1937-07-19 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1937.

Shammed Death, Ran RADIO

To 'Phone Police

TWO BANDITS FELL GARAGE MAN

One-Eye Watch On Till

(By a special reporter)

London, June 25. AYRIE HAWKINS,

CY

ycar

twenty one - old garage hand,, shammed death to save himself from bandits who attacked him in his office early yesterday.

Two men had called at the Observatory Gar- age, Watford-way, Lon- don, and cracked open! his head with a blow from a steel jack handle. ;

They rained more blows

This listening apparatus was tried on hoard the liner Harburg during à recent voyage to America. With its around him while Haw-steel "ears" it eas catch and localise antids many miles away and is expected to be an excellent source of aid in the kins dodged and thought,!

fight against for. As the illustration shows the apparatus is fitted with binoculars. "I've got to bluff them." He flopped to the ground,

blood streaming down his "IF YOUR CHILDREN

face.

He lay stiff and still, his eyes shut, his senses all alert. He had planned his bluff. There; was a police box just outside i the garage.

He would Be there till the men en- tered the oflee to search for the

money, then race for the polles tele-

phone.

He heard the men run, opened one eye, saw them run through the office

door.

RAIDED TILL

Hawkins himself told me what happened then-how he carried off his bluff, staggered to his feet and

run to the police box as the bandits

ransacked the till.

WERE DOGS—!”

Magistrate's Wish

WHEN Herbert Hurt and Elsie Hurt, of Morat-street, Brixton,

He Faces Death Every Day At Work

were sentenced to fourteen days in the second division at South Western Police Court recently for neglecting their six chien was revealed that they had been under observation DR.

1929.

The children were said to have been so dirty that the school authorities kept them from mixing with other children.

Passing sentence, the magistrate, Mr. Claud Mullins, said: "This case is an appalling one. If I were dealing with the neglect of dogs I could order you to have no more dogs.

"I wish I had the power to send you to hospital to be

He grabbed the phone and called for help just a second before they reached hilm. beat of their sterilised." second attack with one of their

own weapons.

He talked to me at his home in

Sturgess-nvenue, Hendon, N.W. his £1,500 AWARD

and bandaged by

doctors at Redhill Hospital, Edgware. TO WIDOW:

He said:

"I

Was doing night duty, the

regular man being on holiday, lle's MAY NOT

an old man. This might have

finished him off.

"I was in the office when the two

men came in. One asked:

'Can you

GET A PENNY

let me have some petrol in a can?' Awarding £1,500 and costs to the

"As got up to serve them one landed in a blow on the side of the hend.

"I staggered away, dodging blows. How I missed them I dont's know.

widow of a man who was killed while riding in a lorry, Mr. Justice Swift

children would get a penny.

Epstein Strand

BURGESS NETT,

at

curator

BROADCAST

Relay on "Summer, Over The British Isles"

DANCE MUSIC

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wävelengths of 355 metres (845 k.c.'s), 3140 melres (0.52 m.c.'s).

H.K.T.

12.30 p.m. The London Palladium Orchestra.

March Review Medley; Marche

Symphonique (Savino); Japanese

Carnival (Andre de Basque); Old Vienna Moon! (Leberi, Zadowaki, arr. Phil Cardew); Live, Laugh and Love (Ileymann, arr. Leo Herbert).

12.30 p.m. Songs by Richard Tan- ber (Tenor).

Ach Manche Vergangene Nacht (Rossini); LAL Danza (Rossini); Metodie (Rubinstein and Dernhoff). Time and Weather. 1 p.m.

p.m. Harry Roy, and Orchestra.

118

Fox-Trot Avalon; Quielestep -- Margie; Gershwin Fox Trot Medicy: Six-eight Medley; Wabash Blues; Fox-Trot-Sweet Georgia Brown,

1.30 pm. Reuter Press; Weather, Time and Announcements.

1.40

p.m. Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (Dvorak), played by Artur Schnabel and the Pro Arte Quartet.

2.15 p.m. Close Down.

0-11 pm. Chinese Programme.

5 p.m. Ielay of Dance Music from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong [Intel.

Programme

5-6.15 p.m. 1, An Excuse for Danc ing; 2. Malihini Mele; 3. 1 was saying to the Moon; 4. Mood Hollywood.

5.15-5.20 p.m. Interval of recorded dance music from Z.D.W.

5.20-5.35 p.m. 5. So do 1; 6. Pennies from Heaven; 7. One, Two, Button your Shoe; 0. The Skeleton in the Cupboard. uphon16.

5.35-5.40 p.m. Interval of recorded

music from 2.8.W.

dance

5.40-5.55 p.m. . Floating on a Bubble; 10. September in the Rain; 11. New Orleans; 12. Tango Negro,

5.55-6 p.m. Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.

6-6.15 p.m. 13. Don't let this Waliz mean Goodbye; 14. In the Middle of n Kiss; 15. The Sweetheart Waltz; 16. Love passes by.

4.15-0.20 p.m. Interval of recorded' dance music from Z.B.W. 6.20-8.30 p.m. 17. 10

17. Top of the Town;

18. Where are you; 19. Some of these days;

20. Peanut Vendor.

6.30 p.m. Light Orchestral Music. The Fair Mold of Perth-Sulte (Bizet).... Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonie Orchestra: An Evening with Liszt (Urbach).... Marck Weber and his Orchestra; "Henry VIII" Dances Symphony (E. German). of Orchestra.

BAR-

reptiles London Zoo, whose research into the uses. of anake venom has revised medical knowledge, has him- self just recovered from a dangerous snake bite.

.... New 7pm. Songs by Paul Robeson (Bass).

Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jerleho (Arr. L. Brown); (a) De Ole Ark's Movering (Arr. Hall Johnson); (b) Brown): (a) Hammer Song (b) L' Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (Arr. L.

David (Arr. L. Brown): (a) Mam' He has left the London selle Marie (Creole Song) (Gulon). (b) Dere's no hidin' place (An Hospital for Tropical Dis-Brown). eases, where he had been a patient for a week.

Dr. Barnett was bitten while he was examining

Statues To Be poisonous reptiles received

Removed

SCULPTOR MAKES HIS PROTEST

from Cape Town:

Dr. Barnett has used snake venom as an agent in the treatment of haemophilia (bleeding that cannot be stopped), cancer, epilepsy, asthma and hay fever.

Much of his work has been done in collaboration with Dr. R. G. Macfarlane, of Hammersmith Hos pital.

SAVED MANY LIVES As a result of their joint experl- onments in using venom from the fangs of the Russell's Viper, a new

said he doubted whether she or her SIX of the twenty-two

Epstein statues Mrs. Jane Eliza McNally (36), of Rhodesia House,

"Then I decided to flop out, try Cornwall Street, Shedwell, E., claim-

still I heard steel clatter on the

Strand, treatment has been found for

to bluif them. As I dropped and layed damages on behalf of herself and are to be removed, after ground. One of them had dropped ave children in respect of the death examination by architects. or her husband, William Alfred Mc-The fate of the others is

the jack.

MEN GAVE CHASE

מזמין

"They

Into the office. 1 jumped up, took the jack handle raced for the police box outside. AS

I ran i shouted Help! I thought

there might be a policeman around.

**The

men heard me and ran after me.

"They reached me Just as I grabbed the 'phone out of the box) and shouted down it.

Nally.

Defendants

being considered.

Merrington were Brothers, Limited, British Empire Exhibition. Wembley; George Henry

Recently a woman had her

Evans, who was employed by them as foot injured by half the head of a furry-driver; Royans Transport, one statue falling into the street. Limited, and Ceell Willian Wakelin,

of Hillmorton, Rugby.

KILLED IN CRASHI

Evans was driving a lorry which

by

by

"I had to drop the phone to hit a stallonary lorry owned defend myself, The men struck Royans Transport and driven out at me again, but I beat them Wakelin.

off.

"I was shouting all the time. They ran off.

McNally, a brother-in-law of Evans,

was with him and wes killed.

£1,500,

with costs

Mr. Jacob Epstein said: "I do

haemophillo.

It has the effect of clotting blood rapidly.

One experiment showed that where haemophilian blood normally took 35 minutes to coagulate, solution of U:0 venom made coagulation pos- sible in about 17 seconds.

7.13 p.m. Patricia Rossborough at

the Piano,

and

Hero is my Heart Selection; Dames; Anything Goes-Selection.

7.25 p.m. Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market.

7.30 p.m. Variety. Band Coronation March

Edward German-Arr. Hymn (Sir Dan Godfrey). The Guards Patrol (Williams)..... Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards; Violin Solo -Daybreak (Reginald King); Melody Albert Sandler; Soprano nt Dusk (Reginald

King).

Solo-The Dubarry (Carter MilloCker Mackeben); I give my Heart (Leigh MilloCicer Maciceben)..... Gilta Alpar; Vocal-South

Sen

Island Magle; Me and the Moon.

Bing Crosby: Orchestral - Waldeslust, Walzer (Arr. W. Schlesinger); Wiener Prater Leben, Walzer (S. Transla- .... Columbia Salon Orches-

7.57 D.M. Weather, Announce- ments and Time.

8 p.m. A Relay from the Po Hing Theatre (Chinese).

11 p.m. Close Down,

8-11 p.m. European Programme from Z. E. K. on a frequency of 040

The treatment, it is claimed, has kilocycles.

saved the lives of many people 8 p.m. London-"Summer Over the suffering from this disease, known British Isles", produced by Laurence

Glillam. as the "curse of the Bourbons."

8.40

Venom in a dried form is now also

Inot want the statues taken down widely used by dentists to stop Mu.m. Half an Hour of Scottish

and do not think it necessary.

"I called attention three years ago

to the trouble. Metal plates above the statues are made, I believe, of copper, and in bad weather a solu-

bleeding after the teeth.

extraction

on

Using puff-adder venom, bo carried out experiments in 14 еален.

of

The Thistle (Myddleton). .... Tho London Palladium Orchestra; "Songs Dr. Barnett has recently been of the Hebrides-An Eriskay Love directing his research snake Lilt (M. Kennedy-Fraser); Herding venom as a cure for epilepsy.

Song (Arr. M. Lawson)..... Joseph Hislop (Tenor); Glasgow Highlanders (Arr. Dihck); Meg Merrilees (Arr. Dinck).

Scottish Country Dance Orchestra: "Folk Songs of Scotland" Whistle and I'll come to you, my Lad (Stephen and Burnett); McLeod's Mor- Dr. Barnett, who handles snakes Galley (Kennedy Fraser). at the Zoo almost daily, has one of Karet Barrett (Soprano); O Sing to the most dangerous Jobs in theme the Old Scotch Songs (Leeson); female country,

tion runs down on the statues and corroies them. No stone could stand'

"A police car came rushing up. I Judgment was entered for Mrs. it. They should remove the plates." toid what had happened and get in, McNally for went with them to try to And thengainst Evans, and for the other men. We failed.

defendants against Mrs. McNally.

Then they Look me to hospital.

"From what I have been told," said

'No' To Appeal

The-

statues, male and

I was covered with blood-had Ave the judge, "it seems to me that what-figures representing physlent quali stitches in my head."

ever may be the result of this case, ties, were modelled for the. British The manager of the garage aldo widow and children will never Medical Association, which formerly

get anything.

to me: "Hawkins was very brave.

The police wanted to take him to The law ought to take care that hospital right away, but he refused owners and drivers of vehicles could to go till he'd driven round with pay proper compensation for damage them in an effort to pick up the done.

mon."

accupied the building

Four showed completo cessation from fits, nine were improved, and

only one was unaffected,

MRS. SUN FO

.

When the Southern Rhodesian WIFE OF NANKING OFFICIAL Government took over the building

IN HONGKONG the High Commissioner suggested

Ye Banks and Braes (Arr. Lees).

Joseph Hislop (Tenor),

9.10 p.m. London News and An- nouncements.

0.35 p.m. Latest Varlely Numbers. Cinema Organ Lionel Monckton Melodies..... Al Bollington; Vocal Mon Petit Lit D'enfant; Depart. Lucienne Boyer: Piano Solo- Plano Medley, No. D. 2. .... Charlle that the statues should be removed. Accompanied by her children Mrs. Kunz, The judge said he was satisfied that Another suggestion was that they Sun Fo, wife of the President of the 10 p.m. Big Ben. Lawn Tennis: The bandits took just over £10 Evans was to blame for the accident, should be replaced by statues of the Legislative Yuan, arrived in Hong- The Davis Cup Inter-Zone Final. from the office Wil.

and that Wakelin did nothing wrong. first three Rhodesian Governors by kong on Saturday morning by the A commentary by Captain H. B. T. Merrington Brothers, the employers the same sculptor.

Wakelam and Colonel R. H. Brand, President Coolidge from Shanghai. Both men were about Bft. lins, tall.of Evans, had no responsibility, as it

Mr. Sun Fo was to accompany her from Wimbledon. for petrol is was against their orders for McNally the Royal Academy, refused to sign situation in the north Mr. Sun Fo

Sir William Llewellyn, president of on the trip, but owing to the serious 10.30 p.in. New Dance Records. described as well-spoken, medium to be travelling in the lorry.

Fox-Trot---Take Bnother guezs; build, in a dark suit, white collar, no

an appeal for the preservation of the changed his plan at the last minute The rhythm's OK. In Harlem; Swing that.

"The only person left to compensato" statues, and as a protest Mr. Richard as he is required in Nanking,

High, Swing Low: Waltz-Will you this

unfortunate widow and her Sickert resigned his membership of In Hongkong Mrs. Sun Fo is the remember; Fox-Trot-Speaking of |children in Evans," added the judge. (the Academy.

quest of Sir Robert Ho Tung, the weather; Waltz-My heart's in

The one who asked

The other was thin, pale, with thin sandy hair brushed straight back.

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Transmission 1

(0.83. 080. 08.0.)

12.30 pm, Big Ben, Sheep Shearing. 1 p.m. "The Adventures of a Zoologist in

England.

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