Friday,
HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH
July 21, 1939.
WERE
HANDSOME GIGOLOS
"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 fouth, has been denounced as "n menace to the city and to visitors" by Justice William R. Bayes, who found him gulity of operating an employmeni 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,
"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 escorts 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 escorts. 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 balance." received an order to take a The next day, said Farrell, he had woman to the theatre and dinner. I trouble in collecting the fee from
"Peckham's secretary," he re- Peckham. Inted. "told me I would get four who spoke with an English accent, Another witness, Charles L. Sealy,
dollar's out of the ten-dollar (42) | cnid he also had difleuity in collect- fee for working from 4 p.ni, tog is fecs, 8 p.m.
"If the Indy kept me later the tec would be ten dollars from 8 p.m. until midnight, and five dollars for every two hours after that. 1 was to get two-fifths of all tees.
COULDN'T GET FEES
London knows Mr. Peekbum very well, because it was in November 1030 that he arrived to start a branch of his business, the London Sockel Escort Bureau,
By December he had 30 person- able young men working for him, accompany lonely ladies to dinner, theatres, dances, recelving a propor-
"I met the lady ni the Hotel Astortion of the fees handed over. and she gave me ten dollars for ex- Soon he was reporting it a success, penses. We went to the theatre and | hul by the following September he
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Latest controversial sculpture by American-born Jacob Epstein is inspected by an art crlile at Leicester Galleries, London. Women have screamed at it, white critics shake their heads. It's name is “Adam."
Byron Tomb Opened
WAS it really the body of the' port Byron that the British frigate brought home from Grceco more than a century agot Did the Greeks, for whose independence Byron died gliting, retain their hero'a heurt and brain?
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.
Ilia opportunity came when matters of arclineologlepi interest: had to be
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Consent of the Home Office and the
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The work was carried out with the utmost reverence,
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EMBALMED
It took some Ume for the workmen to open the vault, Descending into li after tests were made to prove the safety of the air, the viear found on urn inscribed:
"Within this uen are depoalted "the heart and brain of the deceased Lord Noel Byron."
Close to it was a leadien cose in which was the coffin with the body of Byron himself. The lenden case had been torn open and the lid of the coffin was loose,
"I raised the lid," says the vicar, "and saw the embalmed body ut Byron, in as perfect a condition as when it was placed in the coffin 114 years ago."
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was bewailing the fact that English in all parts of the world-in Paris, giris refused to pay for male escorts. | Rome, Vienus, and Budapest as well
"GO GETTERS"
os London and New York-and that
Plans have been virtually com- he made £4,000 a year.
pleted for construction of a new Later in the month, Mr. Peckham stadium by Drexel Institute of arrived in New York with the an- Technology time for the 1940 foot- nouncement that seven British peers ball season. Dragon athleile nu- had signed to appear as a chorus in thorltles headed by Dr. Parke R. a New York revue.
Kolbe, president of the institution,
"English girls are 'go-getters' and don't have to hire a friend for the evening," he said, "they know the sort of young man they want and see that they find him."
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In London, the peers mentioned in-have declifed on an Upper Darby dignantly dented the suggestion.
site.
Ate Four Ounces Of Arsenic-Lived
AHMEDABAD.
KAY KHUSHRAV BARJORJI VAKIL, Parsee 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 lie 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
SMALL traders and cafe owners
Mr. Vakil distributed to the gather-
ing a quantity of what he ate with view to proving that it really was
arsenle that be was to swallow.
After explaining the importance, of Zoroastrianism,, he took, the polson, and In case the gathering might suspect that he was taking on anti- dote, he throw away a glass of water which was offered to him.
astrianism."
The result of an analysis of the Arsenic by Dr. M. 5. Shah, Professor of Chemistry, Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, showed that what Mr. Vakil swallowed, was 99.740 arsenical. "ALL COULD DO IT" in the Elephant and Castle 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 Zoro- 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. of which I am capable."
this religion could perform the feats
Zoroastrianism was the religion of Mark Selby, Jewish owner of a milk bar in the Walworth-road, a the Persian people before they became iwar-wounded veteran · with four converted to Mohammedanlem. The
preached by children, committed suicide after he faith
the prophet had been beaten up and his premises Zoroaster (or "Zarathrustra) is a wrecked by the gangs because he re-dualism teaching that Ormazd, lord fused to supply them with tree of light and goodness, carries cigarettes and refreshments.
ceaseless war against Ahrimon and the hosts of evil spirits who dwell in Recently gangsters marched into darkness. Ormazd created man la the milk bar he once owned and aid him, and eventually—the belief threatened the manageress, Two was the good kingdom will be plain-clothes men from Southwark attained.
Police Station, who had been posted
to the vicinity, appeared and the men quickly vanished.
WINDOW SMASHED
A few minutes later the plate-glass
on
He Wants Lion Farm By Thames
window of a jeweller's shop in Wal- NEXT spring Mr. Stanley Turpin, worth-road was smashed and several of Sandhills Meadows, Shepperton, rings stolen. Later a free fight stort- hopes to open the first Bon-breeding ed in a cafe in the nearby London farm in England. If he finds the road. A mon threw a cup of sealding trade to circuses and zoos justifies it, tea into a customer's face.
ho 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 estate near the Thames.
Mr. Turpin has had no experienes some days ago, but no one ran to his
in breeding ilons, but is confident he assistance.
Įcan manage them. He has just re- Folice offers, with a tender were turned after a three years tour of
too busy dealing with another, dis- South Africa and proposes to join Lupbanco opposite the Trocadero forces with
Cinema.
an experienced on breeder now on his way from Africa. "Every night is a night of terror," Sunbury Council have refused to the mansgarees of the late Mr. Selby's approve his scheme, but Mr. Turpin milk bar sald.. -
soya that they have no power to stop him, "Our takings were about £25 a He said: "I am golog to house my day. Now they have dropped to £5. lions in lales 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 have drawn less than £1.
should be frightened. Llons take no
It means 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- people will be out of work."
turbed."
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