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THE DAYLY BRITISH WHIG - FOR THE READERS OF THE DAILY Bi BRITISH WHIG | MEL Needed on And Entertain REVUE FAILED Earnings in Two Were £24,605, Says Clay Smith -------- Les White and Clay Smith, the music-hall stars, need £40 a Week to live on and entertain in order 10 maintain their popularity, Such, at any rate, was the state- it of Clay Smith at his examination in ruptcy, Teal cause of his losses, he said, Was bad business. - After leaving Aus- tralia forgLondon three years ago he » Several thousands of pounds in Ha adjusted his English Habili- but then his troubles started. and his wife found that their had been sold for £3500 by a Whose wife held a power of attorney, Eventually, and on pressure, Be received £600 of the purchase "Hoe lost several thousands in & month on the production revue "Come In," and since been financially embarrassed. rst met Mr. Wiifred Cotton in . Mr. Cotton arranged a tour East, which resulted in financial Hs (Clay Smith) and Lee White then drawing £30 a week each, they had to entertain considerably order to Xeep up their popularity. Clay Smith added that in London he ed for £1,400 jewellery which had t LH ---------- 1] AH hell borrowed £1.000 from who had received £100 and would be paid in full if a show in Which she was interested was not a failure, . His receipts during the two years preceding the ng his bankruptcy petition . were £24, was adjourned, SRO00NIL UBL OF BAT: Sir R. Houston Disinherited Son, Who Claims Inventory The late Sir Robert Houston's for- tune--it is said to total £6,000,000 -- . Was the subject of an unusual legal battle fn the Royal Court at Jersey, The Court decided that Mr. Cecil Smerdon Skinner, of London, « pal heir, who, according to Sir y Vernon, was disinherited, was Gititled to a legal inventory of the Mr. Skinner asserted that thers was reason to doubt whether the will was real expression of Sir Robert's a aa ixsouts the will, and ot 80, | Britian authorities were, he un- ROCK GARDENS. RENOWN Avon ' Not Single Geranium Plant at Royal Horticultural Show The spring flower show of the Royal Hortleultural Society, at Chelsea Hos- Piml Gardens was remarkable chiefly for the increased space given to rock 'gardens. Everyones, it seemed, now rockery. The his garden the is the taste of the subur- er _ Hence the number of diminutive lakes, miniature waterfalls, and toy at Chelsea. but on the whole hed by the rock i| His literary of Welsh volumes on __A PAGE OF BRITISH NEWS BANKRUPTCY £40 a Week to Live Years SURREY WORKING. | WEN HUNT FOXES ---- {Are Determined to Exterm- | inate Animals on Holm. wood Common | | oF om! TWO CUBS Fourteen Animals Have Been Bagged Irrespective of Breeding Season The working men of Holmwood who have formed a hunt in opposition to the Burrey Union Foxhounds hdve | been out again. The Surrey Union | finished at Easter, the end of the usual hunting season, but the work. | Ing men are determined to extermin- | ate the foxes of Holmwood Common, whether it be the breeding season or not. The hunt started soon after 9 o'clock, the eight guns setting off be. forehand to take up positions of ad vantage on the Common. rest of the huntsmen were led by the | i Master," Bert Bachelor, and the| "hunt's secretary," Phil Rossiter, Who | Were attired in coats of tarnished pink, | and top hats. The dogs, of which | variety, were looked after | by three men acting as whippers in. | PRINCE INSP ECTS THE BRITISH LEGION On the outward journey two old | foxes were unearthed and given an ex- The Prince of Wales, in civilian citing time, but both eluded pursuit. | ; Two young cubs, disturbed by the = nolse, came into the open and were '| caught by the dogs, and then bagged. With these two cubs, the hunt's tetal | bag now reaches 14 foxes. | An old vixen was started by the | dogs and raced away. She was kept in sight for a good time, and the guns would have had a try at shooting her, but wers afraid of hitting one of the | dogs instead. Bo the vixen escaped. 4 the return over the Common the hunt met nothing, though an exhaus- tive drive waa made. REMEMBERS HELP Became Knighted Million- aire. and Rewarded Early Benefactor ------------------ | Among the bequests in the will of the late Sir James Duncan, of Kin- | nettles House, Forfarshire, chairman BROUGHT 10 LIGHT I= Stepl Bros. and Co., of Rangoon, are many to humbid people who have Rugby Boy Wedded Artist's | n One instance is in the little village Model Twenty Years | of Douglastown, near Forfar, close to Ago | Sir James's birthplace. , every Sugby boy Yaar, Artist oe] was Way to school. She would give him a when the husband, Gerald Napier | Piece of bread or a drink of tea. Owen, residing at ' his mother's ad- The boy eventually went to work as dress. Cefngwifla, Newtown, Mont-|® tenter in a factory. He became gomeryshire, was summoned by his crippled and was given a place in the wife, Frances, for desertion and | °ffice. He found his bent, and a few nt ce . years later went out to Rangoon as a a enancS. isa that during defen- | ®lerk to Steel Brothers. . He rose to dant's absence abroad for a number of | P® James Duncan, a millionaire, con- years his wife had at times been with. | trolling a great company of East India out bread. After his return in 1924 | merohants. When Mr. Duncan returned to For. Je Sant era Hotel Dil as gvidence farshire he remembered the old lady or eo, and his mother a widow of 80, | Who befriended him, and she Teceived come, » : bare | & beautiful little cottage and a pension prose Rod She had a life Interest mm | fOr life; She tyes to lament the death his father's landed property, of har benefactor. EEE " DEPINPOVERY the position altered, as he hoped it would, the wife could come at once to All-Day Queue Wait in Streets for Food the court and get it reviewed, Tickets RILLIANT CAREER OF FARMBOY-CLERIC Head of Bangor College Dies After Blaenavon, where almost the whole Brief Illness The Rev. Principal Thomas Rees, of the population depends on mining, 8 suffering from unprecedented of the Independent College, Bangor, poverty. 'has died at the London Hospital, where he had been a patient for a onth, or Rees began life' as a farm labores in Pembrokeshire, and subse- quently became a coal miner in Gila- . On the advice of friends be entered college, and had a Mant career ber of prizes and held several séholar- ships; his included B.A, (Ox- ford) and Ph.D. (London). Issued for the relief of the women and Twenty-seven years ago he was ap- 9 scale allows 8s. for a pointed to the Chair of Philosophy at | wife and js, por child, with a maxi- the Memorial College, Brecon, and 13 | mum of 24s. men recelyp nothing, years ago became principal of the col- {and single men are ly In dire lege at Bangor. straits, addition essional duties he | The whole district, however, is in do a od aa Te time to national | good spirits. The men do not readily affairs, especially to the cause of edu | unburden themselves to strangers, but cation. He was one of the organizers | once the reserve is penetrated they can ofthe evidence submitted to the Welsh | tell stories of hardship which geem un- on in of believable, urch Commissi y 8 . JECTED PICTURE reece NOWHUNG ONLINE Spirit in Thougnt| "Eve" and Apple Triumphs at Last at Royal Academy Down Chelsea way artists--even those who are among this season's At Blaenavon the position is without parallel. The tradespeople have been badly hit, yet a number of them have hy out. Saturday is relief day, and until a late hour a queue waits' in the street for the food notes which are being work includes a number , and one titled e Holy and Experience." dress, but mountin, gathered in at one time or other done him a ser- | JOHN DANIEL I DIED DURING STRIKE | Famous Gorilla Had Been Lent to Zoo for Summer SIX . YEARS OLD | Strength of Four Men, But i Sat on Woman's Knee John Daniel, the Second, the famous An old wo. |S°Filia, believed to be the only gorilla | x . |! : | { man had been In the habit of taking an {|} captivity, died during the Strike in | ging that they located the dog, a fox 1 | ter The Secret Tas riagn 20 Jeary 880, [| terest in a _poor hungry boy, whe } Londen at the age of ix, 28 te Pest faeries: When he was only 10, of a former day passed her cottage 'on the | e internal trouble such as hu- | man beings suffer from. |. During his life in London he amused | thousands of children and grown-ups |--and he interested many scientists, too--by his almost human habits, both at the Zoo, where he spent part of last summer, and in the house in Sloane- street, where he was kept by his owner, Miss Cunningham. | The Gaboon country in Africa was his native land. Miss Cunningham Journeyed there to get a Successor for John Daniel the First, who died some Years. ago soon after reaching America. The new John Danie! proved to be.a treasure. In Miss Cunningham's home John Daniel II. was treated like a human baby. On the days that he was on show at the Zoo last year he used to make the journey by taxi, ~or motor- car, arriving each day about 11 and leaving at six, t Though barely six years old, he had the strength of four men, yet he was quite happy to sit on the knee of his owner with his arms around her neck. From the first he was remarkably fond {of Miss Cunningham. ets FORTY SOUBHT WIDOWS Hap Dorset Guardians Refuse to Act as Cupid's Agent Longer : Over 40 applicants were made for the hail of a widow living in the Ola Kent road, London, who appealed to the Wareham and Purbeck (Dorset) guardians to assist her husband. Ww ; Ni hat the existence of these Would-be husbands has become known, the clerk to the gudrdians has receiv. ed requests from seven widows and a single woman of 28, asking for the address of the widow, or the names of the surplus candidates. A Leicester girl of good family Wrote that she would like "'a dark man in a good position.' 3 The guardians feel that the matter has reached such dimensio cannot undertake any furth husbands. FALLING LIMB NOT his medals, is seen inspecting the British Legion, which m for annual conference. 3 MAN RISKS LIF TORESEIE DOG | { Welsh Colliers Save Animal Entombed in Mountain Crevice That the Welsh collier is not lack- | Ing In heroism has again been shown | by the thrilling rescue of a dog en- | tombed for 30 hours in a crevice of |the Mynydd Maen mountain, which | separates the eastern and - western valleys of Monmouthshire, | A party of young colliers were strolling on the mountain when they heard faint cries of distress. It was only after four hours' dig- | | rier, hanging head downwards in a and then four more hours' the light of hurricane lanterns ry before the animal, quite as rescued by George of Cwmcarn, in the early | work by | was necess | exhausted, | BEatwell, | morning. | Describing the | Maggs, the owner of "When we sighted the dog--at mid- | night--Eatwell wriggled through the | crevice at the risk of his life and saw [the dog huddled below. He could not drop down, but as he had the longest reach he volunteered, If someone would hold his feet, to slide down head first. This he did, amid falling rock and water, and dragged the dog ups' "© ef- Ojala fHenl m hmh SHOULD ABOLISH SCHOOL SHOBBERY University Training Not Pinnacle of Educational Edifice Speaking at the conference of the Association of Teachers in the Techni cal Institutions at Regent street, thé new President A. E. Evans, of London, said training for citizenship and character could be car- ried out just as effectively by technical teachers as by any other, It was high time that we abolished the intellectual snobbery and make. believe that regarded art, literature, music and the classics as the members of an aristocratic educational family with science as a sort cousin, while technology and * com- merce were spurned as illegitimates. It was this tendency to 'minimise the value of education invotvi rescue, Joseph the dog, sald: n finding a) went Life required more WITH A LEOPARD BY UNARMED MAN Londoner's Experience . in Uganda With Nine-Foot Beast FOLDED ARMS After Two Falls Apiece Animal Given Human Gag y An exciting story of a life or death' struggle between a leopard and an une armed man was told to a press repre- sentative by Donald Bain, the hero of the encounter, on his return to his home in West London from Uj Mr. Balin Was an assistant in § Lone don ness house after the , but found life too dull, and six ago. ht with the leopard took place anuary, just before he had intended to return ome. Telling the stor ur. ed that he was g to about 8°o'clock one morn was told by some natives sized leopard was in the '1 got hold of a gun," he went one 'and walked over to shoot ft. It was a fine beast, about nine feet in length, It saw me and came for me like a streak of lightning, CARTRIDGE DUD, "I raised my gun and walted untfl t was about two yards off, then pulled Nothing happened; the cartridge was a dud. I just had time COO OOVOVOULOD CHOBUODOONAO OOOO o NEWLY ENPLOVED "BUTLER VANSHED Commander Locker-Lamp- son Loses Military Decor- "ations and Cash IMPERSONATION Received as Guest, Adapts Stories of Empldyer's Adventures A butler employed by Commander Locker-Lampaon has disappeared. After he had vanished the following property was missed from the Com- mander's house if North street, West- minster: : Table silver, £15 in cash; a revolver, the Commander's D.S.0; and C.M.G. decorations, imitation pear! studs. "He came to us on Thursday,' Mrs. Locker-Lampson said, "He was an excellent butler, spoke office when he t a fulle bullding ope the Polytechnic, istry of distant | Ch, well, 'was tall and good-looking, and about 30. He went by the name of Qlifford Clarke." On the third day after his arrival, | Commander Lecker-Lampson sent the new butler to a house in Wimbledon to deliver a message to a man whom, as it happened, the Commander had never seen. On the way to Wimbledon Clarke is alleged to have rung up the house to which he was going and said he was Commander Locker-Lampson, and that his car had broken down. He asked that another might be sent to fetch him. This was done. Clarke is alleged to have spent an entertaining evening at Wimbledon. He was ting in conversation, and told good stories of the Comman. der's adventurers in Russia as his own. Then he begged to be allowed to borrow the car to take him home, but his host insisted on driving him back. to town, and put him down at West- to strike the beast a blow on the face, with the butt-end of the gun before it was on me. 1 "It simply became a Wrestling match between us. I threw him down once; then he got up and threw me down. I managed to get up again and threw him over, whereupon he threw me down for the second time. He bit me through both arms, and I was anxious to keep him from getting his. teeth into my body. END OF FIGHT. "So I folded my arms and forced them into his mouth, trying by this means to lever his upper and lower Jaw apart. "At tHe same time I pressed my leg cross-wise against his hind legs, 50 as 'How long I could have gone on doing this I cannot tell, but at this minster. He has not been seen since. Doin Jan aX to ooh rh uh help me, and he rushed out and struck the brute on the head with a stone or stick, I forget which. This freed me. and I finished my friend the leopard gun, MNSTERDIDND] | 52555: FORGET OLD TRADE gsr Soh Death of Well-known Bap: tist Recalls Old Story The Rev. Willlam Cuff, a famous Baptist minister some 20" to 30 years ago, has died at the house in which he was born 85 years ago in 'Hasfleld, near Gloucester, As a young man Mr. Cuff was in business as a 'butcher at Cheltenham, but a sermon delivered by the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon made such a deep impression on his mind that he forsook hls shop and entefed the min- in 1865. 'A lifelong friendsh resulted between Mr, e Min Rev. J. C. Carlisle rest. e Rev. J. C. , an ex-presi- dent of the Baptist Union, told how Mr: Cuffs knowledge of the meat trade stood him in good stead. Shoreditch, minister of the to ave a Scheme by hich anh stan Joints were provided for ristmas dinners of thousands of Remarkable Exhibition is Given of Physical Traine ing in Public Schools Nine thousand school-chlidren took part in a striking demonstration cf modern miethods of physical training on the Bristol City Football Ground recently. y Its success was remarkable, in view of the fact that as a mass they had not had one rehearsal. the whole playing ares of the ground and gave a simultane: uy diopee physical trainin udience was also st', Wd when $08 tiny tots jt than culture and tradition; Technical t insist that the form of education in which they were specialists was equal in value, as training for work. and leisure, to that of any other type. MORTAR BOARD HAT 15 MODERN FASHION Capes and Gown Vogue Also Aids in College Illusion + The mortar board hat, which is the latest whim of the young woman of fashion, strikes an entirely new note in CAUSE FOR PENALTY 2525 Judge Says Tree Owner Not Re- sponsible to Passers-by "MOTHER BARNETT == = rise : covered £48 A Savé thir diss Lord people in the district. When the came to distri! th , Eustace , the Minister Nacation, SHOKS en She Lisle hh, « ca LEGAL MARRIAGE ea Home Secreta Wondering Whether Toddlers Can- 'I was beginning to get exhausted, ° item was when 480 ch dren oorriens / i > t out to 4 i WRESTLING MATCH. a »