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GAOLED MAYFAIR MAN'S FATHER FOUND DEAD WITHIN
a few hours of learning that his son, one of the four young Mayfair men who raided a country house, had been sent to prison for 18 months, John Wirth Miller (58) was recently found dead in a'gas-filled room at his Folkestone home,
Police made the discovery when they were called to the house | in Bouverie Road West, following a smell of gas.
The night before Mr. Miller and his wife heard that their 26-year-old son, William John Miller, had been sentenced at Derby Assizes that day for his part with three others in breaking into a house at Chinley and stealing prticles worth £300.
70 solicitor's
The sun. formerly clerk in Folkestone, was then living at Archer Street, W.
"They felt the disgrace keenly," sald a friend of the family, "and for some days before the trial Mr. Miller had been depressed.
"Father and son were estranged. When the son lived at home they did not speak to one another. 1 link the other felt that his son's mode of i living would bring about his down- fall sonner or later."
He
Mr. Miller, a German by birth, was a naturalised Englishman. had been interned during the wor at Alexandra Park.
He took out naturalisation papers
and for many yearsj aftoy the w had lived at Folkestone, where he i helped his wife to run a boarding-
DEADLY ARRIVALS
AT THE ZOO
THE Zoo has just received one of its most dangerous con- signments.
"The
Return
Of The Duke”
The Duke of Windsor has accepted a march entitled "The and ot 1 Duke Return Duchess of Windsor," composed and sent to him by Mr. Juhany Colnen and Mise II. Williamson, of Worthing. Sussex.
A letter of acceptance was the received recently
Chr
Duke's scerelary.
Jolinay Colisen
from
wrote
musle for the Edgar Wallace play, "The
Crimson Circle."
He is a violinist and Miss Wi- ilamison is his accompanist,
minutes).
Friday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 23, 1938.
Mrs. C. I. Skand's puplis photographed at thefe recent annual pianoforte recital.--Ming Yuen,
Girl Conscious Again
After 100 Days
AFTER being unconscious for more than 100 days, Miss Jenny
Altken has recovered consciousness and has been moved from! Hospital at Leven (Fife) to a nursing home.
Saves Babies
Her condition, however, serionis.
is sult
The girl, an Anstruther bus con- ductress, fell from a bus as it was į being driven through Leven, and re-
The difficulty of carrying out blood fceived severe head injuries. transfusions on very young children has been solved.
Twelve Pntack widows" trenom-¦ An apparatus has been designed by la member of the medical staff at the ous spiders).
Royal Waterloo Hospital, and install A number of deadly moccasin fed there, which makes it possible to sankes and other venamus reptiles, Drive tran fusions to babies only a The above have arrived (in pack-few hours old. tu cases?) from Philadelphia Zou ender an exchange scheme.
The Zim had expected about a score
PARENTS' VIGIL
Her father and mother and other) members of the family visited the hospital daily and kept vig at the girl's bedside.
Her 28th birthday was celebrated while she lay unconscious,
Last year a London woman Wax unconscious for 135 days after falling from the roof of an Oxford Street what store.
The importance of the discovery in femphasised by the fact that there has recently been considerable mortality among London children from of rattle unkra. The at that have has best called "summer sickness,” evrived all alive and wriggling are though the complaint is not confined | more than Regent's Park bargained to any one season.
Where blood transfusion could be for but it means that the Zoo how One hundred rattlesneles la bite has of number of rattlesnakes for ex-carried out the baby's life was almost
linvariably saved, from our pur care duth in 201ebunge with other British zos.
Kill Kidney
TIE TE TYRE TË TE MY BEAR TE JE
The new apparatus, is su simple (that it can be got into action in three butes, and all the parts that need sterilising could be picked in a half- pint must
School's Air Defence Squadron
LATYMER Upper School. Hammersmith, is the first school In the country lo form an Air
Defence Cadet Squadron.
The Air League of the British Empire aims to raise such cadel units in every town of 40.000 or more inhabilants, and cadets receive spare time training In aviation subjects.
Mr. F. Wilkinson, the head- master, sald, "The unit will be self-supporting and it will have the backing of the whole school."
"Henometer" Stamps Eggs
be
SYDNEY, Australia. lens in Australia will soon punching time clocks just like office and factory
"Heno- workers. A meter" has been invented, which will automatically stamp each egg with the breed of the heh and the date of the egg. The device is intended to prevent the sale of preserved eggs for fresh ones,
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For family and close friends,
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0, Queen's Road C. (3rd Floor); opposite Dairy Farra's Fountain, Q's Rd. C.
COMEDY DANCE TUNES TO PEP UP YOUR PARTY
9282-I'm Knkling A Singlet for Cecil. W.
Spelling Bec. FT.
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Le Touquet.
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Blow Gabriel, Blow. F.T. F023 Swinging to Those Lies.
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TSANG
Marina House, 19, Queen's Road C.
like Real Flowers !
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Tel. 24048.
DR. PAT
the "perfect popular pipe"
Art Fibre Flowers
FOR HATS, DRESSES, COATS & EVENING WEAR They are made of rice fibre paper, which is chemically processed to give the same appearance and have the same texture as fresh blooms. These flowers will revive by placing them in the Refrigerator or Ice Box wth its original box. This reviving will provide an over ready chic finishing touch to any costume.
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Stockings can be
purchased as low
as $2.50 per pair
at the
BOMBAY SILK STORE
D'Aguilar St.
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