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and beachfuls of gorgeous girls!
United States Keen To
Please Brazil.
Washington. Yesterday,
Centenarian Who Did Not Know It.
Beccles, Suffolk, Sept. 20. Enjoying 10-year birthdays seems to be another Suffolk custom originated by Joseph Howell, an old resident of Blythburgh.
For almost a year Howell believ-
He was
Rugby, Yesterday. At the Brazilian Government's It is understood that ratifieù- request. President Hoover has tion in respect of the Lonlon Naval Treaty will be deposited at placed an embargo on the ship-the Foreign Office next Monday ment of war munitions and equip-by representatives of all His ment to Brazil, except when Majesty's Government, with the ed he was about 2 years of age licensed by the State Department. possible exception of the Irish and still going strong. The United States policy to Free State, whose ratification may not quite certain, however, so to Brazil is being very closely fol- be delayed slightly by technical settle the matter he wrote to Rum- lowed in Latin American circles, where it is believed that the Unit-difficulties, and of the United burgh, his Suffolk birthplace, and ed States is making a definite bid States and Japanese Govern- on inspecting the church register ments. In the afternoon Presi- found that he was baptised in for Brazilian trade in competition dent Hoover, Mr. Hamaguchi, November, 1820, the year Andrew with Britain.-Reuter's American Prime Minister of Japan, and Mr. Jackson took a whole new pack of; Service.
Ramsay MacDonald, will broad- customs to the United States White cast speeches of the Nava!! House. Treaty, which it is hoped, will be audible in all three countries. British Wireless Service.
SOLICITOR-GENERAL
THE HON. RICHARD CRIPPS, K.C., APPOINTED.
SON OF LORD PARMOOR.
London, Yesterday.
The Hon. Richard Stafford Cripps, K.C., has been appointed Solicitor-General in succession to James Benjamin Melville, who has resigned owing to persis- ten ill-health-Reuter.
Sir
DOCK'S EXTENSION.
BIG RAILWAY SCHEME FOR SOUTHAMPTON.
GOVERNMENT AID.
Rugby, Yesterday. Work is to begin at once on the the of enlargement
[The Hon. Richard Cripps, who further
is the youngest son of Lord Southampton docks, under which Parmoor, was called to the Bar, some 3,500 feet of deep water Middle Temple, in 1913. He is the quays, suitable for the accommoda- editor of "Cripps on Compensation of vessels of 40 foot draft, to- tion," and "Cripps on Church gether with cranes, sheds, railways, ond Clergy."]
and all modern accessories, are toj be constructed at an estimated cost of £3,000,000. The work will take! about five years to complete. The' Government have agreed to give financial help under the Develop- ment Loans Guarantees and Grants Act. The Scheme also includes the reclamation of about 200 acres of mud land.-British Wireless Ser- vice,
ECLIPSE OF SUN.
REWARD OF A WEEK'S PREPARATIONS.
New York, Yesterday, A message from Niuafou says that the week's preparations of the astronomical expeditions were rewarded by favourable weather for yesterday's total eclipse of the
Bun.
The American expedition took forty-one successful photographs.
The New Zealand party's obser vations were also entirely satisfac- tory.
The duration of the total eclipse was 93% seconda.-Reuter's Ameri- can' Service.
DOCTOR'S SUICIDE.
TRAGIC END OF GERMAN SPECIALIST.
Berlin, October 6. Germany's leading authority on rejuvenation and internal secre tion, Dr. Peter Schmidt, who was one of the most prominent dia-
*
Howell was born the previous March, so he is now 101.
The Reason Why..
A number of good reasons for long life can be given by Howell. He went to work at eight years of age. For his work, following a walk of six or seven miles to his job from a home on a farm, he re ceived two-pence a day.
Next March the birthday cake of Joseph Howell will be decorated with 102 candles instead of .92, due to his ability to celebrate 10 neglected natal days at one time.
-United Press.
Lady pupil: "Do I need many more before I am able to drive?"
Dejected Tutor:
dozen."
"About
Lady pupil: "Lessons?" Dejected Tutor: "No, cara."
ciples of the Viennese professor | which Steinach, the originator of the
method "rejuvenation" Schmidt developed, along individual lines, committed suicide to-day. Ile took his life apparently in a fit of depression on account of the fact that his formerly flourishing practice. had recently shown u heavy decline on account of the altuation. economic prevailing Dr. Schmidt travelled extensively, especially in the Far East where] he visited China, Japan and Siam in order to propagate his ideas.— Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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THE
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HEAR THE HIT SONGS
IT'S A GREAT LIFE
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Sailing on a Sunbeam," "Following You," "The Hoosier Hap," "It Must Be An Old Spanish Custom"
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Lawrence TIBBETT The Roque Song
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"LILAC TIME"
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