1937-11-29 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER

29, 1937.

WOMEN TELL OF FEAR ON BLACKHEATH The

Girl Attacked In Fog Says "I Bit Him

Meet Lulu, the only wombat in captivity in the United States, shown by Belly Scheidle at the San Diego, Cat., zoo. Lulu halls from the Antipodes and although usually a friendly animal, she can outbull a goal and outkick a 'mule. While, she resembles a Klant guinea pig, she is related' to the kangaroo.

"Thefts Encouraged By Surgeon Of 68'

-COURT ALLEGATION

A SIXTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD physician and sur- geon was accused at Liverpool Police Court recently of encouraging "a systematic course of thieving" by his seventeen-year-old guardsman son and other young men, and of being the "fence" or receiver of the stolen goods afterwards.

Dr. Glaister Downer Hamilton, of Hope-place, Liverpool, was charged with receiving thirty-six bottles of whisky worth £22 10s. and a chest of tea worth £9 148., the property of In the dock with him stood his son, MacSymon's Stores. Ernest, a trooper in the Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, accused of receiving twenty-four bottles of whisky and a chest of tea. Both were also charged with conspiring with others to steal and receive.

Mr. W. Oliver, prosecuting; said the young men were brought into crime by the suggestion first of Ernest Hamilton and the most definite encouragement of his father."

Bail was allowed.

Case adjourned.

Mui Tsai Report

MISS TURBERVILL "FEELS LIKE WEEPING FOR JOY" Confident Minority View Would

Be Accepted

And He Ran Away"

DESOLATE Blackheath, avoided by solitary women after dark ever since Louise Maud Steele was mur- dered there in 1931, was recently the scene of a savage attack on a girl.

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Relay of the Hongkong

Hotel Orchestra VARIETY PROGRAMME Radio Programme Broadcast by ZDW on Wavelengths of 355 metres

H.K.T.

Twenty-five-year-old Greta Keenan, a dark, athletle business (4), 31.40 metres (0.52 m.c..). girl, of Shooters Hill-road, S.E., was walking home in the thick fog.

Near St. Germans-place n jumped on her back.

Mak

She told her parents: "I was too

frightened to shout.

OLDEST

The man put his haruls round SKELETON

my throat. When I tried to screams he covered my mouth. I bit his hand, and he struck me on the back of the neck. Then he grabbed my handbar and ran away."

A party of men and women found Miss Keenan soon afterwards run- ning hysterically through the fox. Her clothing was torn. At first she seemed afraid to approach them.

Sold one: "She looked more terri- fed than I have ever seen any one look."

She was taken home and put to bed.

ONLY ONE ALONE

FOUND

MISSING LINK IN U.S. HILLS

(By Hillier Kreighbaum) United Press Staff Correspondent.

Washington.

I suw several women with their sweethearts, three walking together,! Discovery of the sceleton of But only one woman was without en primitive child, less than a year old, ercort, and she had a large dog on in a cave near Great Salt Lake in aleush.

Utah was related in a

report by Sinithsonian. The

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Mozart---Sonata C Minor, K. 457.

Played by Waller (Piano).

Glescking

12.46 Mozart-Orchestral Com- posliions.

Marriage Of Figaro-Overture; Il Seraglle Overture... Vienna Phil- harmonic Orchestra Cond: Clemens Krauss. Overture Cosi Fan Tulte'

The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra Cond: Adrian Boult,

1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather | Report.

1.03 De Groot & His Orchestra with Walter Glynne (Tenor).

Erstes Waltzer Potpourri (Ro- brecht)... Orchestra. Selection Of Chopin Melodies (arr. De Groot); Polonaise in A; Prelude in A: Waltz In D Flat .. De Groot (Violin); Reginald David Bor (Plano) and Kilbey (Cello). I' Walk Beside The discovery of an American You (Lockton-Alan Murray); The "mlasing link," possibly the oldest Valley Where Wishes Come True I drove through Blackheath in the human skeleton ever found on this (Eatherley-Elliott); A Dream Of continent, was revealed recently by Paradise (Gray and Littleton)... Louise-Selection Dr. Julian II. Stewart, Sinithsonian Walter Glynne.

(Charpentier); The Waltz Drenm- institute archaeologist.

Selection (O. Strause)....Orchestra. 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Local Weather Forecast and Announcements.

1.40 Variety.

Singing Organ-The-

Marine- Selection; 'Broadway Melody of 1935 Miss Freda Thomas, nged nine-Stewart to the

Reginald Foort. teen, of Vanbrugh-Hill, Blackheath, discovery may help to clear up

to blank space of several thousand years-Selection.. one of the three women, said

many Comedienne-In Love Again (from me: would not walk here alone in the history of Amerien for anything. It is terribly dark and centuries before the time of Christ Seeing Stars)...Florence Desmond. (Apollon!o); Orchestral-Sielllana on the other side of the world. lonely here at night."

Stewart,

was Blue Skies (Rixner)... Barnabas who formerly

Humor- University of Von Geezy & His Orchestra. assoelsted" with the Utah, said that it was difficult to ous Taught Me How To Play The Specialist (Charles estimate how long the tiny skeleton Second Fiddle (Lynhart, Moder and Crumit had been buried in the gravel floor Dahl): I'm A

Frank of the cave but he believed that it 'Chic' Sale)

(Tenor). Vocal-Birdie Out of A was at least 5,000 years old. There Cage: I Was Anything But Sentl was a possibility, he stated, that the,

mental (Alen Take My Tip') Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. skeleton was 12,000 years old.

The

oldest residents of North Accordeon Band-Log Cabin Lullaby Americs known to scientists are the (S. and G. Byrne and Schuster); But despite The White Clits Of Dover (Leon so-called folsom men.

skeleton

and Towers)

Plano- decade of vigorous search

A police official said: "I can't understand why the women are so terrified of crossing the heath. This is the first attnek of any kind in the last two years.

on

"We rarely have cases of men charged with molesting women the heath. There are usually police patrols about."

PRINCESS TO MARRY Man She

Loved 37

Years Ago

Major Peto sald recently: "We wanted to be engaged then, but it was We wanted to never announced:

4

of this early race ever has been found Accordeon-Band.

only relics. The

und its existence is known through "cultural"

2.15 Close down,

London

5.0-0.03 p.m. European Programme. folsum men shaped their arrow 8.05-11.0 p.m. Chinese Programme. points in a distinct double-chipped

6.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra hun Etyle

the skeleton of the from the Grill Boom of the llongkong

R major Hotel. primitive baby may be

archieological discovery.

1. That's Southern Hospitality; 2, The Smithsonian report of the dis-Star Dust; 3, Avalon; 4, After You've covery read as follows:

"Six inches deep in the lake gravel floor was found the burled skeleton,

Gone.

5.15 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.

of an infant. The bones were very 0.20 5, So Rare; 6, Vieni, Vieni; Immature. Beside the skeleton Jay 7, Feelin' No Pain; B, I'm Walking sharp bone dagger. At this level Thru Heaven with you.

also were found some very small projectile points, probably dart heads,

5.33 Interval of recorded

dance

6.40 9, I Can't Believe it that They are entirely different in design, You're in Love: 10, Love is good for and knives, scrapers, and bone awls, music from ZBW. however, from the artifacts associated anything; 1, Was it Rain; 12, Sweet

how Heartache.

with folsom culture."

Dr. Stewart speculated on

5.55 Interval of recorded dance these early Americans found-shelter music from ZBW...

14, Love me forever; 15, Pity Mc.

6.15 Interval of recorded dance muste from ZBW.

6.20 10, September in the Rain; Eyes; 10, 17, Jealousy; 18, Black

·Türner Layton (Vocal

in the caves near Great Salt Lake as 6.0 13, A Beautiful Lady in Blue; that body of water gradually dried up after the last ice age. During the thousand of years as the lake was (By A Special Correspondent)

shrinking, the lapping of the waters Princess Lichnowsky, widow cut caves in the banks along the

Rose Room. of London's 1914 German Ambas-shore.

Eventually these caves were open- 4.30 Children's' Records, sador, is sailing to Enigland toed for human habitation as the lake Allee In Wonderland: 1low 'doth Gre old marry Major Ralph Peto-the continued its shrinking. The date of the little crocodile: You man she fell in love with, as he the earliest occupation of the caves Father William; Speak roughly to twinkle, fell in love with her, when they can be calculated crudely from the your tile bay Twinkie,

rato of water shrinkage,

little bat; Fury sald to a mouse; Will met in Munich thirty-seven years! The cave in which the skeleton you walk a little faster... Frank was found is now 385 feet above the Luther. Christopher Robin is Say- ago,

"When We She was then the beautiful young kvel of Great Salt Lake. Apparently ing His Prayers (from Mechillde, Countess Arco. He was was Brat occupied by humans im Were Very Young-Miine and Froser-

mediately after it became dry. Dr. Simson) · · · diplomat.

Stewart believes, because there and Piano),

6.45 Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano). seems to be no interval between the

The Little Sandman (Brahms); flour of lake gravels and the human artifacts or remains.

Vogel Lied, Op. 41, No. 4 (Weingart- Fragments of charcoal, he said,ner); Caprice Viennois (Kreisler).

0.55 New Symphony Orchestra and indicated that these primitive occup- ents of the cave built their fires on Noramn Allin (Bass).

In Memoriam-Overture (Suillvan) the gravel itself.

here can be no question but that

Orchestra. When Song Is Sweet these people preceded by several (Sans-Souci); Think of Me (Lady basket John Scott-arr. Moffat); Father thousand years the earliest awkers" Dr. Stewart said.

O'Flynn (Graves, art. Vililers Stan- The basket makers pre

the last ford)

Norman Allin. Americans about whom

(Box); Mediterranean THE Straits Settlements Gov-contacts with

Tintagel As I talked to Major Pelo-sixty early shown not Chinese and other officials in Malaya, and white moustached now, but as archaeologists have a fairly complete (Bax) New Symphony Orchestra. tem ond the 7.30 Closing local Stock Quolelions them my warmest remembrances and Jubilant as a boy at a London club, neture. Between

double sharpquest arrow and Hongkong Exchange Market Re- best wishes for the task that lies be- I thought of the young man and the peculiar

has left 11 blank. Dr. Stewart 7.35 Variety. fore them. It is a heavy lond but it girl who were sad to part in Munich 20lats of the folsom men archaeology port."

Thirty-seven years ago.

believes that his "missing Ink" be Orchestral Crest Of The Wave' will be more than worth while."

The young diplomat-and attache longs to this previously unknown Selection (Ivor Novello-arr. Pren- at the Munich Legation-came home period in American history.

tice)... The Drury Lane Theatre murried Miss

Orchestra. Humorous Duct-Tricky Little Tune: A More Or Less Volgo Ront Sonu (McGill). . Major and Minor. Piano-Sweet Heartache

(Continued on Page 4.)

London, Nov. 2. CONFIDENT that her minority report on the mui tsai problem in Malaya and Hongkong would be accepted sooner or later, Miss Edith Picton-Turbervill said she "felt like weeping for joy" when she heard that Sir Shenton Thomas had recommended her views to the Malayan Governments,

ernment has

only great commonsense but a

true realisation of what is prac- ticable, because it is far easier to legislate for the protection of

all transferred children than for one section like the mui-tsal,

the Prolectors of

"I would like," she added, "to send

on.

marry, but could not--families and so "I have been proposing to her for years and at last we have fixed things up. I proposed at Munich-In the same old, piace where I proposed thirty-seven years ago."

which it is impossible to define. Raspberries in October cousin of Violent Duchess of Rutland.

"The statesmanlike action of the

Straits Settlements will, I hope and

Kelloggsville, O. The advent of a chilly October feet sure, be followed by the other didn't keep red raspberries from Malayan Governments, and by Ilong-ripening in the garden cultivated by kong." Miss Pleton-Turbervill con- Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hopkins. tinued.

far-reaching

"It will have a effect. China is now disturbed but thai will pass. Long ago reliably informed that China will of Malaya follow the legislation

and Hongkong.

was

Naturo Is Bountiful

Nearby Chin, Alta. Peter Powell belleves he has sel up some kind of a farming record. Last spring he sowed three bushels field. This fall he harvested bushels of Marquis whent.

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This marriage was dissolved in 1923. LOVED ENGLAND Mechtilde married Prince Llen nowsky--and came to London as the wife of the German Ambassador. Boil loved England.

Mexican Baseball

Close

Chihuahua City, Mexico. Some kind of a baseball record was hung up at the Chihuahua City State The departing Ambassador, its Fair when the San Francisco del Oro said, wept when war broke out, and nine and the Chihuahua City team he left England with his wife. The battled 13 frames to a 3-3 the Sun- prince died in 1920.

ay morning, and then followed that Major Peto, who served in the 10th affermoon with a 2-1 draw that was Hussars and later in the Air Force entled on account of darkness in the

a fortnight ago, jubilant, and told friends, "She has promised to marry

Turbervill, "then legislation along the

"If that is so," said Misa Pleton- of wheat in a three-acre irrigated in the war, came back from Munich 10th. lines of my recommendations will mean the freeing from the servitude of thousands of children in Malaya, and Hongkong, and tens of thousands in China.

"I claim," she added "that the Minority Report looked the diff. culties in the face and grappled with them, while the fajority Re- port looked the difficulties in the Ince and then passed them by."

Mias Picton-Turbervill said aha ro- called with the greatest pleasure her

me,"

But he told me: "We don't want Shoes His Weakness

a lot of fuss. We are too old for

Weather Halts Traffic that

Troy, N. Y.

Syracuse, NY.

We strolled along the club corridor It's getting to be a habit with Leo and the major cried, "Whoaan!" Costello, 32, of Kangas City, Mo. The weather halled traffic on the and gave me a playful dig in the Exactly four days after he finished Congress Street bridge when

heat ribs when I aniced where the wed-a six-months sentence in Onondage expanded the steel on the west draw, ding would be. Plans aro, esther county penitentary for stealing " proventing it from closing.

A secret or not yet complete.

pair of shoes, Costello was arrested acetyleno, torch cut the jamrned

for the samo offence. He pleaded parts, making them fit, and traffic The princess arrives in London to- qulity and received another six- was resumed,

day,

|mbrafha sentence.

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