The Seaforth News, 1961-12-28, Page 7Dirty Work. On
The British Turf
In every instance, the trainers
and stable, boys: had been thrown
off guard by an attractive blonde
who Wore mink over her country
tweeds and spoke with a bed -
roomy French accent, Arriving
in a Ford Zodiac convertible, she
would talk knowledgeably about
horses and indicate she had three
of :her own. in France which she
was thinking of bringing to Bri-
tain',to train. Naturally, every-
one stumbled all over himself to
show the lady around.
Thereafter, it was the horses
who started stumbling around.
Since last September, at least.
sixteen of Britain's finest thor-
oughbreds have been found to
have been "nobbled" (doped),
shortly after the engaging blonde
visited their stables, One was
Punch Bowl Hotel, a well -backed
second favorite which had to be
pulled up during a steeplechase
at Perth. The latest victim was
Hiawatha II, favorite for the
Simonburn Handicap 'Chase at
Newcastle last month, who fin-
ished last. Others have run, their
jockeys reported, "as if they were
drunk." Two weeks ago, a geld-
ing named Fresh Winds, an odds-
on favorite to win the Abbots
Bromley Handicap, was with-
drawn after his trainer found
..r. -s him ''half asleep' .in his stall'
Later, the trainer said: "The
horse could not stand, His, hind
legs were paralyzed."
In a country that spends more
per capita on gambling ($95 a
head, or $1.8 billion annually)
than any other in the world, this
was too much, The Jockey Club
and the National Hunt Commit-
tee, which control steeplechasing
and flat racing in Britain, called
in Scotland Yard. Detectives
quickly discovered t h a t the
horses had been "nobbled" by a
tranquilizing drug called chlor-
butol. They theorized' that the
mysterious blonde had worked as
an advance scout fortwo known
gamblers and a bookmaker from
near Manchester, who 'actually
administered the capsules.
'"""► Getting . proof was another
question. Every bookie in Britain
Stood to make money from races
where heavily backed favorites
were scratched or ran poorly, but
there were no discernible signs
of -any "conspiracy" among them.
Neither could the blonde nor her
pals be tracked down;' Some re-
ports the lady had dyed in the
etretch—through the ruse of
changing the color of her hair.
Q. Row can I make a good,
transparent cement far glass?
A: One good one is made by
digesting together for • about 'a
Week one ounce of India -rubber,
67 ounces of chloroform, and 40
ounces of mastic.
BLAST BOOT—The U.S. Ma-
rine Corps thinks It has licked
the problem of casualties from
land mines in warfare. De-
veloped by Navy medical re-
searchers, the armored boot
above has a six-inch beveled
stainless steel sole with a blast
deflection contour wedge to
ward of fragments of explod-
ing mines. The boots are ex-
pected to be issued In 1962.
MOTOR CARS' GRANDDADDY—This, is a model of the first
motor car driven by the first internal combustion engine,
invented in 1863 in Paris by Belgian -born Etienne Lenoir.
The model is being shown at the "Century of Motor Cars"
in Paris. Things have changed slightly since then.
Sturdy Fellows —
And A Sturdy Ship
During the brief gray span of
sub -arctic darkness in the wee
hours of August 20, 1896, a black -
bearded mariner beat on the door.
of the telegrapher's house in the
whaling town of Skjaervo near
the North Cape of Norway,
A sleepy face leaned out of an
upstairs window and an angry
voice cried; "Hallo,. what's the
matter? Deuce of a noise to
make at this time of night!"
"I come from the Fram," sang
out the cheerful voice below,
"Has Nansen arrived?"
Right off it dawned on, the
man upstairs this must be Capt.
Otto Sverdrup.All Norway knew
of Otto - Sverdrup, mate , of the
Fram; and how- Doctor Nansen
had purposed to turn the corn-
mand over to him, and for
Sverdrup to let the Fram work
her patient, long-suffering way
out of the polar ice drift and,
once free, to head for home.
Meanwhile, Hansen and Lieuten-
ant Johansen were to strike' out
alone over the polar sea with two
dog sleds in an .efort to pail the
Norwegian flag to the North
Pole. My, what an age that was
—when men went places afoot!
After three years of arctic si-
lence the suspense was over. Sev-
en daysbefore the skipper of the
Fram woke the town, the Skja-
ervo telegraph had brought word
from Vardo, Norway, that Doc-
tor Nansen had landed that day
from -the British. Jackson -Harms -
Werth Arctic. Expedition's ship,
the Windward, and that all was
well with Nansen and Johansen,
after their 'Homeric sledge jour-
ney over the frozen polar sea to
86° 14' north latitude.
The pair had lasted out the
winter of 1895-96, in a snow hut
on the northwest coast of for-
bidding Franz Josef Land- in
their gruelling trek back to ci-
vilization. Sverdrup • and the
other 10 Norwegians had snug-
ged it out in the fort -sided Fram
as she inched her way through
that third and final winter.
Caught in the implacable grip
of the polar pack, the ice -fast
Fram drifted through 40 degrees
of high west longitude, almost
without starting a seam.
And now it was all over, here
in the town of Skjaervo where
Sverdrup and his men made the
birch leaves quake with hearty'.
Norse cheers. Nansen and Jo-
hansen were home safe, too.
The telegrapher gathered up
their reactions andpacked them
into a letter to a Christiania
newspaper. "And did they re-
joice!" . exclaimed the excited
corespondent up there under the
icy eaves of . North Europe, His
letter went on to quote frag-
ments of their pubilant remarks.
"'What a day this is! What joy!
And what a curious coincidence
that Nansen should arive on the
same day that we cleared the
last lee and steered homeward!'
And they congratulated each
SAYS WHO? SAYS; ME1—These two rhinos seem to be
arguing about who is, the better. The one on the left: is a
black rhinoceros and. the one on the right is a rore white
one No apparent difference in color because both have been
rolling in the mud at the, London Zoo in England.
other," the telegrapher's excited
letter went on, "all shaking with
emotion, these sturdy fellows. , ."
In Norwegian, Fram means
"forward," and there's something
altogether inspiring and purpose-
ful in the good ship's ' name,
something that symbolizes the
high, invincible ,faith and cour-
age of Norway's Fridtjof Nan -
sen. He tried for Ninety North
and had to settle for :e shade
over 86 degrees of dark and dan-
gerous latitudes. Still 226 miles
short of the North Pole, Nansen
'had to be the world's grandest
loser. That Nansen's "Farthest
North" is being remembered and
reread in this the centennial
year of his birth,,•writes its own
uplifting elegy to .his lifelong
service for 'Norway, and for all
mankind.
He was e forward' thinker and
a . forward facer, was this ,un-
elinehing Norwegian who went
around leaving names of loved
ones on the bleak and desolate
land masses he discovered on his
frozen journeys. Plias meticulous
dedication' to the science of geog-
raphy, the exactness of his jour-
nals and charts, made the arctic
way easier for, such men as Peary
and Amundsen. and. R i'char d
Byrd, writes Harlan -Trott in the
Christian Selene Monitor.
He had trained : in the snow
fields of Norwegian schoolboy
athletics forhis remarkable', ski
crossing of the great'Greenland
ice cap. And when Eskimos on
the southwest Greenland coast
showed some • whalers articles
found on the ice that could only
have come from the Jeanette
Expedition which foundered in
the New Siberian Islands in, the
polar wilderness north of the
Lena Delta some years before,
the ice -age odyssey of the Fram
took, shape in Nansen's thoughts.
Yes, the Jeanette things showed
there must be a great west -going
polar drift -across the icy rooftop
of the world far past Siberia's
Cape Chelyuskin, down the
Greenland Sea past grit z King
Oscar's Land and around lucky
old Leif's stormy Cape Farewell.
Hansen confirmed it in theepic
voyage of the Pram.
His matchless forward drive
swept him: up in later years into
the League of Nations where as
High Commissioner for Refugees
he worked 16 relieve distressed
hordes'turned adrift by war. He
won the Nobel Peace Prize, did
this strong, gentle .fellow—along
with the biggest gold, medal for
his "Farthest North" that any
geographical . society had struck
off since the 'Venetian John Cab-
otlaunched the centuries' long
search for the Northwest Pas-
sage.
He had a "feel" for a ship, as
a sailor would say, and a heart
full of gratitude to builder Colin
Archer. ". . TO say `the truth,
we all dearly love the ship,"
Nansen wrote in, his journal, 'as
much as it is possible to love
any impersonal thing, . How
often has my heart glowed with
warmth toward her! To the
builder ... grateful thoughts oft-
en travel during the still nights
and though all else lose faith
in her, he will believe that she
will hold out"
Aye, the Fram was a brave,
forward going ship — just right
for Fridtjof Nansen, and 14jaI-
mar Johansen and Otto Sverdrup
and their 10 Viking shipmates.
The world still remembers them
—these sturdy fellows!
Tomb Robbers Are
Plaguing Italy
A booming world market for
.Italian antiques is giving a big
boost to tomb robbers, Gains
said to exceed over $3,000,000 a
year result front sales of plun-
dered pottery alone,
Dr. Carlo Lerici, the wealthy
industrialist behind the . Lerici
Foundation at Milan and a dis-
tinguished archaeologist, is ap-
pealing to the government to stop
this. lucrative traffic in under-
ground treasure,
While it lasts, his own Founcia-
tien's efforts to investigate anci-
ent sites scientifically, and com-
pile a national record of their
layout and contents, aroo made
very Il%ffieult. Persistent grave -
thieving can mean the total dis-
appearance of ancient burial
setas.
Eighty percent of all the finds
excavated in Italy each year now
flow, the Foundation estimates,
into this illicit channel.
Large quantities of these rare
and perhaps unique objects of art
reappear at antique auctions in
Basle and Lucerne, Switzerland,
There, wealthy collectors gather
to pay peak prices,
According to Dr. Lerici, the
robbers have taken at least 2,000
separate pieces of pottery, some
weighing over five hundred-
weight, from ancient tombs at
Cerveteri, Central Italy, in the
last two years.
More recently, they have start-
ed burrowing among the Etru-
scan graves near Rome, which
date from the seventh to third
century B.C. The Lerici Founda-
tion has, through its own re-
searches, pinpointed 4,00Q Etru-
scan tombs in the area.
Many, the more ornate, are
empty now, Others are wrecked
beyond recognition. The looters
stop at nothing. They even carve
away and remove stone -wall
paintings and frescoes.
Such thefts prove, says Dr,
Leriel, that the crooks are. work-
ing hand in glove with specialists.
When ancient tombs are hack-
ed about so crudely, their walls
collapse, and soon the tomb it-
self is a monument only to
vandalism.
The way to atop the racket,
says Dr. Lerici, is for the govern-
ment to pay proper rewards to
archaeologists for discoveries,
and to see that authorized bodies
only are permitted to "dig" on
ancient sites.
Flat -Earth People
Admit Defeat
Members of an American so-
ciety dedicated to the theory that
the earth is flat have decided
that they are wrong after all and
are considering the advisability
of breaking up their organization.
Said one recently: "Data al-
ready obtained' through satellites
In .space seems to prove pretty
conclusively that the earth is
round, so'there's not much point
in our carrying on as a fiat -earth
society."
But there are still a number of
people in various parts of the
world who are convinced that the
earth Is flat.
For thirty-five years an Illinois
man offered $5,000 reward, pay-
able in cash, to anyone who could
prove that the earth is round. He
said he was sure that the earth
had always been "as flat as a
pancake."
A Somerset man who died
some years ago, spent most of his
life advocating the flat -earth
theory. But he admitted he could
not explain why outward -bound
ships disappear below the hori-
zon or why it is possible to cir-
cumnavigate the globe.
The ancient Greeks seriously
believed that the earth was flat
and supported by twelve col-
umns. In ancient Egypt there
was a widely -held belief that the
earth was supported by four
great elephants, each of which
stood on an enormous tortoise
swimming in the sea!
Some tribes of Indians in North
America believed that the earth
was floating in water and refer-
red to it as "the earth island."
In the mythology of the Kato
Indians of California, the earth
is conceived as a huge horned
monster e ter n a 11y wallowing
southward through the primeval
waters.
ISSUE 51 — 1961
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