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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY. MARCH

1988.

Forgotten Quads' Mother Faces Poverty

Has Her Eighth Baby-And Only £1-7.9 to Feed Family

Tragic Blow

To Parents

By GLADWYN CLEMENTS

Carshalton, Surrey. MRS. VICTORIA HARMSWORTH, mother of Britain's forgotten quads, sits in the spotlessly clean little living room of her council house, nursing "her month-old baby, David.

She is unable to feed David herself, so he is being brought up on a milk food.

The other five children and Mrs. Harins- worth are making most of their meals of bread and margarine.

Mr. Harmsworth carna only £3 a week. Rent coal, light, insurance, and the baby's milk take more than half, leaving about £1 7s. 9d.

Hopes of Fortune Vanish

On October 12, 1035, Mrs. Harmsworth gave birth to quadruplets-all boys-at the Royal Free Hospital. London.

It was the first set of quadruplets to have survived birth In Englend for 10 years, and it followed close after the birth of the Dlonne quintuplets in Canada.

The Harmsworth family already comprised three girls-Grace, Jenn, and Sheila. They were poor, but with the birth of the "quids," who were named George, Alber, Victor, and Alfred, cume hopes of n fortune.

Mr. Harmsworth was persuaded to sign options and contracts, but all depended on the babies surviving o certain period.

After two weeks George and Albert died. The contracts becaine worthless.

Crying For Food

Al Capone Goes Mad

In Dreaded Gaol

New York,

AL CAPONE, the world's most notorious criminal and the "pre- justice" Tsar of the Chicago under- world, weni mad to-day in thei

reports reacting San Francisco.

The two surviving babies-Victor Alcatraz Penitentiary, according to and Alfred-were dellcate children, and doctors were constantly in ot- tendance. Then the father fell out of work and Victor was taken to hospital suffering from pneumonia,

At last the faller managed to obtain work. On the day he drew his first week's wages his wife hrake the news that she was expecting another baby.

On January 2 this year Mrs. Harmsworth gave birth to her eighth child-David.

"Don't ask how we manage to do It," Mr. Harmsworth said to me. "I don't mind so much while the work lasts, but when there is none-con you imagine my feelings when I have to come home empty-handed to a family crying for food?"

MR.

LESLIE HOWARD TO PLAY NELSON

HERBERT WILCOX

FILM

Folkestone,

Alcatraz is the gaol in which the United States reckons to tame Its gorillas of crime. It lies in San Francisco Bay and is known as the Devil's Island of America.

Therefore, Capone was transferred!

3034.

FILM LOVE

MUSIC ANGERED

STRAVINSKY

More than 26,000 goosestepping Storm Troopers streamed past Chancellor Hitler, indicated by arrow, and his staff in Berlin, as Germany celebrated the filth an- niversary of the Nezl regime, Crowds Alled the streets to watch the parade and joined in the Storm battalions' chant: "Ger- many belongs to us to-day; to- morrow it may be the world."

SANK

THREE

SUBMARINES; APPEARS

IN COURT

to its son-washed cells in August, IGOR STRAVINSKY, Russian officer, including the sinking of three The war record of a retired naval

composer, was recently award- submarines, was quoted at Poole, He had by that time served 53 ed three halfpence damages Dorset, where he was fined £50, months of an 11 years sentence in his suit against

with £3 18s. costs, for being under passed upon him for evading income Brothers, heard by the Third of a car.

Warner the influence of drink while in charge tax.

Civil Court, Paris. He asked for £2,000, complaining that the Warner Brothers' detective film, "Fine Bird," dishonoured his ballet of the same name.

Capone, who had often "besten the rap" (that is, evaded punisht. mont) on accusations ranging from plich and toss to murder, boasted smilingly, as he left the court in which he had been sentenced, that his lawyers vould see to it that he never "did time.”

3.-Five city's borders;

Stravinsky told the court he would not have objected If the bird in the parrot was used. He alleged fur- flim had been a nightingale. But a

ther that his music had been played in a situation he considered vulgar --during 11 love scene,

The

Judgment

Boys that

the

bourmaster of Poole, whose driving He is Cmdr, Charles Euman, bar- licence was suspended for two years.

Mr. C. W. Dickinson, his solicitor, said: "If this man owes a debt to society, it is clear that society owes a great debt to him.” He gave the following details of Cmdr. Euman's

carcer:

German New Guinea, when he was in action on August 12, 1914, in a member of a landing party;

In the battle cruiser Australia_nt}

COMMANDED "Q" SHIPS Commanded four ships-"that most dangerous of all Gr live "Q" services'in the North Sea, sinking three German submarines;

But Capone misjudged a Chicago made angry by such facts as these: 1.He had levied criminal toll, black-

mali, on the city for 10 years; 2.In this period of underworld rule,

250 murders had been committed his bused not-on Stravinsky's the battle of the Falkland Islands: within the

ballet, but on a Hungarian com- separate charges of position. liquor running iny. unanswered, against the Pubile Enemy No.:

Part of the composer's Danse, In- 1. fernale had been introduced into a Brilliant lawyers, who failed to Viennese waltz, however, and for this Capone's door, finally nulled him on bring one charge of murder to the 11⁄2d. damages were awarded. the relatively unimportant charge of

Stravinsky, will appeal. tax dodging. And gnol was more than the king of killers could

Slowly his morale broke. He be gan making and unmaking his bed for no reason. snatches

He began suddenly to burst into of opern from his native Italy.

Then he went berserk, attacking his fellow prisoners.

Now he lies in the prison hospital, carefully watched by doctors.

Mr. Herbert Wilcox, producer of the Alm. "Victoria the Great," told me to-night that he hoped to arrange for Mr. Leslie Howard to play the port of Nelson in his next film, "Lady Hamilton", says a correspondent,

Mr. Wilcox and Miss Anna Neagle, star of "Victoria the Great, were plomach. returning to London

from

Brussels, where last night they attended the Betgalo premiere of the film, at which the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Cilve, was present.

Work on the production of "Lady Hamilton," in which Miss Neagle will play the title-tole, will begin In April.

Tear Gas Not For Dogs camp and rejoined the Navy:

San Francisco.

thanked

Member of the landing party in the Zeebrugge Mole raid;"

Escaped from a German prison

Four times

by the Admiralty;

Specially chosen after the war to bombs on human beings, but they the British falilla on the don't go for dogs. When Alfred M. Rich threw a smoke pellet between in Turkey, becoming liaison offleer Sent to Chanak when trouble arose two dogs to stop them fighting, a between the Navy, Army and Air neighbour had him arrested for Force. cruelly to animals,

It may be legal to use tear gas

and

Supt. Dencon said that in 1931 Buman

was fined £10 for a similar offence.

"With the exception of this one conviction he has borne good character," added the officer.

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Fair-haired Mrs. Raby, widow of Captain G. B. McKean, V.C., M.C., M.M., has been robbed of his wed- ding ring and a gold medallion that was presented to him.

Her home in Hatch End, Middle- sex, was burgică, and, bysides these mementoes of her late husband, a fur worth £72 and two sovereigns were stolen.

Mrs. Roby apponis to the thieves to send back these personal relics of They are to only intimate things of his she had. ',

"Mac"

Captain McKeon was killed in an accident in 1925. A year or so later she became destitute, with a young] daughter and a houseful of debts.

She advertised for a job as a housekeeper. Many offered to help her. Sixteen men proposed mari riage. She accepted Mr. Raby, n Rugby works manager.

Serenades Every Day

Seattle,

J. W. Essex has been serounded by 1,000 voices morning,, noon and night" for several ́yours' now. And he likes it. Essex is the proprietor of^a' canary: farm. Hla annual: crop of LODO

Tragedy

NEXT MORNING:

of a tired-

It's going. to be GLORIOUS

looking bridesmaid

I don't want to

See the wedding picture. I know I look dreadful!

Betty darling! what is the

matter.

You even wake tired these days. You ought

TWO MONTHS LATER

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to see a doctor

What a lovely couple

-and the bridesmaids, aren't they sweet. Pity Betty looks so dull-spoils

it rather

From a wedding comes a wedding, but not for Betty if you ask me!

AT THE DOCTORS

THAT

Where's My bouquet?

I'm so thrilled

THINKS:

How I dread this. I look awful beside the others- my face so dull. and this tiredness

NIGHT

.this waking

•fired tells on your whole appearance. During sleep you bum up energy by breathing and other automatic actions. if this energy is not replaced of course you wake' tired. It's Night

Starvation!

and so every night :

Oh, mummy, I'm so thankful to you for helping me!

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