Wrapped
Large-Scale Crocodile Hunt In
E. Africa
Dar es Salaam,
Tanguayik.
The demand for crocodile shoes and handbags hus mule crocodile hunting big
business in East Africa.
The italivichual hunier of pre- war dys almost has become kunts estine! and organised have driven eroendile into in- accessible portions.
That pares a major headache to the industry and crocodiles may have to be protected to svine degree to sifeguard the
He dustry. Crocodiles How
elassed as venmin and may kilt on sight,
Arc be
About 700 aking a month are princed in Tanganyika,
The
whole of East Africa produces about 2,000 monthly.
LITTLE DANGER
Contrary to popular belief, ture is little danger involved In the The entehing crocodiles
Like shed.
to.lt eretiks area on Victoria crocodiles are
balted with large rodes are
of emrat mnd placed La rocky shelves in shallow we
the
A chie shawl and unusual shoes aren't the only at- tractive features of Holly-
The quendite swallows wood's Frery Minore. Her acting ability has also od slower with the bait and
Injure but, if aiyyan, y tipo heen something of
Tan bentre baut assel in helping this, polite ashore and kilt it luscious newcomer get to with heavy wooden, clubs,
the method the ladder. the top of
(Acme).
Bank
Safe
an
Shooting:
the K11
ilv Wi-
La por way hat proc tiles, for unless the ecodile alled imediately
1'
it will inds and then as 1o..
Most intivalul orders
The farb napors stun.
codile, Winch ang hito the
Shelters Three i. Bauley to the bank,
Ext Africa has no tanning - 1 * * sent factories and sklus
War Derelicts, ly to America or
FRANKFURT, Gemany Three youn: Germans "crack- eď the housing problem buy moviest into the huge concrete- ami-steel safe of a former local thank
Tick burglars.
for processing.
Panic In The Streets Bavarians van bones to pace cheer tor stayed and other
formations when Wehrmacht
snarlig through bank itself was based marched
feel fairly rate from
or bombs, behind
20-inch-tiek steel door,
The
a
to bits by Allied bombs 1944, Munich streets recently.
But
List under the pile of burned other saw the film cameras in rubble the safe was loft Intact, vans following the soldiers and 17! single layed to watch the recordia, A young couple
1of war scenes. filed found it and decided
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, YUESDAY, SEPTEMBER - 5, 1950,
Students Pitch In
Britain, Holland, THESE students from the U.S. Switzerland, France, Denmark, West Berlin and from the Soviet zone, too, are helping to reconstruct Eliza- beth Hospital, in the British sector of Berlin. Work on the bomb-damaged building is being financed by the World Council of Churches. (Acme).
Ancient
Yield
Ruins
Clue
A village site in Iraq, believed to be the oldest known to the world, will be explored this winter by an expedition from the University of Chicago
The expedition, headed by Robert J. Braidwood, thropologist, will search the mound of Jarmo in north eastern Iraq for evidence of the first great economic re volution in human history 7,000 years ago.
Film Actress
Owns A
Uranium
Mine
HOLLYWOOD. Everybody around Holly- wood these days owns an oil well. Marine Windsor does
better. She owns
even
uranium mine.
f
Like lots of good fortune, It comes Just when she doesn't}
could need it.. Miss Windsor have used a uranium mine when she was struggling along piny- ing the heavy. Now that she has ot starring role with lots of romance, she has also got one- third of a flourishing mine that promises to make her a rich
The shapely redhead received her ftrat dividend, a check for $1,000, the dny she alarted work in "Double Deal," the first effort of Bel-Air Productions,
"Dad had severni gold claims back home in Marysville, Utah," the explained. "Marysville is n lown of G00 people, none of whom is the least bit impressed by me.
ORE STRIKE MADE "Things were!! going too well for the family to the min- ing game when grologists began
for granium. propelia
A
trke was made in our neigh- Botchool and sure enough, they found rome on Ind's property.
"I found a man in Hollywood who liked the idea of ninelng ra he #ela a edurtion, zund Third, Dad a third and I a third. They have shipped in tons of
re, with a $2,000 profit, and there's 400 more tons ready to "Hip"
Miss Windsor's current heroine role elimaxes 10 years of Archting the battle of Roly- wood as a heavy.
"It was being a lad girl that
dir me the most good," she ob-
erved.
She also enjoys a reputation of being one of the 17ost co- operative netrenes in town.
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The site of Jarno, about the size of a small city block, also is expected to disclos evidence
of form actually a first town planning. selfishness," she said. "When I the Enidwood doubts if streets one at night I like to fer- will be found, but he salt he get the day's work and just ag- drst tax. expects to uncover Dar
row houses" and "quriy wall uring the day it bothers me a known to history.
lot and it takes to much effort to undo the wrong that it just 't worth while in the first place,"
The site was shadled for
three
years ago and That revolution occurred onth
preliminary listings uncovered when men turned from hunt-wheat and barley gray, a% as utensils for grinding take it their improvised bone.. The Wehrmacht "ghest army" ing, fishing and dependence well
The three-same lived in parks wore officially correct uniformson wild plants and began them.
decorations
FLINT TOOLS FOUND they came Frankfurt early police cordonnext off the street raising their own food and Just May, before they discover-where the final scene was shot,janimals.
art at the railway stations after withi
d their present home. The
safe
js a 12-by-9-foot room,
ne feet high.
"it look us
whole day's,
Work to nwint open the 500-
pound steel door, to we
Bet in,"
Heinz Kalinowski,
could
$1
-year-old reinger
from the
former East
German province
of East Pei.
The
FOR AIR
heavy feel or is ell A
open all the time for air.
built-in rate of iron bars serves as door and window. A wood-
n ladder leads down to ubble-covered ground outskle.
the
Jicuz, a bricklayer. will marry blonde 24-year-olit Inge- borg Schramm, from tuedes-
heim on the Khinn,
used up
Live brooms cicaging out the dirt and dust," Ingeborg recalled. "There was plenty of burned paper in the safe. Maybe it was muney once but it was just a pile of ashes when we found it."
The third occupant is Alfred Tromme, 26, a woodcutter, so in refugee from East Germany,
"Maybe I'll find another safe when they get married," Alfred said.
SWISS ARMY GAMES
Geneva, Sept. 4. Swiss Army manoeuvres, which are believed to involve about 30 000 citizen soldiers, began today and will continue until Thursday,
Armoured unlis, infantry and artillery Ewarmed over the western part of the country particularly In the Fribourg Mountains.
Swiss Air Force Vampire jet fighters were in the air again after technical alterations, fleuter.
It's
Seventy
Taus,
Braidwood sud. f'ero
I've hurt
romeone
Both · Do The
Same Thing
A French farmer, carrying a scythe, watches a harvesting machine at work in a farm district near Paris. Both implements do the same job, but there's a vast The French are harvesting good crops difference in the time element involved.
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this year.
ROYAL NAVY
RUSSIAN
OUTCLASSES
IN
FLEET
EVERYTHING EXCEPT SUBS
By Harold Guard
London, Sept. 4.
The Royal Navy is believed to outnumber the Russian Navy in every- thing but submarines, senior naval officers assert. The Soviet fleet, as a potential enemy, is known to include three battleships and possibly a 35,000- ton vessel armed with 16-inch guns, and an aircraft carrier.
the Navy. They said The Russians also are be-epital ships and destroyers, baj
traditionally designed to Aght a lieved to have about 12 mothballs.
In all, the Royal Navy com- full-scale sea War on its own. cruisers. 60 destroyers fud
prises four
battleships, 12 car-and that the battleship still is R.S a "brass-knuckled Slot Machines early 300 submarines. By riers, 26 cruiser, 115 destroyers needled
Rigged To
is proof that some crops were Prevent Pay-off
Chilly In
Chile
| raiset.
EVEN if the month is August, it's cold on the other side of the Equator, 12,000 feet above sen level in the Andes Mountains, near Portillo, Chile. The pretty scenery is Dorla Kleiner, of Santiago, who has been chosen "Miss Winter Sports" by vacationists at the
popular winter-in-summer resort.
K. O. CANNON
11 QUGHT TO HAVE
STUDIED THIS PLACE
BETTER..HE MUSTY
·DE HÈRE..
Oc
CANNON, You.... YOU-WHERE IS MY DAUGINER? WHERE IS SHE ?.
(Acme).
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Chicago, Flint tools also were found,
State police report that slot and Braidwood said thi
in all dicates the inhabitants of Jarnanaschings conscaled were not too far removed from wire rigted to pay off only 20 The Stone Age.
cents n the dollar.
Folier sard the "one-armed ' calendar" bandita" meized in raide in! the University various sections of Illinois, were
The developed
Fatomic
of Chicago's institute for nuclear nickel" to studies Indicates
the higher payoff. that village is about 7,000 year old.
prevent
the end of next year they and many analler surface cratt. bodyguard" for mosquito craft. hope to have built another 300 German-type U-boats.
SPEED EMPHASISED
For protection against
the nd- fast submarine, new trelles and detectors new top
super-sensitive
More
CLING TO BATTLESHIPS Faced with the mennee of
submarine. the of the the fast than
it third
hin accorded Brith Navy is in reserve, with miralty
to River priority
of subering
construction chasers, hut has
are in service.
Ball Boy Wanted?
au intention
a
Mr and went to Box
To bridge the gap
In the chasery,
of disearding the need for fast surfaec battleship as the surest protec- the modern 2,000-tcu destroyers are being stripped down and tion against surface craft,
converted into swift anti-sub- marine frigates.
Senior vl offlers scoff at that the Navy is the rumour
Heavy
States.
and
Ships
to
Cas
turbines are replacing Mrs R. F. Crust to scrap all its enriders, battle-
Fill with their hips and cruisers and leave the conventional engines, nod
found a the building
ared manning of senior officers sald they "drive They said electrically operated det. Donny, Donny
the United further and faster and
casily replaced. The estimate is based on machines have a switch device temis ball in a rabbit hole.
They said the present feet is chemical analysis showing the which can be placed in "con-
Mr Crust took it away
"Go arul And The Admiralty is awaiting built around it carriers. The amount of radioactive Carbonervative" or "liberal" positions
told Domy: of
aboller." Donny did so. Again delivery
aircraft smallest striking force is one 14 still remaining in suai! shells 10 regulate the amount
from him, carriers and three 8,000-ton carrier escorted by four de- payolf. Becovered at the ske,
the ball was taken again he went off to search for cruisers.
nother ball, and again he Loud one.
The "atomie calendar" method On come mechanfeally operated of arriving at the age of relica machines, pollee found screws through a delicate analysis of which permanently blocked cer- radioactive content was de-lain winning combinations. veloped by a nuclear chemist,
On others, the jackpot chute Willard Libby, at the university.ad been seated
off-United
BONES TELL STORY
the
The fret digging at Jarmo also uncovered bone fragments of both men and animals. They show that inhabitants of village were members of the Caucusoid racial group,
often called white, and were related to the peoples now inhabiting the Mediterranean region.
Most of the bone fragmenta of animals were from farm
imals that were either tomesticated or in the process of becoming so. They belonged to sheep, goats, calle, pigs and dogs.
that
Nearby Inhabitants had dis- of clulmed any knowledge ancient remains in the area but an archaeologist noticed a village sheik used flint and steel to light n proferred cigarette,
Examination showed that the fint was a finely worked pro- duct of the Stone Age-United Press
THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS
TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED? YOU CAN'T GET OUT, OF HERE. ALIVE 1.
| FALCO-YOUNE IN TROUBLE
CHOUGH AND YOU CAN'T. SHOOT!..DROP IT.)
YOU FOOL!.....
2
of 10
new
rc-
stroyers and one or two cruisers. Senior officers sakd despite "The Beet wili sill be backed the evolution of the fast sub- by the bottleship, which
the surest protection Donny continued to run off marine, aircraft, guided missiles mains and bring back more and more and the like, naval strategy has against surface raiders and is since still the hardest ship to sink," balls. Altogether he found aine not changed basically
officers said.-United Press. -tennis balls and golf balls. Nelson's days.
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