1936-10-23 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1996.

LUPESCU

HAS

Wearing rubber bits and Ashing equipment Mr. Neville ChurƊberian, the Chanerijor of the Exchequer, tanding after a fishing tour in Loch Ness, Scotland, hame

of the "monster."

SIX RED-HEADED DOUBLES TO

TO GUARD HER

PAID FORTUNES TO BAFFLE TERRORIST · SOCIETY

RUMANIA'S most hated lovely Titian-haired Jew-

BRITAIN TAKES ish mistress of King Carol,

OVER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

London, Oct. 20.

The British Government to-day announced the

formal annexation to the British Empire of the Phornix Archipelago in the South Pacific. which was formerly possessed by Germany and which has been under British mundate since the conclusion of the Versailles Treaty.

The announcement is engaging the keen attention of all eireles, as a re-distribution of world colonies is now being widely discussed la connection with Germany's demand for the recovery of her prewar colonial pos-

sessions.

THE WORLD'S MOST AMAZING SWINDLER IS GRAVELY ILL

the he knew

An offeral communique issued in this connection states that two sloops attached 10 the British Dayal squadron in New Guinen visited the Phoenix archipelago snove time ago:

falet and on a palm-tree in each placed an official mark bearing the letters. This let belongs to H.M., King Edward VII of the British Empire,

has thwarted her enemies yet again in their attempts to murder her.

Men of the Iron Guard, Terrorist society which is allied to German Nazis, have sworn to kill Lupescu; she has baffled them by finding six women, all of whom exactly resemble her.

Agents of hers and King Carol have scoured the Continent for these women. They are paid fantastic salaries. They deceive the Iron Guard.

No one knows whether Lupesen or one of her doubles is inside the carriage which sweep through the streets of Bucharest.

well-known

No one knows the names of these Women except the elose Friends of King Carol and Lupescu.

One is belleved to be ધ Hutrian musical comedy actress.

She, more than any of the others, is the exact image of Magda Lupescu.

IL I was suld that with her help Lupescu returned to Rumania in 1930 after Carol has returned to the throne on the condition he never saw the red-haired beauty again.

The Phoenix archipelago is situnt- r the South Paride tween 2 kid-degrees 30 minutes and 4 degrees 30 minutes, S. Lit., and between

Rarely are these doubles seen to- 11 degrees and 30 minutes W.

Long Il consists of eight islets, namely gether. They live secretly in various Mary. Enderbury. Phoenix. Birney, parts of the country. Gardner, McKean, Bull and Sydney, covering altogether an area of is The number of aberi- square miles, gines inhabiting these islets is only about $00.

Leavenworth Penitentiary, | boasted tint

Kansas, Oct. 15. nappers, ho he said had been bis

fellow-prisoners at Atlanta. Gravely ill, Gaston B. Means he told Mrs. McLean that he, had Then looked back from the prison hos "found" the Lindbergh baby "in the pital on an astounding career as South," and could recover the child $100,000 ransom. one of this country's ace detec- payinent of

This amount, plus $1,000 for ex- tives and one of its greatest penses, was delivered to Means, but swindlers.

the kidnappers did not appear.

Means said

had been frightened and had taken the baby to Mexico. Mrs. McLean rushed to News of the formal British an- the Mexican border, but und nexation of the Phoenix group of nothing. When Means asked for an islets in the South Pacifle has con- additional $35,000, she not

noufied

the

official siderably government, Means was quarters.

He has already served three yeurs

15-year of w

sentence passed on him in 1933 for dr frauding Mrs. Evalyn Walsh MeLean-owner of the notorious "unlucky" Hope diamond-out. of $100.000 by telling her he would find the kidnapped Lin- bergh baby. But before that famous case, Means' career had been astounding.

f

they

= cat tried: and convicted,

found

BERLIN SHOCKED

shocked

Beriln

On Altacking the British; action, Der

May 16, 1933, he was Oned $16,000 Angriff, a Nazi organ, declares that and sentenced to fifteen years in the British annexation of the islets prison. The money he had received is the forerunner of her ambitious from Mrs. covered.

McLean was never re-plan to place the entire South Asiatic and Antaretle regions under the rule In March, 1936, Means tried

Commonwealth to of the Australian

Government. send a letter from prison, which was

ritain "ARhough Britain reported to contain his "confession" possesses vast territories thoughout that he had originated the whole the world, her avarice has no limit

time Bruno Hauptmann had been many's fair demand for colonial

the same newspaper} convicted and electrocuted for the possessions." crline.--Thilfed Press,

Their Retreats

RADIO BROADCAST

Recital by Helen Lockhart

From the Studio B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA

From Z. B. W, on a wavelength of 355 metres (045 kiloryeles):

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m.

European Programme.

&

7 p.m. A Scottish Programme. Selection The Thistle" (Myddle- ton); Violin Solo-Scottish Melodies Moffat)....Florence

Mac- (arr. Brite: Vocal-MacGregor's Gather- but (arr. Batten). Heddie

Mate Quartette: Band- Nash

Dusholt): Songs of Scotland (arr. Songs The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomon'; Comin, Thro The Rye...Dora Labbette (Soprano); Sang-Will ye na' come back again? ...Elder Cunningham (Bass-Bari- Lone)

8 n.m.

7.30 p.m.

Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Markel Report.

7.35 p.m.. London The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.

Lent: Time, Weather Re- port and Announcements.

8.03 p.m.

A Programme of Schubert's Melodies.

1st Movement-Pianoforte Quintet in A major. Op. 114 ("Trout" Quin- tet); Wilhelm Backhaus (Piano); Mangoot (Vlalin), Howard (Viola); Withers (Cello) and Hobday (Double-Bass); Song-Who is One is always near at hand to

Sylvin? Lupescu herself, Another lives at!

Master Robert Harris (Boy So- the mountain home of Carol-the Prano); Planoforte Solos-Moment F minor, Impromptu in palace at Sinnia which is so often Musicnic in

B Bat. Op. 142, the rendezvous of Carol and his love,

No. 3 Wilhelm When outings into the country and Backhaus: 1st Movement (Part 1) into the towns are made, sometimes Andante: 1st Movement (Part 2)- Lupescu gues, sometimes one of her Allegro ma non troppo; 1st Movement

(Conclusion)--Allegro doubles; writes a special correspond troppo: from Symphony No. 7 in C ent of the Sunday Referee.

A few days ago, the smurt spelety najor....The B.B.C. Symphony Or of Bucharest was gathered in the chestra; Songs--Aufenthalt: Der Dop- Alexander Kipnis fashionable and world-famous Caps Sweet Shup on the Calen Vittorici,

They were talking excltedly of the

8.45-9 p.m. From the Studio. new attempts of the Iron Guard to, A Recital of Balinds by Helen Lockhart Contralto; 1. Milanwy-- assassinate the woman whom every (Forster); 2. I know of two bright one fears, but nobody knows.

donald-Roeckel): cyes-(Clutsam); 3. Angus Moe-

4. Wait 5. The Blind Plough- man-

3 p.m. News and Announcements from London,

9.20 p.m. Fifteen Minutes Novelty.

They all believed that Lupesc must be for Iram the capital by this

treat or escaping across the frontier. The fashionable shop echoed and re- echoed with the name of Lopescu.

pelganger. (Bass).

- Lindbergh plat. But in the mean- and she takes no account of Ger- time-blding in some mountain re-Coningsby-Clarke).

He had been convicted once vlously and had been charged at various times with breach promise, espionage, forgery, der, opening of bonded warehouses of the Government to bootleggers, ninety-nine other violations of the National Prohibition Act, use of the mails to defraud, bribery to protect criminals, riting the offices of United States Senators, Jacceny, em- bezzlement and conspiracy.

WORK FOR KAISER

For 33 years Means developed his abilities as detective and confiten- tial agent, in 114 he joined the Burns Detective. Agency.........mei...svon. was its lending operative,

I

states.

THE PROBLEM OF SPACE

Giant Telescope

May Give

Solution

After the World War started, but before the United States became in- volved, Means told William J. Burns c that Captain von Papen, then Ger- James Jeans, in a public lecture at Southport, made the an-

man Military Attache in Washing-

now

in

ton (later German Chancellor), had ouncement that the new 200-inch

bullt being uffered him $100,000 to work for the telescope, Kaiser in typing up American munl-California, might solve the problem tion plants working for Allies. He of whether space was curved and asked Burns to co-operate.

inite, or was infinite,

MOUNTING INCOME

Holy Shakers

of Rome

of cult

Holy

"It's Lupescu!"

The door opened. A tall, simply but beautifully dressed, red-headed woman with a glorious figurs entered

Every eye turned to her; the whole room stopped talking.

"It's Lupescu!"*

Taking notice of no one, the woman walked to a table, gave an order to a startled waltress.

As she began to eat her pastries, the other patrons looked nervously towards the door.

At any moment, they thought, Iron Guards might break in and riddle the

with bullets. woman

Unconcernedly, as if unaware of the nervous tension in the room, the woman went on enting.

ARRESTS AGITATE

POLICE STATION ·

Rome, Oct. 15. Rome's central police station is to-night agitated in every sense of the word, by the presence of He declared that Sir Arthur Ed-jover 100 very active members oil dressed patrons were excitedly talk- dington, by very complicated mathe the religious Burns declined the proposition, matics, now hoped that he had Shakera.. whereupon Meana left to become a enrried through to a successful issue This ecstatic body evidently

Overnight, his earnings soured the computation of the

took root in Rome some months to $1,000 a week and many thousanda radius of the universe.

The members at first exer- more for special assignments.

Asking the question, "How big is space?" Sir James said that the cised their wriggling ritual in theory of relativity told us that space hidden localities about the city, was curved, and that it curved back but lately they opened a "temple" into itself, so that the total volumen a residential area. was Anite, Ike the total aren of the earth.

spy.

In an old isolated tomb in the New York Trinity Churchyard, in the dead of night, Means would and his orders cached in a crevice, together with bundles of $1,000 bills, Means testified.

mass and

ngo,

The Roman Catholic nuthorities denounced

Calmly, she paid her bill, rose from her chair, walked out of the shop,

In the sweet shop, the richly- ing. Who was the woman? Was she Lupescu herself? Was it one of her doubles? Iron Guards exasperated, will kill Many Rumanians believe that the

anyone who resembles Lupescu.

On any day, the first shot may be fred.

--,-----

FANLING GOLF

mn

non

A Durlesque Pantomime="Cinde- rella" (Wallace); Scientifically, of course! If you pretend you're blue.. .Murgatroyd and Winterbottom.

9.35

p.m. The London Piano- Accordeon Band,

The Cubalero (Cuban Rhythm Dance): Campus Moon: Lor Cabin Lullaby: The white eliffs of Dover: Happy the mountains meet the sea; Maid of

I'm happy: Wine Song: Where Brazil.

10 p.m. Big Ben, from London. Plano Jazz by Vivian Ellis.

1. Let me play; 2. "The Town Talks Plano Medley.

10.15 p.m. Dance Fusic. 11 p.m. Close Down.

USED FATHER'S TICKET

FERRY COMPANY PROSECUTION

Chan Pui, 21, was brought up at the Central Magistracy when he was Aned $10. or one month, by Mr.

K. Keen for attempting to travel on the Sham Shui Po Ferry without a ticket, and for pretending that he

He become “financial advisor" to A more mathematicnd interpretation got on their track and a rich Chiengo widow, Mrs. Maude said that space was not curved in the the worshippers as "performing rites STARTING TIMES FOR had a season ticket which in really

same way as the earth's surface, but not in conformity with nor approved by the Roman Church." The Vat-

lyns from belonging to or taking

King, outained $110,000 for her by that it had a "negative" curvature, ears also prohibited all good Christ- causing her to break up a trust fund and must extend to latinity. established for her mother and

This problem may be solved by part in the Shaker services on pain brothers, and won some $60,000 of the amoun: by shooting dice with the new 200-Inch telescope which we of ex-communication. her. Mrs, King planned to re-marry, now possess."

Police intervention followed and but one night while on a moonlight Motions of the nebulae suggested the congregation was ruided. The target-shooting party with Means that

the Shakers now spuce uxpanded. But

consider themselves she was shot and killed. Means diameter of space must be greater martyrs-a belief which excites their was charged with her murder, but than 480 million light years. There lurching Dervish dance to remorka- acquitled. Mrs. King's mother as- was no doubt about that, because ble oscillations. serted that the estate had lost half our telescopes could probe space for

million dollars under

240,000,000 light years in every direc management.

tion, and yet find no sign that there was a boundary to space anywhere near at hand.

BECAME "O" MAN

his

· 1921 Means obtained an sp- polniment us-agent of the US. De- partment of Justice.

Two years

WONDERS OF THE STARS But if we could not see the boun- later oh wad, Indicted for legal dary of space, we could try to fix its sales of government liquor to bool- leggers, for using the mails to deposition by theoretical arguments.

"The furthest of the stars that we

1.52

SUNDAY

Old Course

belonged to his father.

Inspector Alexander Black, of the Sham Shui Po Ferry, stated that 9.24 S. 1. Dodwell, T. Takel.

defendant passed the ticket window 928 D. S. Robb, A. Urquhart. without paying, tirereby signifying 9.32 Lt. Col. H. H. Blake. F. E. A. that he was a season ticket holder.

Remedios

the ferry and pre- He approached 9.30 E. J. R. Mitchell, A. T. Braley.pared to embark but was accosted 9.10 D. S. Edward, N. Shimokawa. by complainant who asked him whether he had a ticket. The ferry 9.44 A. E. Lissaman, A. J. Dennis. 1.48 D. J. Gilmore, H. Madfushima. had not yet arrived, and defendant The Rome police station

was

Upon stated that he had a season. G. S. Dodwell, W. Taylor. therefore filled with this wriggling and writhing body of humanity. 10.00 J. Angwin, B. H. C. Hallowes.

being asked to produce it, defendant 9.56 T. A. Pearce, K. Watanabe,

inado a hurried search of his pockets pending a decision on their fate.

and explained that he had left it at 10.04 F. Austin, W. A. Cornell. The juridical authorities were 10.08 P. Morrison, E. Bathurst,

home. Mr. Black asked him to faced with a dilemma-elther to im-10.12 A. H. Forbes, R. R. Lelsching. write his name, address and the prison citizens who had not broken

llamson. the Criminal Code or to allow the 10.16 W. W. C. Shewan, H. N. Wii- number of his ticket on a plece of paper, which defendant did, Defen- continuation of a rite which had in 20 3. L. Adams. J. B. Lanyon.

hend dant was thon taken to the 10,20 J. veen ecclesiastically condemned.

1024 D. Lloyd, R. A. McKenny.

offee for verification of the signa- Alienists, however, have found 10.20 D. L. Prophet, J. Harrop. ture, and his signature was found fraudi, conspiring to defeat the liquor tax law, obstruction of justice, can see with our unaided eyes are way out, The catalyptic frenzies of 10.32 11. A. Browning. J. S, Dunnelt. to be entirely different from that of the holder of the ticket under the and acceptance with accomplices of about 3,000 Ught years away. There the Shakers are to be pronounced 10.36 J. C. Chinbar, W. N. Buyers.

fore, we see them not as

are dangerous for the health of those 10.40 T. Low, N. P. Fox. they are

name he gave. The holder turned $85,000 bribe.

now, but as they were 3,000 years ago. practising them and disturbing to the 10,44 B. D. Evans, T. R. Rawell. out to be his father, who had a ticket There was also a charge of con- but the building of Rome or the leges; and so the Shakers will be 10.48 K. R. Rounds, J. W. Mayhew, with the company for the last two spiracy to bribe four officials of the lege Department of Justice,

kept in mental institutions until they 10.52 Pay. Lt. Cdr. Morant, Lieut. years without a break. Troy

severally return to is

n less excited

father Defendnut stated that his "Yet the distance of these stars Means was sent to Attanta pent-

manner of worship.

New Course

was away at the time in Swatow tentiary for four years, and lined as nothing in comparison with that milky

9.24 R. L. D. Wodehouse, E. Sadick, and that he was using his father's $20,000. While in prison he out-of the furthest stars of the

ticket in his absence. The father. ut way. These are probably dls-sent aut enough energy to run Iined, and subsequently published, a

д 9.28 R. Young, E. A. da Roza,

turned up in the company's 9.32 P. H. Scooner, A. A. Lopes.

onice book culled "The Strange Death of tances of about 130,000 light years, battleship. President Harding," alleging that and the light by which we see

them

What is probably the smallest of

K. Collings. A. L. Eastman. yesterday und refused to ball his 0.36 R. 940 E. T. McMullen, H. H. Mundy.

son out at $25, owpressing the opinion staried on its journey through space all known stars has recently been dis- Harding had died of poison,

About that time he "protected" a long before man had become civilised covered. Its radius is only about.

that his son was "no good." 0.44 J. Rodger, J. Maene. 9.48 K. S. Robertson, W. A. Stewart. rich Now York woman and her at all."

half that of the carth,' but it probably

9.62 J. B. Mackie, T. D. Paton, daughter from "threatening Red *Space was full of rotating cag contains nearly one million times as

described much substance. Its average density 9.50 agents," receiving a fee estimated at wheels of stars, and he

K. W. Jones, A. A. Bremner. about $100,000.

stars with temperatures of 60,000 must be about 30,000,000 times that 10.00 E. C. Norris, P. H. Suckling. When the country was aghast at degrees or ten Umes hotter than the of water. A plece the size of n 10.04 W. N. A. Smalley, G. T. May. the Lindbergh kidnapping, Menns sun. A square centimetre of these pinhead would break a man's back." 10.08 J. S.. Dykes, F. C. Young.

"

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