1937-03-23 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG ·TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937.

1

TWO MEN IN AN "ETERNAL TRIANGLE"

FRIENDS WHO DIED

TOGETHER

Curse on Girl in Man's

Last Letter

"I hope you will always have this on your mind for breaking up my and Jim's friendship. I curse you until your dying day."

This passage from a letter written by one of two men found dead in a gas-filled room was read at a Frien Barnet. (Middlesex) inquest recently.

The men were Aibert George Grimes (26), whose parents live at Mays Lane, Barnet, and James Thomas Rich (21), of Aveton Road, East Finchley,

The Jury returned a verdict that Grimes committed suicide while of unsound mind, but found there was not enough evidence to show how Rich died.

Grimes's mother said that her, son, who was unemployed, had been stay- Ing at the house in Station Road, Church End, Finchley, where he was found dead,

Did he frighten you?—He did ot the time. It seemed as though he wanted me to promise I would not go with Rich. He followed me to work.

No,

Did he threaten you in any way?—

Did he say that he might do any thing to himself?—No, he was Just very upset.

Roland Arnabaldi, of Station Road, Church End, Finchley, sold that Grimes had П room there. Rich

FRIENDS SINCE CHILDHOOD Her son had known Miss Donner since he was a schoolboy. He was with Rich and Miss Bonner at nused to stay there at week-ends. birthday party three weeks ago. · On Sunday morning he went to Rich did not talk to the girl very call Grimes and found the room full much towards the end of the evening Her son and Rich, sald Mrs. Grimes, were devoted.

of gas. Both men were dead.

NO EVIDENCE OF SUICIDE The coroner mentioned that in one

Miss Bonner, a slim, fair-haired note Grimes had written: "We both

collar, sald she had known Grimes

we are beller off out of the

girl, wearing a green coat with a fur bave no evidence that Rich!

for some yours, but had seen him

very little lately. She was not contemplated committing suicide," walking out with him and there was he added. nothing between them.

After the party Rich took her home and then asked if she would go out with him.

I said I

The coroner sald thal Miss Banner

had been

JEVA VICTIMA INJUSTICIA,

USTICIAÝLU

Ex-Nurse Shrinks 72 Inches In 12 Years In U.S.

By MRS. LEONARD DAHLQUIST

Wolf Point, Mar. 1.-Twelve years ago I ́gradually became

a complainer which I had not been before.

very helpful. "What happened at the party was this," he said. "This young man and C let him know."his friend Rich went there and Rich would

Mirs Bonner added. "He wrote to evidently fell

me asking if i would go out with Miss Bonersperately in love with:

him and telling me not to forget."..

PROMISED TO MEET

She handed the coroner a letter. After glancing at it the coroner com- mented. "A very affectionate letter, isn't (t?"

"Rich wanted to meet her, and she: promised to meet him on the night he was found dead. Rich possibly told Grimes because Grimes knew about jį.

"I think you can be certain of one Miss Bonner said: "I replied thank- thing, that Grimes took his own life. ing him for his letter, and in the end It is quite possible that the escape of

I promised to meet him. I was re-gas might have poisoned Rich, who ing to do so, on Sunday night."

was a very sound sleepers" Grimes knew that Rich wanted to

meet her, but she did not know how he know.

Later she met Grimes and he CARDINAL

seemed very upset.

Te talked about taking his friends away, and begged me not to." she said.

The Coroner: Did he ever tell you he loved you?--Nö,

Did you think he did?-No. I have

to reason to believe he did.

ODDEST JOB WITH

COOK'S Shipping Expert Of New York Office Gets Stagger- ing Assignments

New York, Feb. 20. Anyone desiring to have an elephan; transported by airplane will and J. E. Lewis, shipping expert al Cook's down- town office, not even batting an eyelash 60 accustomed is he to performing one of the oddest jobs in the far-dung

dort jou n the far-fon

Oilot inc.

Since

the firm, in addition to ដង tourist

ess, does a large amount of Jusiness,

and shipping, many are the staggering assignments (1.c. slag- gering to the average man) which come Mr. Lewis way. He, apparent- ly, takes them in his stride. There was that elephant, for example--YCS, n baby elephant, but just try hoisting one, trumpeting with rage and

Ex-

seaplane waiting to transport to Bridgeport, Conn. The imperturbable

RAPS NAZIS

"Treaty Breakers"

dered champion of Germany's Roman

of

CHICAGO'S "SLEEPING BEAUTY"

SEMI-CONSCIOUS FIVE YEARS

4

Oak Park, IL, Feb. 28. PATRICIA C. MAGUIRE, whose case of lethargia

encephalitis is the longest in

I visited our. local doctor who advised me to have my teeth pulled and later had my tonsils removed also. I believe it was the removal of my tonsils which caused a gall bladder tumor. All of these 12 years! I was suffering and usually under s doctor's care. I was afilleted with swollen feet and my eyes become weak 1 was forced to wear glasses.

TO CHURCH-Catholics of Ori- zaba, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, barred from their churches for 12 years, were joyous when they were permitted recently to wor- ship without fear of police breaking up their devotions. Permission came ufter many demonstrations ilke The опе above, held after the killing of young girl in a police raid. Banners ask reopening of the churches.

Australia

Invents

Seaweed

Food

I fost strength and finally went to Research To Be Made In

a clinic in Minot, N. D. The x-rays

showed à gall stone but not the tumor,

An operation was performed Decem- ber 4, 1935. remained in the has-

Canberra To Discover

Edible Possibilities

pital Ave weeks but could not gain Frenchmen eat snails and strength. Later I returned to Minot frogs' legs, and Australians have because suffered painful back aches.een known to out disguised was x-rayed from all angles and shark. Kangaroo tails go into doctors found that my spine Was shrinking and the vertebrae were the soup pot, and caviare, after calcium all, is only pickled sturgeon's roc. gone on both sides of my skull near

slipping. They

found the

Just arrived!

SPORTS SHIRTS

ART SILK

LOCKNIT

NEW RANGES HAVE JUST 'ARRIVED. THESE SILK-LIKE GARMENTS NOTED FOR THEIR SOFTNESS OF TEXTURE NEED NO INTRODUCTION. THEY ARE DURABLE IN WEAR AND WASH, AND BEING UNAFFECTED BY

· PERSPIRATION ARE IDEAL FOR TROPICAL WEAR

· BEAUTIFUL COLOUR RANGES

IN STRUPES, NEATCHECKS PLAIN COLOURS

Prices $3.95 to $4.95

COURTAULDS

ART SILK LOCKNIT

UNDER WEAR

IDEAL FOR PRESENT WEAR ALWAYS COOL AND COMFORTABLE SPORTS OR ATHLETIC VESTS NICELY CUT AND FINISHED IN EVERY DETAIL MADE ESSENTIALLY FOR COMFORT THESE CAN BE SUPPLIED IN SAXE OR WHITE

ALL BIZES IN STOCK

Price $2.50 garmont

KNICKERS

Hole the lourdew resisting band gl neck and apathak

Allodie Style na stent

WITII ELASTIC WAIST BAND

CUT ON FULL LINES TO GIVE MAXIMUM COMFORT, ITS SOFTNESS OF TEXTURE WILL APPEAL TO EVERY MAN, NO CHAFING. OR UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING DURING :

STICKY DAYS

SUPPLIED IN WHITE and SAXE

Price $2.50 garment

MEN'S WEAR DEPARTMENT

medical history, enters her the base in ragged patches. The thigh So why should wo not eat Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

sixth year of semi-conscious-

ness to-day.

The "Slooping Beauty" of

benes of both legs have spots where, seaweed?

the

calcium is gone and both of my

arms are affezted, in a like manner Here is how this discuse affects

above the elbow.

According to the Australian Prime. Minister's Department, hostesses may al some future date serve their guests with sonwerd soup, follow.it by roast turkey with seaweed vegetables, and maintain the diet by adding a dash of seaweed flavour to the jelly

in pain all the time, the most acute pains being in the back of my neck. This pain causes me to be dull and desse forgetful.

Munich, Mar. 1. Oak Park, as the pretty 31-me. I am tired all the time. I am Cardinal Faulhauber, broad-shoul-year-old Irish girl is called, Catholics, attacked Nazi "reaty has failed to respond to breaking" In the sharpest speech every treatment known to His catalogue-of-violence-against science for "sleeping sick the Concordat (Hitler's 1033 treaty ness.' with

the

Pope) set St. Michael's Cathedral ringing. The building was! packed with 8,000 listeners.

his career here to-day,

At

drink milk. When I eat white

NEW IN AUSTRALIA In Japanese soups, jellies, confec- lionery and vegetables may all have the seaweed flavour, but in Australiu this basis of Oriental nutrition is re

hazard garded merely

as

for

am taking calcium all the time,

bread or meat feet togy for days Overenting also affects me this way, but Patricia's condition has varied My heart is in good condition

bathers during the past five years. sometimes for weeks I do not go to

sleep

unil 3 or 4 o'clock in the morn- The Cardinal revealed that his times she has appeared 10

Ing but I seem quite rested just lying the Government in announcing a be- The possibilities, are outlined by speech had seized recognize visitors, but on other in bed.

"like

that

of Solboy."

with quest of 5,000 specimens of Australian Every doctor I have talked the occasions her eyes close. wearily Не passionately desperation of some church circles as and she shows no interest in have a

tells me I will never be well again. marine algae from the estate of the desire sometimes when inte A. H. S. Lucas, of Sydney. These "They say," he cried, "that if those about her. She is able to the pain is so bad I would rather will be preserved in Canberra for.re- search into the edible and commercial. we defend the Concordat we shall

How much more I am going to possibilities of seaweed.-Australian lost our heads. Without we shall be masticate her food and answers pass on to escape the suffering. beheaded and dragged through the simple questions in arithmetic shrink I do not know. United Press. Press Bureau. streets. What is the difference?"

by raising her fingers. Other than these aolions, she is unable "TOO TRAGIC FILM to control the muscles

body.

The sleeping girl has retained her natural colour, and has gained twenty pounds. Her left leg. however, has shortened slightly.

foul..

ALTERED

BALLOT TEST

(By A Film Correspondent)

|

An alternative was substituted for

of her

On February 13, 1932, Patricia re- turned home alter mailing a Valen- time greeting card. She complained

NAZI CRITIC OF OUR COOKING

4

cheetahs, aild a caged array | another ten days. At the end of that its was used without effect, saya.

asperation, from the ss. Exochords to the previous ending of "Beloved

Enemy" which is running at the Lei- to her mother that she was seeing PAIN and roast beef, the English months and never produce the same cester Square Theatre, in London. "double" and immediately retired man's background of which he sauce two days running.

"My basic recipe is three penny. Mr. Lewis superintended that feat for This is the first time that such an ex-] to her bed. One weeks later, follow-boasts in moments of uncontrollable worth of cream, two ounces of butter a famous African explorer; also giving periment has been carried out at a ing a rapidly increasing drowsiness, emotion, are twin nightmares of the United States Government a bond West End cinema. A ballot is to be she said, "kiss me mother," and col monotony of Dr. Kurt van Stutterheim, and an ounce of flour, and 1-feed for the native servant

London correspondent of the Berliner household of eight people on £4-per alone taken from the audience to gauge the lapsed into a deep sleep. who

week. was able to talk the elephant's langu- popularit yof the new ending, and to Blood transfusions were employed Tageblatt...

My husband's good temper is en- age. Incidentally, there were other see how much it affects the success of by physicians in frantic efforts to

British cooking "unpleasant but tirely due to the fact that I do my own animals aboard the ship, and the two the film.

restore the girl back to health. Even Intrepid girl stenographers who accom "Beloved Enemy"! will be continued blood from former victim of en-healthy like the British climate," he cooking. I agree with Boulestin's maxim that the best materials should panied Mr. Lewis were obliged to hold at the Leicester Square Theatre for a pair of

ultra-violet ray treatments, of tigers and other ferocious animals, time it will be decided whether to psychoanalysis and a fever machine a craft," he adds, "but the English with imagination."

"Cooling may other be an art or be used and that the good housewife economises by using the left-overs

to prevent them from Mr. Low

Speaking of escapewo crates of ca-

show the film in the provinces with were tried unsuccessfully. However, Lewis has the first or the second ending.

In the face of all these failures, Mrs. kitchen is a factory in which dishes vivid memory of

The picture tells the story of the Saide Miley, the girl's mother, still are prepared as though they naries which arrived from Europe, Irish troubles of 1921. Brian Aherne retains hope for her daughter's re-nails and screws according to a fixed with boards loosened from the orig and Merle Oberont take the chief covery. inal packing. En route from

the docks

parts. Following the blatory upon

to Cook's, the boards gave way with which the picture was based; the hero, out warning realling in the merriest who is leader of the Irish party, dies canary-chase that West Street hes at the end of the nim, The alterna- acen in many a day. At present, more tive version shows him opening his than one proud householder in Brook-eyes, after being shot, and saying to lyn or Quoons probably boasts

roller" In her bird cage.

English rol

his sweetheart, "An-Irishman never does what is expected of him, I shall' live"

ONLY A BEGINNING Elephants and

and canaries, however, beginning. Recent and There have been many complaints very lively assignments that Cook's from people who have seen the film shipping expert had to deal with that the first ending was too tragic. were sixty-five foxhounds-imported if the experiment of substituting

for Detroit; two zebras, also Im different ending is successful, it may ported; and two newly-purchased be followed in other aims. Arab stallions-exported, New Hamp shire to Shanghol, Mr. Lewis must sometimes wonder whether he is really

working, for a travel-ogeney or circus,

В

MONUMENT TO HEROÈS —–—– STRATOSPHERE FLIERS

Moscow, Mar. 1.

Some assignments, of course, are simple, such as the time he merely. A solemn ceremony of laying the had to get Capt. Fitzmaurice's 8,000-lb. foundation stone of a monument to Bellanca plane off the top deck of the heroes, stratosphere flers P. the Malesile and convey it to Mineola Fedosscenko, A. Vossenko and 1. January 20, for a projected long-distance flight. Usaykin, who perished The only people able to do this little 1934 look place a few days ago on the chorewero the lighterage firm territory of the Central Aero Club tof Merritt, Chapman

nan & Scott, but they of the U.S.S.R. Having ascended on necomplished it for Coole's on schedule the stratosphere, "Ossoaviakhim-1" Whether it's chipping gold bars or to make clantific researches of the 1280, or seeing, in emerald safely to stratosphere these filers reached a its domination, are all in the days record helght of 23,000 metres and

for Cook's Mes

crashed when decending Tast,

were

system which leaves no possible room NAME OF TROTSKY for creativeness. Equally poor in Mrs. Miley has kept a scrap book ideas is the eternal monotonous round

UNPOPULAR for the past five years containing of mutiton, beef and fish."

all of the important happenings

English tes, fish, cheese, butter, CHANGED BY RUSSIANS In the United States, in the world

milk and our "crowning glory" of beet and the girl's immediate family. In

By A Correspondent.

Moscow, Mar. 1. this diary she also keeps all of the and mutton get good marks as to their interesting fan letters ved from quality. His summing up, damping

Three Soviet citizens called Trotsky but courteous, "best when simple." the many bushels received yearly.

have already changed that evil name Frau ven Stutterheim, who should by deed poll declaration in the official from time to time a number of

cures for Patriela's rare dis- be inured, being an Englishwoman. Favestia. case, comics, from some, sympathetic agrees with her husband. She in the Two take the clerical-sounding

name person. This past year a letter came sister-in-law of Mr. Anthony Eden,

"Troitate,"

which w

means "of the to the home. It said that Patricia and was before her marriage Miss Trinity. would wake on New Year's day. Cynthia Beckett.

Leo Trotsky's real name is Bron- Although little. hope was, felt, that

"Our food lucks Imagination

but I soo no sign as yet of any stein she would waken at that time, many

row stampede by the numerous Bronsteins thought that it might be symbolle. sauces," she says. "Cooks will throw Patricia, however, slept through New the same monotonous sauce on to adopt politically more cuphonious Year's day and is still alcoping every dish. I have done

own names. United Press.

cooking for the last two and a half

the litt

the

THE

STREET

my

OF GOLD

is the richest street in the world? Flith Avenue, New York: Plondilly, London; or Rue de la Paix, Paris?

All these streets are incomparable for wealth with a narrow street Chandul. Chonk in Delhi.

Xiere fewellors who make loys and ornaments for the wealthy Indian rajahs and their wives and children have stocks of gold and diamonds worth millions of pounds.

street for 100 year Yet nothing has been stolen in the street for 100 years.

A few years after the mealution

little town of Gatchina-where half-mad Tear Paul used to make his young g guardsmen goose step for hours. on end in skin-tight, breeches-wa renomed Trotsky in honour of the famous

ous Leo. Nearly eight years ago name was changed a a' second time to Kramourmoisk, literally "Red Army Town."

the

The funniest name change in to days deed poll list is Kosainpot mesning a clumsy person who turns In his toes and shuffles liko a beari into Voltaire.

Sherrah Arnotts again!

THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

ARE STRONGER AND HAPPIER

ARNOTTS

MILK ARROWROOT BISCUITS

Obtainable at all Stores and Stevedores."

Sole, Agents;

Bank of Canton Bide...

Des Voeux Rd, Central, DENNIS & CO., LTD. K56

COPIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS

by “Staff Photographer” appearing in the

Telephone: 33526

“SOUTH CHINA MORNING (POST"

and

“THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”

may be purchased

at the Business Office "The Hongkong Telegraph

Morning Post Building Wyndham Street:

Page 15Page 16