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Rich Woman and Old Claim £3,300 Necklace GEMS FOUND AMONG JUNK'

Mrs. Kathleen Blackmore-niece of wealthy Mr. Walter Dunkels, director of the Diamond Corporation- general and Sidney Gordon Pollard, seventy-year-old dealer whose secret hoard of jewels and banknotes was found by police, disputed 'ownership of a £3,322 pearl and diamond necklace in Clerkenwell Police Court recently.

Mrs. Blackmore wa's awarded the necklace, and Pollard hobbled from the court to go back to his room in

Camden Priory-place,

Town.

Mr. Walter Hedley, K.C., the magistrate, was told that Mrs. Blackmore was given the pearls one by one-the first at her birth and the finishing diamond clasp when she came of age- by her uncle, Mr. Dunkels.

Pollard sald he first saw the neck- lace "anong a lot of junk" at ho Caledonian Market in 1036.

A dealer told him he could take

it home and see how much it was worth. He thought they were cheap Japanese pearls and mislaid them. He found them fifteen months later under some flower-pols, but had not been

find the dealer since. Able The necklace was stolen in 1930 in

ta

a burglary at the Maidenhead home

of Mrs. Blackmore's

Ernest Dunkels.

Inther, Mr.

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TAKEN TO HOSPITAL It was on April 16 last that policeman on his rounds in Camden Town saw two panels of glass broken in the door of a disused garage where Pollard lived. Pollard ay in bed surrounded by rags, tins, old Iron, papers and antiques. He hud pneumonia, anc! Was taken to hospital.

Wad

told

how

The policeman Pollard sold dahlias which he grew in window boxes and In the back- yard.

The policeman searched the garage-and found the

£3,322 necklace. Pollard recovered, and said that he had saved between £700 and £800 since 1024, and kept the money by him because he had no bank account.

He was sent for trial. and was acquitted on a charge of receiving, and his solicitor argued unsuccess- fully that he was entitled to have the necklace returned.

Pollard, in stained blue suit, muld: "It's no good regretting: I've lost the necklace and that's an end of it. I bought it in good faith in a load of won't tell you what I pald for it; but a man once refused to

junk.

give me £25 for it."

Mrs. Blackmore, who lives at Waltham St. Lawrence, Berks and

Matrons of Honour At Wedding

Mrs. O. N, Hamilton and Mrs. N. Littlejohn who acted

as matrons of honour at the wedding on Saturday of Miss Marjorie T. Edwards and Mr. R. E. L. Beardsworth.-Staff Photographer.

HOUSES IGNITED BY BURNING

PETROL

that after all she will not be wearing Rescuers Caught In Burst Of Flame

the necklace again. It will go-to the underwriters who paid a claim when it was stolen. She bought a new necklace with the insurance money.

MATA HARI'S PRISON

"ANGEL

Paris.

France's "angel wardress," Sister. Leonais, for GT years friend and helper of women criminals, has slipped secretly from the Petite Rocquette Prison here to retire to a mountain con- vent. With her into

The

houses

occupied by

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NEWS

EMERGENCY POWERS IN BURMA

OCTOBER

19, 1988.

RADIO BROADCAST

Tony Gray and Pomping

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H. K. T. 8.00 Beethoven-"Pastoral" Bym- Rangoon. phony No. 1 in F Major, Op. 08. The Governor of Burma, Sir Ar- Played by the Vienna Philharmonie

by conducted

Bruno chibald

the Orchestra Cochrane, informed Senate and House of Representatives Walter..... ....

6.40 Selections from Wagner's recently that he had decided to use his emergency powers for the cata Operas.

"Dis Meistersinger"---Overture -blishment of law and order.

The

B. D. C. Symphony Orchestra The Governor's powers are as-cond. by Adrian Boult; "Tristan And sumed under the provisions of an Isolde"-Isolde's Love Song (Act 3) emergency Act, which was immedi- Nonny Larsen-Todsen (Soprano) ately passed. Permission to debate with The Bayreuth Festival Orches- it was refused.

tra cond, by Karl Elmendorff; "Tann- The Act enables the police to de-hauser"-Venusberg Mu

(Bac- state of emergency in Ran-canate).... clare a

.Bruno Walter

conducting goon, arrest suspected persons with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra-

.Ivar Landgrave's Address.... out a warrant, and keep them In The custody for 15 days without ball Andersen (Bass) 'with Orchestral

No action can lle against the accomp. cond, by Fritz Zweig. police for measures taken in good

tions.

faith.

7.10

Music

Closing Local Stock Quotn-

7.12 were killed

At least 12 persons and 56 lufured in communal rioting in the elty between Indians and Burmans. All shops are closed, and business is almost at a standstill. Australia

FAMOUS MINE MAY CLOSE

Sydney.

The famous silver lend mine at Broken H, owned by the Broken

Hill Proprietary, will probably be

closed in November.

One of the most famous mines in Australia, and the richest of its kind

Lo.

Ballads,

Here The Gentle Lark (Bishop) Mavis Bennett (Soprano) with Plano; Bedouin Love Song (Pinsull) (Bass-Baritone) .Peler Dawson with Orchestra; Always (from 'Puritan Lullaby-Dyrenforth Smith)....Ina Souez (Soprano) with Orchestra.

and

7.25 B. B. C. Recording-“Out of the Blue."

A short story read by Sapper (LA. Col. H. C. McNelle),

7.48 Leslie Jeffries and HL Or-

Le

Jolie

8.03

cha Pelit Capitale (Raquelle); Tres (Jeffries); Dearest Love

Coward); "Operette"-Noel

Play Gypsy ("Countess In the world, this silver lead mine Gypsy.

"-Kolman). has produced, in 53 years, 1,443, tons Marliza"

6.00 189,457,000 tons of leads,

Local Time Signal, Weather of lead, 109,457,000 OURCES of silver, and Report and Announcements.

Toby Studio Recital by 603,000 tons of zinc. The company announces that every effort had been Gray (Piano Accordeon) and Pomp.

to find further ore bodies. but Ing Vila (Vocal and Piano). without success.

(1) Piano Accordeon and Piano; Strutters Ball; (b) mine,' SDYE Mr. H. C. (a) Darktown

(c) Bye-Bye Blues; Darlin chairman of the company, Mood Indigo; (c) "has played a very large part in the (2) Song. Alone With You (Pomp- Plano Solo. economie well-being of Australia ing Vila) acc.

(Pomping res-Sophisticated and can be considered directly res- ponsible for the successful establish- Vila): Song. I Still Love to Kiss You (3) (Pomping Vila); ment of the iron and steel industry." Accordeon and Plano; (a) 5ays

Goodnight. Mr. Bruce's Tour.—Mr. S. M. Bruce, who has just been appointed High Commissioner London for second term of five years, is expected to return to Aus tralia at the end of the year. He will spend two months visiting all the Staten.

TC-

Northern Territory's Future.-The Federal Minister of the Interior, Mr. McEwen, who has completed an ex- tensive tour of the north of Austra- lia, says that he foresees for the

Northern Territory a bright future as a great and prosperous pastoral

country,

New Zealand

GUARANTEED PRICES OF DAIRY PRODUCE Auckland. Rural electors consider that a de- the, the fire brigade could reach the spot, Saunders and Callaghan familles and houses on either side become in-calon on goranteed prices for dairy produce for the season in of the ut- were extensively damaged by the volved.

Robert Sorrell, aged 12, who lives most Importance. force of the impact when the 'plane' crushed into them and were then in Dunholme Road, told a reporter enveloped in flames from the burn- that he was sitting on a gatepost out ing petrol.

side his house

street when suddenly ner at the time. Mrs. Saunders and he saw the 'plane diving towards

son. Derek were burned

to him. "I shouted, 'Look out, Jimmy,

saw and death, another son,

in Roy, died

09 I was running away I hospital, and Mr. Saunders is the 'plane hit him." The gatepost on critically ill. Mr. and Mrs. William molished by the plans, as it swoop- which Sorrell had been sitting was

are all detained in hospital. ed down. When the machine hit the ground; Robert Jones, of Maldon parts flew in all directions. One Edmonton, who was one of the first wheel was found in the front garden on the scene, sald that he of a house four doors away; another woman in flames staggering in was found in the back garden of the passage of the Saunders's home. He Saunders's house. The engine was helped to drag her out and returned wedged in the door of the Callaghan's to assist Mr. Saunders, who also was

burned.

The Saunders family were at din playing in thithing James Tant ment is believed to be due to that

her

Caan, their three sons,

house.

menl.

Road.

Caw a the

In the Saunders's front room there A resident in Dunholme Rood said, were the remnants of the family's The 'plane struck the house with midday

Crockery and terrific crash and almost at once persons children's toys and clothes were caught fire. I saw two this amazing, plump little nun of 87 takes scattered about smashed and torn 10 carried from the wreckage. Nearly the secrety thousands of the un-pleces.

all their clothing had been burnt."

Mr. G. P. Harrison, a next-docr fortunate women whom she called

retirement,

RESCUERS' FATE

flame

her "sister"-among them some of the How rescuers were caught by anelglibour, said that he and most notorious women of modern sudden burst of crime.

from

some

van.

My Heart; (b) Chinatown.

8.30 Gilbert and Sullivan Selec-

The Pirates of Penzance"; Over- ture....Light Opera Orchestra under direction of Rupert D'Oyly Carte; Slay, We must not lose our Senses.. Derek Oldham and Chorus of Girls: Hold Monsters!.

Grimm, G ...E Baker, S.

S. Robertson and Chorus; I am Very Model of a Major The

General. manaker and Chorus;

of the Guard"; Hereupon we're both Agreen. George Baker and Leo Shemeld; "The Yeomen of the Guard"; Free From His Fetters Grim...

Derek Oldham; Strange Ad- Grigin, Dorothy venture....Elsle

Peter D. Oldham

Dawson Gill, Hark! What Was That, Sir?....P. Dawson, D, Oldham, A. Hosking, 1. Shefeld, G. Haker and Chorus; Like A Ghost His Vigil Keeping....George Baker, Leo Sheffold, Arthur Hosking and Chorus.

9.00 London Relay "Empire Ex- change." The season began on Aug. 1, and,

Points of view by travellers from the delay in making an announce the Dominions and Colonies.

0.15 Plano Selections by Deane afculties facing Mr. Nash, Minis- | Moiselylich.

Rondo (Hummel); Song Without the in- financing ter of Finance, in

(Mendelssohn); crease

Words F Major of butter, recommended by the committee.

Song (Mendelssohn); Grillen Hunting (Schumann). It is felt that the Treasury Dairy 9.30 London Relay-The News, increase is agreed to. On the other Peiri (Piano). Account may be overstrained if this

Joseph Szigeti (Violin) and Egon hand the committee is believed to 10.18 Orchestral, have proved that the farmer has been

German Dances Nos. 1 and 2 (K. seriously underpaid in view of the 005) (Mozart): German Dance No. 3 high costs of production.

The Sleigh Ride" (K. 695-Mozart) Each reale of guaranteed prices Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra cond. for various grades of butter and by Bruno Walter: The Bagpipe Player cheese remains constant throughout Weinberger). Sir Hamilton Harty the season to which it applies, The cond, the London Symphony Orchts- Government has full responsibility tra with Harold Dawber at the Organ.

10.30 for the sale of the produce after its

London Relay In Town To-night', acquisition from the farmers, Jamaica

NEW VARIETY OF BANANA

It

Kingston. If a report now

current here be true, the banana industry of Jamal- en will shortly be revolutionised. In reported that new variety of binana has been discovered after long experiments that is quite fit for market as well as 0

being immune and Leaf Spot.

he BAW an

the friends were in a public-house about wrecked 'plane was described by a 200 yards away when he was told Mata Hari, beautiful dancer man who narrowly escaped a similar that a plane had struck his house.

Late. py, wept in the arms of Sister,

men in the public- A number of Mr. George Weaver said: "I rushed house rushed to the scene in Leonide; Therese Humbert, the swindling millionairess; Madame forward after two other men who Mr. J. F. Johnson, of Victoria Bessarabo,

Dived who, murdered her

lived in houses nearer than mine. Rond, Edmonton, said husband;

Ger- the anarchist,

They

westerly a second before me and

coming from aeroplane comit maine Berlon; Marthe Itanau, the woman wizard Anancier, were died. It was that second which was losing height rapidly, crashed on all in her care.

saved my life. In the garden of the the roof of a house before hitting the house opposite the Saunders, which street, where it broke up the pave the plane first hit, I saw a man who ment and the road surface, and I believe was the pilot lying on the bounced again on to the Saunders's able damage path. All his clothes were burned home.

"MY FAVOURITE" "Mata Hari was my favourite absier," Bister Leonide said.

were

Introducing unusual stories from every walk of life and flashes from the news of the week. Produced by C. F. Mechan.

11.00 Close Down.

IN AID OF CHINA.

Gifts Collected for The London Bazaar

were burned very badly. One has direction over the housing estate, it from the disastrous Panama disease)ub is very grateful for the splendid.

The Hongkong Chinese Women's There diseases have wiped out response to its appeal for gifts, sent to the Chinese Embassy for the vast plantations in Central America, purpose of holding a bazaar in Lon and are at present doing consider-don, to raise funds for medical relief. to bonana cultivation in China. They with to thank the givina publicity to the Press for "/937 | appeal, also Messrs.

Mackinnon, Mackenzie for free transportation of

In Jamaica.

On the eve of her execution,

off and his face and body were i When he reached the spot he saw said Sister Leonide, Mata Hari alept in the condemned cell be terribly burned. It may have been a woman lying in front of the house fudla

the and a Boy Scout was attending her. that he fell or jumped from tween two fellow-prisoners who

Iplano were her constant attendants.

ane just before Slater Leonide accompanied the ground." dancer to Vincennes and said farewell, as the young woman stepped, lightly out of the car and offered her hand. Then calmly, and without a look back, Mata Hurl walked towards the firing squad.,

It struck the "I was told that she had been stand- MOVE TO BAN BRIDGE the articles, by the P. and O. Rajpu

ing in front of a gas stove when the Mr. William Forbes, who was re-plane crashed. The table was sel

hands, for dinner." leased from hospital with

PARK

arms, and neck heavily bandaged, SEEN FROM HOSPITAL and stated: "I saw some children around" after the the plane immediately

Pallents and visitors at St. David's crash. In a couple of seconds there was a great burst of flame, and we Hospital and hundreds of chlidren near-by park saw the were driven back before we could do playing in much to help. I was caught by the crash. Bic, 3, A Bragg, of Colbrook re-flames, but was not so badly burned Street, Blackfriars,

patient at the

NO GOODBYES". Some years ago, Sister Leonido saw pale, alim girl led into the prison and went to greet her: The girl fused to speak or be comforted.

as the other."

an

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Shu-pul, Lainvert Sister Leonide, "Violette came to find Park, which adjoins the housing started turning

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People from surrounding streets on rolling and then burst into flames, carnival to go to the scene of the Ho K, Chu Kaswah, Chung Kam 'It will do you good"."

So much beloved w Buter worked hard to pin out the flames. The last we saw of it was when it crash. They made immediate arrange tong, Ho Wing S. Chung, K. K. Lee, Leonide by her charges, that she being joined by a special contingent disappeared beyond some houses, and ments for housing the people whose Miss Mary Lee, Mine Constance. Ho, bbusda had Uren damaged during | Mina-Gus Hing Mea, James Ming. decided to leave persily without of police, and sayetal.B.A.E. men, but then there was a terrible

Councillor Tott, Deputy Mayor of salvage work, fj saying goodbye to them. 2

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