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TUG-OF-WAR FOR

EVANGELIST OF THE DESERT

BRITON AS "MAGIC HEALER"

OF THE ARABS

YEARS

SWILLIAM

BRITISH

LEAN,

AGO,

LEATHERY BELLINGHAM, CHEERFUL

"TOMMY," TRANSFORMED

BY

HIS

FAITH INTO A SMILING CRUSADER. RODE ALONE INTO THE DESERTS OF IRAK. · ONLY, WEAPONS WERE A MEDICINE-CHEST AND A BIBLE.

4

Then from time to time a wandering caravan would come out of the sun-baked sands' with strange tales of Ackool, the Good Brother, who had cared for their sick, and spoken of a wonderful new prophet.

That was all the news there was of William. But now from reports he has sent Captain Godfrey Buxton, of Upper Norwood, who trained Bellingham in missionary work, it has been able to reconstruet the whole amazing story of Ackooi.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY

U.S. RACKETEER

SKYSCRAPER OF THE ARABIAN DESERT

"If I boast," he wrote to Captain Buxton, "it is because of the faith that is in me. I went into the Like a Fata Morgana the South Arabian town of Shiban

The rises up from the desert. The town had its flourishing! desert armed with nothing but the Gospel. immortal Lawrence of Arabia had a nation at his age during Queen of Sheba, but even to-day it is an

Important centre of trade, back.

"Lawrence went in with bags off gold. I went in with nothing but a nedleine, chest. Lawrence was shot at so was I-but enough, the half ກາ.. be of my adventures could told.....

Every black tent in the desert in open to Bellingham.. The Araba look! upon him as the Magic Healer, and his coming is heralded with rejoicing.

most

He has accomplished the amazing things medically. The olij men and women come to bl with their sores and their wounds; the

GAOL RUSE FOILED

BY TROOPS

SA

HIS £2,000,000 INCOME FROM

VICE..

New York, Apr. 30 ARMED with asachine-guns; 4a 20 State Rangers surrounded the gaol at Hot Spring, Arkansas, to-day and wrenched from the custody of the Sheriff America's No. 1 racketeer, Charley Luck, alias Charles. Luciario.

He is now under heavy guard

in the prison at Little Rock, the

1936,

KING

KITTENS

Walt Disney's *Thirco Orphan Kittens," MAYA A Reuter message from folly. wood yesterday, has been awarded the Order of Merit as the outstanding cartoon of 1035 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arta ΑΠΟ Sciences.

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State capital. The authorities Women

are demanding £40,000 hail,

An amazing yeries of incidents led up to the scene at Hot Spring.

Luck, described by Thomas Dewey, special rackets prosecutor for New York County, n America's most dangerous incketeer, wa indicted with 11 associates Ínst week.

Fled After Murder

Under his control, It was re- vealed, was all organised vice in New York. The income of his gang exceeded £2,000,000 a year. When Dutch Schultz, the gangster

HER OWN CAR AS HEARSE leader, was murdered seven months

No One Will

Ever Drive It Again

Bettws-y-Coed, Apr. 25.

children with the burns to A LOW sports car with brilliant

received playing with fire.

bighshire, where her body was recovered from the River Con- way.

No Foul Play

Car and owner made their last journey together-for after the funeral this luxurious sports model was destroyed by order of

Miss Salmond's father.

ita

It was driven by the man who sold

red wheels bore the coffin at the funeral here this week of Missit to the dend girl-Mr. J. Knowles. He has been able to cure the sick Eileen Mary Salmond, the tragic and the disensed. On one occasion a "rich girl" of Bettws-y-Coed. native woman was given up for dead. It was Miss Salmond's own

Ackool prescribed a course of treat-

one that was found ment, knelt down in prayer by her Car--the

nearly ten miles saved. The abandoned side, and she

Tanton, Llanrwst, Den-

Was

wandering tribes of the desert were) from

They pronounced It " mystified,"

mirarle.

"My Great Triumph"

"It is impossible," he added, "to tell you of the difficulties with which I am faced.

"And my great triumph-oh, listen!

Completing World Tour

and rejoice he sits with me now. | WRITER OF BOOKS

His name in Hamza, a descendant of the prophet Mohammed, yet a believer in Christ.

"He dare not let his beliefs be, known to his kin in the desert, for! that would mean a knife in his back

tent we knoel”down” together.”-

Often in the still blackness of the

THINKS HONGKONG

"MARVELLOUS”

A writer of books, E. R. Link- later. spoke in glowing terms

As the men at his garage here were to-night stripping the car of

hood, and Bling

anket the mountings for the coffin, he said to me "After Monday it must never be driven, or used in any way again. There is no question of it being sold,

"For Miss Salmond's last ride in her car I will ser that it is in

condition:

Every little perfect fault has been put right. It will he polished and burnished. Then

will be destroyed."

Following a post-mortem examina- tion of the body to-day the palice stated that they had dismissed any suggestion that Miss Salmond was a victim of foul play.

very little war talk anywhere in the Far Enst.

GRAND PICTURES Mr. Linklater, who has passed

Victoria on several through

vc-

from

to

"He no longer praya with his head of the beauty of Hongkong tocasions, drew back the curtain in the dust, but in the quiet of my Vancouver ship reporters re- his stateroom port as he talked.

cently when the C.P-liner-see-if-there was any real break in

"You know,

now" he said, The Arab is n born story teller. Empress of Russia arrived there, the weather.

He recently visited this Colony was disappointed coming to, Vie- abe to see the approach from the night, gathered round the camp fires in the course of a six months torin this morning over not being with members of a tribe, Ackoni has jaunt around the world, the water. However, I am hoping the listened with wide open mouth and eyes like the rest of them, to a story eater part of which time he rain will clear before we get far on our way, for I consider the series of between about jinns, or a descendant of the spent in India. Prophet.

Chatting about India, Mr. Link-land, sky and sea pictures

the very fater stated that the majority of the Victoria and Vancouver

encountered any. "Then," Arkooi explains, "I have people there were very hopeful for grandest I have

"Even in Scotland?" he was asked. got up steam with gesticulating arms the success of the new constitution, where round the world." and many other actions and held them although there were many who criti-

"Even in Scotland," he agreed. spell-bound with the story of my life, eized it and saw no solution of In-

The author of many books said he the wonders of mines, of mechanical dia's, troubles in the measure.

had been combining a holiday with flying birds that cross the ассаля

Singapore, where Great Britain of men who dare the Arctic wastes. busy making a great naval, air and the bour of gathering material for some other creative works. Anked Biblo military base, was "And lastly, I tell the old

to tell which of the books he pre- story

of the woman at the well." the traveller, at least what he could ferrell, he evidently thought the Hs task of teaching has been no see of it; while he also stated there easy job for Acknoi. He walks in ras

considerable activity of a like question meant which books he con- the best, for he answered perll of his life.

nature at Hongkong,

quickly,

"My

own"; and when naked Once a whole tribe of wild dervishes When he visited Tokio, Mr. Link- further to say which one ho figured planned to destroy Ackool. He was later stated, all was quiet there, the was the very best, he replied, equally unarmed and the job would have been only evidence remaining of the "re #39 frankly, "my last."

bellion" wa the barbed wire en His last literary creation was "God But Arab friends of the strange tanglements, which had been set Likes Them Plain," he stated; and Englishman heard of the plot, and around the Imperial Palace. But the two immediately preceding that hid him in their tents

those did not look formidable ut were "Lión and the Unicorn," a For a day and a night they fought the time, and people could easily survey of Scottish-English relations, madly. Then came release.

step over them. He said he heard and "Rightness Is All."

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Changed

His Mind

New York, May 1. R. ALONZO B. SEE, New York lift manu-

MR.

ngo, Luck, to avoid questioning by facturer, when asked for the police, fed to Florida.

Closely shadowed by New York | "a subscription to a detectives, he moved to Arkansas Women's

college, wrote,

After the indictment in New York

he was arrested at Hot Spring as a "If I had my way, I'd

fugitive from Justice.

Then began a legal battle adroitly conducted on Lick's behalf by a

local attorney, a former president of

Hot Spring Bar Association.

First he succeeded in obtaining Luck's release on £2,000 bail.

The attorney's next step was to obtain a new warrant and arrest Laek as a fugitive from justice so as to keep him within the jurisdie- tion of the Hot Spring court.

Governor Acts

The Governor then Intervened and seni the State Rangers to bring Luck to the enpitul, To-morrow the racketeer chief will face extradition proceedings.

Enough counts are in the charges against Luck to send him to prison. if convicted, for 100 years. Since

the death of Schultz he has been a member of the "Big Six" who control the New York rackets, He was an associate of Arnold Roths- tein, the New York gambling "king," and took over some Chicago "inter- ests" after the imprisonment of Al Capone.

burn leges."

all women's col-

"Of all the fool things in the world," he declared, "I think women's colleges are the worst," That was way back in 1922. In 1928 Mr. See was still of tho same opinion. He wrote a book in which were the following lines:

"Because women lack stabi- lily, the vote should be taken from them at once.

"Women should be put out of all political offices they now hold

"No woman should ever again be elected, or appointed.”

*

The guest list at a dinner in Brooklyn Inst night makes in- teresting reading.

It included Dr. Margaret Bar- nard, of the New York Health Department, Miss Pearl Berstein, secretary to the Estimate Board: Miss Mary Frasco, spocfal Inves

Mistaken Identity-tigator for Mayor La Guardia, of

Mistaken Divorce John Handbidge, engineer, asked Supreme Court Justice Levy, sitting in New York, that a divorce granted He pleaded that he and his three him In December be set aside. witnesses had mistaken another concert for his wife, a planist.

Justice Levy ruled in his favour.

woman

New York: Mrs. Frances Gannon, Deputy Commissioner for 'Mar keta; Mrs. Sarah Dennon, of the Works. Progress Administration;

Miss Mary Dillon, president of the

Brooklyn Gas Company.

The host, and the only man pre- lie'd sent, was Mr. Alonzo B. See. changed his mind about women,

When some one asked him about it, he said: "Wang change their

mind, why shouldn't I?”

Hollywood Films Held Up

TOLL OF ILLNESS AND ACCIDENT Los Angeles, Ápr. 28. ILLNESS and accident, for

which there is no budgeting in motion picture production, are causing plenty of grief in Hollywood.

Margaret Sullavan's broken arm means further loss to 'the Paramount concern on the film Hotel Imperial," which has al- ready cost nearly £200,000.

CAROLE LOMBARD'S 'FLU. There are more than two dozen others, actors and actresses, who are confined to their homes jor to hospitals with influenza, operations, and aliments of various kinds.

Two other Paramount pictures have suffered delay. Mary Boland, in "Early to Bed," hau had throat ailment, and Carolo Lombard has twice been in bed with influenza during the shooting of

The Princess Comes Across."

NORMA SHEARER

Juliet has a cold

Dick Powell's throat iness caused MEN ARE

a postponement of "Stage Struck,

at Warmers' studios, Charles-Collins had to have his tonsils 'removed, but postponed the operation until "The Dancing Pirate" was completed.

STRUCK BY LAMP

Dudley Digges and Mrs. Jack L. Warner underwent operations for: appendicitis

recently, and Carey Grant Infected his hand from blister.

Lambert Hillyer, directing "Dra- cula's Daughter," was struck on the head by a falling lamp, and Aubrey Scotto, another director, la recover- ing from a minor eye operation. Frank Mayo has had his third attack for pneumonia, and Erick Linden left the east of "Mob Rule" for the same reason.

Robert Montgomery haa had Jaryngitis, and Leslie. Howard has born out of "Romeo and Juliet" for several days. Norma Shearer's cold also has bothered her in the same: pleture,

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This is the Blackpool Ladies' Club, whose 90 mem- "bers take bridgo so seriously · that avery social event is a bridge party;"

Now they think of extend- ing their activities to allow summer members to join from this month onwards, as half-yearly or even weekly members.

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