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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
IS ANOTHER WORLD WATCHING US?
FIGHTS AN
AIRMAN
WITH
DUEL
T was now October
1948. Year Two of
the
full
ovidence,
Discs had been
of inconclusive
Bome hoaxes, lot of mistaken sightings-weather balloons, etc.-a lot certainly point- ing to something but to what, to what definite con- clusion? No one could say.
No one very much wanted to any. For it wan A secret weapon no one wanted to talk about what might be spollf by talking, If it was "another Pewor," there again no ne wanted panic started.
A
Chapter Three
AMAZING
DANCING LIGHT
By GERALD HEARD
*
high, hidden "sherman" was; searchers and explorers" from
thank heaven, mut more the Eley are considerate--indeed patient naturalist than a sports- there is every reason to suppose man wanting to lund à catch. that they aro wise 05 they are clever, as gentle as they are ingenious,
He played with the poor little creature, which was only able to swim as high as the water of This plane was nowhere near made Gorman think fast. The But Gorman wouldn't let it its pool extended (and so at the patrolling light.
thing was behaving humanly, go. By that time, however, the 17,000 feet could be let one might say even humorously, Thinking Light had tired of back to mud-level).
its rather
Further, as the light circled but could it be human and dick playing ball with about until it was between round corners and make turns clumsy human plek-up. Gorman and a lighted ground like that? Could any human urca, Gorman, saw no body, no brain stand such spinning and structure of any sort round the sudden twisting? light there was just a flame without a holder, a moving light without anything to move ki, or carry it.
And if it was something not
Now the tower control man human at all-why then least of caught sight of the light. He all did anyone want to talk!
The case that follows, though so he could see far better than
had, of course, night binoculars it is important and puzzling, did. Gorman. But lite Gorman he rot, thank heaven, end to could see just the light and
nothing round it.
tragedy, only in further be- wilderment.
OVER FARGO
The evening of that first October day had already settled . It was now night over the North Dakota town of Fargo.
A National Air Guara Heu- tenant named George Gorman, a man of some importance in the city, was coming in from a practice flight in a Aghter,
He was the last of his group, and had just received the OK. that it was clear and sate for him to land. But, looking balow his craft, he saw, moving very fust, a light between him and the ground.
It was moving at an unwice speed, considering how close he judged it to be to the earth, for he took it to be the hind light of a plane.
He came on, panting up be hind it. But it, light as Ariel, rushed up to 14,000 and then
That problem of whether (after Gorman's plano humans can turn as quickly as Jise turn is going to turn up again. We had best, then, note it well now. For certainly a lot may well turn on it, on that one queer fact,
SPIN POWER
The facts of human anatomy
Then Gorman decided on are stubborn things. We weren't bold thing. He was above the meant to function above a car- light. So he swooped on it. And tain rate and presare and that apparently
its power of spin. caught
Go over that wandering attention. It paused, and you'll be lucky, very lucky, and then, qulak as a toreador if you don't and yourself laid with charging bull side- out—and perhaps for KODA, stopped.
竊
WHITE GLOBE
As Gorman. swooped past he could cea it as it slipped off to his right. It was only a foot or so in aize, a white globe, German thought it, was making for the tower, so he dived at it again.
had
coughed but got its wind again and taken him to 17,000 feet) the Light shook itself free of its heavy hanger-on, sailed up into the night and was gone.
In this case they were escap- ing so fast. that they thought: sildo they had left the "gnata" safely
behind.
NO ESCAPING
Then one got close enough-- close enough to hit that intense "wake" of discharging force, radiation energy, néoded
atom-
He took. care to learn as much. to drive this artifletul island up- as he could of the infunow's Into the ariess aly, out into power of nat only manoeuvre, | 1pace; maybe.. but of mind-tested to ԵՐՈ what turns it, could take, what its resistance to strain,. what its inventiveness to. sudden move ment might, be
This unequalled Joint par- formance of man and mystery, flame and fighter-plane, was There is, then, watched by quite an audience, To the two men in the tower were added another couple, who had just arrived by plane.
NO TRAIL
This moving body—If it can be called a body--had no trail, And no one heard any sound
come from it.
But when at last Gorman, by. a quick stroke, seemed for a moment as though he might actually get in its path, for a One thing will strike anyone. to lose who reads this report, or at moment it seemed
With its usual un- least one question must arises patience.
was being expected readiness it muddenly surely that Light swung. But not away-straight "projected""? on to Gorman,
The two, he and the light, For 20 minutes this skilful
did dip fier dived and ducked at this were now diving right into each
other. Gorman" then queer, enigmatic opponcat an end the light sailed over him, opponent who certainly knew erlap, that counted as a point how to play the game, and who, to it. in boxing terms, could some pretty footwork.
show
no escaping
The rods of force, the jets of energy flashing out from that stern would be more penetra- ting than any bullet, than any jot from an oxy-acetylene torch (which drives its darting tongue- of fame through steel as though
the conclusion not only as all who were in on that play through butter). agreed that there was ana telligence guiding that Light.
That in interesting, if perhaps
to
PATHETIC THING
a little too much so, What is not only interesting but hearten lessly unavoidable--the kind of The accident would be hope- ing is that that, intelligence showed itself considerate it pathetic: thing when: a poor wild.
animal steps on Icarn abou
live wire, and. wanted
us is instantly killed, and it was not only clever in the way it did so, but considerato.
Such then are the conclusions. the only reasonable conclusions As to the tragic Mantell caso
again, what else could be with which the evidence Icaves. expected? This huge thing, this leave aside or brush away. But us-evidence which we cannot monstrous sky-master, scuttled away from the silly goat that something hopeful, something
constructive comes out of these: kept on rushing after it
two kept reports.
There must have been-if the whole thing wasn't a phantom
No one knows how near Man-
First and foremost we need. there must have been someone, well got The current explana- haunt and not a factual hunt-
Ww not, he hadn't got
must not become high, high aloft, who was direct- tion is that as ing this little bright bait" oxygen with him, above 20,000 panicky. The visitors have be directing it on the flying deld of he "blacked-out" (to bo ex haved with wonderful High... Fargo, North Dakota, to seo pected), and that while he was grade what the men-minnows in the
In a swoon his plane got out or rectitude." bottom of the earth-atmosphon control. pool would do.
DANGER ZONE
consideration and COT-
Think how you would plan to conduct yourself with tho utmost decorum in you were
Gorman thought, however, make another They danced this night sky that he must
But dash for it. Again they camo duct above the airfield. some of the turns made by the head-on. But this time--as it
ábove The "person", far, far Naturally, he told the landing tight as leader were so sharp must be owned the discs always control below to maka sure and neat that they made Gorman seem to do-it took to its good played with the one "minnow"
and used
full that
this is But, and rosc. again all was clear. They told go as block in his consciousness manners
though the A crash from that bright has him there was only one other as the night outside.
powers-it just hopped right up vitally important.
mind happened from that cause, and into the air, as the old Creinn minnow, like any other
dashed plane in the district; and as it
not find at the the crash will do all for the happened he could pick up its This touch and touch again of bull-fighters used to leap right less minnow,
bait and tried to capture it, the victim and his plane that the outline-well out of his way. the grim danger of blacking-out over the charging bull.
account of that plane's break-up bore out.
Itg
Even Jolson's exit had
trouper's timing
by EVE PERRICK
a further fortune.
visiting another world or another
with whom country you found it hard to municate by words. You could a sounder approach than that these strangers have made towards: us.
WHAT THEN P
We can then watch and wait and above all not be belligerent toward those who have abewa no abruptness with us. We can conclude that the fighter-
But Mantell may have gol right into the danger zone—and ‹ by that is meant, right near the wash of this terrible thing's inconceivable engines. And such facts as we have seen point to one thing-these "ships" quite as peculiar in their power pitals he could instal her as as in their shape. They do plane approach is both silly mistress of two houses and run command some sort of prodi- for it was quite impractical-
dangerous, for surely glous energy the ice of which and is just under the horizon of our would be hard not to misunder speculation,
stand it.
four cars.
Jolson was in many ways a number won further fame and gure of fantasy man whore philosophy of living was sum- ined up int his catch phrase: "You ain't seen nuttin yet."
The total of the fabulous Jolson milions 20 ntily be He didn't like end Al "Informal" meaning that the guessed. EVEN at the
wore their second-best stories about his wealth. Jolson that "living, women legend" who from today be jewels,
The Bob Hope, crack, that just a legend-showed
Jolson stayed away from J
bush
a siller
'My knocks'
TE way
'an egocentric who H
had his three adopted chil- dren named after him-Al Junior, Asa (two), and Alicia (six months).
arc
L
1
If every time I go into a field a bull charges mo, 1 may be forgiven for assuming that he does not want to be in friendly relations with me, or even to study impartially my behaviour and habited way,
There are already to hand two reports from observers who say they watched dines flying over a forest on a still doy; and what struck them most was that the tops of the trees, as the discs passed high above them, twisted and lashed as though a small typhoon were passing over them.
But what can we do? No ono Ukes being looked down on and Finally there Wan a report being spied upon by someone
That is why the next did show signs of such "hand-reports are so important. ling." There were grooves in they carry us a step on; not the metal, driven right through merely do they give us more ovidence about the discs--they show us a new approach to them.
(World Copyright—London that
Express" Sergica), SEN).
(MORE TOMORROW).</
Jolson was wearing a the essential quality of all shirt and khald trousers. His Hollywood charity show be
sense hair was so closely cropped that cause he couldn't find
that Mantell's plane fragments above. whether it for the Bank of America, was you could not see was white or blond. But his repeated to Jolson. He said:
great entertainers, a of timing.
tired.
Somehow that
Into
trome
befane."
And
be
we can
Yet he was also a homely it. If Jolson had died any time skin was grey and his eyes were
"I don't have all that much
his BJ.vccn the ourly nineteen
money. The people here just guro, Showing me over thirties (which remembered his
haven't got over the success of £20,000 house he got himockt a
Taking for granted the size pioneer talkie Blms "Tho. Jazz
was unexper- the two Jolson-story films and little lost in the ground-floor Singer" and "The
volee, from the think they made Singing ted. From his
me an over- apartments, and explained: "I and power of this, the greatest- don't think I've been down of all sky-visitors yut viewed. Fool") and the end of 1945 he, stories of his triumphant renes- night multi-millionaire again."
(with any
accuracy), the entertainment a forgotten, eenco would have died
world after "The Jolson Story" The third diopter of that owned that house for 20 years. only conclude one thing. These man.
We watcbod 00 amatour- and "Jolson 9mgs Again," you story that was just beginning Imagined he was going to be was in the TV field Early this talent show on one of his two Had he lived for just a few
Would your bo signed a radio-and- TV sets, more years, when falling health someone of whom you and a possibly. flekle public say: "Marvellous he would have made, his profes- about 50." sional appearances fewer, be would perhaps have passed as a star who had his day...
looks vialon contruct for some extra
Jolson looked all of his 34 years.
From a circus,
But on the night of October 23, 1950, just back from Korea, Jolson could put down his cards, Joke: "Truman had only one hour with General Mac- TUIRTY MILLION people saw Arthur. I had two and die the two pictures which will
In show how form a "the greatest name
permanent, business today."
slightly out-of-focus, memorial
Jack Benny described Mke that: Jolson himself, ingly prophesying his wiatorackod: Tuwhen I they'll bury Lorry: Parks."
him
thousands of dollars. But be
“paid out, 200,
Do young men oơng, but his pesforce talled to please, and the gant turised him down.
When his 11-year-old. mar- riage to Ruby Keeler (she was Commented Jolson: "That'a wife Bio. 2. Of the first two Mirs the best thing that could have Jolsona, Herriotta Keller, and happening to fit. That kid' has Alma: Orborne, there is no takon a knock. The reason I'm trace) was dissolved in 1939 he at the top tuckay is becmane. I
have her 2100 a week plus a took the knocks in the begin
lont of £12,500 when the ring. remarried a few years after- wards.
in Ass Yoelson, this real name). For his ndopted Bon, A
trust fund of £23,000.
"And you know what I mean. by
ho "In the beginning." grinned. “Over 40 yearS BEO-----
the rebellious con of an ortho- Junior, now 18-he extablished a before you two babes" (the to dox Rabbl from Leningrad. death,
other babe referred to was Mrs
In was a trikiphant postscript It still left him enough to live Jolson) were born" die. to the circus main who went me in more than moderate comfort. Jolson was buried at Forest
toa minstrel show, became of When he married his fourth Dawna Comotery, which Evelyn highly paid sudeville star, whe wife-the unsophisticated A Waugh - made famous in ""The I bet him a few weeks sko punobled vu the Buturo of the ray oasistant from Little Rock. Loved One" at one of those Sunday night talichng him, obd who when Arkansas he, mot during bla last
the Forces hos Hollywood "informal" partics... everyone thought fre was a back, war tour of
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