THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1939.
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BUT I CAN ACE OD
GIVE MEA CHANCE
SHE STRUCK --LUCKY
Blonde beauty Eleanor Counts wanted to go on the films. They told her no girl could gatecrash Hollywood
she'd have to be
content with a stage job-in the chorus, And at that Eleanor struck!
She picketed a film studio-as you see in this picture--dressed in shorts and sweater and with a no- tice board proclaiming her de mands,
And now, you film struck folk please don't all rush together! She got a job
you'll see her in "I'm From Missouri.”
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PAY FOR EVACUATION
CENSUS
People who carry out the evacua- tion census in Monmouthshire will be paid for their work. This was agreed to ia principle by Monmouth- shire Urban District Councils' · As- sociation. It was stated that the Government had notified. Ebbw Vale Council that the scheme was volun- tary,
“TEACH US ANTI-FASCISM””
TELLS TOUGH MINERS "DON'T GOSSIP"
Three thousand hard-bitten miners were told "not to be a lot of gossips" by their managing direc- tor the other day.
And he got up from a sick bed, travelled thirty miles by car, to do it.
Because the men, it is alleged, talked so much about women, beer and football pools, the daily out- put of coal suffered, so the management decided to serve notice. It was also intimated that the pit might be closed.
Conducting negotiations from his is capable of even greater speeds bed in Leeds Infirmary, where a than were reached in Utah last fortnight ago he underwent a seri--year, Captain Eyston said he is ous operation, Mr. Hunter explain- planning the new car to meet all ed a "thirty-point code of con- contingencies. It would probably be duct" to the men which asked of an entirely new design. them to lean off their picks and get on with their work.
Finally he insisted on leaving the infirmary to address the' miners as "man to man.” Although hundreds may be sacked there were cheers when he stepped on to the platform to speak.
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NUFFIELD COLLEGE HEAD HONOURED
The Mexican Government, British United Press reports from Geneva, has awarded its highest decoration, the Order of the Aztec Eagle, to
He told them they wasted too Mr. Harold Butler, Warden of Nuf- much time talking. For more than field College, Oxford,
an hour he spoke to them, until
exhausted by the strain.
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SIR T. BEECHAM AGAIN
"The ruling powers in this country are Philistine, savage, barbarous, uncultured and ignorant,”. Sir Thomas Beecham told members. of
430,000 MILES CLAIMED FOR U.S.
* Lincoln - Ellsworth, the Ameri- can ́polar_explorer, announced at Hobart, Tasmania, that he is claiming 430,000 square miles of the Antarctic for the United States,
The area is known as Princess Elizabeth Land, says British Unit-` ed Press. •
Ellsworth and Sir Hubert Wil- kins, the Australian explorer, ar rived at Hobart in the research ship Wyatt Earp, since purchased by the Australlan Government.
Sir Hubert Wilkins said, the country claimed was snow-cover- ed, but might some day be found to be as rich in minerals, and oil as the United States.
the Glasgow Centre of the Incor- porated Society of Musicians.
"Your only chance in this country is to make your profession strong, and to rely upon yourselves," he continued. “You will get no help from the State.
A sixth form boy, giving his "We are 200 years Lehind the 'views on school training for cititmes. There is not one operatic zenship at the final session of the institution that can run all the year -Association of Education in Citi- round,”
zenship's Conference, at Morley
College, Westminster Bridge-road, he had decided to let the British Sir Thomas declared in 1938 that S.E. said:
"We must be trained to drive out public "go to the cevil” in a musical such things as Fascism and bar acnse, it he still continues us an
uplifter, reformer and barism.
prophet.
We should aim at an
ideal community of all nations a EYSTON-FASTER? community where black can live
with white, and white with yellow, Captain George Eyston, holder and in which class differences can of be wiped out."
logie and enable
f the land speed record of 307.6 m.ph., is planning a new car with
Schools should Impart t a sense of which to defend his title of Fastest think Man on Earth. Although Thun-
derbolt-his record-breaking car
clearly.
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Mr. Bulter was Director of the International Labour Office from
1932 until last year.
INQUIRY INTO. POLICE CLUB AFFAIRS
St. David's Day was celebrated in most Welsh schools with plays, singing and dancing. Photo shows some Cardiff kiddies with their Welsh hats, brought out for the occasion,
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HYMNS BROADCAST
TO STREET
Hymns sung at 'the
by
consecration
service at a Walsall (Staffs) church were broadcast to people in the Auditors have been investigating street. amplifiers is the belfry. the books of Bath City Police Athle- The church, built at a cost of $14,- _tic Club___The Chief Constable (Mr. 000 provided by the will of a former H. P. Hind) acked for the investi- Walsall vicar, the Rev. J. F. Laing, gation and the Watch Committee replaces what was the smallest consented.
church in Walsall,
St. David's Day was World At the Glamorgan the day was spent in cele of Wales. Most of the tume of Wales. Photo shows “ dressed in traditional Walsh, dre the celebrations is
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