THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1940.
News Snack Bar
DARTMOOR FUGITIVE HAS A FLAT IN SOHO: BODYGUARD PROTECTS MAN WITH A NEW FACE
London, April 9.
"New Yorker."
"RUBY" SPARKS, the man who escaped from Dart- moor on January 10 and has created a record by remaining at liberty for 14 weeks, has been living in a flat in Soho.
He has another "hide-out" at Slough, Buckingham- been offered good rewards for inform-
sell information to the police have Queen Elizabeth shire, where one of his closest friends, a smash-and-grab ation leading to the capture of Sparks. raider, recently took a house. The two men have been seen together in Soho clubs and public-houses.
A man who knows Sparks and his associates well gave this information yesterday. I have every reason to believe his statement.
MOTHER WISHED IT
Many admirers of Gracio Fields, on learning of her decisioni to marry. Monty. Banks in Holly wood, have asked: “Why couldn't they get married here instead of in America?"
Gracie herself supplied the an-
swer.
It was Gracie's mother, Mrs. Stansfield, who urged them to marry in Hollywood, so that she could attend the wedding!
Nudist Club Charge
Nobody has dared to "split." "Some have been threatened with violence if they dare open their mouths
Man Hurt
to the police," Mr. X said to me.
Knocked down in the street by a taxicab, Joseph Hogan, aged, fifty-five, Several recent big jewellery raids one of the crew of the liner Queen are said to have been the work of Elizabeth, is now in hospital in New Sparks. He is believed to be planning York. more.
He is suffering from internal in-
This man, whom I will call Mr. X, told me that Sparks paid £250 for a An identification parade was held at juries. plastic surgical operation which has Bow-street police station yesterday to entirely altered his facial appearance. try to pick out men concerned in
The operation was performed by a Regent-street smash-and-grab raid a man known to crooks as "The Doc.". fortnight ago.
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a Never Saw Film, Heard
"The scar on his right cheek has The police think that if they track Radio Dies at 104 been removed and something has been down the men concerned in that raid done to his eyebrows which makes they may secure information which him look a different man," Mr. X told will lead them to Sparks.
me.
"For some weeks now he has been
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living in a street just off Piccadilly. Vicar-Friend He has made frequent trips to Slough, where he has stayed for two or three days at a time.”
IN CLUB RAID
Of Royalty
While a special Scotland Yard squad
The Rev. Joseph Llewellyn Thomas. detailed to search for him, has been who made a hobby of friendship with
combing West End criminal haunts, kings. and princes, and who often
Sparks has been seen almost nightly visited the ex-Kaiser at Doorn, has in public.
died aged eighty-seven at Pontneath- He is always one move ahead of the vaughan, Glamorgan. police.
A woman, who, it was alleged at the Recently picked Yard men raided a Old Bailey, had been assaulted, said Soho club. Sparks was there, but he she had become a member of a nudist made his getaway with a few seconds club in North London when she was a to spare. teacher in gymnastics there..
Someone had "tipped him off.”
She was Miss Greta Heertjes, and Sparks is accompanied by a body- Frank Aubrey Sabine, aged thirty-six, guard wherever he goes. Their job is an engineer, was charged with assault- to warn him of any trouble brewing. -ing her.
“NARKS" BILENT Without calling on the defence the If he goes into a club one of them is jury stopped the case Sabine was left "on guard" in the street. His men found not guilty and discharged. are posted at back entrances to the
premises.
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Pope's Air Raid
Shelter
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Air-raid precautions are being car- -ried out at the Vatican. A special air- raid shelter for the Pope is being pre- pared in an ancient tower which was built in the fifth century by Pope Nicholas V.
The tower has walls '27ft. thick. -An armoured safety room is being pre- pared near the Pope's private apart-
ments.
M.P.-Wants Cabinet
Football Match
When Mr. Oliver Stanley told M.P.s that the return football match between British and French Armies might be played in London next year, Mr. Will Thorne asked, amid laughter, if he would arrange a football match be- tween the two Cabinets.
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But Champagne
Is 3d.
Paris's first day without spirits pass- ed off with little hardships to Parisians They managed to assuage their thirst with several hundred varieties of wine and beers, - Champame át 2d. to 3d. glass served as a substitute for the usual brandy Dr
Under new wa barmed on cer
ees spirits
Thieves Take Three
Beehives-With Bees
Mr. William John Warnes, aged 104, a native of Suffolk, England has died at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia He had never smoked, drank, gone to the pictures or listened to the radio.
It was not until he was 104 that he had his first ride in a car.
He went to Australia in 1887.- Reuter.
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The Sergeant Has
Nearly 90 Medals
If Sergeant Jack Carroll, of the East Yorkshire Regiment, hung all his medals on his breast he would make Herman Goering look like a poor be- ginner.
They are, of course, not all military Three beehives Have been stolen decorations. Eighty-four he won,
to- from a colony of hives at Pednor, near gether with nine cups as an Army Chesham, Bucks.
athlete.
The hives were taken complete with Now Sergeant. Carroll, thirty-eight, bees, and although bees are not very is home on leave at Third-street, active at this time of the year it is Netherton Colliery, near Morpeth thought that they must have been ex- (Northumberland) after nearly twen-
ty-one years' service abroad.
Police "narks"-criminals who will pertly handled.
UP IN THE CLOUDS
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got
that Unole George tall day