Memorial Unveiled To King George V
London, To-day.
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The King, in the presence Queen Mary and many others of the Royal Family yesterday afternoon unveiled a memorial to King George V in Windsor, designed by Sir Ed- win Lutyens and erected by the people of Windsor in association. with the people of Windsor, On- tario.
The weather was brilliantly fine and a large crowd watched the ceremony.
At the end of a speech in reply to the Loyal Address presented by
Market Disaster In India
Madras, To-day. Twenty-five were killed and 150 injured when a market shed collapsed in Eroda, in Madras Province.
Many had taken shelter in the shed during a sudden thun- derstorm-Reuter.
GIANTS BLANK BOSTON
U.S. BASEBALL YESTERDAY
the Mayor, His Majesty said: "If I may speak for a moment of him in
New York, To-day. whose honour this memorial has been erected, let me say only that counter in the
With the exception of one en- American League to me personally the memory of my
New York and between
Boston,
the
father will always bring an inspir-which was postponed owing to ation of high example.
"I hope that in trying to fulfil snow, the American Baseball Lea- gue programme Was carried our great responsibilities, the through without a hitch yesterday. Queen and I may be supported by: Carl Hubbell, one of last season's some measure of that trust and af- big stars, made his debut among fection which were so fully given to him and my dear mother by the the Braves to give
blank-out artists by holding the Giants a peoples of this country and the Em-three clear runs victory, while the pire."--British Wireless.
Tigers came into their own in the American League when they beat the White Sox by 10 to 2, Greenberg and Rogell clouting four-baggers.
Results as cabled by Reuter were as follows:
CANADIANS
REPUDIATE C.I.O.
Strike Settled At
Oshawa
Oshawa, To-day.
Brooklyn
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnatti
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1937.
SPINACH CAUSES
RIOT
THIRTY INJURED IN
CALIFORNIA
Stockton (California), To-day.
Spinach caused a riot yester- day when a lorry loaded with the food tried to force its way past strike pickets outside the can- ning factory here, which had opened in spite of the strike.
Guns blazed, tear gas bombs burst and stones were thrown in the melee. Thirty persons, includ- ing several women, were injured.
The pickets and a frenzied mob tried to overturn the lorry and the clash with the police followed.-- Reuter.
UNITED STATES TO INTERVENE
GERMAN TREASON DEATH PENALTY
CONVICTED MAN AN AMERICAN :
WASHINGTON, TO-DAY.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS INSTRUCTED THE UNIT- ED STATES AMBASSADOR IN
BERLIN TO RENDER ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE ΤΟ HELMUTH HIRSCH, CONVICT- 1ED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO 1 ON A CHARGE- OF TREASON
BY A GERMAN COURT.
R. H. E.
0 3
Hirsch is due to be executed in 1a few weeks.
Boston
Carl Hubbell pitched. New York
3
6
0
4
9.
3
6
3
5
0
Goodman hit a homer. Pittsburgh
Chicago and
St. Louis
Demaree hit a homer..
4
9
4 8
5 12
AMERICAN LEAGUE
4
7
8
0
Johnson hit a homer. Washington
1
4
!
1
The strikers' committee, elected St. Louis yesterday, consists of nine
men,
Cleveland
A mass meeting of striking em- ployees of General Motors yester- Philadelphia day resolved, by 2,205 votes to 36, in favour of returning to work.
The strikers' committee is leav- ing for Toronto to sign the agree- ment with the Corporation work is being resumed on April 26. The agreement does not accord recognition to the Union but it grants a five-day week of 44 hours, fifty per cent. extra for overtime Philadelphia and a minimum wage, the amount
of which has not been determined.
which will represent the workers in disputes with the management. -Reuter.
10,000 JOBS ARE WAITING FOR EX-SOLDIERS
"We hope to be able to place as many as 10,000 ex-Servicemen in the Civil Service during the next two years," announced Mr. Duff Cooper, Minister for War.
2 10
0
There was at first some doubt as 1to Hirsch's citizenship but the State Department has now deter- mined he is an American, and is informing the German Government to that effect.-Reuter.
3 SIX GIRL
12 2
.9
10 12
0
Detroit
Greenberg and Rogell hit homers. Chicago
2 61 -Reuter.
CANTON'S RICE IMPORTS
Nanking's Decision
Canton, Yesterday,
PALL-BEARERS
ASKED TO PARTY
Alfred William Spry, of Crown- hill, Devon, celebrated his sixty- ninth birthday by inviting six girls
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HENRY COTTON WINS
Nine Under Four's In Silver King Tourney
Moorpark, Richmansworth, To-day.
Henry Cotton, the former British Open Golf champion, with rounds of 73 + 68 + 70 68 returned an aggregate of 279 for 72 holes, to win the Silver King £1,000 tournament yesterday.
P. J. Mahon, of the Royal Public Golf Club, was se- cond with rounds of 72 + 67 473 Wimbledon Park, 68-280 and W.-J.- Cox, of was third
whom he had appointed as his pall- with rounds of 71 + 71 | 69
72-283.-Reuter. They
bearers to the ceremony. wore the white dresses and black sashes which their host had bought for them to wear at his funeral.
That was four years ago. This year he celebrated seventy-third birthday
-and thought of death obsessed him.
是
For a great change has The Kwangtung rice dispute has
He told the General Council been settled. meeting of. the National Union of. The Nanking Government has Conservative and Unionist Asso agreed to allow 4,000,000 piculs of
his
No
come over Alfred Spry in the last year. He has married a sixty-year-old Exmouth spinster, and he has be- as well as
ciations that he hoped with some foreign rice to be imported into the [come Spry by B
confidence that no man who left the province free of duties in four in- name, once more. Army would not be fitted to find a stalments of one million piculs per Mra. Spry said: "My husband
month from April to useful, permanent job.
July, both tries to do too much. He insists He also expressed the wish that months inclusive-Our Own Coron climbing ladders and going in municipal authorities would followrespondent.
for all kinds of strenuous exercises."
Tribute To Captain
the example the Government was setting in finding jobs for ex-Ser- vicemen..
The Territorial Army, he added, had been doing wonderfully well within the last few months, and to day was stronger by over 16,000 than it was a year ago.
For The Coronation
Addis Martin
Members of the "A" and = "1", London. To-day.
sections of the Corpe 1st Battery Sir Archibald Parkhill, the Aus H.KYD C. met last night at a din- tralian Minister for Defence, ar-
ner at Headquarters to bid bon rived in London to-day, Another voyage to Captain T. Addis Mar- The Post Office has taken precau- arrival to-day for the Coronation tin, their Battery Commander, who plosions in Holborn in 1928, which cost was the Sultan of Lahej.-British leaves on home leave to-morrow by
Wireless.
the 8.8. Potsdam.
tions to prevent a repetition of the ex-
£100,000.
RANGERS LOSE TO CLYDE
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
FOOTBALL
London, To-day. The following are the results of Scottish League football matches played yesterday:
First Division".
Clyde.
3
Kilmarnock
Hangers Queen's Park
Second Division
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