THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY,
MAY 5,
"IT'S GRAND TO BE A MOTHER
Winner On
Says
Stork Derby
Atlantic
Telephone
THE result of the Toronto Stork Derby was declared by
the Supreme Court of the State as follows:
Mrs, Isabel Maclean, aged 34, wife of a Civil Servant;
Mrs. Annie Smith, wife of a fireman;
Mrs. Kathleen Nagle, aged 32, wife of a carpenter; and
Mrs. Timlek, aged 38, whose husband is now an employee
of Toronto Parks Department, but had long been out of work.
Each of these mothers has nine children born within ten years, and for this they share £100,000 under the will of the eccentric millionaire, Charles Vance Millar.
Recently over the Atlantic telephone a London Sunday Frispatch reporter spoke with Mrs. Alice Timleck, mother of 17 children.
"Sure, I've earned me money, and anw I'm going to sit back and enjoy 1t, begorroll" came the voice in the rich brogue of her native Kildare.
"It's grand to be a rich wannn- after all these years of drudgery."
A sigh of relelf came across the Lelephone.
Then a deep masculine voler cut into the conversation. It was Arthur Hollis Timlecht.
ihe
"Not so fast, Alice," he chuckled We haven't got
money yet. You'll be spendin' before we get it.. in a minute.
091
"Quiet, man, the baby marathon winner was heard to exelnim. "It's as good an in our pockets right now
"Glory be." she continued. "'s been like a dream. Only A few Years
my husband was out of work. He was em ployed by motor building firm in Toronto; then the depression came and they reduced the staff. Arthur had to go, and for nearly four years we were living on relict.
"We had thirteen children to sup- port, and it was a terrible struggle
TOLD IN TEACUP
"During this time I had my fortune read in a teacup by a friend of my husband.
"He told me that great wealth was coming my way in a few ycare
K.C. GIVES SPELLING TEST
Unusual Court Scene
"This is reminiscent of a spelling bee," add the Revorder, Mr Gerulti Dedon, at the Old Bailey when a K.C in the Clarkson will trial a witness to wilte from detation
Willam Compes Hobos, 73-years-old Devountant, wito voflaged in the dock recently, and Edmond Connor, aged 53. solicitor, pleaded net kulity 111 charges of furgery and uttering a will of Withe Clarksón, famous theatrirni costumter and wigmaker
Holas, Tonking pałe, was allowed a seat in the clock
When Clarkson died in 1934 O'Con-
Chinese Girl Police
The Tu Tuo govemment in Pootunut, Chim, has enrolled 50 female suspects and Chine girls to police the strict, search
C ilut
fought latali rder. Here, in treintug.
how to subetute and search cusprets,
£24,850,000 "Bunkered" MORE FOR In Making AUSTRALIAN His Will
DEFENCE
af
Canberra An deliktsmal expenditure £24,950,000 for defence in the next. three years was unhounerd by the Mr Minister, Frize Austraition
distributed
nor produced a wilt. dated 1929. Lyons, in a broadcast recently which made Hobbs the residuary expenditure will be legatee, but the prosecution contend follows that the signatures of Clarkson and one of the two witness were forged.
The trial was adjourned
Walter Ivan Godown, the fist wit- ness, sald he joined Clarkson's Brm ns a clerk after replying to an adver tisement in which the words "good handwriting essential" appeared.
Navy Army
Air Force Munitions
programme, Of course, we laughed at
1 Mr. J. D. Cassela, K.C., for Hobbs, Thunder Godwin some paper and
pen and asked him to write what he dictated.
him at the time. But he was eight, after all, although when he read my fortune he did not know I had entered for the prize. "I think motherhood is a line, grand thing. It teaches you to be unselfish. "Glory be, it makes me laugh to think that when Arthur and I were their first married a fortune-teller said we your should have no cluidren. We be-aldress. lieved her and adopted one.
"It
The
iLM
£ 7,750,000
$5,500,000
£8,000,000 £2,000,000
CX-
With the ordinary maintenance
Autsralia's total penditure on defence in the three This ex- years will be £43,000,000.
ther cludes money to be spent on development of civil aviation.
The rearmament programme will include the following:
Mr.
"What ae- Cassels dictated; commodation can you recommend for possessions? When you write reply please put the right
for 'the
Our friends will be there. When Godwin handed back the paper, Mr. Cussels asked: "Do you "I didn't want the whole summi. Half a million dollars is too much for really think you would be employed I will just read what anyone, and I'm more than satised as a clerk?
you have written: A-C-C-O-M-O- with the court's decision.
D-A-T-1-0-N, H-E-C-O-M-E-N-D. perfectly fair, and the three-O-S-E-S-S-1-O-N: then clher mothers are equally satisfied.
plense,' 'P-L-A-S-E; then for "Mind you, I'm sorry for the two right address, W-I-I-T-E addess.*" that lost it Mrs. Kenny and Mrs. Clarke],
"THEIR FOR "THERE" Mr. Cassels quoted the phrase, "Our friends will
ord be there, asked: "How do you spell there?"
Godwin: T-H-E-1-R. Replying to Mr. Dodson, Godwin: aid that before entering Clarkson's service he was employed at a garage. Mr. Dodson: So spelling was not it necessary qualification for that?) No, sir.
IN HIDING
"We haven't been told when we shull get the money, but I understand It will be by the spring."
to
Mrs. Timleck was speaking from Brooklyn, 35 miles from her home in Toronto, and said
there that she had gone escape the hundreds of people who had besieged their home. "Directly the court's decision was made public," she said, "people began to crowd into our street, and we re- ceived a whole pile of telegrams from all over the world.
"We are a quiet family, und we certainly aren't going to go crazy over this windfall.
"Begorrah, I consider I've earned every cent of it.
"My husband wants to live on a ranch-but that's not my idea. I want to be in a city and see a bit of life.
"I might even go back to my native Ireland for a holiday. But not to live, "No, I'm Canadian now, and there's no place like Canada for me,"
Cat As Retriever
Amsterdam.
When a cat entchen a
Gerald Francis Gurria, handwrit- ing expert, sald he was satisfied that the Clarkson signature on the 1829 will was not genuine.
It
Mr. Cussels: Supposing you had Information tail Clarkson could stand very little wine, was man whom very little wine would rapidly upset,
and that this signature was put on this will after he had had an wine, unusually heavy lunch with would that make any difference?-
nil. None ut
written Signatures under the influence of dunk are quite marked.
WALLPAPER
OF STEEL
Los Angeles. Ilumes soon will have steel wall. paper, the Western Metal Congress wan told.
steel will be glued to the walls, wo
NAVY
Purchase from Britain of two 6,830-ton cruisers of the Sydney type, to be delivered in September this year and July next year.
To offset part of the cost of the cruisers Australia to hand over to Great Britain the 4,800-ton Austin- Han-built seaplane-carrier Albai-
VARDON'S £11,000 ESTATE
Wos
ת!
When the will of Harry Vardon,
discussed
the the golfer. Chancery Division it was suggested. and laughter, that in making it he had "got bunkered at every turn."
Mr. Vardon, who died on March 20, 1937, left estate valued at £1- 000, which he disposed of by a will written in ink on a printed form.
1938.
RADIO BROADCAST
His Hon. the Chief Justice On St. John Ambulance
LONDON - RELAYS-,
Radio Programme Brondenst by ZBW on Frequencies of 845 kc.e's. 9.02 m.c's. per. second,
12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of intercession from St. John's Cathe dral.
12.30 Lya Gauty and The Orchen- tru Mascotte.
Golden Rain-Waltz (Waldteufel); Sweetest Of All-Waltz (Wnididufel)
To Kiss ....Orchestra: Lovely
Of The Waltz (S. Dicker); Dance Fairies Wallz (Willy Rosenthal)... Orchestra; A Song Selection... Lys Gauty with Orch. Accompaniment; Melodies Twinkling Lights Waltz (From Operette Der Oberstelger'); (Willkom The Lust Letter-Waltz
Waltzes Or Reggov)....Orchestra; The World-Potpourri Robrecht)....Orchestra.
(arr. Carl
1.0 Time tend Weather. 1.03 Songs by Charles Kullman (Tenor).
Adams): Thorn (Weatherly und Beautiful Garden Of Roses (Dempsey and Schmid); Vale (d'Arcy and Rus- sel).
1.13 Orchestral.
S.
Fairy Tule {Heykens. Foulkes): In The Shadows (Fick) Tom Jones and Ills Orchestra; Nath Waltz (Deliber, arr. Doppler! ...Royal Opera Orebesten, Covent Garden conducted by Lnwrance Col- lingwood: Islamey-Orientul Fantasy (Balakireff, arr. Casella)
....New Symphony Orchestra eund, by Eugene Goossens.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Weather and Announcements,
Press,
1.40 Variety, Orchestra-Chinese Legend (Schu- leabig; Majarsita (Schulenburg), Eugen Wolff and Bls Orchestru, Vocal -Bird On The Wing (Kennedy and Grosz); With All My Heurt (From *Her Master's Volce')....Robert
Solo- (Baritone); Ashley
Plano Charlle Kunz Piano Medley No. D.D with (Piano) Kunz ...Charlie
Vocal-Thirty Aecomp.: Rhythm Thirsty Throats (Nesbitt Bros.1: Sing Gipsy Sing (A. Winn and E. Marlent)
Anona Wing with Orch; Vocal- We Were Dancing (From "To-night t Parisian Pierrot (Noel 8.30'); Coward)....Noel Coword ner, by The Orch. London; Like Bananas
Phoenix
Theatre Orch.-I
The matter cane before Mr. Justice Farwell on a summons taken out by Dance Mr. Arthur Brown, an executor and Quickstep; Madam-Ah! La Marquise trustee of the estate, which raised-Ah One Step... Joe Loss and Hils questions of construction of the will. Orchestra with vocal refrain.
Mr. E. M. Winterbotham, for Mr. 2.18 Close Down. Brown, said that the testator, Mr. Henry William Verdon, was more commonly known as "Harry" Vardon.from the Roof Garden of the Hong-
"I seem to have heard the name," commented Mr. Justice Farwell.
"HOME-DRAWN DOCUMENT
Mr. Winterbotham said that the Will was a home-drawn document of a very peculiar type. It read:
8.03-11.0 Chinese Programme. 6.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra
kong Hotel.
(a) So Many Memories; (b) A Foggy Day; (c) Things are looking up; (d) Nice Work If You Can Get It. 6.15 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.
6.20 (0)
"I give and bequeath unto my wife, Laundry Bring you; (b) Chinese
(c) Shadows on the Jessic Vardon, all my household furniture and house, also
moon; (d) Honeysuckle Rose. £400 * 5.35 Interval of recorded dance
music from ZBW. year.
"My medals I should like to go to
(a) Silhouetted in the moon- 5.45 u museum or Bome such place in light; (b) I'm like a fish out of water; cruisers Canberra, 9,850 tons, and Jersey, where they have these things (e) I've hitched my wagon to a Star;
ross,
Modernisation of the Austrullun
Australia, 9,870 tons.
Two sloops and three local sea- ward-defence vessels to be built at the Cockatoo Island yards in Sydney Harbour.
AIR FORCE
Strength to be raised to 108 Drst-line machines, in addition to reserves, by 1941.
New units to include two squad- rons at Port Darwin, one at Brin- bune, three at Canberra and two on the New South Wales coast. An additional squadron in Western Australia.
More intensive production of the
acroplanes N.A. 33 type of Australia.
in
ARMY Increase in the number of per- manent troops.
Increase in the vote for officers' training and staff schools by £1- 750,000.
More armaments, including anti- tank, guns, rifles and reserves of ammunition and further mechanis
ation.
always
After disposing of a trophy to n niece, the will continued:
"I should like to know that my other prizes should be looked after and not given away any old way.
"Same as pictures. There are some that will become valuable later on. There are in the drawers valuable things if sorted out,
(d) Let that be a lesson to you.
0.0 Studio The Children's Hour. 7.0 Chopin Nocturnes.
Nocturne in F Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2; Notturne in G Minor, Op. 15. No. 3; Nocturne in G Major, Op. 37, No. 2....Arthur Rubinstein (Piano). The Honour 7.18 StudioIILS Chlef Justice Sir Atholl MacGregor Speaking on St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade,
7.28
Closing local Stock Quota- 7.30 London Relay At The Black
"I would like Dorla Williams to have a choice of cup and £200, All my mounted golf balls to be given tons. to A Brown if he would like them.
"Then I hope that when my wife Dog.'
11s own departs she will see the money will Mr. Wilkes at home in
by Pascoe be divided between my sister and bur-parlour. Presented brothers and nephew and nieces." Thornton and S. E. Reynolds.
Mr. Justice Furwell: Not a very 6.0 Time, Weather and Announce- good effort!
Mr. Winterbotham sald that Mr. Vardon had six brothers, two of whom were dead, and two sisters, There were a number of nephows
and nieces.
WRITING CRITICISED
Mr. G. Upjohn, for a nephew, argued that "nephew in the will ought to read "nephews."
ments,
8.03 Chinese Concert.
11.0
Programme-Studio
Close Down.
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZEK, on a Frequency of 040 Kilo- cycles.
8.03 Studio-Recital by H. Ozorio (Jazz Piano).
8.15 Sydney Gustard at the Or- Grass-
ECCLEL
Musical Comedy Medley; ment was in Mr. Vardon's hand-hoppers' Dance (Bucalossi); Teddy
Bears Picnic (Bratton). writing or someone else's.
8.29 Musical Comedy.
Mr. Lyons sald that particular It was not plain whether the docu- attention was being paid to the defences at Port Darwin as on Important adjunct to the Singapore Navol Buse-Reuter.
a
man
Brings Back Lost Thin strops of rust-proof chromium GIRL'S INTUITION TRAPS THIEF
Dallas, Tex. decided Rosie Jordan Canary Unharmed engineers announced. They exhibited
samples of an attractive sky-blue shouldn't throw away a purse, even and said that pastel shades or flower though it was empty. She called the
Heat be made. is designs can
pollee and that news? It is in Holland because: sound insulating qualities are claimed online they arrested on
In the village of Wilp a yellow, for it--United Press. cánary escaped from its enge. Next Joor lived an old-fashioned cut, the nicest one in the land, according to its mistress.
For many days there was no trace 6f the canary. Then one afternoon the cat slunk into its mistress's room. disappeared under the cupboard and started mewing. After much coax-
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"It starts off in a bold and flowing
Norton)..
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hand and it gets worse.' said Mr. Chu Chin Chow-Selection (F. Upjohn. "It Is quite plain that as lie goes on writing it gets worse and deteriorates rapidly till it gets very
end."
bad towards
Justico Farwell: Oh, not very Mr. bad! it is legible, and that fo more
everybody. than can be said of
Giving Judgment, Mr. Justice Fur-I
form of will well said that it was another instance of the unhappy use of which could be purchased for a small sum at a stationer's shop.
Mr. Vardon, or someone on his behalf, had endeavoured to express "The only result," said the judge, "has been that he has entirely failed, in my view, to express wishca
ON MOTHER OF 8,000 his ultimate wishes in a homely way.
Portsmouth.
White-haired Mrs. Lucy Kean, 79-year-old midwife,
ing, the pet appeared, carrying in its has brought 8,000 babies into the world, and has never
mouth a yellow canary.
It was the conary from next door: lost a child or mother.
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· METALLIC INDIGESTION KILLS COW
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in any way that is effective so for cerned."
as the residue of his estate is con- His lordship found that there were effective bequests of the house and
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9.10 London Relay-World Affairs. A taile by H. Wickham Steed, 9.30 London Relay The NewB. 9.50 Songs by Gitta Alpar (50- Drano),
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10.0 London Relay-Night Onl At The Empire Exhiblion',
Now she has been deprived, of her certificate. Under rules furniture and an annuity of £400 to tion which was opened by his Majesty
(of the Central Midwives' Board
she has been forced to retire.
"I've been working for nfly-three Why years, but I'm still strong, should I retire?" she asked me.
and three of them survived to grow Up into strong, healthy children,
In one family alone sho has de- Tiverad 14 children. In another, 23, one of which was a six and a half "ty avion to young nurses is months, baby, and which lived after to forget that they are nurse lying for three months in an Incuba- Young mothers get frightened of tor of her own invention.
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She glanced at the fast entry in her book. No, 8,177 ... and the doctor's
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