1940-03-27 — Page 9

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MARCH 27, 1940.

NANCY

HEY, NANCY!--- DID

YA HEAR ABOUT D' NEW

ZOO DAT OPENED

IN D PARK?

YES---I

WAS JUST

GOING OVER THERE!

I WISH YOU, WOULDN'T CARRY DAT DOLL AROUND-- IT MAKES ME

FEEL LIKE A

SISSY!

By Ernie Bushmiller

O.K.-- BUT I'VE GOT TO LEAVE IT- SOMEPLACE WHERE

IT'LL BE

SAFE!

HE'LL KNOW HOW TO TAKE

CARE OF

IT!

Page, 16in ke Unded Trolova Bradicale, Lag

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—ERMIT

All That Was Left Of The Dunbar

The

Man

Who

Thought

He Had Lost Everything

Leaves £129,000

30,960,000 Pennies From Slot Machines

WEALTH came to Oliver Dalton, owner of Brigh- ton's Palace Pier, from pennies that went into slot machines. He died, leaving a fortune of £129,000-over thirty million pennies.-

Yet, when he turned on the gas tap and died in the kitchen of his luxurious home last October, he thought! he was a ruined man. For a few days previously he had told a friend: "I am broke.. I haven't a penny in the world. All they can take is my furniture.

Ollie, as he was popularly known from Brighton to Atlantic City and back to Dieppe, was one of Brighton's three wealthiest But for a year before his death at 60 his health had public men. been failing and he had two nervous breakdowns

There's a Boom In Tattooing

THE war has brought prosperity to tattooists.

The war, which brought the! season on the Palace Pier to an abrupt end and compelled him to dismiss old servants, preyed on his mind.

Some of these servants he has re-i membered in his £129,000 will pub- lished recently.

Sold Papers at 10

Al ten years of age this slot machine king.nold newspapers in the streets of Brighton.

"After my paper-selling days," he! once told a reporter, "I scraped and

saved and became interested in bath- ing machines on Brighton beach. Then, with the money I made, bought a

a few automatic machines and put them on the

frequent

trips

Atlantic He made City and brought back novel attrac tions and new machines for the pier, which was his great interest in life.

Initials of wife or sweet- heart or mother enclosed in a heart used to be the usual formula, but this has now given place to a series of fruit machines in Brighton.

And the man who made his Idr more intricate designs. tune from the slot machine pennies

lie was one of the first

Introduce

Soldiers have the initials inter-of the publle was always willing to twined with the badge of their help those in need.

regiment; anilors prefer

an

anchor as the frame for their METALLURGY PRIZE initiala; while airmen have them act between wings.

Tokyo, Mar. 26.

Sir Harold Carpenter, well-known "But it isn't only love-tokens that British metallurgist and Professor of we are doing now," said Mr. G. Metallurgy at the Royal School of Burchett, who has been tattooing for Mines, has been chosen as the winner

Society. 30 years. It is identification marks of the "Honda Prize" by the Japan of one sort or another.

Mecandidates for the prize have been "Young men just called up want recommended by Japan, Sweden, the to be identified on their own skins, United States, Germany and Britain. You'd be surprised at the things I Sir Harold will be the first foreigner have done.

to receive the prize which consists I've only just finished tattooing of a gold cup and Yen 3,000, the number of a man's blood-group Domet.

on his

arm: he's a registered blood

donor. And I've two sailors walting

now: one of them wants just the of. Others want what. I should call a half-unsuitable things tattooed: "To Hell regular. love. design that's a crown job but the other wants the with Hillor and I hate Germany" Crucifixion reproduced on his cheat, and things like that.

"We try to persuade them not to "Many foreigners ask me to tattoo names that I never heard of oefore, have them done, but if they insist and words I don't know the meaning well, the customer is always right!"

WHEELED

Castle

THESE PICTURES show all that was visible of the 10,000-ton Dunbar Castle. The liner, carrying 48 passengers and a crew of 150, hit a mine and sank off the South East Coast. Above, you see the after part of the vessel, with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the deck. Below: The twin funnels and part of the superstructure seen from an approaching Inunch.

TO BATHS THEN WON A CERTIFICATE

AS President Roosevelt conquered infantile paralysis, so Valerie Hoope, eight-year-old English girl, has saved herself from being a cripple for life- by will-power and swimming.

Valerio said: "I am going to write to Mr. Roosevelt to tell him about my cure.".""

Two years ago one of Valerie's legs was so twisted that the heel was where the toes. should have been. She was put under the care of Mr. John Bastow, surgeon of the Bath Orthopaedic Hospital.

Valerie never lost her smile as she was. wheeled about in an invalid chair.........

д

Then one day last summer, as she was being wheeled past Trowbridge's new £10,000 swimming pool, she turned to her mother and said: "Pleast, mummy, may I have'a swim?"

Mrs. Hoope, astonished by the request,

involuntarily replied: "No, dear, of course not."

But Valerie begged so hard that the mat- ter was put to doctors, who decided to let Valerio have her way.

The plaster was cut off, and Valerie was wheeled to the baths, Mr. Ettles, the in- structor, took great trouble with this little crippled girl, and was amazed at the ense with which she learned to swim. AND GRADUALLY THE TWISTED LEG WAS SEEN TO BE REGAINING A NORMAL POSITION.

Doctors and Valerie's parents were fur- ther astonished when they saw the child swim fifty yards to win a certificate..

But there was better news last week, Valerle was to have undergone a blg opera- tlon; but so successful has been the swim- ming"cure that she can now walk normally; and it has been decided that the operation will never be necessary.

HIS MASTER'S VOICE

A VARIETY PROGRAMME

BY

POPULAR ARTISTES

|BD710-1l you ever change your mind

What goes up, must come down,

BD733-The.Butterfly

Neapollion Serenade,

Ethel Waters.

..Alfred Campoli & Orch. ...Hungarlag, Gypsy Band, ......Kenny Baker.

|BD234-The magle of the lungarian Fuszta

Hungarian gypay party.

BD141-The moon and 1. "kado”

A wandering Antirel

138930-Two character studles

The American mother, The village Mother,

03020-Coeur Brise ...

Menuelt. (Paderewski),

(Back-Gounod).

B2001-The Rorary

Ave Maria,

18392-Childhood Memories

113143-Brahms Hungarian dances No. 3 & 1 133543-Auld Lang Syne

113527-My dream. Waliz

Siren magle.

...Joyce. Grenfell,

.Marek Weber & Orch,

Charles O'Connell, Orgon,

,London Palladium Orch.

Vienna Philharmonic Orch. Peter Dawson.

Marek Weber & Orch.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

MARINA HOUSE

10, QUEEN'S ROAD C

Girl Aged 15 Wrote To Mr. B.

PHONE 24040.

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA

A Daily Feature For Naval Reservists

NEWS HAS just been received in Hongkong of a severe cyclone which swept North Queensland last month, causing heavy damage to several towns..

tho Townsville was

chief sufferer. Although the damage domu to pluate property in the city was not comrarable with the ttavoc wrought by tin Leonta cyclone of 1903, and no loss of life re- sulted, the city spent an anxious and terrifying night,

The most extensive damago at Town- sville occurred on the sentrant, where the three open nen træths were destroyed and Anzac Memorial Park was so badly overrun by angry seas that it was re- duced to a shambler. The new sea wall Was washed away. High flood water in Ross River, backed up by the gale-driven lices, caused the river tú break its banks In several places, with the result that Hermit Park and the bow sections of Nail- way Estate were isolated from the clly by flood waters. Several families wera rowed to safety.

The mare exposed sections of Stanton and Melton Hills, Townaviilo's residential areas were subjected to a sovers buffet- Int. The Bea View Private Hospital was one of the chiet losers.

Magnetic Island and tákn Island were severely buffeted.

Reports from other parts of the affected area?

INGHAM: Received full force of the blow and scaredly n huursholder escaped tiamage to his property. Noarla Hotel badly battered. Trebonne Hotel totally do-roated. 1ospital patients had to be triaferred to safely.

CARDWELL: A few, cases of de-root-

ing.

DADINDA; Anxious night, but no Comare.

TULLY: Lawsun's sawmill badly dam aged. Electric light system cut off. Cang

LEM

A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD damage.

INNISFAIL: No Berlour damage girl was charged at the Phyllis Pugins, aged 4, sustained fractured CAIRNS: Very slight damage, but rali. Tunbridge Wells Juvenile services to Gulf country suspended by Court recently with de- Boods

MACKAY: Electric, atit syntem sus manding £2 with menaces pended and water supply limited to four from a man described using system. Burdekin overflowed its "Mr. B."

hours daily owing to breakdown of puinn- banka at several points, Mackay had ten inches of rain in 48 hours."

NOWEN, Sen wall damaged, and ald RAAF, shed unroofed. otherwise ttle

AYR: Damage totalled £3,000, mostly to HOME HILL: Burdekin floods entised

The prosecuting solicitor, damage. Mr. J. Hillier, stated that cane. Torrential rain. "Mr. B" received a letter evacuation of people from low-lying from the girl in which she "CLOUDY CLEARING: Completely said: "Does your wife know wicked. Minten in distressful plight." how you carry on with V.R.C. DOUBLE young girls? Does she know why you take the car out of an evening or why you visit Groombridge?

duble, the Newmarket and Australian of points firmer than Manrico, who lost

MELBOURNE-Chatsbury and Rivetie are favourites for the V.R.C. Autum

Cup. For the sprint, Chatsbury is a couple many friends after his poor showing in the Dakleigh Plate. Pamelus has firmed. Uncertainty about Unishak's Newmarket weight penally for his Oakleigh X'Late "Maybe she would like to success, which has not yet been an

nounced, has stifled, discussions of him. know more about her affec-nivette is only suginly more popular than Coorange for the Cup, for which Actor tionate and loving husband.

has eased.

The latest order is:--

"If you care to keep this a secret so wili I, it you place £2 in an en- velope and leave it on a seat facing the Spa Hotel on Wednesday evening Manrico.

at 8 o'clock, January 10.

Girl Took Letter

"I advise you to do as I ask and keep, quiet about it. Otherwise I will not hold my tongue,

NEWMARHET HANDICAP

Chatsbury.

Pure Cold and Trimmer. Pamelus and Unishak.

Gold Sakile and Rex Felt.

Aurio's Ctor. Colt Rod and The Alba-

tross.

Magic Star, ilton, Landlaw and Zonda,

Rivetta,

AUSTRALIAN CUP

Pageant and Seven Filly.

This was algried, "from one who Coorange. knows and sces more than yourm, Dark David, Gladstone, Round Up Imagine."

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Mr. Hillier added that the letter WILD taken to the police station, and Mr. B., acting on police instructions, placed a letter on the reat indicated, which was taken by the girl. An other

letter on the following day was also placed on the seat and taken by the

Detective-Sergeant Sigger

aald

and Tomito.

BAN ON IMPORTS

MELBOURNE, — Under

the headline,

"Crippling France," the Melbourne aterald attacks the Commonwealth Government's policy of restricting imports,

The newspaper says: "The prohibition of imports was imposed with the exprem objective of conserving dollars, but the List of restrictions includes French goods

valued at nearly half our total imports

"sines France is a sterling country, the ton cannot help to preserve the

that when the girl was arrested she from France. said: "I suppose Mr. B. will be glad to bring this up in court," and later she said: "I don't want it for my-instead of realising that anything

self, but for someone else name I won't reveal."

A Good Girl

whose

dollar pool.

which strengthens France strengthens our- selves, the Government have gone out of their way to take action weakening France's economie position-giving her | Jem credits to purchiano' war materials wherewith to help. Dritain win the Empire's war,"

The Chief, Constable said the girl came from a very respectable family who could not understand her actions, NINE DAYS LOST. IN FLOOD The father gave his daughter on ex-Search: Darules of aboriginal trackers cellent character, saying that she found Henry Cameron, was a good girl in

Miss Hinton, the Probation Oficer, lug the the crui-country of Austrade

Cameron, returning home from a'hunt- Northern Territory for nine days ing trip, was overtaken by storms which ended the country, obliterating rosta

said that when she saw the girl she said she frequently had chats with Mr. B. but had not been out with him. What she had done had been to frighten him for the sake of other girls.

The girl was placed on probation for two years, the chairman, Mr. I. Elwig, remarking that it was a fer- rible chargo against a girl'só young.

** forty-seven-

year-old who had been wander-

and tracks.

He wandered until he found 'a tele- graph line, which lie qut with a rife khot, hoping that the repair gang would Inestó filmak When tile lineamen

'arcived they found

Cameron's track, but: lost if in the food water.

Cameron, was delirique with, axhaustion when found. In the 'nine,' days, he had eators only. * amall, bird, which he trapped.

AUXILIARY NURSES Friday afternoons, at 0.30 p.m.

The following members have now Home Nursing lectures for mem- completed their hospital training, and bers of the Auxillery. Nursing Ser- gained their proficiency, certificates vice will commence on April 1, at Mrs" Anne Moodie, Miss, Agnes 5.30 p.m..

the Royal Naval Loong, Mrs. V." Anderson, Miss Ruby SEA) Mow? Fung, Mrs., Dina‹ Cemérnie, Hospital.

First Aid lectures are being held Miss Margaret Bough, Mr. Ziva at the Helena May Institute on Bogdataky

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