1937-11-11 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937.

Woman Hides A

Fortune In Her

Clothes

MAN WHO PASSED Knocked Down in Street: Nurses

THROUGH HELL

"JIMMY" THOMAS RETURNS TO POLITICS

Cardiff, Oct. 15. Mr. J. H. Thomas had no option but to start his return to political life on Friday. He was invited by the Cardiff Business Men's Club to give them a lecture on the political situa- tion.

He is contemplating a gerles of speeches, has no definite constituency In mind at the moment, but is using these meetings as a sounding-board, writes William Barkley in the Datly Express. He made a very sensible speech, then stayed overnight ns guest of the Lord Mayor, Sir Herbert Hiles,} at the Cardiff Mansion House:

"Bert Hiles," Bald Mr. Thomas as we travelled down on the Great West ern where so often he has driven the London-Bristol expresses, "Bert Hiles and I were boys together in Cardiff,

"We had an nanual Whitsuntide trent for poor children, and we learn- ed that 2,000 of the pour little devils could not go because they had no clothes.

"So we organised a special treat for them, and Bert, who is a baker, stay- ed up all night baking rolls for them. while Mrs. Thomas and I organised the treat for the walls and strays.

"You remember, my dear," and he' and Mrs. Thomas exchanged a re- miniscent smile.

"I helped to build the line twenty- five years ago," said he. "It must be thirty years," sold Mrs. Thomas. "That was when you were at Swin- don."

All this over a cup of tea in a first- class restaurant car.

"A DISAPPOINTED MAN"

"I used to being flowers home to my wife every night along this road eggs at forty for a shilling and rab- bits for four-pence,' Mr. Thomas went on.

"What has been my stay and com- fort in' these difficult times has been

aively that power carries with it responsibility and that the State is greater than my section. Nothing to my mind is more sallsfactory than to see the growing tendency between capital and labour to talk to and not talk at each other."

Was there hint of an appeal to his old Socialist Party when Mr. Thomas said: "One of the gravest blunders that we made in this country was to let the world know that we were not in a position to defend our interests.

"All parties and all Governments must share the blame for that. But to-day when the Opposition have realised the situation and ore pro- Pared to play their part in the pre- defence, instead of parutions for

praise them for a! dumping them, worthy and statesmanlike act."

There is no doubt that very blR section of opinion in Cardiff would very much like to see Mr. Thomas) as their member in Parliament, and it may yet be that Mr. Thomas will return to the House of Commons vial Cardist.

Large-Scale Diamond Smuggling Into India

THE traffic in diamonds

smuggled across the Pondicherry. frontler has recently been engaging the attention of the revenue authorities in Simla.

Find Hoard in Secret Pockets

Resembling greatly her famed cousin, the Duchess of Windsor, here is Miss Frances Montague Hill, as she was married recently at Wakefield Manor, Virginis, estate of her aunt. Like the former Miss Wallis Warfeld, whose first husband was a navy mon, Miss Hill turned to defence forces for n mate. He was Caplain Edward

C. Dyer of the Marine Corps.

Shot

For

Ended His Fight Miser's

£45,000

Mackpool, Oct. 10,

The alrange hospital drama of an elderly woman palient wh tor- tune hidden in her clothes was re- vealed to-day.

The woman, who was about 76. left Blackpool Victoria Hospital with nearly £5,000 In a brown-paper parcel tucked under her arm.

When the patient-an old-age pensioner--was admitted to the hos pital after being knocked down in a street accident she refused to part with her clothing.

Nurses were puzzled. There was a scene...and hospital offlelals were

called.

Finally the woman was per- suaded to agree to the removal af Her

then clothing. And made an amazing dis-

covery,

Beneath her clothes, fastened with safety-pins in patched pockets and stuffed lato purses, they found more than £1,300,

WADS OF BANKNOTES ·

In addition the woman had two bank passbooks hidden in her cloth- ing with a balance of more than

£3,000.

Wads of banknotes were con- stantly discovered by the aston- ished nurses, and in the woman's handbag they found over £30 and several books of National Savings Certificates,

It took nearly two hours to sort out the treasure which the woman had apparently been carrying about for years. "TM SIGNING

NOTHING"

When a request was made for the woman to sign an undertaking to pay for treatment she replied:

"Oh, dear me: No. I am sign- Ing nothing. I have got to frust you with my money. You will WHEN the sound of a gunshot was heard by the wife have to trust me to pay."

The woman had been knocked of Patrick J. Burke, 58-years-old licensee of the down while crossing the road dur- at Blackpool. How George Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire, it meant the end of ing a holiday

-sho

came by her fortune is t her husband's four years' fight for the £45,000 fortune mystery,

During the woman's long slay of an Australian miser.

In hospital she was regularly vlalted by her husband—ako an old-age pensioner, The woman

This was revented recently at the | 1,208. They came from relatives in inquest, when a verdict was return-Ireland-Martin's birthplace-from ed that Burke shot himself when Scotland, England, India, Australia. This mind was unbalanced.

told the

hospital nuthorities several contradictory in the end the Master of Equity stories, and they were unable to He had been a butler for 25 years in Sydney dismissed all claims and discover whether her husband knew gave judgment in favour of New of his wife's hidden wealth or how South Wales Public Trustee.

she had managed to save the money.

before he became an Innkeeper?

The fortune he claimed was left by an Australian miser, Martin Though successful in seizing the Edward Burke, who died in a Sydney smuggled goods of a hospital in 1933—with 11s. 3d. in his idle to deny that I am a sad and dis-bulky nature as a result of efforts of possession. appointed man.

my wife and family. It would be majority of

the special anti-smuggling stail who

nre at present employed 01 the He was 10 years of age, had been "But I was determined that I would Pondicherry-Karaikal frontiers, the postal official, had lived modestly not allow the bitterness of my feel-revenue authorities have not suc in "lodgings, and nobody knew he ings to warp my Judgment.

corded fr checking the diamond was well off. He had no friends.

"For the remainder of my days I trafic. intend to give my experience and Only one seizure, so far, has been knowledge for the help of the country made, and that was on July 5 when attempt was made to smuggle

that is, after all, the greatest country diamonds to the value of Rs. 10,000 in the world."

in a motor-car over the frontier. It Mr. Thomas looks orifle older is known that quantities of diamonds than at the time of his retirement, ure being carried across these land. but he gives an impression of great frontlers. vitality and energy.

METHOD EMPLOYED

Mr. Thomns_in_liis speech_to-night said: To u man who has passed Its suspected that the method through hell It is a great inspiration employed is for a man of a lower) for me to meet face to face such an class to conceal diamonds about him audience as this."

and cross the fronter on foot at

His meeting was crowded out. The same remote point, to be picked up largest available hull in Cardiff was later by a fast motor-car at a pre- fully taken up half an hour before arranged point on the main route,

A watch is being maintained at all

the strategic points by

revenue authorities to frustrate this diamond smuggling. but so far with little

and

he arrived; members of the audience stood all down the passages crowded the side doors.

What I imagine hurts Mr. Thomas success. most is that he to-day has no part In the official relations of capital and the trade union movement, although these relations were built upon the foundations which he did more than anybody to lay.

APPEAL TO OLD FRIENDS

this

Bobcats Feast. On

Quail

Porterville, Cal.

mountains near here. It was

After his death his landlady noticed some "homps" under the maitress of the bed he had occu- pied. She turned it over-and found money and securites which later proved to be worth £45,- 000.

From that day, claims to the for tune poured in from all Over the world. Altogether there were about

DEPRESSED

The money, it was, decided, should!

go into consolidated revenue, as no clain had been substantiated.

Ever since 1933 Patrick Burke,

of Melksham, who also made his claim, had hoped against hope that he might succeed.

He went to Ireland, sent documents

10 Australia, fought hard-but in vain. He failed, ke all the others.

Right to the end he

contended

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that lie should have had the £45,000. WOMEN motorists in Britain Lately he had been depressed.

are mobilising for the next

Then he died, with a gun beside war.

him.

Motorists Will Spend

£72,000,000

Motorists in the United Kingdom will, it is estimated, pay £72,000,000 for new private cars in 1938, or £6,000,000 more than their "buy" this year.

The battle proper for this colossal trade began last month at Earls Court, London, with the most exciting A passage in his speech which was Coyotes and bobcats live high in the Motor Show for a generation. particularly applauded was on

theme of the united nation estimated by Curl Tagen, state fish Technically the show will be re- Much of this work will never be "What gives me more hope than any- and game division trapper, half_themembered as opening a period of made public. Much will not be re- thing else is the present relation be- canines diet is on deer meat. One manufacturing research and experi-flected in average cars for years. tween organised labour and capital. half the cats' sustenance is provided ment of a richness, baldiness and

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But the Show will demonstrate that the motor-car is far from approach ing Analty of design.

There Is a terrife foreign challenge this year, in all powers and prices, with plenty novelty, too.

of

Take the simple matter of suspen- sion.

You will find the old leaf springs improved remarkably, adjusting themselves to deal smoothly with all

cinds of rond shocks.

You will find, in the wide range of independent front wheel suspen- sion, a puzzling variety of methods, of leaf springs, coll springs, and torsion bars, (which are twisted metal roda). They provide the spring return on untwising.

Look at the gear changes. People are tremendously attached to the long lever springing out of the floor, though there are many systems which employ tiny levers on the steering wheel or dash.

Tako hand brakes. More and more are these disposed out of the way of the legs of the people In the front peală.

And, alas, many lack the fine control of the old upright levers..

Spare wheels are rapidly vanish- ing, from view, which is good.

Aloro and more is the touring car dwindling, which is sad. Streamlining has not passed. People are now used to it, and its expressions are less freakfaḥ, v

Thousands of them.ore joining the. Women's Legion Motor Drivers for training by Army instructors in road transport work.

The Women's Legion Motor Drivers won

fame in the Great War for their skilful driving and their courage.

"We have replaced our General Register of drivers by regional divisions,

represented by company," Mrs. G. M. Cook, Com- mandant of the women motor

ench

drivers, told the Sunday Chronicle.

The 1st London Company started training.

has

Three qualifications are necessary for membership of the Legion:

Women must be between the ages

of 18 and 40, must be able to produce they are strict on this point-must

a medical certificate of fitness, and-

hold a clean driving leence.

Singing Driver Forgets

Cedar Falls, Ia. Because she was memorizing popular song. Lucia Roggman "forgat drove 40 miles an hotar herself." and crashed through restricted district jere into a filing station instead of turning at the intersection. She cheerfully paid a fine of $5 and costs.

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