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'I Was A Slave,' 28-Year-Old Marjorie Says
London, Apr. 30.
A man stood by Marjorie Jordan's bed at three in the morning. He was, she says, a stranger to her. But he took her to a room dug out of the clay, 14 ft. beneath a London garden-and kept her there for 15 weeks.
That was the fantastic story which Marjorie, 28-year- old shop assistant, told a policewoman in a stumbling inter- view, Monday week.
White-faced and shaking, her walls with cement and papered clothing in tatters, the girt was them with old newspapers. found "by police only Lew in Lewisham Park, John hour cariler behind the locked Bridal, dark and unsmiling, in door of the underground room dirty tweed coat, taltered shirt, under a shed in the garden of and overall trousers, slood un- a tail house in Lewisham Park, der the apple blossom
his shed. A neighbour called She had found a noto on
her lawn, scrawled on a dirty scrap of paper.
The Note
them,
outside
He would let no one go into the shed. "My experimenta are secret," he said. Then he told his story of how Marjorie came to live in the hole.
"I had met her two or three times, and I wanted someone to help in my experiments—I'm coal pulverising-- smokeless fuck-and
conveyors for mechanical handling.
Nothing Torrible
I said: "1 am Mis M. Jor-working on don, miming from Elmers End. primer am being kept a under a big shed. He has Kol me under the ground to a big hole where there is a room. He is keeping me here. Will you please help me ark call police! IL most urgent,"
the
to her house
"1 went round and called up to her. 1 threw some gruvel against her window, | She came down and let me in. theShe resented me being there at the first, but 1 persuaded her, with- and out threats or force.
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The man who unlocked door for the polke was man who bulit the shed
12. dup the cave below year-old John Bridal, inventor and unemployed engineer,
The girl was here all the time, and no one know but me:
Inventor John Bridal, 20, who said, "she was not given too much work to do." Routerphoto,
but she was not a prisoner," he sald "She was helping me and she did not want to leave"
Marjorie Jordan, dark-haired and quiet, was reported miss.
from her ing
好 lodgings January 7, Wimborne Way, Beckenham, on
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Woke Up
"I didn't know this man--I'd never Jech him before," she "Someone touched me in
bed one night and I woke to fund him standing there,
"He threatened to knock mo unconscious if I made a noise, Ho made me dress, Then he put a ploco of sticking-plaster over my mouth and led me outside to a motor-cycle.
"I was terrifled. I had no Director.idea where we were going Не took me to his house and down
the garden to the shed. Inside, he made me climb through a manhole and down a ladder.
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"At the bottom was a roarn, damp and dripping, with a bed frame on bricks and
a bare electric bulb on a cable the shed,
Manhole
from
"He left me there with the manhole lid on, for about two hours. Then he brought me, a cup of tea and let me up to the sbod.
hnd
"I asked him why he brought me thro. He said: have some work for you to do -making this placo bigger,
"I tried once to get away, but ho grabbed me and threw me
down."
After that, Marjorie Jordan says, she never tried to escape again. She stayed there, digə ging away the clay with a small pleft to enlarge the room.
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"John-that's what
he told
me to call him-hauled the clay up in a bucket to the shed,” she said. I thug 80 buckets, full one
She lost count of time, John
and Classified Advertise- brought ther food, and blanket
dor the bed. When the room. vas Anished they plasteredh - the
**Stave? She was not given too much work to do. When she cried I just said: 'You will soon get interested in this kind of work, you will come round,' and she did.
"There 14 an element of wrong in kreping her here as I did, but I can't see anything very terrible in it,"
Miss Marjorie Jordan, 28-year-old grocer's shop assistant, rolaxing after spending
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
HOW DO YOUR PEOPLE VANISH INTO SMOKE?
CH. THAT? SIMPLE TELEPORTATION.
FERDINAND
BJAR
NANCY
HEY, KITTY--- GET OFF THE BED
JOHNNY HAZARD
HI, TREV... HOW'S OUR MORTALITY RATE HOLDING UP BACK THEREF ÁÝ RIES
IN RADATION COUNT?
15 wooks in hor garden dungoon.—Reuterphoto.
WHEN WE WISH TO GO SOMEWHERE, WE JUST THINK OF THE PLACE
–THEN PRESS
THIS BUTTON-.
COME ON, POOCHIE CHASE THE CAT
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BUSHMILA
--WE PISSOLVE INSTANTLY INTO ATOMS ---MOVE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT-
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ROCK-N-ROLL TO HIGH LIFE'
Accra, Apr. 30.
The latest Soviet condemnation of Boogie- Woogie, and Rock-'n'-Roll as "an unrestrained debauch of passions” could not have fallen on ears more deaf than those of the people of this new independent African state of Ghana.
If there is one thing which is naturally ingrained in the characteristic make-up of all Ghanaiane--and, for that matter, all West Africans—it is love of the pulasting rhythm of jazz. Boogie-woogle, rock-'n'roll, jazz and jivo, all are names for what in offect are only · modern variations of the age-old traditional dances of West Africa.
the
No Wost African of 1937 to and so on. In Kumasi, whom I have spolden was pre-| Ashanti capital, there are "The pared to regard kindly a descrip- Paradise", "The Kingsway", ond tion of his dancing es "wild others. cavemen's orgles,”
Nur is it only Ghanaians who The latest Soviet attack on flock to these dance "halls" on
nights Mr most boogie-woogle come from
of the weck, Dmitri Shepilov, former Soviet Europeans,
including senior Foreign Minister, in an address officials, also drequently go--and
to the Congress of Soviet dance as merrily as the "locale" Musicians. He said that the to the calypso-le tunee of duty of ali Soviet composers,
"High-Ue." writers and artists was to fight to save world culture from "bourgeois degeneration, from disaster and collapse."
Here is how. » Government official recently described Ghana's dancing habits:
"The dancing in Ghana DANCING SPIRIT
varied, vigorous and probably the individual man or woman's most graceful and accomplished Press reports of Mr Shepilov's form of self-expression. All the statement were given in full in tribes have their own dances,
1
but
Lor
their The northern tribes
Ghana Broadcasting System news bulletin a few hours after out the Ewes, in the cast, are they were received. Only a few daruarly noted minutes previously, the same have many spectacular dances, radio had Be the Keet of
particularly Ghanaians tapping rhythmically stories of the hunt. LOSE
& programme of "High-
those
re-creating
"A modern development
iy
which is the current for the High-life', the most popular dance at night clubs and dances.
of restrained, but rhythmic, jazz sweeping Ghana.
The music
derived from many although analyala It
it has baffled
modern tively
is
compare-
and beats a re-
Throughout Accra, there are precise dozens of night-spots and open- air
the dance places where
semblance to calymes and other Ghanaian and his lady danco to Caribbean dances, as well as to "High-Me", as well as boogie-local African dances. Its char woogie, live and modern, ball- acteristic feature is that the room steps.
more often than not dance separately and with con- stant improvisation.
Their names reflect the happy. dancing spirit of the Ghanaians "Tip-Toe" "Rainbow Island"; "Weekend in Havana", "Week end in Kalamazoo", "The Lido"
There's Hore Than Magic FRYS
CRYSTALISED
GINGER
COVERED IN
FRY'S CHOCOLATE
CUTEX
THE WORLD'S
MOST
POPULAR
NAIL
POLISH
ROWNTREES
SMARTIES
SMARTIES
•thip zifuntion
calls for a
San Miguel
partne
The music is played by an African rhythm sectio, plus Westerts drums string bass. guitars, and brass instruments. The words, generally in the vernacular, usually describe some local happening or person- ore."
CLASSICAL JAZZ
Basically, "High-life" is en off-shoot at that Very which the nemocn of West! Africa took years ago to the southern United States and from which was developed, in the night clubs and drinking dens of New Orleans, the modern formi of classical Jazz.
It
indeod,
hat gigh-life"
be argued is really
traditional dance. While rook- 'n'roll and five bring far more West Africans to their feet than
tango zophisticated It is "High-life" which is
waltz
it
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the most popular current. ex- pression of rhythan.
One African here who rend a report of Mr Shepilov's criticism promptly illustrated the Gharu- lans' natural love of jazz by re- calling the triumphal visit here last June of Louis Armstrong tha American
The country then "went mind about
Gold Coast, da
the kings was," he said,
Louis and his trumpet and fo- day it is the dream of scores of jazz bands all over Ghana aspire to his status "
to
ad-
A glance at newspaper vertisement columns hore dh day will find well over a score of Jazz bands listed to play in' tho avening, China, Mail Special.
Germany To Get Rocket Regiment?
Bonn, Apr. 20,
The German Party's Parlia mentury. Group today published
a protest against wint
42.
called
plan tostatkeen to Brkish rocket regiment armed wit atomle
En
West
Germany.
weapons"
The Barty, which is in the Coalition Government, sidd in. view of present disputes, about
problém de of
weapons in general, Buch plan mixet be Army rejicited.
A British military spokesmdu In Boku, Kalood whether it was true (21) much a Bring Unit was to cune to Germany, sald he ha↑ been instructed by the British War Office to "molther confirm nor deny "Reuter,
ENVOY RETURNING
Singapore, Apr, 30, Mr David Hay, the Australiah, Ambassador to Thailand - until recently, flow into Bingapore. today on the way to Canhier, where he will thầe up the post. of Assistant Secretary External Affair: Departm Bir Hay, who: Awad panita by his family, majd he would leave for Adistratia, on Monday after vikuiling, the Mus frallan-Mindönm Irs: Bingapor
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