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THE HONGKONG⠀⠀⠀⠀ TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 16,

Proud Husb and Starved, Took His Life

WIDOW TELLS OF

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MISSED

BY FEW MINUTES

How months of unemployment and under-nourishment brought an Islington upholsterer to suicide a year and a half after his marriage was revealed at a St. Pancras in- quest recently on George Verdin, of Tavistock Terrace.

A pathologist declared, "He must have almost starved him- self for a considerable time."

Recently the distracted mun Was found hanging, and recording a verdiet of "Suicide while of unsound mind," the said Verdin bad not ap- Coroner (Mr. W. Bentley Purchase) preciated that there was no need in Britain for anyone to get into such a state.

After the inquest Mrs. Verdin told n Newn Chronicle reporter of the search for work against encroaching poverty.

said.

she

"My husband had been in the business for 28 years,”

"Last summer there was a slump and things got so bad that he was bringing home only 159, a week.

"We were living on our savings. He asked for his cards and tried to get a better job through the Labour Exchange.

"Again and again he was sent from the Labour Exchange after a job, only to find that it had been filled a few minutes be- fore he arrived He kept going by doing a few private jobs.

"In February he went to the Relieving Officer and got 278. a week.

SOLD ENGAGEMENT RING

"Our rent was 15s, Bd. a week and we were In arrears, which WIUS worrying us.

"What there was left after it was to feed 175 enough paid was not properly. could see that my hus band was not getting entaugh to ent

"I had to keep on selling things.

a suite of furniture be had made and

also my engagement ring.

"We were sent to the Unemploy

ask for meni Assistance Board to further relief. We gave all parti- azed lookerk culars and officers came round the flat,

"The case was under consideration.

Then my husband got two days work and had to sign off-the next week he had four days' work and the

next two again,

"After that the business with the U.A.B. started all over again.

"THEY DO NOT REALISE

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Hollywood Beauties Are ‘All Synthetic'

HAVE British women much to

learn about their make-up and looks generally?

The latest authority to pro- nounce judgment on the problem is British-born Ern Westinore, make-up adviser in American films for over 20 years, now in England.

"Englishwornen Just do not appre- clate what natural advantages they

Honours come in pairs for Marion, left, and Virginia Hopkins, twin sister swim team of the Los Angeles Athielle Club. In the first of

a series of summer aquatic meets at Los Angeles, Virginia set a new world record of 30.0 seconds for the 50-metre free style and won the 100-metre event, while Marion walked off with the 100-

netre backstroke and the 300-metre medley events.

Two Attempts

On Hitler's Life

By MADAME TABOUIS

Paris, June 19.

Two attempts against the life of Herr Hitler have been made in Vienna, it is revealed to-day. 3.

While Hitler was speaking on fired from a window.

the Heldenplatz a shot was A Storm Trooper was hit in the head and

"Now that my husband is dead, 1/possess," said Mr. Westmore in Lon- killed instantly.

An additional sum of 8s.. a week. It has taken weeks to get that decision. while "They do not realise that the case is being investigated prople ure starving.

"My husband was very proud; not the sort of man to go to the parish. In any case, we did not know early enough that we could get additional

help from the U.A.B."

Mrs. Verdin is leaving her flat lo Ilve with her father, a 71-year-old penstoner,

"I shall have to find work." she said. "I gave up my job as clerk in the shipping department of on export I had been there 21 firm to marry. years."

Work For 30,000 in 100 New Factories

Flans for 100 new fractories have been passed during the last few weeks,

These are in addition to the £10,-! 000,000 worth of factories that are under construction in connection with the rearmament programme.

Work on the new factories will find employment for more than 20,- 000 men, with regular employment for at least 20,000 men and 10,000 women when they start operations,

BIG TOWNS BENEFIT

with Some of the chief centres, the factories that are in hand include: DIRMINGHAM, Wire goods,

stationery, electrical engineering:

mcials,

BRADFORD.-Wire manufacture. BRISTOL Oxygen and chemical

works,

COVENTRY-Machine tools, steel pressings, motor-cars,

GLASGOW—Tobacco. GLOUCESTER.-Aircraft works. LIVERPOOL, — Electrical printing works, refining factories.

·MANCHESTER.

plant.

Engineering,

printing and leaded light works.

manufacture a new type and two new rolling mills,

woman who has not some feature of real beauty.

A second attempt was made at the moment when Hitler was crossing "If only Englishwomen would the Prater to go to Semmering. study their faces as they study

A shot was fired from their clothes they

A amali could

change their whole outlook on life

portable hut at the Fuhrer's ctu But they Just won't take the The enachwerk was hit, but no other

damage done.

troubic.

"Take the art of make-up. There is not one woman in a thousand to England who known make-up properly.

how to UND

it.

you

carc

The authors of these two attempts have not been caught.

It was because of these incidents that the Gestapo have taken even more rigorous measures than usual for his protection during his visit to Vienna this week-end.

THE STARS' SECRET

"Yet there is not one naturally beautiful

woman Iza Hollywood. Every tim star's good looks are built Hitler's visit has created enormous up from a very ordinary face. I interest It is being inade a part of know because I've done

the programme for general war pre- "Look at any

star

Hiller parations which

19 ΠΟΛΥ to think of. Marlene Dietrich pursuing so openly that there are be large check bones; Gloria times when the French Foreign Swanson a big nose; Constance Office wonders whether it is not just Bennett

a huge bluff. a square jaw. "Most women would regard these CONFLICTING VIEWS tal to beauty, but the proper use of make-up enhances them."

Mr. Westmore was asked what he considers a good beauty routine for the average woman,

"A natural life, with sufficient exercise in the open-air and six to eight hours' sound sleep at night," he said.

The reconcillation between Hitler and General von Fitsch, which took at the place this week, was made demand of the Reichswehr chiefs.

They told Hitler that if Germany had to adopt a timid attitude on May 22 last when France and England

came down On The side of

Screaming Children Roll In Vitriol

More than 20 children were burned by sulphuric acid (Vitriol) which poured into a London street from a lorry. Twelve of them were taken to hospital and two-Walter Hutchings (11), Beckway Street, and Derek Dugard (four), Mason Street--were detained.

Running out of Faragon L.C.C. School, Searles Road, the children, aged from four to cleven, found the roadway turned into "a skating rink."

to their feet. In doing so she was herself burned.

One after the other they began to slide in the oily pools.

Alertness of three workmen, who Soon all were "joining in the rescued some of the chlidren as they fun," laughing and shouting. sprawled in the acid and shouted The laughs of the first one to fall warnings to others about to step into turned to screams as burns appeared the roadway saved more from being on his hands and knees, -

injured. Soon the street was filled with screaming children, many of whom ran home as the strong acld, after i burning through their shoes, began to

scar their feet.

"LOOKED LIKE OIL" Frederick Deadman, of Mason's Brove, Now Cross, a gas fitter, who with two other workomen, was erect- ing lamp-posts in the street, told the News Chrontele;

Czechoslovakia, it was because, as General Keitel declared, there were serlous conflicts of view in the ranks of the Reichswehr.

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of the King's Prize Commentary from Bisley

MOONLIGHT SONATA

Radio Programme Brundeast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 046 Ic.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per second.

H.K.T. (D).

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service Intercession from St. John's Cathedral.

of

12.30 Charlie Kunz at the Piano. Charlle Kunz Piano Medley No. R. 11; Intro-I'll see you again; The Desert Song; My Hero (from "The Merry

Chocolate Soldier'); The Widow; Love will find a way; The Blue Danube; Piano Medley No. R. 16; Intro: When Irish Eyes are smiling; Comin'

Thro' the Rye; Oh!

You Beautiful Doll; Lily of Laguna; Loch Lomond; If you were the only Girl in the World.

12.42 Stuart Robertson (Baritone) and Albert Sandler (Viola).

Looking For You (H. Taylor and W. Sanderson); An Old Violin (H. Taylor and it Fisher)....... Albert Sandler, Olive Groves (Soprano) und The Jean Melville (Piano); Song Buccaneer (Mortimer and Leonard); A Bowl Of Punch (Mortimer and Alan Murray)....Stuart Robertson; Paic Moon-Indian Love Song (Lo- gan arr. Kreisler); Allegro (Flocco, arr. Bent and O'Neill)......Albert Sandler with Jack Byfeld at the Piano. 1,00

Time and Weather. 1.03 Tino Rossi (Tenor) And Or- chestra Mascotte.

Ball Sirens Waltz Tunes from "Merry Widow" (Lehor); Lysistrala -Waliz (Paul Lincke)....Orchestra Mascotte; Panamè Ville D'Amour-- Slow Fox Chante (Paroles de A. De Badet Musique de Fredo Gardani et Tino Rossi; Twink- Jing

J.

Chaye Whitz Melodies (From

Lost

Opprette "Der Oberstelger"-Carl Zeller--arr. Gotz Hohne);

The Letter-Waltz (William Reggov) Orchestra Mascotte; Tunt Qu'll Y Aura Des Etoiles (Volse chantes du Blm "Au Son Des Guitares"); Chun- son Pour Ma Brune (Marche chanter du film "Au Son Des Guitares") M. Tino Rosst; Once On The Rhine Waltz (Will Ostermann); Cavaller Waltz (0. Nedbal) ......Orchestra Mascotte

Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Musical Comedy. "The Love Parade Vocal Gems

(Schertzinger); Intro: My Love Dream Lover; Nobody's

a

..Light Maritza Grand

Ilse Wald

Tenor

it now; March of the Grena- dlers, "Sunny Side Up"--Vocal Gems (De Sylva, Brown and Henderson); Intro: Sunny

dream- ar aren't we af UP; I'm

Turn on the

on the Heat; If I had a a talking Picture. Opera Company: Countess Selection (Kalman) phony Orchestra with General Keitel, who explained This Year Of Theatre

Soprano and Hans Land, 1936: his ideas at length to Hitler, said that Int the Austrian Nazis were gradually Play, Orchestra, Play; (Te- becoming absolute enemies of the less Rapture); I breathe on windows

Hight at

Music 6.30). usie in May

(Care- Third Reich. They had been treated (Over she goes); Drop in next time with too much sternness and rigour, you're

Of the 60,000 people under arrest thing Goes (Anything Goes); Love (Going Places); Any- passing in Austria to-day by order of the is a dancing thing (Follow the Sun); Gestapo, one-third are Austrian Nazis.

Unbelievable (Swing along)- This'll HAND OF FRIENDSHIP

make you whistle (This'll make you Whistle)....Janet Lind and Webster This, said Keltel, had made it Booth with Orchestra and dimeuli to reorganise the Austrian Porgy

Chorus Chorus: And. Army, and to

BessSelection (G. estabilsh the good Gershwin); Intro: Summertime; relations between Germán and

Bess You Is My Woman; It Ain't Austrian Nazis that is absolutely Necessarily So; I Got Plenty necessary.

There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York....Carroll Gib- And so, for from going to Austria bons and The Savoy Hotel Orpheans to quell a Nazi revolt, as has been (Vocalists: Anne Ziegler and Webster absurdly stated in some quarters, Booth). Hitler actually intends to hold out the hand of eternal friendship 10 the Austrian Nazis.

The re-organisation of the Aus- trian Army has been completed, and a great many Austrian Nazis will re- ceive honours and privileges.

Villagers Hunt Mystery 18ft. Giant

Calcutta.

Vingers in Assam went out in bands to search for a mysterious monster which has appeared for the third time in twelve years.,

The president of the rural council found footprints two feet long and a foot wide, indicating that a glant of at least eighteen feet passed

through the villages. The tracks show that the monster came from the wild forest country.

are just like human, ones.

The Impressions of the footprints

The rural council are preserving set of the impressions for further in- "As the lorry turned the corner Ivestigation. noticed what looked like oll pouring

Bimilar

to

CHILDREN'S SCREAMS Their screams aitcacled some dogs, whose feet were badly burned..

In 1880 an engine driver reported The screaming of the children and from an overturned carboy at the seeing a giant in the same area. SHEFFIELD-250,000 factory to the yelping of the dogs was terrible to back. Soon the children were sliding Afterwards footprints

hear," said Mr. H. Morris, of Old in it. Then one of the boys fell and those found to-day were discovered. Kent Road.

HOL up screaming. "My little boy was screaming piti- "When we examined his hands wo fully with pain," said Mrs. Dugard. saw great burns appearing and real-

"He only came out of hospital three ised that the oil' was acld.

Cat's Lives Extended months ago after bronchial pricumo- "With buckets of water we tited to nin. He was so badly burned they wash the acld down the drains.

SANTA CRUZ, Chl. would not let me see him at the

were called. They. The fire 1

The customary nine lives of a cat hospital."

diluted the acid with water from their have been increased to ten, thanks hoses, afterwards spraying the road- to the use of artificial respiration. way with sand. But for some time | Firemun Al Hammond, properly Ten-year-old Kathleen Boorman, of after there was confusion.

equipped with a mask, dashed into Washington House, sceing other "Police ran from door to door try» | a burning house here, and rescued children rolling in pain in the road-Ing to find the children who had run a pot angora kitten that was over- way, ran to them and lifted them on | home with burns."

come by the smoke and fumes,

Codfish Weighs 500 Pounds

Sota.

A codfish weighing 500 pounds and measuring 14 feet long was caught „kiya fisherman at Bourgus and sold to

a fishmonger here for £30. It is sald to be the largest ever caught in the Black, Sea.

SCHOOLGIRL'S PLUCK

2.15 Close Down,

Nut-

6.00 Compositions of Delius, Eventyr

London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Intermezzo From "Fenni- more And Gerda".

conducted

by harmonic Orchestra condon Phil- Sir Thomas Beechamn; Caprice...

Bea- trice Horrison ('Cello) with Orches-

Summer Night On The River...Sir Thomas Beecham and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

6.30 Songs by Richard Tauber (Tenor).

trn

Eric ranged and Conducted by

Love Lost For Ever More (Church Scene from Film 'Blossom Time'); You're Mine (Derance-Stevier) One Song (From Snow White and the Seven Dwarts").

6.40 Light Orchestra, Flapperette (Greer); The Doll Dance (Brown)....Nat Shilkret And His Orchestra; Seville ("Cities of Romance".-Haydn Wood); Lulworth

Cove

(Shadwell): .Tho B.B.C.

| Variety Orchestra conductor: Charles Shadwell with Reginold Foort at the (Waldteufel); Bal Masque (Fletcher) B.B.C. Theatre Organ; Mon Revo

Nights At The Ballet, No. 4; Intro:--- Eight Symphony Orchestra;

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