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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938.

Reginald Foort Insures His FIGHT FOR

Hands, Feet for £20,000

"They Are My Life...I

Dread an Accident'

By DONALD STOKES

Eight Angers and two thumbs at £1,000 aplece-£10,000 ten

toes at £1,000-£10,000; total-£20,000.

Those are the insurance premiums that are being paid by one of the most popular stars in Britain. No, not a dancer or a glamour girl, but Reginald Foort, king of organists.

Soon he leave his £25 a week job at the B.B.C. to tour the country's music halls et £300 a week,

He will travel with a new £10,000-argan, which will require a special railway truck, a private lorry, a meebanle and an electrician as permanent altendants.

When I talked to Mr. Foort the organist held out his long, muscular hands and sald in the husky, intimate volce familar to millions of radio listeners:

"Without these in perfect shape I should have to be a labourer,

I shouldn't be able to play an organ properly if even one finger were twisted.

"My feet, too, are invaluable to me for the pedals. I am insuring each of them for £5,000."

MYSTERY BIRD ATTACKS GIRL

The Organ King putted at his pipe and told how t whole life was haunted by the fear that an accident would hurt his hands,

SAVING HIS HANDS

what

"If ever 1 slip, I clench my fists The mysterious bird that attacked tight and press them up against Miss E. Archdale, captain of the All-me" he said, "I don't care England women's cricket team, while she was on a week-end visit to Who- field House, Borough Green, near ·

happens to my eyes or head.

Wherens any ordinary person

HUM

When a school of whales seemed intent on upsetting his boat, Dr. E. Allen Petersen, 37-year-old osteopath, wished he never had started crossing the Pacific in a frall Chinese ßshing junk, with his California-born Japanese bride, Tane. But after 85 perilous days from Yokohama he and his crew of two young Russians arrived in Los Angeles, as above,

War Widow's 3 Killed

throws his bands up to cover his! Fraud After

foce f danger threatens, always] Tonbridge, may have been a tame try to keep my hands out of the owl trying to settle on her shoulder, way. according to an ornithologist.

the bird

One

that At first it seemned may have been a cormorant.

Remarriage

"You see, ever since I was elght I have been playing the

A war widow who continued to orgab. My hands are my life,"

draw her war pension after she re- And when Ecgnald Foort takes married in January, 1931, was sen- of these birds was found in the same his life in his hands and goes onjtenced to four months hard labour district last year, when I attacked four Insurance ugents will hold at Clerkenwell recently. Mr. N. Brewer, of Vale-roud, Ton their breath as he climbs bridge, who killed struggle.

after

Miss Archdale, who lives at Finsbury. Charterhouse – DJ ULLIFE,

E.C., was cycling through Mere- worth Woods recently, when the bird swooped on her.

on the a seat at the console of his organ,

und they So will the fans break out in deafening applause as the organ brenic nut into the well- known signature tune. "Keep Smiling, and the smiling face of Reginald turns to them.

The force of the attack threw her! from her bicycle. She beat the bird

A TAME OWL?

:

1.

DOCTOR SUED FOR USE OF WATER

London.

گرام

after the

in Great Gale

BOY WITH TETANUS

A four-day fight for the life of a boy suffering from tetanus was desi cribed at the inquest at St Pancras recently on sight-year-old Arthur Henry Garroll, of Denmark-road, Wimbledon. A verdict of Accidental Death was recorded.

Dr. Avia Margaret Dyer, house physician at University College Hos- pital, nold that in all 160,000 units of tetanus anti-toxin were administered to the boy. Morphin, chloroform and avertin were given to control his spasnis. Later he was fed by

tube. In Pur- The

Coroner (Mr. Bentley chuse).Actually you were controll- Ing the condition and keeping him alive by this treatment much longer than you would otherwise have been able

Professor G. R. Cameron, patholo- glat, said that the treatment might have complicated the case.

Mr. Purchase-But if it had not been

for the treatment he would havej died earlier from tetanus?—Yes.

These are methods of treatment' available to-day and if one doesn'! avall oneself of them someone might feel disquieted?-Yes, a number of cases have been successful.

Girl Pat Skipper Plans New Adventure

Tiring of routine life ashore, Cap-| tain Dod Orsborne, hero of the Giri Pat runaway voyage, is now planning another adventure. He intends to try to all from London to New York alone in a vessel 19ft. long.

The vessel will not be equipped with either radio or engines.

"I am going to call her the 'Little Captain Orsborne said.

Special water tanks have been built into the keel of the vessel in which Dod will carry enough spe- etal stores for five months.

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don't know how long I shall take to make the trip," he said, "be- cuuse I shall be relying on fair winds. und good weather entirely.

Mrs. Florence Edith Purnell, Three people were killed Elizabeth," Willey Road, Highgate, pleaded and many injured in a gale guilty, und Mr. Saywell, prosecuting, said the amount the woman had which, suddenly springing wrongfully obtained

was £450 43. Od into fury recently, lashed Mr. Saywell said Mrs. Furnell was the southern half of Eng. Kranted a widow's pension death in 1917 of her husband, who land. It- served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The pension was £1 s. 8d. a week. "I was really up against it," Mrs. Purnell said. She and her sister had been ill, and she had buried her father and mother. She drew the pension without the knowledge of her present husband.

Mr.

Caused rivers to burst their banke;

Isolated villages through floods; Placed ships and 'planes in distress:

Closed scores of roaùa.

An unknown woman aged between 25 and 30 was killed when she was knocked down by a bus in Kingsland- road, near Stamford-road, Dalston, You E.

off with her gloved hands, and pro-i tected her face. Struggling to re- A question said to be of importance mount her bicycle, Miss Archdale to the whole country arose recently

at Hull County Court when Judg

Waller Hedley, K.C., was unable to identify the bin.

the ment was reserved in an action by magistrate, said: "This has been Hull Corporation against Dr. Dunean going on in a calculated way for the Mr. D. Seth Smith, ornithologist at Road, Hull, to recover 16.6d for water have cheated the

Ferguson Yutile of Beverley High past seven and a half years.

State of over the London Zoo, said: "Normally the used in his professional practice. Re-' £450." ow) never attacks, but there are plying to the question of

of whether Occasions when the tome owl alights

doctor by a

to make up bottles of medicine was used for a Reading Service Long burst its banks trade or domestic urpose, the Cor- poration sold that their Water Act laid it down that the supply for any Mrs. E. Killick, with whom Mis trade or business, while in defence it read during an 18-hour Sunday ser-area, about 40 women and children. Archdale was staying, suid "Miss was stated that anyone who sold tea vice at the United church here. The Archadle is at resting. She

has or coffee was also selling water, but reading started at 3 o'clock in the leg injuries after falling from her it was held that this was a domestic evening. Thirty readers rrad bicycle."

15-minute intervals,

on the shoulders of a passer-by People often find young owls in the spring and feed them.

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use,

U.B.

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SWEPT TO DEATH One man was carried away and drowned when the River Rhionnda off Trehafed and Gooded the district.

From some of the low-lying cot- tages in the more seriously affected

were rescued by floats from their bedrooms, to which the water had reached.

The villages of Hopkinson und Tre- hntod were isolated and all truffle cut off. Communication between Pontypridd and the Rhontida Valley had to be made through Ely Valley. The River Wharfe overflowed its banks to the west of Otley, and the main Ikley road was flooded to a depth in places of 31t.

William Dedman, aged 30, o! Campbell-road, Ipswich, was blown in front of a trolley-bus, while cycl- ing, and died from multiple injuries. He was a married mun with one child.

A motor-cyclist was severely Injuried in Wise-lane, Mill Hill, N.W., when a large irce, blown down by the gale, crashed on top of him. Both his legs were broken. He was taken to the Redhill, Hospital, Edgware,

As skaters were leaving the ice at Westminster Ice Bink n plank of wood on an adjacent building was blown through the glass roof of the rink. The floor had just been clear-

ed.

THREE IN BEDROOM

A 60ft elm tree in a back garden In Anerley-grove, S.E., crashed across the roofs of three houses. In the Arst house 14-years-old Julia Besley was asleep in the first-floor bedroom. The tree crashed through the roof. ashing the foot of the bed and the pittalde wall, and a branch fell across the child's body, but she was unhurt.

Wimbledon speedway track was Hooded and the London Cup final Wimbledon versus New Cross-was

| postponed.

"I shall sleep four hours a day. It everything goes well I should reach America in just over a month,"

station, post office, telephone ex- change, and Suffolk Regiment barracks candles had to be used. The main road at Canons Park, Edgware, was blocked to trafle when a tree in the grounds of a fell Bouse was uprooted and

wires. scross the trolley-bus

to Warn Police stood guard passers-by of the danger if the wires supporting the tree col- lapsed.

Seven men on 1 storm tossed In ihe Western

pontoon dredger

Solent were taken off by the Yar- mouth, Isle of Wight, motor ilfebout a few minutes before the dredger Hank.

Between 80 and 90 passengers for the Isle of Wight were marooned at Portsmouth when the gale prevented the Southern Railway steamer San- down leaving for Ryde. They were accommodated in the saloon of the steamer and in the refreshment rooms at the harbour station.

The ferry service between Ports- mouth and Gosport was suspended for an hour.

liuge sens crashed over the Admir- alty Pler at Dover and swept the promenade. When the steamer Prin- cess Josephine Charlotte, with 83 passengers on board from Ostend, and the Shepperion ferry from Dun- kirk came into the harbour, neither of them

was able to reach its berib, and both had to leave for Dunkirk Roads, where they anchored. Shepperton ferry was carrying cargo but no passengers.

The

The ss. Barritz, with 150 pas- sengers from Boulogne, had a tremendous fight to reach Its berth in Folkestone Harbour. The pler was continually swept from end to end by heavy seas.

The steamer Mald of Orleans was an hour late renching Boulogne from Folkestone.

LIFEBOAT LAUNCHED Margate Hfeboat was launched to go to the assistance of the four- masted schouner-rigged yucht The Westward, in distress near the Shin- gles Sands, off Margate. The West- ward, which comes from Poole, pass- ed close Inshore off Deal during the afternoon with her salls blown away.

Pilot Officer Watts, of Honnington Aerodrome, Suffolk, lost his way in The gale attained a a velocity of 70 the gate and driving rain at Leiston, miles per hour at Brixham. Shelter- Suffolk. He struck some trees when ing in Torbay were 20 steamers, four looking for a landing place, smashed

tupy, and

a dozen Belgian his portside wings, and narrowly trawlers, Dartmouth motor-car ferry missed two cottages. Then he went service had to be suspended. on to land without injury.

Loosened by the drenching rain, a huge slab of earth estimated at

ocean

Nearly 100 trees at Wimbledon and 50 at Ealing were blown down, and thousands of tons allpped from Har corporation workmen were sent out don Hill, Lancashire, and completely to clear the roads. Shops at Morden, blocked the road connecting Clitheroe were flooded.

and

houses and cyclists were blown oft in which Mr. G. J.

At Worthing alates were blown off

their machines.

ELECTRICITY FAILS Storing of food supplies in Bognor Regis Corporation's depot has made it necessary to stack chairs on the front. The canvas protection was blown off and the chairs wore at pho mercy of wind and water. At Belsey the gale reached 10 m.p.h.

The ado caused a fallure of electricity for nearly an hour at Bury 84, Edmunds, Al West Buf folk Hospital and at the polios

of Warbreck Hill - drive,| Binckpool, was working near Ficot- wood Ferry Landing Jetty, broke ndrift and was taken in tow by the Fleetwood ferry-steamer Wyresdalo.

The conster Florence, 120 tans, of Liverpool, ran nahore at Arbroath. he was bound from Bo'ness with cargo of coal. The conater dropped anchor, but this dragged, and Capt. T. W. Jones, who lives at Hlockferry, Cheshire, and the crow of six word rescued by Arbroath lifeboat. "Tho Florence is expected to become a total loss.

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