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Miraculous Escape

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1064.

Interesting News Stories From All Parts

Detroit.

Mes Dorally Pekale of Detroit alive only by "extraordinary

miracle", a_power company official declared.

A 4,800 voll wire fell

across her tar unnoticed during A collision on the Willow

expressway one night recently.

A Pekate steppped out of the car once-Dormally enough to kill her if her foot grounded the wir then got back in and out again because she had for- rotion her keys.

"Only the good Lord and Angels know why ale wasn't killed," said James H. Smith of Detroit Edison Co.

1020y

Smith Bald what have happened wan that resistance created when the wire burned a few feet from the car was enough to prevent a full voltage from reaching the

United Pro8.

a7,-***

Forgot His Native Tongue

New York.

World

STRANGE POWER CLAIMED SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

BY "MEDICINE MAN”

Victoria, BC.

The last of British Columbia's Indian medicine men revealed the strange rites that he said enabled him to paralyse a man with the touch of his hand.

Chief Khahsahlano, 83, told how he spent 10 years alone in wild mountainous country seeking "snarhum," the "power."

He also bared the origin of the Susquatch, a tribe of wild giants said sometime ago to be seen roaming the hidden valleys of the Rockies.

Gorilla Acts Like Human

Anacortes, Washington.

The

Khantschular, also known as August Jack. Is the last of the 40 "power inners who heli great power in the days when the merlicine 8234923 Was AD- challenged.

attending The Chief was "Polluch ceremonios" at Thun- derbird Park here, marking the opening of a huge authentic Kwakiutl ludge. The three- day ceremony was being

hav

200 British Columbian

The Chiet sald he Wirs Bent

the

Woods alone into

when be was 10. His home was a cave under a waterfall and he lived and roots that Ray R. Lowman off the berries family la looking for a abound in the coastal area. home for a two-and-a-half-ance before a small are in the year-old gorilla who "prob ably thinks he's human."

August Jack said he

one

would

night. open

He would bep olk foul for four hours, chinting and singing now for- The LawLALABAN hope they can gotton charms.

At midnight he

| pince Santec

i hran

be within visiting its- I would enter his waterfall cave But he's getting to big und dance on the uker foot tough to keep any und the vattl dawn. Thi he

sleep until the next night. "POWER" FLOWED

*The misgishiruatio sl endtren ine to play with Pin," "MIS

After

W

I wmar sold, "but now they're | "puser"

A New York-born Ameri-fraud,

your or

fell

two

The llow would

Through his veins, and he'd go back to

is village to work miraculous

CULTES,

Boho doesn't understand. He can citizen who left America jumps up and down in front of at the age of six, returned ¦ îne window

they Ko by, from eight years in Russian wing and beckoning for their his tribo and Hungarian prison atentin.

camps, unable to speak his native tongue.

the

Through a fellow passenger in

her American

Export Independence, Prank Rohrbacher, Jr., 27, told reporters he wished only to forget the years behind himi.

Rahrbacher, born in New York

Jack said the older people of still rolled on his

BABY BOY

A FREAK

OF NATURE

Paris.

of

A 20-month-old baby boy is 11 French doctor pregnant, claimed recently.

M. Lombard Professor

toki Algien

the French Academy of Medicine he HIR discovered 11 futur-month-old foetum the abdomen of the male baby. Nanie, condition and wherenbout of the pregnant baby were not disclosed in the Arndemy's announcement,

Lombard was quoted that

study An X-ray

showed the Loy

abnormally large tumour which contained a foetus centimetres (five-and-one- half inches) long. About 10 ex- amples of this type of scientifle freak have been recorded in the past, omelala said.

UNKNOWN INFLUENE Severnt physiologista have reported that nome still-un- known influence makes certain even

We want him to be happy." / "magic touch" to cure any ill. 19 cells of the genital zone, Mrs Lowman said.

said he could pardyse men with

250 (mate

ones, harbour a whole

the first embryonic development to the complete final stage,

a brush of his hand, and other series of parasites ranging from The Lowtons

13. Indious Fon

at Pottach credited him brought Bobo home

when he with bringing an udan "back was four months cl fut h from the grave" with a gesture.

uld be theory that Horilla

The ancient as civilisedl us sal thb Surquatch, who rank-h trained to act

ed with the people.

medieine

min21

abnormal «HOW-

Bill die't have chaugh Lime." men of the Himalayas in the | Mrs LawmTK; JER sak: Training | world's ruster of awesome Bobo properly would have taken glants, were the results of in- more time and skill than I had, breeding. but we at loved him and did

City on Christmas Day. 1925, our beeTS SPANKED

with Hangny

Jin

went parents on a visit when he was six years olti The family stayed o and In December 1944, he was drafted to the Getinan

Army. He was taken prisoner

tho

of

A

The Chief call a family

entered Fraser Valley Indians

mountains yours ago and Mrs Lowman still cradles him never returned. A son and

married

their In her gems, as she did her own daughter

and 1011. She spanks him when he offsprings grew seven and eight is naughty. Babo weeps. He also feet tall. wears clothes, ts at the

Ho sali

table.

they live in deep ents with a spoon and oboys hidden valleys of the Rockies, By the Russians in a German simple

commands when he traveling as for South as Call- Army training corp in

May, feels like it.

formla in the winter to esen pe with all the cold, 1043.

He plays the piano fones and he's been known to pull the dishes of the table withi at the a jerk of the cloth,

14-HOUR DAY

Hohrbacher

was me!

Chitiky ho's

500

41

ship by his father. Frank "He avis so much like a little Rohrbacher, a retired cook, of boy, he probably Stamford, Connecticut, lshumen." Mis Lowriau stadi mother and a sister, Catha, who hud Friarpe

In the United States at big end of World War 1 in 1945.

But he's

war to weigh

pands when the's gown up. "1 hope we can get Bobe

In

Oficials added, however, that the foetus could never be born and the baby itself had small chance of survival,

Lombard reported tank a

doctor had noticed a fumour in

11-21

"Parked on the wrong side of the atrest? if i were you ! wouldn't mention it to my husband, the mood he's th!"

1953 Grape Harvest

May Produce The

Wine Of The Century

Ruedesheim, Germany.

are

German wine experts predicted the 1953 grape harvest may produce the "wine of the century.”

now The luscious grapes

formenting and bubbling in huge naken casks in hundreds of wine cellars Some of these along the Rhine and Moselle valleys. cellers are more than 800 years old,

The

the left illac (abdominal) tube of a newborn baby boy in July, Expert tasters say the pro- tamous because of their special

is

slow barrels

attributable to flavour 1051, Last February the infant duct now in the

suzdr

the of maturing

grapes was observed suffering violent "exactly right" as to intesting!

and doctors and fruit

beneath a temperate sun. pains,

acid content. reported its tumour had grown true worth of the 1953, wine, This special tasto has led to to about the size of a melun, however, will not, be known such strange names as "Lieb- The tumour could be moved untli the "racking" begins frauenlich-Loving Mother's by hand but showed no sign of inter and the golden grapes Muk. German wines are often inmal motion.

X-ray treatment at Lyons, bottles. France, showed

product

the 14-cent→ metre foclus Inside, connected

BUSY LIFE!

outstanding

because

(X)21-

off is drawn

into called "philosophical"

sipping them is bellevel Wine export manager Lud-ductive to contemplation. wig Marlet said "there's

WINE-WISE ROMANS doubt 1053 is an

as it matures The ancient Germante tribes year. But only

vineTM first to have whether it were the we know will

Rhine and along the equals or excels the Lamous yards

Moselle Rivers, But the quality 1921 and 1045 products."

The

German 'improved when the wine-wisd most famous Montreal. wine of the last century was Roman legions carne.

The Roman commanders Alfred A Roberts, _Fettring | praised in poems by Goethe Souths African High Conimis- and chosen by the "Iron Chan-ordered their

Canada, Borer

his { cellor' Bismark to Impress said

statesmen "unusuol

opportunties" of Europe's learning about Canada

the Con- spring. and barquet concluding

gress of Berlin in 1878. Canadians included:

NOT PLENTIFUL Attendance at 404 dinners and luncheons

to the biterior of the tumour sac The wild race has reportedly | by a cord,—United Press. been seen by dozens of North- funci Lavellers

the Jast century.

FOOTPRINTS FOUND Expeditions entering the Harrison Lake area of British Columbia, where The glunts fre- have been reported most

been furcrct 10 definite leave without fading trace of the glants because in dans refused to net as guides through the wild country.

za close by, ocrate in urequently. Lone of us will have to stay near Rohrbacher said he had been han best he gets used to it," forred to work a 14-hour day th Mrs Lowen said. "I've head prison camps throughout Russia, go:illas can die of broken

Then:" Rumania and Hungary.

The Lawmans acy going to thers ban, tos-United Press, JI!

"Mom of our food majority of prison camps con- sisted of cabbage and potatoes."

never

he said. "Many of the pri down soners lay

ind woke up again. I think most of the deaths were duc to msimutai- Lon."

"Red Rain"

from

at

where the

gropes planted on steep slopes the

disappeared fish the snow

This indicated where

the most eunshine

Ia early

in

the

and 350 cocktali But the 1953 German wines most important vineyards be- puriles and receptions; contacts will not be plenuful.

ranglag died on the day of his birth. Parliament 10 funerals; and

BIL hutters anci trappers

to the monasteries. have reported finding footprints

longed

still in use to- of the glits on nunerous

and discussions with representa- The harvest was 15 to 20 Some cellars casions.

date back to 1100. The tives of some 40 other nations per cent below average and day

them August Jack

boni Win

cheerful monks called Ottawa; travelling 30,000 only 2,900,000 hectolitres (60, biothecies

subterranene" what

DOW Vancouver's Fir

miles; making 150 speeches and 800 gallons) will be produced famous Stanley Park, and his

radio broadcusts;

with the at- compared

normal (basement libraries).

and power is said to stem

the Rhine: partly ver

tendance at 350 other functions wine

output of 3,000,000 Wines of the fact that his father

from the opening of hectolitres

(780,000

U.S. Moselle differ in their qualities. LJabon,

gallons).

The more robust wines of the Residents of Palo Pires re-

The

medielne man started spending 40 hours a week at his Each your the wino

is Rhinegat, Rhinehessen and the when he Was on training

four The Russians turned him over ported that "red rain" fell

"baptised" by a wine quoen. Naho Valley tributary village during to the Hungarim Government the

recent years old. He is sold to know

as the "Lords of the the hidhen graveyards, от Roberts, 63-year-old diplomat At Neustadt the 1953 product known in 1930, Rohrbacher said, but his storm.

retire from his has already been named Rhine." of wlio soon will A bedsheet which had been maddens, where hundreds

of honour

the carved into treatment did not

"Konradel" said it service, centuries government's was left to dry was stained crimson Indians were buried

hillsides through which steep September of

took him four years to do it. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. strange secret

winds its driven to Budapest and thence by the downpour, it was claim- ago, and about

scenic The clear white wines which the Moselle societies was ad.

lie spoke recently on "awan song i vill In existence explutation

from valleys of to the Austrian border where he ed. No

Triér the way from

to Coblenz over to American vanced for the phenomenon.among British Columbia tribes of a diplomat" to the Canadian come was turned

world produce wines of a more tender Club of Montreal-United Press. Rhine and Moselle are -Unlied Press.

fragrance. These DTO gently authorities--United Press.

called "Ladies of the Moselle." -United Press.

1953

change. In

he

United Press.

desk.

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汕頭

有

限

Vineyards

BBC's Face

Was Red

London.

are

The Chairmark of the dignified British Broadcasting Corporation apologized for the "grave error of airing a poem about "The Blousy Blondies, Necked."

Sir. Altender

Often

Gadogan,

Chairman on the BBC Board of

Governors, achit the apology to

Lord Balfour who protested the

hi the House of Lords

The poem was 40-year-old

George Barker's "True Con

femilor." It was read over, the

BBC's "Third, Progminme," n

nightly broadcast alined for

taliberjisi ketatora,

Lord Balfour, quoted

lind

pásmagu from the poem

which gave thanks for many

merelor, 1631-294, Mort, the.

blouky

Blower tho

bezens

I

nected, and the whom

should not have thought, avon

wikely to me. ***

consoler menioned the odd tod Froquiaksely wo charged me for

that LAN SPORTRETKEIO We un- fortunately, not checked in time

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