Gunmen's £8,000
Hold-up
New York, Dec. 31.
PARK-AVENUE, New York, was the
scene of a hold-up by gunmen early to- day, a wealthy woman, Mrs. Jeanna Kerbs, being robbed of jewellery valued at £8,000.
Mrs. Kerbs was returning home from a night
club with her cousin Lester Meyer. As she was about to step from her motor-car three armed men leaped from a following car and shouted, "This is n stick-up. Don't shout and don't look at us."
The men drove Mrs. Kerbs away in her own car, together with Meyer, stopping in. a neighbouring sircet and ordering her to hand over her jewellery.
MONEY FLUNG AWAY
Mrs. Kerbs gave them a marquise diamond ring, a ruby diamond bracelet, un dmerald ruby brooch, a sapphire bracelet, and a diamond clip.
Dollar bills to the value of £4 and a watch which were handed over by Meyer were flung down contemptuously by the gunmen, who returned to their own car and sped away.
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937.
WHAT SEERS FORETELL FOR 1937
By SPECIAL REPORTER
Gaze into my crystal globe with me, Gone is the past—the future yet to be. Now in the maze of glinta and sparkles here
I see the coric ómena of the coming year.
London, Dec. 31.
HEYDAY of soothsayers is here again. In their mystic dens there is a feverish burst of foretelling. Pro- Clairvoyants phets linger overtime in their trances. peer into the mists of the New Year which begins to-
morrow.
One nged seer thrust a poker into the fire which smouldered beside her. She closed her eyes. in the cramped room, draped with Oriental Madame's ejes carpets, only the sizzle of boiling water was audible. opened. She gazed into a'crystal globe that rested in a wooden chalice, half covered with a velvet cloth.
"Nineteen thirty-seven unfolds before me, I see tragedies by sea On and land, hurricanes that will cause great loss of life in Britain. the Continent I see trouble and bloodshed,
"Germany" will declare war against Russia between March and May. Grave danger. But In autumn there is danger for Great Britain. Britain will emerge unscathed. The Empire will be strengthened.
"in Spain, all will be calm by the beginning of May. Neither army there is haze, will be victorious. "General France will disappear
I cannot see where. King Alfonso will come back to Spain again."
DUKE OF WINDSOR'S ROMANCE HAS PARALLEL
Vienna, Dec. 31.
both of them, while inspecting the gorrison of Surajevo, fell victims to Gavrilo Princip's shots which pre- cipitated the world war.
A royal love affair, re- sembling in many respects
Like Rudolf. Francis Ferdinand the romance of King Edward was given his last resting place in and Mrs. Simpson which the Capucine's vault, while his con- sort, because legally no member of brought about
FOR
1937
South Coast suge OR a
means "n terrible earthquake
Women Fight Patent 'Honour' Code Leather
To Save Girl SHOES
New York, January 1.
FTER a second trial, Edith Maxwell, 22-year-old Virginia schoolteacher, has gone to serve 20 years in prison for killing her father.
And the twelve stern farmers, who sent her there, as Jurymen, are satisfied that they have faithfully ob- mountains-"Farents are always right."
served the nge-honoured dictum of the Blue Ridge
Edith stayed out with her sweetheart after ▷ o'clock one evening Inst July.
When she got back to her mountain home her father tried to punish her.
THE BLOW She defended herself with a high-heeled shoe-struck him on the head, with It...
A few hours later the father, Trice Maxwell, was found dead in bed.
The girl pleaded in self-defence that he was in- toxicated, and not only tried to punish her but threatened to kill her mother.
The mother and a sister corroborated. Edith's attorney suggested that Trigg Maxwell tell while intoxicated and struck his head.
After the girl's first trial, when she was ordered 25 years prison, women's organisations throughout the Continent protested against the rigid conventions of the hillmen.
The sentence, was nnnulled by the new trial Supreme Court and a ordered.
Millions of women continued the campaign on Edith's behalf. They pald for her defence.
that will iny Spain in ruins. It will "LOST". PATROL
strike in March. When it is over the former King and Queen of Spain will go back as King and Queen,
"At Coronation time, something | will fall from a lilch building London that will strike diamay Into the hearts of the people. It will be like a huge cross attached to a great structure.
"In June there will be a sensation- al exposure of an important person:
"On the 11th of each month there
will be a series of disasters."
£1
NOTHER southsayer rested against constitu- the imperial family, was buried in A highly coloured cushions in 4
the cemetery of a monastery on the re-lit room shrouded with black Danube,
This cruel arrangement was order-arras. In place of crystal globe she Addled with a fountain pen as she ed by the old emperor who was in foretold: placable in matters of etiquette, and in
tional crisis in Great Britain, ended in woe to Austria's im- perial family 47 years ago."
Austrians reading about the dramatic developments in London, recall the gloomy "tragedy of Mayerling" in which the only son of emperor Francis Joseph and his lover, beautiful baroness Mary Velsera found a terrible end.
spite of the archduke's wish, ex- pressed in his last will, to sleep the eternal sleep alde by side with his beloved wife, as they had been in separable during their lives.
SAFE
On Raft in Papuan
River
SEARCH PARTY RECALLED
Port Moresby (Papua), Jan. 15. After being "missing" for almost three months in the Papuan moun- tains, the Government patrol, led by Mr. Ivan Champion, is now reported to be safe.
1
.
formarch party which was sent
A wireless message just received here states that the patrol is rafting "People with investments in any down
the Purari River and wili thing underground will make fabu- lous money in 1937... The Spanish reach the coast lo-day. The mes- Inage adds that the patrol has been war will be over in May. November a railroad wreck on the highly successful in every respect. nolable It has had no trouble with the no- children of the couple are the Continent will kill two
lives. All are well and much in- duke and the Princess of Hohenberg Britons....There will be a throwing
ίπ China-thousands formation has been gained. who, naturally, have no right of suc-up of earth
The will be killed;---- cession to the throne.
Mesalliances and morganatic mor- rlages
have been frequent occur On the morning of January 31st, rences in the history of the Habsburg
family. 1889, the blood-covered bodies of
As far back as in the first half of Crownprince Rudolf, 41 years old the 18th century, Ferdinand, duke of heir
Up the Austro-Hungarian Tyrol, third son of Europe's mightiest thrones, and of his young black-
the "sun never set" murried commoner, a
Philippine Welser, rich Augsburg mer- daughter of chant.
Weiser probably was the wealthiest
haired paramour, with shot wound.onarch. Charles V., in whose huge tinent, but they will dwindle away."
in the heads, were found in the sleeping room of the prince'a hunting-lotte-at-Mayerling, 25 miles from Vienna.
The night before, the couple had beld a gay banquet there with number of young aristocrats, close! friends of the archduite.
in
the
+
To-day's sentence a reduction of five years-was their small measure of success.
But they are fighting on.
They seek yet another trial in a higher court, hoping to smash the cast-iron code of the mountains.
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Two Pianos-Marina Barretto and Harry Ore,
THE AERIAL AMATEURS
Radio Programme Broadcast by wavelength of 353 Z.B.W. ce &
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12.30 Concert Items.
1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1,03 Dance Music.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press;
1.40 De Groot and His Orchestra. Weather, Time and Announcements,
2 p.m. Vocal Gems. 2.15 Close Down.
Dos
Ojra
"I see terrible-flamur great fire out to loot for the patrol has now in New York in June. Britain will been recalled.
Early this year the patrol set out have good luck and prosperity fol- lowing impending disaster. A threat to explore fertile high valleys popu- of trouble from India will be miraculated by a white-skinned race dis- covered last year by a British ex- lously put right in autumn.
"Wans will break out on the Can-pedition under Mr. Jack Hides.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. The transport officer of the patrol From another came these prognos- was Mr. James Adamson, of Devon,"
7 p.m. Russian Music.
back; My and included in the party were
You've come Lications:-
and thirty Doughs (Wertinsky)....Alcander
Polke "I see a new Prime. Minister for twelve native police
Wertinsky (tenor); Britain. He comes from the mid-hen they reached the Leonard (Russian Air)....Russian Balalaika lands. He is a thick-set man, bald
cast of the Orchestra; An Old Waltz; A Storm inun of his time: his properties in-headed, with tufts of hair about Murray Mountains,
Purar! River, in Als cluded the vast stretches of land in
cars. greyish hair
months supplies and were ex- South America which today form temples, and grey eyes.
pected to return to the const in the Venezuelan republic.
"There will be a birth in the Royal September. Family, ...
Some time after they were overdue (Michailowaky).... Suddenly in the midst of this natives found in of disinfectant laika Orchestra; Minutolchka (Wer- Madame's eyes shifted from the sky floating on the waters of the Lower Purari, above the highest European "You, you are in danger. You settlement. should have been a detective," she said. And that was where I decided to let 1937 lake care of itself.
The morganntic marriage between Ferdinand and Philippine was a very happy one.
to me.
at
bis
thr
ROYAL HUSBAND
When the party broke up late in
The couple Invested Philippine's the night, none. of the guests sus- pected that they had assisted to immense dowry in the construction of beautiful buildings and in the farewell-forever celebration.
Rudolf's body was taken to the bringing together of a matchless col- Imperial palace in Vienna and then lection of arms which, incidentally customary royal inter furnished the main stock of the burled with the buried
the world's most famous armouries, that of vault honours
of the Capucines' church, the last resting of the Madrid Prado and place of the Habsburg family, while Vienna Hofburg collection.
was Interred Another famous romance with the the unfortunate girl
lage cemetery,
happened in the first part of Just Strictest secrecy was imposed by century, the emperor upon all persons con- Archduke John, nected with the drama, while the Emperor Franels and uncle of Marle official version was given out that Louise, the great Napoleon's second the archduke and the baroness had consori, fell in love with and married
Plochl,
postmaster's the fallen victims to an accident.
the village The truth, however, soon leaked daughter in
of cut: but, us all involved persons Wolfgang faithfully kept the secret, details of The couple lived happily in Graz consequence of the possibility of her the tragedy remained a mystery until where they Inst year, when the recollections of
without ceremony at night in a vil-happy end of a morganatic marriage FOR PRINCESS
Anna
brother of
bequeathed
ELIZABETH
May, they had ussium Vagabonds; --Kanawka-
Later the discovery of a deserted raft, definitely the property of the patrol, on the_same_river, caused anxiety as to the safety of the ex- pedition, which it was feared had met with disaster in the dangerous
rapids of the Pururi.
Over a fortnight ago
a combined
land and air search for the missing
patrol was instituted.-Reuter.
London, Jan. 16. EX-CONVICT'S
Speculation as to a possible future St. royal husband for Princess Elizabeth has already arlsen in London as n Ane becoming Queen of England.
the crownpriner's widow appeared museum, the Johanneum, to the city with those of most of Europe's royal;
which contained a full account of the sad affair.
It was a concerted double suicide because of the impossibility to have their union legalized.
The prince first shot his lover and thereupon himself.
Since 1881 Rudol
romances of
nasumed the
And
composer Toselli.
Recent talk hos linked her, namel
youngsters.in
monarchs.
POSE AS SECRET SERVICE MAYÒR
major and defrauded a widow ago was sentenced to twelve months'
year. He
(Techesnokoff);
Dudica
hoir; Russian Potpourri Hassian Bala-
C (arr. Jaroff)......Bun
735-Saliv
the Circus
Wertinsky linsky).... Alexander
(arr. Schwurtz) (tenor); ...Russian Novelty Orchestra; Ti edes plannin, Romanta.
7.30. Stock Quotations.
Vocal Queen....Warner and Darnell; Piono Solos-Piano Hits-Fox-Trot Med- ley; Waltz Medley....Burton Brown: Vocal-These foolish things. Muolau Lant....Andy lona and his Greta Keller; Hav
Hawaiian-Nohea 1
Solo Serenade Islanders; Organ (Heykens)....Quentin M. MacLean; Vocal--I'm an old cow-hand from the Rio Grande....The Rocky Moun- taineers;
"Rise
Orchestra-"Stars
over and
Broadway"-Selection;, Shine" Selection...... .Sydney Kyte and His Plecadilly Hotel Bund.
8 p.m. Time Weather, ond. An- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. From the Studio. Maurice Dufour and His Piano- Accordeon.
.Habsburg Among unhappy
were of the last decades
When 12-year-old Peter became AN ex-convict who posed as a he mesalliance of Francis Joseph's
1. La Marche de l'Aviation; 2.. cousin, archduke Leopold, who, after King of Yugoslavia two years
Sourire d'Avril; 3. Chanson Kan- resigning from the imperial family, rumour suggested Elizabeth, as his hard inbour at Reading recently.
bride in several years. That would of "copold nume
He was John Belinger Saunders, tennise; 4. Garde-moi ton amour; Woelding." and married Wilhelmina be impossible if Elizabeth ascended
be axed 40, Delamere-terrace, W., who 5. Gardenia Tango; -&-Gracieuse. smail the throne, since both would daughter of a Adimovitch,
plended guilty to obtaining £21] 8.20 Three Songs by Raymond lud been Moravian shopkeeper, only to bo Crown Prince Michael of Rumonia, from Mrs. Jane Clark, of Priory- Nowell (Baritone). married 10 Princess Stephanie divorced from her a few years later,
Caversham, by falce pre- Down in Demerara (Traditional): daughter of King Leopold II, of
the affair of his sister, crown-who is 15, and Crown Prince Boudoin avenue,
to-night (Grey, Let me love you Belgium:
Superintendent W. Osborne said Waller and Tunbridge); Here's to reasons. Prince similar This had not been a love match,princess Louise of Saxony, who, after of Belgium, age six, have been ruled Lences. eloping with Giron, French teacher out for
Boudoin's two-year-old
brother, that in 1933 Saunders met Mrs. Life (Talbot and Atkinson). but a marriage for state reasons, of her children, married the Italian Prince Albert, remains a possibility Clark. He said he was Major Jack 8.30 From the Studio. "The arranged by the two governments.
Others mentioned were:
Beresford; of the RAF. Later he Aerial Amateurs." 1. Both Leopold and Louise died Inf Practically from the first day, the
Jaw The nephews of King Christian of disappeared, and Mrs. Claric
8.55 London-News and An- union had been unhappy ,but
nouncements. Another love romance which ended Denmark, Prince Gorm, 17, and no more of him until February this Emperor Francis Joseph, for dynastie recent years in extreme poverty.
then said he had been 9.15 From the Studio, A Re- ne well as for religious reasons, in bloody drama marked the begin-Prince Claf, 13.
Prince Philippe, 15, second cousin abroad with the Royal Air Force cital for two planos by Marina
and had been invalided home with Barretto and Harry Orc would never have consented
ning of the present dynasty In Yugo- of King George of Greece. divorce of the crownprincial couple. slavia.
Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, an injured foot. Eleven years after her first hus
King Alexander Obrenovitch of
Solos-ist Movement of Sonata 15, or his
"As a matter of fact,” sald Super- Prince Charles, 0. brother bard's trogle
Stephanie Serbin fell in love with Dragn Moshin, death,
intendent Osborne,, he had been No 31 (Beethoven); Nocturne; Valse The. Ex-Kalser's grandson, Prince married a Hungarian nobleman, wife of an officer in the Serbian army William Vietor, 17.
serving tiree years' penal servitude (Tschaikovsky)... Harry Ore: Count Elemer Longsy.
and, after she had obtained a divorce,
at Fentonville,"
Double Plano-Romance with Varin- Upon the disappearance of crown made her his
queen,
Saunders represented that he had lonx Op. 51 (Grieg).......... Marino prince Rudolf, the emperor's distant Morals, provmiling at the court Yugoslavia, Prince Tomislav, eight, been on secret intelligence work for Barrelto, and Harry Ore,
9.45 the War Offee, und promised Mrs. } nephew, archduke Francis Ferdinand when Draga was the country'-ist and Prince Andrel, seven.
The London Palladium became heir to the throne.
Indy," however, soon so disgusted
Clark marriage. He said he was Orchestra, Francis Ferdinand contracted the army that a conspiracy SVAK
getting, his final discharge from the "London Again"-Suile (Eric morganatle marriage with countess formed among the officers to put an
R.A.F. and would receive a RTB Contes); No. 1-Langham Place; No. Sofia Chotek whose, family belonged end to the dynasty.
Italian Walks Out tuity. He obtained nearly 2003-Oxford Street: Childhood Mc- to the minor Czech gentry.
from Mrs. Clark.
marles Corr, Somers). Jerusalem, Jan. 1.
10 p.m. Big Ben. Dance Music. The Italian Consul-General.
11 p.m. Close Down. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
to
The brothers of King Peter of
0
Four cases of Small-pox.with two
In a dark spring night, 1003, the The archduke fell in love with conspirators penetrated the "Konak," Soda at first sight when he met her use royal palace, killed both king and at the court of his aunt, the Empress, queen by revolver shots and threw Count Quinto Mazzolini, walked deaths, eight cases of Diphtheria where the young Czech was mold of their bodies from the window. lionour,
Thereupon parliament elected out to-day at the recaption at with three-deaths, three cases of With great pertinacity and with Peter Karageorgevitch, grandfather Government House to the Pales- Scarlet fever, eight cases of Typhold with two deaths, four cases of the help of Empress Elizabethi who of the present king an elderly tine Royal Commission, on the Meningitis with three deaths, and very much liked the soft quiet black-gentleman who had led a retired
the occasion of its opening meeting 1 deaths from Tuberculosis, were eyed mald, Franels Ferdinand over emigrant's life in Geneva, to came the resistance of his Imperial Servian throne.
He stated afterwards, "I left be reported to the local Health authori uncle to a morganntic marriage. A number of years passed, before cause the seat. of the Abyssinian ties last week. Da Monday, six cuses of Diphtheria, one caso or The wedding took place in 1900, Great Britain recognised the new Consul was placed next to mine. and never a cloud threw a shadow government, which was widely term consider this a serious failure of puerperal fever, upon the couple's marital happiness ed by the Briush press is regime respect, which I shall not tolerate. Small-pox (Imported) were
reported. until the fatal June 28th, 1914, when of murderors." —United Prest.
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