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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER

8, 1938.

FIGHT FOR

Reginald Foort Insures His BOY WITH

Hands, Feet for £20,000

"They Are My Life...I Dread an Accident?

By DONALD. STOKES

Eight fingers 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 fob at the B.B.C. to tour the country's music halls at £300 a week.

fle will travel with a new £10,000 organ, which will require a special railway truck, a private lorry, a mechanic and an electriclan as permanent attendants.

When I talked to Mr. Foort the organist held out his long, muscular hands and sald in the husky, intimate volce familiar 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 property if even ono finger were twiled.

"My feet, too, are invaluable to me for the pedals. I am insuring each of them for £3,000,"

MYSTERY BIRD ATTACKS GIRL

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

SAVING HIS HANDS

"If ever I slip, I clench my fists The mysterious bird that attacked tight and press them up agahist me he said. "I don't care what Miss E. Archdale, captain of the All-me England women's cricket team, whiic happens to my eyes or head. she was on a week-end visit to Win- field House, Borough Green, near Tonbridge, may have been awl trying to settle on her shoulder, according to an ornithologist.

a tame!

the bird One

HÚMA

UFS

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

TETANUS

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

his

Dr. Avis Margaret Dyer, house physician of University College Hos pital, said that in all 100,000 units of tetanus anti-toxin were administered to the boy. Morphla, chloroform and

control avertin were given to практ. Later he was fed by a tube. The Coroner (Mr. Bentley Pur- chase).Actually you were controll- ing the condition and keeping him alive by this treatment much longer than you would otherwise have been able to7-Yes.

Professor G. R. Cameron, patholo- gist, said that the treatment migh!! have complicated the case.

Mr. Purchase. But if it had not been for the treatment he would have died earlier from tetanus?--Yes.

These are methods of treatment available to-day and if one doesn't avail oneself of them someone might feel disquieted?-Yes, a number of cuses have been successful.

Girl Pat Skipper Plans New

War Widow's 3 Killed Adventure

Fraud After Remarriage

"Whereas any ordinary person

hands

up to cover his thrown his face if danger threatens, I always |

hands try to keep my

out of the way.

"You see, ever since 1 was eight I have been playing the

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

draw her war pension after she re- And when Reginald Foort takes married in January, 1931, was sen- of these birds was found in the same his life in his heads and goes on tenced to four months' hard labour district Inst year, when it attacked tour Insurance agents will hold at Clerkenwell recently.

the Mrs. Florence Edith Purnell, of Mr. N. Brewer, of Vale-road, Ton-their breath as he climbs on

killed it after bridge, who struggle.

At first it seemed that may have been a cormorant.

Mins Archdale, who Charterhouse-square,

lives at Finsbury, E.C., was cycling throngh Mero- worth Woods recently, when the bird swooped on her.

.

woman

in Great Gale

Tiring of routine tifo ashore, Cap- lain Dod Orsborne, hero of the Giri Pat runaway voyage, is now planning another adventure Hs Intends to try to wall 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

Three people were killed Elizabeli, Captain Orsborne said.

a seat at the console of his organ. Witley Road, Highgate,

pleaded and many injured in a gale So, will the fans until they guilty, and Mr. Saywell, prosecuting, break out in deafening applause as sald the

had which, suddenly springing the amount the organ break out into the well-

obtained was £458 4s. Od. into fury recently, lashed wrongfully known

tune. signature

"Keep

Mr. Saywell said Mra Purnell was Smiling," and the smiling face of granted a widow's pension after the the southern half of Eng- Reginald turns to them.

death in 1917 of her husband, who land. It- served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. weck. The pension was £1 6s, Bd.

The force of the attuck threw her

from her leycle. She beat the bird

off with her gloved hands, and pro-

tected her face. Struggling to re-

DOCTOR SUED FOR USE OF WATER

London.

"I was really up against it," Mrs. Purnell sald. She and her sister.hnd been ill, and she had buried her father and mother. She drew the

mount her bicycle, Miss Archdale to the whole country arose recently present husband.

was unable to identify the bird.

A TAME OWL?

at

Mr. D. Seth Smith, ornithologist the London Zoo, said: "Normally the owl never attacks, but there are occasions when the tame owl alights un the shoulders of a passer-by, People often and young owls in the spring and feed them.

Mrs. E. Killick, with whom Miss Archdale was staying, said "Miss Archadie is still resting. She has leg Injuries after falling from her bleycle."

Mr. when judg-

Caused rivers to burst their banks;

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

Closed scores of reads.

An unknown woman aged between 25 and 30 was killed when she was knocked down by a bus in Kingsland- road, near Stamtort-road, Dalaton,

A question sold to be of importance pension without the knowledge of her Walter Hexiley, K.C., the at Hull County Court

"This has been ment was reserved in an action by magistrate, said: Hull Corporation against Dr. Duncan going on in a calculated way for the

You E Ferguson Yuille of Beverley High past seven and a half years.

over of cheated the State have Road, Hull, to recover 10.0d for

end! used in his professional practice. Re- £450." plying to the question

tion of

whether. water used by doctor to make up bottles of medicine was used for trade or domestic purpose, the Cor- poration said that their Water

water

Act

SWEPT TO DEATH

One man was carried away and drowned when the River Rhionnda

flooded the district.

Reading Service Long burst its banks off Trehnfod and

Corvalla, Mont.

From some of the low-lying col- laid it down that the supply for any The entre New Testament wastages in the more seriously affected trade or business, while in defence it read during an 18-hour Sunday ser-area, about 40 women and children was stated that anyone who sold tea vice at the United church here. The were rescued by floats from their reading started at 3 o'clock in the bedrooms, to which the water had evening. Thirty 13-minute intervals.

or coffee was also selling water, but was held that this was a domestic

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The villages of Hopkinson and Tre- hatod wore isolated and all traffle cut oft. Communication between Pontypridd and the Rhondda Valley had to be made through Ely Valley. The River Wharfe overflowed Its hanks to the west of Otley, and the Ikley road was flooded to a depth in places of 3ft.

main

Willam Dedman, aged 30, of Campbell-road, Ipswich, was blown in front of a trolley-bus, while cycl- ing, and died from multiple injuries. He was married man with one chill.

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

As skaters were leaving the ice at Westminster Ice Bink a 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 rst house 14-years-old Jullu Besley was asleep in the first-floor bedroom. The tree crashed through the roof, smashing the foot of the bed and the outside wall, and a branch fell across body, but she was unhurt,

the

Cedon speedway track was

flooded and the London Cup final- Wimbledon versus New Cross was postponed.

Pilot Offer Walt, of Honnington Aerodrome, Suffolk, lost his way in gale and driving rain at Leiston, Suffolk. He struck some trees when looking for EL landing place, smashed hls portside wings, and narrowly missed two coltages. Then he went on to land without Intury.

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Nearly 100 trees at Wimbledon and

Special water tanks have been balit into the keel of tho vessel in which Dod will carry enough spỡ- cial stores for five months.

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

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

station, post office, telephono ex- change, and Suffolk Regiment barracks candies had to be used. The main road at Canons Park, Edgware, was blocked to traile when a tree in the grounds of a house

Was uprooted and tell wires. the trolley-bus Police Blood

Ward guard to passers-by of the danger if the wires supporting the tree col- lapsed.

across

Seven men CA a storm tossed In the Western pontoon dredger Solent were taken off by the Yar- mouth, Isle of Wight, motor lifeboat a few minutes before the dredger sank.

Between 80 and 10 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

an hour.

for

Huge seas crashed over the Admir- alty Pier at Dover and swept the promenade. When the steamer Prin- cess Josephine Charlotte, with 83.

board from Ostend, passengers and the Shepperton ferry from Dun-

on

kirk came into the harbour, neither: of them was able to reach its berth, and both had to leave for Dunkirk The Roads, where they anchored. Shepperton ferry was carrying cargo but no passengers.

The .. Biarritz, with 150 pas- xengers from Boulogne, had a tremendous fight to reach its berth in Folkestone Harbour, The pler was continually swept from end lo end by heavy scan, The steamer Maid of Orleans was An hour late reaching Boulogne from Folkestone.

LIFEBOAT LAUNCHED

Margate lifeboat was launched to go to the assistance of the four- masted schooner-rigged yacht The Westward, in distress near the Shin- gles Sands, off Margate. The Weat- ward, which comes from Poole, pass- ed close Inshore off Deal during the afternoon with her sails blown away.

The gale attained a velocity of 70 miles per hour at Brixham. Shelter-, ing in Torbay were 20 steamers, four dozen Belgian ocean tugs, and a trawlers. Dartmouth motor-car ferry

be suspended. service had

Loosened by the drenching rain, slab of earth estimated at hug

at Ealing were blown down, and thousands of tons slipped from Har- corporation workmen were sent out tion 1, Lancashire, and completely

to clear the roads. Shops at Morden blocked the road connecting Clitheros were flooded.

At Worthing sintes were blown off houses and cyclists were blown off

their machines.

ELECTRICITY FAILS Storing of food supplies in Bognor Regla Corporation's depot ins male It necessary to stock chairs on the front. The canvas protection was blown off and the chairs were at the mercy of wind and water. At Boleoy the gale renched 80 m.p.h.

The gale caused a failure of electricity for nearly an Bour at Bury St. Edmunds. At West Huf- folk Hospital and at the police

and Lancaster.

A muter-bout, in which Mr. G. J. Glossop, of Warbreck Hill-drive, Blackpool, was working near Firol- Wood Ferry Landing Jetty, broke delft and was taken in tow by the Fleetwood ferry steamor Wyresdale,

Tie master Florence, and tins, of Liverpool, ran ashuro nt Actwith. She was batond from Tha'non with cargo of coal, The coaster dropped

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