1939-03-08 — Page 14

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 8, 1939.

NURSE

VANISHED IN PORT

SAID 18 YEARS AGO

Father Left Her Money

IN MAY 1921, NURSE MARY ADELAIDE JONES, OUT- WARD BOUND FOR MADRAS, PORT WENT ASHORE AT

SAID AND POSTED A CARD TO HER FAMILY IN RANTON, ISLE OF MAN, TELLING THEM SHE WAS QUITE WELL,

Then she vanished,

From that time nothing more was! heard of her.

1er father,

the

Rev. Richard

Jones, Vicar of Santon for 40 years, £7,000, died a year ΤΙΚΟ, leaving which was divided between his seven children in equal parts.

Now, 10 years after, Nurse Jones's disappearance, her family are wall- ing the resumed hearing of a Chan- ery Court petition to presume her death.

Her share of the estate would then be divided among her brothers and sisters, who have scattered to varlausi parta nf Britain and the Empire.

Tetanus Puzzle For Spilsbury

Stating Bat he regarded the cose as of more than ordinary importance, The Hackney coroner recently ad Journed an inquest.

Mrs. Florence

Wilson (36,)

Tottenham Road, Hackney, died in hospital from tetanus after the biril of her fourth child,

.

said he Sir Bernard Spilsbury found nothing to account for the symptoms. He agreed tetanus in such a case was extremely rare.

the

of "I hope in the interests -pubile that the source of Infection

can be traced," said the coroner.

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told

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A plot in Granthum, England; enters one of the new Northrup-American planes recently bought in the United States by Great Britain, for use with the Royal Air Force. The planes will

be used principally at the Grantham air training school to train pilots in the handling of single- cugine monoplane ships.

Why General Eva Never

Married

General Evangellae Booth, 73-year-old head of the Salvation Army,

Manchester audience recently why she had never married.

"A friend of mine was ever so serious with me about this question," she said, "He told me the time had really come when I should seriously

consider marriage.

Permanency For Transients

Farmersville, Cal.

The fact that the Form Security Administration has begun building steel houses here for migrants is 219 indication that the taken Administration believes the transient problem will be a permanent one in California, All other transient

only of tent houses.

"I had my answer ready. Yes, I said, I have considered the question camps to date have been composed very, very seriously-that is why I am single."

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