Action for Men, May 1960 — page 22: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ALE AFG GWERLEW | FINAL ‘A ROUNDUP OF ITEMS FROM THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE WORLD FINAL SURRENDER PLUS 15 YEARS BINGLE, BANGLE, BUNGLE, THEY DON’T WANT TO LEAVE THE JUNGLE MANILA — Japanese pop tunes drowned out the jungle birds on the Philippine island of Lubang recently as psychological warfare experts tried to persuade two hold-outs from World War II to go home. Since 1945, when U.S. marines took the island, two members of Japan's Imperial Army have been holed up in the jungle carrying on a stubborn guerrilla warfare cam- paign. The Filipinos claim that ten island fishermen have been killed in their 15-year reign of terror. Originally, there were three hold- outs, but the third man was killed in a skirmish with the natives. The embarrassed Japanese gov- ernment has tried repeatedly to per- suade its mavericks to give up. It went all out in its latest effort. For weeks, songs popular in Japan in 1943 and messages from the men's relatives back home were broadcast over an amplifying system set up at the edge of the jungle. Hundreds of leaflets, pointing out patiently that the war was over and Japan was now at peace, were dropped. There was no response. Now the exasperated Philippine 22 government threatens to launch a postwar invasion of the island and make the enemy surrender—or else. OPERATION BIG SWITCH MAKES A NEW MAN OF OLD MAID PAOLISI, ITALY—A former house- maid, who underwent a sex change through surgery, left recently for a honeymoon with a childhood girl friend. Before the operations made a new man of him, he worked in Rome and Naples as a domestic. Afterwards, he got a job as a farm- hand near his hometown of Paolisi. He courted and won the hand of an eighteen-year-old maiden he had known when he was a young girl. Then before either one had a change of heart—or sex—they were married. WORKMEN ARE A DRAG DAD— DON’T DIG HOT-RODDER DETROIT—City workers, irked by a hot-rodder driving across a play- ground they were working on, fixed a pit to teach him a lesson. The speedster made a habit of zooming across the field into a depression and then roaring out. But the work- men soon came up with a solution. They filled the depression with sand and then covered it with dirt. The next time the hot-rodder bar- reled across it, he got stuck up to his axles. The workers then built a three-foot high wall of dirt around him. When they finished, they handed him a shovel and told him to dig himself out. BOBBIES BAG TWO BARMAIDS IN BASEMENT BLACKOUT LONDON—Following up a rumor that all was not as it should be at a certain basement club, the bob- bies sent around a policewoman and a detective to investigate. After several evenings in the place, the pair reported back that the rumor was all too true. Not only was the management serving liquor illegally, they said, but the basic form of entertainment provided was the strip-tease—fre- quently of the Lazy Susan variety.. Girls strolled around and invited the male club members to peel them. When each girl was down to a G-string, she parked herself on some gentleman's knee. Now and then, for a change of pace, a featured stripper did her own work—too well, the undercover cops thought. Acting on the information re- LAZY SUSAN STRIP COnniCcloo@ SJ (CO)