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10,000 SEAMEN HUNT FOR YOUR HAIR OIL
By J. W. Taylor
FROM the Merseyside and Tyne ports the home- based British whaling expeditions and an- other froin Durban are on their way to the An- tarctic to join the great whale-hunting armada from Norway (10 expeditions), Holland (one), Japan (two) and Russia (one) in a three-months WOMAN Iny dead were only two small bodies Even at that, the powers of "By staring into the reflected search for whalemeat for the table,, oil for fats, are "a brilliance of the sun they liver for vitamin A, and sperm oil for lipsticks, ΟΠ the operating quite empty-lying curled these Balinese people
great deal more than mere were able to travel away from table in a Washing- in front of the shrine."
gas in their bodies and move in other, hair lotions, face creams and candles. Then came tho most hypnosis or a dose of ton hospital for ten minutes
subtler planes,"
Although by international The three British pelagle ex- Ho adds: "It can be done. recently. A Caesarian opera- amazing part. Tho chanters the dentist's chair."
In a totally undisciplined agreement the whaling sea- factories are the Balaena (15,
peditions-these with Roating. tion
performed asked the gods to come and and a baby born.
inhabit the empty bodies, to
way, one can do it in sleep. With non is restricted to three 715 gross tons), Southern Har make them dance Then the
Was
mother began to breathe and came back to life again.
Millions of people must themselves: asked have "Where did the vital spirit, the soul, go in those ten minutes pi
A remarkable story of leaving their bodies is told the souls of two little girls in a book just published.
The author-travel-book writer James Riddell-was an eye-witness. In "Flight of Fancy" (Robert Hale, 258.) ho gives the details.
It happened on the island of Bali, in the village of Batah.
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What they have forgotten ist training, such as the priests of and a half months from vester (15,000) and Southern Mr Riddell saw the two "How to leave the body with the Egypt had, it can
Décember 15, the British Venturar (14,066). Each have a
crow of 800 men and is attend spirit and trapel og with the awake." little girls' bodies rise.
whalers leave Europe early ed by a dozen whale catchers spirit as Mr Riddell calls it, But, when the chanting The cecrets of the real Truth." Forty-year-old Mr Riddell, in October and return about little steamships of 800 to 800-
"the
The tona from which the wartime In Iraq he saw among relles who has travelled widely, was stopped, they were
corvettes
were developed. With missioner for Palestino and crews work very hard at corve
other vessels, they each form dendest-looking little girls of Ur of the Chaldees another once A.D.C. to the High Com- the following May..
Transjordan.
12-hour shifts, but are well miniature fleet of 20 or more one over sawoyes shut, clue the "Looling Diaca." faces wooden and expres- These, he believes, are con-
In the war he was chief in-fed and get fresh butter ships, with crews totalling these ancient slonless, bodies motionless."
Shouting, laughing, the powers that mankind has lost, structor to the School of Moun- and meat. Pay is good and thousand or more. Joining them of ancient tain Warfare in the Middle East: £1,000 a trip is not un- will be a fourth British whale
DON TAYLOR common. firing of flashbulbs had no Egypt mostly women used
effect on them.
CHANTING
When the chanting begán again, the girls danced in away they normally knew of with a grace nothing foreign to them.
They bent themselves
The two little girls over bamboo poles, hands ordinary village girls, not and feet touching beneath dancers-sat in front of a as they were hoisted into the air-their bodies still small shrine.
weaving and twisting to the music.
INCENSE
They inhaled incense from bowls in their laps, while women chanted, until the spirit left the body and they became unconscious.
"Gradually their bodies Ang forward until their faces are close to the burn- ing embers--and then, aud- denly, plop, they fall right forward on one side-com- pletely out.
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There seems no question of fraud or even hypnosia. Mr Riddell continues: "Those two girls were no there
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The trance Mr Riddell Insted two hours.
saw
Then the chanters asked the gods to leave the bodies, to al- low their own spirits to return.
the
From only six feet away author watched the transforma- Lion.
It took ten minutes-and the dancers were little girls again, dazed and dreamy at Arst.
Mr Riddell tried to fathom that towering, baffling question: Where had the spirits of the pirls gone to?
He found no answer. The vil- lagers could not say.
He belleves that here is the great riddle to which mankind bas lost the answer.
"They know it in Egypt, and I think they knew it in Baby- lon.
A British Crossword Puzzle
2
ACROSS
Coma. Herole tale.
9 Support.
10 Vends.
10 vents
11 Relieve.
19
Hindrance.
16 Count.
10 Way out.
19. Downcast.
22 Retreat,
24 Pick-me-up,
25. Confidence.
20. Jot.
27 Brenthe out.
DOWN
2 Vagrant.
3. Entreat.
Carry on again, Softened. Fail to seo. Dish.
12 Distinction.
13 Perfect.
14 Outer.
17 Fool.
18 Coin.
20 Nick.
21 Peer.
28 Particle.
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IT IS GOOD-BYE GERTIE GITANA THIS TIME
NELLIE DEAN' DECIDES
TO LEAVE THE HALLS
VERTIE Gitana, star of gas-lit London, the singer who introduced Nellie Dean to Bri- tain, will take her last curtain call at a South Lon- dun theatre on December 22.
And this time, says Ger- tie, it is for good. She retired in 1938, but was persuaded to return to the stage three years ago with "Thanks For The Memory."
Now the show is coming off and Gertle is leaving the stage.
She was 14 when sho first appeared on the stage. That year a copy of Nellie Dean was sent to her from America.
"But I had to wait two years.
to sing that song," she told me today.
Gertie Uitena NOW.
factory, the
31,100-ton Abraham Larsen, of Durban, which sailed via South Africa at the end of September. They will be part of a great feet comprising 19 fac- od 230 whale catcher lory ships and/ boats employing. In.
In all about
10,000 men, ranging from the ordinary, sailor to the highly killed harpoonist, expert techni- clans and veterinary surgeons,
DEFINITE PERIOD
During the season, baleen and sperm whales are caught, the former. including the world's largest mammal--the blue whale -19 well as the fin whale and the smaller sei whalen.
100
Since there 19 deanite
during which
Derlod
baleens
bo caught and may restriction on the number which may be taken, most feels spend the first few weeks before the season begins by catching sperm whales. These toothed creatures
are 40 ft. 50 ft. long, but are smaller than the other main 871701
come
species, and from them spermaceti,
At the same time
the crews look out for signs of the presence of schools of baleen whales and noting the direction of their travels.
at dawn From the official off at on December 15, accompanying whale catchers bring in the har vest to the factory ships where meat steaks are taken from the middle of the back and the re- mainder of the carcase is sub
submit... the ted to a process for
tion of all. One British expedi-1 tion has a tender accompanying
"People said I was too young to sing about romance. I was before the King and Queen at the factory ship to house a float- 10 before they
Gertie Gitan
THEN.
"Then I couldn't go wrong." She made her first broadcast in 1932; two years ago she sang
In
ing cannery. Here the whale- would let me, the. Command performance.
live meat is canned by methods as The audience shouted for more In retirement she wil}
with her husband at their horne modern and ancient as any on and more.
Woodstock Hill, Elstree, land. Herts.
POSTWAR SUCCESS "What will I do in my spare The British expeditions have. time?"
she said, "I will keep met with outstanding success in home, potter about in my gar-
the postwar years. den, keep up my collection of three seasons the four Britan antiques.
Chinatown Yields To Progress
San Francisco,
The artificial barrior that for more than 100 yours has isolated San Francisco's colourful Chinatown from the
In the last.
"I will still be in the musle-expeditions between them pro- duced over 2,000,000 barrels of hall world watching from the whale all valued at about £50,- other side of the footlights, 000,000. Last season, too, the HIt would be too much of a Baleena for the second year break to sever all connection. succession
achieved the bor
I will take an Interest in my production figures of all expert! husband's business of running tions tak barrels, equal
the show."
Friends say that she saved £30,000 to £40,000, "No gutter for Gerlle," once said a few years ago.
rost of the nation is crumbling away. The historic Oriental SEVERE LOSSES community is becoming a part of the complox Amorica.
Her harv
#
was 203,500 has 33,910 tons. She also scored
production record of 20,000 bar she rels of whale oil over a seven-
day period,
feat only twice equalled in the last 18 years.
In the last season before the war
With The the expeditions
the total production of all over 2,700,- 000. barrels, a figure not reached stores, While the present housing First Corps, Korea, Dec. 11. The grocery
American Marines and infan- since. Last season it was 2,169,
over 5,000 143 barrels. Eighteen suffered laundries and clothing stores problem is extremely serious in
and between them casualties in the bloody, fort- tions took part
мо now itself, the flourishing birthraternen in the old district are
whales, or 16,011 owned and operated by
an promises even a greater problem [night campaign to break out of caught 28,029 The total wDE
in the future. A record peak of the Communist encirclement blue whale units. "American – minded" group
Chosin Reservior area made up of 0,158, blue whales, 56.1 births per 1,000 population in the the Chinese-Americans.
hung, it was reported here from back whalse, 102 sei whales and They are more apt to be was recorded in Chinatown last and reach the coast city of Ham 17,0989 fin whales, 2,108 hump
the 10th Corps today,Reuter. 2,566 sperm whales. arguing the pros and cons
of the Democratic Party than the Kuomintang.
family.
An estimated
year,
Another serious problem is one that has plagued the Chinese settlement since the days of the
Chinese business akro has tong wars-gambling. Chinese SIDE GLANCES expanded throughout the city, leaders and city officials both and with it has gone the Chinese agree that gambling has become 8,000 too big a business in Chinatown Chinese-Americans now live to stamp out.
Chinatown, taking outside of part in community functions and sending their children to neigh bourhood schools.
Probably the most impressive single record that shows how the American influence has in- vaded Chinatown is o newa picture recently printed in San Francisco newspaper.
Inside the Chinese settlement, crowded conditions still exist, century. as they have for a
It shows a Chinese woman in Eighteen thousand persons are Jammed in the quaint tenements her Oriental gown standing be
fore sometimes seven or eight of a
one of the old Chinese fami'y living in two or three abores with a friend. Holding her hand in a three-year-old 1oors.
Chinese boy, completely attired in a "Hop-a-long Cassidy" out- l, who with a very grim ex- pression is reaching for the toy pistol tied tightly to one leg United Press.
A new housing project, known as Ping Yuen, is expected to be anished in about a year. The 234 unite will only house about 1,100 of the crowded 18,000 Orientals, however.
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