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NINE GAMBLE WITH DEATH TO SEE THE ROOF OF THE WORLD

By Sidney. Rodin

scientist from strength and toughness, of, the OVER the snow-clad research

slopes of Scotland's. Aylesbury. Bucks; thirty. Everest team at great heights, Cairngorms today thero venr-old EARLE RIDDI For climbing they wild wear clothing similar 40 speed and twists a 89-year- FORD,, an unmarried soli. quilted old civil servant.

citor from New Zealand; that issued to our troops winter- lighter, down replacing the thest and EDMUND HILLARY, Ing in Koren, but it will be much a bee farmer. Ho, too, is wood. Everything must be wind- unmarried; he, too, comes from New Zealand.

To his fellow-skiers he is one more sportaman enjoy ing his week-end in the

-open..

proof,

They will camp at higti altitudes beneath light-weight tents.

They will eat.

old schoolmaster. who has ended Secord

A fifth now joins the But Campbell 'Secord, us party: New Zealander he slithers through the GEORGE LOWE, 28-year- vallers, will be thinking of the perilous knows and savage winds that are to be his work in the months to come.

Soon, with eight other men, he goes east to start final preparations for the conquest of Everest,

No man has climbed far beyond 28,000ft. In 1924 Irvine and Mallory reached that height-und disappear- ed into the mists forever swirling round that last 1,000ft. of formidable black ruck. Graves on Everest's jagged face mark the

never

failure of other climbera.

Campbell Secord may get the chance of climbing to the Roof of the World, for not all of the nine will be chosen to brave the wastes where man has never before set foot.

For

three

Gregory months this

climbed elsewhere in the Himalayas.

✰

To these leader Shipton had added four of 50

of Britain's best climbers who answered the Alpine Club's cull for the assault into the unknown:-

beef und With

t •Teast

inixed molten fat and currants, choco- late, half sugar a day some men need 4 pound-and

pound of

drink mostly Canadian bun very

sweet cocoa and soluble coffee.

They will climb with ropes.

nylon

equipment will be oxygen masks Most important innovation in adapted from R.A.F. types.

ALFRED GREGORY, of. Ripon Road, Blackpool, 38, managing director of 肆 travel agency: Gregory has scaled the Matterhorn (14,782 ft.) and has

Men can live for a short time climbed in France, Italy, at 28,000 st., yot some who have and Algeria. На was tried to sagnɖ more than 24 hour have suffered ninjor in the Black Watch, at 25,000 ct. and has a wife and young to the brain and nervous system, panalysis and permanent injury daughter..

ROBERT EVANS,

31-

year-old surgeon at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, who has climbed in the Himalayas. Evans is ready to give up his job to join the Everest expedition.

Oxygen masks werp tried on

they failed.

est about 30 years ago, but Beyond 20,000 ft. climbers ex- perience extreme lassitude. Their brain clouds. They lose the will to 89 9

"High altitude throat brings Intense pain, caused by the cold, dry wind parching the and causing a rose Infection.

throat

The terrible wind near the summit of Everest, measured by alreraft at 110 miles an hour, can

year the nine

RAYMOND COLLEDGE; men will train before the 29, rayon salesman, of Max final assault Road, Coventry. Colledge is He has four times next year on single. Everest's five- ascended to the summit of and - a

half. Mont Blanc (15,800 ft.) mile (29,141 without a guide. Was a Black

CAMPBELL - SECORD, Watch major. ft.) peak. They are:-

39, Canadian-born economist: become ice at the upper heights. with the Ministry of Fuel It clings to the rock as powder: in London, married but not gives the climber no help.

Avalanches periodically sweep children. He mountaineered

down Everest. in the Rockies and Himalayas.

4

ERIC SHIPTON, of Liss,

ex Hants, leader of the. pedition. He is 44, a diplo- mut in the Consular Service and is an Everest veteran. He has two children. When he reconnoitred 2 new southwest approach to Everest last year Shipton took with him:-

TOM BOURDILLON, 27- year-old married rocket

★

the

kill by itself.

The cold is often, too intense and dry to allow the mow to

And what will be the reward

Everest and tread where men has | never been before?

Mr. SMITH GOES

TO MOSCOW:

The author is John Smith, a managing director:of Coutts Bank, who says of his journey: "I went to Russia : solely out of curiosity. I have no ase to griną," "

← John Smith is 28. He went to Etop, then into the Flest Air Arm. ́ ́He did naval tjaison with the BAF and the 18. Air Force. After the way he went to Oxford. fle sneaks and reads Russian. To-day he tells how¬~

LOOTED SILVER GOES CHEAP IN THE SHOPS

WALKED through Moscow with my Rus- sian Baedeker under

- my arm. I was not followed. At least I do not think I was. In Leningrad, gs you will hear, it was dif- ferent.

I know of course, that foreigners are followed in Moscow, openly and un- doubtedly. Outside both

embassina, for example, a the British and American

Russian-made Packard car four waits with three or men inside, dressed, like . all Russian civilians, in: loose two-piece suits with baggy trousers.

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Whenever the Ambassa- dor emerges, the car swings into place behind him. either Ambassador goes to the theatre two men occupy the seats. immediately be- hind his, and follow him throughout the intervals.

Woman's disĻAS

uza druh,A pane talt of Stalia joaks down On 1. mana quis odside.

.

Sentries are posted at the doors of all foreigners' flats and houses; and the

I asked a bystander what social earthquake than theat house in which I stayed was stark noceasily of life these Commission shops, full of war- His answer: lime loot from the West and accorded three militiamen people wanted. one back and two front.

the wreckage of a lelsured class..

Lace for curtains,"

Of course, as a private. An exception to the monoton- person there was no reason ous unpretentiousness of the

shops is the Mostorg-a depart ment store of several storeys. for me to be followed.

Since there is always a queue waiting for this shop to open I visited it at about 10.30..

SO DULL

for the men who conquer MY first impression of the Moscow shops was that they were very few. They were also very dull.

The team will set out from It is best summarised by Jainagar, on the Indian border Raymond Colledge, the rayon of Nepal, on a two weeks' march

salesman. Ho says: "At the to the base of Cho-Oyu, which summit of a great mountain Soars 20,750 ft. into the Himalayan "experience a spiritual exulto- world. Cho-Cou is unexplored. tion that is above all earthly

to test the things."

It has been chosen

R. M. MacColl's American Column THE POINT IS WHO INVESTIGATES WHOM?

Washington.

HE trouble that Mr Truman gets into choos- ing his special investigator into governmental corrup- tion!

North Carolina (who invariably Philadelphia, with your name wears an old-style green trock or initials printed an them. cont, with a rose in his button- loathe even ordinary tea-bags, hole), says that Morris may be so I'm not likely to fork out the called as a witness by the com- 329, asked for theso offerings, mittee, although he emphasises that he does not think Morris American method of making did anything wrong. :

tea: Put the raw tea into a You remember all that song

muslin bag, drop it into the pot, WASHINGTON

plays the pour on boiling water. and dance about whether Judge Tom Murphy would or would host to a foreign diplomatic Result: Weald tea and no lon not head the investigation, end- colony which numbers 20,000. leaves. ing with Tom saying no?

Biggest of all is Britain's con- Then Mr Truman coming up tingent, with 73.

now

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This implies no criticism since dullness of appearance is inevitable where there is no competition.

of letters

от

Most of the shop fronts have not been altered since the Re- volution. The signs above them, usually

painted on glass say simply "Chemist" "Bread" or "Hairdresser." What little advertising there in tokes a very direct form, "Use soap," "Smoke cigarettes." W orid

Peace" or "Save money."

my

Bookshops were full of cu tomers, in spite of the high price of books, Booles farm one outlet for the suppressed infla- tion which Russia's enormous programme of capital works is causing; they are a method of a library is counted rich.

A Russian approached companion and told her that it storing wealth, and a man with was uncultured to smoke.

Men's sults

were thin

and

baggy-made, like many things

in Russla, in the Western style of the Twenties. tubular creations of a muddy

Women's dresses were drab,

Paisley pattern.

IMPURE

COMMUNIST works written since the Revolution, which

When I regained the street I do not for the Stalinist line tre found that somebody deceived unobtainable. The writings of by the opulence of my "demob" many revolutionaries who wrote suit, had cut open my coat under the Tears are for sale.

although they would today. pocket with a rozpr.

considered ideologically most impure.

NOVEL SHOP

If converted into steriinu at the official rate, prices would

HE most novel Soylet shop is give a picture unfair to the

the Commission shop. To this Russians eightpenco for Inside, the shops make lille people bring goods they want to nawanpper, 30 for a pamphlet effort to beguile the customer.

Not

ONE

THE QUEUES

NE effect of State ownership and the absence of campell tion is that the governmenĮ

arbl-

They are fagred with plain sell in the shop at a prica agreed on Moscow, p for square

meal. without discussion-be- wood and rather dark by our tween themselves and the This is because the role of

1s standards. In most shops and manager. When the article banks the attendants count and sold the chop hands

exchange between the rouble over the

and other currencies 'tg preceels Jess seven per cent. trarily fixed by the Russians at add up the bill on on abacus.

The quality of the goods in

favourable to sow for sale, at low that of pre-war Japan-shoddy wonderful Sevres es, a level highly

themselves. It brings *them but adequate.

Dresden, Fulda and Wedgwood china, of a quality which would yearly a vast nearned profit in

foreign exchange. be placed in museums in the West (and perhaps was unių In addition, prices under Stat

Capitalism bear no relation to zyar). the end of war

The Commission shops were costs both are merely items of always thronged. Among the government book-kelas which goods they said, the cameras render the celebrated annual WHEN the fairground pro-have no effective way of estimat. chielly German Leleps caused price

most excitement.

And The furniture, when stod, is quite A TERRIFIC FIGHT is brew- rietor down in Alabama wasing demand in advance. rin, who, being a Republican

Including mag is as dificult and noted for his sincerity, looking over the right to advertise handed a bogus 20-dollar bill,

beer on TV.

clacks of compete Russian Churchmen and which he instantly spotted, he ed a sale bet?

of the olher "drys" recently appeared took his time about telephoning far the most unexpected things. nifcent

West magnificent round a block, was waiting to Jewellery I found

compare they Washington air is thicks with re- pleading that all such advertis- hurry unduly

with thoro of Faberus mallest of shops. pleces by

the Middle Ages. The flyer criminations, and, bellove it or ing be banned. A matter of arrived they found that he had

can only compare the Was good and One the protesting" counterfeiter on People in the queue were all- not, It looks as if Mr Morris, be £4,200,000 a year, pald by the fore he can start any. In yealigit- breweries to TV-and increns- a non-stop merry-go-round ride, holding the shoulders of their cheap-1 saw a set of early 18th general standards of living-ad ing of his own, will get investi ing all the time is involved,

safe for the pictures bud, ogginst Russia. gated himself.

Now the "weis" are to have their

of and

Tho

at ofic scale or. values was striding. A Pres den tea-set cott as much as a

with the name of Newbold Mor-

ล

saw hugo queus struggling was ndish

the

meaningless. scale Values from ours.

of values

price ta

with

It is to

But not a bit of it. The before a Congress committed the police and told them not to The longest, which coiled right the 18th century. Among the thase modern English prices

When

next-ahead. They were

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FOUR ALSATIANS, used to by soldiers and knives" and forks on the comparison runa undenigbly.

"time" "the", "shop

Who

doot

RECEPTIVE

a group For he is president of an pay with the Congressmen. help night watchmen at a big against the efforts of a organisation which last year.

Chicago store, have been trained, Independent housewives Snught three surplus Govern. BERTRAND BUSSELL, Wie as completing periodic inspec- were trying to jump the queue, ment tankers, and a Senate philosopher carl, signs a con- tion tours, to touch a pedal with

Ever cammities is going to get busy tract to make a flim for TV. tapir outstretched paws Thu, opened, the irregulars made a pleture which could pot

cause the Ruslan standard looking into an alleged ct Viewers will watch him x-by setting off a distant hell, Icts dash for it every time they ven away in the King's Road, VEN this is deceptive. Be rich-quick scheme in conner pounding his ideas in the spring, the watchmen lippi that alle were broken up by the polles Chelsea

well Incidentally, Fido thua

At last, the women who would Nothing in Russia; except of-life is lower than aurs, one tion with the deal.md

The

chairman,

friends not queue were seized by the perhaps the ruined churches must not infer that the Russland committee

UGH-Now they're making caves his two-rooted

gave ono a greater fooling of are discontented or that Russia courtly Senator Clyde Hory, of 'personalised" ten-baga in nine miles of walking per night, wrists and taken away.

is: an economically weaker-coun- try, I saw no discontent. It is averted by constant reminders OF. the dreadful conditions in the West.

JOHNNY HAZARD

ANDLANIR..

EASY, VOHNNYLE "AY KNOW IT FEELG LIKES VE KEURDERED, THEM OURCEIVES!

BOT, VS TRIED TO STOP THEM L FROM LANDING.........

VE TRIECI..

ÁNÉ TO TOP

GOT TO DIE HER

By Frank Robbins

WELLE WIRE MARKED FOR EXECUTION TONIGHT...MIGHT WELL EL POWEẢND GIVE ELIZ TWO GUESTS.LOUR

FIAT 1400 the Far of Progres "Our Experience,

Your Gain

Hving low Ruslan standard of laat qar rate partly due to their fanatlegt purquie, capital investment. Any country ean support both a huge army and a huge programme of new factories, rosas, "-zaliwagą, – and buildings at the same time, if lis prepared to controj its peop and to anchoe their standard

Похід doca The phon shops, of Moscow are misleading when they are bolter the West wifit bo tafor,

(World Copyright London: Express -Service.).

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