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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 21, 1939.
HANDSOME GIGOLOS WERE "MENACE TO THE CITY"
And Lonely Ladies Are Left Forlorn
NEW YORK HAS LOST ITS "SOCIAL ESCORTS"
HANDSOME YOUNG MEN WITH NICE MANNERS WHO WOULD, FOR A FEE, HIT THE HIGH SPOTS WITH LONELY, LADIES WITH MONEY TO SPEND.
Ted Peckham, 24-years-old United Stated university graduate, who started a bureau to put the handsome young men and the lonely ladies in touch, has been denounced as "a menaco to the city and to vlaltors" by Justice William R. Bayes, who found him guilty of operating an employment agency without a licence.
He fined him £50, forbade him to supply any more escorts until he gets a licence, and gave him a suspended sentence of three months in the workhouse (a modified American form of imprisonment).
As it was the Licence Commissioner Paul Moss who led the exposure of his methods in court, it seems unlikely that Peckham will get his licence.
声誉
"We have been trying to stamp out this social service evil for the last four years," Moss told the court in New York.
"They send out oscorts without investigation, and send them to women whom they have not investigated. Women who are overcharged are afraid to go to court because of the publicity.' Two of the witnesses against Peckham were formerly escorta. One, handsome young policeman Thomas Farrell, who con- cealed his identity to get into, had a couple of drinks. I spent near- Peckham's service, told how hely four dollars, in expenses and re-
turned the babince." received an order to take a woman to the theatre and dinner. "Peckham's secretary," he Ye- lated, "told me I would get four dollars out of the ten-dollar (£2) fee for working from 4 p.m. to
8 p.m.
the lady kept me later the fee would be len dollars from 8 p.m. until midnight, and five dollars for every Iwo hours after that. 1 was to get two-fifths of all fees.
COULDN'T GET FEES
"I met the lady at the Hotel Astor and the gave me ten dollars for ex- penses, We went to the theatre and
The next day, said Farrell, he bud trouble in collecting the fee from Peckham.
Another witness, Charles L. Sealy, who spoke with an English accent, said he also had dimculty in collect- mg his fecs.
London knows Mr. Prekham very well, because it was in November 1038 that he arrived to start a branch of his business, the London Suelad Escort Bureau.
JUES
Latest controversial sculpture by American-born Jacob Epstein is inspected by an art crille at Leicester Galleries, London. Women have screamed at it, while critics shake their heads. It's name is "Adam"
was bewailing the fact that English Hirls refused to pay for male escorts,
"GO GETTERS" By December he had 30 person-
"English girls are 'go-getters' and able young men working for him, accompany lonely ladies to. dloner, don't have to hire a friend for the theatres, dances, receiving a proper-evening," he said, "they know the sort of young man they want and see tion of the fees hunded over.
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Byron Tomb Opened
WAS it really the body of the paet Byron that the British Irigate brought home from Grecco more than a century ago? Dld the Greeks, for whose Independence Byron died fighting. retain their hero's heari brain?
And
For many years these questions have remained unanswered-for many years the persistent legend worried the vicar of Hucknall, Not- tinghamshire, the Rev. T, G. Barber, in whose church the poet was buried 114 years ago.
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church where Byron is buried.
Consent of the Home Office und the present Lord Byron had to be obtain- ed and all the witnesses were pledged
to secrecy.
The work was carried out with the utmost reverence,
EMBALMED
It took some ume for the workmen to open the vault, Descending into it after tests were made to prove the safety of the air, the vicar found an urn inscribed:
"Within this urn are deposited the heart and brain of the decensed Lord Noel Byron."
Close to it was a leaden case in which was the coffin with the body of Byron himself. The lenden rase had been torn open and the lid of the coffin was loose.
"I raised the lid," says the vicar, "and anw the embalmed body of Byron, in a perfect a condition as when it was placed in the con 114 years ago."
Drexel To Have Stadium
Institute of
Philadelphia. Plans have been virtually com- new pleted for construction of a
by Drexel Later in the month, Mr. Peckham stadium arrived in New York with the an- Technology in time for the 1940 foot- Dragon athletic au- nouncement that seven British peers ball season. and signed to appear as a chorus in thorities headed by Dr. Parke R. Kolbe, president of the institution, 4 New York revue.
In London, the peers mentioned In-hove decided on an Upper Darby dignantly denied the suggestion. I site.
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Ate Four Ounces Of Arsenic-Lived
AHMEDABAD.
AY KHUSHRAV BARJORJİ VAKIL, Farsee youth aged 20, did this to prove his faith in Zoroaster, the prophet by whom Parsecs swear: he swallowed four ounces of arsenic, enough, it is stated, to kill 900 people, and lived.
He swallowed the arsenic at a gathering of Parsees, Hindus and Moslems, having previously publicly announced that he would either take a large dose of poison, pour molten lead over his body or hang himself by a rope and survive owing to his belief in the Zoroastrian religion.
Traders Ask Yard For Help
Mr. Vakil distributed to the gather-
Ing-a-quantity of what he ate with a view to proving that it really was arsenic that he was to swallow.
After explaining the importance of Zoroastrianism, he took the poison, and in case the gathering might suspect that he was taking an anti- dote he threw away a glass of water which was offered to him.
The result of an analysis of the Arsenic by Dr. M. S. Shah, Professor of Chemistry, Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, showed that what Mr. Vakit swallowed was 09,749 arsenicol. "ALL COULD DO IT"
astrianism."
SMALL traders and cafe owners
in the Elephant and Custlej In an interview Mr. Vakil stated district intend to petition Scot-that what he achieved was "entirely land Yard for protection against due to his great faith in Zore- London's "Dead-End kids" Any person, he added who was gangs of youths who are wreck-zealous to imbibe the doctrines of ing and ruining their businesses, this religion could perform the feats
of which I am capable."
Zoroastrianism was the religion of Mark Selby, Jewish owner of a mlik bar in the Walworth-road, the Persian people before they became Twar-wounded veteran
four converted to Mohammedanlam. The preached by the prophet children, committed suicide after he faith had been beaten up and his premises Zoroaster (or Zarathrustra) is wrecked by the gangs because he re- dualism teaching that Ormazd, lord
free of light and goodness, carries fused to supply them, with
conseless war against Ahriman and cigarettes and refreshments.
the hosts of evil spirits who dwell in Recently gangsters marched into darkness. Ormazd created man to the milk bør he once owned and old him, and eventually-the belief threatened the manageress. Two was the good kingdom will be plain-clothes men from Southwark attained.
with
Police Station, who had been posted
to the vicinity, appeared and the men quickly vanished.
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He Wants Lion Farm By Thames
A few minutes later the plate-glass
NEXT spring Mr. Stanley Turpin, window of a jeweller's shop in Wal- worth-road was amashed and several of Sandhills Meadows, Shepperton, Later a free fight start- hopes to open the first lon-breeding rings stolen. ed in a cafe in the nearby London- farm in England. If he finds the road. A man threw a cup of scalding trade to circuses and zoos justifies it, tea into a customer's face.
he will stock his estate up to 300 The night attendant at the cafe animals. The farm is to be on a 12- blew the police whistle he bought acres catate near the Thames. some days ago, but no one ran to his assistanco.
Cinema.
"Every night is a night of terror," the manageress of the late Mr. Selby's milk bar said,
Mr. Turpin has had no experience In breeding lions, but 18. confident he can manage them. He has just re- Police officers with a tender were turned after a three years tour of too busy dealing with another dis- South Africa and proposes to join turbance opposite the Trocadero forces wiùs an experienced len breeder now on his way from Africa. Sunbury Council have refused to approve his scheme, but Mr. Turpin says that they have no power to stop him... "Our takings were about £20 a
Ho sald: "I am going to house my day. Now they have dropped to £5. lions in lies of stones, so they will Between 8 o'clock and midnight, live under natural conditions. usually our most profitable, time, we "I don't see why the neighbourhood;
should be frightened. Lions tako no have drawn less than £1.
"It mentis ruin for this bar. We notice of you unless you provoke will have to close down, and several them. My wife is not at all per--
[turbed."- people will be out of work.'
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June-September, 1939
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