1939-02-07 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1939

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Imperial Airways': super-Blyingboats, the Empire type, in their "docks" at Southampton, which is now the main airport for the Em- pire air mail services.

21-GETS £600,000

Less than six months ago she was a £3 108, a week telephone operator. She learned at Routine, Michigan, U.S.A., yesterday, the will one day receive £1,600,000 from her late husband's estate.

Lucky girl is Mrs. Annie Lau- rine Dodge, twenty-one, widow of the car king's son, who died eleven days after their wedding.

In will, Dodge left his wife only £50,000, but she contested it, and will get £600,000 right away.

REFORM WAS ONCE SLOPPY SENTIMENT

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MALAY SULTAN FREES BRITON

JAMBOREE FOR CAGED BIRDS

Age 13

Five thousand birds from all parts of the world (valued at more than £100,000) took part in the seventy-first Crystal Palace Show of Cage Birds.

Most valuable bird was a macaw worth £1,100. The smallest was a pair of pigmy humming birds, perfect in form yet no larger than bumble bees and weighing just about as much.

Most popular entries were bud- gerigars and ornamental pheasants and the most unusual red and bronze canaries from France and orange canaries from Holland, all rare specimens. ·

Mr. W. B. R. Rudgard, thirty-one, rubber planter from Witton-le-Wear, Bishop Auckland (Durham), has boch released after serving three months of à six months' sentence for Providing food for thèse fèa- killing a Malay cyclist, knocked down thered beauties was, as usual, a by his car near Kuala Lumpur, problem. But a ton of seeds, many. Malay. States. Ofder for his re- kinds of fruit; worms, dried and lease was signed by the Sultan of powdered meat, anta eggs and Selangor.

dried flies were on the menu.

Selangor, population 350,000, like Johore, is under British pro- tection, but the local rulers have greater powers than most Indian princes.

TAXING THE BACHELORS

President Vargas of Brazil is Mr. Cecil Whiteley, Common Ser- planning to tax all bachelors be- jeant at the Old Bailey, recently tween the ages of twenty-five one referred to the success of putting found guilty of abandoning his offenders on probation.

family.

Even that won't make some men "I can well remember thirty-five

the supporting of some to forty years ago," he said, "how take on

other man's daughter. the pioneers of this method were sneered at, ridiculed and charac- terised as sloppy sentimentalists

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It is only within recent years that JUST WHAT THEY WANT Judges have adopted probation to BUT CAN NEVER GET- any extent."

In January last year there were Beer makes a stronger appeal to 155 persons on probation from the the north-east coast iron and steel four Old Bailey Courts. Last worker than, probably, to any other year 161 were put on probation, class of worker.

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PENNIES THAT WEIGHED ‘LË.

Cooper coins which weigh seven pounds each. people used wheel- barrows to go shopping those days

will be sold in London now. In

PRESENTED FROM COURT

Heard in London Police Courts: Woman at Willesden: I used to forgive my husband when we were first married, but I've come to the conclusion that a wife iş more respected if she makes a scène now and then”

Motorist at Ealing: I never had much luck with that car. I don't think a month passed without me having to buy petrol.

Ka Husband at Tottenham: We had an argument over. money. My wife said that as she had not driven the car for a year she was entitled to my "no-claims bonus" on the in- surance policy.

BIG-BANG CANNED DOG

a collection of Swedish coins, they The fearsome scarecrow, after are the unwieldy copper plate centuries of loyal service, is to be tokens of Charles XII (1715), mea- placed on the retired list Its place suring nine and three quarter. is being taken by a tanned "watch- inches. They were regular cur- dog." This, "creature" lives in an rency at one time.

innocent little case like that of a portable gramophone.

POSTMISTRESS AT. NINETEEN

At nineteen a colleen is the vital link between the 375 people on her storm-swept Island home and the mainland. She's Maura McDonagh, Eire's youngest postmistress. Her

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The farmer loads it up with car- tridges, adjusts a timing device and scuttles, away. The “scare crow" just goes on barking at re- gular intervals according to the until all its cartridges timing have been used up. bird that has heard it once decides The bark is a big bang and a

making a total of 316. During "The trouble is that owing to post office smallest in the coun- to find pastures new. ̈

the year forty-eight completed their licensing restrictions these

men try is in a cottage on the Aran probation satisfactorily. Only often cannot get it when they most, Isle of Innismaan. Maura's res- nineteen failed.

need it.

ponsible for all the messages sent, In Middlesbrough, Britain's larg- over the new telephone cable be- est iron producing centre, the pub- tweeen Innismann and mainland, BOYS HATE MORAL LECTURES lic houses close at ten o'clock, just which she's never visited. Her the second shift at the foundries mother, the previous postmistress, finishes, and blast-furnacemen taught her the Morse code. have cried in vain for an extension of hours.

Only six of the ninety had been recharged... and they were persons who had been sent to prison in their early years.

CAR MASCOT BRINGS SUMMONS

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Now Consett ironworkers have taken up the campaign and the A car mascot of a swallow

in Iron and Steel Confederation and FORMATION. FLIGHT FROM flight was the subject of á prosecu- North-West Durham Licensed Vic-AUSTRALIA tion at Halesowen, near Birming- tuallers' Association are to make a hami. The driver was summoned new appeal at Breyster Sessions in for carrying a mascot likely to February for longer hours. strike a person with whom the vehicle might come into collision. It' measured five inches from beak to tail, and was carefully examined by the magistrates, who dismissed the summons under the Probation of Offenders: ́Act.

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CHOSEN AS U: S.. AIR ACE

• Howard Hughes, the American, airman, who flew round the world' last July in the record-breaking

time of just over ninety-one hours S

has been chosen as the outstanding aeronaut of 1938 by the American National Aeronautics Association. Mr. Hughes and Squadron-Leader R. Kellett, who commanded the three R.A.F. bombers on their ro cord long-distance flight from Egypt to Australia, dead-heated for the gold medal awarded every year by the International Aeronau... tic. Federation.

Mr. Robert Body, who has died, sged seventy-five, gave many miku a valued friend .. his' walk ing-stick. For more than fifty years, he'd grown walking-sticks, thousands of them, on Walking Stick Farm, Snodland, near Hös chester (Kent), 'and on another farm at Meopham. You see Mími with his grandson, sizing up HÖRLUM one's future hiking, companion.

“Public schoolboys, at least, like straight-forward sérmons; hate moral lectures," So says the Rev. C. H. D. Cullingford, chaplain of Oundie, yesterday.

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SAVED TRAIN, GETS £11 89.

Formation flight from Sydney to

Mrs. Ada Milton, who last Octo- Birmingham (England) is to be ber ran along the track at Brox- made this summer by three 'planes bourne, Herts, to warn an express belonging to the Royal Aero Club train that a tree had fallen across of New South Wales. Their ar- the line, has received $11 88. from

·rival in Birmingham will be timed a fund subscribed to by season- to coincide with the opening of ticket holders from Bishop's Stort- the city's new airport by Mr. ford travelling on 'the train. Chamberlain.

This will be the first civil air-

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craft to attempt so long a forma- CD TROOPS FOR S. tion flight. Starting in mid-May

they expected to take twenty AFRICA? days.

469 DIVORCE PETITIONS

A proposal to form coloured "re- giments as a part of the South African Defence Force is finding support among retired senior Army officers in Capetown.

When the Hilary Law Sittings begin to-day, Mr. Justibe Hen Collins will be in charge of a lất TWO HEADS NOT BETTER- of 460 divorce, decreed presented to

be made absolute, including-L_peti- ~A-calf with;

LIV M. A. Ley against on the farm Sir H. C. Ley, and Barmess) Lake, BoouTEMI against Baron Lisie.

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