1936-05-26 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936.

INSULL IS A WORLD POWER ONCE AGAIN Provides Hymns And Love Ditties On Big Radio Chain

„_„Tha_smoking_cobin in, the new Empire flying-hosts; situated on the lower deck in the fore part of the machine: an amenity that Imperial Airways craft will have for the first tline.

Grandchild Of Dickens Found Dying In Flat

her

TAKES A BUS TO

THE OFFICE

Chicago, May 18.

SAMUEL INSULL, one-time Cockney boy,

most

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

Two years ago Insull sat in a prison cell in Istanbul, Turkey, and munched stale peanuts. His game of hide-and-seek with American detectives was ended.

emerged from the court room last June acquitted of all charges. his friends.

"Pear old Sam" was through, sold

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

He met Ola Gygl. This Hungarian He was awaiting his return 10 began his career as a violin prodigy. Amerlen to face charges of bank-forty years ago. He came to Amori- ruptcy violation, mail fraud, and ca in 1814 and, after the war, entered embezzlement arising from the col the radio field as the "Ringing violin." lapse of his £300,000,000 Utilities Ambition to establish a radio chain empire in Chicago.

took hold of him and in 1033 the Amalgamated Broadcasting System

To-day the same Samuel-Insall was opened

SAMUEL INSULL Homely Broaticanfer,

World-Wide

sits in a newly furnished office on Later it was closed but Gygi stifl Plan To See

the forty-second floor of Chicago's | had his ambition. Ho went to Civie Opera Building. once the capital of his empire:

Chicago, saw Insull, and persuaded him to take an interest in his profeet.

Insull's interest grew to burning enthusiasm. He persunded a group of his former business friends to Aink £40,000 into the venture and laid plans for a new type of broad casting nervlec.

The first broadcasts wero full of homeliness. Amatours and profes sionals combined in મ Reries of sketches. Inspirational talks were

His small eyès aquint towards the loor marked President. His voice, urt and sharp, as of old, lasues orders Dint again havo to be obeyed. He is in command again, this time of Insull's Affilated Broadcasting Chalu, providing twenty stations throughout Hinots, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indiana.

OBJECT OF PITY Miss Ethel Dickens, aged hung a large picture of

famous grandfather.

There seemed little chance of his given on personal development; seventy - one, playwright

The cleaner, thinking that Miss making a come-back when, aged boeconomists gave practical advice on

hin yond

seventy-six years, he domestic money problems. granddaughter of Charles

Dickens was nsjeep, did_not dis- Dickens, died this month in tub her. St. Luke's Hospital, Chelsea,' forty-eight hours after she wife of the Shakespearian actor, put through a call to Miss Dic- was found unconscious in herkens's flat to speak to her about ni flat in Daver Court, Manor-play which Miss Dickens was writ- ing. The charwoman ran to Miss street, Chelsea.

Dickens and shook her. Miss Dickens did not awoke.

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

basis for the conception that any human group trace or sex) is limited in its Intellectual and cinational development by the vize and structure of the brain. according to Prot. V. P. Osipoff. Director of the Leningrad In- stitute for Study of Qie Brain.

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

This study was designed to find out, among other things, whether the structure of the brain men and women, and in so-called higher and lower races, is suficiently different to limit or decide cultural develop

ment.

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An hour later Mrs. Hay Petrie, World

Trade In 1935

Music consisted of hymns, aenti- mental love songs and jazz.

He no longer goes to work in an expensive limousine, but taken a hus,

Eclipse

The total eclipse of the sun on June 19 will be the most care. 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 A- tronomical Union meeting in Paris last year.

Observations will be made on. the path of total eclipse by bodies points. The path begins in of observers stationed at different the Mediterranean south of Sicily. It

llo arrives at his office at nino crosses Greece and the Black Sen, o'clock promptly, and leaves just as runs north of the Caspian Sea,| promptly at six.

across Siberla, Manchuria, the ex- treme north of Japan, and ends in the Pacific.

BULLET IN BODY 21 YEARS

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

Geneva, May 15. The United Kingdom again Petrie hurried round to the flat led world trade last year, accord- from her own flat in Baron's Court. ing to the League of Nations DURING nghting in the Dar- She found Misa Dickens uncons-monthly bulletin of statistics.

clous.

It is understood that a bottle In 1935 the United Kingdom's share which had contained luminol of world trade (imperta plus exparts) tablets in drug of the barbituric was 14 per cent, and that of the

United States 18 per cent.. group used for Insomnia) win found In the Bat.

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 charwoman entered.

While in hospital Miss Dickens was constantly visited by her sie- tor, Miss Mary Angela Dickens,

United

Kingdom imports · fell slightly last year from 2,044,2 'mil- lion gold dollars to 2,041.9, while exports rose from 1,1894 to 1.239.3, thus showing an improved trade halunce.

mained third and fourth in the list of Germany and France in 1935 re- countries leading world trade, but Japan rose to fifth place alongside. Canada.

GOLD RESERVES

February statistics are affected this! who was with her when she died. year by the extra day, the gold value! Miss Ethel Dickens was the se-of world trade being 8.4 per cent. cond of the eight children of Char-higher than in February, 1935, los Dickens'-eldest-son--

Mrs. Hay Petṛle said:---

Dickens several "I naw Mias times within the last few days. She seemed very happy. Recent

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

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An operation has been per- formed Dy. Harley-street secialist and the bullet reinoved.

Mr. Guess now lives at Lowick, Northants.

FATHERHOOD HOPE AT 96

May Not Live To See Child

New York, May 18.

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

British astronomers will also ho cruising south of Athens, Prof. Horn d'Arturo hopes to photo- graph the corona from Greece, and a. Rumanian astronomer, Dr. Donilch, 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 Abordeon, will be at Omsk. Prof. Carroll hopes to de- fine the solar substance "coro-! nium" by measuring its wave- length with an instrument nover] before used in oclipsa observa- itions.

The party has already started on its 3,000 miles journey to the Kirg-

The expedition

will take four

During the first quarter of 1986 MR. George Isaac Hughes, aged ing those of Russia and in for the birth of a second child next months, and observations must be visible central gold reserves-exclud- 96, whose wife is expecting hiz Steppes. which figures are not available-in-

month, is critically ill with in-made within two and creased by 70 million gold dellars.

These reserves dropped in France fluenza at his home in New minutes the time

F

quarter

of the total

by 28 million, in Belgium by 14, but Bern, North Carolina. His phy-eclipse. and in the United Kingdom by 3 mil-faint prospects of living to see Prof. F. J. M. Stratton, will be at increased in the U.S.A. by 30 million sicians say that he has only A third British party under) lou gold dollars.

the baby.

Kamishari In the island of Hok- Mrs. Hughes's first child, a boy,kaido. Japan is providing nearly was born two years ago. Her huis-as many scientific parties as So- band's claim to be the father, at the viet Russia, 11 in all. A special f age of 91, of a sturdy con was in-flight of aeroplanes is to be ar vestigated and found authentie by ranged for the observations. medical authorities.

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Calcutta, May 15. TWENTY consecutive minutes of sleep this morning brought joy to the heart of a modern Cresus who has offered "to make rich beyond dreams" the man who could bring him just that gift -of sleep.

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 sufferers a strictly orthodox Hindu who can restore to me the joy of and is thus debarred from taking cer- sleep," he said.

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.

Less than one per cent. of the le ters reveal. a merconary interest. Many have no name or address. They are from all parts of the world- from housewives, actresses, · ogri- cultural inbourers, even a Texas cowboy offers his old: Women sym pathisers are in the majority. "I AM LONELY" - ^ pathetic, friendless figure, Rai Bahadur sald:

Lonely in my own counts, I am comforted by the kindly thoughts of those English men and women who have written to me from so for away.**

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