*
ROBBED OF
CHILD
HAS
Specialist May Cure
£4,000 Road Victim
Cardiff.
Fair-Haired, six-year-old Dinah Frayne, Swansea "girl of whom counsel told a judge "she will never know the pleasures of youth," left Cardiff by air recently for Berlin to see a specialist who may give her a new lease of life, says a reporter.
Dinah was knocked down by a lorry and her left arm and right leg are now paralysed. At Glamorgan Assizes she was compensate this awarded £4,000 damages. "No money can
child," said Mr. Justice Singleton.
Wearing a new white frock, with,
a large bow of ribbon in her hair,
Dinah chatted to her father
mother, and her eyes
and
shone with
excitement as she sut, in. the cabin of
the Lufthansa air liner.
She did not know that her future happiness depended on the result of
specialist
the trip. A Berlin
will
tell her parents whether her ann ean be saved or whether I must be
whether any amputated, and also
thing can be done for her crippled leg.
- "WE'RE DESPERATE" British doctors, to whom she was taken, offered no hope.
BOMBAY
CITY RIOTS
INTERESTING comment
031
the situation in India is made in the current issue of By Fighting Forces, Her father, who was
The Bombay Berlin with his wife and Dinah. said to me: "The German doctor riots, hunger strikes, activities
is absolutely our last hope. We of the notorious Fugir of Ipi,
are desperately anxious."
and the proposed establishment
are
Travelling on a stretcher in the of a high explosive factory in same plane was J. Priess, German motor-cyclist who was injured in the six-days trlats at Llandrindod. Hitler had surgially ordered that the
home.
Central Provinces, the among the matters discussed.
Whatever may be said about the plane should be sent to fetch him; anti-British attitude of the Congress Party in Indio, and however much Dinah was very interested in him we may deplore the, as we think, un- An Piesa cannot speak Faglish, they justified atmosphere of suspicion had to be content with smiling at which permicates the debates in the Central Legislature, we are glad to Friends kissed Dinah Women In be able to pay a tribute to the way the crowd were crying but as the in which the Congress Government luer soared into the sky I could still
riots Bombay City, says the Journal.
each other.
see Dinah waving her handkerchief of Bombay dealt with the
irs
Just like any other little girl off for u summer holiday.
Locusts Given
L
Electric "Flats"
up and
recent
rounding By promptly known bad characters
by muzzling the vernacular Press the trouble was nipped in the bud, and, although the casualties were serious) enough, there can be little doubt that less firm action would have made
matters worse,
HUNGER STRIKES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
HER
NEW
YOUTH' HOPE
Sole survivour of the Californian air liner crash, in which Lord and Lady Plunket were killed, Mr. Jim Lawrence is home again. This pleture-his first since the accident-was taken at Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, the home of his father, Sir W. Lawrence. In spite of his experience, Mr. Lawrence does not intend to give up flying.
MY NIGHT IN THE
··
HOUSE OF FEAR
From Louise Morgan,
Who has been investigating the strange happenings. in a Blackpool houte
Blackpool.
But lest it should be thought that by praising the Congress Cabinet we UXURY quarters for locusts are thereby depreciating the efforts and mosquitoes--which are of the previous British administra- used as research subjects by lion, it is only fair to consider the students have been built by outery which would have resounded, not only throughout India but
certain sections throughout Dr. A. J. Grove, head of the the
of the
In the back kitchen, sitting-room and hall of a quiet Zoology Department at Queen Press of our own country, the United
States and certain countries that do South Shore-villa here recently a husband and wife in Mary College, Stepney, E,
nut love
Britain, if a British oficial. These homes have been made out of tins, clothes-pega, motor: tubes, and all sorts of odd materials.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1938.
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GIR, AY
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Peter Dawson and Dorothy Away! My Heart's On Fire. Dorothy Gill, Derek Oldham
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Llon.d.. Escort, Your George Balcer and Derek Oldham; When The Focman Bares His Steel Shefeld, Elsie Grimn, Briercliffe and Chorus,
....
0.55 Closing local Stuck Quota- tions.
6.57 Efrem Zimbalist (Violin). Persian Song (Glinka-Zimbalist); Burlescu (Suk): The Zephyr (Jeno Hubay-Op. 30, No. 5); Tallahassee plano After
Sundown-Scott) accompanyment by Emanuel Bay
from Puccini's 7.10 Selections Operas.
Marck
"Tosta" Selection Weber and His Orchestra; “Madume
Butterfly"-Farewell, of happy home Alessandro Valente (Tenor) and Members of La Scula Orchestra, "Li Milan, cond. by Carlo Sabalne;
Waltz
Song. Boheme-Musetta's Grace Moore (Soprano) will Or- chestral Accompaniment, Lescaut Intermezzo,
"Manon
Milan Sym
phony Orchestra cond, by Cav..
enzo
Molafoli: "La Boheme"-Lovely Make In The Moonlight....Rosetta Pampanini and Dino Borgioll with Orchestra;
Goodbye
Awakening....Rosetta
Το Sweet
Pampanini,
Dino Borgioli, Aurorn Pettore and Gino Vanneill with Orchestra.
7.37 Tehalkovsky-Casso Nolsette -Sulte.
Played by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 De Groet and His Orchestras. "Louise" Selection De Groot and His chen (Strauss): "Ay,
Samson And Delilah"-Selection (Saint-Saens) Orchestra
had given the orders which the Bom- search of the truth, assisted by half-a-dozen eye-witnesses, 1 (Charpentier) dchen (3
bay Premler gave in his stride.
Lafeference with the liberty of the subject would have been a mild criticism. The grounds of Govern
would House
have
re-enacted eerie incidents which occurred earlier in the
The Insects are particular about
week, when household articles crashed mysteriously from Dr. Grove has reproduced, as nearly with the debris of dep their places as though thrown by an unseen hand.
where they will live and breed, and!
me
force that Minister to
been
it is in-
grant han a
to family's all-electric political pension has been sentenced house with the family, but no
Had further manifestation occurred.
HUSBAND STRUCK
side is kept constant at 70 de.
would have been cident.
of a
18
Bit by bit, the events were recon-
A police officer was present when a bross stand appeared to leave the hearth and land upside down on a hassock. A china gurine "jumped" off the plano to his feet. He made a detailed report.
An electrician, sent to investigate possible electrical disturbances, was in the kitchen when a heavy electric iron landed on the other side of the room from its stand.
I was allowed to take part in this investigation on condi- Gandhi would ations and Mahatma as possible, the conditions of
have tropical sworn for the mosquitoes.
Mrs. Mosquito is also finicky about ralliated another hunger strike. tion that no clue to the couple's identity was published, a con-
Talking of hunger strikes, 1 is
dition readily agreed to by the News Chronicle. her diet, and insists on a meal of feresting to note that an individual
ол Some of us stayed up to watch commendation for his promptness in blood before she will consent to lay who tried to stage a hunger strike CgGS. Rabbits have to be kept in the doorstep of the Indian Premier until long after midnight, and I calling in neighbours and police. the department to keep her in a good of one of the provinces in order to spent the rest of the night in the humour.
The mosquito all-electrienol
to a term of imprisonment. fat has been Sheets of asbestos and copper, pack this been done at the instance ed with wool, form the walls and British member of the 1.C.S., acting make sure that the temperature - In a ministerial appointment, we can
Imagine the political capital which tracted, care being taken to estab- Fahrenheit by the electric heaters.
made of the In- Ish who was present, where each
stood, and what each experienced. Imitation swampa have been made out of turf and water in earthenware
FAQIR OF IPI
The first objects to move, about dishes, and here the insects breed.
The Faquír of Ipi, who was sup- one o'clock on Monday morning, Pipes leading from an ordinary motor-tube, which is blown up at posed to have been scotched during were a hairbrush, vaseline jar, and
constant supply last year's operations which,
large needlework box, which, in intervals, bring in
mentioned in our issue for October quick succession, struck the husband of fresh air.
Locusts are even more "touchy." last, cost a fath a day, is once more on the back of the head. Not only do they want their homes in the news. He and his followers
The last was a hammer which, 10 kept constantly warmed at 00 deg, have been destroying roads and but they like the air to be main-leaving bombs about in the hope that hours later, crashed on the kitchen' tained at regular degree of damp- passing torry or car, preferably table.
with a a British omcer ns puissenger, The marks un these articles and on the walls and floor were examined, Dr. Grove has arranged this by will explode them.
in the plaster containers, means of porous water
aerial especially a gouge
exactly how kept inside the cages. The water blockade of the territory of the tribe which Indicated evaporates through the side of the known to be sheltering the Faqir has 3ft-high barometer fell from its
• jars and keeps the air, humid,
been Institute, and we sincerely hook.
and everybody's | hope,
All the witnesses agreed on two sake, that the really firm this time and not relaxi the aerial blockade until the Faqir:
A common has been surrendered. trick on the frontier is to send mes- sengers cod behaviour if only the
contrition.
pro- mising good blockade can be raised while jirgn
TICES.
We
understand that Kin
De Groot and The Ay, Ay (Guyana-Perez,
The Gypsy
tra
cendil selection
De Groot and The New (Kalna) Orchestra: Desert Sok Victoria
("Desert Song-Romberg): Evensong (Easthope Martin)....De Waltz Groot and the Plecadilly Orchestra.
B.30 London Relay Empire Ex- change
Points of view by travellers from the Dominions and Colonies.
with
8.45 Variety Programme Cicely Courtneldge, Jack Hulbert and Jack Hylton's Orchestra
Sun
Do The Runaround-Fax Trot (from She shall have Musle'). Jack Hyllon's Orchestra with vocal refrain; The Cure (Hiccoughs) (Dion Courtneidge Titheradge)....Cicely and Jack Hulbert assisted by Laur- ence Green and Cecile Dixon; Drink- fore. Williams); Intro: Songs (arr. ing
In He was so upset that he was un- There's a tavern in the town;
cellar cool; Little Brown Jug.; Down able to carry on with his duties.
A neighbour, a widely travelled among the dead men; Come, Land- business man, told me: "I got the lord, fill the flowing bowl: Here's a fright of my life, probably from the health unto His Majesty....Jack His Orchestra with sheer unexpectedness of the happen-Hylton and
East Of The refrain; Vocal
Bowman): My Leslie Heart Is ings. I've been in fight corners many parts of the world, but never Bro turned a hair until now.
(Flynn-Egan)..
with Or- "From the reconstruction I am Hutchinson at the Plano
The Bally- convinced there is nothing in them cons
chestral Accompaniment: that could not eventually be
hooligans Make Whoopee Medley But
Sandman; rational basis. plained on a
Japanese Fox-Trot: Intro: until you think them out, they can
Strutters Ball; Alexan- Darktown чега give you the nastiest kind of shock." der's Ragtime Band; Goodbye Blues; Wabash Blues; Shine.. The Bally-
17 Silly, Isn't A medical psychologist who, exa-
Bennett and mined the evidence said
Trot Gangway-Fox 1. Every article without excep- This is the only too-familiar case
the poltergeist, in tion fell behind the backs of thote of
which in from the nim); Moon Or No Moon animate
13 things move about present,
(film 'Gangway')....Jack Hylton observed 2. No witness
any alive.
and His Orchestra with vocal refrain In my opinion, human agency article in motion, ihe Brst warning
London Relay The News. Invariably being the sound of a is responsible. It is sheer silliness by Tom Wareing;
230 Songs.
Robeson PARI by crash or the feeling of being hit, to attribute the events to a ghost or
to call the house haunted: LEFT THE HOUSE
"I believe a good many innocent, aul Robeson Medley: Intro: Lazy Whatever happens, husband and decent-living folk are victimised In wife are determined to get to the this way. Either they are genuine Bones; Fat 11'3 feiler; Scarecrow
curly-headed baby: Carry me ly terrified, or they conceal the facts Wagon Wheels; Deep River; back there is nothing supernatural in the because they fear notoriety.
"All these cases should, In the to green postures; Old folks at Home, incidents.
name of humanity, be investigated the scientifically, und brought light of reoson.
Then, and only then, are the locust for the 1rovernment will be points:
happy.
“Con” Victim Gets His Man
Paris.
is being assembled. All the tribes- men really want is a cessation út Mr. Friedmann, n wealthy Amer-bombing for long enough to enable New York them to sow their fields, after which lenn visitor,, head of a transport company, was recently the negotiations are allowed to break bottom of the mystery and to prove victim of three crooks whom he met down and hostlites reopen... By a on the terrace of a Paris cale. confidence trick they stole £75 from
him.
PUNCHED HIS JAW
་
SELF-SUFFICIENCY
"She
"HUMAN AGENCY"
to
me:
Badle
Comedians with
9.50
10.0 London Relay The Table Under The Tree,"
Written by Wilfrid Rooke Ley with music selected by Mark H. Lubbock and played by The B.B.C. Theatre
10.45 Dance Music.
We understand that, with the After advice from the police they "I will not leave Paris until I have object of making India independent left the house the first night with
supplies of thloves," Mr. of overacas
cerlain their two girls, aged 7 and 11, and
HEALTH. AFFECTED hunted down the Friedmann told the police. Every materials necessary in war, the their young woman lodger and her
The wife had not slept since Mon- Orchestra. day he sat patiently at the cafe Government is considering ways and baby, taking refuge with neigh-
day night, and her health is being to encourage the indigenous bours.
Comedy Fox-TrotLittle Audrey where he had been robbed.
anufacture of articles and com-}
But next day, the wife went back affected,
"Nobody could possibly know the Je
Jay Wilbur And His Band with modities which have hitherto been and resumed her usual duties. One afternoon he saw one of the imported. Among these is project is the bravest young woman "con men enter. He gave the crook for stablishment of high ex- Blackpool, sald her husband: me. "I should like to thank my Time: 1. Look At You It's Been So
factory in the Central Pro-
**I am only acting like any ordia- neighbours for their loyal support Long....Johnny Johnson and His Orchestra with vocal retrain; Tango a terrime punch on the Jaw, which
Frau- ary Happily married wife who makes and comfort in our misery, Bent him aprawling, der kalig
doubt that self-her home, husband and children her "I shall not rest until my home is Lucecitas De Mi Pueblo. Then he called a policeman. The There can be no
'chestra. ...! Vocal refrain by Fernando many, a native of Iran, was found to umciency in India. Will help to free ideal," she told me,Come on the place of joy and contentment claco 3. Lomule and his Tipica Or-
member of an international the Royal Navy, from convoy duty The case is unusual for the num- that it was until this awful week.
In the next war when and ifmit ber, of are-witnesses, from outside: The couple are well liked and re- Disney crooks) ~He had been ex-
The husband has received vigilspected in the district, EUROCROTO Close down. Fienced two years ago.
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