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HALROACH STUDIOS Present
LAUREL
OLIVER
HARDY Way Out
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WEDNESDAY
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
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"BOSKO & LITTLE CANNIBALS"
"RACKETEERS IN EXILE"
Columbia Picture with George Bancroft - Evelyn Veuable - Wynne Gibson
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MARLENE
DIETRICH
Angel
BERDEST
MARSHALL MELVYNUOUGLAS
Produced auf Wiersted by ERNST
LUBITSCH
WEDNESDAY
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"MERRY-GO-ROUND
OF 1938"*
Bart Lahr -
Jimmy Savo Billy House
Mischa Auer
Alice Brady & Universal's Now Find, Joy Hodges
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ORIENTAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Trade Curve
Decline NowTM Seems Ended
Now Confidence In Investment Needed
New York, Jan. 2. There are some signs that the trade declina curve is flattening out, cording to the monthy letter issued by the National City Bank of New York.
Commodity markets are firmet, evidently reflecting the actual needs
MONDAY, JANUARY
FRENCH AVIATRIX MISSING
Maryse Hilse Long Overdue At Basra
Attempting To Beat Record
Basra, Jan. 2. Mlle. Maryse Hilse is missing. because there is no change in the The gallant young French prevailing policy to keep down for-aviatrix, who is attempting a
ward commitments..
The Bank is unable to predict, however, whether the Improvement will continue or bait the decline of employment and income.
1998.
12 Per Cent Of U.S. Adults Out Of Work
Huge Sum May Be` Needed In Relief
Washington, Jan. 2.
An analysis of the United States un- employment figures reveals that ap- proximately 12 per cent, of the adult population is jobless. The current alump has bit the Eastern man- ufacturing areas and the Oregon and Washington timber arcus the hardest. significantly affect the relief section It is expected that the figures will of President Roosevelt's Congress record-breaking flight from Sal-į message since unemployement, gen to Paris, was last seen over coupled with business recession, may
force a request for Jask at 4.16 a.m. G.M.T. She reliet, shattering hopes of balancing $2,000,000,000 has not arrived here and is long the budget. overdue.
lier plane carries no wireless.
Reuter.
It is recalled that last year in the Many hope the situation may be restored without a dimeult and pain
face of widespread demands for $3,- ful adjustment, but nothing short of
000,000,000 President Roosevelt re- a great surge of confidence in invest-
Mlle. Hilse left Saigon at 1.54 a.m.quested that $1,500,000,000 be appor- ment will make this possible..M.T. on December 31, according toned to relief. It is generally ex- Reuter,
to a Rangoon message from Reuter pected that this will be whittled in nn
an attempt to break the record to
down to $1,000,000,000 this year. Paris.
United Press.
H.K. Tanker Wins Free From Reef
Toorak Was Never In Danger
נתי
Information has been received that the Hongkong-owned oil tanker Toorak,
route from Cebu to Palemburg, Dutch East Indies, has been successfully refloated after being aground for over a week on Tam- bollan Island..
The Toorak was relloated during the high tide on the night of Decem- ber 31, with the assistance of the Salvage tum Trabajador, which was despatched from Manila to assist the lanker.
The Toorak, which is under, char- fer to the Standard-Vacuum O} Company, is owned by the Standard Transportation Company Ltd., of Hongkong. She arrived in Far Eastern waters from the United States in mid-December, with a full cargo of oils for Manila. She dis- charged her cargo at Manila and Cebu and was proceeding in ballast to the Dutch East Indies when she ran ground on a coral reef.
The ship was never in any danger and Captain J. Gant, the master, and the 30 officers and crew remained aboard.
The Toorak is a three-masted steel tanker classified as 100 A-1 nt Lloyd's. She was bullf in 1927 by Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow and is registered here..
Italy Listens To First BBC. Arabic Talks
Ronte, Jan. 2. Arable-speaking Italian Govern- ment stenographers will be among those listening in to the first B.B.C. Arabic broadcast from London at p.m. to-day. They will take down of the broadcast for the Culture Popul
Minister, Signor Dino Alfieri, who controls the gigan- tic machinery of Fascist propaganda and counter-propaganda.
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Arabic
The B.B.C. reply to the broadcasts from Barl is described here as opening a war in the ether against Italy.
Italy has been one of the most active nations broadcasting to foreign countries, employing 14 languages with a dally total duration of 11% hours, not counting the programmes for italian colonies and Italians resident abroad. The Arabic brond- cast from Barl lasts 39 minutes. while the B.B.C. broadenst Is 15 minules-Router.
Clipper Hops For Home
Reaches Pagopago From Auckland
Auckland, Jan. 2. The South Pacific Air Servico Inaugural return night commenced to-day when the Samoan Clipper, of the Pan-American Airways meet, hopped off from Auckland on the first section of the route to the States.
United
The
Clipper has now been reported nt Pagopago, in the Samoan Islanda. She carried a big load of mail us well as a rug of New Zealand wool, a gift of the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, to President Roosevelt.- Reuter.
FRANCO-SOVIET TRADE PACT EXTENDED
Moscow, Jan. 2.
The provisional trade agreement' between Soviet Russia and Franco which has been operating since 1936,
been extended to cover
has
on the same terms-Reuter,
1936
She was last reported at Alyab. Mile, Hilse left Salgon first on December 24, but an engine defect | forced her down at Bangkok and she returned her starting point. Her own record for the outward voyage three days, 20 hours, 21 minutes, und this she proposed to better,
STOP PRESS
Coga Starts War On Jews
Proved Patriots, Women, Children, Won't Be Injured
Bucharest, Jan. 2. Jews crowded the synagogues to hear the cantors sing "Has Chivenu," a chant reserved for times of great persecution. Apparently, Premier Octavian Coga's” action in suppress- ing Jewish
Payanda has brow emministic
a swift Jewish
| religious revival, and simultaneously
have
a business slump. Jewish merchants
reased ordering and
liquidating their stocks.
are
M. Coga is preparing to place the Jews in categories. Firstly there will he war veterans, and women
and children who are "worthy citizens," who will remain unmolested; second- ly, will be those who "for good reasons" participated in the war, These cases will be considered individually. Thirdly, war slackers and
post-war immigrants will be
listed, and for therm repressive measures will be introduced.
Polish diplomats have Indicated they are pleased with Prime Minister Coga, especially with his opposition to collaboration with Russia. How- ever, it is feared M. Cogn may be strongly pro-German.—United Press.
U.S. Strength Insufficient
Roosevelt, Army And Navy_Men-Agree-
Washington, Jan. 2. During 1937 the United States army reached its highest .degree of efficiency. However, neither Presi dent Roosevelt nor the Navy and War Departments are satisfied with the present strength of the United States
Aghting services. In 1937 the Navy Department commissioned 24 ships, including an aircraft carrier, three cruisers, 15 destroyers and five submarines, and is expected that at least an equal number will be commissioned 1938.
It is
in
In addition the Navy Depart ment is rushing the construction of the super-dreadnoughts, North Caro- Ina and Washington, while President Roosevelt has indicated that he might request two more vessels of this type. It is expected that the Navy ap- propriation will be about $576,000,000, while It is understood President Roosevelt has approved of the Army appropriations amounting to more than $500,000,000,--Unied Press.
DEATH
:
D'ALMADA E CASTRO-Reverend SISTER ANITA, at the Italian Convent, Caine Road, yesterday at 9.45 a.m. Aged 89 years. Funeral will pass the Monument this afternoon at 5.30 p.m.
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Produced by B. G. DE SYLVA CHARLES'N, ROGERS
WEDNESDAY
A Paramount Picture
MARLENE DIETRICH in "ANGEL " Herbert Marshall-- Molvyn Douglas
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Jeanette
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JANET GAYNOR FREDRIC MARCH
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EDWARD G.
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