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PARK LANE DIRECTOR GOT £2,112 FROM WOMAN

OIL SHARE SWINDLE IN

FOR what Mr. Justice Humphreys described as “a very cruel and heartless fraud on an unprotected old lady," John Lorimer, 39-year-old company director, of Park Lane, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour at Lewes Assizes. He had been found guilty of obtaining £2,112 by false pretences from a 75-year-old Hove woman.

Lorimer obtained the money from the woman, Mies Marion Louisa Gardiner, by pretending that he nad an option to take up 100,000 shares in the Terek General Oil Company, Ltd.

Miss Gardiner had told how, early in 1938, Lorimer advised her to purchase 2,000 shares in the oil company, which operate in Poland, for 78. 60. cach-a transaction out of which no

charge arose.

FAMILY OF 12 CANNOT READ

OR WRITE

THERE is a family of 12 living in Eastbourne, none of whom can read or write, nor have their forbears for generations been able to.

Later he told her he had an option on 100,000 shares and offered lior n quarter share. She gave him securi- fles worth over £2,000.

Income Stashed

She had received no share certifi- cates, Interest or dividend and her Income and been reduced from be- tween £300 and 2400 year to between £00 and £70,

M.C. Major To Rejoin Army

In The Ranks

A 50-YEAR-OLD major in the Royal Artillery, Albert Detective-Inspector Yates said that; in February, 1935, Lorimer was sen-Ernest Haynes, who appeared at tenced at Marlborough Street to nine Solihull police court in uniform, months in the second division for was sentenced on three charges obtaining money and cheques by of passing worthless cheques to false pretences.

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producers and He was wearing the ribbons of the Kuaranteeling girls appearances as M.C. and bar and other medals. alm actresses. He failed to give the necessary training and absconded with the money.

As A Bookmaker

WIDOW

(Writes New Song)

In the house at Oldbury, Staffs,

The police said that Haynes had! lost a £1,000-a-yenr Job and In- tended to rejoin the Army in thewhere Jack Judge, composer of the ranks.

famous "Tipperary," dled recently, his brother and widow are busy writ- ing a new war song.

This was revealed after a case in Eastbourne polico court in which one of the family, Phoebe Williams, 18-year-old hotel ser- vant, was bound over for steal- ing £12 from her parents.

Police said she spent most of the money on clothes. When she was

the M.C. with bar and was also widowed Mrs. Judge sits in the chair sign a statement it was und she would neither rend nor total amount obtained from mentioned in dispatches. After the in which her husband polished the Miss Gardiner was £0,464," said the war he served in the Army for an- lines of his song that helped to win inspector.

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Mrs. Williams, the girl's mother. told a reporter:

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Ong or two of our relations have learned to read, but they've never done any good.

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After his release from prison he did clerical work and a few months later opened a bookmaker's business in Baker Street.

Haynes,usked for 34 offences to be taken into consideration.

He joined the Army in 1914, won

As she udvises him on

other three years and joined up the last war, The Metropolitan police stated

connected within in May last:and was promoted

Brigade-Major. that he had been share-pushers and had made a good

The cheques were given for food deal of money by selling shares of little or no value to the public. for hotels bills,

THE FLATZ FAMILY

ARE ALL. HEROES

NEW YORK.

YOU would never know that the Flatz family were heroes. Joseph Flatz looks like the substantial Austrian burgher he used to be; his wife is dark- haired and plump; their two sons, Kuno and Walter, are red-cheeked and just like any other boys. But they revealed when they | arrived in New York aboard the French liner Degrasse that they

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For further inspiration they have before them the first published copy of "Tipperary," and whenever they are short of an Iden, her brother-in- kw, Ted Judge, now a special con- stable in Oldbury, sings the old song through.

"We're doing our little bil" is the title of the new song, which is in true "Tipperary" style. "But it will never equal Jack:'s "Tipperary," says Mrs. Judge. It Will Nevor Die

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best-seller "Modern song writers forget the "Tipperary" is still Made A Dash

to murch

the tunes. both in England and America. boys want to

The publishers send a sum weekly Nuzi patrols passed only a few The new war songs might be all right! years from him.

for the canteens, but they're of no to Mrs. Judge's home in Harold's- So they go on road, Oldbury, sufficient to allow her In the middle of the night he made use for the march.

to live comfortably, -: his dash. The sound of his swim-marching to "Tipperary." In the days when Austria was still ming drew fire from the Nazi guard, | -- They've_No_Need_To____

Austria-Herr-Flatz-was--wealthy,

He went to Zurich, and ten Three of my children, two girls Furthermore, he was a pure Argan.but-they-missed.

weeks later

wns there school age. and a boy, are over

But he distrusted the lengthening They can't read or write and they've shadow of Hitlerism. He was a good activity in the brush on the river bank. Frau Flatz was there wait- no need to.

Roman Catholic, and he was bitter

ing, and so were, her two boys, "Three other children

at about the persecutions of Jews and

hiding in nearby haystack,

Flatz: school and are trying hard, but they Roman Catholics,

And then, to quote Herr He spoke his mind openly-and so can't rend or write yet. and the

it wasn't long after the Anschluss "It was after midnight when i was others are too young to go.

that members of Hitler's Gestapo standing on the Swiss bank of the

and heard a fair

a faint cry.

Wife with off to prison at Innsbruck.

boys who had Last September he was ordered to two brave Austrian

helped be moved to a concentration canip. bed my sons to get across. We

His train passed through moun- fell on our knees and thanked God."!

*Yes,**

Flatz, Said Frau tainous country and had to go slowly. When it stopped he jumped month were like years. from a window. Nazi oficers fred "Ifimmler's men were watching us at him but missed. He escaped. all the time; but we had friends. Then, berging and borrowing his way, he reached a border town. In hiding by day in haystacks, slinking a patch of brush on the Rhine's east by night through helds, stealing food bank he hid, looking longingly across where we could, and then it was a the river at Switzerland.

"We are travelling people and wel marched into his home and took him river on I recognised my

lived in a caravan until the Act We were made us go into a house, always moving about and the kiddies could not go to school.

no

"We travelling people have need for reading or writing, and I don't think my youngsters should learn, but the law makes them.

"We are perfectly happy without being able to write, and I think that lots of others who can read would be better off if they couldn't,"

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