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THE

Ex-British School Boy Becomes

Master Of Languages

Panama City, Sept. 19.

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A former English boarding school boy whose

News contributions, always wal-knowledge of modern languages is so wide that he

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President Eisenhower

was, because of his language accomplishments, treated with great respect when ho mado a recent visit to Panama City, which is regarded as the most linguistically cosmopolitan city in the world.

Lieutenant-Colonel able nilusion to the Tour (10 Vresti Anthony ("Dick") France cycle race. Walters, oged 39 of the United "Rags to riches” Bkewise be- States Army.

COFFEY

"from two horses Delahaye."

-

I agungi byprus sit,

Italia,

Colonel Walters speaks seven Frabe' French, Portuguese, German and Dutch.

It was not not so much the numerical status of is finguistic Inowledge which itted

Putiomenims as the bevet ut wich he exercised his #eromplishments. -he intinpreis md only words but the thoughts bind the words

New York-Born

New York borty, Colonel Walters" father was at English Darance inan and Wallers Him-

was ediented at an English tarts school.

Tut he

tanguage:

น

Little Room

lo

The then Prime Minister Persia, Dr Mohammed Me sadeg, left him little 100m for such manoeuvres on one occasion · when Walters was interpreting between Mir Harriman and Mondeg

Dr

The whole can be no bigger than the sum of its parts," Mr | Hacrimati retninderf Dr Mossadeg

at one stake "False" Consider the fox.

criert the Persion. it fl is larger than the whole

Het f body."

However

C'olonoi

recent

Queen Hands ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF

Over Keys

EMERGENCY CREDIT

FOR MOTORISTS

Geneva, Sept. 19. The International Tour, Walters ing Alliance is promoting a its been

solved this ones, it seems to have system of letters of credit

forthefactorily to Dr for

motorists travelling Mossadey, as unul ปล release from prison he resularly abroad to be used in case sent Colonel Walters a Christ of accidents. This card from gaol.

Colonel Walters Ты States willing

away bring learning

my spare time modern Greek. He soon start issuing that the Army leaves him special knows a little Russian, but says

little time to learn it properly

No Basic Threat

1-fore Father's work look the fumlly travelling widely in Europe, and Wullers' Brst languages

were acquired in

In the playground from governÉRSK

He joined the Uniteet Apany In 1941, Arbites what

his are,

they

ot

Ungustic talents were employed by making huma truck delver

His talents first poki off duur. ing the North African campai01. when he assisted with the Inters rogation of prisoners of war He later served as interpreter General Mark Clark.

As

for

knows

5x)

flow

100

many

The Swiss Touring Club will is embers

with these letters of eredi?, free of chargy, to a value of 500 hunts (about £42) as the first club to put the new Internation- al system into proelice

Countries have honour the

The letters of credit are de- signat un an emergency reserve add not for payment of ordinary car malice or other bllis. They may be used, for instance,

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pay brøkdowns, to pay doctors for (treatment after an beesdent,

to pay lawyers in case of logul proceedings after an ecclient

Queen Frederics of firrzet, accompanied by her younger daughter Princem Irene, hands over the keys of a number of newly bull houses - con. structed for Greek refugfts — and financed by the Queen's Relter Fund. Plature showw: Queen Frederica embraces a young Greek worker after he Itad received the key to his home, Express Photo,

Foxless Hunt |

by

Sydney, Sept. 30 The trudiling of the ancient The Club in whoys country the English sport of riding La letters

tined wil hounds were of croch pre

followed obtain reimbursement from th group of enthusiasts here but Issuing club, which la turn will | there was no fox, be reimbursed by the member conærned.

Instead a member

hose

hoofs

with aniseed over a prepared

110

THE ANDES Explorers Claim

They

¡

Saw One

Buenos Aires, Sept. 19.

A controversy is being waged in the Argentine press on whether claims that “abominable snowmen" are haunting the Andes mountains are true or not.

the

Members of an expedition ; that the natives link the which recently went treasure treasure with the Līkumai hunting in Solta Province re- Zupal, as they call the abomin turned with stories of "abominable nowman, and tales abou able footprinter instead and creatures from the great beyond claimed that they BBW the About three years ago, they creature

ald, a big noise was heard of True or hol, lates of treasure n

peak, called troves, abominable

Macey

it to the ruowmen

nscribed it and Martian flying saucers are full of a inclcorite, but since sally seething out of the then cy have been hearing swamps, junglès, desert platenus | weird plereing shricks at nigh and snow-capped mountains of and men going out hunting on this far northern province. the peak have seen giant foot-

expedition, accord-prints In the snow. to pres reports, actually looking for the Curu HERMIT'S Curu Treasure, so called because it is sald to be buried on a which the Indians mountain call by that name.

Native lore has it that the Jesuits buried everal curtfuls of solid gold and silver church ware in n secret cache when They were ordered to leave Argentina by the King of Spain In the 18th century.

The

1alesi

Inf

FOUR EXPEDITIONS

was

Four expeditions have already gone and come back in bids la locate the treasure, but all ad- One of them milied failure.

a fateful end when nearly met

crossed

bog of quicksand. In a jungle where white men had never set foot before,

Two

mentbors,

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The

cave

CLAIM

stery at embellished by that of a hermit who lives in He on the mount. claim" that he saw a gorilla- like, smali man who left foot- prinis

similar to those of an overgrown child.

"abemable mowman" feeds by According to the hermit, the

ruiding the nests of coradas, ruge South American vultures rid carrying off unhatched eggs and young birds. He said that he sw such footprints near Bests, and partially destroyed heard

piercing every time such raids occurred rear his hount,

*

enric screamE

A stranger story from another Indian village high up on Mount Mheon tells of residents seeing huge cigar-like "Bying hunt lalt a scent by Hilloping | trail, fell into the mig

Their Faucar which landed on a shoute on its

were heard by their edge

way up in the Andes team-mutes just as they were mo

mountains. The landing, they nine-

sinking bove their armpits, said, was accompanied by earth They Were towed out with rumblings and some landslides. ropes, although their rescuers The "cigar remained there also were in danger of being only a day and a night, then sucked under themselves.

took off into space. Ät night- An enterprising provincial time it gave off a phosphorvacent newspaperman, who visited the glow. Indian village of Tolar Grande, not far from Curu Curu, sold

He recognises no basic threat

Eleven altuer to his pole in the fact that the so far agreed present United! States Army After the war. Walters stayed Chief of Staff, General Maxwell letters of credit in their terri The system was acpied from with the Army,

military Taylor

toxics, but have not yet decided A bimilar scheme successfully ntacle in Rio dr Janeiro. he languages that he rarely neede

tried out by the German buto- served no interpreter for Mr an interpreter.

bile Clubs may issue their own. mil club ADAC, Eeenhower on his portwer visit

The houndz and hunismen "There are still several people! They are;

members Austria, Belgium,

the Swix Trailing followed. there, and to Mr Truman during in the Army who need

Germany, Denmark. Club paid more than 600 emer- inter-West the (947 Rio de Janeiro confer-

preters," Colonel Walters

Luxembourg, ence.

com- France,

Italy,gency bills settled by letters of | Idea was to stimulate interest forty himself. Specluf,

- Statio

Ma Netherlands, Norway, Sweden credit Jr 1955-China

Mailin the sport. China Mail and the United Kingdom

Special.

mule "drog hunt" course, that their Touring sed Automo-

He was in Bogota interpreting for General George C. Marshall in 1948 when the disastrous riots wrecked Chart convention and linger Colombia into civil

BUNDAY POST-HERALD 8pace for commercial i <Haarders, advertising should be

noon on Wednesdays.

After Bogota, Je* We booked not later then ignated military attache at Large in Europe. The post was | 423 effect

interpretes for Mr Averpli Harriman, then charge of the Marshall Plass

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While in Macau, atay at the

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Praia Grande,

Cable: Pousada.

Leg In Cast

Then he became altached to Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force 159 Mr Eisenhower's interpreter. d

has been with him ever since. Hecent ass grmints include the Geneva and Burada confer- ences

A skling accident sent him to Genova with his leg in

cust

sinul-

Walters

ham

be

1. Fou Transinties in the yie of the United Nations, but regards such work as moking ***

Interprete I "shapeless vafers

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

DROP THE WEAPON. COME

WITH US.

HE DOESN'T EVEN NOTICE -- THE,

BULLETS-!

FERDINAND

BATT

BAM

niny

He prefers his own methods, which demand effective know.

ledige of whatever subject

ne under discussion, plus the ufmust discretion.

He translates, colloquial re ferences freely. An American

allusion 10

the Brooklyn

Dodgers baseball tcom

will

emerge in French as a compar-

& ORIENTAL

NANCY

BAM

A

WOW--- A MAN

SCRAPED PICTURE OFF A

CANVAS

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I'VE --GOT TO-GET)

OUT OF HERE--1

---AND

FOUND

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PAINTED UNDERNEATH

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JOHNNY' HAZARD

THE RAN IN THAT PARKED CAR BACK THERE-HIS FACE

ERINGS BACK UGLY MEMORIESI

→ WHO IS HE 7 WHAT HAPPENED,

KITTY#

IS HE FOLLOWING UST |DON'T LOOK BACK-JUST

CHECK IN YOUR REAR-VIEW

MIRRORL

NOPE! HE'S STILL

| SITTING, THERE / HOT EVEN LOOKING THIS WAY? WHAT

GNCS?

tor whose

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Stories of this kind have been ruhed into print as soon as newspapers in Buenos Aires] could lay their hands of them. The staid La Prensa joined In recently by quoting two univer- sily photo:sors who,

after thorough study, described the reports as groundless.

MYTHS COMMON

Professors Tobias Rosemberg and Orlando René Bravo said: "After analysing the question from a purely ethnographical and folklorle point of view, we find that the so-called abomin- able snowinan

forms part of the mythologies of

peoples living high up in mountainous areas. These myths are com- mon, not only

fo Asia, but to America

as

Profesor Rosemberg is head of the Ethnological Institute of tho Argentine University of Tucuman, and Professor Bravo, also of the same institution. was a member of the second Argentine expedition to the Himalayas. Both have publish- ed a series of scientific papera on the matter.

the

Professor

Bravo found that representatives of the Andean snowman--the "Uldumar Zipal and the abominablo Himalayan dweller "Yet!" aro identical. In both cases, The

claims, these worshipped and #Ya**** gods.

Professor

creatures - ATO

feared

Regarding the Bravo said:

"We heart in Nepal somewhat

confused reports that the hairy skull of a Yeti hunted by the Lamas was treasured in a Zolu Khumbu monastery. These re ports reached us through visite Ing mountaineers and Sherpas. DEMARCATING ·· AREAS.

The professor regretted that the British expedition, which two years ago

·went to the Himalayan mountains to study Yeti mcked the services of a folklore export. "He would have helped further research by the creas where the

Quive But they belleve themselves. fund

found th adyancing jegonde Decur

Y

similar: 1041judes imsimilar plateau regions with vegetation and geophysical

similar too. So they are hoping

to

praya that, given correspond

Ing environmente, pärmile

myths and legenda ter

flourish

places. This the

in remotely dietar

theory "may", "delarki

snowman in the anthropologists folklore experts

Indulgopalang #pecialities

But people who fringo“.

of the Andean posku Just as Pro and Bravo were puttin

notow

he had so wher anā Ukumar combed