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Slum Schools "Blot" On DEATH ON THE LINKS
Our Education System
DARK, GLOOMY AND
INSANITARY
-Head Teacher
Demand that the blot of slum schools on Britain's educational system should be wiped out was made by Miss L. Lowe in her presidential address to the National Association of Head Teachers at Nottingham recently.
There is urgent need for more rapid clearance of these slum schools," she said, adding that 771 State-aided schools were still listed as having defective premises,
"We must continue to express grave dissatisfaction while any child is compelled to spend his all-too-short school life in buildings which are dark, gloomy, and as insanitary and hygienic as any slum dwelling in a condemned area.
Many children were necessitous in
every sense of the word,
and she
be
thought the provision of milk and meals for poor children should extended to holiday periods.
LACK OF SLEEP
Miss Lowe said that modern chil- dren did not get enough rest to keep them well and strong. Lack of sleep was widespread, and not confined to
a particular class of children or type of seliool.
"It is responsible for much of the lack of vitality and is the cause of many nervous affections and of the mental instability with which we are so familiar in our pupils," she said.
"The solution vi
this problem Aparents.
in the hands the
Principal 1.
is
of
We
Worlley. University College, Nottingham, wel- coming the delegates, referred to the question of staggered holidays, and
aid: "My own opinion is the might look into the question of the administration of examinations in this country.
Some of them are al- together too big and too cumbersome, and they lack that intimacy of the We school which is desirable. might very well have regional basis of examinations both for cle- mentary and secondary schools."
SCHOOL- -Leaving age
In a resolution moved by Mr. L. H. Quinn (Salford), and carried, public attention was called to the fact that certain local
authorities
10 children
en-
were employment. there before securing abling them to leave seltool before the end of the term in which they reached the age of 14.
fustructed the
The
resolution
Council as a first step towards the effective raising of the school-teaving age to take, such action as might be deemed
to necessary
have this
illegal practice stopped.
Strong protest was also mode against head teachers having to take charge of classes and the conlinuance of large classes,
M.P. Wants Phone Bell
To be Musical AN
N M.P. wants a kindlier tele-
phone call signal. He is Mr.
R. W. Sorensen (Lab., Leyton W.), and in the House of Com-
mons he is to ask the Post-
master-General:
un-
Rogers, above, mather
ot
Mrs. Lola E youthful-appearing famous Ginger, calmly continued sipping her tea when reporters In New York asited whether ru mors
Edgar that she and J.
G-man, were to Hoover, No. be married were true, and stro-
him. up to ply replied, "It's She did reveal, however, that Houver
her had telephoned from Florida at 3 a.m. to her the Cash kidnaping case had been broken.
GENERAL
1ell
POST AMONG
THE JUDGES
EMPIRE
NEWS
MOTOR RACE CRASH NEAR SYDNEY
grandchildren were
SYDNEY.
A woman and her two infant killed and 10 persons were injured in a crush at a meeting on the motor racing track at Penrith, near, here. It is the worst necident in the history of Australian speedway racing.
The meeting, which was held as part of the King's Birthdny celebra- tions, was attended by 14,000 holiday-
makers.
In the final of the 10 miles cham- pionship a car turned a somersault, the driver and meebonic being in- Jured. Almost immediately after- wards another car skiddled, jumped the banking and crashed into the spectators.
CHILD
IMMIGRATION
MELBOURNE.
A scheme for settling farm work- ers, children and possibly domestic servants in Victoria is being con- sidered by the Presbyterian Church of Victorin under the terms of the Commonwealth assisted migration scheme.
Before the Presbyterian Church can sponsor child humigration on a large scale farm training schools, similar to the Fairbridge schools, have now been in existence for 29 Money for years, will be necessary. such a scheme is not at present avaliable, and steps are being taken to And out what support would be forthcoming in Great Britain. INDIA
DEFAMATION CASE SENTENCES
CULCUTTA.
Mr. D. N. Sen, the editor, and Mr.
U. N. Bhattacharya, printer of the
Lightning crashed out of a cloud and killed two spectators watching the first round of Kansas City's $5,000 golf tournament when players were driving through pouring rain. Above, body of E. M. Critchfield, 38, a credit manager, is shown near the ninth green.
Other victim was William D. Boyle, 60, widely known con-
tractor. Several others were injured.
CAPTIVE
HUSBAND
SENDS BRIDE "A THOUSAND KISSES
Berlin, June 15.
One of the most dramatic weddings in world history Calcutta English Nationalist daily. has taken place in Vienna. In the private chapel of the
Hindustan Standard, bave been
sentenced to three months' imprison-Dominican Church in the first district, Countess Vera ment and a fine for defaming Col. M. Fugger von Babenhausen was married by proxy to the arrested ex-Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, whose whereabouts even the bride herself did not know.
Das, Indian Medical Servier, Superin- tendent of Allpore gnol.
The paper published an untrue statement, signed by 10 prisoners, tat Col. Das had declared that a
The witness for the bride was Major - General von pollical prisoner, named Nandi, who had been
repatriated frou
the Schuschnigg, the ex-Chancellor's father. The bride- Arthur von Anduman Islands was
his brother, Dr. perfectly groom's proxy was healthy 10 days before his death from
tuberculosis. The newspaper charged Schuschnigg, and the witness for the groom was the
Col. Das with callousness.
FLYING BOAT'S MISHAP
BOMBAY.
The Imperial Airways dying boat,
sacristan of the church.
PRISONER'S LETTER
At the end of the ceremony a letter from her husband was
commanded by Capt. Gurney, which handed to the bride. It read:
was forced down by the monsoon on "By now we should be man and wife. This makes me very
Lake Dingari, Tonk State, when fly- |
ing from Karachi to Singapore, may happy. A thousand kisses.-Kurt.”
tave to be dismantled.
Passengers and mail have been taken to Gwalior, where they will continue their journey in the flying bon
Capella. A repair plane left Karachi for Lake Dingari this after- noon,
The Congress Flag-The Congress party in Mysore has decided that on ceremonial occasions the State flag shall first be hoisted and then the Congress tricolour. It is explained that this docs not imply the
Whether he will arrange to supply domestic and other telephone sub- Lawyers are talking of retirements superiority of one flag over another.
the SOUTH AFRICA scribers. when requested, with an among the senior alternative, more euphonious, type House of Lords there
or
Judges. In
several are
VOORTREKKERS
of bell: or with lights, soft buzzers, Lords of Appeal over 70, and two IN THE STEPS OF THE
are those of some device for calling sub-possible reilrements scribers less lable unnecessarily to Lord Maugham, the Lord Chancellor, distract the household or to disturb and Lord Atkin who has been a judge! invalids and children.
for more than 25 years.
BUZZERS CAN BE OBTAINED As a fact, writes a reporter, the Post Office is experimenting with a
of bell, new produced a bell on the
"We have results of experiments by a musical
ats official said recent committee, ly. "This bell is being supplied to
new subscribers on
an request, but we are not making replacements to old subscribers for some time.
The present imperative answer me' call certainly brings people to the telephone quickly, but our iden is to make the signal more in the
nature of a request.
"At the same time, we have to be careful not to make the call so gently
CAPE TOWN, Two Boer wagons which are now In the event of the Lord Chancel-being built at Knysna, Cape Pro- tor's retirement it is believed that uvlace, will leave Cape Town in political lawyer will be chosch. August in the steps of the Voortrek
One will
travel to Pretoria, No doubt Sir Thomas Inskip would kers
covering 1,489 miles, and the other to be appointed if he cared to sacrifice the Blood River, not far from Rorke's the possible chance of becoming Pre-Drift, in Natala distance of 1,613 mier.
miles.
The Journeys will take over four He is popular in the Conservative Party, so possibly he may decide to months, but both wagons will reach refuse the Woolsack in the hope of their destinations in time for the eventually gaining the higher prize. Dingaan's Day celebrations on Dec.
16. In such circumstances it in possible though not probable, that Sir Donald Somervell, K.C. the Attorney-General would be chosen.
take
The only wedding guests were the two maids who were con- the Countess in Belvedere Castle fined with Schuschnigg and until he was removed a few days ago by the Gestapo (secret police) to his unknown destination.
They had
Countess Vera wore during the, of a woman who has four children
blue costume, a is rare indeed. ceremony a navy
Schuschnigg's first wife was killed dark blue felt hat and a short veil. She curried a large bunch of yellow in a car accident in 1935. roses, ordered to be sent her by the une son.
It is learned from a rellable source bridegroom.
that Schuschnigg is now in the Hotel who The bride,
is one of the Metropole,
ol headquarters Vienna. In loveliest women of Vienna, had her Gestapo
by annulled
of rooms marriage
He has his own sulte Vallean on December 10, 1937.
and is well treated, but he is he ing submitted to questioning as result of which his whole future will
Arst
GESTAPO'S QUESTIONS
the
the
No reason was given. Such an be decided, trial or no trial-prison annulment of marriage in the case or liberty--maybe life or death.
Schoolgirl, 16,
New Film Find
Is
Joan Hill, blonde 16-year-old daughter of a London axi-driver, hurried out of school, one day last month and rushed to the Pinewood Film Studios.
Gold Mine Employees.-Europeans employed in the Transvaal gold mines in April numbered 42,336-a
An hour after she had been sitting at a school desk she was slight increase over the March figure. Non-Europeans
... singing to an audience of two. numbered 345,745, sitting at a grand piano. against 340,204 in March.
But the two were Victor Schertzinger, the film producer who discovered Grace Moore, and Gilbert Pascal, who is directing
If the expected retivements that time will be wasted in answer-place it may be necessary to appoint ing.
three or four High Court judges, for CANADA "We use buzzers in the exchanges it may be assumed that some of the themselves. A buzzer sounds and a present occupants
is illuminated in the exchange tamp "when you dlol 990.
"In the manual exchanges a light fashes up when a subscriber cails,
"Subscribers con obtain buzzers by special application."
Bench and Chancery Divisions may
of the King's HOMES DESTROYED IN Leslie Howard in "Pygmalion."
be raised to the Court of Appeal or the Lords.
FOREST FIRE
Joan
forgot schoolwork, forgot Her mezzo-soprano voice won her the rush to the studio, fung back a special prize for girls' solo singing. her head and sang.
As her voice died away there was
Have
MATANE, Quebec, Lord Finley and Mr. Justice Cross- A forest fire has destroyed 27 man are likely candidates, and pas-homes in the townships of Cherbourg "We try to be human. The Post sibly Mr. Justice Langton who Is East and Cherbourg West on the sllence. Then Mr. Pascal slapped. Once has experimented with a view considered by the Bar to be one of south shore of the St. Lawrence. to having
The fire was got under control, but voice saying, 'Line the soundest lawyers on the Bench a instead of the automatic and
wasted seems to be
in the a strong wind led to fears of renewal engaged,"
the outbreak, noise subscribers hear at present on Divorce Division,
Hundreds of those occasions,
Mr.
volunteers surrounded homesteads Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., and Sir "The time-clock that speaks is an-Walter Monckton, K.C., have been with ditches in an effort to protect other
example of Post Office frequently tipped for judical appoint-
SHEEP CONG TYPE
humanity
| ments,
theni, INDIA
But it is doubtful whether they will feel justified in giving up lucrative CHAMBER OF PRINCES practices so early in Efe.
It is belleved
Justice Branson, the senior Judge of the King's Bench Division, is catering on his lust term,
that Mr.
COMMITTEE .
BOMBAT.
be
"Great!" he cried. "You I
A remarkably matured voice for a girl of your age. And you've gat personally. I think I shall able to fix you up in a film." Joan flushed with pleasure..
hurried off again. To
homework.
she
and
+
Then home
FATHER LAUGHED Sixteen-year-old Joan had taken the first step towards
her one
An official of Ericsson Telephones Lid. said: "We supply one type of bell which has an oval mouth and is called a sheep gong bell.'
"For internal systems. there are
The member of the Reorganisation ambition. various types of buzzers, and in one
Committee ok the Chamber of Her father laughed when she said instance a gong made of wood. He was appointed In 1921 and
Princes have agreed to form she wanted to be a flim star. Her "Some people alter the note of could, had he so desired, have taken Princes Committed to deal with mother suggested that she should their bella by putting adhesive tope his pension in 1930.
Federation and other matters,
Itrain for hotel work. The now committee will have 80
Joan clung to her dreams, spent And an ordinary telephone sub-sided in Appeal Court 2 since the members, of which the six major scriber said: "I should be very glad death of Lord Justice Scrution, has States will have one cach, The 10 her spare time in practising singing to have a different call-every time also earned his pension, and it 18 middle group States will have 12 and deportment. Then, unknown to our bell rings it startles the house-thought that he also will retire at seats, and the 80 minor States 12 her parents,
Ealing Musical Festival. hold.
the Long Vacation.
seats.
on the gongs,
Lord Jualice Greer, who has pre-
aha entered for the
After that Joan haunted film studios. She waited five hours to sco Victor Schertzinger but she did see him, and got her screen test,
She talked to a Sunday Chronicle reporter while grappling with the 1000 and All That of her homework, "It's not all the fun you'd think having a film test," said: Joan.
"I'm having a terrible time at school. All the boys are pulling my |leg about being a glamour girl."
"Still, it has brought my dreams nearer. I have always been a great admirer of Grace Moore and Deanna
Durbin, and if only I can get into flims I'm sure I shall make good."
"Now I have once fasted it I don't think I could ever give up screen work for a job in on hotel, like Daddy wants me to take,
"I've planned it all out. My best friend will be my secretary when I'm famous!"
IT'S TRUE!
CANZITE MadDON!
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Iso CARILLO OWNS THE LARGEST AUTHENTIC COLLECTION: EARLY CALIFORNIA COSTUMES AND RELICS Theft. Siria owne Mmita cosiline. -
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Uniscilla LAWSON
IS AN AVIATION
· ENTHUSIAST*-* and
WILL SOON FLY HER FIRST SOLC
ONALD
Padan
lion EDDY
HAS BEEN A NEWSPAPERMAN, COPY WRITER, CEN-ANG-INK......... ARTIST, C. WORKED AS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR AT TRE- MOTT IRON WORKS. (HE CAN ALSO PERFORM SLEIGHT OF HAND TRICKS).
LEO says ROBERT Z LEONARD, DIRECTOR OF
[M+GM'S "GIRL of
THE GOLDEN VIT
· STARTED SCREEN
| WORK 14. 1910
-28 YEARS AGO!
LEONARD PENN 15 A PETECTIVE LIEUTENANT ON Ke LOS ANGELES POLICE FORCE`
New York, N. Y.—"IT'S TRUE! that in spite of her fame, Jeanette MacDonald is very studious," says Wilcy Padan. "AI one time she studied ballet dancing under Albertina Rasch. Every day when not working, she takes a French lesson and also a sing- ing lesson. No plans interfere with these, for she adjusts her social activities around these two all important lessons. Also on her program are an early morning swim, a. Spanish lesson and usually a tennis lesson!".
"IT'S NOT TRUE!", say Watsons, "That Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy drink Watson's Orange Squash but they would if they could get it!"
SO ALWAYS INSIST ON
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