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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1956.

The greatest

day of

their

PETERS,

*IM

the

Marathon Man, had 'YOU LOOK HALF DEAD' SAID a neighbour-

L

BUT JIM PETERS HAD JUST RUN HIS FIRST

como home to Chad- well Heath in blaze of glory after the greatest day of his athletic hla life. Next morning, wife sent him out with the anel baby in the pram ordered him to cut the lawn. And as he sugged wearily over the box of the mowing machine, a neighbour looked over the fence and re- marked: "You've caused a bit of a stir. Call-yourself a hero? You look half dead."

That homely anecdote jual

about

BUS up

Jim Peters.

the little man who ran round

the world carcor

Anished

unconscious in Canadian hospital.

Such

#s

are

the demands of the lumps and bumps of the Marathion tint Peters was frequently looking tal dead in his momenta triumph.

ΟΙ

Today, at 37, and two stone heavier than the super-charged nine stone he used 10 Thrust over the 20 miles 385 yards of the Marathon road, Homerton- born Pelers has acquired bugi- ness man proportions.

Unforgettable

A tiny but

clean-as-a-new-

pin office and reception room al Mitcham, decked with sporting prinis, presentation plaques and

the gold curtains he

Petern's Industry as a dispens-

won

In

Belgium, bear witness

to Juna

his own

memory

IR

Ing opilcian running

little show.

As

whose one

seared with the sight of Peters collapsing like a Belsen derchict

simmering

in

to that

we

over-

Vancouver in the heat at 1954, it still brings glow of mutual well-being

un be sitting with Mitcham office.

that be It may emphasised the agonies of that Empire Gants Marathon, Dut if is not easy to forget our rellef

a breathless when

messenger arrived at our Vancouver hotel late that Saturday night crying, "Pelers will live. Peters live."

Testimony

will

MARATHON RACE.

Suddenly... it was

no longer

a silly little race

THE STARS OF SPORT TELL OF THEIR MOST THRILLING DAY

By GEORGE WHITING

Jim Potors

In

Jailures most galland whole history of sport?

But it is of a more domestic and considerably less painful phase of his purposeful career that Peters likes to talk when Jim's greatest day? He says not. Nevertheless, the Canadian you ask him to "name the day." occasion has been marked

Cutch the to

foxy Holden. veteran of a thousand miles of stop-watch racing.

fut it seems that Peters und his trainer, "Johnny" Johnston of Herne i Harriers, hád ac- quired evinin ideas after Jim

Holden had pushed

into yet another reward in the Finchley "twenty" a few weeks earlier.

"Nobody had told me, and 1 certainly would never have had the nerve to mention it, but I had come to realise that Holden was not an even-paced runner, recalls Peters,

1

"Anyway, it worked.

of

By the time we got to Slough, I must have been 200 yards ahead Hulden. Too good to last, course, and it was no great sur- prise when Jack eatight me just before the five-mile mark. "But what did surprise WIS

that he

seemed to breathing heavily. Most couraging,

I assure

be

un-

you. you. We ran almost shoulder to shoulder, grunting and geaming at each other for the next eight miles, Several times Jack would draw away, but I managed 14 stay with him without. I hoped,

Jelting

knuw him effort was costing me

'A fool'

what

the

Tives

"Holden's Jerk

of the lead put new life into me. I went after him, caught him, and left him. Suddenly, somebody shout- ed that. we were only

Seven miles from home, and almost immediately afterwards an un- known cyclist pedalied along- side yelling. «Jack how retired. Holden's out-given up. You're out on your own."

"And if anybody tells me that Marathon runners are not per- mitted to receive advice during

■ race. I ask what I was sup posed to do to that cyclist."

Impudence

tho

And $0 little Jim Peters preased on, bilstered but un- bellevably happy. towards frst and most spectacular of his His many Marathon victories. greatest day was at hand as he hot-footed it with infinite pur- pose-even ta the

Anal impudence of a half-sprint over the last 50 yards-towards the Polytechnic Stadium ot Chis- wick.

"

Stop-watch maestros hustled through their mathematics. Jim in op- Peters, they announced propriate tones, had set up new courne time of 2hr. 20min. 24sec. become the first English- the man to beat 2 hours for Marathon distance; and cracked the all-time British record held for 22 years by near-immortal Harry Payne.

And there witn Hary Payne himself, refereeing this 1951 Marathon and signing the certi deate that said the indestruct- Chadwell ible little man from Heath had taken over the role of King of the Road.

And the aftermath of this day of days?

"What have you been up to?" asked Mrs Frieda Peters, when her lawful-wedded returned home protesting that a square meal would kill him and please post, could he have a soft-boiled egg.

"AL the half-way though t looked Jack had decided to teach me

as though

mid

musi

Five gifts

"My blisters

throbbed,

my

"But I

and.

rutiner

"Jack, I found out, Was slow starter, and relied on

a lesson. He almost disappeared tummy turned over, and I could series of explosive sprints to

for the 14th mile, the frighten

life

the out of

not sleep," said Peters. opposition. So, knowing I could have covered it in five minutes.

than I gave it all I'd got, but I just made up my mind there miles run six

quicker Holden, I decided to take could not stay with him at that then to be a Marathon

E

o bust. must have fallen chance by belting away at the stage.

icast 120 yards behind. start"

"Believe me, I was in a bad

Marathon and runners,

In keeping with the tradition

that British athletics is strictly way. I wanted to pack all frst year we had a garage built,

toothpaste or

perquisites,

such

→

fourth, b tele-

"The Afth? Ah, we both goi

a gift that year. Our daughter,

.................................................................. NUMBER FOUR *****

TWENTIETH CENTURY TRIALS FOR TREASON

By NIGEL

GEE

Kasavanahul

menta should be sent to the His statement itemises his re- velations, He handed over two Russian Embassy,

It was the Russians who, in samples of uranium, important They enough to have been flown fact, came to his rescue.

to Moscow and in- forced the issue by burgling his forthwith fat. Gouzenko, however, had had formation regarding American the prudence to move his family anti-aircraft shells, and also gave and his evidence into the fiat advico against approaching an next door. In the middle of the other potential informant in his night the Russiane came, with a singular Inck of under- standing of Western

and laboratory.

standards

ot behaviour, bruke in

He admitted receiving pay to ment, "against my, will Tho Gouzenko's flak. The rending of Russian records list payments of timber disturbed the neighbours, $200 and $300 and two bottles and as happens on such occs- of whisky, admittedly & poor re- slons, the police were summoned. turn from a purely mercenary

point of view. Such

action heavy-handed could hardly fail to evoke in- Nunn, May was arrested in quiries from 1210 Canadian March 1946, and was sent for authorities. Gouzenko needed no trial two months later at the longer to go to the police for a Old Bailey. He was charged hearing, they came to collect with communicating Information which was calculated to be or might be useful to an enomy revelation#

contrary to the Official Secrets the Canadian, Bri- Act. He pleaded guilty. Ush and American security services with many avenues profitable exploration. They were usefully employed for

him.

The provided

Gouzenko

of

In tho, circumstances his coun-

Но sel had a thankless task.

Nunn underline

several

only diam could It also uncovered a dis- May's avowed motives for his tressing feature of the Russian actions, what Nunn May had said spy system, for most of the he felt "was a contribution ogents in the Beld were

could make to the safety of Soviet citizens, but disaffected Mankind."

not

nationals of the states on whom they spled.

Counsel wound up: "He had The name which interested nothing to gain, except what we the authorities in particular was all have to gain by doing what

we believe to bo

right. And be hud

everything

to lose."

“Alek” Sought ==;

The Safety

Of Mankind

0

Mr Justica Oliver owned to some surprised dissent at this, Ho marvelled at Nuna May'ı

'erass conceit, let alone wickedness, arrogate to him- self the decision of a matter of this sort

the ΤΟ

think you acted with degrada.

N September 23, "Alek," for he had been especial- tion. It is a very bad case

1949, the Western World knew the worst. Russia had acquired the greatest secret since Prometheus stole fire from Olympus. She had ex-

"I asked Frieda to let me have five years, and I promised her a present to mark the pass- ing of ene of those years. The the a spare-time sport, unadorned hated the

especially The second. I bought by jush expenses, professional Marathon

What sort of a ruddy frigerator; the bird, a washing giminicks,

ad myself. vertisement

Jim fool did I think was, beiting machine; the

out like this on vision set. Peters's day of days (June 10, my innards 1951) began as all his Saturdays

a sunny afternoon? The had begun. Up at six. Chadwell road looked like a feather bed. Health to Mitcham for a Why not lie down on it and let morning's work. Knock off at these other idiots carry on with Jennifer, arrived in the middle ploded The Bomb. 12.30.

their silly little race? Windsor, Then by train

"But, after about 18 miles. I thal Holden carrying tits own bag-unaccom suddenly realised

wus atl 10 more than 200 panied, unsung.

"A warmish day, in the six- yards ahead. Maybe he was feci-

says Peters, "As I say, I ing lousy, too.

Then Jack gave the show belled away at the start, Risky, I know, but I thought

away Just as we turned his hands the Empire and Europe.

on the Heston he looked round-a sure worth taking a chance

fal Windsor-to- sign of worry, and a thing we testimony,

Pro relatively The pale Peters Hin.

but unlikely Chiswick course,

are taught never to do. don't you think, to one of the musing, certainly.

Of his very first Marathon, }}}

for

all time by a commemorative Tel.

distin- plaque from its most

I was

1951- the In

Puly- Prince Philip. technic's guished witness,

ontwal Windsor-to- Also by the foundation

Chiswick race, with the record- British Columbia of a Jim breaking Jack Holden lording Peters fund, the first of whose it over lesser men as reigning grants went to a 17-year-old Marathon champion of Britain, boy who had both blown off on Halloween,

Worthwhile

In

lies."

10

it was

Special Correspondent RUSSELL HOWE, back in New York after covering

the Autherine Lucy

story in

Alabama, sums

up the Negro problem

The Shadow

Shores has

"I

the

Of A

this isn't

at

into

!

Lynching

The truc."

in every michoel, for even speaking to New York

a gun HAVE just flown desk in his office and a permit "this foreigner,"

clerks The

the local 10 carry a .45 into court, back from Alabarna

"These days I often forget 15, telegraph office were scarcely the Autherine but when I went into court for where

more amenable to filling our Lucy

the stories. Why don't you get out injunction story attracted the

ngalost

of town?" One reporter from journalists from all over the University I carried It.

wasn't

was told, There were New York Sorry. world.

White write

the twelve members of

for

Comm D'you The Contingent of British Cizens Council in court." They asked a man from a Mid- The WCC is the "Hoodless West Conservative paper. "You journalists numbered four,

Ku Klux

for the KKK know Klan," two of whom had never seen itself is all very much alive. Supervisor told James Rheu of negro-baiting in the South The "Councillors, by the way, the Providence Bulletin. at first hand before. "Would were all seated before places "You know we had to read they

were allotted to the Press, some really lynch 11

one of of whom had to protest to get woman?" I heard

in at all. them ask and the negroes listening

રી gave

sad disillusioned laugh. "Would they!"

Probably the

most

of

married

attorneys." Shores

all

has dif

as in the North-better

Fought On National Association'. for Ad-

these les you end," the Night Supervisor told me angrily. "I hope you read them carefully," I replied, "because if you alter or omit anything I'll report it to your head office at once."

Life Magazine photographer Don Underwood had to fight his

The

pogroms were at their worst 2,000 Nazi students would never have stood by and let such an Most of them incident happen.

but I doubt nodded,

1

they were convinced. However, moš!. of them disapprove of violence They In theory, know that if the girl is lynched by the crackers when she comes their back to college it will be fault.

anyway.

of a thunderstorm.'

And Masy Jennifer Peters, now rising two, is

11 ns Justy tribute to Marathon running you could wish to re

(COPYRIGHT)

NEXT SATURDAY: The greatest day in the life of Jaroslav Drobny.

Miss Lucy

in

in

of enriched

bountiful

dispensing indeed. The sentence upon you Secrets. And he was selective is one of ten years' penal servi-

the best, such as tude." nothing but samples

uranium, This sentence brought many voices of protest. It fell heavily for Alok.

to on the consciences of many non- Communist scientists, who, in

Alek wts not

difficult Identity, for though they main- Lained the action of his code addition to a subconscious feel- nome, the Russian files revealed ing of group colldarity, may have been uneasy about the uses to his recent movements, his This news had immediate services and remunerations and which their researches might be

- his current place of work. They blow also outlined the new arrange- the meats made for him to contact Russian agents since he had gone to London.

political and Atrategic s

the and plications. was softened only by knowledge that, sooner

must have later, Russia arrived at the answer by

processes of her own.

or

SECURITY WATCHES

put.

A

The stress also, which a vow of lieneo about such a powerful secret places upon those who take it, can only be understood Jully by those who ako in similarly constrained situation. -

There are even edentists who would fight on principic for That it would be sooner LEK was Dr Allon Nunn the Inviolability of their kind. an all-pervading rather than later the West A May, who had been employ- omniscience from their specialist

They draw

had already

to ed on secret work at the heavy superiority. They claim a divine water pile ut Chalk River, right of scientists, which eventa suspect, for as much as four Ontario. Latterly, he had re- cannot justify and which lozio years earlier, a Russian spy turned to London to take up a can only condemn. The higher ring had been uncovered in post at King's College, London, the climb in search of scientiae Canada, and among the in Britain security officers did truth, the remoter becomes the commodities in which it was not move in at once for the kill, world of man beneath. known to have dealt were There was no immediate danger

atomic secrets.

reason

of Nunn May doing further CLOUDED damage, and there Wis the ehance, even it a remote one,

of such that he

further discoveries.

would lead them to TN the case of Nunn May, their sympathy was clouded by their ignorance of all' the facts. Omeers accordingly took dis-

In the purity of his motives they creet stations

at the appointed at sight of his Communist a times in the vicinity of tho sympathies. For If he had not

His

been

The first evidence espionage activities had been re- vealed through the detection of a Russian employed at his coun- try's embassy in Ottawa. name was Igor Gouzenko, cipher clerk. He was only 28 at British Museum. They watched

a willing and known dis- the time, and except for the last for Alck, and such persons

4 eple before he went Canada, two years, he had spent all his would inquire of him, "What is how could Moscow have dared

the shortest way to the Strand?"

to its resident agents suggest To which Alck was to have re- that he should be approached? plied in idiomatic spy-talk: "Well, come along. I am going "Best regards to Mikol," be used How could the passwordy that way."

Ufe in Soviet Russia,

FORCED ISSUE

TN him Russia paid the price

A

to

in such an approach, Nun

The white man-in-the-street, usually poor and illiterate, has always been viciously 'anti- negro. He is unchanged. But

But Alek may have been fore. May did not already know it? the negro man In the street,

of misleading her own people, who often tends to say "why

Ho had scen for himself that warned, for he did not keep the And why, it he was moved only appointed rendezvous, in his by the interests of mankind, did idck back-better to live badly

Western citizens were not all statement, however, made to he pass on comparative titbits than not at all," has been on his

Montgomery, Jackals and hyenas, and he had British intelligence officer a few about anti-aircraft shelle? mettle

by Autherine Lucy's Alabama's capital, the negroes begun to despise the duplicity of days before his arrest, he de- Among the ́ protests at Nunn

have been boycotting the local his masters towards their allies. clared he had decided to wash Incredible courage.

If anything happens to that buses since January 5 to protest

segregation. Fares As Gouzenko's term of duty his hands of the whole busirtes

and Town, "we're right

jumped

the in Canada had almost expired la behind her."

municipality is losing money, he determined to cross the road. 'PAINFUL DECISION When I heard that

Dr The verandahs have been blown Ho went to the secret fles of his

had

inom

Down

the

had

no

with

made to

confined to fcation.

(COPYRIGHT)

Next Saturday:

The Deadliest Traitor.

Mild Man

May's sentence Shores, who registers five feet

was also tho element. re two, is a mild, peaceful little

vociferous Communist Tixy argued that, as Russia - was markable thing about the Ing. He spends fil Sunday his tripod. A WCC meeting with gal" they were saying down in against

an ally, Nun May had only flowers, whole situation is how well

tending his

situation "Lucy"

ved the Aliled cause in hop ing her to defend hergelt against the negro leaders stand up ferent earth or loan for each simple: The State Government

Germany and Japan. Yet ho to this seven-days-a-week plant, and is especially proud knows that equality for negroes Carmichael had excluded Miss off two negro houses by home office and armed himself

his Ano Azalean. He is is on the way but resists it to Lucy temporarily because the made bombs. One of the such evidence as would make N this statement he tells of passed the most significant pall of tension and fear." m

rs, please the cracker (Poor White local gunsmith with two daughters,

overtures reported victims-unhurt-la a minister, his story credible. He made the

him in atomic Information after, Ger- Tako Arthur Shores, Miss whom Mrs Shores says aro Peasant) vow, which holds the selling "close on a hundred Mr King who is running the obvious choice of confident, a Canada. The request was for in- many had surrendered and only Lucy's lawyer, for instance. "certainly not going to marry balance of electoral power boxes of rifles and ammunition" boycott."

newspaper, but he was just too formation concerning atomie res a short time before Japan was being says they negroes

prevented by in a day, I was surprised that He is 50 and has been prac- attor

When death threat callers good to be true. Newspapers ore search. He decided to entertain to capitulate. needn't worry. "For years I force from voling.

the shopkeeper had such a sense ring at night his wife answers, not accustomed to receive the proposition put to him be- tising in his native Alabama despaired. Now I think that in

of goodwill as to want to pro- "My husband's sleeping right gratuitously the socrets of the cause it did not

soem correct Nunn May himself, significant- for 20 years. When he first ten years life here will be as Cracker Fears teet the girl's life. Later I got now." Mm King added, how-Russian Secret Service, and he that the development of atomic ly, made no such plea in Justi

the full story

should bo legal ever, that her husband told her was not treated as a serious pro- energy went back to Birmingham good

sources: he had sold that un- that "If

the USA. He therefore took the called to position. anyone he was the only dark perhaps."

An even

"painful decision that it The crackers don't want equal precedented amount of ammuni- threaten his life I was to take

Was more remarkable skinned attorney in the gure in the case la Ruby, competition for Joba

Gouzenko from-ion all_right—but it was their name and number so’a he

better necessary to convey

in- "general atate. He was told to get out Hurley. Mrs Hurley

at any price, and are negroes who were buying it, tais negros 1

can call back In the morning fortune with the Govertiment formation on atomic energy and to attractive lady of 36, has for jealous of negroes who go "If anything happens to that and take the threat himself offices, and indeed it was thought make sure it was taken serious- -or else.

Social education or gal...." four years boon running the college.

when he's feeling fresh."

advisable that fie and his docu- ly." prestige equality for negroca ventement of Coloured People henna economle equality, which But be stayed on fighting This negro, defente organisation is what the cracker fears, negro rights cases, gelting death has charge of all these cares for The Univeralty trustees are over the phone and seven Deep South States includ- all well-known local politicians through the post, His frienda ing five of the six worst-an who rely for their support on had told him: "Don't

task for a woman, being anti-negro, but the faculty We will you worry; incredible Artiner

caro of Her phone rings at all hours members are more liberal.

The local Press trios hard to you," For 20 years volunteer

vulgar insults and threats. with bodyguards have relayed each I asked her if she carried gun, be tale on the whole, and the other constantly to protect both "I wouldn't know which end Tuscaloose News had a gallant

bullat the man' nrk his house 24 hours.

came out of the editorial calling for respect, "for of the country"--d "I just rely on the the law laim from his office to his car. survival system. Don't worry revolutionary statement in these

bo got home Jata he sees a I whe told. We're watching parts. dark figure

students are very tradi- round h

He doesn't None of us from New York tionalist, an unusual feature: In know

of all, there were much welcomed by the young people, especially when voluntary guarda - he Just white population of Alabamo. their Lesellion

attacked knows they, are, there,

All of the reporters had tales everywhere. throughout the Travelling over Dixie I háợờ at inmults. The chief of the country and the world. Been the

"survival" University News Buronu told negro

I had the opportunity to talk *.......... kystem.... at work. before, but me to not out of town' and le a mumber of thom when the

nowhere to strongly as in shouted angrily at his employer, lonial rumpus had blown over. Birmingham, Alabama, *University President Oliver Car. I told them that even when the

threats

a day. Two sturdy men walk

It

The ident? HE ellently you"."..

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MANDRAKE. THE MAGICIAN

| MANDRAKE GESTURES

HYPNOTICALLY AND--

MAKE A FOOL OUTA ME?

HIM SILLY COWBOY

WHY--YOU--}

YOU NEED ANOTHER GUN, GUS. THAT ONE'S TIRED!

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

·GUS,YOU IDIOT~~YOU LET THEM GO

TO THE MESAT

NO. APHONY COWBOY.

I'M NOT SURE

JUST HOW.

I DIDN'T

LET 'EM-- THEY WENTI DE READY FOR EM.

AND A FEW MINUTES LATER--:

SVEN

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