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Mr. W. Edwards won the whisker-raising championship of Centralia, Wash.-but visiting lumbarmen decided his barber gave
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932.
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George D. Templeton Jr. with his father and mother. Templeton has confessed to the mur. der of Mrs. Lillian Babcock, rich Manile society woman; and also admits wounding William Babcock, his uncle. Remorse over his father's disagreement and dissolved partnership with Babcock Ind the youth to attempt a double murder.
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LEAP YEAR BRIDE
by Laura Lou BROOKMAN
REGIN BERE TO-DAY
A 60-year-old vetern of the Washington police department single handed frustrated an at- tempted march on the White House by members of the bonus army, Inspector Albert Head- ley, left, is shown as he blocked John Pace and turned him back.
"I had some news to-day, too," the girl went on. She toli Dan about the cheque from her mother. i and about sending it back. When. she had finished Tran leaned tarross the table and took her
hand. His eyes were troubled.
"You're sure you wanted to do that?" he asked. "Of course I couldn't have let you spend any of with her father along an, dessen hoge n. 4anded. "It's singing. Ok, or that money for our living
sking advantage of Leng Year, ink. Dan to course we'll keep it! And it was penses or for me but you might They are married and for the fort time sweet of you to bring it. Dan have bought something for your Chorey finds unit was it mostek moes. She began to laugh. The kitten:Self. Clothes maybe. Or --what-
Dixie Slumsen, muste critic of the News, and raised one velvety paw and ever giris buy.”
Tring now-a minature sing-song „Cherry Bixon, pretty, 19geopold daughter That could, burely be heard,
of wealthy parents, fills i love with Dan Phis, newspaper
marry her.
reporter She quartets
Her struggles with homework are diamanteg.
mat
Mux Pearson, who also works in the News
"Do you hear it Cherry de
in friendly with Gerry. She meets alone with experimental gestures was
Cherry receives a letter from her er investigating Cherry's ear,
»mlosing a cheoper for $500. She returns the. chrae eratse pride will not let her kes it
"Put it down," Dan suggested.
A young woman who lives in the same war. "Let's see what it thinks of the
a building attempte suleide. But place."
when an artw
something for Str
Den terida Cherry To book
CHAPTER XXHI
Cherry set the kitten on the
OX-
Cherry laughed. "Of course not. silly. What could be wanting? Oh. Dan. you and I do have 80 uch! We ought to be so thank- ful!"
door. It was completely grey ex She told him about Miss Jamie- erat for a white line down the son who had lived on the top floor Pentre of its forehead, rounding and was now at the City Hospital. out in a symmetrical are of white The recital of the story sobered he anabout its
and mouth.
hoth of them.
For think I
though aware of their scrutiny after the meal had ended they gat the little animat backed slowly in silence.
Uan grinned down at her. give you three guesses." Bounced. "What do you have?"
iden !"
mistakably kittenish "Meow!"
nose
As
SOME time
Even the lazy man will be put to work when the abovė lawn mower, used by the German Gardener of Wilhelm Platz, in Borlin, is introduced. The mower is powered by gasoline motor, and the operator sits on a saddle behind, calmly regulating the speed by hand pressure on the accelerator.
He was just cowboy down at the beach for his vacation, but he knew the lass for his lasta. A party of rangemen whooped it up at Virginia Beach, recently, and this picture shows how they picked dancing partners from among the beach beaatios,
"Is it something for my Cherry away from Cherry and Dan, stops the kitten! It must be hun- asked..
All at once Cherry cried out. "Yes,"
ped and gazed up at them. "But
I baven't the slightest
"Well, I'll be darned?" laughed gry!" Dan. "Would you look at the little Little Pinky's front paws press- "You can guess, can't you?" Danberrar giving us the once overing against her ankle had startled insisted. "What would you think
the girl. She led a saucer with it's likely to be-a Rolls-Royce of
Cherry was down on her knees milk but the kitten was not inter- the crown jewels of England or beside the kitten again. "I know ested. Try as they would they A faint ery, plaintive and high-what I'm going to call it," she un-could not make Pinky drink until pitched, interrupted him. It came ouneed. "Did you ever see it down the kitten's throat. Pinky!
Dan filled a tenspoos and poured from Dan's coat pocket. it was re-
thing so pink as that nose? m peated, this time louder. An in-going to call it 'Pinky.""
coughed, licked the milk from his across the alley.
her purse and examined its con- "That's a swell name for a grey whiskers and decided to try a gulp "A kitten! Oh, let me see it!" eat!"
Cherry put up a hand and tou- tents. There was $2.75 inside, for himself.
jched Dan's cheek, "We've so much Cherry cried. "Where did you get
"Why, I think it's a grand name! The kitten's antics kept them to be thankful for," she whispered to street clothes. Pinky, the On impulse she hurriedly chang- it, Dan? Oh, you little darling, and anyhow that's what it's go.amused most of the evening. It ed. you!"
Ichased paper balls attached to a
kitten, was dozing on the window [ing to be." This last was addressel to the Their own meal was forgotten string. It climbed into boxes and
seat as Cherry softly closed the wriggling ball of grey fur that had in their interest in the now pet. out of them and once, when Dan morning and Cherry was frown- the stairs.
It was the middle of the next door behind her and went down emerged from Dau's pocket. The Presently, however, the kitten was threw down a newspaper, the kit-
She boarded a downtown kitten, balancing in Dan's two left curled up on a pillow on the ten crawled under it and had whatng over the cookbook when there hands loked about on this
a knock at the new floor and Cherry and Dan snt must have been the most exciting
door. She and rode to Twelfth street. Law- world in which it found itself and down to dinner.
adventure of its brief life getting rose and opened it.
rence's flower shap in the corner emitted another "Meow!"
Dan broke a roll and buttered it. out.
"Oh-good morning!" Cherry (Continued on Page 10.) "Cute, isn't it?" Philips asked. "Well," he said, "I had a piece of; "It's going to be company for said. "Won't you come in?" Cherry had taken the kitten and welcome news to-day."
me when I'm here alone," Cherry Mrs. Moreau, from the Noor was holding it nestled against her "What was it?"
said. "I don't see how I'll ever above, atood in the hall. shoulder. The warm, yoft fur "Your husband. Madam, is the have a dull moment with that little "I haven't time to stop," she touched her cheek. The girl's eyes winner of the $5 bonus for the rascal around."
sald, "but I thought you'd like to i were bright as a child's.
best written news story
"You'll probably wish that little know Miss Jamieson is going to rascal was 100 miles away a good got well. I've just been talking to "Did you know I've always want.
many times."
the janitor. Ho said the hospital ed a kitten? That's another "So'm 1. That five bucks will The girl
sure that she found she had an aunt in Chicago thing I could never have at home, help out considerably in our fin- would
The kitten finally and they got in touch with her. But where did you get it? Can we ancial status. But that's not all. went to sleep in her lap and She's coming-the aunt I mean- really keep it?
Two of the fellows who have been Cherry transforred it to its pillow and if she has money enough to do "We can if you want to. I stop-owing me for the last six months so gently that it did not awaken. that it probably means she can ped at the drug store on the car-kicked in with $12 more. I'd for It had been an eventful day. take care of the girl and ace her ner for cigarettes. There were four gotten about both of them! Yes, it She and Dan sat in the window through
"It's adorable" she told him. week."
"Oh, Dan, I'm glad?"
of the
was
not.
of these little fellows there with looka as though we can pay our seat and looked out on the night. I'm so glad!" Chorry anid for- their mother. One was black and bills and stay out of debtors' pri-Moonlight streamed over the Vently. "And thanks for telling
ed.
the others were sort of grey strip son after all. My cheque Saturday patch of ground below that by day me. I've been thinking about her
I thought this one was the will pay the rent for another was nothing more than a weed- all morning." cutest and the man said he'd be month and this $17 will carry us grown space where laundry flop- "It's bad business to be sick and glad to give it to us. It's
not over the week."
pad in the breeze. Tonight it alone in a city," Mrs. Moreau quite a month old yet."
"It's worked out wonderfully, might have been a garden, Ugly said, shaking her head. "Well, I scamed eminently hasn't it?" Cherry naked. She said buildings took on grace from the must be getting upstairs-" contended with its perch on it so forvently that the young man black shadows, The faint scent of Bad business indeed! Aftor she Chorry's shoulder. It was pur-incross the table looked up. plumb blossoma came from a tree was alone again Cherry got out!
The kitten
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