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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 15, 1938.

Undergrads Ruined by Gambling Scandal Starving to Pay Debts After Crooked Card Games

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COLLEGES

Cambridge,

Cambridge University authorities are trying to stamp out a wave of gambling which is sweeping through the colleges, ruining undergraduates, and leading to many scandals.

Officials are watching gambling dens which have been set up in some of the residential districts of the town, where card. sharpera are said to lure young men with money to play chemin- de-fer and poker.

Usually these clubs are in base 1 .ments, away from the neighbourhood of the colleges, luxuriantly furnished with Oriental dropings and other ensily-movable articles.

These can be quickly transferred to

A new house if suspicion arises.

Marriage Secret, And

rio by Job, Lost

Experienced crouplers have been brought over from Monte Carlo by One of the men the organisers.

who runs these parties is known to have had a dozen convictions for

A young woman who has worked eight years for the London County

running gambling houses in Lon-Council as a domestic assistant is to don.

lose her job in a year's time-because the Hospital Committee did not know

He has touta among the under-she was married. graduates in many of the colleges, and through these touts other under- to visit this graduates are invited house and lose their money.

STUDENTS WARNED One result of the scandal is that students have been advised not to accept any invitations to card parties unless they are fully salisfled as to The bond fides of their hast.

One man went straight to the mas- ter of his college when he found himself in trouble and confessed

his folly.

She was originally engaged as n temporary cleaner at Paddington, and a year later she was appointed a permanent domestic assistant.

It has now been discovered that, instead of being single, as the re gulations required, she is married, and therefore ineligible for the post.

Although she did not conceal

ker marriage, the fact was not made known to the Hospital's Committee whom she WAS AD- pointed.

The Committee recommends that "non-compliance with the Council's The master interviewed the pro-standing order be condoned," and that prietor of the card club and com-Its operation be suspended "to enable pelled blm to admit that the game the woman's services to be retained had been crooked.

for another twelve months,"

Many of the young men ot the

University are losing so much at Apple a Day Pays at 90

these gambling dens that they are Jeft with insufficient money to feed themselves properly, and are so wor- ried that their studies are suffering.

Several have sold their motor-cars to meet gambling debts.

EVE

WALKERTON, Ont.

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Japan recently sent a new ambassador to the Court of St, James's, in London. He is Mamoru Shigemitsu, shown at left as, accompanied by Sir Sydney Clive, chief of the British diplomatic corps, he left the Japanese embassy in London to present his creden- tials to King George. He lost a leg while Minister to China, six years ago, in a bomb outrage.

Spouse "In Chicken Coop"

RICHMOND, Cal.

John F. Voelz's alleged grounds for divorce were rather unusual. He Mrs. Caroline Freidburger, who has complained to the eaurt that his wife Just celebrated her 90th birthday attended Communist meetings

and

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MAN & CHILDREN FOUND GASSED

WIFE SENT AWAY BEFORE TRAGEDY SOLD TOOLS TO BUY TOYS

An unemployed carpenter who suffered from nervous trouble as a result of his war experience was found dead recently with two of his children in a gas-filled room at his home in an L.C.C. block of buildings in Dunfield-road, Calford, S.E.

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his daughter Josephine, G. The dis- covery was mado when the police were informed by. neighbours that they had not seen the man or the two children for

time.

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A sister-in-law said that O'Donnell cold some of his tools on Saturday and had

had bought Denia a toy tank and Josephine a miniature tea-set.

He had been out of work since he injured a rib and he feared he would obtain further employment until Easter. He also had difficulty in sleeping.

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Mrs. Hilda O'Donnell, the dead man's wife, and her youngest child. Jahn, aged two, were visiting her mother's home In Oxberry-street, Fulham, W., when the tragedy occurred.

She said: "My husband insisted that I and the baby'should visit my mother over the week-end.

"I received a letter from him say- Ing how much he loved me, but it also suggested that all was not well. I hurried home, but the police had al- ready arrived.

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"We had been married for years, He had been through the war, and the experience had öffected his nerves."

An inquest will be held.

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here, attributed her remarkably good that she made him sleep in the among many people, once high in the social scale, who Many, many more suggestions at health and long life to "work, a chicken apple a day, and three regular meals." that she called him a yellow dog" have been receiving poor relief at Brighton in recent

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They include sons of former Lord Mayors of London, Army officers, doctors and councillors who-had themselves sat on the rellef committee.

OBSERVERS AT A HOSPITAL

TRAINING OF PSYCHO- ANALYSTS

L.C.C. PERMISSION·

The London County Council by a majority recently approved

This was revealed by Mr. F. J. Wellman, the chairman, at a meeting of the Relief Sub- Committee of Brighton Public Assistance Committee recently. "Many of the hardest cases. come from the top of the tree," he said.

"Brighton," Mr. Wellman sald, "would be amazed if some of the names were made public, but I should not dream of doing that...

ADMIRAL'S EX-WIFE

"I remember one woman, a former

a decision to allow lay psycho-wife of an Admiral, Her income analysts to be present at the ceased and she was obliged to come examination of patients at a to us. Her health later broke down mental hospital. Mr. E. G. completely and she died.

Culpin, the Chairman, presided. "That woman had been used to a The Mental Hospitals Commitice household where there were 20 ger- reported that they had deelded to vants. Just before her sudden death grant permission asked for by the ane was to have taken up employ. director of research of the Institutement in the cloakroom of a Brighton of Paycho-Analysis for a small num- hotel

ber of lay analysts in training at the "Another woman we helped was Institute to observe the reactions of the widow of a former Governor of patients when they were being ex-n Crown colony. A pension she had amined at the St. Bernard's Hospital. been receiving from a former Viceroy The medical staff of the hospital had of India ceased when he died. expressed willingness to co-operale Two baronets were forced to in the arrangement. The permission come to us. was to be granted for one year, after which the matter would be reviewed. "OPEN TO QUESTION"

Mr. F. S. Henwood moved that the matter ba deferred until the com-

HAD £20,000 A YEAR "Then there were two other men, Another case I had was one of a man each the bearer of well-known title. who had, enjoyed an income up to

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mitter of the British Medical Ass rlation now investigating, the ques tion of non-medical paycho-analysis had reported. He said the proposal to allow persons who had no medical "I have bad before me a doctor. training to be present when patients whom I remember driving his own were being examined wag to carriage with a magnifcent pale of question.

They were dealing with horses Navy and Army officers of persons who had been sent to a men- all ranks have come to us. Clergy- tal hospital under a magistrate's men have appeared in clerical attire. order. They were there at the,

£20,000 a year and at one time had SCOTCH WHISKY owned a string of racehorses. Ho was down to nothing."

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mercy of the council and the council

had special responsibilities to them. report contained. the following letter | It might also be well to refer the from the Rumanian Minister In question to their own medical ofcers London:- Rs.A body.

purpose for which the gift can best be used. The council decided to ex- press their cordial thanks to the King of Rumania.

I have the honour to inform you Mr. J. R. Oldfield said the Institute that I have been commanded by his of Faycho-Analysis was a perfectly Majesty the King of Rumania, my proper body in every way. The most august Sovereign, to send you trainees were merely to be present the enclosed cheque for £600 for as observers. The people observed distribution among the poor of Lon- would be so acutely deranged that don on the occasion of his Majesty's they would be unconscious of the State visit to this country." presence of the traineestyle on The committee are considering the ell, as the public don, had the only concentration of sicule cases available. If the council did not assent, it was as good as say ing that the trainees should have no | experience at all. The medical superintendent of the hospital was favourable and both. he and his medical staff pressed the mittee to let the laymen come in. sub-com- The council would be wise to allow the medical superintendent to do what he wished. The patients would not be jeopardized.AS

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