THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
BODY OF HEIRESS 'London
TO BE
DIED IN POOR- LAW HOSPITAL
Police have decided to apply to the Home Office for an order to exhume the body of Miss Ellen Ruddle. aged 28, of independent means, who was buried at Bath on September 1.
The daughter of a wealthy farmer of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, Miss Ruddle died in a public institution on September 1 last.
A fortnight before she was found
wandering a rash in public park
af Bath unforthed and 11
She Was Indien
Bouse, a Bafh Poor Law institution,
where she deti.
The Tantra) took place
James's Longetery, Bath.
INVESTIGATIONS
For past weeka police have been making investigation. The enl minated last night in tite aleets fon apply for the exhumation aries.
The cause of death was given
on the death certifiente as:
ta) Toxic myocarditis,
(b) Chronie morphla poisoning. Myocarditis is the memeal team for inflammaticar <% the wall of the heart.
Although Miss Ruddie was describ- ed in this certißente as bring 35, I understand that sl was not me thon 20.
During the past two or three wechs rumours have been preva- lent in Bath, and high oflicers of the Bath police force have been to London on severat occasions In connection with the matter.
Miss Ruddie's father is now in n- irement at
altre.
Durton-on-Sea,
she
Hamp-
WH
Her mother died when quite young, and she was cared for
by a housekeeper.
A LEGACY
Later she was sent to a girls' schoul
at Warminster. Wiltshire, and it one time considered entering a convent and taking the veil.
When she care of age she in- herlled a legacy_from_her grand. mother.
EXHUMED
Former King Alfonso of Spain temporarily leads a quiet ne in Lausanne, Switzerland. Upper right shows him about to board trames', like comunen folk. But what's tiris?, At left, he's reized with consternation as he Appears to have fust his rentimus. Then, lower panel, he has found then: and he pays the comfue-
, while other passengers smile in amusement.
How American G.-Men
Fight
U.S. Citizens
Crime
Have
Only
One Chance In Four
When G-Men shot it out with ruddy-faced Al ̈Brady," She was the landlady of a block of i buildings, which she let off in flats; America's Public Enemy No. 1 since Dillinger, and killed
having one for herself. and attended by a daily maid.
being
She was very fond of animals and
kept two dogs and several cats. She
was also fond of gardening and sun- bathing in her garden,, which fringes the park.
Flies Solve Secrets of Life
Love and hate, fear and con drace, are transmitted from one' Individual to another by WEVER In the ether: this is the conclusion drawn by Professor A. M. Low after months of experiments with Bles.
experiments
►
have
been
him outside a store in Bangor, Maine, another trophy was added to those in an anteroom outside the office of the greatest criminal scalp-hunter that America has ever known.
Girls Are Pale And Shivering'
-German Reporter
Berlin.
London girls, described in the Berlin newspaper Die
24,
1937.
RADIO BROADCAST "World Affairs" and Other
Relays from London
ITEM FROM THE STUDIO
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.c's.) 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c's.);
H.K-T.
12.00-13.20 p.m. Relay of Special
service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Billy Mayerl at the Plano. Sweet Nothings (Rettenberg);
Nachtausgabe by its Lon-Jasmine (A Syncopated Impression
don correspondent:—
“On raw, cokl zud wet morn- ings you are seen pallently wait- Ing in queues la catch your bus, Shivering, pale, nerdy figures in cheap clothes, your hair and face made to look as neat us pok-
ible.
-Mayerl); Three Dances In Syn- capution (Mayeri); 1. English Dance; Cricket Dance; 3. Harmonien
2.
Dance.
12.42 Latest Dance Records,
Was Born: Fox-Trois-Love Stranger In A Cup Of Ten ("Crazy Days') ... Billy Mayeri and His Or chestra; Moon Or No Moon; Gang- way (from the flim)....Jack Hylton and is Orchestra: When You Gutta Sing You Gotta Sing; Lord And Lady Whoozis (film 'Gangway').....Jack He quotes one gel as saying, "Hyiton and a Orchestra. have to keep up appearances to keep
The correspondent quolta figures to prove that London's girl typists are under-nourished.
1.80 Time and Weather.
my job. get 30s, a week,” and their 1.03 New Musical Comedy Selec- gives figures to prove that in cover the very essentials of 1e costa Bs. fd. a werk.
tions,
'Crazy
(Eyton, Days' Selection Carter and Mayerl)....The Shaftes bury
London; Theatre Orchestra,
The writer goes on to explain that rents, transport, aint restatuants pre 'Crest Of The Wave' Selection (Ivor tauch dearer in England than in Ger-Novela, arr. C. Prentice)....Tha mpany.
Our Beat Boglish muss has nothing
Jett to provide for clollien as thin32: are, nor for her holiday.
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Fag Cards Worth
£1 Apiece
"Got a fag card, mister?" That's how it started.
To-day cigarette card collecting is a science, an industry with a sense of big money values.
It has si trade paper, lund advanced collectors, have even dignifled it with the name of Cartophilly.
Cigarette entris are not mere pieces of pusteboard to be thrown nway. There are rare specimens to- day that are worth £1 à card,
That is the story of one of the most popular hobbies in Britain, It is told in "Cigarette Cards, and low in Collect Them" by 1. O. Evans (Herbert Jenkins. 3s. Ed.).
The first cigaretle cards were Issued In Amerlen about 1884. ...Three yeará, laltr.they appeared.
Britain.
Detry Lape Theatre Orchestra.
1.30 1.sz-ungarian Rhapsody
No. 1.
Played by the Berlin State Opera Orchestra conducted by Prof. ler- mann Abendroth
Press:
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Weather and Announcements.
1.10 New Variety Selections. 'On The Avenue-Selection..... Louis Levy anti Ills Gaumont-British Symphony: Comedian-Put It Down; The Old Oak Tree (Miller).....Max Miller: Piana-Jammin'-Quickstep (lm Turn off the Moon'): Sweet Heartache Slow Fox-Trot (alm The Hit Parade)....Gerry Moore; Duet Tricky Little Tune; A More Or Less Volga Bont Song (McGill).... Major and Minor; Organ-Broadway Melody of 1938-Selection; "The Singing Marine-Selection
....Rec- Rinald Foort; Orchestral-You're (Alm 'On the Laughing At Me
und Avenue')...Roy Smeck
12IN
Hawaiian Serenaders.
2.15 Close Down. 4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 Songs by Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone).
The Admiral's Broom (Bevan); A Jovial Monic Am 1 ('La Pounce' Andran); The Shepherd Boy's Song (Pepper).
7.10 New Mayfair Orchestra. 'Balalaika Selection (Ponsford); Cavalcade Of Martial Songs (arr. 11, Nicholls)...(Vocalist-George Baker) The Cat And The Fiddle Selection (Barbach and Kern).
7.30 Stock Quotations and Hong- kong Exchange Markel.
7.35 Variety,
Vocal--I'll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs (01m Caln and Mabel'); Serenade In The Night... Marc Henri (The Roaming Troubadour); Orches- tralTo-morrow Is Another Day (flim A Day at the Races')! I Was Anything But Sentimental (Alm Tolce My Tip') ..Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and ills Doy Friends: Come dianWhen I'm Cleaning Windows: Keep Your Scats Please (from the
Ukulele and Orchestra; Orgun-The cigarette Whistler And His Dog (Pryor); Fras-
Cigarettes lu those days were sold in flimsy paper enverings, and the cards were pleees of cardboard slip ped in to stiffen the packet.
In 1887 Messrs. W, D. an! H. D. Wills printed a few lines of wording on the stifteners.
Those were the nest
clozen.
film)....George Formby with his
John Edgar Hoover, chief of the G-Men and Directors. Today they are worth £6 aquila Serenade (Leher)....Robinson
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, takes a pride in mementoes of the criminals whom his men track down
KING'S ARE DEAREST
By 1895 stiffeners," as they were still called, were pleturial and bud
and exterminate, cables the Washington correspondent become like the cigarette eards of of the Sunday Express.
te kes the pubile to come in to New York City on which detectives, see them and digest the theory that in coloured piis, kept a record Crime Doesn't Pay. He takes, de-of the spent ransom notes. light-in working out facts like these:
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зан unly one
At the end of their tour the Arurrican
awestruck visitors are invited to chance in four of going through follow the examples of John D. sixty years of life without being | Rockefeller jun, and other prominent the vietim of u serious crime citizens by having fhrle Brsterprints lankainuunt 10 robbery, assault, taken and recorded,
manslaughter, or
rape. arson,
murder.
Hoover spends a
great
deal of
ti in evolving these Inets so that he can keep his department and bis corps of G-men 'constantly before the minds of all Americans.
He is forty; he is unmarried: he The
preters what British people would call "the old school tle type" for his sungle.
flies were detectives. Two communities of placed in two quartz glass boxes a few feet apart. Both communities grew and bred at exactly the same rate,
Then Professor Low put a lament of pink gelatine over one box,
The ties in that box bred at a much reduced rate,
to-day.
One of the list series to be issued was "Ships," followed by "Soldiers and Sailors" and "Soldiers of the
World."
Many of these early sets are valu-
able -day.
The most highly-priced set of elgarette carde in the 1937 collectors' catalogue is "Photos of King Edward VII in Uniform." issued by Edwards, Finger and WEES. The series of ten cards is worth £10,
On those who still hezitate, it is Impressed that in canes of am- nesla, or sudden death, or disputed Sets of Brish Queens" are valued inheritances, recorded fingerprints at C6 the set of a dozen. are most useful for proving one's Identity. Few prople baulk after thai.
Mackenzie's "Zoo," Smith's "Beer War," and "Champions of Sport" are priced at £4 185, a dozen.
In addition to this there are indl-
All this concentrated campaign vidual rarities, freak printings, that against crime, this mobilisation of will felch good prices from keen the whole community behind the collectors. G-men, is due to Honver. Crinie, in all its varied forms, has bounded his horizon for the lust eighteen years.
G-MEN ORIGIN
Visitors to the Department are past exhibits carefully shepherded which fosilly to the thoroughness at Hoover's work in stamping out
While probibition was in foret, hie crime. In the ante-room to itis omce forbade his men du drink, not be there. is a startling white plaster cause he thought it would do them
for collectors and arranges exchanges A London company which gaters
and spicy of curtis, netually hus 00,000,000 cards in stock at its Chls- wick headquarters.
theshimile of John Datinger's death any harm but breause he thought 3,000,000
Simultaneously there was an equal musk. staring empty-eyed from it was "unethical" For the same decline in growth And breeding under its case.
reusim, he will opt let them tap among the other fly, community,
Set around the musk are souvenirs-telephone wires TESTS WITH MICE
of the eventful night when America's Even now. drlaking "My expersiments led me to spectaculor First Publle Enemy was bellive," said Professor Law "that trapped and shot down outside a one community of insects is affected | Chiengo cinema,"
by the other and that emupations Visitors see the straw hat he was
other by travel from one to the shurlwaves in the ether.
"What is true of insect He may
the reasonably be true of
higher rorum of life, up to man himself.
"If you are in sympathy with wishes you well, someone who you will do well by virtue of the
lavourable
oscillationN itsat
on duty is forbidden except in a case in which abstinence may focus attention on
Children Sign Safety Pledge
Three million children have signed
This
the agent. Hoover himself never takes more than mie drink at a bur. wearing, crinkled snapshot of a gith from his
When Machine-Gun Kelly, a kid- a pledge to obey Safety First rules pocitet, the allver- rimmed alusses se was wearing as upper, was suptured in Memphis he of the road,
is part of the campaign part of his disguise, one of its rans callut his captors "G-men."
They used him what he meant } Inunched by Mr. Gordon Stewart, of snapped by a bultet, the fut eigur he
and Kelly was carrying in his shit pocket.
explained that in the Bloley, Surrey, 1lls alm, to reduce underworld slang "G-men" stood the toll of children killed on the other There Dre
second-hand! for "government men." The name rods, thrills for the visitors, such as a redį stuck; and filinis and magazines. burst wig taken from criminal who open with stories of the crime- in the same way, anyone who vainly tried to disguise himself from ullers. wishes you evil may bring you mix-G-men, and part of the rope used to Hoover stuck by his ethlen and re-
hang a man who committed a crime | fuzeti ta praft by this. He sent back on Government property,
200 cheques to editors, turned The effect on the visitors is just down a £300 offer to broadcast in what Hoover Inlends it to be that an advertisement programme, and crime just doesn't pay. The solu- | rejected the £500 offers of advertise- tion of the Lindbergh case is ex-ment firms who wanted to use his plained and illustrated by maps of name for shirts, "elgars, and `razora.“
are sent out.
10
fortune.
Individuals "As with
with nations. If people ink and talk war the whole atmosphere is charged with war fear.",
Professor Low is now testing his thicory with mice communities,
His Children's Safely Crusade. backed by a £10,000 ̊ gift from Lord Nuffield, is being taken up all over Bella}.
Safety propaganda is being spread among Bellain's 4,000,000 elementary schoolchildren by film, poster, and lessons.
But the "big pul" is yet to come. Then local compoigne will start all over the commiry.
|
Cleaver.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03
Boys.
Studio The Moana Beach
1. Under Moonn Banyan Tree; 2. On a little bamboo bridge; 3. I'm confessing; 4.
The one Rose; 5. Aloha means I love you: 6. Hawalion Merrories,
8.23 Song by Lilian Harvey (80- prano).
Fantasy From Film 'Binck Roses': To-day I Am Happy-Waltz Song (Alm Black Rosea'),
8.30 London Relay-Variety, Including Issy Bonti, Comedian and and Compere: Rosamond, Freda, Babble, The Happy Three; Wordon and West, Two Old Women. Sup- ported by Harry Gordon and Hits Band.
9.0 London Relay World Affairs.' A talk by J. L. Brierly, O.D.E.. Chichele Professor of International Law, Oxford.
(Continued on Page 4.)
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