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A 17-year-old art student, a girl living in Portland Place, London, whose name is not revealed, has "adopted" a needy couple in Durham and their five young children.
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Her action was disclosed by the Rev. H. F. Pickering, Vicarail from Shanghal round the world of St. Nicholas Church, Durham City, recently, when he defended Junk Adventure returned recently its Russian-Imperial-ensign-flying in the pulpit the effort that he, with Lady Jane Legge, is making top-most broken, but its crow to secure help for poor familles in his parish.
"In Durham City alone there are 1,000 men on the dole, and there are Incredible thousands in the county. There are many brave souls fighting | against tremendous odds to help themselves," he said.
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"I know of a man who rises at
4 a.m. to ride his cycle more than 20 mlles to work and then back again at night In order to keep bis job and not go an the dole.
"That man has a brave wife and five young children Hving in two rooms. If the inther and mother I have not tried to help themselves I
don't know who has.
"I thank God that I have been ablo to link that family up to a young art silent in London who will take care of them."
Durham County's problem ought to be a national concern, he said, ant the reluctant rich in the South ought to be educated to their responsi- bility,
WON WORLD VOYAGE
Lucky American Girl In Hongkong
"Why I want to go to the China Seas?" was a question which Mis Dorothy M. Shaw, of New York. recently answered so well that he reply won her an essay competition and a trip round the world.
She
a through passenger by the President Adams, which reached Hongkong yesterday, and is the only passenger who is booked with the ship for its complete round-the-world voyage.
The competition won by Miss Shaw Wils sponsored by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer In connection_with the Gable-Harlow in "China Seas,"
Miss Shaw,
smartly-dressed brunette, is in charge of the American Express Company's travel bureau in McCreery's Store, New York. Her tour gives her only a day in Hong- kong, for she sails with the President Adams at noon to-day.
Redrawing the Czech-Hungar- lau frontier are German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribben- trap, left, and Count Galeazzo Clano, Halion Poreign Minister, at Belvedere Palace, Vienna. By this draft Hungary gained more than 4,000 square miles of Czech territory.
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eight, including two pretty young griis, undaunted and still hopeful.
The White Russian junk, skipper- ed by a Britan, Captain A C. New- ton, net sail for Hongkong, the first port of call on its world-girdling tinerary. For a day all went well, but the junk sulled into stormy weather.
considered The junk, which was one of the most seaworthy vemela of its kind yet to embark upon such an adventure, weathered the ВСАЗ well. But the topmast was old and cracked under the strain.
Approximately 70 miles out of Shanghai, the junk was turned back. The return trip was made with the remaining sall" and the six-cylinder automobile engine.
The crew includes Luba Schenkoff, Olga. Alksner, Chief Omeer Leo Tomashevsky, Engineer Leo Rud- chenko and Seamen Serge Mlursanoff, P. Piatokoff and V. Dzute, intends selting out again as necessary repairs on the boat are completed.
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The Adventure may not arrive in San Francisco in time for the open- ing of the Fair there next February. According to its Itinerary, the route
to to San Francisco was to be vin Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Java, Australia and New Zealand. The crew originally intended to_re- main in San Francisco for the Fair and then to return to Shanghai vla the Panamna Canal, British West Indles, Canary Íslands, Great
Britain, Europe, Suez Canal, and from Lifere across the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and through the Straits of Malacca. 10 Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghal,
The unique feature of this nd- venture was the presence on board the junk of Luba Schenkkast and Olga Alksner, both of whom gave up their jobs at a high class French- town restaurant to sal with the Adventure.
DIVORCE PETITION
The divorce petition of Dorothy Isabel Tan, a European woman, against her Chinese husband. Mr. Peng Yong Too, a Singapore lawyer, was withdrawe without prejudic. to her rights to making a fresh petition when the matter was heard before | Mr. Justice Pedlow in the Singapore
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