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THE

TELEGRAPH, HONGKONG

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938.

A.R.P. PROFITEERING TO BE REDTAPE PUT

STOPPED

Calls

Home Office

Prices Conference

Prices of A.R.P. materials, which jumped as much as 500 per cent., at the peak of the crisis, are to be considered by a conference of contractors called by the Home Office. Manufacturers are to assist the Government in avoiding a left municipal repetition of this retall profiteering, which has authorities with fabulous bills.

The iron and steel trades have a manufacturers' controlling board to fix prices. These boards are now investigating the In- flated charges of certain merchants for their materials.

The Home Office conference will decide on a uniform list of prices.

and trade unions are ready to adjust BIGGER

their labour charges to the new

Agtures.

some

shocking "There

We're examples of overcharging in the re- tail trade." Mr. W. T. Cockle, borough treasurer and accountant of Barking. sald.

blame "Retailers were to

advantage of large they took ordera when there was no ilme for considering tenders. In our case, the price of corrugated Iron trenches rose anti-bomb for from £21 per ton to £21."

rose in Sandbag prices in Essex one day from 2d, to 10d. In parts of Yorkshire the cost of timber shot up by £3 a standard.

Some authorities have already paid these bills. Others are waiting for them a the Government to save substantial sum of money.

CROPS AND

APPETITES

By L. F. EASTERBROOK

The annual report of the Potato Marketing Board, pablished recently, shows how much the potato growers, at any rate, have to gain from this system of collective security.

For, despite a very difficult senson. when supplies exceeded 4,000,000 tons for the first time since 1934, and when the freak weather of lost spring caused a serious falling off in prices, demand throughout March, although about 35s. per ton lower than in the previous year, kept re markably steady until the middle of April.

After that they shot up about 705. for three weeks and ended per ton

RECRUITING DRIVE Authorities all over the country All the are asking for recruits to

the crisis revealed in gaps which A.R.P., Anti this week recruiting in June at about last year's level. The lower prices have meant that

could

at buy of consumers averaste 7lb of

of potatoes in the past season for about dd, compared will: 71d. the year before.

be debated at many schemes wil! council meetings.

On Saturday appeals were broad- recruits cast to football crowds for for the Auxiliary Fire Service and the volunteer ambulance service,

wants The Lundon

service Bre

Bremen, tele- serve as 30,000 to

needs 5,000 service

11e7- drive emergency

tn

ambulance vromen bulances.

It is Interesting to uste that al- though national production

the that with Authorities fear passing of the crisis the question of defence precautions will sink into the background in people's ininds.

was

Recent orders issued in England called for distribution of mare than 35,000,000 gas masks stored in 11 cities, following a week-end in which millions of persons were fitted for the masks. Here are three girls in the select Wembley Hill school, In London, receiving ittings for the masks. Children and adults alike were measured. Elsewhere, policemen went from door to door with instructions on how to darken windows in nir-raid binckouts.

Terriers

To Be Taught By Post

Correspondence courses to train Territorial Army

244,000 tons greater in 1938 than in officers for staff duties under Mr. Hore-Belisha's new 1937 the stocks in hand last June! phonists, and car drivers, and the (71,000 tons) were 14,000 tons fewer scheme to bring the "Terrier" organisation more into line with that of the Regular Army, were announced by the than in June, 1937.

So the increased supply has been War Office recently. brought into consumption,

Fifty captains or senior lieutenants will be trained annually SPAIN A BUYER When growers were tumbling over to fill staff appointments in the event of mobilisation.. one another to sell in the early part of the past season, the Board stepped in to steady the market and offered to buy at a guaranteed price.

26.850 they bought Altogether tons,

of which they sold 4,931 tons to Spain.

The remainder was released in May, and helped to keep down the steep rise in prices that would have been even greater had these patatoes

LOVE FILMS BORE

CHILDREN

tine.

TELL-TALE PRICE GRAPHS

As Territorial Army officers who have civil occupations can- not easily live at the staff college, it has been arranged to train them in the theory of staff work in their own homes.

Selected officers will be sent over a period of nine months a series of lectures on subjects they are required to study. They will be set papers to write and will be given tactical ministrative problems to solve.

SAME STANDARD

and ad-

The lectures, papers, and problems will be prepared under not been available for release at that the direction of the Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, thus

ensuring the same standard as in the Regular Army.

Correction and criticism of the papers, and answering of It has not been a rosy year for Children's tastes in the cinema run entirely to action, thrill and adven-owers, and it proves that even or questions put by officers taking the course, will be carried out by ture-they are bored by love stories. } Kanisation under a Marketing Board) the staffs of commands.

Cannot entirely insulate them against

in excess of After the theoretical side has been 1 the results, of requirements,

The How Eleanor Plumer, Governor fristen ut 5970s since the mastered, there will be a two-weeks (DRIVER IN SCENE AT

of the British Film Institute, express-

ed this view at the Cinema Christian Board has no control over sales practical course at the Staff College

Conference at

Lambeth

Council Palace recently,

"Right must (riumph in children's Alms because the children's sense of Justice is very strong indeed," she wald.

"The death of the villain is not looked on a painful event but as the tidying up of the world and Jeaving more space for other people." A high Home Office official and

added.! leading psychologists, she shared the view that crime and gang- ster films were not likely to develop criminal tendencies in those who saw them.

strangers to take them into cinemas to

see

of

season,

Financial stringeney, lent rumour, during August, after which offers

and need to release will cost of storage and

otherwise.

In the event of mob.lisation, short labour for her farm-work are all the related as having qualifed or factors that encourage the rush to

refresher courses will be arranged at sell early in a bumper

But study of the series of price the Staff College for qualified uilcers, graphs in this report suggests that after which they will be sume producers might still gain fin-jur staff appointments. uncially by having a little more con- dence in the increased stability of their industry that has come about by organised marketing

CANNED

NED POTATOES

work More research

has been carried out with potatoes not wanted for human consumption.

The organised manufacturers of glucose have expressed a desire to ro-operate with the Beard.

High class canned potatoes

available

LIFE SAVED BY VIPER'S VENOM Haemophilia Victim

Shefeld.

PICCADILLY

Ex-Naval Officer Who Went To Night Clubs

BREAKS ON WORLD RIDE

"In a world bicycle tour of 20,000 miles, the biggest obstacle I met with was red tape."

So Allan Pendlebury, aged twenty- six, sold recently when he arrived home at Victoria-street, Wigan,

I had been round the world or a bleycle and three words. These were "bread," "water," and "sleep." "I learned the native equivalent for these through every country I pass ed," said Pendlebury, and I found they worked perfectly.

"With £200 and a light bike I started from West Enling two years ago and netuuliy rode 26,000 miles, counting nothing for sen trips.

"The biggest obstacle. I came up ngainst was, not the Italian police nor the Persian brigands who at tacked me will knives, but red tape.

"I found a world full of people who have next to nothing to do and make a terrible fuss about doing

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"The British are not the worst sinners in this respect but they are bad enough.

CONQUERED DESERT

"British reads, however, are the best in the world, no matter what you have heard to the contrary. The worst are the semi-desert tracks.

"They told me at Bagdad that I was the first while man to cross the de- sert on a bicycle. For the last few niles of the journey It seemed doubt- ful whether I would be the first for these were done in a terrific storm,

"Friendly Arabs with cars offered to pick me up and the bike as well. but I was determined to finish the job_myself.

"It has been a marvellous experi- ence. People spend fortunes on giv- ing their children a university educa- tion. I learned more in six months* travel than I learned at the univer- sily."

CASTLE AS SCHOOL

Offer To Scots Education Committee

Learning How To Produce Necessities Of Life

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Sir Daniel and Lady Hamilton of have offered Balsacara, Ross-shire, Dueraig Castle, Plockton, to Ross- shire Education committee for use es a school for the practical education of the young. The committee have remitted the matter to a special com- mittee.

Sir Dinle). In a letter read to the Education Committee, stated that the rustic

and outbuildings were all ready existing buildings for a start. The could accommodate young people. In short, Duncraig might follow the lines of the Danish Folk Schools. Institute, he added,

Such a traded, especially in the was badly Western Highlands. A similar system was in operation on their property in India. That system included farm- ing, gardening, and building, to which could be added weaving and naviga lion. If a man grew his food he need never be in rags; if he could build a coltage he would be weather- proof.

in hund machine for making and

These necessities of life could all be provided at Duncraig. The young people could be taught how to be- come more or less self-supporting and The Independent of all the world.

made shore gravel on the estate Arst-class concrete for

bricks hot. Boat- was available on the Alexander

navigation. Farquhar building might accompany Churchill, aged 27, fruit salesman, of and there was plenty of good larch The Firs, Westerham, Kent, was tied wood available for this purpose. es and ordered to pay £8 85. costs The training of girls, added the by Mr. McKenna at Bow-street re-letter, could also be carried on at

as milking, looking! cently for being under the influence Duncraiff, such

Robert

of drink while in charge of a car in after poultry, spinning, besides cook- Bleak-street, Piccadilly, at 3.15 am. ing and other branches of domestic

science. un October 18.

of Education, in a The Director fie was also disqualified from

Jetter

to Sir Dantel Hamilton, ex- driving for 12 months.

Mr. R. Bushell (prosecuting) said pressed appreciation of the proposals, with the

of the road. A man and woman in police officer saw Churchill drive few yards and stop in the middle the car tried to restrain him from driving farther.

By the application to his tongue of n preparation made from the venom FOUR HOURS A WEEK

are of deadly vipers, the life of a Sheffield Children clip inviled aduit

now being turned out, and the War man who was choking to death has "A

tims were category

Once has given a trial order for 500 been saved in the City General Some even ware the clothes tons of them, while a canning firm Hospital.

He Walter Woodbine, 41. of problem.

eider brothers

sisters 201 doing good business exporting

Walkley-street, Sheffield, who is said persuade the person at the booking them.

the Experiments are being made in 1o be a descendant of Fletcher Chris

Bounty office that they were 16.

As the officer approached, Churchill Dr. J. E. Smart sald that 23 million drying potatoes in factories that are tan, the leader of

(half people

the

of only open seasonally for such other mutineers, population

Mr. Woodbine suffers from haemo-drove another three or four yards. allia, a condition of the bad winch The man passenger dragged him from Britain) spent four hours a week purposes as drying grass, jucerne,

chicory and the by-roducts of allia, a the cinema.

prevents it from clotting and which the ear and there was An Inquiry by the British Film brewing.

renders its victins able to bleed to amount of struggling.

Dr. Baldie, police surgeon, certifled Institute showed that the girl of to-

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day had learnt from the dim how to FALL KILLS

belave at table.

DOCTOR

“KISS”

LOSES APPEAL

#

'EMERALD SISTER"

DRAGGED FROM CAR

technical centre to at young people agreeing wholeheartedly wit views as to the desirability of a rural

The Rev. J. G. Nicolson, Fodderty. for life in a crofting community, chairman of the Committee, said they were greatly indebted to Sir Daniel for his offer.

certain DOCTOR ON

death thould they cut themselves. Churchill to be under the luence of ROAD DEATH

When Mr. Woodbine bit his tone drink, but not drunk_the commun

in falling from a ladder, bleeding In-

Mr. Walter Frampton (diunding) CHARGE

ide the tongue caused it to swell to sense of the term.. Imany times its normal size and block' the uir passage.

means of

Churchill held commissioned

He

He was taken to the hospital, where rank in the Navy until 1931. the "viper venom" was applied by tried in 1933 and resigned his swab to the tip of his commission to take up civil employ

He left his home at Wesleihom st tongue. The bleeding stopped and ment in Covent Garden Market. the swelling diminished.

Although Mr. Woodbine has re-3.30 am. each day and, on the eve of his arrest, returned soon after 7 p.m. talk with

NIGHT CLUBS evered sufficiently to difficulty, he is still unolde te ent and can take only iced water.

is beneficial

An accident in which a woman was knocked through a hedge by a ear and killed was described at Burnham, Bucks, recently.

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Dr. Erie Finch Peek, of Bourne While staying in her sister's house Dr. C. Bernard Kelly, of Gay-boat at Thames Ditton, Mrs. Elleen

End, Bucks, was committed for triol at Aylesbury Assizes charged with Ann the inanslaughter of Mary street, Bath, lost his appeal ot Bath Rosina McConnell (07), of Lamberi Quarter Sessions recently against a Hund, Brixton II, fell and died from

Price (60), of Taplow, Bunham, and under the while £2 fine for assaulting his housemaid a fractured skull.

At the inquest at Esher recently,

He then received a telegram from driving

influence of drink. Bail was allowed. 10-years-old Marie Finegen, by Kiss-1

The venom may mean death to ing her.

a verdict of "Accidental death" was

Stanley Coxhill, a butter, suita ordinary persons because it causes visitors from Liverpool inviting him

terrific speed. The Recorder, Mr. R. P. Croom- recorded.

car passed him at Mrs. McConnell and her sister their blood in clot, but on account of and his wife to dinner in London. They reached London after pan., Johnson, K.C., said he was satisfied

He saw a dog lying dead on the path- and after dinner, Churchill was pre-

way. Miss Price's body lay on the with the young woman's evidence, Norah, widow of Will Evans, were this property It' and added: "I cannot accept the evi- the original "Emerald Sisters" of the utterers from haemophilia,

other side of u hedge. music ball. Another sister is Mrs.1

There have been several previous valled upon to go to two night clubi

where the party danced and saw u Dr. Peck dence of the appellant."

was staggering and He added that he was not satisfied Stanley Lupino (Connie Emerald),enses of its successful application to wh

cabaret.

holding his hand to his head, such patients.

Churchill had two gins and tonic at thought he said. "'in for it." with the evidence of the doctor's wife, who is in Hollywood,

EILY O'DARE

one club and some whisky at the Andrew Dykes, farmer, sald that that the girl was imaginative about

He and his friend thought be Dr. Peek, who walked unsteadily, sex matters.

The Recorder expressed the hope Eily O'Dare, Mr. Stanley Lupino, Champion Eats 48 Eggs

was perfectly it to drive, but after said: "1 hit a woman." Iney had gone a short distance the found the body and it was suggested Louis Tillinghast claims to Le friend tried to persuade him to allow that a doctor should be fetched, Dr.

his wife to drive.

Peck said, "I in a doctor," but did "She

married Mr. Charles Methode Island's egg-eating champion,

Churchill refused to leave the ear not examine the body, he downed four

PS. Garrett said that Dr. Peck Connell and became one of the Me- and to prove it Connell trio.

champlon, and eggs-without losing and the police arrived. He won an "Her son, Mr. Charles J. McCona yolk-at the annual carnival of nustemlous man and any suspensies smelt strongly of whleky and stag

At the police station he laughed and cried. nell, is stage director at the Victoria Eicke-Thefft Post, American Legion, of his licesce would mean ruin for gered about. Palace Theatre,"

of Narraganselt.

"Mrs. McConnell's stage name was

that before whomsoever Dr. Kelly the actor, snid. should hereafter be examined, they

punishment

领导

"Sho was a singer and was regard- would find it possible to considered 129 very quick dancer, whether the publicity and ls drei- slop

hati not been enough.

Mrs. Kelly, in the witness-box, said that she and her husband were -the greatest of friends.

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