HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-10-11, Page 6LION HUNT — As Jahn Devlin, ei6hi,, Was busy takirta hotel
during, oil interview With wild anima l trainer'- Barry White,
left, Tulla, •a 10-Month-old Bantu, decided to find out if tho
object dangling from Jahn's arm Woe edible, If oil happened
when Tulla arrived at a Brooklyn, pier'.
BEYOND tHE 'CALL OF 'DUTY, Wea 62r1 in Icid holds foot out so that din Anieriddli
'tan tie his shadlute. Is this is trtd,.,•nt by fbof soldiers?
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Did. Spy. Snkotnse
Wreck aig Zeppelin?
No tragedy has Wee witateci
scenes of more heart-ronding
emotion than those which follow-
ed the stark drama of the
enbttrg disaster when the giant
Zeppelin burst into a blazing
inferno and plunged earthwards
carrying thirty-six people to hor-
rible deaths.
Veteran reporter :tier)) Mont-
On was so distraught by the
scenes of terror that tears flow-
ed down his eheelas as he strove
'to fight back the emotion which
choked him,
Shouting hysterically into the
Mike, he cried:
, It's burst into flames
Get out of the way, please
oh my, this is terrible , , It is
burning, bursting into flames „
falling on the mooring mast and
all the folks , , this is one
of the worst catastrophes in the
Oh, the humanity, the
passengers„ ." and then his
voice trailed off as he could no
longer fight back the overpower-
ing emotion which gripped him.
No thought of this terrible
tragedy was in the minds of pas-
sengers or crew when, on the
evening of May 6, 1937, the huge
airship came down through a rift
in the clouds to land at Lake-
hurst Naval Air Station, in New
Jersey, carrying thirty-six pas-
sengers and a crew of sixty-one.
Lights gleamed from the con-
trol cabin, from the promenade
deck and from the bow hatches
where crewmen worked the
ropes and cables, e,
It was 7,25 p.m., Twilight...
And in the next thirty-two
seconds the Hindenburg became
a flaming White-hot crucible
which took toll of thirty-six in
one of the most baffling pre-war
air disasters.
What had happened?
A ground engineer noticed a
small spark "like static electric-
ity" dancing under her, not far
from the tail. Crewmen on the
lower fin, staring up, saw a fire
appear towards the middle of the
hydrogen-filled Gas Cell No, 4
aft. It was like a flashulb's low „pop,:,
Within seconds fire was plum-
ing upwards in one mushroom-
ing, boiling cloud like " a million
magnesium flares,"
As the flames reached tliem
and the stern began to sink, pas-
sengers began tumbling on top
of one another, "a mass of shriek-
ing, crying people." One yelled:
"It is the end!"
Nearing the ground, the Zepp
cracked in the middle, her for-
ward section reaching skyward
at an acute angle and flames
pouring from her nose like fire
from a volcano, Eleven crewmen
in it fell back into the raging
crucible in rapid succession.
Half-sobbing into his mike Herb
Morrison managed to get out a
few more words: "I can't talk,
ladies and gentlemen . . I have
got to stop fcr a minute, for it's
the worst thing I have ever wit-
nessed."
Only the lucky ones were able
to smash windows and jump out
before the fire could devour
them.
In those thirty-two seconds all
was „over—the Zepp down, its hy-
drogen consumed, its tiel oil
billowing clouds of smoke, look-
ing like "the vast skeleton of a
fish stripped of its flesh and
enveloped in flames along its
lower part."
What was the cause? Official
American and German inquiries
gave the "probable" cause as sta-
tic electricity igniting hydrogen
gas. But now in "Who Destroyed
Knorr was a trusted veteran,
Freund also a loyal, solid crew-
man, But what of the secretive
Spehl?
At seventeen he had gone to
Markdorf, near Friedrichschaf en,
and worked for three years as a
saddler's apprentice,
Then, unable to find employ-
ment, he'd wandered from town
to town for two years doing odd
jobs and served a year in a Reich
labour corps with its cold Nazi
efficiency and brutal discipline.
Glad to be a wandering labour-
er again, he returned to Lake
Constance in 1933, got a job at
the Zeppelin works, helping to
maintain the Graf Zeppelin and
to build the Hinderburg, and in
1936 joined its crew.
When not flying his one hobby
was photography. He had a dark-
room in Frankfurt with time-
clock and other equipment, and
often brought valuable cameras•
on board.
Then . . his infatuation for
the brunette , with her under-
ground connections . . his ab-
normal behaviour.
Hoehling deduces that Spehl
secreted in Cell 4 a small device
comprising a 11/2 -volt dry-cell
battery—of which remnants were
found—connected to a flash bulb
and pocket watch timed to ex-
plode it shortly after landing, but
a short circuit or other fault
exploded it prematurely. He was
a tool of anti-Nazi plotters.
Hoehling bolsters the theory
with other evidence, and one
trusts it is conclusive, otherwise
he does a grave injustice to
Spehl—who died in the disaster
—and to Spehl's family.
The whole story is engrossing-
ly told, the mystery painstaking-
ly probed.
What They Look At
— South, East,.West
The attitudes toward Ameri-
can television abroad vary from
wild enthusiasm to almost total
indifference. Here is a sampler
of how the U.S. product rates
around the world:
Mexico: Two out of every five
shows on Mexican TV come
from the U.S., but "Gunsmoke,"
now third, is the only U.S. show
in the top, ten, One recent hit
was ",M i k' e Hammer," whose
title character, exposed for as
many as six reruns, has virtu-
ally become a Mexican folk
hero.
West Germany: The American
influence is declining,' mainly
because West Germans go in for
a heavy diet of political com-
mentary and news. Nonetheless!,
"7 7 StInSet Strip" is a current
favourite among students and
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is
a devotee of "Perry MaSeti."
Italy: About 10 per tent of all
air tithe goes to American pro-
grams; the most popular is
"Perry Mason," k n own locally
as l'aVVotate invincibile the
unbeatable lawyer.
kngiatult Limitred by law to
14 per cent of total -air time,
American TV shOWs take up
only about three hours a Week.
Three yeare ago, U.S, shows Of-
ten beCtiPied five of the top telt
plates in the ratings, New they
rarely Make the tap ten, al-
though "Ben Casey" is teals in
Scotland and "Bonanza" is third
in Wales,-
Sapani Although imports are
limited to 25 pen cent of alt tele-,
trisi ii shOWS, many Of the top'
ones in Japan come froth the
United States, Until recently the
la..'Votirite was "I Love L u c y."
The current hit is "Ben Casey,"
which last month had a rating of
44 Per dent.
igSVE 41 190
Ladies! Why Net
Go To Rusk*?
Although he likes to quote old
Russian proverbs ("To catch a
bedbug you have to pour boiling
Khrushehev has studiously avoid-
ed the old saw that Russian wom-
en know only too well: "If a
woman wants to be b6autifuL she
must- stiffer," And with geed tea-
$011,
On behalf of suffex131g wom-
anhood, Izvestia's Sunday supple-
ment, Nedelya, assigned nine
newshens to find out what Mos-'
cow stores have to offer the gla-
mour-starved female, They were
appalled at what they simply
could not find.
Seeking nylon stockings, the
ladies discovered that govern-
ment planners had arranged to
have only 650 pairs a day ship-
ped to Moscow (population; 5
million), 'This, it was noted, was
"like a drop of water in the
ocean," At GUM, Moscow's two-
block-long department store that
takes in more than $200 million a
year, a reporter, presumably
broad of beam, asked for a slip,
size 45 (comparable to size 18 in
the 'U.S.); She was told: "We
have them rarely, and only in
the morning."
Stretch tights, which provide
cozy warmth in the Russian win-
ters, are "in great demand"; but
they are "unavailable." So are at-
tractive gloves ("only ugly lea-
ther ones"). Women complained
that underwear tended to be un-
inspiring. "Factories producing
these items," it was found, "don't
bother to vary the color schemes.
Black lingerie is a big problem."
A working girl, Anna Ivanovna,
25, was quoted as saying: "I've
been looking for a good black
nightie with lace since 1961.
Cheap ones turn a dirty brown."
Barbs were also directed at the
beauty salon. One reporter wait-
ed from 4 to 9 p.m. to get her
hair styled. At closing time, she
was still twelfth in line.
Then why don't the ladies set
their own hair? Simply because
there are no such bourgeois re-
finements as sprays, rollers, tints,
and rinses.
In the land where the vise of
the girdle is barely beginning to
squeeze, the complaints of the
Russian women moved Nedelya's
editors to comment: "It is not a
question of a woman's caprice,
but a demand of our time, a de-
mand of increased culture."
Human Thermostat
Goes Out Of' Order
A person's built-in thermostat,
which normally keeps body
temperature at 98.6 degrees, is
a tiny cluster of nerve cells in
the hypothalamus, a region deep
within the brain. When the out-
side air is hot, signals from the
hypothalamus produce sweating
and bring blood close to the
skin fox cooling. When it's cold,
the hypothalamus constricts sur-
face blood vessels and conserves
h eat.
If the human thermostat were
to go out of or de r, a person
would acquire the temperature
of his surroundings, ,just as
frogs and other "cold-blooded"
amphibians do. An instance of'
this rare condition — called
"poikilothermia" (from the Greek
poikilos, varied, and thermos,
heat) — was cited in the British
journal New Scientist recently.
The patient, a 30-year-old
woman, had been hospitalized in
Oxford, England, 'with hormone
deficiencies. To t h.e i r surprise,
physicians found that her body
temperature fluctuated with the
room temperature or the clothes
she was' wearing. In a normally
heated :room, it• ranged froth . 91
to 95 degrees, but at a room
temperature of 118 it rose to
100.6.
The British physicians believe
a defect in the woman's hypo-
thalamus might have caused
both her amphibiah-like temper-
atur e Condition and her hor-
mone deficiency, Their prescrip-
tions Hormone pills--and warm
clothes in cold weather.
Some of the busiest people in the
world are only picking up the
beans they, have already spilled.
Nothing lielPS yott to know yotir
neighbours better than, having a
Well equipped tool shed.
SALLY'S SAiLIES
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DAIRY EQUIPMENT
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near new condition,
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Markham, Oat,
FARMS FOR SALE.
SAI'40110.1A7r area; 200-acre farm, 200 workable, balance pasture, good cedar
swamp, large barn, would make excel,
lent ranch. Large house With city Con-
veniences, Full price $8,600- Angtis
Birds Creek, Opt,
400 AM dairy farm. 70 registered HO,
steins, machinery. Near Ottawa, Two
houses. Hydro, water houses and barn.
One 'Muse fully modernized, Ideal for
Partners, Box 255, 123-18th Street, New
Toronto, Out,
DAIRY FARM
Atha be sold to settle estate, 230 acres,
185 plowable, two tractors and trnek.
All power machinery, Modern home
and barn, Two silos. Forty milking
cows, twelve yearlings, three calves,
has nine can contract, This can easily
be increased, Farm is twenty miles
north of Cornwall and forty mites south
of Ottawa, $10,000 down, the balance at
6% interest.
Contact Mrs. Anna Van Egmond,
RR No, 2, Moose Creek, Ont.,
phone 20-114.
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FOR SALE — MISC
FOR sale diesel and portable sawmill,
diesel suitable for feed mill, both In
excellent condition will sell separately.
Reasonable. For details contact: Roy
Tokley, Tweed,, Ontario.
HELP WANTED
Medical Laboratory Technician:
Required by 55 Bed General Hospital.
Attractive working conditions and per.
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HORSES
AUCTION SALES
HORSE Auction. Our 11th annual sale
of horses will be held Thursday, Octo-
ber 11th, 1962, 1.30 P.M., Lachute Com•
mission Sale Barn,Highway No. 8, La-
chute. Approximately 150 head. Con•
sisting of about 80 mares in foal, Regis-
tered Premium Suffolk Punch Stallion,
• Singles and matched pairs of heavy
horses, Saddle horses, a beautiful pair 3
year old sorrels, Western broke. Farm
chunks, ponies, colts and foals. Do not
miss this sale If you are interested in
horses. Further information contact: D.
G. Simon, P.O. Box 6, Lachute, Que.
Phone: LO, 2-2939.
Just Don't Try To
Spell It At All!
Prof. Josef Fox collected more
than 80 different misspellings of
the word "bourgeoisie" from ex-
amining papers in his human-
ities class at the State College
of Iowa. Fox was annoyed, jus-
tifiably, because three-fourths
of the class had not learned to
spell the word correctly after
weeks of exposure to it, orally
and in print.
What fascinates us is the na-
ture of the misspellings, In ear-
lier times, the oomical misspell-
ings of the ignorant were ofteh
quite accurate phonetic tran-
scriptions of the way they talk-
ed, Not so these -ingenious mod-
ern misspelliers, who well t in
for such monstrosities as "bowle-
g o ti i e 5," "bourgeosise," a n d
"burogioes."
As spelling, their efforts were
atrocious, But as communication,
even the worst attempts were
curiously apt. T h e students
LIVE$TQ t't FOR SALE
FOIL sale SOO choice Ilereferd steers
varying in Weight from 700 to 850 iba.
Included are 50 frOirt the Church Ranch,
Apply Willard CalhOVI1
Dobbin ton, Ont„
phone 338W3 ChePleY
MEDICAL
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AFTER TAKING PIXON'S REMEDY
FOR RHEUMATIC PAINS AND
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MUNRO'S DRUG STORE
333 ELGIN, OTTAWA,
$1,25 Express. Collect
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PRICE $3.50 PER JAR
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Toronto
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PATENTS
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Nationally advertised and sold in U.S.
Wanted by every woman. Retails at $1.
Write Royal Scot, Waterbury, Conn.
PERSONAL
JESUS is coining again (this time) to
rule the world! Be prepared and re-
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ature write Box 811 Brantford, Ont.
AFTER DEATH WHAT?
Reality of the Spiritual life revealed
in HEAVEN and HELL, by SWEDEN-
BORG; pp595. $1. HELEN KELLER, tells
the story of her Christian faith, in MY
RELIGION; library copy .85c paper 55c,
Send to Leonard Cole, Goderich, Ont.
PONY AND HORSE SALE
PONY
And
SADDLE HORSE SALE
DON'T forget McLelland's pony and
saddle horse consignment sale at Bervie
— near Kincardine on
Saturday, Oct. 13 at 12 o'clock. Elton
McLelland, Route 4, Kincardine,, Ont,
PROPERTIES FOR SALE
HOUSE for. sale in the village of Hol-
stien. Just. 2 miles off No, 6 Highway.
Paved road to village. 7 rooms, 1 large
bedroom plus 2 small & den upstairs.
Large kitchen, living room & 3 piece
bath down. New brick siding & roof.
New eavestrough & electric wiring.
New well & all newly painted, large lot.
Asking price $5,700, $1,500.00 down, bal-
ance one mortgage, less for cash.
apply to THOS FERNANE
Box 111 Mount Forest Tel 136M
could recognize word with-
out fail, and they could produce
a set of letters which was un-
mistakably intended to repre-
sent - the word. Fox had' no trou-
ble knowing what. they meant,
though he shuddered at the re-
sults.
It is not the fault of the stu-
dents who • took the tests. They
probably are victims of those
new ways of spelling which have
taken the place of pure phonics.
Any good fonic speller would
know in a moment that "bour-
geoisie" is spelled either "bourg-
wazy," ar maybe "boorgwazee,"
depending on where you put the
aksent. The proper way to spell
"boorzhwazee" is obvious from,
the sounds for anycine who has
studied foniks,
The more we try to spell the
-word the surer We are of one
thing. It is not proper American
usage and no one should 'be try-
ing to spell it. It is a term of
ridicule for shopkeepers, used
by sosha,lists to, encourage re-
volutions. IVIcGtif fey's Readers
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U.S. Used,
FAMOUS Americans at 52.60,
ARMY and Navy at .30-
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How Can I?
By Roberta Lee
Q: How can I "rejuvenate" a
limp and lifeless tape measure?
A. Place between sheets of
waxed paper, and then press
over it lightly with a medium-
warm iron,
Q. What is a formula for a
good "homemade" ink eradica-
tor?
A. Whip up a solution of one
par t of chlorinated laundry
bleach 'and 10- parts of water.
Keep this in 'an old iodine or
mercurochrome bottle with a
rubber stopper to withstand the
destructive effect of the bleach,
and with a glass rod as an appli-
cator. Use it along .with a blot-
tee, just as with commercial
eradicator—and don't, of course,
expect this to work on typewrit-
er ink,
Q. What can 1 do when the
glaze begins to wear off chintz,
as it does after a few washings?
This can be restored profes-
sionally. But you can produce a
pretty slick glaze yourself by
dipping the chintz into a thin
solution of clear starch to which
a small amount of, wax has been
added. Use paraffin or candle
wax-, and-stir it thoroughly into.
the hot starch solution,
never recognised revolutions af-
ter the 1776 one.
Therefore the konrekt way to
s p ell "bourgeoisie" is "middle
class." That way it sounds won-
derful. — Des Moines Register.
TAKING TEN — Sonny Liston stands over Floyd Patterson
after knocking him out in 2:06 of the first round in Chicago
to win the heavyweight title.
the Hindenburg?" A. A. Hoehling
asserts that she was sabotaged.
Hitler and Goering gagged the
inquiry to prevent the world
knowing that enemies of the
Nazis had triumphed.
A rigger on board was tall,
blond Eric Sphel, 26, from Gos-
ohweiler Baden, who had flown
on the previous year's trips.
A moody sort of fellow, he
was the one crew member whom
none of his shipmates seemed to
know. Yet before the airship set
out on its last fateful voyage he
had been unusually exuberant
and had often been seen in the
company of a brunette with
deep-set, brooding eyes.
She was a regular patron of
semi-clandestine drinking places
frequented by Communists and
others of the resistance move-
ment.
Sphel, with chief rigger Lud-
wig Knorr and rigger Freund,
had regular access to the axial
catwalk that tunnelled through
Cell 4. He was the last man on
rigger watch, and at 6 p.m. Knorr
relieved him to go to his land-
ing station in the bow.
Almost immediately Knorr dis-
covered something wrong with
Cell 4—exactly what can never
be known, for he died in the
wreck. Perhapi it was a disar-
rangement of the fabric, causing
him to think gas was leaking, as
one crewman heard him observe.
Hoehling points out that at the
end of a flight all the gas cells
are relatively loose and floppy
"like a wrinkled prune."
A small explosive device could
easily be tucked under the folds,
with hardly any possibility of
detection.
A slit could' even have been
made and the device placed in-
side the cell, for the gas at this
stage is "riding high" in it, Be-
fore take-off, however, the cell's
fullness would make conceal-
ment difficult.
It is unlikely, for several rea-
sons, that any device was placed
aboard at Frankfurt, for the air-
ship was well guarded. Had it
been, it would doubtless have
been set to explode over the
North Sea or Channel, to' destroy
all evidence. -