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THE CHINA
HAIL - MONDAY, APRIL·
Four tell
1958.
time it came
FEAR COS
T Spucke
HE "G" type ER.A. spun helplessly in its flames and
smoke belching from its bonnet. The moment, at Spa three years ago, was a bad one: Д moment of clear, sickening fright for racing motorist STIRLING
MOSS, who sat helplessly inside.
Was the car screaming up behind to ram hint within split seconds? Or
flames would the
engulf
him first?
By a miracle, nothing hit the ERA, Somehow it came to rest
by the roadside. Stirling Moss tester never ran fteen yards
than he did from that driving seat to the cover of 3 nearby ditch.
Once in the, ditch, he thought the Rumis seemed lower. On is stomach, he crawled back to the car, a wary yard at a time.
Didn't happen
་
Fultons
T any second, farty could have exploded shottering- ly. Crawling would have been ECOnt protection against that
ind of re-bomb.
Luckily, it didn't happen. The engine had blown up. Jomming the transmision and firing the oil'eunip. But the fuel didn't.
String Moss, during those sickening seconds, telt fcure kind that brings you out in a cold sweat.
That was interesting-because it was exceptional.
More often, Stirling Moss's afterwards. cold sweats
come
seconds of During those vital crisis, the brain has more this enough to do planning schemes for survival, even when there little left to do.
That was the way it worked When Stirling found
I
G
Stirling Moss
Fred Winter
Babro Svennich
It
comes to
those
who live dangerously
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STIRLING MOSS RACING
wheel missing haitway round a 100 mph, corner;
and when, dazed and with a broken knie- he jumped Instinctively cap and ran twelve yards from crashed our before collapsing.
It's
Cold sweats come later. thing they seem to agree on, these men who live dangerously.
Old friend
SK crack sleeplechase jockey FRED WINTER, who knows that moment of danger as an old friend.
"I might mutter D quick something goes prayer when
"There isn't wrong," he says. time for much else. Only to hang on
like grim front
death. If
DAT
ALONG IN HIS JAGUAR
you have bad luck and tail, it's all over in no time."
to
It's alarming, he admits, ace horses and riders going over like ninepins. But the winners make it worth while.
Ask BARBRO SVENNSEN, the young Swedish wife snatch ed the other day from a blazing wunker that was the grave of half a crew.
"I though only of my child- ren, that I might be spared for their sake," she told me. "Then I thought of nothing but swim- ming out of that bowl of fire. There wasn't time."
Ask DONALD CAMPBELL who quests untiringly after water-speed glory?
"I think at tell you, "it's to what on earth I with wil this for,
nice lying on a somewhere."
alt," he will myself ask am bothering
insicad quiet, beash
af
Going to hell for a holiday, Anyone who has messed about in small boats knows what that con
when things go wrong, says Donald 'Compbell.
mran
One answer
SK a
deep-sea trawlerman Skipper GEORGE GLIXBY, just into Hull with an average
Like a good lo-good catch. Asherman, he'll answer with a story..
By
Peter
Bloxham
Donald Campbell
kind, that comes swiftly with a rapped-out command or a clun- destine arrest?
Aak n spy-British ex-spy RONALD BETIL who para- chuled alone, à desperato saboteur, into morial danger, and was later left for dead on a. Gestapo allows.
The odd thing was, he tells me, that throughout his train- Ing at the spy school it had never struck him that there
would be danger.
But an hour before his air- craft reached the dropping
there came point,
a dreadful moment. "It was craven fear, I prayed hard that, the wenther would be unsuitable-that, for any reason at all, we would have to tum back. It possed ns quicitly as it came."
A spy's thoughts in the con
It happened three years ago, he'll tell you, in a ferrifying demned cell? Atlantic gale struck homeward bound from Greenland.
Dodging the
the
"That you had accepted risk, and here you were, face to
Lerbergs was face with the worst.
· bad enough. Then came the blinding snow, and the waves In nity to seventy feet high. a sea like that, a trawler has to fum headi only one answer: to wind.
"That once you have cx- perienced the limit of physical pain, you have no more to fear from it.
"That I wanted
my wife to know I was sorry about the UT But you can get so paralysed we had before I left England- by fear that it is hard to make and had no way of telling her, yourself perform the one action
A spy's thoughts that will save you let alone
seagalt?
fake time out for thinking."
had had his
on the
No fear, any more, "Just dis- appointment at not having been able to do more."
Some of George's skipper pols knew that feeling, on that trip, George thought his end
One captain
Luckily for Seth, an unknown nerve so badly upset that he Estonian patriot had fixed the stayed ashore for two
months gallows trap, and he lived. afterwards.
come.
The moment of danger, for is swiftly What do we think about spy or speed king, during danger? Don't be silly, gone. But it returns too often say the trawlermen.
to haunt by night.
Tomorrow: WHY DO THEY DO IT?
Danger may wear many cloaks What of the other
Something Missing Vancouver Supplied
WAS in the smoking room of the House of Commons cogitating upon the world, the flesh and politicians when a messenger with an unusual air of self-importance came up to me and said "Toronto wants you." This was sweet news. After all these years abroad to be wanted by one's native city is reassuring to human vanity.
"It's on the phone, Sir," mald
the messenger. This was a bli sald the Editor. you think soldiers of a comedown
but as we are
set
sail
all slaves to the tyrant telephone you could do a rish job for us, land and the war,
that
the
found
other end
"We're doing a special cen- on Vancouver," tenary number
+
"Vancouver
LONDON
LETTER -by Şir Beverley Baxter MP
can
Friell
TICKETS
"We're just trying to operate the Tribunal's findings,
air: save money and attract more custom !
* Aly good man, what have we to do with votes 7. Wa are the County!"
"His first problem is to get .o really clean bomb, then he's going to test a series of recessions with soft soop!"
ROUND-UP
Death Spot Mystery Deepens
BAHRAIN
NIGHT years ago, two DC passenger aircraft, owned by Air Franco, plunged into the sea in Sitra.anchorage, eff Bahrain. The two accidents happened within 48 hours, with the loss of 38 lives.
In February this year, the 7,500-ton Strick Line, freighter Seistan blew up at the surne spot, with the loss of 60. lives.
Last week, British divers found, within fort of the fil-rated freighter, the wreckage of two more aircraft-one a two-seater and the other a passenger elgliner.
The two-seater has been raised. The cockpit amet instrument panel were undamaged. Inside the plane-were throa Indlin saris. A Ministry of Civil Aviation spokesman here stated definitely that no aircraft were known to have crashed in this area with the exception of the Air France planes, which were recovered,
Now experts are trying to find the answer to the mystery of the Persian Gulf death spot.
The Rainmaker-Is-Dead-
L
· LOS ANGELES.
Hatheld the Hainmaker had high successes and dismal failures. Many people in drought-stricken areas worshipped him as Jupiter Pluvius the rain god). Others damned him.
One of his successes was in Dawson City, Alaska, when he was paid ten thousand dollars by gold minera who needed water, to sluice gold ore after a drought dried up their streams.
What might have heen his outstanding success, however, turned into disaster when, in 1918, he was offered ten thousand dollars by San Diego to break a long drought that seriously threatened the public water apply.
As. Editor of the Sunday emphasise that Vancouver-wra when and grate crackled as if it was all a
Express 1 had secured promises a place apart, Montreal has It TAROM Pearblossom. California, lasf week came the news that West but how and
great joke. why?
that there would be cables of river and its hills, and Toronto Hatfeld the Rainmaker has been dead since January. But England was to came
Then the sisters arrived congratulations from Arnold en island-guarded harbour but Under his full professional name of Charles Mallory Hartfeld a benevolent airst. In 1914
place of he used to charge one thousand dollars an inch on his raininsking Government was offering young. Edith and Ethel Letson from Bennett, HG Wells, champion nothing can take the
They
contracts. Its restless tidos differed in jockey Steve Donaghue, Lord the sea with men free transportation to the Vancouver,
attractive, Beaverbrook, Berdard a lot type yet both were
Shaw, and its Bun-güinted path to far
The public news of his death came from San Diego, the scene Eritish Isles. Thus with
and other celebrities of the off lands.
of his most. successful and least profitable rainmaking venture. of other fellows we entrained but the older sister Edith walk-
An undertaker there reported that he died in Pearblossom, near my heart and printed word and of the theatre, for Hallfax and
Ave cd straight inlo with
Vancouver is the setting for a San Diego, on January 12. Canadian Into my sences1 would have Toronto was not going to bow thousand fellow
poet, for a dromer and for a for Eng- proposed marriage to her as its head to Vancouver. Vancouver soon as she arrived it the con-
Hour after hour the churning beachcomber. If.1 lived there I start on a novel aud than ever. ventions allowed.
wheels of the trans-continental would I hastened to ilie booth and We have pretty well mopped up was further away
train ground their way towards never finish it for how Now let us leapfrog over the uverything about the place and
For the next few weeks I saw
the glory was known as, words compete with on a rainy
the city that Editor of history and all that sort of
years. It is 1922
a lot of them. In fact their Maclean's Magazine was at the thing but hove you any special Sunday evening. Tommy Mac-
the Sans Souch of the West, of the sea and the hills? Even there are arle that you could think of" kinnon, a Canadian ex-soldier home in St. John's Wood was a And to there came ta moment us the golf links
for Canadians in
that at the "Well, I was married there," who had stayed in London after rendezvous
there was great when, the negro porter said: slopes to remind
152 fifteen birth of the world there wis I replied. "That's fine," said the the war dropped in for a ceck- London and
"Cable by
nt sicput.
ποστει 100
my bachelor flat in talk and
Letson minutes, sir" and brushed me pala. Because of the sea with morrow. All the best. Westminster: I had intended Let en
the big race, touch with both the realist West Years and years ago, when to go to a party not for away brothers (Harty and Gordon) like a horse about to enter the its glinted beauty one feels in went the and the mystle East. Neither Slower and slower and tried to get on the telephone and life was good. The relent Piddock for and train cecans were occans
the of trovel was an adventure aly to tell the host that Mackinnon less weeks parsed by and then
come along but the Letsons set sail for home train and then crawled into the the scorching brother and I used to go to the would like to
native Vancouver station, stopped and Toronto summer nor the long and returned to their Union Stalten la Toronto to the line was busy. Let us re-
time there let out a gigantic sigh as if its winter siege of Montreal mar gentle compromise of wutch the cmnigran! trains pause pent these words BUT THE Vancouver, on their way to the distant LINE WAS BUSY. On such were letters to and from Edith heart hid burst. And so I was the West. In a gamble or a new fine threads are the fates woven, but they became more intre- greeted by the Letsons in force Vancouver.
quent. Under Beaverbrook's and after all that time I saw
Yes, it was a rainy night in ilfe these men and women had
London when Tommy Mackin- pulled up stakes to venture into
dynamic leadership the Express the girl who wrs to be my wife Newspapers were plunging ahead and my heart leaped with joy non made that telephone call to the unknown, They did not
transforming British
the Letron family in St. John's Popular and content, realise that they were playing u
Journalism and playing an im
Wood. Therefore, 1 raise my vital part in the birth of a
glass and toast tong health and portant role in the development nation, Some day, my brother
Sorry of post-vr politics: Vancouver
happiness to Tommy wherever and I vowed, we would see the
he is and to the gracious city of Vancouver whose beauty is un-
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Bail Polo Charity
Aberdeen at P.T.S.. Police Parade Swissair party at Gloucester Hotel Scouts Rally & Prize Presentation at KCC Opening Luis Chan' one-man show at St. John's Cathedral. QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY PARADE & GARDEN PARTY Service Colf Championship prizes distribution at Fanling
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Wyndham Street!
الها
Dirty Night-
"Let's dine here," I said, "It's
a dirty night anyway.
argument with the sisters, the
For a
I can't supply two females at seemed tar AWAY.
this short notice." In other
words we would dine, drink and in due course
Life for a bachelor in London talk, was pleasant enough. Every
to go
the
The Press
heat
LOST PROPERTI
He went to work, and in one day sixteen inches of rain fell. In parts of the area the total rainfall from the storm amounted ta... forly inches. Two dams burst, ranches were flooded, houses and barns floated out to sca. The damage ran to millions of dollars.
Everybody lost, including Hatfield. He never got the ten thousand dollars promised by the elty, and twenty years later there were still law suits against him by poople who suffered loss in the delugt
He retrieved his reputation, by becoming a national horo in Italy. His ranmaking contract ended with a forrential downpour over Southern Italy. Then, while the crowds clamoured fog him, ho had collected his money and quietly: silpped away;
Halfeld himeelt was always scornful of the title "Rainmaker. and used to say: "I don't make rain in any sense. I merely desiat nature with chemicals."
But the secret of the chemicals ho used went with him to the grave.
ROMEL
HEL
ELENA Rubenstein, one of the world's richest women, has offered, over £70.000 towards The Festival of Two World?" Italian-born American opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti thought up the Festival idea and has bought up an old hotel at Spoleto, on the side of Monte Luca. Eager young volunteer workers are trying to get it into shape for the opening on' Jutis ‘5. At the inal hotel, workmen. are busily painting everything black and white-the-Festival's colour moti: In the old village, Countess Gniell,, who heads the local gentry, is converting negy of the medieval shops into sophisticated boutiques."
Helena Rubinstein spent 24 hours in Spoleta Tooking over. the Festival protons' and handing out enormous lips to one. Nond all
In the next three or four marred by the foling, retful Cosmetic Millionairess Aids Art Festival Mac morning I rode. In the flow days before the wedding there centuries as they mark the end- kinnon would go home. It was which was a good, exercise for were endless parties and in the less tides of time.
horse, and the early course a very young reporter (" comforting not to have out and anyway It is always hours of the morning I returned came for an interview and quite difficult to get a taxi when from the nocturnal pursuit of rightly knew nothing whatever it's raining. An early night getting the newspaper to press, about me. With proper modesty and so to bed,what could be It was exciting, It was drámatle I gave him the names of the better as a preparation for a but something or rather some famous men who had sent me messages, In short it Wes hard week's work on the Sun- one-was missing,
Two years had passed since Toronto putling. Vancouver In day Express!
"I think I might get a couple the Letsons had gone home its place. The next day in the there was tho Me and one night-it may have following paragraph. In the
newspapers of girls," said Tommy
rath that made me kinnon. "The Letsons from been the Vancouver have taken a house do it. I wrote to Edith and social columu;
"Mr Boverlay. Baxter who near St. John's Wood Who asked if I could go out to Vany is marrying a native daughter. and what were the Letsons? couver and marry her, To zny.
| Mies vEdith" Lotson' has had And why in the dickens couldn't joy and attrnal grailtude she
congratulatory messages from Mackinnon slop interfering sold yes..
H... Wills, Steve Donegal, Sa in duo corsa I went with my rights na host?
Arthur Bennett, Bornard Short and Lond-Bei verbrook.'7. was on the telephone. I could sister-1 duly entrained for the Alas for human, vanity! Thờ hear hlin talking to someone, long trek to Vancouver, How Beavor was the only one he Pot Then he returned, "They'll be strange to be marrying some- right, here in half an hour" he said, one after so long a separation! But despite the social round- to be marrying about 1 had time to study and How strange The two girls, that le
Mr servant was duly inform in Vancouver where I know no enjoy the beautiful city of the ed, Mackinnon entered on one but the Letron family. But Prelic coast called, Vanoðaver. cre-, Nature, was in a.,” benevolent minute description of how he 1 hud arranged somna had cured himself of golt slice dentials which would show that mood when It brought into and now was suffering from à thứ. Toròntonian could hold tile unify the sun-sparkled sea: and
make the blue grey mountains. 28:12 38" hook. The coals, iri "the fire», own' in Vancouver,
By that timer Mackinnon had home to Toronto and after a gone into the hext room and visit with
my mother "und
- Ysl, this'll be yours, als. Antoskin brief cass-con- Lents three brown breas cheese and tomato band- witches. co bridge rolls. an apple and a fask of
It has taken Menotti and a handful of young people two years to get the Festival going. Money has come in from orienta Individuals as well as organlagtións like the Ford Foundation.
But it la bralcally an Italian and American affair this year. The Festival covers painting, ballot, theatre and music; Most the performers are young and unknown.""
Radioactivity Count Up
VIENNA DADIO-ACTIVITY in the air over Vienna has increased twelve-
fold in ricant weeks, according to the Vienna Blato Mot pro losteni Station.
Rali falling over Austria has a far higher radio-activity, than ever menmired before, they say, Fan Experts believe that this may be the result of unstickensfuk
H-bomb experingata in Rüem ha