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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH

1937.

NARCOTIC FLOW FROM HONGKONG & CHINA

Honolulu Becomes Great Dam Against Drug Traffic

MYSTERY RAY EFFORTS TO STAMP

FOR POPE

A London specialist, Dr. Andre Harpman, has been invited to the Vatican City to try to suve the Pope's life by mystery ray treatment. Dr. Harpman is seen above with the electrical apparatus, which is of his own invention.

ANCIENT RITES IN DISFAVOUR

INDIA TO STAMP OUT "SUTTEE"

Agra, Feb. 28. The efforts of the British and Indian governments to stamp out the ancient rite of

OUT TRADE IN

DEATH PILLS

By WENDEL BÜRCH

"United Press" Staff Correspondent.

Honolulu, Feb. 28.

Down murky Tin Can Alley, through drab resorts, and over the "grapevine," word has gone out that the price of opium is rising.

dealers

ore

known to favour passenger ships for delivery purposes, since their calls are more dependable, and generally there is less chance of detection.

Last October smoking opium was traffickers. Oriental selling for $305 a tin-lead and brass containers about the size of small tobacco cans, holding six and two thirds ounces, or 2,017 grains. That supply is suficient to maintain an More important in relation to the addict 185 days, allowing 10 grains decline in Honolulu and trina-Pacific per day, which experts say is the traffe has been the work of Com- minimum sufflelent to keep a smoker mander Parker, C. T. Stevenson, guing.

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Shortly afterward the price fell by some $40 a tin. Then Commander Stanley V. Parker was assigned to Honolulu to co-ordinate customs, in- ternal revenue, coast guard and nar colles law enforcement. With Com- mander Parker came a new staff of treasury agents and customs men.

The price drop may have been ocensioned by release in Honolulu of a large supply of opium. With vigorous enforcement moves in the oming, a dealer or group of dealers might have rushed in to dispose of his stocks.

head of the Honolulu narcotica

bureau, Carl Elfier, chief inspector. of customs, v. o.

O. Bruen, customs agent, and others.

Steamship lines are doing their utmost to stamp out the trans-Pacific teame, for they may be fined as much as $30,000 for a single seizure. or $25 an ounce for oplum or other dangerous drugs discovered aboard a ship that have not been manifested. In one year one line faced Anes totalling $74,000, indicating size of the penalties attached to this section of the law.

FLOW OF CONTRABAND ESTIMATED

Size of the possible levies indi-

entes, indirectly, the general value of the total narcotics trade across the Pacific.

DRIVE WITHOUT FANFARE Now, three months later, the price Is rising. Authorities grimly remark that "not much of the stuff is to be had at any price." Without killing The last annual report of the a man, and without publicity which bureau of narcotics showed that in they have shunned the Treasury 1935 major seizures and known ship. Department men have put a throt-ments in Honolulu. the Pacific Uling grip on a busines whose rami-Northwest and Southwest yielded fleations and mysteries are endless.

approximately 2,033 Lins of opium. Information shows that shuttling At the current reputed Honolulu back and forth on passenger shilps sales price-$300 a tin-value of this from the Orient, for the most part, total would be nearly $610,000. This are large stocks of narcotics which is a wholesale price, probably one agents have been unable to lund. half the cost to the final consumer Secreted in false-bollom trunks, hid--the addict. den in ault-cases, stuffed in tiny This total does not include "white rubberized silk bags, wrapped in face paper. inserted in rubber heel seizures of cocaine, morphine, plates, belts and false teeth put in heroin and similar natrestles, which

the most cunning places that some of the world's most vicious criminals can devise the opium, the heroin, cocaine and morphine must go on travelling back and forth until

“suttee" by which a Brahmin widow-burns herself alive on the funeral pyre of her hus- band have NOT succeeded completely, as was demons"things ease up."

trated recently in the pre- sence of a large crowd at a temple in Kuberpur near here.

By the time police reached the place, · Musammat Kalavati, the widow of Ram Pershud, had been burnt to death, her agonizing screams drowned out by the noise of conches -and-cymbals in the hands-of-the-

villagers.

Her husband had died after a long Illness. Without showing any sign of grief, Kalavati locked herself in

relatively are more expensive than opium. Considerable quantities of white stuff" are taken yearly from mainland points, although little is seized

in Honolulu.

Honolulu defnitely is not a dump- ing ground, way point, or relay station for international narcotics STRIKE HITS TRAFFICKERS

smuggling rings, authorities insist. The Pacific Coast maritime strike They point out that through ship- has had one little-known blessing; ment of opium and other narcotics has cut into the delivery of dope to the United States obviously is easier than attempts to transfer the

her bridal attire and with 11 ver-contraband here. million mark on her forehead.

She Informed her people she had deelded to

perform "Buttee," bathed. her husband's body with perfumed water. She brushed all protestation aside, warned

awe-stricken the village folk that they would be eternally damned if they interfered

She then ascended the funeral pyre where the body of her husband had

her room, then came out dressed in | been placed and herself, set it afire.

Varsity Rivalry for

DEAN

.

Whitehall

By A Special Correspondent

EAN INGE has declared that the prizes in the great professions more often go to Oxford than to Cam- bridge. This statement will have to be revised in regard to the most powerful of all professions: Oxford has lost its historic supremacy in Whitehall, and Cambridge is now the chief recruiting ground for the highest posts in the Empire.

From the recent examination for the Administrative Class, which is often said to have more say 'in the government of the country than Parliament itself, the record number, including Northern Ireland, of 53 appointments has now been made.

Oxford won 17 and Canbridge 27, leaving only 9 to the other universities, including 4 from London University.

In no other sphere, whether it be in Rugby or rowing, has the rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge been so keen as in the struggle for the "glittering prizes" of Whitehall,

Ever since open compolition was introduced Oxford, until recently, enjoyed almost a com- plete monopoly of the appoint- ments, but it has now been toppled off its pedestal.

Cambridge, has been gradually over- hauling its great rival, and dive years ago it drew level, the vacancies being shared on a difty-fly basis, no other university getting a look in..

A Fresh Outlook

At every year's examination since 1032 Cambridge had a slight lead, but this year's results conclusively estab- lish its supremacy as the main source for the supply of recruits to the Whitehall of the future.

The predominance now secured by Cambridge will bring a fresh outlook and a different mentality to adminis- iration.

Unil now, Oxford was always favoured in Whitehall, and at Icast 90 per cent of the permanent heads of our great departments were Oxford mon. Even the examination was arranged. In consultation with Oxford and to suit the Oxford course. Only in the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service has Oxford main- tained its supremtsy. Of seven ap- pointments made as a result of the recent examination, it has six to its credit; whille Cambridge has only one.

HORRIBLE CRIME

-IN-INDIA-

Jubbulpore, Feb. 28. Kudus, a Delhi Muslim, has just been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for acts of bar barism that resulted in the flesh of a 17-year-old mother, and her infant, and the forefinger of a police inspector being among the exhibits at his trial.

Sukhdevi, the young mother, board. ed a train at Bhopal en route to visit relatives. As the train gathered speed, Kudus entered the compart- I ment from tho off-side. Не brandished a knife and threatened to kill Sukhdevi unless she submitted to criminal assault.

Later he demanded her car-rings and other ornaments. She resisted and attempted to pull the communi- cation cord. He beat her mercilessly and bit pieces from her nose, cheeks and hands. Her crying infant then was seized and Kudus, according to the evidence, cut off ita nose, lips and an eyelid.

At this stage the train reached Akedia and the girl's cries were heard, Kudus grabbed his bedding

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Clergy Scandals

SECRET COURTS

OF

INQUIRY

SHOULD clergymen use motor-cars in their pastoral

work?

If a clergyman clothes himacif like a layman and smokes a, clay pipe in the streets, ia ke behaving in an indecent or immodest. manner?

These questions were debated recently at the Church Assembly, Central Hall, Westminster, during discussion of planis for setting up secret tribunals of clergy-clergyman's court martials" to inquire into cases of misbehaviour.

and Negligence) Measure.

The plans are embodied in the Incumbents (Misbehaviour

ROMANCE

Media, Pa., Feb, 15. Edwin A. Hoffman, Jr., told the judge that his wife, Harriet, put cigar bulla in his coffee to humiliate him.

He was granted a divorce.

HERE'S THE

1937 BEACH

TRENDS

H

ERE'S news for the femi- and ned, but was caught. Kudus ninė contingent! A scrupu suddenly grabbed the Index finger of lous check-up recently reveals the

while officer and bit it off, keeping It in his mouth until the train reached following items on what Holly- Ujjain.

wood wear on the beach:

a

Kudus was medically certified to be "sane and normal.”

Mussolini's Big

A

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The Bishop of Durham (Dr. Hensley Henson) protested against the mea- sure on the ground that matters dealt with in it are not urgent."

Asking the question about a clergy- man wearing layman's clothes and smoking a clay pipe, he said he thought that would be both indecent and immodest, but the whole of the clergy did not agree with him.

On the use of motor-cars, he sald that older clergymen were against it, but the younger men were in favour.

"My view is that the motor-car is extremely and increasingly un- favourable to pastoral efficiency," he added.

"For a clergyman to use a motor- car in the distressed areas in his diocese would make him invidious and would prejudice him unfavou ably in the eyes of the parishioners." VICARS AND FILMS

The use of cars by the clergy was Salisbury (Dr. E. N. Lovett) also referred to by the Bishop of who caused laughter when he said:

"In these days of motor cars I have known a good many places where it that the vicar leaves Meric Oberon: A printed cotton is notorious sarong, done in white florals on a before breakfast and does not return, brown

I ground, with 1

won't say till the small hours, but matching bandana. The sarong is worn with unil after the picture palaces huye

closed." a halter top of white linen and

brown, oriental sandals. She wore Referring to the tribunals plan, the this during days off while "Beloved Bishop said that trouble in a parish did not necessarily arise from the

"Very often parishioner--a lay- man-will, to use the kind of expres alon I have heard, 'Make hell for the incumbent and get him out."

Depi Enemy" was in progress of timing shortcomings of the incumbent.

DEFICIT of £34,000,000 is provided for in Italy's new Budget Marlena Dietrich: An exotic loung- adopted by the Fascist Cabinet, the total estimated expendling ensemble compsed of a white ture being £240,000,000.

"Lastex" swim sult, over which is worn a black fishnet skirt... Marlene, whose newest film is "The Garden of

There is a huge increase in expenditure on the Colonies, Allah, produced by David O. Selz- presumably for public works in Abyssinia. Incidentally, there are nick for United Artists release, to be penalties for Italians entering into "relations of a conjugal chooses a sun helmet over which is nature with Abyssinians."..

Other increases are partly accounted for by the new military and naval programme, bonuses to Abyssinian campaigners, and bigger premiums for large families.

PLAY FLUTE TO WHISKY

If you want to sterilise your milk or add a little "age" to your `·

į whisky buy a Bula,"

According to Dr. L. A. Chambers, of the University of Penns sylvania: Medical School, the high-pliched som produced by an Instrument such as, the fiuto, kill: gorms,

draped black fishnet, to complete her unusual beach costume.

Remarriage by clergymen after divorce, and cases of bankruptcy creating "grave scandal," were agreed investigated by the proposed

causes of misbehaviour to be

to

bunals.

The Assembly adjourned.

tri-

Ruth.Chatterton: The star of "Dodsworth" used linen crash for her favourite play sult. This is amus-rooms-blue tufts on a white ground. ingly printed with yellow fish on a Miriam always chooses a large blue green ground and sports a cope lined or red straw hat to accompany this with white terry cloth, Miss Chat- ensemble.

Tilly. Losch, featured dancer In terton'a sun glasses are rimmed in yellow and her beach shoes are car The Garden of Allah" is the sponsor ried out in white, green and yellow of overalls for seashore play. Blue Miriam Hopkins, star of "Men Are denim-the kind that looks as if it Not Gods" a forthcoming

had been washed dozens of times-- is her favourite, with natural coloured. Film production, mys she'll be taken for a bedspread one of these wood buttons, and a salmon pink days. The reason? -The bench pyja- linen blouse, Wooden clog shoes to

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Various kinds of whisky given this treatment aged the equivalení :- man she wore in Europe are made of complement this, of course, and a of four years in wood.

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