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THE COTTON SLUMP.
LANCASHIRE THE WORST SUFFERER.
BUT ALL COUNTRIES
BADLY HIT, :
Last month 43.9 per cent of the cotton spinning And weaving operatives of Lancashire and the adjoining counties aged 13 and
COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATION.
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE SHOOTS HIMSELF,
BUT PARALYSING TO THE £1,200,000 FOR HIS WIFE
APPETITE
NEW DRINK 'WANTED,
AFTER DIVORCE.
Mr. Harry S. Black, aged sixty- seven, the multi-millionaire bond of the United States Realty and Im- provement Corporation, which owns a number at leading American An explanation of the "wide po- hotels, including the Hotel Plaza Pularity" of the cocktail, and an and the Savoy Plaza, Hotel, New York, died last month at his coun- attack upon its reputation as an try home, Lloyd Harbour, Long over were on the unemployed re-appetite, creator, was give by Dr. Island, after having been found in gister. This is the figure arrived. Vernon, investigator for bed with a bullet wound in his at by the Cotton Trade Statistical the Industrial Health Researched, while his hand clutched a revolver containing two spent car- Bureau, and, while it is based on Board last month,
tridges.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd. Ministry of Labour's percentage
(Incorporated under the Companies Ordinaçes of Hong Kong.
PRINCES BUILDING, ICE HOUSE STREET.
The.
a rather smaller total than the Giving evidence before the Licens-
ing Commission, he said: of the whole industry (4.3 other first come together, and the "I think people are shy when June 23), the difference between the two is light. The industry has cocktail causes them to liven up, returned the huge figure of over 40 become less shy, and start con-
versation. per cent of unemployment for
The highly alcoholic June.
would do more harm than good." It would pararather than stimulate the appetite.
The Bureau estimates that in recent weeks British yarn produc tion has fallen to between 50 and 60 per cent of full-time output, The slump is not, of course, con- fined to Lancashire, and the Bureau gives the following summary of the position in other cotton manufae turing countries:—"
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The police at first thought he had been the victim of foul play, but belies that the wound had been later investigations caused them to: self-inflicted.
Mr. Black is reported to have lost heavily on the stock market.
At eight o'clock that morning Mr. Black's negro valat heard him 207- ing about in his bedroom, and in He suggested that spirits should accordance with his usual custom be issued in two concentrations, tha valet turned on the wireless in differently taxed. The heavier taxan adjoining room.
concentration- The wircles was still on when, 'at 10.30, the valet went to the bedroom and found Mr. Black lying uncan- scions'in bed. Nobody had heard
the stronger
would be objected to only by these who drank their spirits neat, and for them nobody need feel any sympathy whatever.
the shots fired.
Last October Mr. Black was found unconscious, with his head under water in a bath tub at the Hotel Plaza.
British Oficer's Son,
The dead millionaire, who 978 born at Coburg, Ontario, way 3 son of Major Thomas Black, an officer He was of the British Army. educated in Canada, and after working me a commercial traveller "In view of the fact that albecame interested in banking. cohol does badly what it sets out to do," he said, "that it is not a true stimulant, and that the euphoria it brings is not exempt from dis agreeable and injurious reaction, I continue to believe in the even- tual concoction of some preferable.
United States: Only 21 per cent of the cotton milla reporting to the
A Substitute.
found employment for the whole. Viscount D'Abernon, who mas of their operatives in April; 79 chairman of the Liquor Control per cent worked with reduced staff. Board during the war, giving Japan: The Indian tariff and evidence, said that a vass fortune the consequence of the return to and the gratitude of humanity the gold standard adversely affect-awaited the discoverer of a drink ed Japanese trade during "April, which had all the good qualities May and June, and the Japan but none of the bad qualities of Spinners Association decided to alcohol. increase the curtailment of output to 27.2 per cent of capacity.
Belgium and France: Although the slackening of activity has not been so serious in Belgium and France as elsewhere in Europe, in both countries unemployment has recently increased.
Germany: In Germany unem-substitute." ployment is now as severe as in the early months of 1929, when the German economic crisis was most acute. The
May percentage of German cotton trade union 'mem- bers who were wholly unemployed was 11.4, and the percentage. on short time 38.9.
Italy: Of 209,900 operatives em ployed in the Italian cotton in dustry 89,440 worked short time in the week ended May 3,
Austria: In Austria yara pro- duction declined to 1.7 per cent of full-time output in April.
Poland: There has been a slight improvement in the Polish cotton industry, but in April 73 per cent of the operatives were still work-
ing only four days or less in the
week.
Switzerland: In Switzterland the numbor seeking employment in the cotton trade at the end of May Was greater than at the end of April, 1930, or May, 1929.
The Outlook.
The Bureau's summary of "the prospects is not encouraging. It
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("Euphoria" is defined in the Century Dictionary as the state of feeling well.”]
The new beverage would have to bc something attractive to the palate and would have to appeal to the drinkor more than liquor did at present.
The Bad Houses.
Afterwards be became associated
with Mr. George A. Fuller, head of one of the largest American con struction companies, and married his daughter.
When they were divorced in 1905- Mr. Black gave
to his wife £1,300,000, which represented £500,000 she had inherited from her and bad added to it by investiment. father, plus the amount her hus
In 1922 Mr. Black married Isabelle May, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Henry May, of Washing- ton. She is now touring Ireland.
The dead millionaire, was promi- nently identified with a number of inancial institutions and was a director of the National City Bank.
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A WOMAN'S FIGHT FÒR
LIFE.
VANISHES INTO TORRENT
AETER" ATTACK,” The reduction of cotton trade un- employment in the United King-
Two women who had stopped to dom and the principal foreign in- take photographs in the forest on dustries awaits increased confid the edge of the Victoria Falls, on ence in the present level of prices, the Zambesi River, recently, were The presen; depression differs in attacked by a native, and a denma
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character from the slump of 1920-followed in which one of the women10 LET, on Lease. SHOP in the
21. and the world-wide fall of
prices and slackening of industri-and the assailant fell to his death al activity makes the recovery of in the famous Silent Pool. any particular industry more un- The two women were Mrs. Una certain. There is some evidence Kirby, of Pretoria, and her friend, that the depression is approaching Miss Muriel Allison, of Johannes- ity limit, but some time must burg. elapse before business improve- ment is realised.
The detailed reports on cotton trade activity in other countries support this brief summary. The decline in world-purchasing power continues to affect the demand for cotton piece goods in most mar kets," and exports generally have declined.
BABY BEETLES TO ORDER.
# GIRLS" OR "BOYS” AS
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According to a Reuter message from Livingstone, a native, went is a blazer and speaking perfect English. attacked Mrs. Kirby and threw her to the ground at the
brink of the river.
Miss Allison ran for help, and found a policeman, with whom she returned to the aid of her friend, but on reaching the spot they saw no sign either of Mrs. Kirby or the native.
bira. Kirby's hat, was lying close to the edge of the deep, gorge. could only be assumed that the woman had either slipped or been pushed into the depths below,
Police guards were subsequently stationed at either end of the bridge over Victoria Falls with orders to question every native. attempting to cross
By controlling their food supplies, a young Australian scientist has been able to increase at will the proportion of males or females among "baby" beetles,
Soon afterwards a native answer- Dr. F. G. Holdaway, in a coming the description of the wanted. munication to Nature, says the con- man, and wearing a shirt slained clusion he has reached, as a result with blood approached one of the of studies on the flour beetle, is guards, but on being challenged he that the nutritional state may fled. affect the ultimate sex expression in"inserts. He is shortly publish ing his evidence at length.
Under controlled conditions of temperature, humidity, light and nutrition of the parents, he says, this ratio of males to females has heen altered by starvation, de
With one day's starvation there is an increase in the preponderance of males, while with two and three "days" starvation the number of males decreases, and there is a 2Borderance of females
To a Press representative, Dr. Holdaway emphasised that this sex control was only possible in the larval stage of the insect, which lould be likened in human beings to the pre-natal period, (Continued at foot of next column.)
Attempting to descend the steep. slope down to the Silent Pool, he slipped and fell 200 feet.
The constable obtained ropes and assistance, and reached the native, who was still breathing. He was bauled up and taken to Livingstone Hospital, but died on the way.
At present. Dr. Holdaway is on holiday from the University of Toulouse
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