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Jewel Fraud Suspect Arrested in the Empress of Britain
"YARD" MEN TOLD CONSUL
CHERBOURG.
ACCUSED of swindling Paris diamond dealers of
£4,800, Benjamin Bercholz, thirty-nine-year- old Pole and naturalised American, was arrested on board the Empress of Britain a few minutes before. the liner left for Canada.
The French Scotland-yard telephoned his des- cription to all police forces of Europe some days ago, but Bercholz escaped by way of Ostend and reached England.
The French Consul at Southampton was notifled by Scot- land-yard that Bercholz had boarded the Empress of Britain. It was too late to arrest him then, so the consul telephoned to the Paris police, who sent inspectora to Cherbourg to meet. the liner. A woman friend of Bercholz, whose identity is not known, is believed to be somewhere in England.
Patients See Their
Cure in Film
PATIENTS at a nursing home at Rochdale, Lancs, can go to the matron's rest room before their discharge and see a film showing the progress they have made from the time of their ad- mission.
The home is that set up two years ago by Sir Alfred Law, M.P.. for the High Peak Division of Derbyshire. It is a ploneer experimental home for the treatment the after-effects of sleepy sickness, and is still the only hundreds of sufferers from the disease by a new type of treatment- the Dulgarion method and before he died recently he had seen his pioneer efforts reach success.
It is now estimated that 95 per cent. of the eases that have passed through the home have been successfully treated.
Men and women, youths and girls,
from all over the British Isles--and
at least one from the United States.
-have gone to the home.
Belleving they were doomed to a life of hopeless Innctivity through the brain-retarding effects of the dlaense, they have left ft to resunie their normal occupiations.
Miss Miriam Clark, matron at the home, sald: "The success of the treat ment has exceeded all expectations. Everybody on the
staff has worked hard, but the results have been so
that we feel we marvellous
been amply repaid."
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Hongkong's Trade With China
Ilangkong's trade with China dur- ing the first six months of this year dropped by $100,000,000, compared with the first six months of 1938, says the Exchange. The total trade, however, increased by $53,000,000 compared with 1938.
The treatment, discovered a sew by a secretly prepared decoction of years ago by a Bulgarian chemist, is belladonna root.
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A French Police armoured car on duty at the intersection on the French Concession and Internation al Bettlement in Shanghai.
Sisters Who Hated Electric Light
BRIDLINGTON, Yorkshire.
THE Misses Lucy and Elisabeth Sleighthome, aged 70 and 65, thought electric lights "new-fangled nonsense" and would never switch them on. They always used candles.
Recently they were found dead in their Bridlington old town. They had undressed by candle-light. Miss Elisabeth was in bed.
Her elder sister was just about to retire when, it is thought, the candle-flame flickered againat her nightdress. She was found in the living-room.
DROPPED CANDLE Apparently she had dropped the candle and rushed downstairs with her alghtdress nume. The candle
set fire to her sister's mattress.
He raised the alarm and neighbours forced the door.
One. Mr. Alfred Emmerson, sald, "Miss Elizabeth had apparently died as she tried to climb out of bed.
"Only the bed and part of the
ten dend cats in
A milk roundaman saw smoke carpet were burned." when he called at the house this morning.
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The Man Who Hated Jazz
MR. JOSEPH BARRINGTON, former musical director and radio organist, collapsed and died in Chancery-lane, E.C., recently, a street musician-bo cause he hated jazz.
Mr. Barrington, aged 64, left the Guildhall School of Music 30 years
ሰበ. and became organist at St. Ethelreda's Church, Holborn, EC., where he played for church services and gave recitals.
After holding orchestral posts, ho became musical director of Colches ter Hippodrome, and in 1825 joined one of the big cinema combines as organist.
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LOST HIS JOB Three years ago he lost his job as organist at a Cardiff Cinem grounds of economy. He obtained a similar post at a Manchester cine- ma, but had not been there long before the organ was discarded.
He was unable to find further em- ployment. His love of good music kept him from secking appointments where he would have to play popu- lar syncopated music.
His Bavings gradually disappeared, and eventually he had to apply for public assistance for his wife and three children.
Then he thought of playing classi cal music in the streets. For a year he and a companion "toured" Lon- don with a portable organ.
One day he chose a spot in Fen- court, EC, and then found himself before the Lord Mayor (then Sir Harry Twyford) charged with beg- ging and "persistently playing a noisy instrument.".
The Lord Mayor discharged him and his companion, and said he would be glad to hear that something had been done for them.
Tennis Giant Weds Girl Who Was Kind GEORGE LYTTELTON
ROGERS, six foot seven inches Irish champion has married again.
His bride, Mille. Greta Konenberg, is the girl whose sympathelle mes- sage after the tragic death of his first wife. two years ago Lyttelton Rogers never forgot.
Three years ago, when he was in Switzerland with his young Arst wife, they were introduced to Greta, a delightful Swiss-German girl, dress expert who travelled Europe
for Paris and other dress houses and spoke five languages.
Her home is at Montana, in the Swiss mountains.
A year later while Rogers was playing a Davis Cup match at Mon- treux. Switzerland, he was told that he wife, in hospital for an operation, was dying.
HOME TOO LATE George, frantic with enxiety, in- duced the broadcasting people to let him speak a message of encourage- ment over the air to his wife in the hospital ward. Then he hurried home but was too late.
In his grief there came to him a letter of sympathy from Switzerland. It was from Greta, of whom they had hardly heard since the introduction. That letter was so genuinely kind It got at my heartstrings," George
snid.
"However, I thought nothing more of it except of its kindliness.
"A year or so later, having heard "nothing" further, whom should I meet- at the Sporting Club of Monte Carlo but Greta, having a holiday in the south of France.
"Old memories were revived. The acquaintance ripened, and here we are back from a maith's honeymoon nt Wiesbaden."
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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1039 on behalf
of sick and destitute children is estimated at $28,000, against which the Income to date is $21,000 only.
In order to continue its work, the Society asics for the balance of
$7,000
before the close of the financial year on B1st October, Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.
e/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P.&O. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chint, 1st August, 1039.