THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1936.
LUPESCU
HAS SIX RED-HEADED
Wearing rubber boots and fishing equipment Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Chanceler of the Exchequer landing after a fishing tour in Loch Ness, Scotland, home of the "monster,"
years
DOUBLES TO GUARD HER
TO
PAID FORTUNES TO BAFFLE TERRORIST SOCIETY
RUMANIA'S most hated
lovely Titian-haired Jew-
BRITAIN TAKES ish mistress of King Carol,
OVER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
London, Oct. 20,
The British Government to-day announced the formal anexation to the British Empire of the Phoenix Archipelago in the South Pacific, which was formerly possessed by Germany and which has been under British mandate since the conclusion of the Vorsailles Treaty.
has thwarted her enemies yet again in their attempts to murder her.
Men of the Iron Guard, Terrorist society which is allied to German Nazis, have sworn to kill Lupescu; she has baffled them by finding six women, all of whom exactly resemble her.
RADIO BROADCAST
Recital by Helen Lockhart
From the Studio BBC. DANCE ORCHESTRA
From Z. B. W. ón a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):
12.30-2.15 p.m. European Record-
12.30 p.m. Orchestral Music.
Agents of hers and King Carol have scoured the Continent fored Programme. these women. They are paid fantastic salaries. They deceive the Iron Guard,
The announcement is cogaging the keen attention of all circles, as a re-distributiop of world colantes is now being widely discussed in connection with Germany's No one knows whether Lupesen demand for the recovery of her prewar colonial pos-or one of her doubles is inside the carriage which sweep through the streets of Bucharest,
sessions.
THE WORLD'S MOST AMAZING SWINDLER IS GRAVELY ILL
Menns
cx-
An official communique issued in this connection states that two sloops attached 1 the British Tiavat squadron in New Guinea viited the Phoenix archipelago some time ago ant on a palm-tree in each isfet placed an offcial mark bearing the letters: "This islet belongs to HM King Edward VI of the British Empire.
1 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report.
1.03 .p.. Peter Dawson (Bass-,
Horowitz Baritone) and Vladimir (Pianoforte)..
1.40 p.m. Concert Waltzes. 2.15 p.m. Close Down.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. “ 7-11 p.m. European Programme.
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby No one knows the names of Press, Local: Weather Forecast, Time
except the eloss) and Announcements. these women friends of Khg Carol and Lupescu,
One believed to be a well-known Hungarian musical comedy actress.
She, more than any of the others, is the exact image of Magda Lupescu,
It was sold that with her help Lupescu returned to Rumania in 1030 after Carol has returned to the throne on the condition he never saw the red-haired beauty again.
The Phoenix archipelago is situat- ed in the South Pacific between 2 degrees 30 minutes and 4 degrees 30 mhutes, S. Lat, and between
cons 171 degrees and 30 minutes W. Lyri Rarely are these doubles seen to- Mary, Enderbury, Phoenix, Birney, parts of the country.
of eight islets, namely gether. They live secretly in various Gardner. McKean, Hull and Sydney covering altogether an area of IG square miles. The number of abori-
consists
gines inhabiting these islets is only
about 600,
on-
ent
7pm A Scottish Programme.
SelectionThe Thistle" (Myddle- ton; Vielle Solo-Scottish Melotiles (orr. Moffat).... Florence Mac- Bride, Vocal-MacGregor's Gather- ing
Batien).... .Heddle
(BTF.
Dance Orchestra.
7.35 p.m. London-The B.B.C.
Schubert's Melodies.
Leavenworth Penitentiary, boasted that he kates, the Mid- Kansas, Oct. 15. nappers, who he zidd had been his
Nash & Male Quartette; Band- Gravely ill, Gaston B. Means he told Mrs. McLean that he had fellow-prisoners &t Atlanta. Then
Songs of Scotlund (arr. Duhoil); looked back from the prison hos-"found" the Lindbergh baby in the
Songs-The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomon': Comin, Thro' The pital on an astounding career as South," and could recover the child
Пус
Dora Labbelte (Soprano); one of this country's ace detec-on payment of * $100,000 ransom.co
Their Retreats This amount, plus $4,000 for
Song-Will ye no' come back again? tives and one of its greatest penses, was delivered to Means, bul
Lupescu herself.
One is always near at hand foll
Elder Cunningham (Bass-Bari- swindlers.
the kidnappers did not appear,
Lone), Another lives at the mountain home of Carol--the Quotations and Hongkong Exchange
7.30 p.m. Closing Local · Stock He has already served three frightened and bad taken the baby Means said they had been
BERLIN SHOCKED
palace at Sinaia which is so often Market Report. the rendezvous of Carol and his love, of a 15-year sentence to Mexico. Mrs. McLean rushed to News of the formal British
When outings into the country and passed on him in 1933 for de-the Mexican border, but found nexation of the Phoenix group of into the towns
the towns are made
made, sometimes frauding Mrs. Dvalyn Walsh nothing. When Means asked for an islets in the South Pacifle has con Lupescu goes, sometimes one of tarport and Announcements.
8 p.m. Local: Time, Weather Re- McLean-owner of the notorious additional $35,000, she notifed the siderably shocked Berlin official doubles; writes special correspond-
federal government,
8.03 p.m. "unlucky" Hope ditmond-out arrested, tried, and convicted.
was quarters.
of the Sunday Referee.
A Programme of On
Attacking the British action, Der A few days of $100,000 by telling her he May 16, 1933, he was fined $10,000 Angriff, a Nazi orgun, declares that of Bucharest was gathered in the days ago, the amari society
1st Movement Planoforte Quintet would find the kidnapped Lin- and sentenced to fifteen years in the British annexation of the islets fashionable and world-famous Capsa
in major. Op. 114 ("Trout" Quin- bergh baby. But before that prison. The money he had received is the forerunner of her ambitious Sweet Shop on the Calea Vittoriet,
tet); Wilhelm Backhaus (Piano); re-plan to place the entire South Asiatic famous case, Means' career had from Mrs. McLean was never
Mangeot (Violin), Howard (Viola); and Antarctic regions under the rule
(Double-Bass); Song-Who is Syivin? Withers ('Cella) and Hobday heen astounding.
In March, 1938, Means tried to of the Australian
lan Commonwealth send a letter from prison, which was Government, "Although Britain
Robert Harris reported to contain his "confession" possesses vast territories throughout
....Master
(Boy prono); Pianoforte Solo
Solos-Moment that he had originated the whole the world, her ovarice has no limit
Musicale in F minor, Impromptu in Lindbergh plot. But in the mean and she lakes no account of Ger-
B fat. Op. 142, No. 3....Wilhelm time Bruno 'Hauptmann had been many's fair demand for colonial
Backhaus; ist Movement (Part 1) convicted and electrocuted for the possessions,"
the same newspaper
Andante; Ist Movement (Part 2)- states. crime. --United Press.
Allegro ma non troppo, Ist Movement (Conclusion)-Allegro та non troppo; troppo; from Symphony No. 7 In C major....The B.D.C. Symphony Or- pelganger...... chestra; SongsAufenthalt: Der Dop- (Bass).
Alexander Kipnis
He had been convicted entre pre viously and had been charged at various times with breach of promise, espionage, forgery, muir- der, opening of bonded warehouses of the Government to bootleggeri, ninety-nine other violations of the National Prohibition Act, use of the mails to defraud, bribery to protect criminals, rifling the offices of United States Senators, larceny, om- bezzlement and conspiracy.
WORK FOR KAISER
For 33 years Means developed his abilities as detective and confiden- tial agent in 1914 he joined thre Durns Detective Agency, and soon! was its leading uperative.
After the World War started, buti before the United States became in-
covered.
THE PROBLEM OF SPACE
Giant Telescope
May Give Solution.
In
volved, Meuns told William J. Burns CR James Jeans. In a publle lecture that Coptato von Papen, then Ger
han Military Attache in Washing- ion (later German Chancellar), had offered him $100,000 to work for the Kalser in typing up American muni- tion plants working for Allies. asked Burns to co-operate.
MOUNTING INCOME
now
at Southport, made the an- trouncement that the new 200-inch
bulk being telescope, California, might solve the problem of whether space was curved and finile, or was infinile.
Holy Shakers
of Rome
ARRESTS AGITATE POLICE STATION
Rome. Oct. 15. Rome's central police station is to-night agitated in every sense of the word by the presence of He declared that Sir Arthur Ed-over 100 very active members of dington, by very complicated mathe the, religious cult of Holy Burns declined the proposition, matics, now hoped that he had Shakers. whereupon Means left to become a carried through to a successful issue
This ecstatic body evidently spy. Overnight, his earnings soared the computation of the mass and
$3,000 a week and many thousands radius of the universe.
took root in Rome some months more for special assignments.
Asking the question, "How big is ago. The members at first exer- an old isolated tomb in the space?" Sir James said that the cised their wriggling ritual in New York Trinity Churchyard, in theory of relativity told us that space hidden localities about the city, the dead of night, Means would find was curved, and that it curved back but Intely they opened a "temple"
trevice, into itself, so that the total volume in a residential area. his orders cached $12 together with bundles of $1,000 bills, I was fnite, like the total area of the Means testified.
earth.
In
a
The
They were talking excitedly of the new attempts of the Iron Guard to assassinate the woman whom every one fears, but nobody knows.
They all believed that Lupescu must be far from the capital by this time-hiding in some mountain re- treat or esenping across the frontler. The fashionable shop echoed und re- cchoed with the name of Lupescu.
"It's Lupescu!" The door opened. but beautifully dressed, red-headed A tall, simply woman with a glorious figure entered. Every eye turned to her; the whole room stopped talking.
"It's Lupescu!".
Taking notice of no one, the woman walked to a table, gave-an-order to a startled waitress.
As she began to eat her pastries, the other patrons looked nervously towards the door.
the
At any moment, they thought, Iron Guards
might break in and riddle the woman with bullets.
Unconcernedly, as if unaware of tension in the room, the nervous woman went on
en eating, Calmly, she paid her bill, rose from her chair, walked out of the shop.
In the sweet shop, the richly dressed
patrons were excitedly talk- Ing. Who was the woman? Was she Lupescu herself? Was it one of her doubles?
Many Rumanians believe that the Iron Guards exasperated, will kill anyone who resembles Lupescu.
red.
On any day, the first shot may be
Roman Catholle authorities NOVEL MASKED BALL He became "Amanelal advisor" to A more mathematical interpretation got on their track and denounced a rich Chicago widow, Mrs. Maude said that space was hot curved in the the worshippers as "performing rites
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9 p.m. News and Announcements from London.
9.20 p.m. Fifteen Novelly.
Minutes
A Burlesque Pantomime--"Cinde- rella" (Wollace); Scientifically, of course! If you pretend you're blue.. Murgatroyd and Winterbottom. Accordeon Band.
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iuns from belonging to or taking A Fancy Dress "Dal Mosque” is "This problem may be solved by part in the Shuker services on pain being held at the Gloucester Hotel the new 200-inch iclescope which we
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on Friday, November 8. Its primary now possess."
Police intervention followed and purpose is to rolac funds for Motions of the nebulae suggested the
congregation
was raided. The oldest of the local charity societies, tai get-shooting party with Means thut space expanded. But
the Shakers now consider themselves the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. she was shot and killed. Meous lameter of space must be greater was charged with her murder, but than 480 million light years. There martyrs belief which exeltes their
lurching Dervish dance to remarka- Will some of the Hongkong society acquitted. Mrs. King's mother as- was no doubt about that, because ble oscillations.
ladies volunteer to act as partners serted that the estate had lost half our telescopes could probe space for
at this "Bal Masque" for those not IL million dollars
The Rome police station under his 240,000,000 light years in every directherefore filled with this wriggling fortunate enough to have their own management.
tion, and yet find no sign that there and writhing body of humanity, and who present a dance ticket? was a boundary to space anywhere
decision on their fate. pending near at hand.
The Juridical authorities were faced with a dilemma either to im- prison citizens who had not broken the Criminal Code or to allow the rite which had continuation of been ecclesiastically condemned.
Allenists, however, have found a way out. The catalyptle frenzies of can see with our unaided eyes are
be pronounced about 3,000 light years away. There the Shakers are fore, we see them not ns they are dangerous for the health of those now, but as they were 3,000 years ago practising them and disturbing to the There was also a charge of con- before the building of Rome or the leges; and so the Shakers will be spiracy to bribe four officials of the slege of Troy,
**kept in mental Institutions until they Department of Justice,
Means was sent to Atlanta peni- "Yet the distance of these stars is severally return to a less excited FURTHER DONATIONS TO THE
manner of worship.
In 1921 Menna obtained an up- polniment as agent of the U.S. De-
WONDERS OF THE STARS partment of Justice. Two years later he was indicted for
But if we could not see the boun- illegal sales of government liquor to boot- dary of space, we could try to fix its leggers, for using the mails to de- Position by theoretical argumenta. froud,
conspiring to defeat the liquor tax law, obstruction of justice, and acceptance with accomplices of $85.000 bribe.
"The furthest of the stars that we
battleship,
All the proceeds of the dance tic- kets go to the funda of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Would volunteer partners send their names to the Organising Social Secretary, Marked Bail, c/o Glouces ter Hotel. Distinctive rosettes will then be issued to them.
MEMORIAL FUND
PUBLIC PARKS SCHEME
Hongkong and Shanghol
tentiary for four years, and ined as nothing in comparison with that $20,000. While in prison he out-of the furthest stars of the milky lined, and subsequently published, a ¦ way. These are probably at 'dis- | pent out ́enough energy to run 1 The book called "The Strange Death of tances of about 130,000 light years, President Harding," alleging that and the light by which we see them "What is probably the smallest of Bank has received the following fur- Harding had died of poison.
started on its journey through space all known stars has recently been digther donations to the King George V About that time he "protected" a long before man had become civiilsed covered. Its radius is only
Memorial Fund: about rich New York woman and her at all.”
half that of the earth, but it probably Previously acknowledged daughter from "threatening Reil Space was full of rotating cog- contains nearly one million times as Mr. and Mrs: Eldon Potter .. agents," receiving a fee estimated at wheels of stars, and he described much substance. Its average density Tang Shiu Kin about $100,000.
stars with temperatures of 60,000 must be about 30,000,000 fimes that When the country was aghast at degrees or ten times hotter than the of water. A picco the size of a the Lindbergh kidnapping. Means Bun. A square centimetre of these pinhead would break a man's back."
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3.4 p.m. A Night Among the Pines," 2.53 p.m. A Light Symphony Caneart. 4.49 pan. “A Constryman's Blazy." 4. The News and Announcemento, Greenwich Time Signal al p.m.
Transmission 2
(G.8.G., 0.8.3.) 7 2.0.
lien. Sydney Castard, at the Organ of the Gaumont Paluce Cinema, Chester,
7.15 p.m. "A Countryman's Diazz”
7.31 . A Recital by Findlater Muc-
Ronald (Baritone).
7.50 p.m.. An Organ Reeltai, • A.36
.m. The B.B.C. Danes Orchesten. Green kh Time Signal at p..
The News and Annwuncements.
9.20 p.m. Orchestral Music, 9.27.martight."
Transmission 3
10.5.0, 0.8.P., 'G.S.II.
1 p.. Big Ban. The 1.1.C. Northern
Orchestra.
19.48 pet. A Pianoforie Recital, 11.15 p.1.
Belones Talk (No 1).
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