THE CHINA
SA
EPTEMBER
Where Are The Kings of the Ring Today?
HAUNTED by
The Tax Men
But Joe Louis is still the 'Champ' T
to the world and his wife
OE LOUIS
By GEORGE WHITING
talking:
MYSTERY IN THE DESERT
What followed makes n grim, unsolved mystery of
Gerald Bowman ho; desert. When the two ales
craft failed to return to base a search was instituted at once, continues" "the" Adventures and a Bombay troop-carrier, the Caterpillar Club zircraft was provided to help. After three days, systematic coverage, of the area Macken- zio a crashed machine was found in} the Quattara Depression,
actual position as the flames of the crash, flickered and died
Way. One part of the desert, and the Bombay landed along
side, Since it had not burned however, is grimly like any out, and there was no body Blenhaim other part and he could see olier in the wreckage or any
nothing which he could re
ngined alt, cognise The wireless operator, where nearby the dact was craft of No. 14. S. McConnell was working obvious that all the crew had
jumped. ASIAN Bquadron in the with concentration, over, his set Western Departs, took off bearing from any mobile D.F
hoping to get an answer and a from their landing ground unit that might be around.
east of. Mersa Matruh May 26, 1941. Their objec tive was a stretch between Suds Bay and. Maleme, in
whom Hitler had declared to be shaking and his left side wide the acme of Aryan supremacy open as he twisted around Crete, where they were to over all other mankind.""" those ropes. I moved forward
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ONE thing that puzzled the search, however, was the on Meanwhile the observer,
of part of a part- Fearn, and Pilot Mackenzie discovery compared
but realised chute-grar a mile away. There that, they were hopelessly. lost, was no silk envelope, but only
"It's no good trying to scrape
part of the rigging lines, which
"A guy fights for
down in this, chaps sald Mac- showed evidence of having been kenzie at last. We should
were also dragging footprints dough, except, may-
this point to a other poor beggare. We'll have leading from be, once. The heavy. Louis had taken the world Utle Schmeling squealed like a stuck trations.
rough desert track, where Jim Braddock, pig when It landed on his body. After a while one of the to jump." weight crown is still the from veteran
The two other men agreed, faded away. shortest distance between and defended it successfully. From the way be hollered aircraft had to turn: back
of the
On June 1, six days after the knew I Nathan figured he was hurt. I
for base. This operation, like but all were conscious poverty and plenty.
Man Tommy
and Harry Thomas had him."
they would face after crash both Sgt. Fearn and Bgt. danger
from That of his "The book says I earned Now, in the full flush
aqueal; that scream of many others the Blenheims landing in the trackless deseri McConnell were sighted
and more than £1,500,000 with powers, he was itching for the agony. Not one of the million undertook in those days, without any idea of their poel- the air at different points
dollar crowd of 70,000 will ever was very close to the air. tion. They decided, therefore the aircraft landed and picked pay-off against Schmeling. my fists. Even after the For the first and only time in forget 巍
#en-
that on reaching, the ground them both. Government took its picee his life, Louls uttered a threat; Paths,ically, Instinctively, craft's maximum and with all the expenses I "I'm fighting Hitler's
man."
1 Schmeling Rapped a feeble right durance"-in other words,
hard at the avenging Louis. Lakes training camp. "In Ġer-
Since his defeat by Schmeling, again and threw my right handli bomb. enemy troop concen- probably only go in like that through' with 'a knife. There distilling and blending.
other way a sharecropper's boy can make that kind of money?"
But what No, there is not. use is a million, or popularity, or a life pension, if the Invonic tax man is permanently on your collar?
The Joe Louls of today is a bewildered and tax-bedevilled pent
up,
Fort.
་
defended ribs,
re-
man of 40—though you would preliminaries in the taut, electric socks jaick aside the surrender ander was on a compars course, they were together: than if to walk.
up. They were
still wound up with nearly a he told reporters at his Pompton Thus might a man try to throw the target, was at a distance Limpty tanks... a` crash in the million dollars. Is there any mony they have ridiculed me back a bullet. Two more rien” from which they could re-
scrub... cut parachute lines and my raco. They talk too hammered into Schmeling's un- turn only with their last
Another and few gallons of petrol. much. You wonne make a little
In close formation the
.dragging footprints... money? Go out and get your shorter right to his jaw dropped self a bet. I'll tear his head off him in a hoop for "hroemaining two Blenholms reach-
left hook. ono round. Yes, sir, just one
back on the floor for used their target and carried out pulverising
.........what happened to Mackenzie? round round.
the attack. In spite of fierco now Impeded the Quite a speech from the least
Nothing now
from opposition
ground fire,
unrecognisable from loquacious champion in all rampaging Louis. A crushing neither was hit. However, dusk they would all walk towards almost
aircraft mosquito bites, and McConnell history.
right to the point
when it crashed was so close to death that the Louls and Schmeling snarled felled Schmeling of the chin was falling when they soared the blaze the empty
third away and turned back on the would make
doctor who was with the air- Not so good at each other at the weigh-in, and anal time. In a life-span long trall for home,
sald he could not By that means all three would craft crew 'મા' વ and agoln as they suffered, of briet, explosive seconds, the time, in that thear. At that inte the desert scrub.
there
have lasted another day. He was the usual big fight £14 ringsider BAW refered there were no long-distance be sure of meeting-and
Arthur Donovan wave Louis radio-alds, for pilots, so
the was greater chance of survival on hands and knees, too weak
if were apart, especially
When brief towel fhung, in by Schmeling's with the follower tagging air of the floodlit ring.
'he was pulled 'undar Come the
they the
bell
.and seconds of sparring, and a loping frantic trainer,
one of them was injured in the wing of the machine Max Machan, to the other's 'station-keeping right-hander from Schmeling as
inue bis
doused with water chose who continue count over the
coming to ground. | over: the|| light.
He were there saw the uncanny McConnell jumped first. he rought to reproduce the writhing, pain-scared German.
senses reeling But Schmeling, sens
was followed by Fearn, punch that had undone Louis
phenomenon of the liquid disap- into his parched skin when both had gone Pilot Mac-
pearing two years before. But Schmeling and kidneys on fire,
kenzie ficked undone his sidety before their
Although суса. mathematics
he harness and sild over the eldo, nearly crazed with thiret, Is sleek, neatly
At "eight," Donova
allowed to drink not yet run to im- permitted no time for correction
the balding spot or for anything else.
perfectly, but naturally owing a mouthful et Intervals,
Fearn was in rather better He had dug under the three men were widely dis shape
to sand with his hands until ne parsed and quite invisible each other in the blackness of found water, and alist up his the sky. Then the worst hap- Mae West. Lake McConnell, he pened. They saw the empty air had tried to And what shade Into the scrub-at was possible in the scrub, and least they saw one vivid ex- rested during the day walking plosion as it struck. But after only at night. that--nothing.
never have guessed it had you 1 did, hop lightly seen hun, Into the ring for publle presen tation
und acclaim al the Marciano-Charles fight in Yankee Stadium, New York, a
brown body
fow
the
was fur
象
1
on
any
and
few short weeks ago. The famed misjudged his distance, and was the count and flung trols of the "second machine, had All three parachutes. opened could only bo
ond
on the bark of
the head is
barely dia mible; to the world
and his wife, Joe Louls is
rose
and hard since Joo million-dollar heights from
Reeling
bfe
arms
orating to the world that keeping station on his leader to to the speed of the aircraft the
blades found shelter оп the
Inquests
to opes. Shelter? As well take
горев.
spid
uppn
Mackim
craft cash
་-་-་
CLYING-OFFICER, Mackenzle, a New Zealander, at the con- to the sky of the night been far too occupied with have much idea of where he was beaten, that the was, even wh
when his petrol Louls flew at him with con- massacre was over, that Laut gauges showed that the Blen "champ" for the rest of his days trolled but furious punches to stood avenged,
But take away the arc-lights, the head blinding rain of I stopped it to prevent he could not fly much longer, He integined that they must he substitute the icy glint in 20 accountant's eye, and the Louis punitument to which Schmeling Schmeling being killed.”
the leader drup
down!
the sky to picture of 1864 does not look could contrive no more effective Donovan in his dressing-room getting near base when hist
|maker o landing so good. The Anancial switch-resistance then an apprehensive later, Tune: two minutes four me
therefore
re, orbited, keeping back has bumped down good back-pedalling till his shoulder- seconds.
in sight but naturally not fol-
Since the tanks were praċ- lowing hard
his tail In In the deep blue sca a chance
Of course, there were inquests, the darkness.
tically empty the mixture of tiny cabin deep in the Buckalew when the devil is after you, alibis,
gas and air had LYING-OFFICER Mackenzie accusations,
and the Then, to his horror, he saw a petroleum
without esiting are was never found, nor was the mountain region of Alabama.
mystery usuni post-fight
of the cut parachute brilliant flash and a column of detonated yappings. The £5,000 a year he receives and it la your bad luck if as
with Schmeling, the devil Schmeling was boite away 10 Bame loop up from the desert to the rest of the machine. The lines ever solved.
therefore, found as a partner of his old
follows
the Polyclinic Hospital in Now below, and realised that his three men,
The search for him was sys-
continued in that themselves in plich darkness as tematically
until ployers, the International Box-
"I moved in close and jabbed York to nurse his hurts and to leader had crashed. ing Club of New York,
not him hard with my left, recalls complain to bedside reporters moment, as it afterwards trans they landed in the scrub and plotting showed that every yard
themselves of their much more than existence
of the desert as far as he could. Louts. "Then I saw a chance that he had been fouled when pired, all three men in the lead-freed the Louis bracket. money in
Schmeling's Louis's right hand had crashed ing aircraft were killed instant harnesses. They did not know possibly have walked had been His variety act has paid off in to shoot a right,
put my into his kidneys. The Gorman y as It struck 庭 desert where the crash was. They did
not know in which direction to covered. In that area there are comparative peanuts. His soft guard was low, so I
no wild animals there were iny Ambassador lodged a drink
formal escarpment, His whole 200 pounds behind venture Пopped.
Mackenzie orbited, straining walk in order to find each other even no vultures to be seen. right and drove it to his jaw. brewery
or their home base. Interests
apart
by which he might have met his He bounced back with legs (Continued on Page 19, Col. 6) his eyes to try and make out his when the outt was refused a
end, or been att
been attacked by after so intensive New York licence.
Moreover, so was, the search. that all con- His real estate
in went
cerned were, certain that they divorce Bettlement with his
would have seen his skeleton wife, Marva, now married to a
doctor.
had it been lying on the sand. Chicago
There are no annuities. And neither Louis nor the lax man can touch the trust funds set up for his two children.
fell
"'em-
נסת 18
a
Louis is an honourable man.
ANALYSE YOUR HANDWRITING
D
URING the week, a reader Bent me. B specimen of his hand-
It was to repay £45,000 in back writing and asked me if the
tax that he fought this last fight, would be successful in his against Rocky Marciano, in 1031 profession.
only to and that, with the
This question is certainly humiliation of an eighth-round defect, went a further demand out of the graphologist's for nearly £30,000. How can a ability to answer. The hand fighter pay that kind of money writing might show all signs
Ostal
Not a yelp
In the
second article of his new series, “SCRIBBLER" shows you what the different sizes of handwriting convey
death
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Mackenzie Had been injured and CAN RUIM Where they faded away a stick was found which YOUR WORK! had been broken in two, possible, therefore, that he had. When your eyes ache, work suffers. In To soothe and strengthen them, bathe Jozakhs
his leg on landing
to eyes regularly with Optrex of get near the crash, still carry Eye Loton. It washes away
have found the stick which he makes eyes sparkle i Doctors recommend it.
PILIH kye fedha with bottle.
Small formations signify a nature is mitiken for unfriend- prominent because It is much wider and often much taller mon-aggressive". personality and liness amity though wilters is reserved and non- shows that this weiter that they are always scared or down to one libe
are
that makes: itself
economy of words and a weath best to know them firat when the Email Jotters are all of appressive role:sbow his distanto the small letters the other known by this very galiant
Optrex
the manner of thise the example, reproduced below word Kits- to concentrate. AI- The Largo handwriting seen in than the other letters in the same his parachute and managed to
+is when the fire has gone from his suited for the writer's pro- aggressive,, this does not mean, does not want to be '. tied, noticed. These writers socing his parachute. There he may dusk, relieves ́ayernicien
of lives interesting. eko
They love could, have broken and used as fession, but he might be shy, Often these writers proved thought. It also reveals his love, beautiful clothes which make | a plint-tying it in place with
and them impressive,
when the cords cut from his para- basically unsuited for it. to bo courageous and inde- of big and magminent things.
be aggressive. chute rigging. Handwriting analysis has pendent individuals
and some vanity. His expansive wanted they can
The above and "n" pened
pino the
applice
But the truth of what hap- when The love of detail is indicated attitude and desire to assume But not one yelp has come its limitations, and it is
can only have been- from the man who, with 20
even height. This writes prefers for uning bordinate post- are written larger of dynamite action, became the before you come
the simple things in life and is tions and his assertive manner. letters to the wordcript that
Write Occasionally s greatest box-fightér
conclusions about unpretentious. of his wrong generation.
what graphology can tell Tiny handwriting which is allied, workers often and varies fri size and form of letters Memories? Louls has ope for
written simply and clearly and original letter formations, es- pops up. If this irregular and you. dollar he ever carned.
can be road easily shows that pecially where the horizontal unbalanced writing is small, t Take your pick. For this ro- First and foremost the writer has an unpretentious strokes, are longe Inputting shows a sign of weak will and
graphologist cannot tell of guy fights for dough, whether A specimen
handwriting in that of a
Every
porter, the clue to selection Bles
In Jon's own words:
axcept maybe once."
to
some
D
*distinctive
find out you
Your
in
You Strengths
if your total seme is high
No need to ask what "maybe man or woman. Physical once meant for Louis, or what he fought for if it were not forge la not shown in your money. Mark it up to plain, handwriting, but the mental vivious and elemental revenge, age is. A teenager's hand- and turn back the score to the writing might look very sweltering night of June 22, mature, while a middle-aged 1938, in that same Yankoo Stadium. The night that Lou, man's writing might look bls right hand fired by hate, like a youngster's. Another. pole-axed Max Schmeling of person might try to disguise Germany Into screaming, agonia- his handwriting but there Ing defeat in 124 seconds,
Two years and 11 Aghts would be stil many tiny personality and earlier, 24 hours after a story signs hidden in his hand is capable of producing hotel scone had threatened to writing to point out his rendis, po
disrupt Louis's domestic affairs, character.
THIS SPECIMI
kinanner. Fhe mind, is cities!
Schmeling had halted Joe' „This week we will, deal" har Championship climb with a 12th
round beating--the arst, defeat with the size of your hand
in a career that even then was writing. It's am
into greatness. many different size
Dangerous
tolek Louls was: one thing
Float" over, lks schleyér
writing there
divisions
•how
If the mall
The ability
officer who never returned.
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