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Her Son Walked
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By ANDREW KIDD
Cestingthorpe (Essex), Fob, 15. EVERY week a grey-haired lady of 86 walks with
the aid of a stick to the Fourteenth Century church here and polishes a brass plaque cracted to the memory of her son.
She is Mrs. W. E. Oates, and the son who is ever in her thoughts was Captain L E. G. Oates, who died in 1912 during the Captain Scott expedition to the South Pole.
After polishing the plaque till it shines like gold, Mrs. Gates kneels as she reads the familiar Inscrip- tion.
"In memory of A very gallant gentleman, Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, Captain in the Inniskilling
Dragoons, born March 17, 1080, died March 17, 1012, on the return journey from the South Pole in the Scott Antarelle Expedition.
"When all were beset by hardship, he, being gravely injured, went out into the blizzard to die in the hope that hy so doing he might enable his comrades to reach safety."
Scores of Pilgrims
During the past few days scores of people have locked to this tiny, unpretentious village to commemor-
ate the 25th anniversary of Captain
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH
1937.
"Very Gallant Gentleman
Pilgrimage of Memory
A German submarine after stormy cruise arrived at the port of Kiel entirely covered with ice.
200 Miles To The Gallon !
TWO HUNDRED MILES to a gallon. of petrol. This is a motorists' dream that will come true if the final public tests of a new "mystery" carburetter, in- vented by Mr. Charles Pogue, a Winnipeg engineer, are successful. -
It is claimed that the carburetter has al- rendy enabled an otherwise standard car to travel 29 miles on a pint of petrol.
Mr. W. Holmes, original backer of the Invention, used the carburetter on a trip from Winnipeg to Vancouver, and states that he did the round journey of 1,880 miles on 14 gallons of petrol.
The inventor claims of eliminate the wastage of pertol as the cylinders fire, and that his carburetter re- leases a vast amount of fuel for use by breaking up each globule of petrol into the finest particles.
Clark Gable-By
Villagers Who
The final tests are being organised by Mr. Jack Hammell, millionaire mining magnate,
P. C. ASKS
It is
reported that Katherine Hepburn Is engaged to Howard Hughes, millionaire sportsmen-pilot.. The star is shown, above wearing flying kit, so maybe the rumours are true.
CLARK GABLE &
Knew Frank Billings TOGUARD WOMAN'S
Little Burstead, Essex, Feb. 15.
Oates' death, which strangely coin-AFTER searching the remote countryside for hours near here
of a
elded with another drama of the Antarctic-this week's rescue party of six officers and men from the Royal Research Ship, Discovery
II.
It is seldom that Mrs. Oales leaves Gentingthorpe Hall, ex- cept for the weekly pilgrimage to polish the memorial tablet. When I visited the church, tho rector, the Rev. H. M. Greening, fold me: This Is the church where Captain Oates used to worship. On the anniversary of his death always sing his favourite
"Onward, Christian Soldiers."
we
hymn,
"Captain Oates has made Gesting- thorpe famous, Previously It was
an unknown village."
Proud Memories
to-day, I found the bungalow in which Mrs. Violet Wells Nor- ton, the sensational accuser of Clark Gable, once lived (See Col. 5).
King Rupert' Proclaimed In Oxford
Oxford, Feb. 15. RINCE RUPPRECHT of
I found, too, a neighbouring bungalow formerly occupied by
young man called Frank Bili ings, who says Mrs. Norton- was in reality Clark Gable. She Bays that Frank Billings was the
GINGER ROGERS
No "Vacancy
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By PHYLLIS M. DAVIES
father of her daughter, born 13 MR. James H. Barlow, a | years ago when the Nortons and
Mr. Billings were neighbours.
There are many people still living Essex only 25 miles from London who remember the Nortons and the hand- some young man-now said to be
In this strangely isolated part of
The life of the remote village Bavaria was publicly pro- Clark Gable. centres round Geslingthorpe Hall, a claimed King of England, Scot-f stutely red-bricked manor house,
I showed thom photographs of swore there was a likeness.
where Captain Oates was born and land and Ireland in Oxford 10- Clark Gable on-and off-stage. They where his widowed mother cherishes day, the anniversary of the the Antarctic medal awarded post-execution of King Charles I. humously to the son of whom she has such proud memories.
But she shares her memorice of a national hero with only her mest Intimate friends. As д member of her staff anid: "These memories are so dear to her that she hesitates to discuss them"
The story of Captain Oates's brave gesture is one of the eples of British history.
WDS with Scolt, Evans,
•
The proclamation was made by Mr. Peter Geach, of Balliol College, one of the leading Jacobites in the Univer- sity, al Martyrs' Memorial
It was the first time since 1735 that a member of the Stuart family had been proclaimed King at Oxford.
After the ceremony Mr. Geach said: "It was not a rag."
Oates
"I am a Jacobite by conversion and Bowers, and Wilson when they not birth," he added. "I am con- reached the South Pole. Beset by vinced that I the restoration of the blizzards, and having lost Evans, House of Stuart lies the sole hope of who died of exposure, the men gra- the nation. dually lost strength.
Walked to Death
For days they were imprisoned by the weather in the tent, only eleven
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"I was naked to proclaim the King by other loyal men in Oxford."
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria is descendant miles from one of their supply Charles the First. He is called King of the "doughter" of dumps.
Rupert he
First of England by
But they could not reach it, and followers of the Stuart cause. they faced death from cold and starvation,
With his feet frost-bliten and feeling himself a burden to his comrades, Dates stumbled out of their tent into the snow to die. Hls Inst words were: "I am just going outside and
may be some time."
In the diary he left to the world Captain Scall wrote: "It was the act of a brave man and an English genleman.
14 SPOTS ON SUN GREATEST ACTIVITY'
FOR 10 YEARS
The formation of a very large group of sunpots-nearly 18.
"Take off the moustache, allow for the developments in the face over 13 years, and it might be Frank Billings," said Mrs. Foster,
young London Metro- politan Police constable, has written to Ginger Rogers offering his services as her bodyguard.
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CLAIM
Hollywood, Feb. 15. AN alleged attempted fraud on Mr. Clark Gable has led to the arrest of Mrs. Violet. Wells Nor- ton, aged 47, who claims that he is the father- which he denies-of her
daughter, aged 13.
has been issued for the arrest of At the same time a warrant
Jack L. Smith, described as a It is understood, however, that private detective, believed to be he will receive a reply from the in Los Angeles, while the police film star expressing her regret that are also anxious to interview "Although only 25, P. C. Barlow Frank James Krenan, a retired has had an adventurous life," a railwayman, of Winnipeg. friend told a reporter.
she has no vacancy.
"Before joining the police, about The charge against Mrs. Nor- four years ago, he crossed the Allanton will be "using the mails with tle several times in liners, first as a
of Little Burstead, who saw the cabin-boy and later as a steward and intent to defraud." It is nileg.
young man almost daily.
Ramsden Heath, told me he took over Mr. J. H. Ward, a general dealer at Mr. Billings's bungalow when Bill- Ings went to Canada in about 1933,
A TIFF
"The Nortons were still living in their bungalow on the adjoining five acres of land in Blind Shore-lane," he aald.
"One day I met Mrs. Norton in the said she had had n tilf with her hus lane and she was terribly upset. She bond and threatened suicide.
"I pleaded with her for a long time before she promised not to carry this out. Soon after the Nortons moved off to Laindon, then to Southend, and from there apparently to Canada. Gwendoline, the baby now mentioned by Mrs. Norton, was still a tiny child then.
BANK OFFCIAL
The body of Captain Oates was times the area of the earth's sur-was a tall young fellow, about 21. never located. A cross was placed on the scene of the search with the face-is reported by the As inscription: "Hereabouts died a very tronomer Royal, gallant gentleman."
And this, with the tablet in the litle church in Essex, is his undying
Juemorial.
GARBO'S 1/6. A MINUTE
walter,
SEES HER FILMIS "He is keenly interested in the films, and for some time has been
attracted to the idea of being body- guard to Miss Rogers, most of whose pictures he has seen. "He feels that he could fulfil all the requirements necessary for the job, "He is a husky fellow, standing more than 8ft, with dark hair, strong jawed, and blue eyed. He is quite a good boxer, and has had some, ex- perience, on shooting ranges.
comes of a police family, his father, Mr. L. H. Barlow, of Charle cole-grove, Sydenham, having served years with the Metropolitan Police,"
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ed that she claimed money from Mr. Gable on the ground that she met him in England in 1922, and that he is the father of her daughter, aged 13.
Following her arrest, Mrs. Norton told the police that she and Mr. Gable were neighbours in Essex.
"Those who don't believe that. my girl is his daughter should seo hor," she said. "She has the same dimples and the same smile with which Mr. Gable wins all hearts," Mrs. Norton; nor have I the slightest Mr. Gabie says: "I have never met idea what she looks like."
He states that during the period he Mr. James Barlow is attached to England he was on the north-west was alleged to have known her in the Canning Town, E., division.
Padile coast of the United States.
Mrs. Josephine Dillon' Gable, his first wife, whose marriage with him was dissolved in 1929, and who now runs a small dramatic school in Hollywood, said that
women, probably Mrs. Norton, called on her some months ago, and told her the story of her alleged seduction by Mr. Guble.
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Mrs. Josephine Gable added: "I told her she must be mistaken, be- has never been in England." cause to the best of my bellef Clark
PALESTINE REPORT IN MAY "At one time Mr. Norton was a bank official. But he
gave up that work and started a horse-dealing
FEAR OF RENEWED business. He bought a pony from me.
le By A
DISORDERS "Young Billings, when I knew him, did no work, but went shooting with
Political Correspondent The report of the Palestine his dog day after day and spent a good deal of time with friends in the Royal Commisson will be ready nearest village of Little Burstead, a for publication in the second couple of miles from the bungalow.week of May. Members of the
"lle was always well dressed and smarily
Commission arrived back in Lon- turned out. Ho seemed to be a country gentlemandon during the week-end after of Independent means. His mother, two months' strenuous work in Mrs. Mande Billings, owned the Palestine. bungalow and sho still comes Colossal as is their area, the sun-
down he
occasionally." Mrs. Billings, who until some weeks spots occupy less than one-seven- ago lived in Castelnau, London, W., the sun. Owing to the sun's rotation bullt alongside hundredth of the whole surface of has had a large additional bungalow signs on the problem they were sent best be done through a course of Dr. they were carried out of the earth's tumbledown,shed in which her ron two-roomed, view on February 6.
sunspots have nearly doubled in During the last month these
size, and now cover an area of about 3,500 millions of square miles. Recently they were over the centre of the sun's disc.
This group of spots could be seen without the use of telescopes, but a Hollywood, Feb. 15...before the naked eye to avoid danger plece of dark glass should be placed Every minute brings la..d. to Greta Garbo,
to the sight.
Hved.
the
Boils Mean Bad Blood.
tions tend to impoverish the blood- In the East where climatic condi
stream boils are a not infrequent
Despite the fullness of their incomplaint. To avoid such, it is wiss quiry, I understand that the Commis- therefore to give your blood tenie sion have reached no positive conclu-
treatment occasionally which can to solve disturbances
Williams' Pink Pills. the underlying causes of.
which lasted for six months in Palestine.
These pilis increase the red A caretaker guards the bullding even more
The Commission
corpuscles and bring to the blood the ssion found the situation Iron nutriment and oxygen which during her long absences. through several hands since they were in their report-certain criticisms of in your veins the poisons in your
The Norton bungalow has passed they are able to offer and will offer
they had been ex and difficult than i revitalize the whole system:
Ted to belleve. While
With this rich, new blood flowing there, and the present occupiers never knew them.
the administration both from London blood stream, which are the primary EFFECT ON WEATHER
and in Palestine, they have not yet in cause of boils, are quickly driven out But the other people in the neigh-mind any practical suggestions to "Fourteen different sunspots are attractive Mrs. Norton who now visible," Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin, friendly for a long time with young
bourhood have vivid memories of the wards a settlement.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are unsure passed, too, for the treatment of Certain further evidence may be other health troubles which have fromerly realdent of the Royal As- Frank Billings.
heard in London and the Commission their origin in an impoverished, tronomical Society, told a press repre- sentailvo on Feb. 20. "There la a
will then be confronted with the im-depleted bloodstream such as nerve particularly large one near the centre he has been in Canada for some years, the evidence and the even harder task matism, neuralgia, sciatica, Insomnia, All they know of Frank now is that mense task of collating and studying troubles, digestive weakness, rheu- of the sun's disc.
News come some time ago that he had of producing been ill, but had recovered.
a report containing debility, as well as the aches and "It is several years now since the
helpful recommendations. sun has been
pains peculiar to women. so active. The last
It is recognised that recent troubles period of maximum activity was in of about eleven years.
in Palestine,
have been which
been quies, Begin a 1927."
course of Dr. Williams' cent during the Commission's visit, Pink Pills, without delay; they have Miriam Hopkins
Wireless reception, the frequency have been only temporarily stilled; a fifty-year old reputation and will Sunspots are regarded by astron-the number of thunderstorms over the Samuel Goldwyn, the flim magnate omers as being great vortices on the world as a whole,
of magnetic storms on the earth, and and further, that publication of the surely do you good. Obtainable at
report may easily give rise to a fresh chemists everywhere. parison, a mere £90,400,
of disorder.
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THE glamour queen heads the list in Supplementary Return of film stars' incomes for 1985, issued by the Treasury to- night.
Among the facts it gives are these:
Greta Garbo Wallace Beery
Clarke. Gable
Joan Crawford
William Powell
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£66.500
280,7749
£63,000 £48,280 £40,750 £34,280
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