THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JULY
8,
1936.
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THREE BRITISH MISSIONARIES SLAIN Nomad Brazilian Indians Swoop From Jungle With Poisoned Darts
DRAMA "WHITE
OF
MAN'S
GRAVE"
TERRIFIED VILLAGERS TELL SEARCHERS
OF TRAGEDY
HERE British missionaries llan outpost of civiliantion before the
wild swamp lands.
Muntha passed without them. Then two colleagues,
The volunteered to penc- trate the unknown jungles of Brazil have been ambushed and murdered by savage Indians.
They were:
Mr. Frederick Wright, of Bel- fast:
news of
Mr. Horace Banner, of Warring- ton, Lancashire, and Mr. Jack Johnstone, of Glasgow, set out to find them.
Selling aut from the mission basu Mr. Frederick Dawson, of Aunt Belem they worked up the River trala, and
Xingu, accompanied by native guides the Rio Zinho and and interprefern, the nethermost known village Brazil-Nova Olinda.
Mr. Frederick Roberts, of Aus tralia.
Two young Britons followed their trail into the wilds and flashed news of the deaths to London,
Then their way lay through tropical forests where it is possible to proceed only by boat,
THE SMASHED CANOE
More than a year ago the thren murdered men all meinhers of thr Unevntigelsed Field Mission-van- ished in the junitles, of the Xingu Alter weeks of searching; in fiver beyond Parn, the lost Bruzi-unknown region they discovered a
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FREDDIE Bartholomew, the likely soon to have his present
nushed eanor which they recognised
as mission property,
There was no merage; no evidence the missing
of what ha befallen
evangeliste,
Further
on they discovered a
deserted village. The
Inhabitants had tied hastily. *The hots were undamaged. Thar occupants seemed to have left on the instant in a stalden nie,
VILLAGERS IN FLIGHT
Then commenced the task of trae- ing these fugitives for news of the
nissionaries,
Hanner and lahtistone were sure village had no part in the fate of the
white men store it is the custom of salary of £10,000 a year more these parts to destroy a village ant than doubled, according to Mr.jall clues after a crime, Philip Levey, one of the lawyers i representing his father in the
recent custody proceedings.
The criminals then push out
west and Join the nomads.
So the searchers penetrated deeper
Mr. Lovey added that under the inte the Never Never Land.
They questioned strange tribes
Terms of the tentative agreement unknown to civilization without sue- regarding the custody of the boy, vess, but they were directed on the
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BECOME EMPIRE
NAVY BASE No. 1
SWALD PIROW, short, soft-spoken, dynamic Defence Minister of South Africa has arrived in England to discuss a great Empire naval plan.
With tho power haa
on
Vice-Admiral Sir Edwardar showed how the vital line of Empire communicationa can ba R. G. R. Evans (Evans of menaced by a conflict in or near the Broke) worked out a the Mediterranean
development of air scheme when he was grown a division of opinion commander-in-chief of the the strategic value of Malta and Africa station for making Alexandria as bases. Capetown into a vast naval | base, bigger than Singapore. when most Empire ships voyaging
TRAINING AIR FORCE Mr. Pirow foresees the ma
Mr. Pirow's defensive plans do
Mr. Pirow has gone to discuss to and from the East will use the with British Ministers the de- Cape route. tails of the scheme and the! fifty-fifty division of the cost, not end with a Capetown Singa- which will run into many mil-pore. lions. The plan involves:
ERECT LARGE DOCK
: into
A few weeks before he left South Africa he outlined a scheme including the raising and training within five years of an air force Preliminary work has already consisting of 1,000 pilota and begun of a concurrent plan
3,000 mechanies, the formation of enlarge Capetown Harbour
anti-tank units and general roor- one of the largest in the world,ganisation of the Active Citizen Five hundred nerea are lo 1ın.
Force. reclaimed from Table Buy, and a £5,000,000 graving dock capable of ag the handling ships as large Queen Mary is to be erected.
GATEWAY OF EAST So Capetown may regin her one-time importance as the Gate] way of the East.
The reason? The Abyssinian
"Czar" Of £2,400,000
Racket Convicted
New York, Jure 28.
be placed in a trust fund for him, village fear lie ished cancel PROBABLY the biggest clean-up in the history of New York's "vice ring" has ended with the conviction of "Lucky" Luciane,fi
and the rest
Often ELA will be divided
the smashed
be placed in a trust fund for him, villa Tucky, their way painfully "er" of a racket that yielded some £2,400,000 a year, and eight
through dense jungle, splashing over marshes, and at brief intervals using of his associates.
follows:
Twenty per cent. between his father and mother.
the rivers, the rescuers a few weeks
ago
Luciano WS nicknamed the police the syndicate's lawyera Twenty per cent, for his aunt were seeking.
came up with the tribe they "lucky" because he is one of the immediately put up the necessary and guardian, Miss Millicent | Messes. Banner and Johnstone felt few men ever to have returned bai, which was promptly "jumped."
Bartholomew, out of which she will support and educate him.
Ten per cent, to be set aside to meet income-tax and other) expenses. Reuter
THE "DIRTRACKISTE"
sure the victims were the missing from a gang "ride."
nissionaries, and began their long journey back to the base.
But they are off again searching
of the men they believe to be dead.
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Mr. Dewey declared that Luciano was. "over-lord" af 500 to 1,000 whose earnings reached a woron The youthful Special Prosecutor, total of £7,000 a night.
Sentences on the gang will be pro- Mr. Thomas Dewey, was appointed
two counts.
LOVE!-
in the hope of finding the full story last June to undertake the elcan-nounced on June 18. Luciano faces up, and a series of raids collected a maximum sentence of 1,240 years, more than sixty witnesses, who as he was found guilty on all of sixty: were held in custody pending the MrG.-Byrnell,-secretary of the arrest of the "big shot." mission in London, suld;
Luciano was traced to Florida, Paris, June 21,
a brief "We have only received The French have adopted, and cable, setting forth the bare facts, in thence to Arkansas, where he was
English
sporting London. We are reluctantly led to arrested on April 1. After vigorous he wan adapted, many terms, such as "Le Tennis" and "Lebelleve that they are dead-murdered resistance by his lawyers
finally brought back to New York, Tennisman," "Le Football," "Le Re- by a remote native tribe last spring."
· of blo Three
co-defendants cardman," "Le Jockey," and "Le Turf,"
pleaded guilty and turned State one"
evidence. Mr. Dewey sent into the witness-box woman after woman who told how the leaders of the vice syndicate exacted £2 a week from each of them for "protection."
Now
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"They will then send a detailed
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report
"Poor Wright's mother is, heart- broken."
Mr. Roberts was senior member of the party. He had engaged in mis- slenary work among the natives in Brazil for the past ten years.
Those who refused to pay were benten up by a strong arm squad." When wonen fell into the hands of
Even the Fowls Have
A Social
Hierarchy
STRICTER THAN STATE PROTOCOL,
Hollywood, July 1, "Miss West," the reporter be- | gan seriously, "how about some advice on love?"
Mac Buys she's never been- married, and the request startled her.
"Advice on what?" she asked. "Love," he repeated, love- pare and simple."
"Surry," she said with a twist, about "don't know anything either kind."
Then, solemnly: "However, my five-star specials are always
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FOR WOMEN
1. Stay young .. even If you have
to change the birth dates In the family facelifted if
BUT SCIENCE DOESN'T KNOW WHY Bible. Have your
Chicago, July 1.
Patient observation of barnyard fowl at the University of Chicago has revealed that social distinctions are drawn more finely amang chickens than on any ambassadorial dining list.
necessary; It's easier to lift a sagging chin than it is to lift the mortgage
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2. Be a pal. If you don't play with them, they'll start playing around!" with others.
3. Don't diet. Curves may be dangerous on the highways, but they
hurt a woman never
much.
but not too Too much love is like too
FOR MEN
much cake.
Dr. Wander C. Allee, expert on remains steadily dominant until by.a
4. Play dumb. Just dumb enough animal "sociology," planning to in-battle their positions are reversed. vestigate factors which account for He also says that whenever two birds to make a man think he's smart. It | existence of a "social hierarchy" of one species are together, one is a southes his vanity.
among chickens
despot and the other subservient: 3. Love them Prof. Schjelderup-Ebbe of Norway, He holds this despotism is one of the first noted that one bird in a flock fundamental principles of biology.
Studies have shown that the order becomes a despot, 'nnid that there is al definite order in which birda higher is more rigid among females than In rank "browbeat" Interiors.
umong males. A flock of 19 pullats Dr. Allas and his assistants hope to was observed two hours a day for 60 explain these distinctions by experi- days, and a strong and stable social ments in which diet, hormone balance, organisation" was found to exist. colour and characteristics of individual birds will be varied and, their effect
on social alatus studled. At present
VANQUISHED LOSES CASTE
An order of peck-dominance was
1. Mako every woman love you sea but don't love every woman. When the girl learns you're in demand, she'll take you just to keep the other dames from getting you.
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have enough dresses to clothe an 1890 Among fowl neck rights" and over a 70-day period, but organisation chorus. Tell them once in a white "peck dominance" mark the social here seemed less stable. There were that, you realize she must be tired distinctions. The animal highest in several reversals of order during the and ought to eat ont-even if she has the order pecks every other bird in period. An individual who ranked the flock and is peeked by none of second was injured in a fight. After con sitting around playing "bridge treatment he was returned to the pen and immediately became the lowest and was so badly persecated that he had to be removed permanently from
shem.
FOOD RIGHTS EXIST
all afternoon.
3. Don't be tight-with money or klases.
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much.
The lowest is peeked by every other bird and peeks none. In this order, the pen to save his life. rights to food and other advantages Fourteen White King pigeons studi- attention. are obtained. In exceptional cases, el showed more democracy" obtained
the normal leader of the flock. Prof. Schjelderup-Ebbe
15. Don't llo to them ·
rebel birds Jinve defied and dominated among them than chickens, Social Tell the truth if it hurts, but don't order developed after a period, but brulse yourself badly. Sometimes a declares absolute despotism was lacking and little Bo will, preyent a women from that throughout the order of the flock; frequent, although temporary, rever- siretching into a big bugaboos
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