THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,
1936.
Deacon Indicts Vestry "Veneer of Piety" FOOTBALL RESULTS BEFORE SERVICE
All deacons are not decorous. Some are guilty of levity. They discuss football results in the vestry with ministers. :
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They smoke their pipes at deacons 'meetings-and
knock them out on the church railings afterwards.
They talk of hasiness, or even lighter matters, up to the mai ment of rutry into church, Then they assume that prenčíne cenery, of picly rehich anin dracuns van assume.
Those indictments were uttered recently by Mr. J. B. Gatts, dencon in a London church, when he addressed the mutuan a*- sembly of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, af Birmingham.
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would urge." declared Me pipe on the church railings, and I
10 to se
rafnister Hght Golls, "The linert care over sune vencion An
cigarette after a service before rest movin ht: cover. I have KILL that on many occasions
sepler,
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"SCARCELY FIT"
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siravetes as they arrived one by one, engaged in converrations that zemrendy » di prelude to the sphere of the sanctuary
-Minklers should decentrage all this kind of thing in the vestry in- mediately before service.
"Home deacons mrrings leave much to be desired. I was asked to go to a meeting of dracons at a church where they had been squabbling for the Just year or so. i went. I had made up my mind that we would get into an almo- sphere of prayer. When I went I found both minister an deacons kmoking!
like in smulte myself, but I do not believe in smoking at learns meetings. Nor do I like to sew
out his minister or deacon knock
Stan Laurel's
Woman Friend
PAYMENTS TO HIS SECOND WIFE ORDERED
Hollywood, Nov. 15. URING the bearing of his seconil
Dwife maintenance suit in the Hollywood Courts
to-lay, Stan
Laurel, of the "Baurel and Hordy" lm partnership, admitted the exist ence of a woman friend.
He agreed that he had given this weman, whose name he refused to reveal, presents, including a watch, j ring, and bracelet.
Pending the trini-of-his-wife's de mand for ulimony of £250 a month.; and Laurel's counter-sult for divorce, į
the court awarded Mrs. Laure! £400
to cover outstanding hills, £150
ber
TRADESMEN'S DEBTS "If I were enlied to be would certainly bra somslang from j huh premtes,”
churchy trol
Mr. Gotts stąd that should we any (money « to indesmen. The elemenas of |church. must Jes known for trustworthiness and honesty,
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17122 are handling unpleas money," said Mr. Gotts, "ant pain teel that you cannot relinquish 42, for God's salce 'rexign the diocinate
straight away."
Mr. Golts said that these shotalet complete unity between deacons. The Rev. L. F. Couke, of Galley, Bishop Cheshire, said: "When the
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et firmitushain, addressing the vans fereure nn Tuesday neked The question, Where Is the Nonco1}=
I thought I de format consetence? tected something of a shr in those words, but then 1 thought to myself. Let them try here what they have tried in Germany. Let then try here to subordinate the chutches the State and
to introduce pulsory military training as they have done over there. Then you will ree where the Nonconformist con- selence i
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Gossip
and
the
The five men and two women established commercial aviation history when they boarded the plant Ha- alan Cipper of the Pan American Airways at Alamé da, Calif., for the first commercial flight across the Pacific to Manila. Left to right: R, F. Bradley, San Francisco: Colonel Charles Bartley, Chicago; Mr. Clarn don, Stroudsburg, Pa.; Wilbur May, Los Angeles; Thomae Fortune Ryan III, San Francisco; Alfred Ben-
nett, Cranberry, N, J.; Men. Zeta Averin, Aberdeen, Wash.
KRÁKATOA DISASTER
READER WHO SAW DAY
TURN INTO NIGHT
OF
DEVASTATION
From A Correspondent:
London, Nov. 8.
RADIO BROADCAST
A Talk on the Early Days of Cricket
THE CONTINENTAL TRIO
ftantia Programme Broadcast by
metres (9.52 (845 k.c's.), 3140 megacycles).
12.30 pm. Dance Music.
Time and Weather.
WITHIN a few hours of publication of the Radio Won Wavelength of 355 metres
Correspondent's statement that the B.B.C. is looking
for an eye-witness of the Krakatoa volcanic cruptions, 1 p.m. ta
near Java, in 1883, one was found.
com-
Mr. Cooke sadd that some of the idiflruities experienced by Congregu-
Hosal churches uruse from the fact that they had opened their doors to ail and sundry who wished to come | in----however lightly they held the
faith,
"It is to our shame,” he said, "that very often these people have entered our churches merely with the desk of being members of the, Church' Dra- matic Sorlety."
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1.63 p.m. Beatrice Harrison ('Cello) and Arthur de Greet (1lanoforte),
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Weather. Time and Announce-
He is Mr. Robert James Dally, of Igewich Road, Culchester, who watched the catastrophe from the hyrque Hope, of Liver- pool, in the Straits of Sunda, and still possesses his dischargements.
pupera.
This evening Mr. Dalby graphically described to me is harrowing experiences of 53 years ago-survival from death in one of the most celebrated disusters of the century,
"I was in the barque, 15 miles away, in Anjer Bay, near Juva Head, at the entrance to the Sunda Strait. The Hope belonged to Eales and Co.. and had a Welshman, Mr. Davis, as captain," he said.
Blue-Eyed Blonde
Seeking A Husband
I kit all day
Giring agreeable girls away. With one for him_and_our_for_be, And one for you and one for ye.
From Iolanthe
month for support, plus a farther HERE is a verse Mr. II. A. G. Stevens, chairman of Weymouth magistrates and superintendent-registrar of the town, might £1,800 for lawyers' fees.
appropriate for his theme song.
£30 a month, £150 court costs, and
for
Mrs.
During this period Laurel is permitied to spend £600 a month for living expenses, £100 for
£500 and court costs. lawyers' fees. During
hearing to-day's Laurel said that her husband had told her he no longer loved her, and suggested she get a divorce because he had married her only to spite his first wife, whom he really hand loved,
U.S. POPULATION
IN 1965 PLACED
PALACE WEDDING PRESENT TO NURSE
Budapest, Nov. 10. Count Paul Degenfeld, AT 142 MILLION rich Hungarian landowner, was operated on last year! in the Debreczn hospital.
Anna Керея, one of the
Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 15.
America's population will reach a maximum of 142,000,000 in 1989 and
then drop approximately 4,000,000 nurses looked after him well.
in the next 15 years to 1980,,accord- | Hy remembered and was grate-
to Prof. E. F. Penrose, economist ful. and population expert of the Uni- versity of California,
To-day.
Ana Kepes
Was
the married to a doctor from the Penrose Ands that while American population and birth rate hospital.
is still increasing, nevertheless fertility is on the decline.
Its
She received a surprise wed- ding present from her old The two things that are keeping patient-one of his Budapest up the American increase in popu fation, Penrose says, are its present palacus, worth about £10,000.
high birth rate and the large immi- gration in the past.
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by the
Trotsky Becomes
The
In 35 years Mr. Stevens has mar- ried 3,009 couples. Now he has aj marriage problem well out of the ordinary. It began with this let- ter:-
Mr. Stevens, dear Sir,-1 won- der if you could find me some
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nice man who, like myself, is in need of a good companion. am 38 years of age. fair hair and blue eyes and considered at- traclive. I an enclosing à soup
the rocks un
taken Portland. I have been to Wey- mouth several times on holiday, and I should litte to live there. am not a native of Bolton, and
"DARKER. AND DARKER" "For some time we had
heard rumbling in the distance. It was Monday morning with the heat rat-
Between ing everything.
nine and ten there was a curious mur- kiness about the atmosphere ond gradually 11 became darker and darker. At midday it was black,
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1.40 p.m. The London Philharmo- nic Orchestra.
2.15 p.m. Close Dawn.
4-7
p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Russian Music,
Sleep my Baby; Moscow: Ballet from "Koulek Gurburick": On the Volga River: The Volga Boatman; Caucosin (Wanoff); Russian Pot- pourri (Michailowsky).
7.15 p.m.
From the Studio. A Talk on "Safety First," by Major C. M.
M. Manners, o...
7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock pitch quotations and Hongkong Exchange
| Market Report.
"I had been raining sulphur dust which dried our skins, and we could scarcely see or breathe. The wind rose to a hurricane such as Jad never experienced, Wo could not walk about the deck without clutching something. "The decks were covered with inches of this dust. Then there were flashes of lightning and thunder of uncanny screwAVE
TIDAL
sce
The Continental Trio.
7.35 p.m. From the Studio.
4.
1. A prefly girl is Bite u melody; Piano Solo; Only my song: 3. These foolish things; 5. Rhythm Love in my Nursery Rhymes; ศ.
Piano Salo; 1. made the song; 7. When I'm with you.
8 pm. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.
8.03 pm A Light Concert Song: I'm a Roamer (Mendels-
"About mid-day there was terrifle bang, the loudest noise I had solin) parke Malcolm McEachern
have ever heard. There was an (Bass); Song-Gentle Zephyrs (Jen enormous tide, and, by the light of Ben). Esale Ackland (Contralto); the lightning we could
fer Planoforte Solo "Die water!
Fledermaus" racing past us and bringing down Du und Du (J. Strauss).
Ernst von with it all kinds of debris, and trees, maid (arr. Kennedy-Fraser).
Dohnany!: Song-The Island Herd- Pieces looking like 1slands Hewa
Joseph Hislop, (Tenor); Song-An past.
"Gradually there came a kind of Island Shelling Song (ur. Kennedy Joseph Hislop (Tenor); twilight about five o'clock. There ker was a tremendous tidal wave, and, Violin Solo-Londonderry Air (arr.
Kreister).
..Fritz Kreisler; Song- if one of our cables, had paried. Il rest should not have been here.
(Tost)....Eva Turner
"It cleared up-next day-and the
Fraser).
8.30 p.m. London--The B. B. C. Sumatra coast, once beautiful with Dance Orchestra.
trees and mountains, was desert.
now #
Was
"On both sides everything destroyed. The line of palms and Casuarinas had disappeared. The whole place was unrecognisable."
The appeal had been made to Bud speaker for the "I Was There" series.
I myself belong to the south. an not seeking a fortune. Str. Stevens is obliging. He made known the writer's wish. He has 66. heen kept busy ever since dealing with applicants.
He said: "All the replies seem to
he genuine. One man says he has
£1,800. Another is retired naval; officer.
9.20
9 p.m. Loncion-News and An- nouncement.
p.m.
"Marching with Sonen" played by the land of H. M. Gremidler Guards,
9.30 p.m. From the Studio, The First of a Series of Talks on The Early Days of Cricket," by R. Aħbit,
9.15 p.m. The London Plano-
"Gadget Mind" Accordeon Band.
Danger
"I shall introduce her to a busi- LORD DAWSON'S WARNING ness man, a bachelor, who will, I'
TO BOYS think, make her a good husband, If they marry I will give them a
Cheltenham, Nov. 5. The danger of the gadget mind wedding breakfast as a present."
was referred to by Lord Dawson of Penn when he opened the new biological laboratories at Cheltenham College to-day.
to
cance
have
to-u
Campus Moon; The Cubalero; Six Fit Medley No. 1: At the Cluse of a long, long day; Diddle-Dum-Dee. 10 p.m. London-Big Ben, "The Dweller in the Darkness" by Production by Reginald Berkely. Jalin Pudney. (Electrical Record. ing).
10.16 Variety.
Song-It's Like Reaching for the Moon....Franels Langford; Vocal Attempt To Cross
Solitude....The Mills Brothers Band -Six Hits of the Day....Frimo Canada By Canoe The laboratories comprise 14 sec- Scula's Accordeon Band: Yodelling tious, dealing with physics, chemis Song-The Yodelling Mouth Organ
Player
George Van Dusen: Vochi Fort McMurray (Alberta),,
try, and biology, They are named
Warner Duct-The Legionaires..... Fertility, as represented
ose Marie. Nov. 5.
after an oid Cheltonian--Dr. Adrian
and Darnell; Song-Rose actual number of births. Penrose
Name Of Shame Paddling desperately in an effort to Wilson, the Antarctic explorer who Charles Kullman (Tenor); Organ finds, is failing in the. United States
reach Fort Chipewyan, on Lake perished with Scott, the result of several
You Causes.
Among Russians Athabasca, before winter bars their
Imitless opportunities," Solo Serenade....Quentin M. Mac- Lean; Vocal-Knock, Knock, Who's These are restricted immigration, birth control, late marringes
way, two young men from New York sald Lord Dawson to the boys, "You
There?....The Rocky Mountaineers; and
Mostow. Nov. 15, ---M Sheldon Taylor and Mare going to live in a time of great fumorous-He hadn't up till yester economic insecurity, which tend to
Home "Trotsky," formerly Geoffrey Pope-have Ieft Fort progress, and you are going to see day....Sophie Tucker; Dulcimer restrict large families.
common in Russia, has become un- McMurray
down thevur lives
great extent trana-Solo--Leobner March....Old Styrlan formed. Get down to it, and you Hackbrett; Voenl-Wandering Shoes Even
the present Imungra- popular since repudiation by the Athabasca River. should
Stalin regime of the former Bulsho- The two men are half-way through will be rewarded later on It is a Hon restrictions be modified to per-
The Hill Billies: Double Planos mit 50,000 more immigrants yearly vik leader.
one of the longest and most arduous funny thing to watch the rising Fox Trot Medley....Ivor, Moreton up to 1040 and 100,000 after that in-
generation to-day and its over- The Soviet press frequently prints canoe trips ever attempted.
and Dave Kaye.
11 p.m. Close Down. They left New York five months whelming interest in things mechant- definitely, he says that the population petitions (legal requirement for the BE111 would start to decline in 1070.
change
of name by persons desiring go, and have puddled along the St. cal-motors, cinemas, wireless, and that
year it is estimated that the drop
very healthy DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES the Trotsky
Lawrence River, across the Great aeroplanes. That is 1 Atypical advertisement population would reach a maximum
in the Lakes and through the maze of rivers interest. It makes handy people.
The following war-lengths und frequencies But there fan certain amount of of 140,000,000, but with a drop of Evening Moscow rend:
and lakes of Manitoba, Saskatchewan
are såserved by Daventry, 2,000,000
Wavelength "Trotsky, Ivan Ivanovitch, born and Alberta. whhin
Their ultimate goal is risk in what I call the development the next two years.
of the gadget mind. There is risk 1897 in village Nerodi of Mogilev Nome, Alaska.. The problem which population
They will winter at Chipewyan, that the gadget mind, when it grows experts have not been able to solve, Province, residing in Moscow, wishes
name to exchange his family
for and from there will continue their up, may mean a restless, unreflective, Penrose says, is whether this inevit- able drop in population will prove_ji
Svetloy."
journey in the spring. They had unemotional adult." detriment to national welfare. In An equally understandable change hoped when they began their trip to was requested by Alexei Matveevlich reach Nome next spring, but the most the event it does, he points out that northwestern Europe and Australia Beznosikov.
incans formidable part of their journey still will have the same problem to face.
lies before them.-Reuter. "noseless."
In
one
to
Beznesikov
Speaking of the medical pro- tension, Lord Dawson said that it was very over-crowded and likely to be so for same time.
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