1939-07-21 — Page 14

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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRARH

July 21, 1939.

Byron Tomb Opened

"But

HANDSOME GIGOLOS WERE "MENACE TO THE CITY”

And Lonely Ladies Are Left Forlorn

NEW YORK HAS LOST IT'S "SOCIAL ESCORTS" —

HANDSOME YOUNG MEN WITH NICE MANNERS ·

- WHO WOULD, FOR A FEE, HIT THE HIGH SPOTS

WITH LONELY LADIES WITH MONEY TO SPEND).

Ted Peckham, 24-years-old United Stated university graduate, who started a bureau to put the handsome young men and the lonely Indies in touch, has been denounced as "n menace to the city and to vialtore" by Justice William R. Bayes, who found him guilty of operating an employmen! agency without a licence,

Ile fined him £50, forbade him to supply any more escorts until he gets a licence, and gave him a suspended sentence of three months in the workhouse (a modified American form of imprisonment).

As it was the Licence Commissioner Paul Moss who led the exposure of his methods in court. It seems unlikely that Peckham will get his licence.

"We have been trying to stamp out this social service evil for the lust four years," Moss told the court in New York.

"They send out escorts without investigation, and send them to women whom they have not investigated. Women who are overcharged are afraid to go to court because of the publicity." Two of the witnesses against Peckham were formerly éscorts. One, handsome young policeman Thomas Farrell, who con- cealed his identity to get into; had a couple of drinks. I spent pear- Peckham's service, told how he ly four dollars in expenses and re-

turned the balunce." received an order to take woman to the theatre and dinner. "Peckham's secretary," he re- lated. "told me I would get four dollars out of the ten-dollar (22) fee for working from 4 p.m. tog his fees. 8 p.m.

"If the lady kept me later the fee, would be ten dollars from 8 p.m. until midnight, and Ave dollars for every two hours after thul. I was to net two-fifths of all fery.

COULDN'T GET FEES

The next day, said Farrell, he had trouble in collecting the fee from Peckham.

Another witness, Charles L. Scaly, who spoke with us English accent. said he also had difficulty in wollect-

London knows Mr. Prekham very well, because it was in November 1930 that he arrived to stari a branch of his business, the London Social Escort Bureau.

By December he had 30 person- able young men working for him, accompany lonely Indies to dinner, theatres, dances, receiving a propar- "I met the lady at the Hotel Astortion of the fees handed over. and he gave me ten dollars for ex- Soon he was reporting it a success, penses. We went to the theatre and but by the following September he

Latest controversial sculpture by American-born Jacob Epstein is Inspected by an art critio at Lekerier Galleries, London, Women have sercamed at it, while critics shake their heads. It's name is "Adam.”

was bewalling the fact that English girly refused to pay for male escorts,

"GO GETTERS" "English girls are go-getters' and don't have to hire a friend for the evening," he said, "they know the sort of young man they want und see that they and him."

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WAS it really the body of tho port Byron that the British frizato brought trome from Greece more than a century ago? Did the Greeks, for whose Independence Byron died slighting, retain their hero's heart, and brain? For many

years these questions have

-remained unanswered-for many years the persistent legend worried the vicar of Hucknall, Not- tinghamshire, the Rev. T. G. Darber, in whose church the poet was burieri

114 years ago.

His opportunity came when matters

of archaeological interest had to be

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probed in that part of his ancient FOR ARGENTINE TANGOS TRY PARLOPHONE

church where Byron is.burled.

Consent of the Home Office and the present Lord Byron had to be obtain- ed and all the witnesses were pledged to secrecy.

The work was carried out with the utmost

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It took some time for the workmen. to open the vault. Descending into it after tests were made to prove the safety of the air, the vicur found un urn inscribed:

"Within this urn ore deposited the heart and brain of the deceased Lord Noel Byron."

Close to it was a leader case in which was the coffin with the body of Byron himself. The lenden case had been torn open and the lid of the coffin was loose.

"t raised the lid," says the viens, "and saw the embalmed body of Byron, in as perfect a condition s when it was placed in the comm 114 years ago."

Drexel To Have Stadium

Philadelphia. Plans have been virtually com- new pleted for construction of la Later in the month, Mr. Peckham stadium by Drexel Institute of arrived in New York with the an- Technology in time the 1940 foot- nouncement that seven British peers ball season. Dragon athletic nu- had signed to appear as a chorus in thorities headed by Dr. Parke R.

New York revue,

Kolbe, president of the Institution.

In London, the peers mentioned in- have decided on an Upper Darby dignantly denied the suggestion. site,

Ate Four Ounces Of

Arsenic--Lived

AHMEDABAD.

KAY KHUSHRAY BARJORJĮ VAKIL, Parsee youth aged 20,

did this to prove his faith in Zoroaster, the prophet by whom Parsees swear: he swallowed four ounces of arsenie, enough, it is stated, to kill 900 people, and lived.

He swallowed the arsenic at a gathering of Paraces, Hindus and Moslems, having previously publicly announced that he would either take a large dose of poison, pour molten lead over his

body or hang himself by à rope and survive owing to his belief In the Zoroastrian religion.

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Mr. Vakil distributed to the gather-TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250

ing a quantity of what he ate

a view to proving that it really was arsenic that he was to swallow.

Aftor explaining the importance of Zoroastrianism, he took the polson, and case the gathering might suspect that he was taking an anti- dote he threw away a glass of water which was offered to him,

The result of an analysis

of the Arsenie by Dr. M. S. Shah, Professor | of Chemistry, Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, showed that what Mr. Vakil swallowed was 98.740 arsenical, "ALL COULD DO IT"

In an interview Mr. Vakil stated

was

in the Elephant and Castle district intend to petition Scot- that what he achieved was "entirely land Yard for protection against astrianism."

due to his great faith in Zoro- London'a. “Dead-End kids”— Any person, he added who gangs of youths who are wreck-zealous to imbibe the doctrines of [ing and ruining their businesses, this religion could perform the feats

of which I am capable," Mark Selby, Jewish owner of a Zoroastrianism was the religion of milk bor in the Walworth-road, the Persian people before they became Mohammedanism. The war-wounded veteran with four converted

faith preached by | children, committed suicide after he

the prophet had been beaten up and his premises Zoroaster (or Zarathrustra) is a wrecked by the gangs because he re- dualism teaching that Ormazd, lerd |fused to supply them with free of light and goodness, carries

cigarettes and refreshments.

ceaseless war against Ahriman and the hosts of evil spirits who dwell in Recently gangsters marched into darkness. Ormazd created man to the milk bar he once owned and ald him, and eventually-the belief Threatened the

Two was the good kingdom will be manageress. plain-clothes men from Southwark attained. Police Station, who had been posted to the vicinity, appeared and the men quickly vanished,

WINDOW SMASHED

on

He Wants Lion Farm By Thames

A few minutes later the plate-glass window of a Jeweller's shop in Wal- NEXT spring Mr. Stanley Turpin, worth-road was smashed and several of Sandhills Meadows, Shepperton, rings stolen. Laler a free fight start- hopes to open the first Bon-breeding el in a ente in the nearby London- farm in England. If he finds the road. A man threw a cup of scalding trade to clreuses and zoos justifies it, tea into a customer's face,

he will stack his estate up 300 animals. The farm is to be on a 12- acres estate near the Thames.

The night attendant at the cafe blew the police whistle, he bought some days ago, but no one ran to his Dagistance.

Mr. Turpin' has had 'no experience in breeding lions, but is confident hoị can manage them. He has just re-i Folice offers with a tender were turned after a three years' "lour of too busy dealing with another dis-South Africa and proposes to join. turbance opposite the Trocadero forces with an experienced on Cinema.

breeder now on his way from Africa, Sunbury Council have refused to approve his scheme, but Mr. Turpin says that they have no power to stop blm. "Our takings were about £25 a He said: "I am going to house my day. Now they have dropped to £5.Hons Inclairs of stonos, so they will Between 8 o'clock, and midnight, live under natural conditions, usually our most profitable time, we have drawn less than £1.

"Every night is a night of terror," the manageress of the late Mr. Selby's

| milk bor ssid,

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"I don't see why the neighbourhood should be frightened, Lions take no "It means ruln for this bar. We notice of you unless you provoks will have to close down, and several them. My wife, is not at all per- people will be out of work."

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