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Common Cold Takes Toll Of Murderous Savages
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1955.
Woman's Findings On 'Green Hell' Expedition
Vienna.
One of the world's fiercest tribes of savages is being conquered by the white man's common cold and measles, according to an American woman explorer just back from the "Green Hell" jungles of South America,
Mra Elia Becker-Donner, on rubber plantalons. Though
Director of Vienna's
Ethnographie Museum, bellevez de la the only while perzkon ever to explore the depths of the Guapore Jungles In south- western Brazil and live to tell about it.
Accompanied by eight Brazi - 1 Indian guides, she made three expeditions over seven- month period into the uncharted wik inhabited by the Puces Nuvas tiny but muviero
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"Once they were a flourishing
culture."
they are "os hy as snakes", the savages make night-tline forays steal into the plantations to knives and axes, Mry Becker- Donner said.
The Pacos Novas kal human Intruders with poisoned arrows and mutilate the bodies by cut- Ung off the bend and one fool. Plantation workers have found many remains like these in re- rent years including bleached benes distinest as those of a Protestant JARZA 1 whu
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which saved Thett Bves.
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were attacked,"
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of Moscow. and Kharkov soen- swarm of ants out of my boots usia, Professor Mironov. when I saw a whole cloud of charge of the research, says the arrows Soar out of the
available vvidence, both histori- Luckily no one was tilt and the ent and alaital, shows that the savages fled when one of thermal expectatkem of life. guides started blazing
fles between 130 and 180 years." with a rife.
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"A pity," added Mrs Becker- Dunner. "I might have been an opportunity to make friends with them."
men, al-
Well. Moscow Radio. In broadcast monitored here last
were alevods week, auld there 1,300 Russians wine were m than 150 Later she did manage to ap
years old and 35.000 proach 11 bond of about 12 over 100. Pacos Novas "small
"In this respect, it is important. most like pygmies, but with to preserve the vitallly and ac" - well-chiselled features"and ivity of the central brain, which was allowed to inspect a sheaf is responsible for the major life of their deadly arrows,
processes," the broadcast said.-- "The arrows are oo simply United Press. constructed that they can Ive used for a lifetime," she said. strength and sexual powers. "There is no detachable Up British Transport Plan
The The two specialists, Dr Guide wooden points Bre simply Cid:lemni and s brother, sharpened Uke pencils and Imtoreste salt men and women dipped in poison.
Italian thro a 1 Two specialists claimed week that
of the removal tonsils lowers # person's
Each man
rutture of their tonalls showed dentines his arrows by marking New Extension
to drink
an Increased desire aleobol and shun work.
They suld their findings were Based on 20 years of research, During this
they th tecumulated stacks of statisties on the "devastating etfeet of the nging tonsil “
them with his own sign in blood or dye."
Lived On Birds To London
Mrs Becker-Donner and her party lived chiclly ou tropical birds because "we were In 100 much of a hurry to carry heavy provisions.
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the animals, but the inseris of
mosquitoes. harum rare,"
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troublesome than the larger beats. They swarm "It's making men older and
over your eyes, ears, mouth and less masculine,” ached broth" nose until you think you will go vigorous insane.“
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Winner Of The Qluey Pancake Race
Selling a bol pare despite the ice and snow, Mrs Doris Milļward dashes past bystanders to win the 510-year old Shrove Tuesday pancake face as Oinbý, Buckinghamshire. Mrs Mill- ward,' an Olney housewife, finished the 413 yards course from' à tocal hotel to the parish church in 1 m. 18,5 seconds. Each competitor carried a pancako In a fryipg pan and during
the race had to loss the pañeako several times,—Reuterphoto.
From the playing fields of Eton and Mayfair in search of adventure
Young Englishman Disillusioned After Ten Months
In The French Foreign
Legion
London.
Wealthy, Eton-educated Richard de Wend-Fenton, who abandoned the social whirl of London's Mayfair last May for "a life of adventure” in the French Foreign Legion, came home a deserter this week and, by his own definition, "a sadder and wiser man.”
he
Over a murtini, · which said "would cost two weeks Legion puy," the seconverteri
be London playboy confessed was lured" into the Legion by romantic tales of adventure, beautiful dancing girls and strange outposta du cxotic Africo.
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What he found, he said, was "coloral boredom unui the daughter of a British Earl, the cousin of a Field Marshal and
son Details of a plan for a new the
of former British 11-mile addition to London's Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley responded to a smuggled Lube system jetter and hatched a plot to underground have been disclosed.
"berate" him.
Mr Wend-Fenton said beauti- ful Arabian dancing girls up- parently exist only on the films, He said he found only rigid discipline and gruelling marches under the blistering sun instead of the carefree,
swashbuckling life he had been led to believe the Legion offered.
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Stradbroke, Michael Alexander, | Legion post and into an un- 34-year-old relative of Field identified harbour. A hired boat Marshal Earl Alexander
whisked them out to sea Nicholas Mosley, son of Oswald, borrowed money from wealthy friends to help spring Dickie," Alexander and Lady Marye How to North Africa. Frequent transfers from post to post had obscured de Wend-Fenton's whereabouts by then.
They checked his trail for n month from desert outpost to desert outpost, across hundreds of miles of sand.
In Drinking Dens
They haunted the drinking dens and dives surrounding Legion posts, trying to get in- formation from the nameless soldiers of fortune who never past-according to tradition artyway.
Finally Alexander discovered a Legionnaire who would tell him where "Dickie" was.
Ho smuggled a message de Wend-Fenton, which got the
into young Briton thrown guardhouse with a shaved head on uspicion of attempting to desert
London Transport, which runs the far-fung network of under- Becker-Donn shot und train routes, said that several reels of colour
dim the new fine, route "C" would Dr Guldo said tonsillectomies which she plans to edit into a run from Victoria north-eastward
Fonsible
documentary. for ure
speak of their She also plans to Walthamstow to relieve con- to write a book.-United Press. "frigidity" of the Anglo-Saxons.
gestion London's West End. 116 sand
If built and that depends on his brother could quote Agures to show that 00
New York. Parlament-lt will be London's The per cent of Britain's population
Tuscany Hotel, which first new underground roube fre without tonsils, while hair claims to be frst in New York since 1997. It is to be built al- the Americans have bren de with
underground at Sorts of Innovations. most
Entirely prived of their tonsils.
already has air conditioning and depths of from 45 to 60 feet, Italy, the doctors said, has the TV in every room, a telephone exisept for a short open stretch greatest number of tonsils
every bathroom, thermo- at the northern end of the line. capita--United Press.
meters outside СУСТУ window In addition to reileving con-
lapel-size and
thes walkie-talkie gestion on existing lines, radios for the bellboys, valets | new joute would provide Neat estale
and malds.
direct
to link from Victoria suburb of Rye, NY.. was rc- But the manager, Mr Bertram other .rall terminals at King's ported under this hending: Weal SAYS he's Just getting Cross and St Pancres, and thus
musle and pasted Press. "Bakery plans two buildings in started. Next: recorded
travelling through Rye." United Press,
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New York
News
In the
in the elevators-United Press. London,
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Tattered Letter And whatever adventure there was went to his rescuers who curried out an escape plot that would have done credit to Humphrey Bogart and a crew of top-notch Hollywood script writers.
A fatterod
letter appealing for help was smuggled to his London socialite friends and touched off the escape plot,
Lady Marye Rous, 24-year old daughter of the Earl
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Today the French Embassy hinted France would look the other way and forgive his de sertion. Tic British Foreign Office indicated it would stall if the French changed their minds and demanded extradition.
His widowed mother, Mrs Mar- garet de Wend-Fenton, deplored the whole thing, "I wish he had not done this," he said. "After all he could have been bought out."--United Press.
Chicago Gets A Mayfair Barber
Chicago, Nothing is too good for the customer in Leslie Hig- gins" very British barber-
When do Wend-Fenton was finally released, Alexander shop. droves near the Legion post.
Where else could you dowro night, leaving the engine of his car running. On a pre-arranged tea and crumpets while waiting signal. the Legionnaire dashed to be trimmed?
Or for that matter, what other for the door.
sped of across the desert, past another barbershop serves "gim and th
English vernacular for Gin and Italian vermouth?
The car
Tissot
Waterproof
It's weatherproof, too.
from all the elements.
made to withstand attack Here's how its famous
Micronized Movement is protected and of course it is
anti-magnetic and shock protected as well,
hermetically seated' in stainless stee!
unbreakable armor-crystal
pra-set tension ring
patented crotun
Geneva,
zerland.
Mr Higzins' awank emporium does all this and more. The chop, situated near Chicago's Gold Coast, caters to the elite, would be or otherwise.
Mr Higgins himself is English. He worked for many years for G. F. Trumper, Ltd., Mayfair, London, personal barbers to the Royal Family
Only in England they call them hairdressers, he said.
"There is a difference," he said; "in England, barbering in on art, arot an occupation."
It
Mn Higginsy "considera sacrilege to use clippers, hand clippers or electric. He plies
his trade with scissora, razor and comb.
Foot Massages
"None of the better shops in England would pumit. "ulp on the premises "Be takt.”“ English barbery also llemadd* chiropodists, "It worms: Me" Higgins la, vick he hopes his Henco will permit him to spe foon massage and; "pollteuredi
Mr Higgins mixes his own lotions, potions, hair.coo näd the Iko, one with a numbered label And when he gives you a facial' be unem a mah lourke),
Ha has a lot of stories about Royalty,somag nón dhe “publica tion Hía London Vicomtomers theludod the Duke of Windade, the late Duke of Kent, KD Carol of Rubanin and Paper Townhoud, recently like rón metienily Margaret.
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