THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1938.
SECRET SERVICE INQUIRIES ABOUT
BOGUS NAVAL OFFICER
WOMEN TRICKED
BY EX-COOK
Said He Had £9,000 In Japan
BIGAMY WHILE COURTING
Wore Officer's Uniform On Honeymoon
A FORMER Naval cook who
was said to have posed as a British and as a Japanese Naval officer and about whom Inquiries were made by the Secret Service, was sentenced to two years' im- prisonment at the Old Bailey re- contly.
He was Wulter Whitehead-Jarvis, nged 34. He was found gulity of ob- from two youngt taining money
women and of bigamy.
Mr. Maxwell Turner, prosecuting, said that Whitehead-Jarvis, by stories about his position and by promise of marriage had preyed on women and obtained money from them.
In April, 1935, be was married to a Miss Ivy. Stone, after his previous marriage had been dissolved,
10 DAYS AS MAN AND WIFE He told her that he was a Lieu- tenant-Commander in the Royal Navy and throughout their honey- moon wore the uniform of that rank. irn together for only They lived days and then parted as she would not obtain money for him from heri relatives,
In November last year he met a Miss Marjorie Phillips, showed her a photograph of himself in oficer's uni- form, and proposed marriage January.
in
Ho told her ho intended to be- come a partner in a Brussels firm and required money. Miss Phillips parted with £58, her entire say- ings.
While still courting Miss Phillips, he met a Miss Dorothea Schottler.
proposed marriage to her, and told her that he was a retired lentenant commander with 20,000 In Japan. It was necessary, he said, for him to
go to the East to collect it.
FUFS
Interesting delegate to the second World Youth Congress, starting in New York and moving to Vassar College, Poughkeep- sie, is Miss Yang Hui-min, 21-year-old Chinese Girl Guide, who dared shot and shell to take a Chinere flag to the "doumed battalion in Chapel, last November. She is greeted by Frank- lin W. Wong, left, and Dr. Tsune chl Yu, consul general,
Safe Door That
Defies 4.7 Gun At 50
50 Yards
Wolverhampton.
Ninety years old, Lord Hayter, Burglars' Enemy No.
1 in point of long-sustained warfare-73 years-travelled down from London recently to open an extension of the works of which he is still head, Chubb and Son, lock and safe makers.
All his workpeople were at the gates to greet him Mr. Turner sold that Whitehead with cheers, and he walked about the noisy works riage with Miss Schottler on April whole afternoon.
GAVE HIM 1195
Jurvis went through a form of mar-
at Bournemouth Register Omee.
Believing his story, the
obtained
the
It was a real birthday party-the staff gave him a
silver
£200 from her mother and gave him cigar-box and he gave gold watches to six workmen who £195 so that he could go to Japan.been with the firm for over 60 years,
They went to Imperial Airways to
Singapore
obtained £300 from a man at Luton.
up
ni
The door never wilted.
have
Low Incomes In
America
One-Third Of People Average £94
1
MRS. MARY ANN FOOKS
BREWED ALE FOR DICKENS
One of the few people living who knew Charles Dickens, Mrs. Mary Ann Fooks, of Walderslade, Chathuni, was 05 recently.
Eighty years ago she was a pretty, blue-eyed maid at Great Oakley Farm, near Dickens' home, at God's HI! Place, near Rochester.
The author often visited the turm house, and Mrs. Fooks recalls him well.
the
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"Mr. Dickens and Mr. George Lake, my master, were great friends," he Faid. "Whenever be came farm he used to call for home-made bread and home-brewed ale-and he. always added. 'No fuss, please!
to bake the bread ter "As I helped and brew the nle I was very proud, and more than once Mr. Dickens palted me on the head and said how much he liked it,
"I remember when he used 10 come to Higham Church on Sundays. He wore a beaver hat, and I always thought that he looked as though his | hair wanted cutting.
"Nine times out of ten he would be Jate for church and come tip-toeing in and take a seat in the new behind
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FRANCE
CUTS RHINE BRIDGE
Basic (Switzerland), Workmen with acetylene burners.
iron swarming DVCT att
railway
bridge that spans the Rhine and con- nects France and Germany just north
the Swiss frontier...
This was what I saw recently us I passed through St, Laula, southern-
most tip of the Maginot Line, wrlies
a Correspondent.
The bridge is being destroyed be- cause French military authorities be- lieve It may be used by German troops. quickly dismantled-remains in use,
A pontoon bridge-one that can be
but the
seemed to have encouraged)
in
B Minor"--Bach)... ..Wal- Widdop (Tenor) and Lon- don Symphony Orchestra cund. by Albert Coates.
6.38 Boccharini-Concerto In B Flat Major.
Played by Pau Casals (Cello) and The London Symphony Orchesten į
unducted by Sir Landon Ronald.
7,00 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
7.03 Operas.
Selections
from Wagner's
The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg" -Overture....State Opera Orches- tra, Berlin, cond. Leo Blech; Dance Of The Apprentices....London Sym- phony Orchestra cond. by Albert Coates; Sachs and Eva's Diet: Sce, Eveben! Where, methought, can she be?: Shoemaker's life is eye full of Rethber (50- care.....Elisabeth prano) and Friedrich Schorr (Bari- tone); "Tannhauser"; O Star OI Eve....Gerhard Busch (Baritone) and Berlin State Opera Orchestra cond, by Hanns Udo Muller; "Lohen- grin"; Introduction, Act III. Bruno Walter conducting Ulie Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Elsa's Dream....Macin Jeritzu (Soprano) with Orchestra.
7.34 Marek Weber and is Or- chestra.
'Manon Fantasia (Massanet, arr. Tavan); Liebestraum, No. 3 (Liszt); Waltz From The Sleeping Beauty' Jolie-Waliz (Tchaikovsky); Trey (Waldteufel); Dreams On The Ocean -Waltz (Gung']).
8,00 Time. nouncements.
Weather and An-
8.02 London Relay-Musle Hall. Bennell and Williams (Two Jovial boys with their phono-fiddles); Mr. Lipsky, George Doonan (The life and soul of the party); Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon (The famous flim stars from tollywood); The B, B. C. Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell; Presented by John Sharman.
9,00 Studio Doreen Ma at the Plano.
1. Sweet Heartache; 2. Bei Mir Bist du Sohon; 3. Why Dream?; 4. I've got a new lease; 5. Says my Heart; ... I Never Dreamt.
centre pontoon has been moved alightly out of position. book his passage, but, after seeing He addressed each as "My Boy." strength of the modern bank trea- Miss Schottler on a train, he went to and told one that he remembered sury was tested by firing a 4.7 gun Motorcars have to slow down and Bournemouth. He had said that he his grandfather joining the firm. at the door from a distance of 50 turn sharply around the corner.
Further, a tank trap has been dug was embarking at Southampton for Ile suld, too, that as a boy he saw yards.
on the French side of the bridge, three pirates winging on the
WITHOUT DEFENCES YET. Later he went with a Miss Hawks- lows of Newgate Prison. worth to Sheffield, where he attempt
KEY IN SIGNET RING
South of St. Louis along the Swiss ed to obtain £50 from her by false The new works, where patent
frontier no important French de pretences. He also attempted to eb-locks are in future to be made by
fences exist as yet. A hundred- years-old treaty forbids their erection tain £200 from a Mr. Robinson there. machinery, were opened by Lord and he wanted these two offeness to tluyter with a gold key concealed in
within 18 miles of Baste. But engl- be taken into consideration.
the signet ring on his finger. For
neers are hard at work here now. Whitehead-Jarvis was arrested at 120 years the Chubbe have been
Machine-gung and light cannon com- Shefeld, and, in an alleged state-making locks, safes and strong-
mand the narrow valleys. ment, said that by telling the story rooms, building commercial
The French Army manoeuvres last of being a lieutenant-commander he security by baffling burglars.
moath in the mountains around "Yes," said Lord Hayter,
"I
Gamelin and his principal) suppose my family has done as much A WEST END FLAT
as anyone to outwit the burglar.
Statistical support for
president officers. DCL-Sergi Sinton sald White- "Frequently when there has been Roosevelt's frequent assertion that In Baste I find the Swiss greatly head-Jarvis was born at Cairo, then cleverly-planned attack on a safe une-third of the American nation is relieved by the French military mea- son of a serving soldier. He ΣΑΠ ar strong-room members of our firm -fed, ill-housed, and ill-clad" is sures along their frontier. away from home when a boy, and at have gone to study the methods em forthcoming in the form of an 80,000-
"THINK TWICE!" oyed, and we have promptly taken word report, which declares that the a London juvenile court was sent to played, an industrial school. He remained steps to counter every move of the average family income for one-third Germany may well think twice be-
until he was 16 and then work-safe-breakers.
at France through ed on a a farm in Scotland.
"Our biggest foe was the thief with of the population was only £94 dur- fore striking
Switzerland. Ing the year 1935-1936. Subsequently he was employed by the
Conducted by the National Re- There are two reasons why Swit We sources later became an assistant cook in the produced a new metal called Chubb was the most elaborate ever under-many. They are
Committee the Investigation zerinnd fears an attack from Ger- Royal Navy, being discharged owink Alloy which resists the blow-pipe taken.
If France marches lo the aid of It reaches the conclusion that to ill health and with a good charne-j almost definitely.
one-half of all Americon familes had Czecho-Slovakia the German high ter.
"Doors made of metal weigh as less than £214. Two thirds had less command may decide to avoid the street, W., and entertained on a large every process known to science we than £500.
In 1935 he had a flat in Jermyn- much as 30 tons, and working with than £200, and nine-tenths had less Mugino! Line and to strike at France (Harper and laines); You And Thei
through Switzerland. German troops ourselves could not open any of The Arst intimation he had of these doors under 120 hours."
At the other end of the seale two would occupy Basle and march west, per cent. received £1,000 or more. volding the famous "Lion of Bel- Whitehead-Järvis was in 1934 when
Oliver, Frances Day Lord Hayter Buld he was often Fewer than one per cent. received fort." one of France's strongest foris. bo was the subject of inquiries by amused by films of cracksmen learn- £2,000 or more.
They would join the Italian army MI. 5 (a branch of the Britishing combination lock dials by listen- The number of families or indi attack Lyons. Secret Service).
The
second springs from He was then representing himself in and watching-Time he said.viduals in receipt of still larger in-
seems to be the keynote of the Meers. Chubb have made strong-comes were as follows:
Nuremberg Congress; "What is Ger- rooms that hold the Crown of Eng-
man must remain German. land and the Crown Jewels.
there
Brighton haulage contractor and cut through ene blow-pipe which
scale.
to be an officer in the Imperial Japan- ese Navy.
CONFIDENCE IN HIM
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Their locks hold the treasure and
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9.30 London Relay-The News. 9.50 Songs by Gracie Fields, Things Might Have Been So Diff'rent (Coots and Lewis); I Haven't Been The Same Girl Since Night And The Music (from Stop Press').
10.00 Variety with Les Allen, Vie
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Naughty On behalf of Whitehead-Jarvis it the secrets of nations.
The Reich may covet the German (Oliver)....Vie Oliver (Comedian); was stated that Miss Schottler had a
Evenly divided, the national In-speaking cantons of Switzerland Ball Sirens Waltz Tunes
(from good deal of confidence in him and A time-combination lock has been come would yield approximately along the German frontier. And in 'Merry Widow)....Orchestra Max- evolved which cannot be opened £309 for each family and ap- the bank vaults of Basle alone lies cotte; A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody believed that she could make some until the time set is reached. This proximately £230 for each individual more gold-much of it "down" from thing of him.
(film *The Great Ziegfeld')..... lock was invented when the cashler
France In the
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of a strong-room was made at the consumer,
The "New York Times discussing in all Germany.
chestra Songe D'Automne-Waltz So the Swiss have extended their
After The Ball-Waltz been sald, about, my life's perfectly combination numbers to cracksmen. allowance should be made for period of army service,
.Orchestra Mascolio; This week the Seventh Swiss Regi- Moon At Sen (Pease, Rose and that the reductions in the larger incomes by
inxation.
ment begins manoeuvres.
Stock) Goodnight To You All (Denby Meanwhile reports, lu Basic say and Watson)...”. Les Allen (Vocal) that two German divisions have with Louri Day and Jimmy Tumbull moved just north of the Swiss Iron-
on two planos.
In court Whitehead-Jarvis said, "I
injury caused to others. What has
true,"
Lord Hayler also said
Two One In Likely To Suffer Road Injury
A fifty-ntly chance of salety is all even chance England can offer its road users average lifetime. whether motorists or pedestrians.
at
the
COMPARISON WITH BRITAIN
In any attempt to afford a British comparison, allowance must be made for difference in purchasing power, Boys the Daily Telegraph,
Statistics Imited by the Inland Re-| the venue Department relate only to the
Income
above of taxpayers
the exemplion limit, £125.
that
were
of injury during
"There is not much doubt
These numbered 8,400,000, 2c- This calculation has been made by pedestrians are safer anywhere than Mr. John M. Lessells, Professor of
cording to the last annual report, and on your roads."
4,950,000, or 50.5 per cent., Engineering Mechanical
It is four years since Professor entirely relieved from income tax by Massachusetts Institute af Tech-
***Lesselis last went to England
pperation of allowances, nology
"check up" on our road traffle.
Inconie exceeding....: £2,000 a year Work it out yourself," he said.
Starting in June with his native were received by 88,057 persons. Of Of your population of 37,000,000 some 230,000 are killed and injured town of Dunfermline, he has bussed these, 4,940 received £10,000 to seh our roads every years
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