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The Poor Youth With Rich Relations

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KIDNAPPED

HIMSELF

CALEB

FOR RANSOM New York, Jan. 10. ~ALEB MILNE, 24-years. old heir to a textile for- tune, whose rich relations received three notes demand- ing 25,000 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 rela- tions and with sending a letter demanding £5,000. He wak

granted £1,500 ball.

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

He wan trossed into w ball, gagged, apparently heavily drug- ged, and acemed to have been in- humanely treated.

"Not The Neodial"?'

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

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

In his confession Milne in alleged to stato; "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 rolled down the hill until I felt the roadway beneath nie. Within ten minutes picked me up.

in car

"By the simple process of pricking myself with a pin I produced the appearance of

hypodermic needle-marks on my

arm."

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1936.

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TO LOSS OF German Quads Now:

BEAUTY- £18,000

New York, Jan. 20.. EILEEN WENZEL, daughter

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

Eileen brought suit against Lewis J. Ehrot, jun., heir to brew-

Ing millions. Her case was that

Hitler Expected To Be Godfather

Berlin, Jan. 15.

QUADRUPLETS, 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 Herr 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. Westler, 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 today.

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

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

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

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

"Erlk was born at nine o'clock Inter Anna Marlo arrived. Four at night. Two and a half hours

and a half hours later Henrietta, and, finally, at 4.30 in the morning. Marga."

He was told about the English Quads and the money they were

SANTA

AFRICA

GIRLS

Bor-

With the announcement froin Washington of an agreement be- tween the United States, Eng- land, Ireland and Canada for mutual exchange landing privileges and other facilities, the long-talked-about establishment of regularity scheduled air vices between Canada, the United States and Europe ap- proaches realisation. British air authorities have evolved a

a new scheme which they propose using for the transatlantic, flights, and picture at TOP gives an artist's Impression of how the new plan works. Two acroplanes, a small high-speed "monoplane with n heavy fuel and mail load and a huge flying boat carrying practi eally no load, take-off, the larger lightly-loaded fiying boat carry ing the. amall, speedier, loaded craft to a height of 10,000 feet where the small plane is launch- ed on its way. Two routes are planned, a northern ons via Har- bor Grace, Nild., and a south- ern route to Bermuda, as shown our the above map. The northern route is for summer Aying. It is expected that four trips will be made weekly,

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PROVIDED BY

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DURING

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DINNER DANCES

IN THE "GRIPPS"

Nightly

For Dinner Dance. Reservations Phonie 30281.

The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd.

GORDON'S

SHOE SALE

NOW ON

of

Dillinger's Girl Draws

U.S. State Pension

New York, Jan. 15. 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.

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 wall filled tree Christmas morning.

coating: Herr Zimmerloin laughed Happy Days Are Here

proudly,

she went in Ehret's car after a gay "Fine Kiddios”. 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 'n modelwers unded.

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Suid Judge Pecora in giving his decision: "It is not improper to take into account the strong probability that the destruction of

We do not need money for our Quads, he said. "They are fa Idddies. Just think! Each has a fine crop of hair-Erika's is dark, but the other three are real little blonde Madchen

"We have always wanted chil- dren. We have been married for nine years. Our first child, a girl, died at eighteen months, on Christ mas. Eve" two years ago. Our th-boy, 'dfod shortly after

her beauty has resulted in a mate second, Now we have four, and-I rial lessening, if not complete ex-birth, tinguishing, of her prospects of 14. must be going bacle to look after favourable marriage,

them.

THE WORLD IS IN BETTER

SHAPE THIS YEAR

WORLD unemployment has reached a new low record at

the start of 1936, International Labour Office statisticians

announce at Goneva.

A BRIDE AT 80

Married On Birthday.

Mrs. Anne Blake, of Knighton- bride this road, Plymouth, was month, on her eightieth birthday. Bir. George Popplestone, & neighbour, aged seventy-four, is her husband.

"We were both alone, so we de cided to amalgamate," Mrs. Blake said.

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

|333 ROAD DEATHS FOR ONE AT SEA

FEWER BRITISH SHIPS LOST

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

"Mensured

of in losses vessels, it is stated, “our ship- ping is now two and a half timea as safe as before the war, and foreign shipping in nearly twice as safe."

Losses of United Kingdom sea- going vessels of 1,600 tonn gross and upwards since 1920 (In three- year averages),were:- 1920-221 In 1920-31 1 in 317 1023-25.1 in 191 1932-34. 1 in 242 1920-281 in 192

Of the world's tonnage, we own 83% per cont.; of the world's losses, we have suffered 25 per cent

Among officers and aeamon eory-

Better still, the world has persisted more than two yearsing in our trading vessels loss of now in reducing unemployment.. Britain, Australia, Canada, U.S.A., Japan, Russia all demonstrate a steady unemployment Improvement. Italy has leas unemployment too....

Only a few countries spoil the picture. They include France Holland and Switzerland. The Irish Free State, too,

· has more' unemployment now than a year ago.

fe In the period 1910-1914 averaged 1 in 415; org apart from [the Titaric "and". Empress of Iroland dissstors,:1 in 589. In the period 1982-1984 the average was +1 in 2,860.

STOCKS REDUCED TO

CLEAR-

From $100 Pair

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