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THURSDAY, NOVEMBÉR
MADE HELL
LADY EDMEE
INTO PARADISE'
Husband
Is 'Mac': She Is 'Memita'
The new husband of Lady (Edmee) Owen, six-foot- four, with a seamed face and glinting blue eyes.
He is Scots, and ex-Scotland-yard. He worked on the Crippen murder case in 1910,
calls him. He is a "Mne," she £500-a-year district commissioner in. British Honduras. Ils full name is Captain Vernor MacCall
"It's Ave years now," he said in I read! London recently. "since
Memita is Memita's life story." Spanish for Edmee-they speak a lot of Spanish in British Honduras.
A successful sale of work was held recently at the Heep Yun School, Left to right: Rev. Edward Y. P. Lee, chairman, Mrs. R. O. Hafl, who opened the sale, and 31rs. W. K. Cheung. principal of the school.-A. A. Kakin
459,414 More Out Of
Work Than Year Ago
A TIRED HERO SMILES
24, 1938.
RADIO BROADCAST "Spelling Bee" from Studio:
Uncles v. Aunts
ZBW ORCHESTRA
Radio Programme Brondenst fram ZBW on a Frequency of 845 kc.c's. and on Shert Wave from 0-11. p.m. on D.52 m.c's, per second.
H. K. T.
0.0 StudioChildren's Ilour. 7.0 Closing local Stock Quala
tlons.
7.02 Ilandel-"Alelna" Sulle,
Orches- Philharmonie-Symphony
A grey little man, tried and careworn, stood meekly in the drizzle outside a London subur-1
tra of New York conducted by ban house.
Organ Obediently he smiled-at the re-Willem Mengelbert.
photo- 7,15 London Relay-An nn embarrassed
Recital from the Temple Church, quest of grapher.
raises his hat for another Fleet Street, London, by G. Thalben- tic
compliance Ball. cameraman. His ready
almost 7.45 Rubinstela playing Chupin. with their requests seemed
Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, Op. like that of a man crushed,
Then he walked slowly to the car 27, No. 1; Nocturne In G. Minor, at the gate and drove off through Op.37, No. 1; Andante Spianale, Op.
22. the drab afternoon.
Ills name is in "Who's Who." Beneath is the description: "One of the leading figures in the Lille Entente."
LED A NATION
But even the 1938 volume is out of date. The little man is now n leading figure nowhere nation's secret thoughts.
i
0.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,
8.03 Bralims-Gypsy Songs, Op. 103.
1. L'allenne save in t
ture
វត
Those
The Madrigal Singers conducted by Lehman Engel with D. Everett Roudebush at the Plano.
8.12 Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra.
Alger"--Over- (Rossini)....Orchestra: 2. 81y He is Dr. Eduard Benesh, former Dear Soul (Byron-Sanderson): O Dry Ricgo) Tears (T. del President of Czecho-Slovakia. There was drama in his appearance Muriet Brunskill (Contralto) with outside the house in Gwendolen- Organ and Violin Obbligato; 3. Para- avenue, Putney, where he has found phrase on "The Lereley" (Nesvadba)
it
was
droma ....Orchestra. refuge--but
8.30
Relay "At The Landon drabness.
Mist was rising from the damp Black Dog'
Mr. Wilkes at home in his own pavements, the last roses In the
Presented by S. . short front garden were drippingbar-parlar. On the other hand there was un
in the rain, the atmosphere was Reynolds and Pascoe Thornton. There was an increase of 39,376)
In the wool textile,
9.0 Studlo Z.B.W. Orchestra. oppressive and the man who had in Britain's unemployed during the improvement
nalion 1. Piazza del Popolo (Frederik- 15-September 12, carpet, husiery, pottery, boot and
led the Czecho-Slovakia August month
Night (Ran- 2. Canivan by sen); 2. looked a tired and sick man.
3. Seven coal mining.
In bis fawn overcoat, sombre zatú). Orchestra; ¡Before her marriage to Sir Theo-1938, and compared with September shoe and clothing industries, and in
brown suit and trilby hat you would Popular Spanish Songs (Falla). dore Owen in 1915 Memita was last year the increase was 450,414.
have taken him for in ordinary, dult Conchita Supervia (Mezzo-Soprano) "Luxemburg" shall;
Waltz 4. tion. worker in some uninspired occupa with Piano Accomp. by Frank Mar-
Orchestra. HIS WIFE beside him
"1 hope to get a charity of heart and a houlder to rest upon. That's how the Binished up, and that's what got me," he said, "I determined to give her what she wanted. 1 wrote to her; she answered. We corres- ponded fairly regularly."
stage London Dormeuil, Edmee favourite. In 1924 Sir Theodore left leer £100,000, which she whistled her ie the bankruptcy way through court in 1030.1
DRANK FROM SHOE "After that I was determined to have her out to visit me," said Mac. "Four times, I sent her the passage money. And four times site lost it on the dogs. Then she came.
AREA FIGURES Ministry Agures published last
During the past month unemploy might show that on September 12,
6,809; South 1938. unemployed persons numbered ment increased in London by 1,752
unemployed, South Eastern area 1,708,010 wholly 1,324,151; temporarily stepped, 412, Western 5,500; North Eastern 1,710; Western 20,178; Scotland 494; normally in casual employment, North
8,931; Wales 5,000. 101.973.
The number in work (exclusive af with the Agricultural persons Schemel was 11,380,000, which was 22,000 less than on August 15, 1938. and 320,000 less than on September 13. 1937.
TRADES HIT
It fell in only two areas: lands 14,171; Northern 2,220.
By him stood his plump, pretty
Mid-wife,
SCHOOLS CLOSED We drank champame out of her
Four cases of suspected infantile little golden shoe the Apri night she
paralysis were reported recently at:
Three of the arrived in British Honduras." She
declined between Crawicy Sussex. Employment takes size two, he takes cleven.
August 15 and September 12 in patients are children of school age, Six weeks later they
distributive trades, and the other an infant,
Crawley Church of England School married. When Memita preceded building, the
were
They seemed almost eager to do as the photographers wished-like two timid people afraid of hurting any- une's feelings.
At a window above them three
(char)
9.27 Comedy Harmonisis singing tumoreske (Dvorak).
9.30 Loniton Relay-The News.
2.50 Studio"Spelling Uncles v. Aunts.
KUIL
Bee"
Braemar Knitwear
10.15 Reginald Dixon at the Or-
Roltes of Irish Medley; Intro:
Mother Machree; When
Garry
Irish Owen; Washerwoman: Peggy O'Neil: Rose of Traice; Killarney; St.
St. Patrick's "Chorus Gentlemen, Please": [Day:
Intro:
we will go: Sally in Hunting we our Alley; John Peel; Oh Dear what can the matter be; Londonderry Air; 10.25 Dance Musio and Variety. There's a Tavern in the Town.
Dance
Anyone Orch.-1 Hadn't
lillo boys craned their necks to Morrow; see all the excitement below, and Irish eyes are smiling; A Little bit they laughed among themselves as of heaven;
sband and wife stood posing. Theira was ready laughter. But the man below smiled only to her husband on leave to America hotel and boarding house service, the
The man who had been one of the he kept an altar with her photo-cotton industry, iron and steel manu-and Crawley Couneli School have oblige a camera-man.
certain branches of been closed, and choir boys were in- graph on it, and a black-and-white facture,
fishing industry, structed not to attend a recent peace leading figures in the Little Entente port service at St. Peter's Church, Craw-went for a dull drive round the wet size-two senlakin shoe. By these
and the
London streets. ley. trophies he laid a bunch of red roser every For twenty-four years Captain MacCall has been buried in British Honduras. Seven years ago he and his first wife, an American, parted was dissolved, and their marringe
day.
His children were grown up, and he was alone.
"So when Memita came it was like changing Hell fog Paradise," he said. "She rivilised our bungalow by the sen in Punta Gorda, She put up curtains tied blue muslin spotted with black velvet bows, sang her
stage songs to me, and
the long tropical nights.
danced in
"She made one or two mistakes. For instance, she brought
out for
me crepe georgette sheets. These aren't suitable for the tropics. You stick to them.
MUSLIN CURTAINS
"But Memita is a fine cook. We have an English breakfast at 7.30 1 and eggs, and get porridge, bacon marmalade before I go to pass Judig- Memita comes along ments in court. to breakfast in her feather-trimmed negligee."
She
In the mornings Memita teaches. the cook how to cook lunch. After- noons she goes botanising. bells up the plants she picks, makes face creams and rouges.
"Have you made any more witch- craft crearn? 1 ask when I come home for tea and layer cake at 4.30." sald Captain MacCall.
und
Memila's ele
chief success in the witch-brew line has been a lotion mode from plants which she rubs Mae's head. When she met
the
manufacture, engineering. loud transport industry.
WARNING TO
HOSPITALS About
THE SACRIFICE
Mr.
A great sacrifice has been mado by 82-years-old George Heppinstall of Darfield, near Wombwell, South York- shire.
For 50 years he had worn a flowing beard- beautifully beard, which turned a venerable white as Mr. Heppinstall's years advanced.
Came the crisis and a problem. Both Mr. Heppinstall and his brard could not get into a gus One mask at the same time. had to be sacrificed, so the beard was cut off. "I have no desire to be passed yet." he said.
Post-
Mortems
on
Drove Two Years
With 'L' Licence
John George Bubb, Aned at South Western Police Court re- cently for three motoring offences, was said to have been driving a car for two years with a provi- slonal drivera' licence.
Bubb, who lives in Lombard- read. Battersea, S.W., aid:
my living with it. I sent for my test straight away, and will take it- in fourteen days."
He was fined 20s, for speeding, 10%. for not having "L" plates, and unaccom- 10s. for driving while panted,
The practice of hospital bought the car for £5 and 1 get doctors holding private post- mortem examinations patients with no official re- presentative of the coroner present was condemned by: Mr. J. Kenyon Parker, the Sheffield coroner, recently.
"If this practice persists," the solicitor he warned representing the Sheffield After dinner (for which they al-captain's uniform was noticed recent Royal Hospital, "there will
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him he was bald. Now his hair
is sprouting again. She is a mixer
of other brews.
too. Before dinner they drink her
"mahogany cocktail"-half port, half
gin,
a dash of bitters, a drop of lime Jukee, and a pinch of pepper.
WAITER'S
HOAX AS CAPTAIN
A
in officer much-benedalied
ly in Paris barracks,
nt military be trouble with trade unions ways dress, Memita in black and courses, in conversation with officers and others on whose contri- high heels) they drink her special He was among the officers who liqueur. For this she takes two ripe marched past King Leopold of the butions the hospital de- oranges, pricks them, puls them in Belgians who recently unveiled in pends." a preserving bottle with half Paris a memorial to his father. pound of dried prunes and a bottle Then he
of brandy, and leaves in the sun for
two months, then strains.
*WE ALL WEPT"
"We listen to the radio when we can get England," said Mac. "When they started the Empire broadenst in 1932 I was sitting with the doctor and other white men. We heard Big Ben, and we all wept."
Wils noticed by the
The widow of John Dungworth, a fitter, of 53-years-old engineer and
police when they heard reports that the captain had been trying to obtain School-lane, Drenfeld, near Shefeld,
told the coroner that she gave permis money from women.
The captain, like the immortalsion to a sister at the hospital for a captain of Koepenick 32 years ago, post-mortem to be made. had hoaxed the army. But not the police.
She was given a death certificate, which she took to the registrar's The "Captain," they discovered, office, but found it closed. was a walter named Paul Monmaron. The next day the registrar refused
[Note The Captain of Koepenick to register the death,
Dr. George E. Robinson, &
house
10 Years' Ban On Dog Owner And Why It's So Long
When told by General Sir George Jeffreys that she would be debar- red from keeping a dog for ten years, Mrs. Jane Panting, aged 70, of Uptongrey, near Basingstoke, I shall wald: "That's a long time. be dead by then,"
"That is why we made it so long." replied Sir George.
She was summoned at Basing- stoke recently jointly with her husband, Ethrian Panting, aged 15, for cruelly to a cross-bred sheepdog which had been kept fled up for two months and had to be aliot.
Each was fined 2a. 6d.
And now the MacCalls are on six months lenve. They have been to was a cobbler who, in 1900, wearing America. Memita has made friends a borrowed uniform, commandeered physielan at the hospital, was asked office the first day, would not some soldiers and overawed the by the coroner who had suggested death have been registered in with the first Mrs. MacCall.
"She learned how to make me mayor of the town into surrendering that a post-mortem should be made ordinary way as a natural death? lemon pics and mines ples from my the town treasury.] Orst wife. They got along fine," said
Moc.
After Americh they went to Edin- Costly Bracelet Found
burgh, Captain MacCall's home town.
Burlingame, Col. There they met his fifty-year-old
Jerry Govin, gardener, one day sister Agnes, who in secretary to a religious society. She was full of found a tarnished bracelet while he was mowing grass. He gave it to his
on Dungworth.
"It is a recognised practice for the senior nurse on the ward, if a doctor is not present, to show post-mortem forms to the re- latives," he replied.
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Frances Day
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Alleged to have raped his 12-year- | ASKR old sister, Lam Kwok-chung, ái, unemployed, appeared before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
Inspector W. Mair and Detective- Sergeant A. MacVey were present for the police.
It was stated that on October 12,
shortly after 1 p.m., the defendant allegedly sent his sister to buy him a packet of cigarettes On her re- turn, the defendant committed the alleged act.
Some minutes later, their mother discovered what had happened. On being accused, the defendant denied It and become aggressive. The mother was then advised by fellow tenants to report the matter to the police.
Medical evidence was given by Dr. R, S, Begbie, Government Beeferlo- logist, Dr. L. Tillinger and Dr. K. D. Ling, of the Queen Mary Hospital, who stated they found signs of Inter- ference.
been
After further evidence had given, the hearing was adjourned to November 30.
The pubile was excluded from the Court.
GARRISON TOMBOLA
There will not be any Tombola going to be informed. It was not un-in the Garrison Lecture Hall on til after the post-mortem that we Friday and Saturday, but it will could say definitely whether it was a commence on December 2 when
be in-there will be a $50 Snowball. case of which you should formed.
The Coroner: The ordinary medical The post-mortem on Dungworth, practice is not for the hospital to friendly
advice. they
to London. children as a toy. Noticing it later added the doctor, showed a cerebral make a post-mortem examination to Worty-four years ago London on on, be tried a little polish on it. It abscess, probably connected with and out whether its ex tho like an old duchess," sold Mac. took on a new sparkle. He took it knee injury sustained at work, for coroner, but to report to the coroner. to a jeweller to see what it was. It which the man had been admitted to before an examination is made if "Now she's like a chorus giri.
there fa any suspicion of accident. "I'm disappointed. I don't like was a platinum bracelet set with hospital.
A verdict of Accidental Death was anything modern or fashionable, ex-144 diamonds with a total value for The Coroner: But for the widow
the braclot of more than $1,500. being too late to reach the registrar's recorded. cept my wife.".
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