1947-06-07 — Page 4

BLACK MAX shares

a cell

(9 ft. x 7ft.)

From GORDON

YOUNG

PARIS. and receive his clients; the police say they found more than £35,000 cash and bonda in his in ready

three-room suke.

ITTING on his bunk in the stone-floored cell of the Sante Prison on Paris a call he shares with seven others "Black Max" Intrator pile of is today studying n British news reports.

Cuttings

Litca

His present "home." which in

days held 1,000 prl prewar

now has something 0,000. The plague of black market racketeers who have

soners,

and olber

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, "JUNE 7, 1947.

THE PARKERS

JUST"GMOUCH DISTEMPER-

LOOMS GOOD «R»!

by HODGES

TIN OF DISTEMPER,

PLEASE ➡ THIS Sibe.

OF YELLOW.

You, too, can blindfold

a butterfly..

UESS what I've been find- ing out about this week. Butterflies. And why not? Just thinking about them makes

you warm.

During the war 1 spent a

of the accounts of the sprung up in France accounts for whole night floating around in

rurrency cases in which his name is mentioned are taken to him three times n week by his lawyer, M. Andre Kidz, one of the smartest tand most expensive criminal law

yers in France,

Ever

Max Intrator has sat in his cell, which measures about DC. by 1, since his arrest five monthy It is likely that he will be there a long time yet before his case is heard.

The four investigating magistrates in Paris are two years behind in the work on financial cases like Intrator's.

the boom.

Into Intrator's cell troop a pro- cession of confidence men, thleves and racketeers, who stay there until their cases are heard. Then their

places are taken by new ones. Max's recent companions included a policeman who faced a charge of bribery.

BURMA GOVT. DELEGATE

of

IN CANTON

U Tun Maung, representa- tive of the Government of. Burma, accompanied by two. assistants and a representative the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has arrived in Canton to begin his task of faci- litating the return to Burma of Chinese who were displaced from Burma during the war. He was greeted at Canton railway station by leaders of the Over-

WHEN the fully assembled butter-sens Ohinese organisations and

By comes out of the cocoon it

hab to pump its wings up, rather like Beveral hundred ex-Burmese you would a bicycle tyre. When Chinese residents. the wings have taken shape and become hard enough to fly with, the butlerdy sets off to look for ao mate. Of course, there were butter- ANOTHER IN THE

There's one kind called Papilionid: "I flles long before that.

Brooklana, in which there's only tists reckon they started about

clearances Scien- POPULAR SERIES OF. one female to overy thousand males.

the time of the first flowers, SATURDAY ARTICLES which was 40,000,000 years ago.

BY.

J

BERNARD WICKSTEED

the sea, and the only thing that' stopped me freezing to death was thinking about hot-water bottles, millions and millions of kinds th

them.

And when I read that story in stolen butterflies in Surrey it

the

In an interview, U Tun Maung

Dm authorised by Government of Burma to

grant to bona Ado war- Chinese

residents

of

to

According to Mr Pincher, butter-displaced les live entirely on liquid refresh-Burma. I and my assistants chall

remain In Canton long enough ment, nectar, tree sap, fruit juices, and so on and the odd thing is that enable us to investigate the claims they got the taste of it through their of all who wish to return. I must

point out

.very plainly that Anite Some scientists proved this once former residence and actual war documentary proof 'as tq by dipping a butterfly's leg in apple displacement is required in order to Jufce. The moment the leg touched

legs.

de-

establish claim for re-entry into

Juice the butterfly, put is tongue Burma. the world, of which

Now there are

300 are found in Europe and 62 in Britain.

The best place to And butter worst in Iceland, where there aren't been found hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle and 16,500 feet up a mountain in

out. When they dipped the leg in water there was no response.

and thinner and water same scientists discovered that

dilutions of sugar

By using thinner

the

U Tun Maung explained agreement

that had been reached In principle

between the Chinelo . Government and the Government war-displaced

the papers about the search for dies is the Amazon Valley and the Those that try it in England hardly butterfly's leg was 250 times as sen- of Burma that all Because Irator himself is awalt- and the same effect. It brought any native species at all. They have dle.out here if it wasn't replenished sitive to the taste of sugar na the Chinese who can prove that

certain

ing trial, he is allowed

his weekly privileges. He gives clgarette ration card to the warder, who buys for him his ration of 40 cigarettes.

He can supplement his prison are mostly bread, meals which

and meat soup imitation coffer, from whatever is available in the prison's cantect.

But because Intrater has not been allowed ball, and therefore awaits trial in prison, Judge Pierri vill give the case priorly, which may bring him to trial within about six months

This means faces a possible maximum sentence by his

that Intrator, who

of five years, may have served one of them by the time his case is

enlled.

Meanwhile he lives in conditions very different from his luxury days in the fashionable Lincoln Hotel off the Champs-Elysees, where he was arrested. It was at the Lincoln that he used

to drink champagne

Each week a multesse containing

friends,

are

The case is not

10lb, of extra food is sent in to him allowed to contain foods which are rationed in France, rior chocolates, which

too luxurious thought for a prisoner. Tins, too, are for- bidden, to prevent suleide attempts Jam, assorted kinds of sausage, cigs, and meat paste form the bulk of the gift.

(Continued at boltom of Col. 4)

INTRODUCING.

ANGLES

IT'S CRAZY ... BUT CATCHING!

by St. JOHN COOPER

WAS introduced to this crazy game at the dinner table, and soon alx people were playing it on the table- cloth.

Nobody seems to know exactly how It started, but I gather that up and down the land at this-moment-it's catching on pretty fast.

One point before I go any further: it's not until you start playing ANGLES your- To self that the cruze really gota hold.

the outsider it all seems pretty ally (which, of course, it is), but I can report that it is quite astonishing how the sceptics and pooh-poohars surronder once they get a pencil in their hands.

How is it all. dono ? Well, the Arst thing is that you don't have to be able to draw to play. All you have to do is to think up a silly situation and illustrate it as simply as possible. Supposing a gas moter could soo1 What would it see z Probably a penny Very well, then: "Hero

sa picture of a penny

nd seen by a gas mictor.

Paul Holl: The butler as seen by the keyhole.

Willsam Hickey: The electric light bulb as seen by the socket.

SL John Cooper: The woman love ston by the ground I worship sha walks on.

Just to make the whole thing a litle clearer I naked, some people in the office to offer an ANGLE. You so the results on the right.

Now get busy |

000000000

Robb: Den- fist'a drill seen by the tooth.

Chapman Pincher: The rabbit hole as seen by the rabbit.

out thoughts of lazy summer days with the bees buzzing and cows swishing their tails.

So I went to Mr Chapman Pincher and asked him to keep me warm by talking about but- terflies.

In order to have some to look at we went to the South Ken- Bington Natural History Musc um, where they have quite a collection, some of it dating back to the days of Queen Anne, though Mr Pincher says you can't tell a Queen Anne butter- fly by the shape of its legs as you can with a chair.

SIDE GLANCES

สม

CONCINION

Ecuador.

won-

they Burma

20,000 different lles) that come over from Europe

every summer.

The Red Admiral in one, Mr Pin- cher says. It hibernates every win- ter in crevices and hollow trees. ever survive, and the species would each summer by waves of adven- human tongue. Isn't science

were former derful? in Greenland turous admirals from Holland und

residents of will be allowed to go As well as being able to taste

back.. This, France who come to try their luck.

things, butterflies con smell-in however, does not give any guaran Those plagues of cabbage whites boty senses. In fact, some of the

tee as to how soon they will be we get sometimes are due to almilar tropical kinds positively stink. able to return. migrations. People often say it's the British butterflies are mom refined. foult of our

for nut eating The males produce perfume from enough caterpillars, but It's not that glands in their wings and brush it at all. It's because the wind has been blowing fair from France and

over the females as a favour. brought millions of cabbage whites with it.

There are specimens on show at

South Kensington that mensure four five inches across, and I asked Mr Pincher if this was a record.

or

called

He said: "Good heavens. no! There's one in the Solomon Islands, the bird-winged butterfly

foot

first across. The that's a netted. They were shot. specimens brought to Europe weren't (By gad. siri)

"They're so big the native women use them for hals."

On the whole, however, buiter flies don't care much The further the island is from

for talands, 2 continent the fewer its butterflies.

Wo wouldn't have nearly as many in Britain as we do if it wasn't for swarms of D.B.a (displaced butter

COPR. 1947 BY KIA EDIVICE, MO, T. IL RIO, U. B. PAT, OFT-

By Galbraith

ANNUITIES

"I'd like to transfer out of the accident 'division, sir-I've given the sales talk so often I'm afraid to oross the street!”.

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LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION"

BLACK MAX

birds

How they fly

E

Priorities System

Burma, after the Japanese occu- pation and the flere fighting which One species of butterfly make:

took place for its recovery, is still perfume that sme ice an old in a very disorganised state. Cities cigar box, and another has a line

are in ruins: there are food like chocolate cream.

scar- They haven't any noses, butter The rate at which former Chinese cities and other serious difficulties. flies, so they smell with their residents

will be able to go back cover the feelers must depend very largely upon the fcelera. If you with vaseline it has the same effect fatr

BUTTERFLIES are not fast Alers. D About five tip.l. is average, but they are very good at Jinking, which is how they escape from birds.

Besides Aying the Channel and the North Sea there's good evidence that they flew the Atlantic well before Alcock and Brown, though most American butterflies found in Britain probably come by boat.

The life history of the butterfly is rather involved, as you know. To start with there's the egg from which the

as a cold in the head and they capacity of Burma to absorb them

without can't smell anything, even old cigar economic life. boxes..

If they're blind

upsetting that

Priorities have been

country's

established,

U Tun Maung explained. First to go back will be those who (a) can assist in the rehabilitation of the

with

NOTHER thing scientists have country and (b) can positively ba

discovered about butterflies is absorbed

caso into

tho

pre-

that they can't fly if they're blind-economie life of the country. With- folded. They flutter down out of in these two priority groups control..

ference will be given to those who How do you, blindfold a butter- have the closest tles with Burma- caterpillar comes. The first ny? Nothing thing it does when it hatches is to Pindber. You simply pain: Its eyes neas connections, property

easier, Bays Mr. c.g marriage, long residence, busi. cat the shell. There's something in with collodion, which is a kind of ship, ele.

It that's good for young caterpillars gun. You can also make different

and if you stop them eating it they're coloured goggles of it and test but- liable to die.

terfiles for colour blindness.

Owner-

Veteran Teaches College At 19

Except for this first meal most Mr. Pincher and the scientists- caterpillars are vegetarians. One who mastered this subject in their that isn't is the caterpillar of the spare time-have revealed all (bese Large Blue butterly. He allows wonderful

secrets of Nature, but himself to be hauled into an ants' Avera is one simple thing thot nest and kept as a sort of cow. The neither they nor anyone cise has A college graduate at 17, ants "milic" some kind of secretion found out, and that is how butter- translator in

navy from him and in return they give fles got their name.

Japanese at 18 and him young ants to cat.

college instructor at 19 are the three They don't eat butter, they don't steps in the career to date of Donald- "The process of turning from

smell like it or look like it, yet Frifeld, youngest graduate of Ohlo A the caterpillar into a butterfly inside the word has been in use for nearly a

Oxford Dictionary says the State University. chrysalis is one of the most remark thousand summers, able happenings in nature,"

The youth finished 12 years Pincher sald. The caterpillar com-

It's the same with caterpillars. Public school in eight and breezed pletely disintegrates until it They have nothing to do with eats, through the Univeralty in nothing, more than a shapeless mass

pills er piliers, yet they've had the years, carrying a full load of of living cells, which then reshuffle same name in various

Journalism, modified

German, French, themselves until they have become forms since 1440 and no one

Spanish and Portuguese courses. a butterfly,

why,

With this thought we will leave July 1945. Mustered out last year, He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in "It's like pulling a house down buttererflies-and let's hope and using the same bricks to build won't be long before we see theming for a master's degree in bust- it he is now back at Ohio, Slate study- another of a completely different in the flesh fluttering over the hotness administration kind."

teaching Spanish as a university instructor.

Mr

folds.

knows

and

of

two

HOW RUDOLF HESS TRICKED

WILLY MESSERSCHMITT

By ALLAN DREYFUSS

Willy Messerschmitt, 49-year-old German aeronautics expert, in a statement made in Nuremberg, disclosed that Rudolf Hess tricked him into providing a well-equipped aircraft for his famous "mission for humanity" trip to Britain in 1941.

#

o'clock that evening while drinking wine in an Inn at Innsbruck. Two hours later, Goering called and or- dered the unnerved Inventor to con- fer with him in Munich.

"The next morning 1

met Goering aboard his special train in the Munich railway

continued Messerschmitt

his

in one of fancy uniforms, he pointed his

marsbal

Recounting the series of incidents short dights. I am willing to wager by which Hitler's deputy obtained that it will lose all its manoeuvr baton at my stomach and

the plane for his fight the well- bility If you (Continued from Col. 3) known plane designer, who is now tanks in the

under arrest in Nuremberg as But Max is

bored with prison possible witness for the forthcom- life. Ele gets only half an hour's ing trials, sold: exercise a day,

+

came to

attach

extra petrol the wings." ព Shortly afterwards Hess used the

same tactics

as regards long-range radio

plane.

me In Augsburg look ability, Messerschmitt had the radio

school-boy equipment Installed just to

show

"Well, as far as you're con- cerned, Herr Messerschmitt, ap». parently anybody can fly!"

"I asked him what he meant and Goering sald "You know yery well,"

fellow,*

Not Just Anybody

In the late autumn of 1940, Smarting from the reflection on his this Hess

equipment for the The prison library has nothing ing like a shy, eager

Hem in it but old books of the Victor scarcely out of short trousers. He Hess that the addition of the heavy Hugo, variety, and cheap battered told me he wanted to test some of

my new fighters.

"In view of his 'important connec- about tons, I could only see a lot of

arrange

noveld which Intrator' describes as "reading stuff for girls.”

But the strangest thing

from the

receiver and transmitter did. not "I sold, But Herr Relchamarshal, affect the plane in fight.

Hess is not just anybody." Under the curiosity, Hess's acoffing gradually said You should have mudo

gulso of scientine "Goering, calming down a bit, gonded Messerschmitt into building quiries before giving a plane to a unannounced fight.

on-

Max, say prison officials, le that ho troubls coming happened to him, an ideally-equipped plane for the answered 'In that case, if you.

really does not understand at all ment if why there is so much fuss.

so naturally I refused.

But Hess's stubborn

that

Insistence

that.

lice

came to my factory for a plane A Big Job

should I have to ask the Fuehrer During another technical discus- for permission_first??: ho

"That slon the flying Deputy Fuehrer-in-

made Goering

again casually about measures for furlous and he retorted. "That's dis

his position as the Fuehrer's deputy and German Youth Leader gave him the right to do as wished eventually caused the plane

He tells them: "I am a înancier, not a swindler, and all my trans- Bellons were paper ones. I never peddled pound notes like a vulgar black market man.”

In statement issued through his designer to change his mind and destroying new model planes in the ferent, at least I am the air minis- counsel, Max recently said that gave Hess permission to fly the all Anancial dealings had never

avent of a pilot being forced down jer," ME-110 on test fight.

over enemy territory. Only after And Hess Is Hitler's deputy, 1 Excellent Pilot totalled more than between £15,000

Hesa had parachuted into Scotland

tland replied. and £17,000, and 10 percent, only

The Deputy Fuchrer, whom did Messerschmitt realise the tric- "'But you should have seen this ivan profit.

His counsel,

Messerschmitt described as "an ex- kery by which Hess had

yas crazy. Messerschmitt,' managed man M. Andre Klotz, cellent pilot," made about 20 test, to use him to accomplish his end.

Goering said," "Intrator does not contest nights from the me:

Augsburg feld. On

Muniform

wearing an Messerschmitt replied, "How was ameer's taunt and hecklo

and Mes-

Bight in his cupy stich a high position in the registering his

Reich? You should

puthave shortcomings which he found

In from Augsburg and flew to Stavan had him resign, Herr Reichsmar the plane's performance, thus goad get, Norway, where he joined

Man putrawed "Intrator argues, too, that because ing the engineer his home was in Cairo he himself plane which would be ideal for the That alone was a big job for Go back to building your planc

Into" perfecting

Goering-sib? a bomber formation flying to England?.. shal."

You're incurable, Messerschmitt

told

that he was engaged in certain | But after each fight he would do. May 10. 19hout insignia. I to suppose that a lunatic.could oc

operations in Paris in order liberits and ha- enkifiters, about wife's maiden, namo, Hess took of Third

Anancial to earn his living, but he argues that, he only did his customers service in all his deals,

was, always legally the sterling area."

But he will have to wall to ex- plain all that to: Judge Pierrli, bur

loudly

́a resident of light to the British Isles.

amatour to perform," sold Mosser- Thus after – one trip Heas told schmittel og hin said wil help your out of this Messerschmitt "This fighter" (the ⠀ Fint. nows of the Hens flight mess, if Himmler tries to make ME-110) Lazcellent but only for came to the plans designer at eight trouble for you: gyer it.*