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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 21, 1938.

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Joseph Schaffer,

who claims to be the heir to the £9,000,000 estate of an American snuff king's widow, was undismayed recently when told that New York police had taken out warrants against nine members of a fami- ly named Schaeffer and had arrested three.

"They are not related to me," he said. "I am sailing for New York shortly, with my solicitor, to press my claim."

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The fortune was left by Mrs. Henrietta Garrett, who died in 1936, feaving no will. Since then there have been 23,000 claimants to the money.

The Scharffer farmly, who live in Philadelphia, claim the money on the strength of an entry, the name! Garrett, in their famdy Bible.

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Italian colonization plans envisage moving to Libya, North African territory, several hundred thousand more Italians above the 80,000 atrendly there. About 1,000 families atrendy have been selected and here are some of them embarking at Genua for their new homes. Homes will be in agricultural communities with 'modern houses and equipment.

ENGLISH GIRL DANCER

مم

JAILED IN ITALY

"I Had a Strube Cartoon

Of Mussolini

A BEAUTIFUL young English dancer, Miss Irene

Bardon, recently told in London of how she was The police have charged the imprisoned in Rome for a fortnight "for political Schaeffers with plotting to deprive offences," then ordered out of Italy as "a Jewess and a Communist”—because she would not agree to go to the apartment of an Italian officer after dining with him.

the Commonwealth of the estate, narging A Grace Schaefer ringlender in a scheme to make false entries in the family Bible and su hiking the Schactfera spuriously with Mrs, Garrelt.

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Miss Bardon went to Rome in Spain was they were frightened to with the Ballet D'Orville, an say no, and were bulled into it.

"A statement was taken down in A warrant has been issued for Dr. English company, to play in the tallan, and at first I refused by sign

Quirina 'Cheatro. She is 12

it. I was tired and frightened. They "The name of Joseph Schuttes, at Jewess, her parents live in iota me everything would be all right, London, means nothing to us," said Gloucester-road, Regent's Park, then I signed,

Donald McCaskey, of New York.

the New York police,

In his little home in Reighton- road, Clapton. E., Mr. Josepli Selaffer, a Pole, an ex-Royal Fusiller, said.

I have documents to prove that Henriella Garrett was my father's cousin.

N.W. She said:

"They took me in a taxi to what "After the show on October 22, 1 they said was a convent, but it was I was introduced to a young Italiana woman's prison. My finger-prints i oneer who had been wounded while were taken and they stuck a loaf of fighting for Spain. I dined with him. bread in my arms and put me in a "When I refused to go on to his cell. The only furniture was three apartment, he threatened to take me straw mattresses, to the police and get me inte trouble! "Mr. Blauner, my lawyer in New for things I had said about Mussolini York, has been working on my and Italy. claim for some time, and now wants

dragged me into a enb, tools me "He me to go to America for the final in a small local police station, and told them I was a Communist. They stages,"

sent us on, with policemen, to the Central Police Station near

the

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Mr. Schaffer was to have sailed to | Pantheon. Amerien some time ago but cancelled his passage at the last minute beenuse of a cold.

?

I WAS TERRIFIED, RAN'

"I was terrifed, and tried to run During the struggle some of Talking to his lawyer by Trans-away. atlantic telephone he learned that my clothes were tom off, and my thousands had waited on the dock-wrist watch was sinashed.

"After staring in the police station side for a glimpse of him when the Normandie berthed.

for seven hues I was questioned by a man in the Italian secret police who spoke perfect English,

With his solicitor, Mr. M. Shanson, of St. Paul's-churchyard, EC, he left England on the Norimandie for New York.

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"I was kept there until the night of November 5, living on bread and water and soup. Even the governor of the place didn't know why I was there. He asked me--but I didn't know either.

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TOLD TO GET OUT

"Then, on the night of November

5, my cell door was opened. i was

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New York, YEAR OLD

Gloria Roff, kidnapped from

a school dance in Teaneck, New

Her absence from the show, two Jersey, by a man who telephoned days after Mils; Bardon had been a demand for £100 ransom to her They accused me of being a Com- taken to the police, led the director adopted parents, recently identi- munist and of standing up in Tito's, of her company to inquire about her.

where we had dined, and shouting The polfer told him she had been tied her assailant from forty-five- Up with Stalin and down with detained "for political offences." He suspects. Mussolini. They said I had insuffed and the British Consul tried to get in Mussolini, and asked me why I waLouch with her while she was in cur so that Gloria could study the

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Each of the men was forced to drive

back of his head from the rear seat.

"That's the man!" she said sudden- y, and the police arrested a jobless dishwasher.

"What's your name?" they asked. "Fred Roff," he said.

It was the first time Glorin had seen her father since she was four years old; when she was adopted by her uncle, George O'Connor.

Roff denied he had kidnapped his daughter, but the schoolgiri, crying! because she had found, in such cir- cumstances, the father she had not known existed insisted he was her abductor.

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