THE
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20,
1937.
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Girl Blames Choirboy Lover For Murder
HE SAYS
'SHE DID
IT-I
WATCHED'
ONLY
New York, Feb. 12. NLY a few months ago seventeen-year-old Gladys Macknight and choir- boy Donald Wightman, aged eighteen, were sweethearts.
Then the hatchet murder of Gladys's mother, Mrs. Helen Macknight, in Jersey City, New Jersey, caused their arrest.
They were lodged in separate prisons. They did not meet again until to-day, when the Jersey Cy Court met to pick a jury to sit in Judgment on them,
IGNORED EACH OTHER Gladys, frozen-faced, come court first.
inla
Wightman, pale and nervous, sat beside her. This was no lovers raceting.
and
They ignored each other then each instructed counsel to accuse the other of committing the crime.
"Will the jury belleve I never even touched the hatchet," said Gladys, putting all the blame on her sweet- heart.
"I was an unwilling witness of the crime," said Wightman, recanting on his first story that he killed Mrs. Macknight in self defence.
HONEYMOONERS
George Goncharoff and his talented pupil, Stella Best, will present some interesting dancing in Chorenrtlum at the King's Theatre on
April 1.
Rescued Bishop
SELECT TAHITI No Income Tax, Rush Or Rt.
Bustle in South Sea
Island
Sydney, Feb. 10.
Ate
Old Seals in Battle
Rev. Peter Falaize Has High Praise for Aviator
Against Starvation
Who Brought Clerical Party Out From Aretic Coast
Edmonton, Feb. 9.
Such hardships as tramping seventy miles over frozen tundra and eating "old seal" while faced with starvation on the Arctic Coast wero indicated as merely "incidents" by Rt. Rev. Peter Falaize, when the veteran to-day. He arrived in Edmonton on Thursday by airplane. Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop of the Muckenzio was interviewed here
The forty-nine-year-old prelate,
VERY GOOD FLIGHT
A honeymoon trip to Tahiti, the largest of the Society Islands group in the Pacific, has led Mr. and Mrs. Z. de Havas, of Buenas Aires, to the resolve to spend the rest of their lives there.
who, with a clerical party, was res "It was a very good fight. He Mrs de llavas, is an Englishwoman cued by airplane from the isolated came over from Aklayik In that and her husband Hungarian. While mission on the Hornaday River, storm in three and a half hours," in Sydney on their way to Buenos about 1,700 miles northwest of Bishop Falaize said of Berry's 350- Alres to settle up their affairs, Mr. Edmonton, praised the courage of mile jump along the Arctic Const to and Mrs. de Havas
explained they Pilot Matt Perry in making the most the post, despite continuous storms were going to Tahiti because there is northerly Winter, flight on record..... A fear of war in Tahiti, no income tax, no rush, bustle, of fruit and without
fish
din, plenty cost, plenty of Chinese servants, and people need only work when they feel like it.
When they reached Tahiti on their honeymoon trip, they intended to stay three weeks, but they remained three ycars,
"Life can be spent there in a round of canoeing, swimming and moun- taineering," Mrs, de Havas said.
HE
LOVED
'
English As She Is Spoke
· AMUSING SIGNS
IN TOKYO
T
and the fact he had to make the night during the three hours of daily twilight
"I did not thinis a pilot could do " he added.
Questioned about the return fight under
similar conditions when the party was forced to cump out over- night in sub-zero weather with a bitter wind blowing, Bishop Falalze admitted "it was cold but we did not mind."
INTENDED FOR DOGS The Bishop told of having to est ment from a seal, “which had been In the water (dead) a long time. Its eyes were gone and it was pretty
this old seal," he added.
We are informed by the Tokyo bad. It had been saved for the daily newspaper, the Hochi Shim-dogs, but when their mission ship was b, that some of the intelli-Coast, they could find no scals and marooned in icefees along the Arctic HIS. SHIP gentsia, shocked by the number the supply of flour and beans ran
of sign-boards in "Nipponese out. New York, Feb. 10. English" found in the streets of We had to shoot the dogs and cat CLIFFORD CLARK is going back Tokyo, are about to launch a to sea on Wednesday for all time, crusade to get rid of such ad- Ile was an engineer officer aboard the German liner Vaterland when vertisements, which in their eyes the United States Government inade constitute a national shame. her the Leviathan.
He served in her thirteen years: 1ish is in preparation for the 1040
This campaign for improved Eng when she was laid up Clark kept his Olympic Games. One editor, how- job. He svas one of the skeleton ever, seems to be of the opinion that Watching the ship rot at a pler be eliminated, Tokyo would lose one should all these queer English signs broke his heart. Ho gassed himself. of its outstanding tourist attractions.
The steamer President Roosevelt will carry him to sea on Wednesday
indeed, sometimes raise It docs, for burial in mid-Atlantic.
one's
spirits to acc a sign "Milk Hole" for
"Milk Hall" and "Head Cutting" in red letters proudly dis- played in a barber's window.
crew,
Princesses Take
One. of the leading department stores in a campaign to popularise
Swimming Lessons low-priced ready-made suits put out
EVERY VISIT
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ian Ihvaltniänt. In Good Appearance
a huge sign reading "Please On Mald," and a friend tells me that for Princess Elizabeth and Princess years a fashionable taller here had Margaret, watched by the Queen, a sign "Foreign have recently been receiving swim-Upstairs." On a restaurant menu
Ladies Has Fits ming lessons from Miss Daly, instruc-short while ago I read "coups dif- tress of the women's section of the ferently," Bath Club.
and recently a receipt It has been announced that the tanks for your patrons."
came from a grocer saying "with Queen: has consented to become
colourful "English" signs and ac-atmosphere of this modern shop. It would seem a pity if all these You'll like the friendly, home-Uke knowledgments should vanish from the Tokyo scene.
patroness of the women's section of the club. The King is patron of the
club.
Chinese Stage "Sit-Down" Protest on Car Tracks in Calgary
A
Calgary, Feb. 0.
SCORE of destitute Chinese staged a "alt-down" protest in the middle of the street car tracks on Eighth Avenue, the city's main thoroughfare, this afternoon..
The Orientals, homeless and receiving but $1.12 a week from the Alberta Rellet Commission, squatted between the car tracks, holding up tram and motor traffic as a throng of Saturday shoppers lined the sidewalks to view the unusual protest; Police soon re- moved the demonstrators,
It was the first sit-down" protest in the history of Calgary.
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