THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
5,
1936.
M.P.s Urged To Legalise
Rockets To Moon
Bitter cold in Central Europe has prevented the swallows to fly to the South. The helpless birds have been gathered by the Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals and sent by airplane to, the Southern countries. The picture shows the swallows in packages being loaded In an airplane it Munich for Venice,
MAN FOR SALE!
AT $10 AN EVENING
San Francisco, Ort. 25. This Pacific Coast metropolis,
Jorally
that us "the city known lows how," will roan have a new business--designed to show it knows how to take care of the stranger, the lonely and the wallflower.
Victór
annoumeri H. Bule bas establishment of the Paciße Escart Services, with ollees in downtown San Francisco.
'NO RISKS'
PROMISE
PARLIAMENT may
shortly
devote its time to a debate: inbout the moon.
Under the present law it is an offence to send a rocket to the moon, as liquid oxygen-petrol- In contravention of the Explosives Act of 1875-would have to be used.
So moon rocket enibuslants-- members of the Inter-Planciary Society of Great Britain--have moved their headquarters from Liverpool to London. hoping thereby to arouse the interest of Influential N.P.S and get the government to approve of their! experiments.
Secrets
Of The
Yard
LONDON'S
C. I. D. CRITICISED
"TOO MUCH SAFETY FIRST PROCEDURE" Severe criticism of the present
the Criminal methods of
In-
At the moment the object of the vestigation Department of Scot- society is to send liquid fire rockets Find Yaril, and the suggestion into the upper atmosphere to gain that, in certain cases, the coroner knowledge which will make it poss ble to provide long-distance weather should be replaced by an official forecasts, but the ultimate aim will similar to the Scottish Procura-
to establish contact with
thetor Fiscal are made in a book published in London. ("Secrets. "NO SILLY RISKS” The soulety recently wrote to the of Scotland Yard." The Bodley tome Office for formal approval of Head, 12a, 6.). its tests.
be
moon.
The Home Office replied that even
The author, Mr. Edwin T. Wood- if liquid oxygen-petrol were not all, is an ex-member of the Criminal used the Alm of the rocket would Investigation Department and claims have to take place on premiser to have an intimate knowledge of Bicensed under the Explosives Act its methods. While praising the and red from 11 suitable range i general efficiency of the "Yard" he approved by leent authorities. doubts the effiency of modern polire
that, apart from "It is obvious
procedure. legislation, the Government is de- termined not to encourage our ex-
"It stint be achritted." he writes, periments because of the danger," "that the past five years constitute Mr. P. E. Cleafor, of Wallasey, “un- a black spot in the history of the til recently president of the society, C.1.D. It is a deplorable fart that in said. "But this is a society of men ave years over 20 murders in London who know what they are doing and, have bren committed, in none would take no silly risks.
which have Scotland Yard a their 1
of
"1 agree that oxygen and petrolioan. would form an explosive misture, but
There is too much bafety fr so do petrol and air, and oni
well about modem police procedure; and that principle you might as
can hardly he wondered prohibit molding. The Home offer this Alates that the design of the rocket when he remember the publie outery would have to be guaranteed sound.) in more than one big ease ostainst But nee the whole purpose of our The questioning of material witnemes. experiments is to test our destens, when it has even been hinted that how 2
Azarnie Wr
suth
Scotland Yord on orvasion resorted thing?"
to third-degree methosis,
Escorta will be provided-for u JUDGE TABOOS
price for everythig from helping age: women across dangerous street crossings ta a round of the city's night clubs.
Lule hos tarted Interviewing
prospective employees. Most of them are from the Employment Bureaux of Stanford University and the Uni- versity of Californin. A few steneral escorts qualifications for the male have been outlined by Bule. They incltide an ability to talk intelligent- ly, dance, play bridge and drink in modemtion. They will be carefully Instructed. They must know nothing client's mure of a client than the rame. They must ask no personal questions.
Beyond this point, escorts will be picked for their relaties. They will-be-filled-under-height-weight,
uge, complexion, rationality, rell- glon, rearing and becomplishments. A client can ask for a tall, blonde athlete with special dancing ability, ar n shart brunette with a Phi Bel Kappa key and a knowledge of the lost tribes of the Incas
Roter will be $10 a night for an escort to night clubs or 'shows or $12 if the escort ls wanted after mid- night. -
Bule has made it plain that no escort must ever step beyond the lobby of a hotel.
Young women will be on call, too, for guling shopping tours at $2 an hour, but their duties must end at sundown.
il
DEVICE TO WIN
BEER BY SKILL
Alwaukee, Oct. 20.
with boltic
stood before
water-fled A whisky glass insklo
"UNFORTUNATE TENDENCY"
some
Waving a copy of Dr. Lin Yu-tang's book, "My Country and My People," Mr. Ray Hdward, famous American newspaperman, is shown at left above as he arrived in Shanghai from Hongkong on the last leg of his direct flight from New York in 11 days actuni elapsed time, Be was the first trons-Pacific by air passenger to arrive in Shanghai. Also shown in the picture are Mr. Robert Horiguchi, of Domel news ogency, and Mr. John R. Morris, of United Press,
The Clock Went Wrong
When Mystic Died
New York, Oct. 30.
WHITEAWAYS
QUALITY-VALUE-SERVICE
When Cheiro, the famous mystic and psychic, died in Holly- All colours: Navy,
wood, these strange things happened, according to his English nurse Mrs. Edith Phelan.
The clock struck me three times,
The house Fus filled with an overpowering fragrance of flowers (go flowers were therej.
The stairs crruked heavily, es though many people were passing up wul down (nobody was on the stairs].
Asbestos Aprons For Ladies
Washington, Oct. 15.
Pink asbestos aprons for care less ladies who lean on stoves burst into the international fashion market from Great Bri- tain.
With them came striped as: bestas table cloths for folks who
Mrs. Phelan was at his death-bed. When she was called in four days be fore Cheiro died she did not know the Identity of her patient. She said:
"I have seen hundreds of people dle. I do not belleye in spunka, but I cannot deny the evidence of my own sensea,"
Cheiro was Count Couls Hamon, born in Wicklow, Ireland, and he spent 58 out of his 70 years in study- Ing the occult.
Ile predicted the dates of the death of King Edward VII and Kitchener, A your ago he wrote a document foretelling the manner of the death
Irving Thalberg.
Monkeys
don't like ash trays, and lavender Face Firing
hot
manti-
red
"I am afraid that la-day there is an unfortunate tendency to rely too much upon prolonged cross-examina-
on first by the police and then by asbestos mittens for pickers af
potatoes. London prony and mexperienced
also produced spomen to supply nexded evidence facturers ain murder trials, bustead upon asbestos rugs, on which bonfires!
patient detective work; and the rigor. ous following up of clues and facts may be built, and lacy asbestos Continuing, Mr. Woodhail sur Window curtains guaranteed to
that the antiquated" procedure defy a blow torch. the coroner's court should overhauled.
District Judge A. J. Hedding when Frank P. Burns, tavern-keeper, was brought before him.
The court borrowed a penny from the ball, dropped it through a slut in the top of the bottle. It "plunk- ed into the glans.
"Have I got n beer coming?" uste ed Judge Hedding.
"Yes, sir," Burns said.
gests that
of
woven
Squad
Cairo, Oct. 28. TWO performing mankeys, arrested recently in connection with an alleged robbery, faced firing Equad The fireproof fabric is being the courtyard of Cairo Central into all manner of every-Prison after being sentenced to death, "In place of the coroner, whose
They were the pels of m
of an Egyptian day clothing and household furnish- office, though of civic utility, is an anachronism in the case of unsolved
ing, presaging an immediate loss of named Abdul Said, who was arrested business for the London fire departa
ngo for distracting a fortnight crimes, I would suggest the appoint-
woman's attention by making the meni. ment of un official similar to the
monkeys do tricks while he stole a Scottish Procurator Fixent, who acts This hot news was received with £20 braevlet from the woman's wrist.
the animals were taken i When the General France
Ilu_should_ap-ton representative of one of the the police station they put up such a pear in the role of 'n public investi- world's biggest asbestos companies. | fierce resistance to the officers, biting said his firm had been manu-} their guardians and tearing up the jul his qualitentions should be He
medlent,
facturing asbestos paints these many police furniture, that they had to be it should be his duty to sift and sort
y cars.
chained and imprisoned.
REFUSED POISON out the evidence, nid his should be - the ruling as to whether the suspert- ed person should go to a higher court for trink."
The Judge burrowed
another It missed the gloss.
When penny. the third penny unded in the glass his honour ecmmented:
"I'm pretty lucky. You owe me two beers and the city a $25 fine. This device is a gambling device, not a test of skill."-United Press.
occasionally and tempt them. This, Bule feels, will keep them on their gentlemanly behaviour, as they will never know whether tlicy ore with spy a regular client.
vely much like the Procurateur- cool calm by H. M. Aring, Washing-|
criminologicat.
MENTAL DEFECTIVES
·
Further, Mr. Woodhall advocates that all former mental defectives dis- charged as cured should be watched
Bule sees unlimited possibilities In his new business. He hopes some day to establish a national organiza- and, as soon as their actions become ton, with bureaux all over the coun- suspect should be again put under try. Then in escort could see a proper control, client off on a train from Sun Fran- To keep his charges in line, 'Bule cisco and another could meet her at will organize a system of spies, or
her destination to arrange for taxis, such "operators,"
baggage, hotels as he prefers to call them. They will nike escorts out things.
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·CANTON, BRANCH: 1 French Concesion
"With such a system at work," he "I guarantee that the 'un- states, solved murder would become the exception and not, as es unfortunate- ly it is at the present time, the rule." In this interesting book Mr. Wood- halt traces the history of the police force in London from the first "in- vestigator"--Francis Fleetwood, who lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth -through the Bow Street runners, down to the present day. In diddi- tion he describes the work of Scotland Yard and discusses various cases of the past.
GERMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS' PROTEST UNJUST INSULTS
Berlin, Oct. 21. The contribution of the clergy to the welfare of the community was defended sturdily in a pastoral letter which was read to-day in most Roman Catholic churches in country.
the
of
The letter was composed by the Bishops in conference at Fulda last month, It began by maintaining that the Roman Catholic teachers Waldbreitbach who were involved recently in an unsavours criminal case
were not members of the Frunciscon Order-as Jubilantly maintained by Nazi newspapers but laymen of an association founded in 1862.
They
"But even if they are counted as belonging to an Order," the Bishops' stated, "more than 99 per cent of the members of our Orders stand guiltless and in full honour, too, Inve right to truth and honour and can demand that they shall not be attacked and insulted unjustly."
The
Bishops recalled how Roman Catholic pricats died for Germany during the War. "Unfortunately,** the Bishops continue, "there many people in theso dintcult times with nothing more important to do than promote o War against the Church and Christlinity. While they pretend to be fighling disunion they aro rangnifying it beyond estimation."
bre
The only trouble with these heat- In desperation, the police turned defying nether garments, he said, is to the Zoo. The uuthorities there the fact that they're a little scratchy also replied that they could do despite the best efforts of the scient-nothing about the two fractious pri- ists, and necessitate the wearing of suners, cotton unfon quits.
They're not particularly pretty, either, he said, being a plain gray, but they're a big comfort to an en- gineer opening the door of a blast furnace, or a dore-devil strolling into an oil well fire.
The pretty British asbestos is something new, all right, Aring_ad-| mitted, but he said he feared it would be a mighty hot day before it figures much in the news from Pari- akan fashion headquarters.
Aring said he thought probably asbestos fibre would be fine for
As nobody could be found to look after them, it was decided that the monkeys must die. They were given
ment treated with arsonic.
Not only did the monkeys refuse to eat it, but they went on hunger strike for a number of hours.
To stop them dying of hunger, the authorities decided to execute them. --Reuter.
CHANGING SEX AT 90
Feltro (Italy), Oct. 15. Ninety-year-old Elda Lincia has undergone a preliminary opera-
table cloth at a poker game, but not so hot for a shirt, unless worn by tion for hor transformation from
a Hindi fakir just out of sackcloth the feminine into the masculine and ashes-United Press,
sex,
The CHRISTmas parceL MAIL for
EUROPE
closes on.
FRIDAY, 13th NOVEMBER-!
Now, HERE is THE opportunity to buy X'mas Gifts
at exceptionally favourable prices: *
On the occasion of the opening of the new
Cigar Store La Perla Del Oriente
in the Hongkong Hotel Building, Pedder St.
we shall allow a
SPECIAL DISCOUNT OF 10%
on all cigars, smokers' requisites and the popular SIMON ARZT CIGARETTES for
3 DAYS: THURSDAY 5th, FRIDAY 6th and
SATURDAY, 7th NOVEMBER.
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