THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY
5; 1936,
TUG-OF-WAR FOR U.S. RACKETEER KING
EVANGELIST OF THE DESERT
BRITON AS "MAGIC HEALER"
OF THE ARABS
SEVEN YEARS
AGO, LEAN,
LEATHERY
WILLIAM BELLINGHAM, CHEERFUL BRITISH "TOMMY," TRANSFORMED BY FAITH INTO A SMILING CRUSADER, RODE ALONE INTO THE DESERTS OF IRAK. HIS ONLY WEAPONS WERE A MEDICINE-CHEST AND A BIBLE. -
Then from time to time a wandering caravan would come out of the sun-baked sands with strange tales of Ackoof, the Good Brother, who had cared for their sick, and spoken of a wonderful new prophet,
That was all the news there was of William. But now from reports he has sent Captain Godfrey Buxton, of Upper Norwood, who trained Bellingham in missionary work, it has been able to reconstruct the whole amazing story of Ackooi.
"If 1 boast," he wrote to Captain Buxton. "It is
SKYSCRAPER OF THE ARABIAN DESERT
because of the faith that is in me. I went into the Like a Fata Morgane the South Arabian town of Shiban, desert armed with nothing but the Gospel. Thoices up from the desert. The town had its flourishing immortal Lawrence of Arabia had a nation at his age during Queen of Sheba, but even to-day is an
Important rentre of trade. back.
"Lawrence went in with bags of
GAOL RUSE FOILED
BY TROOPS
HIS £2,000,000 INCOME FROM
ARMED
VICE
New York, Apr. 30 with machine-guns,
20 State Rangers surrounded
the gaol at Hot Spring, Arkansas, |to-day and wrenched from the custody of the Sheriff America's No. 1 racketeer, Charley · Luck, alias Charles Luciano.
He is now under heavy guard in the prison at Little Rock, the State capital. The authorities are demanding £40,000, bail.
An amazing weries of incidents. Jed up to the scene at Hot Spring.
Luck, described by Thomas Dewey, specin rackets prosecutor für New York County, as America's most dangerous rarketeer, was indicted (with 11 associates last week,
New
Fled After Murder
Under his control, it was re- vented, was all organised vice in j
York. The locome of his gang exceeded £2,000,000 a year. When Dutch Schultz, the gangster ago, Luck, to avoid questioning by the police, fed to Florida,
Closely shadowed by New York drtretives, he moved to Arkansas After, the indictment in New York
gold. I went in with nothing but a HER OWN CAR AS HEARSE leader, was murdered seven manthir
medicine chest. Lawrence won phot also was I-but enough, the half |
of my taid.
adventures coufl
nul
be
Every black tent in the desert is open to Bellingham. The Arabs look upon him as the Magie, Healer, and his coming is heralded with rejoicing, :
He has recomplished the niest amazing things medically. The bl men and women came to him with: their sores
and their wounds; the A children with the burns they baye received playing with fire.
No One Will Ever Drive It Again
Bettws-y-Coed, Apr. 25. LOW sports car with brilliant red wheels bore the coffin at the funeral here this week of Miss Eileen Mary Salmond, the tragic
|bighshire, where her body was recoveredt from the River Con- way.
No Foul Play
Car and owner made their last journey together--for after the funeral this luxurious sports
model was destroyed by order of
Miss Salmond's father.
It was driven by the man who seld it to the dend girl Mr. J. Knowles, He has been able to cure the sick
As the men at his garage herr and the disensed. On one occasion “rich girl” of Bettws-y-Coed. were to-night stripping the car of itx hend, uni fitting the onkon native woman was given up for dend.
it was Miss Salmiond's own Ackout prescribed a course of treat.
mountings for the eatin, he said to one that was found me: "After Monday it must arver ment, knelt down in prayer by her cur-the
ten miles [he driven, or used in any way again. The abandoned nearly Aver. WAN wandering tribes of the desert were from Tanton, Llanrwst, Den-There is no question of it being sold. *For Miss Salmond's last ride in mystified. They pronounced it n
her car I will see that it is In mirnele.
perfect condition. Every little' fault has been put right. It will he polished and burnished. Then it will be destroyed."
side, ani she
"My Great Triumph"
"It is impossible," he added, "to tell you of the difcalties with which I am Inced.
"And my great triumph-oh, listen and rejoke-he sits with me now. Ills name is Hamza, a descendant of the prophet Mohammed, yet a believer in Christ.
Completing World Tour
WRITER OF BOOKS THINKS HONGKONG
"MARVELLOUS”
"He dare not let his beliefs be known to his kin in the desert, fur A writer of books, E. R. Link- that would mean a knife in his back. Bater spoke in glowing terms "He no longer prays with his head of the beauty of Hongkong to
tent we knoel down together."
with inembers of
re-
Following a post-mortem examing. tion of the body to-day the poller stated that they had dismissed any suggestion that Miss Salmand was a victim of foul play,
KITTENS
Walt Disney's "Three Orphan Kittens," says A Reuler message from Molly- wood yesterday, han been nwarded the Order of Merit as the outstanding cartoon of 1935 by tlie Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Selences.
Hey What aboul mu kittens !
Women
Changed His Mind
MR.
New York, May. 1.
R. ALONZO B. SEE, New York lift manu- facturer, when asked for subscription to
college, wrote,
a
women's
a
he was arrested at Hot Spring as a "If I had my way, l'a
fugitive from justice,
Then began a legal battle adroitly burn conducted on back's behalf by local attorney, a former president of leges." Hot Spring Bar Association,
in obtaining First he succeeded Luck's release on £2,000 bail,
The attorney's next step was to warrant an arresi obtain, a new Luck as a fugitive from justice no as to keep him within the Jurisic tion of the Hot Spring court.
Governar Acts
The Governor then intervened · and seni The Stale Rangera to bring Luck to the capital. To-marrow the rackotser chief will free extradition proceedings.
Enough counts are in the charges against Luck to send him to prison if convicted, for 100 years.
Since the death of Schultz he has been a member of the "Big Six" who control the New York rackets. He
was an associate of Arnold Roths- tein, the New York gambling "king" and took over some Chicago "inter- ests" after the imprisonment of Al
very ttle war talk anywhere in the Capone. Far East.
through
to
the
GRAND PICTURES Mr. Linklater, who has passed Victoria 1 several oc- casims, drew back the curtain from see if there was any real break in the weather. "You know," he
saidi, was disappointed.coming to Vie- aria this morning over not being be Lo see the approach from the water. However. I am hoping the rain will clear before we get far on our way, for I consider the series of land, sky and sea pictures. between Vancouver the very Victorin and grandest I have encountered any- where round the world."
"Even in Scotland?" he was naked. "Even in Scotland," he agreed, The author of many books said he had been combining a holiday, with
in the dust, but in the quiet of my Vancouver ship reporters his stateroom port as he talked,
cently when the 'C.I. liner The Arab is a born story teller. Empress of Russia arrived there. Often in the still blackness of the He recently visited this Colony night, gathered round the camp firma in the course of a six months' tribe, Ackool has junt around the world, the listened with wide open mouth and greater part of which time he eyes like the rest of them, to n story about jinns, or a descendant of the spent in India. Prophet.
Chalting about, India, Mr. Link later stated that the majority of the "Then,” ~ Ackooï explains, "I have people there were very hopeful for got up steamy with gestleulaling arms the success of the new constitution, and many other actions and held them although there were many who criti- spell-bound with the story of my life, elzed it and saw no solution of In. the wonders of mines, of mechanical dia's troubles in the measure. flying birds that cross the of men who dare the Arctic wastes,pore, where Great Britain is making a great naval, air and "And lastly, I tell the old Bible military base, was a revelation story of the woman at the well the traveller, at least what he could
II's
the inbour of gathering material for some other creative works. Asked to tell which of the books he pre- ferred, he
cvidently thought the
answered
task of teaching has been no see of it; while he also stated there question meant which books he con- enky job for Ackooi.
He walks in was considerable activity of a like sidered the best, for he peril of his life.
nature at Hongkong. Once a whole tribe of will dervishrs
quickly, my own" and when asked planned to destroy Ackooi. He was later stated, all was quiet there, the
When he visited Tokio, Mr. Link further to say which one be figured
was the very best, unarmed and the job would have been only evidence remaining of the "re-us
replied, equally as frankly, my hellion" was the barbed wire (1)-
His last literary creation was "God set Likes Them Plain," he stated; and
hid him in their tents,
Inst."
Mistaken
all
women's
col-
"Of all the fool things in the world,"
he declared. "I think women's colleges are the worst.' That was way back in 1922. In 1928 Mr. See was still of the sume opinion. He wrote a book in which were the following lines:
"Because women lack stabi- lity, the vate should be taken from them at once.
"Women should be put out' of all political offices they now hold
"No woman should ever again be elected or appointed."
*
•
The guest list at a dinner in Brooklyn last night makes ing teresting reading.
Identity-tigator for Mayer La Guardia, of
Mistaken Divorce John Handbidge, engineer, asked Supreme Court Justice Levy, sitting
him in-December-be-set aside.
New York, that a divorce granted
He pleaded that he and his three witnesses had mistaken another woman for his wife, a concert planist.
Justice Levy ruled in his favour.
It included Dr. Margaret Bar- nard, of the New York Health Department, Miss Pearl Berstein, secretary to the Estimate Board: Miss Mary Frasco, special inves-
New York: Mrs. Frances Gannon, Deputy Commissioner for Mar- kets; Mrs. Sarah Dennon, of the Works Progress Administration;
Brooklyn Gas Company, Miss Mary Dillon, president of the
The host, and the only man re- sent, was Mr. Alunzo B. Set. He'd changed his mind about women.
When some one asked him about it, he said: "Women change their
mind, why shouldn't I?"
Hollywood Films Held Up
TOLL OF ILLNESS AND ACCIDENT
Los Angeles, Apr. 28.
ILLNESS and accident, for which there is no budgeting in motion picture production, are causing plenty of grief in Hollywood.
Margaret Sullavan's broken arm means further loss to the
But Arab friends of the strange tanglements, which had been Englishman heard of the plot, and around the Imperial Palace, but the two immediately preceding that Paramount concern on the film these did not look formidable at were "Lion and the Unicorn," a "Hotel Imperial," which has al- For a day and a night they fought the time, and people could easily survey of Scottish-English relations, ready cost nearly £200,000.. mndly. Then came release.
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