Friday
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
January 13, 1939.
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EDGAR WALLACE'S DEATH SECRET TOLD AT
LAST: MYSTERY WOMAN'S PART
CAUGHT CHILL PACING STREET TO MEET HER
A
ROMANTIC ASSIGNATION WITH A MYSTERY WOMAN IN HOLLYWOOD WAS INDIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF EDGAR WAL- LACE, GREATEST “THRILLER" WRITER OF ALL TIME.
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The story of his death is as sensational as any of the stories which earned him thousands of pounds during his lifetime.
It is revealed by his daughter-in-law, Margaret Lane, in "Edgar Wallace" (Heinemann, 104, 6d.), recently published.
Tormented by jealousy of his young wife, Wallace went. to Hollywood-reluctantly leaving his wife in England-in order to earn £100,000 to pay off his debts.
There he met at young nelrest and i would be unable in dine with him, the drains began which culminated but would call at his house for a few In the permuka mont of # seer: moments after dinner. meeting which she falled to attoni
and which was the indirect catre;
of Wallace's death.
When Edgar Walker died, all that] the world was told was that he contracted a chill from which double pneumonia get in.
But for two years before he went to Hollywood, says Miss Lane, overwork Bad produced in him an ungovernable Jealousy of his wife.
She was 23 years his Jualor and he AV tortured by the, suspicion that he was fosing his bold on her.
HE WAS LONELY
In Hollywood he mil #
young actress who, says his daughter-in-¦ law, "inspired is him an extuord:-! narily youthful enthusiasm."
TWO NIGHTS BEFORE HIS DEATH. SHE PROMISED TO DINE WITH HIM ALONE AT HIS HOUSE.
runantic
"That he eculd, while so deeply alporbed in his jealous love for Jim (his wife), fall into a frame of mind concernag another; woman," writes Mls Lam, is not] so inconsistent as I at first appears.)
"HE HAD ALWAYS HAD THE ABILITY TO CONCENT- RATE ON THE ENJOYMENT OF THE MOMENT AND HE WAS DEEPLY AND EMOTION- ALLY LONELY."
MIDNIGHT VIGIL
Edgar ate his dinner done,' any Miss Lane, “wearing als dressing down, andking heavily during th meat and swallowing a reckles amount of aspirin.
"Although the pain in ฟฟ head was now even more violent than before, he refused to go lo bed, but wandered restlessly about his overheated room.
At ten o'clod: he sent a servant over to the lady's house, but he re- turned with the news that she ha not yet come home.
Shortly before
"At eleven, Eugar, now plunged in melancholy, announced that he wand going to bed."
midnight, the servant, making a final round of the house, was surprised to and the front cour wide open and a cold windi blowing in.
"He stepped outside," writes Miss Lanc "and was alarmed to see Edgar, elad in his silk dressing-gown, paring up and down the sidewalk In front of the house, apparently watching for a car.
that he was too
LUFS
More
w the are. h of people who tried to get into Dulma Bagiche Palace, Istanbul, to view the body of the Inte President Kemal Ataturk, that 11 persons died, while many were injured. than 200,000 filed past is one day. Above is the procession as the body was taken to Anisora for buri State ceremonies cost $500,000,
Husband Is Unmitigated Snob' Peer's
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Sister Tells U.S. Court
ECLARING that her husband, a kinsman of Lord Ravensworth, is "an unmitigated snob," the Hon. Mrs. Liddell, sister of Lord Revelstoke, is contesting his claim at Miami, Florida, to the custody of their four children.
Mrs. Liddell declared that her husband, Capt. Guy Maynard Liddell is:
"Firmly convinced that all people are born unequal and that certain people must, by virtue of their birth, be educated to ex- pect preferential treatment in the enjoyment of the good things of life."
Mrs. Liddell pleads that the children should have been left with her in the United States "to be properly and democratically educated."
"He immediately offered to bring out his master's Everest, since the misht
was extremely eld; but Edgar answered him abruptly saying was too but already." As he did not came in the rerent eventually went rduetantly to bed, This young actress had dined at}
Nexi morning he found his minster his house several times previously. delirious. A call came through from
Walluce was suffering from Mrs. W
Wallace in
ace in England, but Edgar headache, in uidit on to a cold, and was too ill to speak to her. in the hope of curing his headarliel before she came in the evening, he pneumonia had set In,
p.m. that day double SHE LOVES AMERICA
and while dosed himself with half it dozen The Green Pack" was different rimedies between
receiving She professes great love for the lunch the enthusiastic applause of a first United States, and states that dlf- und five o'clock.
night audience in London, its author ferences of opinion between her and At five o'clock he received alay dying In Hollywood. message from her saying that she
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Next morning he was dend.
"Golden
Returns To B.B.C.
Voice" Man
HRISTOPHER STONE, "the man with the golden voice," Appeals Broadcaster No. 1, who has raised hundreds of thousands for good causes, has gone back to the B.B.C.
He made his first reappearance in a recent television programme. Director Gerald Cock is glad. "I was de- lighted to be the first to welcome him back," he said.
Stone
When Major-D.S.O.-M.C. left Draadensting House. in 1034 for commercial broadcasting millions of listeners regretled the severance of homely the which bad allowed
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them to listen to the most human microphone volre in the world.
10,000 RECORDS
For seven years his bi-weekly gramophone recitals had charmed old and young, healthy and inflrm.
Im that time he commented on 10,000 records. Then friendly break.
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First 'Phone Exchange On Wheels
her husband regarding American traditions, standards of living and methods of education had constantly been a matter of acrimony and dis- pulc.
Mrs. Liddell arrived in the United States in July, 1935, and was de- tained by Immigration officluls in New York.
She was saved from being taken to Ellis Island by the intervention of her lawyer, who chtained a prole for her and her four children.
eldest, and
The children-Peter, the and three girls, Gay, Juno Maude-were allowed in as "tempor ary visitors," while Mrs. Liddell was admitted as a "quota imunlgrant."
During an Inquiry on Ellis Island, it was stated that Mrs. Liddell had been detained at the direct request of the Department of Labour.
This request was sald to be due
to a cable from Captain Liddell.
'Our Rotten Teeth'
"The teeth
of this country are bad--you might almost say that the teeth of this country are rollen," said
Walter Mr. Elliot, Minister of Ifcalth, opening the Public Health Ser- vices Conference and Exhibi- tion at the Agricultural Ball, Islington, N., recently.
"We should do everything possible to see that the teeth of children are in good cond!- tion, as an enormous amount of bad health is due to bad teeth."
Vicar Bars Fish And Chips
In His Church
YOUNG couples have been found sitting in St. Paul's Church, Birkenshaw-cum-Hunsworth, Yorkshire, eating fish and chips, complains the vicar, the Rev. J. L. Edlington. He asked two of these "diners" to explain-they said it was warmer In church than outside.
London's People Grow Fewer
And Older
THE pooulation of London con- tinues to decline, according to the L.C.C.'s report for 1937 on "Public Health." From 4,397,033 in 1931, the population is now 4,094,500, of whom 07.100 are
more than 5 years of age.
There was an increase in the number of marriages, the total of
An Unlucky Raffle 41.746 being 21.9 per thousand of
London.
of thr
and Blying clubs all over
Mr. Frank Buckland, Auxilary Air Force, tried to raffle his private aeroplane for Christmas. He had 10,000 half crown tickets A LARGE green trailer will printed and sent to R.A.F. Reserve
make Post Offee history
Schools the when it is parked beside a coun-Britain. One of the books of tickets, was intercepted in the post and Buck- try lane at the Essex village of land was visited at his hume at In his own autobiography he paid 'North Weald. It is the world's Hockley by detectives who told him tribute to the B.B.C. and listeners. first mobile telephone exchange. Hately as it was an legal lottery. "I owe everything to the B.D.C.," he
that the rifle had got to stop imme- wrote.
Major Tryon, the Postmuster-Now Buckland is faced with the tasic When the moneyed audience of General, inaugurating the exchange of tracing all people who had bought television has had its show, perhaps in London recently, said that it can
Jckets and returning the "gallery," as represented by the be used for restoring telephone ser- crowns to them. cheaper wireless cets, may be al-vice if an exchange is put out of ac- Jowel to listen to their old favourite. tion, and it will serve in urgent cases
where some unavoidable delay has GIRL, 4, IS COMPOSER
Two Become Fathers At 70
London.
Two husbands are congratulating themselves on becoming fathers again at 70. They are the Rev. G. T. Sale-Pennington, of Ashburnham, Sussex, who married hits 23-year-old wife in April, 1937, and Sheriff Charles H. Brown of Musselburgh, Scotland.
Spelling Bee
How many of these words are cor- A reet and what is wrong with the
occurred in completing a new ex- change.
their
half
MELBOURNE, Australia, Professors at the Melba Conser- The growing number of telephone vatorium of Music belleve that Moya subscribers in North Weald and the McCrockett, aged 4, is probably the nearby villages is the reason why youngest living comporer. this district has been chosen as a site entrance examinations to the con- For ber for the first mobile unit, and it will servatory, which change has been bulit.
zhe successfully remain there until a permanent ex- passed, she played a composition of
her own entitled "Springtime."
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His Worship's Hat
Ohio Seasons Mixed tell you mother that you
are the
the population, against 21.6 per thousand for 1036. There was. however, a reduction in the births, whleh numbered 55,011 against 50,273 In the preceding year.
Death aggregated 51,277. or 12.5 per thousand, compared with 12.3 in 1930. Nearly half, or 25,380, were females,
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The increase in the age of the population is shown by the fact that 20.470 of the deaths, or more than half, were more than 65 years of age. Til s Increase of 25 per cent. since 1010.
There was a substantial improve- ment in the infant mortality rate, which fell to Go per thousand live birtis, agalust 66 in 1930.
The maternal mortality rate was 2.29 per thausand live births, against 1.08 in 1930-the lowest figure recorded.
Commenting on the fact that the poorer population have the lower death-rate, the report states that In Hampstead, Lewisham, and Wandsworth, representing popula. tons in belter circumstances, the rato was 2.02, while in Bermond- scy, Bethnal Green. Finsbury, Shoreditch, and Stepney, represent- ing the poorer population, the rate was 2.43.
McGill Co-eds Independent
Montreal,
BARNSLEY (Yorks). | Wright-had this conversation with ARNSLEY'S Socialist mayor, a schoolboy recently.
Councillor It. Cassells, who is MAYOR: Any of you boys may touring Barnsley schools In his become mayor, Look at this smart robes-worn by Alderman Andrew hoy. shall put my hat on him. Now, runny, you can go home and Arst
member
of the family to wear McG University co-eds aave no the mayor's hat. Port Clinton, O
BOY: 1 canol, sir.
use for a "date bureau." A few years Violets, dandelions and straw- MAYOR: Why not?
ago a bureau was opened with much English Oxford Dictionary spell-berries were picked In Port Clinton
publicity in the student newspaper, ings of these words will be found on during the unseasonably warm fall was Mayor of Barnsley last year. Suggestions that another one be sol BOY: Becauso my grandfather but it died from lack of clients, page 9.
up are scorned by the co-eds.
others?
amulgum resemblenblc
respectibility
amenuensis
dispensary dislikeable
weather.
My name is Andrew Wright.
leg, Dr. J. R. Bentley, of Oxted, drove to the local hospital, had the fracture set, and was taken home.
After falling and breaking his
Ten thousand tulips are to be planted in Victoria Tower Gardens, adjoining the Houser of Parliament -a gift from Dutch bulb groweTS. rateful for the preservation of peace.
Mr. L. R. Stevens, husband of a former president of Surrey Women's Bowling Association, has found a document of the reign of Edward VI (1550) which licenses Euselly Gent, yeoman, to "keep open the game of bowls or bowling within the King's manor of Bifleete,"
England's Crack Railroad Flyer
In
New York, The "Coronation Scot," England's crack railroad train, a fect locoma- tive and seven coaches, is to be n exhibition
the Transportation Zone of the New York World's Fair 1030. A steamship is to land it at Baltimore, and thence it is to make a tour of the United States before going on exhibition at the Fair.
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