THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936
CLARK GABLE AS PUGILIST
REPORTED OFFER
£10,000 FOR
MATCH WITH
MAXIE BAER
Film Star Said To Be Considering
BUT NO CONFIRMATION
OBTAINABLE.
New York,
It is reported that Mr. Clark Gable, the film star, has been offer- Мах Baer, abore. former
for a boxing match heavyweight boxing championed £10,000 of the world, may be matched with Max Baer, the former heavy- with Clark Gable. the film-star,
weight champion of the world. according to a New York report.
According to the New York: Evening Journel, which publishes the report, he is seriously sidering the offer.
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con-
Clark Gabic. the film-star, above, is said to be seriously offer of £10,000 considering an to meet Max Baer, ex-heavy- weight champion of the world, in the ring.
Mr. Gable, it is stated, is less £5,000 PROFIT
TO CIVILISATION opportunity
Network Of Modern Equipment
WORK OF ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS
interested in the purse than in the| to display his ability as a boxer, of which he
FROM BEGGING
is proud. He demonstrated it IN FIVE YEARS
once when, in making a film, he went beyond the demands of the) script and knocked out Mr. Allez Pomeroy, a former inter-collegiate boxing champion.
One-Legged Rascal's Collections
SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED HOUSEBREAKING
FAIR-GROUND MURDER
BOY OF SIXTEEN ON GRAVE CHARGE.
ALLEGED STATEMENT ABOUT GUN “THAT WENT OFF”
A 16-years-old Brentford boy appeared again last month at Richmond Juvenile Court charged with the murder of Arthur Hodgson, a watchman, at the Exhibition Fair Grounds, Kew, on June 10.
After evidence the hearing was adjourned. Both the police and the defence wished to make further enquiries.
The case was heard by Mr. 3. Sanderson and a woman magis-4.
traze in a private room in the SWAN SONG" OF
court-house. The boy sat with his father beside him.
Mr. E. Clayton, for the Direc- tor of Public Prosecutions, said that the boy was 16 years and two months old. He had been em- ployed for some rears by George Beach, owner of the fair ground at Kew Bridge. His duty was
to look after this and other fairs.
On the day of the tragedy Beach, who was assisted by his wife, Jessie, was holding a charity fair at Twickenham. Their home was a bungalow at the Kew ground
MR. G. B. SHAW
Last Public Speech By Playwright
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Mr. George Bernard Shaw an- nounced that he was making Tel 20135. his last speech on any stage when he addressed the audience at the conclusion of a perform- £200 In Bungalow
Mr.ance of his play "Candida," at George Beach, observed
the People's Theatre, New- Clayton, was in the habit of carry-
ng large sums of money about castle, last month.
The performance was part of with him and keeping large sumsi
cele- in the bungalow. On June 3 or the theatre's silver jubilee
there was about £200 in the brations, and "Candida" was re- bungalow, which was removed bevived as the first full-length play
It is understood that he has already applied to the California; Ottawa, The Royal Cana-State Athletic Commission for a dian Corps of Signals is prepar-boxing permit. Before he can ac-] ing to fill the subarctic skies cept the offer, however, he will
A one-legged shoemaker who with whispering words of aid have to obtain the consent of a $5,000 in five years by asking fore the alleged murder took place. Performed by the theatre in 1911 was said to hate collected about and direction to northern aero-company — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer planes, mining camps, and the both to his appearance in the ring people to subscribe the cost of lonely prospectors and trappers and to his absence from the artificial limb, was sentenced in the hinterland of western studios during the period of train-21 months' imprisonment.
at London Session recently to
Canada.
ling.
From Fort McMurray to: Oficials of the company here Aklavik, down the Great Macken-stated that they had heard note- zie Basin, the Government
wireing of the proposal. Recently Mr. less stations operated by the
Gable's contract was renewed for B.C.C.S. are to be modernised and seven years at a figure reported equipped for air-to-ground and at £1,400 a week. ground-to-air and two-way wire- less communication. At Outpost
MORE TOURISTS IN BRITAIN DURING 1935
60,000 Visitors From America
Better times and the Jubilee celebrations resulted in a marked. increase in the number of for- eign tourists and excursionists who visited the United Kingdom last year. The official statistics for 1935, issued recently by the Home Office, show that 227,768 tourists landed last year, com- pared with 207,108 in 1934.
Hak this increase of 20,660 consisted of Americans, whose number rose. from 50,018 in 1934 to 60,662 on 1935. French sent 46,665 tourists; Germany 29,508, and Holland 20,175. The Italian tourists dropped from 7,397 to 5,780.
Excursion traffic from the Con- tinent for one or two days or the week-end increased from 36,594 to 31,677—a rise of 15,083.
wyan.
CITY BUCKET – SHOP FRAUDS
Three Years For Share Pusher
EX-NAVAL MAN WHO FAILED FOR £270,000 Amman who was stated to have been a petty officer in the Navy, and who failed last year withị liabilities of £270,000 and assets) of £15, was sentenced to three years penal servitude at the Old Bailey last month for "bucket| shop" activities.
He was Charles William Dickin son, aged 53, stock and share dealer, of Barton-street. Barons Court He pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining money by false pretences in connection with a "bucket. "shop" in street.
Fenchurch-
The man was Edward Lawrence, ¡25, a native of South Wales, who WAS found guilty of attempted housebreaking.
Mr. Laurence Vine, prosecuting, said that a mind in a houses in Plafts-lane, Hampstead, heard
NAZI SUBSIDIES FOR BIG FAMILIES
£6,000,000 Already Expended
Berlin
Herr Reinhardt, permenent head of the Ministry of Fin- once, announced last month that from the beginning of July regular subsidies of 175. 6d. a month would be paid to parents for the support of a Afth child and every further child wader. 15.
This grant will be confined to workers earning not more
then £15 a month. About 26,000,000 has already been paid out in special grants to
with poor families
many children. More than 1,000,000 children have benefited.
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HEAVIER GERMAN SUBMARINES
New 750-Ton Vessel Commissioned
MOUNTING 4.1-INCH GUN
Germany's latest submarine, U 25, has been commissioned after completing her trials.
"I have retired from public (speaking," said Mr. Shaw. "How jold do you think I am? [Mr. Shaw is 80 this month.]
"I can keep up appearances. I don't suppose that I look more than 70, but I am a good deal older than that and the time has come for me to retire from the footlights.
"This being my last speech in TILL the theatre I like it to be in this! one. (Cheers.)
Listened With Pleasure
"I have listened to this old play
With a surface displacement of of mine, which I wrote before any 750 tons, she is three times as of you were born, with a certain large as the previous boats. She pleasure that I never can get from may be regarded as the first ocean- completely professional perform- going submarine of the new Gerances. man Navy.
"It is just as well that people She is understood to have been should understand that it is in built in about 20 months. A sister performances of this kind, by people who are doing the thing for boat, U. 24, is due for delivery.
The U 25 has a stream-lined the love of it, who work hard and hull, with the usual serrated net-are not paid for it, that you get cutter at the bows and stout quality of performance, that you "jumping wires" to deflect anti-cannot get from even the most high- submarine nets and other suby skilled professional actors
"I want to say a word or two as merged obstructions running
It fore and aft. There is a tall conto why the play was written ning-tower, and forward of this a was written when a tremendous įsensation was being made in Lan- gun, apparently of 4.1in calibre, don by the arrival of the great Norwegian dramatist, Ibsen. This
is mounted on the deck.
In size the U 25 approximates to
the earlier British "L" boats of sensation was being made by a
“Remarkable Play*
"It was a remarkable play, but
Mr. G. D. Roberts, prosecuting, key being tried in the lock and 760 tons, which proved so success play called The Doll's Houze. leland, and Goldfields, the present said that Dickinson had been in notified the police. Officers went fal during the war. portable sets will be replaced by business for 12 years as an out-to the lane and saw Lawrence visit modern equipment, while a new (side stock and share dealer, and a number of houses. He told them
it completely apset not only the station will be built at Fort Chip- the prosecution alleged that it had that he was collecting for an arti-bad abandoned the idea entirely stage's conventions of the rela-
been fraudulent since 1933.
ficial leg.
Wheeler tions. between husband and wife, Detective - Sergeant Trafic Increases Need
Notes On Houses
stated that Lawrence's real name but, Europe's, conceptions. The air traffic down the Macken-men and 120 clergymen. Credulous Lawrence, in the witness-box, was Reginald Saary, and that he "There you had the fine manly zie and the commercial air traffic persons forwarded sums ranging was questioned about a document had been convicted on eight pre-husband and the charming, de- in the mining areas of the new frem £40 to £500, in the case of found in his possession.
vious occasions. He
selightful little squirrel of a wife. North, have increased to such anjone man, who parted with all his It contained notes on various tenced to 18 months' hard labeur
"In the end the wife suddenly extent that radio communication savings. On paper he was said to houses, stating that they had last year.
stood the gentleman on his head
than heretofore.
Among his victims were 220 wro
W25
is needed on a more adequate scale have made a prost of £1,700, but jewellery in them, the number of Referring to the document, the and made him and the audience he was reduced to destitution, and maids and their habits, and the officer said: “Figures on the paper understand that he was a rather Starting at Fort McMurray. Dickinson gave him $5.
opportunities of getting into the indicate that he has been earning poor specimen. Thsen said to the where rail. air and water meet, Mr. W. A. L. Raeburn, defend houses. One extract read:
by this merus (collecting money woman: "Cease to be the plaything a new radio station will be builting, said that Dickinson had left "Being, 2 lady-in-waiting, she to buy an artificial leg) something of the man, and the household. Be to replace the old discarded E. C.the Navy with the highest charac-|
should have some expensive jewel in the neighbourhood of £1,000 independent and be yourself.” lery. As there are only two maids, M. P. building which has housed ter. He had 3,000 customers in
"I was not satisfied with that. It the R. C. C. S. station so far. Then his stock and share business,
find what one is out, and get one in year for five years." the kitchen".
The officer said that Lawrence implied that, if the woman had to down at Fort Chipwyan, where which was honestly conducted for Lawrence maid that he made out had collected 68. in half-an-hour go out of the house, so long as she the radio station is a portable set many years.
the document 10 months ago, and on the day he was arrested.
stayed in the house she was no- body.
in a little old shack three quar-The figures relating to his ters of a mile from the aeroplane failure are enormous, but they are docks, a pew building will be put the result of persistent gambling.” be added. "This is a man who bas been bitten the vice of game:
.up.
Heroic Workers
At the Goldfields station Inst bling and became a victim, not the| -winter a portable set was dropped master, of his vice."
down by plane with, an RCCS.
camped with his
.:
London's Small Supply
1
“A Fine FellowTM“
Of Snake-Bite Serum which the husband would not be
Two cases of adder bites in one where serum for treating practi-|
"I thought that it would be a good thing to write a playin
mean and contemptible, but should be a fine fellow in his way.
signalmat, Throughout the win MAN WHO MARRIED week, and the appearance of large cally every type of anake-bite can have the nut suddenly making the
ter he sent and received signals. Most of the trappers and traders, miners and prospectors have little radio receiving sets and so each day special broadcasts: were seat out for their benefit,
HIS STEPMOTHER
Count Von Hochberg Dies At 26
"I thought it would be nice tol
numbers of adders in the country [be obtained.
gentleman understand that she recently, have raised the question Serum is also kept at the London was the leading thing and the of the availability of suke-bité Zoo, though only in quantities suf-making of him. So I wrote 'Can- serum in England.
ficient for the Zoo's own needs. {dida.' That is the whole point of
As sera vary, the doctor treating this particular play.” Enquiries at London hospitals Count Bolke von Hochberg, who, disclose that few keep much snake the case must know what type of The operators of the B.C.CS. two years ago, married his step bite serum on hand. It was stated snake was responsible for the stations are all enlisted men of mother, died at Warsaw yesterday at one hospital. that it was unwound, so that he can employ thel
the force. One of them was dump-at the age of 26. He was the son
neccessary to do so, as the demand correct serum.
Serum is obtained generally from the blood of horses - which
CHILD'S NARROW ESCAPE
ed down in a remote, past a few of Prince Meinrich of Pless years ago, with a portable set, and His mother divorced his father, was very slight.
As the two-year-old daughter of when the post grew and a bigger who married again. In 1984 Supplies were said to be readily have been injected with a parti- Mr. and Mrs F. White, of Austin- station was installed, he was given Prince Heinrich divorced his seo-available from many of the larger calar snake venom. The quanti-street, Northampton, ran into the leave of absence and went to ond wife, the daughter of a Span-firms of chemist. If the demand ties are increased until the horses house, lightning struck the roof Queen's University, graduating ish banker, and she then married increased quantities could be had have become immune to that poi and bricks and tiles crashed down
this year as Bachelor of Science, her stepson.
from the Pastear Institute, Paris, non.
where she had been playing.
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