1937-11-27 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL NOVEMBER 27, 1937

Make A Million

It's So Easy!

Here are $5,000,000 worth of ideas given to me by men who have each made a million or more, writes a correspondent.

a

All told me human progress seems to manifest itself in series of dynamic spurts, now in one field of effort, now in an-

Used Stamps Maintain Cot In Hospital

Ten tons of used postage stamps

said

The stamp-collectors'

cot

Com

"SLEEPING BEAUTY'S" VICTIMS

Somewher death has

mid-Pacific three women

ertake who we CROSSITIZ from America ma tiny yacht and carrying with them evidence that would have solved one of Australia's weirdest

mysteries.

murder

The story begins in Angust, 1934, when a beautiful blonde girl was found dead on the main road from Sydney to Albury. She was dress- ed only in a pair of pyjamas of heavy yellow silk, the trousers of mible wound in the skull, obviously which were singed. She had a ter-

Nobody knew who she was, or how she came to be on the road.

mainly of the common or garden started 30 years ago, and has been English halfpenny, penny and three maintained with varying fortunes, From time to time I have met halfpenny varieties have brought for the used stamp market is millionaires like Andrew Mellona fortune of more than $1,000 to a difficult one to negotiate. Thomas Edison, Jules Bache, child's cot.

“A number of friends Walter Teagle, who controls the Mr. C. H Bessell, secretary of Mr. Bessell said, "to tear Rockefeller oil millions, Comelius Vanderbilt, and many other inter-Bethnal Green, told how it happenmunication they received, and to the Queen's Hospital for Children, stamps from every postal he

national figures, and have jotted

fed

send them to the hospital. Later, down their "hunches about what

The stamps showered in upon groups of collectors were formed, might be called "things waiting to

us in the past 12 months!" he land we sold the stamps by weigcaused by some blunt instrument. be discovered”

"They included Jubilees, sometimes raising a few pounds Abdication Edwards and Corona sometimes considerably more. tion issues, and we sold them to “To-day, all sorts of individuals. dealers for export as. foreign and groups are helping us. A stamps for a sum exceeding $1,000. number of schools are collecting other. Just now we are living in an English stamps, of course, become the stamps. So are women's guilds, age of lavish discovery of physical foreign stamps in places abroad. scout troops, and associations of

"Purchasers abroad have indirect-municipal employees. Keeping this in mind, all were

cot în our in- willing to give me an idea, each ly endowed child's worth a million. Any of the follow-

Mr. Bessell emphasised that the ing ideas might create fabulous fortunes for the men who work Queen's is one of the poorest of the them out or they might not. It all children's hospitals, which has had depends on whether, in addition to to resort to all sorts of novel de- inventive genius, they possessed the business sense to secure the fruits of their invention.

jawa

Waiting to get into the big money? Then here goes.

"GOLD" LIGHT

At present about 95 per cent, of

stitution."

vices to raise funds for the treat ment of the large number of pati- ents dealt with each year.

THEY WON'T

the electricity which comes into TAKE THEIR

our homes for lighting purposes.

is wasted as useless heat. When you OWN MONEY

learn to transform it into eold light,. such as the firefly uses, you will light your home for one-twentieth of the present cost

Any electric company will sign a blank cheque for the patent rights on this idea. Anyway, they will give you at least a million for it.

"

DIVIDEND PUZZLE IGNORED

Here is a man who is trying to induce people to take money they

do not seem to want.

He is Mr. Graham Cunningham, Up to the present, the use of elec tricity has been largely confined to a company director, of Albemarle WIRED electrical waves. The radio street, London, and he has set him- hints at the possibilities of elec-self the peculiar task of tracking cal waves, transmitted without down small investors who do not wires. One millionaire says that claim their dividends.

Tens of thousands of pounds are short waves possess miraculous properties; and may develop an in-on companies' books as unclaimed dustry totally different from any dividends, and many have been ac- cumulating over a period of years. thing we have yet witnessed.

"I am amazed at the carelessness Central heating has been a won-of many small investors," said Mr. derful improvement in household Cunningham, "If you were able to comfort. Invent a central cooling inspect that books of all the large plant and there's another million companies, you would find that vast waiting for you.

FLEXIBLE GLASS

Unbreakable glass has already been invented, and rapid strides are being made with flexible glass. Complete the present research, pat- ent your idea, and eventually all motor-cars, and perhaps homes, will be equipped with it.

sums are now lying idle.

LAZY "CULPRITS”

"This gives companies much trouble, as all this money has to be carried forward year after year.

"You would think, wouldn't you, that investors must be wealthy peo- ple with money to throw away? But LAW SUIT OVER BILL*t is exactly the opposite. Most of

OF 12 YEARS AGO

£15 Pair Of Gloves

them are just small investors with a few pounds invested.

"It is usually just carelessness or laziness. They put the dividend warrants in their drawers and then forget about them"

Mrs. Wilfred Nicholls, formerly Miss Barbara Vanderbilt, was "Recently I have set out to track called before a Paris Appeal Court down the culprits in the companies and asked to swear on oath that with which I am associated. One she had paid £1,000 in settlement of person I found had not bothered a bill for clothes bought in New about his dividend for five years. York 12 years ago. The bill was Another went away, but eventual- for numerous items, such as a pairly I traced him to a small town in of ball shoes, £30, an umbrella, Canada.

£15, and a pair of gloves, £15. "Those who have script certifi

The New York store, which cates, of course, I cannot trace. In claims that the bill has never been those cases I find out when the last paid, brought an action against dividend was banked and the name Mrs. Nicholls in 1925, when she had of the bank in question: Then I settled in France after her divorce, write to the bank manager and ask

Judgment will be given.

him to approach his customer.”

SOLD BY WEIGHT

"The past year's total weight of stamps was 10 tons. And we can do with tons and tons more."

Mr. Bessell explained that the hospital staff does not sort the stamps. Friends send them in, in appropriate bundles. Supporters abroad supply used stamps of the countries in which they live.

Her body was preserved in al- cohol in the Sydney Pathologicas Institute, and there it has lain for three years, looking for all world as if the girl were only as- leep.

WORLD-WIDE SEARCH

the

More than three thousand people have come to identify her, but her identity has remained a mystery. Seven hundred and twenty clues

have been followed up in France, Germany, the United States, Japan and China, None of them led to any thing.

Then an American woman visit- “A few special specimens we may ing Sydney thought she recognised sell direct," he said, "but the bulk the victim of the murder as a form- go by weight. Prices vary, accord-er school companion. She return- ing to the trend of events. But ed to America, began investiga. our scheme proves that even the ortions, and then wrote to the Sydney dinary English postage stamp has police that she was returning to not completed its usefulness when Australia with all the proofs of the it has passed through the post." identity of the murdered girl.

In one London school, every pupil She undertook the journey in a has been invited to donate each yacht accompanied only two other week all the used stamps received, women--and they foundered in mid- franking the household mail Most ocean.

of the children are enthusiastic So Australia's over the scheme, and large quanti-mystery remains ties of stamps are contributed each term.

CAPTAIN DIES AS TUG NEARS PORT

Ship's Tragic Voyage

sleeping beauty

ved.

ment of 13 to die during the 14,- 000-mile

from Cape Town.

Before the ship left Cape Town Mr. W. Dodds, the engineer, died on board from heart failure, and in the terrific heat which was When the harbour tug Sir Wilperienced on the African West ham Macintosh, a vessel of 226 coast several members of the tons and only 100 feet in length, crew fell ill, one, a greaser na arrived at Southampton from P. C. Thompson, a South African, Lagos, on the West Coast of dying before the tug reached Ta- Africa, she had in one of her ca- koradi. His body was taken a- bins below decks the body of her shore for burial, and six other master, Capt. W. Barnes, aged men were admitted to hospital. 58, of Sunderland. He died as They were all able to rejoin the the ship was nearing Portland. ship after treatment except Mr. He was the third of a comple- Warrington, the second mate.

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