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Black Magic Among The Skyscrapers THE GOLDEN PHOENIX

Barcelona-The Town Of Kidnapped Girls

By HENRY MACLENNON

Barcelona.

So many young ladies have been abducted here recently that a police official described Barcelona as the "town of

the kidnapped girls."

that

Onco this arranged kidnap- plug geta underway the parents net Into, the "outraged" hurling insults at one another to prove they are not just fry- ing to save face.

More than 20 caves of abilt, there are certain circumstances

SF this nuking it necesary and tion were reported northern coastal town of Stelly the ninte ends in marriage. during the part your and zovervi ret ars were stiotly con demned by polled and church anchorilles

1 is more or for a traditional procedate on the Island to kid-

Foristance X the parens of ում young couple are jaxr could not afford a dewry or the high ecsts of reception, bridlad clothes

and

the Usually the mother of the hotymuon. Liri necusts the bay of brutally then an "abduction" is arranged, Löbucking her darling daughter the for a shady purpose and says he has ruled her life for ever afterwards.

of

Tap girl and it is wually conIn most cases parcets doned on all sides providing couple connive in the affair.

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ABDUCTION

In urn the father of the bey accuse the girl of enticing his beloved son into the abduction ro that she, so the son fuelishly belleves, will not have her re- putation stained,

No one is fooled and the

Snails Make Mass Escape

Milan.

SEVERAL thousand knalls on their way

to a Swiss restaurant eseaped from a railway freight car near here Inst week.

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The train with freight car full of boxes of knalla stopped at a amall station outside Milan and the snails crawled out of their nir-holes leaving thick alime behind them which

put railway workers on to their tracke. Only half of the consignment was covered.-U.P.I.

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What's Happened

To British

Chivalry?

neighbours giectully follow de They Just Looked

open walling

for the

moment when the "Insults" gels) more personal and really be come insults.

really

And Laughed!

London.

ne! TNGA Schmidt will return

Things can then cut of hand. Sometimes the affair ends up in a real aircel

brawl with neighbours taking sides just for the fun of H. This

is the moment in the business when the police move-in.

of British chivalry shutter.

ed.

Inga, 22, was a damsel

week and Englishmen her. just looked,

in

who

The poller have probably distress st "detained" the young couple by "chivalrous" now because the girl's parents w have charged the boy

wellh laughed,

For more than an hour, Inga abduelles.. The next step to

stone coping arrange a corellatory meeting was marooned on

exclusive Knights between the warring skies above which is usually done by

nbridge square-wearing nothing but pink panties, n bra and priest or even the police.

nylon wall stip.

Church ban

are then waived and the boy and the girl are wed and there is no cost or loss of honour on either side,

ENDED BADLY

Witch Doctors Go

Into The Mail

Order Business

Salisbury, VOODOO incantations, dark rites and Althy- Vo

tasting medicines compounded of unspeakable Ingredients flourish in the shadows of multi-storey skyscrapers in Salisbury, bustling capital of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

and

Attracted by the vas! qaliblę audience afforded by the who throng mustes of natives the kirrels scorch of work, the wilchdectors have left their re- mote kreils and villages for the more modern--and profitable- | surroundings of the "white

enn's" metropolis.

Working in the elty streets, or In the native locations that sur- round it, they peddle their nos- trums, potious, elixirs and talis- mans at prices ranging from one penny (for a hendecha-cute) to £10 (for the "full-treatment” -spell that will ensure the purchasers life-long health and Prosperity and irresistible prowers with, the apposite sex.)

Sacks of Money

He is a poor wilch-doctor who makes los than £50 a week in this way-in a country where motives are able to live on a Wolt of

One £6 month. "ngonga," as witch-doctors ned

the ees of a motor trader and bought, for £1,200 a new van to bring in medicine from his krall. He pad cash-ka three- penny and sixpenny coins carried then sacks by two helpers. It took the accounting staff of the firm two hours to check the amount.

"Ngangas" have even Bone into the mail-order business. They have circulated cataloques offering to post to anywhere in the Federation such indispe.- cure-alls, as “aquare or hairy hide ut hyena" (1/-) "Tonny whinkerers of lyon" (2/- each, and "panty-witch ointment of many fate" (at 1/6d_per_tar).

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50 Angry

Men Seek The Film Hoaxer

HE

London.

E walked into the local Labour Ex- change and said: "I'm making a film. I want a large number of men as extras." He gave his COCK.

The Alming.

name a HITCH.

"Mr Hitchcock" explained to the exchange officials at Bexhill, Sussex, would take a fortnight.

Long wait

The men would receive £3

day. He would be back for Interviews at the week-end. The word went round, Inter- view day arrived; so did 50

would-be extras. They waited

for an hour,

Then they were told: "There have been same difficulties. The An is held up for the time being, and there are no Jobs."

But, in fact, Mr Hitchcock had

disappeared.

LOCKED OUT inga had slipped out of her flat to look in her mail box for letter from her family in

But it would be wrong to dis- | Cne of the men hoping to earn Hamburg. The door Anapped

£42 In shut, locking her out.

mlsa the witch-doctors as more

a fortnight was Mr through a exploiters She ran upstairs,

of their Lenorant Ernest Brown, of Sidley, Bex- That is how most of the kid-

apartment unlo thofollows. Some of their vegel-

hill. napping end up. But four

or vacant the Barcelona affairs balcony, and tried to lower herable medicines, in use long be- five of

her own bedroom fore the white man came to ende badly. Modern youth self to

the country, use still as effective had not taken the parents into window,

as anything that can be turned account at all.

by European research

zather And their veget- laboratories,

able poisons are deadly and uften uniraceable,

There Barcelona youths are kid- In gaol awaiting trial na nopping charges. One of them had abduelo u nine-year-old || Kiri.

She got as far ca the coping stone above the windoy and couldn't get any farther up or down,

PINK FACE

A

aut

10

10

con-

their

It is perhaps fortunate that IL tock

to they choose instead women Another youth was actually sympathise. The woman fetched centrate on relatively harmless

gala captured by an outraged mother a bullder and a ladder. Inga, mumbo-jumbo who was really outraged. She her face as pink us her panties ends. threw a bucket of hot water climbed down the ladder and into the kidnappera face to into her bedroom window. make him drop her daughter and she then proceeded to slap his face until he became un- conscious-United Press,

Passion For

Peppermints Was His Downfall

FRIC Davis

Londoni. was back in gool because of his passion for peppormints.

Useful Purpose

She sak later, "I was mad. There were all those men in the street and they just laughed." Says Doctor Michael Gelfand, Sho la planning on going back the Sollsbury physiclon und to Germany soon. There, she author: "The nganga fulfils eye, the men don't laugh at useful-purpose in the life of the dumsels in distress.-U.F.I.

PICKED WRONG PLACE FOR HONEYMOON

Naples,

Africon. His real strength les in the psychosomatic field, for by helping he Individual to fece the problems that confront all of us he is able to control many unxiety sintes

"So until we have more doc- lors, nurses and clinics through. out the territory we should in- terfero as to as posible with the only medical aid which is f within reach,"

Really angry

He said: "About 60 of us were told there was a hold-up. That Since annoyed us. then we have heard it was all n hoax and we are really angry."

The manager of Bexhill Labour Exchango was on holiday, but his deputy said: "It is Just one of those things. Arrannot confirm or deny R, and I du' nol wish to discuss 11." Said the area manuger at Hast- ings. Mr C. J. Philips: "I do not know anything about it personally, but I have been told it happened. It is dis~ graceful.

Now the polleo have been told.

THE FOX HAD HIS REVENGE

But perhaps the last word A.

In

London.

DYING fox cub skot

and wounded

nour Truro

last

should be with one of the

on official attacker Africans themselves, Renato Mancini picked the of the African National Con-wook.

wrong place for the first gress, who says: "I do not know Michael Sarn. 20, blasted off night of his honeymoon.

what a European who criticises one barrel of his sholgun at the African

thinies cub. It led, wounded, superstition

Into a Mancini, 30, of Rome, was about astrology and all its allied hole. The "Peppermint Kid" never awakened in his hotel at 3 a.m. beliefs. Horoscope and for-

a bid to get it out, he smoked or drank, but a large by police and arrested on an old tune, telling omong European thrust the butt of his shoigun bag of peppermints was in a theft charge for which he had astrologers to complete supersti into the hole. It went off, pocket on all his safe cracking been contenced in absentia to tion in its highest form. Luck peppering his arm with shot.

which eight months imprisonment.

astrologers expeditions.

the staggered across

Davis, 33, got out of goot last November, after a seven-year sentence. He raided a Welsh Quarry and stale enough dynamite and detonators to blow hundreds of sates,

FOUR MONTHS

In four months he had crackedl safes and notted about €2,000.

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Peppermints ended it all.

Follco found a bag of pepper- miats in a crashed car after on They unsuccessful bank rald,

won questioned Davis who sucking a peppermint.

They searched his briefcase--- and found two and a half of dynamite, pounds (weight) 47 detonators, and batteries. He admitted the robberies.....

The judge at London's Old Bailey sent the Peppermint Kid back to guol for 12 years.--- U.P.I.

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