1939-02-07 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 7, 1939.

M.P.'S WIFE ESCAPES BY ROPE FROM FIRE BRIGADE PLOUGHS Mauled Girl

THROUGH SNOW

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Notgrove (Glos.).

ROPE of knotted bedclothes saved the life of Lady Anderson, wife of Sir Alan Garrett Anderson, M.P. for the City of London, when she was trapped in her bedroom by fire which wrecked ancient Notgrove Manor here recently.

Goes Back To Leopards

EXCITEMENT in plenty came to

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year-old Austrian understudy, Trul Hora recently.

the London Cullscum, and to 10-

At 0.30 in the morning "Professor" Curt Doorlay, whose 101-scenes-in- show, "Christmas

Heroine of the fire was 19-year-old Doris Sell, Rocketlea

kitchen-maid at the manor.

Wearing only her nightclothes she raced a mile through a snow-storm in the early morning darkness to give the alarm. On reaching the village post office she hammered on the door to rouse Mrs. Edith Fluck, the postmistress.

Mrs. Fluck sald: "Miss Sell was,— exhausted and half fainting after her drak through the snow. As I opened the door she stumbled Inside and gasped: "The manor on fire, ring for the brigade."

DAUGHTER'S ALARM

"I lelephoned Cheltenham and 'Stow-on-the-Wold and gave. Mirs Sell a hot drink. Then she insisted on returning to the manor to help in the salvage work."

Lady Anderson was staying at the, manor with her daughter Miss Dla Anderson. Only a few seT- vants were in the building when Mins Anderson was awakened by the sound of burning woodwork.

GIRL 'LOST COMES HOME

coming

A MESSAGE-"I'm home"-was the first news Mrs. Kettle, of Sheerness, Kent, had re- ceived of her daughter Muriel, aged 22, since she vanished Ove years ago.

is running, arrived at the theatre..

Awalling him 1ynu a telegram from his versatile leading lady, Ruth, Hoest, "Have nervous breakdown, su think I'll go home to Belgium."

Trudi, her only understudy, was lying in Charing Cress liospital, re- covering from a painful mauling re- cently from one of the leopards used in the show.

But the prefissor" went to the hospital, interviewed Trudi and the doctors-and departed with the In- Jured girl sharing his taxicab.

Later, Trud! went through most of) the leading lady's assortment talent displays.

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"Muriel has been working in Famous Hotel May

Bristol," Mrs. Kettle za fit. "She came home for a flying visit, then went back to Bristol. Sho is coming home for good in a fort- night."

Rousing the staff she sent a ser- vant to awaken Lady Anderson, who drifts of snow which we had to was sleeping in a bedroom above the charge into. We could not be sure main hall, where the fire had started, we were, on the road or on the Flames and smoke, however, barred fields, as in places the snow was level the

Way

to the room.

with the hedges. Awakened by the shouting Lady "On one occasion we drove into a Anderson attempted to escape from ditch and the fire engine saat. We the room, but was driven back by had to dig it out and cut the heat.

branches from the trees in order to Then, tearing the sheels and bed-lay a path for the engine, clothes, she hurriedly knotted them) "Our main. difficulty was water. into a rope which she tied to the leg BROKE ICE ON POND

"We broke the ice of a pond but

of the bedstead. With a coat over her

down

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While President Roosevelt, left, looks on, in the White House study in Washington, Harry L. Hopkins, centre, former WPA Administrator, takes oath as new Secretary of Commerce. Oath is given by Associato Justice Stanley Reed of the Supreme Court, on Bible furnished by Mrs. Roosevelt, which she later gave to Mr. Hopkins.

She Complained Of Honeymoon 'Snaps'

ORDERING a wife to return to her solicitor husband,

Mr. Jutice Henn Collins, in the Divorce Court re- EC-built on the site of Dr. John- cently, referred to letters which, he said, were obviously son's house and

rendezvous of the outpourings of a man who sincerely loved his wife. journalists and actors-may close shortly.

He granted a decree of restitution of conjugal rights to Mr. "Keith David Erskine, of Upper Grosvenor-street, W. Mrs. Kath- leen Diana Erskine, of Eaton Hall, Retford, Nottinghamshire, defended the suit on the ground that she had just cause for leaving her husband.

The staff of 80 hus received month's notice,

An official said that mi offer to buy the hotel and adjoining property has been made by a company and being negotiated.

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through, it is intended to pull down "We think that, if the deal goes the old holel and build a more

modern ono."

ried in October, 1936, at East Bel-

Mr. and Mrs. Erskine were mar-

ford, and the husband's that in November, 1937,

case was his wife

dow of the bathroom from the win- emptied that in no time. Eventually Hitch-Hiking Cardseed to live with him, and refused

the bathroom adjoining her we got a supply from the privatel room and slid 201 to the snow-hydrant and our men, together with covered lawn.

20 or 30 villagers, all of whom turn-

COLUMBIA, S. C. SNOW UP TO HEDGES

Students of the University of South ed out to help, began to try to sal- Carolina who A thrilling story

"thumb" their way of Cheltenham vage everything possibic, Are brigade's dash through deeg "One of the firemen managed to leave "hitch-hiking cards" with their over the country will henceforth snow and ice to the burning Manor get out with an amethyst and di- benefactors. The cards will give the was told by Chief Officer James R.mand necklace, and I understand that name and address of the student, list Jones.

Lady Anderson, before she climbed the reasons why he wanted a ride. "We went out on receiving the through the window, threw some of thank the motorist and ask him to call," he said, "and encountered deep her jewels out into the snow.

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Heiress Gave Away Money

Montreal,

Mr. Justice Henn Collins sold that Erskine two charges against Mr.

It was revealed recently that Mrs, were that he showed to his men Maybelle Horlick Sidley, of Chicago, photographs friends, In his wife's

presence, 60-years-old daughter of the muited which had heen

of her in the nude, milk manufacturer, lived a life of honeymoon.

taken on their unparalleled extravagance before her death last July at the Toronto home was not concerned with any question

Mr. Justice Henn Collins said he of Mr. Perkins Buil, wealthy Cana-

dlan K.C. of good taste, but only with how the Mr. Bernard F. Magruder, one of incident affected the wife. He was the executors of her will disposing ratised that she was not affronted. of an estate originally estimated at in July 1937 Mrs. Erskine wrote only £800.000, made the disclosure £3,000,000 but now believed to be to her husband In terms of deep and at Racine, Wisconsin. He was being amorous affection. She wrote: The cross-examined before wind is blowing straight from me to riissioner Eugene Haley by attorneys Court Com- you with a heavy load of love. for Mr. William Horlick Sidley, Sun have given it a lot to carry, but of the heiress, who is trying to break trust my felend, the wind, to hand his mother's will.

it safe to you with klases such as only he knows how to give."

"I find," concluded Mr. Justice Henn.. Collins, that none of the wife's charges is proved."

The King May Visit Hollywood

PARIS.

Miss Madeleine Carroll, who sent a cable to the King and Queen invit- ing them to visit the British colony In Hollywood during their tour of Canada and the United States in May, still hopes the invitation wi be accepted.

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Miss Carroll. who is making short stay in Parls before going to London to meet her husband, said:

Mrs. Sidiey left equal bequests of duary estate to her son_and

£30,000 and one-third of the rest- Perkins Bull. ** **** **

Mr.,

REFUSED TO KEEP BOOKS Of securities given her totalling £600,000, only £140.200 was left at the end of 1937.

Sha sold these, drew huge cheques Ds gifts, but it has been found im possible to check them as most of the large cheques were made payable to "CH"

Mr. Magruder's testimony unfolded a story of an eccentric woman, pos- sessed of millions, who refused his appeat to keep books.

Husband Broke Into My House

woolten merchant, of Kensington JOHN Walter Bendon, 30-years-old Purk-road, Kensington, W., was re- "The reply I received from Buck-manded in custody at Mortlake, S.W., ingham Palace was neither an accept recently charged with breaking into ance nor a refusal. It Whis E his wife's house at Landsdale-road,

acknowledgment, stating Barnes, that their Majesties cannot thake any Hrrangements until they rench Washington.

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Mrs. Jennie Bendon said she heard somebody walking about the house. She telephoned for the police. "I want to stress that the invitation on her bedroom door, and a volce Someone came upstairs and banged is not merely a personal affair. Ijald: "Open this door. If I get hoid represent the British colony In of you it will be the inst of you. I Hollywood, and the invitation is a will kill you." sincere expression of their loyalty, although they are so far from home."

She said the recognised the volco as that of her husband.

Mrs. Bendon added that she was legally separated from her husband

Women Fliers Form Ave yours ago. At the police station

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her husband said: "You will not get away with it this time." He then went to kick her, but the police held wim.

SYDNEY; Ausinilla. ": A police constable sald lie was The Australian Women's Flying called to the house and found a win- club has announced its intention of dow in the front had been broken, training an extensive corps of wamen He saw Dendon standing by the aviators for the piloting of com- window, and asked what he was mercial and medical planes, and doing, which will be at the disposition of Bendon replied: "It is my house. the government in the event of war. I live here. 1 cunnot open the door." Members get their training for $200 When charged, he said: came

hers to see my son."

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Ban On Women Athletes

WOMEN athletes preparing for the 1940 Olympic Games have been warned by their clubs not to play hockey, learn to ice- skate, or take part in any strenuous sport which may result in strain or injury.PNGAN KISkys

Said a woman coach, "It is quite easy for athletoe to find games which are helpful: Netball is perfect, so is Incrosse. al. though this takes so much space that it is not always practicable. Indoors, fancing and badminton help footwork, but the training. we advise is in the gymnasium-vaulting, skipping, turning somersaults, and parallel bar exercises:"

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