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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1936.

THREE BRITISH MISSIONARIES SLAIN Nomad Brazilian Indians Swoop From Jungle With Poisoned Darts

DRAMA "WHITE

OF

MAN'S

GRAVE"

TERRIFIED VILLAGERS TELL SEARCHERS

OF TRAGEDY

L

news of

Tho volunteered to peno-

NHERE British missionaries)lian outpost of civilisation before the

wild swamp lands. trafo the unknown jungles of Brazil have been ambushed and murdered by savage Indians.

They were:

Mr. Frederick Wright, of Hel- fast;

Months passed without them. Then two colleagues,

Mr. Horace Banner, of Warring ton, Laucashire, and Mr. Jack Johnstone, of Glasgow, set out to find them.

Setting out from the mission baso

Mr. Frederick Dawson, of Aus-at Belem they worlted up the River traila, and

Xingu, accompanied by native guides and Interpreters, to the Rio Zilio anti the nethermost known village Brazil-Nova Olinda..

Mr. Frederick Roberts; of Aus- tralia.

Two young Britons followed their tralt into the wilds and Bashed news of the deaths to London.

Suez

Anglo- gyptian

'Sudan

Uganda Kenya Tanganyika

Umon of South Africa

Capetown

The sea route to the Cape-and that through the Mediterranean.

In

St Helena D

Jacobs D.

Saldanha 8,

Saldanha

Then their way lay through tropical forests where it is possible to proceed only by boat.

THE SMASHED CANOE .

More than a year ago the thres murdered men- all members of the Unevangelised Field Mission-van- 1:5rt! in the jungles of the Xingu After weeks of searching in this River beyond Pam, the last Brazi-unknown region they discovered a

Boy Film

Star's Salary May Be Doubled

New York, July 1. FREDDIE Bartholomew, the

smashed cause wilch they recognised

as mission property,

There was no message; no evidence!

of what had befallen

evangelists.

the missing

Farther on they discovered a deserted village.

The habitants had led hastily.i The huts were undamayed. Thele occupants seemed to have left on thei instant In a sudden panie.

VILLAGERS IN FLIGHT

Then commenced the task of trac-i Ing these fugitives for news of the missionaries.

Danner and Johnstone were sure |

Fondon boy film star, is that the Inhabitants of the desertei likely soon to have his present village had no part in the fate of the

while men since it is the custom of

salary of £10,000 a year more se parta to destroy a village and than doubled, according to Mr.jnd clues after a crime, Philip Levey, one of the lawyers representing his father in the

recent custody proceedings,

The criminals then push out west and join the nomads.

So the searchers penetrated deeper tribea

Mr. Levey added that under the Into the Never Never Land,

questioned strange

terms of the tentative agreement regarding the custody of the boy, unknown to civilisation without auc-

They

cess,

50 per cent. of his earnings wtrall of the people of the deserted,

but they were directed on the

smashed canoe.

NTIC

Bok P

Malmesbury.

Wellington

•Paar) Stellenbosch

Rehbenito

Toble Bay

CAPETOWN

Fake

Simonstown, Cape of Good Hop Bay

may become

Capetoin

gnin Gateirag to the Eant. Rahben Faland may he fortified: Simanstown muy be Charged; Saldanha Day horned into sea- plane bane.

CAPETOWN MAY

BECOME EMPIRE

NAVY BASE No. 1

OSWALD PIROW, short, soft-spoken, dynamic Defence

Minister of South Africa bas arrived in England to discuss a great Empire naval plan.

a the Mediterranean. development of air

With the power hay

TRAINING AIR FORCE

on

Vice-Admiral Sir Edward war showed how the vital line of Empire communications can bo R. G. R. Evans (Evans of menaced by a conflict in or near the Broke) worked out scheme when he was grown a division of opinion commander-in-chief of the the strategic value of Malta and Africa station for making Alexandria as bases. Capetown into a vast naval base, bigger than Singapore. when most Empire ships voyaging Mr. Pirow has gone to discuss to and from the East will use the with British Ministers the de- Cape route. tills of the scheme

Mr. Plrow's defensive plans do fifty-fifty division of the cost, not end with a Capetown Singa- which will run into many mil-pore. lions, The plan involves:

and the

ERECT LARGE DOCK ·

Mr. Pirow foresees the tima

A few weeks before he left South Africa he outlined a scheme Including the raising and training within five years of an air force Preliminary work has already consisting of 1,000 pilots and begin on a concurrent plan to 3,000 mechanics, the formation of enlarge Capetown Harbour into anti-tank units and general reor- one of the largest in the world. ranisation of the Active Citizen Five hundred acres are to he Farce. reclaimed from Table Bay, and a £5,000,000 graving dock capable of handling ships as large as the Queen Mary is to be erected.

GATEWAY OF EAST

So Capetown may regain her] one-time importanco as the Gate- way of the East. The reason?

The Abyssinian

"Czar" Of £2,400,000

Racket Convicted

New York, June 28.

DROBABLY the biggest clean-up in the history of New York's

with the conviction of "Lucky" Luciano,

be placed in a trust fund for him, village Backing their way painfully "ezar" of a racket that yielded, some £2,400,000 a year, and cight

and the rest will be divided follows:

AB Olten

Twenty per cent. between his father and mother.

Twenty per cent. for his nunt and guardian, Miss Millicent Bartholomew, out of which she will support and educate him.

Ten per cent. to be set aside to meet income-tax and other expenses.-Reuter.

THE "DIRTRACKISTE"

The

through dense jungle, splashing over

marshes, and at brief intervals using of his associates.

the rivers, the rescuers a few weeks

were seeking.

sure

Luciano

Was

was

Mr. Dewey declared that Luclano ""over-lord" of 800 to 1,000 wonien, whose earnings reached. The youthful Special Prosecutor, total of £7,000 a night. Mr. Thomas Dewey, was appointed

nicknamed the police the syndicate's lawyers came up with the tribe theyucky" because he is one of the immediately put up the necessary Messra, Banner and Johnstone felt few men ever to have returned ball, which was promptly "jumped."

the victims were the missing from a gang "ride." missionaries, and began their long journey back to the base.

But they are off again, searching in the hope of finding the full story of the men they believe to be dead. ENGAGED TO MARRY

Sentences on the gang will be pro- last June to undertake the clean-nounced on June 18. Luciano faces up, and a series of raids collected a maximum sentence of 1,210 years,

ISLAND QUEEN

Even the Canary Islands has

more than sixty witnesses, who as he was found guilty on all of sixty selected a Queen of Beauty. The

he Wes

LOVE!

were held in custody pending the two counts. Mr. G. J. Byrnell, sceretary of the arrest of the "big shot." mission in London, said:

Luciano

Florida, a brief

was traced to Paris, June 24. "We have only received French have adopted, and feable, setting forth the bare-facts, in thence to Arkansas, where he was adapted, many English sporting London. We are reluctantly led to amented on April 1. After vigorous terms, such na "Le Tennis" and "Le believe that they are dead-murdered resistance by his lawyera Ternisman." "Le Football," "e Re- by a remote nalive tribe last spring" finally brought back to New York.

"We shall not know anything more

of Three

his co-defendants cordman," "Le Jockey" and "Le

until the search party reaches Para.

pleaded guilty and turned State evidence. Mr. Dewey sent into the will then send a detailed

witness-box woman after woman report by air mail.

who told how the leaders of the vice syndicate exacted £2 a week from ench of them for "protection."

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"Poor Wright's mother is heart- broken."

Mr. Roberts was senior member of the party. He had engaged in mis-1 słonary work among the natives in Brazil for the past ten veurs.

Those who refused to pay were beaten up by a strong arm aquad.” When women fell into the hands of

Even the Fowls Have

A Social Hierarchy

STRICTER THAN STATE PROTOCOL,

Hollywood, July 1, "Mian West," the reporter be gan seriously, "how about some advice on love?"

Mac says she's never been married, and the request startled her.

"Advice on what?" she asked. "Love," he repeated, "love- pure and simple."

"Sorry," she said with a twist, "don't know anything about | either kind."

Then, solemnly: "However, myi 'five-star specials' are always gued."

Here they are:

♣

FOR WOMEN

1. Stay young. even if you have to change the birth dates in the family Bible. Have your face lifted if

BUT SCIENCE DOESN'T KNOW WHY necessary; it's easier to lift a sagging

Chicago, July 1.

Patient observation of barnyard fowl at the University of Chicago has revealed that social distinctions are drawn more finely among chickens than on any ambassadorial dining list.

chin than it is to lift the mortgage on a sagging romance,

2. Be a pal. If you don't play with them, they'll start "playing around" willt others.

3. Don't dict. Curves may be dangerous on the highways, but they. never hurt, a woman

4. Play dumb. Just dumb enough' to make a man think he's smart. It socthes his vanity.

5. Love them

but not too Too much love is like (oo) much cake.

FOR MEN

Dr. Warder C. Allee, expert on remains steadily dominant until by a reversed. animal "sociology," is planning to in- battle their positions are vestigate factors witle account for fe also says that whenever two birds existence of a "social hierarchy" of one species are together, one is a among chickons.

despot and the other subservient Prof. Schjelderup-Ebbe of Norway, He holds this despotism is one of the much. first noted that one bird in a flock fundamental principles of biology.

Studies have shown that the order becomes a despot, and that there is a definite order in which birds higher is more cigld among females than in rank "browbeat" inferiors, •

among males. A flock of 13 pullota Dr. Allee and his assistants hope to was observed two hours, a day for 60 explain these distinctione by experi- days, and a "strong and stable social] ments in which diet, hormone balance, organisation" was found to exist, colour and characteristics of Individual birds will be varied and their effect on social status studied. At present it is known that older birds usually beconta despots.

FOOD RIGHTS EXIST

1. Make every woman love you but don't love every woman. When. the girl learns you're in demand, she'l tako you Just to keep the other dames from getting you.

VANQUISHED LOSES CASTE 2. Pet them. They love it like a tabby cat. Occasionally suggest that

An order of peck-dominance was she buy a new dress even if she deca worked out among eleven cockerels are enough dresses to clothe an 1890 Among fowl, "peek rights" and over a 70-day period, but organisation chorus. Tell them once in a while "peck dommance" mark the social here seemed less stable. There were that you realize she must be tired, distinctions. The animal highest in several reversals of order during the and ought to cat out-even if she has

who ranked the order pecks every other bird in period. An individual the flock and is pecked by none of second was injured in a fight. After been sitting around playing bridge

all afternoon. treatment he was returned to the pen them...

3. Don't be tight-with money, or and immediately became the lowest

kluscs. and was so badly persecuted that he

4. Be attentive. When you take The lowest is pecked by avery other had to be removed pennanently from

her out give. bird and pecks none. In this order, the pen to save his re.

her your undivided rights to food and other advantages Fourteen White King pigeons atudi- attention. are obtained. In exceptional cases, ed showed more "democracy" obtained rebel birds have defied and dominated among them than chickens. Social. Tell the truth if it hurts, but don't.

fordor developed after a period but bruise yourself badly. Sometimes a declares absolute despotism was lacking and little lie will prevent a woman from big bugaboo...-- that throughout the order of the flock, frequent, although temporary, rever-stretching Into "a

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the normal leader of the flock. Prof. Schjelderup-Ebbe

any fowl.with peck-right over another sals of the order took place.

5. Don't lie to them

much,

typical

title for this year has been given to Senorita Mary Benichet,

Spanish beauty.

HAUPTMANN

Rio De Janeiro, June 21. Diario Noite, daily newspaper, published a four column photographi of "Bruno. Richard. Hauptmann's Spirit" and said the opleit had "confessed" to an unnamed medium that he klidnapped Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

The spirit said, according to the medium, that he committed the crime while under a hypnotic in- fluence and that he became conscious of it only after death.

Diario Noite's "photograph" of the "spirit" which the newspaper said was taken by "a special pro- селя, "

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