THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 8,
This is the Code That Won John Douglas a £12,000 Pools Prize A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 2 X 12 X 12 X 1 2 X 12 X 12 X 12 X 1 2 X 1 2
This is The "Line" That Won
2 X 2 1 2 2 X X X X 1 212
Mr. John Douglas, Londón father of seven, two years ago decided to fill in his football coupons by a code in which each letter of the alphabet represented 1, 2 or x (home win, away win, or draw).
Each week he evolved sentences containing fourteen fetters equalling the number of matches to be forecast-- and worked them out in code.
Mr. Douglas cannot recall the sentence that won him £12,000 because it represented only one of a number of lines that he submitted. But this sentence, invented for the pur- pose, will give you the idea:—
I HAVE WON AT LAST
X 2112 2X2 12X112
Mrs. Douglas
Still Wears Her
1s. 8d.
By Mary Welsh
Frock
Mr. and Mrs. John Douglas and their seven chil- dren, an average, wholesome family, of Acton Vale, W., for their midday meal recently sat down to Satur- day's joint cold.
Mrs. Douglas wore the 1s. 8d. frock that she made for herself a month ago. She paid 4d. a yard for the material in Acton market, 6d. for the bit of net at the neck.
Yet, by a chance in 12,000,000,, your mouth, if you don't stop. We the week before, thirty-five-don't want to make a lot of show." year-old Mr. Douglas had won al £12,000 football pool fortune. He is a decorator, and, for the past six years, has been more out of work than in it.
In his tiny ant, above a restau- ine: "We know rant, he said to we'll have winter shoes for every
children And the
will body now.
Mrs. Douglas dues not translate their fortune into adornments for herself. She does not want jewel-
Paris lery, lace, or a
hut. She bought a new sports hat the other day before she went with her hus band to collect the money. That will do her for a year, she states. "But I've always wanted a nice home, with a nice suite of furniture. we've never had anything but odd places."
have decent educations. Otherwise Mrs. Douglas is a good manager. Said Mrs. Douglas: "None of us On their old Income, about £2 10%.
nothing important is changed much."
about
week, she paid £1 1s. Bd. rent, 5s.
with hot, cheap dinners every day. a sweet on Sundays.
seem to feel any happier, really.for mille, kept her family healthy
But then we've always been happy even when we weren't sure our next dinner.
"We've been healthy most of the Ameand the money can't give us anything beller than that. We've had no debts, either. All we this minute is fifteen shillings on a pair of shoes for me."
'We don't want to
make a show
Owe
While her husband talked of future brighter than he had ever dreamed, Mrs. Douglas's face grew cars and solemn. "We talk about schools and trips now like we used to talk about jobs and bread, And, turning to Mr. Douglus: " shall put a sticking plaster across
Now she won't have to make their clothes everything but shoes and coats--won't have to go out early to buy second-day brend.
Gave a party for the children
On the Saturday night they cele- brated with a party for the children of the street. Fifty children were invited; seventy-five came.
old
Much of their furniture and old clothes they are giving away to neighbours. But the
calendar which hangs on the kitchen-dining room wall will go with them. On its back is pasted Mr. Douglas's two- year-old pools "code."
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Princesses In Scotland Scotland
Charming study of Princess Elizabeth (left) and Princess' Margaret Rose, daughters of King George and Queen Elizabeth, which was taken recently on a vt to Scotland,
GOVERNMENT
TOLD OF A BAD
MEAT SCANDAL
Astonishing disclosures regarding increasing trade
in doubtful meat are made in a report submitted to the
HOUSES WILL BE BUILT OF SOAP
1988.
Experiments are being made with a method of building houses from- ASHES and SOAP.
Iden is to mix up 05 per cent. ashes and 4 per cent. sand gement, with the remaining 1 per cent. sonp us waterproof material.
It is estimated that it will halve the cost of bullding.
An official of the Building Centre, an organisation representing 1,800 builders' manufacturers all over the country, described to a reporter how the new composition would be used. FOR 6,000 HOMES
"We have been experimenting with forms of breeze slab for years," he said, "and this ought finally to settle all its drawbacks. The idea of add- ing soap is to overcome its Hability
to let in rain.
"Up in the North," he went on "cy are short of brick- layers owing to the higher wages pald in the Soullt, so the new breeze will be useful. It is not only cheaper than brick but for quicker to put in position."
It is expected that the sopp-and- ashes breeze slab will be used for the building of 8,000 houses now being started in Glasgow,
THEY'RE HAPPY
BECAUSE
They're All Looking Blue!
Chicago.
Blue will be "high fashion" this autumn, necording to advance American fashion tips just released here.
Exhibitors at the convention of the American Interstate Merchants' Counell also reveal that:-
Coats and dresses will have bloused backs.
Fifteen inches from the floor will be the smart daytime dress length.
Evening fashions have a Louls XIV flare of elegance.
Formal fashlon materials are especially rich-looking-lames, metal-shot taffetas, velvets, slip- per satin, molre; brocade, Apart from blue, black is the lend- ing colour as usual.
Living In
Ministries of Health and Agriculture by the United Tomb Saved
Kingdom Licensed Horse Slaughterers' Association.
NO WONDER THEY ARE PLEASED. The association disposes of many
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THE STEAM
thousands of tuberculor cattle 2 year. It boils the enrenses into glue and manure.
DOUBTFUL MEAT
Mr. Ernest Upton, chairman of the association, says that the Minis-
It alleges that animals fit only to tries of Health and Agriculture take
His Life
Jaime Alvaro, who lived for a make glue are being sold in increas- so grave a view of the altuation that year in a tomb to save his life, wus ing quantities for human consump, many of the recommendations made recently found lying shot dead with
tlon,
by the association will be incorpora revolver in his hand in a tumble- ated in the new Food and Drugs down old house in the Franco-con-
trolled town of Malaga.
"The pernicious industry known Bill, now being drafted, as the screw cow business,'** IE says, "Is known by every one of our members to heʼrampant over the whole country."
BORDERLINE CASES
The association states that since
the
When the Spanish war broke out "A great deal of
doubtful
two years ago, Jaime Alvaro, a rich meat," he says, "goes in what is traveller in wines, found himself, a known as the chopped meat Franco supporter, trapped in Gijon, trade, and is used for pies-largely a town held by the Government. in the north."
his two nearly
blind
Taking
The association's recommendations elderly sisters into his confidence he the institution of the State Veterinary include the routine inspection, three outlined his scheme to escape. Service on April 1 "the number of times a year, of dairy caitie und enttle; bovine animals received for slaughter on farms: by members of the association has materially diminished.""
It asserts that veterinary officials have an idea that as much money as possible should be obtained for the carcases of condemned animals. and that this is resulting in "a great many borderline cases being salvaged
sumption.
Rainmakers Ask 125
Million
Under his home loy the family vault, in which filty generations of Alvaros Jay in great stone coffins. Only he and his sisters knew the secret of how to swing back one of the five-feet square flagstones that gave entrance to the vault.
Every day for eleven months the elsters lowered a jug of water and Melbourne. A scheme for provid-ja loaf of bread to their brother. He
for the purpose of human con-ing artificial rain at an annual cost made a bed in a coffin and used a
of $125,000,000 has been submitted to shroud as bedclothes. Members of the association say the Dominion Graziers Federal Coun~] that they would not permit any sucncil. The plan is that 2,000 plones. Then one day Jaime Alvare heard salvaged ment to be used in their should take up tanks full of water. own households,
Too Many
Many "Cushy'
M.P.s
Jobs
say
M.P.s are determined to fight the Government on the question of the Targe nuraber of new highly paid civilian posta being created in the
| Government service.
There are already 30,000 more officials than two yêura Ago,
New appointments Include:
£950 and £700-a-year risters and solicitors for the Coal Commission.
C800-a-year veterinary
bar-
зиг-
#cons to work in Africa.
£400-a-year investigating of- ficers for work on the Tithe Com- mission.
and 2300
£400-a-your scientists to work in the Depart- ment of Industrial Research.
by
SISTERS SHOT
the harsh vpices of the Government Boldlers ordering his sisters to tell where he was hidden.
The women refused. The Bol diers Inughed and said, "Well, then you shall face the guns your brother escaped."
A few moments later Jaime Alvaro heard the crack of the rifies and the thump of his sisters' bodies fall- ing dead on the stones above.
Fifty days later. Franco took the town.
R
"Pal" Pumpkin Grown Humboll, Cal-Charles Matthes, harvesting his pumpkins, for moment wondered I. ́ ́one
at the purppkins was taking him for D-"pumpkin-head." The pumpkin in ¡question bore the inscription "PAL."
£800 to £1,200 doctors-six of whom are to be appointed the Diinistry of Health. These are just a few of the pointments that ars about to be made.
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