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"Charlie Chan In Honolulu” QUEEN'ŞI, ...,
"The Marcus Show”
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"The Shining Hour".
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"Legend Of Meng Keung"
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CINEMA & GENERAL
MARLENE DIETRICH
GIVES UP HER GEMS
NEW YORK, Juna 14—When film star Marlene Dietrich ar rived at New York_pier to-day, with husband and adopted daughter, and boarded the Normandie to sail for Europę, she found her entire Inggage-thirty four trunks, and two baga-on the deck, guarded by revenue officials.
They were holding the luggage as “bostage"-antil Marlene paid £56,800, income tax they said was owing. Marlene argued; so did the Re- venue officials. Growds rilled around.
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The cncials couldn't make up: their minds whether to allow the luggage to sail or not. To the great delight of the rubberneckers, perspiring porters heaved it from boat to pier. pler to boat, each time-the-omcials changed-their
minde
Fed Up
COMING EVENTS
To-day-Tides: High 8.97 ani, and 18.18 pin. Low -1,11 am, and 8.35
Sunrise 5.41. a.m. Bunsel 7.11 pm. HK Mines Ltd. An. Mig. 11 am.
Crown Land Sales (D/O South)....11-
Mxd. Swimming 6.30 p.m. inton 1.30 p.m.
1.
Marlene, fed up, said she didn't YMCA. "Keep Fu Class 10 am.
Cheers Club Darts Ping-pong and -care-if-she had to call-without-her
Billards.
| thirty-six pieces.
"You can't," yelled the rubber-10.30 neckers, "remember, you're the world's best-dressed woman!”
p.
"I don't understand this at all." walled Marlene. "I'm an Ameri- can citizen from last week) and I don't owe any income tax
In 1936 and 1937 I paid £21,000 each year. I didn't work in 1938. (80,I can't imagine why they are
holding my things."
Revenue amefais explained that You Can't Chest An Honest in 1938 and 1937 Marlene was a
Man"
resident allen, Hlable to pay tax on income from any source. And she The Adventures Of Robin made a picture in England. It was
Food"
for that they wanted £56.800.
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Angrier and Angrier Marlene grew angrier and angrier and when the tax officials would not allow her husband to Join ner on board she raved, “Am I a criminal?"
All this took time, and already the French line had held the Normandie for an hour and forty minutes. Something had to be
done.
Solution No 347 ACROSS 1. Liver. 5, Yacht. 8, Unite. 9. Germs, 10, Adult. 11, Error 14,
Ties, 17, Blue. 19, Manager. 2. Game. 21, Arum. 22 Abounds, 23, Bear, 25, Seal. 28. Trace. 31, Route, 32, Basin, 33,
So once more the thirty-six Shrub, 34, Theft. 35, Salon.
pieces of luggage were heaved DOWN: 1, Light. 2, Verge. 3. aboard and there and then, on the Rúse. 4. Pler, 5, Year, 6, Cruel. 7. deck, Marlene unpacked emeralds Tithe. 12, Rancour. 13, Organic. 15, and diamonds worth £20,000. İnane. 16. Smear, 17, Brass. 18, handed them over “on account.” Uvula., 23, Burst, 24, ́Amuse, 26, This time the luggage stayed Easel 27, Linen. 23, Test. 29. Acre, aboard and the Normandle salled. 30, Ebbx,
CROSSWORD
NO. 348
ACROSS
1 Least
quantity (7)
5 Vehicle (5).
8 Turn over
9 Spurts (5)
10. Definite
article (3)
12 Infre-
quently (8)
15 Elaborate
(5)
16 Beginning
> (8)
17 Except (4)
19 Expert-
enced (4)
20 Cunning. (6)
22 Head-dress
(6)
23' Indi-
vidual (8)
28 Number (3)
23 · Upraise (5).
27 Burst (7) 30 Topic
31 Lair (7)
DOWN iAssess
ments. (5)
Z New (5)
3. Looking
glass (8)
20
14 X 15
4 Encounter (4)
5 Up-to-date
(0)
# Levelled
walk (7)
7 Esteem (7) 11 Lifts up. (8).
13 Female
deer (3)
14 Tiny (6)
SOLUTION TO-MORROW
DEPLORABLE CASE
BRITAIN AWAITING REPLY TO PROTEST ON MR. TINKLER'S DEATH
~ LONDON," June (28
(Reuter)
In the House of Commons. yes-
terday Mr. R.A. Butler, Under- [Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that urgent instructions bad been sent to Bir Robert
Craigie,
British Ambassador in Tokyo, to press for an early reply to the British protest in regard to the death of Mr. R.M. Tinkler in Shanghai,
"Mr. Noel Baker | (Lab); asked whether the Government would. consider effective measures to stop, Japanese - trade in British territory, but: Mr. Butler coun- selled awaiting a reply in this particular case.”
He said that the whole facta In this deplorable case had been presented to the Japanese Gov- Bernrment
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