1930-09-09 — Page 7

VAST RICHES IN SHABBY HOUSE,

A FAMILY CELEBATÉ BY BROTHER'S COMMAND.

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TWO WHO REBELLED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

QUEEN AND HER CIGARETTE.

U.S. MORALITY * WOMEN STAGGERED.

A SOCIAL MENACE.

COAL TAR MOTOR *SPIRIT.

TUESDAY,

MILLIONS MOVED FROM BANK.

"ENORMOUS" HOME MARKET GOLD AND SECURITIES IN

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LORD'S PROPHECY.

field, in delivering the Messel Lec- ture before the Society of Chemical Industry at the Midland Institute, Birmingham.

Miss Ella Wendell, who, has in-

Gloom reigns over the Puritan The possibility of an enormous herited property in New York ex-strongholds in Rockford, Illinois. home market for motor spirit ceeding £30,000,000 fa value, The Morality Department of the derived_from_coal-tar, was referred through the death of her Local Women's Christian Tem- to by Lord Brotherton, of Wake sister, Mrs, Rebecca Swope, leads perance Union-a body whose mem- a hermit's life in a gloomy and bera act as moral policewomen of mysterious Fifth Avenue mansion. the universe found its worst fears These immense riches will make confirmed, as no denial has arrived no difference to the 80-year-old from Queen Mary of the charge recluse who, dressed in the fash- that she occasionally trifles with ions of the 'seventies, lives 'in à cigarettes. house still lighted by gas, and furnished axactly as it was 60ment's officials, reached by telo One of the Morality Depart

phone, declared, "We were staggered when we read that her Majesty Suitors Forbidden.

smoked.

"We could not believe our eyes Her grandfather laid on his de-

Queen scendants the injunction that they and decided to cable the

asking her to authorise a denial. must never buy anything but pro-We are greatly disappointed so perty (real estate) in New York, and must never relinquish their far not to have received a reply, but still hope to do so. We shall grasp on any they had bought.

reserve judgment until we have ascertained the facts."

years ago.

MOTOR VANS.

A HOLIDAY TASK.

Hundreds of cashiers and bank clerks employed in the City of London had to forego the delights of Bank Holiday, and the week end, and give a band in one of the largest office equipment and fural- removal affairs that the banking world has even known.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1930..

PLEASURE SHIP EXPLOSION.

DRAMATIC STORY OF AN ALLEGED PLOT.

BRITANNIA CASE,

1

An alleged plot to burn the Southend pleasure ship Britannia, valued at £14,000 and licensed to carry 342 passengers, was drama- tically described

at Southend when Albert Edward James Brand (36), skipper of the Prince of Wales pleasure ship: William Her. Not since the war, when there bert Wilson (29), chief engineer; the cancellation of a holiday affec-deckhand, were in the dock. were balances to be struck, has and Edward Ernest Dennis (23), ted so many in one bank

to the new headquarters of Lloyd The occasion was the moving in Bank, which has frontages in Lom- bard-street and Cornhill. It is

volved

industry, with which he has been For his services to the chemical

Messel Medal, a distinction held for 50 years, Lord associated Brotherton was presented with the previously by the late Lord. Lever hulme and the late Lord Balfour, among others. Among recent

the chemical developments in

Taking through the streets of industry,

wald in

his the City a million pounds in sil lecture nothing appeared to him ver, gold and notes, and millions more important than the produc-of pounds worth of securities; tion of nitrogenous fertilisers and their distribution over the whole world for increasing the produc- tivity of the soil.

he

The transference of the tren-

sure from the vaults of the old head office, and its deposit in the strong rooms built in the three basements to accommodate it.

Two large pantechnicons and a re-dozen motor-vans were in use, and when the evacuation of four City offices of the Bank began, the vehicles were making frequent

new building Journeys to the Here, in addition to hundreds of members of the staf, 150 labour

Miss Wendell's brother, John, was so obsessed by this family

Move to Outlaw Tobacco. - tradition that he told his six 'als-

The Universities. ters they must never marry lest

To the inquiry whether it was the property be broken up. Dur-nat impertinent to conduct an in-.

Lord Lord Brotherton, who ing his long life he kept them quisition into the private habits cently gave £100,000 for a new under his iron rule in the forbid- of foreign monarchs, no reply was library and £20,000 for a Chair of ding Fifth Avenue house, taking vouchsafed.. Mrs. Bertram Wol- Bacteriology at Leeds University, them each summer for a vacation fram, who signed the cable to the said he felt certain that the Uni- in their country house on Long Queen, said it was in a spirit of versities had a great destiny, and Suitors were forbidden, fair play that she approached her that under wise guidance they would entertainments very few, and the Majesty, as many inaccurate state-realise their responsibilities to in-ers were employed. family always wore black, the sis-ments were made for propaganda dustry. ters making their own clothes.

Steadily, with the growth of! New York, the property they own ed became exceedingly valuable.

Island,

One Who Married. There were only two rebellions in the family during 40 or 50 years. One siser, Georgiana, at the age of 50 was unable any longer to bear the monotony of her existence, and ran away. Her brother had her committed to an

purposes.

She declined to discuss what she would do if the Queen told her to mind her own business.

No Special Precautions.

said that the position had to be

Referring to the tar industry, he Premises evacuated were: faced that production was increas church-street, City office at 20, Old head office at 42, Grace

ing rapidly as to exceed demand. King William-street, Country

"It is, however, equally true," Clearing Department at 9, Bishops Morality Crusader asserted, "and he added, "that, so far as coal-targate, and Share and Chief In the Queen's leadership would be can be made to yield motor-spirit, a spector's Department, 39, Thread-

home market of enormous extent is needle-street. invaluable in stamping out tho

open to it, and that the systematic nicotine evil."

"Smoking is second only to drink: 1.8 I Bocial menace," another

Many organisations are working study of the chemical and thermal to prohibit tobacco in the United treatment of coaltar the blendings

of its fractions and the modifica States on the lines of liquor abolitions of its properties to serve many asylum; she was later released by will shortly be taken on outlawing purposes-is only in its infancy.

tion. In Oregon referendum

order of the Supreme Court, which declared the action unconstitu tional, but Georgiana submitted to her brother's will, and returned to live in the gloomy house until her

death.

The other rebel was Rebecca, who, at an advanced age, decided, despite her brother's furious op- position, to marry Professor Swope whom she had met at church, Rebecca. had character A

inflexible as John's, but John was so enraged he is said to have for- bidden his remaining sisters to go to church any more.

cigarettes.

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"It is hardly to be believed that a properly treated coal-tar cannot The story that Queen Mary be made equal, or even superior to, enjoys an occasional cigarette was the binding of roads, and that the throughout America and has given cannot be made to compete with quoted extensively in papers liquid fuel which coal-tar provides "great pain" in abolitionist circles. that from other sources."

The holiday week-end was chosen because the City would be at its quietest. No special pre- cautions were taken for the frans- fer of the millions in cash and

securities.

As the vans drew up, were emptied, and left for another load, holiday-makers were unaware of the magnitdue of the wealth that was being transferred,

Dr. Levinstein, presenting the EARLIER THAN MINES

OF SOLOMON.

medal to Lord Brotherton, said that STRANGE DRAMAS ON from small beginnings, enterprise,

· BROAD SHIP.

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the captain of the Skegland, did not hesitate to broach the cargo to feed his fires. But it took 1,000 tons of grain to get the vessel into port.

The Trevessa and Others.

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Miss Ella never goes out, never re-fish. But when her coal was ex-

une,

POLES UP IN ARMS.

courage, great industry, and the force of his personality, he had built up one of the most success- ful chemical industries in the coun- try."

SIR JOHN REITH.

SPEAKS ON STATE AND. BROADCASTING.

Was

or various items, in the pro-

SURPRISE FINDS IN RHODESIA.

dismissed from the case at the re- A man named William Robinson, who had been twice remanded, was quest of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and later he was called as a witness for the prose cution.

solicitor, said the case had arisen Mr. Paling, the prosecuting

out of rivalry between the owners of the Britanala and the Prince of Wales.

was, then

William Robinson called, and said he first heard of the plot on June 26. Dennis asked him to act as watchman while the Britannia was being burned. Previously it had been suggested that her propellers should be taken off, but Brand said the effect of that would not be long enough; it would be too, easily repaired. It was also suggested to stuff sea- weed in the exhaust pipes,

Blown into the Air. Dennis's idea, said Robinson, beneath the floor of the forward was to lay a bed of oily rags

saloon and then lay a trail of petrol Into the saicon, Robinson proceeded:

Dennis had said on the after- noon of June 30 as Brand was standing on the bridge of the Prince of Wales: "There, take a last look at the Britannia."

That night Dennis and I put on some old clothes and, wading out in our stockinged feet, filled varnish tins with paraffin and petrol. We climbed up the Bri tannia, but because we could not gain access to the saloon the petrol and oil were poured down the ship's ventilating shafts and a match was dropped by Dennis, light at the bottom, but there was I was expecting to see the oil

a flash and a terrific explosion. I felt myself going up into the air and as I went up I thought I was dying. When I came down I hit; the mud and when I shook myself I found I was blind.

I raced towards the water shout- ing: "Ted! Ted!

Where are you? What is the matter with my eyes? Dennis came to me and he made me awear that I would tell no one what had happened. Then he took me home..

of £200 each.

NOVEL HOSPITAL.

NEW NOTE IN YEUNG WO HOME ARCHITECTURE.

That the Iron Age began per One by one the celibate Wen-

haps thousands of years before the dolls died, and with the brother's

period generally attributed to it is death 15 years ago Mrs. Swope

one of the deductions that may be assumed the administration of the

drawn from the startling dis- coveries made in Northern Rhodesia estate. As she was a childless widow all the property now re-

by the Italian scientific expedition

Robinson said he went to Chel- led by Commander Gatti, verts to Miss Ella, and thus the brother's wish that it should not was the predicament of the skipper Far more desperate, however,

The expedition reports the dissea Hospital the next day after be broken up has been gratified. of the Grimsby trawler, Sargon. eral of the B.B.C., strongly object foundry, buried at a depth of 6ft.

Sir John Reith, Director-Gen-covery of the site of an ancient iron Brand had given him £5.

Prisoners were remanded on bail But when Misa Ella dies the es- Chased by tate by her slater's will is to be the trawler steered a

a Bolshevik warship.ed to the control of broadcasting in an enormous cavern, in strata divided among 14 charities.

the of the Paleolithic Age, hitherto r zig-zag by the State, speaking at course in the dark with all lights Students International Summer garded as the earlier Stone Age. The shuttered and shabby my-out, and escaped-only to run into School at Cambridge,

Here, many thousands of years ago, stery house is one of the curiosi u disastrous series of gales! ties of Fifth Avenue, looking com- After she had been buffeted in the people whose attitude towards fellows, smelted iron by primitive He said that there were still some race superior in intellect to its pletely out of place in one of the maelstrom for three days her food world's richest shopping centres. gave out and her crew lived. on largely, if not entirely, by an item Bantu people of tot ke

broadcasting

determined methods resembling those of the An examination of skeletons dis- ceives visitors, still obeying the hausted the vessel tossed helpless-gramme of which they either covered tends to show that an early A four-floored building, embody- memory of her brother to whosely in the storm.

Knowledge of smelting came to lng the most modern, hospital will all the sisters, Savc

It was not

strongly approved or as strongly for long however, disapproved.

Africa in bushmen times, some-architecture, is planned by the sacrificed their happiness.

Superhumanly did the crew labour "This is, of course, irrational where about the middle period of Board of Directors of the Yeung to feed the fires, breaking up and if it leads to a wholesale condem-

Wo Nursing Home, at Happy the Paleolithic Age. burning everything,

It is thought that the iron foun- Valley. It is to be built on a site. including nation of the service on an indict dry may give some indication as to at the rear of the present hospital tables, chairs, masts, and oven ment built around some particular out over the funnel top. And, of the hearer," he said. lifeboats-until the flames leaped feature which is not to the taste the age of the Zimbabwe ruins, the and work will be begun as soon as ancient stone strongholds in plans are approved by the Govern- eventually, a

Rhodesia which are thought to have ment, very woe-begone- Broadcasting should be con- been erected by ancient gold-seckers Messrs. Little, Adams and looking, dilapidated craft indeed ducted as a public service and from Arabia, but further dis- Wood are architects for the new the Sargon lumbered safely into nothing else. I do not admit that coveries may show that prosaic building and the plans already port. Warsaw, Sept. 8.

it is necessary to have personal iron, as well as gold, proved an at- drawn up make provision for a con- Fifty thousand Poles, including

British gain as an incentive to endeavour, traction to explorers long before crete and brick structure which, representatives of all political captains-such as that displayed and I regard the presence of com- the days of King Solomon's mines. when completed, should be the perties, demonstrated at Posen, Cairngorm, which caught fire in most undesirable.

by the brave master of the mercial motive, in any form да

Colony's most up-to-date hospital. the birthplace of President Hin-mid-Channel has saved passengers

It will be the first institution here to denburg of Germany, as a protest and crews when their vessels have should be established under the "The broadcasting service

be constructed on the single room ' against the attempts of Germany been doomed. When hin New Zea- auspices of the State, but certain-

width scheme which is popular with have the Polono-German land liner struck

hospital designers in the United frontier revised, and also against Straits of Magellan, Captain Wil- The system and the constitution a rock in the ly not. conducted by the State.

States and the Continent. It de- recent speeches by members of the ward ran his

parts from the old style of hospital vessel ashore so in this country are. I consider, German Cabinet.

skilfully that pot a single life was exactly what is required.

with its wards opening on both The effigy of Dr. Treviranus, lost.

sides of a corridor as it contains former Minister for Germany of

"Entertainment was, of course, And the voyage of Captain the primary function of the broad-

one row of wards opening to a Occupied Regions, was carried, Foster, with 20 of his shipwrecked casting service, but the word must was heard at Westminister Police design is for the freer circulation. verandah on two sides. This swinging from a gallows, and crew in a small boat, across nearly not be interpreted in its narrow Court when Messrs. Hall and Sons of air. a resolution was passed demand- 2.000 miles of wild ocean-after sense. It should also carry the (Butchers, Ltd. of Buckingham ing, inter alia, the fortification of the Trevessa had foundered in the responsibility of contributing con- Palace/road, S.W., were charged pital is to be a new system of Poland's western frontier and the Pacific-forms an epic of the sea stantly and cumulatively to the with selling to the prejudice of elevators. The ground floor will boycott of German goods.

which will never be forgotten. Similar demonstrations

intellectual and moral well-being the purchager, the Hon. Mr. Paul contain the service rooms with a held in other parts of Poland.—

of the community.

Methuen," leg of mutton not of car dock adjacent to the elevators. Reuter

the nature, substance or quality By this means patients will be able demanded, contrary to the Food to be removed direct from an am [Dr. Treviranus, in a speech in Berlin, on the occasion of the

and Drugs Adulteration Act 1928. bulance to the lift and transferred teath anniversary of the plebiscite

The leg of mutton lay on the to a ward with the minimum of

discomfort. solicitors' table in court. of East Prussia (In which ninety.

to

pex

RECTIFICATION OF NEW FRONTIER OPPOSED.

were

The coolness of many

JACK DIAMOND SEEKS DAMAGES.

cent of the inhabitants SUES PRUSSIAN POLICE FOR

"LOSS OF CREDIT."

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"And if broadcasting is some- times colourless it must be re- membered that democracy is sometimes rather colourless too.

LEG OF MUTTON IN COURT.

SUBSTITUTION RESULTS IN A FINE.

A case of interest to housewives

Another feature of the new hos-

Mr. G. D. Roberta, on behalf of

Plans have been in the Govern- the New Zealand Meat Producers ment's hands for some weeks. Board, said that from Messrs. Hall's antepaper it would appear

mark."

expressed a desire to remain in

The difficulty of determining Germany), referred to the Vistula

exactly the point at which a man region of Poland as an unhealed

became dangerously drunk, in the Berlin, Sept. 8. wound in Germany's eastern flank. Through a solicitor in Berlin, yes of the law, was discussed by that they were butchers to various found that it bore the Argentine

He said the future of Poland Jack Diamond, the "King of New presentative meeting of the Bri-

Dr. Douglas at the annual re-exalted customers. could only be assured if Germany York's Underworld," is bringing tish Medical Association in Lon-try of Agriculture, and was senlor Roberts, was 2d: to 34, 4 pound Mr. Methuen was in the Minis- Argentine mutton, added. Mr. and Poland were not kept in an action for damages against the don. "There is no single test we investigator of the marketing divi- cheaper than New Zealand mut- state of perpetual unrest by un-Prussian Police for the time he 'just frontiers.

can apply to a drunken person that sion of the meat side. was held in detention, also for is satisfactory," Dr. Douglas said. "He consequently takes more The magistrate said he did not Dr. Treviranus added, "Our the cost of the journey from and "If you want to prevent accidents than an ordinary interest in ment," believe the substitution was deli." eyes sco with grief, the land which to the United States. Included in let the motorist have no alcohol. Baid Mr. Roberts, "and on May 8 berate, but the onus was on the to-day is lost to us, but one day his claim is damages for the "Toss There are certain times when we he was asked by his cook to in- firm to see that mistakes of that it may be re-won. A day will of credit" caused by his arrest, are better without it, and one of spect meat delivered following an kind did not occur. come when a fight for justice will subsequent to the publication of those times is when we are about order for one lez New Zealand He imposed a fine of £7 with free Germany and Europe."]

the affair In the Press-Reuter. 'to drive a car."

mutton 18. 1d. per 1b.' Mr. Methuen £10 10s. costs.

ton.

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