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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1936.

Millionaire Inventor "CHARACTER"

Sacrificed Fortune For His Workers Motor Cycle Pioneer Is Gravely III

HIS BUSINESS ROMANCE

Bristol, Nov. 10. WILLIAM DOUGLAS, inventor of the famous motor- cycle of that name, one-time millionaire, who sacrificed £300,000 and £10,000 a year to keep his men employed during years of depression, is gravely ill.

"Black Harlem's" Disciples In Trouble

New York, Nov. 20. Negra women who called them selves "Virgin Mary," "Satisfied Love," "Gone from Sin" and 26 other followers of Father Divine, Harlem religious leader who says he is "God", tried to register for the presidential election under their heavenly names and were arrested for their efforts.

He lies in a grey stone mansion.

He is seventy-

six years of age. His wife is dead. His factory has gone.

Yet his life has been one of the romances of Industry.

Descended from Scottish earls, William Douglas was born in New castic-ca-Tyne and brought up near Glasgow.

Ilis father brought him to Bristol where he had a mail workshop, at an early age.

When his father died he was still In his 'teens, with family of small brothers and sisters

to support.

#mother

tinu

At the age of nineteen be whs

is the tille given to the Yugo

"King of Autograph Collectors," slavian writer and globetrotter, Milorad Raitchavitch, who, during is travels through the world har gathered autographs of most of the kings. regents and other personali- $50,000 for his collection.

les. He has refused an offer of

working at a boot factory. MIGHTY

Next year

he married.

Sixty years ago Mr. Dougins found himself unemployed. A friend sug Thei efforts included

in-gested moving to Kingswood, then a sistence that the names were small industrial vidoge two or three their real names and that they mies out of Bristol,

He had no capital, but he had were being denied their con-courage and skill. He went to

rights. Their stitutional

in-friend and asked him to lend him sistence became so loud that £10,

2,000 people jammed the street BEGAN WITH £10

0

"Ten pounds to start on engineer-

in front of the registration place at 40 West 115th St..ing works with?" his friend ghet. hear Father Divine's Peace Mis-diculous!" But he lent the sion, and it took radio patrol money.

ane young man took a house and squads 30 minutes to get the

abcd at a nubual rent of 1. insistent followers to the police

Besides the toots tie had, he bourn precinct headquarters,

NAMES UNACCEPTABLE About two dozen of the faithful place and entered the registration began filling out blanks with their heaven" nunes. Victor Fernandez, chairman of the local registration

a portable torge, a vice, anu grindstone. Track this equipment |

He

ARMADA IN

MOCK WAR

U.S. FLEET IN THE PACIFIC

Washington, Nov. 20. High Army and Navy officials are studying plans for separate manœuvres to test land, sea and air defences of the Pacific North- west and adjacent waters next

summer.

the Dougias Works was founded. The Army's mimic warfare worked eighteen hours a day, will depend upon whether Con- it by bit he earned a reputation: press appropriates about $250,-

tree moms he was able to

re000 to defray the expenses of a pay the 210 loan.

The years went by, and one of the huge troop concentration

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board, refused to accept the registre mighty maustrjul centres of modern regular Army and National Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

tions on the ground they were illegal. Brain uprang up in bristol, with Guard units comprising the The followers began marching around Douglas works as a great part fourth Army.

of it.

the room chanting:

If the appropriation is forthcoming, "Pence, isn't it wonderful, Father At the dawn of the present cen- War Department officials will concen- Divine is God. Hooray for the body tury a man called Joe Burier was ex-trate approximately 30,100 officers (Father Divine). He is our Lord,perimenting in Bristol with motor and men in the field to simulate a

y're violating, our constitutional bicycles.

be Virgin

to Mary" seemed mother of the brood so Fernandez tried to reason with her and culled in two patrolmen from the nearby in the persuasion. precinct to help The followers were adamant.

More followers came from the nearby mission and hundreds more, hearing the chanting, poured into the streets.

DUNDLED INTO CARS

When the radio and emergency

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William Douglas used to ride an old "penny-farthing, with E krig wheel in front and a tiny one behintl. He thought it would be interest ing to make a motor-cycle. They together, and in 1907 they put on the road the first two-cylinder motor-cycle. The outbreak of war found the Douglas motor-cycle airezdy in the front rank.

Mr. Douglas was summoned to the War Office and told to supply eighty machines within a week. He aghast. There

wasn't શ finished

area.

"Fleet

war-time defence of the Puget Sound

PROBLEM IS Fleet will conduct its annual man- During May and June the US. oeuvres, officially known as Problem Eighteen," in the waters be- tween Hawaii and the Pacifle coast. This may be a defence of the Puget Sound area against an "Enemy" Fleet

from the sweeping "down

Alcution Islands and the Alaskan coast.

Two years ago the scouting force of cruisers and a a large number of Naval airplanes reconnaitred the

I squad curs answered the two putrol-machine in the whole factory. Ha/Satire Alaskan und Aleuthin Islands

men's appeal for aid, the crowd i13-

told he must do it. Within

coast. Last year Naval manoeuvres

crussed and the chanting got louder. week those machines.were ready and were held off the west coast of Cen-

The policemen loaded "Virgin Mary" and the others who had attempted to register into cars and drove away to the precinct station."

The crowd followed and chanted in front of the station. Their en- thusiasm grew until some burst right into the station. Seven more were urrested and hauled away with the other 22' to court, churged with dis- turbing the peace.

Father Divine went into court once before when his followers attempted to register under their heavenly

The names.

court decided they would have to uce their original |

namics,

Two

were

delivered.

tral America, between the Panama Canal and Hawali.

By 1015 two hundred machines a

It also is the turn of the Pacific week was the output, quite apart Northwest to play host to manoeuvres from other products-gun-mount-by one of the four Armies of the land Ings, airplane parts, and so an. defences, This year the second Army Sixty-thousand Douglases Bilw held

large-scale manoeuvres in the middle western states. Two yenra ogo the first Army manoeuvred In

active service.

GREATEST BLOW

New York, Pennsylvania and New In 1927 a great fro destroyed the England, Camp Lewis, Washington, factory just before the season began. probably be the "jumping off"

But the now white-hatred en-

point

of the 197 mano

manoeuvres, since gineer rebuilt the factory and on that is one of the few camps in the a larger scale than ever, turning area equipped to accommodate

It into one of the mest up-to-date | lorge a body of men. plants in the whole country,

he

white women and seven men

In February 1929 the greatest blow among the 29 arrested to-night, of all fell. Mrs. Douglas

died. All either ave

gave their ages

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never took any decision," plus" or "1.

"3," The "1" 2 sald

at the time, "without asking her or 3," they explained represented

And I never knew her opinion first.,, when they were "born again” into to be wrong." Father Divine's kingdom,

Without her he was lost. Business Among the others arrested were was bad. Never had he needed her "Simon Peter," "Mary Magdalene," more. The economic crisis "Wonderful Wisdom,"

at Last," "Quiet Love," "Dawn Cornelius," and "David Kindness.”— United Press.

come,

and Live," "Desired Ent, st, Love and for years the firm lost heavily.

"Satiated But tho

as every onc "Luv'nor," called him, refused to give in, to close down and threw his men out of work. He poured his own money into the company. But William Douglas missed his He fell ill. His youngest son died.

One Man May Stop Gold Mine

A SCOT REFUSES TO

JOIN UNION

Johannesburg, Nov, 15. One dour Scotsman, who hates Trade Unions, is threatening to stop a whole gold mine turning out million sterling monthly.

D

The miners of the Randfontein mine want to assert the closed shop principle, but three men refused to Join the Union. Two, however, were eventually persuaded, but the third, a Scotsman, blankly refused.

The miners are now threatening to strike unless the man joins up.

Hitherto al persuasion by the Labour Department, Miners' Union, frienda and workmates has bern useless. The man declares he is re maining free, as he does not like the Unions. He has the laugh, as the miners do not went to strike, having nothing to gain thereby.

wire

The old spirit went. His surviving son and daughter pleaded with him to retire. At last he agreed, The ny, and it is now one of Bristol's factory was sold to a limited com-

gigantic airplane works.

Then the old anan withdrew from the world.

GO

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AWAY FROM HOME Manoeuvres in the open country of the northwest area would afford op- ortunity for the Army to make use of its modern motorized and chanized equipment. Its long reach from the home fields of the various wings of the general headquarters air-force would present real problemų: for the air force.

The mission of the air force in the manoeuvres has not been worked out in detail, but tactical officers think it likely that strong detachments of all wings will be thrown against some strateglent base of the "attacking" force, with the object of destroying the "invaders base of supplies, communication or air force.

Detachments of the air force at Langley Field, Va., and Barksdale Field, La., will be concentrated ai the fernia to be thrown against the "in- Air Corps Fields in Southern Cali

vaders" in a surprise attack to break their foothold in the Puget Sound areu.-United Press.

FAMILY OF 172

There are 172 members of the McConchio family in Victoria, Australla, and they have just celebrated the fact by going all to gether to the South Richmond Methodist church for a service: *

It was conducted by a Reverend McConchle, assisted by another McConchie, The choir of 30 and the orchestra of three were all MeConchies, and McConchies took up from more than 100 other McConchies a colloction which was unusually large.

Mr. and Mrs. David McConchio who came to Australia 64 years ago, from Langham, Scotland, were the founders of the family of which their eldest surviving son, aged 77, Is now the "head man.” The family has its own very successful cricket team.

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