1936-07-28 — Page 15

Bridge King,

Once

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1936.

FORTUNE BUILT ON PACK OF CARDS

£2-a-Week Man, Earns £100,000 a Year

HE HAS 100 SECRETARIES

NEW YEAR

HONOUR AWARD ERASED CANCELLATION of the

award of a New Year! Honour was notified in the London Gazette recently.

"The King has directeri that the appointment of Frank Jago Munford to be a Mem

ber of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Em- pire, dated January 1, 1918, shall be cancelled and nulled. and his name erased from the register, in conse- quence of his having heen convicted by the civil power.”

Women Insist On Rights At Coronation So many

women aro

claiming their rights to

Blind Builder

Blind rnce 8. Leo Anderson, 33, of Berkeley, Calif., who makes his liv- Jog ha a masseur and automobile nuchanie, has started work on his He's ambition-butiring a power cabin cruiser, Doctors say he'll never see the results of his crafla- manship, but friends insist it'll be Areni job when completed.

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By CLIFFORD LEWIS

LY CULBERTSON, the man who made 20 million people bridge-crazy, is to-

| day earning £100,000 a year.

Yet three years after the war he was living on £2 a week, sometimes wondering where he would find his next meal.

Ely Culbertson, who is staying in a luxury suite at a London hotel, told me the astonishing story of his climb from obscurity.

"My father, a Russian mer-} chant, had a fortune of a million pounds," he said.

"He lost 1 all in the Revolution, I was plunged into poverty, I lived] on. 12 a week when I was lucky more often less than that.

"In 1931, praniless, 1 walked Into the Knickerbocker Club, New York, where a friend was going to buy me a meal. There I WAS SURgested I should trach Amerlea the science of European Bridge playing.

"My wife Bought I had the mnk- ings of a great bridge tutor. I took worked for her suggestion. We years devising a scheme.

A Millionaire

"I tried to put 11 ncross-un-

Finally, 1 hired publisher myself-and gave my system the world.

RED HOT BRICKScully.

AS MEDICINE

"In ten years I was a millionaire." To-day Ely Culbertson bas 100 secretaries.

Ilis Tous inrome is more than £100,000 a yeart

'W'S-

He makes £24,000 from brea casts:

"£12,000 from articles Kyndi-

170 American cated in

£6,000 from 36 lectures à

A nullion of his books have noth

in two years, bringing him at bu

perform services of honour RAYS FOR RHEUMATISM at the Coronation next year į Red hot bricks can be used that the problem for the as a form of treatment, accord-¦ Lords Commissioners now ising to Dr. Matthew B. Ray. not so much "Have women senior honorary physician to Red Cross Clinic, the right?" to join in the the British

year. For rheumatism. He makes his ceremonial, but "Have they recommendation in an neliel the strength?"

published in the British Medi The Lords Commissioners, ¦cal Jouruni. appointed by the King in his The technique, on expert recalled eard tips and endorsements.

Is that It costs him £4,000 A your to press representative last proclamation to examine

uspct by prehistone man 500,000 answer his correspondence. the rights and privileges, of yours ago for cooking his food, those whose families have per-

Dr. Ray's formula is simple Make forned services of honour at two bricks red hot in ano Coronations, tre faced with an place them at the bottom of an old Ineket. Over this amport the limb Increasing number of claims,

to be treated, covering, 11 the while

INFRA-RED RAYS

atel

teome of 4-49g a year.

Thousands pour in from cigarette

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Recipe For Success

་་། care nothing for money don't cutsider I have yet started to make it," he continued,

"Anyone ets be riel. There is never-falling recipe for success--don't think about making money. Strive for techmeal supremacy in your particular field, Money will then follow.

ane

The war ehmluated a great many with blanketa, male heirs of Britain' good families. { In the past when the rights rested | on a woŋun she was required to:

“A knee, elbow, wrist, ankle, foot, name a male deputy. This was the!

"can Thus be eustown at the last two Caronallons. for haut," he says.

The number of hours you work Since then women have come into exposed to infra-red rays, which are

derived is immaterial. I work hard--16 hours Just as effective

electrical expensive from more

Ja day--because I like it. SEALED CLAIMS

People who slave all day in Scores of sealed envelopesreapparatus."

is milyone form of many routine-jobs-are-donned-they're ceived by the commissioners

from This is

Jike pit horses tradging in family solicitors contain women's apparently strange treatments that

circles. have lately been recommended for

Colloidal gold

their own.

cluirns.

tion.

That is one problem to be settled.

as those

"I have a wonderful wife and two

If women are allowed to exercise rheumatism. their rights, then the King may have favoured by some authorities; ozone fine children-but until a year ago baths by others. Dee stings have was very unhappy. I was always some attending him at the Corona- trird with success, in certain ill because I used up all my nervous

and good results have been energy in my work." Can a woman be trusted to carry cases,

with ultra-short radic Sword of State erect for claimed a heavy

།༢༩༢༤!} . nearly two hours?

High frequency electric currents have been used to supply internal heat to the alleted joint, undi whiskey (less now than formerly) to supply heat to the whole body. Lemons have been favoured by some authorities because of their potassium

and condemned by others- content, on the score of their acidity. Many countrymen still believe to-day in the efficacy of the potato.

SCOTLAND'S NEW MONSTER

It was

n lung.

linrtl firat,

mates, but the

Wild West may succumb to th

the Hollywood influence. Here's the

Intert manifestation. Geraldine Mulqueeney, eschewing

chaps in favour of a $34 model beach outfit. was elected queen of the Livermore.

Cal., Rodeo,

Yacht's World Trip To

Give Screen Realism

Southwick (noar Brighton), July 15. Athene, a small, elegant yacht of 75 tons, dropped anchor off Southwick to-day and waited for the tide so that she could, enter harbour and all but completo a voyage which may revolutiontse the film industry..

She has come from Los Angeles by way of the Pacific, Hongkong, the China Seas, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean.

This yawl-rigged craft, flying the American flag, has the world in celluloid stowed away in a wonderful laboratory which has been built and equipped near her comfortable saloon.

believe af many Hollywood sets, "We have travelled nearly 10,000 Garnett miles," Mr.

said to-day, "and I have exposed 60,000 feet of film wh

which will be usad as lack- grounds for pictures.

"When we produce a picture of India

it will be the real-India--we show.

I have been to Hawaii, Indo- the China, China, Japan, India, Malay Peninsula, the Red Sea-every- where we

could go. This expedition has been highly expensive, but if I sterec-I have succeeded-it means that the man who produces his film backgrounds at home is done for.

Her owner is Mr. Tay Garnett, who directed "China Seas, with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery

HE WANTS REALISM

He is out to put realism on the screen.

He wants pictures to have rent backgrounds. He began this trip because he was tired of the makes

HYPNOTIST CHIEF OF MURDER GANG

Stockholm, July 21. CAPTURED for the fall, of a bank porne who by APTURED for the killing of a bank porter who had

An American doctor luas claimed a homeopathist, aged 28, who hypnotised his patients- of rheumatism by massaging has confessed to a series of hitherto unsolved murders

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.

July 21. The crew of the drifter Coral Bank returning here, to-day gave graphic details of a weird monster which they assert was seen among the fish to be able to cure practically any

form Ing, shoals.

and there are The monster

described as the ankles, WHS "like a sual followed by twn of its Country practitioners who prescribe young" about 4011. long, with a hend elder. As for this, the experts of and neck camel-like and carried the Red Cross Clinie tell us that the out of water, two or three bumps waters of London are as good as on its back, and of uniform girth any-provided that the treatments from the neck.

are correctly given.

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--HONG-KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1930 on behalf of sick and destitute chiluren is estimated at $20,000, against which the Income to date is $18,000 only

In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the Intance of

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FEELINGS ON EVE OF DEATH

The men are aged between 19 and 29, and so sinister have NURSE'S REMARKABLE their exploits been that Swedish newspapers are discussing the necessity of reintroducing capital punishment, abolished more than 30 years ago.

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Huge crowds, angered by the TOOK AN OVERDOSE terror reign the gang had up-

OF DRUG held for six years, cried: “Kill

them... kill them "When HER feelings on the eve

the murderers were taken to

prison in police motor-ears.

The gang's confessions include:

of death were described by a nurse, stated to be a

Their First Murder in 1930 they drug addict, in a farewell shot the chauffeur of à hired letter which was quoted at a

motor-car because he heard" their

plans for robbing a bit dairy. As Westminster inquest.

he did not die from his wounds

they drowned him in a river.

as

Killed ΣΠ Household-Dressed

policemen they induced the man in charge of a mine to let them into his house. where they shat him and his housekeeper, and stole roughly 2550 in miners' wages before setting the house on fire,

"It is quite safe so far," she wrote. "Very had night... Feel- ing terrible...Still can't eat with- out being sick...Tried como co- caine to keep going today." It was revealed that the woman,

Miss Mary Morgan, 34, employed at a nursing-home in Park-inne, W., had died from the effects of an ovog,

Gassed Woinan. They killed a rich dose of drug

oged peasant woman ♫ Sho was in Government nursing putlent of their leader in her service in West Africa, being lovalid- lonely collage by leading a tube ed home last year.

from their motor-ear exhaust to the woman's bedroom. Here again they set the house on fire.

300 Gigolos. Start

“Sit-out" Strike

Nice, July 20. Three hundred professional men dancing-partners in Riviera night clubs, cabarets, and Casinos

Sho had suffered from malaria, depression, insomnia, and pneumonia. fedical evidence showed that Nurse Morgan had been taking morphia.

not able TO SLEEP'

In his summing-up the coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, remarked that Nurse Morgan had suffered dreadfully from aleeplessness and felt she was unable to continue her work.

She left many letters, and In anc to a doctor, wrote: "If ever you rend this I shall be dend." She referred the torrible suffer-

stopped dancing to-day and began ing she was undergoing owing to the

a "wallflower" strike.

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They demand shorter hours, per

deprivation of morphia and not being able to sleep,

On the back of an envelope she had mission to sit at their clients described her symptoms:

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118. a night.

The coroner recorded an open-ver--

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