THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1936.
4,000 ARABS KILLED IN IRAQ REVOLT
Tribe Marooned By Floods Wiped
Floods Wiped Out From The Air
ASTOR CASE AT
NIGHT COURT
TO SUIT STARS
Los Angeles, Aug. 21.
AIRMAN HACKED TO DEATH
FOUR THOUSAND Arabs
have lost. their lives.
That No-Child
Vogue Is Going
(By GRACE WILSON) Hollywood celebrities packed the Court here to-day when in a revolt in the desert. D Britain is having more babies, I was told at Somerset
BRITAIN needs more babies, says the Government. Miss Mary Astor. the film actress, continued her fight for the The revolt broke out in May House.. custody of her four-year-old daughter Marylyn. !
The Court held a special night session, thus giving fin elars an opportunity to attend.
Mutual accusations were the main features of the evidence to-day.
in the Middle Euphrates During the first three months of this year, the latest period region-but the news of it for which official figures are available, 2,843 more births were
Dr. Franklin Thorpe, Mise Astor's former hushand, was given the has only just reached Da-recorded than for the same period last year.
custody of the child hit year, but he allowed her to stay with her mother. He said he hoped that Marylyn would he ta pored influence."
RELATIONS
WITH NURSES
Ile now accurra Mir Astor of ben Ing a person of "grees and immoral conduct."
Miss Astor's counsel questioner Dr. Thorpe regarding his relations,
Priest Invents
Submarine
with nurses who attended the child. Detector
Attempts to prove that Dr. Thorpe: was already married when he became, Mina Astor's hustont have been un-j successful.
A revolutionary
Home, Aut. 20,
discovery in the
field of short wave is claimed by a) It is rumored that prominent firm | pubes, Pathe Strattest, who' is an! officials--fearing that the ear mayendent setentat, lend strength to the recent charge?
The Invention to enl
mascus,
Five hundred Iraqi troops Coronation
also lost their lives, and two! Iraq Air Force bombers were
'brought down by tribesmen.
Claims That
and their pilots and crews ¦ May Be
killed.
Conceded
One officer who jumped with a parachute from his blazing plane was harked to death with daggers
The Court of Clain, which i to when he reached the ground, and
render ser- bombs exploded in the other buru-steal with applirailem 16
by the Vatican, alleging “Inmorat; analyser anul in stated to be a wire-h Influence from Hellywood--are dos detection-red which reveals the Why They Rebelled
ing their utmost to zeltle the action, prevents under sea of ulnarines or
Who Is
Mary Astor's George?
New York, Aug. 25. TTOLLYWOOD is agog'
H
to learn who is Miss Mary Astor's "George.' Her former husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe-who secks in i a Los Angeles enurt to prove that the film star is not n fit person to have charge of their child, Marylyn, aged 4-bas stated that Miss Astor's asse- ciations with "George" are chronicled in her diary.
"George," he has stated, is “a -married--man--of-whon-she is i
enamoured."
Mr. Joseph Andersan, Dr. Thorpe's ; lawyer, hints that the revelations in the case so far are nothing to those coming..
He talke mysteriously of six famous lovers of the screen being called to give evidence and de- i clared, “I cannot make their names i publie now, hut, believe me, when ; 1 de dat will be a bombshell.”
While the family reunion was being held Dr. Thorpe presented the court; with another affidavit, charging Maİ Astór with fratid in connection withį the present suit.
"TO HEAR PLENTY" Mise. Astor's lawyers intend to fighļ| any effort to get her diary into the
-court records.
wrecks,
The device in worked entirely by wireless waves,
It includes a wheel with severati "legs." This wheel is submerged.| and one of the legs makes convul- sive movemenis when an object has been found.
This invention is sakī to be valu- ! able for salvage work and in times of war. By its ald the priest, It is gabt, has found petroleum deposits. In
Tuscuny.
Senatore Marcon), whom he visited yesterday, expressed grent interest in the invention,
GETS ALLOWANCE
Mrs. Gladys Luckenbach, who asked $1000 monthly allowance for herself and child, was award- ed $250 a month, pending trial of her divorce suit against Lewis Luckenbach, San Francisco, vice- president of the Luckenbach shipping firm,
Cruiser
However, Juche Knight suggest Takes Mail
Just week that if he failed to per- suade the Couple to settle the case out of court he would have to hear: evidence based on the niness of either parent to take cure of Marylyn, The outlook now is, ts one of the lawyers sald, that "Hollywood will deur plenty."
Miss Astor, Dr. Thorpe, and ttte Marylyn took part to-day in dramatic reunion at the film star's home.
It was staged by Judge Knight in an attempt to solve the case.
Bul. Marylyn's Innocent prattle in the setting of her luxurious Holly- wood home falled either to solve the Judge's - problem or to bring reconciliation to her parents, Miss Astor has alleged that her former husband. Was "tyrant father,"
ง
To Two
Hermits
Auckland (N.Z.), Aug. 31.
The Dghting Inted six
on:..
power,
weeks,
Shells wanted to have
incipation liken Abdul! Wald Sukar, who rebelled in 1935 and was thus rewarded:
They did mat want their soum to be conscriptsy
ing machine, blowing to atoms its vieng at the Coronation next year, is not likely to be troubled with many pilot and observer,
submissions of controversial nature. į At de 1910-1) Cronation twenty- three claim. involving twenty-six claimants, winge auntled to the
or that nunter twenty
'གཇ ས ཝ ཙཀཎྛཱཎ ཏ Five entisen are FINen for the rebel- [~Werdi, two were auferred to the Executive Committee and afterwords disallowed, and two were refused.
which, it is Among the claims understood, will be made and which will not be contested, are those of the Bishops of Durhamn und of Bath aud Wells to support his Majesty and to have certain privileges," They asked for religious liberty: on all previous occasions when these elaims have been submitted, they Humour had spread among them will
undoubtedly he conceded without that their women were to be made to wear
hats and to dress like tion, for the duties of the two appellant bishops are laid down in Europeans.
the taber Regalus, at the Coronation Ministers out of office are kniven of Richard 11. That record is now
scen at W. The to be
Westminster Abbey. · to have instigated the revolt
The application of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster to instruct the King at the rites and ceremonies" is also unlikely in be contested.
They did i want to pay land
taxes:
| Dawalim tribe worn chfelly concern."
ed.
They begin operations by remov- Ing railway sleepers, and paralysing the service between Bagdad ani! Hasra, They then strategic position similar to that of the British when they advanced on
the Turks in 1917,
tok
For several days tribes and troupes sent against them just watched one fanother. Then the Iraqi soldiers earried out an encircling movement and surrounded them.
Tribe Bombed
In an effort to break through, the tribosunen openest fire. The troops replied with machine-guns, and two thousand rebels were left dead on the battlefield.
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Other claims which will fall in the uncontested category are:
The Earl of Shrewsbury-To carry white wind an Lord High Steward of Ireland
The Walker Trustees-To be present, by deputy, by virtue of the office of Hereditary Usher White Bod of Scotland.
of the
In thousands of homes all over Britain, in Mayfair, Paradise-row, and entry coltage, babies are ex- pected this year or early in the priti.
waiting to
The only chitd welcome a brother or sister.
Th only-child vogue, the no-child vogue of the smart set his gone.
In fact many more babies are expected that as one London general practitioner told me--decors anti- (cipating maternity cases are having Sto curta on eancel their holidays,
Colonel O. C. Wyman. Stock- ton, Calif., appointed to Call- fornia's new position of state administrator of pablle welfare.
"Claudius" To Be
Filmed
Mr. Henry Serymgeour-Wedder- MR. A. KORDA'S BIGGEST bura--To carry the Royal Standard of Scotland, as Hereditary Standard Hearer for Scotland.
VENTURE
By A Film Correspondent The Barons of the Cinque Ports-
The most ambitious film in the To bear the canopy over the King of alternatively to be assigned a station history of British production-cover- within the Abbey in attendance oning the vast canvas of the Roman the King.
The Lord Mayor of London-Tu attend and bear the Crystal Mace,
The Euri-of-Frroll-T6 attend us Lord High Constable of Scotland, und to have a baton.
The trouble moved further south. The tribes people,le prevent the advance of troops, breached the swollen Euphrates, surrounding with water the elevated ground on which they stand, near Rumanita. Lord Great Chamberlain, to which The Marquess of Cholmondeley (us It was a had move; the entire tribe was wiped out by Iraq Air office he has succeeded in this reign) the duties of Lord
-To
Force planes, which rained hun- 16 perberlin.
dreds of bombs on them.
Great
In addition to attendance of the The Arabs tried to carry out a ceremony the Lord Great Chamber surprise, attack on Diwaniyah by lain also formally claims 40 ells of night. But they were betrayed crimson velvet and 73 seats in the When they arrived they were met Abbey. He was successful on the last by machine-gun fire, and next morn-occasion in securing the elts of ing the field, was littered with dead. velvet, but the seats claim was dis-
Finally Sheik Shilan Altiyah rebelled. His fort was stormed, his men surrentiered, and he fed.
allowed.
The Minister of the interior. Sayid Nude Swimmers Along
Halid All et Gailani, was on the seeive throughout the revolt. A good deal of money had to be given to the heiks from the secret funds of the Treasury before they would submit ito the authorities.
MIE 4500-tun cruiser Dunedin has will be trained on military lines, und
Rio Grande Irk U.
Empire from Caligula to Negro-will start at Denham Studios next month,
It will, I learn, be Alexander Korda's
farewell gesture before retiring In- definitely from films direction,
The first, details to be made public were Korda, Alr. Vincent Korda, who is about this rent undertaking given.
by Mr. Alexander designing the settings, and Mr. Joha Armstrong, who is engaged in search on the costumes.
The film will probably be made in two parts, each of full length, This experiment is being considered as t is felt that the field is too great for a single film to cover. The two parts may be shown on alternate days, or the second part may be released as a segue a few weeks after the first,
It is based the novels, "I, Clau dins" and "Chatlus the God, by Robert Graves, and the parts will be Charles known by these names. S.ghton is to play Claudius, Merle Oberon Mesgafina, while Hugh Williams and Flora Robson are tenta tively cast as Caligula and Livia,
"MY GREATEST”
"I think it will be the greatest
Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 30. Nudists are giving US. Border Patrolmen no end of trouble along There is talk now of abolishing the the Rio Grande. feuriat system among the tribes. I The patrolmen frequently "b" thing I have ever handled," Mr. Ale- it is carried out, sheiks will be plain naked men on the banks of the river,xander Karda, famous as the director Leitizens, with no anen unler their Recently T. E. Phillips, a border of "The Private Life of Henry VIII." "The story intensely cominand.
patrolman, arrested two men, both snid.
3 treat A gendarmerie corps, several thou- nude, and then was faced with the dramatic, and there is
paralle! between
the conditions sands strong, is being formed. It prablem of bringing them to town.
The men had stripped Lo swim of the times then and now: on the river with stolen goods one hand, dictators; on the other, the demands of the masses. I shall be United Press.
too busy producing to do any more direction after 'Claudius,' anyway for a long time. I will not say that I shall never direct again.
The period the film will cover is from the events preceding the muur- der of Caligula to the end of the Brjunic Wars, about 10 years."
In marked contrast to some Ameri- can reconstructions of the period, the settings will be charneterised by ex- treme simplicity. "A false ides has
visited Sunday Island to deliver will be stationed in remote districts the mail to two men who are living on to enforce law and order. the island as hermits.
As the cruiser was about to set out on her annual cruise to the in- nude, Mr. Robinson, mother of one of the two men, asked Commodore the Hon. E. R. Drammond to call at Sunday Teland and deliver letters to her son, Bruce Robinson, mul his com- panion. Roger Bacon, bath of Auck- land.
The Commodore consented and pro- mised to anchor of the island for a
-
'I'II Make Supermen' -Scientist's Claim
night so that the men would have "GIVE me a team of Third Division professional footballers and in All Marylyn would say to-day, every chance of seeing the warship.
arisen as to the size of many Roman
buildings," Mr. Vincent Korda said.
three seasons I can put that club in the First League, capable Circus then in ise was only 210
however, was: "I love mummy of the island every eye on board was
When the cruiser dropped. anchor of holding its own with Britain's best." siralned to entch a glimpse of the
I love Daddy.
11
When Dr. Thorpe arrived Marylyn
These words were said to me yesterday, writes a London two hermits, After a few short Press reporter, not by a brilliant sporting manager-but by a ran to him, crying: "Daddy, a blasts on the siren, two figures were grave scientist who knew no more about Soccer than that it is a gind to see you.",
"Look,
mummy.
seen running down to the beach.
she uddled, "there's
whaler was manned and the game played by 22 men. pair were taken on board the war-
And the secret of his claim is
Scientista
worked In have
GLANDS.
"In this co-ordination
of
feet long, and there was no open place in Rome as large as Piccadilly Circus or street as wide as Regent street. There will be one or two big sets, such as the Circus and part of the Forum, but we are not concentra ting on magnificence, but telling our atory in simple, beautiful and authen two tic interiors. I plan simple back- grounds of subdued tones which will show up the beautiful tegas of the crowds,"
-
But her father drew the child to a ship. One was clad in single, shortsj sand heap, where she played at and an old straw hat. The other making mud-pica. Her beautiful man, with a huge crap of hair and a British biological laboratory, spending giants lies the secret of the sports mother strolled up and remarked long ginger beard, wore only a pair more than £60,000 in seven years of superman." that she was unable to get enough of shorts.
gland research.
Workers st the laboratory lave oven a plan by which
toya for Marylyn's sand heap. Dr. "It's all right hoys, Pm civilised," | Thorpe said nothing.
he called as he senleil a ladder up the} They have now discovered that Jack Petersen, might regaln Marylyn, followed by her parents; side of the ship.
glands have everything to do with look newspapermen 10 Бее her The men were taken' to dinner, in the difference between the man who) nursery, painted yellow and white. the officers' quarters and later is "just good at
A
sport" ahoro party was arranged.
sports stars. The two men on the land went
the and
:
PLAN FOR PETERSEN
the of
allow hils
Intensive research into the hun- dreds of forms taken by the torn has been carried on by Mr. Armstrong. "The toga was a strip of cloth vary. ing in length from 18 to 30 feet an of various widths. We are having
for Great Britain the heavy- weight championship world, The child's self-confidence madei
"If Petersen would Mas Astor remark with a smile, there in the middle
doctor to administer a short course cloth specially woven and with the ap of last year. "Little lady. I don't think you are There were originally three in
of Injections after special connulla-propriate red or purple border, be- golux to grow up to be a moyle party, but one returned to Auck-athlete must have perfect synchroni- his ability to attain world cham-
"Everyone knows that the perfect tion, there would be little doubt of cause if there is a seam it will not
hang correctly...
"The breast-plates were of - singu star," Dr. Thorpe frowned,
land. When he left the house Marylyn)
sation between mind and muscle," he plonship.
lar, beauty, and we are copying them Mr. Bacon first lived on Sunday sold. That is to say, synchronisa- *There la no such thing as stale-from copper-plates made during the waved her hand, calling. "Come and Island about 10 years age with his tion between the pituitary and the ness among sportsmen submitted to Classical Revival in the Eighteentit see us soon, Daddy,”
parents.-Reuter..
Adrenal glands
Hormone therapy," he added...
Century."
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TO-MORROW
AT THE
QUEEN'S
TWO BIG FEATURES IN ONE PROGRAMME!
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Crosby's pretty good, too...but Eddie's got a certain "it" in
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a million adoring women just
to fascinate the one he wants!
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MASTERS
VOICE"
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Paramount Picture with
Edward Everett Horton Peggy Conklin Laura Hope Crews Elizabeth Patterson Grant Mitchell Directed by Joseph Santley, A Walter Wanger Production'
TOGETHER WITH
A Better Than Ring Side Seat For
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MAX SCHMELING
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JOE LOUIS
With Every Second of the 12 Exciting Rounds Shown Upon ·
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