1938-10-20 — Page 3

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 loenl Safety First Week on October 24.

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

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

be issued.

MINIATURE POSTERS "Three licences will Children from 5 to 7 will have a red lleence, similar to a driving licence, with miniatures simple Safety Firat posters and elementary safely rules.

AL

of

"Children from 7 to 11 wil have yellow licence, and children be- tween 11 and 15 a green Beence, with uppropriate rules and u cyclo per- m to be signed by parent and head teacher, allowing them to ride to school.

He EATS

Scorpions

A modern Pied Piper ass ncar Diyarbekir. arrived at Istanbul (Turkey), troubled for yeur by a plague of scorpions. Talsi Baba came along, br. gan to scoop up scorpions und EAT them. Said Tahir: "They taste like shrimps."

5 Yards of

Letter

"There are limits," sald a London

"Prefects and schoolteachers who Lee children breaking the safety rules will have power to report Post Office official recently talking them AHcence endorsement may on the subject of the "longest letters." The National Farmers Union re- follow.

"At the end of the year u report tently received a letter measuring will be made to the Education Com-15ft 1in, long by 1ft. 3in. wide, mittee and the Ministry of Transport beating the B.B.C.' claim for a letter on the working of the scheme. If they received measuring 7f1 Gin, by It is a success it may be extended to 111. 101. the whole country.

Thirteen Was Not Unlucky

"Thirteen" was a lucky number ut Warwick races on September 13 ant backers who defy the superstition commonly associated with the figure had a profitable afternoon.

It was a winning: number times.

toree

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

The next race/was won by a four- year-old named "Thirteen."

Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, making a lour 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 Frontisek 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

The Post Office guards itself against freak correspondence of this sort. It cannot allow postmen to stagger through London carrying letters by

For inland purposes the yard. packet

may not measure more than ព roli not 2ft. by 181. by 18in. and

in length. more than 3ft 3in.

An official of the National Farmers' Union sald that their "champlon":

September 17 should have been the happiest day in the letter came from a farmer in New South Wales, and is full of statistics 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. Jand.

For she was to have married John Reynolds, an agricultural He thinks 90 per cent. of our shows labourer, of Homersfield, and gone to her new home, a little ivy- are superfluous and that about 20 or clad house, filled with new furniture, in the little village of St. so a year should be enough."

script on, Cross, near Bungay, The letter is in clear separate sheets of paper which have been wasted together to make a roll.

What to do with it? Too big to be fled, I now lles in a drawer, but the NF.U. fear that one day It will bave to 10.

Exhibition of Photographs

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

For the day before she found her sweetheart lying dead in a stream: 3ft. deep near his home.

A Selection of Photographs entered

in

the Eighth

Annual Amateur

Photographic Competition organised by "The Hongkong Telegraph" will be exhibited in the Morning Post Building, fourth floor

TO-DAY ONLY from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.

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

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

Last

her Miss Calver sweetheart alive when she kissed him good-night the night before "Do not forget, see you at two

Kiw

o'clock to " he reminded

her as they

for

HANGED ON WEDDING DAY

William Erle Temple, aged 29, of Harefield-road, Coventry, was to have been married re- cently,

But a short time before he should have stood before the altar In Coventry Cathedral he was found hanging in a shed al Barket, Norfolk, Downham about 100 miles away,

Was bride-to-be Ells Bessie Baldock, of avenue, Coventry.

Mis Winifred-

Woman Hid

£12,000 In Frock

Nico. Some of the £2,000 worth of

When he did not keep the tryst

and Miss Calver was alarmed

or jewels stolen on July 10 from of Melanic Burnside, Mrs. ganised a search party to look him. Seeing his bicycle against haystack 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 "THE ONLY GIRL"

Monte Carlo, when they caught "We are all completely mystined," Maria Vietti, thirty-five-year- Mr. Edward Reynolds said. "My

brother was devoted to Mpry. They old Italian, robbing a bedroom

eight in a luxury hotel. had known one another for years. She was the only girl in the

world for him.

The jewels were found in her apartment. When she was searched

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"He had saved up for the wedding at the police station a wallet con- Eat at and had enough to pay for all the taining nearly £12,000, stolen from furniture, and more to spare. He unother visitor,

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and Mary only chose It at Norwich, her frock. and they spent one whole day 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 ideath.

"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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