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THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937,

Mother of Britain's "Very Gallant Gentleman

Makes Weekly Pilgrimage of Memory

Her Son Walked

to Death

Vain Bid to Save

Heroic Band

:

By ANDREW KIDD

Gestingthorpe (Essex), Fob. 15.

EVERY work ask to the fourteen w. Co with

the aid of a stick to the Fourteenth Century church here and polishes a brass plaquo crected to the memory of her son.

She is Mrs. W. E. Oates, and the son who is ever in her thoughts was Captain L. E. G. Oates, who died in 1912 during the Captain Scott expedition to the South Pole.

After pollahing the plaque !!!! It shines like gold, Mira. Oates kneels as she reads the famillar Inscrip- tion.

"In memory of Пе very grilant gentleman, Lawrence Edward Cirace Oates, Captain in the Inniskilling Dragoons, born March 17, 1880, died March 17, 1912, on the return journey from the South Pole in the Scott Antarctic Expedition.

When all were beset by hardship, he, being gravely Injured, went out into the blizzard to die in the hope that by so doing he might enable hils comrades to reach safety."

Scores of Pilgrims

During the past few days scores of people have locked to

this tiny

unpretentious village to commemor- ate the 25th anniversary of Captain

a

A German submarine after stormy cruise arrived at the port of Kiel entirely covered with ice.

200 Miles To

The Gallon!

TV

TWO HUNDRED MILES to a gallon

of petrol. This is a motorists' dream that will come true if the final pubic tests of a new "mystery" carburetter, in- vented by Mr. Charles Pogue, a Winnipeg engineer, are successful.

It is claimed that the carburetter has al- ready enabled an otherwise standard car to travel 20 miles on a pint of petrol.

Mr. W. Holmes, original backer of the Invention, used the carburetter on a trip from Winnipeg to Vancouver, and states that he did the round journey of 1,880 miles on 1411⁄2 gallons of petrol.

reported that Katherine Howard

The Inventor claims of eliminate the wastage of It is pertol as the cylinders fire, and that his carburetter re- Hepburn is engaged to leases a vast amount of fuel for use by breaking up cach globule of petrol into the finest particies.

Clark Gable-By Villagers Who

Frank Billings

Knew Frank

Little Burstead, Essex, Feb. 15.

Oates' death, which strangely coin- AFTER searching the remote countryside for hours near here

elded with another drama of the Antarctic-this week's rescue of a party of six officers and men from

the Royal Research Ship, Discovery

II.

It is seldom that Mrs, Oales CX-

leaves Gestingthorpe Ilali,

cept for the weekly pilgrimage to polish the memorial tablet, When I visited the church, e rector, the Rev. H. M. Greening, told where me: "This is the church Captain Oates used to worship. On the anniversary of his denth always sing his favourite "Onward, Christian Soldiers."

we

hymn,

"Captain Oates has made Gesting- thorpe famous. Previously it was; an unknown village."

Proud Memories

The life of the remote

village

to-day, I found the bungalow in which Mrs. Violet Wells Nor- ton, the sensational accuser of Clark Gable, once lived (See Col. 5),

"King Rupert' Proclaimed In Oxford

Oxford, Feb. 15.

I found, too, a neighbouring bungalow formerly occupied by a young man called Frank Bili- ings, whosays Mrs. Norton- was in reality Clark Gable. She says that Frank Billings was the father of her daughter, born 13 years ago when the Nortons and Mr. Billings were neighbours.

There are many people still living In this strangely Isolated part of Essex only 25 mlies from London who romeo in mortons at the hund

1

young man-now said to be

PRINCE RUPPRECHT of

Bavaria was publicly pro-Clark Gable. centres round Gestingthorne Hall, a claimed King of England, Scot- stately red-bricked manor house,

showed them photographs of where Captain Gates was born and land and Ireland in Oxford 10-Clark Gable on-and off-stage. They where his widowed mother cherishes day, the anniversary of the swore there was a likeness. the Antarctic medal awarded post- execution of King Charles I. · humously to the son of whom she has such proud memories.

But she shares her memorles of a national hero with only her most intimate friends. As a member of..... fier staff. sald:...

"These memories are so dear to her that she hesitates to discuss them."

The story of Captain Oates's brave gesture is one of the epics of British history.

The proclamation was made by Mr. Peter Geach, of.Balliol College, one of the leading Jacobites in the Univer sity, at Martyrs' Memorial.

It was the first time since 1733 that a member of the Stuart family had been proclaimed King at Oxford.

After the ceremony Mr. Geach said: "I was not a rag.”

Oates was with Scott, Evans, "I am a Jacobite by conversion and Bowers, and Wilson when they not birth," he added, "I am con- reached the South Pole. Beset by vinced that in the restoration of the blizzards, and having lost Evans, House of Stuart lies the sole hope of who died of exposure, the mon gra- the nation. dually lost strength.

Walked to Death

For days they were imprisoned by the weather in the tent, only eleven miles from dumps.

one

"Take off the monstache, allow for the developments In the face over 13 years, and I might be Frank Billings," said Mrs. Foster, of Little Burstead, who saw the young man almost daily.

Ramsden Heath, told me he took over Mr. J. H. Ward, a general dealer at Mr. Billings's bungalow when Bill-

ings went to Canada in about 1923,

A TIFF

"The Nortons were still living in their bungalow on the adjoining five scres of land in Blind Shore-lane," he

said.

"I was asked to proclaim the King

"One day I met Mrs. Norton in the by other loyal men in Oxford."

lane and she was terribly upset. Stie Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria is said she had had a tiff with her hus- descendant of the "daughter" of band and threatened suicide.

of their supply] Charles the First. He is called King Rupert the First of England by But they could not reach it, and followers of the Stuart cause. they faced death from starvation.

cold

and

With his feet frost-billen and feeling himself a burden to bls comrades, Ontes stumbled out of their tent into the snow to die. His last words were: "I am just outside and may be some

Amb

In the diary he left to the world Captain, Scott wrote: "It was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman."

14 SPOTS ON SUN

GREATEST ACTIVITY

FOR 10 YEARS

"I pleaded with her for a long time before slie promised not to carry this out. Soon after the Nortons moved off to Laindon, then to Southend, and from there apparently to Canada. Gwendoline, the baby now mentioned by Mrs. Norton, was still a tiny child then.

BANK OFFCIAL

"At one time Mr., Norton was a bank official. But he gave up that work and started a horse-dealing

"Young Billings, when I knew him,

The formation of a very large business. He bought a pony from nie. group of sunpots-nearly 18

The final tests are being organised

Mr. Jack Hammell, millionaire mining magnate.

by

P.C. ASKS

TO GUARD GINGER ROGERS

No “Vacancy

By PHYLLIS M. DAVIES

MR. James H. Barlow, a

young London Metro- politan Police constable, has written to Ginger Rogers offering his services as her bodyguard.

Hughes, millionaire sportsman-pilot.

The star is shown above wearing flying kit, so maybe the rumours pre true.

CLARK GABLE & WOMAN'S CLAIM

Hollywood, Feb. 15. · AN alleged attempted

fraud on Mr. Clark Gable has led to the arrest of Mrs. Violet Wells Nor- ton, aged 47, who claims that he is the father- which he denies-of her

daughter,

At the sam has been issued Jack L. Smith,

13.

a warrant

the arrest of described as a

It is understood, however, that private detective, believed to be he will receive a reply from the in Los Angeles, while the police film star expressing her regret that are also anxious to Interview

she has no vacancy.

"Although only 25, P. C. Barlow Frank James Krenan, a retired has had on adventurous life," a railwayman, of Winnipeg. friend told a reperier.

"Before joining the police, about The charge against Mrs. Nor- four years ago, he crossed the Atlanton will be "using the malls with le several times in liners, first as intent to defraud." It is alleg.. cabin-boy and later as a steward and walter..

SEES HER FILMS

"He keenly interested to the films, and for some time has been of being body- guard to Miss Rogers, most of whose pictures he has seen. "He feels that he could fulfi all the requirements necessary for the job. "He is..n husky fellow, standing more than oft, with dark lair, strong jawed, and blue eyed. He is quite a good boxer, and has had some ex- perience, on shooting ranges.

attracted to the idea of

"He comes of a police family, his father, Mr. L. H. Darlow, of Charle cole-grove, Sydenham, having served 25 years with the Metropolitan Police."

Mr. James Barlow is attached to the Canning Town, E., division.

PALESTINE REPORT IN MAY

FEAR OF RENEWED DISORDERS

The body of Captain Oates was times the area of the earth's sur- was a tall young fellow, about 21. Hic By A Political Correspondent never located. A cross was placed on the scene of the search with the face is reported by the inscription: "Hereabouts died a very tronomer Royal. gallant gentleman."

During the last month these ittle church in Essex, la his undying sunspots have nearly doubled in

And this. with the tablet in the

memorial,

GARBO'S 1/6 A MINUTE

and

ed that she claimed money from. [Mr. Gable on the ground that she met him in England in 1922, and that he is, the father of her daugliter, aged 13.

Following her arrest, Mrs. Norton and Mr. old the police that she Gable were neighbours in Essex.

"Those who don't believe that my girl is his daughter should see her," she said. "She has the same dimples and the same smile with which Mr. Gable wins all hearts." Mrs. Norton; nor have I

Mr. Gable says: "I have never met idea what she looks like."

the slightest

He states that during the period ho was alleged to have known her. In England he was on the north-west Pacific coast of the United States.

Mrs. Josephine Dillon Gable, his first wife, whose marriage with him runs a was dissolved in 1929, and who now rung a small dramatic school in Hollywood, sald that a woman, probably Mrs. Norton, called on her some months ago, and told her the story of her alleged seduction by Mr. Gable.

Boils Mean Bad Blood.

cause to the best of my belief Clark Mrs. Josephine Gable added: "I told her she must be mistaken, be- As-did no work, but went shooting with

The report of the Palestine has never been in Englund.” his dog day after day and spent good deal of time with friends in the Royal Commisson will be ready carest village of Little Burstead, a for publication in the second

He was won the bungalow week of May. Members of the B

always well dressed Commission arrived back in Lon- smartly turned one don during the week-end after scemed to be'n country kentleman

In the East where climatic condi- of independent means. His mother; two months' strenuous work in tions tend to impoverish the blood-- Mrs. Maude Billings, owned the Palestine.

stream boils are a not infrequent bungalow and she still

therefore to give your blood tonic complaint. To avoid such, it is wise down hero occasionally," Mrs. Billings, who

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Colossal as in their urea, the sun- spots occupy less than one-seven- ago lived in Castelnau, London, W., hundredth of the whole surface of has had a large additional the sun. Owing to the sun's rotation built alongside the

bungalow they were carried out of the earth's tumbledown shed in which her ron two-roomed, view on February 0.

Hvrd. This group of spots could be seen during her long absences,

A caretaker guards the building without the use of telescopes, but Hollywood, Feb. 15...before the naked eye to avoid danger |

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The Norian bungalow has passed they are able to offer and will offer With this rich, new blood dowing Every minute brings 18. 6d.

In their report-certain criticising of in your veins the poisons in your to the sight.

there, and the present to Greta Garbo.

knew them. THE glamour queen heads the

list in a Supplementary Return of film stare incomes for 1985, issued by the Treasury to- night.

Among the facts it gives are these

200,500

Greta Garbo

Wallace Beery

Clarke Gable

Joan, Crawford

William Powell

£55,749

£53.000 £48,280 £40,750 £34,280

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