·COLLAPSE — Alphonse Capone, once (Chicago's most powerful gang leader, reported in a men- tal collapse and under observa- tion in the hospital at Alcatraz Federal prison, San Francisca *Bay. It was indicated that if incurably insane bo would be moved to Springfield, Mo. He is serving a 10-year sentence for violation of Income tax laws.
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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.! TUESDAY, E MARCH
1938, 47
BY-GONE BUSINESS SECRETS
I WON'T
SAVE
AT
HIM'
Boston, Mass.
T midnight Frank Di Stasio, 55 years - old sweets maker, and his 25- years-old son, Anthony, are due to be electrocuted in the first father-and-son execu- tion in the history of the State.
Innocent,
And the воп according to his father, who refuses to sign document exonerating him.
A
Frank replies to all the lawyers' pleadings: "My son is innocent. I know he is. But I won't sign ic paper. I love my son so much I do not want to leave him behind. I am Roing to die happy."
The father was sentenced to death; for the murder of Daniel Crowley in 1935, and the son was convicted] for being an accessory before the fuel.
BODY IN CAR
Crowley's burned body was found in a derelict car. Both legs and arms were broken and pieces of the were missing, Indlenting a A compact little unit designed and skull built by the Evans Products Com- possible fracture before death. The pany, called the "Evanair," makes tongue was scorched, and smoke and fire had been inhaled into the lungs. this possible.
Hupmobile has adopted it as op- It was not long before the police tional equipment. At least two ma-ha detained Anthony di Stasio, who Jor United States automobile pro- made a statement implicating his ducers are making exhaustive tests father. This said that father and and probably wli! adopt it soon. Jon went to Hudson, a suburb
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Lepers Placed At 5 Million
of
ARREST BEFORE WEDDING Two days inter, driving his car, Anthony followed his father, who poke to a shabbily dressed man and drove him to the selected spol.
Anthony said he waited for his father, who joined him in 15 minutes. He denied hearing anybody scream
help.
for
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FOR SPEING-Looking toward news in the fashion world for spring is the garb worn by this charming model at a recent fashion display in the Ritz- Carlton, New York. The hat, of rough straw, shows the Infiu- ence of the late Spanish painter Goya, Lizard-back gloves, of navy are worn over pimento polish. The coat slightly nares. #petsagaDISTRINJEVRE
Bus Etiquette Taught
Hollister, Col.
Buses have become such an in- Toronto.
The father was to have been tegral part of American life, it Although the number of cures is married a few days after the seems, that special etiquette la need- increasing, there are still 5,000,000 crime, and was arrested within a
ed for them. The English class of few hours of the ceremony. lepers in the world, Emery RoES,
the junior college which is preparing general secretary of the Amerlean The police theory is that Crowley to publish a book on modern etiquette Misulon to Lepers, told the African was killed so that Anthony should will cover such fields as good be- committee of the foreign mission collect Insurance
money
his haviour on
at dances, school, re conference here.
father's life-British United Press, staurants, and on trains and buses.
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When Shops Sold Clothes That Never Wore Out
Introducing you to the Council for the Preservation of Business Archives.
In other words, the people who are making
*
it their business to make what was nobody's business yesterday everybody's business to-
morrow.
You may not know, for example, that Macaulay in 1856 was paid £20,000 as a mere advance sum for his History of England; and that in 1817 Thomas Moore was given £3,000 for "Lalla Rookh."
Those are two facts, chosen at random from, the knowledge store of the counell,
organisation which, MADE A PREFECT
in its three-and-a-half years' exist-
ence has sorted through the records 2 DAYS BEFORE
of hundreds of old-established firms
and collected a remarkable amount
of varied information.
This will be compiled into hand-
SUICIDE
books devoted to various trades and PUBLIC SCHOOL BOY
Industries.
an
FOR THE ECONOMIST
"It has not only an historical but
economic interest," Mr. A. V. Judges, the young brown-haired, ruddy-faced secretary, told the News Chronicle recently. "AN the economists who work on trade cycles and that sort of thing have to draw their facts from Govern- ment reports and Royal Commission reports.
WHO TOOK POISON LABORATORY JOKE
ABOUT CYANIDE
Two days after he had been made a prefect, Samuel Felix Wilson, ar 18-year-old pupil, of Felsted School, near Great Dunmow, Essex, climbed through the window of the locked This "Now reports such as those are inboratory and drank poison. only issued at times of crisis-they was revealed at the inquest at are doctor'i diagnoses andˇdorlors | Braintree when a verdict that he are not called in unless the patient "came to his death by cyanide poison is sick. We hope to discover how self-administered while the balance the patient lived and how he grew of his mind was disturbed" was re- while he was well."
Mr. Judges dived into a deep deed- box packed with ancient manu- scripts written in copper-plate hand, lak gone brown with age.
"Look at this,
corded.
The boy was the son of Dr. Samuel Wilson, of Roche House, Rochford, near Southend.
Evidence of identification was given for instance," he by Dr. W. J. C. Chevis, of London- said, "This la the order book of a road, Chelmsford, who said that the member of a Somerset clothing firm boy was his wife's nephew.
in the 1770's. Here are. the samples of cloth he carried about with him." GRANDPA'S SUITS
ON OVERTURNED CHAIR Mr. J. F. Alston, a master, said that Wilson, who was found dead one Pinned to the pages were ny Sunday night in the biology Inbora- snippets of blue and mulberry broad-tory, was discovered lying across an cloth, as lustrous in colour, As overturned chair. The room was in . smoothly solid in texture, as they darkness. Wilson, he said, was last
were 150 years ago.
seen at 2.30 that afternoon, when he
for a walk
in two or three years!"
Sunday.
"Things wore for ever in those Mr. J. E. Everett, biology master in days. Today, although
we could charge of the laboratory, which still make cloth like that, we don't stands apart from the ordinary school want it: we get bored with our buildings, said that he lacked the clothes and want them to wear out laboratory
about lunch-time on
The master said that Wilson always All over the country, people have seemed cheerful. The only way he been asked to send their ancient could have got Ino the laboratory records to the Council's Headquar-was through the window. It would ters: The Institute of Historical not be possible to make any distinc- Research, Malet Street, W.C.
tion between poisonous and harmless Although the Council does not keep things in the laboratory. the documents, they take note of headmaster of Felsted School,
The Rev. K. J. F. Blckersteth, sald them and, what is in them. An extensive card-index is prepared, sober, 1933, and during his whole school that. Wilson was admitted in Septem- that the writer of any given hand- book can at once go to the source for his material.
"Franco Attack"
Message In An Orange
shopper
Geneva,
#
Bole, near Neuchatel. began peeling Spanish orange which he had Just bought
found
Inside, the skin be small card on which was written In Spanish:
"Send
reinforcements 5,000 men, Pertala di Sorte-Franco will attack on 13.12.7."
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If the orange was used by Spanish Government spy to cell- vey a message tq headquarters, It is a mystery how ill gól to Switzerland.
career had never been sent to him for any misdemeanour.
TO HAVE STUDIED AT GUY'S
"His character was absolutely first class," Mr. Bickersteth said. "He was to have left at the end of this term to enter Guy's Hospital in April to study medicine. Only two days be fore his death he had been made a house prefect"
Dr. Chevis: Had the boy ever consulted you in the matter of his carcer?-Never with any idea ol pursuing any other career than that of medicine.
Did he appear to be happy and con- tented at the thought of taking up medicine? On the whole, I think so. A fellow pupil, Peter John Suther- land, sald that he and Wilson were working together in the laboratory on Saturday when there was some talk with other boys about potassium cyanide.
"Wilson made a frivolous romark about it," he said. "One of the boys said that he had found some polas- sium cyanide and that it was still in its usual place. Wilson said: 'I think I'll have some of that," It was 'KING'S CHAMPION' only a joke. Anybody might have
bald it!
ARRESTED
Dr.
Replying to the coroner, Dr. J. F. MacDonald, Sutherland said that Wilson did not take any of the poison Mr. Edward Miller, the Woking away, draper, self-styled "King's
Geoffrey O. Barber, who made and people's champion," was arrested re- there was no doubt that Wilson had a, post-mortem examination, sald cently on a warrant and taken to died from the effects of potassium Brixton Prison.
cyanide, of which be must have He had failed to comply with antakan a very large quantity." order to pay 26 guineas coris orising The coroner, recording his verdict, from, summonses which he brought said he was satisfed that Wilson's against two officers and the clerk and mental condition was disturbed. chairman; of: Woking Urban Council
for assault
His summonses were brought after he had been forcibly ejected from the colmeil chambér last June. Ha was committed to prison for a month, but allowed, seven days in which to
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