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THE CHINA MAIL,~ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1957.

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GHOST OF BOMBER PILOT

Shock Cure For Blind Housewife

Fort Worth, Tex. A 20-year-old blind wife of a Carswell Air Faroo DRO Airman Fecavered hor eye- sight recently after being kidnapped and thrown out of a car.

Mra Virginia Minke was found by police lying on a street with her hands taped bahind hor back. When they put her in an am- bulanco,

Minka

tire

exolelmed:‚"] qan see!" She was blinded on July

In an accident.

A doctor said it was a "paychological blind-

Rais" and Mra Minks

was shooked out of it. Mr Minks sald man knocked on the door of her home, and told her he had some new from her hun. band, who la an tem- porary duty In Maine.

When sho tat the man In he pressed a platol to her stomach. Ho taped her wrists and then forced her into a car. They drove Bround for about four hours.

k

The mah tried

to

her. Then he

threw her out-United Prem

THE DRY EARTH

THIS

WAS

A

DAM

Plight of outback N.S.W, farmors and graziers deteriorates daily through lack of rain.

This picture token, at Nevetire emphos. sises the seriousness of the drought.

It shows Mr. R. H. Kinsey of Worri mah, standing in the cracked bed of what was once a dam.

The dam pro vidad water for 3000 sheep.

Mystery Scare In R.A.F

Control Tower

London.

Tho headless ghost of a pilat officer is making night guard duty at an RAF station an ordeni, say áirmen. Many security men, whose job it is to patrol the airfield at Lichfield, Staffs, are scared to go near the lonely control tower after dark. The 400 mon at the station make the hackles rise on the say the ghost is that of the guard dogs as does the phantom pilot of Wellington bomber der. which crashed thero during the

war,

The crew was killed and the pilot decapitated. •

Dogs Scared

But a senior officer discounted the idea of an R.A.F. ghost, He Bold: "I have seen the hangar ights on when they should mol have been, but I assume they have been put on ourtier and forgotten to

som.cono

These are the ghostly mani-switch them of." festations the airmen complain about:-

ONE: Lights dickering

and off in the control towCY ---

now mainly disused.

TWO. Hangar Hights mysteri ously switched on.

THREE:

Refusal

by the

camp's abx guard dogs to go within 60 yards of the control

tower at night.

FOUR: The phantom fier,

complete

with

burt

flying boots

uniform and Ila virus

the head, who walks across airfield to the contral tower.

won't

Refusal

עזב נדגם

saki You that noor

get 14 control tower after lights out The guard dogs won't budge past a certain point at night. "One night all the control tower lights came on without explanation and the orderly and officer, orderly sergeant, the dog handlers went ACTOSE in a body to put them out.”

Could there be a hoazer? No zaxı,

"could BAY the airmen

IN ENGLAND. THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN BATHS.

BYDNEY.

To 180 schoolboys in two Bydney high schoots Eng. tand in a land where. ***

Nashville, Tenn. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad gave this reason for proposing id discontinue

Las: pamenger

"The often outnumbers the gora"-United Press.

two crow passen-

Los Angeles,

A company that owns ite own planot taking any chances on getung a bad name for itself. ordinary

The people are a lot of "anobe." Every family, employs a gardener and a servant, and pays them next to nothing.

Men still dress like their aricestors with high hats and baggy trouagre.”

A man walks through, the streets every night at every hour shouting 10- cording to the tima "o'clock and all's well.”

The boys, aged 11 to 13, wore asked to write ekzaya on England.

But one 12-year-old boy capped all the other sunyi. He wroto

"In England the people have never heard of taking baths avery day or oven overy two days and when they do bathò they do it In little tuba.

"The English don't be- Dava in bathing very often. I would sooŋar Hva with the Chinuso than Engllah-the Chinoss very cloan,"

BITTEN BY SNAKE-

the

A Man Describes

His Last Hours

Chicago.

A zoologist who was fatally bitten by a venomous South African anake has left a rare medical document telling the feelings he experienced during the final hours of his life.

Tho death diary of Dr Karl P. Schmidt, curator of the Chicago Natural History Museum, was revealed by Coroner Walter E. McCarron.

Schmidt, 67, died of cerebrat baœmorrhages brought on by the snake blie. He had been bitten the day before whilo examining the make, a "Boomslang," to determine the reptile's age and type: In the diary, written in long hand on three pages, Schmidt suld ho sucked the puncture marks, which bled frosly, and experienced strong nausea on the trip horpe,

That evening. Schmidt wrote, he experienced a strong chill and shaking followed by fover of 101.7 degrees, which did not persist. Bleeding of mucus membranes in the mouth began about 8.80 p.m. apparently mostly from the gums."

He said he alept atfully due to a "good deal of abdominal pain, mainly froen gas, and later suffered violent nausea after drinking a glass of water."

The Samovar Vodka Co. refuses to serve its product while the plane is in flight-- United Press.

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Kruist

J

Now Oricans. An artist who painted

"Modernistic prizo - winning Embrace" in a local show ex-

plained why she chose the field of modern art.

"It's the only thing I con draw." Bald seven-year-old Lynne Allivor-United Pres7.

Chicago.

Chicago polico with everyone understood their hand traffic signals as well as Christino.

Christine, a harte, galloped a

The King of Whiskies

Junk-wagon Sõle Aguiar BODWELL & CO, LED, mite down

city streets the other day when a low-flying plane startled her, Two policemen saw the clatter- Ing. Christine coming and motioned her to stop,

She stopped.--United Press.

Casco, Mich.

Mrs Inn Otto's grandson tried to smoke out the beos living in the walls of the Otto home with a Fourth of July' sparkler..

But the bees simply retreated further into the house and even the firemen who came to douse the dimes young Otto started failed to rout the busy have makera United Press.

Honolulu, A clerk in Honolulu, Floyd Kuikealakauokalani Keall- wallanamu la Kamaunuihala- knipo Hoopil, always signa hie name in full-special.

London.

Six £1 notes were boiled for

For A Memorable Evening DINE & DANCE

**

WINNER PALACE

18 minutes when My Arthair Eves of Heaton Road, Bourne mouth, forgot to take them out Best of the pocket of his sports shirt before washing.

Except for fading they wore

as good as new-Special

Berlin

&

NIGHT CLUB Chinese Food In Town

Music by

Celso & his Quartetto Modeme

Wooden Barrier erected WINNER HOUSE

round statue of Stalin in front The last entry was written shortly before depth and told of of the Kurak Tube station in So had Blight blooding in the bowels and "mouth and nose continuing to Moscow disappeared. bloed, not excessively."--United Press.

the stotuoSpecial.

King's Road

Tel. 70801

What All

Secretaries

Should Know

About Bosses

Paris..

A man who rarely brags to his wife brags all the time to his secretary, according to officials of a school here whore 180 secretaries havo been meeting to perfect their technique with the boss and his clients.

anore

**Muny bosses apunt time with their secreturios than they da with their wives. That's why a secretary should choose her boss carefully," girls were told.

"Girl Fridays”.

·ITALY'S SPECIAL POLICE SQUAD FOR

Grave Robberies—A Big Business Now

By LARRY COLLINS

Rome,

Grave robbing is an ancient if not honourable art, and nowhere has it been developed to a higher skill than in Italy's relic-rich tomb areas of Etrusca,

The problem has become so great that a worried Italy has formed a special section of its Guardia di Finanza-Treasury Police-devoted to hunting down and arresting grave robbers who are hauling away an estimated $8,000,000 in relică a year.

Some of the relies are price, cult to arrest the middlemen | 200 and up-are said to be - who less. One ralt in a Rome anti- and "fences" who sell them off telligent, wise craftsmen the quarian's apartment Qhis to visiting tourists.

The 180 "Girl Fridays" ' al- tending the course learned how

Last year, the 13-man" art treasures acélion of the Guardin to perfect a lot of things in di Finanza made 89 arrests for addition to the, quality of their gravo-robbing and/or pussess shorthand,

ing stolen Etruscan goods.

They were taught how to walk, epply makeup, fix their hale, smile, talk on the tele- phono and handle an angry employer.

"Lot kim yell for at least six minutes, tell him to sit down and smile, and lake notes of -everthing "ho saya to make him foel important," they were told,

United Press.

can act the value of a rato ob-

August produced a board of Italy did not wake up to the just as fast, as an expert.

until

·Etruscan treasures so rare even danger to her art lode

One man, nabbed with 13 the local museum could

not 1930 when she passed a law

rare vasts, was able to give match some of them.

of their anying ali objects found an exact description beneath tho soli were a part background, aga and value-a of the national patrimony, and description that paralleled that imposed a two-year gạo1 sen- of muscum experts, polica mid.

10 theft Bok straver To stamp

grave out the tenco

snatchers

River robbers.

the Po in Relic dealers caught red- delta polico mounted watch

and handed, however, claim they towers with, searchlights

their merchandise | maching„guns Uke

the walls come into

around a concentration candy. are In addition, the thieves

Flores says the clever thloves disguise thomaselves as gpessante, woodsmen, and oven as sport- to shirted American tourista sneak into the graveyands,

4

Staggering Job

The 13 men, headed .by before 1039.

Lieutenant Mario Flores who learned his classics by studying smart. archaeology before joining, the police, bave a staggering jon on their bands.

Father To Son Police say the knowledge et

Fira, Italy's laws make how to sob a grave is often Machina-Guns difficult to pinch the grove passed from father to son. The robbers and even more dill-gravo robbers estimated

-Relatives From Space-

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| SAUCER-MEN ARE HUMAN, DECLARES EX-ENVOY

Roma.

A former Italian diplomat in convinced that balngs from the outer space Influenced 'Nikita Khrushchev Into, demolishing the Stalin myth..

--

At One clever snatcher rented a motorcycle packed a plenic basket, a blanket and a girl aboard and headed for the ralis. rich hills.

He did not say if Nosh's contemporarios already had flying saucers or how they did the trip,"

The flying saucer pilots are:well-intentioned towards un earthly creaturan Perego szyn. Thay, are concoritod fæst atomio feste for a nudlekr war could cause serious cosmio trouble,affecting the other planeta, and have” been": "wading

The relsilonship between deßtalinisation and the weled -örpatures at the when) of flying BULDOEK | Was 'qnly, one' of: the daring thoucles volpad —very. Marlously by mild-mannered Alberto Perego, a railrad consul and self-styled reconnaissance anusara for the past 12. youre to flying saucer expert, in a recent prom conference: "find out what is going on." In a swank Rome hotel.

They advised · Khrushchev.

to start

The crunturen from other plánati are also | deßtalinisation," Perego: kald, Sin declined to be credited for the fact that the Körsen war · comment' on how the unearthly visitors, triana-. did not, okpand and that there was no World. mitted, their message to the Soviet leaders, and

He came out with a picnla basket full of $92,000 worth of objects, said Flores,

The thieves bring their good a to Rome, Florence and Milan where they sell their goods to a small select number of middio- bien, The middlemen in' turn sell to collectors and some dealers. who to-sell them legally to tourists.

Few middlemon and dealers get etung with phonto thoro are saved for American tourists, The grave robbers know their trado so well they strip a tómb af_anything evaluable" loving anly common pickings- for the government archaeologist, N

Biggest trouble, palice, mor] âm gotting into the rints tha

are so singil, polios mag that they

tng it: menteri, imponit la dan dise pelica i to: maltrato man

War Iil, Parago told slightly started nawamen, dass Perego aid the dying saucers are of various " | Dunkera mugaged" in the beadbe

The creatures on the flying saucere "are:| bypes, some manned and some" unmanned;, kui felstives of moan, Paragon MyneThay | mil pdwared, by "electravmagratiä unorgy of the descend from “our forefathers who find, from, beings, whe made them are...zak:leant 600-yeare thm: Karth to other planets at the Umg of the mhald af UST IN (Rivilisation, he saidym-United

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