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MAN TO DIE FOR

WOMAN IN BATH

TUB

MURDER

Jury Sit All Night

New York, June 12.

NEW YORK'S famous "bath-tub" murder case was written off as solved to-day when the jury of business men, after being deadlocked throughout the night, decided that John Fiorenza was guilty of murder in the first degree.

$5 FOR

THE WORST

HAND AT BRIDGE

Fiorenza. sleek, handsome, twenty-four-year-old ex-convict, was accused of mudering Nancy Evans Titterton, wife of York: shire's noted writer and radio executive Lewis Titterton.

She was found dead in the bath of her luxurious New York apart ment on Good Friday.

(ne Juryman, impressed with the evidence of alienists, remained coswinced for fifteen hours that Firenza was insane. The defence was based solely on the plea that New York, June 21. Fiorenza was a "potential maniae." ELY CULBERTSON, world- All night long eleven Jurors were famous bridge expert, re- trked chairs, locked up in the jury forced to spend the thine in high- cently announced he has room, because of the twelfth man's pocket full of five dollar bills convictions. for the best or the worst. hand in bridge. The only conditions governing the "contest" are that! the hand must be dealt in a bona fide ganse and must be authen-time). tiented by notury public.

his

Culbertson belfieves that offer will settle once and for all periodical reports of hands, eon- taining thirteen cards of one suit, and will "check statistically" person's chances of drawing such n hand.

a

The worst hand in bridge, described by Culbertson, consists of four cards of one suit and three cards of the other suits with our higher thun the five.finited Press,

Hunt For Famous Treasures

San Jose, Costa Rica,

Juno 21. NOTHER search for the legendary treasure which Sir Henry Morgan, Welsh buccaneer, was supposed to have buried on Cocos Island in the seventeenth century ap parently has failed with the withdrawal of the Treasure Re. covery, Ltd, of London..

With the failure went the hopes of hundreds of shore- holders in the venture, many of whom invested their life savings in the expectancy of being made rich suddenly through unearth. ing of chests of gold. The lure of pirate treasure is as strong to-day as in the past, and promoters of efforts to recover Morgan's gold had little difficul- ty in finding backers for their project.

expired

re

STEP-FATHER PROTESTS They tir unable to announce eston until shortly after ten 'clock this morning (3 pm. London

Fiorenz, looking more like a film star than A prisoner at the bar. winced at the wards which mean death for him in Sing Sing's elec.

tric chair.

Ignazio Cupani, step-father of the doomed man, muttered in broken English, "No fair he should go to die. He is crazy. They should lock him up."

Pienza,

ant, tied Sirs. Titterton's wrists with a upholsterer's assist- cord when he attacked her. Before leaving the apartment he cut the cord nud,

n he thought, put it in pocket.

One piece was found by the police under the hody, however, and this eventually led to his arrest.

The judge, who will formally pass sentence on Friday weak, saul to the jury: "It was a shocking erime. You Jave done a publle service." AIR SUPREMACY

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936.

VEILED

DISEASE FROM THE AIR WE BREATHE

SCIENCE MAY CURE IT

Kansas City, June 20. THE

THE science of chemistry which has given mankind. important foods, most of its clothing and all of its pure drinking water has just been revealed to be experiment- ing with the air we breathe. Ahead of the research worker woman, the Egyptian woman sticks

As distinct. fram the Turkishies the possibility that some to her veil when appearing in public. diseases may be cured and; the Egyptian normal health given and added Prime Minister's wife, accompanied zest by merely changing the by a friend, en route to Parliament.

| mixtures of gases in the air we

take into our lungs.

Our picture shows

NO DIVORCE

HERE

Fifty-three per cent, of Aus- tralia's full-blooded aborigines have never been married, and only one-tenth of one per cent. have been divorced.

latest census, says Austral News, These figures are given in the The term "arried", however, hins been taken in soine casos as refer- ring only to legal and not to tribal marriage.

Contrary to some oplulous, the Aus- tralian blackfellow does not appear full blonds, the greater proportion of to be dying out. There are still | 60,000 whom are In Queensland, Wester Australia and the Northern Territory.

Work toward such n goal was describes before the opening meet- ing of the American Chemical Society's 1st annual convention recently by J. Wilkord Hershey of Mcl'herson College. M:Phersch, Kansas.

Already, medical science hus learns ed to use a breathing mixture of high It provides anesthesin by mother axygen content in pneumonia euses.

oxide

breathing mixture of nitrous gases whereby a drunken person can and oxygen. Recently a mixtura of

be sobered quickly was' concocted.

SYNTHETIC

AIR

RADIO BROADCAST ARROW

Daventry Commentary. On

First Test Match

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME.

From Z.B.W, on a wavelength of 455 metres (816 kiloceyeles):

8. p.nt. European Programme. 6-7pm. A Itelay of the Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

7 p.m. A Relay from Daventry. The First Test Match. England ̧‚V. All-Indin." A. commentary by Howard Marshall, from Lord's Cricket Ground, London,

p.m. A Recital by Peter Dawson (Hass-Baritone).

1. The Bandolere (Start); ? Don't let the river run dry (Harper); 4. Just. Keepin' On (Philips),

Bedouin Love Song (Plusuti); 3.

7.30 p.m. From the Studio, Juzz Banjo and Piano Recital by Fred Carpio and Sofronto Faller,

Programme

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Solom Wealthy Widow; 3. Banjo Plinka Plink. Mazurka do Concert; 4. Piano Solos-Lazy Rhapsody.' Ï've got my fingers crossed.

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8.05 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert. 11 p.m. Close Down. 8.85-10.15 p.in. European Pre- gramme From 3.E.K. on a Pre- queney Of 610 kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. Evic Hayes (Con- tralto). Nelson Eddy (Baritone).

1.

You are free (Love is just a kame). When I grow too old to dron. Nelson Eddy 2. If you love me, My Heart and ́ I. Evlo Hayes: 3. Naf Wiedersehen. Love's old Sweet Song. Nelson Eddy.

8.25

p.m. A Relay from Daventry,

The First Test Match. England v All-Indio. A commentary by Howard Marshall, from Lord's Cricket Ground, London,

Hershey's experiments envisaged the possibility of the need of synthetic diving, in mines, submarines or air mixtures for use in deep વા in stratosphere air craft, His studies than the production of such mistura, were far more elementary, however,

He studied the resetion of small 8.33 p.m. "Love Tales" (arr, llall) There are only 88 in Victoria and nene unimals to various mixtures of such played by the New Mayfair Orchestra.

Tasmania.

Of the total 24,000 are either in employment de livng In supervised camps The remainder are nomadic and still live more or less in the stone age. Fifty-four per cent. are males, and a thortage of pro-poc- tive wived is intinent."

cominon gases as make up the går and to more active gases rarely known outside the laboratory.

nt.

“Apimala_cannot live in pan mosphere of pure oxygen alone, - or nitrogen, carbon dioxide, tim, thesaid. "So far as we know there is argon, nein, and so forth," Hershey

it was found that the animals would no single gas in which animals can live. In a series of 40 experiments, ille in a pure single gas within from two to six days.

More Lin 8,000 profess Christian religion, most of them claiming adherence to the Church of England. Eight aborigines served in

the war.

Besides tuli. bloods, there are nearly 21.000 half-castes,

AMERICA IS MAKING

BIGGEST

PLANE

Los Angeles, June 20. WORK has begun at the Douglas plant upon a revolution- ary 40-passenger sky giant, twice as big as the China Clipper,-upon-which-five-airlines are gambling .$480,000.

The huge plane is scheduled to be ready to take the air by January 1, 1938.

It will weigh 50 tons compared to the ocean-going Clipper's 26. Staterooms will be larger than those of Pullman cars.

"With all of the synthetic al- mospheres experimented upon with animals, oxygen always sceaus necess

ry as one of the use."

Hershey found that by varying the percentages of axygen and whatever other gas he was using In synthetic mixture he could change the length of time that animals could live.

DIOXIDE NECESSARY

also apparently was vitally nevessary. ile discovered that carbon dioxide continued until he was able to say: to support animal life. Experiments

that synthetic atmospheres could be "In a number of cases, it was found prepared that supported life in white mice, from their general appearance, wo breathe every day."

the

9.15 p.m. A Relay from Daventry.

"Your Programmes from Daventry". A Talk by the Empire Programime Director.

9 p.m. News Bulletin and An- nouncements.

5.20 p.m. A Pianoforte Recital by Simon Barer.

1. Waltz in A flat Major, (Op. f) (Chopin); Etude in F Minor (Liszt); 3. Islomey - Oriental Pantaisie (Balakirev).

9.37 p.m. Jack Jackson and his Orchestra.

Fox-Trot-This'll make you

Comedy "

ין

++

Whistle.

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to my love.

Jump on the Wagon,

-Rhythm in a Gront

Big Way.

-My Young Man's

Ever so nice, --Orchids to my Lady.

The Girl with the Dreamy eyes.

10 p.ni. A Relay from Daventry. Big Ben: The First Test Match. England y All-India, Commentary by Howard Marshall, from Lil's Cricket Ground, London, '

18.15 p.m. Close Down.

ZEESEN PROGRAMMES.

Special

more effectively than the normal air Hershey discovered during some of

follows: by exposure to ortlinnry had not ceased beating," air of oxygen as long as their hearts

for Yar Eastern

The ship will be able to cruise 226 miles an hour with onto be reriments that animints could steners will be broadcast from Zemen a

60 per cent. of its power. Engineers count upon this surplus to enable the giant to maintain high speed against storms and heavy winds and keep rigid railroad time schedules.

The physiological effects of various along the road that may lead to at gas mixtures on the animals were expected to produce the sign posts

Five airlines joined in a contract covering the cost of the first experimental plane. Aviation experts believe if the air-osphere treated for breathing as liner is a success, orders will come in for at least 60 more, costing carefully as mankind now treats his some $12,000,000

oriler

Air

The contract between the covery company and the Costa

Twenty five more of the huge Rienn government

onships will be built immediately if April 20, and the company has be the experimental plane is a success, gun evacuation of its camp. Re-Five planes each. in the quests for extension of the con-named, will be delivered to United cession were denied, despite the Air lines. TWA, American sending of a special representative Lines, Eastern Airlines, and Pan- from London to confer with the American Airways. By agree government.

ment, none will be put into sortice A government boat will aid the until all have been delivered,

A survey of present routes in expedition in leaving the island. The concession provided that the entire dirates, it was sald, that United expedition must be withdraws from Air Lines and 'TWA will require the island by the company's own ship five additional planes each aftori the Veracity. The vessel, at present delivery of the first 25. in Bulbon; Canal Zone, is owned by European air lines are counted Captain Arthur, director of the on company,

reportedly has rufused to permit its use by the expedition. The government, here-- fore, has been obliged to lend assistance to the expedition and employ its ships in the evacuation.

to

but

ho

It is understood that the members of the expedition lack funds to return England, and reports said that upon their arrival' on the mainland the government will be requested to provide sufficient money to repatriate the men.

tentatively for orders twenty five more--United Press.

I water before drinklog-United Press.

CLERGY WHO GOT A BETTER LIVING AFTER HIS DIVORCE

ANOTHER IS A WOMAN'S THIRD HUSBAND

for DEAN SUGGESTS PRISON

FOR ADULTERY

FROM

CRASH SKYSCRAPER

WHEN the Lower House of

ust

Convocation,

Church House, Westminster, recently, discussed the Church's attitude to divorced persons, the Arch- deacon of Dudley quoted on in- stance of a clergyman who divorced his wife on the ground

naked Canon Scott, Moncrieff, earlier in the debate, "why deprive him of The means of grace to enable him to rise to as lofly a height of Christian life cumstansible to him in the cit

The Dean of Lincoln said that it seemed shocking that two persons do- Ing their best to follow their own. moral conscience should be per- manently excluded from Holy Com- munion.

ed.

"I would go so Tarns to make adultery a criminal offence; I would send a person convicted of it to hard. labour for a year, but I would not excommunicate lilin. BUT IT WASN'T

"In 900 cases out of 1,000 the people concerned

would

excommunicate A TRAGEDY

themselves; In the 1,000th case the PEOPLE were waiting outside

person ought not to be excommunicat With the collapse of this new effort Melbourne's latest sky of adultery and who on re- The motion before the House urged to find the treasure, the Costa Ilean scraper to catch their trams and marriage was promptly given a that divorced persons remarrying government has received applications 'buses home, after the day's.

better living.

should not be admitted to sacraments from all parts of the world from work.

Within the last five or six

on such conditions except

as the Individuals and groups anxious to

Church might require.. continue the search. For the moment,

Suddenly there was a splinter of yours," the Archdeacon said, "an

An amendment, the effect of which however, it

other clergyman became the third IA understood the glass, six storeys above: A woman husband

Wan to refuse the sacraments to authorities are not contemplating looked

of a up and

woman, whose divorced persons who ro-married so. screamed. Two divorced first husband was still long as the second marriage relations granting any new concessions.

others fainted, as a body canio

alive. Morgan gathered the huge treasure hurtling down and crashed sickon-|

continued, was defeated by a largo which he is supposed to have buried, ingly on the pavement, says the full approval and bleasing of the

"The marriago was conducted with majority. through buccaneering exploits in the Austral News. West Indies, along the

Bishop of the diocese and colobra tod Central | Taxis and trams stopped with by a very prominent Canon of the American isthmus and the northern brakes screeching. A crowd led by Church of England." const of South America. Ile captured policemen rushed to the spot.

There were some cries of "shame,” and plundered towns and exacted. There was a sigh of roller, and to which the Archdeacon retorted, ransomsllo fought Spanish aqua- somebody laughed. The body was "You may say "ahame, but it only drons and, after capturing them, con- quite dend. ga Ascated their treasure.

that you don't agree. The It was a dressmaker's dummy clad rank and fla know those things are

· He was named Lloutenant Governor of Jamai- In the latest Imported model, which being done, ca and kolghted for his exploits, but had been knocked over and through PRISON FOR ADULTERY oveblially foll into disgrace and was the window by an nasistant-in-a-well-

SUGGESTED ordered home-United Proke

known' dress shop in the building. "If a man is doing the right thing"

means.

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THE ARCHBISHOP'S DECISION nounced in the Upper House his de

The Archbishop of Canterbury an-

cision to

appoint the

Bishops of Win- cheater Chichester, Coventry, Derby. on the question of "framing the most arxi Bristol as a committee

to report salutary form of discipline applicable to the circumstances of the day," in reference to divorced persons who contract.asecoml tegal marriage, and and holy communion the conditions of admission to baptism

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