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THE HONGKONG

Samuel Insull Seeking to

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Big Business Emperor"

Riddle of Secret

London

Visit

Samuel Insull, the man who started life as a Bs.-a-week office boy, rose to control £40,000,000 Amerlesn utty companies, was chased across the world to face traud charges and was acquitted afler a sensational telat, Is hiding in London.

He is staying in a rervice fut in a quiet West End street.

He will see nobally, excert a few privileged friends, one of whom wald that Mr. Insulf plans to change his name to escape the constant stream of business men who try to visit him.

"Mr. Instill is in London for a holiday," continued the friend,"He is leaving Boon to join his wifein Paris.

Visitors Barred From Flat

"Clly rumours that Mr. Innullis trying to establish a utilities nonopoly in this country may be discounted,"

But Mr. Insuli is keeping quiet about his plans.

new public

He has given the hall-porter at the Hanover-squire service flats where

he is slaying a short al of names,

fut.

Only those inen whose names are on the list may approach Mr. Insull's

Seventy-eight-year-ul Samuel Insull slipped back to his native London in secrecy,

It was in London over 60 years ago that he had his first job as

an office boy.

He spent all his spare time and what remained of his five-shillings-a- werk salary in learning shorthand and bonk-keeping.

He became secretary to the London representative of Edison, and later

to the great inventor himself,

Insul organising ability and driving force golued him vice-prest- dency of the Elson General Electric Company and three years Inter he began his great financial

Chicago.

career

A series of mergers in alility com- cerns made Samuel Insull Chicago's biggest bosa

VIR

He controlled utility supply porations worth more than £40,000,- 000.

Then came the crash. Samuel Inkull salled for Europe and a Chicago Jury Indleled him in s absence.

Mr. inzuli lived in Paris, and later' in Greece avoiding extradition.

His Come-back Vow

Then be returned to the Uniterl

charges that States nu faced the were made against him with regard

to his utility companies and ther

Anoneca,

After a long trial on a number of different charges he was acquitted,

Emperor" "Unties The great swore that he would make a come- back and regal e confidence of the world.

He planned to build up another gigantle business in public utilities.

But now secretly, silently, he has slipped into London. He has buried his identity.

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

11, 1937.

Change His Name Now in Hiding

UFS

Invigorated by the cold air. cturing his visit to Grand Coulec

Dam, on the Columbia river, Washington, President Roosevelt developed un appellte. Here's what he did about it.

Britain's Only Blind

Never

Barman

Spills a Drop

(By A Special Correspondent)

Tollesbury, Oct. 14.

IN TOLLESBURY, ESSEX, WORKS BRITAIN'S ONLY

BLIND BARMAN.

His name is Edgar Leavett. For 40 years he has served behind the counter at the King's Head.

To Leavelt blindness has proved no handicap. He never confuses the berr "engine" handles or the spirit bottles, That perhaps is understandable. But to see him mix an unfamiliar cocktail ur, unerringly, reach for a little-usked-for liqueuer baffles most guests.

Often "smart" people have tried to catch him. They have always! failed.

Mrs. C. R. Burles, the butel proprietress, told me that Leavett was "as quick and smart as any other man in the business,"

WORLD PEACE FROM

The

TRADE AGREEMENT

IS POSSIBLE

We are determined neither to that

or br ourselves inte

drawn Into armed conflicts between other nations. This is a basic and sound determina

New York United States was pledged recently to leadership in the effort to make effective the conditions of tion. peace and sanity", throughout world.

the

Mr. Levelt, a tall, heavily-built) man, is very shy about his skill,

No Short Measure

"No doubt I was a bit clumsy uti first," he told me. "But I soon Isurned. have always been very happy here. I like my work. I like the people I am with."

I asked him how he could distinguish between the different bottles,

in

"Every bottle

slightly differently shaped," he replied.. """Even" "two "brands" "of ̈ ̈whisky.” which may took identical to you. have a slight difference." In spite of his blindness, Mr. been known to "But this polley must be supple- Leavett has never

con- spill a drop of liquor or give short Hulfmented. We must make our Secretary of State Cordell

of measure. outlined this country's position in the tribution towards the realization

which peace movement to promote peace through the conditions upon economie co-operation during an everywhere can be maintained, international

recently, ultimately we shall have to sustain states and protect ourselves amidst an out- aide world ridden by war and force,"

broadcast

which included speeches by men af eight nallons.

Quier speakers were British For- eign Secretary Anthony Eden, Prime Minister Cumille Chautemps

France, Prime Minister Wils of Lipstick -

Mackenzie King of Canada, Premier

Van Zeeland of Belgium, Chanceller Girls Oust

Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria, Pre-

sident Alfonso Lopez of Colombia,

and Prime Minister Mylan Hodza of Milkmaids

Czechoslovakia.

cyr

The more we get together,

the stupider we are.

Eden expressed the hope that a trade agreement between the United States and Great Britain would be signed before very long," and said that even the trade revival of 1930 37 was a factor working for peace" King spoke of the significance of the reciprocal agreements Canada has with other nations, since they Miss Hamilton was complaining of helped dispel the fear that has re-the snobbery of townspeople, placed faith" in international affairs. The other speakers said smaller nations in Europe had experlericed

Exile Reads Of His Own Trial

QIGNOR Pallante Ruggimenti, one)

of the 16 men, intellectusie and

workers, charged with high treason in the trial now being held before the Fascist Special Court in Rome talked with me, writes the Paris cor- This was the chorus coined

by respondent of the Daily Herald. Miss Cicely Hamilton, author and The conversation was possible be- feminist, at a Welwyn, Herts, con-cause he and his friend, Signor Gut- ference of the Decentralisation and teppe Furabelli, are in France, and Town Planning Association,

Ince being tried "by default."

Ruggiment is editor of the Nuova Avanti, weekly paper of the Italian Socialist Party, published in Parls.

The 14 men in the dock are be- hieved to be accused of reconstituting the Socialist Party in Milan,

diMculties

of

It made them think less of a girl who could milk than one who worked in a lipstick factory, she said.

beenuse

economic co-operation.

Di tack

EIGHT PRINCIPLES

Ilul said that in the quest for

MILLS OF WAR

The most intelligent people came sald Ruggiment, but from the in- "I know very little of the trial," from small communities.

dletment papers I know that I am charged because apparently some of the necused have admitted that they the suppression of a small country were in contact with me In Parts.

peace, neither clever diplomacy nor Mr. Cecil Harmsworth deplored

huge armies could be "adequate

If they had a depariment which looked after these things, he be- Hoved steps would be laken to prahibli the suppression of small. muls These might be of encuable

"The 14 men now in the dock were 100 people arrested three. umong months ago in Milan, when the au- thorities became alarmed by the strength of the popular protest against Mussolini's armed. Intervention In Spain.

substitutes for the following right flour mill and its absorption into a principles:

National and international putlence Hantle structure at a scaport. and self restraint; avoidance of force In the pursuit of policy; non-inter- ference in the internal affairs of other.nations; the use of peaceful methods to adjust differences; the

The trial proves how much Museo- faithful observance of agreements; the benent in timer of war, whereas the lint fears a revival of the Soclulist modification

under- vast mildings would be one of the movement in italy and the growing jupposition against his war in Spain." first things to be bombed.

Such agreements.

when essential by mutual atanding and orderly process; The reduction and limitation of over- burdening milltary moments; and co-operation and Interchange in the economic field.

Every country at pence, Huli said, must join in support of the deler- mination to promote and to remain

at peace, and "above all else to make

Novel Labour For Naught

Frederick, Okla.

Temple Of Peace Visioned

New Orleans.

·

He's Roasting

For

Charity

Birmingham.

Mr. Harry Johnson, world's champion ox-roaster, is planning for charity to raise £100,000 before he retires.

He has collected a quarter of it already. He thinks the odd £75,000 will take him another 40 years.

And he's doing it all-by' roasting oxen.

baz

Mr. Johnson

rousted over 1,000 carcasses in all parts of the country, in aid of charities.

This he bas done in his spore time as an electrician, and is always assisted by his wife.

HAILE SELASSIE IN DISTRESS

A LONDON APPEAL FOR HELP

London, Oct. 17. An appeal for public subscrip- tions is to be issued this week for Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia.

The exiled Negus, his family and members of bis former Royal staff who left Abyssinia with him, are facing poverty in their English exile home.

During the past nine months he has been compelled to sell most of his valued treasures so that he could maintain his family and followers,

EMPEROR'S · PLIGHT

Now he is almost at the end of his

resources.

The appeal for help is to be made by the Abyssinin Association which has offices at Trafalgar-square, Lon- don.

"What we have in mind is a fund to be called the 'Emperor's Fund," Prosessor H. Stanley Jevons, hon. secretary of the Association, told the Sunday Chronicle,

The Negus has taken proceedings in the Paris courts to recover sires in the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rallway And in the Franco-Abyssinian Solt Company.

Last week his counsel said that he was in "stressing position."

HELPING REFUGEES

In an official statement to the Sun- day Chronlete the Emperor_sald:

"The remark of my counsel in Paria was to the point.

"Ind I had any intention of living in exile rather than resist the enemy at the time of the Invasion of my country 1 would now be in a position not only to support comfortably my own children, but also the many help less relugees from my country.

"There is nothing secret about the money I was reported to have brought out

with me.

"The amount, unfortunately, proved insuflun for the minimum beeda of the numerous refugees; so much so that I had to sell the few personul. articles I brought out with me (and to which I was personally attached). "Certain . Europeon newspapers' estimate of this sum runs to millions. But the transport officials who handled my treasures, and the bank which received them can tell a very different story."

Canary Bathes With Fish

This city is visualizing a “Templo An automobile service company of Peace" on the shore of Lake Pont- this determination effective by here had its most novel experience chartrain as a permanent home for applying the principles of conduct by that getting a cow out of a well. the Pan-American Congress. The which pence may be maintained.” Mechanics, using the automobile international forum, necording to "It is a great temptation," he con-wrecker, pulled the cow out of the Mayor Robert D. Maestri, will in= tinued, "to believe that peace may be well with a chain boist. When the clude consulate buildings about the had merely by maintaining isolation cow reached the top of the well-central temple, designed niso DS A enge each week. The Osh apart from the rest of the world both for no apparent reason to her res headquarters for n Pan-America in time of peace and la time of war. cuers-slie tell dead.

League of Peace.

Cleveland. Mra. Dorothy Zidanie's connry in- variably takes a bath in a gold fish bowl when it is released from its

little disturbed, according to Mrs. Zidanic.

Reem

RADIO BROADCAST

Service of Remembrance From London HONGKONG SINGERS

Rada Programune Broadcast by Z.D.W., on Wavelengths 355 metres (845 ke's) 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c's).

11.K.T.

10.60 0. Relay of a Service of Itemembrance from the Cenotaph, Hongkong.

11.10 Close Down.

12 Helay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.33 p.m. Songs by Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

Where's The Sergeant (Longstaffe); Tommy La (Teschemacher-Marget- son); Britain's Herilage (Medley of Patrulle Songs).

12.40 English Music.

Light

Orchestral

Chuderella--A Phantasy (Eric Contes); By The Sleepy Lagoon (Eric and Sym- Contes)....Eric Coales

Mock phony Orchestra; Dances (Grainger)....New

Symphony Orchestra.

iTime and Weather.

Morris

Light

1.03 Telalkovsky 'Aurora's Wed- ding-Ballet Music.'

Played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra condueled by Efrem Kurtz, 1.28 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.

140 Military Band Music. Mireila-Overture (Gounod,

DE".

...The B.B.C. Wireless O'Donnell). Millary Band; Amoretten Tanze Valse Des Alouettes (Gung): (Drigo)War March Of The Priests (Mendelssohn)....The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.

1.56 Form Fours War Songs Modley (arr. Giraud). Vocal Quartetto The Big Four.

2.01 Orchestral Marches, Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 (Elgar)....London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Edward Elgar: Imperial March, Op. 32 (El- gar) The B.B.C. Symphony Or

Sir Adrian chestra conducted by Boult

God Save The King 2.15 Close Down.

4-0 p.m. Chinese Programme.

G Orchestral.

Fidelio Overture" (Beethoven).... The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Crown

Coronation Imperial (A March-1937) (Walton)....The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra; Elegy, Op. 58: (Elgar)....London Philharmonic Or-)

chestra.

6.25 London Relay-A Service of Remembrance.

From the Cenotaph, Whitchull, London. Preceded by music played by Regimental Bunds.

7.10 London Kelay-Salute to the Dead.'

C.15.,

C.M.G.,

L.E...,

Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, K.C.V.D., K..E., Vice-Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission.

7.20 Beethoven 'Sonata In F Minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata').

Played by Artur Schnabel (Piano). 7.45 London Relay Can

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The lost talk of this series.

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士披来疎士忌

Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 The Roosters Concert Party. A Canteen Concert; Tommy's Little Day: Old Comrades Re-Union; Lights Out (Merriman).

8.30 London Relay-At the Black Dog.

Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour; Presented by Pascoe) Thornton.

9 Grieg Lyric Suite, Op. 54.' (a) Shepherd Bay; (h) Norwegian Rustic March: (c) Nocturne; (d) March

of the Dwarfs....London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon Ronald.

Recital

by

the

0.15 Relay Hongkong Singers."

For The Fallen" (Elgar).... Hongkong Singers; 2. Toccata, Ada-! glo and Fugue In C Major (Bach) ....Lindsay A. Lafford (Organ); 3. Requiem Mass (Mozart)....Hong- kong Singers.

10.45 London News.

Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

7.20 am. The Alfredo Campoli Trio. 7.45 m. Empire Exchange.'

Ban. Mrs. Becton, by Joan Adeney

Enndale.

D.30 am. Tound and About."

Claude

8.44 m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich: Tinn Sigan) at 8.45 am. Dam Ben. Variety, with

Jufbert and Enid Trevor. 9.35 . Haunting Harmonies.' 10 am. Big Ben. Food for Thought, 10.20 am. The BBC Empire Orchestra. 11.10 am. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 11.15 am. 11.30 am. "The Rocky Mountaineers. 4.15 pin. igen. Mozart's Chamber Music-11 The Stratton String Quartel, 4.43 p.m. Food for Thought.

5,5

The Rocky Mountaineers."" Das pin. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 5.45 p.m. 8.18 pan, lr Ben, Musse by Beethoven, Remembrance 6.23 p.m. A Service

from the Cenotaph. Whitehall, London, Preceded by musle played by regimentai bauds.

7.10 m. Salute to the Dead."

7.20 p.m. (approx.) Violin Recital by

Hamuel Kuicher.

7.43 pars. 'Can you Brat 17'

p. The Gerstion Parkington Quintel. 8.30 p. At the Black Dog. D. BIAS Bond Minie. 9.10 p.m. Food for Thought.'

9.30 p.m. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Signin at 97.45 pm.

10,10 pm. Big Den. Fred Hartley and hi Bextet, with Brinn Lawrance (Austen-; Han Intilona).

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10.43 pm. Mrs. Becton, by Joan Adeney 2.30 am. Violoncello Recital by Audrey

Fatale,

11.13 p.m.

A Service of Remembrance 2.40 in. 'Green Fields and Pavements-7, from the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London. 3.55 .. The BBC Emputa Orchestra. 12 am. The News and Announcements.

Greenwich Time Signal at 12.15 a.m.

12 m. As I See It'-7.

11.30 nm. Light Orchestral Music.

a.m. A Service at Remembrance from

1.

the Cenotaph. Whitehall, Inndan.

am. Big Ben. The Nown and An- aruncements.

dreenwich Time Signal at 2.15 am.

am Festival of Empire and Hemeni- brance. From the Royal Albert Int London.

am. Interval,

5.15 aan. The Nowe and Announcements, Greenwich Time Signal at 5.30 am. 0.35 m. London-tatance Lutening. 0.10 km. A Cervico of Remembrance from

the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London.

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