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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-01-22, Page 3, Stranger Than Detective Tales T)et:ateive story writers seek Ing to slartle their readers need no longer sack their brains to think up knew methods of mur- der. There have been some or- iginal attempts in real life re- cently, some successful, some not. Criminals in emelt of an un- detectable poison or some other fool -proof system are unlikely to copy. In every ease the would- be murderer has either been caught or has polished hiriaself oil as well, Husbands in a rage are often described as blowing up, Two have blown up quite literally, A Norwegian whose wife started divorce proceedings dynamited his Oslo home, killing himself, WHO, and baby son. There was the American who secreted half a stick of dynamite under his shirt. First his temper exploded, then himself. Though he died, the wife with whom he was so angry was only slightly injured. Another pian to choose dyna- mite as his weapon was an Ital- ian, Pierre Luigi Tarrtburiani, but he was far more cunning, and for quite a while though 3m had escaped the consequences of his crime, In Rome last year, thir- teen years after the incident, he was charged with the murder of a cavalry officer, Captain - Mario Guaitterotti, believed to be a for- mer rival in love. Just before the officer was transferred from Rome to Bres- cia, Tamburlani sent him anony- mously a new pair of jack -boots, the heels of which were loaded with dynamite. The captain didn't wear the boots until he reported to his new colonel Then, drawing himself up to give a smart salute, he clicked his heels and detonated the dyna- mite. Italians certainly seem to dis- dain the cruder and better known methods of murder the blunt instrument, the gun. Even when poison is used it doesn't always come out of a bottle, Perhaps this isn't surprising in a country where the Borgias per- fected the poison ring. The latest variation comes from Potenza, when a young man was arrested for sending his ex -fiancee a real- ly stinging insult, It was alleged that in a bou- quet of flowers he hid a poison- ous snake, with the following message attached: "Amid these blooms, yellow like your face, you will find your twin -sister." Lucky to be charged merely with manslaughter was 45 -year- old Marco Sottoripe. The Roman police accused him of killing his wife by shock tactics. She suf- fered from heart disease and he was well aware of it. "To think that you're the man who made me forget John Barrymore!" These Wardrobe Extra Add I3eauty Here, actress Virginia taayo ties a sat01 eummerbtnrd about her waist, She has pinned a flower - fresh bouquet or fake blooms to her blouse, This lends sena- rates a dressy air, They add Needed Sparkle BY EDNA MILES pa some extent, the sire of a woman's wardrobe Must depend on her adeptness at sleight-of"hand with scarves, flowers belts and jewelry. Even women who possess large wardrobes use these tricks, so they're doubly amportatit for the woman who must get along on limited means, The best rule to go by in choosing accessories to dress up and vary your clothes is to pick those that are simple. Avoid fussy, tricky or extreme scarves, jewelry, gloves or stoles, You'll tire of thele thickly and so will everyone else. Try, rather, to buy those drawls, capes, bags, belts, over- skirts and aprons that can survive more than one season. Try also to pick those that will serve with more than one suit, dress or blouse in your closet. This way, you're being kind to both your appearance and your budget. With a little practice, you can learn to run up your own ties, scarves and net aprons. Examine carefully those on display in the stores. This will show you how to start. Even if you are not an expert seamstress, you can acquire a knack for these small accessories. You can further stretch your wardrobe by learning to tie a scarf or wear a stole more than one way. Use vdur inluginelion. you'll trod it richly rewarding. Actress Virginia Mayo wears a tailored belt and dotted sick tie to lend a crisp appearance to her blouse and skirt. Switch- ing accessories often lentis it lot of varlets, to any wardrobe. One day while she was out he staged his own death, so that on her return she found him laid out on the bed, surrounded with candles and flowers. Seeing what appeared to be tr corpse, she collapsed and died, Sottoripa confessed only after long questioning. Then, in miti- ' gation, be pleaded that she couldn't sleep and kept hirer awake at night, too, until he was absolutely at the end of his tether. ., One fifteenth -century Blue - beard, an Austrian tailor, by name Tobias Rackner, disposed of seven wives by what must have seemed to him to be the perfect system. Unfortunately his eighth wife didn't respond and informed the authorities. He had been tickling his brides un- til they choked with laughter and eventually died of exhaus- tion, Murderous Bed Most people hope that when they die it will be in bed, quietly and peacefully. But even a bed has been turned into a murder- ous instrument. A notorious English innkeeper invented one with a canopy which slowly des- cended during the night and jressed the sleepers to death. Then be was able to steal their valuables. WSHAT- BE LEVI' An eccentric. Wall Street mil- lionaire died recently. When his will was opened, the lawyers discovered he had lived up to his reputation to the very end. This is what they read: "To my wife, I leave her gigolo and the knowledge that I wasn't the fool she thought I was. To my son, I leave the pleasure of earning a living. Far thirty years he has thought the pleasure was all mine. Ile was mistaken. To my daughter I leave $100,000. She'll need it. The only smart thing her husband ever did was to marry her. 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Which of the following countries is communistic, yet anti - Russian? --Czechoslovakia -China -Yugoslavia -Albania 6. Which year did the Indianapolis Memorial Day 500 -mile -race meet for the first time? -1918 -1900 -1911 -1894 7. The following animals were associated with several famous peo- ple. Can you match each to his man? Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice. (A) Dove Hannibal (B) Elephant -Elijah (Cr Lion -Noah (01 Raven -Androcles Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, avenge: 70.80, superior; 90-100, very superior. ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST 'ilufttit (a) 's3[00JuuV (0) 'IegP u H (H) 'aunt (1d) --L '1161-9 -1.Jhlenolsoct;,azO-g oi1uo q;7 b •,calloiy-C atddea-se 'ai31SoS-I 111,FAIIM FRONT Hate you any land that needs draining in a hurry? O w i Them do what William Whalen did. on his farm south of Kars, Ont., near Ottawa. .He deg a 2,000 -foot ditch through sett. marshy land m a few seconds -- not with a shovel, bulldozer or ditching machine ----but with dy namitc'. • • • The recent ditch -digging etcrrt on the Whalen farm was witness- ed by 30 students of the Kempt- ville Agricultural Culfege. Fred Tremblay, technical service rep- resentative of the explosives di- vision of 'C -I -L showed tate stu- dents hove to place the sticks. o' ditching dynamite in the ground along the desired course of the ditch, and also i,ow to prime and fire the charge. • . When the shote were exploded .some 1,700 tons of earth and muck were blotto skywards. Tangles of bush and rushes were cleared out, leaving a neat ditch -five feet wide and three feet deep --to drain the runoff water from the Whalen farm into the Rideau River. Within minutes water• was coursing the length at the ditch. Within half an hour the low-lying section heti dried considerably. According to farmer Wilaleu, digging ditches with dynamite not only saves many man -(hours 01 labor -an important consider- ation during this period of term labor shortage -but is cheaper than digging by machine, and tail be done ire soft wet ground where machines would bog down. M e e The Kereptville students were also shown how to use dynamite in clearing stumps and ereckialg boulders, M M M The. oonsel'vation of soil and water' resources, combined with proper utilization of farm lands, presents the greatest natural re- source problem facing Canada today. s 1, e This was the conclusion reach- ed after study by a committee of the Agricultural Institute of Can- ada, a group of agricultural sci- entists with a total membership of more than ,3,000. Concerned over the "lack of an adequate and integrated policy governing land and water resources," the has come obit with a brief which calls for cempiete national co- ordination when planning and conducting soil and water con- servation programs. "Conservation of soil and water for agricultural use requires the co-ordination of administrators agrisiultural engineers, agrono- mists, agricultural economics, soil specialists, construction engineers and farmers. To achieve success, such harmony of action is essen- tial whether the projects are re- lated to conservation of irriga- tion water, control of flood waters all farm lands or prevention of erosion by wind and hailer." the -brier states. Faulty organization and lack of co-ordination resulted in the development of acute land anti economic problems during early irrigation projects in Alberta and Australia which required tine services of soil specialists and ex- perienced irrigator's to straighten out. The brief also stressed that the farmer mst be considered the most irepo'tant factor in the ul- timate effectivcmeee of any soil and Water conservation policy. u Since: conservation of soil and water resources is of utmost im- portance to Canadki, .nil one could question the logic of having a national conservation program administrated and carried out by the moot qualified personnel ob• lain e. Wireworms are among the most destructive, most Wide- spread and, until recently, most di.fflcttlt insect pests to control. There are many different species which attack whoat, rye and other grains, bens, corn, pota toes, onions, gladioli, tobacco transplants, tomatoes, cabbages, cultivated and wild grass and other crops. • w v Crops attacked by wireworms may fail to germinate as the lar- vae will eat the germ of the seed or hollow out the seed entirely. If the seed does take root the wireworms may bore into the underground part of the stem causing young seedlings to wither and die. Wireworm injury also makes it easier for disease or- ganisms to invade plant tissues, O 0 * All four stages of the life cycle of wireworms -- adult beetles, eggs, larvae and pupae - live mainly in the soil. Only the lar- vae cause damage. They are smooth, shiny, hard -bodied, wire- like worms varying in color from dark brown to yellow. They spend from foul to eight year% in the soil before changing to the pupal stage frons, which the adultu emerge in two to three weeks. Beetles begin egg -laying in June. They are hard -shelled, brownish in color with body tapering to- wards both ends. - e Y, M When these beetles are placed or fall on their backs they are able to throw themselves several inches in the air by flipping the middle part of their body in or- der to get back on their feet. This habit affords considerable amusement to farm boys and girls who have given the insect such names as click -beetle, snap- ping beetle and skipjack. N 0 0 For many years wireworms were best controlled by cultiva- tion. In recent years, however, the new chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides have taken a useful place in their eradication. Said 111e cowboy: "My pardner and I are taking a trip through the desert this week, He's taring along a gallon of whisky for rat- tlesnake bites," ":And what are you taking?" "Two rattlesnakes," (rvi't INDAYSCHOOL LESSONfly Rea. ft. Dental; 4%at'rctt B.A., B.D. Christian Ilnlnttti'ty aid I grvness Matthew 181-4. 15 Memory Selection: Verily 9 soy unto you, Except go be crosvert-- ed, end become as little children, ye shall not enter into She king- dom of heaven, Matthew 9,,c:? Jesus was the world's neat- est teacher, not only with re- gard to what ire taught, but alas with regard to how he taught. His disciples had boon disputing among themselves as to who would be greatest in the king- dom (Mark 8:233, He gave tlhom an object lesson. Setting a tittle child in their midst he said, "Whosoever therefore sh11 humble himself as this tittle Child, the salve 3s greatest in the kingdom of heaven," Who can be more humble than the little child, - free from worldly am. bitions? We must have also a forgiv- ing spirit. This was well illus- trated by a Korean Presbyterian native pastor, Mr, Sohn. His two sons were leader's of the band of Christians in school. In Oc- tober, 1948, a communist student from the sante class as Mr. Sohn's oldest sen led the way to that son's room and cried, "Hera is the most obnoxious Christianl Take him, Can you still preach your Bible?" Ile replied, "Yes, I can preach and will preach forever," Then the rioters rushed at him, beat and stabbed him with bamboo spears. He war: taken to the People's Court and sentenced to be shot. When tak- en to the place of execution, his younger brother ran. to him and screened him saying. "Don't. kill hint. He is innocent. Kilt me instead." The rioters shot both young men to death. Later the national army occupied Soon-- eihum, The communist student who caused the death of Mr. Sohn's sons was arrested and sentenced to be shot. Mr. Sohn hurried to the army's head- quarters and asked that the com- munist boy be pardoned. He argued that though his two song were dead, they were saved; but if this communist boy were shote, he would not have any chance to be saved. The boy was par- doned and given to the pastor who took him home and loved him as his son. The young mare was deeply moved and became e. Christian. When we are born anew and realize the greatness of God'e forgiveness to us it is natural tt forgive those who have wronged( us. 0 that multitudes might ern:••• perience the miracle of Godo forgiveness to themselves. What harsh feelings would be washed away. (Upside down to prevent peeking) Sjd Vr1 '37 V J-7©Ojai /i 1D a3 33?9 Wcb'99N1/1 1 013 V B sj O t" `NCH Dixieland Snownsan---"Delighted to know you steel" greets Atlonfol railroad mon 1, R. Hanle as he welcomes Smoky Snowball to the Sunny South. Mode from snow piled high on freight cors from up north, the snowman was outfitted with pipe and cap by train.• . men al the Inman Railroad yards. J♦ ♦ A•• •