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NOW, ALL TOGETHER L. SCHWARTZ FURNITURE CO. 713 No. 4th St Wilmington, N. C. nw Christmas tring you many Messings and mucK nappiness Your Local Bottlers of RED ROCK COLA PAL HEP \ Kauno A. Lehto | Manager ] t y In the same old friendly way, On the same old friendly day We extend our very best wishes For a very joyous Yuletide, And a very Flappy lSew Year. J. M. WEEKS AND STAFF Cobra Kissing Is Cinch Says This Jungle Man By Jean Fogg , United Press Staff Correspondent! BOMBAY (U.P. ) - vo you want t okiss a cobra? & Just look up John A. Royma, former associate of Frank (“Bring ’em back alive.”) Buck, and now custodian of a deckfuJl of animals and snakes which the American ship Flying Enter prise is carrying to New York. Royola has caught more than 500 cobras bare-handed and has kissed at least one. He likes co bras. . . “I feel sort of like an uncle to them,” he said. A Hawaiian-born Filipino and closely resembling Sabu the movie actor, he substituted for the star during the filming of Kipling’s “Jungle Stories.” “My part was to give the co bra a realistic kiss,” Royola grinned. “Easiest money I ever earned.” Gunpowder Helps During th ewar he caught co bras for the army in the Phil ippines. When snake-bite serum was scarce he cauterized a bite by emptying gunpowder into the wound and lighting it with a match. He said it was a sure cure for any venom “if it is done pronto.” , .. It was in Koh Sichang, 50 miles from Bangkok, that Capt. Kai de Vermond, master of the “Flying Enterprise,’’turned over the forward deck of his ship to Royola’s “zoo,” which he caught near the Siam-Burman border. Five baby elephants with one inch of tusk for each of their five years of age were chained on the deck. In between its use for the seamen, the 550-pound “babies” kept cool by spraying themselves from a drum full of water. One hundred and fifty mon keys shrieked and chattered in cages across the deck from the 30 cobras, five pythons and a “red-band” snake, a small rep tile which Royola says is the deadliest snake in the world. Bears Like Toys Three Malayan honey bears which look as if they came straight from a toy counter were caged across from a mandril monkey appropriately named “Killer.” This vicious monkey, about 24 inches high, with angry red eye sockets and fiery red eyeballs could kill a man easily, says Royola. “I’d rather handle a thousand cobras than one mandril,” he said. Paradoxically, Royola puts a devenomed cobra into the Kil ler’s cage when it becomes un manageable, since the cobra is the only living thing the man drilfears, according to Royola. Besides a few wild cats, civet, cats and one sea otter, there were two three-month-old aard varks. These ant-eating animals with pink-tipped snouts are as affectionate and tame as the five gibbons which amused vis itors and crew with their antics. To Help Research Royola will deliver the snakes to the National Foundation for j Infantile Paralysis. The mon - I keys are going to the American Institute for Cancer Research. The other animals are headed for zoos throughout the United States. Royola and his two Malayan assistants “milk” the cobras once a week. The venom is crystallized to preserve it for snake-bite serum and blood clotting fluid for internal hem orrhages. Roydla, who claims the snakes know his footsteps at feeding time, pulled a cobra out of the cage with a short, hooked stick. He worried it a bit to an ger it enough to strike, then seized it just behind the head and above the h o o d, and “milked” the venom Into a small vial. Afterwards he squeezed open the cobra’s mouth and fed him two raw eggs through a funnel. HOUSING’S LIKE THAT FORT WAYNE, Ind. (U.PJ—Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Bruchv didn t j want to leave their rented house. They were jailed on dis orderly conduct charges. The police said Mrs. Bruchy attack- ' ed them with a butcher knife and her husband joined her with - an ice pick. j Seminoies Get Break On A u t o license TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (U.PJ—The dwindling band of Seminole Indi ans in Florida stays one up on the “palefaces” every year when it comes to buying automobile li cense plates. The Redmen are the only Flo ridians who don't have to pay for their license plates. The policy started about 17 years ago during the administra tion of Gov. David Sholtz, who rceRRy ChRisroxis To all our friends — far and near—we wish the season’s best. Good health, happiness and a year of prosperity. GREENFIELD FLORIST 2023 So. Front St—Dial 5274 wanted to help the geminoles with their problems.. Sholtz took his entire cabinet of state officials down the Tami ami Trail to hold a pow-wow with the Indians, and explained through an interpreter that Flor ida wanted to assist the Indians in any way possible. But the Indians turned down his offers, and said they didn't want any help from the palefaces except free licenses to dress up their cars and make them look pretty. So when the black and yellow tags go on sale Dec. 1, the Serrrni oles will be about the only Flo ridians who won’t be grumbling. Gay with sincerity and brightness are our gala Christmas wishes for you and yours. May this Holiday be the finest ever. May your New Year be the happiest in all the world. McKEE ICE CO. 1302-4 SO. FRONT ST. WILMINGTON A MERRY CHRISTMAS^ > mu/ Me deb/ ed pew/ mude,) fa /df To our friends... one and aB... go oar socece&t and best wishes for the best Yuletide ever. May health—<. happiness... good cheer and t die best of everything be yours. Artd with the coming of 1948... may the new year bring you success and as many joys as there are Christmas fights cn yoer tree. While the carolers stag of "Peace on Earth—Good Will Toward Man" let the spirit of Christmas glow with an abundance of good things and happy memories. Foster-Hill Realty Company General Contractors, Insurance & Real Estate 112 Princess St. Since *906 “WE SELL THE EARTH" Each member of our organization extends to you, our friends and customers, the best wishes of the season and dedicates himself to give, in the years of peace ahead, the very best conscientious serv ice he can in contributing towards prosperity and happiness of our community and country. Wm. M. Hill Edw. B. Ward Lena M. Batts Win. F. Powell B. B. Bryan Samuel D. Bissette L. E. Allen Gwendolyn Sidbury Marie H. Spencer J. W. Narron Clara B. Hill J. H. Irving, Sr. Zona Gordon Lucy W. Boat H.M. Schaar Frances Johnson J. Arthur Brown Dorothy McKoy Ada F. Hadley Chas. J. Blake Marion Bennett For The Christmas Holidays We Will Close Wednesday, December 24th At 1:00 P. M. And Open Saturday, December 27th At 9:00 A. M. ^ _ . _/
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