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The Poor Youth With Rich Relations

KIDNAPPED

HIMSELF

FOR RANSOM New York, Jan. 10.

CALEB MILNE, 24-years-

old heir to a textile for- tune, whose rich relations received three notes demand. ing £5,000 ransom when he disappeared a fortnight ago, is to-night-on bail.

He was charged with having "Kidnapped himself” in order to get money out of his rich rein- Hons and with sending a letter demanding £6,000. He WAR

granted £1,500 bail.

Police say he has confessed. Caleb Milne vanished from New York on December 16. Three days later he was found in a ditch near Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

in ball,

He was trussed into Hagged, apparently heavily drug- god, and soomed to have been in- humanely treated.

"Not The Noodlo!"

He was taken to hospital. When doclom proposed to send him to sleep with morphine he whimper ed piteously, "No, no! Not the needle, not the needle."

In his arm were 34 punctures. Two of the demand notes were received by his millionaire grand- father in Pennsylvania.

In his confession Milne is nileged state: "It was because of my desperate financial condi tion, and inability to find a job."

The confession reveals that he prepared the ransom letters by cutting words out of newspapers and pasting them on to paper.

The confession rdads: "I taped my eyes and mouth, then tied my ankles, knees, and hands with slipknots. I roiled down the hill until I felt the roadway. beneath mc. Within ten minutes fa car picked me up.

"By the simple process of pricking myself with a pin I produced the appearance of hypodermic needle-marks on my

arm."

TO LOSS OF BEAUTY- £18,000

Now York, Jan. 20.

EILEEN WENZEL, daughter

of a farmer, once a member of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, was awarded £18,000 damages for the lose of her beauty by Judge Pecora, in the New York courts.

Elleen brought suit agafast Lewis J. Ehret, Jun., heir to brow ing millions. Her case was that she want in Ehret's car after a gay party at the Central Park casino. Thoro was an accident. Her face. was injured. Scars ruined her beauty.

Her prospects of getting work on the stage or as a model zaworó ended.

Said Judge Pocors in, giving his decision: "It is not improper to take into account the strong probability that the destruction of her beauty has resulted in a mate rial lossening, if not complete ex tinguishing, of her prospects of favourable marriage.”a

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1938.

THE HONGKONG

ACROSS

THE

ATLANTIC

A

NADA

ATLANTIC

MONTREAL

CLEVELAN

NORFOL

CHARLESTON,

PUERTO

RICO

OCEAN

BOUTH

AMERICA

Map of routes and type of plane to be used

German Quads Now: Hitler Expected To Be Godfather

Berlin, Jan. 15.

QUA

JUADRUPLETS, all girls, each weighing 4lbs. 6ozs., were born to the blonde, thirty-eight-year-old wife of a German carpenter in Kueps, a village near Coburg, on the last day of the old year.

Mother and children are all doing well. A special report is being prepared for Ilerr Hitler and it is expected that he will become godfather to the children.

A telegram of congratulation and

a gift of money have been sent to

the parents by Dr. Frick, Minister of the Interior.

These latest Quads were brought into the world by Dr. Wettler, the village doctor, and his wife; also a doctor.

The mother, Frau Johanna Zimmerlein, Is nursing them herself.

There were no incubators, no oll baths and cotton wool for these four babies. The German newspapers gave them only a three-line para- graph. But all Germany is talking About them to-day.

To-night they lie, each with a dif- ferent coloured ribbon round. her wrist, in a cradle prepared for only one baby.

Father Nostly Fainted Their father, Herr Zimmerlein, whose surname means "little room," told the story of his wife's Now Year gift to him.

"It was a terrible surprise to me," he said, in his blurred Fran- conian dialect. "I nearly fainted when they first told me, but now I Lam delighted.

"We have already named them -Erika, Anna Marie, Henrietta and Marga.

"Erika was born at nine o'clock later Anna Mario arrived. Four at night. Two and a half hours

and a half hours later Honrietta, and, finally, at 4.80 in the morning. Marga."

Quads and the money they were Ho was told about the English coating. Herr Zimmerlein laughed proudly,

"We do not need money for our

"Fino Kiddies”.

kiddies. Just think! Each has a Quads," he said. They are fins

fine crop of hair-Erika's in dark, but the other, three are real Uttle blondo Madchenia.

"We have always wanted chil- dron. We have been married for nine years. Our first child, a girl, died at eightoon months, on Christ maa Eva two years ago. Our second, a boy, died shortly after birth. Now we have four, and 1 must be going back to look after them.

BY

FRANCE

AFRICA

AIRPLANE

of

With the announcement from Washington of an agreement be tween the United States, Eng- land, Ireland and Canada for mutual exchange of landing privileges and other facilities, the lung-talked-about establishment regularily scheduled air ser- batween Canada, the United States and Europe ap pronches realisation British air authorities have evolved a new scheme which they propose using for the transatlantic flights, and picture

vices

at TOP gives an artist'a

impression

sion of how the new plan works. Two acroplanes, a smail high-speed monoplane with heavy fuel and mail-load and a huge flying boat carrying practi- tally no loal, take-off, the larger lightly-loaded flying boat carry ing the small, speedier, loaded craft to a a height of 10,000 feet where the small plane is launch- ed on its way. Two routes are planned, a northern one via Hur- bor Grace, Nid., and a south- orn route to Bermuda, as shown on the above map. The northern route is for summer flying. It is expected that four trips will be made weekly.

Dillinger's Girl Draws

US. State Pension

New York, Jan. 16. Outlaw John Dillinger taught Evelyn Frechetti, his half-Indian sweetheart, to hate the law of America.

To-day that law decreed that Evelyn, now in the Federal Detention Home at Milan, Michigan, will continue, despite her prison sentence, to receive the small pension she draws because of her half-Indian blood.

SANTA FOR SHIRLEY

! Just like millions of other youngsters throughout the world, Shirley

·Temple, child screen actress, got a huge "kick", out of decorating her own Christmas tree for the arrival of Old Saint Nick. And, with Shirley occupying the place she does in the films, it is pretty certain

to be a well filled tree Christmas morning. -

Happy Days Are Here

THE WORLD IS IN BETTER

SHAPE THIS YEAR

LA BRIDE

AT 80

WORLD unemployment has reached a new low record at

the start of 1938, International Labour Office statisticians announce at: Geneva. ⠀⠀⠀

- Better Still, the world has persisted more than two years now in reducing employment. Britain, Australia, Canada, U.S.A., Japan, Russia all demonstrate a steady unemployment improvement. Italy has lese unemployment too...

* Only a few countries spoil the picture. They include France, Holland and Switzerland." The Irish Free State, too, kas more unemployment now: than a year:

Married On Birthday

Mrs. Anno Blake, of Knighton- rond, Plymouth, was a brido this month, on her eightieth birthday. Mr. George Popplestone, a neighbour, aged seventy-four, is hor husband.

"We were both alone, so we do cided to amalgamate,” Mrs. Blake Bald.

They came together when Mr. Popplestone escorted Mrs. Blake on her visits to an eye specialist.

333 ROAD DEATHS FOR ONE AT SEA

FEWER BRITISH SHIPS LOST

THE increasing safety of British ships is emphasised in a statement issued by the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom.

"Measured In losses -of Vessels," It is stated, "our ship- ping is now two and a half times as safe as before the war, and foreign shipping is nearly twice ng safe,”

ENTERTAINMENT

AT THE

HONGKONG HOTEL

-ROOF GARDEN

PROVIDED BY

THE GAIETY GIRLS

DURING

TEA DANCES

Daily

الحدي

5 to 7.30 p.m.

&

DINNER DANCES

IN THE "GRIPPS"

Nightly

For Dinner Dance Reservations Phone 30281.

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd.

Losses of United Kingdom sea- going vessels of 1,600 tona gross and upwards since 1920 (in threo- year averages) word:

1020-22. 1 in 150 1023-25, 1 in 101

1920-281 in 192

88

1029-81 1 in 217 1992-34: 1 in 242.

Of the world's tonnage, wo, own per cent.; of the world's losses, we have suffered 25 per

cent. 1

Among officers and seamen serv ing in our trading vessels loss of fo. In the period 1910-1914 averaged 1 in 415; or apart from the Titania, and Empress of Ireland disasters, 1 in 582. In the pariod 1032-1934 the average was 13m 2,300%

GORDON'S

SHOE SALE

NOW ON

STOCKS REDUCED TO

CLEAR-

From $100 Pair

WORLD FAMOUS

BOORD'S

OLD TOM GIN

SOLE AGENTS:

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

The MING YUEN STUDIO has

removed to the 3rd Floor

No. 6 Queen's Road Central.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

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