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In Rush To Buy Diary Of Killer

Scores of young women stormed a tiny cigar shop in a back street of Brunswick to buy single pages from the diary of Germany's self-styled "Bluebeard, Rudolf Piel, who has been sen-}· tenced to life for mass murder.

Up to 25s. was paid for a page. In these, pages the 26-year-old roly-poly little ex-waiter describes in detail the massacre and mutilation of 25 women.

denied the

Says Pleil: "I am selling aloe and refimed to be connected the diary, which I have with rich bohawlesse

Fiell giared indignantly at called Main Kampf (My Bouman, sitting behind him in Struggle), by Rudolf Pleil, court. Hoffmana death dealer (retired), to allegation. raise money for my defence."

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He smiled benignty as he told a Brunswick court recently: Thaye แ right to kill for others it is different."

12-year

Thousands of people queued for seats every day at the trial. The judge excluded them -012. maral grounds. "Women," be to said, "would not be able

this gruesome tale of stand blood and lust."

FEIGNED DEATH

Already serving o sentence for killing a shop ps-

One of the 78-witnesses, Frau sistant with an axe, he is now charged with the murder of 10 Lydia Schmidt, aged 45, said: women and the attempted mur-Fleil beat me over the head and did indescribable things to me. der of an eleventh.

I feigned death and crawled away when he had left.""

Carefully adjusting his steel- rimmed spectacles, he explained to the judge: "I did not do it for robbed material gain. I never my victims, but it was necessary for my sexual satisfaction. always got satisfaction from victim."

UNDERRATED

Each time the prosecuting counsel mentioned the 10 mur- ders, Pleil interrupted: "It la 25. You underrate me, I am Ger- many's greatest killer. 1

put others, both here and abroad, to shame."

The public and women press reporters were excluded from the court as ho described how ho picked his victims, satisfied death, sometimes with a club or an axe, or stabbed them with a paratrooper's knife,

A second accomplice, Konrad Schuessler, aged 30, said that he from the Foreign deserted Legion in Indio-Chim because "I could not stand the sordid life there, and decided to come back to Germany and try my: band, at something else."

He told how he assisted Piell in a number of murders.

But Pell interrupted him by "Hoff- indignantly: shouting mann and Schuessler have no right to kill I am permitted, because it is dictated by my innertnost feelings."

his lust, and battered them to MORE VAMPIRE

JETS COMING

Most of the women named in the charges were being smug- gled from the Soviet Zone into Western Germany when they were attacked.

axe

Vampire jet fighters are now from the United being flown

to re-equip fighter Kingdom squadrons of the Far East Air "My first victim was 37-year- Force. The 8,850-mile journey said Piell. to Singapore will represent the old

Eva Miche,"

delivery "That was

in March 1946. I longest jet aircraft

with an fight undertaken by any air came up behind her

and killed her with one force.

not rob her but Alriolds in Franco, Tunisia, blow. I did found it very satisfying. Then Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, the Persian I threw her body into a canal."

Gulf, Pakistan, India, Burma and Siam will be used. With INDIGNANT GLARE

the co-operation of the Govern- Later Plell told how he broke ments concerned, the route has and organised with an alleged accomplice, been surveyed

the ferrying of the jet Hoffmann. "After we had killed for

Flights will be made one woman Hoffmann Insisted | fighters. on cutting off her head. I told at regular intervals until delivery him that was a disgusting prac is completed.

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IVY, mother of what is probably the world's most publicised polar bear, Brumas, left, stands on her hind legs in the London Zoo, to call attention to her daughter. Brumas had a cold and was kept out of sight of the public until she was well. (Acme)

Super Cattle Ranch For Bechuanaland

Work is about to start in Bechuanaland on the creation of one of the largest cattle ranches in the world. It will contain 250,000 cattle. More than 50,000 head will be drawn off yearly for meat for Africans.

The start of the scheme to ensure a steady flow of cattle In full was announced in London good condition.

activity the abattoir will handle Colonial at least 70,000 head of cattle a recently by the Development Corporation, year, which has authorised a

HAS

NURSE A PROBLEM

Seddon of Christ

KEEPS TWO DIARIES

capital outlay of $2,250,000 Britain, but to meet the urgent

Has Just Learned Of Korea

An Ohio State University geology professor, just re- turned from Baffin Island inside the Arctic Circle, had to be told "there's a war going on.*

Prof. Richard F. Goldthwaite, who has been studying geologic for antions all over the world "about every two years," is back from a four-mosth amination of the ice cap on the

Arctic island.

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We had heard that there was some trouble in Korea, but I didn't know the United States was involved," the professor

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Goldthwaite was one party of. 32 scientists who ex- plored parts of the island that had never been visited. They ilved in tents on the wind-swept Island, where summer tempera- tures average about 20 degrees. AVALANCHES PERILOUS

However, was not the cold days they had to watch, Gold- thwaite sadd, but the warm once —and avalanches.

"You could never tell where an avalanche would start, so we had to

to try to outguess nature in pitching

Gold- our campa," thwaite sald. "Ono of those hers could have wiped us slushers

out. They were four or five feet deep and travelled at about 20 miles

miles an hour.

You just have to learn to be nonchalant about such things

Some 22 tons of food and equipment were shipped to the Island a a year ago, and the group travelled in a Royal Canadian Air Force plane.

Bekimo stations, settlements and a few Hudson Boy trading posts comprise "alvilisation" as Balin Island,

Weather

Goldthwaite said.

IN MANY PLACES Being in isolated areas,-how- ever, is nothing new to the pro- -- fessor. He was stranded in the interior of China in 1948 adj millionaire Milton Reynolds and the late Bill Odom decided to call off their hunt for a gigantic Tibetan mountain peak.

We had no money to pay for our transportation out, and our hotel bill was $107.000.000 Goldthwalle related. "We just had to talk everyone into trust ing us. Anyhow, the bill only about $150 in American came to mouring

the wat Golfihwaite

The scheme is not designed to add to the beef supplies of Of this, £1,229,000 will African needs for meat. It is cover development in the aimed to supply the demand of Central and Southern Africa next five years.

The

also an for good quality beef and to Corporation nounced four other development ensure to the African former a schemes in various areas. Total good price for his cattle.

served in the Army Air Force's Bechuanaland BAHAMAS DEVELOPMENT tropical science frission. He has ranch, will be £7,004,000. The Other schemes announced by also studied Alaskan glaciers...

and: Alpine glaciers in France. cost of the fifth scheme is not the corporation were:

Bahamsa Agriculture Nor- and Switzerland. disclosed.

Bahamas have a He joined the Ohio State defleit in their trade faculty in 1948 after receiving having to import degrees from Dartmouth a food Schemes for Harvard United Press.

food Inoro

expenditure on four of

tho Inaluding

them,

water

mission reported that supplies are adequate for the stock, and the land suitable.

on the

Miss Muriel Oppenheim, church, New Zealand, is nursing her way, round the world.

She left home in January, has seth most of the British Lales,

and visited Austria and has Bavaria.

The beef-producing area will mally the Miss Oppenheim, in her early

aollar Palestine before be the Chobe Crown Lands in

balance, 40'a rursed in

Then she Northern Bochuanaland.

This

"dollar" her native New territory has been selected after returned to

growing and during the war, Zealand. But she wanted to see investigations by a mission. The Islands will be launched at a England and so set out again.

Island cost of £1,034,000,

On the undeveloped of Andros a large area of swamp and Innd will be drained cultivated. A cannery will be installed to absorb produce and laier on some may be exported to the United States and Canadia and become a dollar More food will also be grown will be considered by Live

to provide extra feeding stuffs in two places at once,"

on the Islands, of Eleuthera and focal Council soon.

Hidden protec Abaco. and to eliminate the

away in what... she said in London.

Swaziland "New Zealand is home, but torate's serious grain defcit.

Baucha su now known as Keats. Grove, much to offer A second project will be the

of £2,580,000 has been ap-turning off Hampstead Heath, England has 50

of an

for this in the way of history and cul-erection. at. Lobatsi

scheme, the house has for long been it beiter abattoir, and freezing

plant. Proved ture. I almost like

Here there will also be a hold- originally announced in June, a place of pilgrimage. It was under which an estate of 110,000 bought as a national memorial here."

Molepole ranch of the

acres will be irrigated. There by public slibscription

and lands in Southern

bbcame to will be notion and food crops Hampstert Bechuanaland.

For the people at home Mios Oppenheim is keeping, two diaries.

Future plans? Miss Oppen- heim cannot, decide.

વધુ want to stay here as long as possible. På uke to be able

to

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18-21 YEARS PROJECT It will take 18 to 21 years to complete the scheme, by which time the ranch will cover 16,000 square miles. In the rain belt, 500,000 acres will be cultivated

ing Crown

The holding, ranch is intended factory

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cotton

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Restoration Of Keats House.

Plans for the restoration of Keats House, Hampstead, hohe of the poet of the time he was his finest work, earner, producing

custodiansmitted dis

the

This will avoid the older as well as ranching.

Factory in Nigeria,--A com- It is intended to refurnish method of marketing poor cattle on the hoof at indefinite periods.pany is to be formed to operate the house much san Keats know and Mez Alan feed,"), the near Onitsha where is will be spun in one architect, bis submified unde section and sucks made in pa- talled ectieme which will cost other from local jute Total about £6,000.

Hall Recently the Bilgrim Trust, cost will be £1,800,000. will come from the Corporation gave 21,000 to help in reatora... and the rest from the Nigeria tion work, ma ang appeiti was

pil marketing madlo to poetry |209(elles • ; cocoa and cotton

over the worl boards,

LADY EVA IS SUPREME

at the rate of nearly £1.195.. month compared with 21.15% In 1949, Membership of colliery savings groups now more than

Victory of Lady Eva, chosen 178,000, or 20 percent of the

cow of..the Olympia employed, the National supréme

Dairy Show, will enrich her Savings Commilice state.

In three 'months' group Scoth owner, Mr

than Sharp, by many thousands of savings werd

per-pounds. And alle brings bonour £1,000,000. centage of colliery savers are to her grandmother, Bargower Narth Wales, 80 percent, Eva. who won the tile 22 years

Cumberland (ngo. Northumberland,

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Highest

and Durham 33.9, and Midlands 30.2 percent.

:

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George SIDE GLANCES

Lady Eva, ani Ayrshire, was bought for 200 as a youngster. Before she won the Olympla Highest quarterly saving trophy her value would be per group member around £1,000 as a promising Kent, £8.. 103.

mother and producer of £300 to £400 worth of milk a year.

Yorkshire

20. 18. Bd., East Midlands

£6. 14s 3d West Midlands Today experts put her capital 26. 10, Northumberland, value around 20,000. Cumberland and

Durbam

28. 15s, Lancashire 26. 98.**

She is eight years old,

can

In South Wales, average expect six or seven calves. Mr member Sharp is not selling Lady Eva. group savings, per have increased from 24 per She goes back to his Vicarage Kempston, Beds, quarter in 1940 to 24. 10s, Su. Farm, at

per quarter in 1980. In North There Sharp, at 61, has 147 Wales. dor. io same periods pedigree Ayrshires on his 204 the average has risen from acres. The herd is said to ba

worth more than £100,000. £1,14 to 2, 40, 34.

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