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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

Buried Note "Darling, Dig... Find £50,000“

Sets Whole Town Gold-Rushing

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.

WORKMEN

excavating

below the cellar floor of an old house in Dover, Dela- ware, to-day found a note in a bottle believed to have been buried more than 100 years ago by Colonel Robert Young, an English officer in the Dela-

·ware militia. It gave cryptic directions for finding £50,000

in gold.

News of the discovery started a gold rush by Dover townsfolk, until they were gruffly told by Mr. John Lord, the present owner of the house, that if there were any treasure hunting to be done he would do it.

The note, intended for the colonel's daughter, read:-

"Now I Am All

Alone," Clare

Sheridan

By A Correspondent

Says

Paris, Feb. 10.

SCULPTRESS CLARE SHERIDAN, passing through

Paris to-day, told me the story of her handsome son,, Dick, who broke a 400-year-old curse by reaching his twenty-first birthday, then four months later died.

British Expedition To The Antarctic

Now, "completely alone in the world, so down that no- thing can ever hurt me any more" she is on her way to Constantine, Algeria, to bring back for burial in England the body of her "twin soul," dead after an operation for appendicitis.

A white bandage was tied tightly over her forehead as, in

BRITISH TO SEEK the shadows of the unlit hotel

ANTARCTIC DATA

London, Feb. 10.

A band of 34 British explorers are making plans in England for the "British Antarctic Expedition, 1837," to gall from here early in March in Captain Scott's famous old ship, the: Discovery.

room where she was resting, Clare Sheridan talked of the fears she had always had for her.

son.

"He Inherited Frampton Couri, 'in Dorset," she said. "It was a monas- tery in Henry VIII.'s time: he turned. the monks out of it. The last to go cursed the place and its lands, saying that none who inherited any of them should ever come of age.

"So it has been ever since. Dick sold the house and all the lands, but kept just one acre, where, by the riverside his grandfather lies burled,

The objective Is the Antorelle territory in the Australian sector.

Since it came

back from the Antarctic expedition led by Sir "Five days before Dick was born Douglas Mawson in 1931, the Dis-his father was killed in France. My covery has lain in East India Dock, son has been my life ever since." London. It is a ship of only 730 Her face buried in her hands, built at a cost of $280.000 Clare Sheridan spoke the next words specially for Captain Scott's Arst slowly, sailly. "For twenty-one years attempt to reach the South Pole in the fundamental emotion of my life 1001an objective which eventually has been fear fear for my son, with cost him his life. The ship was re-supreme happiness in him as well. conditioned in 1925.-.

tons,

G. W. Walker, a young explorer who took part in the Jatnes Bay Geological Expedition the Arctic in 1930-31, but who has never been to the Antartic, is to lead the new expertilion.

"But I never let it spoll his life. He was an adventurer, and I'think that was grand. I am, too. We've roamed the world together. I never aven sent him to school.

"When he was five he nearly died of malaria in a Mexican jungle. "We are trying to raise sumcient Since then we have knocked about funds to purchase the Discovery," America, Turkey, lived eight years in he explained, "and hope she will the Sahara. We belonged complete- enable us to achieve success, Wely to each other. are going to operate in the Ausira- Han sector known as Princess Eliza beth and Banzare. Land, and our activities wiit be of a geological

'nature.

"We hope to discover the coast- line of the Antarctle which hitherto has evaded explorers who have set farth on these quests. It will be the first expedition of this kind not to use sled dogs. We have decided that too expensive, and that they are motor tractors may perform the work better. We are also taking a sea- plane."

SOVIET CONGRESS

FOR GEOLOGISTS

TO DRAW 1,000

Moscow, Feb. 10. Geologiats of the world are pre- paring for their seventh internation- al congress to be held in Moscow this summer..

A total of 300 foreign geologists, representing 40 countries, and in- cluding many scientists. of world fame, have signified their desire to participate in the congress,

MANY ESCAPES

"He had many narrow escapes. When he was in n windjammer going to Austral a foot-rope in the rig ging broke during a gale and he hung on by his hands until he was saved.

"Last year he told me he was just going off somewhere. Next thing I heard of him was a headline, in a newspaper saying 'Briton swims for life in a cyclone.

"Apparently he had bought a 21ft. boat and tried sulling it back from Algeria to England. He was swim- ming because he had been wrecked on a little island without food or water,"

Glorying in her tale, Dick Sheri- dian's mother, herself more than six feet tall,stood, stretched out her arms. "He was grand," she Guld. "Six feet three inches tall, broad and beautiful.

"In September, for lus twenty- first birthday party, I made a great Iron chandelier, with twenty-one church candles burning in 8. Bablone I meant to bo à prayer of thankfulness' that he had lived and broken that enrse for the first ume since the monks made

"The four months since then have - Most of the participants-135 been to me absolute relief. Ithought will come from the United States. it was all over, the curse ended.

"He was writing a book at Biskra. The desire to attend In the congress was reported also by 83 English; 20 never thought he would die in his French, 20: German and 16 Spanish bed. He was not that sort. Mr. geologists and by a number of scien- Arbuthnot, Miss Helen Vane, the lists from Italy, Switzerland and actress, and I are going to bring him 'other countries. Applications have home. been received from 150 foreign boat he once had. We are going We were his crew, the crew of scientists who intend to read paper to bring its skipper home to Sussex. at the congress.

Has the curse killed him? Think Approximately 000 Soviet scien- what you like about that. I cannot tists, who will read about 230 papers, think any more." will take part in the work of the congress. In all about 400, papers will be 'read at the plenary ind

DOG HYSTERIA sectional meetings of the congress.

Tho congress, wijl :čontinue 10

Mga Hún robí 10. days. Then excursions will be A mystery disease, causing acute arranged for foreign scientists to the hysteria, is attacking dogs in York- most interesting regions of the Soviet shiru. Dogs affected run round In '(Ural, Siberia, the Caucasus, Cen- circles, yap, fall, kick violently, be- tral Asia, Donetz Desin and others), come unconscious. Many valuable

United Press,

show animals have died.

Greta

"Darling, from this spot go north 450 metres, then to Centre Lane, then west four metres, then

south twenty metres. Dig five metres. Find £50,000 in gold in metal coffin. Fare you well, my daughter.-Colonel R. C. Y.

The only difficulty in find- ing the gold is that Centro Lane has now disappeared.

Garbo ́hos entered her twelfth Blming season at Hollywood, she is shown above in her latest

6lm "La Dame aux Camellas", from the famous nuvel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.

Boy Who Survived Eighty

Operations

Columbus, Feb. 10. Faced with death from starvation for more than five years, 8-year-old Wayne Roszman is approaching ner- malcy after undergoing 70 opern- tions on his esophagus-all under general anaestheile,

Wayne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Roszman, was playing in his home near Mecker, O.. when he found" à can "of ̄ ̄ ̄lye. Thie~tow- headed 3-year-old child swallowed several grains of the corrosive.

Fortunately, the lye never reach- ed the youngster's stomach but lodged in the esophagus-the tube through which food passes from the to the stomach. Doctors mouth

Wyne were unable to help

.when scar tissue formed and constricted the esophagus just above the stomach entrance.

The boy was unable to take nourishment and starvation seemed Inevitable.

SPECIALIST TAKES CHARGE The parents hurried Wayne to Dr. Hugh G. Beatly, of

In expert removing foreign objects from the throat and bron- chial tubes.

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PARACHUTE DESCENTS BY DOGS

EXPERIMENTS BY SOVIET SOLDIERS

EXPERIMENTS

In

FEBRUARY 18, 1937.

RADIO BROADCAST

London-Talk on the British Industries Fair

CHILDREN'S CONCERT

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.c's.) 31.43 metres (0.52 m.c.'s). 12.30-2,15 p.m. European Pro-

gramme.

12.30 A Concert.

1 Time and Weather. 2.03 chestra.

Marck Weber and His Or-

1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Timo and Announcements.

1.40 Musical Comedy and Light Opera Excerpts..

2.16 Close Down,

5-8 p.m. European Programme.

5 Relay Dance Musle from the Roof Garden of the

of the Hongkong Hotel.

A Children's Concert,

6.30 An Orchestral Concert. Larghetto (from Concerto Grosso No. 12 in B Minor) (Handel); Presto and Waltz (from "Damnation of Serge Kous- Faust" (Berlioz),... sevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Canzone dei Salce (Wil- low Song) (Act 4 "Otello") (Verdi) Elisabeth Rethberg (soprano); Hungarian March (from "Damnation of Faust') (Berlioz); Minuet of the

Will of the Wisps (from "Damnation

ut Faust") (Berlioz)....Serge Kous- parachute-sevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Vicino a té (Close to You), Jumping for dogs are being La Nostra Morte (Our Death) (Final carried out in the Soviet Army, ac Duet, Act 4 "Andrea Chenier") cording to an article in the German (Giordano) sung by M. Sheridan dog-breeders' Journal Der Hund,

(soprano) and A. Pertile (tenor),

The idea is that, after Soviet sol- diers have innded by parachute be- hind the lines in enemy territory, their messenger dogs should be able to follow them by the same means. One recent experiment was carried out by a Soviet airman named Orwald. He climbed to a height of 1,800 feet, and the dog is said to have appeared unaffected by the height or the "pumping" of the machine. At 1,800 feet an automalle parachute was attached to the dog, which was then taken on to a platform on a wing of the plane.

At a word of command, and without showing a trace of fear, the dog is stated to have jumped into space, The automatte pura- chute opened and the animal font- et slowly towards the ground.

7 "Moments Musicaux" (Schu- bert) played by Ethel Leginska

Pianoforte).

713 New Talkie Tunes. "Suzy Did I Remember...Gracle Fields (comedienne): "Going Places"

Plano

by Vivian Eills; "Hearts Divided"My Kingdom for a kiss. Two Hearts Divided....Dick Powell (vocal).

7.30 Stock and Exchange Market, 7,33 John Londoner at Home'-7. An evening with some of his many and various acquaintances. Present- ed by Pascoe Thornton.

8 Time Signal, Weather and An- nouncements.

8.05 Chinese Concert, 11 p.m. Close Down.

The dog's trainer jumped almost frogramme from ZEK. on a

simultaneously, and was thus

able

to watch the deg as it descended. The trainer stated afterwards that the dog kept perfectly still during the

of 640 kilocycles. 8.05-11 p.m. European Programme. 8.05 Music by Light Orchestras. New Light Symphony Orchestra--- "Cavatina" (Raft); Columbia Sym-

descent. When the trainer called to phony Orchestra Spring Song"

it by name, it turned its head to-Mendelssohn); "Idillio" (Lack); wards him and barked. Finally, the dog landed gently without accident.

on-the

Morek Weber and His Orchestra- ground "Japanese Lantern Dance" (Yoshi- tomo): "Chinese Street Serenade" (Sicde); "Along the Banks of the Volge" (Borchert); Orchestre Napoll- tain-"Vesuviana Tarantella" (Mar- chetti); "Notte sul Mare"-Barcarolic (Valente).

JUDGE MAY BE

PROSECUTED

JUSTICE WILLIS VAN DE-

8.35 Variety.

Song-Landerlrette..... Lucienne Boyer (soprano); Medley-Out of the Rag Bag...Harry Roy and His Or chestra; Songs-I Never Realized; For Love Alone....Bing Crosby; Medley Transatlantic Rhythm"....Regin- ald Foort (Organ).

New York. Feb. 10.

VANTER, one of the "nine wisc

men"

Supreme of the Court who continually thwart President Roosevelt, went duck- shooting_withalicence which-ments." did not carry the special 48. revenue stamp required under a recent law.

The game warden let the justice go on his promise to buy

stamp and Attorney-General Homer Cummings thought Van Devanter deserved. Christmas clemency.

The general run of America's sportsmen thought otherwise, raised such an outery 'at the dis- crimination that the case is be- Ing studied 'to-morrow by the legal authorities of half, a dozen Roosevelt barcaux.

Columbus, HUGE DIAMOND,

"LUCKY" STONE,

CHANGES HANDS

Dr. Beatty used an esophago- scope to expand the lower part of the scar-clogged channel and allow the boy to take liquid food.

London, Feb. 10.

A 19-carat diamond, valued at $00,000, which is said to be the luckfest stone in the world, has been purchased by group in England.

Unlike the famous Hope diamond of lil-omen, which is a greenish-blue the colour, the "lucky" diamond is rosy- plak. It is credited with the power

Describing the treatment he has performed 70 times for the youth, rubber-tipped Dr. Beatty said he lowered a thin

rod through esophagoscope-through which he could view the entire channel and gently pushed through the con- stricted area unul the opening was wide enough to permit passage of food..

of warding off I-health.

in-

When Azon Barbara of Paris bought it 100 years ago, he was suffering from an apparently curable disease. Immediately after it came into his possession, his health improved, and during the next 28 years of his life,, he never had allness.

"Mony adults receive the same operation Wayne does but never. In all the years of my practice have I been compelled to administer general anaesthetic so often to one

an

of his tender years," the surgeon. down from generaton to generation, Since then it has been handed anid.

and it has always. held the same charm.

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FORCED TO USE ETHER

nid

in

Dr. Beatty said he used ether as A short time ago, the sole sur- youth made it unnble for him to re- Press....

anaesthetic beenuse Wayne's } vivor of the family cold it.—United lax and

the treatment. will have undergone a record-break-Fly-Swatting Campaign According to the surgeon, Wayne

of operations by the ing number Lime he reaches maturity because it Sweeps Through China may ko necessary to continue the trentments indefinitely.

Boston,, Feb, 10.. - A fly swetting cimpaign is sweep- Despite a year of 'liquid diet sriding Chion, says Mis Helen Dizney of his many operations, the boy re- the American Board of Commission- main cheerful and active, tendingers for Foreign Missions, who-has a normal life..

returned here, after 35 years mis- The tye-swallowing episode has alonary service.

"Outbreaks of cholera are dimin- not affected the youth's general ishing because the Chinese re health, although his school work learning the disastrous part which has been retarded becatise of the the y playa," she said. frequent operations that require Miss Ditney says the only trouble from two to five minutes..

with the waiting crusade is the be Wayne makes the trip to Colum-lot by some of the sects that the bus every four months now. At souls of their ancestors might in- first weekly visits were necessary, habit the fly. They fear that they The boy now enis almost all solid night kill'or eridanger a soul if they foods. United Press.

should swat a Ny-Ujilted Press,

8.55 London News and Announce-

57 9.15 Sonata in F Minor, Op. ("Appassionata") (Beethoven) play- ed by Rudolf Sorkin (planoforte).

9.40 Excerpts from "The Gon- doliers" (Gilbert and Sullivan),

10. Big Ben,

Dance Music.

10.30 'The Vagabond Lover.' Pre- sented by Max Kester with the Bijou Orchestra. Conducted by Ernest Longstaffe.

10.30 A Talk on the British Indus- tries Fair.

11 p.m. Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following ware-lengths and frequencin

are used by Daventry,

Frequenty

Wavelength

6,800 k.. 40,59 2004. 0,010 k.. 31.56 motres 0,685 k.c. 31.30 metrom 11.750 kt. 25,52 metres 11,165 k.c. 25.28 metres

Blan

GEA '

Csu

C90

GOD

CSE

OSP

10,110

k.c.

19,62 metres

C90

13,500 ·k.e

10.26

OSIC

21,470 km.

GHI

18,200 k..

OBJ CSL

21,240 ke. 0,110 k..

GRO

(0.8.0

• pan.

*18,180 k.c.

18.01

metres

menem 19,06 metreE

19.06 nette

methem 40.10 10.70 metres

15,410 k.e. 10.60

Transmission 1.

6.8.0, 0.8.0.)

metres

Big Ben, The Roosters. Hatchad

1017-Sterowing 1957,

4.41. p.m. A Plasoforia Recital by Henry

Bronkhurst

Food for Thought. Three short matters of topical

jalke on Interest.

6.20 p.m. "Diamonds." 'An actuality Drow

STATUTE, produced by

► Thornton.

5.40 p.m. The News and Announcements. Gremwich Time Sigoal at 0:45 pm. Transmission 2

(0.8.D., 0.8.0 6.8.1.) 7.m. Dig' Ban. 'Round and About." 7.10 p.m. Hency. Hall's Musia - Makers. 7.30 p.m. John Londoner at Home? An' evening with some of his thony and various sequalatances. An Operatie Programme,

8.83 p.m. The News and Annonnormente,

Cromwich Time: Blenal ak19.15 p.m." D.18 p.m. Violla Bel

0.23.p.m. Food for Thought."

Transmission 3

(0.1.3, 0.8.7., (0.8.JL)

10 p.m. la Ben. The").B.C.

Organ,

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The Central Band of Ha Majem!g3m

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