THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER' 9. 1938.
"NO ONE WILL HAVE HER," SAID CONCERNTI
JILTED GUNMAN IN SUFFOLK
First Lady Meets American Youth
4-H CLUB CAMP
Promptly surrounded by youthful admirers, the Frst Lady herself made an appearance at the opening day's ceremonies of the 4-H Clubs' recent encampment in Washington. Photo shows Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt recel ving a copy of the programme of events from a committee of sturdy 4-H'ern. Left to right are Clifford L. Breeden of Tippecanoe County, Ind.; Margelta Ditto of Union County, N. M.; Mrs. Roosevelt; Mildred Golf of Parke County, Ind., and Helen Wolf of Fulton County, Ill. One hun
formulate dred and fifty boy and girl leaders met to gramine for improving rural American life.
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Women Talk Too Long
Wo
On The Phone
¡OMEN talk too long on the telephone and school children are making increasing use of the ser- vice to discuss home lessons with their classmates. These, according to business men at Edinburgh, are two explanations of telephone delays in that city.
In a memorandum chamber of commerce officials state that, with the exception of London, no city in Britain is so "telephone conscious" as Edinburgh. There is one telephone for every ten inhabitants."
20-YEAR-OLD Move To GIRL'S RACE FOR LIFE
Kirton, Suffolk.
front of her, a 20-years-old fair-haired girl told the coroner Nervously eyeing a shotgun which lay on a table in here recently how, after she had broken off a love affair, her sweetheart became demented and tried to kill her.
The inquest was on Arthur Smy, aged 24, of Kirton, wo shot a police inspector and then committed suicide after a country-wide search in which 100 police, blood [hounds, and a "plane took part.
Fears were expressed that the speech of the wounded officer, Inspector Rumacy, of Felixstowe, might be permanently affected by an injury to the jaw.
The girl, Miss Violet Cone, of Rectory-lane, Kirton, said that she had been going out with Smy most days and week-ends, and they got on well until last Saturday.
"We never quarrelied," she added,, Pretty): When a young inan la taking "but I told him that I did not want a giri out, he does not always want to go out with him about a month No. 3.
ogo. kept on seeing him because| Cone said that the three of them lie asked me if we could Just be went to the pictures on Saturday, friends, but after Saturday I decided and on Sunday he gave nole from that I did not wish to have ony-his sister, to Smy. thing more to do with him,
"I WILL SHOOT YOU”
"MEANT FOR HIM"
me come out.
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home.
One
Boycott A King
region of Belgium, who three MEMBERS of Parliament and
months ago invited King Leo-
Councillors for the Liege
pold to pay a visit to Wegiment, near Liege, in order to open a Rest Home, have announced that they would boycott the
King's visit.
Their decision was taken as a pro- test against what they consider the detrimental to "Pro-Nazi' policy, Belgian
interests, which the King is fostering in the Cabinet and among the General staff."
There is real alarm in Belgium at the anti
anti-French polley which is now apparently being pursued in Brussels. Only on Friday there were serious disturbances in Liege when an at- tempt was made to ban on Inter- national Pence Campaign demonstra- toit.
FORTIFICATIONS SURPRISE Despite the ban, thousands march- Smy later came to the house and ed in protest through the streets. "I wrote him a note to tell him started throwing bricks at her bed- Folice iried to break up the proces- this, which I sent by my brother on room window. But she would not sion, but the crowd continued to Sunday. He had always asked
shout: "Down with the friends of
and never to tell him, but to write
"Friendship with Mr. Pretty read to the jury two Hitler,"
France." him i finished
with him.
in Smy's notes found "He chr
came round Inter on Sunday.ran;
Significance has also been read but I had locked
the doors, and i
Into the recent army manœuvres. stayed upstairs all the time.
These took place in the Ardennes region on the French frontier, and were directed against an "enemy" coming from the West. At the same time fortlication' work on the German frontler in the East has been suspended.
Miss Cone said that she had asked her brother to go out with them on
a number of occasions,
After receiving her note. Smy asked her: "Are you coming back to me?" and she said, "No." He said: "I will shoot you," but alte did not take it seriously.
"About nine a.m. on Tuesday, when I was alone in the house, I heard a noise and saw Smy outside. He asked me to open the window and told me that I would be sorry i did not. Then I heard a crash of glass and ran to the living room, to find Smy
there.
"He had something in his hand- it might have been a gun-and hej| pointed it at me. I ran back intol the scullery and then to the front
door.
THREW JAM AT HIM
"I called out to a neighbour, who fold me to run to a shop. Smy fol-
I asked a number of women ; Mrs. A Hutton, wife of a business lowed me. I went into a back room if the allegation made againat|inan living in the Morningside dis-and at the same time heard a shot. their sex is true, writes the trict of the city admited that she' "I think it just passed me by. 11 Daily Mail Edinburgh correspon- was one of the culprits. "It never appeared to sting me. I was locked-
till the police dent. One and all admitted that occurred to me before when speak-in a room there
ing to my friends by telephone that rived." it is.
or-
I might be causing delay to other Miss Cone said that when Inspector subscribers," she confessed. "There Rumsey opened the door after inter- Councillor Mrs. Alice Ross said-are occasions when I speak to friends viewing her she heard another shot, in two minutes-that- some of her] for periods up to 15 and 20 minutes," and the officer fell
wounded. sex would go on talking indefinitely:
Mr. Charles Perkins,
The wife of Gretna Green's black-
If permitted. "When 1 phone," she smith "priest" (Mrs. R. Rennison), suld, "I seldom occupy the line for huld: "I am Scotswoman, and I more than two minutes. There are don't mind chatting any length of women who phone me, however, and time over the telephone-if the cali scem anxious for a long inconsequen- is being paid for at the other end," tlal chat,"
Miss A, Mucdonald, secretary of the Edinburgh Women Citizens' Asso- eintion, blames women leisure for having gained their sex the reputa- tion of being long-winded.
"TOO MUCH LEISURE” "There are more women of leisure than there are men of leisure," she sald, "and that has given rise to this accusation. If they took part in more social work they would have. less time to waste on telephone calls."
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manager
at
of the Co-operative Stores Kirton, told how as Smy fired he throw a pot of jam ní him. "While I
I was telephoning to the police Smy ran out again."
Bertie Cyril Cone, the 18-years-old
Of the children, the memorandum brother of Violet Cone, who said that states: "In the Edinburgh district it Arthur Smy had been keeping com- has been discovered that children are pany with his sister for two months ringing up their friends, holding the explained that he himself bad gone line for half-hours at a time-dis-out with them at his sister's wish. cussing their home lessons."
The Coroner (Mr. Bernord
Cyanide
"I have been a good friend to Violet Cone. When I have been out with her she has told me her life was a hell. She did watt me, but it was her father's wish to stop I."
nt
After medical evidence that Smy Eppeared to have been in an unstable mental condition and was liable
Mass protests, in which prominent any time to become uncontrolled, the Jury returned
a verdict of suicide people took part, forced the Govern- was ment to issue a statement that "the while the balance of his mind
manœuvres were directed against no disturbed,
one."
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Easy Live to be 100!
Do you want to live to be 100
years old?
Dr. Upton, Haslow, New York that nearly psychologist, says everyone can do it. It to a question of taking life easily.
when But you must decide you are 18-afterwards it's not 50 certain
"It
can be done by men and women equally, saya Dr. Ilas- low, "I am doing it myself and expect to be one of first prac- tical proofs.
"I teach men and women to rest properly, physically as well as mentally.
“At first it is dimoult to ob- serve my 'snap out of it rule," but it soon becomes a matter of routine.
"I have in my care scores of average young men and women. Some of them have become after five years' practice the perfect- 1y balanced individuals, with iron nerves, heart, lungs and muscles."
Riddle In Clerk's Death
CORONER ASKS QUESTIONS ABOUT
FOUL PLAY
Because no one could tell how he came into possession of cyanide of potassium in a form not easily obtainable, the West Surrey coroner (Mr. G. Wills Taylor) recently ad: journed the Reigate inquest on Norman Wyeth (18), bank clerk, of Redhill, till September 7.
FOUL PLAY?
Mrs. Wyeth said her dead son was: cheerful and very frank.
.
She thought his death was the could result of misadventure and not imagine anyone wishing to In- Jure him.
Except in connection with garden-| ing, he only theory she could offer! for her son having the poison was that someone in the train might have put it in his pocket and, in surprise, he tasted it.
The coroner asked Mrs. Wyeth if she had at the back of her mind the possibility of foul play.
Mrs. Wyeth: i should not ko to say that. Our suggestion is that it was an accident. It is a mystery to
"I am not satisfied that we have heard everything there is to be known about the case," the coroner said.
He appealed to anyone who had Mr. Wyeth told the coroner he did me. any knowledge about the matter to not know why, his brother should The father also said he could not communicate elther with him or the uve written "cyanide" on a piece of believe there was any foul play."
paper unless it was to fix it in his, mind as a weed killer or to exter-that the theory of foul play had not The coroner said he was surprised minate wasps, Norman was in-received more consideration.. terested in gardening.
police.
Wyeth was found dead in bed the morning after his return from a holl-
The coroner, remarking that the pocket, it
slated, to kill Boobtain, said: "The whole thing is people, and had probably taken five, very unsatisfactory, isn't it?"
day. He had enough cyanide in polsun In this form wor difficult to they had disclosed everything within |
Was
times the fatal dose.
BROTHER'S THEORY
Erie Wych, unutylcat and research
chemist, sald be found the poison in
Mr. and Mrs. Wyeth stated that
their knowledge,
The coroner answered that he made no suggestion to the contrary. Mr. Wyeth: Yes: I cannot under-but emphasised that there was a stand it.
mystery to be cleared up.
his brother's pockets when the police BARBER'S TIP BRINGS HIM
were called.
It was commercial cyanide and he had not seen it in that form before. He said he had no idea where his brother got it, as he was not interest-
which it was sometimes used,
£600,000-ENDS HIS LIFE
New York.
ed in chemistry or photography, in TALETTO CORVI used to have a small barber's shop in San El Francisco's Latin quarter. Some one gave him a Stock Exchange tip, and in a few weeks he retired with £800,000.
The Coroner: Did you bring any away from the Government Tabora torica?-Witness: Never,,
Has this polson ever been in your
But later he went back to his shop, sealed up the crevices, turned on the gus, and struck a match. His body, with a farewell note, was found among the wreckage.
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