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"FROWNING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WOMAN'

SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 10,

1938.

ASKS How To Be

FOR DEAD FATHER

Had No Food For Two Days

Matlock Bath (Derbyshire).

Mrs. Dorothy Perkins, twenty-six-year-old "woman with a frown," who ran away when her father was killed in saving her from a train, was found hiding under high ferns in a wood two days later.

Crash King Telis

Dive Secrets

Scream To Save Yourself

THE most amazing story of an

A party of police searching a rug- ged hillside near Crich, between Matlock Bath and Alfreton, heard a faint cry from a hayfield half a mile away. A woman and a man were seen waving their arms.

The police scrambled over the rough country, and formed a ring round part of the wood alongside the Beld

The ring closed in, and within a few seconds Constable Rainsbury found Mrs. Perkins.

She burst into tears and saki, "I

RO tired.

Why can't you leave me here?"

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Her blue serge coat and flowered frock were wet, muddy and torn. Her bare legs were bruised and scratched.

She said that since she ran from

Matlock Bath Station on Wednesday

air crash ever told was re-she had neither eaten nor slept. lated to a Sunday Referee re-

LAY, IN BUSHES

porter recently-by the man During a thunderstorm she lay In who came out of it alive only a clump of bushes near the edge of by one chance in a million. 250-foot quarry. She saw the lamps The lucky man, Robert Wyndham, of policemen searching for her, but told the story in a casual way, for was afraid to move. crashes are his job in Hollywood. He is in England now on holiday.

"Do you know what a G. is?" he asked. "It is the ultimate test of a fighting aircraft, FROM 18,000 FEET

Then, as she was helped across i fickis to cottage, she asked: "Where is my father. Is he dead? I saw his shoes and his hat on the line.

"Do tell me, please. He was wonderful to me."

After she had been glyen food and dry clothes, the. news was broken to her. She was then taken to Whit-:

"You lake her up to 18,000 feet and then with the engine full on you put her into a vertical dive. When a few thousand feet off the worth Coltage Hospital, near Mat- ground you start pulling her out, lock.

B G. means nine times gravity.

A verdict of "Death by misadven- "The rush of the blood to the lure in trying to save his daughter," head when she comes out of the dive) was returned at the inquest on her is so great that your nose gushes father, George, Godson, retired civil blood and you get a complete black- servant, of Alvaston, Derby, out.

To arrest the speed of the blood to your head and so keep control of yourself you must start screaming as loud as you can during the dive.

"Well: I was doing a D G once, and came out of the dive I felt the machine shudder violently.

"I looked to one side and saw my

wing detach Itself and come Then came the black-out.

off.

Mrs. Perkins's sister-in-law said that Mrs. Perkins, a voluntary pay ing patient at Albany House Hoap! tal. Derby, was suffering from dis- ordered nerves, and was not supposed to be a mental patient.

taken off, the other had been broken;

in several places, both my legs, most of my ribs, and my spine had all been fractured.

"When I came to I found I hud! "You can see that crash in the been in hospital for six weelts un flm Test Pilot' Yes, It was quite

My left arm had been the best I have ever done." conscious.

A Beauty

Queen

MISS WINNIE CASSERLY, 23-year-old "Queen of Ja malca," arrived in London recently on her way to the Empire Exhibition, Glasgow. "It's not all fun to be a beauty queen," said Winnie as she arrived (1) at a Mayfair beauty salon. "What curly hair you've got,” said the hairdresser, as he combed her hair (2) before shampooing it. Winnls, tired after a hectle day's sight-seeing, almost fell asleep under the drier (3).

U.S. OFFER £100,000

FOR BLARNEY STONE Just for

one year SOLITICITORS in London wrote recently to Sir George Oliver Colthurst, Bt., owner of Blarney Castle, Cork, offering him £100,000 if he would lend the Blarney Stone to America for twelve months.

The offer, a financier in Queen Victoria-street, E.C., said is from a syndicate of Americans with Irish associations, who want to exhibit the famous stone in the United States and Canada and charge visitors who kiss it a dollar (4s.) w time.

The syndicate are prepared to give a generous proportion of the receipts if they get it--to Irish hospitals. They would in- sure the stone and return it to its present position,

Sir George Colthurst did not sound interested when I rang him Blarney Castle, writes il correspondent. He said: I think

is proposition

impossible.

the

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CHEONG HING STORE

Much as I might like £100,000, 1 should not like to see the stenc go from here.

"And I imagine Irish people would hate it to go. I om sure Its re- moval would rouse local feeling. "SOME ONE ELSE

WAS AFTER IT"

"A man from the States came to see me cariler this 'year. He was Lafter the stone, too, but nottiing

happened,"

Attempts have been made to borrow the Blarney Stone for New York World's Fair of 1939, News of this caused great Indignation, and American Irishmen formed a committee to protest against its' removal.

There is already a plece of the stone in the United States. it is a chip that was presented in a silver box to Mr. John O'Brian, Mayor of New York in 1933, so that he could| say he had kissed the Blarney Stone without crossing the Atlantic.

Those who kiss the stone are said to win the art of flattery. It is worn smooth by the millions who have climbed i 120-foot tower and ther reached head downwards to do it while they are helt by the legs.

Aged Sportsmen To Try Luck

Pittsfield, Mass.

THE voyage from Jamales in a banana boat WAS rough on Winnie's skin. So she was made ence mare Into the complete beauty queen with the help of a facial (4).

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READY for the party (5), with her hair in fashionable little curls, cyebrows neatly pencilled and com- plexion sleek, she went to her hotel to put on her cocktail frock of pale blue silk.

of the year under state department More than 150 persons past 70 of conservation regulations. George have obtained free sporting and A. Nichols, 89-year-old sportsman, is trapping licences here since the first the oldest licence holder.

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