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Ehward Benold

CRIMEAND PUNISHMENT

I PETER LORRE,

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Chango

Alent and Mrs. Plirick Campbell

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A DRAMA OF LOVE AND COURAGE IN THE DAYS OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936.

TRAGIC WIFE ON HER ALHAMBRA

TWO ACQUITTALS

SARAJEVO ROMANCE

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Josef was arcarsinated ot Sarajevo, throwing the world Into the worst war in history, Out of the war's horror comex romance for a member of the Archduke's

Mati Theresa Wood, shown Above. the daughter of Captain George

family.

HOW I FACED CHARGE

OF MURDERING MY HUSBAND'

Saw Reds Shoot Family

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WOMAN who was acquitted recently at the Old Bailey of a charge of arson told later how, four years ago, she had been acquitted of a charge of murdering her former husband in India, and of tragic experiences during the Rus- sian revolution,

She is Mrs. Magdelina Dickson, aged 38, of Ealing-road, Wembley, who appeared on a réttisl from last session, when the jury disagreed.

The charge against her was that she had maliciously set fro to a house in Eagle-road, Wembley, where she and her husband once lived,

ESCAPE IN 'PLANE

"My father was an inspector of police in Russia,” she said, "and until the revolution we lived in luxury. Then the constables under my father turned traitors.

"One night, by some pretence, they induced him to appear on the balcony of the house, and shot him. · My mo- ther ran to him, and she, my four sisters, and a brother were all killed.

"I was shot three times, but al-

taken in an acroplane to Perali. Eventually I reached Indla,

Jorvin Wood, a former military IF YOU DON'T though wounded I escaped, and was

altache at the British embassy Vienna, i to marry Prince

Ernest von Hohenberg, second son of the assassinated archduke.

"Bombshell"

Of The Skies

FREAK STAR

Mt. Wilson, Cali., May 25.

IKE FLIES

DON'T HAVE GAUDY WALLPAPER

Vienna, May 25.

"There I met Mr. Francis Rego, chief mechanical draughtsman to the Great Indian Peninsula Rall- way at Jubbulpore, Central Pro- vinces.

LEGAL BATTLE

"We fell in love and married and

IF you want to be spared lived in luxury aguia for eight

the nuisance of flies, have years. sombre wall paper and use

"I shall never forget the night dark covers for you furni-when, on returning from a circus I found my husband had been

to as-

<

A giant "bombshell" of the ture, says Raoul France, cruelly murdered. skies, a freak star expanding noted Vienna physicist. "I was found guilty, but there nearly 8,000 miles or approxi-

was an appeal, and after a legal France explain that the flies, battle lasting nearly nine months I mately the earth's diameter every second, was described by have been accustomed

through many thousand years, was ncquitted." two Carnegie Observatory. associate sweetness with light

LIFE OF TRAGEDY tronomers recently.

colours. In contrast to butter- Mr. Dickson såld: Tho star, a rare super-nove, flies which prefer red and blue

"I had read the case in the Indian was discovered by Dr. Flwin flowers, and to bees which like papers. I met my wife by chance Hubble and his assistant, Glenn purple and dark yellow ones, and did not know who she was until Moore. After seven

she told me." years of flies only seek honey on flowers watching for a super-nova, they of very light colours.

"Apart from the love that imme obtained the first measurements

Flies cannot, or can hardly, per-diately sprang up between us, I felt ever made of this stellar ceive any colours aside from white, the deepest sympathy for her. Her phenomenon which occurs per-light-yellow or a very light blue life has been full of tragedy, but haps once or twice a decade. according to this scientist, who asserts we are both looking forward to

Reaching out into

that a fly will never be found on a

years of happiness together," thirty-six million trillion miles, they dark carnation or on a red rose,

adelicate-spectroscope--to Files are always attracted by light analyse the light coming from the colours and shining surfaces such as as it flared into brillance mirrors and windows, and for this 60,000,000 times brighter than the season while fly-paper should be used sun, and then began to fade again.

1 by Dcc.

The is attracted by the bright; Literally blowing off its cover, the star puffed out a sheil of gas that surface which it associates with the

used

stars

space some

its distant ancestry was went to find its sweet food.

AMPHIBION PLANNED FOR 1150 H.P. MOTOR

Biratford, Conn.. May 17." MIE Sikorsky Aviation Cor-

TH

p.m.more than 13,000,000 miles on hour,

travelled away from the hot core at white flowers in the meadows where). Aparation announced to-day

they found.

ENGULF EARTH IN SEVEN HOURS

MARGARET SULLAVAN, WALTER CONNOLLY

"I

France advises us therefore to uso dark curtains, wall paper and fuml- So fast did the gas travel that iriure and to paint our ceilings in dark the sun were to explode in the strange darks yellow or dark purple as well Lints. According to him, green, red, fashion the sun would engulf the as a sombre blue are particularly apt earth, nearly 90,000,000 miles away, to keep the flies away from our in seven hours.

homes. He also suggests to have the stables painted

dark in simlar colour-United Press.

Since 1929 the two astronomers have been making routine nightly ob servations of the Virgo star cluster. where the last observed super-nova exploded in 1920.

On the night of Jan, 21, an obscure star suddenly flared into bellliance. It reached an absolute magnitude of -13 before dimming again. Sirius, the brightest appearing star in the

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plans for a 50-ton flying bent capable of harnessing the power of the new Pratt & Wiltney 1150-horsepower motors.

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of giant ampbibions, said that a dance floor, dialog room and re- freshment room, and crew quar- - fers were included in the design. Cruising speed of 200 miles an -kour would be attained.

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The star was so distant it was in- visible to the naked eye. Super- Novae occurring closer to the earth burn so brilliantly they shine brightly. even in the dayilme,

Hubble and Moore said their measurements tend to confirm pre- vious predictions of the behaviour of super-novac. Gaseous shells blasted out by these stars race through space afterwards, Tremendous

for # leng time

astronomera belleve, Bassy masses about certain stars, known as "planetary nebulae," are belleved to be old super-novac,

What causes a super-novac is not known. Astronomers believe it may ba elther a terrific collision between two stars, or an internal disturbance, that produces the eruption-United Press.

PLANES WORTH £1,700,000: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE ORDER Since the beginning of Aus~ | tralia's three-year plan for de- fence development, the Common- wealth has ordered aircraft the value of £1,700,000 from Britain.

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PETER LORRE

Marion Marsh Robert Allen, and Mrs Patrick Campbell

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