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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1953-11-26, Page 2Pirates Stili Rove The Eastern Seas "Chinese pirates attacked the British steamer 'Wing Sang' in • Pornnosa Strait, the vessel's mas- ter, Mr. Harold G. Goddard, re- ported today when the ship reach. ed Hong Kong." How many years ago, do you guess, that item made news? Two hundred? Fifty? It was this year —in June, 1953. Nor is the attack on the "Wing Sang" an isolated case. Owners of shipping lines sailing Far East- ern routes can echo the story week by week, The presence of United Nations' ships and air fleets, operating in those waters, has not checked the pirates, Al- most daily their daring brings fresh peril to the crews and pas- sengers of peaceful vessels. The "Wing Sang" was machine- gunned; other craft have run a blockade of cannon fire. Piracy on the high seas in 1953 may sound imposible. But mar- ine insurance policies still cover it as a real risk in a special clause. "Be it known that . we the Assurers are contended to bear and do take upon us in this Voy- age . , Fire, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Thieves, Jettisons . SurpriseIs, Takings at Sea . ." Dusk was falling on a July evening two years ago as shots ripped across the motor vessel "Taluei," on its voyage from the port of Tsingtao to Foochow. An officer and a rating fell wounded in the volley. Vainly the radio officer tapped at his gear. The radio was shot away. With excited yells the pirates swarmed aboard their prize from their junk and took command at gun point. Into the darkness the "Taluei" was piloted to a secret hide-out. There part of the general cargo, all provisions, and all the crew's perenai effects were Iooted. Days 'later the chip was releas- ee. c_ Caperai.n Kidd days -sent_.-eat when a large motor 4 . etc :machine-guns stesener "Ni_elock" and firez grappling- _ ..__ __h crew battled reseed with the invading serambled up the es Fesen when the enemy were :he .ester of the ec, his ship _ons ode half an :our. a. =wn.. e7P- ens Ti 1"..•-r ., _en, the. -tearr_e. "Lade ' ves eI, 'R :.i ... ?^.nee then boarded istr piratee.a 7: -..:-. - ere Nationalist eur:'r.eaa, ..._=r te `^,e rescue, There were no (iris„ a1 F :.d no cargo was broached, n.,:. ee- fore the gunboat sent them seet- ine to shelter among the ands the pirates rifled the crew's personal belongings. Why doesn't some authority stop this piracy? "Take a look at the map," said an engineer officer. "There's a let of sea around there. There's a lot of China's coastline that isn't anybody's responsibility. And as for islands --all the way from Shanghai to Hong Kong the map looks as if someone had shaken out pepper from a pot!" It is down that run, between the mainland and Formosa, where many pirates operate. Three junk - loads of them slid out of the jig- saw maze of marsh and islands to take their richest post-war prize. They boarded the Dutch steam- er "Van Heusz," smashed her radio; stripped crew, pasengers ShoveLOn r'1 °(mice Shnpilie ,Adjusting Necklace Leng tDNA MILES " ET 'INN a ),,.:klace adjusted to the wanted lens' A-7 without revealing how it's done is a problems. Be< t..ttttse-it's a woman's ljrobleni, ft -took a womtur r •sole She is Judith McCann, who previously dreamed up tit revolutionary earrings that fit without pinching or jprc; ° sure. Her new invention is a device that simply shave: mato ai necklace, fastening it firmly in place, 'With the t;Jpor'e-on device, as woman can stake alas t lace into a choker, if she likes, or wear it at any ,Length she prefers. She can change the length with the neeke lines of her various dresses and, further, find new -ways to drape and fasten the necklace, Each necklace may be detached from the shove -on de vice and the device itself worn as a clip or hair ornament Each necklace may double as a bracelet, Ornaments Jiav a custom-made look but aictually are in the rneditun-prt bracket. Companion pieces to these necklaces are the', `flings that even women with tiny lobes can wear with coin ort'. These are the only earrings that come in "lefts"` an'- °�1•jatltlq" m'n mvfect fit, Twin necklaces are eetwinet as hair ornament while single-- shove.on device, detached from its novitiate, becomes tm elle,' ; and safe of valuables and jewel- lery totalling $375,000. Their information is accurate. Halting one ship, the pirate chief asked for an American passenger by name. He was held to ransom For 10,000 American dollars. They are up to all the tricks. Half -naked Chinese on a junk will shout for help, then open fire and board a vessel whose master slows to aid them. They will feign bad seamanship, and one junk of three or four "help- lessly" sails across the bows a victim so that it has to slow down and become easy prey for the rest of the pirate fleet. Hardest trick of all to defeat is when the pirates sail on a steamer as paying passengers. As one Captain recently China waters explained: "We pan not search every :pan, even n and b dl -a that , e; eie<.- for cienceeded aerr.s.:hie snethed Se se after_ esere, teat many SC .___ . _.. east s171 7. _ rs "Only one guarded steel door allows communication." When the British steamer "kltt peh" was rushed by a surprise at; tack of pirate passengers, an SOS',, appeal brought the New Zealand:'' destroyer "Rotoiti" to her rescue:;` But by then the crew had regain,`• ed control, so there were pirata'' prisoners. - .u•; In the past five years about 300 pirates have been captured, tried, and imprisoned. Thos found guilty of murder have been executed. Vet still piracy flourishes, Be-' hind the screaming, gun -made roughnecks who do the work are - business -like Chinese who deal in piraoy as a profitable speculation. ; cut then: and their mune}.' .,;rias. serene, and information, thriving age-old crime would die ere:. But seno ng the current Far Eastern unrest the heads of the. p_rae "firms" must rub their hands as they see their present, ne nano ; -. 2 eZ—_ :1v. a,: _ :.. ... .. s.> .gip :fee re mrd net e r ee.`:e Ale;;,teenee pudding: reaire sr, age, so hers: ..re.: a eri Pspie e.'re- cipes—the fir:+.:'f.r •.-s :ire; fashioned" kind, t ether y e .'-.r the lighter sort :to mare; feed. - ies seem to prefer now adti;, o w i'LUML PUDDING 1 lb. flour 1 lb. suet 34 lb, brown sugar 1 Ib. seeded raisins 2 ozs. sweet almonds (linely .chopped) 4 cups soft breadcrumbs Juice of one lemon A little salt 2 tablespoons baking powder 1 lb. currants 1 ib. sultana raisins Ib. mixed peel What Makes Doggie Run? -- That's what little Judy Boatman is learning as Harry Miller explains to her some of the features of 'Vesta;' the world's firsttransparent dog, Miller, director of the Gaines bog Research Center, which developed the plastic model, is helped in his lecture by Vesta, who was equipped by electron- ics experts with an intricate sound system which enables her to "talk" about herself for several minutes, each of her organs lighting up as it is mentioned. ,Every detail of her body,including internal organs and muscular system, is faithfully reproduced in plastic. Modeled after a female Great Dane, Vesta is life-sized, being 5',s feet long and 31/2 feet high. tiaznxeg to suit taste or S eggs Milk sufficient to mix to right consistency '` Eft staking p,''Neel with flour; add sue; e y c:,s,pped bread ager, nutmeg and salt. Ther.~d fruit, etre leaving eggs to the lane Beat, them well and add to mixture with lernon juice and milk,. Solt fee eight hours. Enough feir Min- puddings. l.lCeI'i'i' PLUM PUDDING 1. cup finely chopped suet 3 cups soft breadcrumbs ?i cup flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder sifted to- gether 1 teaspoon nutmeg A little finely rut citron peel 3 eggs A little milk 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup raisins Combine ingredients same es for dark pudding. Steam four hours. Serves four, Here is a hot mustard sauce to serve with ham or frankfurters; if you like it with brisket or other seasonable cuts of beef, add a little salt to this recipe. HOT MUSTARD SAUCE cup eider vinegar 1 tablespoon butter or in garble 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon sugar 2 tablespoons prepared mus- tard 1 teaspoon paprika Combine all ingredients. Stir and cook over low heat until thickened, 4, w An onion sauce is sometimes liked for meat. 'H'ere is a de- licious one. ONION SAUCE z onions, sliced 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoons fat 1 tablespoon dour 1 cup beef bouiilion 1 teaspoon vinegar 1 teaspoon paprika. Cook sliced onions and sugar in fat ,until onions are lightly browned. Stir in flour bouillon, vinegar, and paprika, Stir and cook until smooth and thick. Add I teaspoon salt for meats requiring it, Crack- rained Ways Of Committing Suicide It was Mrs, Corea's birthday. So good-looking, genial George Corea, always a thoughtful hus- band, if a little eccentric, decided to buy her a nice new pair of red sandals. Home he went with, Ahern one evening a few weeks • ago, to their fifteenth -floor fiat in a Manhattan skyscraper. But as soon as his smart and pretty young wife saw the san- dals,. there was trouble, "Take them back to the shop first thing in the morning," she exclaimed crossly. "I hate the colour and Won't wear them!" Then George saw red. Anger- ed by her attitude, he hurled the sandals through the window , . , and his horrified wife was too late to stop him as he leant out after them. Such crack -brained suicides don't occur every day. But the records of coroners all over the world reveal some startling and original ways of committing self- destruction: A determined New Yorker, who had beer, jilted by a pretty s, ed r? be p1a ►sed to . snarrnde cide-d that life had nothing else to offer him. But he could not make up his :mind how to kill himself. So he first took poison, then cut his throat, and finally knot- ted a necktie round his neck — all while seated in an over -flow- ing bathtub, which would prob- ably have drowned him anyway if the poison hadn't done its work first. Returning to her home in Paris, Mme. Moreau found her husband lying on the floor in agony. After his death, a doctor found that the man, who had been depressed for many months, had cut up a bath sponge into small pices which he had fried in a pan and then eaten! Or take the curious case of James Bartle, a fifty -three-year- old man who was determined to save the police trouble in recov- ering his body from a reservoir near R(.ckdale, Lancs. He tied one end of a rope to his leg and the other to an iron fence before drowning himself. He also left a note stating where his body was to be found, The police end only to h.aul on the rope to recover it. At Innsbruck, a young theatri- cal, manager committed Suicide before a mirror, It was char that he lied placed a chair opposite the glass in his bathroom into which he had looked, waiting for his death after taking a large amount of arsenic. Then there was the farrier in Spain who lost his wife and was so grief-stricken that he deciil- ed he could no longer continue living. He took a chair and, plac- ing it beside his , wife'., grave, sat down and ate a baked apple which he had filled with strych- nine. He • died an hour Nater in great agony. Can a person commit suicide in sleep? It seems so, judging by the story told at the inquest on a Bangor solicitor. It was sug- gested in evidence that he cut his throat in his sleep. The man lived eighty minutes after the wound. He cried out to his wife and son, "Forgive mei" then, 'motioning for paper and pencil, he wrote:: "I dreamt that I had done it. I awoke to, find it was indeed trete." A ver- dict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. Another maxi, whose body was taken from .the River Seine at Poissy, Bear Versailles, had his left wrist bound to the handle of a bicycle to which. he was further held fast by a cord fast- ened. to his belt. It was believed that after make ing up his mind to end t'Ds life he rode. full tilt into the water People who commit suicide may be mentally unbalanced, but often they are normal folk driv- en to their desperate course by worry. In that case, self-destruc- tion is a wasted life -- for no problem is so great, or worry se acute, that it cannot eventually be overcome. It is mistakenly believed by some that to commit suicide re- quires courage. That is utterly wrong. Suicide, after all, is the coward's way out, a selfish es cape from troubles, usually tem- porary, with utter disregard for those left behind -- wife, hus- band, children — and then ter- rible mental anguish. There is only one known in- stance of a man committing sui- cide in battle. He was Major Todd, the son of a butler, and he was serving under the Duke of Wellington in one of the Pen- insular campaigns, Todd was famous for Ms skill as a bridgeemaker, but one day a bridge he had erected chanced to break down under the weight of a gun it had never been con- structed to carry. The Duke abused Todd tor his carelessness in the presence of some of his fellow officers, and then incensed the young man by saying: "Are you now going to take up your father's trade?" Next day an officer in com- mand of troops skirmishing with the French was amazed to see Todd obviously trying to be shot by the enemy. He tried to save him, saying: "They can t miss you if you stay here," But the young man, fired by the insults hurled at him the night before, declared: "I don't want them tog" —and rode with head high still nearer the French. Immediately afterwards he drop- ped from his horse, riddled with bullets. ith Care Filirinl -tars Making With The Muscles Film companies, prompted lag the boar-otilee appeal of a decent- ly bared male torso, demand from their new leading men, not on)lt acting ability, but bulging biceps and a swelling chest. The army of muscle -seeking _;€llo-males is increasing rapidly., Scores of screen stars—and stage and radio personalities, too --have been bitten by the "big biceps bug," . and are taking regular work-outs with disc -loading bar- bells, striving to gain that im- portant coating of solid muscle, Bernard Braden is one star whit "muscles -up" the bar -bell way., And acording to a recent maga- zine announcement, weights were recommended to Braden by none other than Sir Laurence Oliviert In Hollywood Ricardo Montal- ban is a firm believer in the mus- cle way to a good appearance, and uses bar -bells regularly. Other top-flight stars who have taken physique treatment include Tyrone Power, Jackie Cooper, Mario Lanza, Montgomery Clift, and Robert Taylor. In fact, it was Bob Taylor who started "beefcake" for stars when he put on almost 28 pounds in the right places in a few months' training for his role as boxer in "The Crowd Roars." Call Me Mister: The gay times at the U.S. Legation in Luxem- bourg will soon be only plea- sant memories. At Washington ceremonies swearing him in as Minister to the tiny Grand Duchy, Wiley T. Buchanan, an investment banker and real- estate operator, said he expected to be "too busy to throw any parties." His predecessor was Perle Mesta, friend of the world's great as "The Hostess With the Mostest on the Ball." Marks The Spot - Charing Cross, a monument copied after one erected in the 13th century by England's Edward 1st to comme- morate his queen, Eleanor of Castile, was recently announced by the British Ministry of Trans- port as the official center of Lon- don. All mileages shown on sign- posts leading to the city are now to be figured from the monu- ment. Royal Tribute -- Clad in Mack, Britain's Queen Elizabeth it places 'a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph Shrine in London's White• hall section. The ceremony marked the highlight of Britain'* tribute to her dead of two world wars.