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The Seaforth News, 1957-12-26, Page 5Angry Elephants Hurled Trees Two famous hunters, John F. Burger and Micky Norton, went mut after elephant ivory in the Congo one morning, taking op- posite' directions. Burger return- ed with two prize trophies, but Norton hadn't returned even by next morning, so Burger set out with trackers fearing that the worst might have, happened to i91m. Eventually they carne to the deep banks of a tributary of the Congo River, and deep down the ravine could hear Norton call- ing for help, He lay buried un- der hundreds of branches and gree -trunks, and was lucky to be alive. He had shot a prize bull -ele- phant and was admiring the tusks when suddenly he was charged by the infuriated herd. Instinctively he ran for the river and slid down its bank, which was too steep for them to fol- low. But that did not deter them from trying to settle the score. Ile found himself being cev- Bred by an avalanche of branches and young trees which they were tossing down on him in an effort to bury him alive! The assault lasted until darkness set in, when the herd moved away. t took Burger and his boys more than an hour to free Norton. Burger was working in a min- ing camp on the Lupe goldfields, Tanganyika, when illness con- tined him to his bed, His only helper was an old native cook named Dan who claimed that he'd cooked for Dr. Livinstone and seen the historic meeting with Stanley in 1871. Burger of- ten needed his help at night, but once he'd fallen asleep only a charge of dynamite could awaken him, so Burger tied one end of a length of twine to one or Dan's toes, the other to a four - gallon tin of water mounted on a bracket over his head. If pull- ing string No. 1 was ineffective, Burger was determined to try No. 2. One daybreak, after a sleepless , night, he managed to wake Dan with No. 2 and ordered him to make toast and coffee. Soon a 11re was burning briskly at the foot of his bed, but a little later dead silence and no sign of a fire. Dan had dropped off again. His feet were stretched out to- wards the fire, and between the toes of each. he'd .wedged two pieces of toast, now burnt black. Another time he caught Dan er CROWNED — Showgirl Diana Mislay wears her new crown with a smile after being named Bachelor Queen o'F 1958, by the Bachelor Society of America. Coronation was at the group's seventh anniversary meeting. straining the morning coffee through one of his socks. 'As hunter, miner and trader, Burger relates exciting and amusing bush experiences in "African Adventures". 0 n e morning in Elizabethville he passed a handcart with coffin aboard. A sorrowing husband was burying his wife, and the funeral procession had halted outside a pub to "drown" their. sorrow. Two days later he pass- ed the salve procession two streets farther down town. The mourners were then inside the last bar but one en route to the cemetery. Burger's most astonishing en- counter was with "Professor Mor- risey," the world's greatest snake man, in Durban. Hisact consist- ed in taking the bites of the most poisonous reptiles, including a twelve -foot deadly King Cobra of India, but he said he wanted to procure black and green main - bas and open his show by taking the bite from the black mamba, Africa's deadliest, most feared reptile, aptly called "the shadow of death." Burger took him out to the sugar plantations of Natal's north coast, where he caught a seven -foot green mamba and brought it back in the rickshaw, pushed into his shirt, with his belt and buttons securely fasten- ed and a tie round his neck, to make sure it didn't escape. He the nannounced that he would take' its bite the next evening, and his tent was packed to suffocation by a crowd intent on seeing what a man looks like when he dies from mamba bite. Holding it firmly in his right hand before the spellbound audi- ence, Morrisey pushed his left forearm under its snout. As the fangs fastened on it, he released his hold with the right hand, and for some seconds the mamba hung suspended, with the fangs deeply embedded. The jawswere then gently re- leased, the snake replaced in its cage, and he held out his arm for inspection. Blood began to flow from the deep punctures, which he cauterized, then poured some serum into the wounds, saying he hoped to see them all • back thenext night, when he would take a bite from a puff - adder. A few minutes later he slump- ed to the ground, showing all the signs of neurotoxic poisoning: troubled breathing, dilated eyes, rapid pulse and arm pains. Then he complained of a feeling of suffocation and failing sight; but he refused to have a doctor called. The next morning Burger was amazed to find him sitting in his tent, taking tea. He didn't put on a • show for .a further two days, then took the puff -adder's bite as promised. His incredible resistance, to the most deadly snake -venom, Bur- ger says, puzzled doctors. To satisfy sceptical onlookers, one night he allowed the mamba to , bite a stray dog. It died within half -an -hour, and cost .him a $30 fine. He had complete faith in a serum which he claimed was in- fallible against all snake -poisons, but as this was never injected, only poured into the wounds, Burger doubts its neutralizing properties, believing that over many years Morrisey had sys- tematically immunized himself. The book excels in the variety of its adventures and makes first- rate reading. Basher lay wearily in his dressing -room. One eye was completely closed and his nose felt all over the place. In fact, he . had had the hiding of his life. Suddenly the door burst open and in dashed his manager. "Cheer up! I've' great news for you!" "What it is?" gasped the bat- tered boxer. "I've arranged a return fight for next week." HAPPY BIRTHDAY—Sir Winston Churchill, right, is shown walk- ing with Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery around Chartwell, his country home near Westerham, England. Montgomery, who beat the Germans at El Alamein during World War II, was the only person outside Churchill's family to help celebrate the tatter's 83rd birthday. ' Girls Who Rose To Emergencies A burglar stole in to the dormitory of a girls' boarding school in Yorkshire. One girl, aroused by stealthy movements, • screamed to warn the others, leapt out of bed, rushed to the door and put her back to it, so barring his escape. She also switched on the light. Inspired by her action, her four companions, all plucky and pretty teenagers, made a rush for the man in their pyjamas. As he slipped on the polished floor, they sat on him until help came. In a more desperate emer- gency, a yung South African girl, Carol Cuttleway of Tur- fonteim, found herself atacked by a rogue baboon just as she was getting into her car. The animal partially clawed off her dress. Nevertheless, she struggled into her driver's seat. The mon- key leapt into the seat behind her. Very much frightened, she drove a few yards. Then a brilliant idea occurred to her: the fire extinguisher. She stopped the car, seized it, swung round, and gave the gaping ba- boon the works — a mouthful of chemical foam. He hopped over the side at once and she drove away unscathed. Resourcefulness in times of danger is known to be no mascu- line prerogative. In a Displaced Persons camp near Munich a welfare worker was confronted by a hysterical 'mother. "I've locked my two children in a room and set it alight! It's burn- ing now! We've no food!" she screamed. The welfare worker, a young French girl, Marie Anjouin, at once called a Hungarian refu- gee to help her and rushed to the hut. Smoke was pouring from its window. Inside, she heard cries and moans. Marie wrenched the window open and, as smoke cascaded out, ordered the Hungarian to hoist her into it. Choking with smoke, she gathered up the two terror-stricken children, snatch- ing one from the very edge of GO^- «:r.. ,- r r„•,:. n ha' theY Int -a--n711-41,1.—Many New Yorkers have chuckled through the years at the thought Qlharles K. Luke, bears --•..n from the Indians for only $24. But Ben Red Hill, centre, an Indians wilt be happy to lea's41..q1., 49n_ce ,sl'dance e xhibitions with friends Red Deer, left, and +cuggling with these glass doors in a cafeteria, the - '-' {f•. dwellers. a blazing hearthrug and handed them out of the opening. Then, with great presence of mind, for there was an invalid, bed -rid- den woman next door, she stamp- ed out the flames. Through her promptness two children were saved, their over- wrought mother was spared a criminal charge, and a terrible fire, which might have brought down the whole camp, was averted. Some nurses at a South Lon- don hospital, set a neat — and sticky — booby trap for a Peep- !, ing Torn, Worried by the man's attentions, they decided to scare him off. They knew the tree into which he climbed to spy through their hostel windows. They dis- covered, in fact his exact perch- ing place and, in daylight, fixed above it a sizeable tin operated by an almost invisible wire. Then, that night, one girl acted as decoy. She began to undress slowly in front of a lighted win- dow. So enthralled was Peeping Tom that he failed to hear the wire being pulled from an ad- joining window until it was too late and tar had splashed over him from the upturned can. Covered in tar he bolted and never showed his face there again. Nowadays, courses of unarmed combat form part of every police girl's training — as many crooks, thugs, bullies and even agressive drunks have discovered. Once, in the days before this training became general, a police girl on duty at Leeds City Sta- tion trapped her man by a boldly unorthodox leap. At her chal- lenge, the quarry, a notorious railway thief, moved as if to bolt. Dropping his packages, he braced his back. At that split second, with re- markable agility, the police girl leap -frogged on to him, clung to his neck and pulled him to the ground. Resourcefulness pays, particu- larly in war time, when many a girl agent owed her life, and the safety of her circle, to her quick thinking. ' A French - Canadian agent, known as Solette, was coming out of a restaurant in Rochelle, France, when two plain -clothes members of the Gestapo stopped her. "You will accompany us for interrogation at once” they or- dered curtly. 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