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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

JUNE

10,

1998.

Father Admits: "I Am To Blame'

Plea For Daughter's

Freedom

1

Made in Court

A BEDFORD father last month wrote a remark

-able "confession" to the Home Secretary in which he admitted that he and only he was to blame for the downfall of his 18-years-old daughter, who, at Chichester Quarter Sessions was sent to Borstal for three years.

He was Mr. A, J. Davies, a' builder, father of Ivy Davies, a cinema usherette, who-found guilty of stealing £10 from the manageress of a cinema cafe-admitted that she had absconded from an approved school.

After she was sentenced she turned towards her father, who was in court, and cried:

"Let me out! Let me out! Daddy, daddy, what have you done to me? It is your fault. I was only 14 when you did this to me."

"She is right. It in my fault and I shall never forgive myself," Mr. Davies told a reporter. That is why I have written the Home Secre

Lary. I have told him that it is all through a stupid mistake on my part that she hos had her freedom taken from her.

Ins

Faces Azun zu Kumbak disundilə kippiration is stig bawat ding, in Poltsdam, of former Kaiser Wilhelm's grandcon, Prince Louls Ferdinand, and Grand Ducnus Kira of Russia, above.

THE MAN WITH AN INQUIRING MIND

Finds You Can

Get A Bible Free

By Alan Tomkins

A man said to me the other day "Why do they keep

"I suppose I cannot hope to regula asking for money to send Bibles to blacks in Africa, and

her love, but perlinps I can get her her freedom.

"BEGAN TO HATE ME” Mr. Davies described how, when his daughter was 14, he asked the magistrates to send her to an up- proved school because she was keep- ing Jale hours and he was worried about her.

"People may judge me hardly fdr this action," he sold. "I did it be cause I thought it was in the best terests of my daughter. I was wrong, stupidly wrong, and I only hope that other parents will not make the same mistake.

"My daughter began to hate me. She wrote me bitter jetters and then escaped from the school. It was the beginning the and, for her whole

mind was embittered.

"There is nothing wrong with her

I am solely to blame."

Bridesmaids Die In Fire

queer people in all the odd corners of the world?

"I bet, if I was hard up, nobody would give me one!" He seemed so positive that I said I would find out.

Well, while I am not the sort

of fellow used by tailors to ad- vertise their finer products, flatter myself that I do normally look as though I could

Bible.

Su 1 put on:

buy

LA

Shots with a flapping sale nel a gapping upper.

coat

A double-breasted blue last used for crawling under car to tighten a coupling disc.

A shirt that won't fasten

the neck, and

A third large man joined us. (They have some big-bukit people here. 1

thought.)

"Just wall in the hall, he nald, ushering me to a scat. "I afraid I cannot promise you new Bible."

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I was left about ten minutes in the

12 lable hall, in front of

with collecting-box and a visitors book. The place had a solid and trunquil

air.

with " am afraid it is

The third man returned Bible in his hand. IL!

net new," he said apologetically.

The Bible looked new to me and did so later under closer examination, except for a slight wrinkle in the in-

to the side puper backing

leather

My cap which is rather dread- ful, though I like it.

was, withal, elenn nnd shuven. My first and only call was at Bibic the British and Foreign Society, whose Imposing hend- quarters

Лезд five-storey building in Queen Victoria- street, London, E.C.4.

aro

The windows contained opened books of the Scriptures in curious Innguages with statements about the millions supplied, and the hundreds

Badly burned when their of translations involved.

dresses caught fire as a wed- ding picture was being taken in a studio, two bridesmaids died in hospital at Coventry recently.

They were Miss Eunice Naylor, aged 23, of Kensing ton-road, Coventry, and Josephine Russell, aged 6, of Sovereign-road.

FRIENDLY

A direction sign pointed

the

to the

left,

sales department on ignored this, went through the big

main entrance, to be confronted by

I

a big man of inquiring nspect asked, dofing my cup.

"Cun 1 get 1 free Bible here?"

Most courteously he directed me to

the Inquiry office on the first floor. This was off a big ball, and resem- bled a counting-house, with public counter.

Another big man was JE conver- sation with a clerk by the swing After a wedding at St. Barbara's door of the counter. He asked what Church, the bride, Misa Lola Kendall, he could do,

SEVER

were

a concert party star, the bridegroom, Mr. Charles Mitchell, a Melton Mow- bray electrical engineer, and other members of

of the

party grouped in the studio by the photo- grapher, Mr. John Clayton and hla wife, of Ford-street,

Suddenly their laughter changed

"Do you think I could get a free Bible?" I said.

"Well,” he said in a friendly fashion, "we usually sell them, " unless the applicant is in Indigent circumstances. Why do

you want a Bible?”

I hesitated, then answered truth-

to screams as a bridesmaid's dress fully, "I have not read the Bible for

brushed an electric fire, burst into a very long time.”

flames, and set light to others

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friends rushed to her ald.

DRAGGED THROUGH FLAMES

"BEST WISHES "

"Can you not afford to buy one?" The question was asked in tones.

kindly

cuver.

"This looks very good," 1 said. "Thank you."

"What is your name?"

"Tomkins,"

"Will you promise that you will look after it?"

"Yes"

"And read it?" "ICK"

"We are very glad to help you. Unfortunately. WC cannot always make a practice of giving away."

stairs.

PROVERBS

He shook hands at the top of the

"My very best wishes," he said,

Thank you." I replied.

Outside the warm April sun was the streaming through a break in watery clouds. Its bright rays made me feel excessively shabby.

Or was it just the sun?

"No Man's Land" Jews

Tell Their Story

WEEPING WOMEN, HUNGRY CHILDREN

Maribor (Jugo-Slavia),

May 9.

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay from Nottingham Of

First Test Match -

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12.30 Musical Comedy,

C. B. Cochran Medley....C. B. Cochran (Compere) assisted by Janet Ellenbeth Edward Cooper, Joye, Welch and Ray Noble and Hls Orchestra; Ball At The Savoy Selection (Abraham)....Drury Lane by conducted Theatre Orchestra Charles Prentiee; Why Is There Ever Good-Bye (From "Careless Rapture" Olive -Ivor Novello Hassall)...

he the Gilbert (Contralto) necomp. by Drury Lane Theatre Orch, cond. by Charles Prentice, Mus. Bac; Conver- sation Piece-Selection (Noel Co- ward)....Charles Prentice and His Orchestra.

10 Time and Weather.

1.03 Albert Sandler's Orchestra and Kelth Falkner (Baritone).

Fairy Tale (Jonny Haykens); Play Of Butterflies (Jonny Heykens).... Orchestra; Si Mes Vers Avalent Des Alles (ahn); Frasquita Serenade (Lehar). ..Orchestra; Had A Horse ("Hungarian Folk Songs"-Korbay); Shepherd, See Thy Harse's Foaming Mane (Hungarian Folk Songe"

with Fulkner Korbay)....Keith piano accomp. by Gerald Moore; if You Only Knew (From "Crest Of The Orchestro; Wave"-Ivor Novello). Waltzes From Theatre-Land..... Orchestra.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press,

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Grieg Violin 1.40

Weather und Announcements, Sonata In C Minor.

Played by Marjorie Hayward and Una Bourne.

In the hilly Austro-Jugo- Slav border country I visit ed to-day the fifty-six out- cast Austrian Jews who wander homeless, country-

2.16 Close Down. less, hungry, sick, penniless (1.0 Dance Music.

Słow Fox-Trots Goodnight and hopeless in the no-man's

Lucky Day (From 23 Hours' land between Austria and Leave'); The Mood That I'm In Jugo-Slavia, rejected by both Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans with vocal chorus; Tangos countries, says a Correspon-Desconftale (Canaro-Pelay); Novia dent.

+

My

(Rofrano Gorriado) ....Orquesta Tipica Francisco Conuro with vocul They were victims of 11 Nazi retrain; Fox-Trots-In Cherry Blos- programme in Burgenland, Austria's som

Lane;

You're Looking For mnost easterly province, month Romance.

Eddle Carroll and The of ago, when they were stripped

Cassant Club Orchestra with vocal their possessions and papers and refrnin; Waltz-Moonlight Valley fold to get out of Austrin before (From 'Secret Service'); Quickstep- worse happened to them,

A Sailboat In The Moonlight.... Originally they were forty-three, Victor Silvester and His Ballroom ranging from the ages of four to Orchestra. eighty-seven. In the last few days thirteen more pitiful refugees have joined them, likewise expelled from Burgenland towns.

Death if they

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First

Relay The 0.25 London Cricket Test Match England v. Aus- tralla.

A commentary on the opening. overs of the match by Howard Mar- shall from Trent Bridge, Nottingham, 6.40 Mozart-Concertos for Harp- slchord and Orchestra,

Concerto No. 1 For Harpsichord They have been threatened with And Orchestra....Mme. Marguerite and Orchestre death by the local storm troop leader Roesgen-Champlon

Austria. Jugo- | Symphonique of Paris conducted by if they return to Bibles

Stavia cannot accept them because M. F. Gaillard; Concerto In C For they have no passports,

Harpsichord And Orchestra (Bach) The Jewish community in Jugo....Mme. Marguerite Roesgen-Cham- Stavla send up a little food to them plon and Orchestre Symphonique of with Breat

dimeulty day. The Paris conducted by M. F. Gaillard. (3139- 0.57 Stuart Robertson British authorities in Palestine are being urged to give them visas of Baritone) and Now Light Symphony entry. Otherwise they will starve Orchestra.

Spanish Serenade (Bizet); Spanish to death.

No. To-day I drove in

-1 (Moszkowsky.... from Dance, Murska Subota, the nearest Jugo-Orchestra, The Waltzing Doll (Pol- Slav town, and finished the last dini); At Dawning (Cadman).... section of the journey on foot. Orchestra; The Mermaid; Polly Wully came in sight of a low whitewashed Doodle (Arr. W.H.M.); Little Brown stone hut about thirty feet long. Jug; The Three Crowns (Eastburn) Before 11 in the sunshine

Stuart Robertson; "Princess Ida" gathered about thirty people, sus--Selection (Sullivan)....Orchestra: Danse Des Apaches (Cuthbert piciously watching my approach.

Their eyes were red from weeping. Clarke)....Orchestra. I told them who I was. One of them 7.28 Closing local Stock Quota- conducted me to the hut. It was lions, dark inside. Straw was piled deep round the walls-their beds. In the straw Lay sick men and women. They had three blankets hetween them.

I turned over the pages of my free Bible to Proverbs (12-19) and read, for the first time:

The lip of truth shall be establish ed for ever: but the lying tongue is but for a moment."

So may it be.

Lion Hunting Profitable

Blazing clothing was torn off while desperate efforts were made to bent My reply was true to the letter, if hunting out the flames,

not to the spirit. "Not #L this chalked up his

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First 7.39 London Relay The Cricket Text Match England v. Aus- tralia.

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A commentary during play by foreigners go than any

In one of the corners was a priml-

Howard Marshall from Trent Bridge, Live stove on which all the cooking Nottingham. was done.

7,40 London Relay Food for Salinas, Cal. Outside the hut they gathered | Thought".

Three short talks on matters of Sleve Avila can make a comforta-

round me, A sorrowful tattered ble living out of the choice sport of crowd, but stil with remnants of topical interest.

8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- mountain tions. He has dignity. They asked me eagerly

what would happen to them. I told ments. 161st viclima.

8.03 Studio Jezz Plano Reeltal them that attempts were being made

by H. L. Osorio, to get them into Palestine,

Passports, money

county bounties.

He

Mr, Mitchell, the best man-Mr.moment." I told him, and felt a bit gets $45 for each lion in state and Thomas Mitchell, his brother--and wretched, Mr. Clayton dragged the girls through the smoke and flames into the street, Cars waiting outside, to take bride and bridegroom on honeymoon rushed!

the party to hospital,

The bride, who receiveil burns on the back and severe shock, is detained at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, where last night she was stated to be lo a critical condition. She has not

been told of the deaths.

The bridegroom and the best man, who were badly burned on the arms while attempting to beat out flames, were allowed to go home.

the

Two other bridesmaids, 10-years-

old Miss Leonie Kendall, the bride's

sister, and eight-years-old Josephine Hollier, were detained.

returned home

Mr. Clayton and his wife, M.

Clayton, Amy after spending nearly 24 hours in hospital for observation with exten- sive hand burna.

Miss Shella Gunn, the fifth brides- maid, and Bobby Carey, a page, es- coped injury.

Runaways Quickly Found

Haverhill, Mass. Parents of Lawrence Clobery, 10, and Ellsworth Day, 13, notified police "disappeared." that the boys lind Less than five minutes later, local authorities recolved a telegram from Portland, Me, police stating that the boys had been found thete.

Showgirl Leaps To Death Cries 'Good-Bye Broadway'

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New York, Apr. 21.

·HEN Thais Giroux saved enough money to leave home in Batte, Montana, she went straight to Broadway. Her beautiful blonde head was filled with dreams of her name in electric lights.

But her name was not even on the programmes of the few shows in which she appeared. She was just another blonde showgirl earning £10 a week.

were seized

Two German policemen watching us from near by,

were

1. Bie Mir Bist du Schon; 2. Two from "Big Broadcast of 1938"; Jills

(a) You took the words right out of for the my heart; (b) Thanks memory: 3. Old Favourites; (a) After you've gone; (b) Rosita (tango); (c) Sweet Sue; 4. Hits from "Hollywood Hotel: (a) I'm Uke a One of the refugees told me his ash out of water; (b) Silhouetted in story. He was a bank clerk in the Moonlight; (c) Lot that be a Vienna, and had gone to Rechnitz, lesson to you; 5. Medley; (a) You're in Burgenland, to visit his parents. a Sweetheart; (b) Sympathy (waltz); Stormtroopers entered his father's (e) Avalon,

home one day and told them to get B.20 London Relay Tho First out. Their passports and all iden- Cricket Test Match England v. Aus- tity papers were seized.

tralia. take

A commentary on the closing overs They were not allowed to any money with them, only the before lunch and a summary of the clothes they stood up in and a few morning's play by Howard Marshall scraps of food. Their property, from Trent Bridge, Nottingham.

8.35 Studio-Rev, C. B. I. Sar they were told, was confiscated.

The outcasts include rich Indus-geot-36th Series Of Opera,

"More Volces Of The Past," Irialists, shopkeepers, schoolteachers,

9.15 London Relay. The First clerks, maldservants, glasamakers,

Cricket Test Match England v. Aus- traila.

Then a theatre slump and night-club economies and Innkeepera. denied her even that job.

OWED THE Rent, could NOT GET A JOB

Thais was behind' with the rent for her room, high up in a Broadway skyscraper. She could not get work.

She tried to forget her troubles Inst night, got drunk with n married mon.

She got back to her room early this morning. Broadway's lights were still twinkling.

Thals took off her clothes, climbed through the window. Room neighbours heard her scream, "Good-bye, Broadway."

Then she jumped. She landed at the entrance to the night

club where she had her last job,

I left. I had been the most har- rowing half-hour in my life,

Heroic Dog Gots Modal

A commontory during play by Howard Marshall from Trent Bridge, Nottingham,

0.30 London Relay-Tho News, 0.30. New Dance Records.

My QuickstepThe Gypsy In Soul; Fox-Trot-Let Us Be Sweet- hearts Over Again....Nat Gonella and His Georgians; Fox-Trots-In Council Bluffs, In. My Little Red Book; Something To Judy, a springer spaniel, may bo Sing About (From the Film).... convinced now that "overy dog has Mantovani and His Orchestra: Waltz his day," Credited with saving thu On The Sunny Side of The life of her 10-year-old inlatress from Rockles: Fox-Trot Sweet Genevieve drowning Judy has been recognized...Rennie Munro and His Orchestrn; a medal from the American Fox-Trots--Mama, I wanno Make with Humane Association.

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