Above is Amelia Earhart's magnificent plane, t
Flying Labor- atory, which it is feared, has been forced down 'somewhere in the Pacific." She is believed to be within fifty or sixty miles of How- land Island after a hop of over 2,000 miles. The picture was tak- en over. San Francisco's great Golden Gate Bridge when Mrs. Put- nam made her original dash to Honolulu.
CRICKET SCOREBOARD
GREAT BRITAIN'S DAVIS
CUP TEAM
Charles Hare As Second
Singles Player
London, To-day. H. W. "Bonny" "Austin, Charles E. Hare, G. P. Hughes and C. R. D. Tuckey have been invited to re- present Great Britain in the Chal- lenge Round of the Davis Cup Com-. petition against the winners of . the Inter-Zone Final, of which the United States are one of the finalists.
Charles Hare's display in the Men's Singles has obviously play- ed a big part in his selection as.
Britain's Great
second singles player, while Hughes and Tuckey's advance into the final of the Men's Doubles has naturally led to their selection as the Doubles pair. Renter.
RULES FOR "SOVIET DEMOCRACY"
Moscow, To-day.
All Soviet papers publish to-day
the draft of regulations for the election of the Supreme Council of the Soviet, apparently scheduled for this year.
London, To-day. At Dudley, Worcester beat Glouces- ter by 82 runs. Worcester 163 (Goddard 7 for 84) and
210. Gloucester-154 and 137 (Martin 7 for
31).
At Liverpool, Lancashire beat Sussex on the first innings.⠀ Lancashire-292 (Washbrook 145) and
17 for 3.
Sussex-289 (Cook 104, Pollard 5. for
45).
At Tunbridge Wells, Kent beat Lei- cester by 73 runs. Kent-209 (Davies 89) and 304 (Davies
80, Smith 7 for 100). Leicester 242 (Watt 8 for 100) and
198 (Wright 5 for 77). At Nottingham, Notts beat Glamor- gan on the first innings. .. Glamorgan-137 and 326 for 9,* Notts 308 for 7 dec.
At Taunton, New 'Zealand:... beat} Somerset by seven wickets. Somerset-254 and 316 (Lee 128, Cowie
5 for 60).
Zealanders 404 (Wallace 115) and 170 for 3 (Wallace-77- -not out).
New
Shanghai Cotton
Exchange Scandal
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY,
1937,
FREE STATE
ELECTION
Dublin, To-day.
re-
One of the outstanding sults of the Free State General Nanking, July 2,
Election results hitherto an- Surprise has been caused in poli-nounced is the return of the Pre- tical and financial circles by the sident, Mr. Eamonn de Valera, sudden detention, by order of high at Clare.
authorities, of Mr. Wu Chi-ting, In Dublin, the Minister for Fin- Chief of the Revenue Department ance, Mr. Sean McEntee, and the of the Ministry of Finance, and Mr.Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Shing Sheng-shuen, Director of the Mr. Oscar Traynor, were returned. Consolidated Tax Bureau of Kiang- su, Chekiang and Anhui Provinces, in connection with the Cotton Yarn Exchange scandal in Shanghai.
They will be both charged with partaking in illegal speculation, which caused a crisis on the Ex- change-Hua Nan.
ATFILETIC RECORD BROKEN
Stockholm, To-day. Jonsson (Sweden) yesterday broke the world's 2,000-metre cord in 5 minutes 18 4/10 seconds, beating Ladoumegue's record of 5 minutes 21 8/10 seconds. Reuter.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS
New York, To-day. The following were the results of games played in the major leagues:—
·NATIONAL LEAGUE -
R... H...... E. 7. O
Boston
2 Warstlet hit a home run. New York
at
the opposition, was successful
Mr. William Cosgrave, leader of
Cork, while General Mulcahy defeated in Dublin. Reuter.
AMUR RIVER INCIDENT SETTLED
was
Moscow, To-day. satisfactory solution of the Amur River incident has been reached, according to the Japan- ese Ambassador, Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, at the conclusion of a conference with the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinov, yesterday.
the Mr. Shigemitsu stated that Soviet has agreed -on immediate withdrawal of its troops from the two islands involved upon the Japan- ese assurance that the Manchukuo authorities will have no troops boats in the vicinity-Reuter.
AMELIA EARHART IN PERIL IN PACIFIC
(Continued from Page 1) First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
First person to fly the Atlantic twice.
First woman to fly an auto-gyro. First woman to receive the Dia- tinguished Flying Gross.
6 13
2
Mancusco hit a home run. Brooklyn Philadelphia
3 0
11
77
Hamlin pitched.
Pittsburgh
13
Suhr hit a home run.. Chicago
8
1
hit home runs.
Galan, Demares, Hartnett and Jurges
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Dimaggio hit a home run. Washington
Philadelphia
11
2
flight.
New York,
Peters hit a home run, Boston
8 10 Chapman and Mills hit home runs. Chicago
2 St. Louis
6.
First woman to receive the Na- tional Geographical Society's Gold 2 Medal.
First woman to makke a trans- American Continental non-stop
Holder of woman's trans-Contin- ental speed record - of 17 hours 0 minutes 30 seconds.
1 One-time holder of women's' in
record with ternational speed
The game between Detroit and Cleve- land was postponed owing to the cold.
At Lord's, M. C. C. beat Oxford Uni---Reuter. | versityTM by · 226 runs.
M. C. C-484 (Compton 116, H. G.
·Owen Smith 168 not out) and 245 | for 6 dec.
Oxford University_233 (Owen. Smith
5 for 38) and 270.
At the Oval, Surrey beat Cambridge University by an innings and 42 runs. Surrey480 (Holmes 189). Cambridge-219. (Gover 6 for 49) and
219
shire.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES
Reuter.
German Honour For Propagandist
Berlin, To-day.
the
181.18 m.p.h." First woman licen- sed in the United States to carry passengers for hire in planes.
Fourth Of July Celebrations
Herr Hitler has conferred Grand Cross of the German Eagle on Signor Alfieri, the Italian Pro- Fourth of July celebrations by paganda Minister, in recognition of the American community in Hong his services in furthering relations Kong will be marked by a reception between Germany and Italy.
when the American Consul-General to have the same honour conferred will receive members of the com- Two other European personalities at the American Club on Monday
on them are the Hungarian Defence munity and their friends. Minister, General Roeder, and the Hungarian commander-in-chief, Gen-
Bradford-Yorkshire Surrey (A The following are to-day's matches: Mitchell's Benefit). Birmingham Warwickshire v Derby
shire (N. Kilner's Benefit). Worcester-Worcestershire v Kent. Manchester-Lancashire v Nottingham-eral Conyi-Trans-Ocean. According to the constitution adopted in December last, the Su-Yeovil -Somerset Sussex.
Bad Bristol Gloucestershire VE
ew. Zaa- preme Council will replace the pre- landers. sent system of executive committee.
Northamptonshire v Middle- The Central Executive Committee- will meet on July 7 for considera- tions. This meeting will probably be the last before election of the new Supreme Council.
Kettering
noted with interest that in the con- stituencies, where less than half of the electorate goes to poll, new elections are to be held. It seems therefore to be expected, foreign
The regulations follow strictly the example of western Europe in- cluding all formalities like the elec- observers remark, that the popula- tion of districts and the election of tion will, nevertheless, remain committees methods of polling. It is leis
rans-Ocean,
pas-
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