SOMERTON MAN: TIBOR KALDOR CONNECTED TO THE SOMERTON MAN

THE CONNECTION MADE..

Tibor Kaldor is now positively linked to the Somerton Man, Al Boxall and Jess

It has taken a long time to get to this point. It is only the recent acquisition of a new camera and lighting equipment that has enabled us to define the nature of this connection.

The image above is the first page of Tibor's last letter prior to his death in an Adelaide hotel on December 13th 1948. It was the date that caught our attention.

Here's the next step, a close up under LED lighting:

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Next, macro lens closeup and rotated view:

These are very clear examples of micro written code, they appear to be of the same style and type found in the 'Code' page, the torn piece and Verse 70 although somewhat neater and more precise.

This next image below has been selectively lightened to show the definite strings of micro letters/numbers written within the date.

Tibor Kaldor is now positively linked to the Somerton Man, Alf Boxall, Jessica (Telephone number) 

SOMERTON MAN: THE GATHERING OF THE CLAN & THE VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS

A GATHERING OF THE CLAN?

1948 was a momentous year for the RSL and for those who had as their goal the elimination and removal of the communist movement within Australia. As you will read in the press articles below, the public held grave fears for their country and was prepared to take action.

One hub of activity was Glenelg and the Glenelg RSL played a prominent part.

THE CLAN 

A veritable who's who of the military leadership past and then present met in Adelaide during May 1948.

A.S. Blackburn, State president of the South Australian RSL

Sir Eric Millhouse, ex.State President S.A. RSL, Federal President of the RSL

Sir Thomas Blamey, head of The Association

Brigadier W.A. Trott, (Trott Park?)

Sir Raymond Leane, ex-Commissioner of SA Police and committed anti-communist. Father of Detective Sergeant Leane.

THE PUBLIC VOICE

As might be expected, there was a grave concern held by many senior ex-military officers and others in relation to the activities of the communist party in Australia.

Sir Raymond Leane had made his position in relation to the unionist movement very clear in 1928 when he took the waterfront labourers on culminating in his facing down a mob of 200 fired up unionists with just 150 officers. But now in 1948, a very different kind of 'mob' was involved. The CPA was highly organised and financed from Russia plus whatever cash could be raised locally. They had an intricate network of well placed public servants and politicians as well as some disaffected unionists. Their logistical support was impressive with numerous safe houses and even a fully equipped clandestine printing set up.

Below is an article from the Advertiser Newspaper in Adelaide from 6th April 1948:

South Australia RSL:

And from Tasmania in July 1948:

The articles say it all, the anti-communist feeling was running high and South Australia seems to have been a focal point.

THE VDC

Now to the matter of the Volunteer Defence Corps. 

Similar in nature to the British Home Guard, the VDC was formed originally by the RSL in 1940 but the Government of the day stepped in in 1942 following the commencement of War in the Pacific. In South Australia there were some 8000 ex WW1 veterans who had enlisted and served in various positions from anti-aircraft gunnery to Intelligence operations alongside the local Police and Military Intelligence units.:

On 18 June 1940, Leane was appointed as the commander of the Returned and Services League-organised Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) in South Australia, an organisation similar to the Home Guard in the United Kingdom. Within two weeks, more than 2,000 returned World War I servicemen had enlisted in the VDC. In response to the outbreak of war, by July 1940 Leane had authorised the swearing-in of 3,000 special constables to guard vulnerable points and industry against fifth column elements. On 19 October, Leane commanded a parade of more than 5,000 VDC members, including 2,000 who had travelled from country areas. By February 1941, the VDC had increased to a strength of 8,000 men. During World War II, South Australia was the only state to permit members of the police to enlist in the armed forces, but this was withdrawn after Japan entered the war, due to the need to maintain police numbers. In July 1943, Leane's appointment as VDC commander was extended for twelve months, despite the fact that he had reached the normal Army retirement age of 65. On 30 June 1944, Leane retired as police commissioner and was replaced by William Francis Johns, a serving superintendent.

Nationally it was estimated that the VDC had approximately 100000 men at their disposal, a figure that coincides with the estimated strength of The Association. Though it is true to say that the VDC wound up in 1945, these men were all connected by their previous service and by the RSL.

This information provides us with further valuable knowledge about the times and about the organisations that existed in them and just where they had their control points.

The researchers amongst the audience will no doubt take note of the names who were present at the various locations and meetings, a rich source of further leads. Will be publishing more in due course, 

SOMERTON MAN: WINNING

WINNING

What you see inside the marked area in the image above, is microcode. It is written in pencil and it was written on top of the inked letters found in Verse 70. IT IS IMPORTANT TO LET YOUR EYES FOCUS ON THE HIGHLIGHTED AREAS.

This kind of code is written in every letter and every punctuation mark and even in shaded or smudged areas that you will see on the page.

Below are a number of other images taken at the same time as the above:

Letters and numbers are written through the stylised E in the Jestyn signature

Microcode has been written into the inverted commas at the end of the verse.

More code..

A little difficult to see but I am sure that most will be able to make out the various letters and numbers, you just need to give your eyes time to focus on the much smaller lettering than they may be used to...

There we have confirmed microcode in Verse 70 to add to the torn piece and the code page and of course, the Hay Banknotes.

Who knows there may be just one more example to add to the collection :)

SOMERTON MAN: HOW TO LOOK AND HOW TO SEE, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE... UPDATED 5th March

HOW TO LOOK AND HOW TO SEE...

This image is that of a WW2 Mosquito, what does that have to do with the Somerton Man? Everything and nothing!

What you are looking at is the result of a Navy analysis of where this aircraft type received most hits from attacking fighters.

The Navy analysts were proud of their work and from this effort, they put forward a recommendation that the locations marked should be where they added armour to protect their aircraft. They were set to reinforce the wing tips, the elevators and the mid-upper body.

ONE SMALL PROBLEM

It all sounded logical, in many ways much of what has been written on the Somerton Man case can also sound logical. People out there faithfully trudge the path of history and the sometimes lurid details of the personal lives of their targeted subjects and in which they seem to take great delight. There are some who race away and get fired up with a theory and jump immediately to a conclusion only to have it all fall flat. That's what happened to this Mosquito aircraft and its studious analysts.

You see, the aircraft that these well-meaning men and women examined, were the ones that returned to base, badly shot up but the point is they got back, they survived.

What they should have been analysing were the wrecks of such aircraft that didn't make it home, the ones that were destroyed by enemy action, not the ones that survived.

Had they taken that approach, they would have added armour to the nose, the cockpit area and immediately behind it, the engines and mid fuselage to tail.

Thankfully a Mr. Abraham Wald, a statistician, saw the real problem and the remedy was applied.

The Mark XV111 was an example of the results of his work, it had 410 kg of armour added within the engine cowlings, under the cockpit floor and around the nose. 3 out of 4 isn't bad.

THE LESSON?

Look outside the dots! Don't pursue the apparent logical answer without addressing the whole issue. A classic example is the code page.

Everyone was talking about the Navy code crackers and others apparently failing to crack the 'code' and thought they would try to do it themselves. The right answer, which I am personally confident that the Navy knew, was to ask the question, if the letters aren't the code, then where is the code? As we all now know, the code was, as Detective Brown put it, 'in really tiny lettering beneath the code.'

Don't rely on mysticism, don't be fooled by your own limitations of thought, accept the fact that there is almost always another answer and one that will challenge your thinking. If you don't have the necessary knowledge to pursue the less obvious, then get someone who does or set about learning how.

SOMERTON MAN: THE TORN PIECE, ANSWERS?

ANSWERS?

THIS SET OF IMAGES WAS TAKEN UNDER UV LIGHTING

No apologies offered here, but the lettering s difficult to see and is surrounded by random features from the weave of the paper.

In these close-up images of the letter 'T' from the Tamam Shud torn piece, there are a number of areas that contain what are probably indentation marks but formed by someone writing extremely small, I estimate the letters/ numbers to be .3 mm in height.