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Miriam HOPKINS MEN ARE not GODS
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EDDIE CANTOR
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MYRNA LOY "Whipsaw
SPENCER TRACY
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 9,
1938.
STOP PRESS
America's Employment Increases
First Signs Of Spring Recovery
Washington, Mar. 0. Based on the preliminary reports from 24 elites, the American Fedora- that tion of Labour has estimated
January and employment late in early in February gained six-tenths per cent. This is the first gain for seven months.
ITALIAN PRIESTS KILLED IN
CHENGCHOW RAID
Chengchow, Mar. 9.
CRUISE
LINER ARRIVES
Despite thick weather, the glant Canadian Pacific round-the-world
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN AD KOWIgor PARYAT 15STEDEFON KARWERTY
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
liner Empress of Britain slipped THE STORY THE WORLD WANTS TO KNOW" through Lyemun Pass this morning Child Brides! Lash Laws! Witch-craft Vengeance!
and by 9.30. a.m. was manoeuvring
in mid-harbour to get alongside the Kowloon pler.
n
And despite the pouring rain, and shrinking newspapermen crowd of coolles waited on the dock to meet her.
The
may not have realised it, but From Flint comes the report that!
Two Italian priests are reported to decks mangers who lined the ship's Buick Motors have increased their have been killed yesterday morning at just about the time the vessel was by Japanese creeping to her berth weather history working week to a total of four days, when a borib dropped by Julie was being made in Hongkong. Hait
fell for five minutes at 9,50 a.m. and that the production units are plance on Chengcow hit
Captain W. B. Busk-Wood, R. D., now 16,000 a month. Some 12,000 Church outside the western city gate.
Taking advantage of the clear sky Commodore of the Canadian Pacific employees work 30, instead of 24: hours a week, and all this is regarded after a night's snowfall, 12 Japanese fleet, commands the ship.
city at dawn.
The 42,300-ton craft remains here as the first signs of Spring recovery. planes attacked
They rained some 40 bombs at various -United Press.
¡places. About 30 of the missiles were until Monday next, when she sails
Rail-
for Munila at 5 p.m. aimed at the Felping-Hankow
and
Railway the Lunghal way
killing three civilians and unding several others. Two bomba | londed at the Cathedral Church at Cheng Hsin Street,
ROYALTY TO VISIT GLASGOW SLUMS
the
London, Mar. 8. Hardly had the squadron of raiders | The King and Queen are visiting departed than a second squadron of special areas in South Glasgow after three planes came over. But these in, only reconnoitred over the elty. No opening the Empire Exhibition May, in order to study conditions of Lomby were dropped.-Central News. distress in the districts.-Renter Bulleti
HITLER
RECEIVES
HERBERT HOOVER
Berlin, Mar. 8.
Herr Adolf Hitler, German Chan- cellor, to-day received Mr. Herbert Hoover. former United States Pre- sident, and the United States Am- bassador-United Press.
YANGTSE COMMANDER COMING TO COLONY
Hankow, Mar. 9. Near-Admiral Merquart, cominan- Yangise der of the United States patrol since February, 1037, is leaving by air for Hongkong to-day, en route to America.-Reuter.
CREW REFUSES TO CARRY WAR GOODS
Houston, Mar. 8.
The crew of the Norwegian freigh- ter, Fern Lane, has gone on strike as a protest against taking scrap iron
to Japan for war purposes,-United
Preas.
TOURISTS!
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OUR
Twins
Lawsuit
lf
New York.
husband admits the paternity
of one twin, then the other is also his child, ruled Judge Beck in a re- markable case in the Circuit Court
from Shakca-
at Lake Andes, South Dakota,
The judge quoted peare's "King John":
TO
JOSEPHINE
HUTCHINSON GEO. BRENT
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE
wder GUY KIRKEK - MONA
· BAUZIE • GORENT BARRAT
Warner Bros. Expres The Secrets st.
„The Mountains!
Directed by Michael Curtiz A First National Pinture.
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Warner Bros. Pictura
"THE PERFECT SPECIMEN”. ERROL FLYNN - JOAN BLONDELL
QUEENS
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SHOWING TO-DAY
Sirrah, your brother is legii-NEVER SUCH LAUGHS! NEVER SUCH LOVE !
male,
Your father's wife did after
wedlock bear him;
And if she did play false, the
fault was hers:
Which fault lies on the hazards
of all husbands
That marry wives.
At an earlier trial before another judge, the husband said that his wife admitted making the acquaintance of "a men across the hall."
Doctors said there was a Ilkell- hood that the twins had different fathers.
The husband won his divorce, but got no ruling on the paternity of his children until yesterday, when Judge Beck awarded the twins to their mother on the ground that they could not be legally illegitimate it born in wedlock.
When Bob Falls For MARION, It's THRILLING I
But When He Falls For TWO MARIONS, it's HILARIOUS!
MARION DAVIES MONTGOMERY
Toe pretty to holds job...but how she could bold a usa
EVER SINCE EVE
FRANK
MCHUGH PATSY KELLY 'ALLEH JENKINS
› CHEMOPOLITAN -
FRICTION
As astbar falf of iginal ideas abo! everything at worki
Presented by Warner Bros. A Firat Nastojat Kiotura Directed by Lloyd Becan Hey by Lawrenon Riley, Bart Baldwin & Lille Hayward » From u Story by Alacséret 1,0 à Grens Baker
PERSONALITY CALLED INBORN NEXT CHANGE
Cleveland.
The pleasing personality that in- fluences people is born, not made, belleves Dr. Howard W. Haggard, professor of applied psychology at Yale University. P'ersonality genlus are inborn, he said.
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"Then, after fakingafinës easily in the afte goes home in th taking care to arra so that he arrives in the children have heë bed."
The brave man was Mr. S. H. Wood, discussing problems fecting women's education in the Empire.
He exploded another myth: "There is the idea that it is the poor man who is always so desperately tired and who has had a tiring day, and that it is always the woman in the home: times out of ten the reverso is
Mrs. Tara Bai objected the case.
imposition of a British "Usually one finds that, after education on the Indian a quiet morning the man rings She said that she herself up his friend John and says: been taught all about "What about a spot of lunch" daffodils and snow, alt They go to lunch together and she had never seen any take a long time over it.
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