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Undergrads Ruined by

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

December 15, 1938.

Gambling Scandal

Starving to Pay

Pay Debts After Crooked Card Games

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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,

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

in base- Usually these clubs are ments, away from the neighbourhood of the colleges, luxurluntly furnished with Oriental drapings and other casily movable articles.

These can be quickly transferred to new house if suspicion arises.

Experienced croupiers have been brought over from Monte Carlo by the organisers. One of the men who runs these parties is known to

Marriage Secret. And Job, Lost

young woman who has worked

have had a dozen convictions for eight years for the London County running gambling houses In Lon-Council as a domestic assistant is to 1 lose her job in a year's time-because don.

The Hospital Committee did not know she was married.

under He has touts among the raduates 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 not to students have been advised accept ang invitations to eard parties unless they are fully satisfied as to the bond fides of their host.

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

his folly.

She was originally engaged as a 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, us the re- ulations required, she Is married, and therefore ineligible for the post.

Although sin did not conceal her marriage, the fact was not male known to the Hospital's Commitee when she war ap- pointed.

The Committee recommends that "non-compliance with the Council's condoned," and that

The master interviewed the pro-standing order prietor of the card club and com-Its operation be suspended "to enable pelled him to admit that the game the woman's services to be retained

for another twelve months." had been crooked.

Many of the young men at the

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

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

WALKERTON, Ont.

UFSI

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 Cilve, chief of the British diplomatic corps, he left the Japanese embassy in London to present his creden- tals to King Georite. He lost a leg while Minister to China, six years ago, in a bomb outrage.

Spouse In Chicken Coop"

RICHMOND, Cal

John F. Vuelz's alleged grounds

for divorce were rather unusual. He

Mis. Caroline Freidburger, who has complained to the court that his wife Just celebrated her 90th birthday attended Communist meetings and

Penniless

MAN & CHILDREN FOUND GASSED

WIFE SENT AWAY BEFORE TRAGEDY

SOLD TOOLS TO BUY TOYS

A 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 Dunfeld-road, Catfoni, S.E.

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his daughter Josephine, 5. The dis- covery was made when the pollee were informed by neighbours that they had not seen the man or the two children for some time.

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· Mrs. Hilda O'Donnell, the dead man's wife, and her youngest chlid, John, nged two, were visiting her nother's home Oxberry-street. Fulham. W.. when the tragedy. accurred.

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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.

"We had been married for 13 the years. He had been through war, and the experience had affected his nerves."

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Members of the peerage and other titled persons are here, uiributed her remarkably good that she made him sleep in the among many people, once high in the social scale, who Several have sold their motor-cars health and long life to "work, an chicken coop. He also mentioned

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This was revealed by Mr. F. J. Wellman, the chairman, at n meeting of the Relief Sub- Committee of Brighton Public Assistance Committee recently.

"Many of the hardest coses come from the top of the tree," he said.

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

ADMIRAL'S EX-WIFE

The London County Council by a majority recently approved "I remember one woman, a former la 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 ato us. Her health later broke down mental hospital. Mr. E. G. completely and she died.

That woman had been used to a Culpin, the Chairman, presided,

The Mental Hospitals Committee household where there were 20 ser- vants. Just before her sudden death reported that they had decided to grant permission asked for by the she was to have taken up employ- director of research of the Institutement in the cloakroom of a Brighton of Psycho-Analysis for a small num-

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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-in 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-operate: Two baronets were forced 10 In the arrangement. The permission come to us. was to be granted for one year, after which the matter would be reviewed.

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to allow persons who had no medical "I have had before me a doctor training to be present when patients whom I remember driving his own were being examined was open to currlage with a magnificent pair 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- ini hospital under a magistrate's men have appeared in clerical attire. order. They wero there at the

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had special responsibilities to them. report contained the following letter I might also be well to refer the from the Rumanian Minister In question to their own medical officers London: ----

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I have the honour to inform you Mr. J. R. Oldfield sald the Institute that I have been commanded by his of Psycho-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 £500 for na 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 trainees. The coun

ell, the public authority in Lon-purpose for which the gift can best The committee are considering the don, had the only concentration of acute cases available. If the council press their cordial thanks to the King be used. The council decided to ex- did not assent, it was as good as say of Rumania.“ ing that the trainees should have no experience ni al). Tho medical superintendent of the hospital was favourable and both he and his medical staff pressed the sub-com- mittee to let the laymen come in. The counell would be wise to allow the modiesl superintendent to do what he wished. The patients would not be feopardized.

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