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Angry Elephants
Hurled Trees
Two famous hunters, John F.
Burger and Micky Norton, went
out 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
frim.
Eventually they came to the
steep 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
tree -trunks, and was lucky to be
'.7t]ive. ;
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 forthe river
and slid down its bank,. which
was too steep for them to fol-
k*. But that did not deter them
from trying to settle the score.
He found himself being cov-
ered 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 Lupa goldfields,
Tanganyika, when illness con-
fined 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 • 1.871. 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 et twine to one
of 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
.shake toast and coffee. Soon a
fire 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.
.Mother time he caught Dan
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'.t•,•+. •• ; CROWNED — Showgirl Diana
Millay wears her new crown
with a smile after being named
Bachelor Queen of 1958, by the
'Bachelor Society of America.
,Coronation was at the group's
aeventh anniversary meeting, -
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Straining the morning coffee
through one of his sooks.•
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 same 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 reen mam-
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
se.ven-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 hie tent was packed
to suffocation by a crowd intent
en 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
hulig,sustiended, with the fangs
deeply.embedd.ed. •
The jaws were 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 the next 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,
rapidpulse 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 she -est -foe. 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
4•I<*•perties,, ^ believing that over
Many years Morrisey 'had sys-
'' tematically immunized : bitnself.
The book excels.intlefi everiety
of its adventures awl 1c s;first-
rate reading. e at '
• Basher lay . wearily • in his
'• dressing -room. One eye was
',.completely closed and his nose
4 -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-
itered boxer. •!''
"I've arranged a return fight
:for;tnext • 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
'.w beat the Germans at El Alamein during World War 1I, was the
only person outside -Churchill's family to help celebrate the
latter's 831'd 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,
Ieapt 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 rusks 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 tTur-
fonteim, found herself ataeked
by :a rogue baboon just as she
was getting into her car. The
animal partially clawed off her
dress... . 4•
Nevertheless, -the 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. tamp' near' Munich'' a
welfare worker was confronted
by a hysterical mother'. "I've
locked m -two children.. 4n a
room;and:s.e,{t, it.alighai :•, ti;
'VY',ilurn-
ing"n'o v! e've ncf; fbeclil '
screained.
The welfare worker, a young
French , girl, Marie Anj ouin, at
once Balled a Hungarian refu-
gee ..td l°help, her and rushed to
,the+hut. Smoke was pourilig 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
• siiioke, she gathered up the,,twho
terror-stricken children, snattc-tte
•ing one from the very ledge cf.•
GOOD DEAL, AFTER ALL—Many` New Yorkers have chuckled through the years at the thought
that they bought Manhattan from the 'Indians for only $24. But Ben Red Hill, centre, an
Arizona Indian In town' to do tribal dance exhibitions with friends Red Deer, left, and
Charles K. Luke, bears no grudge. After struggling with these glass doors in' a cafeteria; the
Indians will be happy to leave New York to the cliff dwellers.
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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 Tom. 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 crook;,
thugs, bullies and even agressive
drunks have discovered.
-40i,'jn the clays before this
training,becanle general, a police
girl on duty' 2t 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 fo him, clung to
.his neck and pulled hien to the
ground. .. •
Resourcefulness pays, partieu-
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 Jolette, was coming
out of a restaurantr,jii Rochelle,
France, when 1w plain -clothes
members of the. Gestapo stopped
her.
"You will accompany us for
interrogation at once" they or-
dered curtly. !;
On her she carried a note re-
porting German ;troop locations.
and equipment •!^•� it was only
a few weeks beore' D -Day —
to the lceai Resistance move-
ment. It would be fatal, she
knew, for her to be taken with
that vital information.
"You must permit me fir't
to buy myself solne new stock- ,
ings," she said, showing them'a
laddered stockin on^ a shapely..
leg. "Herr Com ' andant," she
.. added, "will not ash to see neer
. incorrectly dressed"
The police escdited her to a
near -by shop and; watched her .
e,losely while she seelcted an ex-
pensive pair. '
But they never' guessed that
the secret message had safely
crossed 10y -counter along with
her purchasing francs!
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Q. How can I prevent olive
oil or salad oil froth becoming
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A. By adding a pinch or two
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Q. How can make a good metal
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