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FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER
NO WIFE-BEATING HERE,' SAYS "TOWN'S MAYOR
Council to Discuss
Rector's
Charge
By H. L. McNally
Wednesbury, Staffs. They're tough, mighty tough, here in Wednesbury, but not so tough that they make wife-beating a pastime.
They've got to be tough, for the principal industry of this Black Country town of 33,000 inhabitants is making steel tubes, railway wagons, and bridges. And that's tough work.
They are sore, mighty sore, here with the Rector of St. James's Church, the Rev. Geoffrey Ingle Soden, who wrote in his parish magazine that wife-beating appeared to be quite a common pastime in Wednesbury,
He also wrote that parental authority has broken down, and that children go anywhere or nowhere, just as they please.
Was 76 August 20, and The town got so sore at that that She the
Council has lived all her life here. Mayor and Town
"LIVING IN FEAR" considered the Rector's charges at a
special private meeting to-morrow.
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Councillor P. A. Wadsworth told me to-night that ho consl- ders the matter so serious, that ho will prospose to the Council that mass meeting of the townspeople be held in the Town Hall as soon as possible to give the peoplo an opportunity of refuting the Rector's allegations. But the Rector sticks to his point,
Father told me: "What She
There are Soden wrote is true. wives and children who live in fear on Saturday father, especially nights and Sunday afternoons.
know a man who on August Holiday drunk and beat
HOL Thin wife and children. It used to be
Bane
Counillar Charles Collins, Mayor of Wednesbury, told me that the
I saw him at his smoke-blackened council's 3,000th house is just being red-brick rectory.
He is slight,com Generally speaking." he kald,
pale, mild-voiced man of 35, and hel seemed vastly surprised that his
attracted charges should have much attention.
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people keep these new houses well. I have lived here 30 years and I know nothing of wife-being. I think, and my experience on the Bench confirms It, that this is a well-behaved law-abiding town," =Wi£_ J}eAtft¥p{sui++pawlatt tan accordi
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A contingent of the 30,000 farm labourers sent from Italy to At the shortage of agricultural workers in Germany, arrives in Berlin for a sight-seeing tour be fore going to central and south- ern German farms to raise beets and potatoes. Labour authori- fles of the two notions agreed on the arrangement.
Fresh Light On Riddle
Of Lawrence Of Arabia
NEW light on the riddle of Lawrence of Arabia has been shed by Sir Ronald Storrs, former Governor of Jerusalem. Speaking to the British Empire Summer School at Cam- bridge, Sir Ronald revealed that Lawrence had written him many letters about life,-women, books.. "Nine-tenths of his letters to
LETTERS FROM WIVES "Wife beating does go on," he fuld me. "I could show you letters from beaten wives that would make you
athletic-looking weep. Children go to the Sunday schools mainly to get tea or cakes, Mr. J. E. Wilkes, police court mis-
slenary and probation ofeer. or whatever else they can secure.
"T or 15 years ago here there mo kave perished, and only "But I don't want anyone to think I am attacking the people here. If was real wife-beating," he said. about a half-dozen remain," Sir men beat their wives, and children "Mn took off their belts and gave Ronald said later, "Even these are brought up badly, it is because the women a sound thrashing. Now, few reveal his power and variety of the dreadful conditions in which if any they have to live. I want them to merely slaps in the face or something in that rarely-mastered art.” have better homes,
"Look," he said, and led me out past his church and along the road.
What do you think of that?"
He pointed # in finger at tumbledown houses, at potholes roads, at rubbish dumps littered with broken bricks, atones, old tin
and remains of demolished houses.
can
Like that.
cases do occur, they
Bre
"I know of no figures by which Father Soden, who has been only couple of years here, can support his. charges. Wednesbury to-day is very law-abiding. Any rowdiness i Is caused by outsiders."
"DAMAGING" Councillor W. W. Bisson, Conser- Wednesbury vative agent for the
He took me to see Mrs. Hughes, Division, said: "Are Father Soden's
an invalid, of Lower Dudley-street.remarks wise, necessary, or true?
OLD STILGOE
HAS GONE
By RICHARD GREENOUGHI
For 30 years one man, smallish, dark, energetic, with pince-nez that frequently fell off, knew of and controlled the hopes and the
destinies-o! under-
fears--even thousands
graduates.
of Oxford
He was Thomas Stilgot, porter ut
He says there are many llerates here, but how docs Wednesbury compare with other towns of the same size?
"In all my political experience of 20 years I have never heard or read of a statement of such a damaging and wholesale nature.
"Of all the areas I have worked In I have never come across more hospitable people than there are in Wednesbury-in fact, here are the golden hearts of the Black Country,"
Amy Gets Divorce, Says "It's Fine"
AM
the Examination Schools in The 1667
High since 1908, and in his spare time official at the Oxford
University Apollo Lodge, who died MY Johnson, the airwoman,
recently.
from
was mentioned in two courts re-
decree Best known of Stigoe's many dulles cently. Her divorce
was the posting-up in the spacious, Jim Mollison was made absolute- black and white stone-flagged hall and she was fined £6 at Workrop, of the school's building of all ex- Notts, for exceeding the speed limit amination result-Passes and Falls, when driving a car with a trailer from Responsions to Finals.
It was an entirely new Amy who Hundreds of anxious young men used stoned into the sunshine from her
to go to "Old Stilgoe" (after proper introduction) when they Mayfair apartment, and asked a re- had written their papers, er hnd porter to deny ú rumour of a romance their vivas, and arrange for him between herself
French nobleman.
to send them the result. "KNOWN, LOVED, DREADED" Thus, through breaking good news
or dashing hopes, he became one
of Oxford's best-known figures. He was known and loved, or dreaded, by hosts of men, many of wham be- come famous-Cabinet Minister, politicians, diplomats, and mem- bers of the peerage.
anck
I'M FREE NOW'
wealthy
"I heard the rumour ages ago. It seems to have originated in Faris, but I haven't been over there, for at least a year," she sald.
"And just as I was luxuriating in the novelty of. freedom this crops
This guardian of the Examination un
Schools was. strict disciplinarian.
""Well, I'm free now," she laughed and most exacting in his regard for "Ir's fine but
I want
breathing detail.
space. I've got an open mind on
un
lust adventure."
Now Amy wants a Job-work that means doing things.
It is a university rule, for instance, the subject of marriage after the
that no, student must be allowed into the schools building, even to scane the results board, unless he is wearing a gown. Many anxious undergraduate, fearful yet impatient to know the worst, has tried to slip by the entrance, academically "uattressed." But unless he was in an indulgent mood, Sulgde was adamant in re-
admittance though fusing
lic would always oblige by going to look at the board himself. Businesslike, brigisi, almost perky. Stilgoe rarely showed emotion. To. him results were just part of his
duties, but in his announcements
.un
of fallures he always put in a word of condolence, and successes he spoke of in a tond of gratulation.
Typical of Lawrence's letters, writ- ten when he was Aircraftman Shaw, is the following:
Ozone Hotel,
Bridlington, Yorks. Dear R.S.,
No; alas, Hythe will know mg no more, I have only a month and will to do in the R.A.F. spend it up here overseeing the refit of ten R.A.F. boats in a local parave. The name of the hotel is real. So, I think, is the ozone, or is it the fishmarket that smells?
Alas, I have nothing to say at the moment. After my dischargo I have somehow to pick up a new life and occupy myself-but beforehand it looks and feels like an utterly blank wali.
Old age coming on, I suppose; at any rate, I can admit to being quite a bit afraid for myself, which is a new feeling. Up tit now, I've never come to the ent of anything.
STRANGE FEELING
What was probably Shaw's last letter is that of a disitusioned man,
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days to shine, seem to dawn, suns evenings to follow, and then to sleep.
What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do puzzle and bewilder me.
Have you ever seen a leaf fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about
That's the feeling.
1988.
RADIO BROADCAST
Liya Gurevitch (Piano) From the Studio
REV. C. B. R. SARGENT
Radio Programme
Broadcast by
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from 1-2.15
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H.K.T. (AK).
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service St. John's of Intercession from Cathedral.
12.30 Delius-Brigg Fair. Played by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Toyo.
Nash
12.47 Songs by Heddio (Tenor).
My Heart To The Queen Of (Shelley); Love's Philosophy (Shel- ley); Helen-The Shepherd's Song Offen- Musle (Words, Herbert:
I Am bach-The Dubarry-If Dreaming (Words, Leigh: Music, Millocker-arr, Mackeben); Passing By (Herrick and Purcell).
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.
1.03 Harold Itamsay at the Organ. Famous Tauber Melodies; Intro:- You are my heart's delight; Golden Song:
(Lilac
Time); In your arms to- Villa,
night; Serenado (Se
(Schubert), (Merry Widow);
is my heart); &ate (Thine
Popular
Melodies No. 3; Intro:-Pennies from Heaven; In the Chope! In the Moon- light; Another perfect night is end- Ing; I'll sing you a thousand love songs; There's a small Hotel; Did your Mother come from Ireland?
1.15
Orchestra Mascotle.
Greetings To Vienna-Waltz (L. Slede); Donauwellen-Waltz (Ivano- vic-Arr. Gotz lohne); Evening On The Rhine-Waltz (Willy Richartz); In Dreamy Night Waltz (From "Der Landstreicher Moonlight On (Byron Gay).
1.30 Reuter
M. Zichrer); The Danube-Wallz
anci
Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- meats.
Slow
And
1.40 Latest Banco Musle. Quick-Step-Something Tells Me; Fox-Trot--Moonlight Roses....Henry Jacques and Correct Dance Tempo Orchestra; Slow Fox-Tro-My Heart Will Never Sing Again; Waltz The First Tempo Orchestra, Cocoonut Grove)..
Quare Dance Jacques and His
Correct
Lawrence could write in an abrupt Little Tim Says My business strain as well.
to
When Sir Ronald asked him write an Introduction to a book on Bedouin life by on urist, Lawrence repiled:
Forewords are No; I won't. septic things, and I hope never He must. to do another. understand that he has no claim on me; nor do I even know what he has writter, or why, or whe lets. No, most certainly no. "He was not a misogynist," said Sir Ronald, "but he regarded, and sometimes treated with embarrass- ing horror those who dressed und knew people,'
Heart
Cho
Slow
Fox-
Jack
refrain; Quick-Step colate Soldier's Daughter; Trot-What Is Romance (From 'No so blue)....Roy Fox and His sky otra with vocal refrain; Tangos Orchestra
Champagne Bubbles; Song Of The Sen....Jose M. Lucchesi and His And Orchestra; Fox-Trots-Lost Found; Outside Of Paradise (From the Film).....Jacit Harris and Hls Orchestra with vocal refrain by Sam Browne.
2.15 Close Down.
6.00 Light Opera Belections.
"The Merry Widow"-Vocal Gems (Lebar); Intro:-Introduction; Vilis; For the night of the ball will go by: Maxims; I love you so; March Finale --Act-3; The Waltz Dream"Vocal and Gems
(Straus);
); Intro:-The always; Hussar, Piccolo, plecolo; you're We can kiss
"When at a dinner-party, a lady Illustrated her anecdotes with the Christian names, nick-names
and pet-names of famous titled personages, Lawrence's dejec- tion became so obvious that the lady, when we're in leaning Incredulously forward, ask ed: 'I fear my conversation does not interest Colonel Lawrence very much?"
"Lawrence bowed from the lips and answered: 'It does not interest
me at all.""
Sir Ronald, author of "Orientn- tions," is one of the few who have read Lawrence's "The Mint," which will not be published until 1950.
THIS MAN MAY LIVE
FOR EVER
Paris.
vely Waltz Drea Light Opera Company; The Damask Rose -Selec- tlon (Chopin themes, adapted G. H. Clutsam)....Court Symphony Or chestra: The Chocolate Soldier- Vocal
Gems (S. Stange and Oscar graus); Intro:--The Chocolate Sol- dier (Duet); The Bulgarians; Tira- Inta; Thank The Lord Var is ver Falling is Love; Forgive; That would be lovely: The Letter Song My Hero....The Columbia
with Orchestra; Opera Company "Monsieur Beaucaire Selection (Rosse, arr. Bucalossi)....New Light Symphony Orchestra.
over;
the
6.30 Albert Sandler's Orchestra. Gipsy, Sing For Me (Meisel): Heartless (Melsel); Hvorfor?-Glve Me Your Heart (Jacob Gade): Ilu- sions (Illusions Perdues) (Jacob Gade); Soliloquy (Alan Murray); Gipsy Melody (Nelson and Knight); Gipsy Moon (Borganoff); Bird Songs Nicholls); Trouble In (Wever, Ager and Sch- 7.00 Songs by Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano),
YVES LE BRAZ, 86-years-old fisherman, of Saint Briac, Brit-At Eventide (Eric Contes); Yvorne
tany, may be the first man to "live indefinitely."
He has bequeathed his body after death to Colonel Lindbergh and Doctor Alexis Carre) for resuscitation by means of their fam- ous "artificial heart."
The old seaman has spent years of his arduous life in Breton schoonera fishing off the great banks of Newfoundland asd be- loves he fulfils all the conditions required for the success of this sensational experiment.
"but I want to help he is free from organic Colonel Lindbergh if I can." in age disense. This is considered an essen-
It is not known whether Colonel Lindbergh, who has just returned tial factor.
"I haven't long to live," old Yves from a flying visit to Paris, to the sol'tary Island of Illiec (where he
has accepted lives now),
the old sallor's offer.
Although falling in heal owing explained,
ARMY ORDERS FAT OFFICERS TO REDUCE
A USTRALIAN military authorities are taking a stern view of the tendency of some members of the instructional corps to become fat.
An army order has been
FINAL TESTS Colonel Lindbergh is known to be desirous of trying the powers of his robot heart on himself, but he is a young man with many years to live and Dr. Carrel is enger to carry out n decisive experiment during his
Jifetime,
(Horatio Paradise wartz).
Et Hab, Op. 26, No. 1 (Paulson- Grieg); Im Kahne (In the Boat), Op. 60, No. 3 (Krug-Grieg): Ein Schwan (A Swan), Op. 25, No. 2 (Ibsen, irs. Henen--Grieg).
7.10 Mischa Elman (Violin). Zigeunerwelsen (Sarasate, Op. 20); Thais-Meditation (Massenet).
Closing Local Stock Quota- 7.27 Beethoven-Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67.
Played by the Royal Albert Hall, Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon Ronald,
7.25
tions.
0.00 Local Timo Signal, Wenther Report and Announcements.
8.03 Studio--A Plano Recital by Laya Gurevitch,
1. Preludio and Fuga In D Minor (Bach); 2. Pastorale and Capriccio 3. Bolero (Scarlatt-Hausig); (Chopin); 4. 3 Ecossaises (Chopin). 8.30 Studio-Rev. C. B. N. Sargent
Mozart Programme,
Colonel Lindbergh and Dr. Carrel-420 Series of Opera. are reliably reported to be engaged
9.15 Two Talks From The Studio. en anal experiments which will
9.30 London Relay-The News, 9.50 Dance Musle. show whether the artificial heart
Fox-Trot-Oh By Jingo...The which hitherto has only kept aliva separate organs if animals can main-
Krakajax from the San Marco and lain life in an entire body,
Open Wido The robot heart, at present on Florida Club, London. With voeni view in Paris, consists of a pump Trio; Walizes-Throw connected with many thin rubber Your Window; Espana.....Sydney - "Some members of the instruction- !nt.
The general drive for physical t-tubes winding like tentacles through Kyte, and His Plecadilly Hotel Band,
10.00 London Belay--Variety. al corps have become too fat, and
(Continued on Page 5.) red liquid. they must get it down," said Coloneliness will be extended to the militia glass bulbs and retorts filled with
Korces' R. McDonald.
"They have the choice of football, "Most of them take to hookey or con-issued Instructing "physically hockey, or cross-country running. Only once was he seen really exelled; able members of the Australian football. Not many like the idea of
permanent forces under 45 years cross-country jaunts. that was when he stood by
"General Hardle is encouraging all doubling, nervous Balliol under- of age, to engage in some active
members of the force to devote as and with him read the sport at least once a week.
much time as possible to becoming news that he had passed three separate examinations in ona term Stilgoe very nearly had a drink on
that.
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