1947-09-27 — Page 4

Paul Holt

AN ITEM IN THE AGONY COLUMN

T is commonly supposed by the great reading, public that all the mysterious little personal advertisements which appear in the agony columns are in truth codes for black, marketeers.

As the old

in their

couple. Joft,

Jessie

lessed them both and looked hard oyes to see if she WAS forgiven. She was.

Mark grow curiously quiet when David wog coming.

said he did not like the idea of a never child. But when Jessie began talk- using plans, ho showed at Indination

to change the subject.

Thus: "JESSIE meet under the clock Victoria Station 12 o'clock Friday your loving parents JJJ 278," clearly means that at that hour a consign- ment of

hi-jacked roasting chickens will arrive in the Buckingham Palace-road from Norfolk in a lorry with the fake number plate JJJ 278. 1 thought so, too, until 1 met Jessic.

Down it fluttered To be truthful, we had known.

each other in a nodding kind of way for quite some time, She uses the same pub, a cheer- ful little beer-house in Kensing ton.

7

.

Issic always comes in at noon, orders

Moussec-and-Guinness which is as far as her purse will stretch to Black Velvet--drinks it. very slowly and goes pul with pleasant smile for all:

woman of some

Ench year that followed he grew quieter. Ife took

ours on end with chair tilted back

to sitting for small study. Not doing anything, and his feet against the wali in his just staring. IL muter that he appeared less and

did

10t really less at a father's broking firm in the City, the family was so rich.

Then the war came, Mark joined up, did his six months before the mast, went to King Alfred School for R.N.V.R. officers and was passed rat with two wavy rings (being over 30).

and boyish and eager for fun. Any The war made Mark boisterous kind of fun. Jessie used to go out with him roystering on his leaves his infections, each "bingo" left her but although she momentarily caught dissatisfled and uneasy. Then she heard Mark was in hospital, in a inelancholia. ' psychiatric ward. Hie had

Disappeared

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1947.

DAB

AND FLOUNDER

DAB & CO

The

Picturas

by Walter

Strangest Mystery

since Stonehenge

by

CHAPMAN PINCHER

N the Peruvian foothills of the Andes where a

ancient town of Nazca, an iwig of the Rio Grande river trickles by the

on

one

American scientist bas stumbled

of the strangest Ands of modern times,

It is the world's biggest art gallery-300 square

of birds. spiders, and many-headed

She Is florid

JESSIE was at length allowed to miles of desert plateaus digaily, who manages to give the liy and fenderly nursed him, watchingnes

bring him home, and she faithful- studded with huge draw- impression always that she has just s mind slip away from him day plants come from a hot room. is composed and tired and her hands was nobody's shoulder to

Her face by day. She did not cry, for there serpents. a little puffy, and you would think Mark cried. He cried quietly most her a housekeeper were it not for of the day. Then, one day, he died. her voice, which is soft and cultur He took a breath and then he just cd.

didn't take another one.

Opening her purse one day to pay for her cole drink, a newspaper, cutting fluttered to the floor, and there it was when I picked it out:

"JESSIE meet us under the clock Victoria Station 12 o'clock Friday your loving parents JJJ 278."

тоге

"Oh, you don't want that," she sald quickly, and she flushed a little

than her normal flush. changed the subject at once, which la-known to be the surest way of bringing a woman back to it. Sure enough, she began to talk. Jessle has a son called David who goes to the preparatory school of one of London's great public schools. He

is 14, a bit of a dunce with a nice smile.

cry on.

the

It is also biggest

world's

As- tronomical for the funeral,, and his mother crials-cross- Murk's old people came to London ntins, For talked to Jessie about Jessie said she would think about it, a re

bout bringing David ing the mys out to Weybridge to live with them. the symbols

appeared. David, too. Not a trace. lines

hun- By the next day sho hud

dia-

dreds of Sho had changed her name,

ала her Identity card,

Geometric her ration books, and shapes What

was that. A different woman out

Iuld with appeared in the Earl's Cort-road mathematical shopping queues. A different woman precision and went to work in a laundry.

Jessie had chosen eight hours day In steamy heat, o basement room and crumbling stucco and cats and weariness.

Jessie's secret

WHEN Mark's

will was everything was left to her, but proved she did not budge from her secrecy, this much to keep David from his photographs

"But why? Why do you want all

them?" I asked her.

Says the professor in his report "What seemed to us the largest astronomy book in the world spread out in tront of us. How could we learn to read it? I decided to make a general survey of the whole region.

"By making lights over

SOUTH

PERU

Markingual NAZCA

AMERICA

viliares

severol

teaus were used. for occasions.

milea

BBC Shortwave Programmes

SUNDAY, SEPT. 28

6.00 FORCES' FAVOURITEN.

6,30 THE RICHARD TAUDER PRO-

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Guest arist: Irene' Ambruin.

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6.00 AN SEEN. FROM SCOTLAND. 'ORACIE'B' 6.15 DANCE MUSIC

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:

12.00 MIDNIGHT. IN A SENTIMENTAL

MTOOD.

MONDAY, SEPT. 29

FROM

INDIA AND

1.00 REPORT

PAKISTAN A weekly

programine in which BBC special correspondents in India daccriba the scene after the transfer of power to the Dominions of India and Paklitan.

6.30 RIUNIC WHILE YOU WORK, 7.00 WORLD OF WORK 'Earning the

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Fifth talk by r. C. Hooper.

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2.15 VARIETY CALLS THE TUNE

BDC Variety Orchestra Conductor: Rac Jenkins.

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10.15 NAVY MIXTURE.

10.43 A TALK.

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11.15 MERRY-GO-ROUND.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 30

0.00 WELSH HALF-HOUR.

0.30, MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 PLAIN ENGLISH

'Second-Hand Thoughts. Daniel George

7,35 BAND PARADE.

talks about

cllcher, the

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thinking

ready-made

that

cnuses it.

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643 ANDREW

FINNER

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10.15 BAND OF THE LIFE GUARUS Conductor: Captain A. Lemolno.

1043 TALKING POINT, 11.00 RADIO NEWERBEL 1135 VARIETY BAND-BOX.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1

6.00 I'LL PLAY TO YOU.

4.30 DIUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 1.00 SCIENCE AND DAILY LIFE. 1.13 THE CASINO ORCHESTRA directed by Albert, Sandler, with Four Hands in Harmony. (Tony Lowry Clive Richardson at two planos).

5 TIP-TOP TUNES

8.00 THE NEWE

45 JANETTA MESTAY fplans). 9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. 9.15 CAROLE SINGING. 9.30 GREEN FOR DANGER'

and

10.15 LONDON FORUM. ceremonial 11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.

11.15 Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth THE STUDENT PRINCE Based on the play Old Teidelberg," Book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly.

THURSDAY, OCT. 2

and below the Earl's Co. hind grandparents? Is it really fair to Kosok, of Long Island University, the manents when the sun crosseż ceremonial roads leading to burial Music by Sigmund Romberg.

dad.

The first clue

The double lines may have been rounds. Perhaps they were linked with the sun's movements for sacred Tensons, as we align, our churches with east and west.

the area I was soon able to have often the ruins of stone watch- now known

get a general picture of the towers near by. The ancient neopies to mark the

whole Inyout, with the result who made these markings did not movements ABOVE: The two body divisiona of the sun.

that I succeeded in locating live on the bleak plateaus but In Geraldo and his Orchestra. and eight legs of this foure clearly indicate a spider.

at least a dozen radiating eres in various parts of irrigated Many of the drawings are simply the pampas."

away. The hugo marked out on the sand by narrow

oblongs and Maria triangles--some of them are thou-from the Frank Launder-Sidney Cat Kosok and his assistant, rows of pebbles and cannot there- Reiche, watched the sun rise and set enclosures for the different clans of 10.00 THE NEWS. He has only one problem in his

sands

of feet long-may have been fils. Enisode 1: Death Comes Again. life, and that is to conceal from his

ground level. fore be easily deciphered

from ver the markings on many other pro-Nazcan society when the pla-10.4 THINK ON THESE THINGS. schoolmates the fact that he lives

mediately obvious from the air, and

But they are im- days. with his mother in one basement

it is by taking hundreds of aerial marked the year's longest day and They proved that other Encs room in that grey and ravaged part of Kensington which lies

that Professor Paul the spring and autumnal equinoxes The entrance

has been able to rediscover this work the equa or making hall of the house

"It isn't that," she said. "They of a lost civilisation. smells of cats and old umbrellas, even give him up, if necessary, lo

12 hours of could have David tomorrow. I'd

night and day throughout the world. and the windy stairs down to the

A few of the lines trace the paths basement room are block night al

be sure he had the best education

of shadows thrown on the fat sand full noon

a bay chan have. But It's the

by certain hills as the sun moves knowledge that goes with David straight from a series of central For this

lines run reason David Ands it

ruler will not

of the year.. not give up. necessary when leaving school to

'You set off at a brisk

see, Mark and I were never

hubs to the horizon. pace towards

Many of them married. Hyde Park Corner

I didn't care, we were so

Fore double, like tramlines, and until he has happy together. I wore his ring and

several miles long. shalten off his companions. Then he kept his house and that was good

The Nazcans call these "Inca- doubles back home. This makes him enough for me. I didn't realise why which could ever have been used radiating pretty tired some days. He loves he wouldn't marry me for a very long for ordinary transport, for they run posts. Most of them are located on

roads," But they are his mother.

time.

Then I knew He-had-felt steeply over the tops of hillocks Hillocks, and even those on the fat all along that a madness was Ing over him. That was why he they the remains of un and peter out suddenly,

Nor are didn't want me to have David.

irrigation Jessle sighed and advertisements

system, for they do not connect sipped. month regularly. But I

with any rivers. appear Опсе a them.

Can't once went to Victoria and there

ihey were, standing under the clock 43 they said they would. crept away, You see, I simply dare.

them that we were

Before David was born Jessle was a Berkeley gir), Nitz-for-lea girl. She went to Kitzbuhel

and the Dublin Horse Show, and somebody was always bound to ask her to their house party for Goodwood.

They met

SHE was talking in quite a friendly not tell

way une

com-

Those

Buswer

never

MOST of the

not rands

It was while watching the Bun these desert platenus that Professor Ko down behind the rim of one of Kosok got his first clue to the real meaning of the markings.

He noticed that the sun sei exact-

at the

ly ut

It would break their poor single lines of one of the long

about his old award 43 279?"

Goodwood Monolulu, asking him baby, when she saw Mark staring at her. She blushed. Mark tinued to stare.

cun-

There he was coming up to her. Here he was talking to her in one of those quidt, bell-toned Navy voices, saying: "I say please forgive me, but I couldn't help noticing that you backed Charley Boy. I wonder, might

i winnings for you?***

gipsies which is a

.collect

your

The next day they went cp on together and mixed the common folk and

the love and from then there was no sure sign of holding the affair in check at all They honeymooned in Venice, and when they came homo Mark took ber to see his people.

Anniversary

June 22, and Professor Kosok remembered it was the day of the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere the shortest day in the north of due west. year, the day the sun sets furthest Every year for that line had marked a critical day in the calendar.

"Oh, a car they gave me. They called it a peace offering."

Jessie smiled at the bar, down her glass and went back to put her laundry. She has a kind of centuries courage I greatly admire.

across the sky on important days

Kosok's theory

H°

How old?

How old are these markings? The 11 American Museum of Naturni

WHAT does it all signify? Kasok's work, makes a tentative estimate of History which has published Kosok'e theory is this:-The hubs of the 2,000 years.

lines

were obscrvation

BELOW: A well-defined, atplised drawing of a bird, 100 feet long.

FAMINE AGAIN THREATENS

NORTH CHINA THIS WINTER

pro-

This spring there was lack of rain.

BY ROBERT A. BURTON

(United Press Staff Correspondent}

the

curate

Gentle

9.00 SCOTTISH HALF-HOUR. 6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WONK. 7.00 CULTURAL TALE 'Pleasure

trem Books. "The same of bla exsays.

7.15 JAN GERENSKA and his Orchestra. Harvey, 8.00 THE NEWS.

Ella A talk about Charles Lamb and

3.15 TED BEATH

and his Music.

with

9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.

D.13 CAVAN-O'CONNOR

9.30 ACCORDEON CLUB.

10.00 THE NEWS.

10.15 JAZZ CLUB, 10.45 RADIOLYMPIA

Frederiek

430 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK 7.00 TALK ON MUNIC

The Orchettes

The Percussion."

Jimmy Blades,

.

An illustrated talk by 7.30 RAVIO RHYTHM CLUB. 1.00 THE NEWS.

B.15 NATIONAL SPORTAREEL. 6.45 HING WITH BAM'. 0.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. 0.15 RADIO NEWATERL

0.30 MERRY-GO-ROUND MELODIES Tunes fint you may have heard 'Merry-Go-Round. Played by The Blua Mariners Dance Orchestra, conducted by Deorge Crow, and Sumner.

sung by Marbara

10.09 THE NEWS.

20.19 PAUL ADAM

and his Mayfair Bluste.

10,45 A TALK.

on

11.00 SATURDAY OUT AND ABOUT including commentaries Ireland v. Scotland at Bellast, com- Soccer: mentator, Raymond Glendenning (Light Music and Programme Announcements' included in titla period).

A DOOR FOR

INDORE

An enormous, hand-painted. aluminium door, framed in copper moulding, believed to be the only one of its kind in the world, is en route

to Central India. It will embellish

an old palace remodelled by the Maharajah

being Indore,

of

The door was designed by Mrs. Beverly Davisson, New York Interior decorator, and painted by Tital Vaubel, an artist. The door's jewel- coloured panels were derived from ancient Persian door in the Metropolitan Museum. Each panel with its people, birds and flowering trees is part of a story sequence.

Miss Davisson, a personal friend of the Maharajah, was commis- sloned to design new interiors for a part of the Palace that faces bright gardens. To be placed in a large, long evening room, the door will seem to be a heroic painting will hang flush with the wall and in a bronzé frame.

Long Search Ended

A two-year search of 36,000 square miles of New Guinea for airmen lost during the war has been ended by the Royal Aus- tralian Air Force.

Squadron Leader Keith Rundle Jaid he was convinced no man who might have survived a crash-was- still alive in the area of the search.

Rundle's party recently returned from

an eight-week survey of

Kosok is at work, however, on ac- investigation. Ho believes that some of the lines mark star movements. If he can discover to of Radio Receivers.

alk of The Technical Development Dutch New Guinea, which was the which stars they correspond he will 11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL. be able to calculate the age of the SH CONCERT HALL

last region to be covered. They markings exactly. For the point

Conducted and

found the wreckage of six Austra over which a bright star rises

presented by Basillan planes, one Dutch plane, and Comoron;

London

Philharmonie and chestra: suls moves appreciably during een Falla: Engilsh Rhapsody, Brice Fair- Or- Overture: Eurvantha-Weber; 13 US. planes. Dances from The Three Camered Hat- turies and the amount It sirifts each year is accurately known.

in Dellus;

Tono Poem: The Swai Tuonela-Sibellus: Prelude: The Manter- nt atngers-Wagner.

Says Kosok: "This work must be done soon because plans are already under way to irrigate some of the most valuable amas within a years.

few This vill destroy stroke what has come down

at one unharmed.

as a priceless from the distant past."

7

Astronomy

to 18

heritage

NOW it is easy to make specula- tions why these ancient people were, so Interested in astronomy.

Kosok puts it this way:

bodies above.

that

developed

The rise of a more agriculture and the transformation of tribal society into the early period of civilisation brought about growth of a more complex and organised social lite. This

pn resulted in INCENSE burned in the family be compared with the heartbreaking High officials, known for accumulat

creasing realisation that there was Ukewise an shrines of North China's situation of the farmer. When crops Ing land, have turned their interests

extremely organisation amen they learned complex an awkward day. They farmers has failed to I was

the both had to do n jơi ot explain- pitiate the harvest deities, and can accept it in an odd, philosophie

heavenly fall from natural causes the farmer elsewhere,

When ing why the old people had not

the annual movements of most been lot into their secret earlier once again a famine

way, but under present conditions

of the heavenly bodies could be. They felt terribly hurt they hadn't threatens much of Hopei Pro- list forces taking what little food, south

TA KUNG winter he has both Communist and Nationa

PAO reporter re- correlated with the progress of the been

asked

cently visited the wedding. Mark vince.

a flooded area seasons, around which the whole 1 to said he couldn't have borne a full-

he may have been able to save for between Peiping and Tientsin.

of Long-fang. half

way productive and social process IC- dress do, and Jessie, said she had and half the early summer harvest to make the Nationalist armies self- houses staring hopele

famine times.

He volved, a fuller understanding of whirled of her feet.

Although the government is trying standing on

travelled by boat and saw farmers astronomy became imperative. I was the only unhappiness she withered. Today there is too much supporting and not dependent on

roofs of their ∙∙had

that first year willi Mark, think and a large part of the autumn foodstuffs taken from their, urens, subside"

down and praying ing of the old people and their as now, grain seizures by both cording to reliable sourcen uns, ads, salvage the unripe grain and dry

water to Some were trying to eyes. She felt as though Nationalist and Communist resentful she had done them out

armies be partly understood In view of low reward for an entire season's backs. of the complete the work of the elements army pay. A second ieutenant-is-breaking woric. There was nothing greatest trest of thele Ilves, and the The floods came just two or three paid less than a serving boy in Pel- clac to do.

This can on the roof tops.. was their only suspected they would never forgive weeks before a fairly

Desperately she tried to recoup damage to crops in one section alone arm addition to rents, taxes, army army. The farmers had no choice

good harvest ping's foreign homes, and seizure was due to be reaped. As it is, food is also traditional for Chinese tered the small villages by boat to of Soldiers. the reporter wrote, on- her position. On the anniversary is estimated at over U.S.$800,000. of their Veniceaneymoon she

claim made Mark give a big party In

cereals as Loss of the earlier crop, mostly requlaltioning and natural disasters, but to hand over reluctantly the re- support for the their little house in Chelsea.

y In wheat, caused the price of four to farm lands

The riddle The bride's friends and relatives unable to eat the wheat products that and back again. What

rice so high that many people were Nationalist into

pass frequently from quesled foodstuffs. It was the sup- were asked and the groom's friends are the staple food of North China, manages to hide from one army he winter and spring. Without it, they gigantic drawings.

Communist hands ply on which they had intended to PUT what is persistently baffling and relatives wore askell. She The recent flood disaster has pel- usually loses to the other.

farmer live sparingly during the coming Is Anvited

them all for Junchline and marily affected corn

the story behind theso hired a red-contod

The food have no idea of how to keep alive. tomstigter. Not

and kaoliang, left him may be just enough to sup-

Were they clan The farmers did not

folems... signs of the Zodiac... plain too poor to afford, wheat.

weep and that Jessie was Arying very hara

The farming situation Indeed to recreate the wedding anULE effect of these failures has age-old-principle of acquiring the tions. They merely continued to In North fot, however. This sort of thing has

and planola? Chinh is so tragle that for once the happened for unremembered genera- ceptions naric's old people so bitterly been and will continue to be felt good carts, as security has changed pray for the water to subside so that misaça.

strongly in the cities, but this cannot into fear for anything Involving land, they could plant the autumn wheat

ber.

tha

"With this purpose, a rising priest- hood built up plication suivant als of any an extensive system observations and calculations and

completely to dominate life on earth. addressed to the heavenly bodies which, with their relentless and unfluctuating periodicity, seemed

was born." Thus the first science,

nstronomy,

a word wag said, ftat foods traditionally caton by those port his family for a week or two. pray to heaven for mercy on the or. attempts to signal to the sun

ling enough that science has only just discovered the biggest strica of Whatever your theory, it is start-

trawings on the face of the earth.

FRIDAY, OCT. 3

6.00 ULSTER HALF-HOUR. 8.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 CURRENT AFFAIRS, 7.IS AT YOUR REQUEST. 1.00 THE NEWS.

SIDE. GLANCES

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They also discovered the remains of 70 Japanese planes.

Moresby

Eorlier. Rundle's party searched the Buna and

arcus. crossed the Kokoda traff and travelled through the heart of the Sapec River country. They estab- Bished for a certainty that 40 U.S.. and Australian airmen previously re- poted missing had been killed.

ODPH, THEY HY NEA BERVICE, MC, T, M. BET, SI, IL BAT, OMP

By Galbraith

"Don't be too harsh with him, dear......after all, when boy his age gets a new fire truck, lsn't it perfectly natural (for him to set the house on fire!!!