· Fage B.**
THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST
GERALD BOWMAN tells another story of the Caterpillar Club
Dixie Pulls Out
EVEN sergeants of No. „One last burst
102 Squadron, Royal
Air Force, made * the blazing
hazardous take-off in ♫
Halifax bomber on the night plunges
of April 27, 1942. They
as they wanted that hodge any-
haw!"
Larry Carr, hauling his big bomber bomber up over the dark shapes
one
of the hangars was certain "he was going to hit them. Indeed, he tensed himself for the crash.
were bound for Cologne and more Me110 written But the Halifax Just made it.
It was their first operational
trip on thin
type of off, then-
machine. The Halifax
had
Carr found to his relief that his wheels would still retract and then climbed away for the distant target,
proved too heavy for their tried to lift-off at the first coast at about 12,000 feet in
Its airfield Own grass wheels sank into the pre- vailing mud-therefore they were using the hurd runway of the antelle station.
The wind was blowing at an angle across it, and the runway seemed a bit short for an aircraft of the Halifax type, but Larry Clater Carr, the skipper Flight-Lieutenant), gave
chance,
After crossing the French clear moonlight the crow found very litle opposition from lther flak or searchlights, Dixie In his draughty turret, Lee, who was crooning a blues
around tho
song
All
vast
It wouldn't lift-and Ser- geant Carr found himself running out of runway fast, looked
At last the wheels sluggishly cavern of the sky-but after a while he stopped ainging. altogether too left the surface and there was
shudder 。
they as
crashed Things the through
boundary hedge, poucoful for his liking. sending up a spectacular shower of bushes mic 1wigs in the
lipstream.
Sergeant G. H. ("Dixio") Lee, tot-gunner. announced aver the engines everything and the inter-com: "I don't suppose
She knows when the stars fall
a-fussin' and a-feudin', but
NO ONE IS AFRAID OF
L
LOUELLA
says Louella
QUELLA PARSONS, get a big car
who retalls the pri r
vate life of Holly- wood Haven days 14
for
yuki
1 wanted a big
They made
મા
were
He said SI) to the mid-upper *K<!# advised: gunner. and yuur eyes skinned for fighters." Even us he spoke both gun- black nery spolied Diling,
about shapo ingainst the moon 400 yards away. Both yelled "Fighter to starboard. Skipper." over the inter-com.
controls At the
Larry Carr into nu threw the big bomber evasive weaving path and for a the minutes shook
fow
enemy.
But the moon
and
bright
moltesd
At him yelled
Dixie
suddenly an Mello diving dead
of nowhere He and second warning Curr once again flung the great Halifax into a "corkscrew
the Both
and gunners approaching fighter opened are simultaneously. Then amidst the terrifie din of his guns Dixie was suddenly half-blinded by a vivid
and flash in his turret
fell a sharp poln in his right
foot.
The Me.'s cannon shells had struck home and in a matter of seconds the whole port side of the bomber was a mans of dome where
had the Aghter's uns mistake."
raked it. Mine
looked sur- Dixie hoard Larry Curr shout and sold the order for the crew to bale prised at all this week to 40,000,000 reudera It was not necessary to send out, but as he did so he spotted The small another fighter coming In to news. the small car away. of 1,000 American
*** turned out to be a Humber attack. Although he could only papers, is on her way back Hawk. There was ample room operate his giais manually--the hydraules had gone -Dixie saw to her parish from London.
She Asks
a big chance of retaliation. The Mise Parsons, in London
pilot clearly thought way Shepperton fighter
to on a private visit, was never.
studios I asked Miss Parsons that he had an easy target and theless in touch with Hollywood colony in Lon- what were the three questions came to very close to give it a she most often put to stars in
Dixie got his sights dead don. The colony was an Hollywood,
the approaching machine and "Well, I want to know when yelled In triumph as he saw his xious to please, for Miss Parsons in her own terri- they are getting married, whenhurst strike the fighter and pro- Lory is reputed to have they're having a baby, and if it duce an instantaneous sheet
the
N
the
Is true there is going to be
final burst,
flame.
of
power of a high priestess. disinte. That is what people By now both the navigator
# Sen
Legend says she can make or break a reputation in ience.
She Bayn: "People aren't
really afraid of me in Hollywood. Why, not even my servants Bre I Just report what goes on."
Her column has been going on for 30 years now, and the way Hollywood people react to
want to know," she said, "That and the second pilot had baled --and who 13 feuding with
and whom.
"There is Gregory Peck now. I had hum come to see me at home and he sat on the path and I said; Orck--Bre yuld getting a divorce?"
"He said:
Louella, honestly love married. I'm moving
I'm
it provides a revelation of life America and I want to stay here
in Hollywood today.
I have
(Mr Peck is filming in England studying that now). been
And I'm staying with
reaction in London. I began at my wife.
Do you know, 1 be-
a party given by Bebe Daniels lieved him and I wrote a Sunday and Ben Lyon, with whom Louella Parsons has been stay-
Ing.
Said Ann
MISS
ISS PARSONS was spotted Ann Todd. Ann Todd said: "I have just come from
was coming out Greg Peck's divorce was announced.
out.
Sergeant Dixie Loo
*1954
TOM STACEY,
1 the young explorer, arrives at a strange sanctuary set deep in the green heart of equatorial Africa
So Mrs. EMMA
gives me lunch
(the egg-fruit came from the garden)
TOM STACEY, who described in a best-sallon called " The Hostila Sun" how he discovered an unmown tribe in Malaya, is following the sim again-this time is the heart of Africa. With one African companion he started in the Belgian Congo, and is striking desper into the jungle. Today's aucy-from-if-ell despatch comes from LAMBARENE.
in the jungle
the
concrete-based, fine, dining-room. Here I learned
o'clock
At two
the "bell sounded-two miniature railway sleepers of different lengths-to rally the hospital back to work. They are long hours you ROM one of the most like a jungle village. This my second fact.
Everything in this hos- work," I said, "from 7.30 in the moving, uplifting way even the most timid and
constructed morning to six at night. Do you sanctuaries of hope backward of tribesmen learn pital has been he in the world I send this that white man's medicine by Schweitzer's own hands, get special pay?"
It was then I learned my third or patients foot. The staff Carn nothing or by staff despatch.
but their keep, even though some trained by him.
of them arc internationally
Then Dixie felt the air- that craft lurcti and guessed Carr the skipper had also gene out, leaving the control-stick He grabbed for his para- tree.
was of the "ellp- chute which on type, and had to wind his turret round by hand unti! could force himself through the narrow doors. For a few seconds he couldn't get his legs through and his right arm was jammed.
Africa.
is not too strange and fear- ful.
In white
Ogoone Equatorial
A
BA
--one Dr Nomura the
from Japan.
Britons,
Last hymn
and
We have just reached the that Albert
In the dining-room we mat renowned specialista, hospital W Then to his relief, he
the rest of tho white-robed that he had actually hooked his Schweitzer built Lambarene
trained staff. Four doctors and up the pack on the wrong 200 miles parachute
that 20
was River, French way round.
figure eight nurses and sisters. French, EUROPEAN possible to get at the release
came down ho slope Alsatians, Swiss, Dutch, Danish handle with his left hand, Dixie
lungATER, when the evening meal al seven had been taken and He pulled the release handle.
Jungle surrounds us, through the trees and tin-
No night had
fallen, the staff feit a violent jerk as the canopy
it are
the tiny roofed wooden quarters to specialist,
gathered round the ancient opened and yanked him out Within
roundish,
plano, whose yellow koys aro a hooked fish. Then his foot just villages of
the primitive meet
woman in Mrg Emma mid a brief worn through to the screws. Mrs missed the top of a tree, and a
French
We all tucked Emma conducted the evening grace, white. second or so later he was roll-Fung tribe, whom we shall middle-aged
into a meal of melon, a shortly be among.
fried service. Roman Catholic ing over in the middle of feld. As he picked himself up
It was Emma Hausknecht. egg-fruit, cucumber, grapefruit, Protestant alike took part.
size of Schweitzer himself is not
The lost hymu they chose, he saw the blazing bomber ex-
hockey 35-year-old Dr dishes the plode on the ground
few here.
balls, meat balls the size of golf singing together in Alsation, Dr The 79-year-old She, with
be Schweitzer's mother tonguo, was and Emery Percy, a green-eyed balls. Everything that can hundred yards away.
philosopher. doctor.
ahow la
grown
hospital "Now All the Forest Rests," musiclan who won the 1962 Hungarian, runs the
They like a touch of melodrama, gardens.
these men and Prize, is in just now.
women of God Nobel Peace
I sat next to Maria Legendyk. out in the primeval forest. It Three of that galiant crew of Europe lecturing and play- "Mrs Emma" has
been She comes from Holland. is one of their fow indulgences. seven died in those few minutes the organ, gathering here longer than anyone Twenty years ago, stiil no more
ing
And it was now that I learned
not Just 12 than a girl, she learned mid- my final fact Schweitzer has of action. Only Dixie, Larry
else since 1925. Carr, the skipper, Ronnie Shoe-money for his hospita
wifery in Woolwich, She is a only created this hospital in the the navigator,
years earlier the young tall, humble woman, red now jungle. He has sown a need of bridge, Sergeant Ralston, a Canadian.
scholar pastor Schweitzer after 10 years' incessant work courage here which nothing is survived,
felled his first redwood tree in equatorial Africa,
going to kill. and founded his jungle
cand
Dixie himself was captured after having been befriended by Belgian villagers but
First fact
hospital. Riven HIS
sway to the Germans by one of them--who, Incidentally. Wits afterwards executed for it
ment,
Ironically his capture
staff-European, Asian, African-curry on
"Dr Schweitzer has creat- hy the work while the master men of the underground move is away. Those among the ed it all," says Mrs Emma. 530 patients who are grow. "But the work is never Anished, We do what we toxineasted by his skiping fit again work too.
We can.
cannot do all." I crossed the 600-yard There was a hardy, Indepen
dug-out
tired dent devotion in the wide Ogooue in B from the river-island where
eyes. the village lles, to Schweit- zer's hospital. With me was
my African
in
tha
All Asking: They're
Who Is Sylvette?
By Joan Harrison
girl who is Picasso's
who by
had that time per.
to Rot himself ' managed watched, powerless to help. civilinn suit of clothes, and who
0 Dixie was led away. The under gmund movement subsequently
First thing Mrs Emma WHO is Sylvette?, got Carr home, but Dixie spent the rest of the war es a prison-Erisa.
Along the sunny Riveris model. com- did was gather a box of er though he made several panion.
fruit and vegetables for us the art set and the smart fruitless attempts to escape.
First fact I learned about to take on our journey into set are talking about her, this hospital was that it is the jungle. Then we were Sylvette, aged 19, is the built,
as far
as possible, invited to stay to lunch in little honey-blonde French
NEXT SATURDAY: Saved By Instinct
latest
Her
With Les Armour In Britain Today are now they we
M
the
I don't middle of the front page of
notext.
the letter could London. one of those big new factories the fact that
"not have gone through the FAYBE It wasn't the ou the nutskirts of town,
What happens in the labora- regular channels" as little short classic "Man Bites
torlea there will be anybody's of churlish. that news- guess. Dog"
The matter cuts to the very New formulae for puppy bis- spine of society. papermen long for. But it ploce about it.
cults will be forced down the It is not the practical unwilling throats of the human "By the time my Sunday piece was the next best thing.
conventence of the thing the There it was, bang in guinea-pigs, and their reactions unnerving discovery that che
carefully
Particularly weedy
specimens will be fed ques posted on Monday may enormous quantities of condition even be cashed on Monday and
such like that matters. It is the principle. For what is to become of the world if "official channels" are disregarded?
*IC
postman, collecting A being Ing that he must pass one
"Now the raude. Joan Craw-
I'm Munroe.
Ist
Stur
was
**That
*
private girl. She
"It is hot in the South France," said Miss Parsons. "I
be nice there?"
wil
Macbeth."
-but he certainly would.
Not known!
S
CHE changed
daughter's
Hero'?
subject. the you seom
'Susan Slept stood by. Harriet made that
there is
over powders.
071
for
you can
No Short Cuts
the
or
Sho is bi-lingual. mother is English and her father French, the owner of one of Paris's most famous art galleries, Drouant-David, And she is engaged to be married to 20-year-old Engilshman Toby Jellinek.
Four ago met at a co-educational school in England. With youthful cook without seeking an official will be those who will suggest dreams they planned to wed refusal from the manager? The that the point of the thing is ta horrid juns of customers flock- bring evil doers to their appro-one day when both had
become famous. ing to the place would prob- priate dooms. ably force the management to
And now (half) their dreams To satisfy both parties, there- send for the police,
fore, it would seem essential are coming true. Sylvette has What really alarms us, how to work out some compromise. achieved sudden fame ล ever, is the prospect that official Leicestershire and Rutland have Picasso's newest and favourite channels may be by-passed by made a well-timed break with model. And Toby? Weil, Toby writers of letters to the editor, traditional unplesantness. What has at least sold three armchairs What might happen to us if is required now is more precise of his own design to the famous they show up in person to be direction.
labour ԱՏ for Jampooning offelal channels?
Sporting Move
At first sight, the right при proach would seem to be A suggestion that the underworld and other sections of the
should pursued
occasionally
The
palnler. And he is trying to become a painter.
SCHOOL FRIENDS Toby had to be fetched away from his studio in Vallauris, i pottery town in the south of
and orna❤
think he is d naughty boy, but the morning paper: it makes me sad.
"A alimming diet for ford is feuding with Marilyn weight dogs, frat tested a rehearsal of Macbeth,'
From there it's a short step Joan is ก big human beings at д London playing Lady Macbeth for the
real old-time
star, hospital, is being prescribed by artificially inducing hard-pad old Vic. It lo...."
and distemper into the human Marilyn is a new girl-but Joan veterinary surgeons!" Louella Parsons said: "Yes, I attacked her for the way, Marilyn
retchero's a gleam of hope. letters from a box and discover Nolleemen patrolling the number to present himself to telephone,
JEWS that plain clothes not
nominate orte among their France, to talk to me on tho know. 'Out, dumeed spot,' I
wiggles when she walks and the On second and closer read- 'Macbeth played
in school
Britain and the British she behaves.
ing, it was still there.
addresses on his roads in Leicestershire and Rut the pursuers. bet more of what they are,
"sacrifice"
"Yes," he said, "as soon as once."
not fair of Joan. Ann Todd said she had just Marilyn
be spread about ap we both left school in England will start on anti- way back to the sorting office, land are to be announced by would Now, frightened Hitle
leaving aside the nd- someone
so that no undue about a couple of years ago I heard from Katharine Hepburn,
the visability or otherwise of try vivisection society for suffering takes it upon himself to deliver road signs warning "Poilee In propriately She really. girl
ham't
burden would falli upon any will doubtless them there is not telling how plain clothes are patrolling this in Venler. background was filming who
followed Sylvette down here. If hasing to turn the homely pooch humanity, there that Joan
pursuers would
It "Katio says it is very hot
for Sylvetie weren't is such a nice, serious into a sort of canino Marilyn be a well patronised Royal So many may thus be thrown out of road restores our faith in the our and the
sporting instincts of mankind. of work. Venice and she has a
agree to restrict themselves to the Prevention something cloty
wouldn't bo here or trying to to play Lady Monroe, wants
But the idea is obviously too these easy catches, Moreover, the inately" dock-eyed about this Cruelty to Men and Women and
supervisory chapel in her villa."
paint of Mi Parsons asked Mr Lewis proposition It
"How did we meet Pleasso? shows no a campaign of protest meetings staff, thus discovering that there good to leave there.
What about announcing bill Yet that, somehow, takes all by is of the Atness of all organised, of course,
this. To camin really no need for them to he had scen her daughter's appreciation
a uniformed the glamour out have sont my maid to Paris. De film. Mr Lowis said he hadn's in this modern age can dogs.
suitably-dieted, well-intentioned supervise, cannot help but have collectors with
of the thing. It was like agent travelling ten their feelings hurt.
minutes It becomes cut and dried and living I had been designing and you suppose the weather
making fumiture ail too soon be a nicols. I designed an armchair Transferred out of the postal ahead and instructed to offer there would We arrived at Shepperton and shock yours truly. Innovation
department to and took it along to the pottery realm, however, the matter the victim a full description of government this is thing....But went to "The End of the Aftair is OTIO
His pursuer? becomics
organise the matter. serious. deadly
store which sells Picasso's work. Ret. Deborah Ker greeted revolution.
Botter stil, telephone opera- The right idon, diplomatic Notes
we think,The chair was shown him. He Suppose Loucila affectionately. So
Everyone knows that experi- did
bo to line up the pur-liked it and bought it. Не men will probably not get were dealt with on the spot by lors might ring through before would nim,
Slept Van Johnam. A photographer ments are curried out on dogs THE affair of the Derby post-
pursued on BEFORE being
wayward applied
ambassadors Instead each call advising us that "there suers
ordered another and asked me back to 14 e gentleman with a deep wile green field on the first day to other way the sympathetic consideration it
being referred Louella Parsons saldi, *I humans. Not the
go along and see him. deserves.
video and determined manner on of each month, (Harriet Parsons is a producer) won't kiss you, Deborah darling, about
"official channels?
did, taking Sylvette. and I'm glad it is a big suc- It world spoil your make-up." Anyone-and
Hearing that senter post offico thle
includes
How many wars might be the line. Shall I tell him there
The pursued would have a
"Wo won again and again, soveral million Londoners who oficiais are_Investigating the avoided throwing how many is no reply?
hundred yards start before the and. he cess. I tried to see it here, but
bought another pursuers were turned
Joost. armchair.
Then ho uskood of only
many politicians is to invite ridicule and to The fleet-footed who got to the Sylvette to post, by the reprochful glance
I go along but they didn't know me. Then WE went off to see "rustic-ig terrier in the anti-vivisec- the post box to its recipient, the might find themselves speech being entwerk of our society," other side of the fold would be with Byivotte sometimes when
world How many newspapers very framework declared homefree this na outside
for another she sits for him. snort "damned bureaucrats", might be forced out of businct? After all. It wo are to have axiomatic coopts
"Our marriage?
Perhaps at Wait until I tell Harrict that, "Wonderful," said Mr Lowie. Doar old ladies die and leave Indeed, there may be way- And, suppose when you went pursuer and pursued the sport month.
Seeing his landlord red-faced the end of the year when we've Wonderful,"
a restaurant and ordered becomes dull indeed if the everyone considerable fortunes to be used ward citizens who will bold that to
the.
mor saved enough money. It depends Wonderful actress, Deborah," ing out experiments
in campaigning against carry such expeditious delivery to be something not on the menu, the pursuer is never allowed a look and puffing,
on dogs a good thing and who will water tool 11. upon himself to in. Even in the matter of the heartless tenant might be re- on how many armchairs and
thero conciled to paying the rent....knick-knacks I sell." said Miss Porrons.
BEFORE they're tried on men regard, the officiat unrent over negotiate the thing with the plain clothes policeman arrone to meet Louolia After lunch Van Johnson went, and women, Parsons next day to visit film to work. Deborah Kerr, said: It's pretty alogr that the studio.
When I called in the Van is a wonderful actor. He medical men who
perpetrated morning the said the producer takes his part so seriously, that this new turnabout and little
"Ther
End of the Aisle at when he has en emotional scoot ties of the enormity of what the studio rei coming himself to play he goes without break they were doing. with a car. Be called David been home confusion
'Wonderful':
to
of:
has had his heart-strings tugged my half an hour to get from nea? How
matter of a lotter which took munitions makers on the brend To reason this way, however,
all the sents had
gone.
"I
I was Parsons,
I said I was the producer'a · mother and they let mo
the films of the previous top
in. day's work.
else.
she will be pleased. It is some timce difficult for girl with a famous mother to make good
her own."
Demes
Mc
gald
mis far in the for
the morning to .make The possibilities thus openod
Jolteon sakl: "T
had himself more tortured."
up are, to my the least, alarm- outwitout breakfast because the
swept in with it gain my hotel im't on by the Imagination to visualise the apology "Louelik dertiDE
Jeavo
In the morning. I eventual, setting up of human wald, "They have given met 1 leave
eave early."
doù-pounds where citizens who
small one I used for the big It was time for Louella Forcontind their way home one for yout, but they sent the sons to leave. Everyone, said small car. Doryou mind? I can goodbye and embraced.
order the amanay away, and
We got into the "small" car Land” Milan Parsons - suld;, "it is
won't have any will be locked tub In wiro csgom.
To these pounds will come rekoarth men from the big con- O CET. A very nice car," cornal that stipply the dog shops, Aurrected manos around "the
Medaile said to me, “Loualla
David Lewinl:
JOHNNY HAZARD.
· GETTING BANK, OUTLANO SIGN OF ESCARRIE SHOWIN'
THAT WAS HUM PROHER THE
BUT NOW I DON'T KNOW, NOONAN..... 180. CONFUSE
"TJUST BATTIN' HERE ISN'T, [„GON. THELF MATTERS, ANY!” AM KNOW WHAT WE ALL NEED "CNFER US UP....**
and the
even
By Frank Bobbins
A REAL FANCY FEED, AN' THEN FRONT-ROW TICKETS T THIS SHOW! MESIDED, ESCARRE WOULD HEVER, 7.LOOK FOR SUCKI AT A GIRGUS!
(this situation
calls for a
San Miguel