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January 29, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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£70,000-A-YEAR BRIDE FINDS WORK JUDGE ASKED FOR SCRUBBING WAR HOSPITAL FLOORS
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Take Off That Lipstick' Said Matron
And Nurse Ashley
Never
On
Put It Again
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NURSE ASHLEY went off duty at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, to become for twenty-four hours! the Hon. Mrs. R. M. C. Ashley, at her home, The Hall, Six- Mile Bottom, near New-market, which stands in 8,000 acres of shooting ground.
For the woman who, at her wedding in 1927 was known as "the £70,000-a-year bride," is rapidly forgetting her society life in the joy which stern hospital discipline and hard work have brought to her.
mu
Yesterday, for instaner, she did not She didn't tell
that ata throw a cocktail parly to celebrate her | soldiers' camp a mile away they get leave.
dozens of cakes and ples sent up every week from her kitchens.
Instead she threw open The Hats to the villagers and ran a whist drive to raise money for comforts for the troops.
Qualified
roughened with
Her hands ;L *Ը work. There is no polish on her nails, no maite-up on her face.
"But 1 ke it." she, sald." am really happy In my job.
"I delest the idea of playing a nursing as some society women
do. I scrub floors, make beds, and 'hold sick heads. And I have been
Doing Her Bit
She didn't tell me either about the two, shooting brakes she had given i to be made into ambulances,, nor
CANADIANS IN ENGLAND
CANADIAN TROOPS loading
Somewhere in England" for the first time in 32 years. They were the fire overseas forces
to arrivo, W
1898 KILLER
mention that after hard days at the LEFT FORTUNE
hospital she runs weekly socials and i dances to provide comforts for the SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—If troops. She has given up one room Barney the cook is still alive, a of her house to the village women fortune awaits him, and he need where they meet and knit socks and woollens for the soldiers. If she is have no fear that he will be tried there she joins them.
|for a killing 42 years ago.
Down at The Green Man in the
Barney the cook, whose name was villige the publican. Mr. Gardner, either Owen Kenney or Eugene Ken- her game. smiles with pride at the mention of
ney, has not been seen since he ran "She's a lovely Indy." he said, from a San Francisco court room 33 and certainty doing her share to years ago just before he was freed
In attendance al fourteen operations, "I have qualified as a Junior pre Intioner nurse. In the hospital most; of them only know me as Nurse Ashley. That is as it should be. One day when I appeared with a 1tle Win the war. I've known her since on a writ of habeas corpus because lipstick on matron told me to go and she was so hirh."
~wash-my-lace:-She-war-quite-right:|---A
And Mm Cardres added. She is
I never did It sugain.
a grand woman. Although she
"None of us knows hun we shall often worn out after a day's nursing, live when this war is over. I feel I she always has a happy smile for us, must have a profession at my finger and she can't do, too much for us or tips. It is my duty to become a use- ful citizen.
for the soldiers."
records connecting him with the slaying-of-Patrick Dolan had been. destroyed in the earthquake and fire. H. H. McPike, former United States Attorney, revealed that Barney's co- ther had died and left blocks of 'real·l estate in New York and Brooklyn.
Society friends are amazed at
McPike recalled that in 1807 Bar- the whole-hearted way in which ney killed Dolan. He charged Dolan, she has gone Into this job of hard a bartender, had robbed him of work of the type she has never¦ 52,000, done before.
Hard Work
Liko Waterido "Since war starled my house bas¦ been like Waterloo Station. Peoplej are coming and going all the time, I gave up half the house to twenty- four evacuees, ten mothers and four- teen children. Although the children) and fifteen hundred acres of garden the first Baron Mount Temple, sister was pronounced cured and returned and park and to play in. they used of Lady Lauis Mountbatten; a wife to San Francisco for trial on the to go down and play on the road, until the marriage was dissolved murder charge.
Burney was sent to the State Hos-
They remember her as daughter ofjpital for the Insane and in 1000 he
"Poor things! They were home-this year of Captain A. S. Cunning-
ham-Reid, MJ for St. Marylebone,
sick for, the trame, no hack they who taught the King and the Duke went, maying "Thank you for a nice of Windsor to fly.
holiday.
FILM STRIKE OFF
But he didn't tell me that the But Nurse Ashley, unlike her Hollywood m studio werkers whole village loved her, that they friends, is not reminiscing. She is have been granted wage increases feel she is doing her job well, making looking forward... to the day when and the strike will not take piter. the villagers and their comfort and she will have won for herself some- This was announced by the workers" problems her 11rst consideration.
where the position of matron.
representatives.
Armed Robberies
Two armed robberies in villages on the outskirts of Kowloon were PC- ported to the Police yesterday,
'Six or seven men armed with re-
volvers entered a shop at 46 Mau
Tau Kok yillage on Saturday night. They held up the master, Moų Muo,
QUICK MERCY
FORTY-EIGHT hours after Winifred Mary Watts,.. unmarried mother, had been sentenced to death, she was reprieved.
Winifred Watts lived in the village of Ashill, near Ilminster, in Somerset. She loved a man and hoped that hefore long they would be married. She was nineteen.
After her baby son was born, Winifred Watts went on loving and hoping for five more months..
Then she learned that her hopes were vain, married already. So she killed her baby.
The man was
When her story was told at Taunton Assizes the jury found.
41, and ransacked the premises, t-Winifred Watis guilty of murder. They strongly recommended ing $32 and a quantity of cigarettes her to mercy.
Violence was used by a gang of three men who entered a house
occupied by Tse Shum, 30, vegetable gardener, in Kong Pau Tin village about 1 am, yesterday. One of the robbers produced a revolver and kept Tse covered while the other two at tempted to tie him up.
Too struggled, and was hit on the face and head with poles. The arm- ed man opened fire, but did not hit! anyone. With Toe lying dimbled on the ground, the robbers ransacked the house and decamped. The was
Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson said quietly: "There is only one sentence." He hid his face as he pronounced the words of death.
Then he said:---
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"I sincerely hope that those whose duty it is to exercise mercy will feel able to do so very speedily in your case."
Defendant Weds Plaintiff
YUBA CITY, Cal, (UP).--Less than 10 minutes after Judge H. D. Moncur gave Mrs. Clema Ayers, 25, a six-months suspended sentence taken to the Kowloon Hosplit by for disturbing the peace, he married her to Fred Conklin, "47—the neighbours.
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