THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 27. 1936.
Love Potions Girl In Court Scene
PHILTRES DID NOT AID ROMANCE
Paris, June 15.
STORMY scenes and astonishing accusations marked
the confrontation in the Palais de Justice to-day of beautiful Miss Baby Siegfried Knudsen, the Danish blonde, and Mme. Maryse de Tanis, the well-known Paris fortune teller, who are the principals in the "love philtres" case.
This was the first time that Miss Knudsen-who is 25 and. was born in Manchester-and Mme. de Tanis, from whom she is claiming between £14,000 and £15,000 on the allegation that the money was extraced from her in exchange for "love philtres" und "magle potions," had met since the case opened.
There was high drama in the blenk setting of the magistrates' room when Miss Knudsen cried:
"Kou sold me sachets of 'charm ́powder at £40 a time to retain The love of Baran Jean Enipain. and aachels of 'silver powder' so that I should have plenty of money. I have lost the love of the baron und 1 have given you a for- tune of no less than £20,000."
MME. DE TANIS'S DENIAL
Miss Knudsen, tall, stim, and exquisitely dressed in a silver fax cape, o gleaming black frock or- mantented with gold at the waist, and o widchrimuned black hat perchéd on - her fair curls, was a picture of Jave-
ty. Indignation, as she faced Mino de Tunis, an exotle #gure, with her unruly red hair and long Black velvet gown, sweeping the ground,
Strikes - are not usunt, in Japan, More unusual in this case is that it is The women who are striking. Eicture shows a striking waitress urging her companions in a Tokyo restaurant to Come out on strike.
This Astronomer Says-
"You never pald ITC £20,000-
nothing like it-only £2,500, and I never cold you inngle powders or promised to keep the Baron's love."{ cried Mme. de Tunis,
It
“You my you gave me £12,700 to į send to another clairvoynat named]
A new secret organization on the Jeanne at Nantes. Look at this linex of the Ku Klux King was recent- Jeiter. In it you write to say that ly unveiled in the United States. you are paying me back £2.700 is the "Black Legion" and its mem- which you borrowed to pay your bers wear Napoleon hats, masks and bills for dresses and hats and lingerie,"
You lettled that feller to me [yourself--you know you did,” retorted
Miss Knudsen, her blue eyes blazing.! "I told you that I was being paid i £2,700 in insurance for a jewel that g
had lost.
"I certainly wrote that letter, bauti jonly because you threatened' that. If! I did not I should have bad fortune on a visit I was taking America. I was completely under your powert
"Nonsense," enculuted Mine, de Tanis.
"Yes, and you said that must pay £235 for every consultation with this sorceress at Nantes," continued Miss ¡¡£nudsen,
"You snil that she had taught you i ter become a clairvoyant she was your professor--and that you had to go to her for help in so important a, case as mine,"
'There
was an amusing
skulls and crosstones.
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Boom in Brain - Teasers: Two and Two Make Five
By Puzzlesmith
TRAST BR OVFOUEL PNELQFF
The wide variety of puzzles ap- pearing on the printed page—even mechanical puzzles and the jig-
Even ists of words of a certain BOWB once so popular-offered ainssification are introduced in our convincing evidence of the fact radio puzzle programme na "warming- that puzzles are popular in most exercises. Such dists might, at first thought seem very simple, but walks of life. Now the puzzle with the stop-watch timed on, you has come over the radio in how many different varieties of trees, America: over the radio it for example, could you name in tist
ne minute? Reatly, io! presents a puzzle in itself.
One lad, a member of a juntos Puzzles for the eye are one thing; high school group, recently listed 15 for the agile fingers of the mechanical different trees in just one minute puzzle enthusiast, another. But for one every four seconds! Certainly an the car-sight unseen-ahi, there was excellent record. "Asited to read his ja puzzle, indeed: Perhaps when tele list, he began: "Apple, pear, peach, vision becomes world-wide the prob- plum, cherry: orange, lemon—," lem will be more simple. But mean- Good work "Aw-his father # while the ether-wave muzzle must fruit peddler " grumbled a runner- devise methods for puzzles that can up. Maybe sal" But the lad was be quickly understood with paper anni | keeping alert Just the same. pencli alone.
ofl
The Cryptogram-aristocrat A FEW TRANSLATIONS
puzzles-bas proved extremely popu- lar during the last few years. But Deletions and transdeleflons-tho here, amin, the phonette similarity of reducing of a word, such as "Start- | certain letters, when given out over ling." by one letter at a time, yet the radio, presented further perplex- atways forming a proper word with ing puzzle. The letters E, D,,P, C. or the remaining letters-und them-1, sounded so
much alike, selves to radio use. Like to continue especially when slightly distorted 'over with "Startling"? Well, next would the air, that it was found to be next come "Starting. "How almut finishing to impossible to present them without I right now? And if you'd like an-
resorting to the use of word symbols. other along the same lines, try it with Such symbols are frequently uped by the word "Emigrants." All together telephone and telegraph operaturs having occasion to spell a word: A. Adarn: B. Boston; C. Charles; and no The well-known letter changing on. While this method was plausible puzzles, known to many as Ladder over the air, it meant for confusion. grams, become ladder-elimbing exer Finally a member of the American cises. For example, try changing Cryptogram Association suggested the DULL to KEEN in live moves, by use of numbers as the substitutes for changing only one letter
And a time, and the litera in a cryptic message. forming a proper word cach time. so, over the air, cryptograms are now And turning our attention to exercise, presented in the following manner:
now
let us turn from FORE to REAR In
the same manner in six moves. Get-15-14-7 3-4 2-4 5-6-7 15-7-16-3-2-17 Ling on là Finn!
2-18 19-3-5-5-7-9-13-7-10-13 14-4- 17-7-46 5-0-7 17-315-7-20-5-3-2-1 Transpositions--mlug, for example, | 2-18 13-14-21-21-10-7-13-8-3-5-9. The letters A, E, L., S. and T, to form As is usual with cryptograms, zuch
Terent 5-letter words fean you letter of the message is representer, to it? --become radio juggling exer-throught by the same number. vises. For a particularly difficult Jug- should not be too diffleult for even
beginner. ofing exercise. y frangosing the
to form three other 14-letter words,
Miami, Florida, June 20.
LIMAXING a romance of the sort of which shop girls dream, William B. IN LOVE WITH COUNSELI Leeds, scion of
moment America's wealthiest fami- when Mine, de Tauts turned to Maitre lies, and his bride, the former
Olive Hamilton, famous enunset in Paris, who, wat Miss Maitre Tonger, was appearing on bedaughter of the unemployed, are honeymgoning aboard "Do you know." said the lair the tinplate king's yacht in voyant, with a dazzling sinile, "hat
glamorous Caribbean En m clients-ne. 80-have the arked me to brip them to retain after a romantic wedding at the love of Maitre Torres?"
Robert Torres. KETE
half of Mish Knudsen,
the most
sca.
n
Maitre Torres, a middle-aged man The bridegroom is well known with `a trial sense of humour, broke in the Far East where he visited into laughter, and, taning to Mat
the round-the-world Tanger, remarked. If it were half-during
a-dozen
but 60 or 30, no!" flight of the Graf Zeppelin and Examining Magistrate, M. on many other occasions. The Inparre, k Mme de Tanis to bride is the 24 year old daugh- produce papers showing how muchter of William Hamilton, un- Miss Kundsen and other clients had | paid her. She was unable to finish employed Pittsburg steel worker. à number of documents" he wished to Leeds was divorced in 1930 by the |sec.
former Princess Xenia of Russia, His mother wag the former Princess Anastasia of Greece.
"We must look mio this furthe," gold__ M. Laparre. "I will instruct the Examining Magistrate at Nantes to see this Jeanne and find out what she says about it all, And I would Hike to: see some of your clients, aime 'de Tanis,"
SUN IS ONLY 4,000
MILES DISTANT
Los Angeles, June 20.
surface of the bubble delleria mys of the sun, moon and stars, making them
A 60-year old watchmaker appear where they aren't.
with a penchant for Ballmer said proof of the im amateur astronomy, has possibility of nccepted astronomien! in observations of issued a challenge to the en-theories" les
Polaris, the North star. According tire scientific world to prove to accepted theories, observers at the that the earth revolves Norta Pole (upper culmination), the equutor (lower culmination) nud est around the sun.
and west elongation would observe Polaris at different degrees of dis- tance.
The challenger, Daniel Ball- mer, a former farmer from
In order to establish the locution Gothenburg, Neb., said he had
of the North Star at fts supposed worked 20 years trying to dope distance from the earth, he said, un it out, and has come to the con- obrerver would have to perch out in clusion that Copernicus, who set ce 324,268,300 miles from
Equator. the standard for modern as- .tronomy 400 years ago, was all)
wrong.
the
Bolling it down into words of one syllable, Ballmer said he will go-to- work for a year, for anybody who eah draw a map or produce a model To make his bargain binding of the Universe, showing Polaris in Ballmer offered to put himself on a spot which can be neen at the the block--a year's free service samo naglo from all points of ob- to any scientist who can answer servation with mathematical accuracy his Polaris to he objection to the Copernican theory.
the records Indicale
Leeds announced the wedding in a radiogram to short. The ceremony was performed aboard his yacht, Moana, by Captain John B. Fox, and witnessed by members of the CHAY.
uro-
letters in the word "REÏÏUCTIONS"
King's Move puzzles afford many
| opportunities for the up, down, right, left, or diagota) moves, Start at any
THE ANSWERS
Startline Starting Staring. String. Silge, S. Site. In.
Eulerants Mlerates, Mirag
Invigér. time, Ming, Bim, Em,
Fore, Ford, Pede Real. finch
otter, ant move in any direction, one mail, Twill, Fell, Ford, Kerl, Kien. letter at a time, and see if you can all out the names of 14 kinds of
furnitu
TIDRA WU YNTOOKES SAVBCUS SE EHAJ
Bike, Blate, Steal, Leini, Tizlen, Trala, Tarts, - Terein, Betal, Intre,,
Diserunter, Introduces. Holinerátut.
Hint, Choni, Chate, Browser, Table, Ward- rube, Vaatty, huffel, Set, Desk, Haakenan, Couch, Davenport, Sofa.
Tune in on the perk of-wit-travers under the direction of Puzzlewn
NEW CONSTITUTION
FOR IRELAND
Surprise by De Valera as
Senate Is Abolished-
A new constitution for the Continuing, Mr. de Valera said that Irish Free State is to be in-he did not believe there was a mind in the House that was not made up troduced in the autumn.
regarding the motion.
The oily story possible is both are very happy," Leeds radioed.
Leeds and his bride met under circumstances that undo the
Mr. de Valéra, President of of a courtship_cany,
the LF.S. Executive, made that Miss Hamilton, then 19, rowed surprising announcement when out front a small bont dock at Atlunin a crowded Dail at Dublin he tic City one day live months after Princess Xenis divorced Leeds, to sounded the death knell of the view at close range the luxurips of a Senate. millionaire's yacht. Afinssing motorboat awzanped the rowboat. Leeds dived from his yucht and arved her.
Ife moved that the Senate, huvingi failed to pass the Bill for its own abolition, sent to it from the Dail, the Bill be now deemed to have passed
The Government, said Mr de Valera, regarded the Senate as not a help but a danger.
The courtship began then and had continued for six years, Miss Humil-both Houses. Lon had lived the last few yeats in New York. Friends of the couple the had expected the wedding, but
· dute young couple refused to set a when they sailed, frum Miami.
Informalities of th wedding were streng contrast to the triple ceremony when Leeds married the Russian princess. They were rid first in a civil ceremony 'in the Mayor's house, then in the American Episcopal Church, and then with all The panoply of the Greek Orthodox church's, ritual for royaltyUnited Press
mar-
"IF WORTH HAVING" Then came his dramatic declaration. "In the autumn," he said, "I hope to introduce here in this House # measure outlining a new constitution, but whether that constitution will be based on the principle of single Chamber or two Chambers will depend on whether it is possible to devise a second Chamber worth having."
Won Victoria Cross Half-a-Century
COLONEL SIR PERCIVAL *LENS AROUND EARTH..
un
"After a careful check of funda- 20 YEARS TO "PROVE"
of mental laws
mangnglism, or electrical energy, refraction, redee Ballier produced charts and sets tion, deflection, prismatic effect and of figures which he has worked out semi-conjugate foen! power, I have in the last 20 years, and which he
come to the costelusion there in Elaims will "prove" that not only the atmospheric dens around the earth?". nun but the entire heavenly system he said. revolves around, the earth.
"And also have come to the In addition, he said, he will show conclusion the distance to the North that the North star is unly 8,000 Star in approximately 8,000 miles, the miles away from the earth-instead Sun 4,000 miles, the Moon less than of 2,565,024,030,200,000 miles away,
2,000 miles. natronomers clan,
Also, the earth does not travel in an orbit and the sin travels around Also, the sun would be within a the earth in the same manner as the non-stop airline flight from the noon.
-earth, according to Ballmer, (about "I feel I can convince any scienti
4,000 miles) and a good golfer stand-fice minded person that understands Ing, on Mount Everest ought to be the above mentioned Inws that my ubid to drive to the nicon.
contention is correct. I welcome n honest Investigation and stand rendy The trick in an "astronomieal to mako. tests, providing necessary. lense" which' he says encircles the Inaness are, arranged for---United earth like an Invisible tubble, The Press,
home at Stroud, Gloucester, this month. He was 75.
Ago
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Mr. James Dillon, of the Cosgrave Party, son of the late Jahn Dillon, M.P, interjected to any that he hoped the Leader of the Labour Party would appreciate that remark.
NO CHECK NOW
The President of the Executive went on to say that
he was endeavouring to find a plan for a suitable Second Chamber, but one were needed the duty lay on those who wanted it to show how it could be devised.
It ought to be possible to devise u plan if it were found necessary.
Professor O'Sullivan, former Minis ter for Efucation in the Cosgrave motion, Government, opposing the said that the Bill was introduced in a fit of pique because the Senate had stood up for the rights of the citizens, There would now be ho check on the Government.
Mr. Frank. McDermott (Fine Gael) said that he wanted to know If the new constitutian would be introduced before the people had an opportunity of pronouncing upon it at a General Election.
ALL-PARTY COMMISSION?
"I think the time lan ROW come when we can, as for ax Internal affairs and the internal machinery are concerned, cry- stallize the Constitutional position Into something... permanent." Bald Mr. de Valera.
to
It had been suggested that they. should.commult some Commission "When I was in those battles," he this end and that the Executive Com- MARLING, V.C., died at his sald on his return to his homo inmittee, having examined the result of Stroud, I never thought I would re-the Commission's findings, the malter turn some fifty years later to the could be dealt with by way of referen places in the comfort of a motorcar dum. His last illness is believed to and with whisky and soda to drink
Instead of water which had been car have been contracted during aried in goat-skins for days," visit.to South America.
Sir Perciva! was a member of t Sir Percival won the Victoria force of 1,500 belonging to the expedi
tion sent in 1884 to the relief of Cross 52 years ago for saving the General Gordon in Khartuin, which life of a wounded private soldier was attacked by the Maldi's 5,000 at the Battle of Tamai In the followers.
The little force fought its way Suakin Expedition..
Ile lifted the soldier on his through and reached the Nile near Parties in working out our fundamen horse but the man fell off. Sir Khartum just too late to save Gordon. tal law, and I am glad the question Sir Percival first saw fighting in has been raised by the Opposition Percival, then Lieut. Marling, dis- South Africa in 1880. Years later he and not by the Government." mounted, put the man in the took part in the defence of Ladysmith He added that he would consult his saddle, and hold him there, during the war of 1890-1902,
colleagues on the proposal, and he From 1914 to 1916 ho served on hoped members of the House, who the headquarters staff, Indian Army would be asked to serve on the cam- Corps in France, and was Invalided|mittee would give their fullest. -- co-
operation.
Sir Percival's action was per- formed in the face of the ad- vancing enemy,
Abbat half a contury Inter he wont to Egypt and the Sudan ón a visit to the battlefields where, he had fought, Including that of Tamal.
home.
He and retired from the Army In 1910 following injuries received when la horas fell on him, but in 1914 he volunteered for netiró service.
The time has come to associate all
On a division the motion for the abolition of the Senate was carried by 74 votes to 52.
"IF the people who use our carn every day are not praising them, it matters little what 100 may Ray. The last word must be spoken by the car. itself, and the owner who tells his next-door neighbour how his gür.behaves in actual service is the only effective advertiser."
incoln ephyr
Henry Ford
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