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I! er Ei) EE CAFRA WRALAR AK SO Learning To Climb Needles of Granite Once, the slender needles of granite and ice congealed above the world where men lived, were no more than the cry of earth "towards the sky. In the evenings, each other "legends, "There are in this region mountains of pro- digious height, particularly around the Valay and the Val d' Aouste. There is found what are called Glaciers, and what the na- tives call Accursed Mountain, be cause it is always covered with snow and ice." Peter the Third of Aragon went to the summit of Canigou In 1280, and Petrarch ascended the Ventoux in 1336. Mont Aiguille was climbed at the or- der, or rather the whim, of a king in 1492, and Leonardo da Vinei conquered, so it is said, a certain Mount Boso (in 15117). But these ascents remained isol- ated instances, The mountains climbed were relatively low and were only on the edge of the great ranges and the eternal snows. Were men afraid of the high peaks, whether in the Alps or the Himalaya? . . . ~ A few peasants ventured among them -- crystal-gatherers and chamois-hunters, . . . Some foreigners, too, the great travel- lers approached little by little the terrifying beauty of the high hills. In 1741 an Englishman called William Wyndham, who lived at Geneva, organized with some of his countrymen "un voyage aux Glaciéres de Savoie, dans la val- lée de Chamougny." In spite of the local prior, a good old man 'who showed them a thousand courtesies and advised them strongly against proceeding higher," and in spite of the local inhabitants who told them "that even the crystal-gatherers and the hunters of bouquetins and chamois, not to mention all the strangers - who came to Cham- ougny, had been content to see what they saw at present," they ventured as far as Montenvers. "From there we had a full view of the glacier... the reader must imagine a lake whipped by a strong wind, then suddenly frozen." Wyndham and "his companions were more intrigued by the gla- ~--gount, "than by Mont Blanc, which they do not so much as mention. None the less they were the first visitors to the Mer de Glace: the English had opened ist traffic. Twenty years later the ascent of the Giant of the Alps Eeverest," by Gaston Rébuffat. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sutton. - Q, How can I cope with some wallpaper in one of my rooms, which has lost its grip and formed an unsightly bulge on the wall? "battling the bulge"; slit~the bulge with a razor blade and, using a knife, insert library paste thinned to a creamy con- sistency. Smooth the whole thing out with a stiff brush, and the appearance of your wall should be much improved. after supper, the peasants told, the high Faucigny road to tour-. "itself was to be the order 8f the" day. -- From "Mont "Blanc to A. Here's one good way of. clers, hedged about with legends of which they took small ac-_ arod 9 show business so he started to BOMBER'S VICTIM -- A policeman rushes to the side of a dazed " ts and bloodied man after a bomb exploded in Duffy Square, New York City. Six persons were injured. Bet He Could Eat Peas Off A Knife His name was James White, Jimmy to his friends and hang-- ers-on, of whom there were many. He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1878, of extreme- ly poor parents. } As soon as Jimmy left school he got a job as an errand boy ter became a bricklayer's Then he got ideas, ideas ®at were later to shoot him to. the top like a rocket. With fno capital at all he set himself up as a speculative builder; it was the heyday of the jerry builder and Jimmy did not do badly. He was not yet twenty but he began promoting local prizefights. Then came his first piece of ---sharp"practice; ~A circus came fo |" town and Jimmy chummed up with the boss, persuading him' to sell a three-quarter share in it. He had not got the money to pay for his share - but he touted and sold it at a profit. Thi§ gave hi liking for run a theatre at Matlock in Der- byshire; 'Now he saw himself in ~ the big money; he decided to launch himself in London. . To London he went, in 1899, only to find that the Boer War was just starting in South Africa. He joined up, went overseas where he served as a mounted policeman. When the war was over, Jim- my White returned to Britain, where he met one of the greatest financial rogues of the time: Ernest Terah Hooley, who later served a term of imprisonment. Together with Hooley, White went into the flotation of com- panies whose shares were "push- ed" unscrupulously; options on en : Fi "SUIT -- Uiftle hous . e with legs was designed for the - 'moon. Republic Aviation designed the suit fo provide the moon. 'explorer with a livable almosphere,- Demonstrator puts down * tripod withdraws legs and sits on a small shelf to rest, While model is experimental, designers balieva the same funda- mental concept will be practical for the first moon men. Tools that could be taken are laid out on the sand. {pias SS Salt a hl this and that, concessions of all - kinds were bought and sold. But when Hooley went to jail, White was in the clear. Prizefighting was always Jim- | my White's ideal and now he | saw his big chance. Jack John- son, the giant Negro, had just' won .the world heavyweight championship from Tommy Burns over in Australia and had come to London looking for a fight. Why not promote a scrap between him and Bombardier Wells the heavyweight champion of Britain? # The match was arranged to take place at Earls Court, Lon- don, but then he found he hadn't ~~ sufficient money for the guar- antee, writes Harry J. Greenwall in "Tit-Bits". oo : White "decided to extract the last ounce of publicity out of his 'failure. "He began secretly to ar- | range opposition to the fight on the ground of the undesirability of a white man fighting a Negro, in London, He managed to get questions asked in the House of Commons and, as a result, the Home Sec- retary forbade the fight. Jimmy * White was by now -front-page [| -news all over Britain. He pre- tended to be disgusted with the Home Secretary's action. But he "was a hero in sporting circles and was made a member of the National Sporting Club! It was at the club that Jimmy met the late Sir Joseph Beech- am; the.two men went into part- nership to deal in real estate, One of their schemes was to buy Covent Garden Market from the Duke of Bedford who was to be paid- $5,000,000. i It was White's idea to pull down the Market and replace it with colossal warehouses to be linked by subterranean roads to London's main line stations, but the Market tenants opposed the scheme so vigorously: that it fell through. In 1918 there was talk of con- ferring a knighthood on Jimmy White, but he let it be known at a high level that he would be "willing to forgo that if the war- time= restrictions on company promotions were lifted, and, strange to relate, they... were Aiftedt-- rrr rime Now White went. full steam ahead, forming company after company, He was always the chairman and 'his "share-push- ers" went out east and west and south and north, How the money flowed into his coffers! He bought a large courtry house, a $150,000 yacht; he started horse-racing and at one time owned seventy race- horses. t BIE: Jimmy had a sumptuous suite of offices in the Strand, London, where his desk had solid gold fittings. The office led to. a din- ing room which was decorated with) famous sporting prints. * One of London's most famous "chefs" was engaged to provide a * magnificent lunch every day for Jimmy and his guests; it White .. was not there and if there were "no- guests, -the lunch was pro-. vided just the same, ° 5 . - At this period his fortune was estimated at $0,000,000. He used make the most fantastic bets. One day he was lunching with Hooley ;when-he made a bet of $75. that he would put thirty peas on the blade of his knife _ and swallow. them without spill~ ing one. Jimmy won his bet! ~~ He also gave immense sums to Roman Catholic charities; nuns ho calléd at his Strand offices ten went away with cheques for $1,000. show business. He bought Daly's _ Theatre in Leicester Square and put on musical comedies, He might have been a success but he refused all professional as- sistance and even insisted on producing his own shows. He lost thousands of pounds. Now the rumours began to fly; bankers who had been his close friends cold - shouldered : him. What was he to do? . White*made up his mind to make a corner in petroleum but he could not obtain any finan- cial backing. In 1927 he had to face demands for cash payments of $2,000,000, He had no money; his Lancashire . cotton "boom" had burst and thousands of small investors were ruined. On Tuesday, June 28th, 1927, Jimmy White left London for his country house called Foxhill. He said to Williams, his butler: "Don't worry about me; every- thing will be all right." g He then told all the _other servants to take the evening off and go to the theatre at Swin- don, and he gave instructions that he was not to be called un- til noon the next day. Next day at noon, one of the servants' went to call White; there was no answer. Climbing through a window into the room, the butler found White lying on his side with a sponge soaked in chloroform pressed closely to his mouth. There was a note say- ing: ' "Go easy with me, old man; I'm dead from prussic acid." The truth, however, was that the tycoon had taken too little prussic acid to kill him, so he had fetched some chloroform from a medicine chest. and had killed himself with that. After the suicide a Receiver was appointed on behalf of the Beecham Trust and it was re- vealed that White owed his bank $1,500,000. Six years before his death, Jimmy White was divorced from his wife by whom he. had two daughters. 'While he was in the . money he set aside $180,000 to provide his wife with an annuity . of $9,000 for life. MERRY MENAGERIE © 19 "Getting a little practice, pal?" : a > -- Skin Divers Make War "On Starfish Skin divers armed with knives and other weapons have been attacking the great numbers of starfish which prey on oyster "beds in the North Atlantic, caus- "ing serious losses to{fishermen. This is the newest way of fighting the starfish menace which has increased since the end of the last world war. The starfish is a highwayman, not. of the open roads, but along the world's seaways where, it ruth- lessly attacks mussels as well as oysters. . "Devil's fingers," *crossfish," "cramps" -- these are some of the names the oyster dredgers - give this strange, voracious crea- ture. After a rough autumn tide you can generally find some of these five-fingered creatures ly-- "ing on the beach. Starfish are often" found hunting oysters in --the-mouths of creeks on British ~--southand-east-coasts;------ . The underside of a starfish is mostly covered with little points of tubes and when these are filled with water it is able by their aid to crawl about. There are sucking discs on the ends of these tubes which can cling to .any solid -surface 'and thus the creature is able to pull itself - along, 3 Ii a starfish losés an arm or finger it begins at once to grow another, When fishermen, en- on cysters; tried to destroy the pests by. tearing them in half, they were amazed to see. many ' of the fragments growing fresh' parts. a When a mass of starfish in- vaded the coast of Deal, Kent, 'some. years ago, thousands were - stranded as the tide went down 'along a stretch of ten miles. Many: of the starfish were taken - to allotments and helped to man- ure the land, ° va A pre-war scientist, Profes- gor J. Arthur Thomson, describ- ed the starfish as a creature which represents efficiency with- . out brains, Its. stomach js elastic. and it can, without the slightest ~{rouble,- eject -the whole of it - 'through its mouth, he said, The starfish encloses an oyster In its stomach' then draws stomach and oyster back into itself so that it can digest its prey at leisure, Once again White went into raged because of starfish attacks | ACCOMMODATION A WARM 'WELCOME SENIOR CITIZENS IN RETIREMENT Preston Springs Gardens is an address * of distinction & haven of comfort and content. Private bathrooms; luxurious sitting rooms on bedroom floors, spa- clous, well-furnished -lobby About two acres of terraced" lawns. Our train ed competent staft under the super visfon of registered nurses Is cap- able of serving all but those requiring |- hospital or institutional care. ; { Monthly rate for single rooms $150.00 to $200.00, meals Included. 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