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HEAD TOOK PUPILS LARRY MAKES

ON MIDNIGHT FLIT

Buses For 70 Boys

THE

London.

time was near midnight outside a former stately home of England converted into a boys' private preparatory school.

Seventy

excited whonltinys,

its origin spicodotu

witer:

boutcra

with all their belongings, stoot it was bukit ka 1702.

the drive in orderly columns.

And in eune

the

"Answer your names, boys, as their parents impressed by his you slep Intes the roach,”

the headmaster. reading

the roll.

"Smidth minor,"

said | magnificent seat of learning

from

"Here, mir.""

Anki so

went in until

all

wine

park

into two motori

The

FANCY PHRASES

They were being transportand

thut

the headinaster. "Dr Barrington Davies, Ph 17. B.S and his

MI

la March 1955, came the first melight fil. The whole school was transferred to nearby A lot

| Clinton, and Aylesbury

was opened,

College

It was here he wi itbs Whoaker. newly discharged! from Lester Grol Dovies, wh but sent bun 2 for B Tar

hemat litera TRANDVEITAS

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Tax hedgier Wertiķer

D'olonel

"bursar," known

Whitaker, Royal Marlues, could! bilk creditors.

45%

DEAR MOTHER

their

- two

the vc-ton

The convey started conches with the boys and

domestle staff, ihres

lories with the school furniture and beschling, and two cars be- longing to the principals.

Muster of the Moonlight Flit was Headmaster Ronald san Davies, 42-year-old street

Sam- former

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pron der

"C") Inel," 147 bon to him of eu dealers and

night him

purchase

aateon w

Then Bac CACAO haut sad W..

Five medica| ules aured at

But that venture dried 16

The

started civilitors Ang. presing, so the ronvay inoved out frem the former home of

violinist, with the bogus the late S Antbony de Rouss

scholastic degrees,

Twee he

anoved by-

set of

the

RONALD DAVIES

He painted roky futures

Gravestone Cow Path Starts Row

Grendon.

MUSIC ON

·HIS DUSTBIN

London.

DUSTBIN man with a difference is Larry Jones,

A For he doesn't empty dustbins. He plays them.

Right DOW

Larry-known

in the West End as Rlack

| Larry-spends bia evenings entertaining Soho with a

performance that sounds like

a double bass and looks like the Indian rope trick.

He plays his D. B. (dembl? ba:s to you and dustbin to Larry) at the Cottage Club, in Litchfield Street. near Cum- bridge Circus, with Fiddle lob Clarke, violinist, unct Danny Purssord, guitarist.

stands apside- Larry's dunübirn

down on tour blocks of wood. A piece of rupe is threaded through a hole in the bottom at the bin and the other end Is led to the head of a broom,

OLD SPOON

Fe strume out hi Jazzy

rhythms with an old spoon or bottle (you can see him beating

out the rhythm on the right),

D

Before he graduated to his he player guitars and banjocs made from rigar boxes.

"Nowadays I go, busking in the street playing my gullar,"

"Bul "ILLAGERS were com says 53-year-old Larry. VILLAC

that's only because I can't carry Stow-on-he-Wold, plaining that the cow the 12. B. round with me."

home over thep are coming gravestones of their ances | letter tors. Mother

Residents of the little humkel purents of Grendon (population: 40) suid it was “un-Christian" red to allow farmer Phil Hope to pave his cow path above RAF corporal, had left with headstones from the village

Chotter sure t fart wold College,

સ્ક beal creditors. this second Cope was organized with

Home again wing the assistance of Horace Edward Whitaker.

former R.AS.Cf the boys: Dear

We moved again last night. private.

until the exasperated removed their sons.

With cap and gown Davies, a master of fancy phrases despite

Davies, the self-styled wing "rilegious"

his elementary school education, comunander hoodwinked parents and trades-

men

schools

homyco

whe never 1060

private bebird unpaid tradesmen running four

ancestral totalling £3,367 during his edu cetrtred in

cational tour.

On Speech Days he impressed parents by painting rosy futures

for their

spectors

academic

claimed.

sons.

were

£22,000 FEES

churchyard.

The vicar, the Rev. Wallace sald he had the Cauldwell.

remove 'church's permission to

Inter- ancient stones that were Hering with the cutting of the

churchyardt grass.

rut

his

111 Education

None of the inscriptions could Be had obtained £4,528 from deceived by

Ave

received be read, the vicar said, and he people

Mr allowed qualifications

Hope. he 222,000 in school fees. He never had

paid the rent for his schoc is or warden, to take the stories home It was in Leicester Cact that even the cost of the roaches and for use on his farm.

the moves.

But wear on the stones which Davies,

BETVLINE 11 14-month lores used

a rattle At the Old Bailey last week Mr Hope used to line fru soncence, decided to found

out has brought

some of Davien was gaoled for three years one of his schools.

for conspiracy, traud, und false the names on the stones, villagers pretences. He had several pre-

They considered it improper vous convictions,

For bovino hooves to trend on 43 CX- Whitaker,

nich inscriptions as "Sacred to kastal boy. was sentenced the memory of who died Jan 18 months for conspiracy and 10, 1855. United Press false pretences,

On his release he tuck over i

boarding school and was joined by Whitaker on Aprli 1, 1055, when he came out of the same prisen.

'WAR HERO'

Davies had previously told the buys they had to be on their best behaviour as the new bur sa was 2 war hero Colcciel Whitaker. The headmaster did not tell then that, before his Prison sentence the "Colonel" was a atodeer at Leeds Infirmary.

Emblazoned on the boys the school motto in jackets was

things." "I scom evil

Latin: me average cost for a term was £60 plus a few extras.

The history of Headmaster Davies could be followed around the country by a trall of dud cheques and unpaid bills.

In June 1951 he contracted

to buy Morcott Hall, Upping- ham, Rutland for £3,000. At

the time he was penniless.

In June 1933 ho left and took over Ranksborough Hall, Rut- renused it Ranka- Landi, wad borough College. There he ob- iálne. £4,000 from 1 Kroup captain and a brigadier,

He paid nothing for either

school, zan up bila with trades.

man, and disappeared in August

∙1959.

pay was

The only, money Davies did to his staff of mis. fresses · ko 1. keep going hi academies of fraud.

Colonel"

sald

This is Wotton House, Buckinghansshire, farmer home of the Dukes of Buckingham. From here Davita saged kis

firat moonlight flit.

CANCER:

Cigarettes AND

Hot Soup

Are 'Dangerous'

Moscow.

in

Larry gets down to businen,

HIS FANS

PLEAD: DON'T GET MARRIED'

A

Winnipeg.

SINGING disc-jockey who plans to be married

in July has been plagued by mail and telephone calls from irate teenagers de manding

stay that he single.

Gordie Road, who handles all the_ferringe shown for radio station COB in Winnipeg, waid the letters were mostly from high school girls who felt that us a inarried non he would be un- able to contime with the teen- age shows.

"Letters have been pouring in since I announced my plans," Hoas said. "**The girls think that it will make me what they call and will disqualify J'an adult' Ime as a teenagers" M.C."

His Favourite

Rosa 25 has epent eight yours in radio. He started at the nge od 17 writing sports copy for a station in western Canada before he mwitched to playing records. He also doubles as a singer in a Winnipeg night club on weekends.

Some of his fan mail is smear- ed with lipstick.

a

Ross's favourite letter is from girl who wrote: "Unolo Gordle. when you got married you'll be a real adult. Will you sull be able to do the show?"

which Another,

pent "with lots of love and kisses,"" implored "Gordic, please don't got married.

WOS

Ross did not say what the future Mrs Ross had to May about the Hipstick-smeared tan mall he gets-United Presa

NEW LIGHT

ON PARIS

Paria.

SOVIET professor ad- PARIS, known the world over as the "city of light,"

vised Russians to give

in the process of emerging from a 19th century blackout today. up hot soup and cigarettes

if they want to Avoid

cancer.

goen

mast

In almost every quaster the city workers are busy in- Professor Larionov, an asso-stalling new neon and fluore cluto member of the USSR scent light to replace the age- Academy of Medical Sciences, old gas lamp-posts that helped

onc of the told his Moscow Radio audience make Parts that "#

without saying beautiful cities in the world.

The Champs-Elysees has that by giving up smoking the changes of contracting cancer of brand new neon light lamp- the hing

can be considerably posts. reduced."

The gas light system was in-.

iri 1859. He then discussed cancer · of augurated

Several ago Paris decided the stomach, anxt said: "On the months

to whole it is likely that the intake modernise the Champs-Elystes brighter. The of excessive hot food, plays an and make it important role in

a storm from project raised stomach cancer.

benuly-lovers who feared that modern neon lights might maire the avenuo brighter but far ugiter,

causing

Old Ones Kept

Now, In Egypt...

"Many people, for instance, love soup, the temperaturo of which is 60-70 degrees Centi- grade (140-158 F.), while the cells of our body can be dam- gged within a few minutes by various temperatures of 45 degrees C. lighting

(113 F.)."

After months of testing systems of fluorescent authorities adopted 25-foot high lamp-posts with j He then said that "at the double zems carrying fluorescent same time, Brizong the rural arms. The 300 gas lamp-pouts population of Egypt, who con- were retained but fluorescent sumo mainly fruit and milk, bulbs took the place of gu.

Similar there

renovating projects are practically no cass of malignant tumours of the are underway in other parts of stomach.

the city. At the Place de "All this bears witness to the L'Etoile at the top of the fact that it is possible to avert Champs-Elysees the problem various

of malignant will

more prove

dificult to this end it is first because

the of

architectural of

Exential to eliminate the structure of the square which influence

those very often mukaa of

the choloo

of Bullable prolonged 2********* | mild but

couses lamp-posts dificult. which givo risk to rumours."---.

Several other main stredis of United Presi

the French chplied have already equipped with modern fluorescent lighting. Avenue de L'Opera is also in the proc of being equipped with modern

18,000 Happy Hours

·In The Stalls·

Nottingham.

THE two cinema seats in which 58-yearold Mra Mary Bettison was courted by two husbands have been offered her as a memento. The cinema, in which she reckons she has spent 18,000 happy hours, is to close:

1

formst

Portuguana Decide

SLUMS TO GO

boun

mummer the famed Selno ancient Quais will alter their Mrs Bettison, of Lake Street, "I met William in 1917 and

gas lighting and at the end of Nottingham, bas boon the New wo always net in those two

the year the major commercial- Boulevard's best customer, the monte.

Oparia.!

streets of Paris will adopt the going there three

"Somehow we drifted apari,

The unhappy and unhealthy new system. In November 1963 he went boo

and I mauried another man, islands" of this city which L In some three or four years bankrupt for £13,000. Soomes a week for 45 yems.

She firet avent in silent-film after that he received a

"William got married too and the name that Oporto gives to the authorities plan to have 14 days. Then she paid a ponny

abolished completely the gam" monlar sentence for obtaining and a jam-jar to go in. The boy he and his wife och to sit as slums are to disappear.

They will make way for airy, system--United Prok credit by fraud from leading she married went there with dew seats away along the.row. hotels in London's West End hor-ho died when she was 20 "When I es a widow and be clean new buildings under a and she still goes there three a widower we started counting 10-year urbanisation plan at en mpooember 1954 Davies mes a week, with her eccon ogninin the same old seats.": infiial cost of over £1,000,000 ugreed toget buy Coketon husband, Willam, 54.

(HK$24 millions) which is to be met by a subsidy and a loan School, at Wolton-Underwood;

from Buckinghairahito,':

The Oporto

Venipo. beon authorised

table at The Italian molanhip further sum of close on £1 Rosenden steaming. He way bo million "(HK$10) million) trom Trigesh and Vedica, plekol fnecessary to

y to complate the pros up three Trickte boys drifting in

othe

Adriatic Sea atlar The mortality rate on

rate on the minch ran out of saline;

theAll three were sent to hospital

when they bath

HUGE LAKE

Drifted Apart

And sho aliyeos wide In the samo utalls #calthe end of the fourth row from the back, the former home of Mrs Bettison said the other the Dukes of Buckingham; e 30- day; "It would be nice to have roomed house standing in certs comething to remind

It was

me of so

of ground with a huge lake, and many happy days, but I don't ja long warbue-lined drive, and think we've got room for the

humbpad and

ment the Portugue

Fred

Thus

Boys Ordeal In Open Sea

faring from expo

about-two,

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