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US. PLAN TO
HELP POOR FAMILIES
Surplus Foodstuffs To Be Distributed
NEW YORK, April 19 (Reu- ter)-A plan to distribute sur- plus foodstuffs among famlites with low incomes will be tried
In experimentally
the future, announced Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agricul- ture,
near
A new system of food stamps will be used and Rochester, New York, has been chosen as the first of the six towns in which the scheme will be tried over a period of from two to four months.
HOSPITAL
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Mr. and Mrs. D. Smith photographed at the Second Extra Race meeting held at Happy Valley. (Photo by Lelea).
NEWSETTES
Mr. Lielson, a
mire-owner
SOCIAL
1 MILLION CHILDREN MORE IN GERMANY
BERLIN, April 19 (T/Ocean)— It is reported that 1552,000 legiti- inate children have been born in Germany in five years from 1934 to 1938 over and above the total of birth compared with 1933," ac- cording to the Reich Statistics! Bureau.
It is declared further that the standstill of the birth rate in 1937 Was only temporary, since the number of legitimate births in 1938 had again shown an increase. of 70,000 over the 1837 figure for the Reich territory.
The total increast for the afore- mentioned Ave years consists of 456,000 3rst children, 378,000 second children, 187.000 third children. 85,000 fourth children and 61,000 fifth children and others.
The Increase In the births of frst children is not due only to
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BRIDEGROOM
the marriage concluded since 1933. DESIGNS GIFT
The Messageries Maritimes liner it is declared, but 98,000 children Arrived Felix Roussel was ordered to re-have been born to couples married
In the Philippines, has nere in the 3.5. President Taft to turn to Europe immediately afer before that date, who had so far TO BRIDE
at the
-Complaint that he had been re-make an inspection of the local decking at Singapore, forcing the remained without a child. primanded in front of the patients, omice.
passengers to disembark
The position is similar with re- cleaners and kitchen maids was
British port and make new steamgard to the increase in the births made by the chler male nurse of
ship connections.
Mr. J. Ramirez, president of the the Kent County Hospital, Fam-Central Luzon Milling Co., is in borough, at the public inquiry into Hongkong on a pleasure trip. He the hospital's administration re-
a accompanied by Mr. H: Ramirez, cently.
The inquiry, which was conducted a director of the same firm.
st, the hospital by Mr. W. J. T. Turton and Dr. T. S. McIntosh, was ordered by the Ministry of Health following an application by the Kent County Council for consent to dismiss the matron, Miss E Brownlow.
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A quiet wedding took place at 'Methodist Church on Chiswick April 6 of Miss Kathleen Crock. elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy H. Crook, formerly of Hongkong seal, will receivé the honorary and now of Shanghai, to Mr. John degree of LL. D. from St. Andrew's Saxton. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry University at the
Graduation Saxton, of Old Sawley, Notts. ceremony in June:
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FLAT LIFE BAD FOR CHILDREN
A recent bridegoom, Mr. John de Laszlo, designed the interior attings of the dressing case which. was his wedding gift to his fiancee, Miss Peggy Cruise. He is the son of the late Mr. Philip de Laszlo, the portrait painter.
The dressing case is of pigskin with a handpainted eggshell design on, silver fittings Miss Cruise's gifts to the bridegroom are a gold fountain pen, a pigskin suitcase and a flat-topped writing desk for
According to
The worst home for a child is his study. messages from
fat. and the best a working ·
Miss Cruise wore a wedding gown Mr. M. Domingo. secretary-London, a daughter, was born to
embroidered round the neckline Ernest Poynter, who is in charge treasurer of the Rizal Investment Group Captain and Mrs. H. M. K. class home.
with shamrocks, tulips and 'orange of the hospital's male
This was the view expressed by Craneswater" nursing Co. of Manila, is a visitor to Hong-Brown, at staff, said: "The matton has on
jkong. He arrived In the 3 Southsea, on April 10. Group Cap-Miss Browne-Smith, former H. M. blossom. Tulips are the national several occasions missed no oppor-President Taft.
con-emblem of Hungary, which is the tain Brown is Commanding Officer inspector of schools, at a
country of origin, tunity of belittling my position. We
o the Royal Air Force in Hong-ference held at Ealing, W., recently bridegroom's kong.
by the local branch of the National though he himself is a British Union of Teachers.
are treated as less than probation. Mr. H. Hope, general manager or
ers. No opportunity is missed of making our position as uncomfor- table as possible."
Mr. Geoffrey Hutchinson, re- presenting Miss Brownlow: You never told the matron you wer dissatisfied?-No.
the Insular Lumber Co," of the Philippines, 13 proceeding to America in the 8.8. President Taft. accompanied by his wife.
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subject.
WEDDING AT REGISTRY
The marriage of Mr. Yee Wong.
a public servant of the Kwang-
Flat life, said Miss Browne- Imperial Airways announce that their Summer time-table of de-Smith, led to a great deal of partures from Hongkong will be quarrelling and meant that the at 6 a.m. instead of at 7 a.m. child had no real rest. The best Travelling in the s.s. "President local standard time, but this will home was a working-class home- Taft on a business trip is Mr. L. not affect the time of closing the a little house with a little garden.
The middle-class home OVERBEARING ATTITUDE
was Ash bolt, director of the Australian mails the previous evening. Ar- Poynter added that to inake a complaint to the matron was in-advertising agency of A. Smyth and rival times will remain unchanged nearly always bad because the variably an Invitation for further Sons, who is booked for Yokohama
Friends will be glad to know attended, wore reprisals."
Mr. W. Baxter, supervisor of that a cable has been received of clothes, was overfed and given complaints were trivial,” he said boilers and hulls for the Manila from Singapore stating that Miss far too many pleasures In rich T. J. "Gould. The witnesses were
of Customs, 1s visiting Harmony Hancock, who recently homes the children were left to Hongkong on I short business contracted typhoid fever, has re- competent but ignorant nurses. * visit. He arrived in the s.s. Prest-covered and is sailing with her parents for England by the B.S. Įdent Taft.
Sibalak on April 21.
Replying to a suggestion that his
that they were serious "on hospital etiquette."
Bureau
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Harry Nunn, another male nurse, said that on one occasion the matron shouted at him across the
The Sportsmen's National Service ward in front of a dying man and the visitors at his bedside because rally, organised under the auspices he bad not made the "turn down" of the British Sports and Games
of a bed ten inches from the top.
Miss Smythe, stan nurse, sald that the matron had threatened to write to the General Nursing Coun-
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Miss Lydia Yun Fung-moo took tung Provincial Government," and place at the Registry. Supreme Court, yesterday before the De- puty Registrar of Marriages, Mr.
Messrs. Ping-K. Chan and K. L Che
Mr.
ISOLATED.. VILLAGES
ANNOUNCEMENTS The
forthcoming Miss Browne-Emith said that
following when London nursery school marriages are announced: chlidren
evacuated during
Vincent Hubert Charles Mr. Maurice L. Jacks, director the crisis they went to isolated Jarrett, assistant editor of the "Bouth China Morning Post," and of training at Oxford University, villages. It was the frst time Association, will be held at the the Arthur Balt Empire Stadium. Wembley.
memorial many of them had been in houses Miss Ethel Ruth Wennech Smeby, on gymnasium at Taunton, said that with a garden, and the teachers of No. 23 Peak Mansions;
Francis modern physical training educated had
Capt.
James Wylle, the greatest difficulty f the body, increased alertness, getting them home again.
R. N.. of No. 2 Thorpe Manor, and Miss Pamela ell and get them to withhold her that Mr. Wen Sal-tal, of Gonville character.
News from Cambridge indicates improved the mind and developed
There is a tendency to be too May. Road. nursing certificate for a year if
highbrow with music and literature Dorothy Barrow, of No. la Port- Gatus College,. she persisted in her resolve to leave and
for school children, said Mr. H. V.man Mansions, London, W. 1. en Mr. Paul Bennett, V.C., the West R Ball, the hospital. When she confronted University, has been elected to the
H. M. Tuspector of route to the Colony by the s. s.
Ranch!: the matron before the Medical Sheepshanks Exhibition for pro- London magistrate, presented & Schools.
Mr. Harold Wison Brown, ficiency in astronomy, value 239. certificate and cheque, on behalf "What is worth our study." he aupt., Miss Brownlow denied this.
of the Society for the Protection said, "is what literature and engineer, youngest son of Mr. and Dr. John Fereday Hackwood, Medical Supt of the hospital, sald in response to an appeal by the of Life from Fire, to Mr. Eric muse children prefer. I think the Mrs. W. J. Brown, of the China that about a month after Miss Duke of Gloucester, president of George Roberts, or Brackenbury B. B. C. has not quite grasped the Light and Power Co., Ltd., and Una Mitchell, Brownlow took over her duties as St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the road. Hammersmith, who tried to problem from our point, of view. Miss. Constance matron, in 1936, she submitted a City of London Corporation is to save an elderly woman when her The place of the wireless is not daughter of the late Capt. and Mrs. R. F. Mitchell, of No. 3 Austin report to the Governor making be asked to grant £50,000 spread clothing caught alight.
to replace the teachers voice.".
Avenue several complaints. She said that over 10 years. the ward sisters were overworked and that there
"Jack
Sreds
discipline in the staff and lack of
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MOST MEN!
When Dr. Edith Bummerskill,
Estate of £76,988 (p. 271,202) Mr. E. Navao, president and was left by Mr. John Edward of general manager of the rubber Cowen, of Riding Mill, Northum
The Ontario Jockey Club have SO home life refinement." She was products firm in the Philippines berland, chairman of the New-announced that the King and bearing his name, and Mrs. Navac. castle and Gateshead Gas Co.: Queen have accepted an invitation given additional staz.
Two months later" said Dr. have arrived in the Colony on
of Smith. Patterson and Co. Ltd., to watch the running of the King's Hackwood, "It came to my notice business trip combined with plea-ironfounders, and of the Taylor Plate. Canada's major Turf event, Socialist M.P. for Fulham West, which opens the borseracing asked the Premier in the House that there was considerable disure.
Stoker Co.; a director of other content among Hie staff. The senior
companies and a former High season, at Woodbine Park, Toronto, of Commons if he would consider Passing through Hongkong in the Sheriff of Northumberland.
on May 22, The King's Plate, introducing legislation to compel staff complained of the matron's;
z wage-carrier to reveal his total which was first run in 1880, is over over-bearing attitude, and the 8.5. President Taft yesterday from
earnings to his wife in cases of a mile and a furlong. Junför staff that their privileges Manila was Mr. H. Colson, a United
hardship. Mr. Chamberlain, amid- The recent difficult situation
laughter, replied: "I should be very were being interfered with as pun- States department store executive.
Dr. Chow Liang-chuan, who was sorry to interfere with these beer mhment. There were threats of re-who is on a pleasure trip in the confronting pig dealers in Shang- forced to Orient. Be s On his way to hal, who have
formerly
with connected
the domestic matters." signations on a large scale."
transport their live pigs from
Health Department of the Shang- Hsingkong.north Kiangsu, by Mr. J. Jackson, a retired Civil Japanese steamers and also to pay al Municipal Council has joined Servant of Leeds, who is over 50 a tax of $2 per pig, was clarified the medical staff of the National years old and who has cycled more recently when it was announced Leprosarium of Shanghai to all than 10,000 miles in Europe in ave that the Shanghai Cattle Market, the post left vacant by Dr. Charles mented his endowment of the Vere during which he visited Germany, Hongkew. Harmsworth Professorship of a Denmark and France. perial and Naval History by a gift
ROTHERMERE'S GIFT CAMBRIDGE
lecount Rothermere has aug.
of securities producing an income
Shanghai.
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Mr. W. Thorne (Boc.; Plaistow); May I ask the Prime Minister If his good lady knows the income that he gets? (Laughter).
"A TYPICAL WIFE" Shanghal for medical servofe in the interior, Dr. B. C. Wu of, Nan-
When it was stated at South- chang is now the acting Physician-western, Police-court that In-Charge.
busband was in arrears on main- tenance order, the magistrate.
a.
The following passengers salled Sentence of two months hard on the 8.8. Mingang which left of £140 a year. The income derived labour was imposed on 80 Yuen, Hongkong yesterday: For Shang-
That a total of $357,000 had been Mr. Claud Mullins, asked the wife from his original benefaction was unemployed, by Mr. T. J. Houston hal-Mr. and Mrs. J. Nuller, Mr. C. that amount less than the normal at the Central Court yesterday for M. Alport, Mr. T. D. W. Bannister received from the sale of lottery what she wanted him to do about
the theft of a quantity of barbed Mr. and Mrs. Addington and two tickets for the third and fourth it.
The Wife: Be drastic. Put him in professorial stipena of £1,200..
children,
Mr. Carrington, Mrs drawings was revealed in the wire from the new Jubilee, Fort.
Boason and child, Mr. Lee Tain-fa, statement of accounts recently prison, A
Mr. Mullins: If I do that he Lady, Alington, of Portland- Mr. and Mrs. R. Pls, Mr. C. Adam. Issued by the Refugee Lottery
Of this amount will lose his job, and there won't place, W, and "Lyburn Park near Mrs. V. M. Van Sender: Cpl R. V. Association. Balisbury,
widow of the first Lord Bishop, Cpl. Pereira, Pto. W. P. $183,600 was distributed to the be a chance of getting any money The following chairmen of tpos Alington, and daughter of the Dunn. Pte. G. Gullard, Pte. G. holders of winning tickets $75,400 from him Don't you want any caminations have been appointed: late Henry Blundell Lelgh, of Evans, For Swatow Mr. Wallace was used to defray administrative money? Prof. E. H. Minns, Pembroke College Sandhills, Liverpool, and Luton For Chefoo-Mra King and expenses, and $110,100 way allocat Archaeological and Anthropologi-Hoo, Beds left £108,480 (np. Misses King. For Tientsin-Mrs. ed by the distribution committee
charitable organiza DIEM. W. Tillyard Jesus £101,527). She gave £1,000 to ber L. G. Richards, Mr. Lindsay and to various
tiona Mr. K. I, Bong. ntece, the Counters De La WRIT College English, Part 2.
The Faculty Board of Classics has raade grants of £50 each from the Craven Fund to J. D. 8. Pendlebury, of Pembroke College, and J. B. B. Stewart, of Trinity Hall, M
The Wife: Yes!
Mr. Mullins: You are a typical wife. You want a man to go to prison and have his money as well
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