THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936.
"HOW I SHOT GEBHARDT"
New York, Apr. 20.
Vera Stretz, described as "the icy blonde," told a hushed court to- day the circumstances in which she came to kill her lover, wealthy in- dustrialist Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, in his luxurious skyscraper apartment in New York.
She told first how he persuaded her to go to his rooms on the pretext that he wae in pain. She had, alrendy told him that she wished their love affair to end.
"Suddenly," she said, "he grabbed hold of me and said he was not ill.
I just wanted to know if you loved me, he whispered. Then he pulled me towards him. I screamed 'You beast! Let go!
"I threatened him, and said, 'Let me go or I'll do something desperate.".
"'You dammed~~~,' he replied, Is caught hold of my hand, pulled me to- warda him."
Miss Stretz. who described how the gun she had grabbed went off when she pulled away from Gebhardt, then told how he came towards her, and she fired again,
"Did he stagger?" asked the judge. "I dont know," she replied, crying bitterly. "I just saw blood."
The Judge trie to make her clarify her story. She broke down. Bobbing.
"I don't know; I just shot and shot and shot. I cannot recall any <letails."—/euter.
Dr. Gebhardt, a wealthy German economist, had employed Miss Stretz as his secretary. They had adjoining fasts on the twenty-first floor of a New York skyscraper.
Gebhardt was found shot dead
The Athenaeum Capitulates At Last To Women
The five months' mystery concerning dangpearance of the luxuriously fitted Standard Oil Co. plane moved nearer solution when the wreckage of the plane was lifted from the waters of Great Salt Lake. after weeks of work. It was towed under water 23 miles from the point where it was located by dragline and divern, and was being raised at a railroad cutoff for dismantling when this photo was taken.
Bodies of the three crew numbers were recovered earlier from the lake.
Briton Head Of
Of Overseas
PLAYS CRICKET AND IS
DEVOTED TO HITLER
Herr Ernst Bohle, lender of the jsince 1 have never become a
naturalised German,
dressed only in a nightshirt, in a}Nazis outside Germany,' in a Bri- sumptuously furnished room in his fint. Miss Stretz was found sittington. He is the director, in ferlin. on the stairs of the building.
of a German Government organi- sation with branches all over the
"Conchita Will world. Live Again," Says Husband
He was born in Bradford, odt Jented in South Africa, speaks Eng
lish like an Englishman, aid has many friends in the Midlands and He is the head of the Mme. Conchita Supervia, Spanish North. prima donna, who die recently, Auslands Organization, the ruling will sing again for her husband, body for Nazis abroad. Mr. Ben Rubenstein-on grumo- phone records.
"I was born of German parenta
As he sat in his fat at Lowndes-in Bradford in 1903," he said, "I square, S.W., Mr. Rubenstein saidļam now 32.
to a press representative;.
"My greatest treasures now are; "As English law provides that the gramophone records of mall people born in England are wife's volee. I shall often play them and Conchita will live again." British, I am technically a Briton,
Crew Hurled To
Hurled To Sharks
By Ship Explosion
HURLED into the dreaded Red Sea when an Italian war materials ship was blown up, inen watching sharks devouring colleagues,
minutes of torture-
That was the night of terror KREUGER AND TOLL described by Lieut. Col. P. R.
WINDFALL
£4,000,000 CREDITORS
Committee A report of the for the 5 per cent. Secured Sinking Fund Gold Debentures of the Kreuger and Toll Com- pany has been received in Lon- don from New York.
It discloses that the Swedish
Butler, of Stockbridge, Hants, a passenger in the Newenstle ship Cheshire which picked up the survivors of the Italian steamer Marchigiano (746 tons)
The Cheshire landed the men at Port Said.
"Under the Germau law I count as a German because of my parents, When i was
three---In 1906-we went to Capetown. I remained there until 1919. i wont to school nt the South African College High| School
Nazis
Round The World In 30 Days For £600
CALL AT HONGKONG
New York, Apr. 25. MR. BOLIVAR FALCONER,
of Marlin, Texas, will try to round the world in thirty
days.
new
across
He will leave Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 7 in the German Zeppelin for Frankfort. "I played English games-font-
Theute he will fly ball, cricket, and so on--and lived Europe, Leay, and India to Singa- the life of a South African. My pore, then on to Hongkong by father was--and still is—a pro- ordinary air routes. From Hong- kong he will travel by boat to fessor of Capetown Universify.
Mania.
In 1920 I came back to Cologne From the Philippines he will fly and Berlin Universities, where I to San Francisco and then to continued my aludies until 1923. Texas.
Then I obtained my Bachelorship] The total cost will be £600,-- of Commerce.
Kenter.
"From 1923 until 1933 I was with various export and import firms in the Rhineland.
"In 1931 1 heard a speech of Hitler's in Hamburg. I WIN impressed with him that I joined|
Salvaging Wrecked
the Nazi Party immediately. He Vincas
was marvellous.
HITLER THE MASTER.
.....
HONGKONG LINK
"It was not the principle of
Sydney, Apr. 11. National Socialism that attracted
Efforts will be made in a few mc. It was Hitler.
days to salvage the steamer Vincas, which broke away from... National Socialism is litter. What and now lies, with her anchors ***Hilber is National Socialism and the Paringa some months ago, ¡will happen when he dies it is im-
possible to say. But that is too fouled, one and a half miles off far ahead to contemplate. Ife is the coast and, four and a half miles south-west of Lakes En- still young.
trance, Victoria.
and
"My organisation here nbroad. I have branches in all big!
Mr. T. M. Banks, of Banks. cities; but it should be clearly Bros., Sydney, agents for E. H. understood that the organisation is Summers and Co., of Kobe, jonly for Germans who wish to be Japan, said he had received a
nothing to do with foreigners, members of the Party. It has cable from Summers and Co. instructing him to co-operate "We have about 100,000 follow- with the Master of the Kawatiri fers abroad. London is very favour in effecting salvage. able to National Socialism in a The Kawatiri, which Was Seven of the Italian crew of quiet way I hope to go over to recently sold by the Union twenty-two perished.
England soon. I have not been Steamship Co. to a Japanese there for seven years.
firm, left Westport, New Zealand, other things I was a member of pected
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Among with a crew of 41, and is, ex- to arrive off Lakes the Relehstag in 1938.
Entrance on March 16.
MAULED
me:
Colonel Butler and to and American bankruptcies have sharks. Others, terribly mangled "Seven of the men were enten by resulted in a mach more favour by the explosion, were hurled into able balance than had been anti-the water and some were mauled cipated. General assets of about by the monsters." $20,000,000 (£4,000,000) are CX-
pected to be available for Un-
secured creditors. Most of, this Man Of 130
is likely, ultimately, to accrue!
to
the Kroger and Tall Debenture To
holders.
Marry
An agency will, it is proposed, Girl Of 25
be established to bid for the ac- tual bonds held, apart from the amount mentioned above, as col- lateral security for the Debentures | to prevent their realisation at sacrifice prices.
HIS 23 CHILDREN
OBJECT Alexandria, Apr, 25. about to marry again-for 000,000 of a total of $50,000,000 the nineteenth time. His bride were issued in London, were will be a girl of twenty-five;
The Debentures, of which $10,-A" Egyptian man aged 130 is
quoted in New York recently at $32, ha against $6.25 at earlier stage of the liquidation.
Alt his other wives are dead, but ania twenty-three children object to his marrying again on the ground that there is a difference of 105 years Some 160 companies were con- in the ages of their father and of cerned in the group which com his bride-to-be. prised the interests of var The old man replied indignantly Kreuger, the match mouopoly that he enjoys perfect health, and therefore has a right to marry again -financier.
if he wishes.-Router,
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SCHEME is on foot to make the International Broadcasting Union at Geneva a world centre for the distribution of all forms of radio intelligence.
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attending the Inter-Continental Radio Conference.
It has arisen from suggestions put forward by the 80 delegates The broad idea to extend the scope of the work of Mr. Arthur Burrows, secretary of the Broadcasting Union, so that he can keep in constant touch with every broadcasting organisation in the work.
Ho will let them know:
Details of foreign tours by broadcasting artists; National eclebrations, big events and. important concerts of possible intereats to other countries;
Suggestions for international talks by worki-famous men and women, and
Means of exchanging pramophone recorda and special recordings.
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It should also mean remunerativo foreign tours for radio artists whoso names are forwarded to the Gonova contre
The Athenaeum, for 112 years impregnable strong- hold of the clubman, has de- cided that Woman can no longer be barred from its dignified amenities.
But wives and feminine! friends will still be excluded from the club itself; they will be corraled in an annexe, which will have a dining-room.
A private meeting of members, Lord" Macmillan (Lord of Appeal) in the chair, decided to nequire No. 6. Curlton-gardens, nearby.
Only nineteen of the 220 pre- sent went into the "no" lobby. B.B.C. chief Sir John Reith re- gistered an enthusiastic "aye." Bishops abstained
WAITRESSES!
The proposal first came up last June, was then carried by 138 votes to 83. But a two-thirda majority was required.
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appeared during the war. Then, reluctantly, four waitresses had to be allowed in.
The second-much more res cent-was made when women were allowed to pass through the publle rooms-guarded by members-between 11 a.m. and
pm. Buf only to pass through.
The meeting then decided. too, to spend £10,000 in improving i the club itself.
Ti
Afty years age smoking was not allowed in any part of the Athenaeum; it is still forbidden
In the Ibrary, and in the coffee- room after 8.30 p.m.
QUAKE BABY
When a detachment of troops x- tently arrived at Sonthampton after service in India, one of the soldiers arrived with his three months-old baby, born at Lahore.
Jock McAvoy's Wife
Files Petition For Divorce
The wife of Jock McAvoy, the Lancashire boxer, has filed a peti. tion for divorce against him. There are three children of the marriage.
Jock McAvoy, whose real name is Joseph Bamford, comes from Rochdale.
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