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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 31, 1940:

AIR GENIUS SAYS

'NO' TO

Out Of Work, But Won't Desert Britain At War

U.S. JOB

ONE of the most brilliant aircraft construction engineers in the world is out of a job. He is forty- years-old Trevor Westbrook, over whose resignation as general manager 7,000 employees of Vickers- Armstrong's factory at Weybridge, Surrey, threaten- ed to strike.

"I can't really tell you yet what my future to be" he told the "Sun- day Express".

I have been offered half a dozen jobs comparable with the one I have just left, but as the Air Ministry say they have a good job in view for me I am naturally waiting-though I on not sure what it is."

His most handsome offer has come

from the United States,

"Do you think you'll ro?" he was asked. "Good heavens, no!"

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his reply. "You have to stay and do what you

can. There's a war

2 MEN

TOLD "YOU'RE DEAD'

POLICE called on Mrs. Frank Hodges វគ Stradling-avenue, During his twenty-four years with Weston-super-Mare (Somerset), Vickers Mr. Westbrook constructed recently. They had to tell her, the Schneider Trophy winners of they said, that her husband, a At Southampton he turned out the bricklayer, had dropped dead on

"Then he was recalled Bristol station.

1920 and 1931.

first Spillesley and Wellington

to put

bombers into production,

"Impossible." sald Mrs.

Hodges,

"he's working on his allotment. I'li

He rebullt Vickers plants at South-ge and fetch him." She did so. ampton and at Weybridge, and lold

Which was Case of Mistaken

out a new works in the North of Identity No. I.

England.

The police told Mr. Hodges that

At Brooklands he had the reputa-he only clue to the identity of the tion of wasting no words but getting dead man was a bricklayers' trade every ounce out of the men. He Stradling-nvenue,

canteen.

Marc."

built a hairdressing saloan for them and they had a ninepenny Junch very day in their cor ninety hours a week and had a bed in his office,ro

Old Soldiers Never Die

VASILY Nikiforovich Iranov, de- scribed by the Moscow Press as prob ably the oldest man in the world, claims to be 142 years old and to be able to remember Napoleon's march to Moscow In 1812.

At the age of 121 he volunteered for the Red Guards and fought in the "Far Eastern" civil” war.

Weston-super-

Mr. Hodges said it must be his

His New Overcoat Is A Symbol

EIGHTY-year-old John, Knight Was a very proud man when he of weni to the village church East Tisted, near Alton, Hants, recently, wearing a new black overcoat;

It was presented to him by his employer, Major J. B. Scolt, of Rotherfield Park, on completing sixty years' service on the Rotherfield estate,

In one capacity or another ho has served four generations of the Scott family. And he in- tends to continue his work on the estate.

a says he is "too young and "delive ̄yet to give up work."*--

He was digging for victory in his own garden when a press re- presentative saw him.

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Now he looks after the carriage drive and a drop of home brew,

"I've never hind a day's illness In my life except for 'lu about ten years ago," he said: "Hard work has kept me fit. I played my lost game of cricket six years ago."

Queen Elizabeth couldn't help she inspected'a company of Gordon with him. Sceno la at undisclosed

Mercy Ship

Sunk

RUTHLESS sinking by a U-boat of the 7,880-ton Norwegian uncle, another Frank Hodges, also a steamer Tosca when she was going to the rescue of the torpedoed bricklayer, living in Hughenden-Swedish tanker Sveaborg was described when survivors, picked He went to Bristol and identified up by a British patrol vessel, landed at a north Scottish port. the dead man as his uncle.

A telegram was sent to his son, yet another Frank Hedges. now in the RAF

He went to Hughenden-road to let the albers and there he met his father just back from a football match.

Which bas Case of Mistaken Identity No. 2.

The mystery was cleared up later when Frank Hodges No. 1 remem-

bored he'd given his union card and subscription to a workmate, Jack Roberts, aged sixty, of Oakford- avenue, Weston-super-Mare.

Jack Roberts and Frank Hodges No. 2 are similar in appeara rice,

C.O. Had

It was Jack-Roberts who died.---

Fierce

Hatred' For Tribunal Judge

-Court Allegation ALLEGATIONS that a conscientious objector, whose application for exemption was refused, developed a "fierce hatred” for the tribunal chairman and stabbed him with a knife were made at Manchester recently..

Henry Ballantine Best, a 21-year- old clerk, of Blair-road, Alexandra Park, Manchester, was charged with attempting to murder Judge Burgis, chairman of the North-Western Tri- bunal

Mr. A. M. West, prosecuting, sald that on April Best's opplication to be registered as a conscientious objector was dismissed.

On April 5 Best caused Interrup-| tions at the Tribunal by clapping.

Admiral As Mourner For Florrie Forde

THE Navy and the Army -n! Aberdeen said goodbye recently to Florrie Forde, the music-hall

He was ordered to leave, but al tew minutes later sent in a written queen. apology and was allowed to return.

She died in that lown on her way Mr. West said that as Judge Burgls to the Tivoli Theatre, was boarding a train at London-road An hour before, Florrie had sung Station, Manchester, that evening. "Pack up your troubles” to wounded Best attacked him.

sallors in the naval hospital.

Six Wounds

The sailors to enjoyed her song that Surgeon-Admiral Stephens ask- Judge Burgis was severely wounded her to sing it again. ed. He had six stab wounds and

“WAB still unable to come to the court. Florrie sung it, then dashed for her

A few minutes afterwards Beat went to a police station and said that -he-wanted-to give himself up.

When charged it was alleged he replied "I didn't intend to murder."

In

taxi, in which she collapsed.

Beat alleged statement nn

"After reflection I developed a feree hatred, for him. My mind

played on this continually.”

P. C, Molyneux said that when Best ran into the police station ha sald, "I want to give myself up. I have committed a very ghastly crime, I have stabbed Judge Burgis."

Surgeon-Admiral Stephens walk- ed in the funeral procession

stage-door of the Tivoll to Aberdeen railway station.

the

A Doctor's Writing

First Officer Maland, aged thirty-one, said they saw the Sveaborg attacked and were themselves sunk before they could pick up survivors. The British ship saved thirty-four of the Sveaborg's crew of thirty-five, and thirty of the thirty-two aboard the Tosca.

seeing this exira fall soldier, when Highlanders, so she stopped in clut››

depot somewhere in England,

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CRIMINALS-DOCK SPEECH

BY A GAOL BREAKER

A REMARKABLE speech on crime and criminals was made from the Old Bailey dock recently by 29-year- old Stanley Hilton Thurston.

He is the man who escaped from Lewes Jall and enjoyed six months' liberty on the proceeds of robberies until his recapture in London.

Thurston pleaded guilty to three cases of housebreaking and theft, and asked for 11 other offences to be taken into consi- deration.

He was sentenced to three years' peral servitude. The Recorder. Sir Gerald Dodson, said this would make no difference to the sentence of five years' penal servitude and five years' preventive detention that he is already serving.

After giving details of Thurston's history, Detective-Inspector Reynolds

suid:-

"From conversations I have had with him he does not seem to think ie is doing wrong.

"He says he breaks Into good-class houses and sleuls from people who can afford to lose."

Thurston smiled when asked if he had anything to say.

He said he find been sitting on the

PICTURE PROBLEM BEQUEST

A remarkable situation has arisen:

Callery by Mr.

Montague

stairs while the Recorder had passed following a bequest of pletures to the sentences on two other prisonera, and Tate had been impressed by the Judge's Shearman, assistant legal adviser to the Foreign Office, wliose will was publlated recently,

mercy.

Dartmoon At 25

Mr. Shearman who left gross cetate When a child and until his mother of £52,871, net personally £47,105, died, he went on, he had everything asked the Contemporary Art Society he wanted.

to select from his valuable collection One had to be an individualist to 19 when he was first sent to prison. start a life of crime, and he was only pictures to be presented to the

"I suppose I am more embittered than most criminals," he said.

"I was sent to Chelmsford when I was 22 and to Dartmoor when I waDS 25.

Tate. One of those chosen by the called "The Orange House." Mr. society was a Paris scene by Utrillo, Shearman bought this picture from a London dealer last year for £800.

He signed a hire-purchase 'agree- "But when you come out of Dart-ment, paying a sum down, to be moor as an engineer you are not con- followed by regular instalments. At versant with the latest type of the time of Mr. Shearman's death on Feb. 4 Inst, only the final instalment machinery.""

Thurston, after saying he had paid remained outstanding. The dealer on for his offences in the past remarked: this ground has claimed the, return

When you beat a dog for some of the picture. thing it has done, you do not beat it for something it has done in the past,

Thanked Judge

CABINET MEETING FIXED

Rome, May 30.

The Cabinet is to meet fure i xhen Mussolini will preside. According to the Press, the meeting was fixed when the Cabinet met at the beginning of the month and various important questions came under consideration.

-Reuter.

The executors, Mr. SL John Hutchinson, K.C., and Mr. C. R. "Why do they not treat people Dawes, Insmediately offered to pay A young naval rating left the psychologically and with medicine? the final rastalment completing the described how the Judge appeared to crowd to walk behind the surgeon- All they do is lock men up in cells agreement, so that the painting might

to their own go to the Tate. This offer was re-) him "to assume from the start an admiral in the procession, which in- and leave them

lected by the dealer, who insisted on antagonistic attitude towards me." cluded the Tivoll orchestra and staff. thoughts,"

The picture being returned' 10 him,

The Recorder told Thursion he had

"The position at the moment," said demonstrated that he had natural Mr. Dawes "is that the dealer has gifts and a standard of education is offered to return to the estate all that enable him to obtain employment. Mr. Shearman pald ́ him, I we But, to use his own words, lie had accept this, and return the Utrillo to taken the line of least resistance.

the dealer, another picture will have to be chosen for the Tate.” MISREADING the writing on ure, which had society to protect, with other plelures from Mr. Shear-

"The Orange House" in on medical certificate, Albert for not dealing with your caso pay-man's collection. Bardwell, a 02-years-old farm chologically," the Recorder sald. worker, of Shenfield, Essex, "When you broke into the house) thought he had mental trouble. you didn't break in psychologically he passed himself off as Sir William

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went in through the window." to a respectable married couple. Thursion thanked the judge as he They look a fiat at St. John's Wood, left the dock.

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and Thurston paid the rent) It had been stated that Thurston with the proceeds of his robberies. The coroner sald at the inquest at state from the house of Sir Willian The total value of the property. Brentford that the writing on the McLintock a number of articles, stolen was £1,402, of which £1,396, m certificate was Indecipherable.

Including various badges, with which worth had been recovered,

Best was committed for trial. He pleaded not guilty and called noja evidence.

COMING AND GOING Two passengers, Mr. and Mrs. F. Honeymers, left Hongkong for Eng- and yesterday by a British steamer. Me, H. Land left for Singapore and Me. L. Hakimi for Salgon:

After telling his wife he went out and jumped into a pond..

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