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Penang Hills
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER
London Girl Is Santiago's Beauty Queen
Eighteen-year-old Marjorie Earcy, whose home town is Chiswick, London, has been chosen Queen of Spring in Pro- videncia, Santiago, in competi- tion with fourteen senoritas. She is the first foreign-born girl to be so chosen.
-900,000 VOTES Altogether 900,000 votes were cast. Miss Enrey, with a total poll of 287,000, had a majority of more than 100,000 over her nearest rival,]
Reuter says.
She was chosen because of her: "surpassing beauty of the quiet, English Lype."
facturing chemist in Santiago, and Marjorie is his accountant.
Rich For An Hour
28, 1935,
FORTUNE THAT DWINDLED £833 EVERY MINUTE
Mr. Michael Paine, a Bristof business man, was recently insured against death for £50,000—but only for one hour, while ho was at a luncheon in Bristol.
The policy was a gift to Mr. Paine from à few friends, whom he entertained to a luncheon to mark his fiftieth birthday.
The first person to congratulate him on surviving the period of the policy was Mr. Morley Cooper, n Bristol Insurance broker, who effected the policy with Lloyd's,
MONARCH WHO LIVES
ON 4s. A WEEK
Lausanne, Dec. 24.
Marjorie's father is a maKING ANANDA I OF SIAM, ten-year-old monarch whose kingdom abounds in riches, gets two shillings and sevenpence a week. King Ananda's sister, Princess Galyani, aged twelve, gets three shillings and tenpence.
The most efficient I have ever
had," he says.
Marjorie Raya: "My election is a triumph for London. We are just a London family planted in Chili. We belong to Chiswick,"
REAL PAINLESS DENTISTRY AT LAST
HAS
[AS painless dentistry
really arrived?
Dr. Leroy Hartman, Professor
of Dentistry at the University of Columbia, stated recently that a liquid has been discovered which, the surface of when applied to teeth, makes them insensitive to
dentists' drills.
ile added (according to United Press) "It will revolutionise the practice of dentistry."
The present practice, in elminat- ing pain in tooth filing, is to inject novocaine or other local anaesthetic before drilling begins.
The young king knows nothing of the golden pageantry awaiting him in Slam, nor does he enre. He continues to lead the simple schoolboy life of a middle-class family,
KING ANANDA "Chuf, chuff, chuf, chunk, clauk, screech."
"I don't. like school." he confided. "I would much prefer to be a steam-engine driver."
He then gave a good imita- tion of the noise of a locomo- tive, the bumping of railway coaches, and the sound of brakes. "Chuff, chuff, chuff, clank, clank, screech," ex- claimed King Ananda happily.
"I spend my money on models of ateam engines and motor-cars," he said, "but there is homework do after schood, fd special Kymnastics, too. I do not know whether I want to go to Slam to be crowned,
10
The King's favourite in Tommy. spotted Airedale, who accom- panies his royal master to school at eight o'clock in the morning. Tommy Ilves with King Ananda at Villa Vadhana, one of a long row of simple houses near Lausanne, the Lake and snow- overlooking capped mountains.
Princess Sangwal Mahidol, the King's beautiful young widowed mutlier, apenking in perfect
"I AM NEVER HAPPY WITH English, said Ananda was going
THE NAME "CONSERVATÍVE
—Says Sir A. Chamberlain
Sir Austen Chamberlain, at Oxford recently said that he was never happy with the name "Conservative.”.
"I do not care whether you call operated so well during the last Mr. me Tory or Radical," he said. "Iyears, and also that great mass of find a great affinity between the incónclusive opinion which
the Baldwin has known how to win meaning and I Iwa,
over to our cause. Radicalism of my youth.
cess
m
*f wonder whether we can be "Our continued success, the suc-
And n enough to of the principles for, which broad-minded we stand, depends on our-being-name which we can all adopt, and able. by slow degrees, to weld at least avoid the imposition of ourTM Own respected name on all who together these apparently discor
co-would co-operate with us." dant
elements which have
Greek family Photo-shows # which went to Athens to great the returning King of the Hellenes.
SALESMAN SAM
ski-ing soon, and skating, too.
"He is illi in delicate health," she said, "although he is better than he was. But he is not yet sufficiently strong to go to Slam for the coronation ceremony, If he goes it will be a year from now."
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VOLGA SONG. (Lehar) Organ Solos: Marcel Palotti F285. WHENEVER I THINK.
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I FEEL A SONG COMIN' ON. Vocal: Leslle Hutchinson EAST OF THE SUN.
MY HEART IS HAUNTED.Vocal.. Leslie Hutchinson." F283. THE GHOST OF DINAH., F. T.
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The boy Ananda was pro- claimed King by the Siamese National Assembly on March 6, 1935, when the abdication of
upset by the little his uncle, King Prajadhipok 10 Nigel was
gentleman, and became careless, was approved. King Prajad 11 Implies a certain amount of
money.
11
2
hipok bought Hangmoor, Vir- ginia-Water, after his abdica-12_An_old Empire type.
on in a low dog with tion, declaring his intention to
colour. live in England in the future.115 ing for support.
Air Robots' Pranks Are Menace To Piloted 'Planes
Pilots at Home have been warned by the Air Ministry to keep well away from Queen Bees-the wireless-controlled airplanes that have just appeared in the sky,
Queen Bees, they are told, are liable to do strange things with- out warning.
SYDNEY
IS GOING
ALL MARRIED
These machines are easily dis- tinguishable by the yellow paint which covers their top wings, the undersides of the wing tips, and both sides of the tail planes,
Queen Bees can be kept under
The return of prosperity to Aus-control by wireless within a ten- tralia has given great impetus to mile radius. weddings.
NOT FAST ENOUGH
17 Forms of "erime do" pervade
Animals (anag.).
19 What apongers sometimes did
that was rather silly.
21 You will see there in Sinth: me,
too.
22 Have a good feed: no long.
24 Comes before the others with s letter in its hand held tightly. 27 Makes an A.1 hit in the West
Indies.
28 Grent Nero (anag). 20 Just the place to
Berew in.
30 Everybody's enemies..
DOWN
hide the
1 Stuily the acknowledgment and
give.
2 Eastern lady.
4 Senzo In a konse,
6 Tempted with a cold heart.
G To a German always spells the
end of a swimmer.
,
7 One of a predatory tribe in the
Bible.
The present Queen Bee is the
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8 Otherwisu folns a lovel section. Finished in a simply frightful
fashion.
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14 In bringing about
caution is necessary first last.
18 Make a further statement.
20 Takes up mud.
effect. and
a-121-Most people-don't suffer in this...
23 Their Kentish change. 25 late.
26 Eastern
question.
craft that raises
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D.18 HELM RAMPAGE UMTO GENER CHARTS OASES A A "C-"AER'O ODESSA TOKENS DAUNCH TI I N BORROWED OUNCEB YETENT" NO INDEPENDENT
destroyed over 1,500 acres trees valued at £250,000.
Sydney, with a population of million and a quarter, is becoming De Havilland Diplane type, with FOREST FIRE RAGING Trible Mountain and has already married at the rate of more than a covered-in cockpit containing the thousand couples a month, a figure radio controlling apparatus. farin excess of that, for many years, says Austral News,
The birth rate there is now 14.58 thousand of population and the death rate 10.87 a thousand..
I GOTTA HUNCH THIS IS GONNA BE A SWELL
HUNCH IF IT WORKS |
It is understood, however, that the Air Ministry is considering the cheaper and faster Miles Hawk as a potential Queen monoplane Bee...
It Serves The Birds Right
OKAY, YOU OVER-GROWN PIGEONS! SWIPE SOME
MORE OF MY FISH! I DARE YAİ'
MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE ON TABLE MOUNTAIN
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It is expected that it will be at the fire Is least a week before brought under control despite the fact that 300 soldiers are assisting the forest are rangers in fighting the Capetown, Dec. 27. A million dollar fire is sweeping blaze-United Press.
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