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SUPPORT FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS, OR
WAR THAT WILL END CIVILISATION General Smuts Says Only Two Alternatives Ahead of World To-day
THE "THIN MAN" AND HIS WIFE ARE BACK IN HONGKONG AGAIN
World's
Greatest
Menace
THE THIN MAN and his wife-William Powell and
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Myrna Loy-return to the
King's Theatre to-day in M. G. M's "Double Wedding", another inimitable comedy by the world's greatest husban (-wife team.
England Again Succeeds In International Spelling Bee
C-A-M-A-R-A-D-E-R-I-E WAS JUST ONE OF THE WORDS
London.
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ATEST news from the Transatlantic (Broadcast) Spelling Bee War Front-Great Britain won the second battle against America recently by 37 points to 27. The word which tripped most spellers on both sides was RHODODENDRON..
Miss Fabia Drake, the actress, who said she could not spell f-l-o-w-e-r-s anyway, spelt it r-h-o-d-o-d-e-n-d-r-u-m.
Miss Sara Haden, her actress opponent in America, failed with r-h-o-d-o-d-c-n-d-r-u-m, while Miss Margaret Baynes (Britain's secretary). after three false starts, managed to get two h's into- it-r-h-h-o-d-o-d-e-n-d-r-on.
(one inistake):
Both Miss Dfake and Miss Haden! Ass Margaret Baynes, secretary slipped-up un termagani, Miss Drake preferred "termagent." to Miss Haden's "termigant."
Neither of the military representa- tives could spell camaraderie. Lient.- Colonel J. H. Gettings, of the British Army, come out with "camadarie," white Colonel Barnell spelt it
"comaraderie.”
"BLOODY BUT UNBOWED "
30 points
Verdaney, Ambrosis. Reconnais- sance, Panorama, Termagant,
Rhhododendron.
Mr. Howard Marshall, broadcaster (all correct):
Crocus, Demonstrable, Clavichord, Calligraphy, Abolitionist,
Four-Year-Old Knows All
JEAN KATHLEEN DEMERS,
aged four, of Tracadie, Nova Scotia would be an asset in any "spelling bee."
Asked what was the capital of Dutch Guiana, when the Suez Canal was opened and by whom
was built, who was Woodrow TURIST Wilson, and who was the greatest baseball player, she answered correctly without the slightest hesitation.
Jean's mother attributes her daughter's quickeness to her per- petual inquisitiveness.
X-Ray Hunt For Pyjama Pimperel
Prison-Breaker Eludes Police Of Two Countries
London. Scotland Yard detectives are *Camodaric, still searching for the man who Mr. Bernard Darwin, athlete (all bluffed his way out of Brixton
Licut-Colonel 3, 11. Gettins. soldier (one mistake):
Acumen Gauging,
Diocese, Commingle.
(all
At the end of the third round. when the score was: Britain 22, America 15, the Americans announced correct): that their heads were "bloody but
Chastisement, Gemmation, Camura- unbowed."
derie, Exhort, Endocrinology. Ar the end of the fourth round Mr. J. E. Klick, schoolboy (Britain was
up, to correct); America's 21) the Americans boasted Dahlia, Fauns, Harpy, Verdigris that their heads were "still un- Hydrant. bowed,"
Mr. D. A. J. Buxton, banker (all correct):
Revivify, Tantamount, Troglodyic, Audient, Velnous.
Str Jolin Squire, author all
Accrue, Finceld, Ricochet, Ululate, Antrum,
Sir Jolm Squire, asked to spell antrum. cautiously inquired whether the spelling-master required the
cavity or the county.
This is how the teams spelt (stars correct): denoting words wrongly spelt):
AMERICA
Sara Haden, actress (five mis- tokes):
ne
•Vurdancy, Aestheticism, connaisance, Panarama, Termigant, *Rhododendrem
Redskin
Killed
his pyjamas
Ahead
Cape Town.
EN. SMUTS, South African Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister, made a spirited defence of the League of Nations in Parliament in reply to Dr. Malan, the Nationalist leader, who had said that the League as an. effective force was dead.
one
the
Gen Smute suid: "The League is not dead. It merely sleepeth." He admitted that owing to setback after another League to-day was in a position of impotence, but he would be a most daring person who could say definitely that the League was dead.
I was possible that out of the setbacks which it experienced the League might rise from lis present plight to a better position than it had ever occupied.
PRESENT DANGERS
"There are only two alternatives before the world to-day. Either to follow the way of the League, which is the way of consultation and under- standing between peoples, or to fight it out to the end. This would lead to the destruction of world civilisa-
do not believe mankind wil choose the second course. I think the realisation of present dangers which beset our path will help nations to see that there is a better way and that the better way is the way of
League,
the
I have not lost my faith in the League. I know there is no other way if our race and elvilisation is to be saved."
Gen. Smuts believed that once the necessary adjustments had been made, the Covenant of the Lengue would once more enjoy the whole- hearted adherence of mankind.
WAR LIABILITIES Britain's actual war Habilitles were confined to three matters:
(1) If the position of France, Holland or Belglum was affected.
(2) Britain was bound to carry out her obligations under the Covenant of the League. (3) Britain was bound to de
fend her territories, colonica and Dominions.
Should war arise South Africa was bound as a signatory of the League
to discharge her liabilities.
no
"Technically and legally we have other obligations," said Gen. Smuts.
Our obligations regarding British wars are not defined. It will depend on whether South Africa de cides to take part in such a war of not-apart from a decision of the League. The onus remains on the people of this country."
Prison, escaped from hospital in France To Mark
Birth of Pope
and vanished. Six months ago 30-year-old John Dule, an Australian remanded In £1,000 by means of a trick, collaps- Arixion on a charge of obtaining
ed in apparently violent pain in his
cell.
Aurillac, France. Preparations are being made here to celebrate the birth of the first the leader of the first Crusade for French
ench Pope, Sylvester II, famous as
Se terrible was his "agony" that he was removed at once by ambu- lance to St. Giles' Hospital, Camber-Possession of the Holy Land, well, for expert medical attention, Dale had chosen his time well, says the Sunday Chronicle. was Saturday night... Luck favoured him when he WILD placed in a small semi-private ward on the ground floor facing the street.
It
His clothes were taken away from
was
а
Born in 938, just 1,000 years ago, Gerbert, Bishop of Rheims, savant and diplomat whose prestige and influence were so great that he was known as "the maker and un- maker of kings" He also was a poet and writer.
Born in the little hamlet of Bellinc
here,
Pope Sylvester was
near
By Tribal Law him, but he was allowed to wear his educated in the Benedictine convent
Helen Ashimun, secretary (one mis- take):
Saplent, Encyclical, Tacitly, Bene- fited, Abolishonlat. Rhododendron.
Execution of John Blily, a 30- Linton Wells, broadcaster (all year-old Red Indian, by his tribal correct).
chlef. after a vote of the medicine Arbiter. Terminology, Farinaceous; vealed by the Florida police.
men of the Seminoles, has been re- Scintillate. Quarantine.
Colonel Barnell, soldier (two mis- John Osceola, he said, "Me do is, When detectives questioned Chief
ure; me good; he bad Indian.
Then he told how Billy was sum moned before a tribal council and
Lakes);
Charlizement, turpentine, comaraderie, parasol, nasturtium.
Joe Maclosky, athlete (two mis- sentenced to death for kicking an Lokes):
chief. expectant mother, daughter of the
Blatent (corrected just in time to blatant), "phawans, harphy, gul- lean, commensurate.
Herbert S. Balley, schoolboy (three mistakes).
Reviaty, Audiant, venupua.
fawned,
own pyjamas and dressing-gown. lie was left in the ward, writhing and groaning.
As soon as he was alone he slipped open the window, climbed out into the street, and disappeared,
A dus later Scotland Yard receiv ed a letter from Dale,
"I have only granted myself ball," he wrote. "I will appear in court for certain." But Dale did not re- appear.
The search intensified. Dale's known haunts were watched. Ills former companions
were shadowed for weeks on end. But Dale was too clever to appear where he was known. Underworld rumours said that Dele
Medleine men summoned from the red men live primitive lives a few. swamps of the Everglades, where the minutes by air from the boulevards perspicacity, of the millionaire resort of Miami, had escaped from the country and decided that this was no case for the had fled to Australia. Cables were sent to the Australian police, who must Billy, they decreed,
die. could find no trace of him.
t
C. N. Thomas, banker (two mis- white mon's law. takes):
Marshal, faxid, "richocet, quon- Other tribal conclaves, held in the dami,
Cart Carmer, author (all correct): deciston.
heart of the swamps, endorsed the Monetary tremolo, Impeccable, Chief John Oserola and his reciprocal, interstice.
son went to Billy's camp · and there the sectised, man, was kill- ed outright by one bullet froza Bilas Fabria Drake, actress (three) the 18-year-old chief's rifle. mistakes);
The chlof was arrested, but re- Forthright, "Acatisticism," Embry- leased after an inquiry, and it is onie, Obloquy, "Termagent, likely that the red man's law will be
Rhodendrumatano
allowed to, prevall.
GREAT BRITAIN
Aurillac. In Sylvesters day Aurillae was an important European elty and was here that the Pope conceived the idea of the Crusades which were to change the fate of Europe and the world,
To-day Aurillac is only a small department county seat lying in the Dordogne valley.
Misplaced Comma Outlaws Sleeping!
B
Bismarck, N, D. Slips in phraseology on the part of legislators often result in amusing statutes.
For instance, it is illegal to sleep in a North Dakota hotel. Scotland Yard now believes that
The 1929 legislature approved these rumours were deliberately cir-law on hotel inspection. A slip In culated to cause the police to relax punctuation made it read like this: their search,
"No hotel, restaurant, dining room But Scotland Yard never relaxes, or kitchen shall be used a sleeping Careful comb-outs are made periodic or dressing room by an employee or ally, and the Yard will continue the other persons." search until, Daló' Is discovered.
Eliminate the comma
after The Yard believes that Dale, the word hotel and the section makes man who has completely eluded them some sense. However, judges say it for six months, will one day make would talco a legislative: amendment a all.
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