1936-12-18 — Page 6

OKINGS

OPENING SUNDAY

And when they kiss.....

You'll thrill to the screen's most exciting

love-team!

ib as a boy with toomany mil Miléns and Lareita

This secret sweetheart

Robert TAYLOR Loretta YOUNG

"Secret

Interlude

PATSY KELLY BASIL RATHBONE MARJORIE GATESON

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Darryl F. Zanuck

In Charge of Production Directed by Roy DelRuth, Ansethither Produce?, Raymond Griffith

Bele on play by Cheras Kluband'

KING GEORGE V

MEMORIAL FUND

A FINAL APPEAL

Christmas is approaching with. Its numerous calls for generosity, and it seems desirable to close the King George V.' Memorial Fund before it becomes one of too many claims on our charity.l therefore propose to close the subscription lists pn Saturday, December 19th, and I ask every citizen of Victoria and Kowloon to put to himself the following questions:

Havo (1)

fully appreciated

the nature of the Memorial, which is that the thank-offerings of those who prospered under the late reign will be devoted to the recreation of poor people in crowded areas; so that Hongkong's monument to King George will not be a lifeless statue of him but a living and permanent realisation of his desire for the health and happiness of his poorest subjects?

(2) Are the ninety thousand dollars that have already been raised the most that Hongkong can do?

(3) If not, Can I add to the amount, even though my contribution be small?

(4) Or, having already given, can I

give more?

A. CALDECOTT,

GOVERNOR.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1936.

BAD LUCK HOSPITAL HAS

GOOD LUCK The Serpent They

Wouldn't Pull Down

GOOD LUCK has come to East Grinstead's new cottage hospital since the authorities defied superstition and refused to spend £63 in removing the twined serpent- symbol of Aesculapius, god of healing--which rears' itself from the roof.

Superstitious East Grinstead people shuddered when they first | saw the snake on the roof. "It's bad luck," they said, and shook their heads.

ALWAYS BLAMED

They blamed the serpent for the rain that fell when Princess Helena Victoria opened the hospital on January 8,

They blamed the serpent when the mairon, Mias Garlett, and

a nurse fell ill and became the hospital's first patients.

They blamed the serpent when two patients died within ten days of the opening ceremony.

In February they demanded that the serpent should go and a weather vane take its place.

But the authorities said, "Nonsense. The serpent cannot do) us any harm. Besides, it will cost £63 to take it away."

People who read about the hos

nital and the serpent went dona- tions.

Miss Carlett sald:,

"We had one anonymous donation for £1,000. No one has the faintest Iden who sent it.

Vowed To Wed

Woman Lovely

"We have now one of the nest As His Mother

X-ray departments in the country.

"The serpent has certainly brought us no bad luck. It is still up there and we're all cheerful down here below it.

"Everything looks very rosy. Most of the patients get better. We are very happy about everything-and I don't think any one fears the ser-

pent now."

BALKAN POWERS DISCUSS

NEXT WAR

Ankaru, Dec. 18.

the unified command of the armies of the Balkan Entente (Turkey, Rumania, Greece, and Yugoslavia) should the Entente ever find itself, at war are believed to be afoot.

NEGOTIATIONS for

Died A Bachelor,

R.

Left £587,457

THREAT

TO LYNCH GENERAL IN JAIL

Louisville

(Kentucky), Dec. 20. BRIGADIER-GENERAL HENRY DEN- HARDT, 60-year-old for- mer Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, has been brought to the jail here, charged with the murder of his 40-year-old fiancee, Mrs. Verna Taylor.

The scene of the alleged crime was 70 miles away, but Den- hardt was moved for fear of

mob violence.

Mob Around Jail

At Newcastle on Friday, after | he had been remanded to go before a grand jury on a charge

of first degree murder, Ken-

tucky Hill folk swirled around the little jail with threats to

lynch him.

In his first utterance since arrest Denhardt to-day said the aristocrat

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19th DECEMBER

INTRODUCING...

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AND

HER FESTIVE FOLLIES

TOGETHER WITH

Eula Hoff & Bob Burnett

AND

NORMAN BROOKS

HIS BAND

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widow he had been courting had THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD..

frequently threatened to end her

life, and that on their last motor TOESSESSESÕRESSSSSSSER. trip she had suggested, "Let's dio together."

Nervously pacing the three-room Preston, Dec. 10.

sulto of the comfortable: "ecils," where he is watched day and night WILDING MR WILLIAM

for fear

of suicide attempts, Den- GALLOWAY, of Bils-hardt told an interviewer his version borough Hall, near Preston-of what happened. cotton magnale, brilliant or-hills when suddenly she reached into

"We

the were driving through ganist and pianist, who died last the glove compartment of the September aged 82-left £587,- and seized my heavy Army revolver, 457.

It was fully loaded, I wrenched it from her, replaced it, and locked the compartment.

The greater part of his fortune will go to the townspeople of Pres- ton.

Among bequesta in his will, pub ished to-day, were £10.000 to Pres- ton's poor and needy, and £10,000 for the benefit of the employees of Horrockses, of which firm he president.

Mr. Galloway was a bachelor. man who had known him for years to-day told why:

Was

Forgiveness Plea

car

"Then she told-me almost bysterl- eally how she had been courted by another man. He had expected to marry her until I gave her an en- gagement ring.

"I patted her head and told her to stop thinking about it. Then she plended for my forgiveness—as if A T'd anything to forgive.

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the vow that until he met a woman "As a very young man he made as lovely in face, figure and dis- position as his mother ho would

never marry.

"And not so

bachelor.""

why

very long ago

remained

ha

A

This is the upshot of the con- versations which Marshal Chak-sald to me: 'I never found her equal,

That mak, Turkish chief of the gen- eral staff, had with his fellow | chiefs of staff at the recent Bal- kan Entente conference at Bucharest.

The Marshal had since had & series of important conferences with President Ataturk on this subject,

Chaperones For Tokyo Girls At Olympiad

Tokyo, Dec, 16,

PRINCIPALS of Tokyo schools

met to discuss "the organi sation of a special agency to work for a manifestation of the true spirit of Japan in 1940 (Olympic Games year) through the graceful demeanour of its girls."

This is what they about the girls:--

deelded

1. They should stop dressing

like revue actresses;

2. They should be chaperoned when attending the Games:

3. They' must not ask foreign athicles for autographs.-

Reuter.

"When the car broke down inter I was trying to arrange repairs when Mrs. Taylor evidently silp- ped away suddenly. I was shocked. by the blast of a gun.

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"I rushed to the car and found the

the glove compartment open,

and the key missing. gun gone, Then T heard a second shot,

"I hurrled down the road with two farmers. We found her in the dlich, my revolver at her side."

Famous Author Asks Coronation Amnesty

MR

R. COMPTON MACKENZIE, the famous author, has issued a forceful appeal for a Coronation amnesty for Dartmoor Prison mutineers.

and

The inspiration of this appeal was a visit which Mr. Wilfred Macartney, author of a sensational prison book, who had served 10 years' penal servitude, paid to Mr. Mackenzie in the novelist's home on the Island of Barra.

For 12 months Mr. Macartney to the Archbishop of Canterbury, stayed on Barra and wrote his Lady Oxford, Lord Numeld, exposure of prison conditions, many others, states that the extra sentences brought some mutineers' "Walls Have Mouths." But for terms up to as much as 18 years' Mr. Compton Mackenzie's en penal servitude.. couragement this book, which shocked all Britain, might never have been written.

Sent Him Mad

"One man by the name of Ibbols- son," the appeal states, "who had Now Mr. Mackenzie, who only a few months to serve to finish heard many grim tales of a four years' sentence, was given an additional 10 years. It sent him prison horrors during the mod, and he is now in Broadmoor writing of the book, appeals Asylume last two Coronations con- for remission of the long sen- tences of penal servitude siderable remissions of sentences were granted to prisoners. Is it too passed on convicts who took much to ask that at the forth-

part in the Dartmoor mutiny.coming Coronation the suffering of The appeal, which has been sent these men shall not be forgotten?"

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