© 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved. The Children's Newspaper, Week Ending May 6, zg^o s New A Bicycle For You f—See page 9 Every Wednesday—Threepence FOUNDED BY ARTHUR MEE~ No 1624—May 6, 1950 An Airman Alone in Two LITTLE A HELPING OF LIZARD PIE SAILING BOATS WITH SEA WEED SALAD "Trembling Earth" ""THE world's strangest cookery book is the one recently pre- ^ pared by the Royal Canadian Air Force for its School of "FHE first man to be lost in a vast swamp in Georgia, USA, Survival at Fort Nelson, British Columbia ; some of the recipes *• and to find his way out alive is an American airman with would have alarmed the worthy Mrs Beeton. the good Scottish name of James Douglas Stewart. His plane Aircrews engaged in flying crashed in the Okefenokee Swamp and caught fire, but he over Canada's northland, and managed to get out unhurt. He could hardly have come down STOLEN SWORD who are now going through the in a worse place. school, will learn from this book RETURNS how to defeat starvation if forced The Okefenokee Swamp, so- down. It gives them recipes called from an Indian word 'T'HE Wallace Sword which is for such delicacies as newt stew, which is said to mean "trembling now on view again in the lizard pie, bat soup, a dish of earth." is about 45 miles long and Hall of Heroes in the National lousewort (a form of weed*, sea­ 30 miles wide. It is a deserted Wallace Monument, at Stirling, weed salad, and lemming-en- wilderness of cypress and black recalls an astonishing story. casserole garnished with sea gum trees growing in mud, of On Sunday night, November cucumber. wide marshes, low islands covered 7, 1936, the caretaker of the Wal­ The authors of this invaluable with pine trees, and a few lace Monument heard a knock book are two Air Force officers stretches of shallow water. at the door. Wondering who who had long experience of the He decided to followr the rule could be calling at such an hour, Arctic while with the Royal for stranded airmen and to stay he opened the door and was con­ Canadian Mounted Police. They by his wrecked plane in the hope When 12-year-cld John fronted by four masked men who admit their dishes are not for that it would be spotted by Hilt, of West bremwich, said they had come for the Wal­ the fastidious, but for' the fellow rescuing aircraft. Then he returned from a visit to lace Sword. who just wants to live; and they climbed a tree and realised the South Africa, he brought with him this model yacht, The caretaker shut the door in claim that hundreds of lives grim fact that his plane could their faces, but the men forced would have been saved, including not be seen from above. His only made by craftsmen in the Canary Islands. their way in and locked him in those of members of the Sir John hope of life was to do what no his room. Then they climbed up Franklin expedition, if knowledge man lost in Okefenokee had done a sloping buttress of the tower of how to find food in Canada's before—to walk out of the and gained admittance to the Arctic had been available earlier. swamp. Hall of Heroes by smashing a "All animals in the north are He started his dreadful pilgrim­ stained-glass window known as safe to eat," they point out in age. Ho had to drag himself for the Crown and Sceptre. There their book. "This includes bats, miles through mud and avoid the they found the Wallace Sword lizards, newts, frogs, and even grip of bogs, and be on the watch and escaped with it. snakes, which taste like the white all the time for poisonous snakes Several months later the police meat of chicken. Grubs found in and alligators. For food he found received an anonymous letter the ground or in rotten wood berries and chewed grass, and and, acting on the information make good food. So do grass­ thus for seven long days he it contained, found the missing hoppers, toasted on a stick. Pick fought yard by yard through the sword at Bothwell—at the bottom off legs and wings before cook­ mire. But-he beat the Okefeno­ of a well! ing. Do not eat caterpillars; kee, and reached his fellow men, some are poisonous. Meat is who took him to hospital at meat when you are hungry." Homerville, Georgia. Two yachtsmen, sail­ ing on the Thames Starting From Scratch MUTTON BIRDS ON THE WING at Surbiton, lie flat ji/jANY motorists went astray TpoR some time past the or fly across the middle of the out to prevent their LV1 recentJy on a road near Wim- Australian Government has Pacific. In all, the round trip craft from capsizing borne, Dorset, all because a cow in the stiff breeze. had scratched Us head against a been investigating the migratory cannot be less than 18,000 miles. signpost and turned the sign in habits of mutton birds, which In recent years the numbers of the wrong direction. nest in great numbers in the mutton birds in the Purneaux Furneaux group of islands. Every islands has dropped considerably, year the mutton birds—so named so the Australian Government because their flesh tastes and are taking steps to stop sheep- looks like mutton—take off on breeding there so that the ground their long, long flight to the can be ploughed in an effort to Bering Strait and the Aleutian attract the birds back to their Islands off the coast of Alaska. nesting places. It has now been established beyond doubt that the route of these far-flying migrants lies by way of the Solomon Islands and HE SOLD SEA SHELLS Japan. The birds return by "yynEN the giant oil tanker transport did fortune come to another route which has not yet Velutina, christened by Prin­ him. been discovered, but it is thought cess Margaret, goes-to sea in July But Marcus Samuel never that they either follow a course her captain . will receive a sea forgot his start in life. Each one along the Pacific coast of America shell from his employers. This of his tankers became a "shell," is in accordance with custom, and the company formed to run for the tankers in this fleet are them was styled the Shell Oil named after shells, and each one firm. Instead of selling shells to Auld Reekie carries the appropriate shell in a the public he presented them to : Minus the Reek glass case throughout her career. his shins. ^i^ '-\ (\N his retirement after 35 The custom has an interesting years' service Mr Allan origin. The founder of the great Ritchie. Chief Sanitary Inspector Shell group of oil companies was Pressing Affair of Edinburgh, was complimented Marcus Samuel, later Lord Bear- •A CROWD was gathered round on his pioneering efforts to re­ sted, who began life in a humble ** a motor lorry at Gretna, but move the "stigma of reek " asso­ way in the East End of London, curious passers-by found that it '! >• « ciated with the ancient name of selling painted sea shells and ivas not due to a road accident. Edinburgh. Ritchie's achieve­ other curios. The people ivere merely witch­ ments in this respect have been In those days shells were ing an obliging lorry-driver recognised by the Smoke Abate­ widely used ,for decorative pur­ slowly manoeuvring liis ten-ton ment Society, who made him a poses, but young Samuel made lorry over two planks in order member of Council and president little money out of the business; to press a Gretna villager's home­ of the Scottish section. not until he- went in for oil grown tobacco. zi © 2007 Look and Learn Magazine Ltd / www.lookandlearn.com. All rights reserved. The Children's Newspaper, May 6, 1950 Diatoms to The Western Powers NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE Save Dollars Must Act as a Team THANKS A MILLION! MUSIC WHILE THEY WORK J^ KIND of earth called diatom- Marshall Aid to Europe during Records are being made of the aceous, made of the skele­ Once again London is to be the main centre of interest in the two years ending March 31 traditional "waulking" songs of tons of millions of minute plants, world politics, for the Foreign Secretaries of. Britain, France, totalled 8,726,500,000 dollars. the Hebrides. They are sung by may help Britain to save dollars. and the United States are due to meet in the British capital Britain received 2,391,400,000 the weavers when tossing the This was announced recently by tweed to and fro to give it its Sir Roland Nugent, leader of the next week. A C N correspondent, who is a close student dollars (about £853,730,000) in loans. finish. Northern Ireland Senate. This of international developments, believes that this conference will kind of earth is used for several The Boys' Brigade Annual Dis­ Inspired by the visits of be the most important diplomatic event since the end of the Britain's Young Vic Company, purposes in industry, and Britain play loill be held at the Royal has hitherto had to purchase all war in Europe. He writes as follows : Albert Hall, London, on May 5, at Holland is to form a Young Vic Company of. her oivn. her supplies from dollar 'J'HE momentous character of not agree to suggestions by other 8 p m, and on Saturday, May 6, countries.