THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937.
NARCOTIC FLOW FROM HONGKONG & CHINA
Honolulu Becomes Great. Dam Against Drug Traffic
MYSTERY RAY EFFORTS TO STAMP
FOR POPE
A London specialist, Dr. Andre Harpman, has been invited to the Vatican City to try to save the Pope's life by a mystery ray treatment. Dr. Harpman la sern above with the electrical apparutus, which is of his own invention,
ANCIENT RITES IN DISFAVOUR
INDIA TO STAMP OUT "SUTTEE”
Agra, Feb. 28. The efforts of the British and Indian governments to stamp out the ancient rite of "suttee" by which a Brahmin widow burns herself alive on the funeral pyre of her hus- band-have NOT succeeded completely, as was demons. trated recently in the pre- sence of a large crowd at a temple in Kuberpur near here.
By the time police reached the place, Musommat Kalavati, the widow of Ram Pershad, had been burnt to death, her agonizing screams drowned out by the noise of conches and cymbals in the hands of the
villagers.
Her husband had died after a long illness. Without showing any eigh of grief, Kalavati locked herself in ther room, then came out dressed in
OUT TRADE IN
DEATH PILLS
By WENDEL BURCH
"United Press" Staff Correspondent.
Honolulu, Feb. 28.
Down murky Tin Can Alley, through drab resorts, and over the "grapevine," word has gone out that the price of opium is rising.
Last October smoking oplum was trafßeltern. Orionin) dealers are seling for $300 a tin-lead and brass known to favour passenger ships for containers about the size of small delivery purposes, since their calls tobacco cans, holding six and two are more dependable, and generally thirds ounces, or 2,917 grains. That there is less chance of detection. supply in sufficient to maintain an addict 185 days, allowing 10 grains per day, which experts say is the minimum sumfelent to keep a smoker going.
Shortly afterward the price fell by some $40 a tin. Then Commander Stanley V. Parker was assigned to Honolulu to co-ordinate customs, in- ternal revenue, const guard and nar- coties law enforcement. With Com- mander Farker come a new staff.of
More important in relation to the decline in Honolulu and trans-Pacific traße has been the work of Com-| mander Parker, C. Stevenson, hend of the Honolulu narcotics. of customs, V. O. Bruco, bureau, Carl Eifter, chief inspector customa agent, and others.
Steamship Ilnes are doing their utmost to stamp out the trans-Pacifle traffic, for they may be fined as much as $30,000 for a single seizure, or $25 on ounce for oplum or other treasury agents and customs men. dangerous drugs discovered aboard
The price drop may have been ship that have not been manifested. occasioned by release in Honolulu of In one
year one line faced Anes
ለ
ຄ. large supply of opium. With totalling $74,000, Indienting size of vigorous enforcement moves in the the perinities attached to this section offing, a dealer or group of dealers of the law. might have rushed in to dispose of his stocks,
DRIVE WITHOUT FANFARE,
Now, three months Inter, the price
FLOW OF CONTRABAND
ESTIMATED
Size of the possible levies indi- eates, indirectly, the general value of
is rising. Authorities grimly remark the total narcotics trade across the that "not much of the stuff is to be Pacifle.
had at any price."! Without killing The lust annual report of
the
the
a man, and without publicity which bureau of narcotics showed that in they have shunned the Treasury 1936 major seizures and known ship- Department men have put a throt-ments in Honolulu, the Pacile
grip on
busines whose rarni-Northwest and Southwest yielded fleations and mysteries are endless. approximately 2,033 tins of opium.
Information shows that shuttling
ing At the current reputed Honolulu back and forth on passenger ships sales price-$300 a lin-value of this, from the Orient, for the most part, total would be nearly $610,000.. This are large stocks of narcotics which is wholesale price, probably 'one-
gen agents have been unable to land half the cost to the fiant consumer Secreted in false bottom trunks, hid--the addict.
den in suit-cases, stuffed in tiny This total does not include "white rubberized slik bags, wrapped in
inserted in rubber heel stuff" seizures of cocaine, morphine, plates, belts and false loethe heroin and similar narcotics, which relatively are more expensive than the most cunning places that some opium. Considerable quantities of of the world's most vicious criminals "white stuff" are taken yearly from can devise the optum, the heroin, mainland points, although little is cocaine and morphine must go on, seized in Honolulu. travelling back and forth unti "things ease up."
STRIKE HITS TRAFFICKERS
Honolulu definitely is not a dump-
ground,
point, or relay station for international narcotics Sing rings, authorities insist. The Pacife Const maritime strike
point out that through ship- has had one little-known blessing; it ment of opium and other narcotics has cut into the delivery of dope to the United States obviously
her bridal attire and with million mark on her forehead.
easier than attempts to transfer the ver-contraband here.
She informed her people she had decided to perform "suttee," bathed her husband's body with perfumed water. She brushed all protestation aside, warned the Dwe-stricken village folk that--they-would- be eternally damned if they interfered.
She then ascended the funeral pyre! where the body of her husband had been placed and herself set Il afire.
Varsity Rivalry for
Whitehall
By A Special Correspondent
HORRIBLE CRIME
IN INDIA
Jubbulpore, Feb. 28. Kudus, a Delhi Muslim. has just been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for acts of bar barism that resulted in the flesh of a 17-year-old mother, and her infant, and the forefinger of a police inspector being among the exhibits at his trial.
GRACE IN MOTION
Sixteen-year-old Cecilia Colledge, who recently won the European Championship for women, is the great British hope for the forthcoming World Championship in figure skating which commenced in London this week.
Clergy Scandals
SECRET COURTS OF INQUIRY
SHOU
HOULD clergymen use motor-cars in their pastoral
work?
If a clergyman' clothes himself like à layman and smokes a, clay pipe in the streets, is he behaving in an indecent or immodest manner?
These questions were clebated recently __at_the___Church_ Assembly, Central Hall, Westminster, during discussion of plans for setting up secret tribunals of clergy-clergyman's court martials"-to inquire into cases of misbehaviour.
and Negligence) Measure.
The plans are embodied in the Incumbents (Misbehaviour
ROMANCE
Sukhdevi, the young mother, board.
Media, Pa., Feb. 15. ed a train at Bhopal en route to visit Edwin A. Hoffman, Jr., told the relatives. As the rain gathered judge that his wife, Harriet, put cigar speed, Kudus entered the compari- butis in his coffee to humillate him. ment from the off-side. He He was granted a divorce, brandished a knife and threatened to
DEAN INGE has declared that the prizes in the great kill Suchdevi unless she submitted
professions more often go to Oxford than to Cam- bridge. This statement will have to be revised in regard to the most powerful of all professions. Oxford has lost its historic supremacy in Whitehall, and Cambridge is now the chief recruiting ground for the highest posts in the Empire.
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From the recent examination for the Administrative Class, which is often said to have more say in the government of the country than Parliament itself, the record number, including Northern Ireland, of 53 appointments 'has now been made.
Oxford won 17 and Canbridge 27, leaving only 9 to the other
universities, including 4 from London University.
In no other sphere, whether it be in Rugby or rowing, has the rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge been so keen as in the struggle for the "glittering prizes" of Whitehall.
to criminal assault.
Later he demanded her ear-rings and other ornaments. She resisted and attempted to pull the communi- cation cord. He beat her mercilessly and bit pleces from her nose, cheeks and hands. Her crying infant then was seized and Kudus, according to the evidence, cut off its nose, lps and i on eyelid.
At this stage the train reached Akedin and the girl's cries were
HERE'S THE
1937 BEACH
TRENDS H
heard, Kudus grabbed his bedding ERE'S netes for the femi-!
The Bishop of Durham (Dr. Hensley Henson) protested against the mea- sure on the ground that matters doult with in it "are not urgent."
Asking the question about a clergy- man wearing layman's clothes and smoking a clay pipe, he sald he thought that would be both indecent and immodest, but the whole of the clergy did not agree with him.
On the use of motor-cars, he said that older clergymen wero against it, but the younger men were in favour.
"My view is that the motor-car Is extremely and increasingly un- favourable to pastoral effelency," tie added,
"For a clergyman to use a motor- ear in the distressed areas in his diocese would make him invidious and would prejudice him unfavow- ably in the eyes of the parishioners." VICARS AND FILMS
The use of cars by the clergy was also referred to by the Bishop of who
and fled, but was caught. Kudus nine contingent! A scrupu Salisbury (Dr. E. N. Lovett) suddenly grabbed the Index finger of tous check-up recently reveals the caused laughter when he said:
white officer and bit it off, keeping following items on what Holly- it in his mouth until the train reached wood wear on the beach; Ujjain.
Kudus was medically certified to Ever since open competition was introduced Oxford, until be "sane and normal." recently, enjoyed almost a com-
E
plete monopoly of the appoint- ments, but it has now been toppled off its pedestal.
Cambridge has been gradually over- hauling its great rival, and five years ago-it drew level, the vacancies being, shared on a difty-fifty basis, no other university getting a look in,
A Fresh Outlook
At 'every year's examination since -1832 Cambridge had a slight lead, but this year's results conclusively estab- lah its supremacy as the main source for the supply of recruits to the. Whitehall of the future.
The predominance now secured by Cambridge will bring a fresh outlook and in different mentality to adminis- tration.
Until now, Oxford WHE always favoured In Whitehall, and nt. least 80 per cent. of the permanent heads of our great departments were Oxford men. Even the examination was arranged in consultation with Oxford and to suit the Oxford course. Only in the Foreign Omec and Diplomalle Service has Oxford main- tained its supremacy. Of seven up- pointments made as a result of the ́recent" examination; "It has ̈àlx tʊ"lts" credit, while Cambridge has only one.
Mussolini's Big Deficit
A
DEFICIT of £34,000,000 is provided for in Italy's new Budget adopted by the Fascist Cabinet, the total estimated expendi- ture being £240,000,000.
worn a
ug
"In these days of motor cars I have known a good many places where it Merle Oberon:. A printed cotton is notorious that the vicar leaves sarong, done in white florals on a before breakfast ant. does not return, brown ground, with a
I won't say lit the small hours, but matching! bandana. The sarong is worn with until after the pleture palaces have a halter top of white, linen and closed." brown oriental sandals. She wore Bishop said that trouble in a parish Referring to the tribunals plan, the this during days off while “Beloved
the fut necessarily arise from Enemy" was in progress. of Blining shortcomings of the incumbent.
"Very often a parishioner--a lay- Marlene Dietrich; An exotic loung- ing ensemble compsed of a white man-will, to use the kind of expres "Lastex" swim suit, over which is slon I have heard, 'Make hell for the black fishnet skirt. Marlene, Incumbent and get him out.”
Remarriage by clergymen after of bankruptcy presumably for public works in Abyssinia. Incidentally, there are nick for United Artists release, creating "grave scandal," were agreed to be penalties for Italians entering into "relations of a conjugal chooses a sun helmet over which is to as causes of misbehaviour to be investigated by the proposed .trl- nature with Abyssinians."
draped black fishnet, to complete her|bunals. unusual beach costume.
The Assembly adjourned. Chatterton: Ruth
The star Dodsworth" used linen crash for her favourite play suit. This is amus-rooms-blue tufts on a white ground. ingly printed with yellow fish on a Miriam always chooses a large blue green ground and sports a cape lined or red straw hat to accompany this with white terry cloth. Miss Chat- ensemble, terton's sun glasses are rimmed: In
Tilly
Losch, featured dancer in yellow and her beach shoes are car-"The Garden of Allah" is the sponsor ried out in white, green and yellow. of overalls for seashore play.. Blue Miriam. Hopkins, star of "Men Are denim-the kind that looks as it It Not Gods," a forthcoming London had been washed dozens of times-- Film production, says she'll be miss her favourlie, with natural coloured taken for a bedspread one of these wood buttons and a salmon pink days. The reason? The beach pyja- linen blouse. Wooden clog shoes to -mas she wore in Europe are made of complement this, of course, : and; a
the same candlewick used in bed-[coarse straw hat,
There is a huge increase in expenditure on the Colonies, Allah, produced by David O. Selz-divorce, and cases
whose newest film is "The Garden of
Other Increases are partly accounted for by the new milltary and naval programme, bonuses to Abyssinian campaigners and bigger premiums for large families,
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According to Dr. L. A. Chambers, of, the University of Penn- sylvania." Medical School, the high-pliched pounds produced by an Instrument such as the flute kill sorms.
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