HONGKONG THE
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1936.
EXCURSION TRIPS ACROSS WORLD
SERVICE PLANNED
IS
HOLLYWOOD CRAZE
FOR 1938
30,000-ton
Ships
Made In Britain-
PLANS for "excursion" trips across
the Atlantic have been revived. In 1938 it may be possible to travel to America in a modern liner for a fare of £10.
Negotiations are nearing com- pletion between a British group headed by Major Frank Bustard and Messrs. Vickers for the building at Barrow of two liners, each of about 30,000 tons.
The plans of the ships are com- plate. They embody new ideas in The design and accommodation.
first koel will be laid within the next few months in readiness for the staff of the new service in two! years' time.
There is much secrecy about the details of the operation of the new line, but it is understood that, in the main, they will follow Mayor Bustard's scheme of a year ago.
Cinemactross Katherine Hepburn. is taking lessons in skating, she is on the rink of the Ice Club in Madison Square Garden, where shown above film stars are now do ing the winter "eure",
DYING MAN'S THOUGHTS WERE ONLY FOR OTHERS
A high tribute was paid to the dead driver of the
It was then proposed to buy Penzance-to-London
express, which crashed into five
three ships of the Red Star Line, trucks near Shrivenham, Berks., on Jan. 16, when the which was owned in America, but flow the British flag. Single inquest on the two victims of the collision was resumed
trans-Atlantic fares were to be at Swindon. Those killed were: $10, with a "pay-as-you-cat”ar- rangement for meals, and an in- clusive charge to cover all tips,
100,000 Ton Ships
British New Invasion Of
The Dardanelles
SCENE OF GREAT “STRUGGLE BRITAIN'S heroes of the Dardanelles, banding
together again from scattered parts of the Empire, will sail on May 1 on a visit to the scene of their great struggle, the battlefields of Gallipoli.
DURING THE PILGRIMAGE THE VETERANS WILL HAVE ABOARD A BATTLE-SCARRED A DRAMATIC REUNION VETERAN OF THE CAMPAIGN-NOW A COAL-GRIMED TRAMP STEAMER.
The steamer, known ng the Maruja Y Aurora, is engaged in
the lowly pursuit of trading soal NIAGARA FALLS
WILL BE TRIED
between Mediterranean ports. But 21 years ago she proudly bore the name of the River Clyde and played a major part in the landing of the fighters at Gallipoli.
of
When the voterans board her from the Cunard-White Star liner) Lancastría
Mediterranean; at a port they will see the traces damage from shall fire. She still carries, beneath the coal grime, a plaque commemorating the part she played at Gallipoli.
Captain-Edward Unwin, holder
of the Victoria Cross and the old
AGAIN IN BALLİ
Niagara Falls, Feb. 10. Eight years after ho first bounced over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a rubber ball, Jean A. Lussier will at- tempt the same stunt over the American Falls on July 5.
Mindful of the bruises he auffer-
having a now-type ball built.. In this new ball, which is one within another, his position vill remain fixed regardless of the motion of the outer ball.
commander of the River Clyde,ed in the first trip, Lussier is will join the pilgrimage and will stand again on the bridge of his old ship where he gave orders while under Are of the Turks. Field Marshal Sir William Bird- wood, who commanded the Anzacs -Australian, and New Zealand; Army Corps at Gallipoli, will lead the veterans. Admiral of the Flect Sir Roger Keyes, another yeteran of the campaign, also will go. The pilgrimage will include ex-service- men from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Irish Free State and other parts of the Em- pirc.
Aware that the government olicials may attempt to stop him, Lussler plans to launch the ball in the river at Grand Island, about fine miles above the falls, in what
he terma
"neutral waters."
Driver Ernest Albert Starr, Moat-boxes with an incomplete train and with no rear lights, but he did not place, Acton, London.
Mr. Nina Gladys Mary Court-know.
The jury found there was nothing master mariner ney-38, wife of of Gurran, Cornwall.
Guited Press, to prove negligence on the part of the Twenty-six other persons were in-servants of the railway company. jured in the accident.
The coroner, Mr. A. L. Forrester, sat with a Jury, which returned 'n verdict of accidental death.
This achemo fell through because! of a Treasury Order prohibiting the transfer of capital from Britain, The Red Star ships were eventually
Mr. H. H. Greenwood, chief surgeon purchased by a German group.
Present single-crossing fares in of the Great Western Railway Ilos- pital at Swindon, to which the injured British ships of the same type is were taken, sak: "Although Starr, those proposed vary from £26 to Rulfered great agony, he never uiter- only £33 GA
ed a word of complaint. His Another plan for £10 trips be-concern was for others".
Joseph Couzens, of West Acton, tween Britain and the United States has been evolved by Mr. Areman of the express, said that after leaving Swindon on time, they re- Paul W. Chapman, former pre-ceived a "bell" and saw the distant sident of the United States Lines. signal at Shrivenham down. The
train proceeded at its normal speed,;
It is a much more ambitious He then siw three tail lights, and, project. Marine architects have although the brakes- were applied. designed for him super-liners to immediately, the collision occurred, carry 10,000 passengers each at least 7,000 more than will be carried by the British glant Queen Mary.
Automatic Brakes Couzens explained that the "bell" was an automatic train control which indicated that the signal was down.
The Coroner: I thought it rang aj Each ship would have a din-
bell if the signal were at danger? placement of 100,000 tons (against When it is at danger a buzzer rings Queen Mary'a 73,000 tons), would and the brakes are automatically carry 10,000 cabin-class passer- applied.
gorn, would cost £10,000,000, and Henry Chandler, of Chepstow, Mon would cross the Atlantic in four mouthshire, guard of the goods train,
days..
Mr. Chapman suggests that the United States Government should advance the money.
said that after proceeding at about!
5 m.ph, his train camo to a stand,
BOTH NO. 1.
and he saw through the windows what rear bondadak he presumed to be the Shrivenham home signal. He added:
of my "I glanced along the side train and discovered that we had broken away. A second later I look-
Secret Marriage to ed to the rear, and to my horror 1 Adopted Daughter
Los Angeles, Feb. 3.
now the lights of the express ap- proaching about a mile or more away. "I gathered my flags and detonatorn and raced to the rear, waving my red handlamp. I was opposite the pas A wealthy of producer, Mr. songer train when it crashed." James A. Kammerdiner, aged 62, Chandler added that he ran down and his 21-year-old adopted the embankment to the rear of the daughter, Ruth Marian Kammer-wreckage to protect the opposite road. The Coroner: You carried out the
diner, left Los Angeles secretly by regulations Yes. airplane · and were married in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Driver And The Breakaway
Gordon Davis, of Swindon, driver
The Gallipoli veterans will sail
Killed Self
from Liverpool on the Lancastria To Free
Jon May 1 and will return on May
23. The ship will call at Gibraltar Sweetheart
Malta and Istanbul. A group of British nurses who served in the hospitals and hospital ships in the Mediterranean during the war also will take part.
At Gallipol! the benches in the Helles area, Sedd-el-Bahr fort and cemeteries-and-memorials will be visited. United Press.
£100 FOR A PAIR OF TROUSERS
A letter written by a girl who gassed herself because she was under the mistaken impression that her sweetheart was going to old love, was leave her for an rend at the Paddington inquest" recently.
The girl was Miss Evelyn Mary Miles aged 28, a factory hand, who was found dead in her room in Portobello-road, Kensington..
John Albert Phipps, a green- Walter Tarrant, a brickyard cm- ployee, who contracted dermatitis grocer, of Portobello-mews, Ken- and was in hospital for 24 days sington, said: "I had known Miss after wearing a new pair of 88. 6d. Miles for, about three years. We £100 were very fond of each other. I awarded trousers, was damages
at Cambridge County told her about another girl whom deserted | Court recently,
I had loved about four years had not seen this other The defendants were Norman go I
The wellknown English record
the Royal Opera House in London.
•
driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, at a Bradley and Co. Ltd., of Cambridge, girl for those four years until r ball arranged by actors and urtists at A doctor said that Tarrant's liness/ met her on January 1.
The Coroner (Mr. Ingleby Od- The charming girl at his side is was consistent with dye infection
die)-After through wearing the trousers. **Mise England.”
you met your first Jove, did you change your mind about marrying Miss Miles?—No, but she came to the conclusion that
"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!!"
A UNITED PRESS SURVEY
OF A SMALL WORLD
San Francisco, Jan: 30.
The marriage was not announced until they returned,
of the goods train, said the firet heONE Justice of the Peace, at least, in these United States expects "Ruth has been my daughter for know that some wagons had broken the last 17 years," Mr. Kammer-away was when he was informed by the signalman at Knighton crossing. diner said when making the an-lio agreed that he had passed the nouncement.---Renter.
Shrivenham and Ashbury signal-
to give the girls a break this year. Henry F. Wallenwin,' Justice of the Peace at Waukegan, Illinois, rises to announce that "any girl who successfully proposes marriage to her boy friend enn be married free of charge during the 1936 Leap Year." Justice Wallenwin has had lots of practice. He estimates ho has married 14,000 couples
BRITISH AIRMAN'S LEAP POLICE of
FROM SPINNING PLANE.
Reading, Feb. 15.
While testing a new`acroplane before Air Ministry experts, Wing Cmdr. F. W. Stent made a remarkable parachute escape from death at Twyford, near Reading.
samo
I wanted to return to the other girl.
Phipps said that he last saw Miss Miles alive about 7 p.m. on Monday. When he got home he received a letter from her. He went to her house, but could not get in..
FOUND HER DEAD
With the landlady he entered Miss Miles's room next morning and saw her lying dead."
Mr. Ingleby Oddle,' summing up, "sald: "I feel very sorry for this poor girl. She was in love with Phipps. He met an "old flame" of his which seemed to have worried Miss Miles.
"She has written a charming latter to him and to mo in which she says: I am taking my own life, not because I am a coward,
down and wrecked an automo- Cleveland, Ohio, bife on a busy downtown street, recovered David Siegel's au- The boat had been riding on an tomobile, but Slegol, a lawyer, automobile trailer, when dis- couldn't got enthusiastic about lodged in one collision, careened It. His lack of enthusiasm grow
down the icy street right Into from the fact that officers search-
a third auto practically ruining ing the car for identification, it. And at Quitman, found 27 parking tage in a dash-
state, it is claimed Mussolini but because I am letting my lover. board compartment. Now polico
and. Haile Selassie are living go to the girl he loves. Insist Stegel must pay up, ona
under the same roof In Ideal" only hope that she will realise brotherly love. But then, of what this act is costing me besides He was flying alone in a cabin chairman of the Wokingham raagis-dollar for each ticket, "before he
can have his car.
course, they're twins, sons of my life. monoplane, doing spinning tests. trates, and was completely wrecked.
** Judson and Mary Frazier, far- "I don't want my Jack to bo At 10,000ft, which he had spun the Wing Cmdr. Stent, who resigned If persistency is a virtue, as
blamed for my actions. It is not. 'plano 18 times, he found it was from the Air Force last week to
his fault I loved him so well, it. out of control and he could not join à firm at Heading aorodrome, daimed, Herbert Meyers, present whereabouts unknown, wins a
A lady bladesmith protests.Is, my misfortune.” ?. correct the splą.
medal. On Judy 22, 1034, Myers "The trouble with being New York Closed in the cabin, Wing-Cmdr. "Although I had never mado aguit his job as clerk at the De Anzo City's old lady blacksmith ac- Stent had to work desperately. parachute jump before in my 21 hotel in San Jose, (Cal) and dis-cording to Mrs. Martha Smith, Ho withdrew the bolts securing the years flying experience, I had reappeared after embezzling $800.is that you're always wearing out cabin top, released his safety belt, hearsed it mentally and know what On Oct. 5, 1935, he returned to hold your wedding ring from handling elimbed on the side of the aero to do. The only thing was to keep up the hotel clerk and obtain $175. a heavy Iron haap. Mrs Smith plano and jumped. Ho. Innded absolutely cool and I think I man- And more recently, on New Year'e learned har trade working for safely near Ruscombe church. aged that all right.
ove ho played a return engagement her father. She married the son
and escaped with $80.
of her father's partner and now works with her husband dally in Georgia reports two oddities. their shop in downtown, Man- In Atlanta, ü motor boat 'ran İhattan..
-
said:
·
"Tho plane crashed into the "I think this is the first time - grounds of Stanlako Fark; the re- anyone has managed to escape
sidence of 'Col F. G. Barkor, the from a cabin machine.":
mers,
It is better I should go, as I cannot marry him when he loves her."
The coroner, recording his ver diet in accordance with the medical evidence, that Miss Miles died from coal gas poisoning, said that ho was convinced that she.com- mitted suicido while of unsound mind.
"I do not blame: Phipps for at all," he added.
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