HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-11-01, Page 3"Tip- f" Catches
Most Smugglers
Foamine breatere and shirtgle
turned red as. the gang of des-
perate smugglers :fought hand -
to -band with • a large force of
Customs .officers who had stir -
prised them as they bearhed their
heals. Cutlasses flashed, . guns
roared, men swore and scream-
ed in the struggle which ended
with the Customs force being
nearly cut to pie -os.
That yeas the bloody "Battle
91 Brookland" which took place
• !war Dungeness nearly a century
ago. IL was the worst Customs
defeat of all time, by the tough
and notorious band of smugglers
known as the Aldington Gang.
To -day, most of the violence
has gone (rem smuggling.. it is
mainly a battle of wits.
Nut long ago an enormous
ea010) of smuggled Wrist -watches
was detected in a secret compaid-
. mont of a ear on the Dover ear -
ferry. The vehicle was allowed
to land in the normal manner,
and was soon speeding towards
London, the driver unaware that
e fast ear was hard on his tall.
• At Ashford, in Kent, the chase
was taken up by another ear
whir)] followed the smuggler
in -
0 Ruseell Square!. Here the
siongglors ear wazti, parked, lock-
ed, and left An hour later the
driver returned with anot her
• man,who afterwards proved to
be- an important member of the
"rine," They walked straight
into the arms of hefty Customs
officers. and 001 only lost 2,000
valuable watches but a year or
he() of their liberty as well. -
An equally sticeessful capture
((toured three years ago. A ear
known to he carrying, a targe
cinisigutnent Of smuggled- watch-
es was allowed to land at a
•
t:hannt'l port The driver, how-
ever, had been tipped off that
the Customs men were after hint.
He drove the par to London as
hard as he eould, locked it in a
garage, and vanished.
Because of the value ca the
l'IltIggled watches the revenue
men knew that the smagg.ler
would return. They kept watch
on the garage in relay'.
It was a bitterly cold Febru-
ary,- and atter a week of cal-amd•.
moncv vigilance) the shivering
i.'ustoms mei were rewarded.
Two raen cane to the garage.
and unlocked the doors. About
to drive away they suddenly
found themselves surrounded by
inen plain clothes. Again the
primipal smuggier was caught
and sey oral thousand wrist-
wateleis confiscated.
Far more in the tradition of
that cameo of all smuggling Yrs-
Seis, tIni notorious Good Int -int,
Se110011e1' which worked t he
ariasts in the nineteenth century,
story of the temiliary
eaeht Dawn Approach.
This veasel had been catenated
•11111AIT1h1g cigarettes and to-
1(0ceo. along the coasts of Spain,
Italy, and France, becoming 50
well-known at .last that her 01011
eri: decided to- change their
scene of operations.
Loaded with contraband
watches, liked by snuneglers be -
SALLY'S SA111E5
1:k ‘a; .0g
"Why can't you take my word
Ilvervone else does."
cause of their vase of handling,
Pawn Approaele left Tangier and
-appeared early one morning off
Anglesey, A dinghy was 10W1`1. -
ed, and- a men wearing a life. -
belt stuffed With MON watches
was landed and picked op by a
last car. A tip-off sce a revenue
ear on their tail.
A thrilling ('has' began. The
smugglers, goon aware that they
were being pursued, put on
speed, eventually toeing the Coi-
tal/la men in the twisting Streets
of . Shrewsbury. The Customs
men picked up the speeding car
at Luton and followed 11 I() the
Strand, London, where it was
stopped and a man named Lane
cert wae arrested. He was sen-
tenced to four years' imprison-
ment, but renekd to "-squeal" on
his accomplices.
In the mermlime, the crew of
Dawn Approach, aware that
things had from) wrong, sailed
full speed 1 rom Anglesey to a
1,idc-ont in a little hay on the
coast of Ireland, where they re-
mained for ten days in the .hope
(hat things Would blow over.
They -underestimated the Mime.
by of the C11.441.4m5, however, for
when Dawn Approach sailed ill -
to Liverpool she was immediate-
ty boardcd and seized.
Possibly 1 it e most . brazen
inuggler of all Hine was art exi•
R.N.V.11, officer who, in April,
1947, purchased a fast -motor
launch from the Ministry. of Supe
ply. Appearing boldly -in Cher-
bourg with the White Ensign
flying, and dressed as a naval
lieutenant, he went to a large
wine and spirit store and inform -'
ed the manager nonchalantly
lhat he! represented the skipper
of H.M.S. Vanguard. He said he
had been ordered . to purchase
brandy and other spirits for the
• officers of that vessel for the
forthcoming voyage. of His Maj-
esty King George Sixth. . .
That night, with over 100 easea.
of Ii4uor aboard, the M.L. left
Cherbourg and made rendezvous
with a landing craft in mid -
Channel, where the cargo of
liquor was transferred. On April
13th, an unlucky day for hold
emugglerse the landing craft put
in et the Say of Arne. in Dorset -
Bunning up on the beach the
L.C. let down her ramp, and the
cases of spirits were quickly put
into a lorry.
The 101'* With a di ver and
three smugglers started oil in-
land, only to rim into an ambush
of about twenty Customs mon,
Who had been inforowd about the
landing.
•. A lively struggle followed.
• On0 sningehir who tried to rim
v'as brought down by a daring
flying taeklc. Another drew a
evolver, fort unately unloaded.
Captured smugglees requently
ask their captors "Ilow did you
know;'"I'lm answer 1 invariab-
i Iy the Sable, "From informatiou
revolved" juet that and mon-
tog more.
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'MORALE uoosTun
Morale was very low at the
Gypcm Novelty Company. so
Mr. Gypern decided to- enroloy a
recreation director for the see -
till): purpose of boostiog spirits.
One day the director assembled
all the workers and told them or
a wonderful new plan.
- "When you are workine here
five years," he said, "you net 11
beautiftil green certificate which
says you've given valuable ser-
vice for five years. When you are
working here ten years you get
a ,gorgeous blue certificate which
says we appreciate '4015 much
the - valuable services
to the firm during the past ten
- years. And when you are work-
ing here fifteen years. you get a
badge."
"What doe:, the badge go'?''
asked one of the Melt.
"Why -0!', the bade,. s, 'this
man has a green and a blue
certificate ."
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HE'S JUST "GRAM?" TO THEM—Fiery-tempered, gruff -looking
United Mine Workers' chit -1f John L. Lewis assumes the off-stage
role of dignified family patriaoh, posing with his giandchil•
dren at the United Mine Workers convention. With him in the
"tintype" group are granddaughter Jennifer, 10, and grand-
son Thomas, 8, children of Dr. and Mrs. John L. Lewis, Jr.
John Gould is a fanner (1011.I1
in Maine. Just how big Isis farm
may be, and whether or not he
makes a good liviflg. from it, is
more than 1 can tell you. But
1 do know that his "Fall Clean-
up" experiences, as reported in
The Christian Science Monitor,
will have a strong appeal to
many of my readers, both male
a 1111 l'eaalle.
Tile Mkt ttl'el, 411'41101111;1 fah
storm of iticent dale seemed a
goocl excuso to clean up the
shim - a once -yearly job that
lakes much more time the way
I do it. I suppose anybody
could light right into it and
11114;11 it up in an hour or so and
go play, but 1 am able to ap-
proaeh the task in such fashion
that it lasts all winter. I touch -
oil' a few sticks in the stove and
promoted a congenial interior
which made the lashing of the
rain on the window a real pleas-
ure.
I don't use the ;hop much dur-
ing the summer, although I
use the things that are in it.
If 1 have to fix the mower, 11
job I never avoid, 1 grab up a
handful of tools and do the
work under a tree. When I'm
finished 1 put the tools in my
pocket, or in the toolbox on the
tractor, on a barn window
ledge, or possibly back in the
shop.
During the summer the 'last
Mace 10 look for the hammer
is on the two little pegs in the
shop wall for holding the ham-
mer. Tho wrench drawer, made
a -purpose to hold all my
wrenehes neatly, come fall. is
usually as empty as a dust -bowl
rain barrel. I don't recommend
this method of onnducting a
farm shop, hut I am not one to
fight with the conditions that
prevail,
01' einirse. my (010115 help.3
mi... They help all summer, mai
do a gond job, The shop it
abaft the slimmer kitchen,
riiticbcd by opening a door. and
, take strawberry basket,
fnr instance . 1 boy atraw-
be( le basketo by the DA, and
they come in corrugated
cartons which 1 open and lay on
their 5lide:4 11 the 1411111, When
1 on to pick berries, I take as
many baskets as 1 expect to
need. put back any 12(11 p11019,
deli‘er the full baskets to
the house. Ilion I say, "Lticlies
and gentlemen -- if you will
stack the empty baskets on the
E11111 01 the 011116 Shelf When N'01.1
are through with them 1 hall
take them back to 1111barn and
place them in their proper niche.
I thank you"
"Yes," they szo.
But what they do is open the
door to the shop and pill the
empty baskets out there. In a
good berry year my baskets
move from the barn to the
patch to the kitchen to the shop
in an 1111121'111111 round, and when
come to elean up the shop
some rainy day in the tall I
spend 111e Aral two hours and a
half herding strawberry bas-
kets, an item which 1 do not
like to hare in My shop in the
fiat place.
I do not know of anything I
can do at thi, late date to break
long-standing habits. I provide
several largo tin barrels for
dcbriF bound for the (1111111),
which ought to be in the ga-
rage, handy for loading in the
truck. Thc.,0 cans always: turn
up in the shop about
met, and aro theCe for me to
move when I clean. One of
them, this y.1/1*, 0150 strangely
full or violoobors
This has been a had year
for 1.11 (.11 tube rs mid they
• have been minty, umele biller,
dry and crooked. It has been
necessary to rut and :mete a
dozen before finding one fit for
• supper. So, I'd bring tip a peck
or 50 every day, one id which
we would eat, somelimee. I
didn't know what was lacing
done with the rejects. but they
were being put in my shop in
a can. I found them under some
strawberry baskets.
After I had swamped a road
through the place, I began put-
ting tools back where they be-
long. 1 arranged the drills in
the index. I sorted the wrenches
and screwdrivers. I wound up
the cord on the sander and set
it away on the shelf. This takes
quite a while, of course, and
then I found my hatchet, I have
a little boy's axe which is for
pienies, and it fits into a pack -
basket with a little scabbard on
it for rilety: 1 couldn't find the
41eabbt1rd, 411 1 had to make a
1150! one. After that 1 found my
11011-i.
4, -5 5
Secondhand naiti• eaecureulate
on e farm, and always co -me in
handy. I have, or had, VA wooden
box made epeeially- to hold. 110-
('181(019(1 nails. When 1 ilaVEt to
fix a 1-14'11-1101111e door, or oome-
thing like that, 1 go to -my 11011
box and -pick out just what -MI
need. I earl find. anything from
a small copper carpet tack to a
20d spike, staples, cut naila,
long strews, and anything else,
the accumulation of a lifetime.
Somebody had wanted the
box, so they dumped Ina eollec-
tion of nails into a cocoa
This was not a good idea, on
account of inadequate volume,
so. 1 had10atop and make a
new- nail box and then pick up
an emy nails off the floor, ex --
rept those in the couoa the
Then I found -Grandfather's
old knife and fork box, which
is an antique. It has flaring
sides, and the handle separates •
the thing into two eomparte
adults, one tor laden,: and 011a
for forks. Spoons. of, course,
were in a glass Or china jar in
the center of - the table in the
old days.. I found the bon on
a beam in the barn long 10/10,
and thought it would make un-
interesting ftoveer eontainer for.
the Tenni room. Now 1 ra0.
across it again, and decided to.
Tedder up two tin linere for it,
which 1 did.
I am always- amazed when
anything I Adder holds Water,
and I was amazed, Learried the.
box, with the Meav liners, into
the house and it Wae received
with appreciation and outfitted
with :some fall asters. "How
are you oriming on cleaning up
the 01101)?" She asked.
I sharpened the .chisels after
that, and oiled the bearings on
the bench saw. and finally vatt-
ed it a day and took out the
last armful. of strawberry has -
13o1!. 'At -10a51 it was 41 begio-
Mit -With winter ,iorning on,
and the outdoors less demand-
ing, I expect to keep on clean-
ing 111) the shop all along, now,
until 91)0(10. tnake R few
things, and lix some others, and
finally get all the tools back
112 shape 1)0411101/. and have
a good time right up. mild the
vernal equinox cans me forth
with dulcet promises, arid the
family can start in again on -
straWberey basket S. got
wood for the stove, and plenty
of lumber, and several 11118
idras for shelves and whatnots,
and with Fmoct lurk 1 ehould
have (!verything i!el and
ready for •stirnMer.
When the children (mile home
from school with their new shoes
seutr'nt, it 114 1111)9' 10 1(111 0111 the
household cement. A little of
this lenient rubbed beneath the
broken piece of leather keeps the
:miffed part in place and ban-
ishes that "has-been" look.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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BY 1hV ft BARCLAY
WARREN H.A..
God's Conunand to Teach
Deuterossomy 0.:1-9, 20-25
Memory Selection: These werda„
which i command thee this day„
shall be in thine heart: and them
shalt teach them diligently unto
thy children. Deuteronomy 0:G -'b
When we think of the law
given by Cod through Moses wig
think first of the Ten Command-
ments. Sometimes we contrant
this with the great command-
ment Jesus gave. (Matthew 2(h
36-40.) HOWflver. nolice that Itt
today's lessor from the Old Tes-
tament we read, "Thou shalt
Inve tbe Lord thy God with adi
thine heart, and with all thy
40111, and with all thy might.'
The second part, "Thou shall
love thi• neighbour thyself,'
i4 found in Loviticu, 11:1 13. Jesuit
took these two passages from tilts
Old Testament and declared thai
"On the Iwo commandmenta
ham! th, 4 -ltd the prco-
phida."
Moses 01 Ma 10.-1 address, to teca
Chilciren tri Israel emphtp,izeei
the need ot machine God's corn-
mandinents 0nd statute; to that
children. Childhood “ the ino10
important time Ica rectifying re•
ligians instruction. A person re.
members beA what he learns
•hildhood, When fa. is old lba
of the previous week may
be forgotten while the merrioriea
of childhood are vivid. It is alstt
important ree1:40c this in.
struetion tri childhood becausa
God's Word is a lamp to the feel
and a light 1,1 11n1 path. iPsaima
1 10:1 05.) Wn n00.(1 it to 1100 by.
Without it our childhood and
youth wilt oriivi' tinsuitat)to
roundatiiM f01 the 1111114,11114 of ra
successful lire,
Parents ar- urgt.id nith al
God's Word, "Who,. thou sii,
test 11 thine homi,i, and whee
tici.i walkest by him. way, and
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thou ripest me- We tem Hai
do thi». How
few 01'171
kites 0 tiny in. read God's Wfig
togotly.w 11Ild
1)11,0, spi.•nd fat
1tore time the tel..vishk•
than we di,
t.i 111tfi.. Tv,,,L
condemned tourderey 7, 1, 1die,3
115 Unih, Mac 11. 70i6 4 (12,1,4
training
would hmo pointed the
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141;.1.11 te- Sunday Sehoot 01
clutsci 1V4t,' Tht- came
from bleier!!! homes Who beams
the gl'iN:b
MISUSE Of
FLAMMABLE
LIQUIDS KILLED
945 PERSONS
IN 1955.
sei4ietekeetatee0ilee
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THEY ROLLED THEIR OWN—Residents of Hals ey Ave. in Sedamsville put their dedicated,
aching backs into spreading the last of fiveions of self -purchased black -top on their un-
dedicated portion of the street. Although ma intained by the city for years, o recent ruling
put Halsey Ave. out-of-bounds For city repair crews. 50 the street deteriorated. So the reis4-
dents farmed their do-it-yourself rood gang u nd 'paved 11.
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