1937-12-13 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1937.

20 COCKNEYS START A NEW LIFE Each With A House, Pigs, 100 Hens-All Free

EAST END FAMILIES DOWN ON THE FARM

By A Correspondent

Sandy (Beds). TWENTY unemployed Cockneys, with their wives and families, will be moving from the East End into Bedfordshire in

a few months' time.

They are going to the village - of Wyboston, six miles from Sandy, to be taught to be

farmers.

Hansen with three and four bed- roomy, equipped with electric light and bathrooms, are being built for them. They will have allotted to thent

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of lund, avres

Two greenhouses, a piggery, pigs, and 100 laying hens

For diteve mouths they will pay no rent; the stock, and seed and { plants for the greenhouses will be provided free,

130 A YEAR RENT

All this is part of an experiment by the Land Settlement Asspeinfion. It has been made possible by the London Parochial Charities and the Carnegie Trust. who have Com- tibuted £10,000 towards the cust. Another

10,000 has been given by

the Government.

On an

an adjoining estate, at Wybo ton, recently I saw what it is passable for these settlers to achieve.

After Afteen months' traiubg they become capitalists-tenants of the association paying a medend £30 or £35 a year rent for land. house and farm buildings. mouse and

They buy food and equipment ¦ through the association's bulk pur- chasing system; sell their produce through a marketing organisition at a commission charge of 5 per cent.) instead of the usual 10 or 12% jer cent,

year on

I heard of one man, a former Durham mitter, who, in his second five-ncre smallholding, inade a profit of £255, There are many others showing' profits of £150| to £200 a year.

Did Not Know She Was A Mother

TWEN

Des Moines. "WENTY - ONE - YEAR OLD Mrs. James Wel- horn, unconscious forty- eight days after a motor- car-train crash, died at Des Iowa, without

Moines, knowing

That

Kave

birth to

four hours

That her husband was killed in the accident.

healthy baby boy

after she was injured.

Mrs. Welborn's husband was on apprentice in a steel works. He was twenty-one.

Cheese From Grass Planned

London.

A plan to "short-circuit" the cow and make cheese directly from grass to provide food for Great Britain's population in event of war was out- lined to the British Association's meeting at Nottingham.

Mounted Polico Favoured

Memphis, Tenn. Mounted police, after having been discontinued two years ago, may be placed back in service on Memphis streets, Commissioner Clifford Di vis reported one officer on a horse could do twice as much traffle work as one policeman afoot.

Canada Pensions Blind

Ottawn, Can. Canada's blind will 1000 begin drawing pensions for the Arst time. Pensions up to $20 monthly will be paid all blind In the Dominion over the age of 40, under a scheme to be financed by the Dominion provincial governments,

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The Duke of Windsor, received a semmaisių (eglan elephant nivå ble Diewer was riven a magulßrent, gold lucquer vase

it is eentry, Freze THE tinir vrat to the Dresden, Germany. They also visit the Itadebeul labour camp and listed in a lecture, na above, Next to the Duchess is Thulley Fan woord. The Duke's equerry,

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Man Saves His Life By "Foxing'

With "Jekyll And Hyde" Character

AMAZING RICHMOND INQUEST STORY

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Dr. Jel Daney, of Queen's- road, Richmond, cornered in its study, saved his life by falling to the floor and "foxing"

ITIN trother-in-law-"a man with a Jekyll and Hyde character"-shot at bim.

ance and w my brother-in-law coming from the bathroom, which communicates with my wife's bedroom,

went to the door at

"I shouted What have you done, Maurice?'

"He was advancing towards me with a revolver in his hand poinung ta my head.

"I tried to reason with him, bul fut of all I shouted at hims said: Don't point that at me.

brother-in-law-forty-tree- The

Tribe had year-old Maurice Odell already killed his sister, Dr. Naomi Dancy, by shooting her through both ryes as she slept. Tricked into think it he had killed her husband, too, he left the study and committed suleide.

"He still came on. I could Джису told the story at the that he meant to shoot me in Richmond inquest recently on his eye lolled against the door in Korty-nine year-old wife and Tribe. position of assumed ease, but all the an ex-Army oflicer.

Dr.

and

see

the

Lime I knew that there was a switch

The verdict on Dr. Naomi Daney and I put my hand on it. was Murder; on Tribe--Suicide while!

the balance of his mind was disturb-!

ed,

Dr. Daney, grey-hard,

spectacled father of three children,

PUT OUT LIGHTS, DROPPED TO FLOOR

"When he stopped advancing and

Babies "Silenced' In

Church

SPECIAL porch has been

A bullt at Our Lady of

Roman

Catholic

Lourdes Church. New Southgate. N.. to solve the problem of what to din with baby while mother and father go to church.

From the glass-walled porch mother can see and hear the service perfectly, but any noise baby makes cannot be heard by the congregation,

OVERCROWDING

AT THE ADMIRALTY

said his brother-in-law was a pen these that he was preparing to Staff Increased

put the lights sil az

sion Army officer, and since ip-shoot ! ceiving severe head wound; sudi dropped to the floor in losing the sight of an eye in the war ment. had been a heavy drinker.

Tribe, by amicable anrecmein, was fiving apart from his wife.

THREATENED HARM THEN WAS SORRY Dr. Danes and his wife thought their duty to keep him. He was Jusing the sight of the ather eye, and under specialist's direction they had

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lavators been giving him injections for his eye

CHIC" move-

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Over 1,000

By

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Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra

LONDON RELAYS

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Listen

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10 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.

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1.40 Cesar

and Finale.

Francic-Prelude. Arla

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Waltz Of The Haurs {'Coppelia'—- Delibes).

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Bolero (Ravel).

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2.15 Close down.

5.0-8.05 European Programmine, 8.05-11.0 Chinese Programme.

5.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra the Roof Garden of the Hong- from Holel.

kon

for paying; 2. 1. Love is #tood Now you're talking my language: 3

| Was It Rain?; 4. Sweet Heartache.

5.15 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.

5.20 5. Where the lazy River Goes by; 8.

6. There's Something in the Air:. 7. I'm an Old Cowhand; 8. So Rare. 5.35 Interval of recorded dance

** EFFECT OF NAVAL music from Z.B.W.

EXPANSION

He fired at me as I fell, dropping his aim, and I lay on the ground toxing. The whole place was darkness then.

"Jay on the floor for a few seconds fumbled for the thinking as he

witch in the hall and turned it on.

As a consequence of the naval re- "ffe looked at me and 1 groaned.

hement programme, state of SO le thought he had got me

miralty building in Whitehall, and it turned round, walked to the favalaryvercrowding now exists in the Ad- and locked himself in..

the has been found necessary to acquire In "10 up and banged

premises dour and said:" laurice. Give me that gun,"

Come out, unther of branchi

Heher parts of London, writes the Daily Telegraph naval correspondent. erled: 'Stand away from those panels He had been making great pro- for I will shool you down like a dog.' gress but a week before the tragedy j "went into the bedroun to see had a relapse through drinking. what he had done to my wife. De Dancy continued. "I knew he had Tribe, the doctor continued, had at hurt her. I did not think it was

threatened to harm Dr. Naomi, bad as that." but was always sorry-afterwards.

After reusing the housekeeper. Dr. "He had a very kind side to his Dancy fureed his way into the lava

not nature and when she was

at tory and found Tribe with his throat

cut. He was not quite dead. home to receive him was very hurt

had and afraid that he

burt her feelings.

every month.

fond "One side of him was very of her. The other side very jealous." Tribe had had Dr. Naomi insured for a large sum Afteen years ago,

Tribe paid the Arst few premiums, Dr. Dancy paid the rest. The Anal payment was due this week.

Tribe knew that. He was drawing commission - on it and was pressing her to relare.

Mrs. Rhona Jermain Conter, sister of Tribe's wife, said she, too, had noticed his two sides."one really wonderful; the other terrible."

Sunds, of! Superintendent Jack Scotland-yard, attended the inquest¦ with other Yard officers,

Urban Russia Expands

Moscow.

During the year of the two Five- The night before the tragedy Trive Year Plans the urban population Inf and Dr. Nooni had argued about it. the U. 5. S. R. increased from! Tribe threatened my life firen," said † 26,000,000 to 40,000,000 Inhabitants. Dr. Dancy.

"Later I calmed him down and

succeeded in passing it off as a joke."

'HANDLE RATTLED, -I HEARD SHOTS He sent his wife to bed, telling her to get off to sleep as she was fired, It was then after midnight. He went back to the aludy, started to type

letters.

He could hear Tribe moving about, and left his door ajar so that he could see what he was up to.

About 1.10 a.m, he heard Tribe go

to another room, and thought he had locked the door.

and

it

Dole Families Larger

Montreal.

on

5.40 9. Whispers in the Durk; 10,

11, Blossoms Slop

that Bass; Broadway; 12. Lady be good,

5.55 Interval of recorded dance music from 2.B.W.

6.0 13. Half Way to Heaven; 14. Dream of Love; 15. Waltz of the Gipsies.

6.15 Interval

of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.

6.20 16. The Door is open again: 17. Bluer than Blue: 16. I Can't Break the flabit of you; 19. Where are you?

6.30 Children's Records.

'More Very Young' Songs: (A. A. Milne-Fraser-Simson).

In the last two years the personnel of the Admirally has grown from 2.394 to 3,531, and a further increase may be necessary. Examples of the

(a) Shoes and Stockings; (b) For- increases since last year are:

given; (c) In The Dark; (d) Vs Two; Last Year Now (e) Knights and Ladies; (f) Nursery

Chinira .... 837

(g) Waiting at the Window; (1) Sprint Morning; (1) The End.

George Baker (Baritone).

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121

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Becretary's Dept. Naval Staff Naval Construction Dept. 203 76 Engineer-in-Chief's Dept. Naval Ordnance Dept... 940

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Mining

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To-day there are no fewer eight Admiralty branch oflees in London.

6.45 Sea Shanties

Ten Thousand Miles Away (Wil- 360 fan); Haul Away. Joe: What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor 125 (arr. Terry); Fire Down Below; Hullabaloo Balay (Harris). Jolm than Goss (Baritone) and the Cathedral

Male Voice Quartet.

Ultimately the question of rebuild- ing the main Admiralty Offee may

arise,

Town Gots First Policeman

Woodbany Heights, N. J. This town of 100 Inhabitants hos police protection for the first time in its history. A committee of 150

Jubless Ilving on the

dole heresidents hired Leroy Henning to marry less, have larger families and pol the town from D p.m. to 5 a.m. die at an older age than the working the main street.

and to vacort school children acruss citizens of Quebec province,

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6.55 Mozart-Symphony In B Flat Atajor, K.319.

Pinyed by Edwin Fischer and His Chamber Orchestra.

7.10 Mozert Songs.

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Me, Scold Me, Oh Dear Masetto ('Don Giovanni'-Mozart); What Is This Feeling? (Le Nozze Di Figaro')... Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano); Let Wine Flow Like A Fountain; Don Giovanni's Serenade ('Don Giovann!").

Ezio Pinza (Bass).

7.30 Closing local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Re- port.

7.35 Variety. ItumorousTennis.

....

Clapham

and Dwyer; Piano-Piano Medley. Ronald Gourley: Vocal-Sleepy Head (lm 'Operator 13'); Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet (Murphy and Wenrich).

The Mills Brothers; Orelicstra-Favourite Favour Dance ites No. 2-Fox-Trot Medley. The Ballyhooligans.

Toledo,

8,9 Local Time Signal, Weather County Commissioners zauntered An B3-year-old Indian War veteran, Report and Announcements. chsually over to the county gaol and | John Stanley, and his 70-year-old · 0.05 Chinese Programme-Reiny "He rattled the handle, so I thought tossed $150,814 into the furnace wife celebrated their 50th wedding from the Fo Hing Theatre. was quite safe: Shortly after that ¦ ail in retired scrip, part of a $210,000 anniversary. Stanley was stationed 11.0 Close down. heard shots.

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