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June Collyer
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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1932.
EMPIRE CO-OPERATION
COMMITTEE ISSUES
REPORT
SECRETARIAT PLAN OPPOSED
Ottawa, Aug. 18, The report of the Commit- tee on Economic Co-opera- tion, which has been adopt- ed by the Imperial Confer- ence, provides for a con- tinuing committee of two members from each State in the Commonwealth to con- sider the whole organisation of the Commonwealth Agencies.
tuents.
PICCARD'S TRIUMPH
(Continued from Page 1). ascent Into the stratosphere on May 27, 1931, accompanied by Herr Kipfer, from Augsburg, Bavaria. |
Profesor Piccard in the gondola.
LOVE'S YOUNG
DREAM
GIRL WANTS YOUTH OF CHOICE
The prospect of n marriage sponsored and blessed by the Se- cretarial of Chinese Affairs was held out by Detective Inspector Shaftain as a satisfactory solu- tion in a case where a young cou- ple, who had eloped, were brought into Court this morning, the young man being charged with harbour- ing the girl, who is only 10 and is thus within the age where the con- sent of the parents, or guardians is required by law.
The case, Inspector Shaftain said, presented a conflict between old Chinese customs and modern idens. The girl's parents had ar- ranged for her marriage to a man in the country, but she apparently was apposed to it, and ran away from home. being found ten days later living with the young man now charged.
In asking for a remand, Inspec tor Shaftain suggested bail of He hinted at the possibility is falloon, when fully inflated. $200. had a expacity of half a million for the ease being settled out of Court. "For instance," he said. pre-we can arrange a marriage be
euble feet.
Antieyelanie
conditions
JAPANESE VARSITY
BASEBALLERS
South Africa and the Irish Freevailed at the time, and the badlonu. ; tween them." State opposed the idea of after remaining in the air for 18) Mr. Wynne-Jones:-That seems permanent Empire Secretariat,
hours, fell t #spot about
160 to me to be a reasonable form of south. Prot. [ settlement. The report stresses the need for kilometres to tite
The case was adjourned for a the immediate adoption of stand Piccard succeeded in reaching a ard specifications throughout the height of about 15 kilometres, week.
the! Empire in steel, timber, chemica probably penetrating into products and agricultural imple-stratosphere by some 4 kilometres,;
and beating all previous records. of a munted balloon or aeroplane.} On the descent trouble occurred with the gas valve, and gifter lous j delay the balloon landed safely un the Gross Gurg) glacier in the Austrian Tyrol. The air in the sumel cabin was renewed by two oxygen evening defeated the Teylinders, each capable of main-Marines in the tenth innings of an The main work at Ottawa today | tùining a good atmosphere for extremely keen game in the pre- consisted of shaping the generaljeight hours. agreement
fora In preparation Saturday's plenary session.
Industrial co-operation, by early consultation between representa- tives of particular industries and the Commonwealth Governments is also urged.
MARKETING BOARD.
suggests that
MUCH DISCOMFORT.
The aeronants sullered
for
(Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, Aug. 19. A baseball team from the Rit
last University. Japan.
American
sence of four thousand specta- tors,
thon
en-type of radio-activity. He was of The recommendation of the
the the opinion that they seement to committee on methods of economieiderable discomforts, co-operation for the establishment temperature inside the sphere was have their origin not in massive of a 'commonwealth Consultative most unpleasantly high while the bodies, but in attenuated bodies
was 55 C. below which possessed not more the external air Committee tu consider machinery of co-operation, also freezing point, due to intense solar 100 grammes per square centimetre radiation in the rarefied atmos-or density at their surface. He shrukl its report
phere. Prof. Piccard found thatelains that his ascent proved that be ready by next May.
at a height of 43,000 ft. the ethe aeroplane of the future will The United Kingdom delegation ductivity of the air was only half seek to fly in the higher altitudes, has undertaken to finance the as strong
the height as af
of because the atmosphere general
the work of
be attained Empire 27,000 ft. previously reached by enabled a speed to
that Marketing Board until September balloonists. A second observation three times greater than next year-Reuter and British was that the cosmic rays could which was possible in the lower Wireless.
not proceed from any ordinary strata.
LAST TWO
DAYS
At 2.30, 5.10,
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EDGAR WALLACE'S GREAT RACING DRAMA,
The Calendar
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THE
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Against pry.
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for family.
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ORIENTAL
7.15 & 9.30 p.m, . mta.
His Woman
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CLAUDETTE
COLBERT
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A Paramount Pictura
there
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The LIFE PARTY
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With
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You'll Know Why When You) Ben Her ma « Gold Digger' . w? Broadway Prospecting In Havanal
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Epic of Love and Horse-Racing
SPORTING BLOOD"
AT THE
with CLARK GABLE
WORLD
TO.DAY & TO-MORROW
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NORMA SHEARER in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Production "STRANGERS MAY KISS"
MAJESTIC
Strangers
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A Puramount Picture with FREDRIC MARCH
KAY FRANCIS
21 YEARS AGO
EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPHI" FILES.
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended August 19th, 1911.
The rate of the dollar on do- mand. was 1s. 9.7/18d...
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
HE WAS A BLACK SHEEP BUT HE TURNED WHITE!
After he found it was nicer to be home with a lot of loving to do; Than to roam with a lot of explaining to do.
An attempt was mado to asana- sinate Admiral Li Chun in Can- ton, several bombs boing thrown. The Admiral was injured and two. pedestrians killed.
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Mr. P. M. Hodgson returned from Home leave. Whilst in Eng- land, he was married.
Mr. H. A. Nisbet was appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court.