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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, ·1938.

MR. A. P. HERBERT DECLARES OUR BETTING LAWS ARE "ABSURD"

That's Why He Has

A Bill To Change Them

Mr. A. P. Herbert recently told the Sunday Dispatch why he is introducing a betting bill in the House of Commons.

"The present betting laws are absurd, illogical, and unjust," ho said. They have led to street betting and, ultimately, pools, "If the Bili goes through it will standardise betting and there will be no need for bookmakers to hang about on street corners. It will give them some self-respect, 100."

The text of Mr. Herbert's BIL was issued recently, a few hours be- fore a performance (which he attenul- ed) of his play "Derby Day"--ull about racing and betting the Guildhall School ol Music und Drag.

The Bill would make it lawful for

a registered bookmaker to conduct a betting business, whether

credit.

cash or

By personal dealings or otherwise

upon any ce track,

By post, telephone, or telegram, | but not otherwise, at an offer regis-

tered under the measure; and

At a registered office nás o cash bet deposit ofler

Under the B1, the Race Course Belting Control Board or a person authorised by the board to operate a totalizator may acceive by pust on an approved race-course cash bela; for a totalisatoy in operation there for races to be run on that course.

A bookmaker whose offer has been registered an a cash bet de- posit office would bo allowed to provide a letter box "altached to an exterior wall' to receive cash beta.

The

measure would

repeal the

Strange

Madness

Among Papuans

Calton (Queensland, }

A fresh outbreak of the mys terlous Vallala maduras affileting natives of the gulf division of Papua was reported by a passen. ger aboard the Montoro, who re- cently returned from that area. The speaker was in the territory when this madness first broke ont la 1919, and has been there many fimes since.

The Intest indications of the re-

Rendy Money Football Betting Art,rudescence of madness nerurred only

1020.

POLICE REGISTER Chief oflrers of police would be required to keep a register of book makers whose residences or register. ed offices were in their areas,

six weeks ago. The speaker did not { wish his identity disclosed, but his | statements regarding his association with the machiess were confirmed by Mr. P. E. Willems, Government an (thropologist, and author of the hook,

The Villala Mudness."

The preamble states that the pre-atso aboard the Montore sent law and practice,

"Troduce inequalities between rich and poor, so that the law is not respected, the common people are resentful, the persons truly responsible for street betting aro able to mcape the full penalties intended by Parliament, and the offers of the inw are embarrass ed by the templation or the sus- picion of corruption."

who was I

The Informant said that the Arst outbreak of the madness was extremely violent. It

affeeted

COB-

tens of thousands of natives for a distance of about 200 miles from Jokea towards the Fly River over territory extending many milles inland. The natives had celved an amazing veneration for a ecrtain white man

In whom they believed the spirits of many of their forefathers

in- carnated. Wherever he travelled he was e-

were

Harold Lloyd, who plays the part of Egyptologist to his current comedy "Irofesor, Beware," is seen with his eldest daughter at the museum In Los Angeles Inspeelta; relles from Egyptium excavations,

"BLONDE BORGIA ADMITS-

'I gave my brothers rat poison'

New York, Apr. 28. [LIZABETH WAGNER,

ELIZ

twenty-two-year-old, four-foot-ten blonde, her face freckled like a school- girl, to-day confessed before It also declares that as it is esti-

New York homicide squad mated that £400,000,000 a year Is spent on betting, there should be

men that she had murdered some sort of "regulation and, if need companied by hundreds or natives her two brothers. Henry, be, Inxation, so that in some degree who literally tore the jungle down these practices may be diminished with their hands wherever he passed. and, for the rest, be kept within durbananas or for pineapples they were

When

he asked for a bunch

New York christened Miss Wagner brought in lots of a ton or more at Little Miss Borgia" us police to-day time. In villages at which he stop-published her confession Man Who Crossed Fed the natives would congregate in

that sbe

them rat poison. had killed her brothers by giving

bounds."

In

The Pacific

18ft.

Yacht

Falmouth.

Anchored in the turbour here, ready for departure, is the Reine d'Arcor, a 50ft. French fishing bont in which a family of four plan to all to Australia. after spending the winter in their small craft.

Mr. and Mrs. H. 11, Bruche and their two children have discussed the trip with Captain Fred Rebell, Latvian voyager, who has decided to sell his little sloop Selbo the party.

Rebell,

and

Join

Captain

nicknamed "Australia's Height of Folly Navigator-he kaffed across

the Pasta from Sydney to Los Angeles single-handed In Ars 18f. saling skiff-is Ured seeing the world. "I have had enough of roaming," he

safd.

of

"I want to get back to Australia, where I have spent 26 years of my life, to settle down.

aged

twenty one, of Charles, aged fourteen.

thousands, and for weeks at a time would sing only one song, the hymn,

Jesus Loves Me."

GOVERNMENT ALARMED Natives who Ind never heard is word of English in their lives would sing heartily. The singing was Incessant, for no matter how many were too exhausted to carry on.

AR paroxysms of madness gripped them they would roll on the ground in frenzy. Some would go into coin- plete truber and would awaken in a highly exelted state and describe mysterious visions.

The Government became seri ously alarmed particularly when village dubus (men's hatises) were burnt down wholesale by the natives themselves. It was feared the entire native lifo would beconto disorganised. By the time scientific Investigation commenced, however, the out-

occurred

break had subsided. Several

outbreaks had since, and according to messages re- ceived from the natives only a few weeks ago, u recurrence of the mad- ness had taken place.

Mr. Williams said that the mad ness certainly sill existed in the "I became a wanderer because of Vaitala River country, and further an unhappy love affair. A girl turn-outbreaks in a minor form were by ed me down and the only thing I no means improbable. The trouble wanted to do was to put oceans be- appoured tween us, and get to the other side hysteria and was of a semi-religious to be a form of mass of the world,

"I was a bullder, but after learning

nature.

and

They announced that they would now re-investigate all coses of illness In the Wagner family for the last ten

years

Miss Wagner told of the mysteri EJUS fatal illness of her father, August Wagner, six years ago, and the Anding of her grandmother's body in East River in 1933.

The police added that they were satisfied Miss Wagner had poisoned her two brothers, who died a week ago.

'HE NAGGED ME' Her confession read: -

"1 gave them polson four times, I put a pinch of rat poison in their orange juice and milk. I hated Henry; he nagged and scolded me, He knocked two of my teeth out because I swore. I don't know when I gave it to Charles. I loved Charlca."

The brothers were burled Inst Wednesday after a brief, violent ill- ness, with Elizabeth weeping at the graveside as muurner. Detectives at first did not suspect the girl because she also had been . To-day she explained that she had taken just a light sip of poison herself to put them off the scent.

girl, though shown

Mrs. Marie Wagner, mother of the the confession, refused to belleve her two sons had been murdered by "my title slip of

nil I could about navigation in Farm Lectures By Planen daughter." Sydney Public Library: I set ou! alone. I really did not care what happoned

Regina, Saskatchewan,

"Actually I set sail for Australia The University of Saskatchewan

There was no doubt in the minds of the homicide squad. They branded Miss Wagner as "a girl with

in my little sloop a few weeks age, now uillizes the airplane to supply violent, undeveloped mind," uti

Information to Saskatchewan farm- pointed out that her medical record

of Blachy.

"The experience had In

I mountainous sens shook

my

those con-

but my craft struck a gale in the Buyers. F. W. Townicy-Smith, repre- revealed that she had been in hoz

sentative of the agricultural exten-pital twice for observation. sion department of the Institution,

Murder charges are not likely to to speak on tillage methods. flow to numerous towns and cities be pressed against the girl because

of her mental condition.

fidence in the Selba for such a voy age. I decided to turn back and go to Australie some other way."

Mrs. Bracle said that they had re- reived scores of letters from people who read about their carlier adven- turcs.

"Numbers of girls some of them in good jobs-wrote asking if they could come as cooks. Lots of fellows, too, had asked to join us, and wo have had three or four quite patlietie lottres from German and Austrian retugees,"

Opium In Cricket

Bats

Rangeon. Cricket bats are being used to smugglo oplum hero. Customs authorities seized two bata arrving from Sialkot, Punjab, and found they had been hollowed out and led with $1,050 worth of oplum.

"No Body" Murder Confession Baffles Scotland Yard

A MURDER confession by a man in a Cambridgeshire

Poor Law Institution has set Scotland Yard and the police of four countries a problem.

The confession-a written one-states that the man, with an accomplice, murdered "John Shillan" two years ago and buried the body in a copse between Bedford and Northampton.

Searches by police in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northants, and Buckinghamshire have so far yielded no clues. Detectives, however, are convinced that there is every likelihood that the crime has been committed.

Faced with a "no body" murder mystery, local police have reported the facts to Scotland Yard.

EMPIRE NEWS

DUTCH AIR LINE TO AUSTRALIA

Sydney,

The ennditions under which the] Dutch Air Line will be authorised to Janugurate a twice weekly ale mail service to Australia are announced.

The Dutch 'planes will bring malls from Europe, but will be forbidden to carry mails between Britain and Australia, either wily,

to carry passengers between any two points in Australia. The planes will be scheduled to reach Sydney eight days uffer leaving Amsterdam.

T31 Empire flying-boat servier

least will not be opened for at month after the Dutch service begins In July. The Dutch will use Lock- herd 'planes.

£10,500 Defence Gili—During re- cent weeks the Commonwealth has opened a special fund into which luve been paid n number of in- dividual gift, carmarked for defence. The largest announced to-day is from Sir Thomas Bucktand president of the Bank of New South Wales. He is contributing £10,500 towards the cost of the latest type of bomber place.

RADIO BROADCAST

Prue Lewis (Violin) In Beethoven Sonata MME. BUTTERFLY-ACT I

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 843 k.e's.; and on Short Wave trem 1-2.15 p.m. & 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's. per second. 12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.

12.30 Ivor Moreton And Davo Kayo (Two Planos).

Kitten On The Keys; Russian Rag: Nola; Polly; Dolls Medley.

12.42 Roy Fox And His Orchestra. Silvery Moon And Golden Sands-- Fox-Trot; The Cross-Eyed Cowboy On The Cross-Eyed Horse-Fox- Trot; So Rare Fox-Trot; My Cabin of Dreams-Fox-Trot; I Know Now --Fox-Trot (From The Singing Marine'): Yours And Mine-Fox- Trot (From 'Broadway Melody of 1038').

1.0 Time and Weather. 1.03 New Mayfair Orchestra And Hubert Elsdell (Tenor),

"Toad Of Toad Hall"-Selection (H, Fraser-Simon) Orchestra: Be- cause I Miss You So Glanville & E. Coates); Two Tired Old Eyes (P. Kenyon & J. H. Squire). Hubert Eisdell; "Going Greek" Selection... Orchestra; Always As I Close My Eyes (Handfeld-Jones & E. Conten) ...Hubert Eisdell; Medley Of James Tate's Songs. Orchestra.

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wen- ther Forecast and Announcements.

1.40 Reginald Dixon & Rale Da Costa

Churches and War-While can- sidering aggressive war an evil, a Dixon His No. 10 Reginald spevtal committee of the Vietorian Dixon (The Fumous Blackpool Or- Presbyterium Assembly declines tonist); "Four Aces" Sulte (Billy define the Church's attitude towards Mayerl); 1. Acts Of Clubs; 2. Are Of peace atul war, stating that there is Diamonds; 3. Ace Of Hearts; 4. Ace Tomm for a wide divergence of opin Of Spades....Rale Da Costa (Piano im within Christian fellowship. Solo): "Curly Top-Film Selection; South Africa

"Broadway Metody Of 1930"-Flim Selection. Reginald Dixon (Famous Blackpool Organist); Medley Marches; The King's Horses (Guy & Graham) .Rate Da Costa (Piano) Solo); Irish Medicy. Reginald Dixon (Organ).

UNION'S ELECTORAL

Official

ROLL

Cape Town.

figures published show tant after the biennial registration in 1937 there were 1,018,508 voters in the Union. after native voters had heen removed to a separate rol.

The Bure includes 501,522 Euro- pean men, 490,003 European women, 23.001 roloured men, 1,478 Asiaties, 1,897 Case Malaga, and ane till y registered in Natal,

Many new voters have, however, been registered in the supplementary rol, which closed at the end of Janu-

try.

Speech by Gen. Maritz.For the first time since the 1914 rebellion, of which he was one of the lenders, Gen. Manie Maritz addressed publie during the week-end in the Interests meetings in Calvinia constituency

of the Nationalist enndhinic,

used through the

A Wes April-Cape Town has just weitest April since 1931.

The rainfall on Table Mountain for the month was more than 7in

Canada

BUDGET FURTHER

DELAYED

Ollawa.

2.15 Close Down.

6.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel,

(a)-(d) Tangocs & Rumbas.

6.14 Recorded:-The Rhythm's OK. In Harlem-Fox-Trot; Take An- other Guess-Fox-Trot. Teddy Foster & His Kings of Swing (Vocal Retrain by Teddy Foster.

0.21 (0) Let's huve another cigarette; (b) Life of the party; (c) My campfire of dreams; (d) Elfin at

the Ritz.

6.35 Recorded:-Sweet Sue-Fox- Trot; Nenita Mia-Rumba... Fred Jackson & Ills Orchestra wills Jose Norman, with vocal refrain; I need You-Fox-Trot....Jay Wilbur

(Vocul refrain by

His Band

Bo

Sam Costa).

0.44 (a) Once in a White; (b) Satan takes a holiday; (e) I Sul love to kiss you "Goodnight"; (d) Jublice.

7.0 Dents Noble (Baritone) B.B.C. Wireless Military Band.

The

Jolly Robbers Overture (Suppe) Band cond. by B. Walton O'Donnell. The Rebel (from Free- booter

Songs-W. Wallace); Son O'Mine (from Freebooter Songs W Wallace)

Dennis

arr. Winterbottom)

Noble.

A further two weeks' delay in the The Black Domino-Overture (Auber presentation of the Budget is pre-

Bond cond dicted. The Government is awaiting Be Walling Up? (Hayes and T. C. by B. Walton O'Donnell. Will She the outcome of the Canada United Sterndale-Bennett): At Santa Bar- States tende negotiations, which are barn (Weatherly und Russell)

at present held up by the priority Dennis Noble. Slavonie Dance No. 6 right of the

Anglo-United States (Dvorak-Op. 72-5-arr. Williams); Pact.

The Cabinet does not wish to pre- sent the Budget without including the trade agreements.

and

Children Burned.—Jeurmine Alier Lacasse, two years and three months old respectively, daughters

of Rene Lacasse, were burned to death when fire destroyed the house of their grandfather, Nelson Lacasse, The lather was severely burned in attempting a rescue.

New Zealand

Le Corsaire Ballet-Delibes) Dance Of The Flowers-Vulse (from Band cand.

B. Walton O'Donnell. 7.34 Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.30 Light Orchestral.

Orchestre Raymonde. Carlsbad Doll

The Dancing Clock (M. Ewing)

Dance (L. Pleler); Oriental Dance- Novelty Duet (C. White) Bourne- mouth Municipal Orchestra conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey, Speakeasy- Cuban Dance (Lewis E Gensler); Bolero (From 'Bolero-Ravel) Odeon Theatre Orchestra conducted

WOMEN POLICE TO BE ↳ G. Walter. Immortal Strauss-

APPOINTED

Wellington (N.Z.). The New Zealand Government in- tends to establish a women's police force.

Mr. P. Fraser, Minister for Public Instruction and Health, making the announcement to-day, added that the women would go through a good course of training and have a proper atandard of health and education

Reuter.

Indla

ORISSA MINISTRY TO RESIGN

A Medley Of Strauss Waltzes) ... Viennese Waltz Orchestra,

8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- ments.

8.03 Puccini-"Madam Butterfly"......... Act. 1.

Vocalists: Mannarini (Mezzo- Soprano), M. Sheridan (Soprano), Cecil (Tenor), Palni (Tenor) and V. Weinberg (Baritone), with Members of La Scala Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Carlo Sabajas.

9,0 Stadlo-Beethoven 2nd Violin and Plano Sonata-Frue Lowis (Vio- lin) and Lindsay A. Lafford (Piano).

9.30 London Relay-The News. 0.50 Orchestra Mascotte, Under The Rainbow. Waltz (Waldteufel); North Sea Waves*=* Waltz (S. Krannig). Sweetest Of All-Waltz (Waldteufel).

Cuttack, Orissa. Mr. Biswanath Das, Premier of 10.0 London Relay-Courtney Hope Orlan, stated that he and his col-In Character Studies From Life. lengues hnd decided to resign unless Courtney Hope, a county mogistrate there were developments in the for Northampton, made her radio political crisis before Thursday.

debut about a year ago. She found- The trouble arises out of the objec-ed the Hatton Dramatic Company. tion of the Government to the and is the organiser and leader of a oppointment as Acting Governor of concert party which raises large sums Mr. J. R. Dain during the absence on for charity every year.. leave of the Governor, Sir John 10.16 Variety and Dance Music. Hubback. As Revenue Commis- Fox-Trots Whistle While You sioner Mr. Dain is normally sub- Work (From "Snow White and The ordinate to the Ministry. He is to Seven Dwarfs'); _Some 'Day My arstumo the Governor's duties on Prince Will Come (From 'Snow White Thursday-Reuter.

"In-Laws" Got Sympathy

Pasadena, Cal.

and The Seven Dwarka')....The Orchestra Of Merry Men directed by George Scott Wood with vocal chorus; Humorous-Sandy The De- inctive Comedy Sketch......Sandy Powell and Company: Fox-Trots Margle (Speelolly recorded for "The Big Apple'); Farewell Blues (Specially

Dr. Nadina R. Kavinoky explained Ronnie Munro And His

recorded for The Big hestra:

to the Institute of Family Relations Vocai-Easy To Love (From "Born here something of the complex of To Dance'); I've Got You, Under My mothers-in-law. "They are lone- Skin (From 'Horn To Dance') some," she said, "and hate to see Frances Day; Fox-Trots-Who Knows the young couple make inislakes (From 'Rosalia); Too Lovely To Be that could be avoided."

(Continued on Page 5.)

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