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HOW NAVY,JET PLANE 'SHOT' ITSELF
This 111:41I Prurnone Tiger is the type of pia he that caught up with itriown cannon •shells.
Gravity, and air iriction slow dovn
shells so they fell from i.•,,
in curving course tOWQre
Paradise isle
Ruled. By Cats '
Front the deck of the schooner..
the. man with the suitcase stared
.44 the island, enraptured. It vas.
• 00, perfect South Pacific atoll, •
tviax, in shape, with palrnstud.
iced. barrier reefs enclosing' a
• *Wee deep and: very blue
' The man had come far to find
this paradise island, but. it was
worth it. "Ilere," he thought,
can escape from the disillusion-
xpent of civilization and live aim,
• ply, next to nature," •
The schooner's boat • landed
birn on, the :palm-shaded beach.
of Tetiaroa:
Three days l,ete4 another ,trad-
itig scbooner,,en. ,retire to Tahifi
from, the Tuamotu Archipelago,
sighted an "'reefs canoe float-
ing'oft the 'reefs of Tetiaroa, In
It was thsnlone iwhite•
bad gone ashore on the coral
Isle, His „clothes were in shred's,
Iris hedy•Was'lacerated all "over,'
es if some sadistic fiend had tor-
lured him with knife slashes.
He had lost much blood and
was delirious.' Ire his eyes was an
expression of utter.. terror. From
his blood-flecked lips' hUrbled the
words; "Cats! Thousands of 'em!
'They tried to eat me!".
The captain • and 'crew the
schooner knew what had hap-
pened—the wild cats ot Tetiarea
'had increased, to a dangerous
number again!. . The, French .gov-
ernment in Tahitl'eVbuid. have to
send natives and traps and wee-. •
• pons to diapcise .oe. them, as they
had in the peat. Vntil, this was,
emPletede, a .elAtigeee sign •evoUld. • •
have- to. be posted on Tetiaroa.
The, history of Tetiaroa is. ine •
trigging. This coral isle in the
early pagan days of the Society
lelet•'Was considered a resort is-
lend,. where the high chiefs; royal
members, and sorcerers and con-
cubines gathered for their feasts
and, secret rituals.'• •
Formerly- owned by the ruling
Pomare family of Tahiti; it was
deeded. after the first world war
to Dr. . Walter „JOblietene Wil-
liams, -actingeeteistil for Great
Britain. in French, Oceania, „and •
Tahiti's only dentist. It was
given ',to Dr,,Williain$ by King
Pomare to eettle the-royal fame
ely's. dentist bills!
Williams - found Tetiaroa
plentifully covered with coconut
palms,. and he hired workers to
plant,others for regular crops. In.
a :Short time the' had the' island
on the way to becoming the
laegegfi CciVtIaLe',46clikeitig atoll in
theeSotithiPedifie;W 7 • .
But sooneeeefteieueOb.stacie. ape
peered. This atoll had been abane
cloned 'for hundreds of , years, and e
during this • time rats • had. hie
creased in large numbers in the
groves. They were ne„ menece,to
the success. Of his copra enter-
prises oir Tetiareee-They nibbled
off•We'YOfirigicbeenut shoots, and
even climbed into the mature
palmeetonipfolt.-•the'almosteripe •
sOconuts. •
Rats in the islands can husk . a•
tocenitt with their teeth, inik-;
ing a hole large ertoteghetce crawl .
Into to nibble -the meat and drink
the milk.. e
Dr. Williams knew it would
he a prohibitive cost to :band
each palm with a strip of wide
tintieratecet anti' crab eemetal . • to
ility,erterthe, .ascents . of the - rate, e
eneljlarge,yeid-crebs-.. into „the
elueteis Of 'coconuts:e But he did
/tEiiftr'7*-1ellS'obitile idea hOW-: to
control them. Why not turn cats,:
s•
se
er nervouee khout
s steamerddiese
Othink VII have one
r eeet
htisbend'i4:otit aate.q ;-
sits ;rap. with 'ra oboe are levhen'her
;Imagination -is. something ethat
, e
GOOFEDSOMEBODY i `ki peop-Pod up and'nowhere to go,
this tar ddnglee'71,frOrri from the
hack' Of a service itcfion, the driver hact'driVen the Cat' ante
the,likbuf 'made. one. mistake far"' of fij-,oqr on ,fhe , brakes.
fit irdOling the car ifa"make if squeak while he
.bused the auto to Came toniblin6 down. Lift 'lowered; the
ilinibideraSSeti driver drove Squecikitigry
1 4 "At agttepe„ plane in ouilow dive tires four,
second burst of 2tlenne r' shells toward ocean,
„Shells travel 1500-feet
per-second faster' than
Plane: flcine then goes
in stoopeedive (A),
No apple dumplings of apple
puddings have ever tasted so
wondefful to me' as those made
at the farm with dried apples,
They weren't just homemade,
they were neighborhood-made!
All the apples were prepared at
our apple-paring parties
You seldom hear of apple-
paring parties these days. They
have become almost as extinct
as the old quilting bees. But
when I was a very little girl,
my grandparents had an apple-
paring party every year. And
so did our neighbors. Though
these' parties were considered
"after-supper frolics," yet they
were the means of getting a
valuable piece of work accom-
plished. All through the fol-
lowing year, we had hardly a
meal without an accompani-
ment of apple pies, sweet-sauce,
and apple preserves. On. Satur-
day nights those apple dump-
lings or apple puddings —
tlITIMMM, *
There 'Were two methods of
drying apples 'Used' by the
country people. In one case the
, fruit was pared and cut into
pieces, one-half to three-quar k
tee's Of an inch in thickness(the
cores being extracted)" land
spread, upon aplatforinVor tem-
porary scaffolfding ot boards, to
dry- in the sun, ,When sufficient-
ly dried„ after several days of
geed weather, ,the apples were
removed to an tipper n•oont in
the" house and plied in one
of ifs angles: If' the'drying pro- '
cess' had, been thoroughly done,
they wouldstay. sound ,anthgood
.fora•:-couple, of years. .
I recall, that the first money'
I ever earned was 'the 3 cents'
-day paid me by a neighbor- to
turn the apples, periodically,. so
that all sides would get equal
exposure to,,, the sun! writes
Herriet„Patehin *them in The -
Christian Science Monitor. -
Thee other method ,was more
leneral, ancl e wee th one we
used., The apples` were strung
on strong" thread, arid .htin g' to
`dry' in the kileheri (where we
had 'a largeeevood stove), Dura
ing. the months :of Octelpeee,No-
vereber ande Depeinber, the „eeile
"ing was' ,decprated with :strings .'
of . apples' intersecting one in-
sither 'direction,' 'with
aft evereillereaeing famaunt 'of
.!String slibwinge e as :•-theY••apples
shrank. eThes •method wasiethe,:
aertoete, pleasing, te, .eeo,„.bee. e
eeeIMP le:JP-Yea %tyilIgniq wap 'fo this sysierrL
ing that 'the'apiSle:Siadfing
468Vtilace': a' sv" Jr
* * 44,
When alleithe neighbors"' had
ben ,41111.1 nOtifiedeete eWa.e.
epeetect.they.ewenld.. appear.te et ,
,our house at the etinie
ed, paring-.partis?,
r f said vliaa'''Wharr;vd''
erotica "ire atteeesuPpe? erdlice?`
ibut "then 'it Shouldt, bee , rernern-
bored that supper in those cl.ay,p
lips at an. early hotte So usnally
befeee 7, o'clock the. par'e's
would arrive an d' fotOo them-
selves 'firth geoUps: Eddie
group sttirounded a large Azle:-
ket into Which they "Wetild• drop'
the cuttings,. and.. .My tand-
parents took care to supply
their helpers with pletity of taw
Material!
*
While h'rigeks and' knives were
busy, the evening- was, always
inliVened With sentejartja acid
,gititatt setisie tprefestred:- eePee•
for the occasion)' and
.'sweet cider. Although the Pare
ers had had One supper, five or
six" lidure •diligot work re-
stoked their eppetite. 8d about
midnight, /110re sweet cider, and
an abundance of Johnny-cake,
doughnuts (homemade, of
course,. and always still warm),
Pumpkin *pies, apple sauce, etc.,
were' spread "out, After this
replenishment, many of -the
younger people began all over
again with the paring; while the
more sedate members, out of
respect to the lateness of the
hour, left for home.
* *
During the winters We had
memories -of laughter, - work,'
and song cooked into, the flavor
of every apple dumpling and
apple' pudding.
A few weeks ago I found
some of the apple recipe's
grandma used. And here they
are, just as she wrote them:
Apple ,Dumplings In An
Extraordinary Way
From Mrs. Johnson (the Mrs.
Jcihnson across from the cow
pasture). •
Take. the "apples and cut into
small pieces, and with a large
Grater, grate in a Quince, when
it. lies been' pared and cored,
for if you was to slice -in a
Quince, to your Apples, in large
pieces, the Quince would, not be
boilecrequally` with the apples,
for the Quince is of a, tough
nature, and will not boil une
der twice ,the time that the 4eP-'
pies will; therefore., to, grate
them, will he' enough to_ give
their flavor to the'Appie, and
thake '511 'enough at ' one • tithe:
Put what' ,Sugar' '`think
peeper into each Dumpling,
when you takeit 'up, and the
necessary quantitereof l Butter. It
will then eat like 'e
ailre of Quince. (Copied from
my greategrandinother'e Cook
book, 1799): "
Grandmother's Applenktiff.
eBakeeethe fruit; ':when ":cold'
mix- the, pulp.„of the:apple-with
sugar 'and cut lenion • peel lay at 1.
in then paste , (crust), - and take
in a quick oven; 20 minutes will
do them.' ' •
Apple.Pudding and PaSte
• F r o-m ',great e grandmother's
cook book, '1302.
One. e, pound apples ; 'sifted
(strained),, one, pound sugar, ,
nine eggs, one' quarter of, a '
pound -Of `'butter,' 'quart
sweet `creamy One gill rose-Woe
teiTa -cinnatiiitire a :erteen -lemon
peel grated ,s(if sweeter apples;
add the, half aelemeN, put onto
pis , • .11 „Paste for Apple Pudding,
4711Uler oneZthli•Pot inpolind df
butter, and ond',-,Jaiiiit.1 iifelard
into 'two' !pounds fleuitewef
with %four whites wellebeaten;eTc
water eto erneke. ,e, pastereeollein
the reeidne,of, shorAepfrg.fin,,tel:'
Ca' twelve roltinge bake= quick. -er ee, aee '7'051 r ITV:Par
Ootid gook 'Tt 1.
With riasucn
0 4,
Withe-the -youngsters—Safely .
tucked away 111'4164.W Mt' 1.41.
eiheinehbbl yarilowstiltraight: be
theetinie feestieVey theeaceurnue,
ehabeeof e theestitniner e d
get deWnetci 4.-4W '')ucl'e rlealP4
hetieeheld repairs t ,;..
lespired - by the children's
SiiiitY new text' bcpOks, orie'quiCk'
SO blight to bitighterr up the
faces of your' eWn well-worn vol-'
ttniee. 'with a plastic Coating
which, riot Only adds sparkle btit
protects the"covers from further
wear and tear. The simplest
method is tte buy The pins* in
One of the aerosol Spray contain'-
erg at a hardware or paint store:
If the corners Of' your. books
are showing white' frOni. weari
;first do a color touch-up -.jOb
With One Of the children's. WAX
crayons. Theft SPEake kin 0 thin
layer of the plastic and hang the
book tip to dry for a few minutes
over a clothes line. You'll be de-
lighted with the satiny surface
and the added richness Of color
brought out by the plastic: As
well, the ,..waterproof coating
will make it a simple mattere to..
clean oft sticky finger marks
which may appear from time to
time.
Seeing the fruits of your en-.
deavours, the children may want
tb get into the act. A good type
of Cover for them to make is one
of 'polythene — a transparent,
waterproof plastic -- available
for 'a few cents a yard at most
hardware and materials counters.
- It's very durable and is easy
for the Children tc exit ,and work
with:. '
Plage the open book on the
polythene and cut the material
about two 'inches larger than the
book on all sides. Make two
cuts in the 'Plastic, top and bot-
toni, parallel to the narrow back
of the book and turn in the
edges all the way around. Slip
the narrow flap of polythene
down under the binding of the
spine.
TO' seal the turned-in edges
together • permanently, place 'a
piece of paper over the polythene
and press for a few seconds with
an iron set, on low heat or use
celtulose tape eo make the seal,
A Chilly, Dish
For Chilly Days
"The ., melancholy. -, days are ,
Pere," sang the poet Bryent,(who
didn't like autumn):" The snow
will soon be flying, Winds
piercing, ' the - ptiddlda freezing
over r and the demand for tongue-
cooling, bone-chilling ice cream
— will keep right on!
The sales saturation: point for
ice cream and its allied concoc-
tiefii;',ObServes •brie' member
the eiceeteatre industry; is limited r.
only byea certain.economic in-
elesticity, of yeiteei,eweeltly
lowance.
As for its, allied concoctions,
H. BusbevaY, of West New-
ton, ie'qu'ated as Saying he-serve
ed the first icelcrearre'socidequite
unintentionally ' tcr draerinan,
who.. wanted ,11.1-iii,..tsoda, :watere
eoldereelpy - dropping., in.. a peep')
*of 'ice/cream-The ice-erearri,eoee,
it is said, w as „intreclueed at the.
Louisiana ` Purchas,e ,EXPositicin
in '1904, also'inadvertent14 by an
ice2Creim parlor proprietor who
nail short!Of clialiesl -and'"made
With'a- stack thin Waffles e
heeted/On, hand.
At eny ,raeee, Winter as well
as e. summer,AineeiCan pyouths
(and,:aliOnteas envy'.geOWettim5'
wilt keep right ore Consuiiiirir'icd"`
citearri Fate1"af -(006,000,060-4'
gallons (inuchi foeiresbillionee
coriee).7-6 year: Vrorne the- ehrigrr.,-,
tian Science Monitor. enifer,
Boys Plot To.
Bump Off Bosses
, One bitterly cold winter morn-
ing worshippers from a distant
camp came to a temple its Mon,
They banged and shouted, but
ggooltianoanrdepflO1 the gate closed, yt7
Standing on his saddle, one
peered over the wall and: was
horrified to see two priests lying
in a deadly embrace on the
blood-covered flagstones of the
courtyard, one with his skull
smashed, The party, rode off
to report to their ruler, Prince
Teh.
Later, an officer and some
men came and broke the dear
down. Both dead lamas had been
drunkards• who often brawled
and fought. The one with the
smashed skull, known for his
fiendish temper, had his hands
locked round the other's throat,
Inside -the temple the third lama
—a saintly, rather timid man—
was found hanging from a rafter,
with a bloodstained hammer
near him.
The mystery of their deaths
was never cleared up, It was
surmised that the good one, see-
ing the strangler at grips with
the other, and fearing he would
be thrttled, attacked the strang-
ler with the hammer; accidental-
ly killed him, then hanged him-
self in remorse. The half-
'strangled one, exhausted, had
apparently frozen to death.
A. 11.. Rasmussen, Norwegian
traveller and China trader, heard
this story on a trek into Mon-
golia from Tienstin to buy wool,
- and relates it in a vivid account
of his adventures, "Return to
the Sea".
At Chapsat, on his way up-
country, he had a startling ex-
perience. His party included a
man who carried a bag contain-
ing a thousand jingling silver
dollars. As they. drew up at the
inn they saw a crowd of dirty,
slovenly frontier soldiers from a
near-by watch-tower,' and later
in the darkness, Rasmussen
heard them planning to murder
and rob the party—caught the
words "plenty money", "easy
job",,, "no shooting", "o n 1
bayonets."
Rasmussen decided at once
that they must get away from
that" inn in the car before the
soldiers could stop them. He
sdpree6w.:e driver aside,' tipped off
went out to the shed, past the
the others, and en the pretext of
watching,,: soldiers, jumped in
quickly, and were off. at full
getting gear from the, car, they
Bui 1{e 'had ' idea of the
appalling. mountain-track 'they
would now baVe to' climb in the
dark: black- chasmefell away
rfraom:.i, ,tile sedgrew,.eoxAsnboewadstlrn oarmpswjaist, gi41g
up only a narrow semicircle
ahead. Soon the windshield"'
clogged up, the driver could see
nothing, and stopped near the
top 'of the pass. Rasmussen told
him they'd just have to sta„y!
Where they were until they Could
see.
"But that is Impossible," Said
the driver, "the radiator Will
freeze and the wolves will at-
tack us if we stand still for lone
They could hear the wolves'
hientingacall in the distance, Ile
then sugge,stid going back slow-
ly and walt,ng two miles from
Chapsat ejlegi they could be sure
the soldiers had returned to their
wathetOwer, and it would' be
safe to shelter at the inn.
Rasmussen says he'll never
understand how the driver got
the car turned on that narrow
track on the chasm-edge; we%
trembling with relief when' they'
beaded downhill again, The last
mile was a nightmare, as they'
had to switch off lights to avoid
discovery; the snow would eeeee
en the sound of the car. Ile lust,'
shut his eyes and prayed as they
slithered round hairpin bends,
They pushed the car into the
shed out Qf the wind, and were
off again before dawn.
Once, in Tientsin, he was
warned that Red soldiers had
arrived in plain clothes to shoot
up' the Chinese city and assas-'
sinate foreigners.
On arriving, at his office the
next morning, he fonud detec-
tives in charge of the building
and two office-hoys under ar-
rest. Twelve office-boys had,
been appointed to kill the execu-
tives' of six leading foreign firms,
but, were all caught as soon as
they arrived at the offices.
It was a neat plot, he says, ,for
it would have been comparative-
ly easy to dispose of an unsus-
Pecting man sitting at his desk,
either with chopper, or silk cord,
then go on the next Office and
do likewise. The boys were con-
'demi-led and shot, but the real
got away. "Return to the ,Seav
culprits, the brains behind them,
is an enthralling book.
Hunter Rides Lion
Crazy things ,happen to big
game hunters. Ian RolDert Sus-
sens, professional big game hun-
ter, had two unusual close
shaves while hunting with his
wife recently in Southern Rho-
desia.
While travelling in their sta-
tion wagon, they saw a pride of
lions feasting on a zebra. They
shot two of the animals and the
others scattered. 'The Sussens
spent ;that night in a tree wait-
ing for possible returning feast-
ere. if
Next mornng, Sussens was de-
scenclinefrom the tree when a
lion rushed toward him. The
hunter ,slipped and fell 14 feet"
—squarely onto the lion's back!
The lion fled, terrified. Sussene •' 4
Got back up the tree—fast.
Later, he Was going to the
station wagon for ammunition
when a lioness charged him.,He, ,
scrambled into the car. The beast
tried tee: follow.' The lion was,
half-way, _in the station wagon
beforeclie' hot her.
the natural enemies of rats, loose
on Tetiaroa?'
The dentist-consul posted a
sign on the lagoon front palms
end buildings of Paeete: CATS
WANTED--On FRANC EACH,
Instantly, a steady stream of jtt
bilant Tahitians gallOped into his
oftice and home lugging yowling
cats in bags, crates and nets.
When Dr. Williams had 500
cats, he chartered a trading
schooner and transported the
spitting, cursing felines all the
way to Tetiaroa, It must have
been quite a shock when the
rats heard the chorusing from
the strange ark approaching the
shores of Tetiaroa.
And it must have been quite
a sight when' Dr. Williams gave
the order to release the cats
from their deck-cages, The furry
hunters, starved for days, leapt
over the gunwales in voracious
pursuit of the startled 'rats. There
were about 7,000 rats on Tetiaroa
but the 500 cats made short work
of them.
With. plenty to eat, the cats'
birth-rate soared. Soon, the ori-
ginal 500 cats had multiplied to
3,000. But with their supply of
rats gone, a famine came etpon
them.
First, the toms and tabbies
raided nests of new-born kittens;
then they waylaid weak cats,
Gangs formed against each other,
with stronger ones overpowering
weaker emits.
Cannibalism raged on Tetiaroa.
Dwindling numbers forced gangs
to break up with members at-
tacking each other. The quicker
and stronger cats soon defeated
and ate the weaker ones in this
amazing feline survival-of-the-
fittest. It seemed that this would
continue until at 'last only two
cats would face one another in
mortal, cannibal combat.
But, strangely enough, cat-
sense ,seemed to 'manifest itself
suddenly among the hundred or
so left on the atoll. Probably
they held some sort of truce, with
all agreeing to end the insane
war of extinction.
ImrnediateIY they reverted to
an almost forgotten instinct of
fishing. And, the lagoons of Teti- '
aroa swarmed, with succulent fish
and shell-fish. Lying on their
stomachs on the coral strands the
ravenous, cats hooked with their
sharp claws the fish which swam
close into• the shallows or into
the many pools dotting Teti-
area's shores.
These remaining cats on the
atoll, -ruled b'y a Ring and queen,
were fierce as leoparde, :and they
began to multiply again, but not
so rapidly as before.
Still, it was not safe for a na-
tive Or white -man to, get corn-
ered by a pack of these felines,
as Our. ,,escapist-adventurer dis-
covered.'So Dr. Williams arrived
suitably protected, one day, and
reduced them to a slfe'and Small
number which could deal ade-
quately with the raes, that came
ashore periodically from copra
,schooners visiting Tetiaroa.
TO-day, the cats of the atoll
are 'lazy,,' sleek and fat. Food
supply and demand are once
Again under control.
But if any adventurer should
c have the urge to land on Teti-
aroa's coral beaches, he should
-first make sure that-there isn't
a sign tacked to!a enalmewhich
says in French the equivalenteof:
BEWARE or ATS!
Facing Fat Facts
'If you want to slim, eat—FAT!
The Way 'back: to a slim figure
is- via butter,' creel-it,' kippers,
fried, eggs, bacon,: cream 'eheese
and steaks with the fat still on
them.
This is :what yrofessor A.
feekwielc, of Midell'esex," Hospital,
sayi 'in a 'teCent of the
`Lancet." ta't fit to 4 get• thiRI
Professor Kekwick found that
the .elose Of weight was more
rapid von diets with a high fat
'*.d6ntent, and lass rapid on 'high
protein diets. Loss of weight was
exceedingly slow on dieteeedin-
pOsed mainly of carbohydrates.
The concltision drawn from Pro-
', fessOrrKekevick's report is that
you must eat fat and lots of it
ii you want to be slim.
Plane and spent -shells arrive at same point and collide,
2-3 miles
STABLE TALKS
ciaw, Andrew
Diagreen e at, ,I ft shows how
SUpersorne jet", 'Tiger" fighter ac-
tually "shot'itself down" in one
of avietion's• most freakish acci-
dents. Test Pilot Tom Attridge,
was test-firing new.20-mm. can-
non shells over the Atlantic. His
straight-diving Grurnann
jet caught up with the shells on
their slower, curving drop to-
ward the ocean. One shattered
the plane's bulietproof glaas can-
opy, another pierced and killed
the engine. Attridge headed for
nearby airfield, but was forced
to craw-land in weeds; He
escaped .with broken leg and
three broken vertebrae,
IN ,CLASS BY HERSELF — Providing a lesson in courage for
youngsters everywhere, a(year-old Schelby Leakey '''attends
claspesP!,,Ft „then:foot qf her bed7in 'her home. Tlie plucky junior
higfe ,school 'st4e4t offers,r from ...curvctfarel
.castifronOler beck to her knees She "eons to
school'' -through- an. -Intricate telephone setup whOs'e' Wo.-4ay
speakerr-i6ringii,Voidesifroin the' classroom Ito her room noto,kt
en1.74/.
orator.; .ttottrtill
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before reading 'I
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