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DIVISIONS.
MOVE TO DISPLACE MR. SCULLIN.
Talk of Australia facing the facts is nonsense as long as the Left Wings of the Federal and State Labour parties continue their political racketeering.
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· MINES ACCIDENTS.
DEMANDS FOR FRESH INQUIRY.
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1931.
Mr. Sutton (Soc, Clayton) in the Commona recently moved: "That this House deplores the heavy loss of life and the large number of non fatal accidents in coal mines, and urges the Government to take every possible measure for the protec
DEAN INGE PEERS INTO THE FUTURE.
UNIVERSE RUNNING DOWN LIKE CLOCK.
MYSTICS VISION. Man's future on this planet
CINEMA NOTES.
LON CHANEY HEARD IN TALKIE.
AN
master of the serous Industed in this dan-' which might extend for a million Lon Chaney's explanation of how ho
Just as neither Mr. Scullin nortion of those Mr. Fonton in Federal Party,
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Mr. Lang of the State not master 18 Party. The young
hopefuls of State Labour are already an- nouncing unauthorised policies, utterly regardless of economic conditions and of the Premier's difficulties. For examples, union T demanded leaders recently thirty-five-hour week.
The refusal of the Loan Council to assist Mr. Lang to borrow has severely increased the difficulty of earrying out his election promises. Yet, unless he carries them cut, there will certainly be a revolt in
of.
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years was in his own hands, and might probably be more brillant than the past, declared Dean Inge in a talk on "Science and Religion" breadcast from London,
THE TRUTH. ABOUT CANCER.
AN AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT.
An authoritative book entitled The Truth About Cancer" has been issued by the British Empire Cancer Campaign (London: John Murray. Price 25. 68.).
The book tries to give a clear answer to questions which aro causing concern.
"To a character actor, talking on the servon is the same thing making up your voice, or in other of words, imitating different voices different characters. When I decided to talk, I was determined to do so in a picture which contained several totally different volcon." This was happened to do "The Unholy Three," which is showing at the Queen's Theatre as his initial talking picture.
Is cancer on the increase? Most a man of a "I wanted to be thousand voices," he continued, "as authorities think there is evidence long as they call me a man of a of an increase in cancer at some thousand faces, but of course there is, sites of the body and a diminution really more to it than that. Sup. at others.
la cancer hereditary? So far as make-up, but always used his same natural voice. You ace, there would is known the hereditary factor, if not be any illusion. That's why in any, "can be dismissed from our all minds without Berloug COTING- the old days on the stage wo practiced different voices. I've been quences." In small companies where I'd double Stan Burning Out.
In two or three parts, with dialects or "The educated
Christian has voices changed. I didn't see any róa- accepted Copernicus, Galileo, and anti why it couldn's be done on the
agreed. Nawton, Darwin, Jeans, and Ed-screen, and Jack Conway, my director, dington; he is prepared to accept Einstein if he could understand him.
have a
"At some alment inconceivably distant date all life on our planot will be extinct" he said, "but we
long
enough lense to try every experiment."
The Church, continued the Dean, had learned ita lesson and light ened the ship by throwing over many antiquated traditions.
He stated that in the last eight and a half years 1,587,830 persons were Injured and 10,400 killed in wer the mines of England, and that the numbers showed a tendency increase. He wondered whether amalgamation of collieries, ration
the introduction alisation, coal cutting machines, and the gan
had ernl speeding up in the mines saything to do with this increase. The number of boya killed and injured was a tragedy. Last year, among boys under 16 years of age 251 per 1,000 were injured or kill ed. England ought to be as human as Germany, which abso- Jutely prohibited the employment of boys under sixteen in mines. He Meanwhile the Federal Parlin-appealed to the Minister of Mines to inquire afresh into the main ment continues to talk with Cabinet divided against itself, and causes of accidents.
Mr. Tinker (Soc, Leigh), second- A split in the Labour Party is de veloping steadily. Mr. Scullin willing, contended that there would be
fewer explosions in mines if fire-the universe returns to face a definite move.
men were State officials and had no ment to displace him and his sup other work to perform. porters in the Cabinet, with a new Prime Minister and lenler from New South Wales The fullure of the Imperial Conference quota schame is being used against him, and he is chargest with having failed in the first object of his
his party.
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vixit to London. The defeat the quota was a severe disappoint- ment, as it was the only means of helping the whent growers.
NEW YORK POLICE BRIBERY.
BLACKMAIL OF GIRLS ALLEGED.
New York, Bee. 3. Forty-six policemen stood in double row in a New York magi
while Chile strates' court to-day Acuna, the "atoul pigeon," identi- fed, for whom he said he hind
to acted in "Iramp-upa" extort money from, women.
Mr. Shinwell's Reply.
Mr. Hacking agreed
that the
number of accidents in the mines was far too high. Something like three persons were killed on every working day while some 500 were injured. He feured that the miners'
familiarity with danger sometimes bred a feeling of con- temptuous indifference as to the riska he ran, and a neglent to take proper precautions.
"According to the newest theory the stars are stoked by the destruc- tion of their subatance; matter is atendily disappearing in radiation; slowly but surely running down like a clock.
"I know no stronger instance of the power of men to shut their even to an unwelcome conclusion. This law ought to have killed the bellef in unending automatic pro- gross but it did not.
"Science to pot unfriendly to religion, though some acientists
undoubtedly are; and theology has learned much, and unlearnt more,
from science.
Equal to Angels, "There are three stages in the Mr. Shinwell (Secretary, Mines spiritual life-faith, knowledge Department)
apologised for his and love. Knowledge, an it paseos absence during part of the debate, into love, unites the knower with having had to attend, he said, "athe known. He who has reached very important conference on an this stage is equal to the angelst aspect of mining which at the pre- "There is nothing unscientific Beat moment is calling for urgent in following the explorers of the high places of the spiritual life, when they tell us what they have found.
attention."
Although, be proeseded, progress had undoubtedly been made in the direction of promoting safety in the mines, the existing position could not be regarded with complacency.
(Hear, hear.)
In 1924 the accident rate was 168.86 per 1,000, and in 1929 it had grown to 181.39. The mortality rate had risen from 98 in 1924 to 1.11 in 1929, and this in spite of the fact that fewer personD were now employed in the Industry. The majority of the accidents
And court to be confronted by the curred through falls of earth no haulage. women they are alleged to blackamiled.
An specific cases were mentioned, he was required to identify the policemen he has named. Tro ui them
Framin were forced to
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in
actor donned several different
For another thing. I've alwaya been rather proud of a sort of mystery built up about my make-ups. I never like to let an audience see my face without some disguise because that's good show-manship. So why should let them know what my natural volces like? It seemed to me that if I could use several voices, I could still keep them guessing. I even manage to play a trick and sing In The Urholy Three-just to show them I could.
"Now that I'm in talkies, I'm muco than a little interested in seeing what can be done with voice added to pan- tomime. It opens up a new field for expressing ideas, and as it goes along I shouldn't wonder but what it will change the type of role I do in good many cases, particularly in the heavily made-up ones, I'd Bke to do couple more of my old pictures over with dialogue to see how much more could be gotten out of the roles, particularly "The Penalty"
"Our Blushing Brides." Turning a modern department store into a nound studio overnight was the task tackled by Harry Beaumont when he filmed "Our Blushing Brides, which will be shown Joan Crawford's new starring vehicle Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.
Much of the action of the plot takes "I know nothing more remark-place in a department store where the able than the unanimity of the three principal players, Miss Craw- mystics, ancient, medineval, and ford, Anita Page and Dorothy Sebas- modern, Protestant, Catholic, and tinn, are employed. Jean works in the even Buddhist or Mohammedan. fashion saloon. Anita is at the par. "They have quite clearly been fume counter and Dorothy works in there'; they testify that which they have seen.
wooliens,
to
Finding it impractical to sheet these scenes in the studio because of the The Saints are convinced that amount of stock and floor space re- not merolyquired de well as enormous construc- their devotions are piritual dumbbell exercises. They tonensis, Beaumont arranged are sure that they came into real "hire" the May Company, one of Los communion with a divine spirit. Angeles largest department
testimony.
store
have causes in connexion with the rate it in unscientific to disregard such institutions, the occupancy to begin
One of the most extraordinary ensen was that of Mary Palmer and Elizabeth Wilson, described in detail by the girls themselves, into whose apartment Acunn, they said, forred his way a few minutes be fore the police arrived.
it cost them, they said, £113, their hard-earned savings, to have these quashed. This instruk a 10 per cent, charge for bail hos, instead of the legal : per cent, and £ion to lawyer, who toki them that it covered the cost. silencing the police.
of
Theatre Ticket Operations,
Before the open bearing started, Mr. Tidor Kregel, who conducted | the inquiry, revealed a new furia of police racketeering. It consisted of the collection of Es'a day from side walk ticket speculators, who, for this payment, were permitted 1x operate unmolested outside theatres. whore the demand for tickets exceeds the supply.
In cases where the bribr WILBU not paid, it was said that the
speculator
nerested and their tickels confiscated, although they were usually released with
were
Is cancer contagious? No coac has been observed in which the disease has been conveyed from ene person to another.
Does cancer develop in tertain houses and localities? There is no satisfactory evidence that it does. As regards diet the book says: "A that can be said is that there is no shred of reliable evidence that consumption of or abstinence from any particular article of diet leads to the occurrence of cancer."
The Main Facts.
Methods of treatment, by sur
both, are Hery or radium, or steadily improving, but at present the only way to reduce the mer- tality considerably is to Induco people to see their doctors at an carly stage if they notice some- thing wrong.
The main facts which the public should bear in mind are given as follows:
Cancer is relentless if ignored. In its early stages very often it is painless.
In its early stages it in a purely local disease,
In its early stages it can very often be treated with complete success.
In its earliest stages competent
medical advice must be sought.
The only reliable measures of cancer known at treatment for present are surgical operation and radiation.
For complete success treatment of cancer by, operation or radia- tion must be extensive and ade- quate.
LORE OF-LOTTERIES.
With a view to reducing of accidents, he decided that the first thing to do was to secure the
Violin and Critic. greatest measure of co-operation in the industry. In this behalf he had
wish our
scientific friends been readily met by both the
were more ready to recognise that Miners' Federation and the Mixing the natural language of devotion Association, and measures of a co-in poetry, not science," concluded "extras" and moved his sound equip had ended, were drawn on
the Dean.
operative kind were now proceed
ing.
He mentioned that in 1928 a sum of £3,028,678 was paid in compen
sation for injuries in mines, which was almost 50 per cent. of the total amount paid in compensation throughout the country. That meant fourpence or fivepence On each ton of cont.
One definite step had been taken
after closing time on Saturday night and ending before opening time Mon- day morning when the store and stock had to be "as was" and the staff ready for the day's business,
To facilitate matters, Beaumont employed the regular store help as ment, lights and camera parapherna lia in as on ns the closing bell "A man who interrupted a violin | rounded on Saturday night. The prin solo by saying 'The fellow is only | cipal players, who had rehearsed their dragging the tail of a dead horse lines and actions in chased their across the entrails of a dead cat,
would be a nuisance.
"So is a man who wants to bring a test tube to a Catholic Eucharist.
the studio, then were ready begin work behind the counters, taking their places side-by-side with the regular salespeople.
"Sarah and Son”
One of filmdem's most popular white
in regard to the provision of more NEW GOLD ON RAND. actors, Phillipe de Lacy, is to be seen efficient Illumination in the pits. Research had found that nystagmus canes were attributable to defective Fighting.
REEF FOUND BY ACCIDENT,
Theatre.
This is Phillipe's third picture for
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tickets, the other prizes and blanks, each with a case to be locked for the night when the day's drawing Bleda
from the Lottery Commissioners' office to the Guildhall with an escort of Life Guards.
And the mob cheered as they the assed by-the drawing of Lottery by Bluecoat boys with up-
turned sleeves was about to begin. and they prepared themselves for It gambling orgy lusting Rome wecks+.
out trial. The tickets not returned to box," "If I had my way," he kap several miles in extent in the serving as a nurse in France during with poor people during the hours i
It was stated that nhout spemlators wore contriinitium meg-
sacketeers
COLONY'S SYMPATHY.
L
at
the war, discovered the baby in IN
sand feet, located the reef, which screen.
being
in width and high grade ore gave every characteristic of Identical with the main reef.
A New Reef. Intensive mining was immediate
"The Vagabond King." Curious fans who have often wondered whether a screen idol ever condescends to become an extra should
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of the At
and
henrd in "Sarah and Son" And this how they gambled: Paramount's powerful
nd- romance-The Lottery offfee keepers, in drama starring Ruth Chatterton. Idition to Belling tickets, offered which is now showing at the Central facilities for "insuring" numbers. It was proposed to deal with the
Johannesburg, Dec. 14.
On the opening day of the tiraw- qualifications of colliery officials, What is believed to be the most Paramount in less than a year's time, ing, for the sum of 8d., the lottery and raise their standard generally important gold discovery for a
Ile was enst in the role of Richard office keeper undertook to pay a As to the inspectorate, he thought generation, meaning a great ex- Arlen as boy in "The Four guinch, or a larger aum for a pro- that instead of adding to their tension of the life of the Rand Gold. Feathers." and was Lilyan Tashman's portionate premium. a given numbers, it was more important fields, ia reliably reported to-day son in "The Marringe Playground" number were drawn blank or 3 to relieve the inspectors of much from the East Rand section of the In "Sarah and Son" he plays the prize on that day. As the draw- work which had no relation to Fields.
part of the eleven-year-old son of Missing proceeded and the numbers Chatterton. safely.
Ever since the Rand was first dis
yet to come out became fewer, the Phillipe is the adopted son of Edyth premiuma rose day by day. The most important matter, how-covered there has been a peculitir de Lacy, an English woman who, ever, was that relating to accidenta
The lottery offices were crowded reef near Boksburg. Countless would prohibit the em said found their way, it was stated, into ployment of boys in mines, certainly thousands of pounds have been spent shell-hole. His mother and father of drawing, and men known
in searching for this lost reef, but had been killed. Mias de Lacy "carrier-pigeons," posted at short the possesion of persons conureted under the age of sixteen. (Socialist
took charge of him and took him to intervals between hitherto unsuccessfully.
particular with the magistrate's court.
cheers.) Hnt there are economie
Five weeks ago prospecting was the United States.
lottery office and the Guildhall, In 1920, when Phillipe was three for
Bort of forming causes operating which cannot be
being conducted underground
human telegraph years old, he made his screen debut in wire, quickly conveyed news He believed it was poa what was a rapidly dying concern. ignored
Geraldine Farrar's "Riddle Woman.” sible to arrange for some form of by C70,000 a year to the police training for the boys, but in this Accidentally one of the workers, After that he has made an unbroken numbers as they were drawn. a lucky insurer who had over-drilled, at two thou-series of appearances before the the sight of he must have the consent of the em
ceiving his money, a group would ployers.
tear off their waistcoats, and The resolution was agreed to.
women their petticoats, to form a the parcel for the pawnbroker, proceeds of which could be pooled to take cat an "insurance."
It is not necessary to give It happened recently at the Par- further detalls of the demoralising Previous Day. Yesterday satisfactory results. On a neigh amount studio in Hollywood. Dennis effect of this form of gambling:
.123.07.
123.67ouring property, similar high pres- King, who was working on a sequence They can be imagined:
have been com- or "The Vagabond King," in which he 20.30 resulting in the discovery is starred, finished his day's work Those who are opposed to the legalisation of lotteries to-day 102 of a thousand feet of excellent-pay early.
After doing his medieval tights would have this comfort if they 375 ing reef. The implications are that 34.13/10 what was hitherto believed to be and tunic, and resuming the dress of were "set up" again the frightful 1/4 the main reef in the East Rand ares gentleman of the twentieth century, evils arising from insuring num-
he stonded in on the "Behind the bere, the memory .4.85.17/32-4.86.15/32 is actually an entirely different ore Make-Up" setting, where Kay Francis
burnt which 12.08 body, the actual reef running fur-
and Hal Skelly were being directed in lep in the mind of the nation, 18.13% ther south.
would be absent. Never again will 34.30% Meanwhile, some miles to the "Just in tima" Milton greeted great lottery in this country bo South West, another important and King, "Walk out that door for me drawn to a finish; subscribers will 818 has been made between the gap and in this scene and as you go out, say know their fate within an hour or
the rich Sub Nigel mine in the far 'good afternoon.'" 34.79% South. Steps are now being taken 92.724 to follow up the now reef through 18.16 the Boksburg gap in accordance "The Vagabond King," in which the star before Paramount signed him
108.24 with the new indications.
Dennis King plays tho starring title for work in an all-talking and all-
the famous novel, i singing picture. Hitherto the greatest secrecy has role, is based on 4 been maintained, the mining houses "If I Were King," by Justin Huntly Jeanetto MacDonald, le' the lovely
the 2/0.16/32
subsequent royal nieco of Louis XI and the lo concerned refusing Information, McCarthy, and 1/5%
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Vagabond King" loved of Francala Villen (Dennis but confirmation of the big and is which was written by William H. King) in this gorgeous all-Tochni 181 18.13/10 available from several competent Post, Brian Hooker and Rudolph colour, singing romance which comes British Wireless.
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two. The star-oxtra did his bit and as a reward received the compliments of the director.
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