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The Presidential Election,
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'CHINESE BANDITS'
BRUTAL MURDER.
British Woman Shot
In Cold Blood.
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CHILDREN SEE, HORROR:
Peking. Yesterday,
HOT 10
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1932.
Revolution In Our Spending Habits
Demand For More "Service"
And Less Good
FUNDAMENTAL EFFECTS
Mrs. G. T. Woodruff, wife of-the- Accountant of the British Ameri- can Tobacco Company at Harbin, has been killed by Chinese bandits. The outrage occurred yesterday morning near the Woodruff home. Mra. Woodruff was taking her two children to school in a motor
"In England we have reduced the and retall, price to 62% per cent. when three bandits waylaid them. Bank rate to a point below the level The May 1982 price for farmers,” . It is supposed that they intended of immediate pre-war days. in the milk delivered to the dairy is 9d. to abduct Mrs. Woodruff and hold hope that cheap money would per gallon. The retail price of her to ransom, in the same way stimulate consumption and so raise sterilised milk is 3d. per pint bottle. Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Charles prices. The only result so far is an (It is stated that there is a heavy Corkran were abducted at New-increased demand for Government charge on the dairy for lost and chwang. It is said that Mr. securities and an ever-falling price broken bottles), Woodruf resisted them, with the level." Writes Felix J. Blackmore, It was computed before the wat result that they; shot her dead. Fast President, National Chamber that at least thirty per cent of the Mrs. Woodruff has 邋 Russian of Trade, in the Daily Telegraph. population thrived upon the home chauffeur, and in the shooting he
Surely there must be some reason baked loaf (In Yorkshire and other Was wounded. The children for this failure of the adjustment of parts of the North of England the escaped unscathed.
the Bank rate to regulate, exchange percentage was much higher). This The bandits did not all get away. How as in the past, and in the in-fentailed a weekly visit with a white One was killed, and another arvestigations I have recently conduct calico bag to the retailer, who was reated.
ed I think I have found, at any frequently the miller, for a stone or Mrs. Woodruff was a native of
rate, a partial explanation..
two of flour. The margin between Bristol, as is her husband. They
As there is a difference between the wholesale and retail price of have been stationed at Harbin for the wholesale and retail commodity flour was in the vicinity of 12% per the past eighteen months-Reuter price level to-day as compared with cent. What the load cost depended
Pursuers Rescued............
pre-war days, quota the figures: Harbin, Yesterday.
All Commodities. "Four bandita attacked and mur- dered Mrs. Woodruff, wife of the
(Pre-war figires 100) B.A.T Chief Accountant.”
Retail price level, May, 1932 143.0 They attempted
to kidnap her Wholesale price level, May
"Bought Bread.” was and her three children.
31, 1932
99.9
To-day the purchased baked loaf } is-supremeTM m probably ninety per 49 cent, of thefomestic homes of England, and in many w
wrapped Per cent, loaf at that...
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Two Russians pursued the ban dita, who fired and seriously wounding both of them.
Reuter.
England Shocked.
London, Yesterday.
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News In Brief,
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Difference
Food Alone.
31, 1932
"Difference
L1
upon the efficiency or otherwise of the housewife, but in the great,. Per cent. majority of cases the house-bakips
was well and economically perfor ed. “
1,
125.0
105.2
19.8
retail price level was 45 per cent and cheese are being distributed in Increasing quantities of butter
tween the wholesale and retail price the consumer, instead of in bulk. above 1914, making a difference be prepared and processed packages to of no less a percentage than 49.1.
This has increased the retail price What is the explanation of this? in the case of the former by 2d. per I believe it is attributable, in a
pound.
This increased demand for service
Chinese policemen chased the bandits and fired upon them killing Retail, price level, May
The additional service thus ren- tern in its present form had fail-two The others escaped. ni 1982
dered to the consumer has increased ed, having led to corruption and
The children were rescued.-wholesale price level, May
the margin between wholesale and - for “spread disrespect not only
retail price to between 171⁄2 per this.law, but for all laws."
cent. and 214 per cent. And so I could continue with other essential cannot consent to a continuation The country has been shocked of this regime which has made by the news of the murder of modities" before the war," but for monthly in the provinces to the con-- I have no figures for "All Com-commodities, such as coal, delivered? many other reluctant converts Mrs. Woodruff.
food the difference between whole sumer in bulk of a ton of more; but is firmly opposed to the re- The poignant circumstances of sale and retail prices was approxi- now in bags of a hundredweight, four turn of the saloon, which, he the outrage are related in the mately 13.2 per cent. It will be The cost of bags, cost of small Although more than
believes, would be the inevitable newspapers in heavy type with observe, that the wholesale price! cartage, and wear and tear have weeks have still to pass before sequel to the acceptance of the banner headlines.
level on May 1 last was actually 6.1 increased the price. the elections in the United Democrat, plank, a modification The first intimation of the mur per cent. below, 1914, and yet the States for the Electoral College of the law. so as to allow the salefder of Mrs. Woodruff reached her are held a contest which in fact, of wine and beer. His plan is parents when they were listening- to restore liquor controlate the into the wireless news bulletin at although not in constitutional individual States. As this is a relatida's home at Trowbridge, theory, determines who the in an alternative proposal of the where they were visiting coming President is to be the Democrats, there is little to Shortly after her son arrived by campaign is in full train.-
Mr. choose between the two plat-car from Bristol with the news measure, to the changed habits and pound, and the latter by 8d. per
forms. Meanwhile, from the which had been cabled by the Im demands of the people. I express Roosevelt and his followers draw South has emerged an aspirant perial Tobacco Company-Reuter.
To opinion as to whether these in preparation and distribution is zoological comparisons between who will not tolerate compro-
changed habits and demands are Mr. Hoover and an elephant en-mise This is Mr. W. D. Upshaw; tangled in a morass of unredeem-"the Georgia Cyclone, who has
good or bad, or whether they con not alone confined to essential com
modities; it extends to other human tribute to the general welfare of. éd promises. Mr. Hoover points announced that he will run as an
activities. Thirty years ago the .... A solemn Requiem Mass took the people or not. All I am con- cenomic reply to the claim that in- proudly to his scheme which will out,and,out "dry" although he place at the Cathedral of the Im-cerned with is to state the facts as dustrial progress and development lift America from her depres- will stand down in favour of Almaculate Conception, to-day at 7.30 find them. sion: To the outsider the dif- stronger candidate...... It is not ference between the Republican anticipated that the cyclone will
a.m., for the late Cardinal Van To secure a correct perspective of accentuated unemployment was to Rossum. The deceased was a man the problem, a visit to many the effect that new machinery and and the Democratic policies is do much damage to the other of great intelligence, and in 1918 artisans homes has been found improved organisation reduced costs dather nebulous. This pheno- camps. But there are constitu- was made Cardinal Prefect of the necessary, and this demanded the of production, and so stimulated menon, indeed; was noted by tional difficulties in the way of Fropaganda Fide.
consumption. The old machine em- exercise of extreme tact In order to, Bryce fifty years ago. What are repealing the famous 18th
procure some of the intimate domes ploying six workmen was replaced their principles, their distinctive Amendment which, at the mo szbineer a month's hard tie details necessary,,
by two machines employing three tenets in regard to the major ment, neither Republicans nor labour was the sentence given by! itsues affecting national life Democrats-care-to-stress. Iftur. Schofield at the Central Magis- One cannot go into the highways Board of Trade conducted an in- Social Life Changes workers each, and doubling output. In 1904 and in 1912, when the This,, says Bryce, is a question the experience of recent electracy this morning to Leung Choi, and byways for this purpose with airy into the cost of living of the which a European is always ask-tions in other countries can be who was found: In Aberdeen with out being impressed by the chapzed working classes I discovered by " ing intelligent Republicans and taken as a criterion, Mr. Hoover 380 cattles of wood in his possession conditions of things in the home investigation that if you reduced-- Democrats. "He is always ask- is not unlikely to have lost ground that had come from the Forestry Social life in this country appears the retail price of an article from ing "because he never gets an since his success in 1928. When Ereservation. answer." At last the truth he inherited the mantle of Mr. dans on him. They have se- Coâlidge, America was enjoying al Ghan date organisations, but the boom. We in America," he said King's College, was taken to the when compared with conditions beduced to 6th, pen the percentage of 20, a student of a change that was really gurprising cent. If the prices was further re party names have no real signia nation that is spending ninety Government Civil Hospital' yester fore the war. fence. Neither party has any billions a year, are nearer to the day suffering from injuries, In addition to changed qualities figures somewhat confirmed the distinctive principles or pro final triumph over poverty than through an alleged assault on him and kinds of commodities, I found views expressed by eminent econo mmes. Bryce might qualify ever before in the history of any by another student outside the that there was greatly increased mists of that time. But what is thi estimate nowadays when the land." Since then America has College.. was not seriously demand for what Ricardo would the position to-day? war and high protection have in-felt the ghill wind of adversity, Kurt.
have described as non-productive troduced elements of complica- and the public is apt to demand a 1.
labour in the shape of service. Let But in one particular, at scapegoat. In the congressional Portuguese youth rest us take a few of the essential com The result of a fe
recent ue of least, the approximation this elections in 1930, thes Re-Ribeirdi. 12/acatudhat it la Bille year is closer than it was four publicans sustained a severe re-bllege, sustained lacerations to his modities is the habits and desires of the people The bulk of the milk before the has partially destroyed the sound- years ago. In 1928 Mr. Hoover verse, losing their majority in tight leg when he attempted to war was delivered by the producer, pess of the economic theory, stood four-square for prohibition the House of Representatives board a Kowloon, mator bus while it either direct to the retailer's float Of some 500 artisans households and Mr. A. Smith's sympathies and barely holding their own in the in motion in Princes Edward for distribution in a loose visited, it was found that reduced were "wet."
to be dynamic ever static, and 1s. to 9d., the consumption field was even in the coneszy; villages I found stimulated to the extent of.15.4 per 2
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demand rose to 22.1 per cent. Those mag
Cinema And Motor,
ex-
In 1932 the gap the Senate. Moreover Mr. Fond, outside the La Salle College condition to the consumer, or price did not stimulate consumption between the two candidates has Roosevelt has an advantagesterday Heal (tsmen to the by ¦ rail to. large, wholesalers to the same tent as are the appreciably ngrrowed. {};" The which Mr. Al. Smith did not Bowloon Hospital for treatment. In the towns and cities. war. The side efter in re- American "Literary Digest," possess, Mr. Smith is new"
The margin between the wholesale duced price of commodities, instead which gives a synopsis of repre- man, a member of a family whose an absorbing lecture on "Biology and retail price varied rather con of being und Hing the para, se of sentative opinions throughout roots are not planted deep in Education), was, delivered/before siderably, but, the average for the other committer were the country, is usually remark-American soil. Americans tradi-e Education Society of the Hong whole country would be appended in the purching of #vices. alt accurate in its estimates and tionally prefer for their first king University Jaloevening by Dr. proximately from 15 per cent to An article reduced from 1 to 9d. predictions, and it crystallises citizen" one sprung from a stock A. C. Herklots, Reader in Biology 17 per cent ergbaut Tavui paly produced Increased consump the general view in the state which has been associated with the University, in the course of The present distribution of milk tion to the extent of 8.4 per cent
that the Republicans hope America for many genera ich he outlined the advantages to is much more elaborate and there while a B radhiklikul taktikīra toin with the Democrat 'drya tions. This credential Mr. De obtained by a study; probansit fore much more pensive Increased the figure to 11.9 per cent. and the Democrats' hope to win Roosevelt commands. Europe story, and gave much helpful many cases the, old, 1918 method of (The quop of how and whee wit the Republican wete. watches the election, with more price. The Endications suggested the than ordinary interest. Until it | the "drys" would toports is decided he Echomic Confer- Hover, as happened in 1928, ance must wait, as must any dis
GIM the current symposium, cussingslissendable. The De-
werking prepared, Mr. Hoover's mocrats, lean towards a reduc ath me on the subject of pro:tion of tariffs, but are adamant hili i had not been clearly de- on the subject of war debts. MIX fire The "dry" claimed that Hoover is supposed to be willing the Republican platform did not to consider a revision of the coff the party to any com letter but is disinclined to inter- sign to the wete whater
with tariffs. Hence the re- Bill since then he has declare of the elections, whatever
04OLLAR STEADY AS
SILVER RISES
distribution has bean; superseded by the balance of savings was being DMAPsystem, whereby the bulk of the gisbursed negessitated, a further in- milk is, after Pasteurisationer quiry. It as Yound impáslitul to sterilisation,delivered to the cox percentages that would be suff sumer in bottles, passing in the clently approximate to be of value, The value of the local dollar is process in some raser from the at the main headings of poun
"of lungbanged, blandiamo 110&farmer to the transpet prieten disposal were as follows, and in the a morning.
who collected the churns, from the following order of precedence
(1) Cinemisanoqaid liA mos (3) Motor charabang drives. (8) Dancing.
pot eliyeza valued ody boobrine) platforms at the farm, and thence led at 17-13/16; and forward elther to the vinesaler directas 17%, also stale folder the dairy for sterilisation and he London on New York cross bottling 19312162
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exocrine service. "This hadi netometerhy merészen the margin between the wholesale
(4) Motorblenght rinking and bunlar dries, including hair wavin
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