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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY,

AUGUST | 21, 1835.

DRAMATIC SKY RESCUE Would Smash Our

Airman- Caught In Mid-Air

MILLION TO ONE CHANCE THAT CAME OFF

Moscow, Aug. 3. A Soviet Army airman owes his life to a dramatic rescue in mid-air-veritably a millionth chance in life- saving.

His parachute failed after he had leaped from a 'plane at a great altitude. An he was fall-¦ ing he was grabbed round the i waist by his fellow-parachutist.

Both men, Krusikoff and Noak-! off, had jumped from the same machine, Krasikoll first. Noskolf pulled his ripeord too soon, and his parachute, swept upisards by an air-current, got hooked, and was torn on the tail of the 'plane. He began to fall.

Пe collided with Krasikoff"a parachute. This broke his des cent, and Krakoff wg able to clutch him round the waist, and to hold on.

The double load was too heavy! for one rachute, and they began falling rapidly.

"Open your reserve parachut»," Kranikoff shouted,

can't,"

Noskoff shouted back, "Then try! to open mine," was the reply.

Noskoff managed to do this when they were only 300 feet from the ground and death. They made a good landing.

"CHILDREN'S YEAR" OFFICIALLY USHERED IN

The above pictures were taken at the Kiangwan Civic Centre in connection with the inauguration of "Children's Year," which will end on July 1, 1934. Top: The children leaving the Greator Shanghal City Government Building after attending the meeting. Lower: Mayor Wu Te-chen and the 10 child.

ren's representatives whom he received in person after the meeting.

Hollywood Divorce Mill Grinds Out Decrees

NO DEPRESSION IN THE COURTS

Los Angeles. Aug. 16.

HOLLYWOOD'S film industry may be in the throes of depression, but the cinema Colony's divorce mill is still working overtime.

Here are the latest developments:

Mrs. Mac Elisabeth Kea-

ton, wife of the screen comedian who never smiles, Buster Keaton, has filed suit for divorce in Los Angeles.

She is his second wife, his former marriage to Natalie Talmadge ending in divorce in 1932.

Estelle Taylor, former wfe of Jack Dempsey, has become plain Estelle Taylor again, the Supreme Court here granting her permission to resume her maiden name. He divorced her in 1931.

Divorce proceedings are pending between Dorothy Gish and James Reanie, whose marriage idyll is on the rocks. Miss Gish charges bec hn-hand with intolerable cruelty. Her lawyer said:

"Miss Gish does aot expect to marry anyone else. She is a sick girl, and intends to travel.

Mary Pickford.

to the Far East for a long holis Court fight for the custody

day.

Plight of Jew Refugees

80,000 PEOPLE WHO

FLED ABROAD

London, Aug. 16.

World

Sky Dwarf Cannot Be Seen By Naked Eye

YET GRAVITATION WOULD FLATTEN

HUMANS

Mt. Wilson, Cal., Aug. 10.

A "sky dwarf" star with a gravity pull so powerful that it would flatten human be- lings as though they were run over by a steamroller. has been measured by astro- nomers of the Carnegie ob- servatory here.

The lille star, companion to the huge Sirius in the Southern sky, was found to be 85 magnitude by astronomers Joel Stebbing and Albert Whitford. It is 52 million million miles from the earth.

The two research men announe- ed that they were able to measure the "sky dwarf" by using special devices on the 100-inch Mt. Wilson telescope, the world's largest imagnifying instrument.

Although only three times large as the minor planet known a the earth, the "dwarf" in Ro Compact that its gravitational puil controls the orbit of the many times larger Sirius. The star's pull was computed as 35,000 times that of the earth's gravity.

if a human being were to come' within the range of the "dwarf's" gravity, he would collapse ant spread like water. A normal man

of 150-pounds would weigh 2.625 toth on the dwarf's" surface. -United Press,

British Treasure Seekers Search for Lusitania

WAR-TIME LINER'S GRAVE SOUGHT

London, Aug. 1.

poignant story of a Clyde to-day on a mission that seems like a chapter The 500-ton adventure ship Ophir left the

struggle to re-make the shat-

tered lives of 80,500 people from a novel. torn from their homes in

This vessel, commanded by Capt. H. B. Rus- Nazi Germany was revealed sell, is the property of a company with the pictur- in a report by an American expert to a League of Na-esque title of the Argonaut Corporation Ltd., which has acquired the rights over more than 100

tions commission.

It represented the result of

nearly two years of work by wrecks.

James G. McDonald of New

York. drafted by the League of HER first quest will be the

Nations in an effort-fought by the German

torpedoed Lusitania, government to which has lain for 19 years place those who fled Nazi Ger-lon the ocean bed off the

many.

Hetween the lines of the factual, I statistical report was visible the picture of the thousands of families

Southern Irish coast.

Buoys will be laid, in the

Jews and others wandering over centre of the area and Ophir the globe seeking means of, setr will begin to patrol up and down respecting sustenance,

on parallel courses

only 300

feet apart. During a cease-

It was disclosed that the United States has absorbell 6,000 of the refugees. Palestine his absorbed less patrol, modern depth find-

: most--27,000 - and France is earing ing apparatus will be constant-

for 10,000,

In terms almost

cold in their ly in operation. objectivity. McDonald, High Com-

missioner

of

her child.

T

The famous atar, it will be

Werks may be spent in the told the facts of his work and his traversed. On the other hand, for German refugees, search and hundreds of miles ideas to the governing body of the League's refugee commission. the world may learn soon that

The principal reemmendation in the last resting place The report was that the League of Lusitania has been found.

praepretive Nazi

of

■o independent unit having an oxygen supply sufficient for eight-kurs, be- ing loaded aboard the Ophir.

After ten years of married life recalled, hurriedly cancelled someone asked Miss Gish what trip to Hongkong, where she in: Nations undertake responsibility, it was like to be happily married. tended to "completely rest for in defiance of The film star replied: "Hush, two months," in order to return rage, for relief and rehabilitation of the Lusitania will be found. the An all-metal diving suit, which is don't mention that. I'm super-to America to refute her former refugees.

While everyong is confident that stitious,"

magnitude of the task is not under- husband's allegations that she' Meanwhile John Barrymore, was "not a fit and proper person, fugees remained unplaced and that

It was revealed that 15,000 re. 'estimmted. has hit back at his wife Dolores to have the custody, care. or any of these were in grave straits,ell stimated that complete sern- Disenssing the matter Capt. Rus- Costello, in his reply to the al- control of a minor."

approaching desperation. legations she made against him

Specifically the report warned:

tiny of the search area will occupyi "It is impossible

one month. Success even to recom-that time would be quick work.

within swung round, heading seawards mel in my case any person whi;

again until she sank, 20 minutes has left Germany to return, The į German government has taken tion about the Lusitania's position,

There is a fair body of informa, after being hit. drastic measures against those but it suffers from vagueness. returning, not only preventing

Represented by n new lawyer,

in her suit for divorce, recently Miss Harding has decided no fled,

longer to oppose the hearings in the Californian

court. Mr. Wooley, her lawyer, has filled & notice of dismissal of Miss

Iron-Fisted, Amazon

She alleged that he had struck her repeatedly, used profane Harding's application of pro- language, and finally left their hibition, declaring that home and neglected to communi-

the ente with her.

actress is confident that the? Courts will uphold "the high

His reply, filed by his finan-standing she enjoys and her cial manager, Mr. Henry Hot-reputation for loyalty and devo. chener, depicts Miss Costello as tion as a mother." nn "Iron-fisted Amazon" who,

women

with the aid of some

While all these events are friends is alleged to have had stirring the film colony, two Barrymore as a virtual prisoner other Hollywood stars have re- in his own yacht, the "Infanin.” [ceived

their final decrees.

The Lusitania, it is hoped, will be found in fairly good

them from taking employment, but confining them in re-educa, Ophir, including extracts from the settled across rock, which would Hog of the U-Bont commander have broken her back instantly, Walther Schwleger, who sunk the splitting her in halves. liner, and evidence about the posi

All the evidence is on board the condition,, though she may have

·tion" camps."

And further on:

"Nor has the era of dismissalation given by Capt. Turner and

CONIC

rud.

Bet

other Lusitania, officers at the in-board the Lusitaniu which will Repositories for valuables on jquiry held after the Ainking.

be searched for include the Survivars Aboard

ship's 80-ton safe and the pur- ser safe. There is a chance The chief officer, of the Ophir, that the, latter will be found Mr. A. Bestic, a Lusitania survi-open. Yor, was on the liner's navigat.

ing bridge up to 10 minutes Mr. R. Chisholm, the Ophir's

in Germany come to an Fiaty more dismissale of who have held University ap pointments have

to the notice of the academic assistance council in recent months" McDonald praised warmly the Esther Ralston is freed from work of Jews, the Quakers and Mr. Hotchener declared that George Webb, the publicity ex-the Rockefeller foundation in. Miss Costello "upon false claims pert. Thelma Todd is divorced going to the ald of German re- of habitual intemperance," from Pasquale de Cicco after fugees but he emphasised the threatened that she would have three years of married life. importance of continuing the him confined upon his return to Mary Pickford will also be free work. Los Angeles."

from Douglas Fairbanks in To this end, he said, a refugee but still does not solve the prob. that the safe contained valu January. Ann Harding's Fight

Two other stars, economic commission has been lom, for after he left the bridge fables, and that before the ship Joan Blondell and Then there has been a new Amca, are

Adrienne formed in the United States the ship steamed for 10 min-sank the purser might have also sucing for with development in Ann Harding's divorce.

authorised capital of utes, was hit, turned towards opened it in an attempt to save $10,000,000.-United Press. the land, then, failing to steer, the articles entrusted to his care,

before the torpedo struck.

steward and another Lusitania survivor, states that the last act His recollection of the posi- of the liner's purser was to rush tion is valuable up to a point, below, and it is argued from that

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