1938-12-27 — Page 2

Tuesday. A HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 27, 1938.

HALF-DAY AND NIGHT TASKS FOR JUVENILES INSTEAD OF GAOL

Combination dally double offer at the Bowie, Md., race track linked Charles F, and James Boy. Only ticket sold was bought for $2 by Mrs. I. E Dwyer, left, and Helen O'Brien, right, Washing- tonians. Then Charles F. won the first race and James Boy the second. The pay-off brought the women $0,754.50, largest win in Maryland turf history.

DUCHESS OF

OF KENT

MIL

TAKES

NANNY'

TO PICTURES

ȚILLIONS of people see pictures of the Duchess of Kent when she attends a smart film premiere or pays an official visit to a cinema. But perhaps the cinema programmes she enjoys most are those she sees quietly in the company of a little white-haired London woman whom camearmen overlook.

The little woman's name is Miss Kale Fox, who lives in big block of flats at Hampstead, N.W., and who could, if she chose, tell the most intimate story of the Duchess ever told--for Kate Fox was Princess Marina's "Nanny" as a little girl.

But Nanny Fox-"Puxy" as 1ttle. Princess Marita valled her affce-i ilonately shakes her neat silver- grey head and will not "tell tales."

"I knew Princess Marina as a baby and I know her still," she said. "Bul is all much too sacred a thing for me to talk about;

"Why should

It interest anyone

else if the Duchess takes me out to the pictures now and then? Wei

shall be all my life."

Complicated Studies

Difficulties Encountered

In Cancer Research

have always been friends and we! The Afteenth annual report of the British Empire Concer Campaign holds an impressive record of work But Kate Fux is more than a friend of achievement.

and

The truth to the Duchess. When, as Princess seems to be emerging that cancer re Marina, she was at school in Paris,mains the most battitog dieulty in her schoolmistress once said, "MuraȚthe Viple range of medical science is a lovely girl, but It is undoubtedly largely because means, Bancial and her English nurse, Kate Fox, who had other, were lacking for the prosecu-

་་ the most influence on her life.'

lion of research. Cancer research Kate Fox has been present at every indeed is still in what may properly Emportant occasion in the Duchess's be called an embryonir condition. life. Standing somewhere in the Atlast, and thanks to the work

work of background the silver-haled, rosy-the campaign along sther agencies.

woman always there to research has found real and continu- see that everything is di right for outs support, The report shows how her darling.

Tcomplicated and diffeult are the She was the

studies now proceeding and how in- Marina went to when she was a possible judgment upon these studies ranging for her marrings to the Dukehas become for all but specially of Kent.

Uzat 17/

Princess

of

"Cat" Sentences

Abolished In

Are Drastic

Prison Reform Bill

DRASTIC REFORMS IN PRISON LIFE AND PUNISHMENT AND IN THE TREATMENT OF YOUNG OFFENDERS ARE DETAILED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL PUBLISHED RECENTLY. THE PRINCIPAL CHANGES PROPOSED ARE:

The abolition of corporal punishment for both young and old except for serious prison offences.

Power will be taken to prohibit courts of summary jurisdic-tion from sentencing young people to imprisonment and alternative methods of treatment will be developed.

The terms "canviet" and "conviet, prison" will be abolished, and prl- ons will be classified according to the type of people in them. Statutory, "divisions" in prisons will be abolish-

cd.

Hard labour, penat servitute and the ticket-of-leave system will go.

Innovations include "Juvenile com- pulsory attendance centres," Ht which, in large cities, children be- tween 12 and 17 would be required to attend on half-holidays or at night ofter work as punishment for minor cffences.

Offenders between 17 and 23. ure to be sent to special remand centres when renunded or committed for trial, instead of to prison,-as now.

"Howard Houses" will be started

for those between 18 and 21 whom

the Court thinks should be kept | away from bad associations.

These

houses will impose disciplinary con ditions, but those attending will go to their ordinary employment.

training on the lines of Borstal will be given.

For offenders between 23 and 30

་

CENTRES FOR PROBLEM CASES

Special centres will dent with prob- lem cases requiring. for example, ment treatment.

transferred

Broadmoor Criminal Lurtle Asy- | lum (to be known as a "State men- tal hospital") will be from Home Office administration to that of the Board of Control to bring ) it more into line with medieni setence and activity.

The Act which speetfles that a con- vieted person must lose any pension

he holds If payable trom publle

funds, la abutished,

A person who has been to prison for a motoring offence and also dis- qualified from driving, may be arrest- ed without warrant by any con- stable if found driving while qualined.

dis-

SHE HELPED HUSBAND TO KILL HIMSELF

AN

NEW YORK.

N amazing stery of helping her husband to commit suicide has been revealed in a confession stated to have been made by middle-aged Mrs. Marie Burckhalter, of Mount Vernon, New York.

Calmly and unemotionally she told the police after nine hours' questioning how she aided her husband, 47-years-old hend of a business corporation, to rig up a complicated suicide trap and then went shopping while he carried out the act,

д

Police who arrested Mrs. Burck- halter on a charge of manslaughter NEVER SAW FIANCE

revealed that she would never have heen suspected if she had not made Miss Jane Stott, of Tyldesley,

"wisecracks" during routine ques- 50-year-old

tloning, Lancashire weaver, cheerfully said good- bye to her 80-years-old mother recently when she left on a 5,000 miles trip to an island of British Columbia to marry a man whom she has never seen.

She refused to disclose the name of her fiance. He is a min- Ink contractor 'who emigrated several years ago and who be gan a correspondence with her after meeting some of Нег friends In Vancouver.

"Although I have never seen him I know he is all right,” she said. "My friends huvṛ toid me so."

ARMY CHIEFS ARE

17 YEARS YOUNGER

SEVENTEEN years are knocked off the total age of British Army chiefs as a result of five new appoint- ments announced by the War Office recently.

These are the men and their new jobs:—

56 SUCCEEDS 59

trained men and women. But it Lieut-General W. K. Venning. "Nanny" was in Westrinster Abbey advance is being made, Cancer run of Movements and Quartering at the shows also the lines along which aged fifty-six, who has been Director when the wedding ceremony was now easily be induced by artificial War Office for the past four years, is performed, and she was at the Royal means, and so the opportunity couple's house on the important studying it from its genesis has Forces in succession to Sir Reginald to be Quartermaster-General to the ocension when little Prince Edward arisen. Again it can be caused to, May, aged fifty-nine.

disappear or to regress by various Frequently the Duchess of Kent agencies, the partial success of which gots to tea with her old nurse at the is, it may be hoped, of good augury fot in Hampstead.

for the future.

was born.

Stowaway Escaped From Devil's Island

A grey-haired Frenchman,, with four others, in a canoe which careworn after 10 years in he had bought. They sailed to Devil's Island, stood in the dockTrinidad, where they were put in at Bristol recently and heard hospital, as they had had no food

and drink for seven days. his story of escape, privation and shipwreck related.

LEFT IN CANOE

52 SUCCEEDS 01 Livul.-General W. D. S. Drownrigg, nged_fifty-two, Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, will become Director-General of the Terri-) torial Army in succession to General- Sir Walter M. St. George Kirke, aged sixty-one.

50 SUCCEEDS 59 Lieut.-General I, II, Halning, aged i nifty-six, G.O.C. British Forces In Palestine; will be G.O.C.-in-C. of the Western Command in succession to Lieut.General Sir Henry C. Jackson, aged fifty-nine.

54 SUCCEEDS 50 Major-General M. G. H. Barker, aged fifty-four. Director of Recruiting

and Organisation, is to be G.D.C.

British Forces in Palestine with rank of lieutenant-general. In succession toj

ALL SQUARE

Twins Born 32 Miles Apart

TWINS have been born

16 hours apart and in separate counties, one in Suffolk, the other in Nor- folk, to Mrs. W. J. Leon, wife of a gardener of Walberswick, near South- wold, Suffolk.

The man, Rene Andouin. de- The Governor of the island bought cribed as in outfitter's salesman, then a little canoe, and they left Lieut.-General Italning, aged afty- of Rue Buffeterie, La Rochelle, with six ollier escaped prisoners six, France, was charged with stowing from Cayenne, making a total of 11, himself on board the steamer Corintending to sail to Mexico.

Both are boys. One weighs rales, which decked at Avonmouth They were wrecked, however, offintty-two, Inspector-General of the

Major-General G. J. Guitard, aged 716., the other 6. Mother and the coast of Jamaica, and were African Colonial Forces, succeeds children are doing well. rescued by the police and again Lieut.-General Brownrigg, also aged Mrs. Leon gave birth to her placed in the care of the Salvation nifty-two, as Military Secretary to the first child at home in Walbers- Army.

Secretary of State for War. He will wick at 7.35 a.m.

from Kingston, Jamalca.

10 YEARS SENTENCE

He said that In the event of his being returned to France he would

He then stowed away in a ship take the rank of lieutenant-general.. be imprisoned there for a term of bound for Canada, but was dis- from live to seven years, and then covered by the captain when he sent back to French Guiana,

renched Halifax. He was put in nn~

Concossions for Blind Urged

He was ordered to be detained other ship and returned to Jamaica, while recommendation was made to where he stayed alx weeks before the Home Office for his deportation. towing away in the Currales, bound

This Wus the story Andouin, for Bristol.

SAN FRANCISCO, through an interpreter, was sold to Andouin toid the police that. Civic organisations have launched have told the police:

although he had completed his term movement to have stands opened Deported from France to the of imprisonment at Cayenne, the in public buildings to be operated by French penal settlement, Cayenne, French Inw forbatte hla return to blind persons such as now exist in on October 7, 1927, to serve a 10-France as a term of more than seven some post offices. A happler situation years' sentence for stealing money years carried with it banishment for would result for the blind, they as- and jewellery, he stayed there untilfe. He was, therefore, compelled sert, and niso a saving to taxpayers October 30, 1937, when he encoped, to reside permanently in the colony. of blind pensions.

She was then taken 32 miles to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where the second child was born, at 12.35 am, the next day.

BABY WENT TOO

In her strange confession the wife said that her husband, worried over financial difficulties, decided to kill himself £1 week ago and asked far her co-operation.

She consented, and provided the; rubber hose from a vacuum cleaner

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to connect the exhaust of a motor- Marina House, 19, Queen's Road C.

car with the front seat, and also provided newspapers to stuff in the windows. She chatted with her husband while he made preparations and took several snapshots of him

to use up a film,"

GOOD-BYE KISS

Finally, she brought a drink to the garage, kissed her husband good- jbye, and went on shopping tour.

On her return, Mrs. Burckhalter: turned of the ignition and called h neighbour to take her unconscious husband to hospital where attempts [to revive him failed,

Mr. and Mrs. Burckhalter, well known in New York society, were divorced in 1929 and remarried in 1936 1936 for the sake of our two chil- dren."

The wife, who is a £2,000 bene- insurance policy.

aclars under an

said that her husband had been

drinking heavily.

She punctuated her recital to the

with police

quips remarks.

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Girl Dancer Not

Guilty

of

When Doris Marguerite, Isaacs C) of Garston, Liverpool, 10- Liverpool recently, accused bigamously marrying ♫ school- teacher, Michael Francis O'Grady, the prosecution offered no further, evidence and she was dischargeil.

At the lant hearing. Mr. T. T Smith, prosecuting, said the girl mar- ried a motor salesman In January when touring South Afrles with a dancing troupe, and went through n form of marriage with O'Grady on her return.

Mr. Smith said that a witness of the South African marriage had statel that the girl had not lived with her Arst husband, and Mr. Eric Errington. defending, pointed out that she was under age at the time.

ACQUITTED

No evidence was offered by the prosecution at the Old Balley recent- ly when Samuel Welker Sheimer Schubert (54), engineer, WOS charged with attempting to obtain Jewellery to the value of £14,000, and with fraudulently converting bills of exchange to the value of £14,000.

Schubert was found not qulity and he was discharged.

to give birth to twins and had not made arrangements for them."

Twins are usually registered so thai their births run consecutively in The first boy was taken in the at the register, but in this case the first bulance with Mrs. Leon. She had twin will have to be registered In refused to go to the hospital unless Suffolk, his brother in Norfolk.. she could take him with her.

Another enzo of twins born apart Mr. and Mrs. Leon have been mart Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent- led 13 months.

Sald Mr. Leon: "I haven't gone to bed for four nights. My wife did not know she was likely

Was reported recently. Sixty-one hours separated the births of the son and daughter of 22-years-old Mrs. 'Lily Hancock.

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