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...years the doomful sound of drumming in the Congo night struck white men weak with fright. Black tribesmen, pounding out an ominous drum language of their own, threatened death to pale interlopers...
From Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, Chicago Daily Newsman George Weller last week told how a young British Baptist missionary had gone so far native as to revive drum talking. John Carrington, 29, learned the drum tongue from a tattooed old drum master, Lifindiki Tuaytolo, freely translated as Quarrelsome Smith. Missionary Carrington and Quarrelsome Smith taught young tribesmen how to converse with a two-toned hollowed wood drum...
Newsman Weller stood near by when Drummer Carrington spotted a hippopotamus' nose above the muddy Congo waters, banged out the suggestion that surrounding tribesmen kill the beast. They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws." When storm clouds rose, Carrington socked out: "Bad man, son of disease, is coming down upon clods of earth." Tribesmen began closing the doors of the wicker huts...
...note that TIME under date of Sept. 29, caption "Strategy," states that Chicago Daily Newsman George Weller reported that Congo tribesmen had a suggestion on how to induce Adolf Hitler to surrender: "Offer him a bribe in the form of a valuable woman of the Allied tribe...
With these results in the Pacific, Pan Am last week announced plans for the Atlantic. This week the company starts an air-express service to Lisbon. When its new African run reaches Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, Pan Am's freight and passenger service will girdle three-fourths of the world. Most airmen think the Africa-Singapore gap will be closed before the war is over...