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H. G. WELLS' "THINGS TO COME"
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A DEAD DOCTOR REVEALS WHAT NURSES WON'T TELL! Kiguon G. Elackart's
The MURDER Harrigan
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FIRST
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RICARDO CORTEZ NARY ASTOR KAY LINAKER JOHN ELDREDGE
ma of the American Bengal Lancers'
THE TEXAS RANGERS
FRED MACMURRAY JACK DAKIE
•
JEAN PARKER ⋆ LLOYD NOLAN EDWARD ELLIS
A Paramount Picture Produced and directed by fling Vidor
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Murder Steals the Show! Famous star found dead at gela picture premiere...murdered in kis seat! How? Why? By whom?
Adolph Zukor
prezenta
The
PREVIEW Murder Mystery
A Paramount Pietera with
Reginald Danny » Francas Drake' Qall Patrick - Red Lefloque
FRANK CAPRA'S FIRST GREAT SUCCESS
WARREN WILLIAM MAY ROBSON
"LADY FOR A DAY" with
A Columbia Picture.
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U.S. TALKS PLANS WITH ECKENER
Washington, Oct. 7.
Mr. Daniel toper, Secretary of Commerce, disclosed to-day the Ad- ministration is considering subsidising a trans-Atlantic airship service and and he had discussed the scheme with Dr. Hugo Eckener, famous dirl gible designer and commander.
LEAGUE OFFENDS GERMANY
GENEVA CHARGED WITH PLOTTING TO DESTROY FRIENDSHIP.
Berlin, Oct. 7. There has been sharp criticism in German circles at the invitation of the League of Nations Council to the Poilsh Government to acck some means of settling the unsatisfactory state of affairs in Danzig.
OCTOBER
8, 1936.
Hopes For
Four Fliers
Are Revived
FAINT SIGNALS MAY BE FROM WOOD
".
Port Darwin, Oct. 7: Wenk radio signals picked up here to-day are believed to have come from Lord Sempill's Monospar plane, Croydon, being flown by Flight- Lieut. Wood and three companions on an attempt to break the England to Australia record.
The plane is overdue here and It was feared she was forced down in shark-infested Timor Sea. Now
possibility that she there is a
Timor Island.--Reuter Junded on
Bulletin Service.
has
"The development is being con- sidered tentatively on the same basis as American shipping is promoted, provised the Government will aid Birt in construction and operation, the service would be operated as a private enterprise, with private empl- ial, commercially invested," he said.
Dr. Eckener has completed his in- spection of the proposed terminal altea, In Baltimore, Morristown, N.J.. Alexandria, Va.--United Pressible for the removal of Mr. Sean lahabad to-morrow-Reuter Bulletin
Shorter Hours For Seamen
DEMANDS DISCUSSED
AT GENEVA
Geneva, Oct. 7. The International Labour organisa- flon's international maritime confer- ¡ence opened to-day, seeking to pre- pare for a world-wide agreement for the Improvement of saltors' working conditions,
I sugested
the men
work
It is claimed the Council's request alms at disrupting the friendly re- lations between Germany and Poland.
JEAN BATTEN AT KARACHI London, Oct. 7,
Miss Jean Betten, flying solo to Herr Grelser, President of the Dan-New Zealand, landed at Karachi at zig Assembly, who in the past has 2 p.m. to-day and continues to Al- defied the League and who is respon-
Lester.
High Commissioner
of Danzia has. written
Jetter 10 Geneva
་་
protesting =fzainst the Secretary-General having called the debate on the situation at such short notice. Danzig The warning was so little as to make It impossible for him to send a dele- Kate to the League meeting, he said.- Reuter Bulletin Service.
AVIATOR DOWN IN ATLANTIC
shorter hours, be given sickness in- RESCUED BY FRENCH
surance and paid vaentions.
Delegates representing 28 nations, controlling (2 per cent, of the world's merchant tonnage. were present. Germany and Italy were the only important maritime nations missing.
United Press.
TRAWLER
Londen, Oct. 1, Fears that the Attantie had cisim- ed another were dispelled Inst night by the receipt of a radio message that the French trawler Imbrin, efT the west coast of Ireland, had picked
LONDON BUSMEN up the Swedish aviator, Bjørkväll.
ON STRIKE
THIRTY BUS ROUTÈS- PARALYSED
London, Oct. 0. Some 1,000 businen struck sudden- ly in London to-day, paralysing 30 bus routes.
The strike is unofficial, and arose over it service aiteratión on ono route. Six garnges are closed and 659 buses which should be running
nut
the streets-fruter Spectai.
are
SPAIN'S ENVOYS IN BRITAIN
London, Oct. 7. Two envoys sent by the Spanish Government attended the Labour Party Conference at Edinburgh to- day and addressed the delegates.
Following an uppent which they made against what they alleged to lie one-sided operation of the non- Intervention agreement, the National Council of Labour met this afternoon and
It was announced later Major Attlee and Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Leader and Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, were going to London to try to see Mr. Neville Chamberlain in the absence of the Prime Minister, with a view to laying before him the statement made by the Spanish envoys.→→ British Wireless.
BIG PROFIT IN DEVALUATION
The
Paris, Ocl. B. Goverment's. devaluation profit Amounts 10 17,000,000,000 franes, of which 10,000,000,000 is now to be devoted to the Stabilisa- tion Fund, 4,000,000,000 is carmarked to repay the Government's current account debt to the Bank of France and the remainder is beltig advanced to Credit Foncier to reduce interest rates on loans.
Nothing is allotted to armaments. -United Press.
BRITISH HELP APPRECIATED
London, Oct. 7. The United States Ambassador in London has delivered a note ex- pressing the thanks of his Govern- ment for the. assistance rendered by the British Government to the United States Consul at Vigo and his family during the recent disturbances in Spain.
The British Minister in Caracas hns received. note from
the Venezuelan Foreign Minister cx- pressing the gratitude of his Govern- ment for assistance rendered to Venezuelan nationals in Spain. | British Wireless,
An eight-year-old boy named Chol Sing, of Pak Ting village, Shamshiu- po, has been sent to the Kowloon Hospital suffering from fractures of the right arm and leg received through falling down, the hillside near Talpo Head,
Service.
Ekins Speeds Eastward
LEADS COMPETITORS BY- 4,000 MILES
Rangoon, Oct. 7.
"Bud" Eklas, the New York World- Telegram representative, lending the round-the-world air race by about 4,000 miles,
He landed at Mingaladon aero- drome at 3.50 p.m. to-day, far ahead of his rivals. Miss Dorothy Kilgallen, International News, and Leo Kieman of the New York Times, who have been delayed.
of
Ekins covered the 1,850 miles from Jodhpur in 10 hours 16 minutes,
Miss Kilgallen and Klernon land- at Gaza at 8.10 a.m. and proceed- to Baghdad at 10.12
a.m.
c'd
Ekins' average speed has been 102 York, and his rivals are doing a mere hour since he left New miles per
were, up to Alexandrin.--
00-or United Press.
He left New York on Tuesday at 7.30 to fly to Stockholm and no word of him had been received since his departure
from until the message the Imbrin came through.
Bjorkvall. left behind the Baroness
Blixen-Flecke,
waa who scheduled to fly the been with him.
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London, Oct. 7.
The Board of Trade Index อ She watched him leave, in tears, wholesale prices shows an increase The airman feared the passenger's in September of, 0.9 per cent. com- extra weight would be fatol to his pured with August and 7.3 per cent. adventure. Reuter,
over a year ago-British Wireless,
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and
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H.M.S. HOOD: DELAYED'
London, Oct. 7.
London, Oct. 7. On the prospects of larger recovery It is anticipated that HMS. Hood from the movement taking shape for will all on Saturday morning next the freeing of international trade, and from Portsmouth for the Mediter encouraged by the Chancellor of the ranean. Last Thursday. Hood left Exchequer's speech last night in the Portsmouth for the Mediterranean but city, markola were active to-day, developed a slight defect in her Gold advanced to 142 shilings, the machinery and had to return to highest price for twelve months. Portsmouth for repairs. British
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