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GHOSTS SIT AS MODELS FOR HIS PORTRAITS

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By Robert Musel

FEW stops from the. Lear is a former newspaper- legendary abode of Sher- man who took up, his unique lock Holmes of Baker Street, profession when he suddenly de- London, is the haunted atollor veloped psychic tendencies. He of the world's most unusual gets orders from bereaved artist.

friends of familles for portraits after which, he says, the sub. "ject appears spontaneously from the Beyond and. sits for the painting,

old

You ring the bell of an house and. And yourself in a lit- tered room hung with black drapes, which thicken even more the eerie shadows clinging mournfully to each corner.

Frank Lear lays down his He has brush with a sigh. been painting a portrait of a young and lovely girl. Yet no one is in sight, nor is he work ing from a photograph.

"She's gone," he says "Who?"

"The girl. First time she's come back from the Other World in over a year."

For Lear paints only "com- municators"—he hates the word "spirits" and loathes the word "ghosts." And the girl died in the blitz three years ago,

"Didn't I see this portrait a year ago?" I ask.

Lear adjusts his old-fashioned black string tie, brushes back the grey hair.

She

"After it is finished, and only then do I ask for a photograph so I can compare my work. 1 have never yet failed to get a antiafactory likeness, easily re- Cognisable by the client. Many times," he continued, "I even check dimensions with calipers and I am always right."

The high point of Lear's relations with those who have "passed over" came during the blitz when he was

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1947.

DAB

FLOUNDER

Mr. GABS he's the man

who has a new line in prophecy) sets Bernard Wicksteed finding out all about EARTHQUAKES

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1000

by WALTER

a top with a slight wobble, and Every second every day it's the period of the wobbla is near under stress somewhere and enough to 429 days.

shifts to 'ndjust itself. That's One scientist, and possibly the what earthquakes are for, gifted Mr Gabs, believes

quakes are more common when we didn't have thom the skin' the poles shift than at other would get loose on the core and times.

break up. Then where should more in the day we be? Some place where high and they are more frequent at prices and the housing shortage noon-local time. Another wouldn't matter any more. thing. Earthquakes are more common on the mainland in win- ter and on islands in the sum- mer.

There are

F you've been following course, people who set the news you will have themselves up in the earth- heard of the gift of quako prediction business don't

Weak lines Mr Gabs. Mr Gabs is a just rely on the fact that there's Danish photographer one somewhere all the time. How do people work all these and his gift is the We must be fair to Mr Gabs. things out? It's not dif. power ito prophesy The one he prophesied recently ficult, really. Just hard work. earthquakes. He said was quite sizable. It was One man made a catalogue of there was going to be felt in many parts of California, 160,000 earthquakes, with all Tuesday and there was and in Los Angeles it broke a the times and places at which

window.

they happened.

followed home in the blackout one night during an air raid by a ghost. Lear shut the door but it was, of one on course, no use and he had to stay-In Japan. up all night painting the commu-

nicator,

morning and I was able to tell her "His daughter called me next I had her father's portrait already done," he said.

around

I noted fewer canvasses than usual, and Lear sald he had been incapacitated for a while by

an nceldent.

"Oh 'they' warned me all right," he said, "but I was careless. Two years they have been warning me it would happen."

He reached for his brush again

The week before he'd said, "Watch out on Thursday." and

there he was only a day out; because was an earthquake in California on Wednesday.

How does the man do it? We ang up Mr Gabs in Denmark and asked him just that ques- tion. But Mr Gabs wouldn't talk. He said there was money in his secret, and he was going to make the most of it.

I've been looking into the

and dabbed at the purtrait of the earthquake business myself. If

"Yes, I believe you did. came here just after she "passed over" and asked me to paint her.

"Then she disappeared. few days ago I was sitting here alone when suddenly I knew she said.

girl.

A

"I think you'd better go,"

he

the

was in the room. She's pretty. Maybe I only imagined that isn't she? Only 21, you know.” curtains rustled-United Press.

SIDE GLANCES

Samw

Mr Gaba can make money out of it by warning foreign govern- ments of impending calamities, why shouldn't we?

The first thing to understand about earthquakes is that they come in all sizes. There are the big world shakery which are felt

By Galbraithover a million square miles and

CÓPI 1947 BY MEA SERVICE, ING. T, M, REG, 12, 9. PAT, OFT.

"I think pet names are cute, don't you? George calls me his little nincompoop!"

there are dhe little fellows, so small you can detect them only with special recording instru- ments.

How many ? THE big ones average less than a dozen to the century, and they are not always calamitous then. It is when the centre of the disturbance is close to a big city that people get killed.

So Mr Gabs will have a slow

This

may shake you!

WIDE AIMS OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

Health, universally important to the peoples of the world, is | recognised by the United Na- tions us a basic factor in the happy, harmonious relations and security of all. :-

With modern methods of com- munications, the spread of disease is more rapid than ever before. It recognises no national boundaries. Therefore, 'n worldwide mechanism to deal with health. matters has become essential.

Itinted

Council.

To work toward "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible have organised the World Health level of health," the United Nations

If Organisation (WHO), the first in- ternational Specialised Agency In- Social Cout U.N. Economie and its constitution, WHO is now repre- Awaiting additional signatures to sented to the peoples of the world slon which is at work by an 10-nation Interim 'Coinmis- on specific programmes for WHO after it is

set, permanently The most disastrous carth- WHO'S

up. However; constitution indicates a quake on record was in India brond programme of world action about 200 years ago. It killed on health matters, 300,000 people. After

Co-ordinating Body the Tokyo earthquake of 1923 the

Not only will WHO be n world casualty list was: 99,331 killed, health, but it will assume certain co-ordinating body in matters of 103,733 injured and 43,476 miss operating functions.

ing.

Why volcanoes?

Upon request it will aid in strengthening national health services. It will

technical assistance in emerg

health services to special groups and technical information services. It

LOSELY tied up with carth-will conduct health research,

quakes are volcanoes. Mrease

establish standard nomenclatures for Gabs has gone into the volcano le procedures and promote Inter- develop standard diagnos- disease, business, too. Heelia, in Ice-national biological, pharmaceutical land, was in eruption and Mr and food standards. Many of WHO's Gabs predicted that it

broadest

dutles would

will be assigned become more violent

international agreements and Saturday. It did not let him down.

ол

throughs which it may work out.

International agreements and pro- will be

grammes of health action

set up in annual World Health As- Altogether there are between semblies. The World Health As 300 and 400 active volcanoes in each Member

of delegates from sembly made up of the world. It's not possible to no'nt

wil Diso ap- Executive

be more accurate than that, be- Boned to carry

10-member.. no'nt na cause a lot of them are under programme and generally to super- out the Assembly's the sen.

vise the work of on international staff. The staff will be headed by You can think of volcanoes Director-General to be nominated

the

as safety valves which prevent by the Executive

Ive Board and much worse disasters than pointed by those they cause themselves.

The Director empty.

have

ap

also

wilt the unique power to work The volcano population re-nf health, rather than

directly with national departmenta through mains about the same because foreign ministries as is common in as old ones die down and become iterational affairs. extinet new ones appear. About U.N. Economic and Social Council, WHO will work closely with the 100 years ago a

now volcano mrke recommendations. to it and under the sea threw up annet on the suggestions of the UN leland 200 feet high near Sicily. General Assembly. land-grabbing

From this he found there. Those were

Seventy years ago a French- man worked out quakes were most numerous at ness in the crust of the earth, it is theirs. The Italians said full moon. new moon and One runs through the Mediter- it belonged to them and gave it! periods when the moon was ranean and across the Himala- an Italian. near to the earth, though recent yas.

name. So did the The other circles the French. The British called it researchers say this has still to Pacific.

Graham's Island. be proved.

that earth were two main lines of weak days and everyone tried to claim Actress Cannot

Recall Name

A young woman who said sha could not recall her name WHE What causes earthquakes? - It lasted about a year and Manila-born

identified by Kansas City police s Other interval periods that We all know they're due

movie to then sank below the surface. Gon

nctress Mariu have been noted are 19 years, movements in the crust. of the The British, hoping it might Angeles since last week.

Marco, missing frum Log 11 years, 420 days, a year and earth, but why does the crust rise again and provide another for and turned over

Officers sald she would be cared a day, and 21 minutes.

move?

Malta, kept their claim warm Buddy Rogers, with whom she is to Producer The cycle of 429 days is in- To understand this you have by renaming it Graham's Reef." under contract for United Artists. Lurnover if he deals only interesting because it ties up to appreciate that the hot in-

He is en route to Kansas City from with changes that have been erior of the earth is cooling, world is four years old. It was

The youngest volcano in the Hollywood-in-a-chartered-plane,

Miss San Marco registered at a North and South Pole. noticed in movements of the and as it cools it shrinks. You born in a Mexican farmer's local hotel as Miss Jeanie Lynn of New York, police said, using the know what happens to an apple cornfield in 1943. Senor Polido, name of a character played by the This earth on which we have when it shrinks. The skin the farmer, has had to move actress in a picture dealing with

feet high and still growing,

The film fe being produced Rogers.--Associated Press,

these.-

However, there are plenty

niore.

There are the earth- quakes that do little or

no people who are in the right place not, doesn't spin true. It's like with the earth.

damage, but can be felt by to live, whether we like it or wrinkles. It's just the same because hía volcano is now 1,380 hypnotism and yet to be released,

at the right time if there isn' too much traffic about.

are

How many of this tyre #here? The estimates of the scientists vary, but they agree that every day there's an earth- quake somewhere. One profes- sor puts it as high as 30,000 a year, and that works out aut more than three an hour or about one every 20 minutes,

If you count the tiny ones that only instruments can pick

up, it would probably be true to say that some part of the earth's surface is shaking every moment of the day and night.

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23. Gunner's account ?

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upset.

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the backi

31. Dat busy when the sculpture

was ahead.

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award

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... LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIGN:

FASHI

Ideological Campaign In Soviet Art & Literature

decreed by tha Party.

admiration for the modern, bour-

by

THE campaign to rid Soviet influences has been successful in the months since, according to

arts of Western bourgeois the nine months since it was recent article by David Zaslavsky democracy. of

Communist in Pravda, the madazine has be of bourgeols

come interesting and vivid and is monstrous and emasculated. published

on a high ideological and artisile level."

"It is a question of political sys- Pravda recently for not devoting The type

tems, a question of man, world out enough attention to the collective material it has look, sociál, family and published to bring it to this

personal farmers, another facet of the ideo- high ethics.

logical campaign. artistic standing Zaslavsky listed "Fascist Germany, which wished to win and dominate the whole

"All these works, Soviet and the geols culture of the West."

Czar's translated," said Zaslavaky,

spiritual sufferings Iis editors were removed, and in the vital problem of the

"ralso rather than what Pravda called the present dominant themo, "the Czar's per- a day, the question of truly popular sonal drama merely accentuating

socialist democracy, the social, popular drama."

democracy false,

Writers have been criticised

Nearly all the new plays, books, ballets,

operas, Alms and

other forms of expression depict in some form the Socialist struggle.

They show either the superiority of Soviet citizens and the Com- munist -way in surmounting dif- nculties of production, of home life. of International affairs or they show the difficulties faced and ar-

of

By WALTER Cronkite

1 Simonov's

in

"Our Soviet literature is called upon to glorify the many-aided tree Jabour of the people which in- creases the power and wealth of the whole country," one editorial said. "Soviet writers must create in the Tho Russian world, has been destroyed, but now next few years a rich gallery rors committed in coping with these Question" play depleting the American imperialism is claiming characters from our collecitvised of In capitalist countries. anti-Soviet

machinations of world domination. Soviet wellers countryside. America's capitalist press. magazines,

reveal what is false, hypocritical pointing out that some 2. The American play, "Deep and reactionary in bourgeois shortcomings

exist,

demo- This problem have Are the Roots"-dealing with race cracy"

already is being praised the enthusiasm with which prejudice in the South.

attacked, ond on the list of plays While progress has been good in now being rehearsed: there is one, SOM writers, setors and

artists

3. A novel, "Wind' From the the campaign, there are still some "Our Daily Bread," which, accord haun

embraced the campaign, and South" on the spreading of "pro- spots where improvement is eliminated.

needing to the announcement, deals, with deendent Western

gressive

in Finland. romanticism from their work.

ed, according to the frequent news the "self-sacrificing toll of the col- 4. A play,

of Reginald paper and magazine criticism, It is

Tectivo farmers." that this assess- expected

- Davison American occupa The nims have borne a inrgo ment will.i

.be confirmed by the tion of

of Trieste, • .

share of this criticism, and they re- Other plays in preparation re- Union of Soviet Writers governing

5. A novel by Wanda Wast-cently underwent a

particularly veal this new Meological dedication

playwrights.

mittee,

and

atiil

to,

"Fale

"Is It

of the largest film studios of

tho

The

för

body when it meets to survey the levska, When the Day Dawns severe attack for "cold and indif- of Soviet progress of the campaign, given top on the resolving of postwar family ferent hack writing that lacks Southern Junction" is a story of the priority when it was enunciated last conflicts

because

the heroes any serious content and any true "execution of the Stallo plan fall by A. Zhdanov, secretary Ο workers at a power station/solve refection of Soviet reality." the Communist Party Central Com their personal problems in relation

aakod reviewer Cr defeat of the Germans In the their place in the work of the A. At that time, Zhdanov took

"that the chiefs deplete the underwards the Dawn" underground struggle and expanded into a

UP People."

the of Soviet patriots in a town occupi union-wide 0. "Charoma" novel with country, who have at their disposat

the Germans), · ed: by programme the criticism” which theme similar to "When the Day so

campaign collective educwerful a means of Ideological This Ideological month before had been levelled by Dawna" but laid on a

education as the cinema, have for carried on in every phase of artistle the party against the Leningrad farm.

ranny of magazine, Zvezda. Mtu

Excerpts from Ellot of our the simple truths expression, including children's poverty banks.. Editorial Katafts recently Roosevelt's "As Ho Sow it which ideological content cannot be con- have been strengthened," accord

ing to newspaper reports, boxuse

Up till then, it had been one of literary publications, but the Party pletura of Amerien to be galoed The Bolshoi Theatre's branded it as racing after foreign from "The Russian Question," sentation of the popular opera, to inculcata Soviet patriotism and entertainment" and a prisoner of "Deep Are the Roots" and other "Boris Groudonov, shows" davishly, in high ideology IA

Inimagazines, and allen, hosthe influences, Infected by similar workai

the life of the Czare and emphasises books for children--United Press.

most popular, and Influential confirm, according to Zaslavsky, the cealed by formal devices pro- they were still doing too