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KILLER

BRANDS

HONGKONG THE

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER

28, -1937.

VICTIMS

"Get Rich

WITH LIVID LIPSTICK

Young Lovers Shot In Lonely New York Wood

POLICE in New York are investigating a murder as bizarre as any imagined by Poe, Gaborinu or Conan Doyle.

AN

Quick Doctors"

Nattack on those members of the medical profession

who "prostitule the science and art of medicine for gain" was made by Mr. H. L. Eason, Prin- elpal of London University and

A young man and a 20-year-old girl, who were en-himself a doctor, in an address gaged, were found murdered in their own car in a wooded

suburb of New York.

A bright circular mark, made with Hipstick, was neally left on The their upturned foreheads.

couple, Frances Hajek and Loul Welss, had been neighbours and sweethearts since childhood. They were hard-working young people and lived with their parents.

What motive actuated the murderer and why he left such a spectacular mark on his victims are puzzles to which the police so far have no clue.

It appears thal, returning from an evening spent m roller-skating, the the woods, couple had stopped in when the murderer crept up to them in the darkness. He fired two shots at each of them and stabbed the girl seven times with a long, thin knife, possitily an lee plek.

not the wns left un- Lipstick Police believe that the Murderer may be the notorious "3"

Robbery was obviously. motive, for jewellery touched.

Killer.

3st

still at large In 1930 a maniac,

On committed three similar crimes. cach of his victims he brandled sign-3X Couples were warned to the lonely lane. keep away from Police guarded all woods in the area.

again, The killer did not appear and lovers drifted back to the Jane.

In his little bakery Frank Hajek,

Roosevelt's

President

Ancestry

to the London (Royal Free Hos

pital) School of Medicine for Women at the Royal Free Hos- pital, Gray's Inn Road.

"As

"In medicine," he Anid. In all other professions, there is a small minority with no principles who bring discredit on their pre- fession.

"I have always felt that if the question of payment could be left out of our practice we should all be; in a happier and more independent position.

INSIDIOUS

"To those doctors whose moral

the

the strongest, Abre is nut. of temptation to make money sometimes President Roosevell is a direct de-warps their consciences. scendant of a Swedish army officer, named Martin, who was born 312 years ago in Revel,

now

"To get rich quickly and to make easy money out of the fear and appreliension of your patients, temptation Is the most insidious Tallinn,

present capital of Estonia, inqui- ries in Estonia and at the public library there have revented.

on

that you will have to meet, "To keep the narrow path between undercharging and undercutting the one hand; and on the other bleed- ing

Here is the gigantle head of Abraham Lincoln, third in the "Shrine of Democracy," hewn from the granite face of Mount Rushmore, near Rapid City, S. D. More than 5,000 spectators attended is dedication when Senator Edward R. Burke of Ne- braska spoke. The head measures do feet from chin to crown. us do the Washington and Jefferson hends.

by excessive fees those who are REFORMING CRIMINALS BY

In terror or in pain, is no easy mat aster"

It was the President's great- great-grandfather who married descendant of the Swedish soldier.

Resigning his commission in the Swedish army when still a young Martin Hoffman went to Holland, and In 1657 at the age of 32 crossed the Atlantic to make his home in New York State.

Some years earlier a Dutchman named Claes Marlenszen van Rosen-

the dead girl's father, sobbed as hevelt had migrated to Amerien. told while reading his dough:

and The children, grandchildren "I knew something would hap- pen. We've been too lucky, a great-grandchildren of Claes and and me a good daughter, a good son-in-law, and a good business. "I know we are good people. couldn't make an enemy. Why they murder my girl?"

do

Martin pursued their lives as British subjects in the colony of New York. In 1752 Isaac Roosevelt, great-grand- son of Claes var Rosenvelt, married Cornein Hoffman, great-granddaugh-

Roosevelt, now President

of

Why Nazis

Abroad Are

Supervised

'HIGH NATIONAL POLICY'

Berlin.

Why Chinese wife of a Roosevelt and his Nazi organisation for Germans

Girls Seek

Marriage

--MANY. of Singapore's Chinese

More virts long to get

married--contrary to the general belief that, because they have à job, they prefer to remain inde- pendent and single.

The truth is that they have to work or starve.

sew

They become schoolmistresses,

plats; barbers, nurses, dresses, assist in shops and do a hundred and one things more be cause of necesally than for the privilege of being independent,

One ster then most in the they where amusement parks sell tickets, serve behind coun- ters, mind amusement booths at which a cheery disposition and politeness above all things are essential even though flippant young men who go there to break the monotony of life are some- times inclined to be fresh.

At-

A good many of these girls can read and write. Some speak several Chinese dialects. tractively dressed, they smile readily, but bright faces, rouged and lipsticked, may hide weary hearts. Many of them live in dark, ting rooms in Chinatown. After each night's work the girla tramp the dusty miles back to bed and home.

Their only hope of freedom from the artidgery is marringe.

Eskimo Community Transplanted

PSYCHOLOGY

Experts To Train Magistrates'

A SCHOOL

At New School

for magistrates, the

fret of its kind, has been opened at the Tavistock Clinic, Bloomsbury.

from Central London and from

Croydon, Southport und Huntingdon- shire, have signifled their intention of attending.

Thic

of

object of the course," the News Chronicle was informed by a of the Clinic, "is to open ter of Martin Hofninn. Franklin D. COMMENTING on the speech director

the delivered in London by Herr magistrates' eyes to the necessity of

understanding the psychology United States, is the great-great-Ernst Bohle, the head of the crime.

"Treatment afforded mest criminals living abroad, the Deutache in the courts to-day is of the quack HOFFMAN AS COLONIST

Allgemeine Zeitung admits variety.

"The usual Pay a pound or take Though born In Revel, Martin that diplomatic protection is Hoffman was Swedish. His father served as a cavalry officer In

extended only to those army of Gustavus Adolphus and Germans living abroad who migrated to Revel with a group of juccept the instructions of the fellow Swedes.

Nazi party.

the now

In America-Martin-Hoffman-even-The-newspaper writes:. tually settled at Kingstowne the

"The misapprehension of the Ger- present small city of Kingston, Newman point of view among English York, and was granted some land men seems to be due to different

there in the name of James II.

the

policy.

The

a week, in prison is like the old- fashioned bottle of medicine→ entirely useless,"

Preachers' Views Of Marriage & Engagement

R. BELDEN, superintendent of Dwhitened's Tabernacle, London, EXPERTS TO TEACH THEM

a new murrlage Experts such as Dr. J. A. Hadfield, has put forward lecturer in mental hygiene, Univer- plan. He proposes:- aity of London: Dr. Denis Carroll, Marriages arranged by civil contract

for stated-periods... co-director Institute for the Scientif

the marriage service yow Treatment of Delinquency; and Dr. Making

"Until death us do part" optional. Emanuel Miller, senior physician of to what freedom is.

the Children's Department of the Ending unsatisfactory unions by re- notions as

gistered private agreement. They will explain the technique of Dr. Belden said: He served in the local militin, ris-English cannot understand that the Clinic, will be the instructors.

freedom of citizens must be restrict-

the motives and causes "At the end of ten years married ing to high rank and successfully re-ed for purposes of high

national unearthing peiling hostile Indian tribes from

underlying crime, and will show that people should be able to register dis- ime to time. One such adventure

"criminals" are merely or solution of the union at the wish of many cost him a rebuke from His Majesty's

dinary people suffering from gland either or both, and they should be Government but earned him

disturbance, poisons in the system, able to renew it for periods of, say, gratitude of the local citizenry.

mentai conflicts, poverty, wrong five years, or for the rest of life.

other or

"In most cases the unlon would not training,

est

be dissolved because children would conditions of

OFFENCES. TOO have made marriage worth while." MOTORING "Even motoring offences should be dealt with psychologienily," said theANON W. THOMPSON ELLIOTT, News Chronicle Informant.

Vicar of Leeds, preaching re- "All accident proneness is due to cently, said:- such enuses as an unconscious suicide "An engagement should not be re- wish, repressed aggression, inferiority garded as final. If a couple wish to complex or other abnormal mental break off because they feel they are condition.

doing the right thing, they should be **The sure way to reduce the able to do without any feeling of death toll of the roads to in-shame on either side.

broken "Though vestigate the real causer, not to Impose fines,"

conducted

"The English also se

fit to re proach us with causing Germans living outside Germany to be spied upon and place under pressure. Thnt a saddler's is, however, by no means the case.

"The facts are that every Ger small

man abroad who does not accepi

Hoffman business. He also owned a trading vessel, and appears to have Indulged in numerous ventures of various sorts. Among his properties were 10 negro slaves.

the ideals and the opinions of the new National-Bocialist Germany automatically

excludes

himself

from the community. There was no Issue of Martin Hof-

"The English mentality seems man's first marriage, but his second able to understand these ideas, but wife bore him five children-Anne- the English will have to accept them tic, Marritje, Zecharlas, Nicolnes and just as we refrain from interfering Tantle. It

Nicolaes'

to grand with their idens as the attitude who daughter Cornello

murried which they should take up towards Isaac Rooseveil.

their own country."

Was

Tsarist Court Revived

At Secret Meeting

Russian Nobility Gathers.

In London Home

The glittering grandeur, the jewelled pomp and the elaborate ceremonial of the Russian Imperial Court were revived in miniature at a secret assembly in Chelsea, on a recent evening.

Ottawa.

Members of the lost tragic Tsar's, to stand together in the royal palace From the Government supply shilp

uniforms to at St. Petersburg as the Tsar, and Nascople there has como word of ilte entourage, clad in Rucerss of an experiment in trans- which clung the odour of the moth Tsarina entered.

ball, beautiful-women ablaze with plahiing an Eskimo community,

This community was originally Jewels smuggled at incredible risk settled on the north shore, of Hudson out of Russia, re-enacted before a seals portrait of Nicholas II the pageun- Straits, but for some reason became very scarce there and the try of a Tarist reception, says the Eskimos found great difficulty in Sunday Despatch. getting sufficient food.

A year ago the Canadian Govern ment assisted to move the band to a new settlement on Arctic Bay, off Admirally Inlet, at the extreme riorthern Up of Bon Istand. There senin and other kinds of food pre plentiful, and when the Nascople entered Aretle Bay on Aug. 30, sho| was welcomed by a happy and healthy group of Eskimos,;.

"It was a wonderful sight," sald, Princess Berge Obolensky, mother of Prince A. Obolensky, the Oxford Hugby Blue,

"Only members of the greatert Russian noble familles

were In- viteil.

"The most touching incident was when the orchestra struck

up Russian National Anthem,

"Under the Klittering candel- abra wo tried for a few hours to Imagine that we were back in the days of the old regime.”

It is hoped that it the school is zaccessful," the Government will be induced to set up similar classes throughout the country.

All magistrates, it is believed, will

engagements

are necessarily rad occurrences, they are the right thing when there Is a possibility of going forward to marriage with a doubt in one's mind.

"Nothing tends to lower- the ap-

in the near future be required to proach to marriage more in the eyes have a thorough training in the of the world than breach of promise

actions," psychology of crime.

The immediate need is for a tra Both Canon Elfiolt and Dr. Belden velling panel of psychologists and have been married for twenty-seves psychiatrists who would carry the years. new service to courts which are out- sile the reach of experts.

Nobel Prize

For Anthony Eden

TURNING LAW INTO COMEDY

New York.

A Joint committee of leading Americau fawyers and journalists has taken cognisance for the first time of the apparently' growing tendency toward vaudeville scenes in court rooms, which blr. Anthony Eden, Dellain's

tho reached its climax with Foreign Secrelary, is almost certain| famous Hauptmann trial. to be the winter of the, 1937: Nobel) Headed by Mr. Newton D. Baker, Peace Prizo, forecasts, the Sunday ex-Secretary of War, the committee Chronicle, ant

sharply criticises speeches and maga His name will be the only one bezine articles in which witnesses dis- fore the trustees of the prize when cuss trials, lawyers' Press bulletins, court jury The principal guests were Prince they meet this montli

and criticisms of the Efforts that he has made on be during trials. and Princess Andrew, RON .and

half of pence, which will go put be daughter-in-law of the Grand

It also suggests that the consent of Duchess Kents, and their daughter, fore the trustees, will include:

Judges should be procured for the The Spanish nan-intervention.| taking of photographs in the court Princess Xenia,

plan;

His efforts to bring about a The committer likewise states that Western European peace pact; the Judicial system has become en- Anglo-German and Anglo-Soviet tangled in polities, judges relying naval, agreements;

more and more upon the support of advancement for popular opinion for

Father than legitimate judicial quali At home Mr. Eden is to have a fleations, owing to the system, of new asalatant;"

popular election of judges.

The house was lent for the peca- sion by Major and Mrs. S. A. Ban-* ford, and. Princess Obolonsky was. the hostess, PAKKADA NE

Major Sanford, who was formerly the in the 3rd King's Own Royni ilus- sors, married a "daughter of Princess "Tears welled in the eyes of those Mickelndze, a well-known member of us who had never had the fortune of the Russian nobility.

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