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Biggest Airplane For Germany
Friedrichshafen, June 1. GERMANY has started
work on an airliner of 6400 horse power for the North Atlantic. air service.
It is being built at the Dornier works at Friedrichshafen, and will, it is claimed, be the largest airplane in the world. It will be known as the DO 20,
11 is a seagame and will be driven by eight. Di sel-type m fors of 800 horse pawér cach.
Hornier's have just completed the DO 18, also destined for the North Atlantic service. Successful trial Bights have already been enrried out. This machine will first be operated on the mail ser-
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 19,
OF
£100,000 Cushion
Paris, May 20. WILLIAM WARREN, known to the police of the world as "Bludger Bill,” king of confidence tricksters, was sentenced, 'to-day at Amiens to five years' imprison. ment for swindling. Thus one of the most picturesque criminals alive goes to jail again.
He was
a
first-class passenger from Australia in the liner Orontes when the French police at Villefranche trapped him. on April 4 and took him to Amiens.
The prosecution alleged to-day that in October last year Warren persuaded a farmer named Dazin! to hand over an envelope containing £709. Later: the farmer found that the notes had been replaced hy sheets of paper,
Bluff, honest-looking William Warcon is an Australian. He de one of the wealthiest crooks in! the world.,
For twenty years he has roamed the world prey- ing on the rich, and he has been in the jails of half a dozen countries. Now he is elderly.
For years Scotland-yard detectives sought him far a series of astonishing frauds in Brlinin. In I he went into a French prison for five years for swimming Sir Walter Cockerline, Hull shipowner. and the French Treasury of £23,000.
Before that he lived in luxury inf London, reputed to have an Iucomel at £20,000 from his finds,
Whenever he died out he sat on
a speélat cunllun brought by hìn chauffeur. Th cushint went everywhere with hkn. He sat on It in his fat. his bead rested on! it at night,
li rentalard the whole of lis wealth. Many times Warren sat on
a fortune of £100,000,
He was afrakt to bank it. He did
not trust the gang of Austration Lerooks whoin he headed. None of
his accompliers guessed the secret of the cushion.
He left London for the Continent in the spring of 1921 and has nat begn hack store. His sudden depar»; tale was caused by a High Court order against him for the return of £15,000 which he obtained from Mr. A. J. Wall, a London merchant.
vice to South Amerien, but will be used on the North Atlantic route when that service is started. -United Press,
SPEAKING IN
CONFIDENCE, HE
MADE THOUSANDS
Paris, June 1.
ONFIDENCE trickster Edward Cavendish, a forty- seven-year-old Australian, arrested last February in the Miramar Bar in Cannes,, was to-day found guilty by Nice Criminal Court of defrauding Mr. Thomas Belcher, a Liverpool cotton merchant, of £5,000, and was sentenced to four years' hard labour.
He was ordered to pay £2,000-all the money that was found In his possession-back to Mr. Belcher.
William Bradley, alleged to have; acted as an accomplice in the fraud. was sentenced by default- to five years' imprisonment. But eves it the police must
·
befor entch him.
Cavendish arrived on the Riviera
at the grinning of this year. He soon became known for his lavish spending and heavy gambling He told his friends he Was successful stockbroker.
so impressed that he readily consented to hand over £5,000 to invest for him. Fortunately, Mr. Belcher mentioned his "investment" to a friend, who at once reported it to the police. Cavendish, already under sus- nicion, was immediately arrested.
OCCA-
French police said he had been convicted on six previous sians in England, Australia, Hol- and and the United States. on charges of robbery and 'swindling. One of his many acquain-¡He had been expelled from France lanen, Mr. Thomas Belcher, was in 1923.
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Mona, Mary, Leota and Roberta, the famous gandruplets, who are students at the Baylor University in Texas. They were photographed when leaving for Ontario where they visited the frinouk Dionne quintuplets.
UNCLE SAM SENDS
GOLD TO "FORT"
Safes That No
Gunman Can
Ever Crack
New York, June 1.
FIFTY armoured trains laden with gold bars will travel across America shortly to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where Uncle Sam's treasure boxes will be housed in an underground safe that cannot be cracked.
The Government vault, seretly built to defy man or nature, is netiring completion.
It looks like a medineval fortrss, but it is more impregn- able than any, fortress. hitherto built by man.
The upper works form a square building surrounded by a balcony which will be manned night and day by armed guards. Beyond this structure is another aquare building, its walls unbroken by window or door.
Beneath the second building is an underground_covern that will hold more treasure than Ali Baba dreamed of.
AUTOMATIC FLOODING
It will be impossible for even 4 super Dillinger to pierce the walls or locks and other peret safe- guards that will protect the na- tion's treasure, but just "F"ense"" some one does kill the guards and open some of the doors, there will
bett Inst-minute safeguard. that will prevent him from renching the gold.
A NEW EARL'S COURT
TO COST £1,250,000
London, May 25. __The_new_Earl's Court Exhibi- | tion building, which is to seat 23,000 people--the largest indoor audience in Europe and to cost £1,250,000, is beginning to rise from its foundations. It is ex- pected to be ready for exhibitions, entertainments, and sports by Christmas Day.
The site presents an extra ordinary picture, with 12 vast cranes, giant concrete mixers, a miniature railway, and sections Two ditches leading to the of the vast ground floor on gold vaults will be automatical-which the concrete is being laid.
Nearly 1,000 men are at work in an ly flooded with tons of water.
area which is almost as large as Tra- As the building nears comple-falgar Square. All the workmen and tion the Post Office is making the materials are British. There are secret plans for the gold armadastructure and one on the subways three contractors engaged on the main to Kentucky. Most of the gold leading to
railway.
will be taken from depositories in New York and Philadelphia; only a trusted few will know when the armoured trains are leaving: every yard of the track will be in- spected for explosives, and dangerous points along the route will be guarded by soldiers ready to shoot any would-be hold-up man on sight.
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San Francisco, June 10. Gazing through the News-0- scope seeking timely topics (and being thankful said contrivance isn't wired for sound) wo find Weckhawken,-yes that's it Weckhawken, NJ-shell shocked and jittery. Residents of the ex- clusive Kingswood section there have complained that blasting on the Jersey approach to the new Midtown tunnel to Manhattan awakened them at night-shot- tered their nerves and the nerves of their dogs and cats. So, the excavation company agreed to | sound a fire siren as a warning that another blast is coming, so they will be prepared for it and, presumably, wont be awakened i by it. The sarcastic suggestion | then was made that a cannon be shot off to give warning that the siren is going to scream as A warning that another blast about to shatter the night.
KANSAS CITY, thieves, apparently unable to find anything loose, toek la stairway from an apartment house here. Thi staircase, according, to Mrs. L. M. Tucker, apartment muta- Ker, contained
steps.
But they were pikers compared with their Polish Brethern. Warsaw dis- patches reveal that the iron bridge over the Ochain, river at Kulno has been stolen. Kutno policò and the town's population thought the thieves who dismantled the bridge were mak- ing repairs, After the entire super- | |structira had been removed and, the workers disappeared, authorities be
gan to investigale,
HERES good news fur the kid
dies. Dr. Carey 1. Melord, New York, reveals in May Factory Management ond Maintenance ma- gazine that people who keep "ren- sonably dirty" during working; hours are safer from skin diseases than those who are clean at all times. He said the dirt was a protection.. As though every youngster didn't know that!
“CIGRAMĄ said a motorist to Pa-,
trolman Chester Krause as he demanded names at a traffic accident. "What?" cried Krise, "Why you-" Then he suddenly stopped blastering the motorist continued, "yes, Seram-Janies Sevan, I live 4771 Clinton Ave,"
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But for names that must sound worse than they look--Two Hopi In- dians in Philadelphia recently applied for license to be married "the white man's way." His name was Kaleetn en Coochwylewa and her's was Tir- zah Naquyumain Alle dla t'm what the clerk wrote down.
Dean I. B. Weiser said he spoiled W. J. Coode, sophomore, not because the student attended class in his shorts, but because his attende was "insubordinate." Goode contended, he wasn't being radical, or dain't even been playing strip poker. "I just I don't like pants," he cluclined. That
happened a Houston, Texas
*
under-
Southbend, Ind.--The s taker made funeral 'ar utrements here for Stephen Vagyen, 55, and bis neighbour, also Stephen Vibya, 53, Both were 1 for three and died in the same hospital ven a few hours of each other. Each survived by a son, Stephen, Jr., andaughter, Elizabeth. They were mot sted.
Hollywood-State board of Equall- zation officials have inf mad Claire Windsor, aerem actress, that before the could obtain a $4 bitte of rum sent her by a Cuban frind the must
The. take out an importers liceme workmen
cost of the licence is $26.
New York.The will Giusseppe Galle filed for probaty party left five cents to each of h' Mron with which to purches a piren of
have dug down to 35 feet.
Features of the new building in clude: A 60ft. roadway encircling the site, with parking places for motor coaches, buses and taxi caba, A double-deck
rope in the hope car park for nearly 2,000 private cars, Subways to the car park, and to three underground railways, with escalators taking visi- tors from Earl's Court Station to the new building. A swimming pool, 200ft. long by 100ft, wide.
strangle himself or had sell said rope."
Music of various kinds, a frequent- ly clanging programme of entertain- ments, and dower beds in the summer the atmosphere which made the pre will, it expected, help to re-emate
war Earl's Court so popular.
Los Angeles-Marina Mopy, .38 year old negro har possesses a bullet-p said that Mrs., Pao climaxed & begr part Warner by firing da ma pom point blank. And she 4. ING ALS
The bullet enterad Windch and finitened against the lis skull, inflicting only a flesh wound,
Warner wasn't even knock out..
- DOCTOR DISCOVERS FIANCEE IS HIS SISTER
WARSAW (Poland), June 1. DR. BORIS KLEINMANN, twenty-seven-year-old brain specialist, of Leningrad, met and fell in love with a beautiful nineteen-year-old girl student, Esther Einzel. They arranged to be married at the end of this week.
To-day an old friend called unexpectedly.
"You will not be able to get married," he said. learned that Esther is your sister,"
Me
Dr. Kleinmann mado Investigations. It was proved that Eather was his baby sister who disappeared nineteen years nuo dur- ing the Russian revolution.. Sho had been found and brought up by strangers. Dr. Kleinmann went home and injected morphla into his body. He died.
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