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WEDNESDAY, JUNE
1988.
MR. A. P. HERBERT DECLARES OUR BETTING LAWS ARE 'ABSURD"
That's Why He
A
Has
Bill To Change Them
Mr. A. P. Herbert recently told the Sunday Dispatch why he is introducing a betting bill in the House of Commons.
"The present betting laws are absurd, illogical, and unjust," he said. "They have led to street betting and, ultimately, pools. "If the Bill goes through it will standardise betting and there will be no need for bookmakers to hang about on street corners. It will give them some self-respect, too."
Bill
The text of Mr. Herbert's was issued recently, a few hours be- tore a performance (which he attend- ed) of his play "Derby Day"--all betting it the about racing und
Guildhali School
Drama.
Music a:
The Hil would make it lawful for
a registered bookmaker to conduct a betting business, whether
credit.
cash or
By personal dealings or otherwir
upon any race track,
By post, telephone,
Op
telekerom.
but not otherwise, at an other regi
tered under the neustre; and
At a registered office as a cash bei deposit offler.
Under the B
the Race course Betting Control Board ur a person i nuthorised by the board to operate a totalisutor may reative by post an an approved race-course cash bets for a totalisator in operation there for races to be run on That couJENO
A bookmaker whose offices has been registered as a cash bet de- post office would be allowed to provido a leller box "altached to an exterior wall" to receive cash
The
repeal the Rendy Money Football Betting Act,
1920.
measure would
POLICE REGISTER
Strange Madness
Among Papuans
Cairns (Queensland, )
A fresh outbreak of the mys ferious Vallala madness afflicting rudives of the gulf division of Papua was reported by a pasDela- Er aboard the plontaro, who re- cently returned from that area. The speaker was in the territory when this madness first broke out in 1910, and has been there many times since.
The intestinaleations of the re- crudescence of mudness decurred only The sprakes did not six weeks ago. wish his identity disclosed, but his! statements regarding hum nempetation Chief offers of police would be with the madness were contlined by ¦ required to keep a register of book-Mr. F. E. Williams, Government an- rankers whose residences or register-¡thropologist, and author of the book.
The Vailla Madness," ed offices were in their areas,
The preamble states that the pre- also abourd the Montore.
sent law and practice.
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"Produce inequalities between rich and poor, so that the law is not respected, the common people resentful, the persons truly responsible for street betting are able to escape the full penalties intended by Parliament, and the officers of the law are embarrass. ed by the temptation or the sus
picion of corruption"
It also declares that ns it is exti- maled that £400,000,000 n Year 15 spent an betting, there should be some sort of "regulation and, if need be, taxation, as tint in some degree
these practices may be diminished and, for the rest, be kept within due bounds."
who was
The Informant said that the files outbreak of the madness was extremely
affected violent. It tens of musands of natives for a distance of about 200 miles from Jokes towards the Fly River over terrllary extending
many miles inland,
The natives had roll- ceived an amazing veneration for a certain white man In whom they believed the spirits of many were in- of their forefathers
carnated,
Wherever he travelled he was pe- companied by hundreds of natives who literally tore the jungle down
of
with their hands wherever he pussed. When he waited for a bunch bananas or for pineapples they were brought in lots of a ton or more at a time. In villages at which he stop-|
Man Who Crossed ped the natives would congregate in
The Pacific
In 18ft. Yacht
Falmouth. Anchored in the harbour bere, ready for departure, is the Beine d'Arcor, 50ft. French fishing! boat in which a family of four plan to sail to Australia, spendlag the winter small craft.
after their
Mr. and Mrs, 1 H. Brache and their two children huve discussed the rip with Captain erod Rebell, Iatvini voyager, who ins drcided to sell hin little sloop Sellin and join the party.
an
Captain Rebell, nicknamed "Australia's Height - of - Folly Navigator"~~lle sailed астоя the Pacifio from Sydney to Los Angeles single-handled
An
18f4 sailing aklif—is tired of seeing the world. "I have had enough of reaming," lic said. "I want to get back to Australia, where I have spent 20 years of my life, to settle down.
became a wanderer because of unhappy love affair. A girl turns ed me down and the only thing wanted to do was to put oceans be sween us, and get to the other side of the world.
was a builder, but after learning
thousands, atal for weeks at a time would shig only one gong, the hymn. "Jesus Loves Me."
GOVERNMENT ALARMED
Natives whe had ever heard word of English in their lives would
The sing it heartily.
singing was incessant, for no matter how many AR were too exhausted to carry on. paroxysms of madness gripped them they would roll on the ground in a frenzy. Some would go into a rom- plete trance and would awaken in a highly excited state and describe mysterious visions.
The Government became seri- wusly alarmed particularly when village dubus (men's houses) were burnt down wholesale by the natives themselves. It was feared the entire native life would become disorganised, ily the time scientifle investigation commended, however, the out- break had subsided.
occurred
Several outbreaks had since, and according to messages re ceived from the natives only a few weeks ago, a recurrence of the mad- ness had taken place.
"
Harold Lloyd, who plays the part of Egyptalupist in his current comedy "Professor. Deware," is seen with his Isa eldest daughter at the museum Los Angeins inspecting celles from Egyptian xenvations,
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BLONDE BORGIA ADMITS-
I gave my
brothers
rat poison
New York, Apr. 28.
EMPIRE NEWS
DUTCH AIR LINE TO AUSTRALIA
Sydney,
The conditions under which the! Dutch Air Line will be authorised to Inaugurate a twice weekly air mall service to Australa are announced,
ERADIO BROADCAST
Prue Lewis (Violin) In Beethoven Sonata
MME. BUTTERFLY-ACT I Brondenst by Radlo Programme Z.B.W, on a Frequency of 845 kc.c's.; and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. & 8-11 p.m. on 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 Ivor Moreton And Kaye (Two Pianos).
Dave
Kitten On The Keys; Russlan Rag; Nola; Polly; Dolls Medley.
12.42 Roy Fox And His Orchestra. Slivery Moon And Golden Sands- The Dutch planes will bring mails Fox-Trat; The Cross-Eyed Cowboy from Europe, but will be forbidden On The Cross-Eyed Horse-Fox- to carry mails between Britain and Trot; So Rare-Fox-Trot; My Cabin Australia, either way, Or to carry Of Dreams-Fox-Trot; I Know Now (From "The Singing passengers between any two points-Fox-Trot And Mine-Fox
1938).
'Broadway Melody of
10 Time and Weather. 1.03 New Mayfair Orehesten And Hubert Eindell (Tenor)
"Tond
in Australin. The planes will be Marine'); Yours scheduled to reach Sydney eight days Trot (From after leaving: Amsterdam.
The Empire flying-boat service lenst 43 will not be opened for at month after the Dutch service begins
Of Toad Hall"-Selectlon in July. The Dutch will use Lock- leed planes.
(H. Fraser-Simon)....Orchestra; Be- £10,500 Detrace Gift-During re-cause I Miss You So Glanville & F cent weeks the Commonwealth has Contra); Two Tired Old Eyes (P. opened a special fund into which Kenyon & J. II. Squire)... Hubert Selection... Have been paid a number of in- Elxdell: "Going Greck"- dividual gifts, earmarked for defence Orchestra; Always As I Close My The largest announced to-day is from Eyes (Handfield-Jones & E. Contes) Sir Thomas Buckland,' president of
....Hubert Elstell; Medley Of Jamen
Orchestra. the Bank of New South Wales. He Tate's Songs.. is contributing £10,500 towards the
1.30 Reuler & Rugby Press, Wea- cost of the latest type of bomber ther Forecast and Announcements. plane,
1.40 Reginald Dixon & Rale Da Churches and War-While con- Costa.
an evil. 14 Dixm 2111s No. 18. Reginald sittering aggressive war
Victorian Dixon (The Famous Blackpool Or- special committee of the
Aces" Sulte (Billy Presbyterian Assembly declines to ganist), "Four define the Church's attitude towards Mayer}); 1. Ace Of Clubs; 2. Ace Of peace and war, statine that there is Diamonds; 3. Ace Of Hearts; 4. Ace Forum for a wide divergence of opin-Of Spades....Rale Du Costa (Plano
on within Christian fellowship. Sunth Africa
UNION'S ELECTORAL
ROLL
Cape TownL Omand Agures published show that after the blennial registration in 1937 Übere were 1,018,508 voters in The Union, after native voters had 9 her removed to a separate roll.
ELIZABETH WAGNER,
The figure Includes 501,522 Euro- pean mer, 490,003 European women, 23,867 coloured men, 1478 Asiaties. native 1,897 Cape Malays, and one register in Natal
Many new veters have, however,
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2.15 6.0
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Relay of the Danes Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.
(a)-(d) Tungoes & Rumbas.
Rhythm's 6.14 Recorded:-The O.K. In Harlem-Fox-Trot; Take An- other Guess-Fox-Trot. Teddy Foster & His Kings of Swing (Vocal Refrain by Teddy Foster.
0.21 (a) Let's have another
been registered in the send on Janty Wiccup (o) Life of the party; (e)
twenty-two-year-old,, which closed at the end of Janu-My campfire of dreams; (d) Elfin ut
four fout-ten blonde, her face freckled like a school- girl, to-day confessed before New York homicide squad men that she had murdered her two brothers, Henry, and twenty - one, aged Charles, aged fourteen.
New York christened Miss Wagner Little Miss Borgia" as police to-day that xlie published her confession
alled her brothers by giving them rat polson.
They announced that they would now re-tnvestigate all cases of illness in the Wagner family for the last ten
years
Miss Wagner told of the mysteri- OUTS fatal illness of her father, August Wagner, six years ago, and the Anding of her grandmother's body in East River In 1933.
The police added that they were sulisfled Miss Wagner had polsoned her we brothers, who died a week AKO
'HE NAGGED ME'
Her confession read:-
"I gave them poison four timer, I put a pinch of rat poison in their I hated Orange Juice and mik
Henry; he nagged and scolded me. He knocked two of my teeth out because I swore. I don't know I loved when I gave it to Charles. Charles,"
The brothers were buried
tast Wednesday after a brief, violent il- ness, with Elizabeth weeping at the graveside as mourner. Detectives at Mr. Williams said that the mad- Arst did not suspect the girt because ness certainly still existed in the she also had been ill. To-day she Vailata River country, and further explained that she had taken just a outbreaks in a minor form were by slight sip of poison herself to put no means improbabile. The trouble appeared to be a form of mass hysteria and was of a semi-religious
nature.
'off' them the scent.
Mrs. Marte.Wagner, mother of the girl, though shown the confession, refused to believe her two sons had been
all I could about navigation in Farm Lectures By Plane murdered by "my little slip of
Sydney Public Library I set out
There was no doubt in the minds alone. I really did not care what
the n Regina, Saskatchewan.
the homicide
squad, They happened.
The University of Saskatchewan branded Miss Wagner as "a girl with "Actually I set sail for Australia
now utilizes the airplane to supply a violent, undeveloped mind," and in my little sloop a few weeks ago, but my craft struck a gale in the Bay information to Saskatchewan farm-polated out that her medical record ers. F. W. Townley-Smith, repre- revealed that she had been in hos- "The experience I had those sentative of the agricultural exten-pital twice for observation.
slon department of the institution, Murder charges are not likely to be pressed against the girl because fidence in the Selba for such a voy-flew to numerous towns and cities nge. I decided to turn back and go to speak on tillage methods.
of
Biscay.
mountainous seas shook
my
to Australia some other way."
con-
Mrs. Braclio muid that they had re- velyed scores of letters from people who read about their earlier adven- tures,
"Numbers of girls-some of them
in good jobs.wrote asking if they
could come as cooks. Lots of fellows,
too, had stred to join us, and we
of her mental condition.
"No Body" Murder Confession Baffles Scotland Yard
wettest
BUDGET FURTHER
DELAYED
Oluwa.
the Ritz.
0.35 Recorded:-Swee: Sue-Fox- Nenita Min-Rumba. Fred Trot: Jackson & His Orchestra with Jose Norman, with vocal refrain, I need Jay Wilbur & You-Fax-Trot.
Sam His Band (Vocal refrain by Costa).
Sperch by Gen. Maritz-For the fest time since the 1914 rebellion, of which be was one of the leaders, Gen. Manie Maritz addressed publie meetings in Calvinia constituency during the week-end in the interests of the Nationalist cand inte.
A Wet April-Cape Town has just 0.44 (a) Once In a While; (b) passed through the
April | Satan takes a hollday; (c) 1 Still love since 1931. The rainfall on Table to kiss you "Goodnight"; (d) Jubilee. Mountain for the mouth was More
7.0 Desnis Noble (Baritone) & B.B.C. Wireless Military Band, than 7
The Jatly Robbers Overture Canada
(Suppe)... Band cond. by B, Walton O'Donnell. The, Rebel (from 'Free- booter Songs'-W. Wallace): Son O'Mine (from Freebooter Songs'- W Wallace), Deunis Noble. A further two weeks delay in the The Black Domino-Overture (Auber.
arr. Winterbottom)
Band cond. presentation of the Budget is pre-by B. Walton O'Donnell. Will She dicted. The Government is awaiting Be Waiting Up? (Hayes and T. C. the outcome of the Canada-United Sterndale-Bennett): At Santa Bar-
States trade negotiations, which are barn (Weatherly and Russell)
Dennis Noble. Slavonte Dance No. 5 at present beld up by the priority right of the Anglo-United States (Dvorak-Op. 72-5-arr. Williams); Dance Of The Flowers-Vulse (from
Le Corsaire Ballet'--Delibes) Band cond, by B. Walton O'Donnell.
7.34
Closing local Stock Quotations.
Light Orchestral. 7.38 The Dancing Clock (M. Ewing) ... Orchestre Raymonde. Carlsbad Doli Dance (L. Pleter); Oriental Dance- Novelty Duet (C. White)... Bourne- mouth Municipal Orchestra conducted Sir Dan Goes E. Gensler); by
Speakeasy
Part.
The Cabinet does not wish to pre sent the Budget without including the trade agreements,
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Children Burned-Jeannine and Alice Lacasse, two years and three months old respectively, daughters uf Rene Lacasse, were burned death when fire destroyed the house of their grandfather, Nelson The father was severely bed in attempting rescue.
New Zealand
casse.
Cuban Dance
Bolero (From 'Bolero-Ravel) . . . Odeon Theatre Orchestra conducted
WOMEN POLICE TO BE by G. Walter. Immortal Strauss-
APPOINTED
A Medley Of Strauss Waltzes) Viennese Waltz Orchestra.
0.0 Time, Weather and Announce- ments.
8.03 Puccini Madam Batterfly"—
1. Act
Wellington (N.Z.). The New Zealand Government in- tends to establish a women's police forec.
Vocalists: Mannarini (Mezzo- Mr. P. Fraser, Minister for Public Soprano), M. Sheridan (Soprano), Instruction and Health, making the announcement to-day, added that the Cecil (Tenor), Palal (Tenor) and V. Weinberg (Baritone) with Members women would go through n good course of training and have a proper of La Scala Orchestra and Chorus standard of health and education, conducted by Carlo Sabaino.
Reuter.
India
ORISSA MINISTRY TO RESIGN
0.0 Studio-Beethoven 2nd Violla and Piano Sonata-Prae Lewis (Vio- lin) and Lindsay A. Lafford (Piano).
0.30 London Relay-The News. 0.50 Orchestra Mascotte. Under The Rainbow Waliz
Waves- (Waldteufel); North Sen
of Waltz (S. Kronnig). Sweetest All-Waltz (Waldtoufci).
Cuttack, Orissa. Mr. Biswanath Das, Premier of! 10.0 London Relay-Courtney Hope Orissa, stated that, he and his col- In Character Biodles From Life. leagues had decided to resign unless Courtney Hope, a county magistrate radio there were developments in the for Northampton, made her
She found political crisis before Thursday, debut about a year ago.
Company, The trouble arises out of the objec-ed the Hatton Dramatic tinn of the Government to the and is the organiser and leader of a appointment as Acting Governor of concert party which raises large sums Mr. J.
J. R. Dain during the absence on for charity every year. leave of the Governor, Slr John 10.15 Variety and Dance Music.
You Hubboelt.
While Ая Revenue Commis- Fox-Trots-Whistic sioner Mr. Dain is normally sub- Work (From 'Snow White and The ordinale to the Ministry. He is to Seven Dwarla'); Some Day My assume the Governor's duties on Prince Will Come (From 'Snow White and The Seven Dwarts')....The Orchestra Of Merry Men directed by vocal George Scott Wood with chorus: Humorous Sandy The De- tective Comedy Scotch.
Sandy Powell and Company: Margie (Specially recorded for "The Big Apple'); Farewell Blues (Specially Dr. Nadina R. Kavinoky explained Ronnie Munro And His
have had three or four quite pathette A MURDER confession by a man in a Cambridgeshire Thursday Reuter.
lettres from German and Austrian relugees."
Opium In Cricket
Bats
Rangoon.
Cricket bats are being used to smugglo oplum hurc. Customs authorities `seized two bats arrying from Sialkot, Punjab, and
found they had been hollowed out and Alled with $1,050 worth of oplum.
Poor Law Institution has set Scotland Yard and the police of four countries a problem.
The confession-a written one-states that the man, with an accomplice, murdered "John Shillan" two years ago and buried the body in a copse between Bedford and Northampton.
Searches by police in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northants, and Buckinghamshire have so far yielded no clues. Dotectives, however, are convinced that theto is every likelihood that the crime has been committed.
Faced with a "no body" murder mystery, local police have ropertéd the facts to Scotland Yard.
"In-Laws" Get Sympathy
Pasadena, Cal.
recorded for The Big chestn
to the Institute of Family Relations Voen! Easy To Love (From "Born here something of the complex of To Dance'); I've Got You Under My mothers-in-law, "They are lone-Skin (From Born To Dance').... some," she said, "and hate to see Frances Day; Fox-Troto-Who Knows the young couple make mistakes (From "Rosalle); Too Lovely To Do that could be avoided,"
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2. Bat Costumo
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