MULTI-MILLIONAIRE DEAD Heir of Hetty Green, Famous
Woman Financier
Lake Placid, New "Tork- Colonel Edward Howland Robin- son, the multi-millionaire who in- herited about £10,000,000 from his mother, the late Hetty Green, died at his home at Lake Placid
He was early last month. years of age.
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'Hetty Green, as she was known all her life, was one of the most spectacular figures of American £mance. Her Snancial acumen was remarkable. but although sbe was one of the richest wo- men in the world she lived the life of a miser, band
buying second- refusing medical atter-
and clothes mones even for tion
STORY OF A
SNAKE, A SHIP
AND A SCARE
Gaboon Viper Causes Panic
CAPTURED, HE IS HELPING
TO PRODUCE SERUM
charge of a
THE BIBLE IN AFRICA STILL RANKS
AS WORLD'S
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936---
AMBULANCE PLANE NAMED BY MRS. MOLLISON
"Florence Nightingale”
The first British flying hospital was named "Florence Nightin
BEST-SELLER sale by Mrs. Mollison at Hao-
Doggedness And Zeal Of Agents
ROMANTIC SIDE OF BIBLE SOCIETY'S WORK
worth air park 'recently.
After Mrs. Kollison had mask- ed a bottle of champagne banging over the nose of the machine, a large crowd, including a party of nurses, inspected the plane.
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The machine is a low-wing, twin-engine monoplane, painted It white with large red crDAĶES. represents a complete field dress-
If all the Bibles sold last yearing station and contains fal
end they were placed end to
would from a chain of books reaching from Cape Town To Pretoria
Yet the Bible-the world's best- seller for centuries-is being sold jat a loss of 66 per cent
Translated now into over 700;
ed by the colporteurs of the Bri-
SERUM SAVES GIRL. BITTEN BY ADDER
Patient Progressing
ANTI-VENIN RUSHED BY POLICE CARS
Guildford
Pauline Grierson, the S-year-old! daughter of Cridr. and Mrs. A. G. Grierson, of Beeches Brook, Wis borough, Green, Sussex, who was bitten by a snake, and for whom a special serum was sent from the London Zoo to the county hospital at Guildford, was next night re- ported to be progressing well.
The girl was attacked when walking near some marshes one The cabin has been designed night. Her condition was critical. The hospital authorities tele- phoned to the police and the Lon- don Zoo, where a special cabinet containing different kinds of anti- toxins is always kept in readiness. Within a few minutes a Metro-
medical nursing equipment, blood and transfusion apparatus,
and axyger tent, stretcher fraznes.
aluminium
solely for ambulance work.
tongues, the Bible is being deliver NO tish and Foreign Bible Society in
every region inhabited by Man. Millions of people from the Eskimo
to the South American gaucho, the herdsmen on the plains of Hun-
gary and the pigmy tribes in the heart of the Congo can now read jor bear the Bible read in their own
Language.
AIRPORT
FOR CENTRE politan police car was on its way
OF LONDON
Gatwick Opened By
Air Minister
INCREASED CONVENIENCE
Gatwick
to the Zoological Gardens. The
car picked up the serum and raced
off to Surrey.
Meanwhile a fast Surrey police
car had set out from Guildford.
The two cars met at the Metropoli- tan police boundary at Esher. The serum was transferred from one to the other, and hurried to
FAMOUS PICCADILLY CIRCUS
* RESTAURANT
Sale Of Appearodt's
Appearedt's Restaurant, Piccadilly, has been sold to Mr. John Harris and Mr. AHred Free- man, who are well known in amusement catering circles. As a result of his ' deal the name Appenrodt will no longer be as30- ciated, as it has been for many years, with the restaurant basi- ness and the sale of Continental provisions in Piccadilly.
The Piccadilly premises are in future to be called "The Stan- dard," after a licensed establish- ment that stood on the site years
A scheme of rebuilding and redecorating, which will cost some, £20,000, is being carried out by the new owners, of 27, Pioca- dilly, who have also acquired the Haymarket Brasserie, 41, Hay- market, which is beneath the present Appenrodt's Restaurant. for The brasserie will be used music and dancing.
DAY NURSERY
BABY'S DEATH Alleged Improper Feeding
the hospital, where it was adminis- MOTHER GIVES BLOOD IN VAIN tered.
Questions about a day nursery alleged, children
BE BROKEN UP
£900,000 Emeralds
were boarded contrary to the re- gulations, were asked at a St. Pan-
month O Gras inquest tast
Hannen, aged Thomas James months, of Archway-road. N., who died in Highgate Hospital June 7.
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Whatever one's religious views This is the story of a sailor
theone cannot miss the romantic side and a snake, of panic on high seas and a tragedy avert-of the Bible Society's work, and
one cannot overlook the zeal and Viscount Swinton, Minister -ed.
At Beira the sailor took the determination of the Society's for Air, spoke of the difficulty
five-foot gaboon representatives who sell and ex-of providing a central airport HISTORIC CROWN TO where it was
the new South London airport: viper which Dr. Haagner, of plain the gospels to the natives of for London, when he opened
at Gatwick recently. the Beira Zoological Gardens, many lands
They go about their work in all.
"There are a certain number of was sending to the Cape Town
they climates and
cheerfully rather unintelligent people who Snake Park.
The gaboon viper is a tough cas-accept their quota of privation ask me. When are you going to tomer. He has got fangs like the and rebuffs, claiming that their establish an airport in the middle
of no account
of London'" he said. flakes of an anchor and there is no discomforts are serum against his bite. He is par-when compared with the value of ticularly dangerous because of his the doctrine they help to spread. perfect camouflage. When he is still he looks like a piece of dry Wood
But the sailor did not mind. The gaboon viper was securely Unfor- packed in a strong crate. tunately, the sailor was not told! that there were two other snakes in the crate, a puffadder and a cobra
SHRIMPER TO THE KING
Holds Royal Warrant
CONSIGNMENT SENT EVERY
"The answer is when everybody in London has become so airmind-
led and so unaesthetic as to cut
MADE FOR VIRGIN'S STATUE 300 YEARS AGO
Mr. Bentley Purchase, the coro- ner, on adjourning the inquest, New York. said: "It seems to me that the will clearly want A gold crown, stadded with 453 local authority down every tree in Hyde Park and emeralds weighing 1,500 carats, to get satisfaction from their own made in Colombia, South America. point of view as to what is going. turn it into an aerodrome.” -
Mrs Edith Mary Hannen said There was no other aerodrome 300 years ago in honour of the possible for the centre of London. (Virgin Mary was on display here
A Chicago syndicate of she took her son to a children's "It won't come," Lord Swinton recently.
dealers acquired it on Saturday home run by a Miss Kingston be Jadded.
cause her husband was unemploy- The problem was to get people after negotiating for its posses-ed and she had to go to work. who travel by air to and from the sion for 22 years. WEEK TO H. M.
It is a beautiful object with a Later she heard that the baby was centre of London Airports had
The coroner: Were any other
Yes, three others! The Smell
The King receives a consign-to-be as near the centre as possi-romantic history, but its new dangerously IIL sell the emeralds for their market children ? -
besides my own. Some days out from Beira, on meat of shrimps every week-end ble, either in mileage or, as at owners intend to break it up and
Doctor Sent For the way to Cape Town, there was throughout the year, wherever he Gatwick, in quick convenience.
"Everything has been so well value, which they estimate at
Mrs. Hannen said that the child a strong and offensive smell from may be, from Morecambe, Lancs.
The sender is Mr. James Mer-arranged for convenience at Gat-j£900,000. the crate. The sunke was obrious-
The citizens of Popayan, Colom-
four weeks.... Ir dead. There was a threat ofles, the only shrimper in the world wick," he added, "that it is only
a slight exaggeration to say that bia, had the crown made towards was boarded there for three or Dr. Laurance Curtis said he was! mutiny, so the sailor decided to to hold the Royal Warrant throw the crate into the sea.
He is 6ft 3in., and is an ex-air passengers will scarcely know the end of the 16th century as a
from the plague. They instructed on June 1. He got it to the ship's side but heavyweight champion of the Cold- when they have left the Ritz and thank-offering for their escape sent for by Miss D. K. Kingston at the last minute curiosity stayed stream Guards.
the goldsmiths that it must ex- "When I got there," continued "his band. He wanted to examine? With five boats and six assist-Eight Air Ministers Present
the gaboon viper closely, for when a gaboon viper is dead there are better possibilities of examining it than when it is alive.
The Snake
of shrimps a year.
arrived at the Meurice."
As the distinguished guests, ceed in beauty, grandeur and Dr. Curtis, "I found one baby, not lants, he nets more than 200 tons
who included the Air Ministers of value the crown of any reigning Hannen, very ill. I removed it to Children's Hospital, In addition to supplying eight foreign countries, arrived at monarch so that it might be a be-Hampstead
"I learned that Thomas Hamnen Royalty, Mr. Morley sends to the the aerodrome scores of machines coming gift for the "Queen of where it died a week later.
Heaven."
had had no previous illness House of Commons, the Lord swooped overhead in greeting.
of thousands
people Later
So the sailor took the crate to Mayor's Banquets, and most of the
watched a varied flying display, in his cabin and prized off the top big London hotels. To his horror, a very lively and Indeed, his shrimps go all over which more than 100 planes par- very hostile gaboca viper shot up Europe and are frequently flown ticipated. like a jack-in-the-box and took a to France for some special func- fying leap at him. It was the tion. cobra that had died.
have
bat
RHINE AS BARRIER for 14 days previously had been
TO BOLSHEVISM French Strike Peril
the
ill. The child appeared to had improper feeding."
Medical evidence was that Gatwick is the first airport to
child died from gastro enteritis- have a railway station specially
Miss Doris Kathleen Kingston, Berlin.
of Archway-road, said she was not He knows all there is to know built to form a link with London. Terror-struck, the sailor fed about shrimps, and enjoys his job. Viscount Goschen, chairman of
¡Airports Ltd., paid a tribute to the. Speaking at the opening of aa fully trained nurse. She started the Lower the day nursery with the permis- Gibbering, he clambered up to the
Southern Railway's co-operation.new bridge across crow's nest, to the astonishment
The electric train covered the dis- Rhine at Krefeld, Herr Hess, de-sian of the local commeil, but was tance between Victoria and Gat-puty leader of the Nazi party, de- not allowed to have children sleep- wick in 36 minutes.
clared that present events in ing in France justified the re-militarisa-
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of the ship's company. But soon WORLD PUBLISHERS
reason and self-control returned.
He descended and called for volunteers for a foray on the cabin. But his mates were chary. "They offered to kill the viper, but its sailor-keeper wanted to bring it back alive.
He put on a pair of sea-boots, several oilskins and several pairs
MEET
The King's Interest
COMMISSION RECEIVED
AT PALACE
DEATH ON HEALTH CRUISE
சj
Geneva.
A report on "Workers' nutrition
tion of the Rhineland last March HALF-HOUR LUNCH
"After what is happening at the
NOT ENOUGH moment to the west of us," he said, When the Union Castle liner,"perhaps the world will "under- Dunbar Castle, arrived at Sout-stand better my recent statement Geneva Food Report Mr. Stanley Unwin,' presiding hampton from South Africa last that Germany to-day is -defending of gloves. Several of his mates, at the opening of the International month it was reported that Mr. F. European culture against Bolshe suitably armed with marlines publishers' Congress at Stationers W. Grose, of Beckenham, Kent, an vism
"We regret that Herr Hitler's and social policy" now being cir pikes, covered him from the rear. Hall, referred to the fact that the elderly passenger who had been
Overcome.
King had consented to receive the jon a health trip, had died during attempts to reach an understand-culated among the delegates to the ling with our great neighbour have International Labour Office Con- Gingerly they went into the
International Commission (the the voyage.
not been appreciated. We are all ference at Geneva, describes the cabin of death. The gaboo viper's yellow eyes glistened and
at Buckingham Palace on Thurs 65 YEARS WITHOUT A QUARREL the happier that the Chancellor chief cause of malnutrition as low
has taken precautions for our wages.
Large numbers of the working his tongue flickered menacingly.
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Harris, of security." But the sailormen were too quick. Several lightning parries and the evidence of his Majesty's interest Winston-avenue, Plymouth, who. The new bridge, named after population, even in highly indus. fight was över.
The viper was in the intellectual life of his recently celebrated the 65th anni-Hitler, is the second to be opened trialised countries, it states, are
and then
versary of their wedding, stated in the same district in recent inadequately nourished. Enough pinioned to the floor levered back into the crate.
This is the first time for nearly that they had never broken their weeks It forms an important food for everybody could, it is
difficulty This ugly-looking snake has now? arrived at the Snake Park. He40 years that the book publishers pledge not to quarrel with one an- link between the Ruhr and the left claimed, be produced without
of the world have met in London. other, would like to get that sailor. But! even a snake must work, and this
governing body of the congress)
He said that is was gratifying
people.
More than 200 representatives, from 17 countries, are attending
.
bank of the Rhine,
"
gaboon viper is now producing the congress, which was declared War "Possible'
poison in bottles. He is helping
in the work of producing a serum open by Sir George Truscott.
Speaking at a luncheon given to that will enable his poison to be counteracted. In fact, he is now the delegates by the British Coun- -quite a useful snake..
BURGLAR'S HAUL OF FARTHINGS
Half an hour for lunch is de clared to be not enough. Cases might be cited of increased mor tributable to an excessive shorten-
With U.S.bidity among workers directly at
A warning that Great Britain two countries should ever fighting of the midday break.—E.U.P.
cil at. Cutlers Hall, Lord Eustace and America could not des Percy, M.P., said that their. com- mon craft was international co-pon ties of common blood to pre operation in the field of culture. vent war between them was
one another again.
"Let us not be too sure of our
Anglo-American friendship. Un- fortunately, it is only too likely
DEAR PETROL PROTEST
Berne.
In the past Governments had too by Dr. B. Iddings Beil. Canon of that we may fight one another in The Swiss Automobile Club has much neglected this field, and the Providence (Rhode Island), at St the future unless we take pains decided to call for a stoppage of British Council, with older institu-Margaret's, Westminster, when how to understand our common all motor traffic in the country. This motorists" strike" is intend- destiny. Children's savings of farthings tions such as the Alliance Fran-addressing e service in connacho
"The hope of continued peace ed as a protest against the Federal ween America and England Is Government's plan of making it for a hospital were stolen by bur-caise, was, he, hoped, an expres with American Memorial Day,
"Some believers - in - Angio
be found in co-operation for the compulsory to mix alcohol, with glars who entered the Balban sion of the desire of Governments
welfare of the world”. County Council School and rifled to correct their mistakes in the American amity” said Dr.
"believe it is impossible that the the beathasters Toom
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