PICTORIAL · SUPPLEMENT
NEW TRIBE
FOUND DISCOVERED IN NEW
GUINEA
The discovery of a now tribe in New Guinea is already the subject of much discussion in scientific circles,
Mr. E. W. Chinnery, Director of Native Affairs and District nor vices in the Mandated territory of Now, Guinea, who la credited with discovering this "loat race", "plans to attend the Anthropological Conference In London next month bofore which he will describe his discovery.
What was formerly described na mountainous waste land is now likely to prove the best and most important part of the territory, declares Mr. Chinnery in his pro- liminary report. The whole area which covers approximately 4,000 square miles, and its 200,000 in habitants had never even heard of a white race unt! Mr. Chinnery's advent.
A now 12,000-feet, range
of mountains was also discovered, and the sources of several rivers were explored. It was an un- known tributary of the Purari river that led to the finding of the new.mountain rangé.
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SATURDAY,
AUGUST 11,
1934.
FEMININE
VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA IN INDUSTRY
By MILTON BRONNER
Immense wealth, active participation in the management of many coal and other corporations, good looks, abundant brains, fearless character, both talking and writing ability, and the ownership and editorship of the of the best-written weekly journals of London make Margaret, First Viscountess Rhondda, one of the most powerful personalities of Great Britain.
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She is Welsh on her father's In fact, Lady Rhondda alde, Scotch on her mother's. Her truthfully sold: fathor's people were working folk. "My father trained, ma. in. buel-..
he would have In fact, her grandfather startedness exactly as as a coal miner. Her father stuck trained a son, and he expected of me exactly what he would", "have to coal and became a coal king expected of a son." The Interests abe inherited and expanded have often caused her to be called the female Rockefeller of Great Britain. On her mother's alde she comes from gentle-folk, a junior branch of the proud family of the Haigs of Bemersyde. most famous of the Haigs was that general who led all the British armies in the closing years of the World War.
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Viscountess Rhondda seems to have inherited from her Welsh ancestors their capacity and joy in work, their flair for getting on with people because they were Just folks by origin, their sturdy
In 1908 · whe Humphrey Mackworth, friend and neighbour of her father, Despite her position as young wife and her job of learning her father's business, she threw her. self with might and main into the. suffragist cause. Her fathor may have had some doubts an to the wisdom of this, but he was too wise to attempt to restrain his Indepen- dent daughter.
In fact, when she led a party of women to St. Andrews up in Scot- and to heckie the then Premier. Mr. Asquith, and was pelted with rotten eggs, her fathe had a good laugh at her expense. Nor did he
The murder of two white man prospecting for gold a year ago on the Ramu river, followed by the death of a local Government official in this same district, resulted in an enquiry and the subsequent dis- covery of the unknown tribe. Mr. Chinnery in his report declares independence, their brave flinging play the heavy parent when some themselves into what often seem-time later she was jailed for an- on no occasion were they ferceded a hopeless fight, their real de other suffraglet exploit.
mocracy. From her Scotch ances to use arms, despite the fact thators the seems to have inherited tribesmen surrounding the newly her writing ability, her love for found district are very fierco, most of them decorated with shell or all that is genuine in art, litera- naments signifying that each suchture and the finer things of life. had killed a man.
that throughout their exploration
Mr. Chinnery's arrival in Lon- don is being eagerly awaited by scientists as his discovery raises problems as to the spread of the human race, more so because the nearest people to the newly-found tribe are apparently of consider ably lower Intellect, and as Mr. Chinnery is a former President of the Anthropological Section of the Australian and Now Zealand Association, also an authority on the Inhabitants of New Guinea, his views are expected to provide scientists with a new problem to unravel-United Press.
TRAINED BY FATHER.
She was born in 1888, the only child of David Alfred Thomas, the hard-bitten man of business who was known as the Welsh coal king. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford University.
But it was after she left there that her real education began. Her father had no son. Very well, he would make a son of his daughter. He taught her all he knew about his many businesses. He withheld from her none of his secrets. He trained her to be his
*successor.
ACTIVE DURING WAR
The war stopped all. that sort of thing. Her father was givon the all-powerful position of Food Controller. She threw herself in- to the work of organizing. women for national service. In 1915 Thomas was compelled to go to the United States on an important mission, connected with his war. position. He insisted his daughter, his right hand man, should go along. They had booked: their passage back to England on the Lusitania. The Germans publish ed in the American papers their warning to Americans not to travel on this ship. That was pretty pinin speaking, but father Thomas and daughter Thomas decided, to travel on the vessel just the same.
ROCKEFELLER
Viscountess Rhondda.
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the dark. When she landed at Queenstown Harbour, she had the great joy of knowing her father Was safe. He was there to meet her and took her on to Dublin,
pneu where she collapsed with monia, but made a quick recovery,
PAGR TH
PHIPPS ON SAGO
Many a man who can distinguish forwarded to him, but that all Right from Wrong Black from correspondence should be address White or Business from Pleasure, ed to his daughter. The young 88-falls ignominiously in the supremo, year-old woman thus sat in com- test
mand and acquitted herself to the He cannot distinguish sogo from entire satisfaction of her exacting toploca a pr parent. In 1918 her father was. This is the bombshell which has cranted first Viscount Rhondda, the cast a cloud over, the Bath Con- King's warrant stipulating that his ference of the Federation of only daughter should inherit the Grocers Associations of the title in her own right.
United Kingdom;
It appears that a delegate asked a walter for, ango pudding, and on its arrival donounced-It as an Impostor.
That da not sago," he said,
Her father died that same year and sho becamo Viacountess Rhondda, director of 27 big in- dustrial companies and absolute mistress of her own life. Divorc ing her husband in 1922, she not "it is tapioca." only continued her activé interest "Sago, sir," was the waltora In business, but sought other out-spirited riposte. lata for her abounding energies. The delegate called in a fellow She filed a petition demanding grocer for a second opinton, De the right to sit in the House of Lords, refusing to recognize the sex bar. It was a great fight and she lost, but she expects to begin It again some day,
Then she founded the weekly, Time and Tido. She gathered around her a brilliant staff of writers and contributora. It waE no
mere woman's magazine. It was designed to interest all people with brains and has succeeded. In Its independence of party ties, in its fearlessness,. It is a. mirror of Lady Rhondda,
PEACE CHAMPION.
"Tapioca was his diagnosis, "But," he added, "you are not the only person who cannot tell the difference. Ninoty per cent, of the people of this country do not know the difference between sago and tapiocs, and frequently, buy tapioca thinking it in sago.” s
Personally, I found it difficult to sympathise with the alleged 90. per cont, as I would willingly. run a mile rather than oat alther of the points at issue.
But, dash it, Ono Has One's Duty, as we used to say in the old 97th, and I decided to in vestigate..
The encyclopaedin," in
that
An ardent champion, of intorna- tional peace by means of inter-playful way it has, gave enormous- national machinery, she said not ly detailed and utterly incompre long ago in n broadcast address: hensible definitions of both sub-
"In the war I was never a stances. *・・ paciflat and I never attempted to be Impartial. I did not want the best man to win... I wanted. Eng land to win. I am not proud of It, though I am not terribly ashamed of it. How then recon- cile my love of country with my profound conviction that another. big war will be fatal to civiliza: tion?
In the fateful month of May, 1915, the Lusitania was torpedoed
When Winston Churchill and sunk off the Irish const
anys nil wo have to do is to make Thomas and his daughter were
ourselves the strongest nation, ho separated in the dreadful scenes
is talking through Els hit. There that ensued. After looking vainly for each other, both being good
is only one way-trengthen the League of Nations." swimmers, Juraped into the
To-day at 61, this good-looking, The daughter managed to get hold TAKES CHARGES OF BUSINESS.
That tragic night on the Lusi-dark-eyed, dark-haired woman, who of a piece of plank, but was in deadly danger of being sucked-tania did not cow the spirits of is-childless and confessed in her dnughter. In 1910 autobiography that her earliest down as the great ship sank. She father and confessed in her autobiography Thomas once more went to Amer!- ideal was to have many children, ca an government business. This finds her children in all those who that this was the only moment of
time he did not take her along. suffer, in all good causes which acute terror she had ever known
He forced her stay behind, be need fearless backing. High In her life. Hours later she was picked up for dead. When she re-cause he had already announced minded, fearless and forthright, covered consciousness, she found that, as head of the great Cam she has made herself one of the herself lying naked between rough brian Coal Combine and other big great independent forces of her
country, blankets on the deck, of a boat in undertaking, no letters would be
Tapioen; you will be pleased to hear, is "a farinaceous food sub stance prepared from cassav starch," while Sago In a food- starch prepared from a deposit in the trunk. of Metroxylon Rumph!) and Metroxylon Love."
Armed with this valuable" clue I approached an expert in the provision department of a large London atore..
He listened to my account of the Bath Bombshell with grave attention.
"I find it hard to understand," ho said, "In view of the fact that sago and tapioca are different colours..
"I fancy, however, that the coa fusion arises from the fact that in cortain parts of the country, people call Tapioca White Sago.
"With these unofficial names In circulation it la natural that people should get muddled."
"Thanks" vory"-"much," zaid, "What you Sagoos."
LEOPOLD, BELGIUM'S DARE-DEVIL MONARCH Europe's Latest Dictator:
BY MORRIS GILBERT. Brussels."Sire," a close coun- soilor of King Leopold ventured to say to him one day recently, "the people here in Brussels, when they talk about you, are beginning to remark-that-you-never-laugh.!
"What did the king do?" I asked the counsellor,
"He laughed," was the answer. Nevertheless, seriousness is the keynote of Leopold's character-.. A seriousness which, until hla mar- riage to Princesa Astrid, was cou- pled with considorable shyness.
So Belgium was much astonish- ad-and infinitely delighted-with the evidence which Leopold public-. ly offered his country some years ago that, presumably for love of Astrid, he was able to burst through, his shyness and also the ponderous strait-jacket of royal formality.
KISS AT THE PIER.
Astrid and Leopold already had been married in a civli ceremony In Stockholm. Four days later the Swedish cruiser "Fylgin". brought the bride and her parents. to Belgium for the final, religious marriage. It was on the quay in Antwerp that Leopold took a step which ́entranced the huzzahing crowds.
Every Inch Soldier King Leopold is shown (in photo on luft) ́ss, Brussale throngs säw him at a recent troop review ... Above, garbed for aviation, a how- sport that claims the interest of this royal lover' of thrills. *
Former Nebraska Lecturer
"According to the census there are 20,673 Latvians in the United States, but there used to be one more-M. K. Ulmanis, who for some time was a lecturer. In the University of Nebraska and who has now come into prominence.as. one more dictator in a European land. For M. Ulmania la now the head of his native country.
If Ulmanis has to floo, ho could probably come to some American college and lecture on history, for, with General Balodis, he has been making it ever since the world war.
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INDEPENDENCE.
B. K. Ulimanis
lectured on
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DRAMATIC SIEGE..
For centuries the Latvian country had simply been one of the Baltie provinces of Russia. With the close of the world war and the collapse both of Russia and Germany as fighting forces, the Latvians In November, 1918, proclaimed their independence au a separate state. They ware a dis- tinct race with their own languago, literature, history and traditions. But, to proclaim Independence and got it was not so easy as that.
General Balodig, collected such behind him, but, he had to do a lot, Latvian troops në he could ralso|| of tight-rope walking and juggling and finally drove the Roda out in to keep this alender majority, 1919. Ulmanis became the first One of the thorns. In his 'alde was 3}} Premier and Balodis the first War 'the Communists. As a party, they Secretary of the new state which | were officially suppressed by law. has an aren equal to that of West But they Immediately came back King Albert and Queen Eliza-
Virginia, a population about that with seven deputies under the both were on the dock. Princo
of. Philadelpble, and a^: capital, label "Party of the Peasants and Charles and Princess Ingeborg,
Riga: about the size of Seattle. Workers. father and mother of the brido,
"Latvia started out as a democratic were on the vessel's deck. Astrid
ropublic with a president elected started down the gangplank. Sud: denly a young man in military uni-
berg, reading reports and seeing by the Parliament, which consisted form darted impetuously away mains a devout Catholic.
landscape gardening of the 30-odd and takes chances. For like his advisors. Always during the day of 100 members. But as in so bursts when he demanded that he from the official party on the dock
ucres himself. In Its gardens he father, he has fine streak of there is time for one or two romps many European states not used to be given power to reduce the num? and rushed up the gangplank. It joined up" at the age of 14. He breakfast.
When the war cams, Leopold takes his morning walk before fatalistic courage in him. A king with the children. A simple fam-liberty, parliamentary government ber of deputies from 100 to 50 and Was Leopold. He seized the white served as a simple private and was
must run risks as well After lunch, which is a simple other man so, it would seem muale or reading-bla favourite 20 parties dividing, the 100 seatsiment when he chose. In the sight of the cheering promoted to sergeant. Early in family affair the King goes, out their logie gees. To guard one's Look the American Herman in Parliament, and government chance to get thi Jaw
the war, however, he was sont to to his 9-hole links in the park. life too cautiously in ignoble. Melville's "Moby Dick and early necessarily had to be carried on by the night of May, 16 harmored continuo his education at Eton.
Usually one of his equerries plays Take the chances that a gentleman to bed.
forming precarious coalitions,,'}" supreme power in the state The barked on his career of educa
Soon afterwards Leopold om- 'with him, sometimes a visitor. · must to live like a man-and take
Kingship is no easy job those
powerful Agrarian party co How well does he play? Well, the consequences..
daya, and Belgium's problems are DAY CRISIS.
ting of the conservative peasan tlon by travel. He went with his Leopold beats the Prince of DAY IN KING'S LIFE.
multifold, Highly industrialized; In 1981 power was in the handà i was with film and do What was more natural than parents to the United States in Wales1 The last match they had·}
the land is suffering the depres of Premier Sekulonike, who mada army of 25,000 men that they should kiss one another 1010. A year later ho visited was at the Prince of Wales's sum.
sion. She has her own special things very uncomfortable for the Balodis‹ saw- to that on the plor after four days' sep. Brazil, and presently Egypt and mer home, Fort Belvidere in
problems the national problem, Russian and German- minorities, claimed a state of aration? What, however, more the Boudan. Then came the Con Windsor Park, when the Bolglan
for instance, of two official langu-. He was finally unseated in Febru- troops occupy all the p foreign to the stiff pomp of a con-go, and Belgium's other colonios visitor stook" his host, several up
nges, Flemish and French; the ary, 1008, and the arlets which Ings, dismissed Parli vontional court?
In both Hemisphoros. Since their and several to play. D
International problem of defense, followed, lasted for 46 days until rosted all the s marriage he and Astrid made ́a Leopold's xest for motoring is
Wedged between Franco, Germany, a new government was finally cond and suppl voyage out to the Dutch East In-famous in Brussels. Automobila.
and England, she was in 1914 the stituted, hended by "Adolf & Blod men hore report that he vialta
cockpit of the World War. Will nicks and
time over the motors, drives all in aviation, Belgium of course, is constitu- | Minister of the exhibits he can,
· ''ཉྩ། About four in the afternoon tionally, governed: She has die
thou-
sands, gave her vory plobolan, very impulsive, and very ardent hug and kiss. That was Astrid's welcome to Belgium.
dier.
GOLFS AND MOTORS.
Ulmanis created violent out-
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However, there are some things that Leopold will not do which some "sportsmen" thrive on He will not hunt. He detests killing birds or animals for sport. Fish ing he exempts from his list of "wont's." Leopold is a good fly naherman. And recently he has
40-DAY
JOINED RANK
RANKS AT 14.
Installed in a monk-like room In the palace of Laeken, Leopold passed hie childhood in an atmos- phere - of severe simplicity. 'He Leopold tries to get through his slept on an army bod. His room, dally affice enlondar by noon to go . For his own, amusemont houses | Leopold
the links, tinguished citizens at the che was hosted with...., a stove. His home to lunch with his beloved a powerful sports model of con- | changes › his clothes, and starts Among these men. King La religious preceptor was the great" | family in his beloved villa oftinental make." He gets it way up business again. This time, he Cardinal Mercier, and Leopold ro- i Stuyvenberg. He planned the into the three-figured kilometres, works in his study at Stuyvennar matah:1
every trade show, spends a lot of j ́developed, a considerable interest she bo so again?, da AK AYAR General Balayand deterraneant
comes off