50 LUXURY
FOR
BRI
LINERS
BIG BID FOR
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-thop 25,100-ton Union Castle stream- lined luxurious Motor Liner "Stirling Castle", largest motor
Iron Lung Has · ́
vessel ever built in British ship Kept Him Alive
yards-hus just sailed from Southampton on her maiden) voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.
In the shipbuilding yards of the Clyde, where the Queen Mary was contracted, two steamers for the Bombay service and a fruit-carry- ing passenger molor whip for Jamaica are presently nearing construction. On the Tyno a passenger and fruit-carrier motori ship and a similar vessel for South Africa are on the stacks. The 24,000-ton Orient passenger steum-j er Oroaden is also being built
nt Barrow-in-Furness.
Belfast, until rocently one of the hardest hit of all shipbuilding centres in Great Britain, is con-l structing eight passenger vessels | for Empire routos. These include the 20,000-ton Athlone
the
Castle for the South African run of the Union Castle line; two passenger and cargo motor ship for Union Castie's Roand-Africa aur- vices of 15,000 tons apiece; an 11,000-ton motor ship for an Aus-j tralian company; and « 10,000-ton] cargo and passenger motor ship for the Lamport and Holt service.
is reparted, that the keel of
other ship will also be laid
near future.--United Press.
£10,000,000 ARMAMENTS ORDER
ROUMANIA'S CONTRACT WITH FRANCE
NE of
San Francisco, Mar.
ONE the most remarkable
scientific experiments of all time I drawing to an unsuccess. ful clone in Alameda County Hos pital, California.
In April 1931 righteen-year-old' Raymond Hambo, suffering from infantile paralyals, was given up for dead. In a last effort to pro- long his life doctors placed him in an iron lung."
For 690 day respirator hsa giving breath into mond's wasted body,
(14
clanking
pumped life-
young Kay-
Now his strength is diminishing
a result of acute
THE HONGKONG
WORLD'S BAGPIPE CHAMPION
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1936.
Headmaster Sent
To Prison
At the recent bagpipe championships of England and Scutimid the girl shown above, Sheila Mckey, was olected world's champion giri bagpipe player. She is showing a compatriot none of the 700 prizes ale has woll.
He Tells Judge
Experiment
A
Of
Old
At Hotel
HEADMASTER, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment at the Bailey this month for offences
concerning boys.
The man, Stanley Charles Beresford, nged forty- two, was formerly headmaster of St. Augustino's College, Walton-on-Thames, which he founded in September, 1934,
The school was closed last December. Beresford pleaded not guilty to charges con- cerning four boys.
Bir. Laurence Vine, prosecuting, sald 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.
GIRL RENOUNCES STAGE
FAME FOR FORTUNE
tomach FILMS AND RADIO BANNED,
cramps, and the doctors have
little hope of further prolonging his artificial life.
Animal Goliath Conquered By A David
Denver, Colo., Mar. 10. Posayawagme is dead, And a David of the animal world is strutting around boasting of his conquest of a Goliath.
of
Frank C. Miller, owner Trail's End ranch, 40 miles north of Fort Collins, Colo, on the Cache
"OLD FASHIONED FATHER'S”
DEATHBED WISH
TOO
Beresford signed the register "The Hon. C. B. Beresford and son."
The second group referred to in eldents which, it was alleged, oc- curred in the dormitory of the school itself.
The third group concerned a boy at an hotel at Westcliff-on-Sea,
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 tako a poor boy of elementary education for about three months and com-
"FREEDOM"
BEAUTIFUL 21-years-old Betty Steele, of Belmont, pletely alter his outlook on life. ̧
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 extends to ilms, broadcasting, and the mak- ing of gramophone records,
"I have no intention of going in the stage-absolutely none," Miss Steele snid.
"At school I had an interest in amateur thentrirals and appeared! | occasionally," she went on.
**} IL was only a passing fancy; gone for ever now,”
GIRLISH BOAST
Of his school, he said: "I believed |in_giving_boys freedom and estab- Hshing friendly relationship be-
view to its being broadcast or reproduced by cinematograph tween masters and boys,"
Beresford was found guilty of
or gramophone process, the life offences at East Grinstead and Interest given to her shall cease Westcliff and not guilty of offences and during the residue of her,at the school.
Jif the income of her share shall
be paid to the British Home for said the jury had tried to
Judge Dodson, passing sentence, Incurables, Putney.
give Beresford the benefit of any possi
Mr. A. Leslie Smith, partner in ble doubt. 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 But up to the time of his death, hood for her. The provisions of the youth of to-day is the manhood La Poudre river, told of the un- Mr. Charles R. Steele, senior part
the 'will were legally enforce of to-morrow, on whom the respon better known as Poss, leader expected end of Pasagawagme, ner of Francis Miller and Steele,
able."
The Inte Mr. Steele was 78 the judge.
sibilities of citizenship rest," said of all-established solicitors, of Fins- the buffalo herd maintained the huge ranch.
onbury-square, E.C., rementbered his years of ago when he died last
"It adds to the gravity of the lle left the whole of ease that you were supposed to be daughter's girlish ambition, HerJanuary. Poss won leadership of the herd enthusiastic hoast, four years ago bis fortune to his four children. the guardian and gulde." in 1931, after years of apprentlee---One day 1 nm going to be a armaments worth near-chiel.
the day of his death.
"Father was very
old- fashioned in his views on these things,"-Miss Stocle-declared. "He wished to be sure that my early interest in the stage would not be revived."
Paris, Mar. 6.
ROUMANIA has ordered ship: by killing Shorts, erstwhile great stage star" worried him to
શ
Since that time Poss killed, in the
ly £10,000,000 in France, combat, three pretenders to according to Bukarest throne, two bull elk and two-deer, message to the Agence besides an unknown number of Economique et Financieremaller animals.
But recently Miller snil hel explaining the
Franco-found Poss body lying in the Roumanian trade and finan-snow. cial
agreement signed in Paris.
one
recently made and it was discovered that A postmortem examination was the "killer" had fallen victim to The principal aim of the treaty members of the animal kingdom, n of the most insignificant is to provide Roumania with porcupine.-United Press. sufficient franes 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.
One of Mr. Steele's last actions WALA to add this codicil to his will:
CHILDLESS
To facilitate transfer Roumania has consented to hand over to a. French group for 12 years three- quarters of the Stato levy in kind on Roumanian petroleum. 6er This guarantee is estimated to be worth from 90 to 100 million franes a year.
"Should she give, in public, any performance by way of acting, singing, dancing, play. ing any musical instrument or. giving any performance with a
WIFE'S
TRAGIC DEVOTION
CEMETERY CHAPEL AS. "REVOLTING” HORROR
Dean Says It Is Only Fit for
the Burial of an Ass
criti-
A REMARKABLE attack on sufficient a very little more would the local cemetery chapel is make is a holy place of beauty made by the Dean of Bocking and comfort. The powers-tlmt-bu (Essex), the Very Rev. Edgar need not fear that such expendi-
ture would expose them to Rogers.
cism, Writing in his magazine, hej
Undertakers' Charges Bays:
"It has been, I confess,
"Meanwhile, we urge that the asur bodies of Church people, reverenc- prise to me to find how rarely the bodies of the faithful departed as we do those bodies because, The Word was made flesh," should are brought to church on the way to burial-used as I have been in always be brought to church and other parishes to that most the heathen chapel at the cemetery Christian custom. I grieve that it avoided. is not usual, in Bocking, and I -Minister Husband grieve the more because the ceme-takers charge more if the body is "I am told that some under- Northwood Hills (Middlesex), Mar. 1.
tory chapel is wholly unsuitable taken to church. Very well, as a yet been com- YOUNG Congregational minister from Birmingham for any Christian rite.
told, in the West Middlesex coroner's court here to-
practical matter, patronise "It is ugly, devoid of any sorts who don't, and let us all 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.
which can suggest that glory of sheer Indecency of the present. The Rev, Herbert Alfred Hamil-
our faith the Resurrection of the cemetery chapel" Dead. 1 sny deliberately it is, in my opinion, an offence to any
The contract for the sale
this lovy has not
ploted. It is to be signed
Bukarest before April 1.
FINANCIAL RESOURCES
"Thought She Was A Drag"
of
A
in
agree
menta, which will come into forest, found; Charlie
the
Gains
Does Not Agree
those
or
The trade and financial
only when the contract has been Mill II, described how four days
decent Christian feeling, an insult Mr. C. J. Baker, chairman of the signed, provides that if Roumania
he ago
found his wife-fair Ands Anancial resources to cover Alice Winifred Hamilton, lying haired, twenty-six-years old Mrs.
to the departed, a needless aggra- Braintree and Bocking Council A Gold Medal vation of any mourner's grief and cemetery committee, when told of her armaments ordor, she can pay dend in front of a burning electric for these in three years, and thus fire in an empty house in Joel-
utterly unworthy of any com-the Dean's criticism, said: New York, Mar. 16. munity which cares for the honour regain free possession of
"I do not wish to enter into any coded portion of the petroleum six months of last year they had Nations Cinoma Committee in re-
Charlie Chaplin has been award- jand glory of God. street, Northwood Hills, where forled a gold medal by the League of
controversy with the Dean, but I Tevy
lived togethor.
"It might be, as so many ceme I take the view that if there is any certainly do not agree with him. The French Government has
eogaltion of his activities as an in-tery chapels are throughout the complaint to be made it should be granted Roumania a small increase marringe six years ago, his wife
He said that soon after their ternational screen figure.
country, a shrine of comfort and In Import quotas for maize, barley, had an operation which prevented fifty-three nations, voted and cortain dried vegetables.
The committee, which represents peace, where not only on the day ad either to my committee
to the council, her from having children.
of a burial the hearts of mourners tho award unanimously. The secre-
|might ́be `uplifted and the dread-1
"The chapel in question is on Specialist Caro
tary, notifying Mr. Chaplin, tolls ful sorrow of bereavement cased, cli building and dates back to the tion had to be performed, and three of the art of the cinema."-Reuter and reselection could unite adjust-years ago he left Birmingham and
and sacred apot, where prayer Mt. Rogers, who has been Dean menia with regard to commercial name to london to put his wife in
the of Barking since 1931, said: "Com- payments. Cash paymont for the care of a Harley-street specialist.
plaint has already been living and the dead.
made. French gorda aru reduced from She had been in consultation with ton had ever threatened to kill her-volting horror, it adds to suffer./the matter with the counell two "As it is, in its hideous and re-The Bishop of Chelmsford raised "The mental strain on her was "She sometimes made threats of a ing and offers no more reverence years ago, but nothing has been very severe," Mr. Hamilton ex theatrical kind when she was azeited than we would give to the burial done" plained. She was very disappoint-and feeling the need of me," Mr.of an ass. ed' that she could not have children Hemliten explained, "It was an in-
In addition, France undertakes,
to buy from Roumania a quantity
of petrol for aviation.
There are also certain
A few months later another opera: him he is "the greatest personalfe but all day and every day a tender/days of burial boards."
50 to 45 per cent. of their him ever since.
payment
on
sums
The coroner asked if Mrs. Jamil self.
value, and overdue from 10, to 6 per cont. Foreign currencies at the free dis- posal of Roumania, are increased and also brease she thought she verted way of saying that she loved ful. There is no need for such
It le utterly repellent and hate- HOLLYWOOD WEDDING from 40 to 50 por cent. These!
was being a drag on me with her me." various measures will procure an-
Illness other 20 to 22 million francs por drm,” has #diad,
Last September they separated disgrace. The coat of making It "We therefore adopted: two chil- largely on the advice of the specialist, decent would be infinitesimal--a
Hollywood (Californid), Mar, 6. Annum-Reuter.
She loved them The inquest was, adjourned for a halfpenny or a penny on the rates Moody; cinema actress. Georgo Lott Loster Staeffen married Miss Ruth very much indeed."
month.
for one single half year. would be was best man.
In every country of the world, people
of discerning taste
acknowledge
the
pre-eminence of
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