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The

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1950,

Flames

BLACK COUNTRY

Woman nailers paid 11⁄2d ́an hour Miners harnessed to own tubs

Starved workers walked like dogs

Babies as workshop rat-scarers

in the GOOD OLD DAYS

By J. W.

Taylor

WILSON - JONES, week as nail-makers for and the pay to poor that "whole

a

A

Ate Ponics

were trapped at It was rumoured pit librarian of Row-14d an hour. One of them families had not enough strength When minors

caten the they had had been

a bond their spine to walk upright, another pit sold as

They walked through the lowns that

ponies and reached the point of ley Regies, is a man who servant at Halesowen Crosson all fourn"

"Lola cannibalism was bred and born in and had received three-

wire drawn for the first victim, the Black Country. He pence a day wages. Another

and it fell on a young day boy. has written book worked harnessed like

out to often pointed bey was. to. In the 1860's 660 people horse to a tuh in the mines, TS hard life had its dangers, Later they were rescued and the who the one ("The Black Country'

the peoples as

And just as did many more in- perished at their

should have been calen." Cornish Brothers, dustrial slaves.

Cannock colliery

|such goings-on were in the life

lime

of of the nged parents 188.) which presents a

clay Black present - many grim picture of life in

Country people. that part of the world a century or more ago and is the outcome of his knowledge, plus person

it

He knew "Bl Harry of Row. ley" in "his nallmaker's shirt of cheek, red and Srren aquare trousers held up by n immen

fortencil withr leather belt strong brasg buckle offen und to correct his nine sons." In tala old are Harry rat around from al recollections of age-morning ill dusk......a monu

ment of hard living, hard drink- ing inhabitants he scru-

talking ing days,

uf the cock- pulously sought out in Bghts he organised and pointing many parts of the coun- qut the long sear upon his left check, relle from a flight with

policeman the village tryside,

years before There were the old ladies who told him of labouring one hundred and nine hours

Homeside News

Meet Mister

Dustman, Ambassador

#

'work in disaster.

TRUANTS

TREATED

GENTLY

Of his own childhood days, the author has a goodly report: "The children with whom } went to school were from work- Ing-class homes, but they were and well clean, well-dressed fed. They never were the un- kempt savages of Black deco- recoils the great lation. He In spring the truancy e glory of the Iron Age de- 1873, when depression after "thirty temptation is on the wingparted and the derelict furnaces the brown hut in Washington, D.C., and steel work by the alag heap. string-buckled corduroy trousers there is no such thing as the the rotting pithead gear and the

large heavy ng at. Pletaler of the typical old-fashioned truant officer, incmorkal." Black Country man of the fron Ate of Queen Victoria.*

and

boots enm-

Children e those of "Ble

nall- Harry heron work no makers or

they mine when

Along The

Waterfront

weed-covered railways was its

Starting in a two-storey wooden building, this fre in Boston, Mass. threatened the whole harbour area before it was brought under control.

that the

Black

'WHEN WE WERE YOUNG'

HITS SHOW THE EFFECT OF THE YEARS

The "bi und men" have to young

He recalls given way

worten, sympathetic and attractive, Country womenfolk's dress re- known as "attendance oflleers."mained unique even as late as The nailonking wornen 1025. U.S. capital wore a masculine dress, Jurge Moppets in the wer five and bobløg were end are led back from the ball game back lace-up boots, woollen Mrs Allerdockings, long black skirt with de renre nway rats. There they and asking hole by

and bare arms, wemained in bandage with thely Sheldon, attendance director for a plaid show!

ware 113,000 Washington school with a man's cap on their heads miserable pittance of n

white clay pipe in int they died or were taken eltires for 15 years, and her and often a

their mouth. womy-ext the workhouses jutsastants. where, recapting to the requla-

*

tion remiring them to break "Most children are not real Ma quantit of tone, "they trunnt," Mrs Sheldon

said.

the

To not suffered to eat till the "They only ruccumb to CABLE PRICES

apnited quietity be besken bytemplations of the senson."

the size of

Dustmen are among thech of them, the stories to be best ambarsars for local roten down to authorities, thinks Alder-Lent: erot" man I.M. Vogler, Chairm of Stepney, London. Public Cleansing Committee.

Doped Both Ways

1

Minu there were over 80 VR Wilson-Jones records that

"The dustamm's forceful and colourful command of Janguage helps him to interpret the views rulers.

Chronic truants. who some- Ames are committed to chil- dren's Institutions for the re-

education, mainder

their

of a malad- often ore victims lusted home life, she said.

of

UNDERLYING CAUSES

GO UP

ON JULY 1

coine

in and al-

When He told delegates to the In-beerhoutrea and

new charges for "We try to find the under- most as many chapels "for the stilute of Public Cleansing con-

telegrams OversPas to be doped with lying causes for continual non- ference at Torquay that dusi worker and

hile workings and attendance, using a quiet, com-into force on July 1, busi- men knew a Freal deal about atechol on

Kingdom both the counell which unploy-promised 10

of mon-sense approach rather than ness firms who correspond ed them and the ratepayers who Heaven on Sundays."

the police approach," she said, regularly by cable will have

Mrs Sheldon, a member * paid them.

to decide between alding The maier and chainmakeri the District of Columbia bar

as 60 percent. to were always afraid of Illness or and gradunte rocial worker, as much age, and in their fear of the

is fussy about selection of the their bills or being content the

iremasters and

20 oficers who investigate an with a slower service. of the latter to the former with railforters.

adopted 11

average of 21,000 cases a year. considerable emphasis," he said, sadistic attitude to the work.

The problem arises because "They must be neat and al- Mr G.1. Greenlaw, chief sani-cruelty to

smart and

and in the past roost firms used the of Ayr County children, was common, and the tractive Lary inpretor Council,

syminthetle," she said. "To get deferred telegram service, est said: "Many people longius of righting

full rate. Now, whe foundi seem to look upon a loend - buil baiting

in really close to a pupil and ferreting half the thority in the same way as the

cut the reason for truancy, such though the full rate to countries worst form,"

Europe ho been re- old soldier regards the army-

lot easier. nutside In 1850 the food for the qualities make it sotnething to be robbed, cheated,

Licen duced by about 25 percent. the deferred service has swinded and toodwhiked, 01)

bollshed. every occasion that offer."

He said a new "El-Alamein" ári the ratepayers' against rising

struggle!

rates would Dr! won 1 private contractors took

ever publie cleansins.

Four men in a boat

Salling from Kidston this .week is a 30-foot cutter carry- ing a crew of four adventurous young men whose ambition is to sail round the world. They are young Irish architectural stud- ents-Demand Dalton, John Kenny, Kelvin O'Form!) Anthony Jacob

Their plan is to travel via on, Madeira, the Canary Lisbon, Islands and Bermuda to New York and up to the Great Lakes, in order to reach Tatiesen East. Wisconsin, where the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, fred 1hrir enterprising spirit, has promised them a year's scholar- ship.

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At the end of that year, they plan to end their globe-encircling journey in the Hamne boat Through the Panemu Canal they will salt on to the South Sen lands, New Zealand, Aus- tralia and the Enst

They will try to maintain. Anuncial stability by using the boat for money-making tasks, by writing articles On the trip and by telling photographs.

The skipper is 6' 4" tall, 22- your-old Anthony Jacob. He and hls three companions clubbed together to buy, for £150, the boat. In broken down hull of six months they refiled it was their own hands into a fully- with complete rigged cutter new deck and cabin accommoda- tion. The reconstruction

cost them £600, but they estimate that, with a world cruise be- bind her, the boat will be worth

£2,000 in three years' time.

they

their

wonder And

and

ers of Rowley Regis was no baði All officers are college trained,"

Copped!!!

Little Josephine Masters was absorbed in hanging

one of her uncle's pictures in an open-nir exhibition in London. The fact that she has nothing on but her an exhibition of slippers does not mean that it was nudes, but she had that policeman Worried for a while.

K. O. CANNON

SWITCH ON YOUR TORCII, VIDOCO, AND GET READY

TO DUCK!

full rate

Stars object to their early films

MAN

on television

From FREDERICK COOK

cenerations

the stars is the New York. What hurts

to say: MANY Hollywood stars invitation to aim fars

"Aly word, haven't they aged!" them complain. FO complaining that And, some of

of mocra television is introducing a new

since many of new form of competition-have grown up

the plelures were made. competition with younger

Former big hits versions of themselves.

Most

FLOW

on

Scep

regularly modern Hollywood

American television are Jony bits were big Gims are barred from tele vision under the studios' pictures which

when they were first produced contract with James Caesar including; the 1940 Fred Astaire Petrillo and his Musi-Paulette Goddard picture, See- cians' Union, and under and Cherus, the James Stewart. City Without direct bans by some of the Paulette Goddard Pot o' Gold,

Linda Domell's producers.

Men, and It Happened tomor→

row.

But pictures made hidepen- dently before the Petrillo con- tract was signed in 1946 may ney be televised without difficulty,

No extra pay

Edward G. Robinson's Jour- Together and Thunder in the City are both going rounds.

Robert

the

Barbara Young and Stanwyck, to remind them So. ihe stars complain their carlier days, have only to

away from their switch on

their television their 1935 release, Rea

them were

For former users of this cr-Deople slay vice, the only alternative is the new pictures and sit at homesee

to see them as they used to be. Salute. or letter telegrams. which are cheaper but slower when some of In addition, charges for letter Rood deal younger. telegrams have been increased under the new regulations by 20 percent

to

Myrna Loy can

even

the Furthermore, they suy. Drupin television

are getting

texture.

further back. Her 1932 upit Vanity Fair,

television So is Rita Hayworth's

A

C i

rich on their efforts, while the 1936 production, Rebellion,

Link Eet nothing

Laurel and Hardy The changes are the result of tar

entertain. New decisions taken at the Interna- mushrooming

Lovers of the old Laurel and that And tion) Telecommunications Union ment business.

comedica Regulars on the old-time Dim Hardy conference in Paris last year.

include most nearly all of them are on show Control of the British cable programmes now

Durante's bi notnes: Rita Ha

Junmy regularly. services was taken over by the of the

worth, Mickey Rooney, Cloud- 1934 Joe Palooka has been re- Goverment on Jun. 1, 1917.

rite Colbert, James Cagney,vived, Dennis Murgan, Barbara Stan- wyck, Humphrey Bogart, Pau- tette Goddard, Ginger Rosters,

Code Not Allowed

Rates

the for

European E- system generally remain

that tho changed, except

it

Almost

collector's Hom or Not To Be, now is, To Be, which Jack Benny made years

SECOND CHORUS Astaire, Goddard as TV viewern see them in the 1940 Alka

BENNY, LOMBARD To Be or Not To Be

London Kipras Sertra.

atto with the late Carole Lon-Swiss Agreement

bard.

The appearance on television of the 1943 Sol Lesser film, Stage Door Canteen, is hittingt biggest names in come of the show business.

17 years back

Alm, Br Doris Day's 1941 minimum charge for letter tele-Celebrity, is a television feature Arams will be for 22 words in-

1938 Dennis Morgan's So are stead of 25. Code or cipher will

I Cover the Sea, Bo release, not be allowed in letter tele-

Fart's Midnight, Virginia Mayo's Krams.

London Jack Adventures of

with Danger For countries outside Europe. Cagney's Flirting

It is said to have contained and Ginger Rogers's the deferred telegram servico (1034),

A Shrick in the more big stars than any picture ever made. Among those who themselves in it can now see

Talulah Bankshead.

as been abolished. Examples of 1033 picture. the remaining new rates, com- Night. pared with the old, are:

Night and

grams will

static" class

daily letter

Gertrudo

Jane

With India

Berne, June Zi.

Federal Council ratified the new cofL-

T Swinn today mercial agreement which was

last April.

with India,

Initialfe in Borne

Under the agreement, which whose jare

Ina runs from March, this year to Lawrence,

1931, the Indian tele-new fum, The Glass Menagerie, Claire, the Lunts, Helen Jayes, February,

buy 97 mu- Cowl Government will Fields, early release, may Gracie

Swiks into as due for

worth of In her Gertrude

Groucho lion francs' Lawrence, on television minimum be seen

lucluding watches, tex- Paul coeds. It Is 1034 English comedy, Nu Funny Marx.

chemicals, rallway wag- Sir with

Laurence Muni, Ray Dolger and Corneltater, de- Businesi,

Ots Skinner.

cons and machinery.-Reuter,

be merged

with a charge as for 22 words. hoped that by abolishing ferred telegrams an imprave-Olivier (then Mr). ment on the two days formerly taken by daily letter telegrains may be effected.

Ethel

Merman.

He fights the King's battles,

but no

LONDON.

jousting

The last holder

now

ONCE THE CHERRIES DID GROW THERE CHERRIES grow no long-

er in Cherry Garden And Street. Bermondsey. Cherry Garden Pier, where W.M. Turner sat and paint- led the Temeraire, is but a

Rame.

Where once Die blossar attracted even the Stuart cour- tiers. the district is grim and sombre.

the

"To Greenwich, and co to the Cherry Garden, and thence by water, singing inely, to bridge and there landed," writes Pepys.

Ju' Cherry Gorden Street. running from Southwark Park

Bermondsey Wall, Road to

L

On a sila Jamaica House. there was once a pubile-house of the same name, where the

risorted

Though many firms have not yet fully appreciated the effect that the change may have, some have already expressed alarm at Even those using the prospect.

will have Jetter telegrams

about their costs increased by

of the title, It was felt that the centuries distinguished visitors to Cherry because of 20 percent.

to those who had made the succession of the Gardens

quality of The Dymoke family has which descends The London Postal and Tele-

grand would have to fight on that ac- rum, Licut. Dymoke's

Before the... Restoration communications Committee of reasserted its ancient right hold the manor of Scrivelshy, Windrors so secure that no one the remarkable the London Chamber of Com-to fight the king's battles father, Frank Dymoke, who was count.

would appear to have been a merce has promised to watch and anyone with designs so old at the coronation in 1937 Tut the Dymoke family is private house, and there is a that Cromwell lived on the British crown will that he did not hammer on the

upon William the Conquera, there. But this is extremely un have to deal with Lieut. door of the lunga banqueting such a conservative one it looks tradition

(1006 A.D.) 'as a recent arrival. likely. John Lindley Marmion Dy room with & molled gauntlet.

did assert, quavering So It was decided to petition forj a bit, that "anyone who cain-recognition of the right.

the effects of the changes.

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

"WHISPERGET BACK! WATCH THE GUN I AND

KEEM BEHIND ME!

BIẾN KHÂU TI AWOHÀNH

NADIA ZUCGFI

inoke,

Bul he

By ROGERT MUSEL

Lionel Dymoke did not wani the job because of the pressure af private matters. But his son

London Express Service)

Grandstand At

ean now enit himself "the 34in Show Collapses

king's champion."

1

Stafford, June 21. Several people were injured hundreds жего #haken

nod

Lleut Dymoke is only 24 and one of the youngest of his fas to bear the title of the king's "hereditary champion." He is husicy, good physical shape, a war veteran and a handy man with his fists, a sabre or pistols.ays the right of his gracious

However,

majesty and my llege lord to Lionel Dymoke, father of the

new champion, the crown lles in his teeth."

He has to make his big speech from their seats when part of Fald he wa not sure now his After Frank Dymoke's death only at coronations. In the nor-a grandstand collapadat, an son would do In full armour there was some, talk of letting mal course of events that will agricultural show here today.

No one clial-be the coronation of queen mounted on a horse with lance the office lapse.

Shortly afterwards another part of the stand, which had couched This kind of battle or lenged the right of a king or (now princess) Elizabeth.

been completed,alas "Jousting" is the proper etiquette queen since the days of Bonnle Anyone who challenges her not

with collapsed. for disposing of challengers 24ice Charlle when an adhor-right will have to deal

Lindley Marmion Ambulance men of the kings of this isjand; -

ent of the pretender denounced Lieut. John George IV, in Westminster Hall. Dymoke-who might be a gen-attended several minor CASUAL-

tiva-Reuter. He was thrown out promptly. eral by thei

t