50 LUXURY LINERS
FOR BRITAIN
BIG BID FOR REAL
SEA SUPREMACY
London, Mar 15.
British shipping companies are set to spend £30,000,000 in the next two years on a fleet of fifty luxury liners to span the trade routes of the British Empire.
These do not include the sister ship to the giant "Queen Mary" which the Cunard-White Star is already. tentatively planning to build, and two or three smaller faster ships which are reportedly under consideration to maintain a subsidiary service to the Queen Mary.
The first of the new fleet-the
25,100-ton Union Castle stream-
lined luxurious Motor Iron Lung Has
Liner
"Stirling Castle", largest motor
vessel over built in British ship- Kept Him Alive
yards has just salled from Southampton on her maiden voyage to the Cape of Good Hope..
In the shipbuilding yards of ine Clyde, where the Queen Mary was. contracted, two steamers for the Bombay service and a fruit-carry- ing passenger motor ship for Jamaica are presently nearing construction. On the Tyne a passenger and fruit-carrier motor) ship and a similar vessel for South Africa aro on the stacks. The 24,000-ton Oricat passenger steam- er Oroades is also being built at Barrow-in-Furness.
Belfast, until recently one of the hardest hit of all shipbuilding centres in Great Britain, is con structing eight passenger vessels for Empire routes. These include Lite 25,000-ton Athlone Castle for the South African run of the
San Francisco, Mur
ONE of the most remarkable
nelentifle experiments of all time is drawing to an unsuccess ful close in Alameda County Hos- pital, California,
In April 1934 eighteen-year-old Raymond Rambo, suffering from Infantile paralysis, was given up for dead. In a last effort to pro- long his life doctors placed him in an "iron lung."
For 690 «іпун
clanking respirator han pumped life- giving breath into young Ray- mond's wanted body.
Now his strength is diminishing ALN a result of acute stomach cramps, and the doctors have little hope of further prolonging his artificial life.
Unton Castle line; two passenger, Animal
and cargo motor ships for the Union Castle'a Round-Africa sur- vices of 15,000 tons apiece; an 11,000-ton motor ship for an Aus- tralian company; and a 10,000-ton cargo and passenger motor ship for the Lamport and Holt service,
It is reported that the keels of other ship will also be laid in the near future-United Press,
£10,000,000 ARMAMENTS ORDER
ROUMANIA'S CONTRACT WITH FRANCE
Goliath
Conquered By A David
Denver, Cola,, Mar. 19. Posagawagine is dead, And n David of thes animal
owner
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1936,
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WORLD'S
BAGPIPE CHAMPION
Headmaster Sent
To Prison
At the recent bagpipe championships of England and Scotland the girl shown above, Sheila Mekey, was elected world's champion girl bagpipe player. She is showing a compatriot some of the 700 prizes sho has won.
He Tells Judge Of Experiment
A
At Hotel
HEADMASTER was sentenced to
eighteen months' imprisonment at the | Old Bailey this month for offences concerning boys;
The man, Stanley Charles Beresford, aged forty- two, was formerly headmaster of St. Augustine's College, Walton-on-Thamen, which he founded 'in September, 1934.
The school was closed last December. Beresford pleaded not guilty to charges con- cerning four boys.
Mr. Laurence Vine, prosecuting, said the charges |could conveniently be divided into three groups, all
referring to boys less than sixteen years of age.
The first three charges related to a boy of ten, who; according to the prosecution, was taken by Beresford in a car to an hotel at East Grinstead,
Beresford signed the reglater "The Hon. C. B. Beresford and non."
GIRL RENOUNCES STAGE
FAME FOR FORTUNE
The second group referred to in- cidenta which, it was, alleged, oc.; curred in the dormitory of the school itself.
The third group concerned a boy.
FILMS AND RADIO, BANNED, TOO at an hotel at Westcliff-on-Sea.
BB
"OLD FASHIONED FATHER'S” DEATHBED WISH
EAUTIFUL 21-years-old Betty Steele, of Belmont, Surrey-given the choice by her dying father-has decided to share a £64,000 fortune rather than seek fame on the stage.
Her father's ban extonda to films. broadcasting, and the mak ing of gramophone records.
"I have no intention of going on the stage-absolutely none,” Miss Sicele unid.
passing
Hor
"At school I had an interest in world is strutting around boasting mateur theatricals and appeared of his conquest of a Goliath.
necasionally," she went on "But it was only a Frank C. Miller,
fancy: gone for ever now.' Trail's End ranch, 40 miles north of Fort Collins, Colo, on the Cache
GIRLISH BOAST But up to the time of his death, La Poudre river, told of the un-Mr. Charles R. Steele, senior part- better known as Poss, leader 'expectar end of Posagawagme, nor of Francis Miller and Steele,
of old-catablished solicitors, of Fina the buffalo herd maintained on bury-square, E.C., remembered his the huge ranch.
daughter's' girlish ambition. Foss won leadership of the herd enthusinstle boast, four years ago in 1931, after years of apprentice--One day I am going to be a armaments worth near-chlot.
day of death "Father WAH very old- fashioned in his views on these things," Mas Steele declared. "He wished to be sure that my early interest in the stage would not be revived.” ----------------- One of Mr. Steele's lost actions wns to add this codici to 11is
Paris, Mar. 6.
ROUMANIA has ordered ship, by killing Shorty, erstwhile great stage star worried him to
combat, three pretenders to the
ly £10,000,000 in France, Since that time Poss killed, in according to Bukarest throne, two bull elk and two deer. message to the Agence besides an unknown number of Economique et Financiere aller animals.
But recently Miller said explaining- the Franco-found-Poss Body Tying In Roumanian trade and finan-snow. cial
he
the
will: recently agreement signed in Paris.
The principal aim of the treaty is to provide Roumania with sufficient francs to pay for the armaments, the interest on Roumanian loans issued on the Paris market, overdue instal- ments of commercial debts, and for other needs.
To facilitate transfer Roumania has consented to hand over to a French group for 12 years three- quarters of the Stato Jovy in kind on Roumanlan petroleum. This guarantee is estimated to be worth from 90 to 100 million francs a year.
The contract for the sale of this lovy has not yet been com- ploted. It is to be signed in Bukarest before April 1.
the
A postmortem examination was made and it was discovered that the "killer" had fallen victim to ono of the most insignificant members of the animal kingdom, a porcupine-United Press.
.
"Should she give, in public, any performance by way of acting, singing, dancing, play- ing any musical instrument or
Beresford, In the witness-box, de- clared that he took one of the boys to the hotel at Westcliff because he wanted to prove that he could take Ja poor boy of elementary education for about three months and com- pletely alter his outlook on life.
"FREEDOM"
Qf his school, he said: "I believed in giving boys freedom and catab view to its being broadcast of lishing a friendly relationship be
tween masters and boys." reproduced by cinematograph or gramophone process, the life offences at
Beresford was found guilty of interest given to her shall cease Westcliff and not guilty of offences East Grinstead and nnd during the residue of her
.
if the income of her share shall at the school. he paid to the British Home for said the jury had tried to
Judge Dodson, passing sentence, Incurables, Putney.
give Mr. A. Leslie Smith, partner in ble doubt.
Beresford the benefit of any possi the firm of Francis Miller and
"The offences of which you have Steele, states that Betty's father been found guilty are most grave "did not think it was suitable liveli- because they affect the youth, and hood for her. The provisions of the youth of to-day is the manhoodl the will were logally enforce of to-morrow, on whom the respon- able."
The Inte Mr. Stoele was 78 the judge.
albilities of citizenship rest," said years of age when he died last "It adds to the gravity of the January. He left the whole of case that you were supposed to be his fortune to his four children, the guardian and gulde."
CEMETERY CHAPEL AS "REVOLTING” HORROR
Dean Says It Is Only Fit for the Burial of an Ass
giving any performance with a A REMARKABLE attack on faullicient a very little more would
CHILDLESS WIFE'S TRAGIC DEVOTION
"Thought She Was A Drag"
the local cemetery chapel is make is a holy place of beauty made by the Dean of Bocking and comfort. The powers-that-bo (Essex), the Very Rev. Edgar need not fear that such expendi Rogers.
ture would expose them to criti- cism. Writing in his magazine, he
Undertakers' Charges "It has been, I confess,
"Meanwhile, we urge that prise to me to find how rarely the bodies of Church people, reverenc- ing as we do those bodies because, departed
(Bayu:
a sur-
the
bodies of the faithful are brought to church on the way The Word was made flesh, should to burial-used as I have been in always be brought to church and other parishca
the heathen chapel at the cemetery to that most
under.
Christian custom. I grieve that it avoided. -Minister Husband grieve the more because the ceme-takers charge more If the body la
Is not usual in Bocking, and I "I am told that some Northwood Hills (Middlesex), Mar. 1. tery chapel is wholly unsuitable taken to church. Very well, as a YOUNG Congregational minister from Birmingham for any Christian rite. told, in the West Middlesex coroner's court here to-
practical matter, patronise those firms who don't, and let us Bort day, a tragic story of his wife's devotion and her longing of Christian symbol or propriety make a determined set against the for children she could never have.
ago
The Rev. Harbert Alfred Hamil
Gains
"It is ugly, devoid of any
all
which can suggest that glory of sheet indecency of the prosent our faith-the Resurrection of the cemetery chapel." Dead. I say deliberately it is, in my opinion, an offence to any decent Christian feeling, an insult
Does Not Agree
A Gold Medal vation of any mourner's grief and cemetery, commitice, when told of
FINANCIAL RESOURCES The trade and financial agree ments, which will come into force, how our Road, Charlie only when the contract has been Mill Hill, described how four days! signed, provides that if Roumania haired, twenty-six-years old Mrs. he found his wife-fair
Mr. C. J. Baker, chairman of the finds financial resources to cover Alice Winifred Hamilton, lying
to the departed, a needless aggra Braintree and Bocking Council) her armaments order, she can pay dead in front of a barning electric for these in three years, and thus fire in an empty house in Joel-
utterly unworthy of any New York, Mar. 15.
com-the Dean's criticism, said: regain free possession of
Imunity which cares for the honour; Charlie Chaplin has been award-jand glory of God.
"I do not wish to enter into any codod portion of the petroleum street, Northwood Hills, where for ed a gold medal by the League of
controversy with the Dean, but I six months of last year they had Nations Cinema Committeo In re "It might be, as so many come I take the view that if there is any certainly do not agree with him. lived together.
cognition of his activities as an in-tery chapels are throughout the complaint to be made it should be marriage six years ago, his wife
He said that soon after their ternational screen figure.
country, a shrine of comfort and had an operation which prevented fifty-three pations, voted
The committee, which represents Peace, where not only on the day made either to my committee or her from having children.
of a burial the hearts of mourners;
"The chapel in question is an Award unanimously. The secremight be uplifted and the dread- tary, notifying Mr. Chaplin, tells ful sorrow of bereavement cased, old building and dates back to the tion had to be performed, and three of the art of the cinema," Reuter. and recollection could unito the of Bocking since 1931, said: "Com-
on how months later another opera-him he is "the greatest personality but all day and every day a tenderdays of burial boards." years ago he left Birmingham and
and sacred spot, where prayer Mr. Rogers, who has been Dean me to London to put his wife in
living and the dead.
plaint bas already been made. "As it is, in its hideous and re- the matter with the council
The Bishop of Chelmsfoni raised
lovy.
The French Government hout! granted Roumania a small increase in import quotas for maize, barley, and certain dried vegetables,
In addition. Franco undertakes
to buy from Roumania a quantity
of petrol for aviation,
adjust-
on Burts
Specialist Card
self.
the
Buffer-
to the council.
two
There are also certain ments with regard to commercial payments. Cash payment for the care of a Harley-strec: specialist The coroner asked if Mins. Hamil. French goods are reduced from
She had been in consultation with ton ad ever threatened to dll her volting horror, it adds to 50 to 45 per cent, of their him over ginen. value, and payment
"The mental strain on her was "She sometimes made threats of aing and offers no more reverenco years ago, but nothing has been overdue from 10 to 5 per cent.
very severe," Mr. Hamilton ex theatrical kind when she was excited than we would give to 'the burial;
done." Foreign enrroneles at the free dis-
plained. "She was very disappoint- and feeling the need of me," Mr. of an asa,” ed that who could not have children Hamilton explained. "It was an In Dosal of Roumania áre Increased and also because she thought she verted way of saying that sie love! ful. There is no need for such
"It is utterly repellent and hate HOLLYWOOD WEDDING from 40 to 50 per cont. Theso
was being a drag on me with her me." various measures will procure an-
Last September they separated disgrace. The cost of making it other 20 to 22 million franca por dre" he added, "She loved them
"We therefore adopted two chil- largely on the advice of the specialist, decent would be Infinitesimal-
Hollywood (California), Mar. 6. annum--Routër.
The inquest was adjourned for a halfpenny or a penny on the rates Moody, cinema actress. George Lott Lestor Staeffer, married Misa Ruth very much Indeed."
month.
for one single half year would be was best man.
inces
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