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FOUND HANGED
~ Mr. A. W. Hanson's. "Brain Storms”
CAPTAINCY
Sir Pelham Warner, the pre-encouragement during the 1938 sident, announced to the annual season in their matches against meeting of the Middlesex County Australia.
C.C. at Lord's recently, that Mr. "What they need," he said. "Is F. W. V. Robins has obtained per-encouragement, and
the
not
over-
In his Chelsea nat. gay with mission from the firm with whom much criticism. I. personally, am flowers sent by friends to mark he is engaged to captain Mid still taking the odds of 3 to 1 and his birthday, Mr. A. W. Hanson-dlesex throughout
coming taking them every day but per- "Bill" Hanson, creator of "In Town season, which means that he will haps I am an optimist." Tonight" was found by his wife also be available for the England hanging from the stairs.
It was the anniversary of their wedding; Mr. Hanson would have
been 52.
captaincy.
Sr Pelham and all the other Referring to Edrich and Comp-officers were re-elected. ton, Sir Pelham said he hoped At the conclusion of the meeting they would become the Hendren Hendren and Hearne were present- and Hearne of the future Mid-ed by Sir Pelham, on behalf of the Mr. Hanson had arranged to dlesex elevens.
committee, with a silver tankard meet his wife "in Town" on * He reminded the meeting of the each inscribed with their county recent night to celebratc the need of England's cricketers for batting records. wedding anniversary.
to
When her husband failed keep the appointment Mrs. Hansen became alarmed, hurried home to their flat in Ebury-street, Chelsen, and made the tragic discovery.
SEVERÉ BRAIN-STORMS Since March., 1936. when Mr. Hanson had an internal operation, he has had long periods of sick leave. At times he showed signs ot nervous tension. About three! weeks ago he fell ill again and did not return to Broadcasting House.
The manager of a shop below the flat said that Mr. Hanson told him be had suffered from what he used to call prain-storms.
""He told me once that when these brain-storms came be used to tremble all over and get violent headaches," added the manager.
"He could not do his work, and it upset him a lot. He would go to | work for two or three weeks and then be off again with another breakdown.
MAN'S TONGUE
CUT FOR INFORMING
Arab rebels in Palestine are now holding their own "courts martial."
་
FOOTBALLERS WAGE CLAIM
Demand For Increase
Of £1 A Week
An Arab lorry-driver who was Professional footballers are ask- held up on the Jerusalem-Hebron ing for higher pay and for pro- highway told the police later an vision against injuries. Through amazing story of an impromptu. the Football Players and Trainers" open-alr "court martial" In which Unton, which has a membership the vehicle was sentenced to be of more than 1.600, they have ask- "shot"!
ed the Management Committee of The man said that three men the Football League to receive a armed with rifles halled him one deputation. night and asked him for his In a letter to Mr. F. Howarth, licence. They then found he was secretary of the Football League. not the one they were seeking. It. Mr. James A. Fay secretary of the transpired that the regular driver Union. of the truck "was, and that this figures. man had been substituted.
quoted the following
Match attendances in the four Divisions of the League, totalled The trio led the relief-driver to more than 16.000.000,
3 fourth rebel, apparently the The third round of the English leader, and the gangsters then cup. including replays, realised
"These figures should be a basis for a talk and fair consideration
of the players' request," he added.
"I saw him recently and he conferred. As a result, two men approximately £70.000-a.record. looked very well and cheerful. The|went over and fired into the maid came and found a note tell-engine and crankshaft of the ing her not to enter the premises | lorry, which was damaged, on any account but to go straight "Judgment has been carried out.""The delegates ask for a definite home."
they reported back to the leader: increase of the minimum wage of and the four then decamped into £4 to £5 per week and the maxi- the hills.
mum wage of £8 to £3 per week. CHANGED CONDITIONS
Thousands of listeners who knew Mr. Hanson's voice and frequently heard his colleagues refer to him as "B" over the ether, were shocked to learn. of his death.
The announcer broadcasting the six o'clock news bulletin gave the details of the tragedy, and added: Mr. Hanson's work will go on as he would have wished "In Town:
Tonight" will continue to be one of the main features In Saturday's
programmes.
"THE SHOW GOES ON"
Later in the programmë Mr. John Watt, the director of variety. broadcast a tribute in which he
sold:
Another act of summary rebel justice was carried out recently
"In support of the request are the when the body of ar. Arab villager changed conditions of the game. was found in a ravine in the. The so-called 'speeding up' is sup- coastal area south of Halfa. It had posed to have considerably short-
the 'playing' life of been riddled with bullets and the ened tongue had been cut out.
player.
the
"The majority of the players The band, believed to have con- stated, of 20 men, is alleged to have are offered wages on the sliding taken vengeance on the villager, scale even by the richer clubs: in many of the named Anmad Assad Yunis. be-Terms offered cause he wounded one of their cases reported were disgraceful
"It is agreed that it is impos- He had been permitted by the sible for some clubs to offer fair police to have a rifle and revolver wages to their players. because frequent threats had been same time the clubs are allowed to prevent the players from bettering their positions.
number some time ago.
made on his life when he refused You probably know Bill Hanson to pay blackmall to gangs. He was as the creator of In Town To- recently attacked by two armed night. That quiet voice interview-men but fired back. seriously ing people was his But we here wounding one of them. In the variety department knew The other escaped and returned him in addition as a friend and a with a band of avengers. grand fellow to work with.
Police inquiry showed that the raided their victim's "All the shy people whom he avengers interviewed in In Town Tonight house and shot him dead. Then, knew him as a friend, too, and they dragged his body to a neigh- bouring valley. where they with him they lost their shyness.
At the
"The time has now arrived when the Football League should devise a special schemé adequately to compensate players who may saffer Injury outside the Insurance Act and to make a proviso in the players' agreements to that effect. "It is desired that the transfer system should receive serious con- sideration. Fees have risen be- yond all expectations and
Will
He was one of the most conscien-/smashed in the head and cut out continue, to rise. the player Te
tious producers I have ever met. "There is tradition in the
3
the tongue to show that the man was a police-informer.
There have been numerous
trans-
celves nothing from the actions and in the majority of cases he is a loser on his presumed
benefit.
theatre that whatever happens the "executions" of Arabs by rebels in show goes on, and so 'In Town the course of the disturbed situa- Tonight', will go on on Saturday tion in the Holy Land. The charges
"The present rules were made night-but without Bill Hanson mostly are alleged treachery of thought of. The time has arrived when fees of today were шx- the man who made it and ran it refusal to assist the armed billmen when a player should receive a fair for five years. That is how he But frequently someone works would have liked it to be."
Mr. Hanson became 2 B.B.C.
of a private grudge in this way.
Sheikh Farhan es-Saadi, who
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To Mr. S. F. Rous, secretary of MASTERS THE HAIR, producer in 1933, He was born in was hanged in Acre gaol in Novem-the Football Association. Mr. Fay has addressed a similar letter re- London, and educated at a Ham- ber for carrying firearms- after
questing the F. A. to consider mersmith. school. Life in a house being sentenced to death by a agent's office did not appeal to British Military Court, is known raising the retaining fee to £260 him, and he left and accepted a to have been the president of a clerical appointment" in a depart-rebel tribunal last year. He ordered ment of a stockbroker's business. at least three executions during
He took plano lessons and his that period. enthusiasm and ability were such that before long he was acting as an accompanist. Then he had tuition in organ playing and be- came so proficient that he held the post of organist and choirmaster
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SIR R. ALI BARRED FROM LIFT
South Africa Colour Ban The Agent-General for the In-. dan Government in South Africa, Syed Sir Raba All, was refused
entry to a lift in a big city build-
ing recently, The Uff attendant said he had instructions to bar. Next he accepted an appoint- The world's fattest children. coloured people. ment as demonstrator and sales- Toni, aged 16, weighing 28. stone," Sir Raza disclosed his identity man to a pipe organ and planola and his sister Wettl. aged 14, and explained that he was on his company,
BLOWN UP BY MINE
Mr. Hanson had always taken
a keen interest in wireless, and
weighing 22 stope have been the way to keep a business appoint- subject of a lawsuit at Korneu-ment. He was still not allowed burg, near Vienna.
to enter the lift, until he was re- They had to be brought to cognised by another lift attendant court in a motor lorry because and taken to his destination, when the war came he joined up they could not get through the The building superintendent and almost Immediately in the Navy door of an ordinary car and then the owners apologised, saying the as a wireless operator. Late in 1014 struggled painfully up the flight ban was not applicable to business HMS. Speedy, in which he was of stairs to the courtroom with the men of any colour. serving, was blown up by a mine, aid of sticks. and he was not picked up untiï 45 hours later,
Recently, Mr. Seth Govind Das,
A showman was suing their for a member of the Legislative Coun- failure to fuifi a contract to let cil of India, was similarly treated After the Armistice he returned him take the children round on at Pretoria. In" that case Bir Raza 313 Agent-General, sharply to the pianola and pipe organ job, show. The father protested that A11,
complained to the Minister of remaining there until his BBC. their health would not allow it. appointment. Mr. Hanson was one The case was settled out of Labour, Mr. Hofmeyr, of "insulting after the doctors had behaviour from petty employees." of the first to be introduced to court,
Years ago. Mr. Gandhi, when in the variety department by Mr. testified that the children had not Eric Maschwitz, and soon after got fat from eating, but from South Africa, was refused admit- Joining produced most of the BBC. gland trouble. They have five tance to a building on the ground studio dance programmes,
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