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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936.

INSULL IS A WORLD POWER ONCE AGAIN

Provides Hymns

Hymns And Love

And Love Ditties. On

Ditties On Big Radio Chain

The smoking cabin in the new Empire flying-bonts; situated on the lower deck in the fore part of the machine; an amenity that Imperial Airways craft will have for the first time,

Grandchild Of Dickens Found Dying In Flat

TAKES A BUS TO

THE OFFICE

Chicago, May 18.

most

AMUEL INSULL, one-time Cockney boy,

powerful of Chicago's glittering galaxy of million- aires, fugitive from justice and broken bankrupt, has made good once more.

"Poor nid Sam" was through, said, his friends.

Two years ago Insull sat in n emerged from the court room last prison cell in Istanbul, Turkey. I June nequitted of all charges. and munched atale peanuts. His game of hide-and-seek with American detectives was ended.

But his friends did not know "poor old Sam" as well as they thought

He met Ota Gygl. This Hangarlan He was awaiting his return to began his career as a violin prodigy America to face charges of bank-forty years ago. He game to Ameri- |ruptcy violation, mail fraud, and en in 1911 and, after the war, entered embezzlement arising from the col- the radio field as the "singing violin.” | laping - of his £300,000,000 Utilities Ambition to establish radio chain

empire in Chiengo.

took hold of him and in 1933 the

To-day the same Samuel Insult

alts In a newly furnished office on the forty-second floor of Chicago's Civic Opera Building. once the capital of his empire.

His small eyes squint towards the door marked President. His voice, curt and sharp, as of old, issues orders that again have to bo oboyed.

Ife is in command again, this time of Insull's Afiliated Broadcasting Chain, providing twenty stations throughout inois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indians.

OBJECT OF PITY

Amalgamated Broadcasting System.

was opened.

SAMUE INSULL Homely Broadcaster,

World-Wide

Later it was closed hut Gygi stil Plan To See

had his ambition. lie went to Chicago, saw Insull, and persuaded; him to take an interest in his project.

Insull's interest grew to burning enthusiasm. He pernunded a group of his former business friends to sink £10,000 into the venture and Inld plans for a new type of broad- casting service.

on

Eclipse

The total eclipse of the sun on June 19 will be, the most cara- fully observed astronomical phenomenon in history. Arrange- ments for every part of the track of the eclipse to be covered were made at the International As- tronomical Union meeting in Paris last year.

The first broadcasts were full of homeliness. Amateurs and profes- Bionals combined in norica of Miss Ethel Dickens, aged hung a large picture of her

sketches. Inspirational talks worn famous grandfather.

There seemed little chance of his given

development; seventy

personal playwright -one, granddaughter of Charles, The cleaner, thinking that Miss making a come-back when, aged beconomists gavo practical advice on

yond his seventy-six years, he domestic money problems.

Observations will be made on Dickens was asleep, did not dis-

Music consisted of hymns, senti-the path of tola) celipae by bodies Dickens, died this month in tur her.

mental love songs and jazz.

He no longer goes to work in an points. The path begins' in

of observers stationed at different expensive Ilmousine, but takes a Mediterranean south of Sicily, It the 'bus.

St. Luke's Hospital, Chelsea, | An hour later Mra, Hay Petrie, World

forty-eight hours after she wife of the Shakespearian actor,

put through a call to Misa Die-

was found unconscious in her kons's flat to speak to her about a- flat in Daver Court, Manor-play which Miss Dickens was writ- street, Chelsea.

Miss Dickens was found by a charwoman lying on her bed.. .fully dressed. Above the bed

BRAIN SIZE HELD OF NO IMPORTANCE

Leningrad. May 20. THERE is no natural scientific banks for the conception that any human group trace or 'sex) In United In Ba Intellectual and emailonal development by the size and structure of the braits, according to Prof. V. P. Osipoff. Director of the Leningrad In- slitule for Study of the Brain..

For several years the Institute has been gathering and making a comparative study among most of the tribes and races within the Soviet Union.

----Thân --- mtsidy-was-designed--to- ind out, among other things. whether the structure of the brain in men and women, and

Inno-called higher and lower races, I sulelently different to limit or decide cultural develop- ment.

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ing. The charwoman ran to Miss In 1935

Dickens and shook her. Mies Dickens did not awake,

The charwoman told Mrs. Hay Petrie over the telephone that something was wrong-

Geneva, May 15. Mrs. Hay

The United Kingdom again Petrie hurried round to the Antled world trade last year, accord- from her own fint in Baron's Court. She found Miss Dickens unconsing to the League of Nations'

nionthly bulletin of statistics.

cious,

It is understood that a bottle! In 1985 the Unite I Kingdom's share which had contained luminol (of world trade (importa plus exports) tablets (a drug of the barbituric was 14 per cent.. and that of the

United States 11 per cent. group, used for insomnin) found in the flat.

WAF

United Kingdoms importa fell slightly last year from 2,041.2 mil- Hon gold dollars to 2,041-9, while exports rose from 1.189.1 to 1.239.3. this showbig an improved trade balance

In the bedroom was a type writer with the half-finished) manuscript of a new play which, Miss Dickens was writing. She had apparently worked through most of the night on it, because the light was burning when the countries charwoman entered.

inained third and fourth in the list of

Germany and France in 1936 re-l

tending world trade, but Japan rose to filth place alongside;

GOLD RESERVES

While in hospital Miss Dickens | Canada. was constantly visited by her sis- ter, Miss Mary Angela Dickens,

who was with her when she died. year by the extra day, the gold value February statistics are affected this Miss Ethel Dickens was the se-ot world trade being B.4 per cent.j cond of the eight children of Char-higher than in February, 1835, Jes Dickens eldest son.

Mrs. Hay Petrie said:- "Aaw Mias Dickens

several ing those

creased by 70 million gold dollars."

He arrives at his office at nine crosses Greece and the Black Sea, o'clock promptly, and leaves just as runs north of the Casplan Sen, promptly at six.

Across Siberia, Manchuria, the ex- treme north of Japan, and ends in the Pacific.

BULLET IN BODY 21 YEARS

DUR

URING lighting in the Dar..

danelles in 1915

11 bullet entered the kidney of Private C. M. Guess, who served in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.

An operation has been per- formed by 'I Harley-street socfailst and the bullet removed.

Mr. Guess now lives at Lowick, Northants.

FATHERHOOD HOPE AT 96

May Not Live To See Child

There, at the extreme southern limit, British astronomers and scientists from the Now Zenland Government Research Department will be waiting in the uninhabited Phoenix Islands, close to the Equa- Itor.

British astronomers will also be cruising south of Athens, Prof. Horn d'Arturo hopes to photo- graph the corona from Greece, and " Rumanian astronomer,

Dr. Donitch. will observe from the north coast of Asia Minor.

MEASURING WAVE-LENGTH Three American parties and one British will make dbservations in the U.S.S.R. where 12 Russian par- ties will also be stationed Tho British scientists, with Prof. J. A. Carroll, of Aberdeen, will be at Omsk. Prof. Carroll hopes to de- fine the solar substance "coro- inium" by measuring its wave- length with an instrument nover before used in eclipso observa- tlons.

times within the last few days, which figures are not available-in-month, is critically ill with in-made within two and a quarter

ly she had a play accepted by Sir She seemed very happy. Recent John Martin Harvey. She worked very hard and rarely went She lived alone."

out.

These reserves dropped in Francs by 28 million, in Belgium by 14, but increased in the U.S.A. by 36 million and in the United Kingdom by 3 mil-

New York, May 18. The party has already started on During the first quarter of 1936 MR. George Tsanc Hughes, aged its 3,000 miles journey to the Kirg- visible centrni gold reserves-exclud- 96, whose wife, is expecting

Russia and Italy, for the birth of a second child next months, and observations must be

hiz Steppes.

The expedition will take four fluenza at his home in New minutes-the time of the total Bern, North Carolina. His phy-eclipse. sicians say that he has only faint prospects of living to sec Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, will be at A third British party under! the baby.

Kamishuri in the island of Hok-1 Mrs. Hughes's first child, n boy,kaido. Japan is providing nearly was born two years ago. Her hus- as many selentifie parties as So- band's claim to be the father, at the viet Russia, 11 in all. A special age of D4, of a sturdy son was in-flight of aeroplanes is to be ar- vestigated and found authentie by ranged for the observations. medical authorities.

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Helpless and bed-ridden amid all his riches, Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, millionaire Marwari merchant, claims that this morning's sleep was the first that he has known for 27 months. "Riches for life await the man sufferer is a strictly orthodox Hindu who enn restore to me the joy of and is thus debatred from taking cer- steep," he said.

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Now that his affliction is known throughout the world, 5,000 cables, letters, and pack ages are arriving for him by air and steamer every week.

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even a Texas cowboy offers his ald. Women sym- pathisers are in the majority.

"I AM LONELY" A pathetic, friendless figure, - Rut Bahadur said:

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"Lonely in my own country, I am comfortail by the kindly thoughts of those English men and women who have written to me from so far away."

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He has a great fear now that his sleep this morning was just an isolat follow the anonymous advice written ed respite. He has determined to

In French:

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An invitation to join a treasure- hunting expedition to Cocos Island, the film company which produced A jungle trek; from a member of "Trader Horn" in Africa,

Administer a sleeping draught, then knock out the right to the jaw, leaving him to re- patient with a cover: from a sergeant in the Foreten Legio11.

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