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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 8, 1939.
Supreme Cour
DENTIST'S WIFE SHOT
WITH POLICE INSPECTOR
After Cafe Visit
Jerusalem.
INSI INSPECTOR WILLIAM W. THOMAS, brilliant officer of the Palestine Police Force, has been found shot dead with a married woman in her home here.
Beside them was a revolver belonging to Thomas. The woman was Mrs. Haya Grossman, attractive young wife of a dentist who was spending the week-end with his two daughters, aged four and six.
Inspector Thomas had planned to
visit his parents, who live near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, but at the inst minute decided to postpone kis leave until May.
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On the night before Mes. Grom man had been in the Cafe Europe,
favourite meeting pince British police in Jerusalemn.
of
the
CONFERENCE ON
NUTRITION
London.
The Council of the British Medical Association has decided to hold a national conference on nutrition In relation to national polley. Docters,
dm bycreca,
"Penny Bloods" Cured Nightmares
Small boys should plump for Mr. L. A. G. Strong as their favourite author. He believes they should be allowed to read what they like and when they Bite,
Advocating this at a prepara- Lory schools conference in London recently. Mr. Birong told this story:
"I knew of a boy of elgh who suffered from ulghtmares. Every night be used to wake up two or three times screaming. Finally, he was taken to a psychologist, who found that he was not get- ting the kind of reading he want ed and prescribed 'penny bloodk
"The boy read them Tilla side of his sture found adequate expression and the nightmaren Klopped,"
Gipsy On Spell Removing Charge
Fantastic rites performed by a housewife on the advice of a gipsy
When she left for her home it in **Presentatives of agriculture at home were described at Portsmouth Quarter
stated that Thomas, who had also been in the Cafe Europe, followed ber.
A few moments after Thomus en- tered her hone, two shots were
heard.
Mrs. Grossman, a dark woman of Oriental appearance, was born in Jafta of Russian-Jewish parents.
education will debate the best system 200-year-old Act dealing with witch- and of Industry and Sessions recently in a case under a of securing the necessary increase in feratt. consumption. The provisional dates
of
The housewife, Mrs. Anne Colgrove,
for Uhla Conference are 27th, 28th and 29th April, with a pubile meeting said that abe- also on the 28th April. The B.M.A. appointed a committee on Nutrition
1923, when Sir Kaye le Fleming
was chairman.
Man Blown 50ft. From Manhole
AN explosion down a manhole in which he was working re- cently in Windmill-road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex, blew Horace Trew Nicholas fifty feet into the air with his clothes ablaze. He landed on the roof of a house, knocking over a chimney pot, and then rolled off the roof into the garden.
Earl's Sister
Surprises Family:
Still conscious, he was pleked up suffering from severe back injuries, ilis head and feet were burned and his clothing badly toru.
He was taken to St. John's Ilos- pital, Twickenham.
His wife, who had been at 4
ADY SIBELL LYGON. 31-year-party, rushed to the hospital when old sister of Fart Benuchan), sie het na 505 for her bund was married recently at Caston Hali Register Ofice
cust
Mr. Richard.
Nicholas was inspecting the nuau-
Michael Rowley, of Moor Farm, Lane hole at the time of the explosion. End, Bucks.
standing
One moment he was with his head just out of the man- hole; the next he was hurled into
Members of Lady Sibell's family had no knowledge of the matter the day before, but Lady Brauchamp, the air. sister-in-law, said later:
"When we returned from the country to-night we found a tele gram Inviting Lord Beauchamp and myself to the wedding. I have no iden where Lady Sibell is at the moment
After Nicholas had been taken to hospital a man climbed on the roof i and recovered parts of his clothing and rubber boots which were still blazing and might have set fire to the house.
The explosion tore up the pave- ment fronting four houses, and shat tered windows,
Nicolas is forty-two, and lives at The Close, Hanworth, Twickenham,
dressing establishment.
Buried a pound of best etque in which she had placed a human hair; Burned a plove containing a needle and a pin and
Slept with a crystal under her mattress.
The gipsy, Besale Birch (51), of; Exmouth Road, Gosport, mother of
ten children, was found guilty of unlawfully undertaking to fell
Carrying a doll and an American flag, Eva Levy, 3, refugee from Germany, is greeted on arrival in New York by her brother, Walter, 6 Eva arrived on the President Roosevelt with her grand- mother, Mrs. Emilia Herz. They gave up their home in Berlia and plan to live with Walter, who has been with relatives in New York for a year.
All-Women Bench, So
Court Rose Early
furtunes and to remove a spell from CROYDON COUNTY POLICE COURT had an all-women Bench
recently for the first time since its inauguration in 1797. And they triked' far less than men magistrates.
a ring.
She was also found guilty of stent-i ing rings and money worth £18 14s. from two women by means of a trick. Thomas (who presitled), Mrs. B. E. The Justices were Mrs. B. W. Mr. A. II. Armstrong, prosecuting, Ranson and Mrs. M. G. Adams. said the women parted with the rings and money on Birch's promise to motoring summonses return them after alte had found out fraud about their future.
They dealt with heavy list
of
and relief cases 50 rapidly that the business of the Court was completed nearly three-quarters of an
hour
Birch was bound over for two years earlier than usual. ¦"to give her a chance to reform."
Died Beside
Wife's Grave
[OSEPH SMITH, aged 77, of Kingsway West Wickham. Kent, was found dead recently a few feel from his wife's grave in Streatham Park Cemetery,
S.W.
Mrs Smith died last year. She had been her husband's devoted com- panion for 55 years.
of
An official of the Court said to the News Chronicle: "A number jmen magistrates were also on the rots, but only one turned up and he hud to leave early.
NO ARGUMENTS "The three women conferred for a moment and decided to get on with the job themselves,
"One or two defendants tried to argue, but Mrs. Thomas silenced them with a very few words.
Mrs. Stephen de Laszlo Killed MRS. STEPHEN DE LASZLO, de Laszlo, a son of the famous wife of Mr. Stephen Philip
portrait painter, was killed and her husband seriously injured when their car collided with a lorry on the London-Newmarket road near Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, recently.
They had left their home at Rutland Court, Knightsbridge,
with
"I think the reason we got through to spend a week-end the business so quickly was because friends, taking their Pekinese Mrs. Thomas, who has not presided dog. before, did not spend any time de- livering lectures' to the defendants."
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The oceldent happened at a bend in the road and two men in the lorry were also seriously injured and taken with Mr. de Laszio to Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, where they for 57 were detained.
They arc two brothers named Cardy, from Elmswell, Suffolk.
WORKED IN BOND STREET First intimation of the wedding was the notice given at Caxton Hall
Though in falling health, Mr. of the forthcoming murringe of
Smith visited her grove regularly, "Richard Michael Rowley, bachelor,
never allowing the flowers to fade. Dr. Andrew S. Gregg, who was a 23, independent means, living at Mr. Rowley, is a son of Mr. George
practising physician here Moor Farm, Lane End, Bucks, and Richard Francis Rowley and his and the bad weather, had tried to debts owed to him by "widows, Relatives, worried about his healthyears, left provisions in his will that "Sibcil Lygon, spinster, 31. lving at former wife. now the Hon. Mrs. Fre-dissuade him from 13, Belgrave Square, S.W."
going to the orphans and others unable to pay" be Lady Sibell for a time worked as Eton and Oxford. and helds a com-them and then slipped away.
derick Cripps. He was educated at cemetery. But he had listened to cancelled. The will directed the receptionist in a Bond Street hair-mission in the Auxillary Air Force.
trustees to give receipts in full to An inquest will be held.
persons owing such debts,
He Nearly Failed His Only Son Through
NIGHT STARVATION
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WISH I DIDN'T ALWAYS FEEL
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WHY DON'T YOU
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YOU SAY YOU FEEL LIMP AND TIRED ALL DAY, HM! IT'S OFTEN A SIGN OF NIGHT STARVATION THIS MEANS YOU ARE NOT REPLACING USED-UP ENERGY DURING SLEEP. I ADVISE YOU TO TAKE HORLICKS REGULARIY-LAST THING AT NIGHT.
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DAUGHTER OF BARONESS
Mrs. de Laszio, who was about 36, was formerly Miss Edith Alexandris (Diana) von Versen, elder daughter of Barness von Versen.
She was married at St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street, by the Bishop of Chichester, a cousin of her husband, in January, 1931.
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The wedding present from bridegroom's father was a portrait of the bride, which was on view at the wedding reception.
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Swimming and ski-ing were two of Mrs. de Laszlo's hobbies.
Mr. Stephen de Laszlo, who is about 42, is the second of the five sons of the late Mr. Philip de Laszio, He is an expert in electrical matters and wireless.
Chaplin To Carry On As Dictator
New York.
Charlie Chaplin broke his allence recently with an announcement on his new Rim, Here are the facts on it.
«THE DICTATOR" Is the title,
"THE
it will be all-talking. Chaplin will play both his old character and
a new one, in which he will be seen and heard for the first time."
Chaplin has written the flim him- self.
Production storts in January. And that is as far as Chaplin will go. Plot, impileations and tricks are secrets, but Hollywood has heard that Chaplin is going to guy dictatorships. with a mistaken identity plot In which an inoffensiva little Jow will get mixed up in a situation that makes him dictator, while the real dictator banished.
Chaplin has had warning of dictatorship reprisals if he goes on with his iden, but his announcement shows that he is standing no dictation.
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