HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-04-21, Page 4STAMMERER TO LAWYER — Ventriloquism is an odd path to e law degree but for Phil Wein,
26, it was a happy choice. As a youth Wein stuttered, The exacting art of voice-throwing
cured Phil's stammering, made him articulate, in •fact. His ventriloquism act on TV, and at
New ,York state resorts, paid his college expenses. Sylvester K. Pine pictured with Wein
at left, above, is tht star of the eight-dummy menage Wein uses In his act. Wein, shown
right entering courthouse, earned his law degree at the University of Pittsburgh Law School
after graduation with high honors from Penn State University.
Chinese Now Pushing Russians
Pot World Communism Leadership
by Hay CroiPleY
Newspaper Enterprise Assn,
Washington — World core-
munissn has taken a confusing
new twist.
UAW recently, Nikita Kirrus
eliev's Hessian Communists vir-
tually monopolized the global.
Red movement, Moscow Control-
led the push of Russian and
satellite trained agents into the
continents, Moscow interprets-
'lions of world events were "the
Red line" for local Communist
parties and for sympathetic
newspapers around the world.
The only important divergent
voice was Tito's Yugoslavia.
Now there is a new "rival"
organization. Mao Tse-tung's
Chinese Communists have be-
gun to push agents into Latin
America, the Middle East, Eu-
rope, Africa, as well as South-
east Asia.
There already are more Chi-
nese Reds in tiny Yemen on the
Red Sea than there are Russian
agents. The Chinese have moved
earnestly into Iraq, Morocco,
Algeria. They have been active
in Guinea, Ghana, the Union of
South Africa and Cuba. They're
Strong in Burma and most of the
rest of Southeast Asia. They've
tried in Egypt, but made little
headway.
They're taking the first steps
in attempting to infiltrate Chi-
nese communities in the United
States.
This new Chinese Communist
drive will mean new headaches
to the West.
Take Algiers, for example.
Russia's Nikita Khrushchev is
silent, pretending to flirt with
de Gaulle, while the Chinese
Reds have joined with the Al-
gerian rebels and are helping to
run in arms. The Reds thus are
playing both sides of the street
for their own ends.
Eventually, the rival Chinese
organizers and agents may mean
new headaches for Nikita
Khrushchev, too. The Chinese-
trained men and the Moscow-
trained men have different ideas
on operation in countries they
want to take over,
The Chinese Reds tend to ad-
vise quick actions, rapid, violent
uprisings. The Russian Reds
these days tend to counsel more
subtle infiltrating. Squabbles
between Russian agents and Chi-
nese agents in Burma have been
reported.
And the Chinese generally
tend toward a strong Stalinist
line.
It is believed here that one of
the major reasons why IChrush-
chev made his- recent extensive
.South and Southeast - Asia trip
was to emphasize to India, Bur-
ma, Indonesia and in lands
thereabout, that Russia is still
the "big boss" of international.
communism.
The Chinese Communists are
building a fast, worldwide news
service that often puts a "dif-
ferent" Peiping interpretation
on the news.
The New China News Agency
has just made a contract with
Latina Prehsa news agency to
distribute its releases through- '
out Latin America. The New
China News 'Agency has offices,
throughout Western Europe — in
Switzerland, West Germany,
:France, and other European
news centres. It is getting its
heavily-slanted releases into
Western European papers, It has
offices in Morocco, in Cuba, in
the Middle East and Southeast
Asia.
Mao Tse-tung'e Reds are set-
ting up book stores -- through
dummy fronts — and pushing
books, magazines -and pamhplets
on the Chinese brand of com-
munism wherever they can.
They're gaining circulation In
Traq, In Cuba, in some parts of
Africa.
A Chinese "circus" of 75 to 100
men and women, including ac-
robats and jugglers, has been
touring major Latin American
countries and • making contacts'
On the side,
Chinese "trade missions" have
3 isited. Brazil, Argentina, M.ex-
Morocc9,, India, the Middle
East. The Chinese have Offered'
their goods at cut prices, cheap
radio sets, for example, to an.
1e." There are strong indica-
t,ions. that these missions are Dot
after trade in the Western pro..
ilt-making sense,
Chinese "culturel". missions
have been active in Africa, get-
ting in touch with intellectuals
and students, Mao Tse-tung is
bringing students in from Bur-
ma, Indonesia, .Hongkong and
Australia to be trained in Red
Chinese universities.
Radio Peiping is active in its
worldwide "interpretive" bread,
casts.
The new worldwide Red Chi-
nese drive is not strong as yet.
But at the rate it is growing, it
should be a real force within a
few more years. Indications are
that its line is even more anti,
U.S. than the Russian movement.
Indications are that -they are
thus far playing hand in glove
with the Russians, even on. the-
Indian border dispute, •
But; there is also evidence that
the Russians themselves are
somewhat • uneasy about the
rapid spread of Red Chinese
agents and the stepped up spread
of a Red Chinese brand of world
communism:
HIGHBROW — Chic girls will
rise to the social occasion this
spring with the "English Swing."
The coiffure, worn with a fluff
of feathers over on. ear, was
designed by Robert Hely of
Glasgow.
How She Got That
Dented Fender!
It should never have happened
to any woman driver but it did
to an American lady who works
at the Allied Air Force head-
quarters in Fontainbleau. For
reasons of gallantry, she shall
be identified only as "Mrs. J.B."
Recently, in her snappy little
red Renault, she stopped at a
crossroad to let a parade of cir-
cus animals pass, While she
waited, the parade halted and
she found herself looking up at
the impressive rear of an ele-
phant. "Alors," she• said in her
best American French at just
about the time a• traffic cop blew
his whiste. Suddenly Mrs. J.B.
couldn't see a thing through her
windshield.
The elephant, trained to sit
down on a red stool when his
trainer blew a whistle had
squatted on the hood of Mrs.
J.B.'s little car. She honked fran-
tically and the great beast, snort-
ing with surprise, rose' to the
sound of crushing fenders.
A quick examination revealed
no irreparable damage to either
beast or Renault and Mrs. J.B.
drove off. The sad. thing is that
her friends refuse to believe her
story — even though it is trite
Every time Mrs. J. B. explains
about the crushed fenders, they
inquire: "Now about that ele-
phant , you sure it wasn't
pink?"
ONINAtOWN, Peiping agent! are tiltenipting to 114;1,
orate Chirie..se..comniunitiet in, this United, Stateir
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- #5, ',TABLE TALKS
eiaue Andrews.
Time I was"-when turkey din-
ners , were practically synony-
mous < with Thanksgiving and
Chirstmas, but now turkeys are
being promoted for year- round
fare and can just as well be fea-
tured for a dinner any Sunday as
at any other time of the year.
Nowadays, instead of the big
bird with a high breast bone,
you will find the smaller, com-
pact, broad-breasted turkey, with
plenty of white meat for those
who like it best, and fine, plump
drumsticks for those who think
any part of the turkey is won-
derful just so it's the rich dark
meat.
You don't need to wait until
you have a big party to serve a
turkey, either, although it's ideal
for a company dinner or buffet.
The smaller type turkeys of
from eight to• ten pounds have
gained year-round acceptance
and are among the many boons
of this era of frozen foods.
Selecting a turkey from the'
supermarket's frozen food cases
or right from your own freezer
at this season is a luxury Grand-
mother never dreamed of.
'
A delicious stuffing for the
bird may be made easily by
adding 1 cup of diced apple,
diced celery (half a cup to a
package of prepared bread for
stuffing), and dried prunes from
which the seeds have been re-
moved (half a package to one
package of crumbs for dressing),
There are almost as many va-
riations in turkey dressing as
there are in individual tastes,
so you can make what yeti like.
Perhaps the traditional squash,
mashed potatoes, creamed on-
ions,. and cranberry sauce which
used to come along with the• gib-
let gravy as an accompaniment
to turkey,' belonged to - the'
autumn season in which the
birds were served. Instead they
can be replaced by parsleyed
new potatoes and peas t with
peart and cherry hearts over
endive garnishing the turkey, A
bristling, red cabbage, *dominat-
ing' the wooden tray of hors
d'oeuvres, hot spiced tomato
juice, and candied almonds
would complete the buffet,
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SOUR CREAM PIE
cup sugar
tablespoon cornstarch
Dash salt
1/4 teaspoon each, cinnamon,
cloves and nutmeg
2,4 cup chopped raisins
1 egg, .beaten
1 cup sour cream or rich sour
milk
1 8-inch unbaked 'nary shell
Combine dry ingredients; com-
bine egg and sour.cream and add
to first mixture. Mix lightly.
Pour into shell and bake as you
esvotricl. a custard pi. Serve 'cold.
(Note: One manner of baking a
custard pia is to sot pie low in
a 425° F. oven for 20 minutes to
cook bottom of pastry and then
move pie to center of oven and
turn heat to 325° F. and bake
until pie is done — about 25
minutes longer.)
4 4.,
LEMON
I clap Milk
:1:1. cup sugar
'teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon,grated teniort peel
5 tablespoons eortietareli
dip Water
egg yollkS) well beateh
1 tablespoon butter
6 tablesPOilitS leiiiirl juice
8sinch baked Ole shell
Meringue
Combine trtilk, '13 cup sugar,
salt, and "Union peel, and bring
to a boil, Combine Cornstarch
Cuts water and add to first
mixture Cook until thickened,
stit tirigtoristahtlY.. itemove,l'reiri
fire. Add beaten egg yolks; mix
well. Add butter; mix well. Add
lemon juice; mix well.
Pour into pie shell. Top with
meringue made of 2 egg whites,
beaten stiff, and 4 tablespoons
sugar. Bake until meringue is a
delicate brown. This pie' is' very
good chilled.
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-BREAD AND BUTTER
PUDDING
3 slices bread, buttered and
spread with raspberry jam
3 eggs, beaten
or more tablespoons sugar
3 cups milk
Nutmeg
Place bread, spread with but-
ter and jam, in baking dish that
can be put into another dish.
Combine eggs, milk, and sugar
and pour over the bread, Top
with nutmeg. Place in pan of
hot water and allow to cook for
1/2 -hour or until custard is set.
Serves 4.
Very Speedy
Crime Career
For the two years that Harry
F. Underwood toiled as a •parts
clerk for the Ford agency, In
Gretna, La., the stream of
chrome-plated new' cars• that
came and went never tailed to
fill him with mouth-watering.
envy.
Ah, to be behind' the wheel
of one of those thundering new
'beauties, tooling along the lake
drive, instead of wrestling with,
his ,own abused, down-at-the-
wheels 1956 Chevrolet. But what
could a man do when he earned
only $55 a week and, had a. wife
to support?
Underwood, a slight, dark-
haired little man of 39, was able
to suppress• his longing until a
knockout of a canary-yellow
new Ford' sedan was delivered
,ta the: agency. Underwood took
'one lank and knew that this-wet
it. This 'he, had to have. Re-
solutely' he squared, his shoul-
.ders, marched into the manager's
office, and traded his old *car
for the new one, promising to
pay the $1,700 difference within
e week.
Proudly, Underwood took his
wife for a Sunday drive, drink-
ing in the, paintsenew-car
thrilling to the effortless power
that was his.
But where to get the $1,700?
Early one day recently Under-
wood donned a tan- topcoat
(though the weather was in the
60's) and a pair of sunglasses,
slipped a nickel-plated toy pis-
tol (that he had bought for 90
cents) in his pocket, and drove
to nearby Algiers like. Gretna,
a suburb of New Orleans. Leav-
ing his new bat' parked on the
street with the motor running,
he strode purposefully into the
Algiers branch of the Progres-
sive Batik and Trust Co.
"Don't say anything," Under-
wood growled to a woman teller,
pulling out his toy pistol and
trying his best to make his voice
sound menacing. "Just give me
the moriey."• Nervously he help-
ed her steel bills in a sack, then
became impatient, grabbed sev-
eral bundles of bills, and ran
out the door.
"I've been robbed," shouted
the teller.; and the bank mana-
ger raced out in time to see
Underwood: ruh (dropping a trail
of loose bills) to the yellow Ford
and roar away,
rrom the scene of the holdup,
Underwood drove directly to
work and sauntered tip to the
cashier's Window.,
"tiebts bother me," he Ob-
served OtPansiVely as he totint-
ed out $1,106 $1116 bills, "I
s •iSatIE 196a
strictly practice the pay-as-you-
go system." That done, Under-
wood went back to his post be-
hind the parts counter, clearly
oblivious of his shortcomings as
an amateur holchip man.
For, with a description of the
yellow car (it still bore the fac-
tory sticker), police and FBI
agents lost no time in rushing
to the Ford agency to find out
who had bought it. The dealer
told the police it had been
bought by an employee, and
that,, by coincidence he had paid
for it in full an hour earlier.
Confronted by police, Under-
wood shrugged his shoulders,
led them to his new car, and
unlocked the trunk. There was
his cap pistol and the rest of
the $7,240 — everything except
the .$1,700 he had given the ca-
shier and some' $10 bills he •had
dropped while, running away.
When it was 'all over, Under-
wood accepted •his arrest philo-
sophically and with understate-
ment. "Something must have
misfired," he said.
Teacher: "Why do we use ni-
trates?" Johnny: "Because
they're cheaper than day rates."
lose ,„ 1955 1960
REVVED UP — Not since the
years before t h e horsepower
race has the six cylinder en-
gine enjoyed such popularity .
in American cars. Predictions
are that 36 per cent of 1960
cars will 'be powered by a
modern-day version. of the eco-
nomy "six." Newscha'rt traces
the fortunes of the "six." Data
from Ward's Automotive.
Bogus Colonel Was
Seaside Killer
Many people today regard the
criminal us someone who is men-
tally "not quite right." They be-
lieve that men and women go
into crime bevaw4e they are psy-
chologically maladjusted, or be-
cause Of povetty, heredity or en-
vironment,.
There kindhearted theorists
have very often no practical
knowledge of criminals at all,
They do not or will not realize
that to-day there are clever,
cunning and vicious men who
take to crime because they are
idle, immoral degenerates, who
are too lazy to do an honest day's,
work.
These men feel that they can
arrange their lives on an organ-
ized basis so that they can live
comparatively well and escape
detection for long periods at a
time. They regard the police as
their natural enemies, and so
long as they're not, caught too
often they are prepared to take
the risk. To them it is an ordin-
ary business risk and just too had
if 'sometimes it doesn't come Of.
But only on rare occasions do
you come across a man who is a
supreme liar, an unscrupulous
crook, a vicious pervert and
loathsome sadist all in one.
Such a mail was Neville
George Clevely Heath, and when
he was executed on October 26th,
1946, England was rid of one of
the most ,despicable villains of
the century.
It could, of course, be argued
that anyone who committed such
terrible deeds as were attributed
to Nevillf Heath must be insane.,
It has long been a principle of
English law that the insane
should not be executed. But
whether a man is insane at the
time he commits a murder is a
matter for the jury.
And, after listening to evidence
of fantastic sadism and perver-
sion, the jury rejected the de-
fence submission ' that Heath
should- be found insane.
Neville Heath's criminal car-
eer started early on. must
be one -of the very few men who
have' succeeded. in, being cashier-
ed from three services. The
R,A.F., the Army and 'the South
African Air Force all found that
they had little need for his ser-
vices.
Ho first joined. the Royal Air
Force in 1936, but that commis-
sion. lasted only a year, and in
.1937 he was put on probation
for a number of frauds, which
included posing as 'Lord Dud-
ley.
A few months later he was
sent to Borstal for cheque frauds
'and there .is no doubt that at
'that time -his whole- life was one
big lie. '
At the outbreak of war he
was released. The. Army then
committed one ' of their well-
known ostridh acts, being quite
blind to they fact that when they
gave .Neville Heath a, commis-
.sion they were accepting a
known and convicted criminal..
By. 1941 Heath may have been
an officer, but he was certainly
no gentlemen, and by the'end of
that year he wasn't an officer
either.
His behaviour wai• too much
even for the Army, and he was
put on a troopship from the Mid-
dle East to be returned to this
country.
England, however, was not to
see him for a year or two, be-
cause hp jumped the troopship-at
Durban arid wandered around
South Africa, living by means
of ingenious frauds. He posed as
a captain in the Argyle and
Sutherland Highlanders with an
M.C.
When the police got: on his
trail he vanished and appeared
later in the name of Armstrong
in the South African 'ore.„.
But by IGO they also had had,
enough of him, for they packed,
him off back to FAigland,
'Hp to, that time his career
appears to have been Only thak
of a cheap crook, He had mar,
tied in, South Africa and his wife,
had :divorced him.
was a notorious .11,a and
his lies hall certainly got him into
a lot V: trouble. On his arrival 'id.
Xogland his future can hardly
haw been cheerful, .but like a
great many other liars before
him, he was the supreme opti,
mist; He embarked on a Ions
series of frauds and most of his
time' was spent with young and,
attractive women.
Late in 1945 there was an in-
cident in a hotel in the Weat End
of London, in which a girl was
found bound, while Heath bent
over her with a riding whip. Nos
doubt today that girl regard*
herself as fortunate to be alive..
In the spring of 1946, Heath
was staying in a hotel in Lon-
don's Notting Hill, under the.
name of Colonel Bill Armstrong,
• Staying with him was a young
woman believed to be his wile.
- They were not married, hovit-
ever, and after a few days with
Heath she returned to her par-
ents in Sussex. By the end ol
that year she, too, was no doubt
congratulating herself on being
alive!
By June 20th a young woman
known as Marjorie Gardner had
• moved in as Mrs. Bill Armstrong,.
Separated from her husband,
she was said to have an -artistic
temperament, dabbling in drama,
elocution and painting. But next
day she was beyond dabbling in,
%.anything, because her remains
were found in the hotel bedroom',
She had been savagely mutilat-
ed, her injuries having been in-
flicted by somebody's teeth and
the metal handle of a riding
crop.
Medical experts identified all
the bloodstains in the bedroom
as coming from the unfortunate.
girl. Of Colonel Bill Armstr 'ng
there was no trace. Iii he was re-
sponsible, . and- there • could be
very, little doubt about that, he
was apparently unmarked.
Neville Heath, alias Bill Arm-
strong, had bolted. But, curious-
ly enough, from Worthing; en
route to Bournemouth, he wrote
to Superintendent Barrett, who
was in charge of the inquiries,.
The letter was completely pu-
erile and was a pack belies. It
purported to give $ gine explan-
ation of how Neville Heath had
met the dead girl, and suggested
the possibility of same other man .
having killed her.
By the time the letter was re-
ceived Heath was living quite
opehly in a hotel in Bourne-
mouth, posing as' a group cap-
tain.
Scotland Yard then made a
fatal mistake. They refused to
release to, the Press a photo-
graph of a vile and vicious man,
wanted for a diabolical murdet.
Their only excuse' was that they
felt the publicetion, might preju-
dice the future identification 0,1
the murderer when arrested.
It , was a ridiculous theory;
• there was overwhelming evi-
dence against Heath for the mur-
der of • MarjOrie - Gardner. Had
they allowed Heath's photograph
to be published, he would doubt-
less have been arrested before hes
could have killed hiS second
victim, the young exsWren whom
he met on his arrival at Bourne-
mouth:
After talking glibly of his war-
time heroics, he had suggested a
walk along the cliffs.
Doreen Marshall fought brave-
• ly for her life, but„,like Marjorie
Gardner, she was hacked tO •
pieces by Heath and her reneaitte
hurled behind a bush in Bourne-
Mouth's Branksome Chine.
y horn Erfurt, German she's. Salt Lake City, with her parents,
Eleven-month-old .arrived w York City fit id till
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