THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1950.
REFLOATING FRENCH LINER IN PIECES
SECOND
NORTHSIDE 777
MAN ALSO
:
In the film Call Northside 777, James Stewart as reporter
McGuire interviewing the mother of Joe Majczek. It was the who interted the advertisement,
Sondon Express Bervice.
CHICAGO WORLD TRADE FAIR
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Chicago, capital of America's midwest, will be an international trading post for two weeks this summer. The city will be the scene of the first international trade fair over held in the United Sintea.
I will be in an economic eastern Europe are expected to
to join her. tradition dating back mediaeval Europe.
About 75,000 bayen, are ste pected to visit the show between August 7 and 19 to look at, and buy, goods from countries all over the globe.
from
Patie
Exhibits will fragile glassware htt delicate Tace to Industrial machinery and
chemical raw 'maltrials.
LOTS OF SPACE
1. S. Anof. president of the Toir, sald Chleage would spend more than $1,000,000 organiyat and promoting the exhibition. Four are buildings with en
aren of 1,000,000 square ivet will house the products of the world's workers.
ixedpy
About 450,000 square feet in
al US$$ available for rental fool. For this the displayer will get a booth,
with his a sign name and a isting in the show catalogue.
The
fair
will be reserved almost exclusively for buyers, with the general publie admitted nly for brief periods. Buyers will be charged "about $5 or $10" and will receive credentials, catalogue, information, and [transportation.
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GOVERNMENT TO HELP
A "little Washington" of Government officials is expected to be on hand to help business men and out how they can cul red tape from forelen buying
Foreign gods will about two-thirds of the or space, and American displays and selling. the remainder.
The fair is being organised with The co-operation file U.S. Government. It was ori gally the idea of the European Co-operation Administration. It
NOW FREED
By Frederick Cook
New York
The case of Call Northside 777 The (remember the film?) is closed at last.
second of the two men gaoled in Chicago 16 years ago has walked out of Cook County Gaol a free
man.
. It all began back In 1932 Eventually he found that the when two gunmen walked, into woman who owned the spenke a "speukensy" In a Chicago easy had at first Insisted that slum area and, without a word, she did not recognise either or shot down and killed a police-the men who shot the police- man, Patrolman Lundy. Hemen before her eyes, and had was the eighth Chiengo police- then changed inan chain that year and orders put went out that this time killers were to be found.
her mind ntic the Anger
Teddy the Marcinkiewicz. Police traced
both men and arrested them, Two young men were IIT-
A run- McGuire published rested some weeks later, Joe ning necnunt of his inverliga- Majezek and Tedly Marcinkie-tions, and in August 1945 won wicz. At their trial, largely on a full pardon for Joe Majczek. the testimony of the who owned the speakeasy, they were convicted and
woInau
sentenced
to 00 years in the penitentiary. The case seemed finished.
INVESTIGATED WITNESS
When they freed Majezek, the Pardons Board cut Marcin- klewicz's sentence to 75 years, In 1944 n small announce- but refused to set him free. ment appeared in advertising They had deadlocked over one columns of the Chicago Times.
witness that point:
hudh 35,000 reward for the killers stated that Marcinkiewicz hinch of Officer Laundy on December once threatened the owner of 9, 1932. Call
the speakeasy. though the Chiengo Tines city editor, woman
herself had inade 110 Karin Walsh, passed the adver-
Such
High statement. tisement to Crime Reporter McGuire deckled to investi- James McGuire, 10-year-old
rate,
Munihs of this wineRS.
hc Was work followed until ex-private detective.
MOTHER WAS TRACED able to prove that she had oner harboured grievance against Meliuire traced the advertise D
Marcinkiewicz. ment to un old woman living In a squalid South Side street But far from the stockyarda. She was the mother of Joe Majczek. For
McGuire learned, he had saved as t charwoman, gone short of food, to save enough money to tempt someone to tell the truth about her son, whom she firmly be Heved was innocent.
10
years,
3
He took his evidence to the habeas authorities and won Corpus hearing for the man be- hind bars.
And
10 years, now, after Marcinkiewicz-ał the Teddy age of 41-has been set free.
**I 1is only complaint now: cannot sleep. The beds on the outside are too soft."
-London Express Service,
Work is in progress in the harbour at Le Havre, France, on the construc- tion of a special dock for the refloating of the 31,569-108 French liner. Paris, which caught fire and sank at her berth in
1939.
has The vessel heen divided into five sec.
tions by work done below the water surface.
(Acme).
REALLY GOOD OLD SONGS
STAY POPULAR ALWAYS
By Lco Turner
New York.-A good song never dies, music publishers contend. "That's why it keeps making a good living for the man who wrote it," one also have announced that they publisher observed.
Several fortiga governments
will rent space for Information taus to perform the Sme function.
America's popular music American composers.
But there
(1942),
Ancient Story Buried Beneath Nile Sands
By Brian Hodgson
Khartoum, Sudan.-The unwritten story of an ancient Christian civilisation in Africa may be buried beneath the desert sands around Disturbed only by the Karima and Dongola, on the banks of the Nile. hooves of occasional gazelle, this wilderness is believed to conceal the his- tory of a people who populated the area thickly-until-1340-A.D.
The people built cities, If the expedition is not sent,
had their own particular culture and kept an outpost
It is likely that the "blank chapter" never will be written. The Egytlan Government is al-
of a
of Christendom flourishing most certain to start construction
in the depths of the Moslem- new dam in the locality controlled Middle East for toon, and the site of Shinnie's proposed investigations will be nearly 800 years.
of the flooded by the waters Nile.
Set
An amateur archaeologist has and out with camels
The Arepacology Commissioner Sudanese bearers to survey the has drawn up n detalled plan brea at his own expense. He
for a large expedition, arined is Terence Gray, a wealthy with equipment for digging deep Irkliman, resident of the South enough to fold back the desert of France.
His purpose is to collect un Oh many "etues" as possible about 21 Beautiful Morning this civilisation and then to re- Holiday for Stringsport to P, L. Shinnie, Archaeology I'm Beginning to See Commissioner for the the Light (1945). It Might as Government. Well Be Spring (1940) and Linda (1947).
Anniversary Waliz (1841).
Christmas is considerable agreement that White is written for youngsters ofhite Christmas," a little num- What 12 to 20, he said. But don't ber Irving Berlin knocked out (1913). Is Intended frankly to help The fair, one spokesman rald.
of the all-time (1944). foreign manufacturers sell mores specifically designed to aid scoff, That means if they in 1942, is one goods in the United States and small firms who cannot afford a like it today. they'll enjoy contenders, thus alleviate their critical dollar foretin sales force but who wish hearing it next year.
For some of the others, here shortage.
to find and sell a new market."
are come year-by-year selections The history of such fuira comes to the
There in a big argument along from the list of 500 best sellers present In an ahnesi hinterrupted line from Tin-Pan Alley over the 10 best listed by the American Society the Middle Ages.-United Press. money-makers turned out by of Composers and Publishers. The ones you remember best will also remind you of how old you are.
"We intend to help tlume Countries which are willing to help themselves," Anoff said.
MANY INTERESTED The "Marshall Plan coun→ fries" have shown the earlist! and greatest interest in the up- portunity for displaying their) wares before American buyers.
many countries outside that group will be repraented.
Anoff salt india, Liberia and Latin Amerlean countries, In- cluding Mexico, have expressziů Interest.
Czechoslovakia has apphet for 10,000
Ret of display square space and other countries froin
LUNG TROUBLE DETECTOR
A new instrument which detects lung ailments almost instantly, even In the car! liest stage, was revealed re- cently by a University of Pennsylvania scientist.
The Instrument, described us nitrogen meter, will detect usthma, emphysema, silicasty, cancer and other lung afflictions, sald Dr Julius H, Comiros, Jr.
The new appliance continu- ously
small Lucks
sample
of gas exhaled from the lungs. bito a glass tube. High voltage is applied to the tube and the gas characterstic colour glows with depending on
on the nature of the
exlinled gas.
A particular colour not only will indicate the presence of a lung allment, but its extent na well, Dr Comroe said,
The meter, developed by Dr John C. Lilly at the University. can test A patient in 03 of n second, making it applicable for mass examinations of industrial workers, particularly those sub- ject to pulmonary diseases.
K. O. CANNON
| [LOOM ALIVE THERE!
|D'YOU HEAR ME?MA,
PROFILE IS ON THE
WAY HERE TO GIVE ¡YOU: ONE MORE CHANCE.
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GETTING AROUND
The long-necked pelican at the London Zoo doesn't need any rear-view mirrors when it comes to preening his feathers. He stays spic and span with the aid of a long and talented neck which is adapted to reaching all ungles. A look-see really has some meaning to this old bird.~(Acme),
ONE MORE CHANCE TO BAY YOU'LL KEEP YOUR MOUTH
SHUT- AND THEN BE SENT HOME LIKE A GOOD DOY.
BEST SELLERS
It is too soon to tell about later ones.
BLANK CHAPTER
Sudan
Cx-
Gray's Ands, though not seurn- Radio ended the 1,000,000 copy; tional, have convinced Shinnie sales of theet music on a cur that o Full-sunte scientifle rent hit. "Ramona" was one of pedition should be sent out to the the at big spot sellers, the old Karuna area. timers cap. Now a composer : hopes for A
im sale, which i "It will fill in a blank chapter
A Bird Ju a Gilded Cage to four figures, or a big of history if such an expedition (1990), Mighty Lak a Roscale on records-United Press. is inanced," Shinnie said. (1992), Sweet Adeline (1903),
Give My Restarts to Broadway (1904). In My Merry Oldsmobile (1905), Every Day 1 Ladles' Day With Me (1000), On the Road to Mandalay (1907) Take Me Out to the Ball Came (1908), Put on Your Old Gray Bonnel (1909). Down by the Old Mill Stream (1910).
West End Hatter
Was A Scientist
Alexander's Ragtime Band
They were strange headlines to read about a gentlo- (1911), My Melancholy Baby men's hatter of Jermyn Street, London (1912). Memphis Blues (10131 Science Triumphs. Mystery Organism Found.
Mankind."
"British to
Boon
from the remains of temples and burial grounds which he feels certain le under the sands.
PROBABLY NUBIANS
It is believed that the Chris- tian population of this extinct nation were Nublans. They were converted by missionaries of Greek extraction who were en by the Empress Timodora of Constantinople, in 540 A.D.
Theodora was at one time n harlot dancing girl, but became a devout and netive Christian after her marriage to the em- peror. Constantinople, or Byzan- tlun. was at that time the capital of the eastern half of the Split Roma Empire.
It is amazing. Shunie said, to realise that, while the western work was besieged by the forces of uncivilised barkurlans, Theo- dora's missionaries were able to renes the Sudan and found the Christian community.
The Christian civilisation is believed to have been Anally overrun in the middle of the Missouri Waltz (1014), Pack Up
Ih century by Moslem forces Your Troubles in Your Old Kit
from the north. No massneres Bag (1915), Down Among the
But then Joseph Edwin Bar- tomers who came to his shop, are known to have taken place, Sheltering Palms (1918), Dark- town Strutters' Ball (1917), Hin-ard was a strange kind of hat-making certain that they got the and the reason for the gradual final disap- For one thing, he was a
degeneration and hats they wanted. dustan (1918). Dardanelia ter
Fellow of the Royal Society,.
For the rest of each day Mr pearance of the population of (1910), Margle (1020).
Part of each day, it was true, Barnard was busy with his the area is another point which to clear up.- he was at Jennyn Street, chat meroscopes. They had been his Shinnle wants
Wabash Blues (1021), Stum- bling (1922), Who's Sorry Now (1023), Rhapsody in Blue (1924). Always (1935). Sweet Georgia Brown (1926), Chole (1927), 1 Can't Give You Anything but Love Baby (1920), Stardust (1929), Dancing With Tears in My Eyes (1930).
LIST KEEPS GROWING
Goodnight Sweetheart (1931).
The Riddle of the Red Domino
PROFILE'S A CROOK-AND
YOU KNOW IT THE WONT BUY MY SILENCE. TEL HAVE HIM IN JAIL YET,
n
tim: with the distinguished cus-hobby as a youth. They became United Press,
Regimental Murals In
his passion as a mea. Hour after
hour he probed their scerels, ex- perimented, invented.
Then came those headlines in
had happened?
1923, Warkird had developed an
Mr
ultraviolet microscope, had with The gone into research
Saloon Bar Dr W.E. Gre.
at the
of men went there
Barracks, and
the
.
famous Dr
Modestly Mr Barnard expinin
ed the work in cancer research
He put his
rages about
NEWCOMER
Starlet Marilyn Monroe is a comparative new- comer to Hollywood, but if she's as talented as she is curvaceous, she's bound to make a name for her. self. (Acme).
-
WomenOutnumber
Men In America
America's 1950 consus, which begins on April Fool's Population experts. Day, is going to be a women's consus.
Murals illustrating uni- which they had done. Dr Gye had A Shanty in Old Shantytown (1032), Smoke Geta in Your forms in the history of the grown an organism "closely as- Eyes (1933), Cocktails for Two Oxfordshire and Bucking-sociated with malignant growth." (1834), I got Plenty of Nattin' hamshire Light Infantry With his instrument Mr Barnard are already agreed that it will be the first over to reveal a preponderance of women. They suspect that it may (1935). These Foolish Things have been painted in the had examined it.
claim no higher. mind Me of You (1038).)
show as many as 1,000,000 more women than men. Rosalie (1937), Thanks for the saloon bar of the "Corner
Controversy still Slude, Memory (1930). Begin the Be-House,"
the merits of the Gye-Barnard Questions of "special in- In 1912 the excess of men, guine (1939), God Bless America Headington.
work. But the will of Joseph terest to women" are going after a long period of immigra
tion, was over 2,700,000. By (1940).
During the war many hundreds Barnard, published earlier this to be put at every fifth 1940, the sexes had reached al-
from the month, tells of the prestige
Halfway Slate Camp and from Crawley which the batter's boyhood hob-house throughout the coun- most exact balance.
census and saloon bar by won
These will include a between the 1940 for him among the men try.
balanca shifted. SOON became the second ser- of science. He was "President of detailed inquiry about hous-the 45.
In 1945, according to the sam geants' mess unl was
often the Royal Microscopical Society: ling. covering everything|plings, there were 90.0 males referred to as the "Ox and Bucks Ho
of the Director Hon.
Department Room."
Optics at the National from the age of the televi- for every 100 females. of Applied Two well-known artists, Alan Institute for Medical Research."sion not to the efficiency of
TWO REASONS the kitchen drains. and Peter Grenville, are Strange fame for a haller. responsible for the murals, which And bls work
Two main reasons are given today? Salda deplet a scarlet-conted corporal medical man: "There are still Included will be the type of
The heavy for the switch: of the 43rd Foot In the 10th two schools about the impor house atructure, the heating decline of immigration (pre- Century, and an airborne soldier tance of the Gye-Barnard work method employed, how much
dominantly men) of World War Two, with the in cancer research. The issue is rent is paid, or how much is higher death rate among men.
Pegasus Bridge in the whether you think that the virus still to bo met on the mortgage.
The population experts ba unckground.
theory of cancer is important.
Census officials said today lleve that the decline in the At the informal "christening."! "But there is no issue about which was attended by serving the value of Barnard's work in that scientifle samplings have ratio of men will go on. But not soldiers and ex-members of the developing ultra-violet micro- already revealed that a heavy they add that this need
will alarm a girl in search of a hus- regiment, Col. R. F. Claro, the scopy. It is of inestimable value." preponderance of women secretary of the Regimental Joseph Barnard left £00,008.be shown in the official count. band because it will be limited Association, suggested that the Duty pald: £10,073. He left his Until 1930, men maintained a mainly to the older men. There In the are still more men than women saloon bar should henceforth be hatter's business to his son John, margin over women referred to as the Regimental aged 23, with provision for his United States of 102 to 105' for In the "marrying-age groups”—
lovery, 100 women. --
1 15. fo.34.
WELL-I THINK
YOU'LL BE
CHANGING YOUR MIND
WHEN YOU
SEB WHO IS
WITH HIM!
Room.
widow,
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the