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THE HONGKONG 'TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH

30, 1936.

CRASHED 600 CARS-AND STILL ALIVE! Safety-Last Man's Many Dramatic Escapes from Terrible Death

WHEN DOES THE HUMAN SOUL DIE?

PHYSICIST SAYS IT GOES ON FOR EVER

San Francisco, Mar. 1. DR. ARTHUR H. COMPTON,

world famous physicist of the University of Chicago, believes the human soul may go on for

much as the light of a streaming candlo continues through spaco even candle is extinguished.

over

after the

"Though the flame was mortal, the emitted light as immortal," Dr.

GIRL DARE-DEVILS WITH A PRICE ON THEIR HEAD

By M. H. WATTS

TOUR girls and nine men in London to-day have a price on their heads-their own price., They have banded themselves together in a "safety last" troupe to do any dare-devilry on land, sea, or in the air that man can devise. Nothing is too dangerous for them, from crashing a plane to falling from a house-top. They are willing to risk their lives and limbs at a price.

once',

motto is, Try anything Mr. Flint added. "It 1 sur- vive, I'll try it again, and if I'm still in one piece I'll go on doing that goes for everyone in my troupe, it na long as anyone pays me, And although none of us is foolhardy.

"People love which makes the blood curdle and are momathingg we provide them with that thrill, risking our lives for their money.

Recently Mr. Dixon Flint, the "suck on the Jaw" which flings them Compton, Nobel prize winner and head of this devil-may-care orga-over a table for a "fiver." master nuthority on Cosmic raynisation, told the remarkabic said in discussing the question "Is

story of his life of 1,000 crashes, Death the End?"

ffolding out further possible hope This week Mr. Flint-who is known professionally as "Nix for immortality, he added:

"There is some suggestion that Nervo," the man with no nerves, consciousness may be independent and who has also been called the

Man With a Thousand Lives- "How can we know that the soul is to crash head-on at 60 miles does not go on forever with a full-an hour into another car driven ness of life corresponding to that at high speed by a member of of the candlelight?

of brain processes,

"Selence can neither prove nor disprove immortality."

of

This troupe.

be reduced

to

will Both cars neraron, but Mr. Flint in not wor- ried about his own safety.

"I have been a stunt miati most of my life," he said, "and have had thousands of thrifty and spills on land and sen and in the

Dr. Compton was lecturing in the First Congregational Church Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, in connection with tho! alxteenth inter-denominational pas- toral conference of the Pacificnic. School of Religion.

Life And Consciousness "That consciousness must

[ estimate that 1 must have wrecked at least 600 cars, but I am at alive to tell the tale, so I am die certainly not worried about this or with the body is logically required any other head-on crash. only when we adopt the mechanis- tic hypothesis that #

definitel

Girls With "Nerve"

"Mont of my stunting leas been thought is the result of an equally done for him companies in America. definite physical change in the Since my return to London I have brain," Dr. Compton continued. been gathering together young men The seeming fact of free will and women who are willing to do makes this assumption appear tostat work of this kind in Britain."

Mr. Flint had with him Iwo of ne highly improbable. There is

his quartette of girls, Miss Jonn hero

that con- Egger, a tall blonde, who lives at some suggestion sciousness may be independent, of Dulwich, and Miss Denise Richard- brain processen.

son, brunette from Hendon.

"Twenty five hundred years ago, Gautama Buddha told a parable to illustrato the fatillty of bellet in

futuro life. Light a lamp for me, he asked. Then blowing out the flame, he added, "What is more dead than a flame that is out?

These girls have perfect nerve and balance and will do any stunt which any film producer can de-. vice," he said.

To demonstrate their coolness and agility the girls climbed 40 feet up the side of a water-tower on the roof ola Londos building, walked along a parapet 150 feet above the street, and swarmed up the guy ropes of a tang-Luff

"I am taking up the Job because

Light And Life "Yet, according to modern.know. ledge, though the flame is dead, what of the light it has given?

I like excitement," said Joan. "If place out of doors, its light! "Nothing interests me so much us was streaming far into space. thrills," Kahl Denise, and when I about this troupe Though the flame was morial, the told my mother emitted light was immortal. On she said that us I had been doing some remote planet. If the light this sort of thing for pleasure for were caught in a spectroscope, anemischt a well get paid

for it." amazing number of things could be found out about the Bame from which the light came. Yet, one Mr. Flint said that the other girls blind to the_light_would say that in the troupe were Diana Seaton and when the flame was gone it was Laura Gibbs.

"Every one of them is prepared the end.

from a parachute "Man's body we can see: his to anything mind we can infer only from them to being hurled into a slimy actions of his boily,

"We know we are blind to the soul. How can we know it does rot go on forever with a fullness of life corresponding to that of the candlelight7

"Thus, failure to find evidence for the permanence of conscious- ness is inadequate evidence for rejecting its possibility,

"Though the scientific preponder- ance of evidence must be considered as against the view of the survival nature and cannot be considered conclusive."- United Preas.

Krech

X-

His Crash Tariff

agreed duck-pond--at tarif," said Mr. Flint. "I have a price for every stunt."

Here is a sample of his tariff: Crashing a car head-on....£20 Crashing

car with woman

passeitger

£32

Capsizing car, bus or motor-

conch Capsizing car, bus or motor-

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coach with woman paяKER- ger

£60

Falling off a galloping horne £ 5 Being knocked off a 24-foot

wall

He and members of his band will change planes in mid-air for £50, or, for a realistic film scene,

Lake a

JOAN OF ARC TRAGEDY

Paris, Mar. 10.

THE long arm of coincidence has reached down through the centuries to encompass the death of Mile. Jeanne Lancau, an aged corset maker, who was known to many of her humble neighbours, as "Joan of Arc."

Sixty-two years ago, when n beautiful young girl, she was chosen by the sculptor Fremlet as the model for his famous eques- trian statue of the Maid-France's great national heroine, who perish-i

ed at the stake.

Ship's Captain

Disappears

To-day she was found burned Into Sea

to death in her Paris attic.

Beside her body lay a pair

of curling tongs. Though nearly "DIVINE RETRIBUTION”

80 years old she sought to preserve

some of the good looks which

to

"We learn how to fail with- out hurting ourselves, and br- fore every car crash I am strap- ped into my seat no that I can. not go through the roof or the wind-screen."

AY-YODEL-O!

In Switzerland "yodel" is a favourite enll and many yodelling bands exist. The pieturo shows a woman member of such a band, which is giving con- certa abroad. All the members are, wearing the peasant

of course,

costume.

CORONATION

Mr. Filat is now working on plans MAY BE

to provide the public with a new thrill-midget-car races over 2-feet burdles which would make the cars leap high into the air.

RECORD YEAR

OF OXFORD

APPOINTMENTS

London, Mar. 16.

A further sign of prox. perity is seen by the report of the Committee for Appoint. ments at Oxford University which shows that the number of appointments secured is the highest recorded.

The total for members of the University in 1935 was' 505, as compared with 125 in 1934.

TELEVISED PLANS

are now being, made to televise as much

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN SPAIN

RESTRICTIONS OFF

Madrid, Mar. 21. Freedom of speech, partially or completely paralysed during most of the past five years in Spain, has been reston, with condi- tions.

Orators at political mass meet- Ing are permitted to say anything they please unless they attack the president of the Republic or other high authorities. The criterion for the press.

samo

When the Lefta ruted the Re- public during its first two years, an all-embracing co-called "Taw of defence" was utilized to control free speech and free press. A total of 110 newspapers were sus- pended by the Azană governments. The monarchist newspapers could not publish attacks upon the re- gime and the limitation also ex- tended to the publication of photo- graphs of former King Alfonso and members of the royal family. The title of king or Don Alfonso XIII was prohibited in the press, He was simply to be known as Don Alfonso de Bourbon. A "ylyn" or cheer for the monarchy was and all is considered subversive shouting and liable to result in. arrest for the guilty royalist.

Socialist Revolr

When the Rights moved into power in December, 1933, an

red

until

as possible of the Corona-unarchist syndicalist uprising occur- tion of King Edward VIII. next year.

It is certain that parts of the procession will be televised.

Arrangements are now being made whereby it is hoped to televise the actual ceremony in- Hide Westminaler Abbey.

and from that time

1936, constitutional January, guarantees were partially or total- ly suspended. A Socialist revolt in October, 1934, brought one of the most rigid censorships in Europe. Press cables were hack- ed to pieces without advice there- of to the senders. Inefficient or- the censorship

It is also proposed to retny tele-nization vision of the Coronation to cinemassagmented the difficulties for the

national and foreign press. and public halls.

two of Recent developments highly efficient methods of trans- [misefon have made this last step

possible.

Strange Case Of The

Guarded Hangar

'PLANE WATCHED ALL NIGHT: BUT WHEN DAY CAME IT HAD GONE

Paris, Mar. 10.

SOMEWHERE in Europe there is a master spy specialising in the most modern sort of crime. He steals airplanes.

In the end the consorship prov- ed a boomerang and resulted in political troubles it was designed to avoid.

Premier Manuel Portela restor- ed constitutional guarantees and lifted the censorship in January. lo permitted the most complete freedom possible ender the dir- cumstances, in fact, the most com- plete in almost five years. How- ever government intervention still exista in cable company offices in accordance with national regula- tions. All press and private com- munications must still pass before the watchful eyes of the official interventors who, if in doubt, can consult higher. authorities as to whether or not any dispatch is to be-censored. It must be admitted that the interventors are desisting therefrom es much as possible.

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The heat of a political campaign out of bounds. The Madrid Left The DURING THE PAST FEW MONTHS AIRCRAFT HAVE as led various newspapers to go DISAPPEARED FROM AIRDROMES IN FRANCE, HUNGARY, republican newspaper, La Libert- SOME OF Jad, was consented four times in POLAND, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, AND HOLLAND. THEM HAVE BEEN MILITARY MACHINES OF NEW AND 17 days because It published arti- SECRET TYPES, OTHERS HAVE BEEN LUXURY-APPOINTED cles, allegedly offensive to judicial PRIVATE 'PLANES.

organ,

anthorities or because they allog- No-edly might cause disturbances.

EL Socialiste, Socialist the suffered several confiscations for similar reasons so that the free- dem of the press is not as com plate as that in the United States. Several right wing dailies have suffered fines,

All of them disappeared mysteriously, quietly. body saw them go, nobody heard them go. One day machines were there. A little later they had gone.

These thefts have led the Secret Services of the countries concerned to an extraordinary theory

Somewhere in Europe there is a secret airdrome. It may be on a hidden plateau in the mountain ranges, on it may be in a clearing in one of the many dense forests in Germany, France, or, Austria. Secret Service

Espionage

Sound Would Not

Bo Noticed

Consorship Reviewed

3. re-

ticlans, the affairs, when given

The independent, austere Mad- rid newspaper. El Sol, in view of the history of the censor- ship during the past two years, pointed out that the notorious "straperio" gambling scandal was frum Inquiries after this theft showed Planes have been stolen Budapest, Amsterdam, Marsellics, that the machine could not have revealed by the Socialist daily but was confiscated by and Warsaw. In Germany the air been bullt from the plans, which the edition

the jurisdiction of the police have special instructions to were purposely left incomplete.police on orders of the censorship inlercept any strange machines Therefore, the entire airplane dls under

Minister of Interior, then a mum- they see. But so far the airplane, appeared.

The noise of atr engine running ber of the Radical party. The thlef has evaded them.

The Secret Services' theory is up is not unusual at an air force scandal involved the concession of gambling privileges to n Mexi can, Daniel Straues. Although in that the thefts are an extension of airdrome. Nobody would take any the wave of espionage now sweep-notice of the sound.

A reconstruction showed that the reality only some ten thousand ing over Europe.

dollars eeemed to have changed honda between Stratus and poli- San Francisco, Mar. 10. It Is common knowledge that machine must have been started up brought her har one title to famo, Capt. Edward McLellan, com-whenever and wherever a new type during the night and flown away.

official status by the government and it is thought that she was mander of the troopship Republic, of military machine is designed the No pilots were missing. It is,

a year after it happened, caused mysteriously disappeared from plans are automatically copied by therefore, considered that come ne

n Cabinet crisis, almost wrecked the strong Radical party and cast The statue which reproduces her his ship yesterday as the vessel photography and smuggled out of must have got into the airdrome,

is done by the many International takes the airplane. youthful beauty stands in the Rue was approaching San Francisco, the country concerned. The work been admitted to the hangar and

Foreign Air Ministry officials shadow upon the reputations of prominent de Rivoli, and is the scone of a returning from Honolulu.

spy groups now operating.

have a good idea of the nationa- several of ita, most

members. pilgrimage every year on the an The Republic was carrying the In some cases, however, a

lity of the spy responsible. El Sol commented that "in a nivoranry, of the Maid's birth. ashes of six Army aviation officers chine cannot be copied from plans

Until they can discover the regime of liberty of expression, the Henceforth it will commemorate recently, killed in a mid-ale crash alone. There must be an actual

secret airdrome or the methodenunciation of criminal acts.com- not only the heroine who died at of two boniting 'planes during the model to work from. This is the

of disposing of the airplanes mitted by the use of political in- the stake but also the humble manoeuvres at Honolulu, and also opportunity for the groups who are

they are powerless. They have fleances would have gone to the model who died in the blazing the remains of Father Damien, the

no direct evidence.

courts without parliament having attic.

lepor priest from Molokal, which

to occupy itself with anything wore recently disinterred for re-

except granting or denying per- mission to the courts to try the deputies. But since this public; denunciation was impossible because the red pencil was vigilant, those injured by the Intemperances of

curling her hair when she upset a petrol lamp.

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burial in his native country in the

cathedral at, Louvain.

BATTLE

Reports from Honolulu stato that Hollywood, Mar. 16.. the superstitious natives there, who Ono police was killed and an- consider, graves as holy ground, other, with an unidentified man, regard. the captain's disappearanca seriously wounded in a gun battle as Divine retribution for the vio- to-day in the office of Rex Colo, a lation of Father Damion's grave. well-known business

agout for The bentlication of Father Damion! Alm stars-Router.

is expected shortly in Rome,

stealing machines.

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In one recent Instanee, a' war-

It is thought that some of the plane of an entirely new type dis- appeared from a central European minor agents have been arrested It was placed during the past few weeks in some military airdrome. in a hangar, overnight within of the mase arrests of spy groups sight of a guard. But in the mora- in Germany and Copenhagen, but Ing It had disappeared.

80 far no direct evidence has been It is practically certain that the obtained.

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guards were heavily bribed-with New and secret military ma- power want to parliament, which so much money that it would cancel chines in Britair are heavily guard almost became converted Into a out the disgrace and possible prisoned day and night by trustworthy police court for crimes of Its sentence of a court-martial after

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the theft.

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