1937-01-25 — Page 7

SPINSTERS CLAIM ARMS KING'S MONEY

Two aged spinsters living in an old wooden house at Kadikeuy, on the Asiatic coast of the Sea of Marmora-the little blob of water between the Dardanelles and the Black Sea-are laying claim to the fortune of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the cosmopolitan King of Arms who died on the Riviera nearly a fortnight ago.

They are the Misses Zaharopopulos, who say they are first cousins of the dead millionaire, and, as such, have first claim on his estate.

Their names are Iphigenią (a name famous | in Greek legend and Greek Tragedy) and Melpomene (the Greek Muse of Tragedy), Iphí is 80; Melpo is 70.

SOLD NEEDLES

They possess documents and pic- Lures in support of their cluim, which are believed

to prove that

the young Zaharaff born in Tatavio, the poor Greek quarter of Constan- tinople (it had not then been re- named Istanbul), entered into part- nership with his uncle, M, Zaharo

haberdashery shop at utarit selling nothing more lethal cotton which could hardly strangle and needles which could scarcely slab.

than

they make good their cluim, Iphi will give her share of the mil- lions to the Greek Government, but Melpho, to make things even, wilt hand here over to Atatürk, the Tur- kish dictator, for the benefit of the Greeks hereditary enemies.

Zaharon himself, who gave Greege the first submarine, and then sold two others to Turkey, would smile

his old xordonle smile at this.

ants.

HAMMERSMITH CLAIMANT Meantime, there are other claim-

The daughters of the Duchess of Villafranca, wham Sir Basil Zaharoff married on her third husband, are the most probable heirs, and there Is a shoemaker of Hammersmith who claims to be a son of Sir Basil by

carller

Eastern marriage In

un

Europe.

There is much virtue in an Iph.

POLICE SIEGE

OF

NEW YORK FLAT

ONE MAN HOLDS 125 AT BAY

WOMAN COMPANION

WOUNDED

Now York, Jan. 1. Harry Brunette, wanted on several charges of bank rob berics and kidnappings, was captured early this morning after a battle with police in a West End Avenue flat. His woman companion was wounded, but there

police casualties.

For 35 minutes Brunette withstood a stream of bullets poured through the doors and windows by 100 police and 25 G-men under the personal direc- tion of their chief. Mr. Edgar

· Hoover.

were по

Finally, his ammunition ex- hausted, Brunette emerged with his hands upraised but with a иneeг for his captors, saying: "My, what brave guys.'

THE

MADRID'S ENEMY

GENERAL VAZELA

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

who is in command of the Na- tionalist fores besieging Madrid.

SURGEON GIVES BACK : HER BEAUTY

Disfigured by burns in early life, a 26- year-old girl has had her good looks restored by a miracle in plastic surgery.

For years the girl, who lives in Aber- deen, could not face the world.

So sensitive was she that job after job was given up; she could not bear public scrutiny.

Then, in despair, she applied for help to the Aberdeen Public Assistance Committee.

Her case came before the committee's medi- cal staff and it was decided to attempt to remove the disfigurement as far as possible.

NORMAL APPEARANCE

She was sent to St. James's Hospital, London, where a number of operations were performed | by Sir Harold Gillies, the famous plastic surgeon. The ugly scars were removed and new skin was grafied on. Now the disfigurement has gone and the girl has been restored to her natural appearance,

Sheik's Son Appeals

For More Night Life

Bagdad, Jan. 1.

SAYID SALMAN, son of Sheik Daoud of Badgad, wants to bring the gaiety of London's night life to Bagdad-a city

where cabarets and music halls are banned. Sayid Salman, in an appeal for "more life" complains that Euro- pean tourists in Bagdad have nothing to do in the evening and have to go to bed at nine o'clock.

He gives the English as an exam- he ple of n cheerful people whom admires, and says there is more night lite In London han

Berlin.

in Parks or

London's cabarets, theatres, and

Recruiting In Irish Free Stato

Whitehall Letters Left Unsealed

(From An Irish Correspondent) After a lapse of some months,

Sir Harold curried out the opera- tiens free of charge and Aberdeen Public Health Committee was respon- sible for The maintenance and travelling expenses between Aber- deen und London.

The girl has just entered St. James's Hospital for a final minor operation, but the triumph of plastic surgery already is complete.

TASK OF SEVEN

ST. BERNARD

MONKS

QEVEN monks from the monastery on the Great St. Bernard Pass,

JANUARY 25, 1987.

RADIO BROADCAST

H.E. the Governor's Speech At Burns Dinner

AN EMPIRE EXCHANGE

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.I.W. on a wavelength of 365 metres (845 .c.'s), 31.40

metres (0.52 megacycles).

12.30 The London

deon Band.

Plano-Accor-

1 pan. Time and Weather.

1.03 A Light Concert.

..

1.30 Reuter Press; Weather, Time

and Announcements.

1.40 Variety and Dance Music. 2.15 Close Down,

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

Old Musical Comedy Hits.

"The Good Companions"--Lot me give my happiness to you; "Follow Through"--Vocal Gems: "The Ilouse That Jack Bull" The thought never entered my head; "C. B. Cochrane's 1930, Revue"-Vocal Gems.

7.20 Organ Sclo-Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin, arr. Maclean), played by Quentin M. MacLean.

7.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- tlons And Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

1.33 London-"Empire Exchange.” Points of view by travellers from the

Dominions and the Colonies. (Elec- trical Recording).

7.45 Leslio. Hutchinson at the Plano.

Eust of the sun; My heart Is hau cd; These foolish things; Two fired eyes; Wake!

8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.

8.03 The New Light Symphony Orchestra.

Switzerland, are building a hosplec, merg); Salut d'Amour (Eigar);

12,000 feet up on a mountain on the border of China and Tibet.

Four of them left Switzerland in 1933. They were followed in

Solemn Melody (Walford Davies); Benedictus (MacKenzio); Spanish Dance No. 1; Spanish Dance No. 2, (Granados); The Mill in the Fores! In E Flat, Op. 41, No. 1 (Rubinstein).

8.30 Noyal Naval Singer-Sca Songs and Shanties Bung by the Portsmouth Royal Naval Singers.

8.38 "Burleske" (Richard Strauss), (Pianoforte) and the Berlin State Opera Orches tra.

music halls appeal to him as "the recruiting for the Defence Forces of February last year by three others. played by Elly Ney

best form of relaxation."

He has often visited London un

holidays, and he thinks it is a "city of good taste and perfect breeding. One can listen to jazz and dance afternoon and evening."

JACK-IN-THE-BOX ISLAND

the British Empire has restarted in the Irish Free State,

A monk at the Great St. Bernard Monastery told of his colleagues' lonely work.

have

"It is a very distant place they chosen for the hospice," he

MULE TRACK

Recruiting for the three Defence suspended after the murder of Vice- Services in the Irish Free State was Admiral Henry Boyle Somerville at sold. Castletownshend, County Cork, Inst March. It was established that Ad- "It takes seven weeks for letters miral Somerville had not worked as to reach us by mule, rail and boat. an agent for recruiting, but that a or one month by air. The nearest number of young men of the neigh-railway to them is three weeks away bourhood had approached him to ask for advice as to the procedure for Joining the Royal Navy.

THIRD APPEARANCE All recruits for the Defence Forces from the Irish Free State have to go IN EIGHT YEARS

to Liverpool to be interviewed and to undergo a medical examination. Although no part of Australia is volcante o I subject to earthquakes, The cost of the journey to Liverpool and back. if the candidate is rejected, ja curious phenomenon, so fur is defrayed by the Crown subject to

explicable scientists,

certain provisions. made its reappearance in

Lake Victoria, at the south-eastern corner of the Commonwealth. In the shape of an island.

to

hor

just

are

and the nearest town is further still. "My commander do not expect to come back. If they do it will only

for be

n short stay.

Others of us intend to join them out there.

"Although It

It is for from civilise- tion, such as even we know. It on our lonely pass, about 100 Chinese trus verse the mule track each day.

They

mainly travelling dealers and an occasional priest..

"Despite the great height at which the monks are building the hospice it is below the eternal snow line. three years to complete, and will be "The bullding will take about of stone. Although it will not be as large as our own, there will be full accommodation for travellers.

help the monks, and the work is natives are being paid to proceeding satisfactorily

Most important among these pro- visions is that the candidate should have reference as character signed by an officer on the Active This island, in existence three or or Retired Lists of his Majesty's four years ago, suddenly disappeared Forces. This provision is not re- and

was submerged by "a foot of quired except in the Irish Free State. water. Now I hns, as suddenly, Thus every officer of the Navy, Army, emerged three and a half feet out of or Air Force, whether on the ActiveThe formerly. It is at water and twice as large as it was or Retired Lists, living in the Irish 4,000 square feet in extent, and its the part of would-be recruits, and present, about Free State is subject to approach on surface although cracked is quite for this reason they are apt to incur solid, says Austral News,

The island made its pearance in 1928, and the theory was that it had been forced up by the pressure of petroleum

The gas. theory is still

unsupported by Pu scientific evidence, however.

first ap-

+

"the""wrath of the Anti-BritishTM Ter-

rorist Somerville.

factions, as did Admiral

In recent months the situation has been aggravated by lack of under- standing of the peculiar problems of these officers on the part of the authorities in Whitehall. Letters have been sent to some of these oflcers asking for "further particu- battle brought only scornful retorts. Iars" of a somewhat personal nature. Just before he surrendered he had These letters, although clearly mark- assured the police decisively, "Take ed "Confidential," have been received your time, take your time. I have in insealed envelopes still one shot left." This, however,

TERRORISTS proved bravado, since when he emerged a moment later he left em-possible for it to be widely known This practice not only makes it

ply pistols behind.

that the officer has been giving help The rattle of the guns and sirens Forces, but is liable to let inquisitive to young men anxious to join the of police cars as they brought rein- people into the secret of the "con-

Was

an

It was a one-sided battle, in which forcements to keep curious specta-idential" Information supplied by the Brunette fred only 13 shots, empty-tors out of danger, and the bells of otheer ing two pistols, while the attackers the fire engines threw an ordinarlly The officer, loyal to 'ils creed and riddled the furnishings and pock-quiet neighbourhood Into a turmoil. his Service, may, by giving a fearless marked the walls with bullets from It machine-guns and high-power rifles. I kinds the biggest affair of the and unblassed answer to these ques- since the police captured Two-tlons, lay himself open to reprisals also resorted to gas bombs, gun Crowley in a similar siege, but on the part of the family They one of which set the window blinds in a much less fashionable district undesirable, or on the part of the afire.

on May 7, 1031.

Terrorists. Although endangered by Brunet-

Fortunately none except Brunette's le's desultory shots firemen succeeded companion was injured. The in- in putting a stream of water through terior of the flat was badly wrecked. the windows and extinguishing the Mr. Hoover in discussing the cap- -binze.

ture suld, "Brunette is tough. Alvin Brunette, who is 25 years old, had Karpis, supposed to be the coldest the subject of a most intensive killer in the country, caine out with search since he kidnapped a New knees shaking after we had cornered Jersey State policeman, William him In New Orleans. But not Turnebull. November 11.

on

He is Brunette; he was arrogant with the supposed to have been betrayed by arrogance of a cat fighting when a former woman companion.

cornered."

A detachment of police and G-

men drew a close cordon around the

big apartment house at West End-

STOLEN PISTOLS

DAY-TO-DAY RECORD We receivo-a-journal from our comrades each month. It contains a day-to-day account of their work.

The monks who arrived

there first have now a good command of the loent dialect of Chinese. The others are learning it. Most of their time is taken up by building, learn- ing Chinese

and by doctoring the natives,. until the hospice is completed.

"The monks are staying at Welsi

get food. There is no milk at Weisl. "Their great difficulty has been to

They are learning to eat rice like the Chinese with chop-sticks. "One of my colleagues

took out ton in Switzerland and plunted some vine roots from the Valais con- them at 5,000 feet.

T

"He told us recently that they had 18 quarts of wine. The been very successful and produced grapes, however, were not like our own, but a amali. hard variety.

"We would like to start monastetics in other parts of the world. The dimculty is that there are too few of us here."

other

For these reasons there is a feeling their feelings of loyalty to the Service among officers resident in the Irish in a dificult and even dangerous Free State that they are placed by position.

20 YEARS FOR GIRL IN

CURFEW MURDER CASE

Wise, Virginia, Jan. 10.

One of Brunette's pistols was THE second-backwoods "cur Avenue, 102nd Street, a fashionable taken from a Michigan sheriff during fow" murder trial ended

this morn-hold-up on July 30. The other carly had been was an army automatic of a type here to-day, when Edith Max-

sent

stolen from

quarrel ensued.

with wounds in his head.

Next day the father was found dead

8.55 p.m. London News and An- nouncements,

tra

9.15 Roy Fox and His Orches-

9.53 Scottish Muale

10 p.m. Landon-Big Ben. Baritone Solos(a) Dell's awa' wi' th' Exciseman; (b) The Piper o' Dundee; Ao fond kiss (Scott Gatty) ...Alex. Curmichael; Orchestra The Haymakers; Tri

Triumph

Scotch

Work Dance

St.

(Tradi- tional) Orchestra;

of Robert Burns

rns.... Light Opera Company. 10.15 (approx:) Relay-The Toast of the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns, proposed-by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., C... Relayed from Andrew's Society Burns' Night Din- her at the Peninsula Hotel Rose- Room.

10.35 The New Mayfair Orches- tro. Milestones of Melody;

Bonnie Scotland (arr. Pether); Love Tales (Selection of celebrated Love Songs), (arr Hall); "Fanfare-Selection; "Talkie Hits"-Medley, 1932 (Bor- chert).

11 p.m. Close_Down...

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

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Frequency Wavelength 6,000 h.c. 19.89 rostrum 9.10 ... 21.55 metres

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GSC

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bese Linen

Transmission 1

(0.8.8, 0.8.0.. G8.1.)

< p.m. Big Ben, This is England. 4.14 p.m. A Recital of Burns' Songs, 4.55 p.m. Tam o' Khanter."

6.20 p.m. "Metale and the Ordinary Listener

-10.

6.40 p.m. The News and Annousementą. Greenwich Time Signal at 6.45 p.m. Transmission 2

1.8.1, 8.8.G.. GRILY

7 p.m. Big Ben. A Viola Recital. 7.16 p.n. Hettings of Quena' Poem, 7.30 pm. Empire Exchan

7.43 p.m. Haydn and Abs Orchestra, 7.85 0.7. *Thutter Wouldn't

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8.25 pt. "Memories of the London Thretre"

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8.55 Pete. The News and Annousormenta. Greenwich Time Sienal at 9.15 p.m. 2.15 p.m. An Organ Recital,

Transmission 3 (G.9.8., G.S... 0.8.H.)

10 p.m. Big Ben, John Londoner at Home?

10.81 p.m. Billy Mazuri.

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10.45 p.m. Buggestions for your Book List" 110.m. Prank Res and the Orebegira. 11.15 p.m. "Tam a Shanter."

12 am A Sonate Recital, 11.80 m. The News and Announcerka, Greenwich Time Algnal at 12.15 am, 12.50 A.. Dance Hunte,

C.LD,

D case

panion, rushed to the kitchen, and revealed that when the G-men cent," and. fell weeping into the arms i Inst March the Virginia Courting the body, with blood-

MURDER MYSTERY residential district.

Edith was arrested and charged. with having beater him to death with ing. When the cordon

VICTIM IDENTIFIED AS CHINESE POLITICIAN drawn Gemen knocked at Brunette's which Mr. Hoover said was being well, aged 22, & raven-haired a dancing slipper. -door in the name of the law.

continually

National school-mistress, was sentenced that her father was intoxicated and Despite the girl's tearful pleading A pistol bullet was the

by criminals, their response. Guard armouries by

The discovery of the mutilated min Hoover to 20-years imprisonment for that she hit him only in self-defence, remains of an elderly Chinese, dress- In this Police stationed in doorways on the opposite side of the street red back sald

said that C

arms and am-killing her father, Trigg Max-the jury found her guilty of first ed in European clothes, at Aberdeen munition through the windows of the ground e

should be kept in vaulia well, at Wise, on July 21.

degree murder. She was sentenced Village has provided Hongkong to 25 years in floor flat which Brunette

investigators with like money rather than as at pre-

in prison, tte occupied.

On hearing the sentence the girl Brunelle and his

In poorly guarded armouries, shrieked! "They know I am inno-contributed funds for an appeal, and

Women throughout the country which has become more and more woman com-

is time progresses.... had entered the flat with drawn pis- of her aunt. promptly proceeded to

through tols they had encountered one of the pen him there by shooting through tenants, who, believing them to be a chorus of "boos" which the judge the door a the pen or with a cummand of gunmen, pleaded; "Don't shout; I'll quickly suppressed. Ball was fixed the hall, where the attackers sur- give you everything. I'll be quiet, at £3,000 pending an appeal. mised correctly that he might have

Thus ended a trial which has other yea

aroused bitter feelings all over the tion Weapons and reserve ummuni-

country. If arises out of the code of the Virginia Blue Ridge Moun tains that unmarried - girls must obey a D o'clock surfew, Last July, Edith Maxwell went out

the

attackers

- Don't shoot.".

Mr. Hoover disclosed his identity and pushed the man back into a Through the broken windows the

corner. Some time later the sound police hurled gas bombs, and it was attention to a bystander still cower- of a man coughing from gas drow after the first of these that Brunette's woman companion staggered outing behind 'n stairway and tremend- with a bullet wound in the thigh. Quely relieved when the attackers

DEN TAKE YOUR TIME” W

Demands for Brunette's surrender made from time to time during the

The

with a

crowded court room broke into

in answer to numerous enquiries, the date of the event is February the First:

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the Po Leung-kuk, and a friend of the murdered man, yesterday stated |that Ng Mel, whose disappearance from Home was not reported until some days afterwards,, appenřed to have been hiking when he met with Youl

play. Pleces of sugar cane, some oranges

and a bottle of Chinese wine were

near his body. Demonstrators

A

Led

Chinese lawyer

COMING

TO THE

GAS

ALHAMBRA

The Picture Everyone Is Talking About

who had practised for some time in DAMAGED

Shanghai, Ng Mel had actively en- being the leader

gazed in students which in 1081

Appeals granted a new trial. leaving the prosecution to convince it was not until the week-end that

A ained clothing was found near the This time Edith admitted nothing, reservoir more than a fortnight ago, the jury-all of whom were men It was itontified as that of Ng Mei, that the girl killed her father with aged 50, a resident of Kowloon, a slipper

formerly actively engaged in Chinese politics. Identification was provided by a fountain-pen with the man's initials inscribed, as well as other articles which are in polico posses- sion. Robbery does not appear to

other personal property were left in- tact In addition to mutation. there was also a deep wound in the crown of the head,

The defence suggested that the father might have died of a heart attack while Inflamed with anger agafrist his daughter: To-day's verdi was of second de

rushed him to a safer, place. · As a late young man and returned home gree murder, but the sentence is the be the molive, as some money and

result of this morning's resistance. Brunette will be charged with the

"DANCING SLIPPER" Her father complained bitterly of attempted murder of Federal officers, his daughter's "wild ways and o

KINAKİMYLLY.

Afterwards the girl's brother said. "They have won the first two rounds, but we are not through; Edith is innocent."

Mr. To Kee-cheung, Director of

of a party of went from there to Nanking to de- mand war against

ainst Jupan. He was detained, but after release, con- tinued his anti-Japaneso

propaganda. Coming to Hongkong recently to make his home here, he had taken up the study of foreign languages with the view to making, a tour of Europe. and America.

Hatsurvived by a

son

and. brother who are in their native pro vince of Klangai,

j-

LIVES"

It tears

false modesty from one of humanity's most serious

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