Over Niagara In New Barrels
By Kay Murray
in
New York, 17-fest Righ model of the Eiffel NY day now, Mr Lesile Tower from 170,000 toothpicks,
apend three years creating what he describes
rhinestone tapestry."
A Sander will roll out his strange-looking barrel and go over the Niagara Falls.
Mr Sander, who saya ho is an interior decorator, hus been trying to nip over from the Canadian side since 1950, but has so far been headed off by immigration authorities, local sheriffs and the police.
und
AD
Only three out of the twenty add persons who have been over
of the Falls
the
brink
ved to tell the story.
have
The first and only-woman
nitempt to
Mrs it Was Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901
her pul
faith in Kentucky onk good and went over the top.
Seventeen minutes later com- "The Canadians," he
"are anti was fished out, not much the ments severely,
"Queen worse for wear. The progressive,"
They have let other people, le points out, go over the Falls In rubber balls and contraptions -made of motor tyres.
"But I've got the selentlic Niagara jumper," he says, "and they won't let me go over. Are they afraid of selence?"
LIKE BIG BOMB
The "Electronic Flying Bar- rel," with which he will scienti- fically tackle the Niagara Falls, Jooks rather like a six-foot .bomb.
of
It has an inner and an outer #hull stainless steel and chromlum, and may be further strengthened, before Mr Sander starts bouncing about on the rocks, with an outer casing of rubber.
It is fitted with oxygen tanks and two 150 lb. weights to pre- vent roiling, though when it newsreci for was irted out pictures it rolled so much when the inventor stood up that pro- Jeeling fins had to be Atted on each de
It cost the Inventor $2,400, Customs Conadion $10 plus duties, to have it constructed.
HIS AMBITION ilowever, shooting the Niagara Fails n' Mr Sonder's sole ambilion.
He is really doing it, he ex- plains, to bring him recognition
talents D.S of his
an artist. These have led him to build a
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1952.
*
barrel
sha
BRY
died
Of The Mist," however, penniless ke most of the Niagara adventurers.
Britain contributed the next
of two victims
the Niagara In 3011, Bobby neurosis. Leach, of Bristol, went over in the a steel barrel, along with
fall 23.000 tons of water that every hour. He spent the next six months in hospital with a broken Jaw and two smashed thought the kneecaps, but
worth thing infinitely whole while.
That he unkind It gecms should have died fleen yearn later of slipping on a piece of orange peel,
Charles the
Another Bristollan,
attempted Stephens, G. fent in 1920. All that was re- covered of him was Identified by tattoo marks.
on
OVER IN A BALL
arm,
be-
Jean Albert Laussler tackled the 170-foot drop with a rubber
n cost of ball built at
$1,700 and tween
A double had reinforced with canvas.
It $2,000.
steel frame,
and Tubber
In
One summer morning
hud himself 1928, Mr Laussier sealed in and cast adritt. When bobbing the red ball was seen
below
Falls, the merrily Laussier was discovered sitting unhurt, inside, dazed but though up to his neck in water.
"I'd do it again-for 150,000 dollars!" he declared, but there were no takers.
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NEWELL ROGERS:
CRIME BLAMED ON TV
New York. HE city's crime wave ls Thamed on TV and Its
elder brother, radio.,
And both are "on trial" be- fore a Congressional committee accused of breeding violence by putting it into their 'pro-
grammes.
Soothingly, Mrs Geraldine for a Judio Zorbaugh, counsel company, told the Congressmen that those who blame TV are Just
for "becking a scapegoat the ills of our society."
Frederic
But Wertham
s this point
"What good is there in putting 190 extra police on the streets when TV programmes and radio shows help to build fires in tho
the kids of today, who are
potential attackers of tomorrow? "The average boy is shown or told that it is glamorous, to assault a woman."
SEFTON DELMER drops in on an interview in West Berlin with a young German A submarine
The Cold War
HOW STALIN
WOULD HAVE
HATED THIS!
Berlin. Herz presented him in his UENTHER RUP capacity as director of Radio PERT is 18 years RIAS's youth programme. old and a member of the Communist
For Guenther is à very
He
of the new
Free German Youth League. important, young man.
He lives with his parents is a member
a
at Potsdam, in the Soviet Communist-educated genera- zone of Germany: works as tion in satellite Europe; the mechanic in a State first taste of the kind of owned workshop there, do- people who are gradually ing repair jobs on motor going to replace the PC dominantly anti-Communist cars for the Russians.
populations today inhabit Yet here he was, dressed ing Poland, East Germany, In his best sports jacket of Czechoslovakia and all the corduroy, sitting other newly annexed purple with me and the notoriously Western marches of the anti-Communist Peter Herz. Soviet ompire.
the
of the
Communist who is not altogether what he seems to be
Overall culculation that time is on their side.and not on that of the West.
found
to be the one thing nor
Guenther neither
other, He is not a complete Communist ner a complete anti- Communist. He is distrustful of both sides. But he is inclined to accept points from each one's denunciation of the other.
BCC
that
When Guenther marched off third will be sent to a
arm sity. with his prize under his and promised to come back for another chat later, I felt that Stalin would certainly not háve been pleased had he seen this interview.
in
Herz and his team are indeed doing
magnificent job making the future generations unreliable for the Soviet.
of
So you Germans,
univer-
the West while they are not doing anything for the Poles or Czechs who flee to them as the first haven in the West, are doing their best for their own folk from the Soviet East.
The split
4
Above all, he is entirely cap
hundreds Every week iivated by the Ingenious applica- tion of the American system of young listeners (and older onea 100) travel from all parts of quiz prizes for political warfare. Soviet-zane Germany to Berlin ROM the People's Police It-
tako
"It's not propaganda, is it?" to visit Radio RIAS. They bring he said anxiously after having with them information, Jubilantly accepted the sports away footballs, fresh arguments, encyclopedia. "No, it is com- and encouragement. Often they pletely unpolitical, mid Peter decide to stay in West Berlin and cross by the escapee air lift to West Germany, Herz.
He
giver
them
No, said Guenther, he was not volunteering for the People's Police and the new Soviet Ger-
Train trip
I
talked
with
near
MERICA'S first atom-powered is being built Connecticut's River, Thames, President Truman, will have a chance to see it when he visits New London to inspect a coastguard academy.
IN THE DAYS when burying
gold was legal, a Mexican crossed the border into the US. Core and buried a treasure." the depression, and it was made illegal to own private gold knows But sorncone hoards. where the Mexlean's is, and has been trying to sell it to the Government. Part of the deal- no hoarding penalties for 'the sellers. The Government refused the offer. And now the public proseculor is investigating.
THE
HE HOUSE of
future may have no walled-uit rooms except bed and bath- room.
Newest thing at the National
Home
Furnishing combined living
self there is also an ever-
stroam of young increasing
In the first three Show, escapees.
is n
work.room
to there.
for mother, weeks of last month 232 have room, dining room, kitchen and are waist-high "separa→ crossed into West Berlin..
Yes, I am impressed with
between
most skill and reallam the Spotlights craftily placed em- what bridgehead of Berlin is being phasise one room or another it used in the battle to save the night. In the centre is a bricks next generation from Stalin.
I wish would give the whole
of our Western cold war propa- the ganda to the Iron Curtain
coro
Toom.
containing Areplace, gos range, Ironer, storage cabinets, TV set, and firewood.
EVEN in rich America only
(All the prizes with which Peter delights the hearts of his Soviet-zone youth lateners are unpolitical. football, fishing rods, foreign stamps. He has already arranged
DEFORE a stomp-twopping network with
branches in the Soviet Guenther I met three other same good marks I give to the
a few citizens can borrow young Soviet-zone Germans youth campaign from Berlin. 1,000
$1,000,000 (£359,000) just like from the Communist Youth one,
League in Peter Herz's office, Alas, even here in Berlin there that. But Mrs Christine Crom They were about to be called is the same lack of central well Hoffman did it. The Jend- Pers were not rash. She is a up for their turn of compulsory directive to our effort, the same
the Dodge car pulling in divergent directions member of which marit and mar Western family, and will receive $5,000,- The prospect did not please work everywhere I have looked 000 (£1,750,000) on the death
of a 79-year-old grandmother. them. For, as things stand in into it. the East zone today, Labour Corps men are being drafted, whether they like it or not, into the new the People's Police, force which the Soylet authori- ties intend to turn into an East
man army.
Ho was not falling labour service.
for any of that: no, not he
Return visit
BUT he did seem a bit of a rotter, he did admit, con-
a Cerman army.
So the three youngsters per- suaded a friendly taxi-driver to drive them one misty night to
Thuringian village.
entor the
Even on such an important question as whether to tell East German youth to People's Police and sabotage it from within, or not to enter it and flee to the West, there is no central cohesion.
others another.
M
PICKWICK and
Sam
Tho
Weller confused New-York's druma crilles when British actora George Howe and Clive Revill, in the two coles, opened in "The Trial of Mr Pickwick."
The Herald-Tribune and
Dally Mirror call it dull, disappoint Some agencies say one thing; Ing, and just too quaint.
Times and
Dally News praise it to the skies delightful, funny,
and very well acted. colourful,
Postscript a young actress to watch: Sarah Marshall, daugh- fer of Herbert Marshall and Edna I shall report on these in my
Best, who plays. Sam. Weller's sweetheart Mary. Sho is a sweetheart. MeLondon Express Service.)
What is more, he was How the Guenthers sitting with us in an office of Soviet-world think and behave, ing up here and accepting He West Berlin's even more how far Stalin can rely on him prize from Radio RIAS. notoriously anti-Communist and the succeeding generations was not quite sure he was not
(short for as loyal, unquestioning servants being a bit of a traitor. Radio 'RIAS
of the Sevict State is supremely What impressed me • and
But even more American Radio in
important important not only to you and pleased me most about Guenther the town nearest to their
divergencies are beginning Sector).
show themselves in the military They took the train to Berlin, and economic fields. I For this question is a major found completely absent among and now they are waiting in a item in any balance sheet which the Soviet youngsters whom I West Berlin camp for their turn tries
The had talked with in Moscow on to fly to West Germany. There next despatch, to assess whether Soviet leaders are right in their my last visit.
jobs await two of them, and the
Such a prize
VE did not kidnap him. He
WE
was here entirely of his
own free will.
"I have come to collect my prize," he said. Guenther, is! turned out, had been listen. ing to Radio RIAS, had taken part in one of its com- petitions, had won a prize, and was here to pick it up.'
me but to Stalin himself.
SONIA
AROVA
Sonia Arova, 26-year-old Bulgarian born, French- Yes, as simple as that.trained ballerina, is flying to But for me, Guenther him-Tokyo this week to dance in self was an even greater all the main cities of Japan prize than the sports en- as a representative of Bri- cyclopedia with which Peter tish ballet. She is the first
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
Honourable, Lord 'not yet
all fixed up for honourable Coronation=lar 1.
European stor dancer to visit Japan since the nine- teen twenties.
yas that he was open to argu- ments, a characteristic that
Arova,
who
arrived
En
For her seven-week tour; with about 35 performances, Hongkong yesterday. She re- Miss Arova is being paid med her, flight to Japan
this morning. £4,000: This is believed to
bo the highest wage ever tour schedule are two per- paid to
a ballerina in any formances for U.S. service. .country.
This £550-a-week star
men,
£4,000
for a
to
seven-week tour to
display British ballet to the Japanese
ongagement to dance in When the Germans overran Government' presented her with France she was still a child, a basket of flowers bigger than London in November. Alter and, separated from her parents herself. Last year her name and natively, she may fly back was in a town near the Spanish photograph appeared in papers vin the U.S.A.
frontier, The people she was all over the world after her the new staying with smuggled her out, triumph in Paris in
dramatis called "Revenge".- disguised as their young__son, Although Sonia Arova's name and took her to London. There may not be so well known to taking up her studies and career It was at a fabulous Arabian- the British as the Sadler's Wells again, she joined the Interna nights reception at a palace in Company's Margot Fonteyn or tional Ballet Company at the She was the Moira Shearer, in Internallonal age of fourteen. ballet circles
she yields little baby of the company and, the to them or anyone else, elther says, pouting, at the recollec- in her standing or in the colour on, was "bullled" by every of her personality and back- ground.
one,
And she has ap
Morocco that she was paid a compliment she well remembers. The young Prince of Morocco told her that she had the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen. She was pleased; but astonished when she heard the statement broadenst over the French-radio,
straight black hair that she is sometimes taken, for, a Latin, Levantine or em Indian.
She has danced with the Metropolitan Ballet, the Rom- The young Prince was not As a child she was recognised bert Ballet, France's Ballet de alone in finding her eyes striking. as something of a phenomenon. Champs Elysees, and the Festival. They are wide, deep, brown, and remarkably far, apart. It is tic She was born into an aristocra
Bulgarian family. Challa Ballet.
because of these eyes and that pin, the great Rumian singer, a peared-in sixteen countries with face structure and her long, frequent vialtor to her home, many triumphs.
five- For her trip, Miss Arova Himself spotted in the of the West is shining has had twenty light year-old Sonia a future prima with excitement, and is weight nylon tutus (short ballerina, and took her to a
teacher of renown.
It was earlier this year when looking forward to meeting hallet skirts) specially made..
'she was doing a short sonson Later, the family moved to with the Balet Ruse that a the Japanese company with She has with her also
Baw; her whom she will dance. She several. Indian saris. An Paris, and Sonia studied Handing Japanese impresario
her under the world famous Serge and decided to invite her to his has
been told of the Indian friend gavė
Lifar-and musle, as well. enthusiasm and interest of these when
Comet the Japanese for Western touched down at Bombay. : ballet. And on her side, sho
is anxious to learn more. about Japanese ballet.
her
country.
Despite the intense concentra-. ilon that her work demanda, Miss Arova is a lively, vigorous extroverted personality, And this, although she has not had any rest of more than a few wocks since she was cloven,
She
For some time, it was uncer- In Norway, the aging King She enjoys people, and people tain whether she would be Haakon came to her dressing like her. She enjoys talking come a ballet dancer or a con- room to thank her for "the most about herself. cert planist, for tho teach one is a Sicily, police with performance. I have ever
lives in 0 London Mise Arova hopes to stop predicted success in either.
fought
wildly but with her mother and Her repertoire in Japan for two days in Singapore or Then, at the age of eleven-and- clubs will consist entirely of Bombay on her return a half, she walked off with a enthusiastic mob which surged: a dog named Aldz and a cat world championship at an in dangerously around the open car mod Gigli. For relaxation, dancing contest; in which she was riding. When she plays and listens to jazz European ballets, mostly flight. She would like to ternational
The Gencod Turkey, the recorde, classical. Included in her stay longer, but has an And that decided her.
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