THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY
8,
1938.
£1,000,000 FOR
. Left
L
WOMEN
Fortune By
By Their Champion
ANDORRA SAYS NO
TO BEER
BARON'
Bourg-Madame (Eastern Pyrenees).
TIGER KID SIKOWSKY,
the man in search of a country, received another setback to-day, when Andorra, miniature republic! in the Pyrenees, gave him the cold shoulder.
Sikowsky, beer multi-millionaire, wanted in the United States for lax arrears and under notice to quit recently France, was brought here
by two French police inspectors who hoped to deliver him in Andorra anci be rid of him.
"I GIVE UP"
This morning they phoned the prefect of police in, Andorra and told The him they would be arriving. prefect replled that Andorra did not want Sikowsky.
"I give up," was Sikowsky's comment when he heard the news. "I'm sick of being pushed around and I'm going to leave it to the French police. It's up to them now to and he some- where to go."
The latest plan is to try to get Sikowsky info Luxembourg, and this afternoon the two police inspectors Jell here to return to Marseilles' to see what they could arrange.
"If I can go to Luxembourg that's O.K.," said Sikowsky. "If not; guess I shall try the Irish Free State.
"Let the French police now."
worry
Duce Appeals To Vatican To Aid "More Babies" Campaign
"ONLY
BIC FAMILIES BIG BATTALIONS"
WHERE THE WHITE WINTER REIGNS.-Photograph taken at one of the Continental Winter resorts, where the scason is now in full swing. This charming English girl shows the casiest way of reaching the skiing grounds.
FORCED WASHING, SEEKS DIVORCE
SCIENTIST,
TO DO
New York.
Explorer, world expert on fossils, author of "A Catalogue of Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum," where at one time he worked, 35-year-old Dr. George Gaylord Simpson, was set _to_wash_baby_napkins by his wife, and now he wants a
divorce.
He is suing on grounds of "intolerable cruelty," and YIELD he seeks the custody of the children.
Bishops and priests of the Catho- lic Church were asked by Signor Mussolini recently to use their in- fluence in the "nore babies" cam- paign.
The Duce told them:-"Only big families yield the big battalions, without which victories are not won."
The Duce asked the priests to co- operate with him in preventing the now of people from the country to the towns, as well as to urge their | parishioners to have mure children.
"It in the duty of Italy, a Catholic nation, to be a bulwark of Christian civilisation by her intrinsic strength and by her high birth-rate," he said. The Duce made his appeal when he received Co Hallan Bishops and 2,000 parish priests at the Palazzo Venezia, his Rome residence.
Signor Mussolini (anys i correspon- dent of The Scolainan) referred to
the patriotism which had been shown
by the Italian clergy in the struggle
of
"My Wife"-By.
The Duke of Kent
Sald the Duke of Kent, speak- ing of his wife at a pubile dinner in Athens:
"Greece hiss elven me a wife. The full extent and nature of the Duchess' influence over me I shall probably never know: 1
in as Incalculable as the Hellenic Influence over elvilisation.
"The much I do certainly know. It is the best influence."
Reuler.
the Italian people against the HIGH SHERIFF
"Abyssinian hordes and the hordes
of sanctionists."
He recalled the way in which the DIES
priests had contributed their gold
when the gold drive was instituted
In Italy at the beginning of sanctions GIVES
in November 1935, and the way in which they urged the people to re- sistance" against sanctions. They: had also made a valuable contribu- tion to the national nutarchy cam- paign by helping and encouraging peasants to produce wheat,
GERMAN
DIRTII-KATE
'Still Much Below Level Sought By Naxls
Dr. Guett, the head of the Health Department in the German Ministry of the Interior, states in a newspaper article that the German birth-rate, despite the increase resulting from Herr Hiller's measures, Is stilt 11 per cent. below the level necessary for the maintenance of the population. In 1932-33 the deficit was as much as 30 per cent.
He declares that "If the system of two children or one-child familles had been allowed to continue the German peoplo would pruetlenily have died out in ten generailons."
AS HE
TOAST
Mr. F. P. Robjent, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, collapsed and died white proposing a toast at a civic re- ception to Sir William Firth at Ebbw Vale last month.
Dr. Simpson fold this to the court at Bridgeport, Connecticut, where
his action is being heard,
ז
ONE WILL GET £530,000
TWO millionaires whose
wills were published in London recently left £9,000 to men £1,130,000 to women..
The Exchequer £772,000.
E RADIO
BROADCAST
BR
Old Popular Songs Revival.
From the Studio ROTARY SPEECH
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of 845 k.e'a. 0.02 m.c's. per second.
H.K.T.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service John's af Intercession from SL + Cuthedral.
12.30 Frances Langford (Vocal).
Rap Tap On Wood (from 'Born to Dance); I've Got You Under My Skin (from Born to Dance'); Deep
Shadows (Mesiclil-White).
12.40 Hawaiian Music.
takės Chiquita, Waltz (Wayne); Drifting And Dreaming (Gillespie)....Ferera und
Pauluhi (11awaiian Guitar
Sir George Fowler, seventy-nine-Duet); Rock Me In A Cradle Of year-old London solicitor, champion Kalua (Wending); Maybe It's The Moon (Whiting)....Frank Ferera's of wemen's rights, one of the first
Trio: Honolulu March. men to brief a woman barrister. has Jawallan
Kolala March...Ferera and Paaluh! left his entire fortune to women.
The total of his estate was £1.621.- (lawallin Guitars). 096,
Estate duty amounted 4427,730. o is divided among
About £450,000
14
£5.000
his three daughters, Mrs. Winifred Jefford Ged- Jefford Cullis, Dorothy des, and Irfa Jefford Ross.
He leaves them another
. and £5,000 to his wife, und tros ins marriage settlement and s he had already innde her. He her £10,000 in the hope will apply it in any man- Emp. died in a memorandum by
***
'IDEAL WOMAN'
Lady Fowler is travelling back from Egypt in the liner Oronsay. Sir George had known her from the day she was born. He was then more than thirty years old.
He married her, as his second wife in 1931, at the age of seventy- three. A friend stated after his death, "In Lady Fowler he had the ideal companion for his hos- pitable, kindly, genial nature." Mr. Leonard Dunsham Cunliffe, of Micklehum, Surrey, and Trellisick, Truro, left £48,050. He bequeath
of
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
1.03 Variety. Vocal-Dolorea (Slevler and Thayer);, Home Again (from 'Benu Liful Dolores')....Percy Manchester (Tenor) with Churus; Dance Orches- Ira-Hot Pic-Third Helping....The Six Swingers directed by George Wood; Vocal-Yours And Mine (alm Broadway Melody of 1938'); I'm Feelin' Like A Million (8lm Broad- way Melody of 1938')...Hildegarde: Dance Orchestra Eccentric-No- velty Quick Step: Three Brass Bells -Novelty Quick Step....Henry Hall and His Orchestra.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.
Rotary Tiffin 1.40 Relay of the Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel. Speaker: B. Wylle, Esq. Subicet Pretty Pictures."
2.15 Close Down. 8.00-7.00 Chinese Program.me. 7.00 Dance Muste.
Fox-Trots-Can't We Be Friends: Peckin' (film! New Faces of 1837).. ed to his step-daughter, Mrs. Ida..Benny Goodman and His Orches Copeland, wife of a Stoke-on-Trent tra; Tangos-Jalousie.....Xavier pottery manufacturer, property In Cugat and its Hotel Waldorf-Astoria .Henry King his Orchestra; Tu Sais. Cornwall, and the residue
10 ap-and His Hotel Pierre Orchestra; Fox- estate on trust, amounting proximately £530,000.
Trots The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed (flm The Singing Marine'); Swing, Swing. Dear Mother-In-Law ..George Elrick and His Swing Music Makers; You Can't Stop Mo From Dreaming: You've Gottu Take Your Pick And Swing (Dlm 'Let's Make a Night of It')....George Elrick and His Swing Music Makers.
He gave annuities to his butler and
cach a gardener, and £200
to his boatman, chauffeur,
and another gardener.
BAGPIPES NOT FOR
WOMEN
BANOF LONDON-
SOCIETY LEADER OF GIRLS'
BAND REPLIES
Are women strong enough to blow He also said his wife's temper was the bagpipes?
so violent that he had often been This question has been discussed obliged to flee from home and spend by the Scottish Piping Sety, of
.....
7.25 London Relay-All Kinds of People'-3:
'My Work as a Theatrical Monager and Agent. A talk by Bert Aza.
7.45 Variety.
Vocal Sympathy (lm Fireßy'). ....Richard Touber (Tenor); Or- chestra Hide And Seek'--Selection (EB)....New Mayfair Orchestra- cond, by Ronnie Munre; Vocal--Elsie Carliste Medley....Elsie Carlisle.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements. of 8.03 Studio-Revival
Some Old Popular Songa' by J. C. AL. G. and C. ž. A. H.
8.18 Musical Comedy Selections. The Dubarry'--Selection.... New
Crawley
the night biding "in a nervous state" London, which has assisted in mak- Light Symphony Orchestra cand. by among the paleontological specimens ing arrangements for a national pip- Will Lachner: Careless Rapture" in the British Museum.
ing contest tu be held in London this (Novello-Hassall): Love Made The
Song....Sybli
and Eric Dr. Simpson, who is now Curator tunth. of Paleontology in the American It is a rule of the Society that only Starling (Vocal Duet); Music In May Dorothy Dickson (Soprano): Muscum of Natural History, told maics are eligible for membership.... how he met his wife, Lydia Frances and no change is to be made, despite Out Of The Bottle-Selection (LC-
they Pedroja, when
were both the growth in the number of women vant, Grey and Ellis); "Tell Her The Truth' Selection (Waller and Tun- geology students at Colorado Uni- pipers. versity.
It has not yet been decided whether bridge)....New Mayfair Orchestra.
8.40 Keith Falkner (Baritone), They were married in 1923, but women will be permitted to enter the Lydia's passion for fossils quickly competition but an offelal said re-
(film Mayfair San Diego Betty waned and she began to press him to cently that he doubted if any would
Melody'): Without The Moon (film abandon scientific work and make wish to compete with men.
Melody'); Wings (alm. "It's not the thing for a woman to 'Mayfair blaw the pipes, and it's unbeerd of Mayfair Melody'). for her to belang to a society," he]
more money.
TEMPER
50 GIRL PIPERS "Women
He went to work at the British added. Museum in 1920, but his wife would not live in London. He rented a heuse in Northern France for her and the children, but she turned that down and took an expensive villa on the Riviera, too far away for him to vis!! the children.
FOUR GIRLS
manager
8.50 Variety.
Comedienne-I Think Of What are making plenty of You Used To Think Of Me (Turk, noise in the world nowadays without Hanley and Lyman); Like The Big their taking up the bagpipes," was Pots Do
(Long).. .Gracie Fields; another view expressed by a London Dance Orchestra-The Girl in The Society offelal. He recalled that Hansom Cab-Comedy Waltz I'm A there was a time-following the '45 Little Prairie Flower Comedy Fox- Rebellion-when the playing of the Trot. Jack Harris and His Orches- Thereafter began the lestal tussle by was made punishable by death, tra (Vocalist: Elsie Carlisle); Sketch
even in Scotland.
W. Effects The Steamboat Trip supporter of women pipers, how- (The Two Cockney Kids); Vocal- which the doctor sought to gain cus-
J. W. Gmves, We're Still Single To-day....Ethel tody of the four girls, the eldest 14 ever, was the Rev. and the youngest elight.
of the Dagenham Giri Revnell and Grnele West; Dance Or- Mood Fox-Trot; During this time Mrs. Simpson Pipers. He told me that the impres-chestra --Cryin'
Love-Fox-Trot. was contiged in a anatorium Insion that the cfcient skirling of the Pardon My
Vocal California, but escaped and The toast was that of "The Visi-
was pipes called for the lungs of a Bft Futs' Waller and His Rhythm; sane. declared
Highlander was "totally erroneous," A Tender Sung (Fenyes-Amberg) tors."
Mr. Hobjent had just quoted the
(Hens-Misraki- Dr. Simpson told the court his wife "By for the greater proportion of You Passed Me By
needed, he Bennetekl)......Iferbert E. Groh Biblical reference to the valley of once caused a crowd to gather in the physical exercise
of the (Tenor): Accordion Band-Wind And dry bones" description he applied Times Square, New York, by hitting muld, is of the arms, not to Ebbw Vale before Sir William Firth, him with her fists. Both he and she lungs. The blowing is a compara-Waves (Zander): My Rhythm (Mun- and his company cane and put new were arrested. She caused a similar tively slight part of the performance. tonius).....Jungherr's
"There are 50 giris in our three Melodians. life into it when his head stridenly row when she visited him in London. I dropped.
He said his wife compelled him Dagenham bands. They begin to to allow her to undergo a sterilisa-learn the pipes when 13, preparatory (on operatían.
to entering one of the bonds, and all The doctor's counsel caused a son- of them use full-sized bagpipes." He was carried to an adjoining sation by announcing that the wife's room where a doctor attended him.ter, Mrs. Mary Pedroja, waula Ten minutes later it was announced testify for him.
Listeners thought he was pausing. Then, before assistance could reach him, he fell headlung.
that he was dead, and the rest of the programine was abandoned.
Among the guests were Lord Austin, Lord Portal, Sir George Gillett, Com- missioner for Special Areas, and Mr. Aneurin Bevan, M.P.
YALE DIVIDED
During evidence by Professor Dun-
EXCOMMUNICATED
ABYSSINIAN PRIMATE
Calro.
Accordion
9.30 London Relay-The News. 0.50 Beethoven-Sonata In R
Flat Major, Op. 22 played by Artur Schnabel (Piano).
10.15 Beethoven-Symphony No. 7 In A Major, Op. 92.
Played by the Philharmonic Sym-
ducted by Arturo Toscanini.
11.00
Close Down,
bar, of Peabody Museum, Yale Uni-CHOSEN BY ITALIANS phony Orchestra of New York con- versity, where Dr. Simpson formerly worked, it became clear that Yale is Mr. Robjent, who was aged about divided into two camps over the The Coptle Holy Synod to-day ex- 12, was a stockbroker.
aellon. Professor Dunbar told the communicated the Abuna Abram, the The story of the vision of "The Court that he too bad to hide in the Abyssininn bishop whom the Italian Valley of Dry Bones" is told in the muscum whenever Mrs. Simpson was Government made Patriarch, about a Book of Ezekiel. The prophet pro- in the offing.
Mrs. Simpson herself has been the He had assented to the separation Mrs. Grace Sweet won a race with pleated as commanded by God, and an express train-but lost the top of
the bones came together, bone to his guest of the Dean of Yale recently, of the Abyssinian from Coptic Church bone."
declared Ezekiel prophesied again and she has Indicated that she will of Egypt. Tho, Synod
RACE WON BY SHAVE
Wakefield, Mass.
month ago.
her car. Sho akimmed under one and they lived, and stood.up upon call other Yalo professors and por-i against such'separation, and that the get-of·croming gates, but the other thoir sat de-roofed the machine. Blie wBS
· fedi, an exceeding great sibly students to bear out her fiery Abuna Kyrillö was stil Patriarch út unhurt.
army."]
sunil when she testifies to-morrow. Abywilnių, –
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