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THIS ARTIST CREATED MASTERPIECES You Saw Things That Weren't There
By DOC QUIGG
New York.
FELLOW here has
| your "when Blown was working
A het cuntsic,
ship's manifest listed him, by art critics. His drawing was į certain fine details with his, (locluding three years beforu | never was returned to him or
won't
for more than a year to find direct descendants of one of the finest, but artists ever to hit these shores. The Government nearly owes them $12,000.
The artist was Emanuel Ninger. A stocky, blue-eyed man with a blond beard and a profile somewhat like that of Gen. U.S. Grant, Ninger came here from Germany in 1882 when he was 86. The
Aladdin's Lamp Of 1957
Berkeley, Calif.
MRS Ernest Gray told
how she dusted an old light fixture and- almost like Aladdin and his Lamp-turned up a treasure,
The hourd consisted of $44,000 in cash and about $5,000 in diamonds.
The money and jewels ap- parently had been hidden in the light fixture by the former owner of Grays' house, Frances Matthews.
UNBELIEVABLE
the
Mrs
Mrs Mathews was a sweet little. old lady who had a shoplifting record stretching back to the 1920's. Her latest arrest wis in 1859, when a judge fined her $100 for trying to slip out of a supermarket with a pund of butler.
She died in April, 1950, at the
age of 78. Some $20,000 in cach was found in her home before the Groys bought it. Mre Gray found the latest hoard early last week whlic dusting the fixture
"Suppose 1 look up here and find a lot of money?" Mira Gray gally asked her husband. Gray laughed and handed her a' dust cloth,
Mrs Gray reached up to brush away some cobwebs and in doing so found a brown paper package, a faded coin purse. and an old brown sock.
SHOPLIFTER
"We could hardly believe it,"
she said.
"We talked is over and debated
whether anybody had any right to it," Gray said. "We didn't lake org to make up our, minds. The next day I called my lawyer and after that we turned it over to Mr. Sapiro, the lawyer for Mrs Matthews
estate."
The money wil; eventually go to Guldo Dogs For The Blind, Inc., a non-profit organisation and the sole beneficiary of Mrs Matthew estate-United Press,
JOHNNY WAS
FEELING HOT SO...
Detroit,
Johnny McGee, 4, was back home in Toledo after proving himself a cool customer of the Do-
at
yot frankly cruder Instrumenta.
**
on the Ninger chapter, he die covered that $359 of the real money seized in Ninger's house
gat he came to this country). When his family. Ninger got out of imitative. He imitated money-around this by simply leaving the Secret Service finally caught caơi în 1909, There is no record He did sock work briefly as a $20, $50, and $100 bills,
them out and suggesting their him, they found only $976. in of date or place of death. sign palater in Hoboken, NJ.
prezence so artfully that even real money in the house......... The Secret Service considers if you looked closely you got the employer Fold
Bloom tried by local phone, Folks good mough
it. his hand
around drawings the most the impression they were thore.
Fingtown by nations in the New York ringer didn't need the job, artistic counterfeita of US.
He even
throughout left out the tiny figurta Ninger thust have had Times, by lotters however, boonuse meanthoc notes in currency history, Some words, which were
bulls had put his tremendous talent of his notes occupy a place of
at the time on they He and his wife, honour, framed to set off their were made "At The Bureau of
And a beauty, in the US. Secret So Engraving
Printing" Adelaide, eventually bought a farm in Flagtown, NJ, living vice nics room in Washington. When the secret service late
naked talin whity:
why, he replied with comfortably with three daugh- At this trial, est critics tere and a son in a house which his work was fine Impression-wide
cand
"Because for Latio art--ho
ste made you had one room set aside
didn't make dema." things that weren't there,
it ban been estimated that Ninger successfully passed be- tween $200 and $400 of this stuff a month for about 17 years
to
work.
Ninger and his art,
Wecking only with pen, Ink, and brushes he created master- were praised pleces that later
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Lacking a steel Kraver to work with, he couldn't put in
a lot of gold hidden around the country to locate dereen- the place, and one man who dants of Emanuel and Adelaide. later bought the farm went mad Nane stepped forth to claim the looking for it, according to money. Marray Leigh Bloom, who has enshrined Ningor in a book just published by Scribners entitled "Money Of Their Own."
The book deals with the live and easy times of 10 master International counterfeiters, Last
WHILE THIS ONE WOVE AN OUTDATED $1 BILL
Washington. ›
Uncle Sam doesn't Uke people to whip up dollar bills on their own even in
the form of a six-foot rug.
The Secret Service em- phasised the point when it made a nearby suburban dry cleaner remove from his window an Iranian rug that looked like an outdated one dollar bill. Dry cleaner Alex George
first put the, three-by-six. foot woolly buck on dis
ON A SIX-FOOT RUG
By JAMES BAAR
play in his Arlington, Va., store.
The Secret Service told him
to remove it or face un- pleasantness for posses- sion of a facsimile of U.S. currency. The Secret Service wanted to know who owned the rug.
George refused to disclose the owner's name. He said the relationship between
STARTLING FACTS OF NUDE BATHING IN SWEDEN
Stockholm.
Swedes, who have been listening to everyone abroad tell them that "everyone" here swims in the nude, find a close look at themselves.
A Stockholm newspaper published the results of an investigation into nude bathing and just who takes off their suita,
*
The survey showed that 29 per cent of men and women interviewed on the question prefer to swim in the raw. Thirty-seven per cent modestly insist on some form of bathing suit, brief or otherwise, Twelve per cent said they were "uncertain."
22 Per Cent Don't Swim
The remaining 22 per cent, the survey noted somewhat disapprovingly "do not go swimming at
all."
Who takes off their suits?
"The most eager are those between 30 and 39 years of age," according to the survey. "Surprisingly, the majority of young men and women between 16 and 22 prefer wearing sults."
Men outnumbered women in preferring swimming in the nude. A "very large” percentage of the women interviewed safd they "would never dream of” taking off their suits, the survey said.
City Dwellers Prefer It
City dwellers also prefer nude bathing more than countryfolk.
In Sweden, nude bathing is legal on special sec- tions of beaches so marked,
There are no walls, no barriers. Half of some beaches are reserved for family use, the other half for the uninhibited of any and all ages. Press,
United
WHITE DISCS FOR CHILD L-CYCLISTS
London.
L-tests are to be introduced for child
cyclists.
a dry cleaner and his
clients is sacred.
But after talking with his Inwyers he removed the rug-lo n window in his Silver Spring, Md., store. "They said I should take it to Maryland where we know the laws. better," he Baid.
The Secret Service turned up in Maryland, too. They
still didn't think much of the rug being displayed.
reluctantly sur- George
rendered. He promised to remove the rug from his window if the Secret
cort-
At the six per cel
on claims pound interest paid Azainst the Government, the $360 token
when ini 1000 finger was
ΠΟΥ azrosted $11,545.74and growing fast.-- United Press,
Couple Go On 450-Mile
Journey By Mistake
Carlisle. ATRICK SWAINE'S
Service would stop asking PATH
the name of the 'rug's Sunday outing was
owner.
impromptu.
1
“I don't see what harm. It
could do to the American It began at 12.45 a.m. when dollar to have It on dis-be and bis 28-year-old flances, Miss Jerie Sharpe, raced on to play," George Baid
Luton Station, after a party w morosely, "who
catch their train home, spend a rug?"
could
TABLE MANNERS, NOW
Maggio (left) and Flit were baying ■ lesson in table manners when they, with five other chimps, took part in a rehearsal for the Chimpanzees' its party at the Zoo. The party is to be held regularly.
THE NIGHT OF
THE 30
YUL BRYNNERS
Canterbury.
k------
THIRTY bald heads-all pink and shiny bobbed
down the road in Aylesham, Kent.
Beneath the glistening pates 30 minera laughed at the result of a bet for ten-cigarettes in the bar of the Moor's Head, is nearby Ádishạm.,
Miner Bob Bality, 34, had) weeks B application for FL said: "You know, I'd like a Yul maintenance order brought Brynner haircut.” His friend against her husband by Mrs
Cyril Theobald said: "Bet you ten cigarettes you wouldn't"
That started it. Sitting in the bar was 59-year-old Lew Janes, the miners! amatour barbor. Before you could say The King
cgg.
Christie so that a probation officer could interview tho couple,
STUBBLY HAIR
and I, Bob was as bald as an had ble head shaved because he In court, Christie said he had
|tought it multed his work pra Then Cyrit took the chair. Aminer. Ho did not do it for a little more cut and thrust freen / bok Ley und
.ch Theobald waS,,
SHEEP STATION
Christle had hair--a, stubbly biacic growth... but neverthe lesa hair.
WETO
Terry Watson, a member of Aylsham Working Men's Club, Those who don't take the ministrative dimcullics and, the the bar Parlour looked like a under healthy new, growing,
Seven others followed, and mid that all the Yul Brynners troit Police Department. test or don't pass will prob- burden on the police.
gradually disappearing Johnny, dressed only to aably have to carry white children who have passed, and next night,
But it suggested badges for sheep-abcaring bathing suit, still found Toledo disce on front and back wille discs-diameter 4in--for customers, suning and crawlot into an air mudguards to show that those who have not. conditioned bus at the station eight blocks from his home
The bus driver, used to entry- ing all kinds of passengers noticed Johnny on the bus but
thought he belonged to one of
they are learnIERE.
But it is unlikely that the tests will be compulsory,
Saving lives
Mr. Harold Waldinson, Mint-
. Some local councils have al ster of Transport, announced ready run schemes and
stalion The Low had moro Domes of various shapes emerged from under the thaiches.
Everyone laughed - except Mrs Barbara Christie, of Corti Alestinar: — wallis - avenue, tosis
married seven months to 20- enr-old indier Davia Christie,
She looked out of the window
the women abound and rolled the tests in the Commons the withi grunta from the Goven
ement. Hampstead· Roadă· Stfety
out of the stallen for: Detroit, other day and antraling Committee has had a schemes Johnny arrived here at 9:30 pm, scheme for child eyellis. just about the time, his mother,
Mrs. Bonnie McGee, who has.["h
Parents job.
It Its chairman;s Councilor. Miss was reporting him mixing in would be up to parents to see Doris Balley, baid: "We have
that their children took part in proved Toledo P
Avo other children to care for, The Minisify pull, that
A phone call set things straight and Johnny's father
But ad Joanny had made Atentincation for Detroit police tough. He told them be-was
and
the schema foarte sterk in training see-saving vehildrens'a
Mewatician would follow live,
and
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RECORD IS
21 YEARS OLD
Lention.
by the light of sixrot London: teleptione cenever they
The bright walod that snywerm
ber husband rotum the time of day
without
out speaking, and hearthday a few weeks an bas he went up can I calotusted its 1st
Eko, recorded volcą, of
Boglids thouálení produDez.
left the house the next day, Mrs Bimund Bailey, ale of an
He returned the following day for his clothes and asked her if "Hampstead bolts the nách still thought he looks ugly Working Party, report present, fiána around of nut having in the sold who, did. cd a year ago, ¿
child crollat, aged betweg: Eve Ju Canterbury, The report rejected DOID | BUT 19 idilad on its roads, cor: Wingham Ond
Since July 201030, Mrs aaya vozom bam fold the time.
to a total of mango than
Mandwichs | 887,000,000-
Home to Bodford 20 miks away
"We were a minute or two lato," said Mr Swaine after- wards-long afterwards.
"The booking cluk 'sald Platform One, We saw people getting on a train, and wo just made it before it pulled out.
IT STOPPED
"When we passed through Bedford
take..
we realised our `mla-
"We didn't lice to mention it to the other passengers. We did think of. pulling the commanica- tion cord, but then we thought of the 25 it might have cost us. "At every station we prayed the train would stop."-
About six and a half hours. and 270 miles later the traİO did stop-at Carlisle.
Said 'Mics Sharpe, a machinist, of Broom Road, Stamford, pear Biggleswade: Everybody
Carlisle Station was most help- ful.
Both
"But we had to stand in the corridor all the way to Carlisle and all the way back. trains were packed,"
Mr Swaine, 32-year-old rail- foreman, of College Road, Bedford, said: "Apparently the trala wò, should have, cơ wis held up and waiting to pull into Platform One."
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