THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 20,
1937.
Lift Strike 'Locks' Millionaires In Flats THOUSANDS MAROONED
IN KITCHENLESS
SKYSCRAPERS
New York, Sept. 12.
Gold Lacemen
Puzzled By Edward VIII
THOUSANDS of rich tenants in eight of New York's Decorations
most exclusive apartment houses (blocks of luxury flats) in Park-avenue and the fashionable West Side were marooned in their skyscrapers to-day when the liftmen went on strike at breakfast time.
New York's millionaires were toying with their orange juice when the operators walked out without giving notice, and some of the apartment houses affected are so modern that stairs are considered superfluous.
Others, no more sld-fashioned, depend on the food service lifts, being without kitchens. There were many rich but hungry people in New York to-day,
Some of the tenants finding the lifts at their flat-levels managed to work them themselves, defying a barrage of cries of "Blackleg.**
Others just stayed inside. Dozens of elderly
and sick people were compelled to stay indoors.
The strike was called by officials of the Building Services Employers International Union. It is expected to spread to thirty of New York's biggest and best blocks of flats.
The union scale of pay demands that the lift workers re- ceive £ 12, a week. The strikers assert that this wage has
not been paid in several instances.
Hopes To Pay
£12,000. Debts
GE
EORGE KASSAB,, after retiring on a fortune made from Ince, dreamed at sixty-four of making a furtker fortune with a palatial shop in London's. Oxford-street. But the dream faded: creditors were told recently that it had ended with liabilities of £12,160.
In December, 1935, Seven Price Stores. Ltd., floated with a capital of £50,000, opened its doors. Mr. Kassab was managing director. It closed down.
Creditors met recently in an accountant's office in Old Jewry, E.C. They were told that--
The company's assels were only
*£640;
A further £10,934 was lost after
"He has asked me to tell you creditors that It" is his wish and
desire to see you are paid in full, and you can rest assured if it is
possible it will be done."
MR. L. CLEAVER, manager of
Simpson's gold Lacemen, of Kingly Street, W.L., does not Imow what to do with Edward VIII's epaulettes.
They were made for him as
Admiral of the Fleet, but he never wore them, and now they. are wrapped in tissue paper at the bottom of a drawer.-
They are worth £ 50 in pure gold
thread and a little more in histori- und value, writes Hilde Marchant in the Daily Express.
When King Edward first wore his Admiral's uniform he
Jis wore father's epaulettes.
Mr. Cleaver hastily altered King George V's cipher and mounted them on the new King's uniform.
There was no time to fill them, and Mr. Cleaver was a little worried be- cause Edward VIII had broader shoulders than his father.
"They never looked right. We rushed a new pair through, but we were not in time," said Mr. Cleaver rather sorrowfully.
King Edward made siber altera- tions. He insisted on wearing his Jacket next to his miel, and having It limiy tailored. The sleeves were narrower than usual and some of the gold lace had to be left off. These have been three heelle years, for the firm. They are contractors the Government, the Army and Navy, and what with changing mono- froms, coping with the Coronation, and getting the Air Force properly mounted gula. they have been | working week-ends for months.
The women of the Arm never bite their cation-t is 90 per cent. pure silver, 2 per cent, gold, the rest alloy to give it flexibility.
This firm was begun in 1829 by Isuue Simpson and Col. Stephen Simpson is the present proprietor. The work a matter of tradition, and there are families where father
and son have more than 100 years'
service between them.
Livery and heraldic work of this kind is done by hand. The gold
thread begins as a bor of silver
through steel flatteners, then through
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BOYS WHO HIDE
THEIR
3
STUDIES
FROM EMPLOYERS
Years of
Overwork
In Night School
Technical schools are looked upon by some educa- tionists as slightly superior Borstals, according to Mr. J. Paley Yorke, principal of the School of Engineering and Navigation, Poplar.
weighing 50 OZ5. It la passed Speaking at the Industrial Welfare Society's Summer School at Oxford recently, when he made the statement, Mr. Yorke paid a high tribute to boys who attend the schools,
tomond dies, is finally turned and twisted until it is four times finer
Thai FamaU "NOT"
Bath stars, or what, the layman |
*Mr. Kemety said__Intercalls "pips are kept like sweets in .....1. have a tremendous admiration," be_sziid, "for the lads who come to The more lost £37,870 in Ita-first | Kasab is brokenhearted. He hopes a glass bottle and can be supplied our school as evening students. Their gel is amazing. They attend even- 'year;
that the ployees there are 150 of at short notice: the rest of the stocking classes for three rights a week for five or six years, and at the end of We take off our hats 10 them, all picked for good looks and is very low and will have to capabilities-will be given work by a brought up to date for the December that time they bob up cheerfully and ask for more.
them." Liverpool firm with whom we are rush after Navy pornotions. negotiating."
Mr. Cleaver said it would just take The boys, he added, were spending] get rid of it we shall have achieved another war to throw them into ul-nearly all their leisure time in study something. ter confusion.
wards
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Said Mr. G. W F. Kemety, irector: "Mr. Kassab is unable to attend this meeting owing to Maess. The fallure of this company has been a very great shock to him indeed..
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Whitehall To
DESTROYER India By
LANGSTER-HARDENED New
U York rubbed its eyes recent-
ly over the daring of thieves
ing
Motor-Car
and were at getting "the sport";nd|||| **REALISTIC¬AIMS" recreation that they needed.
NO TIME TO SPARE He had tried providing gymnastic and dramalle classes for Ugem, but they would not attend, not because they did not want to but because they were so anxious to Increase their knowledge of 'technical work.
"One thing that pulis me the large number of students who como tu w and ask us not to let it be known to their employers that they are attending clanats. "We are confident that there is a -of interference
-
who raided the United States FOUR young men, about to take destroyer, J., Fred Taibolt, in up their first appointments Brooklyn Navy Yard tone morn-to the Indian Civil Service, drove away from the India thleves freated the Federal Office in Whitehall the other tremendous amount Government as they might n but-night-bound for Calcetta, by on the part of works foremen in the
| kind of studles that a youth is tak cher's shop or grocery store, con-motorcar,
ing up. temptuous of the Navy's many safe- guards," one evening paper sarcas
leally comments.
The
They had decided that in 8,000 "That is a bad thing and when we mile ear journey across Europe und
a
"Our boys are given a realistic curriculum in the technical school. They educated in the fuller sense,
"Does industry require this type of
rather by? If It does, it has curious way of showing it.
"We hear the argument about educating boys, above their station. Some employers say thint We arc
be training everybody to
works unions managers, while the trade say: You are making cheap labour for industry, and doing work which the employer. ought to do himself."
"All we are doing is providing a well-educated personnel for recruit- ment into industry. We provide the right type of recruit; it is up to in- dustry to give him, a square dest
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If Your Child Is Irritable He May Have Worms.
the Near East was more interesting Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade.} .'-
So with four Constantinople, Angora, Damascus, The child troubled with warme is Bagdad, Tehran, Meshad, Baluchis usually irritable, other indieallons of the presence of these parasites are tan, and Quetta.
Irregular appellte, disturbed sleep, Through Europe they intend to itching, and irritation of the bowel cover about 300 miles a day. Pror opening, bad breath, picking of the gress, thereafter is uncertain. It is
nose, pain and swelling of the abdo- hoped to spend two days in Munich men and grinding of the teeth during and a week or so on the North-West sleep. Frontier,
The yard is, one of the most close- | than 'a sea, voyage. | ly-guarded areas in the Eastern small suit-cases, a spude, a tent, Sintes, and was generally held to be half-a-dozen spare petrol cans and Impregnable (writes the Dally three-year-old saloon car, they were Herald New York correspondent), speeded by a small official send-off, organised by the India Offee, on the The burglars got away a quan- frst stage at their eight weeks tity of ship's stores and some money,journey, mays the Morning Post, but overlooked £400 in the pay- master's safe.
Their names are T. N. Kaul, P. F. Adams, A. W. Black, ani. T. N.
In
The Navy Department in Washing Sharpe. Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Adams Wisely, they have refused to spolt ten, alarmed at the apparent ente will take up posts in Assom, Mr. with which the thieves get into the Kuul is on his way to United Pro-She adventure by planning too much yard, has ordered Rear-Admiral vinces, and Mr. Black goes to Blher. take a turn at the wheel; one is an Harris Laning, commanding the Third Naval District, to ‘undertake a searching investigation.
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