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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., MONDAY,

MARCH 30, 1936.

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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- the light of a over much as

streaming candle continuès

after the through space even candle is extinguished..

"Though the flame was mortal.

GIRL DARE-DEVILS

WITH A PRICE ON THEIR HEAD

By M. H. WATTS

FOUR 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 devide. 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.

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the emitted light as immortal," Dr.Recently Mr. Dixon Flint, the "sock the jaw which fings them Compton, Nebel prize winner and head of this devil-may-care orga-ever a table. for a "ver." Munster authority on Cosmic raymisation, told the remarkable sald in discussing the question "a story of his life of 1,000 ernshes. Death the End?"

Holding 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 jarul who has also been called the

Man With a Thousand Lives of brain processes.

"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?

This troupe.

"Science can neither prove laprove immortality."

nor

Both СИГМ will

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rap-on, but Mr. Flint is not wor ried about als own safety.

"I have been a stunt man most of my life," he said, "and have had thousands of thrills and spills on land and sea and in the

Dr. Compton was lecturing in the

of First Congregational Church Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, in connection with the sixteenth Inter-denominational pas tural conference of the Pacific is School of Religion,

must estimate that 1

have wrecked at least 600 cars, but I am still alive to tell the tale, so 1 a certainly not worried about this or any other head-on crash.

Life. And Consciousness "That consciousness must die with the body is logically required nly when we adopt the mechanis

Girls With "Nerve" dufinite tic hypothesis that a

"Most of my stunting has been thought is the result of an equally done for film companies in America. definite physical change in the Since my return to London I have brain," Dr. Compton continued. been gathering together young men of free will and wonen who are willing to du "The seeming fact makes this ansumption appear to stunt work of this kind in Britain," Mr. Elint had with him two of There is highly improbable,

Mins Juan his quartette of girls, that coggat, a some suggestion

tail blonde, who lives at sciousness may be independent of Dulwich, and Miss Denise Richard- brain procÉSBICA.

son, a brunette from Hendon.

here

"Twenty five hundred years ago, Gautama Buddha told a parable to illustrate the futility of belief in future life. Light a lamp for ine,' he asked. Then blowing out the flame, he added. 'What is more fend than a flame that is ouf ?'

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

"These girls have perfect nerve and balance and will do any stunt which any Glis producer enn 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 | of a London building, walked along" In parapet 150 feet above the street, and swarmed up the guy ropes of a tall Ang-sinff.

I am taking up the job because I like excitement,' said Junn.

"If placed out of doors, its light "Nothing interests me so much as was streaming far into spare. thrills," said Denise, "and when I about this troupe Though the flame was mortal, the told my mather

nitted light was immortal. On she said that as I had been doing remote planet, if the light this sort of thing for plenaure for were caught in a spectroscope, anung might at will get paid amazing number of things could

aume

for

His Crash Tariff be found out about the lame from which the light cante, Yet, one Mr. Flint said unt the other girls blind to-the-light-would-say that in the troupe were Diana Seatou" and when the fame was gone it was Laura Gible.

"Every one of thent 18 prepared the end.

to do anything from a parachute "Man's body we ean see; his mind we can fufer anty from them un being burled into a slimy

actions of his body.

"We know we are blind to the soul. How can we know it does! not go on forever with a fullness of life corresponding to that of the candlelight?

"Thus, failure to and evidence for the permanence of consciona- news is inadequate evidence for rejecting its possibility.

ren

N Agreed

duck-pand!--ut

"I have a Indiff," said Mr. Flint,, price for every stunt."

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

with car

woman

.....£32

BARSERKOT Capsizing car, bus or molur.

coach...

Capsizing car, bus or mator- coach with wuman passen.

£35

:.....EGO

ger Falling of a galloping horse £5 Being knocked off a 24-foot

"Though the selentifle preponder- ance of evidence must be considered

He and members of his band will as against the view of the survival nature and cannot be considered change danes in mid-air for £50, or, tuke a for a realistic Am scene; conclusive."-- United Press,

JOAN OF ARC TRAGEDY

Paris, Mar. 10.

THE long arm of coincidence has reached down through the centuries to encompass the death of Mlle. Jeanne Lancau, an aged corset maker, who was known to many of her humble neighbours as "Joan of Arc." Sixty-two years ago, when a beautiful young girl, she was chosen by the sculptor Fremiet ns the model for his famous cques- trian statue of the Mald-France's

Ship's Captain

great national heroine, who perish-Disappears

ed at the stake.

To-day she was found burned Into Sea

to death in her Paris altic.

Beside her body lay a pair!

of curling tongs. Though nearly "DIVINE RETRIBUTION"

B0 years old she sought to preserve

some of the good lock which brought her hor one title to fame, i

"My molta

Try anything once Mr. Flint added. "If I sur vive, I'll try it again, and if I'm

Anth still in one piece Fll go on doing

as long as anyone pays me. that goes for everyone in my troupe, although none of us is foolhardy.

"People love to see something. which makes their blond curdle and we provide them

thrill, risking our lives for their money,

with that

"We learn how to fall with out hurting ourselves, and he- Tore every car crash I am strap- ped into my sent so that I can. not go through the roof or the wind-screen.“

Mr. Flint is now working on plaus with a new to provide the public thril-midget-car races over 2-feet

AY-YODEL-0!

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 restored, 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 same critorion for the press

When the Lofts ruled the Re- public during its first two years, an all-embracing so-called "law of defence" was uillized to control press. A free speech and free total of 110 newspapers wore Run- pended by the Azana governments. The monarchist newspapers could In Switzerland "godel" is a favourite call and many yodelling bands exist. not publish attacks upon the re- The picture shows a woman member gime and the limitation also ex- of such a band, which is giving contended to the publiention of photo- corts abound. All the members are, graphs of former King Alfonso

wearing the peasant

and members of the royal family. costume.

The lie of king or Don Alfonso XIII was prohibited in the press. He was simply to be known as Don Alfonso de Bourbon. A "viva" or cheer for the monarchy was and still considered subversive shouting and liable to result in arrest for the guilty royalist.

Socialist Revolt

of

COUTSC,

CORONATION MAY BE

hurdles which would make the cars TELEVISED

leap high into the air,

RECORD YEAR

OF OXFORD

APPOINTMENTS

London, Mar. 16. A further sign of pros- perity is seen by the report of the Committer 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 425 in 193-1.

PLANS are

now being, made to televise as much

When the Rights moved into December, 1933, 171 Hawer

red

as possible of the Corona- anarchist syndicalist uprising occur. tion of King Edward VIII. Inext year.

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

Arrangements are now being 'made whereby it is hoped to televise the netual ceremony in- side Westminster Abbey,

It is also proposed to relay tele- vision of the Coronation to cinemas and public halls.

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Recent developments of highly etlicient methods of trans- mission have made this lust step possible.

Strange Case Of The Guarded Hangar

'PLANE WATCHED ALL NIGHT: BUT WHEN DAY

CAME IT HAD GONE

Paris. Mar. 10.

and from that time until January. 1936, constitutional guarantees were partially or total- y suspended. A Socialist revolt in October, 1934, brought one of the most rigid censorships in Europe. Press cables were hack- et to pieces without advice there- of to the senders. Inefficient or-

the of nization

consorship augmented the difficulties for the national and foreign presa.

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

Premier Manuel Portela restor

d constitutional guarantees and lifted the censorship in January. He permitted the most complete Freedom possible ender the cir cumstances, in fact, the most com- plete in almost five years. How- ever government intervention still exists in cable company offices in veordance 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 whether or not any dispatch is to he censored. It must be admitted. that the interventors are desisting

SOMEWHERE in Europe there is a master spy therefrom as much as possible.

specialising in the most modern sort of crime. He steals airplanes.

DURING THE PAST FEW MONTHS AIRCRAFT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM AIRDROMES IN FRANCE, HUNGARY, POLAND. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, AND HOLLAND. SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN MILITARY MACHINES OF NEW AND SECRET TYPES, OTHERS HAVE BEEN LUXURY-APPOINTED PRIVATE 'PLANES.

Out Of Bounds

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The heat of a political campaign out of bounds. The Madrid Left has led various newspapers to go republican newspaper, La Libert ad, was confiscated four times in 17 days because it published arti- cles allegedly offensive to judicial authorities or because they alleg. disturbances. EL Socialista, Socialist organ, edly might cause suffered several confiscations for similar reasons so that the free-

All of them disappeared mysteriously, quietly. No. body saw them go, nobody heard them go. One day the machines were there. A little later they had gone.

These thefts have led the Secret Services of thedom of the press is not ne com- countries concerned to an extraordinary theory.

Sound Would Not

Be Noticed

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It

pleto as that in the United States.

dailies have Several right wing suffered fines.

Somewhere in Europe there is a secret airdrome. 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 Espionago 'Planes have been stolen from Inquiries after this theft showed Budapest. Amsterdam, Marseilles, that the machine could not have and Warsaw. In Germany the air been bullt from the plans, which police have special instructions to were purposely left incomplete. intercept any strange machines Therefore, the entire airplane dis-under they see. But so far the airplane appeared. thief has evaded them.

The Secret Services theory is up is not unusual at an air force 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 tho ling over Europe,

San Francisco, Mar. 10. It is common knowledge that machine must have been started up

missingr. Capt. Edward McLellan, com- whenever and wherever a new type during the night and flown away. and it is thought that she was mander of the troopship Republic, of military machine is designed the No pilots were curling her hair when sho upset mysteriously disappeared from plans are automatically copled by therefore, considered that some one

ma-

It is,

Censorship Reviewed

TC-

The independent, austere Mad- rid newspaper, El Sol, in a view of the history of the censor- ship during the past two years, pointed out that the notorious straperio" gambling scandal was the edition was confiscated by revealed by the Socialist daily but

the the jurisdiction of police on orders of the censorship Minister of Interior, then a mem The noise of an engine runningber of the Radical party. The seanda! involved, the concession of gambling privileges to a Mexi can, Daniel Strauss. Although in reality only some ten thousand dollars seemed to have changed hands between Strauss and poli- ticians. the affairs, when given offrind status by the government a year after it happened, caused a Cabinet crisis, almost wrecked the strong Radical party and cast a shadow upon the reputations of several of its most prominent members.

El Sol commented that "in a regime of liberty of expression, the denunciation of criminal acts com mitted by the use of political In- fluences would have gone to the courts without parliament having to occupy itself with anything. except granting or denying per- mission to the courts to try the deputies. But since this public denunciation was impossible because the red penell, was vigilant, those Injured by the intemperances of power went to parliament which Inlmost became converted into a

a petrol lamp.

The statue which reproduces her his ship yesterday as the vessel photography and smuggied out of must have got into the airdrome. the country concerned. The work been admitted to the hangar and youthful beauty stands in the Rue was approaching San Francisco,is done by the many international taken the airplane, de Rivoli, and is the scene of a returning from Honolulu,

spy groups now operating. pilgrimage every year on the an- The Republic was carrying the In some cases, however, a niversary of the Maid's birth. ashes of six Army aviation officers chine cannot be copied from plane netual Henceforth it will commemorate recently killed in a mid-air crash alone. There must be not only tho, heroine who died at the stake but also the humble model who died in the blazing attic.

HOLLYWOOD GUN

BATTLE

An

of two bombing 'planes during the model to work from.. This is tho manoeuvres at Honolulu, and also opportunity for the groups who are the remains of Father Damien, the stealing machines. leper priest from Molokal, which! were recently disinterred for re- burial in his native country in the cathedral at Louvain

Reports from Honolulu state that Hollywood, Max. 15. tho superstitious natives there, whe One police was killed and an-consider graves as holy ground, other, with an unidentified man, regard the captain's disappearance soriously wounded in a gun battle as Divine retribution for the vio to-day in the office of Rex Cole, a lation of Futhor Damien's grave. woll-known business agent for The beatification of Father Damien

is expected shortly in Rome." flm stars-Reuter.

Foreign Air Ministry oficiais have a good idea of the nationa- lity of the spy responsible. Until they can discover the secret airdrome or the method of disposing of the airplanes they are powerless. They have no direct evidence.

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In one recent instance, a war

It is thought that some of the plano of an entirely new type dis- appeared from a central European minor agents have been arrested military airdromo. It was placed during the past few weeks in some in a hangur overnight within of the mass arrests of spy groups sight of

guard. But in the morn in Germany and Copenhagen. but. ing it had disappeared.

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

guards were heavily bribed-with Now and secret military ma so much money that it would cancel chines in Britain are heavily guard out the disgrace and possible, prison sentence of a court-marilal after ed day and night by trustworthy, police court for crimes of Ita

the theft.

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