HILLARY SEEKS
^ THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, NORMAL SERVICE RESUMED
1955.
by GILES
TRAINING GROUND
THIS is the Gin
From Ross Millo
Auckl
(IR Edmund Hillary
SIR
queron of Evert, stopped for à breather 4001 feet up in New Zeal's Southern Alps. He loodi across to a glacier fare- low and said: "This 14 1
An avalanche thundet. Show dust billowed from he tumbling white mass
Hillary wiped the stat from his forehead. My rt stopped hammering. he strength returned legs.
With guide Harry Mes. who taught him to nh these mountains, he Ju
to seek 11 trang
Come
ground for the 21-manam he will lead in the 15-58 Empire Antarctic Ex- pedition.
STORM MONTH;
åler
Next August, a storm mouth Down ler. the team will have fty! huskics pulling
ges
WHO.
made in Denmark this region's snow of ice fields. Men, mostly fien- tists, will learn how treet tents and Ket the love going in a blizzard.
They are fortunate oaving this pelar-like arra at back door for training. Few coll's
VIAN 30. THOI
YOU ZABRASIO HOMOYEE SAR
JON ASTUY SUMITH, THOU
"Watch his T-square-I just suggested he did a cartoon on Maclean and Burgess murrying Princess Tiger Eyes." London Express Service
THE BIRD MAN HKS.P.C.
N
New York.
the stark prison fortress of Alcatraz, 13-acre island rock in glittering San Fran- cantankerous
elsen Bay, a
old man with a grey crew- out sits in his cell in the solitary confinement block.
men knew anything and living This is 66-year-old convirt
or working on uolai snobeture No. 594, Robert Stroud.
they left England.
He has been in prison for
This New Zenta wi46 years, in "solitary" for play
a big part in the 10 ml 39 years-longer than any irans-polar trek the Bh will make. For without supply living American. He can see except his bases the New Zenlagro will no visitors establish across thee from their headquarters Murdo Sound, the project cor not be attempted.
The British
Vahsel Bay to the
the
brother and a chaplain. He may not exercise in the prison yard, or use library, or read a newspaper from or hear a radio. New
miles in
Stroud frst went to gaol 1909. when Teddy MeMurdo Soul will be Roosevelt was President and
Zealand supply point Mount
Alberi. Markham
from
classical
Antarctic oration.horse-cabs Hillery's men will there to meet them and sheul them streets. aerms the polar plate, down up after steep Ferrar Glacier the home heart's base.
ONE OR TP
clopped the He gave himself killing his sweet- former lover, and received a 12-year sentence. In 1916, in grim Leaven- worth Prison, in Kansas, Stroud went beserk and warder to a knifed a hated
death.
The British may unter mountain range, like continua- tion of South Amer stretch- ing into the polar ron.
They will search pinerals, rocasure the thiess of Ice along their route, aint to find whether the Antar is one
nel from the We to Ross Seas.
Over
050
have already
ten
Agitation
of
Alcatraz
IT WAS 1909 when Robert Stroud turned killer... and went to prison. There he killed again
IT IS 1955 and Robert Stroud is still in prison. For all but seven of the past 46 years he has been in solitary confinement
This is the story of his existence.
by Evelyn Irons
he
to Congressmen, to newspapers. Seme
WETO smuggled from Leavenworth. There was nation- wide indignation when the story came out, and the bureau-
crats gave way,
Convict Strout could
keep
his canaries, but must hated over the profits to the prisoners' benefit fund.
with only $11
A
month for himself. In- stead of being gratified by this concession, The prisoner was furious. He accused the Director of the Bureau of "trying socialise his business."
Stroud Finally. addest privilege ever granted
"tough con"
lo
པར
won
the
He was
a
given a special cell for his "One
cut through the greatest read. "The only reason why the birds, a hole was of
et his own cell enigmas of world prison his affected bird does not hold his the wall
that he had a prison suite, and For that he was con-
tory," says Thomas E. Gad- head in his hand is that
has no hands." Nothing in the
Icbouratory equipment was dis of all this in his just gently humorous writing to show provided for his researches. But continent er two, cuy a chan-demned to hang; after
biography of that it came from a murderer he had made too much of a the series of appeals, President
"Birdman of in the "deep lock." Wilson, in 1920, commuted published
nuisance of himself. His crticics Stroud,
were stopped and his letters that sentence to life im-
Alcatraz."
were limited to two a week. New Zealandersprisonment.
Sell them? He was due
There was something else app!! for the
And so it is, although, ac-
against
He Stroud.
created Edmund for parole in 1936; here, as places in S
a lifer is nor cording to J. V. Bennett, It started when the double more publicity by issuing Hillary's team. Ea will be a in Britain,
contract of marriage with specialist with a fit of high mally freed after 10 to 14 head of the Federal Prison murderer picked up a nest of
that had widow. who was also a fol- But his application Bureau, Stroud had been "a four baby sparrows
the fancy" she of down into his narrow lower refused. Later he constant source of trouble blown
htm in prison utter @storm. visited in exercise yard during ace was moved to the most and agitation" while
to reading his articles in a bird He fed them, trained them dreaded prison in the United prison. For the story of da tricks. That was in 1020, inagazine.
as told in soon after his death sentence Robert Stroud States, Alcatruz.
fully this
authenticated had been lifted by the Presi
dent, Then he had another book ja, if you discount the
Mica.
Why not breed canaries little matter of the two mur cot sell them? ders, quite admirable, al- though he has been dificult at times.
adventure.
the
"You know, it's ng to Jolly exciting." climber's reserved pument.
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years.
be was
THE VILLAGE OF SECRET WOMEN
B LEO HENDRICK
IF you don't hincy being chased with pitchforks. don't take a camera'into the "Last World of Staphorst
Women."
of
(in
An authority
After weeks.ct planning, he acquired two. With u razor blade he kept hidden in peak of his cap. bartered on a
painfully
Still there
more
Now, his correspondence Stroud spent slashed, time on research. In 1930 the professor of biology interested
in his case sent him
a recon- and wood
he ditioned microscope. Wrote α- Soon he had "I read of a man, blind since
hit
whose sight had been birth
contarder, he shroud in his letter of thanks;
structed a cage.
In
Ave fleglings twittering in Stroud was 19 when his cell. A humane warden allowed suddenly restores. At the time. them long life in the penitentiary him more razor blades to make I wondered how this man must The women, all
folt as he gazed for the and permitted have beat him nevertheless. terrifled at being photographed, began. He had no education more cares,
beyond the third grade Stroud's mother to collect birds fist me upon the world in which ho lived, a mystery In the case of the more timid, (average age 8). In prison and sell them.
1920 he made rearly shrouded in darkness, I know At 5 am ten days before ...the Villagd of Secret black skirts were flung up over he taught himself astro 280. His 6ft. cell we lined frees the moment his camera nomy, mathematics, draw th cages and equipment.
ef Christmas 1042, guards awaken- French When disease hit his flock was sighted, and like glant bats. Ing and painting, the girls fled into hiding,
recent letter from 300 he dissected the victims, ed the birdman. "Let's get
and the cause and going!
going they said. "What about that trying to
asked Stroud,
waving He was allowed to re- this?""
towards his cages of 10 birds, Strangest tradition of all, the Alcatraz he stated
ceive bird magazines and Courting Window still persists Baudelaire was one of the cur SN It has done for centuries. Every Friday night each young greatest poets who ever write articles for them. He was his books, his microscope,
even allther a battered typo- slides and his precious micro-
"Our Instructione tome. girl opens her bedroom window lived), law."
writer for his vast correspon
nothing" ", the "mar) = "walk,
In Alcairan he was locked into his solitary cell. There He has not broicen bread with another human being," Gaddis wrifes, “since * nigpedi
Like Mat ofpost of the Middle Ages, t fanatically strict Dutch lagers live much as they ve lived for the past 100 yra,
to
arc
for would-be sukar dimb And he became an dence with bird fanciers all that you walk out of licite with
Not even the Nazis could up and peep in."
he sill is. Stopped
acknowledged authority on over the work break down the Isolation. Unfavoured boys are soon sent birds and their diseases. In So many Gerin patrols packing, but when the boy of were driven ont pitch- her choice turns up he is per- the New York public library, fork point than the end mitted to climb fn and sit by her I took out a bulky black they were lef in pence
the only villag not to be occupied., TAN
side,
:
Book, Stroud's "Digest on Then the new Fodarni Bureau President
which sturdy, in-
the Kalpes In the street next day boy and the Diseases of Birds, with of Thrones, girl' ignoro each other like carefully detailed sketches dividbollst Stroud dotested, declaration of war galut famed an order. In Juty 1031 "But maybe.......... Stroud minis strangern. But once they are and anatomical drawings by Stroud was and to decontirate that low things the fact that
hài hòa And it was a out and Run" sung by for anchor of the the author, published in his bird busings,
wachting bells the 1948
bergft of the company of operation for photocephes Secret Women, of Staphorst.
birds, when be ir tinke plei there recently,
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