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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ⠀⠀ FRIDAY,

APRIL 30,

1937.

Father Blames Dazzling Love-Life

WORLD'S TWO MOST · REMARKABLE PHOTOS These two photographs were taken almost a century ago, when photography was in its infancy. One is of the Crimean war and the other of the American Civil War

First war photographed was the Crimean. The Russian 1854 battery above was snapped by an unknown photographer on collodion plate. Crimean War pictures are still life, for the cumero was not yet fast enough to catch action.

1863 The Civil War was most notably photographed by Malthew B. Brady. The shot above of the Union field where General John F. Reynolds fell at Gettysburg was taken by T. H. O'Sullivan who used collodion plates.

"BATTALION

STAND EASY!"

After 18 Years Of Scrapping

Southampton, Apr. 15.

COW SETS FIRE

TO VILLAGE

Vienna, Apr. 15.

COW broke loose from lis

A. milked at

THE 1st Battalion Loyal Regiment, who used to be known as the Loyal North Lancs, ought to be renamed "scrappers."

Home to-day from Palestine after twenty-three years' over- scas service with the exception of a few weeks for re-formation just after the war, they have had minor battles, skirmishes, am- bushes, "situations" and strikes to contend with in every place where they have been stationed. Appropriately, the troopship from which they disembarked 360 strong was the Lancashire, which brought them from Halfa, where they were on, normal garṛlion duty when the Palestine trouble started..

They journeyed to quarters at Tid- worth, where they re-formed In 1919. REUNIONS

Fritzelsdorf (Lower Austria vil- lage) to-day, knocked over 3 ilghted lamp and caused A fire which lasted 514 hours, destroyed five farms and made thirty people homeless.

The lamp set fire to straw in

and the stall

1 strong wind carried the flanses through the village.

Brigades from twelve villages helped to fight the fire.

For Murder Of Beauty

"REBUFFED MILLIONAIRE

ADMIRER IN STREET"

ABBEY LEFT TO

·· NIECE

WEALTHY. eccentric

WE

Misa Rolls.

Susan Josephine owner of the thousand-year-old Cerne Abbey, Dorset, who lived In a single room of the abbey farmhouse, left the abbey in her will to a nephew and a niece— Mr. Joseph Keilaway Rolls and Mrs. Elizabèth Green, who both Hiro in Manitoba, Canada,

HIS summer the abbey build- ings, including the gateway, are to be sold by auction. The Office of Works have inspected the abbey, and villagers of Cerne Abbas hope it will be saved for the nation.

Misa Rolls. who used to dis- courage people from visiting the abbey, left £20,000, She gave

£12,000 to charity.

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World Will "Hear" Eclipse In June

Washington, April 15. Scientists expert that most of the civilized world will be able to "hear" by radio the blackening of the mid-Pacific occan next June during the longest total eclipse in 1,200 years.

New York, Apr. 21.

THE love-life of bewitching Veronica ("Ron- nie") Gedeon, twenty-year-old Broadway butterfly and artists' model, was blamed to-day by Joseph Gedeon, her father, for her murder.

"She had a habit of tantalising men into pursuing her," he said, "and then she dropped them. Ronnie made fools of lots of men, and one of them killed her.

"It's hard to say it now, but Ronnie was wild and wilful. She wouldn't listen to her mother or me. There've been many men, but Ronnie didn't tell me who they were, for she knew I disapproved of her life."

Mr. Gedeon recalled that up to a month ago an elderly millionaire from Boston had been sending her flowers every day.

"But Ronnie was unkind to him; he met her on the street one day and she told him she didn't want him or his money.

"Girls of Ronnie's age don't realise it, but you can't treat men that way."

A little fed address book with the names of nearly 100 pro- minent New Yorkers was found to-day in the New York apart- ment where Veronica, her fifty-four-year-old mother, and their boarder, home-sick Frank Byrnes, thirty-five-year-old walter from Salford, Lancs, were murdered on Easter Sunday.

Police at once began to call on doctors, lawyers and business men who knew the pretty model.

Snippets of hair were taken from the heads of twenty men on a suspects' list and compared under the microscope with groy hair clawed by the victims in their fight for life and found under their nails.

The police have also developed finger-prints on the sheets of the bed on which the girl's body was found.

Meanwhile, George ("Frenchy") Gueret, unemployed chau- ffeur detained yesterday for questioning, grilled all night after bloodstained handkerchiefs had been found in his lodging-house, was kept at police headquarters for further questioning.

He persisted in the story that he was drunk on the night of the crime, and knows nothing of the three deaths. Detectives admitted that his story had been corroborated,

On June 8 an arc of weird "night" is destined to sweep 9,000 miles across the face of the Pacific, ending near sunset on the western coast of Peru. of three relatives who found the bodies on Sunday afternoon) didn't like me because I used to borrow an occasional fifty-cont piece from Mrs. Gedeon, but I always paid her back." Told of had seen him in the street at six the report that the landlady o'clock on Sunday morning, Gueret snapped, "That's a lie. 'I never get up that carly."

Tired but calm, Gueret told his story to newshawks: "The last time I saw the Gedeons," he said, "was two weeks ago. I It's true that daughter Ethel (one) never had a fight with them.

The sun will be darkened at the peak of the eclipse for a longer time than any known since the 8th cen- tury, according to selentists compu-

tations,

In all the blackened belt of the Pacific, however, only two specks of land will furnish men a favourable base from which to observe this phenomenon, according to the National Geographic Society. The two points are Canton and Enderbury Islands, coral atolls in the Phoenix group, 5,000 miles. seaward from San. Francisco and 1,800 miles southwest of the Hawaiian Islands,

U. 9. EXPEDITION

An expedition will set soll for the two atolls this spring on the United States Navy miño-sweeper Avocet, to prepare a base on whichever Island seems best Alted for the work. They are only 30 miles apart.

Short wave radio transmitters placed on the selected island and on the ship, will be the means by which the world will hear this strange event.

The National Geographic Society, the U.S. Navy Eclipse Expedition and the National Broadcasting Company of the United States will co-operate in the task. An advance report of their plans issued by tlie Geographic Society sald in part:

"From a tiny, uninhabited island far out in the midst of the Pacific Ocean, the volte of a scientist next June 8 will travel around the world, describing by radio to millions of Us- teners the gorgeous spectacle of o total cclipse of the sun.

TOTAL ECLIPSE

During a recent visit to Puerto Rico, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, New York, was honoured at the Above, he is shown re- University of Puerto Rico at San Juan. celving the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the ceremony, as Chancellor Juan Bautista Solo of the University, left, officiates.

"This dat of coral and sand, 5,000 NATION OF OLD PEOPLE FORESEEN

miles southwest of San Francisco,

will be the centre of world attention 50 YEARS HENCE, WITH CHILDREN

for a few minutes at 2.15 p.m. East-

ern Standard Time (New York Time)

on that date, for it will be practiently REDUCED BY PERHAPS TWO-THIRDS

the only vantage point from which сал be satisfactorily observed this Important eclipse-the longest total eclipso of the sun in 1,200 years.

be

Washington, April 15.

country. Many

of

Unless the birth rate or immigration increases the United States may reach its maximum population in about 10 years, according to Dr. O. E, Although only the expedition's Baker of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. scientists and a few U.S. naval om-

"The birth rate has declined more friends in the cers and sailors will see the eclipse from the island, millions of people than 25 per cent. during the last 10 these people will start little farms, will be enabled to travel in imagine-years," Dr. Baker said. "If the birth and never again return to the cities tion to the mid-Pacific

and "see" rate continues to decline at this rate to live...

"Millions of farm youths will natura's most. spectacular show, a maximum population will

migrate to the cities. Many of theso Although the eclipse path will extend reached, between 1945 and 1950," 8,800 miles across the mid-Pacific, li Thereafter. Dr, Baker sald, the migrants will inherit farms, or, will touch almost no other point of population will decline, slowly at through settlement of estates, pequire land at a time of day at which sails- frst and then at an accelerating mortgages on farms. Wealth-re factory observation can be made, rate. By 2000 the population of the presented by the ownership of land be trans- will ferred to the cities." Several preliminary broadcasts United States may be under 100,-or the income from

000,000.

Dr. Baker said other millions of by scientists a "The Holy Carpet," sent to Mecca may be attempted

"A declining national population, turm youth will begin farming,

on formas vacated by from the great Mosque in Cairo in few days before the eclipse, to give order to be blessed, received by mem-world listeners an advance report of with rural surplus and urban deficit mostly The Loyals are immensely proud bers of the Government and other the expected event and some know-in birth, will have serious economic death of aged formers. Unless these numbered 800 there oni of 21,000/ personalities on its return to Egypt, ledge of preparations for it, the re- and social consequences," Dr. Bakor farms are acquired by Inheritancè,

About 200 people welcomed them this morning, mainly old soldiers and retired omcers of the regiment. A few wives and children turned up

of their Palestino, record. They

troops, and

won sixteen decora

port said.

sald.

the

tions out of the forty-one awarded.) WORLD'S LARGEST Virginia, Others. In it will be Cap-children in the nation as now, and be retarded," Dr. Baker said, "by a

Five of those who went out with the battalion in 1919' have been with it throughout. They are Captain R M. Gridlow-Jackson, D.S.O., Captain A. V. Denton, Regimental Sergeant Major E. Fullbrook, Sergeant J. Allen D.CAM. and Sergeant T. Newton.

ICE-BREAKER

Moscow, Apr. 26. The new ice-breaker Joseph Stalin, declared to be the most powerful in

the world, will be launched at Len ingrad on May 1.

he said, there will be an increasing The expedition will be led by Dr.

"Fifty years from now," he said, number of tenants,

"These ominous developments can 5. A. Mitchell of the University of "there may be only a third es many Lain J. F. Hellwig superintendent of only half as many women of child-industry and commerce, by the spread rapid decentralisation of population, the U.S. Naval observatory; and the bearing age.":

of part time farming and by an np. representives of the universities of Michigan, Cornell, Georgetown, the "There will be nearly three times preciation by the middle and upper- Bureau of Standards, Mt. Wilson as many old people. Many unem classes of, their responsibility for the observatory and McMath-Hulbert ployed urban people will seek shelter reproduction of the race and the wel

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