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"The SOPHOMORE"
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UNEMPLOYMENT ÎN FREEDOM OF CITY
THE UNITED STATES.
PROSPECTS OF THE. WINTER.
HOOVER'S OPTIMISM.
When winter begins the United States will be afflicted with econo- mie problema similar to those
CEREMONY.
DOMINIONS PREMIERS
HONOURED.
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE NEARING END.
REFUSED TO SEE
DOCTOR.
WOMAN'S FAITH IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
CORONER'S REGRET.
Lively argument between a doctor ind u barrister was heard at Sun- sury at an inquest on a woman who
troubling Europe, including busi-AGREE ON SINGAPORE, lied from tuberculosis at the Sun-
odds among political organisation
bettors former and some the
latter, be- the hoping
the ro dread they
even
Pause
bury Christian Scientists' Home.
Dr. Stuart Gordon said that had. he been called in five weeks earlier he could have eradicated the disease. Mr. Kingsbury, barrister, appear- ng for the relatives: "And you
shock." would have probably killed her from
Miss Joan
ness depression and its associated
London, Nov. 4. evils, especially unemployment, New York is worried by the in-
With all traditional ceremony, crease in the jobless, even amidst characteristically shocking revelathe Honorary Freedom of the tions of Tammany dishonesty, in-City of London was presented volving a large part of the local in the Guildhall to-day to the
Dr. Gordon: "We do not kill judiciary. One judge has led or Canadian. Australian and New been murdered, with the betting Zealand Prime Ministers, Messrs.
members of his R. B. Bennett, J. H. Scullin and people from shock. I have specialis- d in the study of tuberculosis, and favouring A. Forbes.
and the woman received medical The Guildhall was filled with attention she would have been Cabinet Ministers, representatives, saved"
The
was woman velations if he should be found of the old City Livery Companies. Such scandals are falling to fas and others officially associated Elizabeth Blackstock (45), an nc- wountant employed by the Christian cinate our ton accustomed minds with London civil life,
The beads of the delegations to Science "Monitor".
Looked 11. and, the baseball season being
we are thinkinghe Imperial Conference made fur. virtually over.
She was a rcnfirmed Christian principally about the hard times. ther progress to-day with the final Detroit, the home town of Ferd, consideration of the constitutional is turning away the flooding tide of aspects of inter-Imperial relations.Seientist, her brother told the the jobless, after a meal and a They also approved the reports of torquer, and went into the home at e last saw her there she was look- night's lodging. The motor-car the various committees, including Sunbury at her own request. When
ing ill. city's own preferred list of idle those on the Singapore base, workmen includes eighty thousand, Wargraves and oë arbitration and for a third of whom the officials disarmament.
Witness: "No; she was a strong Temise carly employment at the
eliever in Christian Science and rate of a thousand a week. Mean-
In regard to the last mentioned not have on." while they are trustling to per
The matron of the home, Mrs. n foreclosure on the multitude cine,delendes generally favour trad instalment-purchased home proving the machinery for the The Governor of New York State. Peaceful settlement of all forms of Rachel Till, said Miss Blackstocks richest in the Union, has nternational disputes. The prins admitted in Jens suffering with tronger, but began to the strength the piple anderlying the general getrouble in her right hip. She got:! the anggested
militia armouries as shelters for is approved. with reservations' ap- the homeless, and has asked lying to disputes prior to the ae
"Would Have Been Saved." potential employers to create work cession of that instrument, to dis- through anticipatory production.putes in which the parties have
The Coroner: Did you call in a This immediately following the agreed on the desirability of the publication of Mr. Ford's book ponceful settlement, and to is doctor when you found she was get ofing worse?No, we are not allow- working putes between members advising a decrease in
of led to. hours and an increase in wages the and a similar demand from the nations. president of the American Federa- tion of Labour, seems to indicate in national leaders' minds z trend new to economics.
0?
Warning to Buyers.
f
Arbitration.
British Commonwealth
On
The Coroner: "Did you suggest a doctor?"
ive weeks prior to her death.
she
As a trained nurse did you not The delegates also agreed that realise the necessity of calling in a She (the Matron) the draft disarmament convention doctor?-Miss Blackstock did not offers a very excellent basis for wish to see one. progress, and that everything pox-did not know Miss Blackstock had sible should be done to call an tuberculosis until the very last.
Dr. Gorden said he found exten actual Disarmament Conference as
The Dominionsive tubercular disease in the right President Hoover, in an addreas soon as possible.
are also generally hip, the result of a fall. Had she to the nation's bankers in conven- delegates tion at Cleveland, admits the lagdeed on the desirability of the received medical attention economid distress, but, in a para-proposed amendments dox almost as characteristically League Convenant to harmonise it American, warns the nation's with the Kellogg Paet. buyers, wholesale against curtailment of their ex- speech was penditure. As his
The Civil Aviation Committee u being delivered the police outside were fighting riotous Reds with the Conference to-day reviewed progress in Imperial air communi clubs, and the first smoke screensations with heavier than air craft in police history were being pro-since the last Conference and was dured by mixing heavy, all with impressed with the commercial
advantages Tetro) In-motor-cycle tanks. up- and political pily ignorant of this violent veloping and speeding them piss Blackstock was treated at the episode, the President emphasised still further.
and retail,
Civil Aviation.
to the would have been saved.
Recording a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, the Coroner said no one at "the Home was to blame. Christian Scientista had a perfect right to their own think Christian Science could cure: religious convictions, but he did not consumption. It was a pity a duc-] tor had not been called in.
of
Mr. Kingsbury said the relatives were, perfectly satisfied at the way
Home.
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that the nation's actual resources Hope was expressed that the are not and cannot be impaired. next stage, which will be opening though he warned the bunkers of next year, of the regular service England and South the prospect of a comparatively between
winter, during Afries, would be followed by an unproductive which commodity prices must go extension of the weekly air service Paris. down. Those with memories still between England and India to Geneva vivid of the events preceding and Australia. It was recommended Berlin. accompanying the Wall Street that when the facilities offered are panic accept somewhat sourly his equal, preference should be given ermuliments to the Federal Re-to Empire air tes in the matt serve Board and the banker, mem-of Imperial air mails. bers of his audience generally, but find the balance of the speech in- spiriting.
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The President emphatically dis- the personnel of the existing sented from the suggestion of cer- liaison system should be placed on tain hankers that American stand-a more permanent basis, that an Montevideo.
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the American economic system is administrative and technical air Milan to raise it by accepting the in-officers in the Empire, and that Cophenhagen. fluence of invention and discovery, technical officers should confer for Any recession from the philosophy the purpose of evolving a per- of constant betterment would be-ananent standard of air-worthiness come "a retreat into perpetual within the Empire.
In view of the Inquiry into the unemployment and acceptance of the cesspool of poverty for a large R101 disaster, the committee made part of the people."
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A young Maltese billiard player,|
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