.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 30, 1936.
Sultan's Sons Take Home
Bought
At A Sixpenny
“HOME”—HER | AND SUITS "OFF
LAST WISH
+
New York, Dec. 21.
MRE. THOMAS WHIFFEN left
London 70 years ago, became U.A.A.'s "grand old Indy" of the "stage. She died last night, left In- structions that her ashes be taken to London for børial.
She was 91, releed in 1928. be- VALIKO her voice failed her, Since then she had Ityed in a farmhouse.
Alts. Whilfen established a recoryl
THE PEG"
LORRY
FOR LUGGAGE
By GWYN LEWIS
CHAUFFEURS and taxicab drivers waiting idly in the courtyard of one of London's luxury hotels suddenly
In U.S.A. by playing 400 roles in, bet sat up astonished.
63 years on the stage.
Sent Home
26,000
Insects
They saw a procession of servants carrying ifteen steaming pots emerge from the hotel. An aroma of cur- ried chicken Alled the courtyard.
The pota were presently placed In a van which drave off with one of the servants as escort,
Onionkers to this
strante
scene
did not know that a sultan and his eurt were about tu leave for the Far East, taking will them ready
of
The aged sultan and his young and branikul wife developed a king for English poultry for dimmer, but to conform with the requirements of the Mohammedan Fath it was necessary to keen Hve birds at the hotel. Coops were prepared for them In the kitchen ward. The crowing cockerels in the heart of the West End mystified Pork-lane reskients. The birds were killed and pre- pared for the table by the sulton's It was in this fashion that the nwn chats from Selangor. 15-year-old Sultan of Selangor, re- It was decided to make a curry cipient of £15.000 a year, rufer of¦of the birds that remained when the half a million people and 3,150 sultan announced the date of square miles of the richest terri-departure. lory in the Empire, left for his kingdom in Malaya last week.
WOMAN'S TRIP INrooked food for the early stages of
THE JUNGLE
Sydney, Dec. 21. An Englishwoman who hast just spent ten months in the New Guinea jungle, with natives as her only companions, is on her way back to London.
the journey,
The sultan has been staying at House, Park-line, W.. Grosvenor
She Is Miss 1., E. Cheesman, aisince the beginning of Ortuber. entomologist.. During her New
Guinea trip she sent back to the FAVOURITE WIFE British Museum 300 fish, 500 reptiles, ¦
and 26,000 irrects.
Court of
The suitan carne wit there native twenty-four, Ineluching Quren Anjon She had with her carriers and four camp boys.
favourite of his four wives, and seven But Miss Cheeman trented the of his 43 children, dangers of the Jungle as just part There were extrauribmry happen- For her the biggest thrillings during the days that were spent of her job. was finding a new or rare specimen, parklag for the voyage home.
AIR
MINISTRY PLANS
STOLEN
Document
Taken From
Motor Car
London, Dec. 21.
SCOTLAND YARD detectives were last night investigating
two remarkable robberies-the theft of secret Air Ministry plans from a car and an unnoticed attack on a diamond dealer in a taxicab by three men who slit his pocket and escaped with £720 worth of valuables.
Motor thieves who rifled an unal- tended car in Warwich Road, Ken- sington, included in their booty con- idential Air Ministry plans and drawings described as "of the Bristol Alremift Company."
discovered shortly before midnight.
the A change in
method of charging suspected thieves, intro- ducet by Scotland Yard following recent acquittals of suspects with costs against the police, has increased The documents were in a brown this form of crime. leather satchel left beside four mult- Until recently all suspects were
which
contained articles charged with "being suspected per- силев, valued at about £150. The thieves son
also stole a five-valve radlo set in a felnering with intent to commit
PACKED IN CARPET
his
His dx cons and other members of the party bought a large quantity
of presents at a sixpenny bazaar. They also bought ready made cloth- ing at a firm of multiple tallora,
Purchases at the bazaar
rangeri from kitchen utensils to wearing ap-
parel, toys and tollet requisites.
Despite the fact that 100 trunks ant-boxes had been brought from Malaya. It was found that many more were wanted.
Sons of the sultan descended pu
Gifts Store
LU.S.A., Slavery.
Charge
PAUL PEACHER, planter and
town marshal of Earle, Arkansas, will go on trial in the Federal Court at Jonesboro this month,
He is charged with "olding and abelting in causing persons to be held no alaves," and with. Inisely arresting eight negroes and working them on his East Arkansas estate last spring, dur- Ing a cotton choppers' strike,
· Peacher is the first person in- dicted under the post Civil War Anti-Slavery legislation of 1860.
DEADLY NEW
GASES
Latest
German
Products
New and deadly guses now be- ing mude in Germany were des- eribed to the annual meeting of the British Association of Che- mists in London recently by Mr. H. T. P. Rhodes, Editor of the
Chemical Practitioner."
The new gases, sald Mr. Rhodes, were particularly of the chlor-arsenic type, of which a concentration of less than one thousandth of on Ounce per cubic yard was Intolerable and quickly fatal.
Lachrymators, leng-Irritants, red- cants, and artenieal smokes were two trunk stores in Edgware-road | being made more and more efficient, and Praed-street.
Mr. Rhades also held 'out hope of They hought twenty trunks, an effective means of frustrating ofr sulicases and portable, wardrobes, | raiders. Packing had been nearly completed when it was discovered that there I was no room for the kitchen utensils. They were packed in a large ear- pet destined to deeprate a room In the sultan's palace. When this strange parcel had been secured with ropes two men carried it to the motor lorry that was required in addition to the hotel omnibus to convey the
ugg to the station.
"Marry or Die"
Saint-Nazaire, France, Dec. 15. Mme. Costes, n widow who runs tobacconist's shop bere, has dis- covered that it is not always fun to be wealthy.
She recently came into £30,000, and now she is inundated with letters, which arrive in piles by every post, from "admirers" who wish to marry her.
RADIO BROADCAST Your
Overcoat
Fifth Talk on Early Days
Of Cricket
DANCE MUSIC
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a Wavelength of 355 metres (845k.cs.), 31.49 metres (0.52 megacycles).
12.30 p.m. Offera.
Vocal Excerpts from
1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m. Marck Weber und His Orchestra.
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements.
1.40 p.m.
(Humorous).
Flanagan and Allen
1.53 p.m. The Ballyhooligans 2.15 p.m. Close Down.
p.m. A Relay of Dance Musle Hongkong Hotel
from the Garden.
Root-
6 pm. Studio-Children's Concert.
6.30 p.m. A Light Concert, Soprano, Solo-A Summer Night (Marzials and Goring Thomas).... Doris Vane: Tenor Solo-Asthore .Frank Titter- (Bingham, Trolere). ton; Violin Solo-Liebestreud (Love's Joy). (Kreisler)....Fritz Kreisler: Contralto Solo-My Ain Folk (Lemon, Mils)....Mary Kay: Tenor Solo My dear soul (Sanderson).
Frank Titterton: Pianoforte Solo--Poika De (Itachmengine(T). Troika en traineaux, Op. 37, No. 11, (In a three- horse sleigh) (Tchaikovsky).. Sergei Rachmaninof: Teno: Solo... Oh! No John (arr. Sharp)....Frank Titterton.
W. R.
7 p.m.
Dr.
The Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards.
Villanelle (With the Swallow). (Dell'Acqua,
Winterbottom); Acclamations Waltz (Woldteufel); Frog Pond (Characteristic), (Aitord); "A Princess of Kensington" Selection (German); The Smithy in the wood (Michaelis); Songs of Scot- land (arr. Dutholt).
Thr
7.30
Lin. Closing Local Stock High frequency rays projected to
Quotations and Hongkong Exchange sufletent distances, he said, could
Market Report bring down a fleet of acroplanes
7.35 p.m. carrying bombs and gas.
Three Songs by What was
Francis Day (Soprano). wanted however far we were off surir a thing-was a barrage of rays for the protection of civilisert Countries. Nothing else would stop the modern aeroplane
nect
Mr. Rhodes recalled that in simul- taneous experiments on the Lake of Geneva, and in England in 1931, the mechanism of U clock had, at a con- minimum of 100 yards, been pictely disorganised by the impact- of
high frequency rays.
As far as he knew, no meens of projection over long distances had yet been achieved, but it might well be that the perfection of this inven- ton might save civilisation from com- plete annihilation.
All this Was advanced by Mr. Rhodes in enforcement of a plea that civilised countries should chemically and physically rearm for their own There were certain Governments and perhaps peoples in protection. Europe, he said, whose moral and ethical standards had degenerated to They were those of Neolithic man. more dangerous because armed with scientific means of destruction
un- ----paralleled in the world's history.
This would not be so bed were it not for the fact that some of her would-be husbands have threatened her with death if she does not accept At & Scotland Yard conference it their marriage proposals.
ค The property belonged to Mr. G. was decided that when a suspect is Redmond, of North Road, Bristol, seen to touch or look into a car the who, it is understood, recently re- charge shall be one of attempted lar- turned from a business trip to Japan, ceny..
red leather case.
THROWN AWAY?
If the alleged oltender is known Scotland to the arresting officers as i enn- "being a suspected person or reputed victed person the charge must be thief loitering with intent."
Throughout yesterday Yard detectives were searching for the documents. It is possible that
they were thrown away by the
Thieves.
The West End of London is nt present in the throes of an epidemie of thefts from cars, and this raid was
Murder Attempt To Save Pocket
"THE
London. Dec. 21.
THE unemployed in this country behave well and do not resort to acts of murder or attempted mur- der to Bave their pockets," Mr. Justice Singleton told a futher who was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at the Old Bailey for at- tempting to murder his baby daughter by throwing her over railway bridge.
The man, John W. C. Stepney a fine arts assistant, of Purcell Crescent, North Fulham, had picaded "financial dumculties." "Your counsel desc
described it as tragedy that unemployment brings. That sort of tragedy does not occur often through unemployment or any other cause," the judge continued.
"If I thought there was a danger of that I should pass an even longer sentence on you as a public warning. "In view of your youth, the con- tence la comparatively short.'
Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting,
NEW PROCEDURE Heretofore a man's convictions were not made known to the court until after conviction; the new pro- cedure means that the detective will open his evidence by declaring that the person on trial is a reputed thief. Such a charge is authorised by Section 4 of the Vagrancy Act, 1824, and was not hitherto in use in fair- ness to the accused.
Now gendarmes guard her house, and Mme. Costes is afraid that she may have to give up her business and go into seclusion in another part of France:--Reuter:
Wrong Man Summoned
COURT TO INVESTIGATE A
“TERRIBLE
MISTAKE’
London, Dec. 21. [who, to was stated, was a native of, YOUNG woman went into the Willseden, was told by the chairman A Where the suspected person is un- witness-box at the Wealdstone that he would leave the court with- the out the slightest reflection of any known to the watching officer it is Pelty Sessions to-day and told ordered that no arrest shall be made magistrates that a man before the kind on his character, and that the until an offence is committed,
couri answering a summons alleging Bench regretted the anxiety the mat- Uniformed men on this duty have him to be the father of her child ter must have caused him and his been relieved by C.I.D. officers, I was complete stranger to her, and nearly all of whom have personal was not the person she had intended knowledge of London's thieves, and to summon.
wife.
Mr. C. E. Hay Reckit!, who appear- ed for the woman, sald that the joriginal summons was made out
these men have been instructed to She was Margaret Mercer, of Mal-against a man named Edwin or Ed- ask for legal help where they con-pas-drive, Pinner, sider it necessary.
The man, Edwin Robert
ward James, of New Cross, who was James, railway guard. The man before
the court was employed by LP.T.B. us a porter.
MAN WHO NEVER FORGOT A FRIEND
All Remembered In £500,000
Estate
London, Dec. 20.
MR. PETER GEORGE WALLIS McKECHNIE, wine and spirit merchant, who changed a 30-a-week clerkship to a fortune of over half a million pounds, never forgot a ́service.
He died, aged 87, on October 19
at his flat in Ashley Gardens; West- minster. A few days ago his will
was inade public. It is a detailed,
sald the child was put in the care painstaking will; no relative, friend of a foster-mother, who was paid or servant has been left out. 12s. 6d a week, and on Nov. 9 He left C406,425. Of this more Stepney had difficulty in making the than £80,000 goes to charity and payment and took the baby away.
*£153,004 in estate duty.
"A MIRACLE"
Hin muid, Misy Borburn Stef, £100 and a year's wages.
The fat porters, £50 each. Four servants at his club-the Constitutional-£50 each.
Stewardess Miss Dorothy Carley, of his golf club, the Mid-Surrey,
£200.
Nine firm employees, sums rang ing from £500 to £50.・・ "And to his best friend, Mrs. Prior, £25,000, in thankfulness for many
the
The original summons could not he served, and he understood that following activities by a private de- tective agency, the summons waa finally served by a Willesden warrant oficer on the man now before the court.
WIFE'S NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Mr. J.-A. Morley, for Edwin Robert James, said it was obvious that some terrible mistake hnd been made.
What is this thing?; I'm a fool for
have that extra
loving you; Yout
something.
7.45 p.m. From the Studio, The fifth of a series of talks on "The early days of Cricket” by R. Abbit.
8 p.m. Time, Weather, and An-
nouncements.
8.03 p.m. From the Studio. A Chin sé Concert.
11 p.m.
Close Down 8.05-11
Du
p.m. European Pro- gramme from Z. E. K. on a Fre- quency of 610 Kilocycles,
8.05 n.m. Suite No. 2 in B Strings minor for Flutes and (Bach) by Willem Menzelberg and His Concertgebouw Orchestra.
8.30 p.m. Operatie Gems. "Oberon" (Weber)-Ozcan, Ungeheuer (Ocean, thou mighty monster). Maria Nemeth (Soprano): "Faust" (Gounod)Scene de l'Eglish (Church Scene)horus: "Carmen" Maryse Beaufon. F. Bordon and
Bizet)Toreador's Song
.Trio: Riccardo Stracciari. A. Appoloni, Tienzzi and Chorus, Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)-Largo al Factotum ....Kleeardo Stracciari (Baritone).
8.55 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.15 p.m. A Variety Programme, Orchestra-Why couldn't it be poor tittie me....Benny Goodman and His Orchestra: Song "Glamorous Night" Mary Ellis (Soprano): Hawaiian Swance Moon.... George
Elllott's Hawaiian Novelty Quartet; Vocal- Maybe I'm wrong again. Back to those happy days
days....Leslie Hutchin- Lucienne Bover, (Sonrano); Piano Duct-Ro berta Selection....Arthur Young
son:
Song-Solitude
and Reginald Forsythe: Song Melody at Dawn....Gracie Fields; Violin Solo-The Violin Song
Tina". Albert Sandler, Song Lullaby of Broadway.. Dick Powell: Piano Solo-Charlie Kunz Piano Medley, No. R. 9...Charlie Kunz; Band-Rumbo Medley
*...Cuban Marimba Band; Vocal Duct-Lazy- hones....Layton and Johnstone.
10 n.m. London-Big
Dance Music.
11 p.m. Close Down.
Ben.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wave-length and frequentelee are observed by Daventry,
Fronenty Wavelength
Alen
CHA
GB1
сяс
3,600. 9.010 *..
385
GAD
11,750 kr.
GUE
11,885 kc.
41.59 metres 21.55 metres 31,30 metres 15.42 25.28
m¬trem
born,
GSF
15,140 kr.
19.83 MELTE
GSG
17.794bc. 14.AS
GSH
21.478 .k.c. 13.27 matrem
4391
GAJ
13.26 ke 19,80 metre 21.540.
19.30
maires
AL
k
49,10
metres
CRO
15,1A k. 18.74
melzen
Car
James was married four days after the complainant's child was and his wife hud bud breakdown as a result of the allega- tions against him.
a nervous
The Chahon, Mr. A. Dugdale, dismissing the summons, said the court intended to get to the bottom of the mystery because of the in- justice, suffering and hardship that had been inflicted on James.
4
Mr. McKechnie entered his uncle's The same evening a man crossing wine business, as a boy. In 1865. a bridge ot Blackheath BOW an Later he founded his own firm- empty pram and looking over the Messrs. Howen and McKechine-years of friendship." parapet noticed a bundle between eventually to be incorporated with the running rail and the live rail. Messrs. W. H. Chaplin and Co.
"You may think it is a miracle that the child is alive," said Mr. McClure. "A number of trains passed over the track on which the child was. She was under the live rail and sparks were appearing to strike through her."
Rudy Vallee's Loss
New York, Dec. 15. Rudy Vallee, famed crooner band leader, wept when told to-day that SONS HAVE. WEALTH
his former wife, Fay Webb, was Provision for his two sons had dead. is one Ume "dream girl" been made before he died, though to succumbed to peritonitis at the San- When McKechnie was a rich man | his son Ernest he left a further ta Monica Hospital late last night at
This exotic Californian beauty Have up a a promising screen career to marry Valled In 1931. Sho visited
Mr. Mervyn Griffith Jones, de fending, appealing for leniency, said there could be no doubt that financial difficulties had preyed on Stepney to such an extent that when he com- mited the act he had lost his power of reason. He was a man of good character:
KNEW POVERTY
he never forget the hardship of £20,000 in appreciation of his the age of 28. poverty. Long before he dled he courage. Ninety hospitals and talked to his great friend, Mrs. Ellacharities share £80,000. Prior, of Elm Park Road, Chelsen, of Mrs. Frlor said:
་་
the pleasure he hoped to give by "Despite his great wealth he dis- Reno the following year, but returned careful distribution of his fortune. liked ostentation. He once bought a to her husband, saying: "I was a He used to say to her, "You are car, but gave it away after six little fool ever to think of divorce." sure I have forgotten no one, per-months. He preferred 10 ride on Then tempestuous, litigation haps a servant who has left me? the top of a bus."
in.
several States ended-in-divorce. Every one must be remembered," "Any one who did ú small service Fay's father said to-day: "The girl Here are some of his bequests: was noted, fled away in his won- died with a smile on her lips bo- His housekeeper, Misa E. Keeler, derfully retentive mind for future cause Vallee wired that he had al- £500 and one year's wages.
repayment."
ways loved her."
18.310 k.. 19.40rizes
Transmission I
(6.8.1, 6.8.0.)
p.m. Big Tien, Plano Byneopailan. 9.16 p.m. *World Alaira,"
40 p.m. Urietal and Beyond.*
Spe The ... Empire Orchestra, · $40 pm. The News and Announcements.
Greenwich Tias Biguzi at 345 p.m.
Transmission 2-
[4.8.6, 0.8Jt.
↑ Bana Bir Ben. Cinema Organ Recital. 7.16 p.m. "WIRE-ATKI, A 7.30-Dias Berge Krish and his Orchestra. Ap.. A Recital by Berrey Alan (Bari-
tonri. 4.35 v.m. Children of the Étare”—1.-
$5 p.m. The News and Annoncermenta.
Greenwich Time Signal at 9.15 p.m. 4.15 pm. An Organ Recital.
Transmission 3
1.8.3., 0.8.P.. 0.8.10.1
10 p.at. Big Bex Musical Comedy, 19.30 p.m. “Bwylte ExchanES.
10.10 pom. The Northern · Treland Dran
Dand.
11.30 pm. A. Plassafortu. Becfial, 12 mm, “Briatal und Beyond,”
11.30 sum, The News and Announcementa,
Greenwich Time Bignal' at 12.45 » m. 12.50 ■.m. The Jahn MacArthør Quintet,
At Mackintosh's you сап choose an Overcoat ready Cor wear-fitting perfectly and faullessly tailored in
the styles and materials which are now being worn.
Made by Aquasentam of Regent Street, London-the
hall mark of good coats.
Call and see the newest styles at
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
MEN'S WEAR
SPECIALISTS.
E B.
啤
E
E
R 酒
ORDER
EWO
୧୧
EWO
怡B
E
E
R
EWO"
WHEREVER
Brewed by
YOU GO
BREWERY CO., SHANGHAI
Managers:
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
Best Wishes
for-
The New Year
PENINSULA HOTEL
ROSE ROOM
FRIDAY
· 1ST JANUARY 1937
NEW YEAR'S DAY Special Dinner Dance
Reservations
Phone
58081
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.