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Uruguay Leads.
The Republic of Uruguay has es-
tablished two Bew international records and equalled a third.
of the LLO. conventions. This is
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1933.
MRS. MOLLISON FEARS
LAST BIG FLIGHT
PREPARATIONS MADE 'N
CASE OF DISASTER
She has at one swoop ratified 20 MAY NEVER KNOW MIDDLE-AGE” the largest bag-ever obtained at a [Since the writing of this interview, start off if both Jim and I were single drive. She has ratified one Mr. James Mollison and his wife,, the certain we should never come back. which has never been ratified beformer Miss Amy Johnsch, narrowly Then we should merely be suicidal now abreast of escaped death or serious injury, when idiots, and should deserve no Rym- fore. And she is
their plane was wrecked while landing
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Spain, which, since the fall of the near Bridgeport, Connectient, on July pathy.
"I think, on the whole, we shali monarchy has led in the ratifica-23 tion race with 30 out of a possible antle light to New York on July 22 said before, if we do not, we die The pair took off on their trans-Atcome through all right, and as I
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and were within sight of their first
In striking contrast is the modest goal when Mr. Mollison, overcome together in ideal circumstances. total of 18 which Britain has la-with fatigue, decided to land. The "We shall never have known boriously established since 1919, an plane struck a ditch on the edge of the middle age or disillusion or fall- average of little more than one per air-port landing ground:]
jure. What more can any one nšk
annum.
Here, in the frankest and most of life than to die like that?" As the conventions range over
interview remarkable
ahe has Amy, while she told me all this, such subjects as a 45-hour week, ever given, Mrs. Amy Mollison was sitting in a ses of maps in her employment of sedmen and agricul-shown how the inner-most mind of Park-lane flat high above Hyde tural labourers, white lead, weekly
the Park. As she talked the Park trees a courageous woman acts in rest, workmen's compensation, night moment of life's greatest crisis. waved in a little breeze that had work in bakeries, emigrants, sick- ness insurance and minimum wages,|
She and her husband-two of the Sprung up as the aun went down.
Her seat was a vermilion arm- it is anticipated that the Uruguayan most remarkable young people of
chair, and she wore a cardigun your generation--are to begin one of Legislature and its parliamentary the most perilous adventures in the suit of cerulean blue. draftsmen will be busy.
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"Jack" Seely's Title.
In choosing the title of Baron] Mottistone, Major-Gen. Seely shares his honour with the quaint old Isle of Wight village where he has made his favourite home.
Years ago he disinterred its Tudor manor from the landfall which buried it 200 years ago, and] has made it extraordinarily beauti- ful.
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"This week-end," she said, "Jim
history of mankind.
They will take off from Croydon and I are going to be quiet. We in a new airplane, Seafarer, to make shall stay here. We shall see no one but our families and really The first London to New York great friends. For one thing I
airplane flight.
must get to bed carly.
The first double crossing of "If i do not have eight hours
the Atlantic by airplane.sleep at night I am no good for and to
anything, though Jim hardly seems Break the world's long-dis- to need any sleep at all.
tance flight record.
"We shall stay and enjoy each They plan to fly from London to other's society, play the gramo New York, from New York to phone, and go over the route toget-
"I am no heroine in the sense
that I am not afraid. I am afraid
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RACEHORSE LOST IN DRAIN. Maritzburg Police To Rescue.
He has also helped to preserve its Bagdad, and from Bagdad to Croy- her, as we have done a thousand
don. The distance is 12,000 miles. times before. |dation of existing stocks, and (3) prehistoric menhir and "moot
They hope to be back within a week. "We have no packing to do. We to the maintenance of reasonable stone," which, according to popularį markets in European importing tradition, marked an ancient pince
"I know I may never come back," shall take no other clothes than countries. The second and third of council and explains the hamlet's said Mrs. Mollison to Miss Kitty those we stand up in, and no food Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1933 problems are closely identified name.
MacBride in an interview recently, but barley sugar, some raisins, and with the work of the World Con-
"I never lose sight of that fact fora, flask of coffee.
"Next to having a long night's moment. ference itself. For it is hard
"I have made detailed prepara- rest before we start, the most im Regulating Wheat either to liquidate existing stocks or to maintain satisfatory mar-
tions in case I never do. My hus-portant thing is a little figure of St. Production.
I band has done the same.
Christopher. Neither Jim nor kets in importing countries with- "What is the difference between out relaxing the present rea blonde and a brunette?"
"I have just made an entirely would fly a yard without one. And, new will, which divides my belong-of course, a new pin, Although the World Economic straints on foreign exchange and
ings fairly among my family, My!"I am not particularly supersiti- Conference has collapsed, for international trade.
Graphology Advice.
mother and my sisters, including tious, but I shall take that with the present at least, some few
Clarence: Try writing with a my little sister of 13, all benellt me benefits accrued from the as- Prohibition Doomed In fountain pen instead of a chisel; from its
"If only we had the little St. sembly at London of the repre-
the dots on your "I's" are too "It is no
good being foolish Christopher that was stolen from sentatives of the nations of
large; you should go in for boxing about this flight. I know I am Jim after his last flight! world, not the least of which
"If we had that I should feel a I feel taking a frightful risk. The great social experiment of: was the progress made at the
'Simple Arithmetic. legally prohibiting the hundred
isure we shall come through all let happler. Addition. negotiations among the dele-million inhabitants of the United
Ne plus ultra.
right, but I recognise the poss!- gates of the great wheat-produc-States from enjoying alcoholic drink
Division, Sodium bicarbonate.
bility that, we may not, and I have one, and I hope it will do as well. None the Subtraction. ing countries.
"And how, good-night! It is looked the fact straight in the face Al. is in the process of ending. are still proceeding and it is ready citizens of most of the forty-|
truthful.
until I am used to the idea.
half-past nine and I am going to pleasing to note that there is eight States of the Union are
Multiplication. Trial by jury,
"It is not death I fear.
It is bed." still the possibility of inter-free to drink, openly and unabash-
partial failure. Both Jim and It. Inational action to control the ed, light beer, and such wine as
would rather die than face that world's supply of wheat. No
"After all, we should be to- other agricultural commodity is may be worth drinking which has
gether, and that makes the possi- of equal interest to producers in
an alcoholic content of only 3.2 per can go round in?*
Shoes and about half a yard fbility of death easier to bear for Now moderate drinking ngi
silk. 80 many countries. Any action longer violates any law in the States
(both of us. which succeeded in improving of America. It is confidently wireless for Breakfast.” prices and helping to maintain believed that ultimately the them on a stable level would be Eighteenth Amendment will be re- What's wrong with of great importance. The dif-pealed and all wines thus be law- ¡bacon 7 ficulty arises from the fact that fully obtainable. The Eighteenth there has been a glut of wheatAmendment of the American Con- Only A Smatter Of Fact in the world's markets since the stitution prohibited
"Is there anything in rumoure?" {enormous crop of 1928-29.
consumption of intoxicating liquor: Tailor's Damages. that year world production, ex and the complementary Volstead clusive of Russia and China, Act defined as "intoxicating" a
Breach of promise? reached the high figure of 4,011-beverage which had more than half
No, promise of breeches.
* * * 000,000 bushels, compared with of one per cent. of alcoholic con- Statistician's Verslop. jan average of 3,226,000,000 for tent. The trade which had been
Fractions speak louder than the ten preceding years. This transferred from honest and res-
words. was so far in excess of the de-ponsible, hands to those of un- mand that the world carry-over scrupulous malefactors should now De Valera's New Slogan. mounted from a level of around return to properly controlled busi- 300,000,000 bushels in 1921-22 ness; and a first practical result is
"We plus Ulster.": to over 600,000,000 at the close intended to be that the American of the 1928-29 crop year. Thus, Treasury will receive something even before the beginning of the over £5,000,000 of revenue during
"I have forgotten no one who has depression, wheat had been forc- the following fiscal year, and spend led into an unfavourable position. far less on the desperate struggle
any claim on me, and I hope I The Chinese government has de-should repay something to my poor but the constables uniforms were in The Borse was practically unhurt Subsequently it has been affect with bootleggers: President Roose-cided to build a deep water port parents for their ed adversely by the decline of velt steadily advocated the repeal of about 13 miles east of Canton, and hours of waiting for news of me purchasing power and by the al-prohibition throughout his election 20 miles from the open sea.
now and in the past. most frantic effort of debtor coun- campaign. And even before he was tries to curtail imports and to elected there was no doubt that the An odorless, semi transparent and realise the danger. She only sees "My little sister is too young to stimulate domestic production in mind of the whole country had virtually unbreakable rubber com-lit all.as a great and glorious enter order to increase their economic become strongly impressed with the pound has been invented for table (prise. But my older sister is the jindependence of creditor nations evils which were apparently in-ware and radio the bases.
and so reduce demands upon seperable from the attempt to |their currencies. for the settle-impose abnormal restrictions upon
ment of international balances. normal human tastes. The illegal novel ditch digger bores its way a certain direction nothing. can World production since 1929 has trade in liquor that was often adulthrough the earth as rotary plows been_approximately equal to de- terated and sometimes poisonous remove snow from railroads. ⠀ mand, with the result that the had developed a new type, ofjord t unwelcome and unwanted surplus criminal, whose half-welcomed de- A dual control motorcycle has has been carried forward from fance of the law and huge profits been invented in Germany for in- one year to another, At the made him a menacing and corrupt-struction of new riders, close of the present season it is ing influence in the public life of
In
the sale of
likely to be somewhat larger the country. The majority of
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Invented in the Netherlands,
than it was five years ago. Meet-Americans seemed to agree that the main
Maritzburg.
"I have thought about this flight for weeks; in fact, I have thought. of nothing else whatever. I. have wakened up in the night thinking A young racehorse wandered into about it, and I shall be thankful a storm-water drain six feet in dia- when it is over.
meter and penetrated 700 yards up "But we are going through with the pipe. The police had to be call- It just the same.
jed to extricate the animal. Several "No one has any right to do constables entered up to their anything which may end in death ankles in slush but their efforts to without preparing for death. entice the horse back only led to
further retreats.
No One Forgotten."
· The man-boles along the pipe were "I have not entered this with a
opened, and after about an hour the kind of gipsy irresponsibility. I horse became exhausted and lay have made arrangements for every down. Eventually the police suc one belonging to me, and if I am ceeded in getting a rope round the killed my affairs will be found to be haunches of the thoroughly-terrified in absolute order.
animal, which was then dragged out backwards.
many anzioun Ja shocking state-Reuter.
most anxious of any one. GRA "She has tried hard to stop me. But once one's destiny leads in alter it.
"It is my fate to make this fight
PIGEON COLLIDES WITH TRAIN.
Unhurt After Crash Through Glass.
Cape Town.
While an express train was dash- and that is the end of it. stations at 45 miles an hour a with my husband. I want to do it ing through one of the suburban
"He, too, is anxious, although he pigeon struck the observation win- pretends not to be, every daw. The glass, which was three- "He feels just as I do, although sixteenths of an inch thick, was perhaps not quite so keenly, smashed completely and splinters "Of course, I insist on Jim hay were flung over the driver, For-
ing at Geneva on the eve of the excesses of the gangsters were al-Bill exactly three months later, World Economic Conference, re-most worse than the earlier excesses which became the law of the landing his affairs all straight, too, in tunately none of the splinters cut presentatives of four of the prin- of the saloons. At any rate they Moderate control is substituted for FREE we never come back Wills him cipal wheat-exporting countries determined, under Mr. Roosevelt's total suppression; and the change have to be kept up to date because The pigeon, however, was not Australia, Argentina, Canada and leadership, to try to restore normal will mean a richer Treasury, circumstances alter them, but I hurt at all in spite of the terrific the United States reached the conditions, and to allow drink with poorer criminal class, wider respect have never gone off on a flight with-impact. It fluttered about inside the conclusion that the problem out giving any encouragement to for law and order, and a happier cut making a fresh one each time the driver's compartment and was captured by the driver when the presented by the surplus can be licence. As long ago as last Decem- people. It is gratifying to note Not Superstitions But solved only by international aber the old House of Representa that the States are, one by one, how "Although I know there may be train pulled up in Cape Town tion with respect (1) to the tives passed a Bill to permit the taking legislative action to ensure time limit on my life, I know it The bird is now being cared for limitation of production and pos- manufacture and sale of light beer, the early, total repeal of the unforts absolutely necessary to be op by the drivers in their office at the
timistic, It would be Impossible to railway station-Reuter, [sibly of export, (2) to the liqui- and its successor, passed a similar tunate Eighteenth Amendment.