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The Seaforth News, 1960-05-05, Page 7three Men And Girl On Lonely Island Cast away with two man and a girl on an uninhabited Pacific atoll .. one of the man melee with jealousy and plotting mur- der, That was the situation cote fronting Guy Botham after the trading schooner Mako had been holed on a hidden reef. Batham and his fellow -voy- ager, Jack Hartt, had left their own yawl, Spindrift, tat Papeete, Tahiti, and joined the Mako for a round trip to llikucra and other Islands in the Paumotuan group. M Atuona two young women came aboard and Louis Delprit, captain of the Mako, introduced them. One was Tatetutt Fabre, a French-Marquesan born in Raratonga and possessing "the sensuously tempting figure of a Slurabaja goddess"; the other was her friend, Mlle. Duval. Tateluti told Botham that she was engaged to Delprit. "He is a foreigner, half -American, and h not of my religion. The Hiva-oa priest would not marry us. Louis intends to get a Protestant min- ister at Papeete who will. Mademoiselle Dttval is to be my bridesmaid. I am determined to marry Louis, even though my people object." But Mlle. Duval and the crew boys were swept overboard by heavy seas when the Mako struck the reef, and Captain. Delprit was crushed to death between the ship and the dinghy the survivors launched to get ashore. Only four reached land • rateluti, Batham, Hartt and a ropra plantation owner called - Jules Moreau, who had joined the schooner to go to Papeete on business. He was a tall, sour - faced Frenchman, aged about forty or forty-five, "A nasty piece of work and a coward," says Batham in a gripping ac- count of his adventures, "Drift- ing Around the South Seas". Batham knew they were in for trouble when, as they strug- gled ashore, Moreau leered at Tateluti's long slender legs and shapely figure in her wet, cling- ing pereu, and said: "She's go- ing to make it interesting for tis three gentlemen." For the next few clays they were busy planning their Crusoe life, building a crude shelter with palm fronds, sectioned off to give the girl a private cu- bicle. They found a washed-up oil drum for a cooking pot, au emergency store of fish-hooks, lines, string, a sheath knife, two cans of meat and a bottle of brandy in the dinghy, and lived mostly on fish, coconuts and lender palm shoots. With the knife and length of driftwood, Tateluti made a spear for spear- ing fish in the lagoon. (Dee evening when Tateluli had retired to her cubicle af- ter talk round the camp fire, Moreau growled: "She does not like me. She makes all the talk for you and Captain Hartt, eh?" "If you were a little more sociable and a little less filthy, she would be friendly with you also," Batham replied. "What do I care?" Moreau snarled. "She is nothing better than g demi-monde, a half-caste courtesan, and both you and Hartt know it." Hartt, frowning, withdrew in- to the hut and lay clown on his sleeping mat. Batham decided to sleep en his mat beside the fire. Moreau sat binding more cord round the fishing spear to make the knife more secure. Then he, too, rolled over on his mat and appeared to be asleep. Batham had not long dozed off when he felt the spear stab into his left forearm. Moreau had evidently aimed for the heart but missed. He must have struck a nerve for the arm was numb, half -paralysed. Batham saw him, in the moonlight, crouching be- hind a huge palm tree near tl e 1RES CHIC -• Lilt, a black French poodle, sports snappy convertible w ear alongside Brenda Bautnhart, left, and het Owner Charnel' Thomas. INEXHAUSTIBLE CURIOSITY — Nine-year-old Clive Hall is half in and half out of a Hunter Mark I let at Hove, England. A guard had to pull the adventurous youngster out of the exhaust vent. The plane was displayed for public inspection. hut where Tateluti and Hartt were sleeping. "Look out!" Batham yelled. "Moreau's gone crazy. He'll kill us all if you don't get him," "What's the matter, Guy?" the girl called out in alarm. "He's got the spear! Get out of that hut quick!" A laugh, a maniacal cackle came from Moreau, "This time I'll fix the lot of you, for keeps," he muttered, creeping into the shadows behind -the hut. The pain in Batham's arm made him almost faint, but grasping a near -by stake of - driftwood, he staggered to- wards the hut, determined to get Moreau at all costs. But Jack was there before him. Flinging himself on the man, Hartt bore him down on to the sand, knocked the spear away and locked him fingers round the Frenchman's throat. Then Moreau brought his knee up and caught Hartt in the groin, They rolled on the sand. punching, fighting in a fury. Batham flung the stake at Moreau, who seemed to be get- ting the better of Hartt then, tormented by his throbbing arra, he swayed on his feet. Suddenly a figure darted into the moonlight, crouched behind the two battling men, and at- tacked the shad Moreau like a wildcat, clawing his face and head. "Get out, you savage!" Mor- eau roared, kicking out at Tate- luti. Hartt, now recovered, again hurled himself on Moreau, striking madly with his fistz. The Frenchman went down like a pole -axed steer and lay moan- ing. Bring that ball of fishing twine from under my mat," Hartt gasped. "1'11 have to tie the swine up for his own sake as well as ours." He. and Tateluti tied Moreau's hands behind his back, dragged hint into the hut, then attended to Batham's wound. When, later the girl brought Batham a drink of coconut milk to wet his parch- ed throat, he asked weakly: "How is Moreau?" "Dead!" she answered. "While you slept we buried him on the sand spit at the northern end of the atoll." When they had been on t -he atoll over a month, the skipper of a passing schooner saw the smoke of their cooking fire, lowered a boat, and took them back to Papeete. Batham and Hartt put Tateluti safely in the hands of friends of Captain Del- prit and resumed their voyage in Longa. They had not been under way long when Batham found Tate- luti lying on the mat in his cabin, her face half hidden by the damp blanket she'd taken off his hunk. a stowaway! "I thought you may have re- fused me because you did not h a v e accommodation for a woman here," she explained. "But I wanted to get to Rara- tonga. 'YOU know my people live there." She'd slipped aboard and hid- den just before they sailed, tt Raratonga she brought her par- ents along to show them the two nice Australians who had sailed her from Tahiti, Countless other adventures en route make this an engrossing seafaring book as exciting as any novel. The mental hospital patient walked up to the new superin- tendent, "We like you much bol- ter than the last follow," be said, The new official beamed. 'Why?" he naked. "Olt, yeti scene marc like one of tis." TAIL ti TOLD — Rest of the plane is snug inside, but the gigantic tall of a DC -7 is out in the weather. Special elliptical doors In a new, million -dollar. plus hangar provide for the outsize planes, Two plane:, nose -to -nose, can thus be work- ed on In indoor comfort. Taps for Averting Water Tragedies at Summer Cottages Precautions 1. If your shoreline has an un- even bottom, mark off the shal- low safe part with floats or markers. 2, Be able to close off your dock when you can't supervise it. An accident doesn't take too long to happen. 3. Have a rope or ringbuoy and a paddle within easy reach on a dock to assist a tired swim. - mer. Even a shirt or towel, a pole or branch can save a life. 4, Have a life jacket for every nom -swimmer and extra ones for non -swimming guests. A gond life jacket is a sound in- vestment. 5. Teach t h a Flolger Neilson Method of artificial respiration to every responsible member of the family, and stick an in- struction sheet on your boat Accuse as a reminder. Family Rules 1. Older children should check in and out with a parent be- fore going off for a swine. 2. Do not permit swimming at night, unless the water area is well lighted and completely familiar to each swimmer. 3. Do not permit any member of the family to water ski without wearing a life jacket. It is a fast sport, and accidents can happen bet o r e a boat has chance to get back. Never Forget 1, N e v e r leave small children alone on a beach or dock, 2. Keep out of and off the water during an electric storm—water is a good conductor of electri- city, 3. If children play with plastic toys, be in the water with them and don't let them get out of your reach, A gust of wind can send then out into deep water in no 11311e, 4 If a boat capsizes, hang on! 5 The time ter sleepy, relaxed sunbathing ie when the chil- rireue are get ly in Ott' cottage having a rest, not playing on the dock. - Neither A Ship Nor An Airplane Airplanes are fast, but they use a lot of power to keep a pay- load in the air. Surface ships carry a lot of cargo, but water resistance keeps them slow. Last month Britain's Saunders -Roe, Ltd. (aircraft) demonstrated a hybrid craft that is neither ship nor airplane, but has some of the advantages of both. Called the Hovercraft, it moves a little way above the surface of land or water, supported on a nearly frictionless cushion of air, Saunders -Roe's Hovercraft has a 30- ft. oval hull like an invert- ed platter. Sticking up from the venter is a cylindrical housing for a 435-h.p. engine and a four. bladed fan. Air from Lha fan is blown down through two ring- shaped ducts under the rim of the hull, and emerges in jets that point inward, forming a kind of a wall. Inside this wall a cushion of air builds up and lifts the Hovercraft off the surface. For- ward propulsion is obtained by diverting part of the air flow through hrizontal ducts. In its first test flight at Saun- ders -Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it eas- ily, using a standard aircraft con- trol stick, To damatize -the low friction of its air cushion, Inven- tor Chirstopher Cockrell pushed the four -ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hover- craft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial, It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic. The next Hovercraft to be built, said Chief Designer Rich- ard Stanton- Jones, will weigh - 40 tons and carry 80 passengers at 100 m.p.h. Large Hovercraft should need only one-quarter the horsepower required by airplanes of comparable weight, and be able to carry twice the payload. They can start their voyages on land, require only a reasonably level shore. Since even big Hovercraft will rise only a few feet above the water, they are bound to have trouble with waves. But the de- signers are not much worried. Most steep waves are low enough, they say, to be passed over easily. High waves are usually long and gradual; they can be surmounted like a series of hills. Hovercraft can be de- signed with a seaworthy hull. In the worst storms they could drop down into the water and ride out the storm like any other vessel. This Should Stop Your Whistling How often do you whistle while you work? Your answer is probably, "Seldom." For it is generally agreed that we are all whistling less nowadays than we did in pre-war days. Nobody knows why. Whistling in the street is certainly less fre- quently heard than it was in our grandparents' youth. And in Vic- torian times you could hardly walk twelve yards along a busy city street without encountering a determined whitler. Errand boys, social historians tell us, always whistled and so did milkmen on their morning rounds in the old-fashioned tip - up carts. Whistling seems, in fact, to be dying out all over the world, In China it's been banned for nearly 3,000 years although some Chin- ese ignore the ban. An Emperor named Chang disliked whirling so much that he issued tut edict against it. There is still a lingering be- lief in remote areas of China that whistling summons "wandering and 'hungry spirits which are disturbances of happiness." In Warwickshire a whistling superstition which holds a strong influence even in these sophisti- cated times is that of "The Seven Whistlers." It is said to foretell a tragedy in the coalfield. The whistlers are seven birds, said to fly together at night making a whistling noise. Many miners of last century on receiving suet' a "warning" while on their way to night work in the pits, often returned home at -once, full of foreboding. In Leicestershire coal mines whist- ling was for years avoided by the miners because they considered It a sign of impending disaster, Lt. -Col, P. T, Etherton, the tilt. yeller, found that among certain Arab tribes it was believed that whistling not only emanted from the devil but that a man who whistled transgressed the law and was expected to "do penance and purification" for forty days "before his mouth was clean again," Sailors tell you that the whistler is sure to bring up a storm. And on the stage you rare- ly see a play which features whistling because lots of actors think whistling a bad omen. Rambler Needles The Sig Three Although no one gets seriously hurt, executing a ploy In the guileful game of one-upmanship can bring incalculable satisfac- tion — if nothing else, American Motors Corp, scored a sly one-up last week against Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors and their yet -to -be introduced small cars. Assuming an innocent, stance, American Motors ran a full-page advertisement carrying the slo- gan: "Go Rambler -- the com- pact* car." To explain the as- terisk next to "compact." there was a fnotxsnte which said: "Trademark American Motors Corp" "They must be kidding," one competitor complained. "They can't trademark 'compact.' If they could, I suppose we'd have to , call ours compressed, or condensed, or shrunk, or some- thing." AMC was, indeed, kidding, It admitted it couldn't trademark so common a word and was merely trying to make the phrase "compact car" synonymous In the public mind with Rambler. Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. SALLY'S SALLIES 'I want that one, It looks as though I could hare baked it." Russia's Sex Modes Suit Billy Graham The usual crowds of adminera and autograph hunters were missing when Billy landed at Moscow's airport. In his partyx boyhood pal and associate Grady Wilson, his male secretary and two U.S. businessmen --' Print- ing Tycoon William Jones, who had persuaded Graham to take the trip, and. Department Store Owner Henderson Belk, who was taking Bible intx'uction from Billy enroute, Sightseeing with .American reporters and an In - tourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the Kremlin ehurchee. "There is a symbol I never ex- pected to see here," he said, "I hope it has meaning for the fu- ture," Russian tourists, gaping at paintings of Jesus Christ in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the As- sumption, equally astonished him. "A tender, moving thing , Never, never did I expect to find this in the Kremlin." He never expected to find a bevy of French models in Dior dresses in the Kremlin either, but there they were ifor a big Dior fashion show), and Billy hesitantly consented to pose for photos with two of them. Said he: "I wish my wife were here." He was the honored guest at a Baptist Sunday service held in a large wooden hall crammed with more than 2,500 worship- pers, most of tltern women. But he did not preach. He had the wrong kind of visa. Russian Bap- tist leaders explained politely: "It is not customary here to have tourists preach." Perhaps this would be possible on his next visit, they added, and Billy asked to be shown the mammoth Lenin Stadium, which seats 100,000. ("I knelt and asked God," he said later, "that some day it will be - filled with people listening to the Gospel.") In Paris last month, after five days of Intourist tourism, Bap- tist Graham told reporters he had not been surprised when Russian religious leaders told him that atheism was declining and religion rising in the U.S.S.R. "I could read on the faces of the people a great spirit- ual hunger, and the sort of in- security that only God can solve," he said. "We don't like Communism, but we love the Russian people." Tourist Graham also had a good word to say for "the high standard of Russian morality" and the "moral purity" of Rus- sians as compared to the broad - daylight sex life he had observed in London parks. Said Billy: "I did not see one person walking down the street with an arm around another, We -went to a park where thousands of young people were gathered. They held hands, but they were ve=ry dis- ciplined." EXCHANGING GIFTS -- French President Charles de Gaulle and Pope John XXIiI exchange presents at an official meeting in the Vatican. GRAVE WARNING -- This lawn in Augsburg, West Germany, gives a grim picture of traffic accidents. Each cross represents a local traffic death during the pa'f year. This is Augs- burg's way of observing Traffic Safety Doy in Wise rn Eurah:e.