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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1948.

"All right, don't hang about-go and get some more..

WIFE FINDS GOLD MINE

New fields kept secret to prevent rush

By HAROLD DALE

KENNETH HARRIS and his wife, Claire, left a

"

wartime track in the "Never-Never" desert of Australia's Northern Territory-and stumbled on what a geologist calls "the most impressive goldfield seen in this generation."

There, at Tanami, gold values are reported to show on the surface over

of two an area miles by a quarter of a mile.

Now the Lady Claire Com- pany, named after Mrs Harris, has been formed to develop the discovery.

Sixty miles away, another goldfield has been found. This is to be developed by Mount Isa Mines, Ltd., a £10,000,000 Bria- hard day of nibbling chocolates London Stock Exchange. -Both-discoveries have been. kept

the secret because Government feared a gold rush over 400 miles of waterless de- sert.

THE DISCOVERY

I ENNETH HARRIS, former Army A officer. and Claire, a trained for gold in nurse, were looking barren country.

Nine previous prospectors died of

killed by thirst; two were

aborigines.

the

The Harrises ranged for water and supplies to be

by brought

camel train. Then they

test shafi.

sonk

M

And while Claire descended, Kenneth stood guard at the top. It was Claire passed up the dirt. valuable dirt.

They returned to Melbourne with samples. And geologists went out, One, a doctor of science, reported: in of pleation that this field will rival Kalgooric."

ON GUARD

CLAIRE HARRIS Passed up the dirt,"

GUINTA

TAKEHI

EXTELLES

**

ASMAN

AUSTRALIA

will

OT

A last talk with "SCREWBALL' BEURLING, one of the greatest of fighter pilots, killed last month in a crash in Rome on the way to fight again in Palestine.

He just

had

to rub the

world the wrong way

long ago George "Screwball" Beurling sat

in a Montreal hotel room and brushed aside with a few words his unhappy experiences as a civilian so he could see more clearly and live again the best years of his life.

of

"I would give ten years my life to live over those six months I had in Malta in 1942," lie said.

In those desperate days Beur- ling shot down 29 aircraft and won every air decoration for fighting except, the Victoria Cross.

-1 will drop bombs or åre guns from à plane for anyone,”

Restless young Beurling, who "I'm Interested in politles, and had found the years of peace I read a lot about it, but only to dull and disappointing, said that find out where the next war is going to be and where they will need he had been approached by wor- fighter pilots. ring factions in the Near East

"Other than that all I ask is to fly as a combat fighter pilot. How much will you pay me?","

Ile refused to be quoted on the

What was he going to do the money he made as a reply he had made to these, nd-

But he added: "I cenary, did he think he would live to spend it?

vances.

would be glad to get back into combat. It's the only thing I can do well; it's the only thing I ever did I really liked."

Unable to settle

all

Beurling is convinced that this was the reason the R.C.A.F. did not accept his application in 1839. He went, then, to England and the R.A.F.

"I guess I sometimes rub people the wrong way, but I can't stand sloppy

performatice no maller with

where," he enld. mer-

Flight-commanders, squadron- leaders, wing-commanders, and brass hats have all been given a wrong rub by Beurling, who often chose public places to make his pronouncements.

Beurling shrugged his shoulders. "I think so. I've been shot at be- fore."

Beurling did not blame anyone for the way things failed to work out since he climbed down from his lust

"It was that way I got a reputa- tion for being a wild filer." said Beurling.

On W03

"I'm not a crazy flee. If I were Since his discharge, Beurling Spitfire.

I've I it He was not bitter, although had flown commercially. In be

wouldn't be alive today. that

never scratched an aircraft because tween jobs he had sold life in- amused him in an acid way

Боте of the people who were of my own error." surance (he couldn't stand it), pelting him with roses and big

When Beurling first want hunted deer in Cape Breton with hellos in 1942 when he went back operations In England he bow and arrow (he was a dead to Canada Jater wondered where posted to a Canadian squadron.

On one of his first operational shot), barn-stormed as a stunt they had seen him before. flier, taken passengers up for it that one of the big reasons for he took a posting to Malta.

Beurling was even ready to ad- fights he tangled with authority. So 15-minute flips at fair grounds, his failure to rehabilitate success fished under water wearing fully lay within himself.

He knew he was different goggles and armed with a spear, ski-ed and did a lot of fishing that the world was really kind

people who are different. on his own.

"I'm not kicking. I've made all right for money. I used to get

11ידיי

and

to

He had refused to accept a com- mission as a pilot-officer.

Then the RAF, told him he was an officer whether he liked it or not. and moved his rear to the officers'

George mess.

continued 10 cat with the sergeants

Finally Beurling was wounded in

"Oh, it's been all right," he said.. How he differed

out

tell you the difference be- an air battle. "They had to build £125 for 15 minutes' stunting down tween me and most of the fellows a new heel on my left foot. I got an ho said. In the States.

who were in the Air Force," he Immediate D.3.0. that day, worked "I've

He had shot down four aircraft, then gene said. and

destroyed two more, and probably and now "They learned to fly, fishing. It's been all right but I've

damaged one, bringing his total to never been able to settle down, that they are out they are back at

"And

I'm glad. It leaves

me their jobs, and have no desire ever 29. He and his squadron mates had

taken on 80-plus Germans. clear and without any strings to to pilot an aircraft again." no back to the only thing I really

Beurling said this last with a love-combat flying. I'm a fighter rising note of surprise in his voice. pilot."

The surprise was genuine, for he Beurling belleved that he did a cannot imagine anyone not being job for Canada during the war, and interested in flying once he has comehow Canada failed to do right flown, by him.

He did not know exactly where the shortcoming had been, and he did not blame anyone in particular, Seeking a war

his

The Liberator that eventually took him and a score more airmen out of Malta overshot the Gibraltar

runway and crashed into the water.

Swam to safoty

Pilots cald of Beurling that he.

Beurling. his shattered leg in a carried his own gun sight in head, so keen were his eyes and so cast, but his judgment unimpaired, wift and faultless was the calcula- saw trouble ahead when the pilot ting equipment he had in his brain. came over the end of the runway

Beurling himself sald he could on his approach.

hatch He hobbled to an escape The reason for this was, he felt,

03 most three times as far ECC

and by the time the big plane hit the that he had never been interested

people.

water he had already jettisoned In anything but flying.

dive "There are times when I feel I He first clashed with the Royal the hatch and was ready to am more a European than a North Canadian Air Force a year before into the waler. American,"

Ho swam 150 yards to safety, " he said.

the war, when he entered the aero-1 "I know I may sound hard, but batle competition.

He returned to Canada and began

I will drop bombs ar fire guns from Two R.CA.F. fliers also competed, a tour which Get several records in

a plane for anyone who will pay me, and Beurling won against both of hero worship, bond selling, and bad And I will dy for the one who will them. As he stepped forward to taste.

pay me the most."

WRs pre-

receive his prize from a senior In his native Verdun he received How about Russla? "Except R.CA.F. officer George remarked 20 red roses, one for each foreman

candour that he had slain. Each rose wa Russla," he said. "I don't like-the-with-characteristic. Russians."

often antagonised people (much to sented by a pretty girl. Beurling was asked if he was his surprise), "If that's the best He met Diana Gardiner, widow Interested in the polities of any of the R.C.A.F. can do, it had better of a fighter pilot, and they were his prospective employers.

get somo plots."

REPORT FROM AMERICA

By C. V. R. THOMPSON

-

the

Ister married. Their childless mar- rlage recently ended in divorce.

"I guess I'm not family man.

I ke dying too much and away a lot," said Beurling.

Was

The last eight months had been bad, he confessed in our tolk, but his face brightened as he spoke of possible new theatres.

"They may even have Spitfires out there in Palestine," he said.

"The Jews have four former Luft- waffe pilots lined up to fight with

NEW YORK. The only man to gain from FROM now on the American primaries is New York's governor Thomas Dowey. On the present people have no say in de-list he is by far the strongest. ciding who will fight it out inj But still perhaps not strong them. I've met one of them. His the Presidential elections this enough to beat all the combinations brother was shot down over Malta." autumn.

can be ranged against him at Beurling grinned. "No, not by next month's nominating convention. me. We checked that. An English-

To break the deadlock that is man shot hàn," expected they talk of calling on a dark horse, and the favourite dark horse is Senator Vandenberg.

•

They have not spoken loud enough in the primary elections Slate by Stole polls to enable them to pick their favourite-and the primary season has now ended.

So the politicians take over.

that

The latest combination forecast:

And

is Vandenberg for President Dewey

'In good shape'

Beurling stood up and stretched

for Vice-President the his six-fect of well-nourished fight- er pilot.

"I'm in good shape, too. I don't 想 the certain they will plek Hurry ca's Tories in 25 years.

smoko and I don't know the tasto

THE Lady Claire Company one shares as soon

Federal Mineral Resources

With the Democrats it is almost most formidable "ticket" for Ameri-

Com-Truman, because there is no

mittee gives approval to the Capital else, With the Republicans, or OPINION: Says a baby specialist, of ilquor.

Dr. Henry Hart: "Children have

Issues Committee in Canberra, There are five directors:-

Colonel

onc,

вада

their storles

the

of was

guess you've heard, lots Torles, it is still an open race.

about how Buerling as much right to suck Just But the primary season has had thumba as adults have to smoke tight as a lord. Well, they're lles." VERY night since that report was

We went out into the street, "I E

some effect on the long entry list. cigarettes." made, four men are camped on

It has been proved that no

York's richest don't care what you say about me. HOUSING: New the site of the Lady Claire mino.

LR. D. Stahle, Mal- except perhaps William Randolph tenants aro shout to be evicted. I don't care what anyone says any

Sir Hearst, the newspaper magnate, and River House, £3,000,000 rebourne financier (chairman);

luxurymore. Every four hours one man

But don't bring my family fother's a dairy a few of his Hollywood friends-featured. in "Dead End Kida" Alm into article. My ports "All well-through a portable William Angliss, beef and

H S. Foll, a including Shirley Temple-wants transmitter to a listening station in magnate; Mr

has been sold, and its new owner religious man and he doesn't like Mines

flats and General MacArthur. director of Mount Isa Melbourne.

will split its 17-room

"One night when I was talking And Senator Robert Taft, the smaller ones. The site is pegged out. Sand former Minister of the Interior: Mr.

about air combat he looked worried the dichards, has scooped off the ground yields one Ralph Mackay, machinery manu- white hope of ounce of gold to the ton.

facture; and Mr. L. G. Hartnett, little more left than nuisance value. CHOW: Broadway is talking about and sald: George, when you look turn Rudolph like this I don't know you," said Stassen, who Harold The four men are on guard. For molors chief.

nearly the plan

Buddhist Beurling. "Lady Claire," who healed and

started a prairie fire that would Valentino's home into a

We shook hands and said good- pacified the aborigines, is not there. The Australian Government hopes have elected him in spite of the temple.....The slump in all except

records.. bye. Kramophone She and Kenneth, who now have the discoveries will offack slackening politicians, dampened it with his British

Com-Florida's attempt to start a a son, sold their interests to the gold production. It will sink wells programme to outlaw, the syndicate for £25,000 cash and at the workings. Meanwhile, it is munists, and now he does not have colony which "could rival Hollywood

within ten years." 25,000 shares.

flying out water supplies.

NANCY

OH, SLUGG0 ---WILL

YOU HELP ME HANG MY WASH ?

An Eye for Detail

SURE, NANCY

-BANIE

ZHISHAHJAPALLO,

I'M AN EXPOIT

AT HANGIN

WASH

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