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Wild 'Tales Of An Adventurau$ L e
,Percy N. Furber, Mexican
quicksilver mine manager, went
,into a bar in the border town of
Laredo, Texas, and ordered a
drink, Only One 0$her man was
there, sitting over his drink,
staring vacantly into the mirror,
Which backed the bar,
The door opened silently and
it was all over in a split second
.. two shots rang out simultan-
eously .. , two men fell dead.
The man at the door was a cher-
ift, the man at the bar a bandit,
He'd been watching the, door in
the mirror, and as the sheriff
fired had drawn his pistol with
his right hand and, without turn -
hag, fired under his 'armpit and
cen-
treget of .the forehead, Remarkable
shots, :those border. bad -men.
There were bandits in the hills
around the mines, One, night in
eamp, Furber was awakened by
the thunder of horses' hoofs. He
jumped out Of bed, opened the
door, and found the manager of
a nearby silver mine. Badly
frightened, he said he'd just
been attacked by bandits and
fought his way out, As he was
drunk, Furber pelt'noattention
10 his story, gave him a room for
the night, unbridled and .unsad-
dled his horse in the dark and
turned it into the corral,
Next morning he picked up,the
bridle and saw to his horror a
man's hand, hacked off at the
wrist, the fingers still gripping
the rein near the bit, The at-
tack had been no drunken dream.
Furber, who was the first to
drill for oil in Mexico and form
the successful Oil -fields Of Mex-
ico Company, tells of other
strange adventures in an aptly -
named auto -biography, "I Took
Chances". Hearing that Durango
interests were out to collar his
mines, and had obtained a judg-
e's order purporting to give the
right to 'seize them, he hurried
to the camp and found a lawyer
and two companions in possess -
len of his office, with his Ameri-
ean foreman, who bad been prom-
ised the management if they got
control,
In a blind rage, Furber dung
the foreman on top of the wood
fire, then ordered the others out
at pistol point. They ran for
their carriage like scared rabbits,
gathered up the decidedly
scorched foreman; and left at a
gallop.
Among Furber's employees was
a tough fellow in charge Of the
mule teams and drivers who
gave his name as Pancho Villa.'
)fie couldn't read or write, and
always marked his pay receipts
with a cross. After a fight in
which he was reported to have
killed a man, Pancho Villa dis-
appeared without his pay. Years
later, during the Madero revolu-
tion, Furber saw his photograph
iii a newspaper — as a "general"
with Obregon's forces.
Once, Furber and his manager
were buried and trapped in a
mine when the roof caved in
with amonstrous roar, half -
stunning them. "If y0ii've never
been in a mine without a light,”
' he says, "you don't kno r what
utter darkness is." They had
three tallow candles each on
their belts, but the rush of dust-
fIlled air made them useless. The
darkness and noise were terrify-
ing.
Eventually, some miners' man-
aged to drive a hole through to
them, and they squeezed their
way to freedom. Later, he was
told that he'd drurllc. es tumbler-
fu1 of neat whiskey. as If it were
water, with no noticeable effect,
though he'd never before touched
the stuffs
Mexicans love to gamble, and
Often at the Mexico City Jockey
Club Farber played poker with
Julio Limaritour, an inveterate
gambler. There was one draw-
back: the players at his table
were always invited tO be his
dinner guests before the -game,
On condition that none left ' it
before he did — and he seldom
quit before six or seven in the
morning.
When Limantour was in Paris,
he bet a Russian Grand Duke
$250,000 on the turn of a single
card at the famous Club Privet,
and lost. Tile two; diellIfed each
other intesely. It was early Sun-
day morning, and as they lett
the Duke said: "Senor Limanteur,
it it is not convenient for you to
not wady nPayo, natayaupr'l eenven.
Hench',"
Deeply insulted at the hint that
'it might be ditliou]t for him to
pay, Julio cabled his brother,
Jose, in Marled City, aed for the
first time in its history the Na-
tional Bank of Mexico was open-
ed ore a Sunday so that the bet
could be paid m Paris the next
day. The payment lust .about
wiped out what remained of the
fortune Julio had inherited from
his father,
Furber knew President Porfirio
Diaz well, and last called on him
in 1910 to tell him privately
some rumours of the coming revo-
lution, • - p
The reception room opened on
to a balcony overlooking the
patio, where people were talking
and moving about. Diaz was
eighty and very deaf, so Furber
said nothing of the rumour be-
cause he would have to shout
so loudlythat anyone in the patio
might hear. Still less did he dare
put his fears in writing. He won-
ders now if Diaz' extreme deaf-
ness may not have been a factor
in his downfall.
After. Madero's first' Attempt to
overthrow Diaz in 1910, he Issas
arrested for sedition and would,
have been shot if Diaz' wife,
Carmelite, a devout Catholic,
had not begged for his 'life.
Madero went to Texas, plan-
ned another revolution, and in
the following year drove Diaz
out
This "Ark" Is Still
Waiting For Flood
In the tiny German village of
Kempten, there are a number of
very worried people, and their
worries began when the world
did not come to an end with a
second flood, in December last
year. . All of them belonged to a
.strange religious sect which calls
itself the Chosen Sons of Kemp -
ten.
The sect made itself knon for
the first time in 1947. Joseph
Prinz, the sixteen -year-old son
of a Kempten widow, died, and
shortly afterwards his mother
called on Father Reber, the par-
ish priest. ''You must make Jo-
seph a saint," she said.
The priest, deciding that she
did not literally mean what she
said, replied there was no doubt
that her son was in heaven. "No,
no," she said, "he's a saint; he
has been proclaimed one by the
Chosen Sons of Kempten. You
must set up an altar for him in
the church, and tell the Pope to
proclaim him, too,"
The following day Father Reber
had another visitor. This time it
was an old man with long, flow-
ing white hair and beard, called
Peter Triller. Triller Blade the
same demands as the woman the
previous day. "I," he said, "am
St. Peter, and I know how things
are ordered in the Kingdom of
Heaven. All this is the will of
the people of Kempten, who have
voted thus,"
When the priest refused to lis-
ten to him, he found that his con-
gregation dropped almost by half.
Instead the Chosen Sons set up
a "shrine" in the room where
Joseph Prinz had died. It cost a
mark to go, in, and Peter Trifler,
"Saint' Peter," "cast out demons"
for another ten, A second "altar"
was established under the widow
Prinz's kitchen table; because her
son had once fallen down there '
in what appeared to be a fit, and
the Chosen Sons could be seen
crawling industriously under the
table.
In due course their 'prophet-
ess," a certain Maria Stork, an-
nounced that the world was go-
ing to suffer a second deluge on
December 26th, 1953. Only the
Chosen Sons of Kempten would
be saved, by having recourse to
their ark. This ark was none oth-
er thana house in the village,
No. 15, Saenger Street. The
faithful were to take shelter
there on the day, and they were
not to concern themselves with'
how the ark would float; it was
ordained that it would float
The results were remarkable.
Peasants gave up going to work;
many people sold their property.
Many others incurred debts and
Obligations which they could not,
possibly fulfil. The day duly ar-
rived; a handful of journalists
appeared in Kempten; the faith-
ful took shelter in No, 15 Saenger
Street. And nothing happened.
For many of the chosen the po-
sition now is grave indeed. They'
have sold all their goods. They
have given up their jobs. They
face legal actions for debts they
never expected they would have
to pay. And the "ark" remains
obstinately upon dry land,
HER DEFENDER!
"When, darling," the girl whis-
pered tenderly, "did you trot
know you Ioved me?"
The boy thought. Finally he
said; "When I began to get mad
when people said you were
brainless and ugly."
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Rescuers Rescued After 11 Hours — ft was a .close troll for jony Pizatello and Nick Biafore who
were trying to rescue a stranded swimmer above the falls of the Tygart River. From a lifeboat
the pair tried to stretch a rope lo the swimmer, who was standing above the brink of the falls,
in waist -deepwater, unable to mtave fi�Rcause sof .the swift current. Their boat was eg i t ineahe
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r theywere marooned. After 11 hours they were rescued by a rope and pulley rig,
where
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safety.
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DeVty Sheriff Tony P
rizatello, left, and Nick Biafore cling to rock after being swept over falls.
Nick .Biafore-is pulled to safety. ,by an unidentified rescuer. tising`a pulley.•
if you're a snooker fan you
probably know that the great Joe
Davis is the only man ever to
accomplish a break of 146 — 1
point short of perfection.
"Is" did I say? Sorry. "Was"
is the right word. For Joe's great
feat has been equalled by a lad
not even old enough to vote.
Here's how it came about
-The starlet who accomplished
this break of 146 in the game
that has ousted English -Style
billiards from the tables is Rex
Williams, of Blackheath, Staf-
fordshire. He is only 20 years of
kge but the real significance of
the achievement is that only one
other map in the thousands
of centres this fascinating 22 -
ball game is played — mostly
throughout the British Com-
monwealth — has ever before
managed it. That one other man,
,as if any snooker fan wouldn't
know, is Joe Davis, today a
hearty 53 years of age and
playing as well as ever he did
when officially world champion
for 21 years, from 1927.
h. *
The Chesterfield maestro re-
tired as world champion' in
1946 to give, as he said, "the
youngsters a chance." But the
youngsters did not, or could not,
take the chance. They took it
in turns to wear the crown dis-
carded by Davis but in chal-
lenge mateches he kept beating
them all, even on a generous
handicap basis.
Now, at long last, there has
emerged young Rex who at the
outset of his career has managed
to equal the best old Soe ever
did at any one single visit to the
table in more than 30 years;
And all over the snooker,. world
they are asking if this youngster
of all British professional cue-
ists is going to be the one to
succeed the man who has strode
Colossus -like through snooker
as Bobby Jones did through golf
and Paavo Nurmi through ath-
tetic ,
*
To close students of snooper,
Williams' rise has not been ex-
actly meteoric. He has been at
the game ever since he was
table high. In 1950 Rex was the
English youths' billiards Cham-
pion. The following year he re-
tained that title and added to it
-the snooker one as well, Thus
at the early age of 17 years he
started carving niches for him -
Reif because never before had
ane player managed to win bOth
titles in one year.
e M e
On deciding to take to the
cue for his living, young Rear
had also to decide to follow the
popular pattern of snooker in-
stead of billiards if he wanted
his bread buttered. Both are
played on a table with six pock-
ets but snooker instead of being
the stern and often tedious test
of mathematical exactitude in the
application of dynamics that bil-
liards is it works out to be most-
ly a matter of potting balls. With
22 instead of three to play around
with there _are so many more al-
ternatives to choose from. And
therefore so much more fun.
*
The game, which is said to have
,,gotits name from "snookers"-
(yoimg cadets) who first intro-
duced colored balls -on the table
as a variation from the normal
three -ball billards game that
helped to pass away their time
in India's rainy season, starts off
with one white ball and 21 col-
ored. The white is always the
cue ball and the others, 15 red,
one black, one pink, one blue, one
brown, one green and one yellow
each has lits value.
Highest for Maestros
Each red ball remains down
once it has been "pocketed" and
after doing so a player takes a
pot at a color of his choice. For
mere tyros it is usually the near-
est but for the maestros it is in-
variably the highest. That is to
say the highest in scoring worth.
The value scale is seven for the
black, six for the pink, five for
the blue, four for the brown,
three for the green and two for
the yeller. Each red counts one.
After a color has been put down
it is returned to the table and a
player must put another red
down before trying another color.
a 4 *
Thus you will see it is possible
for the black to be potted 15
times before all the reds have
been deposited. Then the colors
are put down in sequence of
their ascending value, The maxi-
mum score is 147, although by a
freak chance of being given a
free ball from a foul shot by the
"Opponent before any of the reds
have been put down it is pos-
sible to reach 155. But the
chances are several millions to
ond against it ever happening.
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So 147 remains the accredited
maximum.
That maximum was actually
attained by a New Zealander,
CIark McConachy, during a match
at the Meaufort Club, London, on
Feb, 19, 1952. As however an
official measurement of the pock-
ets afterward found them to be
slightly over standard measure-
ments the record was disallowed.
The old record of 146 established
when Joe Davis played the Can-
adian champion, George Chenier,
at Manchester, England, in Feb-
ruary, 1950, still stood, Now it
has been equalled by young Rex
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