1939-01-10 — Page 2

SNOW ON THE

CAPITOL

Tuesday

BEAGLERS

10000

UFS

Two storns that islandeded the East and Middle Wet with a heavy Cravering of snow and a seven-inch all to Washington, U. C, the nation's capital. Here are workmen striving to hit the United States rapitol building from tin.ler the now. The yo stories, with low in- perature, took a destir toll of nearly FUR.

ANTI-GAS He's A Multi-

DEVICES

FOR BABIES

ANTI-GAS

devices for babies and special gas- masks for children between the ages of two and four are now going into mass production, stated Wing-

of

Air

Millionaire

SUED

FOR BREACH AGAIN

Commander E. J. Hudsoll, A BREACH of premis aut for two million dollars (£400,000) was Director-General

fled in Chicago recently against Mr. the multi- Raid Precautions, recently. Harold F. McCormick,

millionaire head of the International He told the Institution of Professional Civil Servants at the Royal Society of Arts that provision for babies and young children had

Harvester Company of America, by Mrs. Olive Randolf Colby, of Kansas City, widow of the man who taught John D. Rockefeller to play golf.

Mr. McCormick was at one time

the son-in-law of the famous "John

man in the world.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DROP FOR "OL"

January 10, 1939.

"YOICKS"

Even Hounds Liked Lambeth Walk

PIPEWELL, near Kettering.

THEY have rolled up the carpet in the library of ancient Pipewell Hall, and while the beagles bay in the ken- incls nearby, moustached and monocled men in huntin'

vink do the Lambeth Walk with fair partners.

A GOOD TIME WAS

HAD BY ALL

Son Aged 5 Was Given Shandygaff

POPULAR & NEW REX DANCE RECORDS

0301-Palais Glide.

Lambeth Walk.

9342-In Santa Margherita, (How to Dance).

My Lost Love. (The Tango)

9372-A-Tisket A-Tasket.

MAXWELL STEWART'S BALLROOM ORCH.

I Can't Remember Her Name

0421-Cinderella, Waltz,

Love Makes the World Go Round. 0422-Change Partners. ("Carefree").

Rido Tenderfoot

0337-Love Walked In.

...HILLY COTTON'S BAND.

There's A New Moon Over the Mill. D117-Now It Can Bo Told. (Alexander's Ragtime Band),

On the Sentimental Bldo......ROY SMECK'S HAWAIIAN ORCH. 0355-Says My Heart.

I'm Sorry, I Didn't Say I'm Sorry 0414-Says My Heart.

Now I Cant Be Told.

BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS SEXTETTE. (Alexander's Ragtime Band)

Because his five-your-old son in- "something like sisted on having [everybody else. Hurry Carlisle Hammond, licensee of the White Swan. Asis, near Dartford (Kent) 429-Rex Show Wagon in Lambeth Walk.

gave him a shandygaff.

Admitting at Dartford police court recently that he Rave the boy

toxicating liquor.

Hammond was fined £1 on each of two summonses,

Evidence was given that Hammond | was seen to give the child beer, "Cries of Oil" instead of "Yoika!" made the rafters ring. Mr. Harold Tuffee (defending), said It is the 11th annual ball of the Pipewell Foot Bengles, held Hammond gave his son a small gloss in the grand Elizabethan home of Mr. S. J. Lloyd, father off ringer beer with enough mild beer Master of the Hunt, Mr. Noel Lloyd, who stands about Oft. 4in. in it to colour it.' and twirls the curls of a long fair moustache as he fixes you through a firmly wedged monocle. LOVELY WOMEN

"You want to know asked. "That's easy to bengles, goes in circles.

why we do the Lambeth Walk?" hu The hare, when pursued by We dance the Lambeth Walk straight."

answer.

All of the "entity" is here; all of! the county, that is, who love the thrill of chere, whether it be after a fax or a hare. The men are studies: in red, pink, and white-pink and whitel evening dresy faces réd above many! white mensinebes.

The wom all bunting women, i you know, are lovely.m their evening! gowns.

It's real huntin' and beaghn' night!

MODEL PARENTS

Me. Tuffee said a great number of people thought a little light beer was good for children. He described the

boy as "the apple of bis father's eye." A letter from a doctor referred to Mr. and Mrs. Hammond as model parents.

MR. REMER CANNOT

SIT TO TELEPHONE

MR. J. R. REMER, well-built

M.I. For Macclesfield,, com-

out for the sunly. Look at the Rev. plained to Sir Philip Sassoon, "Friar Tuck" Robinson, with

his slim First Commissioner of

Th ning head and his merry eyes Works, in the House of Com-: Isn't he having a grand time.

Friar Tuck all the beaglin' people call him that-collect the tap at the meet. They all love him. He is a novella's idea of the sporting country parson came right to life.

He is the Vicar of East Carlton, the adjoining parish. And, old

Tuck he setting, Friar every meet.

mons recently that in the new telephone boxes in one of the! corridors it was impossible to close the door when a member sat on the seat provided.

He challenged Sir Pip to come and test it for himself.

Sir

the Philip accepted

chal-

out a tenge.

FATHER OF 11 Watching the Pipewell Beagles Lambeth Walk in the library hung with sporting Falstaßen etchings is Mr. S. J. Lloyd, a fine figure of a man with his strong face and crisp, white har

|

ria father of the Master, and he'd have you know-of eight fine sons and three daughters who have! all her brought up in the hunting and beagling traditions.

All are here to-night, except three. There seems to be a Lloyd wherever

sat in the box-and found that Mr. Remer was correct. The duur could be closed if he stood up to close 14, but not he tried to close it sitting down,

Official action is to be taken.

Notices will be put on the doors| of the boxes saying: "Will members please stand up before closing the door and then sit down."

AIR MECHANICS

you k. You can forgive that look FOR THE NAVY of pride in his eyes.

"Yes, we like the sport," Muster Noel said. "We like it becos it's what you'd call the cusmopoll- ian sport. Anyone can join in and have fun-the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, as li were."

BEAGLES BAY

been one of the most heart. D." who was said to be the richest is known throughout the beagling of rending problems.

Mr. McCormick was married for the third time ast May, and this is the second "heartbalm" action brought against him in five years.

On October 24, 1934, Mrs. Rhoda Banner Doubleday, former wife of a New York publisher, lodged a breach of promise action against McCormick, demanding £400,000 because

"We started off with all sorts of ideas, such as pram covers," he said, but at Shoreditch we found that they use a soap box for a pram.

"Finally we got out a baby's bag. We thought we had the answer to every mother's prayer, but when the suffered "pain and shame" thing had got almost to its production tage we found that the baby would get too hot.

The idea of a bar had to be cropped, and we had to go back to nother device

I think we have perferted now."

which

332 Years to Pay

N order for 2s. a month, at which rate it will take 332 years to pay

the amount calmed, was made by Market Iar- Judge Galbraith at borough County Couri recently.

1

she

through his failing to marry her.

The case was, however, settled by £13,000, according the payment of

Mrs. Doubleday's lawyer. Just over five years ago it was re- morted that he was enstaged to Pola Negri, the one-time film star. But that was denied. "He is an old and elarming felend," said Miss Negri, "but no more."

Royal Academy's New President

London,

en-

Bizarre confession was given to the District Attorney's office in White Plains, N. Y., by Mrs. Marie Burckhalter, above, who asserted she helped her husband, chemical head, to commit sui- cide by monoxide poisoning in his car. She said he wanted to die because of ill health. She was held on a first-degree man- slaughter charge.

The requirements et the expanding Plect Air Arm have led the Admiral- ty to form two further specialised sections of the Air Mechanie branch. In addition to air mechanles for the maintenance of airframes and gines, ratings of the Air Mechanic branch will be required for employ- The Master of he Pipewell Beagles ment associated with the maintenance

jof the

and electrical armoment work for a pole he carries. "Can equipment of aircraft in the Fleet Air Jump a 10ft. wall and never blink an Armi. They will be formed into two scellons, (O) for ordinance, and (L) eyelid," they said..

‘undertake appro-i for electrical, to priate work not requiring the atten tion of artificers. The new branch is open to many classes of ratings. Men

"You might have created a serious Air accepted for transfer to the

public panic," said Mr. Justice Lewis Mechanic branch will undergo a

to William Henry Wood, "aged 20, technical training course at an R.A.F. when at Leeds Assizes recently he establishment, Pay varies trim sentenced him to six months In the 2. 6d. a day for air mechanie PT9%; second division for effecting a public bationers to 95. Gd, a day for chief mischief. pelty officer air mechanics.

Chocolate Biscuits For 300 Child Refugees

Girl Died in Bath

CHOCOLATE biscuits waited

followed A law-suit which for 300 Jewish children when they arrived at Dover-death of a 14-year-old girl court Bay camp, near Harwich, carbon from Germany recently.

The children, between

ten

and

of

Gaol For Air Raid Hoaxer

Wood. Post Office telephonist, admitted sending out an air-raid warning of the approach af'enemy i nircraft during the crisis,

necessary.

POLICE STAND BY

the

Mr.

pro- H. D. Hylton-Fisler, from secuting, said Wood had been given monoxide fumes while she secret code to be used for the send- was having a bath was settled in the ing of such a message if it became King's Bench Division recently.

Her father, Mr. Stanley Lawson, of seventeen years old, were the first of anger-lane, Ealing, W., sued the

As a result of Wood's action all Pollard Engineering Co., Ltd., | 400 expected.

Farringdon-street, E.C., for damages, preparations were made by the police, Brown bread, butter, jam, milk-The company, it was stated, had paid 200 individual telephone calls were The Royal Academy recently, and the chocolate biscuits-was their Mr. Lawson a sum against any loss sent out, fire brigades throughout a John Francis Crowe, formerly head

in bringing the netion.

large area in Yorkshire as well as Plenty of clothing was ready. of a Lefeester business concern and jelected its new president a man who first meal in England.

Mr. Norman Parkes, for the com- police officers everywhere-stood by, now earning 35s, a week as manager has never exhibited his paintings- of a small garage at North Kilworth, Sir Edwin Lutyens, one of the most Each child gat a thick jersey, a single pany, said that the cause of the accl- and the police at 69 different points near Market Harborough, was sued famous architects of the world. He bed, and a hot water bottle. There dent was still unexplained. Formerly were kept on duty until it was dis by Norman Coates, Ltd., for £397 succeeds Sir William Llewellyn, who are oil stoves to heat the main rooms the company's policy was to recom-covered that the call was a hoax.

menu the installation of their geysers

Superintendent Craig said Wood retired on Saturday after 10 years of their camp.

Later they were sent to volunteer without any vent or flue, provided!

trained as that there was a sufficient supply of matriculated at an early age and It was alleged that this sum had as president, on reaching the age- been guaranteed by Crowe for rent limit of 75. Sir Edwin, who is 09. foster parents, to be

nurses, after fresh air. It now insisted on a fiue showed some promise. He had in- et property in Leicester previously designed the Cenotaph In Whitehall domestic servants

by vacutu During the day he' accupied by the firm of which Crowe and the Catholic Cathedral at Liver-which many will rejoin their parents forming part of every new installa-vented a method of cleaning chimneys

i pool.

and emigrate to the colonies.

cleaned chimneys and at night worked ut the Post Ofee.

185.

was director,

Or

tion.

Jamaica Bananas Menaced

London.

One of Jamaica's big economic problems is the Panama disease which is attacking the island's bananas. Sir Frank Stockdale, Colonial Office expert, told the West India Royal Commission in London that there was no cure.

Mr. G. Raymond Hinchcliffe, for Wood, sald it might be that he had been affected by the anxiety then prevailing,

"Just as some people pull a com munication cord for no reason, so this man sent this message," he added. "It was the momentary impulse of an overtired man."

DIANA MILLER (PERSÓNALITY GIRL).

Introducing-Gracle Fields, Sandy Powell, Billy Cotion, etc. 0427-How Can I Thank You. (Little Miss Broadway).

Be Optomistic. (Little Miss Broadway)

IRENE PRICE (THE ENGLISH "SHIRLEY TEMPLE"). 9425–Sandy the All-in Wrestler

....SANDY POWELL. 0123-Sixty Seconds Got Together.

A Little Toy Sallboat.....OSCAR RABIN & HIS ROMANY BAND.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

Marina House,

19. Queen's Road C. Tel. 24648. .

Swan Culbertson

Frith сать

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The floots in, and Martha's

out... to catch a mate!

"Heaven help

the sailors.

OH, BOVI

with

MARTHA RAYE and BOB HOPE

„in a riot of.. shore-leave amancel.

GIVE ME A SAILOR

BETTY GRABLE. JACK WHITING • 1. C. NUGENT

Directed by Elliott Hugent A Foromeunt Picture

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