1937-03-16 — Page 7

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

'TUESDAY,

MARCH 16,

1937.

.

HE SOLD A SAINTHOOD BY MONTHLY PAYMENTS

£2,000 Prayers

New York, Mar. 1.. THE world's best salesman is Sylvester Hasselbach, of Detroit, who sold sainthood on the instalment plan to an aged steelworker, now dead, who wanted to be good.

Hasselbach, gaoled to-day, had been living since 1925 on money paid him by William Fountaine, at the rate, a relative said, of more than £10 a month.

Hasselbach said: "Fountaine gave me a book

of prayers and told me to see if I could-get divine I started -reading. All of a sudden messages. the Almighty began talking to me. down everything He said."*

I wrote

One of the messages read: "William, it is my will that thou give Sylvester alms-40 per cent. of your bankbook:"

"Fountaine paid £2,000 in all on account of the sainthood," anid Hasselbach. "I was going to make him St. Gertrude.'

Elizabeth Bergner, who never sees

her own films, recently arrived at one of the cinemas in London where her film "Dreaming Lips" was being played, in order to be presented to Queen Mary who had seen the pic- Picture shows Aliss Bergner in the hall of the cluema.

turc.

RADIO BROADCAST

Studio Recital -by- Dina Notargiacomo

Museum Whale's ROTARY CLUB SPEECH

60 Teeth Gone

Radio Progrumthe Broadcast by. Z.B.W. on Wavelengths of 355 metres (045 k.ca), 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c's). 12.30-2.10 p.7. European Pro-

Music.

1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and

Weather Report.

1.30 pm. The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards.

AFTER many vicissitudes, including the 12,30 p.m. Variety, and Dance

removal of its 30 pairs of teeth by souvenir-hunters, the skeleton of a sperm whale has reached the Natural History Museum at South Kensington as the pro- perty of the Crown. It is a "fish royal."

The giant fish, 69ft, long and weighing 60 tots when whole, atranded on a sandbank off Bridlington

on Jan. 25 last.

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It was a diversion for visitors to the Yorkshire resort, but an embarrassment to the Corporation, whose business it was to dispose of it..

BREAKWATER DAMAGED

Two local fishmongers undertook to dispose of the flesh, and Mr. P. Stanwitz, the British Museum | proparator, supervised its dissection and transport to London.

He had an adventurous time.

The skull, weighing about three tons, sank in the sand, adding to the difliculties caused by stormy weather.

Then the remainder of the carcase was torn away by heavy seas from the breakwater to which it was made fast. The breakwater was damaged. The body was swept six miles down

MORE SUBMARINES FOR RUSSIA

At Rate Of One

Per Month

Landon, Mar. 1.. According to reports which are be- lieved to be credible, the Soviet are intensively building submarines actually adding to their fleet of them at the rate of one monthly.

are

and

Moscow refuses information to the other Powers on the actual strength of the Soviet navy, excepting pre- war ships or the construction pro- gramme.

It is

is believed that the principal naval yards are on the Black Seo, out of reach of aeroplane attack, whence the submarines are shipped in sections for assembling in the Baltic and For Eastern parts.

The time required for the comple- ton of a submarine obviously depends on the size. The average time for

Great Britain is building in years.

two

At present it is believed that there 40 at Vladivostok, which it is hoped will be raised 15 50 by the end of the year, and 90 in the Baltic, com-

The new Soviet submarines are re- pared with America's total of 100, France's 02 and Italy's 87.

parted to bo small for coastal waters, According to official returns the its shortening the time of construc- Soviet have only four submarines, ! dan and facilitating the transport. of which notoriously absurd, but sections by rail-Reuter.

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"THIRD DEGREE MURDER TRIAL

New York, Feb. 26.

""

DETAILS of 57 injuries which caused the death of Frank Menighan, the "third degree" murder victim, were given in the Somerset (Pennsylvania) Court by the doctor who performed the autopsy.

The coroner had returned a verdict that death was

BAIRD

STILL HAS

the coast.

1.20 p.m; Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements,

140

Clusan A Relay of the Rotary Speech from the floof- Garden of the Hongkong Hotel,

Dr. L. Fabel, of Changsha, on "The Economic Development of Hunan and

Importance to Hongkong."

its

2.10 p.m. Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.

7-11.05 p.m. European Programme.

m. Marek Weber and

7

Orchestra.

Hils

Spring Song (Mendelssohn); Cocur Brise (Gillet); At the Tohaikovsky Fountain Fantasia (Urbach); "Mason"-Fantasin (Mas- senet, arr. Tayan); The Music Comes (C. Strpus); Song of Paradise (King), Closing local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.ni. From the Studio.

7,30

P.M.

A Recital for Two Planos by H L. Ozorio and Pomping Vila (With Vocal Refrain).

Planos Shine. 1. Double

2. Vocal-When did you leave Heaven?--

Double Planos-Tormented. 4. Vocal-The way you look to-night. 5. Double Pianos-Organ Grinder's to Swing. 6. Vocal-Miracles

After the skull had been loaded on a lorry, the gear used for lifting was swept out to sca.

and sent

3.

At last the complete ave-ton skele ton-minus the teeth, of course was successfully loaded London.

There its weight broke the unload-Selection, ing tackle.-

some

times happen. 7. Double Plunos--

8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wea-

8.03 The London Plano-Accordeon Band,

Now, the skull, looking like anther Report and Announcements. enormous wheelless chariot, lies in a cavily dug in the museum grounds.

VISION OF Mary Pickford Well

RICHES

By A London Reporter

London, Feb. 25.

After An Operation

Hollywood, Mar. 1. Miss Mary Pickford, who was operated on for gallstones last Tues- day, is slated to be very well. She asdil he two weeks in hospital.

Miss Pickford is forty-three, Her

Diddle-Dum-Dee. Hawailan Para- dise. Dream Time. Back in those old. Kentucky dnys.

8.15 p.m. From the Studio.

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A Light Saxophone Recital by L. Palapo.

Concerto in E Minor by Jascha Gurewich.

1. Macstose; 2. Andante sostenuto; 3. Presto,

8.30 German Music Choral hauser" (Wagner)-Procession of the Guests Chorus and

and Orchestral-Tann-

ONG - HAIRED John

Logie Baird, porridge-engagement to Mr. Charles ("Buddy") logers, thirty-three-year-old film stur, bred Scots "father”. of

Was announced isst November. It is British television, was rumoured that they intend to be mar- laughing last night instead cled in England next month.--Reuter. Aus Der Natur (Beethoven); Die

of being heartbroken.

He had just attended the emer- Police

they board meefifig of the Baird Television Company, called to discuss one more crisis in his life-the B.B.C.'s dropping of his system in favour of his rivals, Marconi---M..

They've always thought I Was

he said: crazy,

They thought I was crazy when, I called at the Daily Express office fourteen years ago, with a brown

due to a heart attack, superinduced by chronic alcoholism. paper parcel under my arm, and said.

Now District Attorney James Reilly, of Fayette County, Harry Byrne, his assistant, and five police officials are facing A charge of murder-in the first de- .gree.

The coroner, two doctors and an undertaker are charged with riding and abetting.

·FOLLOWED BY CAR

600 Indian Troops For

Coronation

I could see by wireless,

The Baird who called at the Daily Express office in 1923 wore frayed, baggy trousers, was hníf-starved. Yesterday he said: "I hope to die rich."

Not Perturbed

"Monograms" On Bullets

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TO ASSURE CREDIT TO OFFICERS WHO KILL U.S. BANDITS! Santa Barbara, Feb. 23. Bank bandits, burglars,

and stick-up men

other "We decided at the meeting to-day." malefactors

who in the hearted, distresset, or much perturbed. future may have fatal gun- It will make very little difference to play contact with Santa The money now is in receiving Barbara police may die "I have had enough poverty to assured that there. will be last me the rest of my life. If no dispute over who shot Ret rich I shall have a steam yachthem. and shall sail about making tele- vision experiments.

he told me, "that we are not down-

my getting rich.

to Wartburg....State Opera

Orchestru, Baritone Solos Die Ehre Gottes

Contralto

Beiden Grenadiere (Heine & Schu- Garhord Husch, mann) Soles--The Young Nun (Cruither & Schubert: The Trout (Schubert & Schubert); Hedge-Roses (Goethe & Schubert).

Songs Moritat,

Kanonensong

(Kurt Weill and B. Brecht).......... Harold Paulsen.

8.55

pao. London-News and An- nouncements.

8.13 From the Studio Dian Notarginconio Soprano).

(Dramatic

"La Gioconda" (Panchleill)-Sul- cidio.

"LR

Tosca (Puccini)--Vist d'Arte, Serenata (Mascagni).

9.30 New Gramophone Records. Concerto No 1 for Harpsichord and Orchestra (Mozart), played by

Mme. Marguerite Roesgen-Chumpton and Orchestra Symphonique (of Paris).

Part 1.-Allegro. Part 2-Andante. Part 3-Rondo.

The Lotus Flower. (Schumann).

Gigil (Tenor).

A Dream (Grieg)....Beniamino Overture "Portsmouth Point" (Walton)....B.B.C. Symphony Or-

Following the precedent set at Menighan, father of law pro- the Coronations of Edward VII. Gets. fessor at Yale, was a hotel keeper atand George V., the Indian Corona Union town, Pennsylvania.

On the night of Sept. 12 he was tion contingent of native troops 'fined for assault. Earlier in the whiti be encamped at Home Parks, evening he had been driving in in the grounds of Hampton Court motor car with Florence Dean, on Palace, and close to the Palace experiments, I had no amusements, if in truth they have not turned Affairs."

"For five years, when I began my their being recorded ns suicides forte) "os)....Eileen Joyce (plano- 18-year-old chambermaid.

They were followed and over- taken by the district attorney and

itself.

There will be no possibility of

chestra.

The Lover

and the Nighüngale

10 p.m. London-Big Ben. "World A Lalice by H. Wickham them- Siced.

10.20 London-"Hall Marks." day you will hear the Arst perform- ance given by Henry Hall and his band on entering their sixth year

nothing but werk. I was , Ilved on 30s, a werk.

their own weapons on Every effort is being made by "In 1925 I succeeded in throwing | selves. Detective Wall. Monishan was the India Office to ensure the the first perfect image the head of

In the future every trigger pulled ordered into the back of the car. comfort of the men, and when a dummyan a screen.

by Channel City detectives of pa- According to the prosecution Wall they arrive early in May they

rushed downstairs, found troimen will throw a monogrammed attempted to attack the girl and will find the camping ground

William Tainton, an office boy, and bullet and the monogram thereon had to bribe him with half a crown will be found registered at hend- Monighan went to her aid with a

Hall. City knife. He cut Wall seriously, and allotted to them transformed

Recently

his arrest was ordered,s

tion

house

the

into a "Little India,"

"I

to-

with the BBC. Henry Hall will talk 10 you and introduce the various artists you have often heard per-

11.05 p.m. Close Down.

to be the first human to be televiset | quarters in Harry Butler, a resident i forming with his band,

10 he was subjected to in camp at Poons on April 9, embark cisc's sels. ;

him

"I'm not rich yet, but I am going of Santa Barbara, was killed out- He was brought to the police sta-

but the district, attorney de The composition of the contingent to perfect but receiving set, and when side a Pasadena bank when he tried manded that he be taken to the court has been decided upon. There will be everybody has one I ought to be rich. to shoot, it out with officers. An

"But you never know. People might 600 officers and men from India and

suicide, There in the basement, alleges 30 from Burma. They will assemble be foolish enough to buy somebody autopsy surgeon ruled that he died And then I might die jury return a verdict that a bullet only to have a coroner's, from a police gun killed him. torture, which killed at Bombay in the transport Neurolla, in an attic.”

Police Chief Garrity has now com- and are due to arrive at Southampton

pleted an identifying census of every Screams were heard coming from on May 4,

gun in the department. Shots were fired into a barrel stuffed with cot- fon and old clothes. Each bullet bere a sightly different marking, ne did the firing pin and the cartridge.

All these differences were recorded and the fired bullets fled for re- compiled bera. Several ferences. With these records any

the courthouse. His son heard of

They will remain in this country for

them and demanded an inquiry. Dr. three weeks and leave for home on

Herbert Lund performed an autopsy. Blay 25.

BRITISH OFFICERS

A certain number of British officers

CATHOLICS' · · CHINA "DRIVE"

Vatican City, Mar. 1. There are now 3,000,000 Roman

He told the Court that Monighan had been choked repeatedly. Every part of his body except the back of the legs was an almost unbroken will be included, but the majority are Catholics in China, according too mass of bruises...

Indians, mainly Hindus, Mohamme-consu

"The following wave-length and frequenciem

Preatanty Wavelength

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11.866 1,182

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10.62 metren

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Transmission 1

The defence is that Monighon dans and Silchs, the three largest Chinese bishops have been created bullet recovered from the body of a

during the past few years. United bandit can be readily Identified and 0.8 0.80. ̈ ̈(.5.0.) ***** Press

due credit given.

knowing he would be sent to gaol for divisions. asanult, had threatened to kill the Judge who sentenced him; t

Club Formed to Remind

Abaent-Minded Spouses

St Louis, Mar: B.

Special attention has to be given, to the fact that they are men, of differ ent religious faiths, and prefer to take their meals separately. Arrangements are accordingly being made to ensure that be common customs observed-la

Indu shall be observed with the same

étriclness at Hampton Court, va

The entire camp will be enclosed maild rush by absent-minded in protect the visitors from aighispers, husbands to enroll in The Optimist British officers who will take up Club is expected since announcement their quarters, in the camp will be of the advance reminding system for under the command of Col. C. O. wedding anniversaries.

Harvey, C.V.O., C.B.E., M.C., at pre- al' a wife saver" plan, according sent General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, to Edgar Walsh, secretary, die ex-Meerut District, who is expected to plained that under the system arrive in London at the end of March. warning-of-impending anniverary Cal Harvey was Assistant Military will be-mailed-to-each-member three Secretary to the Prince of Wales dur- days in advance. In a plain envelope ing his Indian tour, and Military marked personal,

serratory to the Viceroy from 1920 115-Mr Walch is at the idea. 20 1931

Italy to Establish Airway's Over South Atlantic

Rome, Mar. 1.

p.m. Big Ben, Studenti Songs,

4.30 p.m. Talk Was There." 4.45 pm. Variety.

6.10 p. A Commentary un Boxing

• Match.

5.10 p.m. The: News and Announcements. Greenwich Timo Signal at 6:45 pm.

Transmission 2

40.8.D., 0.8.0.7 GBM)

"

7pm. Big Bes. The River Tweed" 7.50 p.m. The 1.0.0, Empire. Orchestra. $60 p.m. Musical. Interlode.

6.55 p.m.

The News, and Announcements. Greenwich Time Slant at 9.15 p.

9.15 pm. Reginald Dixon (Cinema Organ),

9.27 p.m.Boat Building.

·Transmission 3

IOLA.B. OB.F., G.8.IL.)

10 p.m. Big Ben Werld Affairs.

dalk by Wickham Steed.

Italy plans soon to establish a righ speed air service to Buenos Aires in competition with French and German Bines already operating, aviation circles learned to-day. The Italian planes, it was stated, were expected to be faster than the French or German ships. They will have a speed of 280 miles an hour.

11 pm. The Torquay Municipal Or and were expected to reduce over-water. flying time to, six 1020 pz Hall Maria

chestra, hours,

They will make the trip via Rio do, Oro, the Cape Verde Islands, Natal and Rio de Janeiro in less than three days, avia- tion informants, asserted:

**-- 11 ~ 4-m, -**- A-- Commentary 'on -- a-', Boxing

19.80 a.m. "The News and Announcmensorily. "Greenwich Timik Blomst at 12.45 - m.ma.

13.50 mm. Danos. Mwicz-

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