Sunday Sun from Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England • 6

THE SUNDAY SUN MARCH 31 1929 tMfauatflmtNMttHMiNNMNaMaMMaMMtaiHNaaMMVNnnMnatminNimaNiNitiM NORTH FREE INSURANCE DEATH DIVES FOR A LIVING 60ft LEAP INTO FLAMING TANK YOUR CHANCE TO SHINE SOVIET BAN ON DEAN tf WITH CARL ROSA GREAT CHRONICLE COMPETITIONS REFUSED ADMISSION FOR TRIP GARDENS OR TENNIS THRILLS IN CITY NO EXPLANATION THINKS HE IS SUSPECT AS CLERIC DARE DEVIL STUNTS The Evening Chronicle has launched two great competitions which will make history in the Recreative and Sm rting life of Tyneside Full details of the garden contest appeared in the Evening Chronicle esterday and will be reproduced tomorrow and on subsequent days The attractive cash prizes cover all classes of entry from gardens to window-boxes and make a strong appeal to all types of amateur gardeners This scheme is just what has been wanted to encourage the artistic cultivation of the countless garden in Newcastle and adjacent towns ani to provide that beautification which e' ery good Tynesider desires See Evening without fail and start in your garden in earnest AID TO TENNIS The Evening Chronicle Lawn Tennis Tournament is the biggest thing yet done for tennis in the North It is designed to bring in the player who feels crowded out of the general run of tennis competitions and the many who play on public or private courts but are not members of any tennis organisation These thousands as well as those already in clubs will find their chance It is not expected that there will be a cron of Wimbledon champions but tennis and tennis players generally in the North will be the better for this great contest The contests are singles and apply separately to men and women Study the full sche ue in Evening Chronicle and then fill in the FREE Coupon at ono Do not delay 1 Get without fail! DISPAH GOODACRE is one of the principal members of the Carl Rosa Opera Company and during their visit to the Theatre Royal Newcastle figures in OF LIVING BRITISH APPEAL 'J'HE DEAN OF MANCHESTER (Dr Hewett Johnson) who was to have paid a visit to Russia with a well-known Manchester scientist and professor of the Manchester University has been refused admission by the Soviet authorities No explanation has been given although the Dean in his application stated that he wished to make the trip simply as a sympathetic traveller and observer The scientist has been granted a permit but in view of his enforced inability to accompany hun will not take advantage of it It was to ha been purely a personal the Dean said yesterday I was simply going to see how life was running over there I have every sympathy with many of their ideals their enthusiasm for education for instance should have liked to have had a look at the new Diesel engines on some of their expresses Their agricultural schemes too would have interested me The Dean admits that he is very disappointed at the refusal and suggests that the probable grounds are that he is a cleric and therefore a suspected person As a matter of fact Dr Johnson was to have followed his usual custom when on tramp and travel in ordinary lay clothes GOING TO LEARN was going to he said with eyes open to learn No doubt I should have seen things I do not like just in the same way as when I go to Spain or Italy I see things I do not like I was to have gone just as an ordinary common person and I do not think that the common people of one nation should be prevented from seeing the common people of another That is why I believe that tbe time has arrived when normal relations should be established with Russia KNOWN ONLY AT MOSCOW A diplomatic correspondent The secret of the decision that the Dean of Manchester should not enter Russia is known at Moscow only The formalities of makiig an application rested with the German embassy which is looking after the Soiet interests in Great Britain The for refusing Dr into Soviet Russia however was not communicated to those who dealt with the matter in London Dorit LecrveYoiir Holidmjs to ONLY ONE DOCTOR LEAPT TOO LATE RAILWAYMAN KILLED BY EXPRESS An attempt to evade an express train was described at a Tiverton inquest yesterday on Richard Dunn a railwayman why was killed near the GWIt main line at Tiverton Junction Devon A fellow workmen itatea that on seeing Dunn walking on the edge of the sleepers with his back to an oncon ing express he shouted to him Dunn eapt asu but was just too late to escape being struck by the engine "Accidental was tho verdict 'JT'HE spectacle of a man enveloped in flames on a blazing staging 60 feet above the ground and his dive from that height into a tank whose tongues of fire were leaping six or seven feet into the air thrilled hundreds of Newcastle holiday- makers at Leazes Park last night The daring feat was performed by Frank Gadsby champion one-legged swimmer and diver of the world Smeared with ie'rol which lie ssts ablaze in the I instant of diving he catapults 60 feet into a tank of water five feet deep on I which two gallons of petrol form a surface cl Came And he does it for a living! Heitei known in aquatic circles as lnre Devil Mr Gndsby on stunts and death-dives as formidable in aspect as his leap into the inferno which caused one or two Newcastle women Inst night to scream and faint A Sunday Sun representative who chatted beneath the sky-diving board with Dare Devil Peggy ln6t night obtained insight into a temperament devoid of nerves and to which the mad- dest adventures are the animating impulse DIVED FROM PLANE My most sensational The little man (though he is broad as an ox pondered a while Perhaps it waB when I dived from an aeroplane in flight I at a height of 1250 feet You see I had only been in an aeroplane once before and I felt a bit thrilled as I climbed out to one of the wings and looked at the specks below which represented thousands people waiting to see me drop into the River Mersey Wearing a lifebelt and clutching a parachute I heard the pilot shout and then Let I jumped! It was at the time when parachutes always open For three or four seconds I dropped at a terrific pace then the parachute opened and the rest was easy I found it much easier than the usual way of diving when eventually I let go and dropped into the water about half a mile from my Film work has brought Dare Devil Peggy many thrills While acting in the smuggling picture at Lizard Point Cornwall his principal duty was to take part in a hand-to-hand fight with revenue officers and soldiers kill the Chief with a blow of his crutch then pursued by bloodhounds run to the edge of a high cliff and dive over Actually he dived into a net 60 feet below but it broke! Only by clutching at shreds was he able to escape being dashed on to the rocks 300 feet farther down On one he told the Sunday Sun man I was engaged by Gazette to dive from the bridge of tho SS Imperator into a dock The bridge was 90 feet high That did not worrv me but tho sight of a coal barge 25 feet wide lying right alongside was awkward! I had to take a tremendous leap from that bridge but just managed to clear the barge WORKED IN 20 FILMS I have worked in 20 films and worked on both sides of the Atlantic one stunt being to dive from the bridge of the Borengaria into the When winning a 440 yards life saving race at Highgate Dare Devil Peggy defeated A Jarvis the then unbeaten champion of the world before the King and Queen I I shall not forget the kindy thought of file Queen who sent round a ladv-j in-waiting to ask me how I had lost my he said The limb was amputated I when Mr Gadsby was a child of four following an accident in whioh he dislocated his hip i Many a time in a career wholly de-j voted to swimming and diving he has been flung into the sea from a height of 90 feet with arms and feet heavily manacled I As a keen follower of export of all i kinds he has owned several racehorses in his day and been expert in several I persuits Newcastle thrill-seekers last night were interested in Mr son Dare Devel a youngster who takes the sixty feet dive without a tremor and who performs diving stunts with grace and hereditary skill in company with another expert diver Professor Bettini Theirs is a highly conscientious daring and clever land of living is the description applied to the Belgian Mandated Territory of Uganda Central Africa by a British missionary Dr Church in an appeal he makes through the Uganda press for immediate help to fight the terrible famine conditions in that area says a Central News telegram Dr Church says he is the only qualified medical man in the whole country There are no Government doctors and there is only one sanitation officer Dr Church succeeded in establishing two small dispensaries with the aid of half-trained natives and he declares the disease conditions are so bad that a chain of such dispensaries are needed to stem the famine caused by the continued failure of the rains for two years LIONS ON INCREASE thousands of he adds streaming into Uganda across a fever-stricken and licr-infested area where the wayside is strewn with He telte of women and children sinking by the roadside where they are often attacked alive by hyenas while man-eating lions are greatly on the increase owing to the terrible ease with which human food can be obtained The Belgian authorities are now using motor transport and improving the roads to overcome the difficulties of distributing food from official relief centres Agricultural officers have also been sent to instruct the natives in better methods of agriculture but declares Dr Church all such help is now too late to avert a pitifully heavy death-roll ACADEMY ARRIVALS SCULPTURE BROUGHT BY The first van load of oil paintings submitted for this Royal Academy arrived in Burlington House soon after 8 am yesterday and throughout the morning there was a continual procession of callers with their works Others will be brought in on the lost day for taking-in and on Wednesday it will be the sculptors turn SUICIDE DISCOVERY AFTER A A verdict of Suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned at the inquest yesterday at Reigate on Mrs Nellie Ada IVeock of Aylesbury Road Bromley Kent whose body was found in a pond at Holm-thorpe near the scene of the reccntdouble drowning fatality at Mersham The husband said his wife often acted on the impulse of the moment and on one occasion entered a restaurant and fired a revolver at a waiter to frighten him" Lately they had been having tins and it was following one of these on Tuesday evening that she left home saying that she was r'ing for a cycle ride Her body was found in a nond the following HUGE JEWEL HAUL PARIS THIEVES WORK IN EASTER CROWD A sensational jewel robbery has been carried out in the heart of Paris While Easter crowds were promenading on tha boulevards thieves entered a jewellery shop on the Boulevard Haussemnnn attacked the proprietor and escaped with jewels valued at £8000 says a British United Press telegram WIPELESS Crowded roads motor-coaches and trains Risks are more apparent at Easter-time Yet Free Insurance will protect you and your family where-ever you go Mail have NOT been reduced as with other newspapers and all the chances that attend holiday-makers are fully provided for Insure with the NORTH MAIL NOW! Registered readers should pay careful atten tion to the conditions governing the scheme Change of address and change of newsagent must be notified to the Registration Dept North Mail Free Insurance Westgate Road Newcastle-on-Tyne immediately A daring example has bepn set this year dv Cluysenaar the Belgian sculptor who has ordered his work to be brought to SLEPT WELL MR MAXTON STAYS IN STATE HOTEL Women formed a considerable percentage of the delegates at the annual conference of the Independent abou Party which opened yesterday in the Drill Hall Carlisle and they led the cheering when Mr James Maxton MP the chairman rose to deliver the opening address Mr Maxton in his address created mucli laughter by making reference to the fact that he was staying at one of State-owned hotels lie said that perhaps that was the first time a chairman of the lLP Conference had stayed in a nationalised hotel and slept in a bed controlled bv the State I want to tell Mr he said that I slept well The sheets were clean and I was not inspected by a Government Mr Maxton said the Conference was an important one They had already a great past The imprint they as a Party had made on the nation's political life could not be neglected by friend or foe They were not going to die because their opponents wished it The Independent Labour will to live was ns strong as ever it was and its will to live was to achieve establishment of a Socialist Commonwealth in this land as their contribution to the establishment of a world-wide Socialist Commonwealth London from Brussels by aeroplane This is the first time such a thing has been attempted Pictures have been sent by air but not sculpture "The number of would-be Academy exhibitors grows every year Over 10000 works were submitted for the last exhibition and it is expected that this figure will be largely exceeded this year Ninety-five per cent are doomed to be marked Among the aspirants is a veteran who exhibited at the Academy 50 years ago on the completion of his studies since then he ha3 sent work along regularly every year Many artists are working overtime this Easter to finish their works by next Tuesday Newcastle 5NO (1230 2439 metres) 1015-1115 app Leeds programme from Daren try 15 app SB from London 845 The Good Cause: Appeal on behalf of the Newcastle Rest by tha Rev Norman A Brown 8-50 SB from London (90 Local Announce ments) 1030 Epilogue London 2L0 (838 Kc 358 metres) and Oaventry 5XX (192 15625 metres) 100 am (Daveniry) Time weather forecast 10151115 app Beils from York Minster followed by Eaater Sunda Service conducted by the Rev Horace Spence Preacher tha Lord Archbishop of York from York Minster SB from Leeda 330 Betty Bannerman (contralto) Ashmoar Barch i baritone Wireless Military Band conducted by Welton O'Donnell 50 A recital of duets for two pianofortes by Ethel Bartlett and Rae Roherton 5 Scenes from Old Testament history: Nebuchadnezzar and the Three Children (Daniel 1 3-21) 15 app Bach Church Cantata No 31 Himrrel Lacht" Heavens Soloists: Elsie Suddabv (soprano) JobD Arm strong (tenor) Keith Falkner (bass) Leslie Woodgate organ) John Field (oboe) Tbe Wireless Chorus and the Wireless Orchestra (trumpets tvmpani oboes baboon and strings I from the Guildhall School of Music 8 0 A Relig'oua Service with address by the Dean of Windsor from St Chapel Windsor 845 Mr John Galsworthy appealing on behalf of the Joint Housing Committee (appointed by the London Council of Social Service and the Mangier House Council on Health and Housing) (The Week Good Cause 850 Weather news local announcement (Daveutry) shipping 95 A Grieg Programme by Kate Winter (sopranol Maurice Cole (pianoforte) Wirelesa Symphony Orchestra 1030 Epilogue Daventry 5CB Experimental (622 4823 Metres) 330-5 30 the Worcestershire Association of Musical Societies and Birmingham Studio Augmented Orchestra from Birmingham Religious Service with an address bv the Dean of Windsor from St Chapel Windsor 845 ihe Rev White appealing on behalf of the Birmingham Discharged Prisoners Aid Society (the week's good cause) from Birmingham 850 Weather News 90 Emilio Colombo (violin) and his Orchestra Gaby Valle (soprano) Silvio ido-i (baritone) from tho Hotel Victoria Epilogue 3S33a4 FEATURES OF FINANCE BY OUR FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT 2 3 i £otl) iSrincastle (Eljromrle FREE INSURANCE USE THE8E FORMS AND PROVIDE FOR THE FUTURE REGISTRATION FORM To be forwarded to the NORTH MAIL Insurance Department Newcastle-on-Tyne 1 ppij lor Magiatration Rndv lor the benefit ol the "NORTH RAIL Free Aectdeat laavroace Hcheme ia accordance with the loll term and condition thereof aa pobliahed la the NORTH MAIL" oo January 1 1929 and request that rod forward to aa a Certificate ol each Keiitratioa la the accompanying tamped addressed envelope i foe tags il earelope Is lelt unsealed No coveting letter la required) the possibilities for the future The shares have been bid up to about 32s Last year it will be recalled the directors were able to increase the earnings from £39750 to £68821 The distribution of 10 Jier cent compared with 7 per cent for 1927 is also healthy and this gives promise of another good vear to December next The shares eheuld he put away for the next few months A HIGH YIELDING PRLF There has been some buying of Platt shares That firm as you may know makes textile machinery It is MRS MI8A NAME IN FULL (la BLOCK letters toil Christian Names to be give) THEATRE kOYAL SUNDERLAND 640 TWICE NIGHTLY 85C JIMMY LESLIE ON PARADE 117E HAVE further evidence in the re-j port of Morris Motors Ltd of the determination to strengthen the financial position of that undertaking i Once again the Ordinary shares will go without a dividend These shares I may add are held privately Profit comes out at £1314089 This compares with £1334907 for 1927 This time as much as £900000 is to be placed to reserve The fund is thus raised to £2000000 against £1641040 which ranks as goodwill The carry-forward is £154634 compared with 781 a year ago The company is in a strong position HOTEL SHARES TO WATCH In view of the coming holidays you may care to 6e a few hotel shares with their respective yields tetsaMetet aooeaaa oaa aha aa aoa aa a a a aa a a a a a a aa aoo aaee aobeeoeeo aeoeooeeeoeeo agleaeeeeeeeseeeeaeaeeeeeeeeeeereefaeaeet aaTfiaaeaaaoaFsaaaaaeooaa Situations Vacant eaMaaaeaaeneeaaMnae aataVaaaaaaSaasaaaaoe ssottafi are cumulative they ore quoted around 16s That represents a return of pc DEFERRED SHARES WORTH HOLDING There is a deal of competition in the borax business All the same tho company which goes by the name of Borax Consolidated Ltd was able last time to maintain the dividend of 7V per cent on it6 Deferred shares That was possible because the directors have been able to make use of a new mineral found tin their property for the purposes Borax Consolidated has an excellent dividend record During the last ten years the distributions have ranged from 74 to 15 per cent per annum On the basis of last dividend 7M: per cent the Deferred can now be bought to give you a rpturn of 7 per cent The price of the shares is now 19s 3d and in my opinion they make a good purchase A COPPER SHARE TO WATCH I rm told of a copper share that may move up well before long I refer to Lake Copper Proprietary shares It is a company with a mine in Sweden A big deal has been arranged by which nroduction will be aceel'erated at once The deiosit there I understand 'is of a unique character and is said to- resemble the Rard Lake Copper Shares are quoted at present around 27s 6d I look for a higher price in the near future Copncr is now fetching a big price and the Lake Copper Proprietary produces electric copper which sells at £101 a ton These shares should pay They are expected to have a run soon and on prospects they look attractive Letters addressed to the Financial Editor Sunday Sun" 53 Wool Exchange London EC2 will have careful attention and replies will appear in these columns Anonymous queries will be 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thought that orders may come along from Russia and on the strength of such a hope the Ordinary shares have been bid up to lls 3d For my part I should choose Platt Brothers 7 per cent Preference shares Last year the Ordinary dividend was passed HAND THIS TO NEWSAGENT and the present price does not suggest any rong hope for this year In the case of the 7 tier cent Cumulative To (Name at Newsagent! Money eOao Oaaoaiaaoeaeseee a a a a a a a a a o' aaOooOOOOOaao Address CASH Advances £20 to £5000 granted without security immediately Confidential Kent-Smith Ltd 10 Neville Street Newcastle-on-Tyne (facing Station Hotel) Carlton Hotel Frederick Ord (76) Gordon Hotel Hotel York Strand Hotel 7 pc Pf ATTRACTIVE PHOSFERINE SHARFS Here is a share well worth attention I refer to Phosferine (Ashton and Parsons) 8 per cent Participating Ordinary shares I of each These shares at the present time are quoted at 17s 6d They participate to the extent of per cent of the balance of the profits The company was formed last year and I am (old that When the first distribution comes to be made on the Participating Ordinary capital 10 per cent in all may be forthcoming At any rate these JEI shares at 17s 6d look cheap The shares are cumulative ns well ae participating A PROMISING SHARE There has I'cen a deal of activity lately in Clarke Chapmans shares Last year's bumper profits of this engineering and electrical concern have drawn attention to a oaoooooooo i lease deliver or reverw for me the NORTH MAIL until further notice Signature shares they are quoted around 16s ex dividend Dividends are payable in March and September A purchase at the current price would mean a yield of as much as 8 per cent That you will admit is an attractive return AN ENGINEERING CHANCE shares I notice are now quoted round 13o 9d That is the test price of the present year Figures for 1928 will not be out until July so there are several months yet before the declaration of tlie dividends for the past year If the directors succeed in pouting the 5 pc they paid for 1927 it means that a purchase at the present price will give you a yield of over pc on your money If you care for the 6 pc Preference which Address attaaaeaaaaawiaaat iceaaeeaeaeaaaaa a eaaaaaeeaaeaaaeaaaaaaaaooaaa taesaeaeaeSefgeeea ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS FAS1NGTOX1SH Figuies lor 1927 show a credit halancr of £99065 Dividends are not announc-id There are various good reserves That is all the iufoimation liable All shares are worth holding except 'o 3 That spec dative XL Keep the Prchrcn sh res They arc cumulative au be held tor the future ALEUT You will do well to sell on seeing any profit The sliar's are speculative AK We do ot know the company It ia a private concern a evaaaa 'aaaoaaoaaaa AN LASTFR PIANO BARGAIN BECHSTEIN PIANO fitted with tape check action full iron frame £60 Can be purchased on term to suit you Delivered free by our van IO years' guarantee Visit our showrooms and convince yourself If you rannot call write ror complete Bargain List WADDINCTON A SON LTD 3 It Nlchla Bldg 50 North uberland St NEWCASTLE ON TYNE Write Name and Address cisariy It It accessary lor tbe Newsagent to retain this Form tor production ia Lite event ol a Claim St 393394 Ml.