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And Trotsky is not evatieSegUre
in death- His ashes lie in a sofa
in an AlcazOr undertaker's of-.
fiee• Trotsky's widow SaYs she
is: afraid to keep them at home
in case someana might attempt
to steal them.
livery week, a "mystery" wt-
man e believed to be French,
comes to see Mornard in his
Comfortable cell. These
help to Pass away the tedium
Of hi self-imposed imprison-
mant, She, brings him books,
money, flowers, and pipe ha
bacco,
Meanwhile, Moraard's mother
waits for her son iita Paris. Hers
is a tragic patience.
But those who enter or are'
ferced into the Soviet spy-net
never know release-from fear
and angoish, "No one ever re-
signs from the M.V,D," is the
proud motto of this grisly serv-
ice.
Ignace Reiss, a former Soviet
agent, tried to break the bonds.
On one occasion a. Soviet woman
agent was sent with a box of
poisoned chocolates (faced with
strychnine) to give to Reiss and
his family. But some element of
human decency held her back.
She could not bring herself to
offer the chocolates to Reiss'
wife and young child.
*Reiss' body was later found
with seven bullet w o uri d
through his head in a gutter in'
Lausanne, Switzerland.
Another ex-Soviet citizen. Di-
mitri. Navachine, was shot down
in broad daylight in Paris. A.
former Soviet military intelli-
gence officer, General Hrivitsky,
was' found dead in a Washing-
ton hotel room, leaving a fake
suicide note. Another ex-agent's
headless body was found in the
River Marne.
So the killings and kidnap-
pings go on: The F.B.I. not so
long ago found instructions for
manufacturing home-made
bombs from sugar and simple
chemicals, obtainable at any
chemists. The instructions were
written in Spanish for South
American "sympathisers."
Did Stalin Die A
Natural Death?
Did Stalin die a natural death?
Or Was he killed lay one of the
Y 044ger Men muck/tie to topple
the aged, ale's dietaton frctrn his
throne?
This questiOn has interested
most secret services in the world.
Was Berra, the chief of the So-
viet secret police, directly *-
corned in this killing? Or did
he, know so much that he had tO
he got rid, of like his master
Stalin?
The shadow of this Unanswer-
ed .questiOn will haunt the new
boss. Nikita Hhrustichev, who
pushed ,the Soviet. Premier Mal-
enhoy trim the limelight some
months ago. He may find that
a bullet-proof car can as easily
be turned into a hearse by some
ruthless rival . . ,
Consider some of the facts
which lead a well-known Rus-
sian neuropathologist, Profe'ssor
A. K. Stankevich, to put forward
the Stalin murder theory.
The day ,before Stalin died,
Moscow, radio announced that
he, had suffered from a brain
haemorrhage, which not only
rendered him unconscious, but
paralysed half his body and
made him incapable of speech.
How, asks the professor as-
tutely, could anyone know that
Stalin's speech mechanism had
been affected if he was uncon-
scious?
According to the brain specia-
list such a diagnosis would be
possible if Stalin had received
a heavy blow from a hammer or
some similar object on his left
temple. In this event one may
say that the right side of the
body would be paralysed and
the organs of speech disturbed,
Another point: Stalin's body
was immediately subjected to a
post-mortem. But the results of
this poSt-mortem were not pub-
, lished. And the specialist who
conducted this operation on the
body, himself died two days
later.
In these circumstances, Pro-
fessor Stankevich says, the pos-
sibility Of murder cannot be dis-
missed.
Leaving out the moral , issues
involved "one is reminded that
Stalin himself was no mean
Master of the "sudden death"
technique, although he had an
alniost pathological fear of as-
sassination and took the most
hysterical precautions.
During my recent travels in
Europe I met a woman who had
once been a librarian in the ex-
tensive but private Kremlin
library, writes David Tutaey in
"Answers".
One fine morning- quite sud-
denly, without any warning, she
and two other assistants were
arrested.
The fantastic charge against
them was that they had sprink-
led some kind of deadly poisoned
powder 'between the leaves of
books destined to be read, by
the Great Chief himself.
Sitting in a Mexican prison, in
a luxurious, well-appointed cell
with centranheating, a radio and
a well-sprung bed, is a stoutish
forty-five-year-old man in pink-
striped pyjamas.
On a warm evening in May,
1940, he entered Leon Trotsky's
study and drove an ice-pick into
the head of Stalin's Enemy No.
1.
sentenced to twenty years
(there is no death penalty in,
Mexico), Jacques Mornard (alias
Frank Jacson) refuses to leave
the prison walls on parole.
- He spits, and snarls whenever
anyone tries to question hint
about the murder. He hugs the
prison walls like a drowning
man clutching at a straw. -He
fears to be released. He knows
that the Soviet secret police
silences any man "who knows
too much." Once a man sent to
clean out his cell made art at-
tempt to strangle him.
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ronl. Blend mayonnaise vino,
gar, mustard and Salts and tiNlis lightly with macaroni mixt*
until well Wended, Chill het*
serving,
Make 4 to 6 servings.
TOMATO ASKO RINO
1 tablespoon unflavored
geletitt
134 cops tomato juice
1 teaspoon minced onion
1 tea0P004 salt
teaspoon!, Pepper
No teaspoon celery salt
1 tablespoon „tarragon slate-
gar
Soften gelatin in 34 cup of
tomato juice, Neat rest of juice
to boiling; dissolve gelatin in it.
Add remaining, ingredients. Pour
Into 1 Pint or 4 individual
molds. Chill until firm. Makes
4 servings, Fill with chilled
fresh Or canned shrimps.
Real Old-Timer Farm Exhibits
The history of harvesting, from cradle to combine, is graphically portrayed by students from
Michigan State. University's agricultural engineering and, drama departments. The students ,
highlighted the role of pbWer 'farming euipment on the efficient farm in a five-day Centen-
nial of Farm Mechanization-
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ONE-MINUTE FRENCH
DRESSING
*3A, ellp apple cider, distilled
white malt, salad, or tar
Vs cup salad oil
14 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sweet pickle
juice
Combine ingredients in flask
or jar. Chill. Shake before servs
ing. Makes 1 cup,
NIPPY FRENCH DRESSING
2 tablespoons minced onion
2 teaspoon prepared mustard
1 teaspoon prepared horse-
radish
34 cup basic French dressing
COmbin ingredients. Shake
well before serving over tossed
green or shrimp salads. Makes
34 cup,
meals, including a more ample
share of meat.
These investigations clearly
suggest that. Nilotics owe their
greater height to their habit of
eating greater quantities of
meat.
And, incidentally, isn't it odd
that the world's smallest peo-
ples—the pigmies who dive in
the. Ituri Forest region of east-
ern Belgian Congo—are near
neighbours,of the world's tallest
peoples, the southernmost' Nilotic
tribes?
Sells Ladybirds
By The Million MORE PLATE GLASS
Canadian factories shipped
$3,512,629 worth of plate glass
in 1953 as compared with $2,-
929,950 worth in 1952.
nessifts
HE HAS A SWELL HEAD—With heads together are 5-year-old
Charles Enochs and a 1314-pound cabbage:
Too, hoe right now to write
Jew lengthy int•rosinotion; -too
kints In fact to till* of eating
WI/ling more substantial than
A *ice pot salad. So here are
.04140 salad recipes you may find
MAO.
SALMON SALAD
half tins Salnutn, flaked
IA cup vinegar or lemon joke
yj cup mayonnaise.
114 cups diced cetera
sly cup sliced stuffed olives
2/4 teaspoon, salt
roa$4,44 freshly tfrennd
Pepper
Peeled tomatoes
Lettuce ► Mayonnaise
Sliced and 'whole stuffed
olives
Gradually, acid the vinegar to
the mayonnaise, blending' well
after each addition.
Lightly toss together the
ssalmon, celery, ata cup of sliced
olives, and seasonings. Add the
mayonnaise Mixture, blending it
in lightly. •
For each portion cut a toma-
to into three crosswise slices,
Place the stem end slice of
tomato on. 'crisp lettuce, add a
Ailing of the salmon salad, then
the centre slice of tomato, an-
other filling of salad, and the re-
maining tomato slice. Top, each
with mayonnaise and a slice of
stuffed olive. Garnish the plate
With two whole• olives.
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Here is a pew cold aalad
which wil ladd enjoyment to
your outdoor meals:
MACARONI SALAD
i4 cup ripe olives
g_cup macaroni
1 green onion
44 cup chopped green
sweet pepper
1 cup, sliced celery
3 cup diced ham
4 oup shredded proceSsed
cheddar cheese
16 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon vinegar
ail teaspoon prepared mustard
34 teaspoon salt -
Cut olives in large pieces.
cook macaroni in boiling salted
*eater until tender, Drain and
rinse thorougly with cold wa-
4tr. Slice onion thin and corn-
' tine with olives. green pepper,
telery, ham, cheese and mace-
Tallest People
Big Beef Eaters
the fact that when peoples of
races characteristically small go
to live in countries where, food
is'both plentiful and varied, they
grow taller. This has been par-
ticularly noted of Mexicans, Chi-
nese and Japanese who have
genes'to'lime Canada' or the
United States. On average their
height is greater than that of
their kin at home.
Sciehtists of the Smithsonian
Institute .haire investigated this
subject of increasing stature,
using. as *a yarditick the records
of the physiques Of soldiers and
students of the two world wars.
TheY have, "found the American
student/and tG.I. of, to-day are
taller than their counterparts in
the early part of this century, a
fact which they believe is due
to better and more regular
DEVILED EGGS
6 hard-cooked s eggs
3 cup hot dog relish
3 tablespoons mayonnaise or
cooked salad caressing
teaspoon salt
Slice shelled eggs in half
lengthwise; remove egg yolks
and mash. Combine egg yolks
with remaining ingredients. Fill
egg whites with this mixture.
Chill, Makes 6 servings.
EGG SALAD
6 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
34 cup hot dog relish
1/2 teaspoon salt
34 cup chopped celery
3 tablespoons mayonnaise or
salad cliessing
Combine a II ingredients.
Chill. Spoon onto beds of green
lettuce.. Makes 3 to 4 servings,
Laundry Lament
Nine times out of ten, when
you think your favorite televi-
sion actor is wearing a white
shirt, it's actually' light blue or
some other neutral color, The
Wier white reflects a glare from
the powerful overhead lights and
casts an unflattering shadow
over the actor's neckline.
With that thought in mind,
Pahl Hartman, who usually per-
forms his burlesque routines In
white tie and tails, ordered two
stiff-bosomed evening suits in
blue. The mystified shirtmaker
followed instructions—at $25 per
instruction.
Hartman used the shirts with
conspicuous success, and then
consigned them to the laundry.
But they didn't come back with
either that week's wash or the
next. They finally were deliver-
ed, accompanied by a note from
the unhappy laundryman.
-"We scrubbed and scrubbed
these shirts," it read, "and final-
ly succeeded in gettieg most of
the blue out of them. if they
are not absolutely white, please
don't blame us."
WHEN. IN ROME — Plgy'clothes
in the popular toreador styling
are fashioned of silk shantung
in this design from Rome. Uni-
que collar border comes down
as sash, tucks in belt.
Working at high pressure un-
til July 1st is a man who spends
many hours every day searching
for ladybirds which he' finds in
large colonies under rocks, hang-
ing on bushes and in the bark of
old trees amid the hills of cen-
tral Washington.
On a good day he collects no
fewer than 50,000 ladybirds
which are placed in tiny screen-
ed boxes and later dispatched to
fruit growers and horticulturists
all over the United States.
They pay good prices for the
insects which have an enormous
appetite for aphids, the enemies
of roses and fruit trees. After
July 1st, all ladybirds migrate
from the area.
These little spotted beetles,
known throughout the world be-
cause of their bright colours, eat
up to 100 greenfly a day.
In Kent the 'saying, "Plenty of
ladybirds, plenty of hops," is
based on fact. When Kentish
hop-gardens are unusually afflic-
ted by greenfly, the news some-
how travels to ladybirds on the
Continent which fly across the
Channel in dense swarms to set-
tle where they are most wanted.
A famous naturalist in 1939
noticed upon the coast of the
Egyptian desert a tremendous
number of little eleven-spot
ladybirds which had, been
drowned in the Mediterranean
and washed up along it's mar-
gin. For thirteen miles he traced
the lohg line of red and black
beetles without reaching its end,
estimating that each loot of
length contained about 70,000
insects.
A Swedish girl is always glad
to find a ladybird crawling on
her hand, as it is-there to.mea-
sure her for her wedding gloves.
English children still chant the
old rhyrhe which Warns the lady-,
bird to "fly away home" because
of domestic catastrophes.
The black spots on the insect's
wings are counted in some cOun-
tries. If they number more than
seven, wheat will be dear, that
year.
Biscuit production soared'to a
record 115,364 tons in 1952, 55%
more than in 1946, over double
the 1938 output.
NOWI STAMP YOUR SHIRTS WITH COLOR!
FORGETFUL SAINT
Despite the best efforts of child.
psychiatriata, there are still a lot
Of kids of four or 'five who be-
lieve in Santa Claes.,
One, of them was taken by his
mother to the toy department in
Easten'S on a December Matra,
ingl last year and Wes duly prop,.
ped up oft Santa's lap, "What do
you want for OlitaaffileS, iriy
lad?" asked Santa Clatia duti.
fully. "Better write, down''
saidthe lad, "or you'll forget,"
"Trust Mei"' urged Santa, 'US',
'mernory rieVet fella."' The lad
was dubious', hut catalogued his
demands.
'the saite -afternoon,, Mother
and ton arrived at SirliPStlit'S and
the lad found himself on -Satiteg
lap for a second tittle, TheaSitripa
ten Sante asked. the, usual ,nitass.
tion, "What do sfdti, *Mit 'for`
ChriStrnss?"
The lad SlipPed Oh his lati,
kicked hitiLittstlly in the Aid,
and yait&t "Yost tunmskulio, 1
Ito*. yoifd forttett"
A stroke af your iron Will tons" any into i'D'avy Crokett"
Shirt and ihrili your yourister very .favoeite herd The
design appears iii Sporklingi PdtiOfn 72S; has:
"Davy Crockett' transfers; 4% is ,fiVa, ,TriChe'S COlair COM,.
biriatiati of bealCakitt istoWris b lack and green; p lus' plui, towboy'
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Taranto, Ontatlba
Who are the world's tallest
people? "The diStinction doesn't
go to a white race, but to the
Nilotics of Africa, though no-
body Itapakvs for certain why
these peoples should outstrip all
Others in stature.
The Nilotic tribes are, tall,
dark and very slender. They
live in an around the basin of
the Upper Nile—hence the name.
While the average "height of the
Men is about five feet ten inches,
many tower a lofty seven feet
and more. Their womenfolk are
likewise tall and slender, ,with
figures which would be the en-
vy of many a white girl.
Like the men, they are on
average from one to two inches
taller than average members of
white races.
Two of Nero's centurions are
credited with first "discovering"
the Nilotic tribes late in the
first century A.D. Anthropolo-
gists say the Nilotics consist of
twenty-seven tribes, who dwell
on the banks of the White Nile
and its tributaries, being found
Sc far east as Kaffa and Gallas
alncl and as far south as Uganda.
The tribes have odd-sounding
names, among the Shull, Bon-
jak, Sofi and jibbe,
Though of different tribes the
graceful Nilotics have many
characteristics in common. The
Womenfolk carry their babies on
their becks and enormous loads
of brnshwood on their heads.
They wear little, if any clothing.
They have an inborn love of
dance ceremonies, in which they
leap and stamp with astonishing
agility, flaunting monkey fur
and tossing bright head-dresses.
At their ankles bells jangle mu-
sically,
Frain these dance ceremonies,*
held frequently, comes no doubt
their athaairig ability as high
jumpers. Using a foot-high ter-
mite mound as a take-off, they
can clear a bar easily at seven
'end a half feet. 'hey are skilled
hunters.
Scientific evidence suggests
two major` reasons why they
graW so tall.
The one first comes from sci.,
entific belief in eVolutilail, and
puts forward the theory that, in
the course ' of reetitistlea the Ni-
lOtica have evolved icing thin
bodied hecatiSe they are better
.-adapted to dissipating heat hi
the Utopia` atilt:int', Of the
Mott& itPland horrid tOuntry.
second thaoty Is they
keit° :grown tall bedetzSe, as great
cattle raisers they ate also great
Meier Wets. And the high ptc.i
ten of tried IS believed to
have helped Mein to itchieve
their lanky' stature,
This theary ft Supported bte
HT'S COOL , — Next -time the
tOrricl surrmier weather gets you
clown, recall -this picture—and
oppol off. These men are scant
*et from , the., boiling hell of
petal pouring from an open
btarth At the time
platUre Was-taken; it was a fri-
od comparison) 94 degrees
Cutside the
DUCK tilifiLthat'i What it is for the gosling, even though lt
might haVe been d niee snack of dog food for the pule?. Desp4*
ihhi sad expression, the two are fine-feathered friends':
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tnony'e, defense minister theo,
doll- Wank, left,: and . her tin
Otte* minister;' Fritz Stlicie4fer,
reglater identical emotions
tOtiging frOM gloom- to. lest
ddri0R, 0010 an he-Uri...tang debate
'011 l'OrtiaMerit at Bann,ikttnilet,
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