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LEN

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HARVEY'S FIRST WIN

BROUGHT HIM ONLY 7s. 6d.

Now He Is A Wealthy Business Man

ME

EET Len Harvey Limited. The hero of the recent sensational heavyweight championship fight is a registered limited liability company, with himself as chairman and his charming young wife as co-director. He is one of the world's wealthiest boxers.

Len Harvey Unlimited would be a beller title. He is a director of three companies and is his own manager, a newspaper correspondent, and promoter of boxing for Butlin's holiday camps. From the point of view of his many interests, his recent winning of the championship wan just a small incident in his round of duties. "We are spending the week-end ¦reminisetnces when I is written, just an hundreds of thousands of and he wants to give much time other prople art spending the end thought to it, to make it really week-end. Mrs. Harvey said in good. her Kensington at while Len was telding a well-earned rest from the hundreds of people who called to congratulate him. "We are going to see some friends to-morrow.

"HE'S MARVELLOUS" "Whatever else you write about hlin, don't forget to say that he is i the most marvellous man-for he really is.

"Since the fight he has been busy with all his other affairs.

it,

"There Leu's Rubbing which he invented and has always used. It was put on the market for athletes about eighteen months ago.

Then there is his physical culture school and correspondence course, and his work na boxing promoter for Butlin's Holiday Compa And, of course, here is Len Ilarvey, Limited.

"He manages all his fights and business affairs connected with them. He has not hat a manager for a least six years, and for this turned himself into a company.

"Then, you see, be is a writer and journalist, and is trying to and time to write his life story.

"It will be big volume of

a

"He has a lot of memories stored

in his mind since that day, teen years ago, when at the age 12% and weighing 5st. 4lb. he won his first professional Aght at Plymouth for a purse of 75. Gd.

USED TO WATCH

falker, then a farmer ut Pakdila, near Stoke Plimsland,

Cornwall, where he was born, used tu take him to the Cosmopolitan watchi ymsium, Plymouth, the boxing.

His father, only 53 now, is in business in London.

Len from Cornwall to London, and brandfather is also sliti allve and well. His grandmother only died hast year, aged 84,"

Len Harvey is said to be the richest boxer-£6,000 a year hon been mentioned as his incone

"Rubbish," nuid Mrs. Harvey. "We are lucky to have a roof over our heads these days. My husband

UFS

Abraham and Chuna Grynszpan, uncle and aunt of Herschel Grynszpan, 17-year-old Pollsh Jew who totally wounded Ernst vom Rath, German diplomat, in Paris. They were arrested by Paris police and charged with complicity, receiving a five-day jalf sentence. Young Grynszpan's netion set of widespread retaliation against Jews in Germany and Austrin.

19 TYPHOID

CASES IN EAST LONDON: GIRL DIES

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JINETEEN cases of typhoid fever have occurred in a restricted area of densely-populated Hoxton, in the borough of Shoreditch.

A 13-year-old girl, Florence Hale, of Hows Street, Shoreditch, has died, while her mother, Mrs. Ellen Hale (51), and brother, James Hale (26), are in the fever hospital at Tottenham.

has to work very hard as a busy The Public Health Department of households, have been notified in the business-man. It is more than some the borough in a statement said no borough," added the statement, "and men could do to hold the job offense had been notified recently with there have been two cases who work Chairman of Directors of Len Harvey onset later than November 11. in the borough but live outside. Limited."

"in all, 17 cases affecting nine "Investigations made so far point to a common source of infection which probably took place in the middle of October."

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Town Hall offelals declined to say how many pallents are children, They also refused to reveal, the "com- mon source of infection.”

"NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"

An L.C.C. official, however, said that three of the cases occurred in St. Leonard's Hospital and two in Bethnal Green Hospital.

"The patients were admitted for other reasons," he said. "While in hospital their incubation period end- ed, and they were transferred to an L.C.C.

fever

hospital. Five wards

In the two hospitals have been quarantined. No fresh ense has been reported."

A. Ministry of Health oflciul said that his department did not regard the outbreak as serious. "There is no cause for alarm," he added. "und it is not yet necessary to issue a Warning about precautions."

Boy Dies In Oxygen Tent Fire

DESCRIBED as million-to-one

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chance, an accident, Involving three oxygen tents, caused the death of a boy and injury to two other children in Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton (Surrey).

Derek Miller, 9, of Farringdon Rond, Clerkenwell, was playing with a toy acroplane in the oxygen tent, in which he was receiving treatment,; when the tent caught fire.

One theory is thai friction in the toy ignited the oxygen,

Nurses at once switched off cylin- ders supplying oxygen to Derek's tent and those of two other patients, matched Derek from his burning bed and beat out the flames.

BOY ELECTROCUTED Allen Harry Chappell (11), of) Rectory Lane, Beddington (Surrey) was found by his father lying on his bed, electrocuted. Near him were Lwo wires connected with an electrici light switch,

Father-

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Daughter-

AGED 10

When a man of twenty-four was accused at Grimsby recently

of

i neglecting his daughter, aged ten, the magistrates questioned the ages of father and daughter. The ages were correct.

The man. Frederick Lodge, * Asherman, and widower, was sont to prison for three months.

December 22, 1938.

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