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HOUSEMASTER, AGED 20, IN GAS-MASK RIDDLE
Discovered By Maid
LEATHERHEAD (Surrey).
A MAID, entering the bedroom of Mr. Philip Griffiths, twenty-year-old housemaster at the Royal School for the Blind, Leatherhead, found him sitting on a chair wearing a gas-mask. Attached to filter was a tube running to a gas-jet. Mr. Griffiths was dead.
Son Of Lord Runciman Joins Airways
LORD Runciman's son und heir, the
Hon. Walter Leslie Runciman, haa Joined Imperial Airways andl British Always at the invitation of the directors.
It was stated recently that his move is connected with the developments
The window of the bedroom was wide open.
Mr. Griffiths, Hon of the prin- cipal of the school, the Rev. E. H Grifiths, had been on the staff since last June.
The tragedy occurred recently and few of the staff and none of the blind inutes had been told it.
One of the masters said: "None of us believes that it could have been anything but an necident. When 1 said goodnight to him on Monday he was cherry and said I will see you to-morrow.
l air transport announced in the "He was fond of experimenting, House of Commons.
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and I think he wanted to see whe |ther the gan-musk was proof against
OFFICIAL WARNING
Mr. Runelman's post will probably į coal-gas. be that of chief executive officer at the public corporation which be set up to acquire Imperial Airways and British Airways.
The gas-mask was the ordinary eivilian A.R.P. mask produced at:
It is likely that the corporation wit|halt crown. Following similar! be managed by a boid or council tragedies, offelal warnings have nominated by the Government under|been issued stating that the maska statutory powers. Sir John Reith, afford no protection whatever" former Director-General of the against smoke or ordinary cool-gas.
B.B.C., was appointed chairman of Of Imperial Airways last June, and it has been generally assumed that he will become chalegian of the new corporation.
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EXPERIENced airmaN Mr. Walter Runelman is 38 and an experienced nirman. is American- born wife has flown with hin most of his business fights to Continent
and between London and the Tyne.
He commands the Auxiliary Royal Air Force Bombing Squadron at Usworth. Co. Durham. anci Was awarded the Air Force Cross Inst year.
But Mr. Griffiths had made pre- vious experiments. Mis brother, Mr. E. F. Griffiths, of Epsom, said this evening that Philip told him
some time ago of a successful ex- periment he had made with chloro- form.
Mr. Grimths added: "Philip was with me on Monday night and we spent a happy evening together."
UFS
Cameraman at the Conservatives' Christmas party, in Empress Hall, London, caught this interesting view of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mrs. Chamberlain, holding hands. The Prime Minister gave an address to the assembled Conservatives, who res- ponded with such an ovation he hardly could leave the half.
January 17, 1939.
Alweine Dollfuss, widaw of the late Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, assassinated In Vienna on July 25, 1934, as she appeared recently in London. She has received an immigration permit to visit the United States, where the hopes to make her permanent home. She and her iwo children, Eva, 11, and Rudi, 7, have been living in Welsh
village.
Bombing Ships Film Banned
"ENGLAND EXPECTS," Alm protesting against the bombing of British ships enrrying food to Government Spain-lias been banned. by the Film Censor's Office.
It was made with the support of the Committee of British Shipowners Trading to Spain, the National Union of Seamen, and the Officers' (Ber- chant Navy) Federation.
Exception is taken to comments on the Premies. Hitler and Mussolini. A member of the Progressive Film Institute, which made the film, visit- ed the Censor's office. and was informed that the Alm could not be passed for publie exhibition unless certain modifications were made.
Lord Tyrrell, President of the Board of Film Censor's will see the film himself,
Before Mr. Grimths joined the RABBITS BALED OUT Lemon Tree Prolific cently, strong, comments are made
staff at Leatherhead he had been studying as a medical student Bart's Hospital.
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In the film, which was shown to members of Parliament, shipowners and the Press at a London hotel re- Gallipolis, O.
about the weak attitude of the Bri- Armed with a dip net, D. O. Taber,
tish Government, and Mr. Chamber- executive secretary of the Ohio A Hughes county farmer, J. A.in is accused of being the first Valley Civic council, has been hunt-Hilliard grows Japanese lemons that Premier not to
give protection to chairman of the North England Steaming rabbits at his home near Kanau- look like oranges but are little lar-British ships, Already he carries large business Shipowner's Association, and a year ga. The bunnies, frightened at night ger than limes. His 'one Japanese German and
fiallan pilots are responsibilities. As director of many later he joined the board of Lloyds by passing automobiles, hop into a lemon tree has grown from seed accused of being responsible for the important shipping companies he Bank. Another of his directorships large ornamental pool at the Taber brought from Georgia 20 years ago. destruction of British ships and the maintains his family's connections tint of Cramlington Aircraft home by mistake. Taber fishes them
The tree. bears three to five times death and wounding of British so- with the real, At 31 he became Limited.
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men. Their actions are described as "piracy."
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