'A pleasant surprise awaited the thousand or more employees of A. Wander Ltd, the manufacturers of Ovaltine. Every person employed in the factory at King's Langley, and at the head office in London received an additional week's wages - in celebration of the happy coincidence by which the Silver Jubilee year also marks the completion of 25 years since Ovaltine was first introduced to the public... It is the food beverage most frequently recommended by doctors, and is also regularly used in the leading hospitals and nursing homes,' a report in the Local and General column on June 22 said.
On the Sporting News page, 'Ascot, like the rest of England, has been under a deluge of rain for the past two days. Smart frocks had to be concealed under mackintoshes when crowds came out for the Gold Cup and saw Tiberius beat the French challenger [Brantome]. The French horse suffered because of the sodden state of the track,' a Reuters report said on June 22.
The 'astonishing prowess of Spain's most poplar feminine star' is regaled in a June 24 report. 'Although her right hand carries death, Juanita Cruz, is a very much sought-after young woman. Hundreds of bullfight fans from all over Spain have asked her hand in marriage, a hand which abandoned the shorthand pencil and the typewriter to take up the matador's sword ... Demure, dark brown-eyed Juanita Cruz is Spain's leading woman bullfighter, whose hand last year earned her 200,000 pesetas,' the report from Madrid said. In her own words: 'Don't you realise that if I had a sweetheart, he would not let me fight bulls?' In her third season as a bullfighter, she 'started her serious assault on man's greatest stronghold last year, when she fought 53 corridas out of 64 contracted. Only five bullfighters bettered this total of appearances ... Juanita has the ambition of all who flirt with death on the horns of a bull. She wishes to take her 'alternative' ... and become a fully fledged matador de toros. Up to now she has only fought movillos, or small bulls about three or four years old. Once she has taken her alternative, this slip of a girl will be obliged to fight full-sized adult animals'.
A lengthy report by 'Anglo-Papuan' on June 25 recalls his 'exciting adventures in China 28 years ago'. He recalled a gruesome murder of a 'charming beautiful girl' by an ex-marine of the American navy on a voyage from Manila to Hongkong. 'The pitiful part of it was that she was so obviously ... head over heels in love with a cold-blooded scoundrel,' he wrote. The ship arrived in Hongkong on Saturday and early on Sunday the American murdered the girl in the Hongkong Hotel. 'While he was robbing her of her jewels he woke her up and ... was forced to throttle her... He crammed the body into a big cabin trunk, having to break the legs to get it in, then waited till dawn.' A Chinese lift attendant helped him take it to a godown and on Monday 'Adsetts and his ghastly luggage took a sampan out to one of the Empress ships ... handed the trunk over ... with instructions to stow it away in the hold at once'. He said he would join the ship later in Japan and 'Adsetts in a clean white suit and a cigarette between his lips, went off to Hongkong again'. Adsetts was on his way to Shanghai with another woman when, 'towards nightfall, the trunk began to attract unfavourable notice. It began to smell and later blood and fluid oozed out'. Police were called. 'But it was not until after many adventures, including an escape from a Chinese prison, that he was finally extradited from the US cruiser Galveston. A Hongkong jury convicted him and a judge condemned him to death. And the sentence was duly carried out.'
