THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1950.
SODAS WITH THE NEW PRESIDENT
President-elect of Pennsylvania State College, Milton S. Eisenhower, joins four co-eds for a milk shake during a 24-hour visit to the campus. Now President of Kansas State College, this brother of Dwight Eisenhower will take up his
new post on July 1-(Acme)
Parson And Peers
Wage Turf
Battle
By VIVIEN BATCHELOR
Newmarket.
A new sort of battle of the Turf is being fought out here between the Parson, as chairman of the local council, and the Sporting Poers, as stewards of the Jockey Club. But, unlike most Turf battles in this town, it is over houses, and not horses.
The fight is for 40 acres of turf known as Houldsworth Valley, near the Cambridgeshire course, belonging to the Jockey Club, on which the council wish to build houses, and an adjoining private road by which they want people to approach the houses,
Feeling runs high in the "Surely they could give up 40 town, and the odds are unsere
The Parson.
He has told the Jockey Club, on behalf of the
connell, that he will seek an order for com-j putory purchase of the land i unle the Jockey Club accept the council's plons.
so that the homeless In this town can be housed,
"It seems obvious that some
person or persona
mined to obstruct us,"
The
are deter
NOW DEADLOCK
The parton is the Rev. Claud! S. Scott, whose parish is in the risen ancient village of Exning, ad-cerning joining the lown.
Except for a possible visit to a local point-to-point, he thinks of heures than hursen, and he makes no claim to be a "sporting parson.”
more
dendlock: which has now is primarily con− { who shall pay for making up the Jockey Club's private road, ea that residents can use it, and at the same time: it can be suitable for horses,
Lord Allendale said: "I re pulate the inference that the Jockey Club in any way wish
market, or lo stand in the way
He has been chairman of the to retard the progress of New-
council for two years.
*PROCRASTINATION'
of building house."
Mr R. E. Bromet, of the firm of W. J. and J. G. Taylor, the Jockey Club, olleitors for
said:
al-i
that i
The Sportin: Peers are Lord Allendale, Senior Steward of the Jockey Club, and Lord Irwin and Lord Sefton, the other two "The Jockey Club have
ways been most anxious stewarda.
develop the Mr Scott said: "There are the town should more than 1000 people homeless land for housing in that part of In Newmarketa tenth of the Newmarket where the 40 acres population. Wo hope to have are.
the first ones housed on the new
estate in about 10 months' time.
This delay has been going on
aince we
'PRESSURE'
first approached the "It was solely through pres- Jockey Club saking them to sell are by the Jecker Club that! the Houlthworth Valley to us the council were persuaded to j
in October 1948.
at
go to that area. The point issue at the moment is purely in "They agreed to sell, but connection with the Jockey Club since then there has been end-private rent,
procrastinallon on their
Jess
Part."
The Jockey Club do not see why they should have to pay The Parson has a stalwart for making up the road for the seconder in the vice-chairman benellt of the council's housing of the council, Mr G. II. Goult, estate,
a civil servant.
If the council carry out their Mr Goult rald: "The Jockey threat to seek n compulsory Club have seven square miles of purchase order it is
expected open ground in this district on that the Jockey Club will ask which to exercise and breed for arbitration on responsiblilty their horses.
alt for making up the road,
R. O. CANNON
YOU TURNED UP AT JUST THE| RIGHT TIME, STIRRUPE.
WHISPER HAS JUST GONE
OFF WITH PROFILE
SHE'S CRAZY!"
•
PRINCE OF
OF BANK ROBBERS LOVES TO DRESS UP
By Frederick Cook
New York.
If there were in America any such publication as a Who's Who of the Underworld, it would cer- tainly contain some such entry as this:
SUTTON, William, alias] She saw the guns, screamed Willy the Actor: robber; hysterically, and Willy and his specialises in banks; born friends ran.
But 18 days later they had Brooklyn, 1900; graduated from Hell's Kitchen, New better luck. Again dressed as ja messenger. Willy 1ed his York; hobby, disguises and supporters into JA Jeweller's make-up, hence alias; very shop and left four minutes hard mun to keep in gaol, later with $129,000 In gems. has escaped from the best In May 1931, Willy made "up tho repeatedly; dangerous; may one of his journeys shoot to kill.
The to Sing Sing. Present nd-river"
police virendy thought so much dress, unknown.
of him that they put him in a new escape-proof' section,
The police of half America are once again on the look-out for Willy the Actor.
In December 1932 he proved that it wasn't. Ile Guwel
before the alarm
Eleven men and women who through the bars and was out were herded at gun-point into 20 minutes the safe-deposit
a. Now went off. York bank have endifted him as the leader of the gang who poured $63,000 of the bank's money into a blue cloth bag and strolled away.
THE RECORD OPENS
OFF TO PHILADELPHIA
In the months that followed, the police of Philadelphia be- gan to suspect that Willy hid moved there. A series of barit robberies bore all his marks. suspicions were con- Police records on Willy the Their Actor read like a Hollywoodfirmed by New York policemen,
who wished them luck.
script.
The
when
records open in
But 1917,
Philadelphia
police
the entry next to his caught him. He got 25 to 50 years in Eastern State Peni- name is "burglary,"
tentiary, "tough gael."
Then comes # charge ot abdueling 17-year-old girl
a
He was there until 1945. He
a tunnel lined with timber and lighted with electricity topped from aline in one of the cells.
and, in 1921, a murder charge, and five others left via a tunnel Willy drew a suspended sen- fence In the first case, com- plete equittal in the second.
Throughout the 1920's Willy was constantly active,
Aut Willy was caught and held until February 1947, when He perfected the art of dis-he and a group of others, a sinuggled pistol He always appeared as armed with
Buse.
a telegraph messenger, a fire and a makeshift knife, stabbed a New York guard and used him as a revolver at shield while they scaled the
man, or even as with policeman.
his hip.
BIG TIME
By October 1030, Willy was ready for the really big stuff.
Brooklyn friends In
Dressed as a telegraph messen- ker, he got into bank They were doing well when a
and let his
little girl strolled Innocently through the door.
LIVING IN
GLASS
HOUSE
A spectator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York studies the six-foot model of a glass and steel apartment house being constructed in Chicago. Designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the 25-storey building will consist of two glass and steel towers when completed.—(Acme)
The Riddle of the Red Domino
YOU'LL LIKE MARSH FOLLY IT'S A BIT LIKE DAACULA'S CASTLE OUTSICE - BUT IT
19 DELIGHTFULLY COSY
INSIDE..NGE – MOST COSY,
| PAUNCH, THAT CAR
SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN IN OUR MIRROR A LONG: „TIME, SURELY WE ARE..
„NOT BEING FOLLOWED, ON, NO, SIMI
IT COULDN'T BE THAT, COULD IT? WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL-GDING ACCORDING
TO PLAN, SH, MA, PROPILA ?
prison wall,
LAWYERS SUPPORT PEKING
CHINESE OPERA GROUP IN AMERICA'
Players of a Chinese-American theatre group go through their paces in San. Francisco in conjunction with a Chinese festival programme. The group, or- ganised four years ago and completely amateur in nature, is attempting to per pertuate Oriental opera. This portrays a court scene with a dancing girl per. forming for the court sage, a king and a princess.—(Acme)
Trust-busters Move In
On The
Shuberts
New York.
The Government's anti-trust 'suit against the Shubert Brothers threatens to break up the stage empire they themselves built by breaking a big theatre trust 50 years ago.
The suit, filed in federal The brothers got their start by Theatre Guild, Ine, one of the court recently,
of the nation's top producers, and are charged obtaining managellent Lee and J. J. Shubert and Herald Square Theatre, Sam, the interested in
died in "planner," their associates have stifled wreck in 1905, but Les and J. J.Jor musical comssional droma
2 railway almost every
medy produced in
the American theatre creating a monopoly.
The
some phnso ot
by carried on the campaigh to bring the United States.
the Klaw Erlanger "trust" to its knees.
R.
that
gh their attorney, Milton the Shuberts denied their holdings constitute
pletely refuted."
government asked the court to order the Shuberts to Klaw and Erlanger to incor-ernment's charges were "utterly
In 1907 the Shuberts forced nonopo
monopoly. They said the Gov- give up either the ownership of over half Use nation's major porate their country-side hold-unfounded" and would be "com
the ings with them under the tille legitimate theatres
of the United States Amusement business of booking and presen-
Company. The National Lawyers' ting theatrical productions.
Two years later the company was dissolved, but the Guild of the U.S. has called
Broadwayites said the Govern- "trust" never regained its power. on the United States to re- ment's suit brought 10 full the Chinese Com-circle the Horatio Alger story of cognise munist Government in the two poor boys who successfully theatrical interests of "world peace."busted the biggest
trus of the pre-movie and radio
THEATRE OWNED
"To classify the stage today as bit business must come as a surprise to anyone" Weir sald "With numerous theatres being increasingly used for radio. television and
media of other
it is not con- Toriny the Shuberts own 15 entertainment, of New Yorit's 32 egitimate ceivable that what remains of the theatres and have an interest in legitimate theatre should be in- It said in a statement that
Lee Shubert is 74 years old two others. They own 37 theatres cluded in even the most sweeping "the new Government meets the and 3. J. Shubert is 69. They live in other ellies and try-out towns monopoly bun!"," test of international Jaw of belog un established government in effective control.
cra.
so quietly that not one actor in and are the sole operators in six 10 would recognise them, Yet cities. The they are the most talked about
LOVE LIFE
"Recognition would further personages in show business. the development of friendly re- lations between the peoples of both countries and thereby con- Tribute to world statement said.
peace," the
Lee was married for 12 years to actress Marcella Swanson, but only few close friends knew of it until she brought suit for The Guild has been cited as a divorce. Their remarriage after Communist-front group by the the divorce also was kept a House un-American Activities secrot. It is said that Lee and Committee, but it is not on the J. J. communicate only by writ- Justice Department's list of ing notes. subversive organisations,
When the Shuberts came to I recently called for a public New York from Syracuse, N. Y., investigation
the of
FBI's with their elder brother, Sam, nt "illegal" wire tapping opera- the turn of the century, Marc tions. President Truman has Klaw and A. L. Erlanger wero made clear he has no intention the unchallenged cars of the
of granting the request.-United nation's bouming. theatrical In-
dustry.
Press,
Mogul Spot Found On Babies' Backs
Vancouver.
Eskimos' skulls and live Indians may offer a cluo to whether man came to America via the Bering Strait, says a Viennese anthropologist. Erna von Engel-Baiondorf, a vivacious, reddish-blonde who once sculptured busts in Europe, is busy trying to find out.
*Vancouver Now N
Menzies, collaborator at T.P.O. Vancouver City Museum, Museum curator, to create the Institution's first anthropological she spent six months among section. the Chilcotein Indians at:
in Hur six their Anshim reserve
months study of Anahim reserve Indians, one of British Columbia's northern a series of steps to discover how interior. She plans a trip the West Coast natives were farther north this year,
related to races on the other side of the Pacific, indicate the In the meantime, she spends Indians were, descended from most of her time rebuilding on the Moguls. Eskimo skull found several She found the "Mogul Spot" years ago in the Great Fraser on several babies on the reserve, Midden, B.C. Anthropologists The Mogul Spot, she explained, believe the skull's presence la a circle of plament on the Indicates that Eskimos lived lower back which fades as the Northern British Columbla in baby grows older. She mid it Indieaten there was Mogul blood The Viennese woman is a In the ancestry of that particu- Fellow of the Royal Anthropo- lar tribe. logical Instituto in London, and
the Ice Age.
collaborator and correspondent Similar spots have been found in natural history for coverni among the peoples of Europe, muscuma Sa Budapest and Laplanders, fedlanders, Hua
garians, and among the Pan- Sho came 10 Canada 18 fagonians of South America.--- months ago at the invitation of United Press.
Vienna.
Trial of the issue is not ex- pecled to take place for at least Government also bas a year. The sult in the Gover♫= charged that they are linked "by ment's first against legitimate various arrangements" with the theatre interests.--United Press.
JUST PLANE LUCKY
NII88K
Because his plane ran out of fuel over Sayville, New York, Dow Waters narrowly escaped injury and possible death when the machine hit these telephone. wires, Spectators watch linemen as they attempt to clear the wires in order to resume disrupted telephone service.—(Acme).