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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1937.

Father Blames Dazzling Love-Life

WORLD'S TWO MOST REMARKABLE PHOTOS Those two photographs were taken almost a contury 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 camera was not yet fast enough to catch action.

The Civil War was most notably photographed by Matthew

·1863· 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. 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- seas service with the exception of a fow, weeks for re-formation just after the war, they have had minor battles, skirmishes, am- bushes, "altuations" and strikes to contend with in evory place where they have been stationed.

Appropriately, the troopship from which they disembarked 380 strong was the Lancashire, which brought! them from Haifa, where they were{ on normal. gorrison duty when the "Palestine trouble started.

They journeyed to quarters at Tid- worth, where they re-formed in 1910, REUNIONS

COW SETS FIRE.

TO VILLAGE

Vienna. Apr. 15.

A COW broke loose from

its

stall while being milked af

Fritzelsdorf (Lower Austrin vil- lage) to-day, knocked over

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lighted lamp and caused a fire which lasted 54 hours, destroyed five farms and made thirty people komeless.:

strong

The lamp set fire to straw in the stall and

wind carried the flames 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

Miss eccentric Stran Josephine Rolls, owner of the thousand-year-old Cerne Abbey, Dorset, who lived in single room of the abbey farmhouse. left the abbey in her WH a nephew and a niece... Mr. Joseph Kellaway Rolls and Mira, Elizabela Green, who both live in Manitoba, Canada.

This

118 summer the abber bulld- Ings, including the_gateway. are lo 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.

Miss Rolls who used to dls- courage people from visiting the abbey, Irfi €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 ocean next June during the longest total eclipse in 1,200 years.,

New York, Apr. 21.

∙HE love-life of bewitching Veronica ("Ron-

Tnie") 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 red 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 waiter from Salford, Lancs, were murdered on Easter Sunday.

Polico 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 grey hair clawed by the victims in their fight for life and found under their nails.

The police mye 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.

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On June 8 an are of weird "night" is destined to sweep

Tired but calm, Gueret told his story to nowshawks: "The 9,000 miles across the face of last time I saw the Gedeons," he said, "was two weeks ago. the Pacific, ending near sunset never had a fight with them. It's true that daughter Ethel (one 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-cent Told of piece from Mrs. Gedeon, but I always paid her back."

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 early."

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

tations.

In all the blackened belt of the Pacific, however, only two specks of and will furnish men a favourable base from which to observe this phenomenon,

10 the

National Geographing

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.

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U. 5. EXPEDITION

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

Short wave radlo transmitters placed on the selected Island and on the ship, will be the means by which the world will, hear this strange cvent.

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 the Geographic Soclely sold in part:

"From a tiny uninhabited Island far out in the midst of the Pacifc Ocean, the voice of a salentist next June 8 will travel around the world, describing by radio to millions of lis- teners the gorgeous spectacle of a total eclipse 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 University of Puerto Rico at San Juan, Above, he is shown re- ceiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the ceremony, as Chancellor Juan Bautista Soto of the University, left, officiates.

"This dot 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 practically REDUCED BY PERHAPS TWO-THIRDS

the only vantage point from which

can be satisfactorily observed this

Washington, April 15.

Important eclipse-the longest total eclipse of the sun in 1,200 years.

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.

Many scientists and a few U.S. naval off- cers and sailors will see the eclipse

of

"The birth rate has declined more friends in the country. from the island, millions of people than 25 per cent, during the last 10 these people will start little farms, years," Dr. Baker said "If the birth and never again return to the cities will be enabled to travel in imagina-rate continues to decline at this rate to live..

tion's most spectacular

to the mid-Pacific. and

show.

maximum population will be "Millions of farm youths will migrate to the cities. Many of these Although the eclipse path will extend reached between 1945 und 1050,"

'.

8,000 miles across the mid-Pacific, it Thereafter, Dr. Baker sald, the migrante will inherit farms, or, will touch almost no other point of population will decline, slowly at through settlement of estates, acquire on farms. Wealth-re-. land at a time of day at which satis- first and then of an accelerating mortgages About 200 people welcomed them

factory observation can be made. rate. By 2000 the population of the presented by the ownership of land

ferred to the cities," this morning, mainly old soldiers and

Several preliminary broadcasts United States may be under 100,- or the income from it will be trans

|000,000.

Dr. Baker sald other millions of rétired oMeers of the regiment, A

The Holy Carpet," sent to Mecca may be attempted by scientists n few wives and children' turned up

"A declining national population, farm youth will begin farming, from the great Mosque in Cairo in few days before the eclipse, to give

on formsvacated by the The Loyals are immensely proud order to be blessed, received by mem-world listeners an advance report of with rural surplus and urban deflcit mostly of their Falesine record. They bers of the Government and other the expected event and some know in birth, will have serious economic death of aged farmers. Unless these Cor 1,000 personalities on its return to Egypt, ledge of preparations for It, the re- and social consequences," Dr. Baker farms are acquired by inheritance, be said, there will be an increasing number of tenants.htm The expedition will be led by Dr.

Fifty years from now," he said,

"These ominous developments can. SA Mitchell of the University of "there may be only a third as many be retarded, Dr. Baker, sald,:"by a Virginia. Others in it will be Cap-children in the nation as now, and *ICE-BREAKER tain J. F. Hellwig superintendent of only half, as many women of child-rapid decentralisation of population,

the U.S. Naval observatory; and the bearing age.

Industry and commerce, by the spread of part time farming and by an ape Moscow, Apr. 25. représentives of the universlules of The new ice-breaker Joseph Stalin, Michigan, Cornell, Georgetown, the There will be nearly three times preciation by the middle and upper. declared to be the most powerful in Bureau of Standards, Mt. Wilson as many old people. Many unem- classes of their responsibility for the the world, will be launched at Len-observatory

and

McMath-Hulbert ployed urban people will seek shelter reproduction of the race and the wel Ingrad on May 1..

observatory-United Press,

and sustenance with relatives and fare of the nation."United Press,"

numbered 800 there troops, and won alxteen decora-

flous out of the forty-one awarded. WORLD'S LARGEST

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 AV. Denton, Regimental Sergeant- Major E. Fullbrook, Sergeant J. Allen D.C, and Sergeant 1. Newton.

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