1936-11-07 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

7, 1936.

This Girl Has

World's Most Thrilling Job

Now She Has Married

QUEEN OF THE

JUNGLE

TRADER, PIONEER, DOCTOR,

AND

NURSE

New York, Oct. 25.

VIOLET McTURK, the lonelist woman in the world, is

tired of being lonely.

Violet, slim, blonde, aged twenty-nine, has the most thrilling job in the world. She is the uncrowned, but un- questioned, Queen of Potaro, one of the wildest jungle tracts under the sun in the interior of British Guiana,

She

She dominates men of her own She became their goddess. race and blacks. She's a shrewd carried on her trading post. tradar, pioneer, doctor, nurse and medicine woman. She has made it possible for tourists to visit the world's highest cataract, "Kaiteur Falls,

She always retained her femininity and in the jungle, used make-up ipstick."

Few men could have held down the job she has been doing.

It all began ten years ago, when a roving, adventurova Irishman named MeTurk made his way in George- town. He war sunbaked, racked with fever, and starving.

Il clothes were taltered, but in his pockets and in the loads his half-savage bearers carried was a small fortune in gold.

Then she decided to branch out, and found time to work a project to open up the interior for tourists.

the Eventually the tourist rush to Falls became Important enough for the British Guiana Government to take a hand. They subsidised the service, but not without appointing the "Queen of the Potare" official ngent to his Majesty's Government.

THEY MET

Early this year she decided she hud earned a holiday. She came to New York. She spent four hysterical months among the skyscrapers. McTurk became restiess in George-} She went back to British Gulana town and went to Barbados in the in a cruise ship, and in lint ship Brillas West Indies. There he found she met a young Englishman, Mr. British a pretty girl of nineteen. They tell J, R. Gill. an his way to irt love, and Violet became Mrs. Gulana to post.

They fell in love, and they have Just been

murrleri

Georgetown. In Mrs. Gill swears she is going to keep up her job as Queen of the Jungle.

But her husband wants to do his Job.

And what do you think that job

MyTurk..

THEIR GODDESS Two years later MeTurk died of lever. II 21-year-old bride

Was

left alone in the wilderness, alone except for a small corps of nativel porters.

She gave men biilter powders and

and these burning liquids,

them well.

is?

The girl with the most thrilling made Job in the world has married a bank

clerk.

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"SHOOT TO KILL” ORDERED

JOHN BRIGHT

COKE BRIGHT ·

Hundreds of possemen pressed a search through the wild area west of Yreka, California for the two men shown above who are accused of murdering three men, two of whom were peace oneers, "Shoot to ki orders were given, and "lynch talk" was heard.

Girls Make Bombs Again

as

+

A

Bank Clerk

World

Flyers May

Join

New

Race

Johannesburg, Oct., 21.

PROJECT for a world air race to Johannesburg was hinted

Aat today, when Mr. C. W. Scott was presented with his 24,000

prize at a luncheon hère,

It was announced that the £6,000 balance of the prize money which had been promised by Mr. Schlesinger, organiser of the race, to the dopendents of Mr. Max Finlay and Mr. H. A. Morgan, killed when their machine crashed would be divided as follows:

Rapid Growth Of The World's Air Lines

London, Oct. 26. World air transport has nearly reached a figure of 300,000 miles. In 1919 there were only about 3,000 miles of air routes in operation throughout the globe, Over these services the first pioneer commercial aircraft flew approximately 1,000,000 miles. By 1922 the mileage figure stood at 16,000, and miles flown at 5,666,000.

£2,000 each would be given

to the widows and the remain- ing £2,000 would be devoted to the children's education. "TERRIBLY BEHIND" Acknowledging

the presentation Mr. Scott said he regretted the race had not come up to expectations. Had it been more international in character, with American, German, machines in the race, and Dutch undoubtedly British aircraft would. have done better than they did in this race.

an

"Wo are terribly behind in com- mercial aviation to-day," he said. "There are reasons which, in my opinion, make it Impossible for our commercial aviation to go ahead in the Spirit in which it should go." Replying, Mr. Schlesinger hinterl that when next in London he would

of possibility consider the

organising ace to the Union. international race to Scult and Guthrie, his companion, In 1924, the year that saw the are leaving on Thursday on their re- establishment of Imperial Air-turn flight to England. Mr. Guthrie. ways, the mileage figure had who is Cambridge undergraduate, attained a total of 20,300, while has to be back by Friday week for the start of the new university term. the miles flown stood at 8,764,--Reuter and Exchange. 000. In 1930 the mileage was 156,800, and the miles Blown during the year 69,605,000, white in 1935 the mileage. was 278,200, the miles flown being 149,342,000.

That the British Empire during 1935.to the position of rank- ing first in air route mileage re- gularly operates? is shown in the tuble appender:

Territory: British Empire United States France

Germany Netherlands

TOSC

Air Route Mileage (1035) 53,291

52,401 24,451 22.201 12,808

The growth in the operations of Imperial Airways is shown by the fact that, whereas in its first year the Company's figure for aircraft miles, Bown was 699,000, by 1935 this had reached a figure of 4,070,- 400,

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feature

Wanted: Heiress To £10,000

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LASGOW lawyers are searching for the heiress to £10,000. Recluse Harry Rellly died in Jonely cottage in Ayrshire.Jast July...

None of his neighbours.knew he had a wife or daughter until his will was opened. It directed that his for- tune should be left to his daughter.

Attempts to find wife or daughter have falled,

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Inquiries have established that daughter, who is 45, was last known to be living at Werter Rd., Putary, BW-four years ago. All irace of her has since been oal The next-of-kin are a niece and

A remarkable aviation progress during 1935 was nephew of Mr. Reilly. They cannot the growth recorded in the weight claim the fortune until the lawyers

of mails despatched from England are satisfied that the daughter is

air. Approximately 10,500,000 dead.

by

letters were air-borne from England during the year. This compared

with a figare of roughly 6,000,000 ODD CANOE SHIP

for 1934.

Nearly three and three-quarters tons of Empire air mall-represent- ing approximately 350,000 letters- now leave London each week. This is an increase of almost one and a quarter fons per week as compared with the corresponding period last year.

It is reported that more than half the villages, towns and cities

of

WOMEN and girls over America now have their names dis- 18 are to be admitted played, for the guidance of alimen, in lettering which is visible at o workers in a British height of 4,000 feet in normal wea- munition factory for the ther. first, time since the war.

A recent London stated:-

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Gazette For Sale: An

"Women over the age of 18 are authorised to be employed on two- day shifts in Alling 3-inch mortar bonus :it the Powder Factory of Messrs. Nobel's Explosives Co., Ltd.. alternation of Shifts, accommodation

subject

10 conditions as to weekly

fut clothing and facilities for wash- ing and for taking meals."

Filling bombs is one of the least explosives dangerous tasks in an

factory.

In the 18 years that have elapsed since the war safety precautions have been perfected.

The factory concerned is at Denaby, Rotherham, Yorkshire.

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Empress's Car

TO TRY PACIFIC

Honolulu, Oct. 25. Hawaiian beach experts and sailors are dubiously wagging their heads over the strange boat that has been built by two French scientists for a cruise of two or three years in Southern Pacific waters.

The craft as it appears to date seems to combine various fen- tures of a catamaran, à Chinese junk, an ancient Polynesian double canoe and a Mississippi house boat.

The two scientists are Capt. Eric de Bisschop and Joseph Talibouet, who are being financed by the French

After three years of exploration in

WANTED: good home for a 26-Geographic Society. Wyear-old car once owned by the Southern Pacific their original the late Empress Eugenie of beat was wrecked here and all of France. Cost £1,800.

of

their records lost. They at once set Present owner, 85-year-old Mr. to worle on the construction of a new Richard Lascelles, of Farnborough boat which they believe will over- St. Farnborough, Hants, sald recent come all dangers South Sca ly: "I have driven hundreds of miles navigation.. in it, but my motoring days are over. am prepared to sell it to some one who will not only treasure it but use it.'

I

Admiral is Proud He Never

Served in the Admiralty

From a Special Correspondent DMIRAL Sir Frederic William AD

Fisher, "Jacky" Fisher's brother, recently celebrated his 85th birthday.

He is still capable of displaying the peppery spirit popularly attri buted to admirals-as I discovered, when I asked him if he had ever served in the Admiralty.

"Serve in the Admiralty?” he de- manded. "Not 11 I don't suppose I have been in the Admiralty more than half a dozen times in my life."

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Their first lap will be to Clipper- Island, several miles off the

Central American coast. From there they plan to sail westward to the Tuamotus, then Easter Island, Peru, the Panama Canal, New York, and finally bark to France.

The bout employs the old Poly- nesian principle of double

сплоев jained together. Experts believe it will sall as long as the two canoes remain joined together, but if some- They sent him ashore in 1907 to be thing happens, such as a violent wave Admiral Superintendent of the Malta or storm, to breaks the connecting canoe is capable of dockyard. Then he became president teams, neither of the Royal Naval College, Green-keeping afloat in heavy sens

"You Americans say I am stupid," critics. It was 1014 when his time at de Bisschop replies to all

"You say I will drown when I go Greenwich was up.

Well, that in "But I had lost an eye," he said out on the high seas. regretfully. "They would not let me all right, because stupid people

should be drowned." serve in the War without it."

wich.

BEAUTY TESTS-BY DOCTORS

He is proud of the fact that his DR CLIFFORD SIR CUTHBERT DR. LETA HOL-

life has been spent at sea.

At the age of ten he sailed in a merchant ship "and good training for the Navy it was."

He joined the Navy in 1663.

He served all over the world. He

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