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Once He Was Hungry, Now He Gives Away £90,000

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July 22, 1939.

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Army leaders of two nations are shown here, an Genera! Mario Gustave Gamelin, left, supreme commander of French de- fence forces, visits Viscount Gort, chief of the Imperial British Staff, at a London conference.

Television School

VILLAGE children from five to fourteen at Staple- hurst, in one of the quietest parts of the Weald of Kent, are given regular television lessons in school.

·Citizenship and general know- | ledge are taught them through news-reels and historic events such as the Trooping the Colour and the arrival of the King and Queen from America.

The, television lessons have been instituted by Mr. H. Parrington, the headmaster, a means of bringing current affairs to the classroom.

"In 24 years of teaching", he suit,

"I have been struck by the great lack

of general knowledge among schools children of all upes

"The child mind enn rarely form anything he a true impression of things it cannot ace. Television and the Informal folks that follow the programme are probably of mare real educative value to the chlidren thou most lessons given in class."

HOW DOES IT

STRIKE YOU?

"Just Hard Work And Bull Luck," Says New Baronet

HEATHFIELD, Sussex.

PEOPLE living round here

sometimes catch a glimpse of a quiet-looking man pottering: about the grounds of a lovely country houнe.

They know him as Mr. Harry Oakes, the owner of Oak Hall. but what they don't know is that he is one of the richest men in the world.

Mr. Oakes was in the news re- cently. His name was in the Birth day Honours List, and it was an ** nounced that a baroncicy had been conferred upon him in recognition of his generosity to St. George's Has- pital Rebuilding Council.

Without much discussion he announced that he was about to make the hospital a Filt of £80,000, "Don't make a fuss about this," he urged.. "Just say the donor is Harry Oakes-but don't tell them any more than that."

Then he slipped away on the liner Europa sailing for America. He didn't want to be thonked and he was frightened of interviews.

Earlier he gave a further £10,000 to the hospital.

This man, who can give away thousands so easily, is a remarkable personality. Forty years ago he was penniless.

SEARCH FOR GOLD

He was a prospector for gold in the Yukon. In those days he would sel out with a plek and shovel over

his shoulder and tramp to whatever place he fancied as the scene of a "strike."

He was too poor to travel by rail. He rode the rods" In the hobo man“; ner. Once he was thrown off a train, for travelling without a ticket.

For years he sought the elusive yellow metal. He had little Juck. Then in 1911 he came tu a place PLAYING golf at High- called Kirkland Lake, Ontario. cliffe recently, Mr. L. Phillips, There he made his first real "strike." of Southampton, struck a treo when he tried a 200-yardı shot.

The ball rebounded, strik- ing him on the forehead, and knacked him out,

When he recavered his opponent remarked: "My holo, ' believe. The bafl struck you."

;)

BBC. of television "Children's Familles and progressive schools, Hour," with a few cartoons as "light Mr. Parrington, suggested, would retier" for the younger welcome the introduction by the girls.

lic sold out and wet off again. It was at Lake Shore, Ontario, that he struck it rich. Ile found a wonderful vein of gold: To- day the Lake Shore gold mine is the second richest in the world. With Harry Oakes us' president, the Lake Shore gold mines became un incorporated company in 1914.

It is the largest gold-mining field; in Canada, the second largest in the world

HIS SEVEN HOMES

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German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, left, as he arrived in Milan, Xaly, to confer with Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Clano, right.

German Staff tell Hitler

'You can't win

66ERMANY stands no

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Scot Says He Was Pigeon

WHEN Paul Mitchell, aged 22, and

chance of winning a war; neither a lightning war nor a prolonged war" -this is what the Hun- garian public are learning to-day from a ninety-nine-rold White, aged 30, both describ page booklet which has caused ** sensation in Budapest.

ed as Independent again appeared at Westminster recently accused ຍາ defrauding a 10-year-old Scot, Doug- las Sutherland, Mr., Myers, for M- chell, asked Sutherland if he regard-

The booklet, "Germany's Wared himself us an innoccat pigeon Chances in the Light of German plucked by these two hawks, Literature," is based exclusively Sutherland: Well, yes, I do.

Sutherland, who had previously

on German experts' opinions.

Mr. Oakes is fond of telling friends It was compiled by Dr. Ivan told of getting a cheque for £630 of his grealest mistake. Back in 1916 he parted with 500,000 shares Lajos, professor of the Univer- from "a Indy friend" to buy property, atsity of Pecs (Funskirchen), and said he and Mitchell went to Le fresh editions are being sold out who was to introduce business,

Touquet and Parls to meet a man every few hours.

boys

and to a "bunch of Bnancial Auys"

(Continued on Next Column)

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Mayors and other civil ser- ivants throughout the country "received"free copies of the book,

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33 cents each. To-day the shares jstand around £10.

Still Mr. Oakes holds 60 per cent. of the shares.

"Just hard work and bull luck," Harry Oakes recipe for anding gold mines.

"Being hungry is useful, too. A prospector who gets (at doesn't gel for."!

With his wife, un Australian girl much younger than himself and

VISIT TO CASINO

He drew £100 from the bank, of which he lent £60 to Mitcheli. Mit- chell asked him for his (Sutherland's) £50 to change into francs, and in the taxi to the airport Mitchell gave him

£5 to £10 in francs. At Le Touquet Mitchell suggested that they should go to the casino, and later told him alf the money had been lost.

Mr. Myers, cross-examining, refer- red to the weman who had advanced £630 as Mrs. Falls, and asked Sutherland how old she Whs, He replied: "About forty, perhaps."

CALLED HER 'DIDDLES' Mr. Myers: Did you call her Did- dies?—Yes.

a family" of "three sons and two fact, using the language of daughters, Harry Oakes hus settled people of to-day, you were her boy down lo. enjoy his riches-la seven friend?-Well, I was quite friendly homes,

with her.

He owns a mansion in Kensington Sutherland denied that he ap Palace Gardens (London's "Million-proached Mitchell with the object of laire Row, he has two houses at using his persuasiveness to get the

Palm Beach, Florida, one at Kirk- lady to advance the money. land Lake, Canada, others at Nassau White's ball was renewed, but Mit- and in the State of Maine,

chell was remanded In custody,

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