1950-03-28 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1950.

SODAS WITH THE NEW PRESIDENT

President-elect of Pennsylvania State College, Milton S. Eisenhower, joins four co-eds for a milk shake during a 24-hour visit to the campus. Now President of Kansas State College, this brother of Dwight Eisenhower will take up his

new post on July 1-(Acme)

Parson And Peers

Wage Turf

Battle

By VIVIEN BATCHELOR

Newmarket.

A new sort of battle of the Turf is being fought out here between the Parson, as chairman of the local council, and the Sporting Poers, as stewards of the Jockey Club. But, unlike most Turf battles in this town, it is over houses, and not horses.

The fight is for 40 acres of turf known as Houldsworth Valley, near the Cambridgeshire course, belonging to the Jockey Club, on which the council wish to build houses, and an adjoining private road by which they want people to approach the houses,

Feeling runs high in the "Surely they could give up 40 town, and the odds are unsere

The Parson.

He has told the Jockey Club, on behalf of the

connell, that he will seek an order for com-j putory purchase of the land i unle the Jockey Club accept the council's plons.

so that the homeless In this town can be housed,

"It seems obvious that some

person or persona

mined to obstruct us,"

The

are deter

NOW DEADLOCK

The parton is the Rev. Claud! S. Scott, whose parish is in the risen ancient village of Exning, ad-cerning joining the lown.

Except for a possible visit to a local point-to-point, he thinks of heures than hursen, and he makes no claim to be a "sporting parson.”

more

dendlock: which has now is primarily con− { who shall pay for making up the Jockey Club's private road, ea that residents can use it, and at the same time: it can be suitable for horses,

Lord Allendale said: "I re pulate the inference that the Jockey Club in any way wish

market, or lo stand in the way

He has been chairman of the to retard the progress of New-

council for two years.

*PROCRASTINATION'

of building house."

Mr R. E. Bromet, of the firm of W. J. and J. G. Taylor, the Jockey Club, olleitors for

said:

al-i

that i

The Sportin: Peers are Lord Allendale, Senior Steward of the Jockey Club, and Lord Irwin and Lord Sefton, the other two "The Jockey Club have

ways been most anxious stewarda.

develop the Mr Scott said: "There are the town should more than 1000 people homeless land for housing in that part of In Newmarketa tenth of the Newmarket where the 40 acres population. Wo hope to have are.

the first ones housed on the new

estate in about 10 months' time.

This delay has been going on

aince we

'PRESSURE'

first approached the "It was solely through pres- Jockey Club saking them to sell are by the Jecker Club that! the Houlthworth Valley to us the council were persuaded to j

in October 1948.

at

go to that area. The point issue at the moment is purely in "They agreed to sell, but connection with the Jockey Club since then there has been end-private rent,

procrastinallon on their

Jess

Part."

The Jockey Club do not see why they should have to pay The Parson has a stalwart for making up the road for the seconder in the vice-chairman benellt of the council's housing of the council, Mr G. II. Goult, estate,

a civil servant.

If the council carry out their Mr Goult rald: "The Jockey threat to seek n compulsory Club have seven square miles of purchase order it is

expected open ground in this district on that the Jockey Club will ask which to exercise and breed for arbitration on responsiblilty their horses.

alt for making up the road,

R. O. CANNON

YOU TURNED UP AT JUST THE| RIGHT TIME, STIRRUPE.

WHISPER HAS JUST GONE

OFF WITH PROFILE

SHE'S CRAZY!"

•

PRINCE OF

OF BANK ROBBERS LOVES TO DRESS UP

By Frederick Cook

New York.

If there were in America any such publication as a Who's Who of the Underworld, it would cer- tainly contain some such entry as this:

SUTTON, William, alias] She saw the guns, screamed Willy the Actor: robber; hysterically, and Willy and his specialises in banks; born friends ran.

But 18 days later they had Brooklyn, 1900; graduated from Hell's Kitchen, New better luck. Again dressed as ja messenger. Willy 1ed his York; hobby, disguises and supporters into JA Jeweller's make-up, hence alias; very shop and left four minutes hard mun to keep in gaol, later with $129,000 In gems. has escaped from the best In May 1931, Willy made "up tho repeatedly; dangerous; may one of his journeys shoot to kill.

The to Sing Sing. Present nd-river"

police virendy thought so much dress, unknown.

of him that they put him in a new escape-proof' section,

The police of half America are once again on the look-out for Willy the Actor.

In December 1932 he proved that it wasn't. Ile Guwel

before the alarm

Eleven men and women who through the bars and was out were herded at gun-point into 20 minutes the safe-deposit

a. Now went off. York bank have endifted him as the leader of the gang who poured $63,000 of the bank's money into a blue cloth bag and strolled away.

THE RECORD OPENS

OFF TO PHILADELPHIA

In the months that followed, the police of Philadelphia be- gan to suspect that Willy hid moved there. A series of barit robberies bore all his marks. suspicions were con- Police records on Willy the Their Actor read like a Hollywoodfirmed by New York policemen,

who wished them luck.

script.

The

when

records open in

But 1917,

Philadelphia

police

the entry next to his caught him. He got 25 to 50 years in Eastern State Peni- name is "burglary,"

tentiary, "tough gael."

Then comes # charge ot abdueling 17-year-old girl

a

He was there until 1945. He

a tunnel lined with timber and lighted with electricity topped from aline in one of the cells.

and, in 1921, a murder charge, and five others left via a tunnel Willy drew a suspended sen- fence In the first case, com- plete equittal in the second.

Throughout the 1920's Willy was constantly active,

Aut Willy was caught and held until February 1947, when He perfected the art of dis-he and a group of others, a sinuggled pistol He always appeared as armed with

Buse.

a telegraph messenger, a fire and a makeshift knife, stabbed a New York guard and used him as a revolver at shield while they scaled the

man, or even as with policeman.

his hip.

BIG TIME

By October 1030, Willy was ready for the really big stuff.

Brooklyn friends In

Dressed as a telegraph messen- ker, he got into bank They were doing well when a

and let his

little girl strolled Innocently through the door.

LIVING IN

GLASS

HOUSE

A spectator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York studies the six-foot model of a glass and steel apartment house being constructed in Chicago. Designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the 25-storey building will consist of two glass and steel towers when completed.—(Acme)

The Riddle of the Red Domino

YOU'LL LIKE MARSH FOLLY IT'S A BIT LIKE DAACULA'S CASTLE OUTSICE - BUT IT

19 DELIGHTFULLY COSY

INSIDE..NGE – MOST COSY,

| PAUNCH, THAT CAR

SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN IN OUR MIRROR A LONG: „TIME, SURELY WE ARE..

„NOT BEING FOLLOWED, ON, NO, SIMI

IT COULDN'T BE THAT, COULD IT? WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL-GDING ACCORDING

TO PLAN, SH, MA, PROPILA ?

prison wall,

LAWYERS SUPPORT PEKING

CHINESE OPERA GROUP IN AMERICA'

Players of a Chinese-American theatre group go through their paces in San. Francisco in conjunction with a Chinese festival programme. The group, or- ganised four years ago and completely amateur in nature, is attempting to per pertuate Oriental opera. This portrays a court scene with a dancing girl per. forming for the court sage, a king and a princess.—(Acme)

Trust-busters Move In

On The

Shuberts

New York.

The Government's anti-trust 'suit against the Shubert Brothers threatens to break up the stage empire they themselves built by breaking a big theatre trust 50 years ago.

The suit, filed in federal The brothers got their start by Theatre Guild, Ine, one of the court recently,

of the nation's top producers, and are charged obtaining managellent Lee and J. J. Shubert and Herald Square Theatre, Sam, the interested in

died in "planner," their associates have stifled wreck in 1905, but Les and J. J.Jor musical comssional droma

2 railway almost every

medy produced in

the American theatre creating a monopoly.

The

some phnso ot

by carried on the campaigh to bring the United States.

the Klaw Erlanger "trust" to its knees.

R.

that

gh their attorney, Milton the Shuberts denied their holdings constitute

pletely refuted."

government asked the court to order the Shuberts to Klaw and Erlanger to incor-ernment's charges were "utterly

In 1907 the Shuberts forced nonopo

monopoly. They said the Gov- give up either the ownership of over half Use nation's major porate their country-side hold-unfounded" and would be "com

the ings with them under the tille legitimate theatres

of the United States Amusement business of booking and presen-

Company. The National Lawyers' ting theatrical productions.

Two years later the company was dissolved, but the Guild of the U.S. has called

Broadwayites said the Govern- "trust" never regained its power. on the United States to re- ment's suit brought 10 full the Chinese Com-circle the Horatio Alger story of cognise munist Government in the two poor boys who successfully theatrical interests of "world peace."busted the biggest

trus of the pre-movie and radio

THEATRE OWNED

"To classify the stage today as bit business must come as a surprise to anyone" Weir sald "With numerous theatres being increasingly used for radio. television and

media of other

it is not con- Toriny the Shuberts own 15 entertainment, of New Yorit's 32 egitimate ceivable that what remains of the theatres and have an interest in legitimate theatre should be in- It said in a statement that

Lee Shubert is 74 years old two others. They own 37 theatres cluded in even the most sweeping "the new Government meets the and 3. J. Shubert is 69. They live in other ellies and try-out towns monopoly bun!"," test of international Jaw of belog un established government in effective control.

cra.

so quietly that not one actor in and are the sole operators in six 10 would recognise them, Yet cities. The they are the most talked about

LOVE LIFE

"Recognition would further personages in show business. the development of friendly re- lations between the peoples of both countries and thereby con- Tribute to world statement said.

peace," the

Lee was married for 12 years to actress Marcella Swanson, but only few close friends knew of it until she brought suit for The Guild has been cited as a divorce. Their remarriage after Communist-front group by the the divorce also was kept a House un-American Activities secrot. It is said that Lee and Committee, but it is not on the J. J. communicate only by writ- Justice Department's list of ing notes. subversive organisations,

When the Shuberts came to I recently called for a public New York from Syracuse, N. Y., investigation

the of

FBI's with their elder brother, Sam, nt "illegal" wire tapping opera- the turn of the century, Marc tions. President Truman has Klaw and A. L. Erlanger wero made clear he has no intention the unchallenged cars of the

of granting the request.-United nation's bouming. theatrical In-

dustry.

Press,

Mogul Spot Found On Babies' Backs

Vancouver.

Eskimos' skulls and live Indians may offer a cluo to whether man came to America via the Bering Strait, says a Viennese anthropologist. Erna von Engel-Baiondorf, a vivacious, reddish-blonde who once sculptured busts in Europe, is busy trying to find out.

*Vancouver Now N

Menzies, collaborator at T.P.O. Vancouver City Museum, Museum curator, to create the Institution's first anthropological she spent six months among section. the Chilcotein Indians at:

in Hur six their Anshim reserve

months study of Anahim reserve Indians, one of British Columbia's northern a series of steps to discover how interior. She plans a trip the West Coast natives were farther north this year,

related to races on the other side of the Pacific, indicate the In the meantime, she spends Indians were, descended from most of her time rebuilding on the Moguls. Eskimo skull found several She found the "Mogul Spot" years ago in the Great Fraser on several babies on the reserve, Midden, B.C. Anthropologists The Mogul Spot, she explained, believe the skull's presence la a circle of plament on the Indicates that Eskimos lived lower back which fades as the Northern British Columbla in baby grows older. She mid it Indieaten there was Mogul blood The Viennese woman is a In the ancestry of that particu- Fellow of the Royal Anthropo- lar tribe. logical Instituto in London, and

the Ice Age.

collaborator and correspondent Similar spots have been found in natural history for coverni among the peoples of Europe, muscuma Sa Budapest and Laplanders, fedlanders, Hua

garians, and among the Pan- Sho came 10 Canada 18 fagonians of South America.--- months ago at the invitation of United Press.

Vienna.

Trial of the issue is not ex- pecled to take place for at least Government also bas a year. The sult in the Gover♫= charged that they are linked "by ment's first against legitimate various arrangements" with the theatre interests.--United Press.

JUST PLANE LUCKY

NII88K

Because his plane ran out of fuel over Sayville, New York, Dow Waters narrowly escaped injury and possible death when the machine hit these telephone. wires, Spectators watch linemen as they attempt to clear the wires in order to resume disrupted telephone service.—(Acme).