1938-10-20 — Page 15

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20,

1938.

Walking Licences for 12,000 Children "Agafalanie"

"ENDORSED" FOR SAFETY BREACHES

Twelve thousand Wembley schoolchildren are shortly to be issued with "walking licences," with a page where endorsements for "dangerous walking" can be inscribed.

It is part of a scheme for making them "safety- conscious" from an early age.

Mr. Leslie Burgin (Minister of Transport) will give the first "licences" to representative children when he opens the local Safety First Week on October 24.

County

with

An official of Middlesex Education Committee, who, Wembley Corporation, are responsi ble for the scheme, said.

"Among our 12,000 schoolchildren there have been nome 30 a month victims of road accidents.

MINIATURE POSTERS "Three

Ulcences will be issued, Children from 5 to 7 will have a red licence, almilar to a driving licence, with miniatures of simple Safely First posters and elementary safety rules.

"Children from 7 to 11 will have a yellow licence, and children be- tween 11 and 15 a green licence, with appropriate rules and a cycle per- mit to be signed by parent and head teacher, allowing them to ride to school.

"Prefects and schoolteachers who safety breaking the see children rules will have power to report them. A licence endorsement may follow.

He EATS

Scorpions

near

A modern Pied Piper has arrived at Dlyarbekir, Istanbul (Turkey), troubled for years by a plague of scorpions.

Tahir Baha came along, be- gun to scoop up scorpions and EAT them. Said Tahir: "They Laste like shrimps."

5 Yards of Letter

"There are limits," said a London Post Office ofhelal recently talking on the subject of the longest letters."! The National Fariners' Union re- "At the end of the year a report cently received a letter measuring will be made to the Education Com-15t. 114. long by 1ft. 3in. wide, mittee and the Ministry of Transport beating the B.B.C.'s claim for a letter on the working of the scheme. If they received measuring ft. Gin. by

It is a sucress it may be extended to 1141; 101: once guards Itself against}

the whole country."

Thirteen Was Not Unlucky

"Thirteen" was a lucky number at Warwick races on September 13 and backers who defy the superstition commonly associated with the gure had a profitable afternoon.

It was a winning number three

times.

Contango, winner of the Budbrook Selling Plate, and Esau, successful in the Emscole Plate, were both No. 13 on the race-card.

The next rest was won by four- year-old named "Thirteen."

The Past

freak correspondence of this sort. It cannot allow postmen to stagger through London carrying letters by the yard. For Inland purposes t jacket may not measure more than art. by 18in. by 10in. and a reli nol

than 3ft 3in. in length.

more

An official of the National Farmers' ! Union said that their "champlon" letter came from a farmer In New South Wales, and is full of statistics

UFS

Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, making a tour by airplane of European capitals, recently, are shown leaving the airport in Prague, Czechoslovakia, after their unexpected arrival. The Colonel talked with President Eduard Benes, Defence Minister Frantisek Machnik and others, but would not state the purpose of his and Mrs. Lindbergh's tour.

VILLAGE WEDDING EVE TRAGEDY

Girl Finds Lover

Dead In Stream

September 17 should have been the happiest day in the

Intended to show that there are too life of Mary Calver, 27-year-old belle of the village of many agricultural shows held in Eng-Wortwell, in East Anglia. land.

For she was to have married John Reynolds, an agricultural

He thinks 60 per cent. of our shows labourer, of Homersfield, and gone to her new home, a little ivy- are superduous and that about 20 or clad house, filled with new furniture, in the little village of St. so a year should be enough."

Cross, near Bungay.

on

The letter is in clear script separate sheets of paper which have been tasted together to make a roll.

What to do with it? Too big to be fled. it now lies in drawer, but the NF.U. fear that one day it will have to go.

Exhibition of Photographs

Instead, she sobbed her heart out og she looked at the wed- ding dress she would never wear.

For the day before she found her

stream sweetheart lying dead in o aft. deep near his home.

A Selection of Photographs entered in the Eighth Annual

The whole district has been shock- the tragedy. ed and myslified by They knew John Reynolds, who was 34, as one of the quietest and most hard-working men in deeply in love

HANGED ON WEDDING DAY

William Erie Temple, aged

20, of Harefield-read, Coventry, was to have been married re- cently.

But a short time before he should have stood before the altar in Coventry Cathedral le was found hanging in a shed at Downliam Market, Norfolk,

about 100 miles away.

was Miss His bride-to-be Bessie Baldock, of Winifred- avenue, Coventry.

'sage Woman Hid

They looked on the wedding as village the perfect ending to wooing, and it was to have been one of the most picturesque of the year.

Miss Calver last saw her sweetheart alive when she kissed him good-night the night before "Do not forget, see you at two o'clock to-morrow." he reminded her as they parted.

When he did not keep the tryst

£12,000 In Frock

Nice.

Some of the £2,000 worth of

Miss Calver was alarmed and or-jewels stolen on July 19 from ganised a search party lo look for Mrs.

a

Melanie Burnside,

of

him. Seeing his bicycle against haystacic she ran down a slope, Queen's-gate, London, while on crying out, when she saw him lying a visit to the Riviera, were re- In the stream.

covered recently by police at Monte Carlo, when they caught "We are all completely mysted." Maria Vietti, thirty-five-year-

Edward Reynolds said. "My

Mr.

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unother visitor, was found sewn in and Mary only chose it at Norwich, her frock, and they spent one whole day ar ranging the home. It is one any man would be proud to give his bride,"

This is the second tragedy Miss Calver has had to face. Only a fortnight ago the wedding was postponed because of her sister's death.

"The two tragedies, one on top of the other, have been too much for my daughter. She has broken down, She cannot eat or sleep," said Mr. John Calver, her father.

An inquest is to be held.

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