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BANKER SAID TO HAVE BEEN TORTURED

Counsel On Ordeal Of German Jew

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"He was seized by the secret police and taken to Dachau concentration, camp, and for the first six months he was tortured. still bears the marks of the lashings he received there. He was put in an ofl bath for two or three weeks, so terrible were the wounds inflicted"

am told that he

This description of the suffer- ings of a German Jew, sald to be a former banker and associate of famous people was given at Bow- street recently by his counsel, Mr. Maurice Abrahams.

The Jew, Siegfried Simin Gem bleki, 39, who was smuggled into this country, was accused of being found in Britain in contravention of the Allens Order, 1920.

The magistrate, Mr. R. E. Dum- mett, said he would like some con- firmation of Gembicki's story, and suggested that the police get into touch with his banking friends in England and America, who. Mr. Abrahams had said. intended to give him any money necessary and help him to emigrate to the United

States.

Gembicki was remanded; ball of £500 being allowed on condition that he reported daily to the police."

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CHARGES OF HIGH TREASON

P.-C. Collins sald Gembicki gave himself, up, saying he arrived in England, having been smuggled in

a boat from Rotterdam,

Gembicki married an Austrian

with

high treason.

MAJOR

DECLARES OSTRICH

EGGS

Cameras, optical instru- ments, oplüm, lace. silks, -spirits, tobacco..

Customs officials know exactly what to do when passengers bring i these goods Into

GENERAL

Chivalry Costs Apache His Life

Chivalry towards an English girl tourist who had been Indiscreet enough to venture alone into a doubtful quarter of Montmartre last summer has cost the life of Jean Dechenaud, in one of the most pitiless of Paris Apaches

£50,000 To

the country Former

but what about ostrich eggs?

That is what Customs men at Heston Airport wondered recent- Ly.

"Anything to declare?" they ask- ed Major J, R. McCrindle, manag- Ing director of British Airways, who had just returned from a survey fight to West Africa.

Yes, he had-two magnifcent ostrich eggs..

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The Customs official, search- Ing through his ilsts, could And no reference to guide him. He consulted his colleagues and at last decided to allow the eggs through as curios, free of duty.

Office Boy

The police are trying to trace Miss Mildred Henshall, who regis- tered at a hotel in the centre of last July, giving. London, as her Paris home address but failing to give fuller details or the number of her passport.

During her visit Miss. Henshall ventured alone to study Parts by night, änd in a bar close to the Pisce Clichy she got into conver- sation with two habitues, one of whom proposed that he should take her in his car for a round of the night life resorts.

Ignorant of the real character of the men and the possible fate that awaited her, Miss Henshall con-

Two wills.... One drafted by 3 business man leaves £50,000 to his èx-office boy. In the other a woman left direc- tions · for calculating the "amount of bequests, but a £10. 000 estate is not sufficient to carry out the system. The bequests will be scaled down. A nervous youth aged eighteen presented himself at the office of sented. a London estate agent nearly Arty! years ago. He was the new office boy. With the optimism of youth. the job, in his eyes, was the first who had taken in the conversa rung of the ladder leading to life's ton and knew what was behind prizes. '..

Major McCrindle fater explain ed. "I had called on the Com- mandant

Vililers at

And it was. Recently his old Cisneros, which is in Spanish territory, and employer's will

published, Was presented my card. He said he revealing a £50,000 bequest for was sorry, but he had no card to that once boy of half a century return, bist, writing his name on ago Mr. Charles Death of The ostrich egg, said that would Grove. Monken Hadley, Barnet, .It serve as an introduction,

was "in recognition of our great "On another egg he wrote the friendship, and also of many years address of his aunt, Mary. Bolt, of business association." Blenheim Hotel, Brighton, and

asked me if I would deliver it 'to her. I shall certainly see that it is sent along."

KILLED BY

A PENCIL

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MUTUAL RESPECT

The employer, Mr. Ernest Owers, started a small business' in West Hampstead in 1879,

REVOLVER, THREAT

It was then that Dechenaud.

It, Intervened.

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Producing revolver" he covered the would-be cavaller, while he explained in English to the girl the risk she was running. She was convinced by his earnestness, and ac- cepted his offer, to escort her to her hotel, ·

The other two members of a | notorious" gang, vowed vengeance. the chivalrous Apache and thought it beat to quit Paris sund return to his native

but his enemies were not to be shaken off so easily."

In due course his presence in Lyons was signalled to Paris, and

He had no capital, and was so town, poor that often he had to walk home to Shepherd's Bush to save the bus fare.

accom-

Mr. Owers rose to be head of the man who had been, baulked of In North-West his prey set out for Lyons to take woman In England while on a The ragle way in which a Tamil prosperous firm short visit in 1935. He returned to Hindu, P. Muthusamy, (48), work-London."

charge of the execution party pro- Austria, where he was arresteding at the Singapore Town Clean- When he died last year, aged vided by local gangsters, and taken to Germany charged sing department. met his death seventy-eight, he left, more than As Dechenaud was crossing the

with net personalty Place Aristide Briand. errrency offence. From wis related in the Coroner's Court £400,000. that time until the beginning of recently.

£275,430.

pariled by a friend, sx men ap- November he had been in various Muthusamy was going on his Mr. Death is now abroad, but his peared and opened fire without concentration camps on charges of rounds in the Conservancy van on secretary stated that although he warning. Before falling with two the morning of Jan, 21, Accord-had retired he still has a private bullets in his chest, Dechenaud Mr. Dummett What was "this ing to the van driver a Boyanese, office at the West Hampstead managed to wound seriously one high treason?-Apparently taking Adam bin Abu, while the van was branch.

of his assallants, but the others from the country on

One of Mr. Owers's relatives sald: got away. its rounds Muthusamy money away illegally.

foladed Was playing with a pencil. He remark- "Their friendship

Dechenaud Mr. Abrahams said that Gem-ed casually a little while later that originally on their mutual respect admission to hospital. bleki was an ex-Service man, hav- he had scratched his hand with for each other in business. Ing volunteered, though under the pencil,

"The time came when they met military age, to Aght for Germany. Two days later Muthusamy re-as equals. They used to play golf

After his first arrest in Novem- ported the scratch on his hand to and holiday together." ber, 1935, he spent six months in a Dr. A. Thural, medical officer of

NO RESIDUE concentration camp. He was then the, Singapore Municipality, He Ten thousand pounds left by ́released, and, "no doubt as a mes-was treated accordingly and on Dame Annie Frances Elphinstone. sure of confiscation." à fine of Jan. 25 was admitted to the Gen-widow of Major-General Howard 1,250,000 schillings "(about £12,000) eral hospital. He died in hospital Elphinstone, is not enough to pay was imposed on him.

on Sunday, Jan. 20. Cause of even the first bequest of her will.

was blood poisoning.”

was

It was after this, continued Mr. death was septicaemala due to She died on November 12, 1938, Abrahams, that Gembicki

aged eighty-two. leaving £10.003 taken to Dachau, where he was The Coroner, Mr. W. G, Porter, 48. Bd. kept until last November.

returned a Anding of death by misadventure.

He had important connections in Germany, famous names which he would not like to mention because of danger of victimisation, but which he was prepared to write down.

Gembleki had been their finan- clal adviser, and they apparently arranged for him to be smuggled across the frontier a car, to stay "in Holland and there board a

ship.

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NEW DRAPERY FABRICS

Many home-makers will welcome

Abolition Of Dowries

on the

Divergent views utility of a legislative measure for restraining the practice of giving and asking for dowries were expressed in the Bihar Assembly when it discussed on. the motion for the reference of the Dowry Restraint BIL moved by Mr. Singh, to 趄 Select Committee. The motion was carried.

Mr. K. B. Sahay, Parliamentary

secretary, refuted the contention

a new fabric recently brought out that the Bill could not be taken up

known as "Pearlglow." As its name since it involved a change in Hindu implies it has a slow but not a law. and said that the Bill could shimmery glossy finish

be amended to permit the offering

of religious gifts.

It was also suggested that the Bill might be made non-applicable

She left £200 for each complete year "from the date of her marriage to the date of my death" to gach of her daughters, Olive Margaret Jackson and Mary Howard McClintock; and the residue upon trust among four daughters.

But Olive Margaret Jackson was married in 1910, and her sister Mary Howard McClintock in 1909, and to fulfil the Initial bequest £11, 400 would be required.

The solicitors handing the will said: "The bequest will be reduced proportionately. There will be no residue, so the remainder of the bequests will be ignored."

Britain's Felt Hat Industry

The British felt hat. industry)} although not of great dimensions.

to Muslims if Muslim opinion is quite important in turnover,

80 desired.

and in the numbers of persona

More than any other fabric, it resembles sateen. Yet it is richer and comes in gorgeous pattern similar to those usually seen in chintz. Besides, it is manufactured in a very dainty checked design,

The Government did not want to employed. It is centred around made in two light and dark.

oppose the measure, he said, but he Manchester. shades of the same colour blues was opposed to the suggestion for

.For a considerable time the browns, greens, reds, and so on. It exemption, of voluntary dowries, industry has felt the shrinkage of was shown at the Merchandise since it was difficult to prove that export trade. Prior to the war 60 Mart In Chicago.

a dowry was a voluntary one, as per cent. of the hats manufactured The new fabric is particularly also to define the term dowry. in Britain were exported. To-day useful in bedrooms, for draperies, He favoured reference of the Bill is less than half of that bedspreads and vanity skirts. A with a view to preventing oppor- proportion. The reason is obvious. complete. ensemble was seen tunities for evasion of the provi- British hat makers have always recently made of it in the bluesions.

produced, high quality goods Foreign nations unable to compete with them as regards quality and style have placed so high a duty on Imported hats that the cost is prohibitive to purchasers abroad.

Regarding the home market the

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check, pattern. A little plain dark The House agreed to the motion blue material was used for trim for reference to a Select Committee ming. This brought out the dark with a single dissentient voice. Lines in the check and made a very

-Interesting and unpretentious

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furnishing suitable for a girl's

room.

ALIEN FACTORIES

The Council of Shefield Cham- The draperies were pleated at ber of Commerce has considered people in Britain could make it the top, and edged down the inner the question of aliens and of for-more secure if they concentrated] ade with a two-inch band of the 'eign firms setting up in business on the purchase of British-made plain dark blue. The bedspread in England in competition with hats. This attitude would not be was quite simple, with a band of British manufacturers whose fac-Jingo patriotism. If the majority of blue running along the elde tories are already producing goods purchasers insisted on parallel with the floor.

in quantities more than sumcient made hat they would be doing some

a British-

At the edge of the top surface to satisfy the market, both at thing to bring into commission

of the bed, the material war horie and abroad, ordered. For bedspreads the The

Chamber raises до

machinery lying idle, and give work to many skilled and unscllied workpeople now unemployed.

new Industries. thinks that

fabric is quite a good weight objection to foreign being heavy enough to stay in place introducing

and light enough not to be too but

Government aliens, to establish factories to cumbersome when thrown back Departments ought to make care manufacture commodities which

ful inquiries before. allowing are already being produced.

at night.

Maldon

:

died shortly after

Mr Howard Harding.

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