',
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1932.
COURT SEES
GOLDMAKER
AT WORK
MINUTE SPECKS EXTRACTED AT
SECOND ATTEMPT.
The Polish alchemist, John de
Hadbank Danikowski, who is on
brightly lighted taboratory, with the alchemist-witness carefully weighing
NEW BARITONE HERE.
Mr. Thomas Lowe to Give Song Recital.
ON APRIL 14.
THE
We take pleasure in announcing
CHINA MAIL.
TWO MORE MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
Woman's Ankles Hurt
in Kowloon.
UNLICENSED DRIVER ABSCONDS.
Two more motor accidents were
AN EPIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES.
Sergeant's Statement During A Case.
SIX MONTHS' FOR ACCUSED.
What was regarded as a bad case to the music lovers of Hong Kong brought to the notice of the Police of burglary came before Mr. Wynne- that a new Baritone, Mr. Thomas yesterday.
Jones in the Central Police Court Lowe, will make his debut in a Song) A woman, Cheng Yin (64), of this morning, when Detective-Ser- Recital at the Helena. May Institute 136, Ki Lung Street, was removed geant D. C. W. Fitches charged an on Thursday, April 14, at 5.30 p.m. to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffer unemployed Chinese with the theft Gifted with a dramatic voice of ing from fractures to both ankles, of money and jewellery to the total trial at Paris for frand, sought his words and occasionally appealing great beauty and mellowness Mr. as the result of being struck by a value of nearly $200 from 6, Fat publicly to prove that he has solved to his lawyer for advice as to wheLowe is presenting a programme motor lorry at the junction of Ki Hing Street. the problem of the transmutation of ther he ought to answer sæh and versatile enough to please each in- Lung Street and Boundary Street, It was stated by Sergeant Fitches metals and that he can produce gold | such a question.
dividual taste, including Operatic she was engaged in breaking stones that defendant gained entrance to from ordinary metallic salts,
The experiments were marked by Arius, Schubert Lieder, Standard, at the time.
the premises by forcing tron bars Around him were masses of glita series of accidents. First of all English Songs, and songs of lighter The driver of the lorry, who was apart, and Inserting his hand to lift tering fittings and glass tubes glow Dunikowski had difficulty syn-voin, and we feel sure that music; unlicensed, is alleged to have the bolt inside the door. He added ing with fluorescent gases as, in thechronising his apparatus..
lovers will look forward to listening absconded after the accident.
that there was an epidemic of Central Engineering College, he He managed, after two hours'
to this new comer who, we hope, A collision between a public car burglaries in that area. work, to get it in order and pro-will soon be a great favourite. and a moter borry occurred on thei Sentence of six months' hard ceeded with his demonstration with He will be accompanied at the Castle Peak Road near the Laichi-¡ labour was passed. about 50 grammes of auriferous;
piano by Miss M. Gomes, and sup-kok Prison married quarters.
nimbly manipulated his apparatus and applied terrific heat to the little crucible containing anriferous ore which he claims, he can turn into pure gold.
The
ore. He crashed this in a mortar,ported in a Trio by Mra. Balean, car overturned and, Lok Yan-cheung treated it with hydrochloric acid, Mrs. Arnold, and Miss Balean.18), a student residing at 666, and all was ready for the "2" rays Mrs. Balean will also play violin Canton Road, who was a passenger, to be turned.
solos, accompanied by Miss L. was thrown out and injured. He Pecker. The complete programme was sent to the Kowloon Hospital will be published soon.
for treatment.
Tube Bursts,
The black rubes of the barristers and professors surrounding him, with Their ermine tippets and tassel- led black hats, have chan,ed very
Then the second accident occurred. tle since the fourteenth century. The high tension current was turn- When Nicolas Phazel, the greated on and Dunikowski bent latently alchemist, in a litt house in over his mystery box. neghbouring streft, bent over his charcoal furnage and crude earthen- wale crucible ami, according to popular tradition, produced sulleient gold to establish for enormous fortune.
himself an
White Beach Suit, Dunikowski, attired in a white beach suit, was driven to he En-
gineering School from his cell at the
Sante Prisos. 1
waiting to greet him, and he kissed
them affectionately before he enler-
Japer to prevent people in the house across the road from watching the proceedings.
Suddenly, there was a brilliant flash as one of the "Z" tubes burst. burning the alchemist about the face just below the eye.
Was
The injury, however,
not serious and he agreed to carry on,
again soon as he could get his ap- paratus in order.
AUTHOR ACQUITTED OF FRAUD CHARGE.
Lord Clanmorris And A Film
Company.
A French author-Jacques Louis Repo Corpet, aged 42, of Clapham
"If you cannot arrange it again was found not guilty at the Old to-night," said M. Ordonneau, the Bailey on February 16, of a charge examining Magistrate, will you
ut forging and uttering cheques of
e..
paratus?"
"Certainly." replied the alchemist,
serret. I am further willing to pre- pare for the use of the experts tubes
which I use,”
Some
money
KING ALFONSO'S £100,000.
Fortune Affected By Exchange.
NATURE CHANGED BY GIN.
Prohibition in America.
A "BEER" PLAN.
How bootleg gin has changed the character of the American girl has just been described by witnesses before the "Beer" Committee of the THE CROWN JEWELS.
United States Senate.
"The American girl at one time] "The annual income of King would slap a man's face for offer- His wife and two little girls were | give the expert details of your ap. £40 and £25, and he was discharg- Alfonso at the present time is most ing her a drink of liquor, to-day
probably between £7,000 and It was stated that Lord Clan- £8,000." This was the opinion ex-she will do the same thing if you (don't have one," said Mr. Samuel a member of the U.S. ex the laboratory, the windows of "with the sole exception of the 2orris was Chairman and joint-pressed by one in close touch with Dickstein which had been screened by black tubes, which are the essence of my, Managing Director, with Corpel, of the affairs of the Spanish Royal House of Representatives.
British Cinematograph Training family to a representative of The
He protested that "there is more was Daily Telegraph who was inquir-liquor in the colleges than in the Studios, Ltd. containing the radio-active matter wing by the company to Corpel,'ing into current guesses as to the workshops," and contended that
and Lord Clanmorris said that he fortune of the Royal exile. Everyone looked on intently an
name on two cheques! This authority dismissed as fan by the whole Army."
Prohibition "could not be enforced found his the experiment began. The only
Gold Extracted.
tastic any suggestion
that King sound was the whirring of a slow- "My calculations," he said, "show which had been cashed.
Mary T. Norton, a woman mem- Lord Clanmorris told Mr. St. Alfonso is a millionaire. "He is motion enmeru whose lens followed that by my method the cast of the
motion of the alchemist's production of 11k, of gold works out John Hutchinson (defending) that far from being even a dollar mil-ber of the House of Represents- tives, urged upon the Committee] the object of the company was to lionaire," it was remarked. funds and registered every tiny de-at from 20 to £18. My 'Z' rays diseover and train English film
"I should imagine," added this the approval of 4 per cent. beer as tail of the operation.
upact all modern scientific concep-|
a means of stopping "thia fright- authority, "that the whole investful gin drinking" by the nation's Maitre Torres and Maitre tions and open up a new road to
Mr. Hutchinson: You knew ab-mente of the King-largely in Fimienta, Dunikowski's counsel, science."
youth. solutely nothing about the busi-Great Britain and Switzerland- were standing somewhat apart when Professors Dunikoaki used #
The other side of the matter was)
other people. King Alfonso has lost!) later experiment. The electric cur-
sioner of Industrial Alcohol, in an But except for going to see heavily by
currency address recent rent was, turned on and a powder
to the Anti-Saloon Fire of Questions.
similar in appearance to ivory was Charlie Chaplin or your favourite changes."
film star, you knew nothing about) Contradictory stories have been League Convention at Washington. His offer called forth a fire of obtained.
"There can be no question of our questions from the experts and the This was carefully examined un- the training of film stars--No.
ability to maintain the present microscope examining Magistrate. The scene fler the
and minute! I do not put it offensively, but of the Spanish Royal family. A law," he asserted, contending that stated to be you enme in really for your name? large number of them are supposed the United States has more com- the unprecedented specks of gold were assumed
Often, still, lords have a finan-to be in safety vaults in Paris. It plete control of the manufacture, uspect of a court of law sitting in u visible.
cial value. I was interested in the was suggested to the inquirer that scheme and agreed to come in. the value of these jewels may be denaturation, and use of alcohol
every
talent.
the alchemist beckaned to them and mineral ore from California in a less?-I was very interested in the reach about £100,000. Like many put by Dr. J. M. Doran, Commis-
said that he wished to give a few brief explanations.
Scan
EMPIRE BRANDY.
"As Good As The Best."
SOUTH AFRICAN SLOGAN.
An Empire brandy which, it is claimed, is 25 good as the best French product, in being made in
cinema.
published recently about the jewels!
the moment."
than any other nation.
COMING SHORTLY TO THE KING'S.
IT'S LOADED WITH YOUTH-BEAUTY «£ LAFFS /
Efficiency Eddie-he cuts buttons off vests to
save time burtoning. He cuis comers off desks so visitors won't sit down. He makes larger boles in smaller doughnuts? Never have you gazed upon such an extravaganza of beauty. scenic wonders and laughs! With songs you'll
hum for months?
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Corpel merely got salary due to about £60,000. "But jewels," it FILM STAR SEEKS DIVORCE.
Deaths caused by drinking de- him That is so, but it was the was added, "are really of small manner of his getting it that was value in the economic conditions of naturated alcohol, the doctor add- After Separation For Eight Years.
ed, have practically ceased, and so- objected to.
The jury stopped the ease. With regard to the Crown jewels, called "polson liquor" is no longer Hollywood, March 3.
Dicharging Corpel, the Recorder it was pointed out that there is con-a public menace. Aileen Pringle, the film artiste. (Sir E. Wild, K. C.) said: "You siderable dispute as to which of announces that she is about to sue have only yourself to blame that these treasures are public property for divorce, probably through the Mexican Courts, from Mr. Charles you have got into the dock, but and which belong historically or by there is no dishonesty in your inheritance or purchase to King Pringle, a son of the late Sir John mind, and. being a foreigner, you Alfonso. the Wine-Pringle.
that they probably did not understand how The Repubiic retains some of growers Co-operative Society per- have been separated for eight years wrong your action was."
these Crown jewels. Others, which suaded a German brandy expert, During the war she was living in
were on exhibition in Rome and in Herr H. David. to go to Souththe West End of London with her
Paris at the time of the Revolution, Africa to use his skill and know-husband, where she did much enter-
are said to be still abroad, She ledge in producing a brandy which taining for wounded soldiers. would be at least as good as the returned to the United States and beat produce of France. Herr went on the stage. David established himself at Stel- lenbosch, Cape Province, and com- plebely changed the methods of pro- duction.
South Africa,
Four years
go
It is stated
After appearing in "The Green Goddess," when that drama was presented
PSITTACOSIS.
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HE PAWNED HIS LEG.
For Cash And A Pair Of Clutches.
"What's that leg doing here?" Detective Harry Hirsch,
artificial limb a pawnshop In Kansas of physical exercising and a ragu- lated diet. President Hoover to-
he
The transformation is the result
Another Outbreak in Germany.
Cologne, March 9. The mysterious disease known as New York, Mrs. Pringle psittacosis, communicated by par- was chosen by Elinor Glyn to play rots, which created a scare in Ger- The brandy produced under his the lead in the film version of the many and other countries a few care was sent to London, Berlin, novel "Three Weeks," and has since
years ago, appears to have broken asked
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These include "Adam ánd reported favourably on the pro- tures.
An engineer named Feldmann noticed in duct, except in the case of a French Evil" "Tea for Three," "Soul and his wife, who owned
several City. Government institution which po- Mates," "Night Parade," and "Put parakeets, have died here as the "Well, how did he manage to get day tips the scales at about 188 Ib.. litely intimated that it did not ting on the Ritz."-British United result of an illness, the symptoms on it," replied the pawnbroker. or 27 lb. less than He weighed when|
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broker. then killed and their bodies' sent to the Robert Koch Bacteriological|
until it three years old.
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None of the brandy is exported
A VOICE BEHIND HER.
As She Listened in to no`Edgar Wallace Play,
Press,
SHEPHERD DIES WITH FLOCK.
Sheep and Guardian' Frozen to Death,
J
A. Bedouin shepherd and his en- Institute of Berlin for an autopsy.
tire flock of 400 sheep were frozen The experts of the Institute state,
to death near Rutba wells, in Irak, however, that the psittacosis bacil-
has been during the Arctic spell which has us
In the Your dead birds.
was
been experienced in that region.
A failor's wife In Moraveka Ostrava, Czecho-Slovakia, listening to a broadenst performance of Edgar Wallace's "The Ringer."
She was holding her breath at a tense moment during the play when "Put 'em up," said a gruff voice
behind her.
The tailor's wife swung round in her chair too terrified even to cry out, and found herself looking into the muzzle of a revolver.
Have now
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Police enquiries have shown that
LOTTERY TO PAY DOLES.
French Commission Has A Bright Idea.
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Government on the matter of sweep at present there are no funda!", ure gradually mounting.
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