1940-12-24 — Page 2

Tuesday;

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 24, 1940.

TOOK DEAD MAN'S

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IDENTITY

German Landed In Britain

The story of a German impersonating an Englishman, -whose name appeară on the roll of honour of a war memorial In a Uttle Sussex village, was told at West London Police Court recently.

A man, described on the chargo sheet as Ernst Ehrensporger (49), a German, alias Ernest Clark, of Avonmore Road, West Kensington, London, was sentenced to four months imprison- ment for landing in the United Kingdom without leave of the immigration officer. He was further charged with failing to furnish to the registration officer particulars as set out in the schedule of the Aliens Order.

Sentencing Ehrensperger, the Magistrate, Mr Paul Bennett, K.C., remarked:-"To hear of n case like this causes me a certain amount of – uneasiness.---What happens to you eventually is none of my business."

Mr C. Melville, prosecuting, said that this German come to England in 1933, and after registering at Bow Street in the nume of Ehrensperger, a German born at Munich, was per- mitted to remain until 1934, when he left the country,

He had no permission to enter the country since, added Mr Melville, but,

HOOVER DAM

HURLS

FLOOD

according to his own story, be re- A mighty, man-made torrent turned last September, using the of 30,000,000 gallons of water name of Ernest Leslie Clark, and a minute was recently unleased entering on a passport Issued by the from Hoover Dam. British Consul în Ostend,

in that name.

He was seen on August 14 by a A touch of a button created detective-sergeant of the Special the spectacle, observed by more Branch, and he produced an Identity than 20,000 persons assembled card signed in the name of Clark. for the fourth anniversary of Ho niso produced a birth certificate power generation at the pro

"Police officers have made inquiries ject. in a village in Sussex,” said Mr Melz ville, "and they have discovered that this Ernest Clark, whom he claims to be, was killed in action in the last war, in 1017. Ils name is in scribed on the war memorial, and bls broiler In In Court.”

Eleven Valves Open The button was pushed by Irving Harris, director at power, and it opened all but one of the 12 giant outlet valves in the Boulder Canyon walls.

Each of the valves throws an eight and one-half-foot stream of water.

Two Sets Of Lies Sergeant Garrett told Mr Leslie Smith, defending, that at Bow Street The mighty cascade descends In a in 1933, extradition proceedings were fall greater by 13 feet than that of taken by the Berlin Pollce against world-famed Niagarn. Ehrensperger, but the case was dis Like a well-planned, perfectly mlased. Mr Smith declared that timed production of stage or screen Ehrensperger maintained that that the spectacle was unfolded as one was a trick to get him back because at a time the valves were opened. ho was politically opposed to the Nazis,

No Birth Entry

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TEAMED FOR FIRST TIME

“LUCKY PARTNER,” the Christmas attraction at the Qucon's and Alhambra Theatres, brings Ginger Rogers and Ronald Colman together in a picture for the first time. Above, they are photograhed at the promlara of the film.

Opposed Draft Registration

American

Divinity

Students Sentenced

STUBBORNLY rejecting the pleas of their prosecutor and the court to change their minds and register, eight Union Theological Seminary students were sentenced in New York re- cently to a year and a day each for violation of the Selective Ser- vice net.

On the recommendation of U.S. Attorney Cahill, however, Federal Judge Mandelbaum instructed the defendants that if at any time during the serving of the terms any of them decided to change their minds and register, the court would then be will- ing to entertain a motion for reduction of sentence,

Cahill made a lengthy statement

The cascading water set up a Ehrensperger had told two sets of rumbling roar. As additional valves iles to get into this country, because were opened the noise grew louder. he was, in his own words, "a hunted Soon the din blotted out, all sound dog." He said that in his youth he gave its own thunderous volce. was known as Ernit Seldi, and lived dialf of the valves open on the in Munich with his parents, who Nevada side of the project, the were wealthy. He was educated at the others on the Arizona section. the High School, and subsequently at The cascades met in midair, 150 Munich University,

feet above the stream bed, crenting a geyser which spaltered water for At the age of 21 he tried to get thousands of feet, drenching many passport. No entry of his birth in spectators and producing a heavy Germany could be found, and his re-mist which made It

It necessary for quest was refused. His parents told motorists around the area to bring him that they had adopted him when windshield wiper into action. he was three when they visited Eng- land, and that his real Clark,

A glinting sun shining through the mist produced double rainbows in When in Britain in 1036 he ex-profusion, adding to the lavishness amined the Somerset House Records, at the show. and obtained a copy of the birthi certificate of a man named Ernest

The valve opening, witnessed by special delegation of Los Angeles "They have, however, persisted in Leslie Clark, who was born in a vil-engineers dying over the dam in a and continue to persist in their re- Inge near Ticehurst, Sussex, because T.W.A. airliner, was held as a test fusal to register," he added, with he thought it was probably himself operation to make certain they are obvious regret. "In view of these He still genuinely believed that his in working order and ready to be facts, it is the recommendation name was Clark, but could not prove utilised in case of emergency.

the U.S. attorney that they be sen- Hurri emphasized at the brief fenced to a year and a day in a

that contrary to some re-federal penitentiary.” ceremony ports the dam is not closed to the public, spectators being freely wel- comed at any time.

it.

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name was

-Mr-Bennett said that there was hit

document which could

check

Ehretisperger's story.

UNITED ECONOMIC FRONT

To Protect

More Nazis For Prague

Another 30,000 Germans are to be billeted on the citizens of Prague. The city is now very congested, but reports which have reached London show that the Government of the Protec- torate will order the removal of all Czechs whose residence in NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (UP)—A united economic front between the Prague is not considered to be United States and Great Britain to cssential.

Investments

to the court pointing out that the defendants, as divinity students, were exempt from conscription from the start. He cited the fact that they had nevertheless refused to register and emphasised that subsequently and they they had been given every possible opportunity to sign up in accordance

the law.

Plea for Leniency.

of

defendants, told the court that his

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Court.

He pointed out that the students had dedicated their lives to religion cided that there are too many and that they could not participate (bulging waistlines and flabby mass killing of human beings muscles in the United States and under any circumstances.

Judgo Mandelbaum, deeply moved, said, in n quavering volce.

No Legal Basis "There is no legal basis for their failure to register as 10,000,000 or 17.000.000 others have done. But I to change their minds." offer them even now the opportunity

Then be ordered their names read

protect Investments in the Latin Czech women are being refused to give each an opportunity to American Republles was urged re-admittance to the Prague maternity ¦ change his bland. cently by Eugene P. Thomas, pre-hospital, where many beds, have sident of the National Foreign Trade been prepared specially for Ger- But each, in turn, stood firm, and Council.

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The programme, he said, should be The growth of the German popula- linked with defence measures. One lion of Pengue is an advantage to of the chief tasks in such an economic members of the Vlajka, the German- front, he added, would be to relieve controlled Fascist organisation, who the Latin-American countries of surore not depressed by the fallure of pluses.

their recently attempted coup. There are many indications that an- other will be attempted.

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POLICEMAN SAVES

PILOT, GIVEN

THE O.B.E.

Arthur Hendon Cole is a ser- geant in the Kent Special Cons- tabulary. A recent London Gazette, told that he had been awarded the medal of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire.

And this is why:-

"An aircraft of the R.A.F, taking

off from Biggin Hill airfield, crashed

Stood Firm

there was a ripple of approval from the spectatorn-including many re- latives and fellow students.

Those sentenced were:- Richard J. Wiehlet, Binghamton, graduate of Syracuse University,

William N. Lovell, 20. Poughkeepsie, president of the Union Theological student body and graduate of Yelo.

Donald Benedict, 23, Newark, N. Y

Albian College graduate.

David Dellinger, 2. Wakefield, Mass. Yalo graduate.

Meredith Daltan, 21, Grose Point, Mich. Alhlon graduate.

George M. Houser, 24. Denver, Univer. alty of Denver graduate.

Joseph G. Bevilacqua, 34, Buffalo, Tufla graduate.

Howard E. Spragg, 23. Malden, MOST.. Tuffs graduate.

Spain Agrees

To Take

Less Oil

has called the Philadelphia Democratic leader and former Olympic sculling champion, Jolin B. Kelly, to the White House to discuss the possibility of or- ganising a mass physical train- ing scheme to supplement the national defence programme.

Both Mr Itoosevelt and Mr Willkle, the defeated Republican candidate for the Presidency, complained in speeches that the country had gone soft and need toughening.

Army officers complained that dur- ing recent manoeuvres men of the National Guard were exhausted after a five-mile march.

College football coaches have com- plained for nearly a decade that the youth of the country was developing rubber legs through the habit of never walking even a few yards if riding were possible.

Argentine's Anti-Nazi Demand

A telegram to the Minister of the Interior urging drastic measured against alleged Nazi nelivities in the territory of Misiones, in the north-

It is learned in London that east of the Argentine, was recently

and turned over in the garden of the agreement had been reached printed prominently in the Buenos house next to that occupied by Ser-with the Spanish Government, Ayres newspapers.

Keant Cole,

The telegram come from the Secre-

The pilot was trapped and hang- limiting the amount of future oll tary-General of the Accion Argentina, ng by his harness upside down. Imports into Spain.

Cole ran to his assistance and,

pro-democratic organisation.nt The agreement is believed to be Ponados, the capital of the territory, although expecting the aircraft to based on Spanish oil consumption and declared: catch fire and blow up at any mo- during the pro-civil war period as ment, he freed the pilot from his gear modlied by present conditions.

"The elitizens have decided no longer to tolerate..dally affronts by and dragged him away, saving his While allowing Spain adequate misguided elements who are polluting

The aircraft caught fire, and the quantities for home consumption, it the district like a disease,

will leave no oil to spare whichClashes between Naxis and Accion patrol tank exploded a minute or two, might find its way to Germany or Argentina ara feared, and the Nazis after the pilot had, been released." Italy,

are reported to be negumulating arms.

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