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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1955.
All Parts Of The World
London's Pied Piper Brings 'Em Back Alive
Uses Sherlock Holmes Methods To Catch Rats
London. WHEN William Dalton was a small boy, his father took him into the depths of a factory cellar and invited him to match his wits with a
WH
rat's.
:
Young Will-like his ancestors, ferrets or dogs. Look at this since 1710-get his tat, and he picture.". has been getting them ever since-alive!
Now a cheerful 60, Dalton is the fearest thing to hereditary pied piper in all London town. What's more, there are 18 other Daltons active and William briefs them nightly in the drafty offices of the clan as Big Ben strikes midnight.
to
Then, they scatter, sonis, brothers, nephews, cousins, meet again at dawn and recount the adventures of the night over cups of tea. They count up their night's catch living, because the Daltons are rat catchers, not rat killers.
Coat Of Arms
"Make that clear," scowled William. "Anyone, even you,
could shatter poisoned potatoes or apples and maybe kill a rat or two. But we Daltons match Dur knowledge every night against a rat's cunning. No trage, no poison, no dogs, terrels.
no
Ho proudly displays the family coat of arins, awarded in the days of Queen Victoria for cleaning the rats out of Buckingham Palace.
It was an old print of a dog U.S. Gallery
In hot pursuit of half a dozen rats. The caption read: "Billy, the celebrated rat killing dog, performing his wonderful feat of killing 100 rats in five minutes and a half, April, 22, 1823.“
"A-Dalton supplied the rats," said William.
Like Sherlock Holmes
William is reluctant to reveal his methods.
"I work like Sherlock Holmes," he said. "When we are asked
to clear a premises, I visit the site during the day and pick up clues. Ah, ha, Mr Rat may think he doesn't leave them, but he does."
The Daltons have a secret way of sealing a hole from a dis- tance when the rat goes out to feed and a secret which it is glad to flee when box Inte
he realises he is loving the battle of wits.
The Daltong send most of the rats to. Jaboratories for experi- ments.
of
William dropped one bit intelligence about cats. They have an uncanny lack of pick- ing out the best things to eat, Once, he said, he was surprised
And to
they had eaten the cheapest sausages in a warc- "We've been in the profession house. since 1710," he said. "My "Coca dentially," the ancestors caught live rats for house owner told William, "the the fighting pits, where they cheaper sausages are better."- used to match rats against | United Press.
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He Teaches The Birds
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How To Whistle
Chicago.
Fred Lowery doesn't exactly whistle while he works.. He works while he whistles. And he earns up to $35,000 a year at the job."
"Prelly good for 1 man!
Soen he's bringing out
who's practically blind, he record entitled "Fred Lowery say's.
birds
Fred is so good at whistling that he's "teaching the how to do it.
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'Nuclear Metaphysics' Theory Of Art
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired its first paint- ing by the contemporary Spanish painter, Salvador Dali. A gift of art collector Chester Dale, the
is called "the painting Crucifixion" and is on display the Metropolitan's Great Hall at the moment.
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The six-foot-high canvas was described by the Vatican Radio
Salvador Dali
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Mountaineers Plan Assault On Himalayan Giant
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Zurich.
A small Nepalese village will soon make its appearance in the world press as the dateline for reports on the activities of ten men who have set out to add yet another 26,000-feet mountain peak to the list of those conquered by man.
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Here's The Answer To A Schoolboy's Prayer
New York.
Geniac, an electronic brain for youngsters, is making its debut at the annual toy fair and you can almost hear millions of fathers sigh with relief,
It Pays Car Makers To. Advertise
Detroit.
The eagerness of Ameri- can motorists to buy new cars before they come on to the market ceases to be amazing.
never
It never fails to happen when Detroit announces a new model car. Many motorists almost trip over each other in the rush to place an order. The details of the car appear to be sexcridary.
Chrysler Corperation's pericace last Autume was a good
from
being
Not being Captain Video fans we chose to test Genise on the
No more of those bouts with experiments as "the space ship Johnny's homework, "Ask your airlock problem," to keep young computer, son. I'm busy," mathematicians
School teachers may take a bored. darker
view of this new de- velopment, but it will be on the market soon for any hundor down-to-earth problem of inter- Einstein who can coax US$13.95 preting a will. The brain had out of his father.
been "taught the conditions of "The smallest almost-automa. a will which provided for tie computer," the sign says at division of an estate between the fair, and when you look two heirs on a basis of how inside it, all you can see are an fully they complied with cer- innocent-looking array of wire, tain requirements. flashlight
and bulbs, sockets
We turned switches to find switches mounted on a masonite out the share of the estate panel.
which would go one heir who These electronic brain will had married and graduated add, subtract, multiply, divide, from college while the other solve problems in logic and de- her had stayed single and
at school. code messages.
talled at
A light
fashed on
Geniac is being put through
Lira -
its mental paces at the fair by mediately over the numeral 80 Oliver Garfield, a 27-year-old per cent. veloping scientiße toys a year covered several teacher who strayed into de- Absolutely correct, we dis-
minutes later » or so
age and now has little arter wearing down a pencil on ex-time for teaching
a scratch pad--United Press. He worked out the Geniac example. Business had dumped machine with Edmund Berk badly. The chief reason given mathematician who got the idea an, actuarial consultant and was that Chrysler cars were out of style.
The Corporation therefore let it be known it was planning a drastic revision of its styles for 1955, By the time it was ready to introduce is new Plymouths, De Soto Dodges and Chryslers it had a a backlog of thousands and thousands of orders. It had to work factories at top speed just to catch up on the orders placed even before
the cars were unveiled to the public.
Happens All The Time
Lo
electronie brain
a junior while inventing a toy robot. The two of them are marketing Gerlac through the Toy De- velopment Co. of New York.. Educational
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EAT INSTEAD OF DRINKING
New Orleans. Pathologists Ralph J. Meler And Dr. Stanley H. Durlacher of Lousiana State University's. Medical School says less drink- and more eating might "Geniac is no gadget," Mr have lengthened the lives of Garfield assures
who over-indulged "in us. "It is many educational, to say the least. alcoholic beverages. The ideas it embodies are very Meler said a condition known complex ones but we
have as fatty liver often occtirs in worked them into experiments the hings of persons who that anyone with
drink reasonable
in preference, to eating." Such-T Condition can be fatal, telligence can Agure out".
Gerlac does its brainwork og 18" said the power of a common flash Fatty liver is due to lack of
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The same thing happen to Hght battery. The 64-page in- good diet and lack of vitamins," other car companies all the time.struction book includes such i he said.--United Press. General Motors' Oldsmobile and Buict divisions announced that
new four-dbo. hardtops were going to be put on the market. Before they were rolling off the assembly lines. crders were pouring r
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Bai, a small cluster of huts As preparations for the 1955 at the entrance to the Mayangdi-expedition, which is estimated Khola Valley, will soon be the to cost more than £10,000, centre of bustling activity when started well before any results Chrysler's new. "300", which the six German and four Swiss of the South-American attempt is claimed to be the most power- members of the 1955 Dhaulagiri were known, the ceiginal plans ful production car in America sxpedition assemble there with provided that if the Argentines today, also drew thousands of their equipment to start the ware succesatuk tae Swiss-crders before myéne had seen fourth attempt to reach the Guman group should attempt it. 26,311. feet summit of the eighth highest myviain
Ford annoucked last Autumn Himalayas.
In this case, the route scouted it was planning to build a new Three previous attempts to out by a British team under "Continental series to replace the old Lincoln Continental, reach the "wild-swept mountain | Tilman in 1950 would have been top have Andled. In 1950, a used. It is the route that the production of which was French group had to give up 1953 Japanese expedition follow-continued in 1948. Orders began after three weeks due to faulty ed before the mor soon storms pouring in at once. maps. Trouble with their Sherpa- posters forced the Swiss back in 1953, and an expedition from Swiss mountain climbers. will Argentina had to give up only also participate in two other a few hundred feet from the expeditions to the Himalayas Dr Theodore Rousseau, Jr., tantatizing goal
this year. For as long as there curator of paintings at the
Preparations for the new are mountains yet unconquered The new car will probably be 2,000,000 Metropolitan, described the Dali Swiss German attempt began by man, there will be men will-
the most expensive" productices work as "a
very interesting in 1953 when two groups of ing to risit their lives in an at- model ever built. It is likely to Husky, ruddy-faced, and is picture with great beauty" and meuntain climbers in both com tempt to conquer them.-United cost about $10,000 United
said it had very little SUT-jes
independently started Press. realistic eccentricles."
Dall said
painting, which making plans for an expeditio
to the Himalayas, resents a figure, looking up at the body of Christ on the Croes, was an app
application 01 theory of "nuclear
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Fred is best-known as the man who did the whistling for the M-G-M_recording of
The High and Mighty."
Bu: he doesn't expect popularity to beat the record- ing he did for Columbia of **Indian Love Call"
sold
more than records, he said.
years
old, Mr. Lowery is 2 native of Palestine, Texas. Because of an affliction at the age of two he had to have one tye removed.
The other
as "a most significant creation of modern religious art after It was exhibited in Rome last year
is viriually sightless.
Because of his near- blind-1 his
ness
the
Fred started whistling. metaphysics."United Press.
While I was at the Texas School for the Blind I studied
Combined Forces.
By pure chance, the members of those groups knew each other, and in 1954 they decided "to combine forces and show the world that two different nations (in their mentality and view- Join forces in an Enterprise connected with life or death."
violin, piano and voice," he DANGER OF point) could
said.
"But because you can't
read music, a blind musician just about has to be a genius-
like Alec Templeton AAMIABLE ·
Talum-to make good.
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Two Lessons ·
"One day a
professional CONTEMPI”
whistler gave a whistling Contest. I won and my prize
was two lessons.”
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Time and weather permitting, the mountaineers intend to leave Beni before April 5, and set up their base camp at the other end of the Mayangdi-Khola Valley, some 14,000 ft above sea level.
For the final assault, the last camp used by the Argentine ex- From then on, Fred practised
"Egghead"" and "absent-pedition a few hundred feet whistling six hours a day end,
jokes are Below the summit of the made his first professional minded Professor
situation, Dhaulagiri will be used. The over a Dallas radio creating an unfunny
according to three educators. South-Americans were forced to Shortly afterwards he, sp-
They said that, good-natured give up when the monston peared on the old Rudy Vallee or not, "amiable contempt for
mado. further ascrat show, and then landed
a job whistling with a band for four discuir to staff colleges.
intellectuals is making it more years. Later ne was with Horace Heidt (and his Musical The three addressed the isth Knights) for almost
eight National Conference on higher education here recently.
cas.
Now he owns his own cording company with studios Thomas H. Hamilton, a dean
it's tough enough to get able
in New York which press 50 at Michigan State College, said sides a year. He also appears
in night clubs, on television,
storms impossible.
The monsoon will also play an important part in this year's expedition, for should the Swiss- German group succeed before the stores, ebet, they also plant to try to scale the 24,000-foot Dhaulagirthimal, which would make them the first expedition ever to have attacked that
and for charity besides teaching men and women to enter Himalayan peale.
others
Press.
to
whistle. United
college teaching.
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