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The Brussels Post, 1962-11-15, Page 2when -he drove up in a large sedan car with a passenger. The bowler ,and the horn-rimmed spectacles did not fool them. The pollee taxi was unobstru- sively following the sedan. It turned into a, narrow cul-de-sac flanked on each side with ware- houses and which ended in a three-foot wall with a sheer drop on the fax side straight into the Thames. A fine autumn mist blew from the river, Dance alighted, and stood in a warehouse doorway. He saw Aua'ie's passenger get out of the sedan and look around him. The moment for action had come. Dance walked quickly to the sedan, naught the leandle tef the driver's door and- wrenched it open. As he did so, the, car thrust forward, and the swinging door brushed Dance aside. With brakes squealing the car slid to a stop inches from the low wall, The driver sprang out, shaking himself free of his over- coat as he did so, and bowler and spectacles went spinning. With a lithe leap the man Dance was chasing took a blind header over the low parapet, down through the swirling mist, and on to the foreshore, eighteen feet below, and escaped. Aussie Denny was now defini- tely on the run. Inspector Dance picked up his man's trail once more in Hove, but Aussie Denny again shook off pursuit, Finally, Dance concentrated his efforts on a relative. It was this relative who unsuspectingly led the Flying Squad to a house in Camberwell, South London. This time the daring car ban- dit's luck was out. He Was in bed and sleeping when the Fly- ing Squad came into his room. He sat up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, and with the odds so heavily against him made no attempt at another getaway. He grinned at the unsmiling Flying Squad men, to whom sleep had become a stranger. "Who gets the medal for this?" he asked. The answer came later that year, 1936, in the Central .Crim- inal Court, when Alf Dance was commended for his part in the investigation and capture, and the man in the dock received three years' penal servitude, DARING NEEDLEWORK Most, free-falling parachutists either count very precisely or look at the second hands of their watches as they hurtle through space, But Murray Casson and Barry Aravandino, members of the Queensland Parachute Club, in Australia, found something more exciting to do as they tumbled earthwards. Jumping together from a light aircraft over Redbanks Plains, near Brisbane, they brought off a sensational needle-threading aerial act. While Barry held a large wooden needle, 'his' part-, ner threaded a piece of wire through -its "eye." , Then, having fallen 7,500 ft., both men pulled their ripcords and floated to ground gracefully with a threaded needle to allow for their pains. 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Oae of them went out in a rowboat, but this also capsized before it could reach limn The would-be rescuer was only saved because his workmate- were holding on toe long rope which he had tied • round his body before going out in the• boat, Now, with Horst only about thirty yards from the lockgatee, another workman had an idea, "Give me a rope," he said, "and I'll hang myself from our biggest crane, Then manoeuvre • the crane down to the water so- that I can reach him," So the workman, twenty-five- year-old Franz Pete, was roped to the crane which was swung out over the Danube. Just in. time, Franz .grabbed Horst's arms as he was being swept towards the lock-gates: The crane then lifted them both high above the water. Slow- ly, carefully, it swung -them neerar and nearer the shore. But Franz could no longer hold the nearly drowned man. Slowly Horet slid out of his grasp and plunged back- in the river. But hers.: the water was calm— unaffected by the suction of the double-lock. And within seconds he was .saved by other workers who were waiting on the river in their boats, Next day .Horst and- Ingeborg had recovered enough to cone tinue their holiday. trip. But this time they hired bicycles, Crocodile-Hunting -From The Air Professional crocodile hunter, Stan Adams, of Queensland, Aus- tralia, has dreamed up a unique method of 'gretiregeirireerarry-:— was wasting too much time, . be found, in searches of. North- ern Australia's rivers, swamps and salt-water estuaries so he devised a flying observation- ._ post, his so-called "parakite." Strapped to this, he can float above water-courses, islets and sandbanks, and see exactly where good-quality crocs lurk, Basically, the parakite is a hovering parachute, twenty-eight feet in diameter. Built-in air vents enable the sky-rider to alter direction much as he pleases, and he can also control his rate of -iise and fall. Mobility is supplied by the truck which Stan's partner drives along the nearest bank, hauling him forward on a 3,000-foot- long nylon tow rope, In a stiffish wind, the croc-spotter often gets a taste of airsickness. Stan, a crack shot, occasionally knocks off a c:roc from his aerial perch. But his main purpose in going up' aloft is to spot large- scale crocodile concentrations, Once he's sighted a well pop- ulated lair, he signals to his truck driver to turn inland and, in the process, lowers himself gently to earth, The two men then remove their hunting craft from the truck, push quietly into the wa- ters, and stalk their qtaarry. Given fair luck, both then reg- ister good kills. Don't take life too seriously— elm wilt never get out of it alive. When Car Bandit's Luck Ran Out Inspector Alf Dance was wor- ried. He was a veteran of the Flying Squad, with more than 100 judges' commendations to his credit. But that day his work seemed to have come unstuck. There had been another smash- and-grab in the early hours of the morning. The report was on his desk. The same technique he now knew by heart, A fast car with false plates, a neat job, close timing, and then a change to an- other car, It was the technique invented by a man known to the Squad as Aussie Denny. Dance knew his real name, Denny Delaney, but hadn't been able to prove his guilt. In fact, he knew a great deal about Aus- sie Denny's gang whose home territory was in South London. It included Tall Alec. who used to turn up at the scene of a pro- posed smash-and-grab in consta- ble's uniform, and keep watch for the gang, The getaway driver was Fair Eddie, who would have been a motor-racing ace if lie could have kept straight. They all had nerve, but Aus- sie Denny had nerve plus brains, o was both schemer and leader, a Powerful combination in the underworld, ' Aussie Denny was feat only the first car bandit to use relays of cars on a jab, he was the first organizer to hold rehearsals. He would take his car crew out into the country for a trial check, and Fair Eddie had his chance to prove he, had not lost his skill. in dodging ,obstacles when flat out, or in turning and reversing in a few feet without stalling. For only when the tough Australian was satisfied at rehearsal was the job definitely "on." There had been a job at Eus- ton Station where two men, with Valuables worth $18,000, had been attacked, The theft was planned to the second, and ob- viously based on sound informa- tion. The driver of the getaway car had shown a clean pair of heels- to any pursuit Inspector Dance was convinced this was the hall- mark of Aussie Denny, as was the raid on the furrier's in Mor- timer Street. On that occasion a bandit car was backed into the furrier's window, and in seconds $15,000 worth of furs were collected. The most expensive coat was firmly secured to its stand, which was a female dummy. Not willing to surrender the prize item in the grab, nor ready to waste time and ruin a tight schedule, the bandit leader de- cided to take the coat—still at- tached to,the piaster figure, Instantly the bandit car was TICKET COLLECTOR — Mrs. Delores Cipparone, 32, might have set some kind of record in Philadelphia, Pa., where she collected more than 180 traf- fic tickets. A judge fined the attractive blonde $1,164. • racing away, spraying the road with splinters of glass. But one of the bandits had gashed his leg on a jagged spike of glass in the broken window. He was bleeding rapidly, and it was his blood trail that a Ply- ing Squad car, summoned after burglar alarms had sounded, picked up and followed. With little traffic on the roads, the bandit car was soon spatted, and the police driver began to overhaul the bandit in a grim chase. There can be no doubt the bandit car would have been rain- med if the leader had not been doing some quick thinking, The Flying Squad car was drawing still closer when the occupants were appalled to see the body of a naked woman fall from the speeding bandit car. At least, it appeared to be a naked woman, and site fell right in their path, The police driver stood on his 'brakes, swerved, and missed the nude figure by inches, The po- lice ear came to a shuddering halt with a smell of burning rubber, and the Squad men stum- bled out to help the prone wo- man, "They've tricked us!" There were a few, more heart- felt comments as the Squad men stared at the furrier's dummy, Already the bandit car had vanished, and the trail of blood ended 100 yards farther on. It seemed Aussie Denny was just too clever to-be caught. The fugitive again, beat the. Flying Squad in a duel of wits and nerve. Alf Dance began to- follow some hunches based on under= world inforrnation, and one day he and Ted Greeno, who later became a notable member of the Murder Squad, sat in a taxi watching the approach to Black- friars Underground Station, near the Thames Embankment, They Were net there by chance, To outwit the gang, Which specialized in smash-and- grab raids on furriers,. Dance had considered 8 possible recep- tion area for the stolen furs. He had Made extensive inquir- ies, end salted -tie had become seared, As a result, a mysterious phone cell Was made to the Yard, writes Leonard Dribble' in "Tit- Bits", The Caller gave no name, but mentioned a rencleiVous at Black friars Underground, Aussie was• to Meet another man there at a certain time to sell some furs. It could have been a hoax. but Dance took sup the challeeen, He and Greene) spotted Aussie Kids. Con Wide Before. They Can Walk Children seriously disabled by pO)40, oerobral p a 1$ y, hip di- Wises .and amputations, art learning to ride today, and gain ing a far livelier and happier outlook. • Many of them must be hoist- ed. On to a pony's bark end plac- ed gently in the saddle, For their first few lessens, their horses do little more than walk around,. under eicpert 'guidance, in Small circles for fifteen minutes or -so. But. gradually. even a severely paralysed chi'-' acquires balance and confiden and a desire, to trot, even to g. Others, less handicapped, drop their calipers, end 'claniber on to a PPnY',S back from a suitably placed chair OP .stone mount And some soon show that they can really ride, though unable to walk a stepl -Tin is heartening movement, promoted to-aay by the Pony Riding for the Disabled Trust,. emerges from a Danish Woman's Invincible courage. Mrs. Lis Hartel loved riding; her prowess a-s a horsewoman. earned her fame throughout Scandinavia. Then Polio struck her, paralys- ing both legs, but the refused -to give up. Her -greatest trill:Wit came at the Olympic Games in Helsinki when although- both her legs were completely lifeless, she won the Olympic. Silver Medal in the wand prix de dressage event. From her experience, rid- ing as a remedial exercise began to be explored. The Trust, a registered char- ity, became active in March., 1958. Its -organizer, Mrs. Norah Jacques of Haplow, Essex, intro- duced the idea to England. And thanks to the generosity of the Forest Lodge Riding School, Epping, tuition is given there free to -crippled -children every week, Did Popov Pop-off Before Marconi They invented. the airplane, of course, and the steam engine, rocket propulsion and penicillin, hybrid corn and the sandwich, the ball-point pen. and jazz, and almost every-Cluing else but vice, For two decades, the Russians, too, have 4.althed the invention of the make • They insist that Russian physicist Alexander S. Popov beat" Italy's Gaglielmo Marconi by one year to the first successful transmission of radio signals. Today Popov is a Soviet nation-al hero, enshrined in print, film, and marble. A University of California electrical engineer has just pub- lished the first fully documented study of the Popov-Macroni con- troversy. His conclusion: The Soviet claim contains more static than substance. Popov's claim to priority, Dr. Charles Susskind notes in the Proceedings of the- Institute of Radio Engineers, rests on a dem- onstration the ussian conducted in May 1895. It showed that an, electric bell can be made to ring if an electric spark is discharged. nearby. Although Popov later applied this idea to a wireless apparatus, he did not then pub- lish anything more than the hope it might someday be used to transmit messages. Marconi was first to publish a description of his wireless experiments — by being first to apply for a patent in June 1896, "It is not my intention to de- bunk Popov," Susskind said. "But the officious Soviet Cam- paign to enlarge his reputation must be deplored by any serious historian." High-Priced Drives And Putts When matched against golf champ Arnold Palmer in a whacky sequence from his new inoVie, "Call Me Bwana," com- edian Bob Hope turned ,out for the cameras at the'penham Golf Club near London With a gnarled tree limb for a'five-irett: Cast as a straight Man foe neve (at $25;, 000 for one-week's work), Pal* mar chipped- in with his, share of the filmed dialogue, A sample;: "Did you ever see a man swing like that?" asks Hope atter mak- ing a shot.' "Yes," replied Palmer,. "just once — he was., hanging froth a •tree." Hope sliced .back with ., ad libs, Noting Palmer's bright scarlet sweater,, he told companions (including Herald Tribune coluitinist 'John Crosby):` 'That's an Arnold Paltrier sweat.. er, ,This guy sells everything a golfer needs — . Arnold Palmer grass, Arnold Palliser-air. yel.t ought to bottle the Atnold mar smell arid sell that too," Yet Playing With Palmer in a recr•ea-- tiolial round With proper Clubs, Hope sank the best putt of the day 4 5 :footer'. Palmer con;- itented: "Best game iii'• the. Movie. business." Ity the time a Man Oil afford to lose a golf hall be can't hit it that tat. BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SAI-e CODINIKRCIAL property .consisting of fiLlliflerS, store And ihree-chair barber Shop. $1.25 hair Cut. Good hug, lle$,S, eentrallY located, Good buy for Pers011 kith capita Good savestment. Write A. Friolp,. .09 Charlotte St., Peterborough, Ont, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES . . PENERAL store, equipped, Prineo ward CO, Hwy. 33, (;.room house, S acres. Ill, must sell. 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