HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-08-10, Page 7Charlie The Mole
Continues His Rest
Out from beneath the police
station in the since -razed Crina-
Mal Building in New Orleans era
a humiliating day of 1948 crept
a loveable little old winebibber,
retired sign painter, and althea
-
tic wit who had been christened
Charles Greer at his birth in
Doerun, a.
Swiftly nicknamed Charlie the
litIole (by the press), he proudly
related hew for six years, in a
snug that he called the Hotel
de I3astille, he and others of his
idle ilk had luxuriated right un-
der the very flat feet (and now
red faces) of the New Orleans
police force.
"It started back in 1942," so
ran Charlie the Mole's account,
"when myself and a pal called
California Slim ducked behind
the bushes around the building
for a fast nip of muscat (in the
New Orleans patois, a wine oall-
ed muscatel), We found a vent
leading under the Criminal
Courts building and decided to
investigate. We saw at once that
We had struck paydirt. Having
no baggage to speak of we
Checked in immediately.
"We mooched some coat han-
gers and later en a few bottles
of muscat. We smootchecl some
mattresses and smuggled tie -xi
in by night. Then we scrootched
a picture of Washington crossing
the Delaware and same scantily
clad calendars to give the place
a cozy, homelike atmosphere."
But Charlie, he was interrupt-
ed, don't mooch, smootch, and
scrootch mean the same thing?
"Indeed not," he rebuked "To
mooch is to induce someone to
give you a handout. To srnootch
is to take something nobody
wants. To scrootch is to take
something that somebody might
want, but not enough to get stuf-
fy about it."
And then, taking LIP the thread
of his narrative, Charlie said:
"Our next was to tap into the
Water supply, although the best
we could scrootch for a wash
basin was a bed pan. Then we
commenced work on Operation
Ouch, which was intended to cut
in on the electricity. California
and I, feeling that no sacrifice
was too great for the cause, ac-
cepted positions wheeling ice-
cream wagons. We resigned after
clearing 70 cents, just enough
for the tools we needed to cut
in on the power line.
"We got knocked down four
times apiece, but finally connect-
od,and turned on the juice. (The
poli c e subsequently recalled
their mystification when the
lights failed /our times in a sin-
gle hour one night.)
"That night we threw an ex-
clusive blowout to celebrate the
coming of light to Hotel de Bas-
tille.‘There was No Nose Fertile,
Sloppy Robbie, a guy °ailed
Janoots, a citizen from Balti-
more named the Chesapeake Bay
Retriever due to his skill at stab-
bing cigar butts, Twitchy -toes
Murgatroyd, The Sharecropper,
Gondola George, Knapsack Jack,
a chap called Horrible Example,
and of course Atomic Bun, so
called because he was usually
charged up. A handful of the
eanned-heat mob tried bo crash
but we doled out a few wooden
collars."
And what is a wooden collar,
Charlie?
"You take a whole board no
thicker than 3/4 inch, and you
bring it down forcibly on the
skull of the party to be fitted.
A hole will usually form in the
board where it comes in contact
wih the skull and the board will
settle on the shoulders, giving a
very neat collar effect."
Next to the comfort of the
Hotel de Bastille, the food in the
House of Detention, and the beds
in the veterans' hospitals (Char-
lie had been in the Navy), the
Mole savored most the delicate
differenen of word meaning.s.
"A tramp," he once said, "is a
migratory worker, a hobo is a
migratory non -worker, and a
HITLER'S WOMEN - German actresses Mario Emo, left, and
Cardula Trontow, Germany's "best new actress" of last year,
are in Hollywood. Mario, 25, will' play the part of Hitler's
mistress Eva Braun, pnd Cordula, 18, will play the dictator's
half -niece in the forthcoming picture "Hitler."
bum is a non -migratory non-
worker."
Charlie the Mole, of course,
considered himself a bum, al-
though he did confess to cutting
grass in a nudist colony. When
columnist Howard Jacobs of
The New Orleans Times -Picay-
une, who was by way of being
Charlie's Boswell, asked whether
he had to wear clothes an the
job, the Mole replied: "Dress is
optional."
Charles (Charlie the Mole)
Greer, 54 years of vagabondage
behind him, died last month at
Charity Hospital of Louisiana in
New Orleans. To where he mi-
grated or whether he would
work at anything when he got
there, nobody knew. But one
thing was certain: Charlie was
wearing no man's wooden collar.
—From NEWSWEEK
Love Affair Has
A Tragic End
"I'll marry the g i r 1," Mauro
Serafino said, "but the must have
this house and the vineyard as
her dowry."
"Basta!" s h o ut e d Serafinrs
prospective father-in-law, Bruno
Fazi. "Already my daughter has
borne you one child, and another
is on the way. Marry her tomor-
row and be damned to you."
That's how the argument end-
ed.
For Serafini, a 21 -year-old la-
bourer, pulled Out a pistol and
began firing wildly. While Papa
Fazi raced to the police station,
Serafini barricaded himself in the
house; in the village of Rocca di
Papa in the Sabine hills near
Rome. As hostages, he had Mama
Fazi, 87, the daughter, Ga.briella,
18, and Gabriella's 17 -month-old
daughter, Loredana. As weapons,
whioh he had been secretly stor-
ing in the house he hoped to ac-
quire, he had a machine gun,
four pistols, and a supply of
dynamite and hand grenades,
When the local police first
showed their heads above a
stone wall facing the house, the
young gun collector opened fire
on them from behind a window
'box. The police fled to a safer
distance and shouted an orlfer to
Serafini to surrender. He replied
with a machine-gun burst. Then ,
they pleaded with him not to
endanger his own child. Another
• burst
The police tried more ingeni-
ous tictics. From the roof of the
building, they passed down cool
drinks, loaded with sedatives.
Serafini tested 'them on Gabri-
ella, who promptly dozed off.
Then, when Serafini stuck his
head out the window, the police
on the roof tried to knock him
out by dropping a sack of' grain
on his head, but the sack only
hit his shoulder. Cursing wildly,
Serafini threatened to blow up
the house.
When night came, firemen
kept the house under floodlights
while reinforcements poured in.
By morning there were 500 po-
lice, oarabinieri, and a Guardia
Mobile detachment. They rushed
the house twice but were driven
back.
Next came tear gas. But while
this was being brought up, Sera-
fini appeared among the gera-
niums and showed he was ready
by waving a gas mask.
"This is all the faith of my
father-in-law," Serafini shouted
to watching reporters. "He did
not listen to me."
By now, the crowds of tourists
and curiosity -seekers had des-
cended on the village to see the
final assault. But • it never came.
After sixteen hours, Serafini
calmed down as suddenly as he
had exploded. "I could have held
out for a w.dek," he said as he
surrendered,
Inside the house, the baby was
the only hostage still alive. Ma-
ma Fazi had been shot to death
shortly after her husband fled
to the police. Serafini had shot
and killed Gabriella a few mo-
ments before he surrendered. It
was his final gesture to her on
what was to .have been their
wedding day.
Reports on the forthcoming
1962 models indicate the automo-
bile designers have accepted the
fact fins belong to fish — and
perhaps skindivers.
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FARM EQUIPMENT
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ALLIS Chalmers combine, model 66
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inside and 'outside pipes in good con-
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BUCKEYE tiling machine, 301, with
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ONE 28.46 !McCormick Deering grain
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HORSES FOR SALE
HUNTER; bay gelding, 17 halids aged,
bold Jumper, good manners end con.
formation, excellent working hunter
J M McDougall Jr., Perth, Ont,
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7. Prices for Breeding Stock start at
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Dolphins Sport
In a Scottish Bay
The porpoises, six-foot lengths
of sturdy grace, are the common-
est of all the whale visitors to
the Camusfearna bay. Unlike the
rumbustious dolphins they are
shy, retiring creatures, and one
requires leisure and patience to
see more of them than that little
booked, fin that looks as if it
were set on the circumference
of a slowly -revolving wheel; lei-
sure to ship the oars and remain
motionless, and patience to allow
curiosity to overcome timidity.
Then the porpoises will blow
right alongside the boat, with a
little gasp that seems of shocked
surprise, and at these close quar-
ters the wondering inquisitive-
ness of their eyes shows as plain-
ly as it can in a human face, a
child's face as yet uninhibited
against the display of emotion.
• The face, like the faces of all
whales but the killer, appears
• good-humoured, even bonhom-
ous. But they will not stay to be
stared at, and after that quick
gasp they drive steeply down
into the twilight; they go on
about their own business, and
will not linger to play as do the
dolphins.
One summer a school of seven-
teen Bottle -nosed dolphins spent
a whole week in the Camusfearna
bay, and they would seem 'almost
to hang about waiting for the
boat to come out and play with
them. They never lept and sport-
ed unless the human audience
was close at hand, but when we
were out among them with the
outboard motor they would play
ISSUE 32 — 1961
CHAIN REACTION When they say "auto pileup," this is what they mean. The Chicago pileup involved three autos
and two trucks and was a chain reaction of events set off lay the truck (center) whose driver' blacked but. Six were hurt
their own rollicking and hilarious
games of hide-and-seek with us,
and a sort of aquatic blind -man's -
buff in which we in the boat were
all too literally blind to them,
and a target for whatever sur-
prises they could devise.
The beginning followed an in-
variable routine; they would
lead, close -packed, their fins
thrusting from the water with a
long powerful, forward surge
every five or ten seconds, and
we would follow to see how close
we could get to them. When we
were within fifty feet or so there
would be a sudden silence while,
unseen, they swooped back un-
der the boat to reappear dead
astern of us. Sometimes they
would remain submerged for
many minutes, and we would cut
the engine and wait. This was
the dolphins' moment. As long as
I live, and whatever splendid
sights I have yet to see I shall
remember the pure glory of the
dolphins' leap as they shot up a
clear ten feet out of the sea, one
after the other, in high parabolas
of flashing silver at the very
boat's side. At the time it gave
me a sensation that I could not
place; afterwards I realized that
it recalled irresistibly the . firing
in quick succession of pyrotech-
nic rockets, the tearing sound of
rockets' discharge duplicated by
the harsh exhalation of air as
each dolphin fired itself almost
vertically from the waves. —
From "Ring of Bright Water," by
Gavin Maxwell,
lett lette
How Can 1?
By Roberta Lee
Q. Will you please suggest a
good method of laundering
quilts?
A. Make a generous lather
with pure soap and a little wash-
ing soda and ammonia in enough
moderately hot water to cover
the quilt, and soak i1 for a half-
hour. Press the dirt out with a
wooden potato masher or a cro-
quet mallet. Do not rub or wring.
Rinse in the same manner. Hong
on the line to drip, and shake
often. When partly dry beat
lightly with a rattan carpet beat-
er to lighten the filling. Repeat
several times.
Q. How can I assure myself
of a tender steak before grilling
it?
A. Rub it well with olive nil
about an hour before grilling.
Melted butter may be used if you
do not care for alive oil, but the
former is more effective.
Q. Virlial, can 1 do about a
drawer knob that keeps unscrew-
ing and working Mere?
A. Try cutting a clash trore
sandpaper and &in!: this 0,, the
knob in such 8 wy that the
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FOR Sale - Ponies, riding trr.res,
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North of Clifford,
PROPERTIES FOR RENT
STORE for rent, in the town of Ayl.
mer, Approximately 135 by 75 plus
warehouse space. Excellent location on
Main street. Has moth rn front R. S.
Sheppard. 250 John St. South Aylmer
Ont.
PROPERTIEC FOR SALE
MODERN 4 -room winterized bungalow,
in Fenelon Falls. New automatic oft
furnace, spacious lawn, small graden,
near shopping, schools, churches', low
taxes, $7,000. Mr. NV. IV. Jordan, Can-
nington, Ont. Phone 15.
Motor Comp For Sale
BLUE Top Motor Camp eemPrisiliS $
or more acres on No. 11 Highway e
, 31,
miles north of overlooking Lake
Couchiching. Suitable for hotel. motel
and market garden. This oropere, has
8-roon) modern residence, 3 winterized
cottages, all modern conveniences and
1 double and 5 single log cabins for
summer tourists. For further Informa-
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FOR complete information on summer
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WHITE Forest Lodge, Arundel Que.
On beautiful Lake MacDonald in Laur-
entian Mountains. Excellent cuisine.
Cocktail Lounge. Write,
abrasive surface of the sandpa-
per contacts the 'drawer front.
This will serve as a "lock wash-
er" to keep the knob tightly
screwed in place.
Q. What is an easy way to
paint screens?
A. Cover a small block of
wood with an old piece of car-
peting, tacking the carpeting se-
curely to the wood. Dip this into
your paint and rub it over the
screen.
Q. How can I produce a high-
er gloss on my shoes?
A. After polishing the shoes
as usual, put a drop or two of
plain water on the caps and fin,
ish-polish with your buffing
cloth.
Q. Have you any tips for
making easier the job of cutting
corn off the cob for canning?
A. This job will be easier if
you'll use a shoehorn, instead of
a knife. The wide end of the
horn, which is sharpened, con-
forms to the curvature at the
average ear of corn, and facili-
tates the shearing off of the ker-
nels.
Q. What can 1 do when I
need only a few drops of lemon,
juice, and don't wish to cut a
whole lemon into halves?
A. Pierce the lemon with a
fork or knife, and squeeze out
the required amount of juice.
Then the lemon can be returned
to the refrigerator for later use.
Q. How can I make a good
dead -black paint?
A. By thinning some lamp-
black, of the type ground in lin-
seed oil, with some turpentine.
Q. How can I Improvise
light starch for very delicate ma-
terials?
A. By using the water in
which rice has been 'boiled, and
adding a little bluing to it.
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"Certainly, 3 know the artist
but that's as far aa It