THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY
1938. 11,
RADIO
HEATH
SCOTTS
13th Search For A White God' Who
Dropped
Skies From The
10 Years Ago Airman Kissed
His Bride Of A
Day Good-Bye And Vanished
Now A Legendary Figure
Of The Amazon Jungle
WIFE APPLIES FOR LEGAL WIDOWHOOD
New York.
On a cold winter's morning ten years ago Paul Red- fern, handsome young aviator, kissed his bride of a day good-bye on the flying field at Brunswick, Georgia, and set off in his airplane on a flight to South America.
in South
Except for speaking a passing ship two days later nothing definite has since been heard of him. Expedi- tion after expedition has sought him American jungles. Now the thirteenth, most scienti- fically equipped of all, is preparing to start on a new and more thorough search than has been previously at- tempted.
When Redfern kissed his bride good-bye he said: "Nothing сли stop me coming back to you." His 'plane soared into air, headed due south.
At eight bells two days later the sitipper of the Norwegian freighter Kristian Krogh, squinting through the sextant at the midday sun, spot- towards tel an airplane zooming
i
bim.
The plane swooped down and a inonitey note wrapped round wrench was dropped on the deck. Scribbled on a plece of paper were the words:-
"Point your ship towards land. Wave Bag or handerchlef once for
from hundred miles
land. rach Thanks. Redfern,"
The skipper turned the ship 16- warts Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, and waved a flag twice. The ulr- plane dipped its thanks and headed in that direction.
Although that was the last civilisa- tion Haw of Redfern, it was not the last it heard of him.
WORSHIPPED HIM
Explorers wandering
jungles and plains of the Amazon be- Kun to bring back to civilisation a legend that Wux sprending like women's gossip. It wis to the effect that a white man had fallen from the skies in
in a great big bird and had landed among natives, who had made
lm_their_Ring.
He had, went on the legend, askeil
the natives to help him back to the outside world, as his legs were broken and he could not make the
trip alone.
ped him as a god and they afraid to let him go.
were
Eight Over the Eight
Baltimore, Maryland. There
mounting are eight degrees of drunkenness, accord- Ing to a list drawn up by Judge Eugene O'Dunne, of the Supreme Court in Baltimore, This is the
tie Influence
Ji
I. Under drink.
2. Insobriely.
3. Intoxication.
4.
5:
of
Neither drunk nor sober. Ila drunk.
6. Drunk (Including maudlin drunk, fighting drunk, and sing- ing drunk).
Dead drunk.
7
Я.
Crazy drunk.
Lovely Marta Rocafort, wife of the Count of Covadonga, former heir to the Spanish throne, is shown with Rumon, duncer at the Mlum! Biltmore in Coral Gables, Florida. The Countess has obtained a Cuban court de erer dissolving her marriage to the Count, who is ill of haemophilia in a Miami hotel,
Admiral's Two Libel
Suits Settled
LETTER HE DID NOT WRITE
Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., for Sir George Turner, expained that in Cavalcade on July 17 there appeared among other letters the following:
Settlement of two libel actions by editor, and the Sun Engraving Com-
82.pany, Ltd., the printers. Sir George Hobertson Turner, of Adelaide Crescent, Hove, a retired surgeon rear-admiral arising out of letters appearing in the news maga- zine Cavalcade, has been announced to Mr. Justice Hilbery in the King's Bench Division.
The defendants were News Periodi- cals, Ltd., proprietors of the paper, Mr. William James
the
Brittain,
Sir Shenton, Says "Cavalcade,”
Is A Sleepless Knight!
they could dence, Melcher, sent word from his jungle mission that an Indian named Paje nights,"
had told him that the man America
ed his 'plane.
113.
Last month, reports
access
London.
no
BROADCAST RITZ
Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor) From the Studio
LA BOHEME, ACTS 3 & 4
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on Frequencies of 845.k.c.'s; 0.52 m.c's. per second.
o!
H.K.T.
12,0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service Intercession from St. John's
Cathedral,
12.30 SonĄ
(Bass).
by
Paul Robeson
Dere's A Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names (Brown); Work All Do Sum- mer: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel (arr. Brown); Deep River (Burleigh),
12.10 Cinema Organ Music.
Frasquita Serenade (Lehar); The Whistler & His Dog (Pryor)....Ro- binson Cleaver at the Organ of the Regal Cinema, Bexley Heath; Musi- cal Sweethearts: Medley....Robin- son Cleaver.
1.0 Local Time Signal and Wen- ther Report.
1.03 Bournemoufli Municipal Or- chestra.
Dancer Of Seville (G, Grunow); The Two Imps (Alford); A Fairy Baliet (C. White): Raindrops--Pizzi- cati For Strings (T. De La Riviere); Intermezzo Pizziento (Strings) (Mon- tague Birch); Crocus Time-Serenade For Strings (T. De La Riviere): Oriental Dance Novelty Duct (C. White);
Carlsbad Doll Dance (L.
Pleler).
1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press; Wea- ther Forecast and Announcements.
1.40
Variety.
Vocal-A Tender Song (Fenyes- Amberg); You passed me by (Hess- Mieraki-Bennefeld)....Herbert E. Grob, Tenor (Sung in German); Or- chestra By The Fireside-Romance Chopin Melodies.... (Hippmann); Frederic Hippmann & His Orch.; Operetta in Brief-Die Fledermaus (Joh. Sirauss-Haffner-arr. Hohne) Margarete Slezak (Soprano) and Erich
(Tenor) with Zimmermann Chorus & Orchestra from the State Opera. Berlin (Sung in German); Orchestral Monotony (Yates): Me- Eddie Car- lady In Riff (Carroll). roli & His Swing Music: Play. Gypsy, Play!-Hungarian Fox-Trot (Winkler- Julika! Czardas Fox- Elsner); Trot (Ernst Lanyl)...George Bou- langer & His Orchestra.
2.15 Close down.
6.0 7.0 Chinese Programme. 7.0 Dance Musle.
FROM SIR GEORGE TURNER
(Cavalende Reader Waters' letter May 8) is most interesting, but wherever the Roman Catholic Church
during Fox-Trot-Land Of Love; Waltz was founded, its behaviour the last few years has been re--Sunshine In Spring....Eugen Wolf! commendation, for they evidently & His Orchestra; Fox-Trots-Afraid show their Christianity by massUCT TO Dream (fim "You can't have and slaughter, both of defenceless everything): Roll 'Em....Benny mothers and their own people, as Goodman & His Orchestra: Tango-
Lonely Troubadour; Rumba--When Bombu Plays A Rumba. Henry I would rather be a Mostem than a Jacques & His Correct Dance Tempo professed Roman Catholic,
seen in Abyssinia, Spain.
Orchestra; Fox-Trots-Miss Anna- Turner, Adelaide Crescent, Hove.
belle Lee; Runnin' Wild....Quintette Birkett Sir George Turner, continued, lived at Adelaide Cres Of The Hot Club Of France; Moon At
Mr.
rent, Ilove, but he never wrote that Sea; Waltz-You Need't Have Kept letter, and would not think of mal-A-Secret Ronnie-Munro &-His Roman Catholle faith.
"Turner," with a
110"
to
Orchestra,
7.30 Closing local Stock Exchange Quotations.
0.0 Local Time Signal, Wenther Report and Announcements.
Though-few-people-in-the-Far East would be tempted
ing any such aspersionts upon the to suspect that Sir Shenton Thomas, Governor of Malaya, suffers from insomnia, London readers of the news-
The defendants informed him that magazine Cavalcade have just been informed that
they had received a letter signed
7.33 Variety. But they refused. They worshi-visitors to Singapore, Britain's gun-bristling little island
Hove postmark,
Vocal-Dixie isn't Dixie Any More Blackbirds. of {from 'Lew Leglio's the which is lapped by the China Sea, 2,500 miles south of and, upon looking up the love tele-
phone directory, they found
1936'); Jo-Jo, The Cannibal Expeditions came and went, but
and only hearsay evi- Japan, have a way of saying things that make Governor name of Sir George Turner and his to Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930)....Lavalda Carter; Orchestra without
Sir Then a schoolmaster, M. A. Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas spend sleepless address, which they had instorted
any authority from
Double Or Nothing-Selection.... George
Publication of the letter was Louis Levy & His Gaumont-British Cavalcade Fo, ex-Chinese Premier and son of thought was Redfern was a village in its own clipped style, "smail Kijiro the Chinese Republic's founder, Dr. brought to his notice by friends, who Symphony: Vocal-When The Robin
thought that he had lost his senses in Sings His Song Again (Parish
Cuota); One Night Of Love (Blm 'One Kod man too crippled to walk.
writing it. Miyake, attached to the Japanese Sun Yat-sen. Warned the doctor: An Army flier. Captain Arthur mbassy in London paid the Island Japan is preparing to cut the Canton-
The defendants apologised very Night of Love)....Gracie Fields; Williams, who taught Redfern to
repeat Piano-Accordeon Band-Holiday Hits Pinno-Accor- Medicy....London dreitled to lead in air expedition over visit, looked narrowly nt a Singapore Hongkong railway but we are relyingprofoundly and offered
their apology in court. the Indian villages where the legend newspaper-man, said: "Japan will on Britain to aid our armies.
not be satisfied with conquering parts
"Britain cannot allow Hongkong Mr. Birkett, continuing, said that in dcon Band. was rife. As he flew he noticed that of China. Japan's need is for raw to be isolated Japan wants to Cavalcade of Aug 7 there appeared the Iuliana in all the villages but one materials and that will not be fulfill step Into Hongkong, but if Britain n letter, signed "D. K. Mulvany, dashed into the lushes in terror. In
to certain
which referred to "didactie. Semille, parts of allows that she might just as well
8.03 Albert Sandler (Violin). that one village they calmly watched by
would-be letter-writer, George Tur- Chini." Singaporians uncomfortably let Singapore go too.
Pale Moon (Logan, arr. Kreinter};. remembered that the most desired of
Comforting alone
theer." anong
Sir George thereupon issued a Allegro (Fiocco, arr, Bent and Japan's raw materials like rubber,
recond will, and with the consent of O'Neill....plano accom. by Jack Why? asked Williams. Perhaps in, oil, come from British Malaya.visitors, readers of the magazine are their white god had explained that the territory over which Singapore assured, "has been Belgian Lieuten-
ant Robert Leurquin, who called at the defendants un injunction to res Byfield.
train the publication of similar libelsi Singapore after watching the war in flying birds would not hurt acts as guardian.
believed North China.
was granted. Leurquin
The defendants had indemnified Sir is looking north lustend Japan
of Cavalcode,
costa, and another gloom-south, recalled a conversation he had George in regard to his
with Japanese
Prince had paid substantial damages. Premier
Mr. G. O. Sinde it was Dr. Sun
for Calvalcade. Konoye, said: Tokyo is prepared for salt his clients made two very serious
8.30 Studio Gaston the bigger war between Japan and
mistakes. The second mistake was (Tenor) accompanied by E. O'Neill due to the fact that the letter of Shaw (Piano). the Soviet Union.
Aug. 7 was sent to the printers be 1. (a) Mapparl (Morta-Fiolow): fore matters had been arranged with (b) Nel verde mngle ('Loreley' # view to the frst action belog Catslint); 2. (a) Star vicino (Rtosa); settled.
(b) Bola coals-Lully); 3. (a) City of In the succeeding issue Cavalcade Song (Tagliaferri); (b) Torna a Sur- published a profound apology to Sirriento (de Curtis)-By Request,
8.35 Mozart-Quartet In E Flat Mr. Justice Hilbery nusented to the sellement.
Major, K.428.
Played by the Pro Arte Quartet. 0.20 Claudia Muzlo (Soprano), Normn-Casta Diva (Bellini): La Forza Del Desting-Pace Mlo Dlo (Verdi),
these them.
UNABLE TO LAND
Williams believed that he saw airplane tools in that village, but he'
was unable to land.
GLOOMY WEEK
adds "Last week,"
In "Sir Shenton had a naturalised spreading visitor.
There were more expeditions. May 1935 Tom Roch,
Rod,
i son
WAR
4
LIVE SHELL EXTRACTED
8.10 London
Thought."
for
Relay--Food
Three short talks on matters of topical interest.
d'Aquino
German, told the American consul at Calon, Panama, that he hal lived with Redfern in Dutch Guiana. The ruling the region, that he was a good that the crops hud improved
"SOUNDER SLEEP IN STORE" contul decided that Roch was lying.
"Stunder sleep is in store for Sir Then Roch niet a German friend, since he had fallen out of the sky, Gustav Pacht, and they set out to-that he had made himself crude
crutches from jungle wood, had mar- Shenton after February 11. On that gether for Surinam, Dutch Gulana.
They hacked their way twenty-ried a native woman who was his day, to celebrate the opening of the who inbked giant graving dock of the new naval five miles into the Jungle. There queen and bud
base, the biggest nuvai demonstra-George, Pacht caught fever. Ile begged Rech exactly like him.
Ryan's party hurrled towards the tion ever to plough Singapore waters- lo let him dle, tut Rach carried an
village the negro had describied, but is scheduled to be held. From India piekaback through trepient under-
on the way their canoe capsized and Iran are to speed three Royal growth. They found notiks.
drowned. Dis- Air Force squadrons, from the East and Ryan1 Desmont Holdridge heard Roch's
couraged, his companions gave up Indles are to come two planes with story, and decided he would lend an
three escorts from the Royal Indlan the search. expedition. He reported that every
Navy, from up-country stations are.
Madrid. Indian he spoke to seeined to have u
GIVEN UP HOPE
to march 10,000 Malay and Punjabi
A "live" 2-inch Mauser shall I friend or cousin who had talked to
Now the thirteenth expedition is troops, into Singapore harbour are
been successfully removed from the
9.30 London Relay--The News. the white god, but he could not find
shoulder of Blas Mora, to discover whether the to steam 25 warships.
a private one Indian who had aefully been preparing
"Sir Shenton
to open the soldier in the Spanish Government 9.50 - Orchestral Selectiotis, face to face with the fler.
god and story is a myth or the truth. "Sir
At the naval base the Army. The shell embedded self, Undiscouraged by a statement by the manoeuvres.
Overture 'Alecto (Gluck)... batteries, the without, exploding, in the man's left B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra cond. by author, Cari Liddell, that he spread 16-inch and 18-inch Was the rumour that Redfern was alive most powerful land batteries in the shoulder, end as it was able to ex-Sir Adrian Boult; Hungarian Dance, certain that a plane hit crashed in to pubileiss a book he was writing. world, are expected to blast dummy plade at any moment, great care had No. 5 In F Sharp Minor (Brahms): to be taken la removing the wound-The Sleeping Beauty-Waltz (Tchal- a grou of explorers "Unusual for the proposed demon-ed soldier to n first-aid station and kovsky). might have mistaken Indian Bres for
for headed by Theodore Waldeck have stration is the lack secrecy. then to a buse hospitul, the lights of the nearby town
at British Guian to Japanese milliary leaders know all Just arrived Zantarom.
golve the make plans to Early
HOT ON TRAIL
Holdridge reported that he
that area at the time of Redfern's
10
flight, and believed thint, Redfernged by the failures of their wells into the China Sea.
of
1930 n actentiflently equlp- | the Jungle, They are conry of about the plans, see behind the
of demonstration a design to frighten ped expedition set out for one of the Anding an answer, whatever it is. them. Secret only is the naval buse wildest sections of Dutch Gulans. It But the modern Penelope, Mrs. Itself. To see the base, Europeans was led by n Panama newspaper Gertrude Redfern, who has veered must have Identifention cards. man, James Iyan. Their trail, grew between hope and despair so many Asiaties must also have photographis, hotter than that of any other expedi- times in the past ten years, has now give thumb prints. All visitors aro tion.
Elven up hope that her husband of given the disappointing information a day will over keep his promise to that they will not be allowed to see much, they must stick by their She is asking the courts to allow guidez, that they must not take
photographs.” her to call herself a legal widow,
At Tipolo they found a native who, on the promise of a silver dollar and
n cutlass, told all he knew about the white - god.... He-anid, the god Wasi
come back.
ADMIRAL DECLANES WAN ON RATS
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