will be

opaque enough to body but not too keep out the sun.

cover the

apnque to

LIKE BABY'S OUTFIT

"It will be possible to get

This should

*

no

food sun tan in the ordinary course of going about your business," he said. This will eliminate alt the time wasted on beaches and in palios."

The suit, which has no but- lens, is shaped like a baby's outfit with a zipper up the side. The trousers are baggy and the top like a tunic. In winter in sulation can be added so a mon Won't

have to went an over- coat.

revolutianisc life for mankind," he declared. "No laundering of shirts, dry cleaning, no raincoats, no topcoats, no umbrellos, no shop- ping Ground for Those and other ways of preserved

suits, vince constantly by each

Art is almost absent in

thehey will all be the same." life anton the Sirleno family.

Joorely knif bands of Siriono. Sandera, Trims were brought back

who expects to re- Food Insecurity

The stringing of necklaces, the volutionize and hunger designless painting of the body, the time the year is out, wanted men's clothing by by Allan R. Holmberg, cul-frustration

are the dominating and the decoration of the hair to Introduce his new suit in his influences turnt anthropologist of the Sirione.

in the life of the with feathers are the only at next picture, "All Above Eve." whose only weapons tempts at embellishment. There The rat model wasn't fulshed Smithsonian Institution. who are bows and arrows.

of food available in known among

is no type of musical instrument in time, however, spent nearly a year among moet

thair rosorous environment la cinging plays an important part said confidently.

them, although them. For most

"Once men see my sulk" he The Hague, Aug. 17.

theimited that the Sition may be in the culture

"they'll be Most valuable animals in the Strikes which have gripped Siriono. Halmberg's visitate to be always hungry, even

sold." eango were in pair of hippopo- Notterdam and Amsterdam was their first contact with though they are skilful, hunters. tami, bound for Whipsnatie, spread tociny when come a white man. which Mr Seago estimates to regular dockers joined casual

BATTLE FOR FOOD be worth £2,300. One of the workers who demand a 10 per- Living

a folklore or mythology such, giraffes, which is going to rent, wage increase.

isolated pockets

nomads, blitherto al- |as is found among nearly all Chester Zoo, he values at £450.

No Incidents have been re-forest, the Siriono have adopted

unknown to clence, are

other priinitive people. The animals travelled as

as deck

and police ported,

patrol the none of the ways of moro

the of both stalking and only culture here is Yast cargo on the voyage, packed streets,

vanced civilisations.

was once Imitation, and as their survival moon, who

a great Even fre- in crates and boxes. Ail suf-

The strike of fered from sea-sickness during workers continue-Reuter.

building making is a lost art among them depends on this skill, there is chief on earth at a time when

not and a burning brand must be

on animal sound of the there was nothing but water the first few

days. Two ani-

forest they do not know how to und a mals-a zebra mare and a baty

face of wicket people. reproduce.

Moon dew these evil creatures and created man and the On the dockside, larties with died on the voyage.

Because of their necessary animals. He plays a part in the were

pre-occupation with the sheer explanation, when there is any, battle for food, all individuals of most natural phenomena. that might hamper the tribe in their main objective-the aged, the deformed young, or the ex- tremely -are killed or aban- doned.

An astonished stevedore on duly at London's Royal Albert Dock boarded the 7,300-ton ship Linaria, rubbed his eyes and peered up into the face of a bored-loolting giraffe. Startled, he stepped back

to be nuzzled by a zebra.

Blow me down, what's this? Noah's Ark?" said the stevedore.

The Linaria, which had arri ved from Mombasa, was indeed a flouting Noah's Ark. Her carm consisted of 120 animals, including zebras, hippopotami, leopards, cheetahs, graffes and monkeys

The animal were bought in Kenya and Uganda by Me John Seagh and they will be sold to

various toOS.

labels for Dudley 200, Chessing- ton Zoo and the London Zoo) were lined up to take the an-

GBS

mais away,

Most of the animals allowed out of their cages every day for

exercise. One dog- faced

aced baboon, calle Jacko, re- fused be caged at all and he spent his time on deck at the

FIRST end of a long lead.

NIGHT FOR

WEST END

Rare event for the West End next month: & Bernard Shaw first night. The play: a "fluffy, light conversation piece" called "Far fetched Fables."

Rarest creatures in the ship included a Targas vulture and Blue Dulker liker a tiny gazelle.

SINCE JANUARY

I has taken Mr Seago since January to collect his cargo of animals. His asistani, Mr Reg Bloom, goes out to the pre- serves with trappers and brings the animals to

collecting point. Hero Mr Seage selects

what he considers the best.

Fiercest animals 011

board

were the pale of cheetahs. One Shaw fashed it crate which no one was keen two months ago.

to move was the one labelled

"Give, me The play opens at the Water-"puff adders." Kale Theatre,

the

off the Strand, cheetahs every time," said one

on September 4, will run nine days only. The theatre, one of London's smallest, rent. less thon 100.

the

Geek worker,

REARMAMENT PROGRAMME

Producer and one of the actors win be Esne Perty. Shaw, now 04, is not experied at the first night. He has sent મ postcard to

London, Aug. 17. the theatre tuculening to withdraw

The Labour Government out- play if it is publicised too much. lied its plan for the transition Shaw's last new play, Buoy from civilian to arms produc ant Billions," was fist shown tion to trade union and indust two years

with-rial lenders today, ago. It was drawn from the West End after The Informni talks wer only five weeks,

Big Hurricane

Howling

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BARBER WHO STARTED BANS 'PUDDING BASIN'

AT 9

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BARBER BEST

Fifty years ago in the Old Kent Roud,

When Tom Best first worked in a barber's shop 56 years ago, ho hid to stand on a stool to lather a customer's face. Ho was a little chap of nine, and the working hours were from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

But. In this hard school, then

Now a keen-eyed. little: the shop for their weekly man in the uniform of a War shaves." Office

messenger he is at thoroughly learned their trade. desinnest to prepare industry the Central Recruiting Office for the change made necessary in Great Scotland Yard-

TOO NEW-FANGLED by the Government's new three. year $3,400,000,000 rearmament Best's hobby is spotting

"There were no *pudding- programine-United Press. "pudding basin" heads. baslu' lines round the back of:

the head in those days," Tom "Barbers had to work hard Best told me. "It was

all Cus- in the old days, and there was scissors and comb work, no money in it," said Mr Best tomers would have the new-

not la-day.

fangted clippern."

Three generations of Basts "A shave was d., a haircut have worked as barber. Tom Amsterdam. Aux. 17. 24. Customers liked to have Best is the last. The war put} The Weather Bureau More than three times the their own shaving mugs. We him out of business. located the storm season's first number of men necessary to fill kept them in racks and charged big blow about 450 miles out the two Dutch companies an extra halfpenny.

Miami. Aug. 17.

One of the most powerful recorded hurricanes howled in

the direction of Florida, today,

gorating winds of 140 miles But hour.

Dutch Volunteers

For Korea

in the Atlantic cast of Miami. promised by Holland to the

Now he lives with his wife

at St. John's Hill, Clapham,

Should the storm continue its United Nations forces in Korea "Children got their hair cut and a neighbour occasionally present westerly coure at nine already have volunteered. for 11⁄2d., and we had to give gets the benefit of his skill as a

to 10 miles an hour, it would At noon today, the number them a loy or some sweets. barber who leaves no pudding-; rip into this lavish South of volunteers was 1,300, which Florida resort area late on was 204 more than yesterday SaturdayUnited Press.

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United Press.

CANNON

FATHER.LOOK!,. THERE'S BOMEONS AT THE UPPER WINDOW.

YES..I HAVE A FIELING THAT OUR VISITORS HAVE

· ARRIVED.-WE MUST GIVE THEM A HOSPITAQLI WELCOME. CARAMELLA,

basin lines,

"On

hud 20

WC a Sunday morning

customers walling in

-(London Exprėks Sérules)

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

PETRO-YOU TAKE THE UN. |LU161 - YOU HAD BETTER

HANDLE THE COSHI..YOU [KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TO DO.:

t, BIGNON.ONE SITHEM SIES OF THE DOORWAY!

NÓWMY DO NOT STRIKE TOO HAPO, LUIGI!.. U WISH TO HAVE A FEW WORDS WITH SIGNOR CANNON QEFORE HË..

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marked.

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Sirionon & most entirely licking Seven Greek

The

Ministers Resign

Th

Athens, Aug. 17. Grecce faced a political crisis tonight after the resignation of seyen Liberal· Ministers in the three-Party Government of the Prime Minister,

AT. Nicolas Plastiras.

The resignations followed the accusation by M.

Pastiras. leader of the Centre Party, fost night that two of the oth Coalition parties--the Liberals With American Forces and the Democratic Socialists

In Korea, Aug. 17. were hindering his polley of Announcing the capture of a "leniency" towards former

Koman soldier who rebels,"

Surrender Is

Suicide

The quest for food takes place only on land, despile the many rivers and lakes in their ter ritory. Any

ot nort

waler transportation would be advant- ageous, but the Sirtonos ap- parently never have reached this North stage of culture. Even their esterday ortiered the execution Bollical experts believed that trails through the forests never ot 30 American prisonera of jhe Liberal's' decision might lead and are poorly war, a senior American offer to the dissolution of Parliament said today that the episode was or the setting up of a "Care- lesson that **surrender la taker" Government unti elec. really sulci:,"

tlons next spring.

The expected formation of # He sold that this Americans new Cabinet now would be (amily--husband, wife or wives | were sprayed with bullets dimcult because of the small and children. The name of a north-east of Waegwon. Ono Parliamentary, strength of the father changes every time a of their four curvivors pointed parties which could foln forcen child is born. He abandons out a Communist captured In The Liberals hold GB of the his former name and takes that ja counter-attack us the man Coalition's 138 seats. The main which has been given the child, who oniered

klings-Opposition Party, the Populists, with a suffix denoting paternity. Reuter.

hold 63 seats-Reuter.

ART UNDISCOVERED

The Siriono social unit la the

Oh,

C

tho

Doctor,

You're

Killing

She's

Tops

ANN

Zika has been chosen the Model's Model of the Year by a group of freelance models in Holly.. wood. Ann's in the movies now, and has just com. pleted her very first pic ture. (Acme).

25,030,000

MEN IN

U.S. WARS

Some 25,030,000 men have served in the armed forces of the United States since the start of the Revolution- ary War, according to data compiled by Veterans Ad- ministrator Carl R. Gray, Jr.

Of the total, 10,014,000 alive.

are

Gray said there are 10 staviv- ing veterans of the Grand Army of the Repubile, and 580 sur- viving veterans of the Indian ware of the last half of the 19th century. Ho did not list sur- viving Confederate veterans.

Veterans

of the Spanish- American War are dying rapidly, Gray said. Six months DEO were 122,000. Spanish- American War veterans, but as of July 1 there were only 119,- 000.

there

The largest group of veterans is the 14,000,000 who served in World War II.

Total battle ensualties for all American wam, Gray said, were 035,300.

Gray said the Veterans Ad- ministration is legal guardian of 278,000 minor children belong- ing 384,000 veterans' widowe on VA rolls.

There are 2308,700 disabled veterans on VA rolls,

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