1937-12-08 — Page 3

THE

WEDNESDAY, HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

DECEMBER

1937.

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20,000 MILES FOR TWO-HOUR TALK WITH HER HUSBAND

"Fare" Stops Tram 13 Sopranos

As Driver

Dies

A crowded tramcar charged along a busy Birming- ham street recently without anyone at the controls after the driver had fallen to death from the platform.

It was stopped by a passenger who

opened the dividing door and turned

the controls.

As it pulled up with shuddering Professor Who

brakes a football crowd pushing its!

why over a busy crossing short distance away dashed for safely.

The driver, Frank Green, aged 49, of Addam-road. Perry Beccles Estate. had a seizure Birmingham, apparently

and fell from the platform, fractur Ing his skull, from which he died! shortly afterwards in hospital.

PULLED LEVERS

The passenger who stopped the tram, a 38-years-old chartered ac countant, Mr. E. A. Winters, of Erdington, Shepherd's Green-road, Birmingham, nnid:

Embalmed Lenin

HIS DEATH "A

HEAVY LOSS”

Moscow.

THE death is announced of "As the top deck was full I bad to Prof. Vorobieff, who em-j go in the bottom section and took the balmed the body of Lenin in

"I was reading, as usual when I 1924.

neat nearest the driver.

Stop the trum!

and saw that there

Strike

Blackpool, Nov. 8. Thirteen sopranos refused to appear at Blackpool Musical Festival to-day because they sald a test was too difficult. It an aria from Gounod's "Itomeo and Juliet," and com- petitors had to reach a top "E."

WATAS

Mr. Topilas Cireen, the adjudi- cator, adjourned the session be- cause there were no more to king.

NEW FRENCH

'PLANES FOR

England To China

And Back

MEETING SPOILT

BY

BOMBARDMENT

A WOMAN has just returned to England, after having travelled 20,000 miles to see her husband for two hours.

She is Mrs. Florence Conibear, 38-year-old wife of Mr. Alan Coni- bear.

IL Methodist missionary

LONDON ROUTE Ningo, a Chinese constal village,

Reading Room And Bar

The

With her two dildren, Alan (11) and Barbara (8), she left her home at Chestnut Road, Plymouth, in July and sailed in the President Lincoln.

At Shanghai she was refused per- mission to land and was ordered to travel in Hongkong.

Mrs. Conlbear had almost given up Air France Company anhope of seeing her husband when it four-engined tender with Chinese refugees came

alongside and the boarded the ship.

UNDER SHELL

SHELL FIRE

it new

heard someone shout, 'Stop the trom! In this heavy loss," writes ounces that

the Communist newspaper plane, the Farman 224, with seats bar, reading- "I looked towards the driver's Prandt, "we are consoled by for 40 passengers. compartment

the conviction that his pupils room and other accommodation, is shortly to be placed In service was no one there.

will carry on the work he be between Paris and London. Six minchines of this type are being built [gan."

They Lenin's body, in a red granite tomb and will all be ready in 1938. above Hed Square, still attracts then-will make the Paris-to-London jour- sands of pilgrims weekly. It is the ney in 80 minutes,

"For a few seconds I was at a loss as to what to do and then threw open the door and pulled the levers In front, hoping the ear would stop.

"It was travelling al a good rate, but fortunately it lopped in time.

There was blood on the platform and, looking back, I saw the driver lying in the road."

Every Shot Counts

In the meantime a Japanese des- troyer hind taken advantage of the liner's presence to cover her approach and begin shelling the Woosung forts, while aeroplanes made a muss attack that lasted for four hours,

The time I had with my hus- band was spolit by the bombard- only body preserved by Vorobiell's A new Bloch 220 machine, enreyingi

ment." Mrs, Conlbear sakl the method

which is 15 passengers as well as the crew, is

"After secret of

few hours' stay at Shang- jealously guarded.

already in service on the Paris-Lyous- | hail I sailed with the children fur and 14 similar Hongkong and stayed there a month Prof. Vorobieff once explained that Marseilles route. Flic orix

originally

undertook to preserve planes have been ordered.

with friends. My hurhand returned Lenin's strikingly lifelike appearance.

to Nieto,"

The number of planes already! in death for three months only. Ast attached to the Cisablanca-Dakar the months grew into years, howline to connect with the Transatlantic ever, he gradually reached the con-i !clusion that the body might be service to South America is also to

be increased until there Five years ago. Mrs. Wylie Sher-indefinitely preserved if curtain pre-all served for this service. win of the North Fork country near cautions were taken.

Cody, Wyo.

here received a gift of a big game rife and a box of 20 shells, Since: that time she has killed four elk and a deer. She still has 12 of the 20 gift bullets unused,

Amarillo Enlarges Airport

TEMPERATURE STEADY

Early Jail Rising

Ended

20 is

Mails 6 Months Slow Wakefield, Mass.

Home owners here received litera- ture extolling the opportunity to bro- row under the Federal Home Loan plan-six months after the offer had exp.red. The postmaster explained that the delay occurred it Washing-

ton.

Wheel Tax Proposed

It is necessary to keep the tem- perature in the vault constantly at 150 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit. That is, why the crowds are permitted to le through the vault for only a few

Litelfeld, Conn. hours daily. The atmosphere inside corpse the glass canopy over the

One of the first orders of newly

Sterling. D musi, moreover, be kept absolutely appointed county sheriff Sutherland A. Beckwith was to advance the

Proposal for a wheel lax; here to Amarillo, Tex.

dry.

time for prisoners from obtain additional revenue for enlarg- {! Lenin's body is still astonishingly breakfast

to .. * made the ing the police force is under con- Continuing this city's efforts

sak, could sce no sideration. The tax. It was obtain high ranking in the nation's lifelike. The concealed, flesh-colour-5.30 ...

for getting up that early." would be a flat rate of $2 for picnsure list of well-equipped airports, plans ed lighting has the effect of making change because I

the look more like a sick man than reason

Beckwith explained.

ears and $5 for trucks. for two additional runways t

A corpse. municipal field are being made.

He dared not

tell his

Wonder why they've hired that new man? There's no work for him unless they get rid of somebody...

MRS. CLARKSON

HAD BEEN NOTICING HOW HER HUSBAND

WOKE TIRED

EVERY MORNING- IT WORRIED HER... SHE DECIDED TO SEE A DOCTOR

*

|TIVO MONTHS LATER

wife!

THINKS:

IT'S BOUND TO BE ME THEY SACK! I'VE BEEN

SO TRED

LAFELY

AT THE DOCTOR'S -

You see, doctor,

my husband even wakes tired

Oh Mr. Clarkson! I want you to meet Mr. Francis. He'll be working

with you in this department

That shows where the trouble is. You see, breathing and heart actions burn up energy even while we sleep. Unless he replaces! energy during sleep, of course he wakes tired- Night Starved, in fact.

Put husband

your

on to Horlicks

Congratulations! Mr. Clarkson, we're making you head of our new department. Your work has been splendid lately.

I JUST CANT AFFORD TO LOSE, MY

3- I'm still paying for the house and

JOB

furniture/

and so Horlicks. every night

Darling all to you!

I owe it

Does your husband,

uake tired 7

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HORLICKS

guards against Night Starvation

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