1938-12-05 — Page 19

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5,

1938.

TWO MEN IN DANCE GIRL'S LIFE

Story Of Scenes And Threats: 'Driving Me Mad"

A Story of a new infatuation and a farewell inter- ew with one of her two men friends was told at the quest at Westininster recently on the dance hostess, rs. Violet Doris Wood (31), who was found dead from s-poisoning at her flat in Brake House, Dolphin Square, W.

It was stated that she was the widow of Mr. Hubert bod, a shipping agent.

James Chapman, of Chiltern Court, Baker Street, said that had known Mrs. Wood for the past four months.

"BEST TO PART”

She told me recently," he said,

at she thought

juld part."

best that we

Le said that he was very attached!

Mr. Wood, but there was no talkį

getting married. He

rried.

Was un-

The Coroner (Mr. Ingleby Oddie): y did she suddenly tell you she uld not see you again? She said ngs were dimeult. She did not.

I could not e any explanation. terstand it at all. ho had cried Aletle while he s at the flat. Later that night she came to see n and his father, and told him she ended to go to Paris and had come sny goodbye. Coroner: Was there any quarrel? None at all.

th

another

EMPIRE NEWS

CAPE TOWN

the

Capetown. urging A resolution

that civilian population of Cape Town should be registered and organised for air raid precautions, and that the coastal defence of the Cape Penin- sula should be modernised, passed at a meeting of the Empire Group.

city.

WIS

As a result of this meeting a move- ment has started in Cape Town for the institution of what is termed "n of modified A.R.P: scheme."

Prince Bernhard, husband of Princess Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, I kes to do during deeds. This time he went out in a lifeboat, in exceedingly rough water at Terschelling, and enjoyed It, so he said. He is in centre of the picture, striding nshore while the crew of the "Nicolas Marius" stand by. His attitude indicates he wasn't troubled by sea-sickness.

He Was Offered £60 HALF-TON

To Marry Woman Of 66

Mr. Patrick McGowan, of Cedarne-road, Ful- ham, S.W., a married man with four children, recent- ly told of agents in Britain working to arrange marriages between German refugee women and British subjects.

The resolution followed an addressi by Cot, B. C. Judd, in which he said THREATS ALLEGATION

that while Cape Town as Mr. Pirow, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of Effingham the Delence Minister, had pointed Feet, Pimilco, a daily maid who out-need never fear a large-scale: been employed by Mrs. Wood, gas or air attack, a single rakding neroplanes that six weeks before her warship equipped with

Mrs. Wood went "all to could to enormous damage to the eces." Coroner: In what way?-She had ht. Mr. Wood there and she got fatuated with

young low and between them she did not ant Mr. Wood there any more. He pt on threatening her with letters, fich upset her. I have eadful scenes in the flat. Mr. Wood found a message from

country, Mrs. Meyer is considering I. Wood and she said, "I cannot

applying to the Government for per- up with it much longer. I can-

mission to remain in Britain. It go

the two of them. on with

A woman friend said "Mrs. Meyer, hey will drive me mad," and and other facilities. Of the expendi-

ture, land purchase will account for with eight children, was intro-who has been a widow for many lamped out of her bedroom.

£377,000 and housing for £500,000. duced to Mrs. Meyer on October years, is now living on the hospitall- was compelled 12, and two days later went of friends. She

to leave her lovely flat in Germany and she dure not return."

heard

Mrs. Smith said that the men had

He himself has been approached to take part in a marriage convenience and offered £00 to become a "bridegroom." The disclosures follow the conviction of Albert William Ford- Johannesburg Town Plan-Tlieham, 54-years-old tunneller, who at the Old Bailey recently was Johannesburg City Counel has ap

to four months' im- nothing further to do with the wo- £000,000 sentenced In principle of n

for for the development and imprisonment

bigamously man.'

Now penniless and without a provement of the western areas of marrying Mrs. Emma Meyer, a

The scheme envisages the the city.

an German Jewess. conversion of Claremont into

Indian township, with sports grounds Fordham,

en demanding money from Mrs. AUSTRALIA food for about six weeks, and she

a married

man

d received message after message STATES AND DEFENCE through a form of marriage

om them.

Coruner: The young mm, you pant-Yes; Mr. Chapman and Mr..

food.

PLANS

Sydney. Although Mr. Thorby, the Defence

not going to do anything, arg

omise you."

was a success, the Press and

with her at Chelsea register office. After the ceremony they separated immediately.

GERMAN PROPERTY

Mr. Maxwell Turner, prosecuting

the of the case, "German subjects are

Mills Buy Marriage

Licence

OF FISH AT CHURCH

Half

I ton of fish piled beneath a few nets made the porch of St. Mary-at-Hill, Bil- lingsgate's Parish Church, re- semble a fish shop recently,

The occasion was the fish harvest festival, and big mer- chants sent their crates, fishi porters their bunches of herringa jor nets of fish.

Altogether 37 varieties of sh were shown on the "slab" set up by church workers.

170LB. HALIBUT

A giant halibut, which weighed 1701b, when it came out of the water. was the prize exhibit, and around it were everything from lobsters and Join Dory to smells, dried haddock

and red mullet.

Mr. Bill Cupit, "father" of the mrket and organiser of the collec- tion, told of the origin of the festival just after the war.

"There's never been a year when the show failed," he declared. "None of the merchants ever makes any bother about sending along a crate of fish or a few lobsters and you

result. the

sec

That halk ton of fish will be sent along to Guy's Hospital-the hospital all our porters go to and it will last the whole hospital for a week.

"Twenty or so of us merchants

service this morning; a lot more this evening. Fish merchants don't live told very close to Billingsgate nowadays,

the market's old parish church."

When she last saw Mrs, Wood at her Minister, stated in a broadcast that it she was like someone mad-crying,

Atchison, Kaa. inicing and smoking, "I said, 'You the recent Loun Council meeting caurel, remarked during the course

Clinton Madison, 20, and Miss Ger. pu?' and she replied, 'No, I with State Premier generally agree that able to get British protection and trude Jackson, 18, pald for their mar-with our families went along to the

1,750-sales its results were disappointing.

British nationality In this way: Ariage lleence with Mr. A. A. Dunstan, Premier of woman is thus able to remove pro-inkens, each worth 2 mills. The

cence cost $3.50. The couple Veturia, declares that the Common-perty which she had in Germany." wealth failed to give a lead by not

Mrs. Meyer was born in Germany. Judie Frank P. Wertz they had been but we still try to keep in touch with ¡Police Constable Nicholls, enro er's officer, gave an account of an plaging before the conference cont

crete defence proposals.

and in 1894 married a German sub-ving the tokens for a year. jest who died in 1918.

ANOTHER MAN

terview with a man whom he

med

"Edward Carmona,"

ved in Stratton Street, Piccadily, ference

Smith, Premier of states that the con-

lack emphasised the

he man was between 35 and 30 national leadership.

Mr.

who

Quorgan

anal Immature.

dlacioso

She landed at Dover on September

of 20 last, and came to London to visit

Any idea of her brother to discuss her future

nd the officer said he stated that he national planning was half-baked owing to her treatment in Germany.

as the man referred to by Mrs. mith.

"Carmona" would not hether he was married, but sald

at he had known Airs. Wood for

Mr. Thorby said the States agreed the Common- co-operate with wealth, and approved the allocation

of £2,000,000 for defence. Every-

and mske

me time and had taken her out thing possible was being done to

amusements. She was. "highly establish new industries rung and excitable. "He says"

When

Fordham was arrested he told a policeman, "I ain't done nothing wrong. I got 35 quid and # new suit for marrying tier."

Mrs. Meyer, who is said to be a wealthy German Jewess, left the

"EASY £60′′

continued the police Australian defence us complete court with two other women.

possible.

09

Meer "that when he got there on Dutch Farmer Seiflers-Negoti- tuesday he found her in bed lisations now in progress at Canberra

Government monwealth

ressed. He arranged for her to go between representatives of the Com- Afterwards, Mr. McGowan, who

NOTE LEFT

and

Paris, where she had friends.

was a witness in the case, but was The did not say what she was die Netherlands Government may result

the not called, said, "On September last I kirbed about and he ("Carmona")

was working as a lorry driver for a hought she was simply run down." an arrangement whereby micrants frm of caterers. When I was out of from Holland will be brought to

driver sympathised work, a fellow Australia. It is expected that most with me and remarked, 'I can put Albert Arthur Pavor, a porter at of the men will be skilled farmers, you in the way of getting £60. he flats, sord that towels were NEW ZEALAND

"I asked him how, and he ex- wedged round the window. Kins was pouring from five taps and the TASMAN AIR MAIL IN led, 'If you will go through a

wes lying on the door dressed in grey trousers and a yellow blouse, A letter was on the table. The coroner said that Mrs. Wood had left a note to her father in

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Harry, Toffee Apple Prince,

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1 was the annnal dance Lambeth-walk Traders' Association

Proof of the success of the |"wonder drug," sulphanilamide, in the most dreaded of all lung infections, has been obtained in and Walsall during an epidemic of the rare

Wolverhampton lobar pneumonia.

Eight cases were specially treated with sulphanilamide alone. All made rapid, complete recovery. Three of the cases at least would ordinarily have been regarded as hopeless.

Lobar pneumonia, most deadly of In Lambeth Balha, 8.E., and if you think that just because a man sells the four principal forms, killed 0,242 from a handcart he is no trader, you men and 3,094 women in 1930, the would have got your answer from last year for which complete figures

exist. the Peanut King. "Granted we don't doll up in a Dr... S. C. Dyke, director of the

was taking her life although the note first flying-bont was tested in Eng-to-morrow. did not give any real explanation. land in November.

Major Gordon H. T. Macintosh, of Collingwood Gardens, Earl's Court, sold that his daughter left his home Austrailan air mail, which has been some two years ago because he uld flying from England since July. It not approve of her friends.

will involve the regular crossing of "She made acquaintances and 1,200 mller of open sea. considered--he said brokenly as he tried to overcome his emotion.

SOUTH AFRICA Coroner: You did not approve?— j

The costermonger stopped welling chrysanthemums and bananas in the "A week later I was taken to some Lambeth-walk, put his diamond ring Auckland. offices in Holborn for the life of on his title finger and took the Mr. F. Jones, Postmaster-General, me I cannot explalu just exactly Missus to a ball recently. announces that the Tasman air mail | where

of come Scotland Yard officers

"There I was introduced to a man who was obviously a. Ger- man, I understood hire to be a solicitor. He asked me if I was still prepared to go through with this, and I said I was. "When I arrived home that night I discussed the matter with my wife." Fordham overheard the conversation and said he would go through with it. That

be is how he came to standing in the dock.

THREE MARRIAGES IN YEAR

No.

Major Macintosh added that he was on good terms with his daughter and saw her from time to time. She had no financial trouble, and so fur ах ho knew there had been Directs of suicide.

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They say: "In every case exhibi- They had, of course, to do the immediate fall of temperature and Lambeth Walk, but the difference pulse rate, and by general improve- that these people did not need the ment, music. They just walk it, and a waltz looks like the Walk when they do it.

"I know that the agent who in the others came in pairs and thesilon of the drug was followed by no jarrived here recently to take part in troduced me to this had 'married were in their working clothes.

Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth's forthcoming three times this year. A friend of Expedition to the Antarctic.

mine, a single non, has received Sir Hubert will be in charge of the letters asking about his willingness

shit. Wyatt Earp, while Mr to enter into the 'marriages.' Lincoln Ellsworth, with another pilot, will undertake à 2,000-mile fight|

The coroner said he was satisñed

I was a case of suicide and equally

satisfied that Mrs.

Wood was not

Wholes.

"This solicitor' in Holborn lind looked me over, and then shaken his hand, saying that I was too young. I am over 50, and 1

They gave it the fervour of Waliz in Vienna, a Charlesion in New York, a Tango in Spain, and

"In all cases in which the drug was administered in full and efficient dosage the subsequent course was wholly responsible at the time. She from Enderby Land to the Bay of

eventful and recovery rapid." yielded to some sudden impulse when wowled and troubled.

Four doctors have reported enses Clothing Factories' Flight-Nine)

no ono gathered from that the "She had been living alone." be out of 10 clothing factories in Cape

sulphonilamide treatment ever danced the Lambeth) of

of added, "and had various men friends Town are working short time, owing.

women I lind to marry was Walk half as well as Harry, the pneumonia since, less than a year much older Mrs. Meyer is 86. Toffee Apple Prince, after his fourl] nzo, It was tried in England. The some apparently very fond of her

"Evidently she insisted upon the brown ale and a baby's head (meat Walfall and Wolverhampton results and cousing her good deal of dis-it is said, to competition from Japan,

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she married having a new Dudding).

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And they picked their beanly than and striped trousers.

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Dudley-roud Birmingham, IIippo Shot—A rogue hippo. When Fordham turned up for the queen-a sweet, young girl of six- Hospital,

and St. been raiding dress rehearsal, the 'solicitor told teen, dark haired, with pink cheeks. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. ly excitable and took to drink.

"She was an perfectly good terms crops on the banks of the Pongola hilm to get a new shirt, and collar They cheered her like madmand that no doubt was wise, bocaue the

Most of the cusos in which with her father and merely left him River for some months, has been and to elcon his anger, nails."

beon mado to live by herself because he id not shot. It was cut up by the natives Mr. McGowan added that at the Irene Dipper, Sergeant Dipper's completo recovery has

would hop-office each man had to sign a docu- daughter,

have been regarded, oven approve of one of her man friends who prize highly the fat of quite properly?

ment "agreeing that he would have

three months ago, ne hopeloss, :

young woman she became extreme-

Poach has

popotamus.

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