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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1951.

People do odd

things when they're asleep

wife

arme

•

By A Special Correspondent

around, but

the

nothing

who had bables

A

THIS MAY

DRIVE

CHECK

COMMUNISM

By GEOFFREY JENKINS

FRICA has become the resource of strategic metals 66T KISSED my

sleeping prospector's paradise of from the muddy waters of goodnight in bed

soldier returned to his bed and the Atlantic Pact Powers, the Niger to the burning alept poundly ti morning.

of Led by British and United deserts and put my

South West holidaying Somnambulists ofica rise when he remembered

from States scientists, the big- Africa,

the lush around her neck....when I Havre, and Levīru,

at the spot after a nervous from their beds in the night of the occurrence. awoke aho didn't seem to

breakdown, was called in

to and do routine tasks. Some sticated cases in medical books in war, is taking place to the high plains of Kenya.

There are numerous authen-gest-ever rush, in peace or forests of Tanganyika to be breathing....I called help locate the slayer.

10 tho Jetchen and wash {"Mildred ?"....then it dawn- Ladru, a brilliant detective, dishes, light a fire in the grate of women

fresh fields of up after opon went to work scientifically

when while asleep and awoke on (it may be midsummer led on me she was dead."

minerals to meet the com-

The drive is focussed on the case. It had almost beaten they do it), and return with the birth was over.

of the re- him when, examining the plas out Imnowledge, when they William Shakespeare, a wide-bined needs

two main centres-one, led didn't

and industrial armament of footprints found walten, of what they have done awake playwright who

the by

Americans, in the miss much in

way of near, the scene of the crime, he in the night.

Southern Africa, with head- learnt the man had a too miss-

natural phenomena when look-programmes of the West.

atmosphere, created

quarters in Pretoria; the ing for

classic

Africa is rapidly become other, led by engineers of one of the passages in all drama when being the Western Powers the British Colonial De-

aleep- wrote Lady Macbeth's

arsenal. Now comes the an- velopment Corporation, from nouncement that waste gold Tanganyika. walking sceno.

A 29-year-old machinist gave that testimony to a Supreme Court jury in he was Newcastle, when charged with murdering his wife while she slept, by strangling her.

After they heard the man's insistent plea that he, too, was asleep when his wife died, the jury re- tired and pondered for hour, then returned a ver- dict of guilty of slaughter.

11T1

man-

The judge emphasised that it was a merciful view, told the man he had "sinned grievous- ly," sentenced him to укать.

ewen

During the trial Government Medical Omeer C. W. England admitted to defence counsel that there have been strange their cases where people in sleep have performed extra-

dreds, roturned ordinary their beds, and known nothing about it.

to

Crimes of violence commit-

sleeping aro

ted arch has proved

but

they

have occurred. Everyone has heard

Tare,

that

stories

of sleep-walkers who stopped windows out of upper-storey and either

killed or injured themselves.

But there have been cases in various parts of the world of murderous attacks being made by sleep-walkers, er somnambu-T lists, while sound asleep-some of them in recent years. Battered Hor

N Arkansas poultry farmer called Willlat Pollard rose from his bed one night in 1947, went to his only daugh- ler's bedroom, and battered her with a flashlight torch un- til she was dead.

His family found him stand- ing over the body, arm up- raised like a mythical figure of vengeance and still asleep.

They wake him up.

In America in 1045 # 10- year-old girl, cleep-walking in tho house, encountered her father and shot him dead.

Sixty

French years ago a detective called Ladru investi- a murder which had the whole of the French Surete

gated

buffed.

and A man had been shot killed on the beach at LA

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In

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The

Americans, go-getting acarching everywhere from the

Arc

along Frequently they Endru himself had

dangerous paths, executing de too

Itente movements without put missing,

anki his

discovery ting a foot wrong. opened a terrible possibility in

Sleep-walking is described his mind.

For days he lived in fear of medically as an imperfect form what each new clue would lead of sleep, in which the muscu

Great Perturbation

ore from South Africa is the portion to; but eventually had to ad- lar apparatus and

he of the brain controlling it re-

MARLIER in the play, after to yield big quantities of mit to himself that what

he had murdered Duncan, uranium for Great Britain had discovered was true the main awake while the intellec

tun faculties

are burled killer was himself!

Macbeth couldn't sleep. He and the United States of

Ап thought he heard a voice say America.

agreement He had shot the man while slumber.

During the WAT A young

Macbeth, between the two countries legendary copper mountains lo sleep-walking.

...sleep no more! sleeping Ladru prevented his solution Canadian soldier was

Later, when Lady Macbeth's and the Union of South S. w. Africa to uranium mines to his of the case

superiors, in the Glasgow Express, which does murder sleep."

been

Congo,

offering signed in the an conscience le pricking her, aAfrica has

handcome contracts over a long on Inquiry was conducted, ho was travelling at 60 mlies

of ex- reporta having after some years gentlewoman

perlod to meet America's stock- was exonerated.

But he realgned,

seen

tensive research.

piling policy. from her bed, though he lived for 50 years his sleep, opened the carriage

never door, and stepped off the train throw her nightgown upon her, after the incident, he

The Western democracies slept in any bod but his own, into space.

His comrades beard the door unlock her closet, take

it, write paper, fold and he kept his room specially

train stopped, read it, afterwards seal it, and have, by common consent, policy has paid is shown by turned to Africa for their the fact that they have sent up

South Africa's locked and barred at night to slam, had the

strategle prevent him leaving before no searched for him without suc- return again to

Cess.

this whic

fast supplies where, although minerals production by more awoke.

great deposits of chrome, than £4,000,000, The next day he was found sleep."

The doctor in the play com- manganese, copper, asleep, and unhurt, in a vacant

The British drive is directed house a few miles from where ments:

dum, mica, iron, asbestos he had left the train.

Ho remembered noth w of Nature, to receive at once the and vermiculite are being towards discovering big coal and iron flelds in Tanganyika the worked, thousands of square and in adjoining Nyasaland. In miles have never seen the Nyasaland exist extensive coal

deposits awaiting exploitation. prospector's pick.

and,

hour. al- During the trip he coSE

are,

These "active dreams" as a rule, totally forgotten on awakening.

Sing And Shout COME steepers sing, talk, or shout; others ding their arms about or sit up in bed.

In many cases come of the sense organs are also awake, and the somnambulist may see and avoid objects or may hear and answer questions,

But usually the answers are rambling or incoherent.

in

the lady

forth upon't

a

bed; yet

most

"A great perturbation

bencilt of sleep and do during effects of watching!"

his incredible adventure.

-An American soldier the war rose from his bed one

in

On the subject of sleep-walk-

night, dressed, went to a gun ing, as on most subjects when consulta the Bard, it's emplacement, removed the far one

lowried and rather difficult to find a neater paulin covering,

the way of summing fred the gun.

matter

corun-

Using aerial mapping,

surveys geophysical

How much this 'open purse"

These coalfelds would pro- and vide a valuable source of raw material for the extraction of men up

and petroleum, project A great perturbation in Na- "atraight" prospecting, men

are scouring every possible which is being actively follow- miles ture, it is indeed.

red up in that territory and in

Southern Rhodesia.

It normally took three to do that job. The detonation woko

for everybody

SATURDAY SHOPPING EXPEDITION

IN THE BIG WORLD

OVERSEAS

little place called Bangor

Mrs. Smalltown finds

it good

by

EVELYN

WEBBER

BANGOR, Pennsylvania. tories at the edge of the IFE is good here. Win- town. And one newspaper. nie Jones, formerly of The people read that eager- Cornwall, England, ly. can't get over it.

Typical shopping adver- "Nine-piece For though Bangor (pop. tisement:

bedroom 6,000) is just a tiny slate walnut finished mining and mill town, half suites, including mattresses, the population of its small- for £39 58. 8d." "A big free town namesake in North turkey with purchase of re- sewing Wales, Winnie, who works frigerator in the Strand Department machine" (£69 58. 8d. and Store on Main Street, £31 19s. 8d. respectively). marvels that its people are "Real leather handbags, so well off.

17s. 10d."

Says she: "They'd never believe in Cornwall that or- dinary people coud have so much."

or

Here In Bangor an perienced housewife, Mrs Bea- trice Sobol, told me what life is tiko in "Small Town, U.S.A." With her two young children But Bangor, founded by she has an average American husband carns

Her family.

No hick towns

a Welshman, is no different about £20 a week, the average from any of the 58,000 American wage. small towns in America (where 63 percent of all the country's families live). It could be Paducah, Ken- tucky, or Little Rock, Ar- kansas the living's the same. The towns even look alike.

They all have one shop ping street, inevitably call ed Main, a savings bank building,

and some fac

PORK

TENDER!

Chops 83.60 Knuckle $3.00

TASTY!

Leg of Pork $3.20

Fillet 89.40

Loin 83:20 Belly $2.80°

Hocks and Feet $1.50 Rolled Shoulder $3.00

THERE'S NO PORK LIKE THE PORK GROWN AT

MRS Sobot was shopping for

and

Imported French hats and gloves for herself, dungarees work-boots for her husband "There aren't any hick towns here any more," she said, "we can buy everything."

What do they buy?

Out of

£114. 85. Bd. a year spent on the family's clothes, Mrs Bobel gets four dresses and ruits for her- self, two pairs of shoes, ten paira of nylons, and a new-hat

The coal miner pete Ato, not counting overtime and holiday work!

"Small Town, USA," ats well-things like country ham

Side by side with the explore- tion of iron and coal deposits in Tanganyika, with the object of establishing a steel industry there, intense activity is going on in opening up lead deposits, as well as the investigation of the territory's chrome fields..

nickel

and

British experts are also ex-

every other every year; a coat year.

Clothes are cheap here in steaks, and bread so rich you ploring the possibilities of nickel relation to wages: a good coat eat it with a spoon. Milk, steak, and chrome production in the cost £8 109., a cocktail dress and eggs are cheaper than in high mountains of Basutoland, the city. They are more avail-while the copper-cobalt deposits able, and freezing enables a of the foothills of Uganda are a whole hog or side of beef to also being probed.

yes, Smalltown buys them--285.

For Mr Sobel there is a new overcoat every three years,

Best-sellers ANOTHER 1,100,000

attention.

de-

pair of shoes every six months; be bought at half retail prices

now sult.

and stored for months. every other year a new suit.

There is no limit to this de- "Small

Town" Weekly expenditure on food Nearly all

It extends to Nor- familles have 1 car, for the open is about £7 17s. That includes velopment.

ed. for fish and about thern Nigeria, where tin is country not many yards from £1 15. Main Street. They live on quiet, 101b. meat and poultry; 83, 6d. posits, in view of the booming tree-shaded roads in six-roomed, for 6lb. sugar and sweets; £1 price of this metal, are receiving Essential £2,500 houses.

5. for 28 pints of milk, creare close Ice-cream, and cheese; 14%. 74. minorals for alloysantimany, for fats and oils, including 21b. columbite and beryllium (on H- barb metal) are coming in of butter.

increasing quantities from scat- tered places in Southern Africa. were begun in the Arst nine

The French and Belgians, to a says the De-

lesser extent, are joining months of 1950 (more than the totil for the whole of record- THIS year,"

partment of Agriculture, this quest

for strategic ma- breaking 1949), so their papers continually advertise the "Americans bought more meatterials. In the Belgian Congo dairy products and high quality uranium has helped to bring. latest in household equipment.

Current best-sellers are tele- foods than ever before. In 1951 post-war promerity to Belgium. vision sets, electric ranges, now they will eat even

pork

homes

news-

More to eat ·

of beet,

refrigerators, washing machines; increased productie, due to

Town"

The

in

chief problems to be

"Sal and eggste buy overcome in tackling the de-

and vacuum cleaners.

Families spend on these and furniture about £60 a year, substantial

buy 22 10s. worth of about WILH

They

BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

1. TAI AD WAS WRITTEN FROM A COPY DÉ OU 1915 CITHAS AD. WE CHECKL ITENS ON THIS 1950 AD AGAINST OUR 110

BELIEVE IT ORNOT

Prices Are the Same, Or Lowerl

A KIKTHE COMISIMAS ITEMS OF DUTY DATELNÉS TOKIAY REPLACT LAST ; YHARA / PRICELE DOUGHT SO MANY OF OPER G090S KARLY AND ARE VARUN TE PAVINDE ON TO YOU.

Facsimile of advertisement from the New Democrat, Busselville, Kentucky

curtains and

slipcovers, worth of new crockery and tableware,

lite Insurances velopment of Africa's potentials £39 premium a year are lack of water and lack of wages six percent higher manpower. The latter problem they are spending more than will handicap development for £33 on recreation (excluding some years..

holidays), nearly half of that at

the Movie Palace, where you get, advertises the manager,

"your money back if you don't like the picture."

Undoubtedly this drive

for

Western

They enjoy country fairs and chib meetings. They bowl, Irunt, production has stimulated the ski, and ride.

colonial development plans of Powera having Beer and spirits? Seventeen the shillings a week and say the colonies in Africa. To this advertisements. "By it by the extent it has given hundreds of and save thousands of natives hope for (12 bottles) money,

Bs: 78. is the family's higher living standarda. expenditure on anckes, with

case

cigarettes at 13, d. for 20. Cosmeties and the beauty par lour cost 53, a week.

In this way--and probably in this way only can the threat

in Africa.

And still they cave, Banks of Communinn in alliance with ea report that the country's mvings nationallam bo kept in abeyance

have never been bigher.

I asked Mrs Bobel if she war impressed with it all. She scom-

Thus in this huge ontinent at the question the Western Powers are building od surprised

Why, it isn't unusual," she an up stabler Hving conditions at swered, "we're all just living the same time that they aro like Americans, should"

consolidating their war potem- tial

Walk into any kitchen bere; the navy #3 10s. 50, while 20 you will recognise it. It is just te the average, in many small towns. Lite those in the magazines the Abure is "higher." For women working in pay, a hostery mill bright apple-green curtains, wages are about 17 for a week of gleaming labour-saving gadgets, and plenty of food. In the larder.

35 hours.

POP

IS THAT FRESH

-(London Express Service)

CERTAINLY!

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