1939-01-19 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The Last Of The Share-Pushers Sentenced

January 19, 1939.

EX-CIRCUS CLOWN WITH 2 YACHTS

£250,000 SWINDLE

ADMITS

He Tricked Jacob Factor

THE last of the "big time" share pushers disappeared ΤΗ

recently when 40-years-old John Marsden Firth, ex- soldier, ex-circus clown-once worth £200,000-was sen- tenced at the Old Bailey to four years' penal servitude.

Firth, the man who double crossed hrchswindler Jacob Fue- tor, was found guilty, with William Henry Broughton, 66-years- old secretary, of conspiring to defraud through a firm known as Sir John Seton and Co.

Broughton was sentenced to wo years' and Echgar Godfrey Dickenson, il 47

a clerk, to 18 months' im- prisonment.

From £200,000 to a penny were] the varying fortunes of Firth-bald. Joquacious anroclate of Tanfeld and Spiro (both serving alore-pushing.)

sentences

for

he

15.

Born in Swinton, Lancashire, Joined the Army when he was Returning to hin family's well-i established cotton business, the pro- cligal ron found It was not go-aliend) enough for him. He started ven- tures of his own, and gambling in cotton futures brought him in £200,- .000.

IN A CIRCUS

His generosity accounted for theu- sands of pounds, and he walked about with his packets bulging with Treasury notes.

With his £15,000 yachts, Elaine I and Elaine 11, his luxury dinner partic- £150 a time for flowers flown specially from the south of France he soon found himself re- duced to £70,000,

12,000 Miles

For Job He

Did Not Get

Peter Joseph Luut, 15-years-old Capclown schoolbay, thought he would like to work in England.

He arrived at Southampton re- rently in the liner Athlone Castle. But his view of Britali was a 150 yards' walk across the docks to the Warwick Castle. And 10 hours after he had arrived be was on the 6,000-miles trip bame again.

For, after walking about with an air of assurance during the first day out, Peter had confessed, when questioned, that he had stowed away.

I return journey he will spend working in the slip's kitchen.

With that sum he came to London, ANTARCTIC FORECASTS

where he squandered it in riotous!

living, bad investments.

Then for a time he turned to

pantomimes, which he staged on aj

Brighton pier

PLANNED

SYDNEY, N. S. W. Plans to set up 12 meteorological Gradually he lost his money, antistations in the Antarctle are under from owning and racing horses under Way, Sir Hubert Wilkins, the famous Jockey Club and Pony Turf Club Australian explorer sald rules, Firth found himself reduced

to becoming clown in a cires and

living in a bowman's caravan.

Then he turned to share-pushing He began a financial paper in which be cleverly attacked the shares offered by Jacob Factor, who es-

United States caped to the

after windling the British public of thou- sands of pounds.

On

his

arrival here from the United States,

all he did was to produce about 100 ummy papers for Factor's benefit while continuing to circulate the paper and the attacks.

The change which has come over Berkeley Square is emphasised by the Air Ministry's new premises at Berkeley Square House which Sir Kingsley Wood opened recently. Although the destruction of familiar buildings is to be regretted, it must be admited that the new building will offer relief to the Increasing staff of the Air Ministry. The offices will be occupied by the Directorate of Contracts and other important departments.

Boy Of 13 Builds Telescope

PHILIP Pomper, 13-year-old son of an East London Inflor, is building a | elx-inch teléscope as part of his school i

work..

Small for his age, serius-eyed, hej Is the best metal worker at the Jewn' Free Boya School, Spitalfields, E.1. The job will take him six months, and every of

part il is being done with his own hands except casting the metal and silvering the mirror,

For weeks he has been polishing the mirror with her and fner grades of powder to get the correct curva- ture for reflecting the light of moon and planets.

SOLAR SYSTEM MODELLED Philip's telescope will be a field ad- Junet to the school's planetarium, where, the boys have built against the celling a working scale model of the solar system which can be set rotat- ing the earth, Venus and Mars about the sun, the moon about the earth- by operating a switch.

"Give a boy a real job of work and you'll have no trouble with class- room dullness," said the beadmaster." Dr. E. Dernstein.

Much of the time his pupils spend on Individual creative Jobs. They print all the school literature, weld Iron gaten for the school garden and shape beautiful tiles and take home.

Germany Looks Back On

With Satisfaction

vases to

1938

Strong Army To Be Stronger Still

Colonial Issue Problem

Berlin.

There has been stocktaking in

much satisfied from Herr Hitler himself to the press Germany recently commentators, upon the course of events in the past year. Austria and the Sudeten territory of Czecho- Slovakia have been gained by Ger- her strong Arny, many, thanks to which is to be made stronger still in Factor became annoyed, al

He left the dock # satisfied man, the year now opening. In a special into touch with Firth, and for £5,000 for he had confessed that he expret-mesage to the Army Herr Hitler Firth agreed to stop his attack. Buted five years.

From that time Firth came right into the "swin" of shore-pushing.

He has admitted obtaining £250,- 000 from the Investing public.

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realising the dream of centuries"- the Greater Germany.

Italy, and

that

Great emphasis is fald on the suc- cessful co-operation between Ger-) many,

Japan. German friendship for Italy is declared by: Herr tier to be clear and unbreak- able. At the

same time. German writers do not foil to observe Italy's own aspirations in the Medi- ferranean are made more difficult now that France is relieved of her Central European obligations. France s now in a stronger position to con- centrate on the defence of her colonial empire. while British rearmainent strengthens not only

Britain

but France in the Mediterranean.

Great Britain makes the least sutls- factory chapter in the German re- view. It is claimed here that follow ing Munich a a policy of prestige and retaliation is

being pursued by British opinion opposed to Cham- berlain, while the Government itself is seeking to avoid a solution of the colonial issue by taking cover behind thic resentment felt in Britain Germany's treatment of the Jews.

It is declared here that the colonial question could

settled amicably eer. Germany and Britain but betweer. for the Jewish question. It is added that the colonial question will be found regularly on the agenda in years 10 come. and perhaps Ju

clrcumstances more unfavourable for Britain than at present.

Satisfaction is also expressed that the belief that Japan would exhaust herself in the war with China hos

In not come true, and that Japon tends to close China to European Influence, except for pickings for Germany and Italy.

The forming of a group consisting of Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union is seen here ns opposing Germany, Italy, and Japan. But it 15 pointed out that the suc- cesses have fallen so far to the Ger

man group. To the more obvious successea is added the declinc in pure deinocratic Parliamentary government

ent in targe number of

the States of Europe. Economically Germany professes herself very well satisfied with her own seml-autarchy ond with that of her Italian and Japanese allies.

BLACK OUTLOOK FOR JEWS The year opening for the Jews here is the blackest known to thei in modern thnes. The mensures condemning Jewry to economic oblivion passed after the shooting of Herr von Rall by the young Pallst Grynszpan came Into force They Include

Jew

trade,

the prohibition almost any kind

more of former from executive pasi- |

against clarit tivo-thirds or

Jewish shops, the re-

noval of Jews

in ludustrial or

commercial

concerns, a regulation compelling Jewish communities to support. entire burden of their indigent core- ligionista, at least until their already badly depleted funds are exhausted, the obligation 10 carry, police Identity card with photograph and Angerprint, and The compulsory adoption of unmistakably Jewish

nimes.

Business Bad, Bandit Leaves

Arlington, Mass. William Brackett, Jr., 25, gasoline station attendant, known how to handle holdup 'men. When a ban- dit demanded money at gunpoint, Brackett calmly replied: "Business is terrible. I haven't got a cent."

The gunman Bed, leaving Brackett In possession of $0 in his pockets and $20 in the cash register

Girl Of 3 Will Carry Scar

For 18 Years

CLAIMING damages at Bow County Court recently for a scar caused when she tripped over a drain cover outsid, "the lecat post office, three-year-old Sheila Violet Vallance of Ley- tunstone, E., was awarded £23. When Judge Owen Thompson

told that Sheila's sear would not disappear until she was 21, he closely examined her, commented: "The scar does not even spoil her good lool:s now.

During the proceedings Shella was lifted up to speak to the judge.

If

I had done

as I was told-

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