1938-11-12 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12,

MAJOR OF 72 KEEPS

HIS

Vow TO MARRY GIRL, 26

A glass of port wine at a New Year's Eve party started a romance between a wealthy retired Army officer of seventy-two and a hairdresser aged twenty-six.

The couple, Miss Catherine Goodall, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Jakeman, of Cromwell-lane, Tile Hill, Coventry, and Major R. K. Jackson, of Carr Hill, Sleights, Yorkshire, were mar- ried recently at Coventry Cathedral.

They first met at an hotel in Paignton, where the Jakemans had gone for a week-end. Major Jackson was spending the winter there.

Across the dining-table the major offered Miss. Goodall a glass of wine. She refused, to the major's surprise..

*One day I am going to make you my bride," he said. The incident was laughed off. The major, however, persuaded Mr. Jakeman to go for a walk with him the following day.

“LIKE A MAN OF THIRTY" He repeated. his intention of marrying Miss Goodall, and asked permission to correspond with her

when she returned to Coventry,

Four months ngo Major Jackson to Miss Goodall in one of

propus. He was refused.

his

A month ago he proposed again. This time he was accepted.

There is a big difference in their ages, but Major Jackson la more like a man of thirty," said Mrs. Jakeman,

"Catherine is not a headstrong girl, and she made this decision to

the Major of her marry

own free will.

"The Major is very much in love with her, and although he is very wealthy my daughter says she would have married him if he had been poor.

"She did not want a 'big wedding, but the Major inalsted,

"We had a job even to make her wear her wedding gown, and even

"FRIENDS MADE ME A DRUG ADDICT”

High-School girl, actress, manne- quin, dance hostess, and former wife of Al Bowlly, the crooner, Miss Freda Roberts, Beautiful 28-years-old brum- ette, told at her West End flat re- cently how "a few silly friends" had made her a drug addict..

10s.. nt. She had been fined £10 Bow-street Police Court for pos3c80- ing

40/2 grains of Indian hemp-the

of a

then she insisted on wearing a brown chario Fala en her fat

velvet coat over her gold satla dress. She would not carry a bouquet-only a amali Bible."

"GREAT FUTURE: BEFORE ME"

Sitting in their bedroom recently at the London hotel where they are honeymooning, Major Jackson clasp- ed the hand of his young bride and said:

"Saturday was the greatest day of my life-it was my wedding day. I have a great future before me now.

"Actually, the first time I saw my wito was at a New Year's Eve dance. "My New Year resolution was to marry her, and now that I have carried it out I am happy."

in

Patrick John Henry, aged 20, of Chiltern Court, Baker-street, W., was accused with her but discharged; his counsel said he had tried to shield her by "doing a manly thing" and taking the blame himself. but goodness knows it's been a strug- "Well, drugs are just history to me,

gic," Miss Roberts sald.

"A LITTLE FOOL" "To think that if I hadn't been a little fool and come to London look- ing for fame I might have been a nice slump, simple, contented little York- ahire housewife!" she sighed.

my father was killed in the torpedord.

My brother, too. 7 I had too much of my own suppose I way. saved ilke

mad, come to London, went on the stage, became a bemannequin and a dance hostess.

"We are going to be very happy to gether," agreed his bride.

The Major has been married fore. His first wife died.

arc

to

Major and Mrs. Jackson spend the main part of their honey- moon in London.

Later, Major Jackson will take his bride back to the big country house he owns outside Whitby, Yorkshire.

BACK TO THE 'GOOD OLD DAYS*

THE adoption

of early Victorian styles

in the design of prosent-day fashions is em- pharised in these costumes. t to o

Miss. A. Heyward 100re an "Oliver Traist" cap and Lorduroy trousers during her match in the women's

Autumn poli

foursomes Anal

at Ranelagh, Leg of Multon sleeves, a wide flounced skirt and a bonnet are fea. of the

Turen

Lilian Lawler wedding gown at the right.

SECRET OF

OF ST. MARTIN'S CRYPT REBURIALS

Unknown to the crowds of busy people who daily pass the spot thousands of coffins and human bones that lie in the vaults below the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields are being removed in secret to the London Necropolis.

Down at the back of the crypt where the men on the poverty-line go at nights there are four vaults. It is esti- mated that in three of them there are about 3,000 coffins.

In the fourth vault the human remains were only discovered nine years ago, when it was re-entered. They consist of a huge plle of uncomfined bones from bodies originally buried in the old St. Martin's cemetery, which was done away with when Duncannon Street was built.

This ermetery dates back almost to the Conquest. Nell Gwyn and Jack Sheppard, the highwayman, may be among those who are now being reverently re-interred,

THERE SINCE 1830-

The old cemetery was cleared in 1830 when most of the remains were taken to a now burial ground in Camden Town. It is believed that

Driver Banned

For Life

"Creeping Paralysis"

A thirty-nine-year-old driver, and

the skulls and bones in a loose hop to be suffering from creeping paraly-

then

in the fourth vault were put theresis, was at the Old Bailey recently The work of removal has been sentenced to twelve months' impri- going on for some time. Two wooden sonment for manalaughter and ban- screina have been erected at the ned from driving for Bfe. Gabriel entrances to the vaults.

William Eyre, of Finsbury Park, N., "We are unable to supply any in-wax said to have knocked down a formation” «nld an official of the cyclist, who died in hospital two days

burch "oxcept to say that the work later.

30 GIRLS HURT IN

RAIL CRASH

When a shunting engine crashed into a special train

has been going on according to the Mr. L. A. Byme (prosecuting) said packed with fish girls at Aberdeen Joint Station recently the Faculty granted to us. It had that Eyre told the police that he used 30 were injured, five seriously.. to be screened from the public view his hand to help press down the brake

by the terms of the Faculty, and the pedal, undertaking had to be carried out

reverently, decently

and in order.

·Bezwent will record whence

the

The 100 Best Drivers

There were between 800 and 400 passengers on the train, which was leaving for Lowestoft. It was crowded with women fish workers from Scottish ports.

י,

"When I was 20 I married_A Bowlly you know. the crooner We met at a party. Wo were widely tr love. but somehow things wen wrong. Our marriage lasted only three weeks. But we're silll good friends. Al brought me Bowert while I was in hospital last wintes and was sweet to me.

"I went on worklog. At one time I was carning about £2.000 n vear. I Dald £600 for a mink coat, £400 for a silver fox. They're all in pawn now I've not been well enough to work, *JUST FOR FUN, THEN—” "What began it all? Just a few silly friends I met at a cocktail party two years ago. They persuaded me to try some heroin. I had no wor- ries, no filness.

"I tried the drug just for fun. Then tried a little more....until I just couldn't do anything without it. 1 get jittery; couldn't keep still, would ached in every limb; awfu' pains in the heart. For nights and nights I

awake.

Lay

"Before long I was taking 5% grains a day; for a malor operation they give you only 1-10th of a grain. "TRIED TWO CURES"

"I tried two nursing-home cures. One cost me 10 gulacas a week and did me no good. At another they took me off drugs in one, swoop in- stead of doing it gradually, and I grew so hopeless that my doctor had to register me as a drug addict.

"Slowly he cured

me; I

have not touched a

a grain since I came out of hospital last Easter, but my heart is ow I'm down paying for it. And now from 10st to a shrimp of 7st. Blb.

Fancy! That heroin the police found had been in a drawer for months, untouched. Honestly, I had forgotten it.

"Well, I've finished with those friends of mine. I'm finished with this dance-hostess business, too. I'll fight desperately to get my health back."

"MADE" CHARLIE KUNZ

The man who claims to have "made" Charlie Kunz, the dance band leader, stated in Brighton Bankruptcy Court recently that his only assets were furniture worth £10 and three pawn tickets worth £5.

He was Captain Alfred Delves Broughton (47),

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RICHARD TAUBER ON PARLOPHONE RECORDS

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When You're Away.

R020367---Sympathy. (Firefly),

Can't Forget You.

R020381-Glanina Mia. (Firefly).

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1020369-0 Mia Bella Napoll (Little Rendezvow).

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1020328-Pagliacol Prologue.

R020318-Smile for Me.

Bimple Little Melody.

R020310-Serenade from "Student Prince".

Roses of Picardy.

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1020390-La Rosa Oriental,

Lamenta” Nouțicano. R020824-Tonadillaa.

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R020283-El Pannello Do Lunares.

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METROPOLE HOTEL

DANCE SEASON FROM TO-DAY

whose deficiency TEA DANCE 5 to 7 p.m. 75 cts.

was given as £2,374.

Capta'n Broughton gave the cause of his fallure as losses in connection with the club called Casonis, Ltd., of which he and Santos Casani were directors.

.

In

Casani October, 1030, Mr. brought an action against him. "There was," sa'd Captain Brough- ton, "an injunction restraining me from directing Charlie Kunz, our greatest source of Income. An agreement was made between mé and Charlle Kunz whereby he was to pay me for two years from 1937 30 per cent. of his earnings as a pro- fessional musle on.

"In the first year I received

£2,200,"

The Omelal Receiver asked why

Mr. Kunz abould have made a con- tract so favourable to him.

"I am the man who : made him, from a musician earning £500 a year to his present position," answered Captain Broughton. that the agreement with Bdr. Runs The Official Receiver mentioned

was now. the subject of negotiations. Those terms we are observing."

Many of the girls were stand-at the rear of the train were badly "Alimonument at the new place of}"

One

girl

- said that she was stand- CUSHIONS AS STRETCHERS, ing in the corridoor when the crash One hundred men who have driven ing in the corridors and at the shaken.

took came, dr

Cushioned seats from the carriagen London's buses for fifteen years windows saying good-bye to

place. Ho under The vault liew

tho st. without accident were presented with friends as the engine, which were used as stretches by rallway Several of those in the compart Marlin's playground, where boys play bars to safety Grit medals recently.

workers and ambulance mén, comment were hurled against the car- football, women sit with their babies, Lord Ashold, chairman of London was being shunted towards the most of the injured were taken to rlage windows and fell on the door. ́and old man !.dranny with **** Pamenger - Transport's Board, said: carriages, crashed into the hospital, but several were Able to Suitcases and luggage from the racks whirling round them. The vaults «You have covered 27,000,000 miles train.

leave soon after and travel South by fell on them, a a later train, spea

The plintered door of the car- Many of the women' wen

were cut by slags soumed to

are to be rebuilt so that the great in London's streets without a single work in the crypt of St. Martin-in-person being injured--a magnificent Passengers in the four front car the Fielda niay be extended,

rlages were injured, and even those falling glass

mustavámenit,"

come "bang up

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