1954-06-12 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1954.

Danny sucked a pebble

H

on the

to save

E was gasping for a drink on the beach at Brighton - but not for him thres solace of a cup of tea

* 24 quick our round the corner.

course.

All they would let him have was a petible to suck.

Of

he COULD have broken training and #wallowed

quart of lemonade, but, it would have been an expensive drink. Any such departure from the strict line of duty would the have cost him £1,000, price they were paying him

for a shot at the bantam- weight championship of Europe at 8 st. 6. and not a pennyweight more.

So suck your pebble, Danny O'Sullivan. Make the weight. Wring yourself dry.

How are you

to know that Luis Romero, the Spanish ex- stonemason, once had the honour of killing a bull -- and is shortly about to give a passable imita-

tion of

doing

beach £1000

by GEORGE WHITING E

1947 he confide 10 me over lunch in that he was about to turn a City pul

professional. 1 told him

if he was a fool, but that his mind were made up, I hoped he would nover become a Alave to the scales denying himself susten- ance to meet the arbitrary weight demands of the Mar- guess of Queensberry.

Whion WAR he Nobody but himself.

10

kidding?

jext

you have Turkish bath.

your sap in a

Twice In the frat round Romero knocked O'Sullivan over with viclous left-handers, and having shown who was boss, the Spunlard kept it that way. Hud Romero adopte 1 the Usua southpaw style of lending with his right, O'Sullivan might have stood a chance with his OWH right hand; but Luis did nearly all his business with the left, thus denying O'Sullivan tho usual counters against a "wrong way round" boxer.

DANNY O'SULLIYAN TODAY

With his wife and daughters, fat, nine, and Carol, six,

• He calls himself Father Divine. Ha also calls himself god-and thousands of his followers believe this to be literally true. He is 1 man who lives like a millionaire, yet pays no income tax.

THE MAN WHO

'HELLO'

BANNED

W

By Harald M. Harris

Can take his pick from Q fleet of Cadillacs

all

Employs 26 secretarica, some white, some coloured, pretty and highly cfident;

Maintains luxurious private suites in his heavena;

Numbers four personal waltresses in his permanent zertue

HEN heaven came

prove this statement that bo POSSESSES to Sayville, Long

nothing at all. Yot this man who has never paid u Island, not fur

cent in Income-tax from New York city.. the neighbours objected. Its exact address was 72, Macon Street,

house- and the holder's name was Major J. Devine. He lived there with his wife, Peninah, and about 20 other coloured people. Ten years later, by the end of the 1920's, there were 40. With the depression pan- demonium came to Sayville. The announcement of ban- Next morning. O'Sullivan

72, enbed at my flee to admit atquets every Sunday at Jest that the fre In his at Macon Street brought New was spent, and that he had it York's destitute Negroes in back for the last time. The end their droves. A great fenst

al rome-mad none too S00.1

awaited them-mounds of weeks ago chicken, ham, beef. O'Sullivan Darny

Pull,

round of an overweight

Dresses Mother Divine in the Second Body (a blonde Canadian he married so years after

the death of hits first mink wraps and inchilla capes,

1edfo}

in

Early on the morning of the

O'Sullivan night

made hulm surreptitious

Juck way

O'Sullivan, moving clock-wise Solomons's Rymnasium us to avoid that

meucing loft Shaftesbury Avenue, made cer- hand, used his feet well enough inin

spy from Spain was to make Romero forsake hook- lurking about and hoppard on the

ing for swinging--but too many scales.

of those sashweight punches to Not

even his welte

or his the body reached their target, manager knew of the niggilog "Take a coun!!" soured doubts that had brought him O'Sullivan's seconda AR their hot-foot from Brighton hours weary but still defiant little man before the official weigh-in ut hi the floor. I o'clock.

O'Sullivan took a count ali Having known him since

Half a pound over-8st. 04th, right. Eleven times twice in Romero had hit me much more ofth his early teens at the Lion Not much you night think, the first rourki, unce In the probably would have been. melch 441 the Royal Albert Club at Hoxton, I was well Nor would it be, If you were a second, once in the fifth, twice Ask my wife," aware that O'Sullivan had bigger man, or If you had been in the seventh, once In the had to

Mrs O'Sullivan offered quick antisfying your normal appetite tenth and four tires in the thir- be half-boiled

10 for make 8 st. 6 lb.

quids these last three teenth.

At that stage, with all and lively corroboration. hin

река

---ten of amateur championship.

Turning hope of further retaliation gone, yourself Inta brickdust. Ju grey-haired Arthur Koch, the **I sai ot the ringside with Profe

Thize cireumstances. how much Swedish referee, cume humane- Danys mother," she told me at sionalism

Mrly to O'Sullivan's rescue,

her bone at Southall. "It was O'Sullivan. in these condi-

So home you

Both Hu, Dunny dreadful-heart-breakin One hour to go. Eight ounces O'Sullivan -home

Yet only a few to hot t of us were too choked to talk. tions could cer- of stambia and tissue between wels, with hazel, arul that tight We just

watching sat there,

in which catteo me into an Albert Vegetables, Ice-cream, coffee, tainly ensure you and a £1,000 Championship

why nobody got up feeling in the throat that teils wondering So its off to the Turkish baths, you you've been Heked. reasonable

to stop it. It was awful, and dressing room and told me he chocolate. Everything was a desperate quest for perspira.

I shall never forget that night.

free. come- contemplating Thut light finished me for ture comforts on in the hot room, a vigorous

burk to help his young brother Thank goodness those days are Bond and alwnge," O'Sullivan for his wife, towelling, and a slow walk back fel

Dickle in Australià, Tork Die

What did again only this week, over **

I think of the idea? to the weigh-into weak that Lily, and daugh you have to lean on the arm of ness did me more harm than "Romero and the weight bual- l'at and

& friend,

I advised him to stay put, any other fight I ever had. But it

Electricians in gasworks do not shourl have been stopped

have to suck pebbles when they sooner, but nobody told me to

need a drink, quff, so I just kept going til 1 couldn't go any more.

THE FIGHT THAT

FINISHED

THE CILAMPTON

ters Carol

for

Crea-

ditto to you? Stay thirsty could also mean a mighty BOIL You need the money. long and arduous session for father.

TRAI

veleran

sweat-

ht

д

ATOKA

fun

sweat.

Electrician O'Sullivan

O'Sullivan prospered.

Tonight, somehow

ot other. was a perky little cockney patind or two over the odds and

have to fight 18 you

three minute even got down to weight to take

rounds from Islington, orphaned at

with the British champlonstep off the salle, shake hands with Runnero, Spaniard So put on the phoney sudden 17 by the

und

Hartlepool West tragic death of his father publican, Teddy Gardner,

rit the reporters. whose

Four months - Bewer

O'Sullivan came thus to the ths later, on April matched him to be aked 22 1050, they mate

oMeinl seules at 8st. 5lb. Boz.. wages had had

Harringay

10 Mass at European went out by rough and ready

French tle with Romero. A swarthy

church in the West End and re- pugilism. With four sisters southpaw from Barcelona We fired to rest for the aftermoun. and five younger brothers rejoiced at Danny's big chance, ouers, marsled 48 hours keeping him

in tiled

our doubts

ก about his previously

the beautiful waist line end went off to the

the Paquita Puster, registered Byt,

company

for the

ill

the chill of poverty, what Crown and Anchor at Brighton alb. else could Danny slo but fight?

watch him train with one of is old "nemles." ex-champion Jackie Paterson -recruited be- cause he. ke Romero, boxed

Enterprise was culled for, so he won the amateur right-foot forward.

EL

championship of Scotland -which is not bad for cockney. Versatility was demanded,

80

43

he gut

Practised by now in the little job in a gas-worka -- which white lies thai become necessary is not bad for an elec. to boxers when journalists are

about, O'Sullivan assured trician.

that everything was fine, that

д

Fatigued

by the unnatural bottle with

unwanted Dunces, O'Sullivan nevertheless boxed brilliantly, seeking by skill and up-and-ul-'èm streak of Irish fr his blood to postpone the Inevitable. Danny did his darndest to snatch that tile and please

those members of the

the

"No, I was not cut about 1 reckon the only marks were on my bratus. 1 felt as though I

world. another

Was

public who knowing little and day

chunky

IT'S

duced himself to 8st. 610.

Twice more O'Sullivan te. Vlo Toweel flattened him 20 mes I ten rounds in Johannesburg

a grim world record world Be #ght. Peter Keenan took the British title from him In Glasgow.

On

November 20, 1951. 11 Rounie Clayton beat him in the

A YEAR

this same

WIN

World Copyright Reserved

NEXT SATURDAY: The original horizontal champion,

SINCE

THE BERLIN RISING

By JULIUS

TUNE 17, a date now rapidly approaching, has become a black earing less about welga reduc-calendar. For on that day [31 the Communist tion, demanded action.

Romero, square-set,

last year the Kremlin re- us and flat-footed in the manner ofceived the rudest of shucks:

alt-time

Aghters, he was eating well, and that he southpaw right hand at the back witness, the people of East shot his with the world's press AH Amateurs buckled under would make the weight without of O'Sullivan's head, and pulled his punches at home and discomfort or lose of strength. him on to a left hook to the Berlin, the East German in

Burma, India, Malaya bukfast or a bit of shingle for

Nu mention of n Kargle for liver. O'Sullivan stood for it, satellite "capital," marched and Sumatra. Then in

A strong mon can) outsmart against their Communist such manoeuvres, but not when masters.

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FIGHTS CÜRROSIVE_ACID WEAR

It was a tough month for the men in Moscow. Secretly the fight between Beria and Malenkov was reaching its climax. On June 1 the "peace" of satellite Czecho- slovakia had been broken at Pilsen....and portraits of dead heroes, of Stalin and !Gottwald, were publicly

abused.

at

GOULD

Julius Gould, lectorer on Sociology

the London School of Economics, has contributed numerous articles to periodicals on political And trade union questions.

He had * dislin- guished academic career and was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, before be- coming Assistant Lecturer at University College, Londen.

progress, and echoes of the ris- Ing could be heard in official propaganda, The rising, as the Communists knew, was а spontaneous protest against pro- tracted politica! tyranny and economic chaos.

It

Stalln Allee was neither "bourgeois" nor "Fascist," was made up of ordinary people drawn from the very class upon which, in theory. Communist power rests. Exasperated at the arbitrary work norms and other continuous formas of exploita- tion, they took their lives in their hands.

Itow They knew near the Soviet Army was and they knew also that the Stalin Allee was

not bullt for such heretic demonstrations.

Was JL possible that old derided

ideas about genuine freedom for industrial workers had lain dormant for so long and that "social democracy," assailed alike by Hitler and A year before, in 1952, Stalin's Ulbricht, still retained some East German agents had adopt lingering appeal in East Berlin? ed a policy of tough Sovietisa-

on full-steam ahead,"

Certainly some collective forms and the ex- were in the air-and some Di pansion of heavy industry at the Communist leaders seemed Then on June 17, there was the expense of the workers' to have sensed their strength. standards of living. The results One of these was Max Fechner, uproar in the Russians most had been disastrous, Doctrinaire Minister of the Interior, who westerly outpost. Not only in Berlin,

economics, Hinked 10 but 10 Magdebura, stralegle interests of the Soviet 30 to the "right to strike" under the made a rash reference on June Halle, Leipzig and many other bloc,

and the places, the puppet government hunger.

of Grotewohl and Ulbricht was challenged in the streets.

саме to the

af

spelt hardship

Sudden Dispute

with

and

such ideas

East German Constitution. Such men were rapidly disposed of as waverers. Fechner was re- placed by "Red Hulde" Ben- jamin, the notorious People's "Judge."

Once, the leaders had decided consequences of their "New Courso," they

Case History

Where does the money coine from? The movement

is or- ganised as a combine of small his

co-operatives, followers band together and invest their money and their labours,

They

hotels, restaurants, laundries, grocerica, bor

businesses. barber shops, coal

After they had sattsfled their hunger Major Devine told them he was god. They believed him. Saon he had ninety disciples, all all in regular employment, contributing their entire carn- ings to the upkeep of god's million dollars in cash. dwelling.

In 1948 they bought a Newark hotel and the purchasing de legation had with them suitcases containing the money: halt a

In 1830 he mode his first Who are these

white converts-some of them wealthy.

crowds The Sunday overflowed into the garden, into Macon Street itself,

singing, clapping.

in the stomping. fervour of their ecstasy. Major Devine,

George

himself

whose real name

した

Baker, transformed

He again.

Father Divine.

became

Pretty Spy

dovoted people? You can read the case histories of шапу

10 a book Just published."

They have names like Mix Buncha Love, Mr Wisdom Smiling, Mr Sincere Satisfying, Miss Smile All The While, Miss Sweet Soul.

The

white angels are mostly soclu! mists, cranks who have found Divine after retracing their spiritual stepa from eccentric culs-de-sac.

other

But the coloured followers are

are the

ancy

When the neighbours asked in a different category. They him to leave, he declined.

who have been 'They sent a pretty mulatto rescued from the agony of spy to And evidence of im- existence in a world which had to rejected them. To them Father brought escape, life, hope, love.

A Boast

morality and, if necessary,

Sharing a double provoke it. bed in the women's dormitory she found that sex was out- lawed in heaven. Even Father and Mother Divine led celibate ilves, she

"Here I sit and there I stand, was told, Although her mission falled,

with everybody lovin', lovin' Father Divine was charged with

me," he croons, and this boast at least is no idle one. They being a public nuisance. Ignor-

express their love in frenzied ing protestations by the faithful

vibrations of joy and adoration that the prisoner was god, Judge Lewis J. Smith

as they scream: "You is beauti- sentenced

ful, Father. him to a year in gaol and a fine Father. Oh, Father Divine, how You is so pretty, of 500 dollars. Exactly ten days

cute you is," Jeter Judge Smith died. A

message come from Father's prison cell. It was short and dignified, It said simply: "I hated to do it."

The Divine Peace Mission movement had got off to a fly- ing start. But its founder, who was destined for even greater triumphs, had already travelled far.

His own account of his origin ("I was combusted one day in 1800 on the corner of Seventh Avenue and 134th Street in Harlem") is precise, but does not square with the evidence. George Baker was born around 1680 in the Negro poverty of the Deep South,

must

and

On His Own

And Father, who is only avo feet tall, squatly bulit, com- pletely bald, looks complacently In the mirror he keeps on the table and nods in agreement.

In their love for him are sub- mated the sex instincts which he has banished from their lives. Future generations are quite simply not necessary, for Father has said: "I do not believe in people getting sick and getting old and decrepit." What answer is there to his dogmatic esser- on: "My true followers do not die"? If they do dle they must have been disloyal. Otherwise they would still be alive,

Therefore, the consequences of Father Divine's own death (and he is

already in hto seventies) are pitiable to con- template.

We

He served his divine appren- ticeship with one Father Jehovia, mixture of grandeur and but- may laugh at his comical who had proclaimed himself the foonery, but thousands of his Father Eternal. It was in a followers believe firmly that life Brooklyn fat that he set up on without him their god, hus- After a day of confusion, the

his own account

band, wife, father, mother-la Soviet Army

There he laid down the prin- not to be endured. rescue. And by the evening of already in early June the East upon the economic

Now Stalin was dead;

ciples which his followers (with It is hard to escape the con only a few backsliders) have clusion that many will act, June 10 the Russians had German Government was mak

obeyed to the letter ever since. tragically, on this bollet when summarily executed Will Ing some concessions to the redoubled their political grip on

He was

was their only god. They time mukes asham of his Goettling, ап alleged "ring much-abused middle-class

and the country, Small wonder, then,

cast

out every other loyal- Immortality, lender,"

Then the farmers, and they were,

came the that

affection ty. Including human sudden dispute with the Berlin

Grotewohl and Ulbricht family attachments. Any course, blaming "American hire building workers over the hated fear free elections ilke the sex expression, even between lings and Fascist thugs" for the system of labour normas. And in plague; small wonder that pre-husbands and wives, was whole affair.

the prevalling mood of uncer-

parations for the 1954 Com glaring black sin. tainty, with the struggle for 30-Aprli 8) in Eastern Germany had come from another world

er munist Party Congress (March

Telling his

his followera that he power in Russia still unresolved, included a barrage of warnings tho urban workers of the against

to achieve racial equality, Eastern Zone

"the evils of social tried a brief, democracy."

abolished discrimination by the herole gesture of deflance.

simple process of not recognis Ing the existence of colour, chorough his own complexion is brown. Father stoutly maintains that it is not, and employs two photographers who use, special techniques to prove his point.

Unfinished Story

The Communists would, no' doubt, like to rewrite history

them.

A Warning

What wern the

results of

They took a chance, a chance that way and to claim that June foredoomed. The Kremlin may 17 was a famous victory for have been rocking with the Nothing could be Berla-Malenkav feud. The local further from the truth, The Communiste dithered and June 17, 19637 In the short run, June rising wag

no isolated panicked. But the Soviet Army the rising may have made it event engineered by American

on the

spot stood by more difficult for Russla to dis- "huge"

Even Moscow

wy know itg

Concipal directive:

"Keep own hor German puppets us that. The propaganda line was the Soviet empire intact," One tactical manoeuvre--If, intended for the fools and dupes the Soviet Army la within the she ever seriously intended

Indeed, -for those who will accept any gates, It is the real master do so. It must have been a slander on the working elasa e and it knows it. It was through warning to the other satellites long as it is made in Russian) its guns and tanks that

Ulbricht

brieht that, bolling point had been regained control over his ·Work- reached and that concessions No; the June rising, and Hsers. And the whole world could could not be delayed.

failure, can be understood only seo it. Communists

In

No Debts

He enjoins absolute

"The Incredible Father Dipine,

A

by Sara Harris, Allen, 10.

ho

honesty

on his followers. They are never

in debt. They do not drink, or kinoke, or swear ("Hello" Esp banned as a greeting, and a disciple has been known to refer to Amsterdam as Amsterbless). a wider, more plausible breathed again and

But, above all, Berlin' gave

Those

strange setting. For it forms part of Bull weeping for the

worlds of! warning and example to the free fantasy he calls his heaven unfinished story, the story of Popular resistance in Commui thought nor tour for Will met his executioners on June.

they spared neither world. When Wilt Goettling great chain of missions, roo

room- ist Aurore.

ing-houres, Goettling. As usual they wol 18 ho, symbolised the agony of,

apartment. houses and hotels are full of Divine The German troubles, were war upon the working cikas,,

comed a now phase in Moscow's millions, and stood as a sombre angels. The movement's

warning far more serious and widespread

ва millions more. For

by in New than the Communists, cared to

and Newark alone dissidents, for 'scapegoats, for Interesting all those who stand up for their

more than six million dollars. admit. The reprisals were feature of the June, rising was rights, the Communist answer He lives like a millionaire, but severe and prolonged; almost a its working class origins. The is the firing und. This was the

even the devoted efforts, of the. your later, they were all in crowd which sirwained down it lesson of June 17.

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