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PAIR OF QUEENS

Students at Washington State College, Pullman, couldn't decide between Dorothy Quaife, upper, and Lucille Lindahl for honoura as the "most attractive freshman girl." so both ruled over the an nual Publications Ball

WIVES

RUSH FOR DERBY "FLUTTER"

ON CREDIT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1936.

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, bui profer our third-class carriages to their ordinary opes, 15 you want to smoke you have to go into special carriages."

Mr. Morrisch picked up a Press cutting from a pife which was on the carpel. "Did you are this... those Hearst papers calling me a perl- patetie liceadily propagandist.

on't you think it sounds nice

the alliteration in it? He laughed heartily:

LESSON IN SLANG

"After I had been there for a couple of days I found myself saying the pore usual slang words, such 46 'O.K.' and 'Oh, yeah.' Once or twice

I would say something in real Cock- noy which they could not under- stand."

He told what happened when he had, been in New York for a few days. was in a taxicab when there was nenely a collision with another.taxienb alashing along on the left side of the

road. Say, yelled our driver, Where Herbert Morrison has been to Amer- al'you think you are. In Lon- don?

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

"They seem to work to the slogan $2,000 beds-2,000 baths-2,000 radio- sets. The telephone girl would wake jane up in the morning by ringing me. When I thanked her she said, 'You're welcome, and mang me up again in a quarter of an hour to see that I hadn't

rone to sleep again.

irg-"Iin glad to be back. UNDERGRADUATE

FOUND HANGED

EXAMINATION ANXIETY

undergraduate at Clare College, Can- Mr. M. J. M. Hiley, a third year" bridge, was found hanged recently in

"And the audiences over there..a bathroom. |they are just grand listeners,”

he

Speaking of the King, Mr. Morrison A tutor at the College stated that said: "They were always asking me Mr. Hiley was to have entered shortly how our new Bing suited our party, for a degree examination, and They do not seem 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 beats them." He was hapig for an appointment in

the RA.F.

Hundreds of housewives at Home Then about American wonen. recently had a "Nutter" on the "They are really beautiful..., but i Derby under a special scheme don't think we have anything to com- brought in by the Racecourse Hett-pala of We have just as many ing Control Board's forecast pool.

beautiful wames here." It was devised by Tote investors, Limited, the beard's agents, Under this thousands of people have been' made temporary ment bors to enable them to take part In the pool.

All transactions were on a -credit-basis,

MONEY RETURNED

"This forecast pool, in which people have to pick out the first and second

Mr. Hiley, who was 21, was a son of Dr. R. M. Hiley, The Lodge, Radyy, near Cardiff, who is connected with the Welsh Board of Health,

Villagers' Fairy

Godmother Became

A bizarre story of the brutal murder of Mrs. Bury James-a achterno to kill the woman by fire, rattlesnake vemon and drowning-was unfolded to Los Angeles police by Charlos Hope, loft. Io charged the woman's husband, Robert 8. James, right, with the crime. James, in turn, accured Hope. Between the pair is Buron Pitts, district attorney, at the fish pond in Jamce yard, where the body of Mes Jaimes was found last July.

CHARLES H. HOPE

ROBERT S. JAMES

th

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

An Embezzler: Jailed FAMOUS- POSTMISTRESS ELIZABETH NICHOL was fairy

godmother to the villagers of Port Gordon, Banffshire. AND THEN

horses hame in the Derby, will be the Now she is in jail-an em- biggest thing of its kind ever bezzler. organised in this country," Major

Port Gordon first saw her ini

Anne, managing directer of Tote In- 1895. when, at the age of vestors, naid to the Sunday Dispatch twenty-one, she became ita post-

"All people who sent money are mistress. having it returned, and if we think it,

are having credit facilities offered She identified herself from the

them.

"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 two shifts a day to font with the quantity of business. It owns the largest battery of machines for registering, totalling and analysing bets the world,"

start with the charitable work of the village.

Soon all knew her as a friend and wise counsellor. She was especially generous to thoso lesa fortunate than herself.

She advanced money to people In difficulties. Few repafd her.

gave credit to local fishermen. It

In her ship, chandlery store she

The price of one duil ticket was s. rose to £1,000. They could not

6d. if purchased on or before May 4, Taya

5., up to and including May 19, and

104. 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 nccredited 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 16,000,000, and with the same organisation

RUINED

was in 1921.

The store had to close. Thati

Then Postmistress Nichol bo-

an receiving money for invest- ment.

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

It was this amount which shel wns accused of embezzling. She pleaded guilty in the High

could handle a much greater num."Court of Judiciary, Edinburgh.

DR. FURTWANGLER

QUITS

FAMOUS CONDUCTOR

TO GIVE UP

Doctor Wilhelm Furtwangler, the famous conductor, by his own request will conduct

no further

concerts or operas in Germany

Sixty-two-year-old Postmistress Nichol

was sont to prison for twelve months.

Police Swoop On Forgers

a

French police have arrested gang of forgers who planned to flood Europe and England with counter-

this year, except, at Bayreuth next feited securities purporting to be wintor, it was announced in 4 those of a well-known industrial com communique in Berlin recently.

pally.

Back to Prison STARVING

Sought as a suspect in the slaying of Elles Derans, Ripon, Calif., ski champion, William McManus, 25, and enc-armed, was found in jati nt Salem, Ore., on a robbery charge. He was brought to Mo desto, Calif., scene of the murder, pleaded guilty and given life im

prisonment.

£3,000,000 BRITISH FILM FIRM Three big banks are said to be

Film

G.B.S. ON RISKS OF BEING CLEVER

RUGBY STAR DROWNED

STANLEY WILLIAMS FALLS OVERBOARD

and English international Rugby

Stanley 11. Williams, the Newport

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

Mr. A. P. Herbert's plea in He was returning from a health the House of Commons for more.

cruise.

One of the best-known

pre-war pensions for distinguished but Rugby players, he was the centre of impoverished men

the first storm of controversy over of letters,

international football qualification. musiclans and scientists, has In 1911 England selected him for been received with warm ap land, and France, despite a storm niniches against Wales, Scotland, Ire- proval by prominent men and of protest women who have achieved suc- He was qualified for England be. cess in drama, music and the the

cause Newport is aliated to both English and Welsh Rugby stage.

Unions.

Mr. Williams, who was 52, зудя

of an iron-ors mine

In his speech Mr. Iferbert said manager

that the sum distributed In Civil | Irthlingborough, near Nothampton,

List pensions each year is about

£23,000. New pensions. totailed 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

at

PEOPLE STOP BUSINESS TO GATHER THEM

Five-dollar bills, equivalent

of

"Many brilliant musicians who one-pound notes, arg hanging by have served this country well are the score from willow trees and now left high and dry in their old maize stalks on the banks of French ago. I recall the tragedy of Broad River in Tennessed. Coleridge Taylor, the composer.

He died a young man,, and left his wife and daughter unprovided for. A pension of £100 would have been a great boon to his family."

Mr. George Bernard Shaw

Inhabitants of the town of Dan- bridge suspended business to-day by common consent to collect them.

The president of the local bank be lives they are part of the £10,000 in currency seized months

ban- by дко dita from an armoured post office vau in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The theory is that the robhora con- washed away in the recent disastrous cented their loot, and that it was I floode.

"The British publie hates, and distrusts anybody intellectual. think artists are fortunate in not having extra taxation put on them. People who devote their rature all there is to it."

like bolng Intellectual, and that's work of a purely intellectual nature

to

No explanation of Dr. Furtwan-Antwerp as he was trying to negot- for a new Britel film company. The One of them, a jaweller arrested in connected with a £3,000,000 schomo glor's intentions was obtainablo atate a block of 200 forged bonds, gave studios will be at Bushey, near his home, where it was stated that the detectives information which led lampton Court. he was on a tour in Germany. to the arreal of soveral mon in Paris,

The Propaganda Ministry de- clared that there was no tension who admitted that he had between the conductor and the colyed 100,000 francs worth of for- Government, and, that it was boged bonds under the impression that ing the studios. loved Dr. Furtwangler might they were not forged but stolen. The vast Metro-Goldwyn Corpora- Another Frenchman also arrested tlon, of Hollywood is stated to be want to devote himself to some said that ho had tried to sell 1,000 of interested in leasing part of them creative workReuter.

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

Others arrested includod a man of the sort state that the news v do so at their own risk. There is!

is "substantially ne- ro-curate, but premature,"

Two yours will be occupied in build-

no way of paying them. If they can't make themselves popular they won't get anything from the Government.

added, "that we don't spend more on our minds. But people don't

"It is a great pity Mr. Shaw

im

Lady Martin Harvey

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

Heald to me: Aunt de a terrific strain on the fuselage

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