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YES HE'S VERY NICE FOR A BIG MOVIE PRODUCER!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
HES 50 UNSELFISH HE GOT CHAIRS FOR EVERYONE BUT HIMSELF
May 21, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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MR. SLUGGO PRODUCER DIRECTER
AND STAR
Two Women Vanish At The Yard
Scotland Yard is trying to solve a mystery in its midst. The problem is: What happened to two young women who en tered the building and then vanished?
During a recent air raid the women hailed a taxi nt Victoria Station and told the driver to take them to Scotland Yard. When they arrived they ordered the driver to wait, appeared to speak to the policeman on duty at the main gates, and walked across the quadrangle towards the entrance.
The driver waited for over an hour and then Inquired about his passen- scarched, Kers. The building was
but no trace of the two women was found.
Forms which visitors to Scotland Yord ure required to fill in were checked, but there was no record of
the
women's anyone answering to descriptions.
The officers on duty at the time live submitted reports. There up- pears to be no doubt that the women entered, but how they got out is not known. Since Die air ralds begna
only one entrance and exit has been in usel
Noted Chinese Painting
May Be Shown Here
A rare Chinese masterpiece of art, the "Ha Sun Yeuk Yue To" (Summer Rain and the Moun- taina), painted by Kue Yeen, an artistmonk who lived about 930 A.D., has been acquired by a local collector. Mr L. Lui-ngam. Mr Lid was formerly a faculty member of the National Sun Yat-sen University in Canton, and is widely known for his poetry.
The-picture-has-for many years been in a private collection in Kwel lin, Kwangsi. It is in the shape of
scroll 10 feet long by one and a half feet wide. In the Ming Dynasty, was the property of two dis- tinguished scholars, and it also curries a seal of a premier of the same Dynasty. Seals of Ching Dynasty nobilities are also affixed thereon.
It is learned that a public showing of this famous work of art is being arranged for the near future.
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PRIZE WINNER-"Hold Everything" is one of the prize winners in a flash photography contest, hold in Chicago, -sponsored by "Popular Photography" magazine and flash equipment manufacturers. Clark G. Will of San Diego, Cal., took the picture.
Hemingway
Says U.S.
Soon Entering War
"Many signs point to America's being in the war quite soon," declared Ernest Hemingway, the novelist and correspon- dent for "P.M.," when he returned to Manila from Hongkong after-a-tour-of-the-China-war-fronts-He declined; however, to hazard a guess as to the probable date.
Questioned on the subject of; U.S. convoys across the Atlan-
tic to Great Britain, he replied: CHANGED
"If you send things you must see that they get there,"
Mr Hemingway said that a re- porter in these days could hardly fake down notes.
"Br has to keep everything he sets | and hears in his head to escape censorship. H
He spent a week in Manila, befor going to Singapore to join his wife, Martha Gellhorn, who is also touring the Far East as special writer for the
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WILL 18 TIMES
Eighteen times in the last nine years Miss Louisa Ger- trude changed her mind and altered Boothby Heathcote
her will.
The novelist Was handed two letters by the airport manager
She died in September, aged Cavite. They were from fils two 85, leaving £109,354. Her will, sons by a former marriage. His face dated March 1932, hus 18 codi- lighted up in a broad
grin, and he cils.
She left 1,600, furniture, and an
turned to a reporter: "This one is from my 11-year-old boy, in Key annuity of £300 to Alice Graham, West, Florida. Listen to what he her tady's maid, with an additional £200 a year it still in her service.
says:
Dear Papa: The rooster is get-To Gordon Stewart, chauffeur, she ting meaner every day. Day before left £150 and £400 a year.
yesterday he spurred me. He hit me
in a velu and it spouted blood all
over. But it is one now.'"
The other Hemingway boy, D,
Two Years' Wages
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to
wrote that he had just seen a parade £120, go to some other servants. of the American Legion and that it Others receive one and two years' was exciting. He asked Papa if he wages each.
had been over the Burma Road and; Miss Heathcote lived ni Friday said it must be quite exelting there Hill House, Chingford, Essex, and
Norfolk-street, Parkinne, W.
too."
"I think, he writes betler ihan She had also n country house at Papa," Hemingway-said, ranring Clevehurst, Stoke Poges. Bucking- with laughter.
hamshire.
Record For Captive Herring's Longevity
The fact that the Carnegio Aquarium at Edinburgh Zoo- logical Park holds the world record for the longevity of captive herring was commented upon by Mr Matthew C. Thomson, the curator of the aquarium, when addressing the Zoological Park Luncheon Club recently, '
lot of herring have been in the tank "Just before the war, sald for two years and three months." Mr Thomson, "the Germans herring was a most abundant fish, it Mr Thomson said that while the claimed the world's record for was one of the most delicate that keeping herring for 14 days in swam the sea.
an Inland aquarium, yet at that When Out Of Water time I. had kept herring for ten months....
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From experience, Mr Thomson said he knew that herring taken from the water for at least two or three The first time I kept herring they seconds and which breathed the lived from six to eight works, but outside air never revived. ne_a_result of observation-on-that-herring Had one or two scales occasion I was able to keep a second removed from its body.it would only lot for ten months, and the present live, for three or four days after that;
"Hellship
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Sufferings
Of 194 British Seamen
British seamen-194 of them-freed from an Italian prison camp in Somaliland by a British mobile unit, told recently of their sufferings aboard a Nazi "hellship."
The men, underfed, bearded and clothed in rags, had been members. of the crews of shipa sunk by a German Indian Ocean i raider which flew at various times the Japanese, Dutch and British flags and used a Japanese name.
Bread and Jam "Tea was dry bread and tea-
Some of the Britons were kept under decks for six weeks, but four women and two children spoonful of Jun. Three times a were given separate accommo-wise we got cocoa.
week we had synthetic ten-other- dation, and were well treated.
The women and chlidren were put aboard Norwegian vessel, but the raider eventually seized a Jugo-Slav vessel to which it transferred the other captives.
The Jugo-Slar ship, was manned by prize crew, and guards with machine-guns were placed on the bridge.
Vessel's Crew Held On November 23 the captives were landed on a lonely part of the Ita- lian Somaliland coast.
seamen
Sometimes we were so hungry some of the German crew, taking pity on us, would share their rations.
"When we were landed the com- mander of a small Italian military outpost transferred us by lorry to Mogadiscio.
You
can guess at the conditions for no fewer than ninety-seven of us, weakened by the hardships and neglect in the raider and the prize ship were taken to hospital with dysentery and other illnesses. Three Britons died there."
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Jose Di Donato, brother of Pietro,
There were 197 Britons at that time, twenty other Europeans-most- ly French-sixty-seven Indian sea- men and three Chinese.
Altogether the British
It may be that the R.A.F.'s recent spent twenty-eight days on board the Increased successses against Jugo-Slav vessel. This vessel's crew night bombers are due to an infra red were also held prisoner.
zny telescope, according to the Cuna-has pardoned George Ehret, formerly who wrote "Christ in Concrete.!" was Most of them slept in the hold dian "Commercial Aviation." This of New York, and Miss Grace Gun-inducted into the US Army recently on a cargo of wet salt, with a tar- device picks up the infra red radia-ther long-time American resident of although he had registered as a con- paulin their only protection. tions given off by any hot object (in Florence, who were convleted last scientious objector. He, Pietro and A Scot seamen said: "We got so this instance plane engine) at night November thirsty that we had to serumble out or in the daythine. Infra red rays foreign exchange, reports Associated mother's deathbed nine years ago of illegal dealings in three other brothers pledged at their in the middle of the night to collect pass freely through the haze and rainwater. Breakfast was generally smoke, to reach the sensitive Instru- Press. Mr Ehret was given a seven-that they would never take up urms. thin gruel or cocon dour, dinner was ment, hut any fog, except a very thin year term and Miss Gunther six Jose will be assigned to a non-com- always just bean soup.
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