THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937.
Secret Of Lady Houston's HISTORICAL FILM Fortune Unsolved
FROM ITALY
An historical aim is being produced in Italy, dealing with the famous battle against Carthage. The picture above shows one of the scenes of the army of Hannibal and war elephants marching against the army of Scipio.
£6,250,000
ESTIMATE
OF ESTATE
By A Special Reporter
London, Jan. 15. THROUGH the windows of Byron Cottage, Hampstead-open and uncurtained, as Lady Houston always had them I saw yesterday a search party go from room to room, from drawer to drawer, collecting masses of documents in the hope of discovering her will.
It la believed that Britain's riches' woman, who died on Tuesday night, had estate amounting to £6,250,000. Her third husband, shipowner Sir Robert Houston, left her £7,000,000 in 1926.
Her sister, Mrs. A. H. Wrey, of Chester- terrace, N.W., and Lady Palmer, a favourite
- A view from the famous. Croydon. nerodrome outside London which may be abandoned owing to the serious airplane accidents which have happened there lately.
DUKE SEES PALACE OF ABDICATED
niece, and wife of Sir Geoffrey Palmer, would, it EMPEROR
banks with which Lady Houston had
Is believed, be among the largest beneficiaries.
The search, which began in Byron Cottage,
Vienna, Jan. 15. extended to Jersey, where Sir Robert Houston THE DUKE OF WIND- was domiciled, and to the safe deposits of various THE
SOR spent this after- accounts, and where she left papers. noon among the "ghosts" A number of solicitors had acted of the abdicated Hapsburgs for her, and one of them sald be of Austria. He drove on was not aware of a will having been prepared.
Stars
Astrologer Claims
Foretold Abdication
"IT WAS WRITTEN
NOT
CENTURIES AGO"
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London, Jan. 15.
an eyelash was batted when a speaker ut the first Congress of the British Federation of Astrologers in London recently suggested that:
new
*1--He and all other good astrologers had known for years that King Edward was going to abdicate in 1930:
2-They knew even who would be his host when he left the Throne. The audience, occupying just 39-of-the-425-seats-in-the-softly-lighted Grotrian Hai, in Wigmore Street, W., showed women in an ascendancy of three to one."
They remained quite calm as they vibratory force which will enable me listened-applauded only at the end to select the harmonious gem to set of each address: laughed only when in properly alloyed goid-for gold a speaker made on unmistakable
must be used for this work." joke.
IN DEMAND
Nobody among them moved a muscle when Dr. Isadore Kozminsky. discussing the magical action of gems, sold there was a great pubile intellectual demand for astrology.
A brochure described how, Dri Kozm❘nalty constructs and supplies,
ut not less than £220.euch, a person- al talisman after he has judged from a map of the heavens at birth the
Toys do not always quieten the cross' baby
Graduate myrre talis of treatment used for how own baby girl.
No stir was caused by the state- ment of Mr. E. Bray, a Wembley accountant, that there is an influ- ence in the Universe which operates on the cut and shuffle of cards so that gamblers are given good or bad cards, according to the position of the moon in relation to their
horoscople delineation."
Nor was there any panic when Mr. W. Whitmap, adding up the digits
in 1037, said that Usey came to 20 and
SPELLING
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Wan
two
Eloven-year Edith Fenyes running neck-and-neck, with baya in a New York broadcast spell- -Ing-bee.
Came "silhouette." The boys got by. Edith began, “S-i-1-1-—~~," The rong elanged. ----
"Kattr'a father, "istentng, died of heart failure.
Sabre Duels
For Honourable
Germans Only
By A Special Correspondent,
Berlin, Jan. 15. A new code of honour for German students, prescribing sabre duels to avengo Insults, says:—
Any "honourable' German" may challenge another German K he
by car for a few hours'
Solicitors in Jersey said they could sightseeing trip to Schoen- find no trace of it. Mr. Vivian J. brunn, former summer Ballacke, Jersey solicitor for Lady
palace of the Hapsburgs.
Houston, said in London: "I am out
of touch with the matter. I con make no stalement at this juncture,
BOXES OF PAPERS
The Hampstead papers, which filled two large deed boxes, were carried into a motor-ear in which Mr. A. II. Wrey, a London solicitor, and a woman secretary drove away, ‚De- | talled examination of them has not
yet been possible.
'He spent ten minutes in the famous blue room where Emperor Karl, Aus- trla's last emperor abdicated in
1910.
He examined the room where the unhappy Duke of Relchstadt, Napo- con's son, died in exile in 1832.
He visited the rooms of Francis Joseph, war-time Austrian Ent- peror, and took particular Interest In the simple iron soldier's bed on which the hardy old emperor died In
1910.
three men, one
While they were being collected
a plain clothes He walked along the portrait gal- policeman, patrolled the grounds, tery and stopped before the portrait guarded the gute, and-turned-away of the Empress Marla Theresa; Aus- cullers Last alght the gate was trials Queen Elizabeth locked and an ex-policeman acted He often questioned the guide
as watchman.
Two women who did not leave about the Hapsburg family tree.
The Duke also visited the collec- their names molored to St. Maryletion of coronation coaches, and was bone Borough Cemetery at Finchley attracted by the child's wagon which yesterday to ask about a site for a Emperor Francis Joseph used as a grave for Lady Houston.
Uttle boy.
He drove back to Erzesteld Castle for-tea.
An oṛlelal at the cemetery told "me:""""Nothing definite war “AT” ranged, but the funeral will prob“ ahly take place here on Saturday, The women said that a granc looking towards Hampstead was dcaired. Relatives are returning to-morrow to complete · arrange- ments and choose a site."
Lady Houston died of heart failure resulting from influenzal bronchitis. Two of her domestle staff are ill with influenza.
RAPID ILLNESS
She fell ill last Saturday. She went to her bedroom, filled with thinks he has been insulted. The immediately became so weak that flowers sent by admirers, and almost
challenge must be accepted.
she was unable to practise her own Drunken men have no right to famous cold cure, which is recited
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ENCILLAS DA intoxicated man can- magazine under the heading, "Lady to South America in 1937 expresa ilaclt more strongly next
not pu conaldered "honourable" in Houston's cold cure has cured year.
lies in a £25,000 'plane being the senso of tue code. Nor can a thousands-let it cure you." urunken man insult others. While inebriated he has no honour of his OWEL
ABOUT BABIES
The audience, further, seained not- to be surprised to hear that favour- able names for babies born on Christ- mas Day will be Arthur, Winifred and Norah.
But more fascinating than anyone else was Dr. Lionel Atherton, Presl- dent of the British Institute of Medical Astrology and Metaphysical Selence, who was described on the programme as the well-known West End osteopath,
He looked very grave as he ex plained to the 30 that he could not
the
It requires only a small inner dis-touch deeply on the subject of turbance to make baby fretful and Duke of Windsor "for international refuse to play. Remove this trouble reasons." But he said:
and she soon plays happily again, or sloeps restfully. A Canadian ́nurse. - tells of the treatment she found suc- cessful for her own 'cross' baby girl: "My Utile girl was a small delicate baby at birth, always constipated and cross. When she was a month old 1 bought a box of Baby's Own Tablets
"Go back to the time when Father Armintus wrote his great prophecy, and Van Helmont.
'Events which liave come about during the Crisis were written centuries ago..
"Why, did he not say, that a Rothe and was so pleased with the results child should cover him? Isn't he obtained I have used them constantly staying with a Rothschild now? The ever since, when baby has been cross, e-King belongs to the Shepherd feverish, teething, or at the first sign Kings of the Plains. Follow their of a cold. She has had no serious progress in the next 10 years." illness and": now Have a normal,
avo-year-old who has hod. no
Healthther, than Baby's Own
Tablets. Mrs. Mary E. Croath waite, Freeman, Ont
found Countless others have Baby's Own-Tablets effective for
BOTH PROPHESIED
After the address I asked Dr.
Atherton: Which of the two, Father Arminius or Ván Helmont,, made this remarkable prophecy?
Dr. Atherton said: Well, they both fretfulness, simple fevers, teething had propheces, but Van Helmont's colds, constipation, diarrhoes, upset was clearer. stomach -colle" ~and~~other, "minor
!
allments of childhood." Thicy Core 1 unked? Did Van Helmont know sweet-tasting, correct In dosage, and about_the_Rothsch:Ida (whose house are certified, safe even for the most was founded only about 150 years delicate-child-Obtainable--at nga)-and-about-King Edward? chemists ever where,
Baby's Own Tablets.
Dr. Atherton said: - I should havo
said that he used a Hebrew word
which means "Rothschild."
I asked: And King Edward?
¦ Dr. Alherlon sald:: Well, the line.
of King David.
AUSTRALIAN STATE SHORT OF FAMILY DOCTORS
YOUNG MEDICOS ARE SPECIALIZING MORE
The Australian State of New South Wales is one of the few places in the world, where the medical profession has ceased to be overcrowded. It is
now in need of reinforcements.
There are a number of subsidized positions vacant for doctors, of which the subsidies are worth £800 to 2000 a year, but according to
the Minister for Health, they cannot be illed. The Government is also find- Ing it difficult to obtain -- junior medical officers,
There are fewer general practi- toners, says "Austral" News, because young medical men are specializing more and more.
Her magazine containing the completed for the Air Minis- oure was being sold yesterday on try behind locked doors at paper placards announcing her Hatfield, Herts.
the London streets alongside news.
death. In it she wrote: “A cold by the forerunner of pneumonia and
bronchitis, and very often ends, in
death."
A close friend of Lady Houston told me last night:-
"Lady Houston's patriotic zeal for
the welfare of her country burned her up and was responsible for her death.
18-HOUR DAY
“She has been working eighteen hours a day lately, neglecting her meals and her health.
"Lady Houston took the Con- stitutional crisis to heart. She was
Outsiders are not allowed even a slimpse of the eleven-ton 260-m.p.lt, machine christened Albatross.
the RAF. are being fitted. Some
Engines of a new type going into. time this month it should make its first flight..
100 M.P.H. IN HAND.
Then a second Albatross will te built After these two have done their tests it la hoped to begin the subsidised mail service in compet tion with the French and German now running.
The British 'planes should be about 100 m.ph. faster than either the
a personal friend of the Duke French or Germann fiying boats-used Windsor. The death of King for the South Atlantic crossing. De George
V. early
In the year also Havilland's, tho builders, have ofccted her. deeply
i tentative inquiries for about fifteen "I know people have said that Albatross machines from British and Lady Houston was not a sane woman. foreign airlines. That is entirely untrue.
We understand about six are provi-. "Lady Houston was not an unsionally "booked" for British Al- balanced woman, She bad a shrewd ways. The Air Ministry have ac- business head, a lovable disposition copied, in principle, this company's i and was generous to a fault.” tender for å South American service..
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