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PAIR OF QUEENS

Students at Washington Stato College, Pullman, couldn't dećido between Dorothy Quaife, upper, and Lucille Lindahl for honours ng the "most attractive freshman girl", so both ruled over the an- nual Publications Ball.

WIVES

RUSH FOR

DERBY "FLUTTER"

ON CREDIT

1936.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10,

Details of Pond Murder' Told

SOCIALIST LEADER LOOKS AT AMERICA -PREFERS ENGLAND

BUT AMERICAN TRAINS, HOTELS, SLANG "O. K." "OH YEAH Mr. Herbert Morrison, Socialist leader of the London County Council, recently returned from a fort- night's lecture tour in the United States, laughingly greeted an Interviewer on the threshold of his house at Eltham,

He gave his impressions of the United States as he sat back in an easy chair by the fire with his wife and daughter, a few hours after he had landed at Southampton.

•

"I'm glad to be back," he said. "When I saw England again

I thought what a wonderful country it is. There is something so sound about it all.

"Those Americans have a real friendship for us. And they are proud of that 3,000 miles of unguarded frontier between them and Canada.

"Their trains are folly good, but

I prefer our third-class carriages to their ordinary ones. If you want to smoke you have to go into special carringea."

Mr. Morrison picked up a Press cutting from a pile which was on the earpot. "Did you see this... thene Hears papers calling nie a 'perl patetie Plecadilly propagandist

on't you think it sound nice... the Alliteration in 162" Ile laughed | heartily.

LESSON IN SLANG

"After I had been there for a couple of days I found myself saying the more ustial alang words, such as O.K. and 'Oh, yeah. Once or twice I would say something in ren! Cock- ney which they could not under-

land."

He told what happened when he had been in New Tark for a few days. "I wns in taxicab when thore wAS nearly a collision with another taxicali slashing along on the left side of the

road. Say, yelled our driver, Where Herbert Morrison has been to

'you think you are

alon?

in Lon-

Taking a long puff at his cigar, Mr. Morrison became enthusiastic about the American hotels.

"They seem to work to the slogan |*2,000 beds—2,000 baths~2,000 radio-

sets. The telephone girl would wake) Ime up in the morning by ringing me. When I thanked her she said, 'You're welcome, and rang me up again in a quarter of an hour to see that I hadn't gone to sleep again.

"And the audiences over there... they are just grand listeners.”

Amer. ien-"I'm glad to be back."

UNDERGRADUATE

FOUND HANGED

EXAMINATION

ANXIETY.

undergraduate at Clare College, Cam- Mr. M. J. M. Hiley, a "third year"

|bridge, was found hanged recently in

a bathroom.

Speaking of the King, Mr. Morrison. Ifiley was to have entered shortly A tulor at the College stated that said: "They were always asking me how our new King xulted our party. for

A degree

he examination, and They do not seems to be able to grasp thought the examination and his the fact that he is a constitutional career were matters of anxiety to him. monarch. It just deals them." Ile was hoping for an appointment in

the R.A.F.

Then about American wonen,

"They are really beautiful,

buit

Hundreds of housewives at Home 'recently had a "utter" on the

Mr. Hiley, who, was 21; was a son of Derby under a special scheme don't think we have anything to com- Dr. R. M. Hiley, The Lodge, Kadyr, brought in by the Racecourse Bett-plain of. We have just as many near Cardiff, who is connected with Ing Control Board's forecast pool.eautiful women here.

It was devised by Tota Investors, Limited, the beurd'a ngents. Under this thousands of people have been made temporary mem- bers to enable them to take part in the pool.

All transactions were on a credit basis.

MONEY RETURNED

---------

Villagers'

the Welsh Board of Health.

Fairy

Godmother Became

A bizarre story' of the brutat murdér of Mrs. Mary' James—a scheme ..to kill the woman by fire, rattlesnake vemon and drowning-waa unfolded to Los Angeles poilco by Charles Hope, left. He charged the woman's husband. Robert 8. James, right, with the crime. James, In turn, accized Hope. Between the pair in Buren Fitts, district alterney, at the foli pond in James' yard, where the body of Mrs.

Jathes was found, Inst July.

CHARLES H. HOPE

ROBERT 8, JAMES.

A Los Angeles County grand jury Indicted Robert H. James and Charles H. Hope, charged with the weird murder of James' fifth wife, Mary Emma, after Hope charged Mrs. James was exposed to the bites of rattlesnakes before she was drowned in a pool (ace above).

An Embezzler: Jailed FAMOUS-

AND THEN

POSTMISTRESS ELIZABETH NICHOL was fairy godmother to the villagers of Port Gordon, Banffshire,

Now she is in jail-an..em-| bezzler.

"This forecast pool, in which people have to pick out the first and second horses hame in the Derby, will be the biggest thing of its kind ever organised in this country," Major Port Gordon first saw her in Anne, managing director of Tote In- vestora, said to the Sunday Dispatch.1895, when, at the age of twenty-one, she became its post- mistress.

"All people who sent money are having it returned, and if we think fit, are having credit facilities offered] She identified herself from the start with the charliable work of the village.

.themi.

"We are appointing 50 or more special agents to meet the demand from men's clubs. There are signs that housewives are wanting to have a small flutter on the Derby forecast pool.

The company is working tace shifts a day to deal with the quantity of husiness. It owns the largest battery of machines for registering, totalling, and analysing bets in the world."

The price of one unit ticket was 25. Gd. if purchased on or before May 4, fs. up to and including May 10, and 10s, from May 20 until the "off."

EQUAL CHANCE FOR ALL Every unit, whatever the price, had an equal chance.

"People should understand that tickets can be bought only on a race- course during racing hours or through Accredited agents who do the buying for their clients at the course. It is illegal to sell tickets anywhere else," Major T. R. Chambers, secretary to the Betting Control Board, said,"

"Last year we took £6,000,000, and with the same organisation could handle a much greater sum."

'Soon all knew her as a friend) and wise counsellor. She was! especially generous to those less! fortunate than herself.

She advanced money to people In difficulties. Few repaid her. In her ship chandlery store she gave credit to local fishermen. It rose to £1,000. They could not pay.

RUINED

The store had to close. That was in 1921,

Then Postmistress Nichol be- gan receiving money for invest- ment

Thirty-eight people trusted her gave her sums totalling £9,575.

It was this amount which she was accused of embezzling. She pleaded guilty in the High Court of Judiciary, Edinburgh..

Sixty-two-year-old Postmistress

twelve months,

DR. FURTWANGLER Nichol was sent to prison for

QUITS

FAMOUS CONDUCTOR

TO. GIVE UP

Doctor Wilhelm Furtwangler,

the famous conductor, by. his own

·request will. confuet

no further

Police Swoop On Forgers

French police have arrested a concerts, or operas in Germany | gang of forgers who planned to flood this year, except, at Bayreuth next Europe and England with counter

felted securities purporting to be those of a well-known industrial.com- pany.

announced in

winter, it was communique in Berlin recently,

Back to Prison STARVING

Souglit as a suspect in the playing. of Elles Derans, Ripon, Calif., ski champion, Willam McManus, 25, and one-armed, was found in jail at Salem, Ore., on a robbery. charge. Ho was brought to"Mo" desto, Calif., scene of the murder, pleaded guilty and given life im

prisonment.

£3,000,000 BRITISH FILM FIRM One of them, a jaweller arrested in connected with a 3,000,000 scheme Three big banks are said to be No explanation of Dr. Furtwan- gler's intentions was obtainable at Antwerp as he was trying to negoti- for a now British film company. The his home, where it was stated that the detectives information which led Hampton Court.

ato a block of 200 forged bonds, gave studios will be at Bushey, near ho was on a tour in Germany. to the arrest of several mon in

Paris. The Propaganda Ministry de Others arrested included a man of the scheme is "substantially ac

Film exporta state that the news clared that there was, no tension who ndinitted that he had recurate, but premature," between the conductor and the esived 100,000 francs worth of for-

Two years will be occupied in build- Government, and that it was beged bonds under the impression that ing the studios. Hoved Dr. Furtwangler might

they were not forged but stolen.

The vast Metro-Goldwyn Corporn- want to devote himself to some said that he had tried to sell 1,000 of interested in leasing part of them Another Frenchman also arrested tlon, of Hollywood; is stated to be creativo work.--Rentor,

the bonds to a London banker, for their British productions.

G.B.S. ON RISKS OF BEING CLEVER

RUGBY STAR DROWNED

STANLEY WILLIAMS FALLS OVERBOARD and English international Rugby Stanley H. Williams, the Newport

full-back, fell overboard from the liner Arlanza while returning from South Amerien and was drowned re- cently.

He was returning from a health cruise.

Mr. A. P. Herbert's plea in the House of Commons for more

One of the rent-known pre-war pensions for distinguished but Rugby players, he was the centre of the first storm of controversy over impoverished men of letters, International football qualification. musicians and scientists, has In 1911 England selected him for been received with warm ap land, and France, despite a storm

matches against Wales, Scotland, Ire-. proval by prominent men and of protest. women who have achieved suc cause Newport is affiliated to both

He was qualised for England be cess in drama,, music and the the English and Welsh Rugby stage.

Unions.

Mr. Williams, who was 52, WAR In his speech Mr. Herbert said manager of an iron-ore mine at that the sum distributed in Civil Irthlingborough, near Nothampton.

List pensions each year is about

£23,000. New pensions totalled BANKNOTES

£1,200 a year, and he suggested that this should be raised to £4,000

a year.

Mr. Chamberlain, Chancellor of} the Exchequer, rejected the pro- posal.

Here are opinions obtained:

Sir Henry Wood,

ON TREES

:

PEOPLE STOP BUSINESS TO GATHER THEM Fivo-dollar bills, equivalent of "Many brillant musicians who one-pound notes, are hanging by have served this country well are the score from willow trees and now loft high and dry in their old maize atalks on the banks of French ago. I recall the tragedy of Broad River in Tennessee. Coleridge Taylor, the composer.

Inhabitants of the town of Dan- bridge suspended business to-day by

The president of the local bank bo-

He died a young man, and loft common consent to collect them. his wife and daughter unprovided for. A pension of £100 would lieves they are part of the £10,000 in have been a great boon to his currency seized months ago by han family,

dits from an armoured post office van in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The theory is that the robbors con- cealed their loot, and that it was washed away in the recent disastrous

Mr. George Bernard Shaw

"Tho- British public hates and distrusts anybody intellectual. think artists are fortunato in not

floods.

having extra taxation put on them. liko being intellectual, and that's

People who devote their lives to work of a

do

puroly intellectual nature all there is to it.” so at their own risk, There Is

no way of paying them. If they

can't mako themselves popular they won't get anything from the Government"

added, "that we don't spend mare "It is a great pity," Mr. Shaw

on our minds. But people don't

Lady Martin Harvey

"The acting profession will heartily support Mr. Herbert's. Higgostion. I can think of many singo people who, famous in their day, are now starving or suffering, Some of the cases are really heart- breaking.

Bald to mer Bfürt be a terrific strain on the fuselage

I aid to him: It's a greater siçain to refuselage Johnnie Walker as 1

Let a man go where he will-a bottle of Johnnie Walker is sure to be found within reach. This old whisky is far too excellent to be confined to one country, or one corner of the globe. The fame of its very Especial qualities has travelled to all parts." You are indeed marooned if you are long separated from your favourite whisky.

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Johnnie

His Majesty the King

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