1936-03-14 — Page 13

WHAT

"SHIPWRECK

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1936.

HAPPENED ON FRIDAY THE 13th

THE DAY

KELLY FALLS GABRIEL

FROM GRACE

By A Correspondent.

New York, Mar. 13. Friday the thirteenth prov ed unlucky for Alvin “Ship- wreck" Kelly, America's famed flag-pole sitter,

a thir..

He was sitting on teen inch steel disc on top of a thirteen-fout pole in the Bronx, New York.

Thiricen policemen arrived to force Kelly to the ground. They found Kelly had taken the precaution of greasing the pole, but one policeman pro- duced an axe. When he be gan to chop, Kelly hurried down the pole to the ground.

FACTORY EXPLOSION IN MACAO

BIG DEATH TOLL

Not until yesterday...-- Friday, the 13th-was it apparent that some thing approaching a major disaster had occurred on Taipa Island, rear Maeno, where a fire-cracker Factory exploded on Thursday.

D'ANNUNZIO DREADED

ITALIAN POET WHO

FELT LIKE DYING

SIX YEARS AGO ABRIEL D'ANNUN-

Yesterday was Friday the Thirteenth, most dreaded day! in the calendar of the super- stitions.

This is a page describing in story and picture events that happened on or because of! that date; of death and disas- ter the whole world over; of| luck and ill-luck; of man's (and woman's) lingering be- lief in the quity.

omens of anti-

ZIO, the Italian poet, There will be only one was superstitious, like so many of his calling. He did more Friday the thirteenth not like Friday the Thir- this year-in November. Iteenth.

And yesterday, on Friday the Prisoners

Thirteenth, he died, a day after

his 74th birthday..

Before his death, he suffered

Get A Lucky

from frequent fils of melancholy"Break"

and moodiness,

It was during one of these

that his condition became worse. ON FRIDAY THE 13TH Suffering from pneumonia, hej

Friday

the Thirteenth WAN

FI

Ponylets ini

brightened up on his birthday, lucky day for seven relapsed on Friday the Thir-Amoy prison. teenth, and died,

Seven out of nine convicts suc

His melancholia dated back to feceded in escaping from the Dis

trict Court prison.

1930.

The escape occurred in the early In that year he ordered his favourite sculptor. Renato Brozeraing and was done by digging a

Lunel from their rom to a wide;

zi, to construct a mausoleum for trees adjoining the prison. The notice the him, and gave written and prison guards did not verbal instructions that it should] egenpe until nine con/lets had got out massive into the street. The alarm was with four bailt he

raised and two men re-arrested, but columns.

the others are at large,

"My order for a mausoleum is argent," he telegraphed the sculptor, whe immediately fulfil led the work,

Six years have passed, ingwever, ant it remained for the Hoodon Day I the year to full the prophery of the moody poet of the lakes,

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D'Annunzio's superstition re. garding Friday the Thirteenth

FRIDAY WAS UNLUCKY

Charlie Chaplin, pfestographed above by the Telegraph upon his arrival, intended to cram as much sight-seeing as possible into yes

terday. But Friday the 13th wha onlucky, and he remained instead in his suite at the Gloucester.

RADIO BROADCAST

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength-of 356 metres (815 kilocycles)!

4-7 pm Chinese Programme. 6.80-7 p.m. Chinese Dance Music, 7-7.25

Excerpts from p.m. "Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan).

7.25-7.56 p.m. Light Orchestral Music.

Songs everybody is singing: Monck- ton Melodion (arr. Stanford Robin- son): Ninon. ("A Song for you"); Love, forever I adore you; The Gay Nineties Waltz Medley,

7.55-8 pm. "Scenes from My Old Dutch."

Hp.m. Local Time and Weather Bapart,

8.03-9

8.03-9 p.m. A Variety Pro-

gramme.

own

Plane Solos-I'm in love all over agal; Hooray for Love...

....Patricia Song: No Strings; brough; Isn't it a lovely Day....Ginger Rogers; Humorous Sandy's Broadcasting Station..Sandy Powell; Souriant.... Song Le Lieutenant Adrien Lany; Vocal-Fetainius Fan, cies...The Carlyle Cousins; Instru- mental Tropical Hulas; Vocal-Rock and Roll.... The

American Eton

Sidney Torch; Orchestra-Noel

THIRTEENTH MAN Boys; Organ Sol-I inte myself..

ENTERTAINED

BY THIRTEENTH CLUB Friday the Thirteenth was the day chosen by the twelve other members of the Thirteenth Club Lathion to entertain their thirteenth brother.

Perry Mr. Woods, who hes just returned from honeymoon.

According to offein! investigation It was found that a funnel over ten feet long, three feet deep, had been first opportunity of expressing its

Hug in room No. 9.

This is the second time that ean- vicis have esengard from this prison, and the convicts involved are all important persalities. Ofeini in- vestigation of the incident has not been completed,--Wah Kiu Yat Ph PRESIDENT SMILES dates back to the Great Warf the date, smited, said: "It is a President Roosevelt, wina reminded when, as an aiman, he used to lucky day for me." fly over Austrian territory, drapping propaganda leaflets. On one day, a Friday the Thirteenth, be had his narrow- est escape from death, when three enemy planes swooped down on his tail.

TWICE WOUNDED

real D'Annunzin's

21:120! Wick

This was the Thirteenth Club's

good wishes.

The luncheon was held in the Landon. The party did everything that is supposed to be unlucky.

They walked under a ladder in the hall, wore their conta inside out, lunches ander open umbrellas and spilt the salt.

And Mr. Woods didn't care fx.

Luck-Good and Bad

Friday the Thirteenth brought luck, good and bad, to all sorts of people yesterday.

Three Hongkong journalists cele one of the brate their birthdays on Friday March Twenty-three factory workers Itapagneita. He was were killed in the explosion, while most remarkable Hterary fures of 16, 13 and 20 respectively. Just to This age, most of his works being defy superstition they decided to hold 67 were injured.

Of the latter, several whose cop- transdited into English, French andja combined dition was critical Ingered painful German.

Was

party last night--Friday

the Thirteenth. Nothing happened, that one of the journalists

Always 11 patriot he served except

had n sore heat Saturday the

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ly until yesterday, when they died. Forty-thrs are still in a critical throughout the Great War, despite, Fourteenth

his age. and was wounded twice, coriditlun.

Friday the Thirteenth started off once on Friday, September 13, 1916 The whale city of Maena

was attacked by three fuckily for A. J. Osmund, for it was

shortly after 12 n.. yesterday morn startled by the exples which so when he every window in. Maeno, and we planes, and again in 1917.

He set himself up as the lendering that be made his final break of The Colony's Amateur followed immediately by a second and

Billiards Championship. after few seconds by a third re if a national Insurrection, defying 27, to win port. The re-cracker factory was the Government, between 1919 and on Taipa stand, a mile or so neross 1921, but eventually capitulateul,- -- his Prain Grande Bay,

In 1924, in recognition of

the Weather

It was not long before assistance services, he was creatul Count of was being rushed to the scene of the Flume and Prince of Monte Nivoso, explosion, and menthers of the Macao)

·Fire Brigade and the Health Depart- ment were quickly carriol across the channel to Taipa, by launches of the Harbour Department. The work of extricating the dead and wounded. was soon commenced and it was not! long before the injured were being carried to Macna, for treatment at the various hospitals. Accommoda- tion was found in the Government Hospital, St. Raphael's Hospital, and the Klang Wu, Hospital for the in-

On Friday The 13th

jured, to the number of fifty-one by FLOODS: AVALANCHES

the early evening. It is not thought that any of these persons will aur vive, while the number of dead found

Weather plays a promi-

is believed to be twenty-three, Alto- nent part in the news of gether 67 were injured, 4 being in a serious condition.

"Friday" "the" "Thirtienile proved"im÷"} lucky, for Dr, Back Ruxton. Yester day he was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, Mrs. Isabella Rux- tan, whose dismembered body Wax Found in a ravine at Moffat, fa Lan- cashire. Full report is on Page 1.

*k LM.A. Razack and A. K. Suflad will be able to blame Priday the Thirtventh for their poor display in

Tennis Championships,

the

:k

from

which they were eliminated yester day. They gave the worst tennis display of their careers, and went down easily to F. I. Kwok and S. W.

Liang,

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Friday the Thirteenth was an un- lucky day for Father Joseph Burns.

yesterday hopes of negotiations for his release from capture grew re- Friday the Thirteenth, bandit guards had removed into a re-

mote area near Tunghua.

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The factory was completely des In Hongkong and the

troyed, and but for the fuct isnt it

was one of the smallest on Taipa South China coast, heavy 1stand, the number of killed and in- jured might have been much greater. fog paralysed shipping for

the

Imote when it was reported that his

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in

EVEN THE DOGS HAVE

AN UNLUCKY DAY

Friday the Thirteenth was a bad day for Hongkong dogs. In the Government Gazette. issued and dated yesterday, it is notified that the licence fee for all dogs in Hongkong will be increased as follows:'

Male Dogs from $3 to $6 Female Dogs from $6 to $10

Coward Medley: Sons-A Little bit Independent Gypsy Violin....Sam Browne: Orchestra-Six-Eight Med.

9-9.30 p.m. Military Band

Music.

Ruy Bins Overture (Mendelssohn); Tancred! Overture (Rossini): The Mill on the Rock Overture (arr. Winterbottom): La Source Ballet (arr. Winterbottom); Rakoczy March "Tamnation of Faust") (arr. God- frey); Radetzky March (J. Stranas).

9.30-9.45

Daventry Nows Bulletin.

Hongkong

jr.m.

9.35 p.m.-12 midnight. Hotel Dance Orchestra. 10 p.m. Big Ben:

12 midnight. Close Down. Note. There will be nines. Recorded Programme freni Z.E.K, on a frequency of '610 kilocycles from 8-10.30 p.m.

"TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME

9.10-10 n.m. Miltary Parade Ser- vice from St. John's Cathedral,

10 д.м. Close Down, 1a.m.-12.13 p.m. Morning Ser. vice from St. Andrew's Church, Kew

koon.

.. Time and Weather Report. 1.30 p.m. Heater Press Bulletins. "Concerto in A Minor" for Plano- Forte and Orchestra (Grieg).

A Recital by Alfred Piccaver (Tenor).

J Thank God for a Garden; 2. Roses of Picardy; 3. Trees; 4. The Song of Suga; 5.. For you Alone. Light Orchestral Musle, From Mozart's

Treasure

Store (Urbach): At the Tschaikovsky Fountain (Urbach); An Dich-Waitz (Waldteufel); Ich Liebe Dich Waltz (Waldteufel) Chinese Night Watch

Petersburg (Siede);

of

Party (Eilenberg); Poigh-Ride

Waltzes (Robrecht): Indiana Sweet- heart (Hansen); Love in Idleness

Skaters (Macbeth); The

Waltz China Figures Check and th

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Helen (OnCountry Girl

Able Seanut E. E. G. Brown com- menced 28 days detention yesterday because he was found guilty of being

an improper place. Charges of (Monckton): Line Domino (Cuvil- two counts of gross indecency, howlier); Chocolate Soldier (0. Strauss).

Close Down.

Orchestral Music,

ever, resulted in nequittal.

RISKING IT

New York, Mar. 13.

"No, Sir," he replied, "I am marry ing n bazard."

Bride's name was Gertrude Hazard.

2.10 p.m.

4-7 p.m. Chinese

7-7.30

p.m.

Programme.

Coronation

Prophete" (Meyerbeer);

Fingal's Cave (Mendels

"Ori

26) The Sleeping Beauty

William Fraley, a negro, the only Waltz (Tschaikovsky): Hungarian bridegroom of the lay at the City Dance No. 5 in sharp Minor Hall, New York, was asked by the (Brauns); Pomp and Circumstance clerk if he wore superstitious. March (Elgar) (No. 1 in G).

7.30-7.43 p.m.

The BBC. Wire- Jess

Singers. Osh thee, Aly Babic (Sir W. Scott): 0 Who will O'er the downs A free? (do Pearsall); It was a lover and bla Laas (arr. Bridge): Where the Bee Sucks (arr. Shaw): Come let us join the Roundelay (Beale).

Band Selections 7.43-8 pm. from Grand Opera,

Friday And

Chan Kit, i contic, received fatal Thirteen Are injuries when he fell off a lorry in

暖

Hauptmann's Hoodoo

Nathan Road, Kowloon yesterday. All the persons killed or hurt in almost the entire day.

In a report to the police, Lo the explosion were women,

Pui-nam, driver of lorry No. 3690, majority of them being comparatively Even worse weather, however, was stated that the lorry was travelling young, while some little children. reported from other parts of the along Nathan Road when deceased accompanying their mothers, were world.

fell off from the rear. He struck among the victims of the explosion. Owing to the serious situation his head on the ground, and was taken created by foods in the United States, to the, Kowloon Hospital where he All the authorities in Macao were President Roosevelt has authorised the died. anxious to render assistance, and I expenditure of $5,304,000 for Flood E. Senhor J. Pereira Barbosa, Acting Relief. Nine people are known to be! The President Garfield has received Governor, shower great solicitude dead, and millions of dollars damage) mussage by the Globe Standard for those who suffered. The task of has been done.

that the steamer Marchonio exploded conveying the injured to Macno was

The floods, which are caused by and sank in the Red Sea near Caito, rendered rather difficult by the thick henvy rains and thawing snows are yesterday morning. The British steam fog which has enveloped the whole swing the United States. Reportar Brighton rescueil ten of the crew, district since this morning, but all of casualties and hardship are reported three of whom were seriously injured those engaged in helping have been from all parts of the country.

Eight more were missing. late, into the night.-Our Own Carren-

* kept busy rendering assistance till Nine have been killed and over a pondent,

Scores of Austrian Nazis in the scoro injured along the upper Atlan-

Yesterday-Friday the Thir- tie seaboard. Rivers have overflowed Provinces of Styria and Carinthia,

teenth-must now be added to the their banks in many places and un-including professors and lawyers, as dreds have been forced to ovacuate well as Hlorr Ferdinand Kermair, cx-long list of his Hoodoo Days, for. their homes in the lowlande.

Governor of Carinthia, were arrested The conditions are becoming worse yesterday-Friday the Thirteenth it was then that Governor Hoff- charge that Nazi man irrevocably announced that every hour.

at Kingenruft had received there would be no further post unit. money from Germany.

ponement of his execution.

As a result Hauptmann will die

SUPERSTITION

Superstitiously incllied persons watched their step yesterday, for

86 KILLED

on

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a

Faust (Gounod); Cavalleria Rus- ticana (Mascagni),

8 p.m. Time and Weather Report. 8.03-8.20 p.m. From the Studio. A Recital by Elvio Yuen (Soprano) accompanied by E. Gualdi.

Programme

.

1. A Spring Carol Gechl; 2. Go from my Window, go arr, Somervell; Visione Tostl; 4. Sorenata

J.

Mascagni,

8.20.9

p.m. Marek Weber and his Orchestra.

A Night in Venlee-Potpourri (Strauss); From Moyerbeer's "Trea- sure Store (Urbach) Fantasia on Melodica of Johann Strauss (Weber);

FRIDAY and the figure "13" have had a horrifying in- fluence on the life of Bruno Hauptmann, who lies in the death cell at Trenton, New Jersey, awaiting execution for From Offenbachs Sample Box (Ur. the murder of the Lindbergh in-bach); Fantasia on the Song "Long,

Long ago" (Dittrich). fant.

9 p.m. Router Press Bulletins, 9.05-9.10 p.m. Vocal Gems-Tho Pirates of Penzance" (Gilbert and Sullivan).

9.10-9.30 p.m. From the Studio A Talk on "Nothing in Particulari just "The Milner Fleasures of Life" by Peter Simple.

It was the monarch of all hoodoos. An avalanche at Jammus, in Sepmen usually don't like sailing

Kashmir, yesterday-Friday. the from a port on Friday the Thirteenth on March 31-thirtecu ́ reversed. Tradition says that Adam and Thirteenth killed eighty-seven which they regard as their unluckiest Eve were expelled from the Garden including three British offeers, as day. But for overrode superstition of Eden on Friday; It was on a they were returning from a skin yesterday and they trickled into and out of the harbour whenever they Friday morning that Cain is salding, expedition. Yet another could. Those that got away and ar

avalanche in West Kashmir swept rived regarded Friday the Thirteenth to have killed Abel and the bohead twenty-five people to their deaths, as lucky, for plenty of others are still ing of John the Baptist and the

tied up as a result of Friday the crucifixion took place on Friday.

Thirteenth's pen-soup fog.

* There were thirteen at table at the

Nine months' hard labour was im

It was on Friday, February, 18, 1935, that Hauptmann was 80 tenced to death for the Lindbergh baby murder. And he was re- sentenced on the night of January 13 this year.

Ho was arrested

on a Friday,

COLD 'KILLS 50

Cold weather in north-east Last Supper. And to Friday the Peshawar yesterday-Friday. the pored by Bir. Macfadyen upon Yuen and his trial started on a Friday. 18th has become a particularly Thirteenth-killed fifty people, You-hang for returning from banish- There are 13 letters in the ominous data in the minkis of the while fears are entertained for ment to see his mother, who was ill

name "Charles A. Lindbergh." auperstitious,

many others,

with stomach ache."

9.30-9.40 p.m. "Famous Folk Songs of Britain" (arr. Squire).

9.40-10.10 p.m. From the Studio. A Concert by: Billing (Baritone); Lindsay A. Laf- Prue Lewis (Vidin) Walter H. ford (Accompanist),

Programme.

1. Songs Eleanore....Colerige Taylor; 2. Violin Soto-Sonata la A Taylor; Life and Death....Colerige-

Major....Handol; 3. Songs-Sonią of the Sea....Colorlige-Taylor; Five and Twenty Sallormen....Coleridge- Taylor.

10.10-10.30 p.m. Roy Fox and his Band.

10.30 p.m. Clore Down,

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