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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 23, 1938.
Gracie Declines To Stop Being A "Comic"
Gracie Fields has no intention of adopting recent suggestions that she should stand for Purliament,
Before she sailed from Southampton for America in the Normandle' recently she said:
"I could not wrestle with that department-my own job gives me all the wrestling I can man-j age. Anyway, I'm not a bit in- terested in politics.
"I SHALL CARRY ON"
"I have no desire for anything
Lord George Scott pletured with more than my job and plenty of good His Bancce, Allss Molly Bishop, out-sangs to and." she said. side the London nursing home where the latter has been a patient. As it result of Miss Bishop's illness the wedding has had to be postponed for a short while,
"Dummy Arms Cargo": More Evidence
"I haven't even got a yeaning to play any churmeter other than my own-ilamiet Included-and so long: as I can go mu being comic I shall be happy.
"As for making tims in America, I like Americans very much, but my home and all my interests are here in England, so why should I leave them?
"shall just keep on carrying on as I am."
HER NEW PICTURE Eiracie is crossing to Americen to discuss with Darry Zannuck and MORE evidence about a "dummy Atonty Banks detalls of her new pic
consignment
the Shipyards," in was given atture, "Sally of Bow-street recently when three men which the building of the new liner were charged with conspiracy to Queen Elizabeth will form the back- defraud the director of a Paris arms ground. from.
She heard that her tast Min, "Keep Frederick Willing, 50, metal mer-Smiling." which Air. Banks took to chant, of Tavistock-court. Taxi-America with his a fortnight ago, stocksquare, W.C: his son James has been accepted without a single Oll Herbert Willing, 24, metal mer- {cut. chant, of Dort House; and Dennis Michael Corrigan, 46, an agent, of
Also aboard the Normandie were and Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich
re-lane, W., were charged with Bristol-born Hullywood stor.
with Chou Tin Shu and{
others unknown, to cheat 31, Theo-
dore Laffitte of $7.250.
They are further charged with attempting to obtain a further £4,000; trom M. Lafitte.
STONES AND SHAVINGS
It was alleged that M. Latte was told that certain armaments could be obtained from Woolwich Arsenal and was shown fictitious documents pur- porting to come from the Chinese Embassy.
Mar- Whn the goods arrived at selles the cases were found to contafs wood old stones and tyres, and shavings.
Nurse, 'Mother'
At 10
The 10-years-old daughter of a 24-years-old fisherman acted as little mother to a sister nged two and as a nurse to a bedridden grandmother, it was stated at Grimsby recently.
Charles Frederick Lodge was sent Hiree months for to prisou for
raid
M. Lamite agreed to buy 50 machine-gurES and half-a-million neglecting his daughters, Gwendoline,
aged 10, and Ilenrietta. rounds of ammtinition, and paid
£7,250.
Inspector Cook the mother of the children was dead and the father left them in the eare of their grand- mother, who was 65, and paralysed Lodge was found to be living with a married woman at another address.
Lodge denied that he had been cruel. He said he was unemployed and had done what he could for the
irls.
ARGUMENT IN FLAT
Leonard Joseph Myloskl of Forburg- road, Stoke Newington, an export and import merchant, said he agreed to Supply Corrigan with 550 cases of arms and munitions for China.
Later Corrigan said he wanted the cases for a dummy consignmen as he suspected they were going to Spain. He said the correct consign- ment was already somewhere on the Continent.
Mr.Myloski said that he heard an nitercation In Corrigan's flat between Shu, Corristan and Frederick Willing. Frederick Willing seemed to want an explanation about his son's deten- tian arrest in Marseilles.
BY BANK OF CHINA
Mr. Andrew Aitken, assistant man ager of the Chase Bank of New York told Mr. Du Cann that the manager of the Bank of China introduced Shul to his bank.
Did he introduce him as u relative Chine e of Chiang Kai-Shek, the
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A VICAR HATED
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Mr. L. Minchin, for many years superintendent of St. Gabriel's Church Sunday School, East Ham, now closed by the vicar, recently to the said "Good-bye” children.
The vicar (the Rev. Cecil Clark) believes that Sunday
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Lwo schools are. fallacies," and says, "as a child I hated being forced to attend."
With Miss E. Musto, who has been in charge of the girls for 24 years, Mr. Minchin shook the children by the land and urged them not to for- sake the church,
PARENTS MAY ACT Some of the parents have deelded to organise petition to the Bishop of Chelmsford.
The vleor's plan is to replace Sunday school teachers by monitors in charge of "wards" und a head monitor.
awarded
the
After the vicar has instructed the children at a catechism service they will be questioned and
A scat will be allotted in marks. church to each child.
"NO PERSONAL DIFFICULTY"
"The change is in no way due to any personol dimeulty between the, teachers and myself," said the vicar. "It is the third church in which have made the change. In any case, surely the children have enough of school during the week."
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Fried Chicken "In Rough"
Boise City, Ida. "Chicken in the Rough" is now be ing served in local restaurants, al- though it originated at Oklahoma City. It consists merely of chicken cooked in the usual way, but eaten without knife or fork. No holds nre banned. Pienty of napkins are pro- vided.
THROUGH touching a "live" wire while working on an electricity pylon, Mr. F. Fisher, of Richmond- avenue, Latchford, Warrington, Lan-
ashire, was thrawn to the ground "Sister Act" In Divorce and was killed.
Generalissimo, and a brother-in-law of Dr. Kung-Not to my knowledge.;
Mr. Perey William A. Munday, a Foreign Office official, said that the name of Chou Tin Shu had never been submitted to the Foreign Office as an ofcial of the Chinese Embassy.
The case was adjourned.
San Francisco. Although unrelated, Mrs. Edith Arnett and Mrs. Winon Hodges play- ed a "slater net" in Superior Court here. Each asked for a divorce from husband, and each her respective acted as the corroborating witness for the other. Both got interlocutory decrees,
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