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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 20, 1939.
£1,000,000 'YOUTH CITY' IS PLANNED
FOR LONDON
CHILDREN
ASKED FOR 2d. A MONTH
HEADMASTERS of public, secondary schools in conference at the Guildhall recently welcomed proposals for a £1,000,000 Youth City in London for the use of the young people of the Empire.
Lord Hessborough, former Governor-General of Canada, is chairman of the Youth City executive committee, which already has plans drawn up by architects under 30-Mr. Raymond Pidgeon and Miss Therean Bacon, in co-operation with Mr. Brian Cook and Miss Monica Lehmann
an iden
Youth City, outcome of suggested by the Rally of Youth in London
Coronation year. ia visualised as the "vial centre of the Empire Youth Movement-primarily i A great home where the youth of the Empire may meet each other and the youth of ofine countries."
The architects have planned a spacious central building, equip ped with assembly hall, educa- tional wing, swimming bath, ymnasian, anti restaurant, to cost £300,000 with ten Dominion or Colonial houses, designer mainly as dormitories, each to cost £50,000.
AN site the Crystal Paluce was propored, itat. rejected sufficiently central
not
PUBLIC AID ASKED Leader of the Youth Movement suggest that the £1,000,000 nerded might be raised by:
be sought
£250,000 grant to from the Government, and a similar su subscribed private- by:
4,000,000 schoolchildren Col- tributlag d. month for year: total £100,000;
2
Support from private 0- dividuals and organizations such as the Rhodes Trust, the Pilgrin Trust, corporations' and City companies; sports organisations such as the MLC.C., the Lown Tennis Association, the Rugby Untent:
Wealthy citizens and schools of the Dominions providing funds for each Overscits House.
HAPPY
AMONG LEPERS
Blackpool.
Pretty Mrs. Martha Rona Southern husband on the leper island in the refused 10 months ago to join her Straits Settlements of which he is superintendent.
Now, after a secret trip to join
In colony, her fears of the lepers for him, she is living happily the gotten.
She has written borne to ber mother here to tell her how happy she is, how mistaken in her estimate of life on the island,
Mr. Southern wrote to his wife in 1997 promising her "a luxurious bungalow, servants, a motor car and a molor launch," if she would join him.
The young wife's reply was that she could never stand a life among lepers, and in May 1937 the Blackpool magistrates grant- ed her a maintenance order of £1 a week again her husband. This order the Penang court later refused to enforce, pointing out that her fears were unjustified and that she was taking an unreasonable at
For maintenance il la temporarity |titute,
sungested that a Trust Fund should."Is there any woman in England.”
Mes Southern guid "who would
be accumuleted through donation of aerifice her change of living a nor- stocks and shares.
Youth City would
accommodate
2,000 students and would be chiefly used by boys and girls from all parts |
mal life for such a terrible ence?"
CLOSE SECRET
rxist-
of the world visiting London for Recently Mr. Southern's mother. stly or holklay tours.
Mrs. Fannie Richardson, who lives in Glastonbury-avenue. Buckpoot, said.
"My daughter's letters are full of other happy life out there.
"FINISHING" MONTH Say the sponsors "It is designed essentially for that vast Lody students, ex-students, and part-time students of secondary school age, of who only a fraction proceed to the universities. It should provide a finishing period of month or more. ; it is
is not in any woy a rival of the many existing Youth organizations.**
"fer" voyage to Penang Was kept a closely guarded secret. and we are sorry that the news has now Iraked out. We did not latend that anybody should find eut.
quite used to the Youth City's executive committee, climate, and seems to be enjoying
with offices in Cockapur-street, S.W., consists of:
The Earl of Bessborough (Canada), --chairman;
Lord Lloyd (Great Britain);
Lord Stonehaven (Australia);
Lord Bledisloe (New Zealand); Earl of
of Clarendon (South Africa); Marques of Willingdon;
Sir Firozkhan Noon (India);
Mr
5, M. L O'Keefe Rhodesia);
Sir Charles innes (Burma);
(South
Mr. L. 5. Amery (Colonies and De-
pendencies).
"She has got
herself."
Lindbergh Tears Up Big Contract
INDBERGH could film star, with a
contract.
New York.
have been a million-dollar
He signed it, then tore it up. This was
revealed recently by Major Thomas Lanphier.
friend of Colonel Lindbergh.
a close
"If the Empire is to continue as a moral force in world affairs," Lord Soon after his epic light from New Bessborough told a recent meet-York to Paris, he said.
"youth must be given a much we approached by a famous
ing
more
Young people should now acepy responsible posts at a much younger age thon wus the case in their parents' days, became so many of the. previous generation had been wiped out in the Great War.
"It is only a few months ago that we emerged from a great crisis. Now is the time to start to build a youth clty before a new challenge comes to 19."
GEORGIAT
Ocean
JACKERVILLES
AUGUST
*PALATIO
MYERS
FORT
•PIERCE
"PALM: TOTACH
MIAHI
PRINCK
President Roosevelt's emphasis of defence as a vital national issue may revive in Congress interest in the old Florida ship canal. Proposed course of the canal is shown in man, The canal was begun in 1035, with stress on commercial advantages goined by shipping saving a day's run around the treacherous Florida keys. After $5,400,000 was spent on it. Congress refused another $12,000,000 appropriation and work stopped. Proponents now say that especially in war shipping by way of the canal from the Gulf areas and to and from the Pacifle by the Panama Canal would be protected. Scenes above, top, construc- tion work; centre, office buildings and, bottom, workmen under army supervision.
New Air and Gunnery Nazis Arrest
Reserves for Navy
TWO new schemes to strengthen Britain's sea defences
were announced by the Admiralty recently. They are:
1-A Fleet Air Arm Suplementary Party to serve bases at Lec-on-Solen, Ford, near Plymouth, Worthydown, shire, and Donibristle, Fife.
2.-Peace-lime training of Mer- chant Navy seamen in gunnery.
In a New York office the million-scheine. dullar contract was torn up.
Whole Village
Nazis are pushing ahead with their anti-Christian drive in Germany.
Latest step was the arrest of the entire village of Tautenhofen, Wur-
nt the emberg, because parents refused to Hamp-be replaced by a picture of Hitler,
allow a crucifix in the schooiroom to
Submarine Art
When the teacher was struck by on enraged farmer who defied him, stormtroopers arrested the popula- slon of 500,
Later they were released except for four or five who have been sent to a concentration
the camp. But crucifix is still in its place... found his window, where he showed A Dusseldort shopkeeper who crucifixes and religious images and literature, smeared day after with anti-religious slogans, failed to get protection when he appealed to the police.
In desperation, he filled the win-
National Socialism"!
Insuiting the
day
Fuhrer and
The Air Arm Supplementary Party! Lindbergh will be open to many classes of ex- important part to play. It combine who planned a picture deal-four years' service and are under 53 naval ratings who have had at least must have the opportunity to achieve ing with the history of aviation. what the older generation fails to Lidbergh was "10 be
years oki,
In the Stafford Galleries, in St. the central secure."
Agure.
They will set as guards, boats of under-sen drawing by Mr. Robert James's Place, are to be seen a scure He was offered a million dollars crows, aircraft hands, parachute pre- (£200,000) and ten per cent. of kers, etc.
Gibbings. Not only are the subjects the takings.
In the
unusual, but the method by which event of mobilisation
the artist prepetuated them in black He signed, but later made it clear
they will be able for general that he was not so keen on being a
navul service.
and white probably is unprecedented. film star.
Men with experience in the Mer-scenes were sketched under the All these impressions of submarine The producer promptly said that cantlle Marine, even if they are not water, at an average depth of about dow with Nazi literature and pictures he did not want to embarrass Lind-at present employed at sea, will be fifteen feet, among the reefs of Ber- of Hitler. Next day he was arrested bergh's career.
available for the gunnery training muda and the Red Sea. From
the "for moment Mr. Gibbings first saw the The scheme is an extension of the fish and coral reefs of Tahiti he fell course under which Mercantile under their spell, and since has made Marine officers already receive gun-u special study of submarine life. nery training.
To reach his under-water sludlo, Mr. This training is now being extended Gibbings wore a special diving hel-
WHITE QUAIL to the men, and will ensure that de-tnet, into which air was pumped by fensive armaments, such as ant an assistant in a lunch overhead.
BRISTON. Ok. aircraft guns, which may have to be A bathing suit and rope-soled shoes nearly snow white have been sighted Albino quail whose feathers are installed in merchant ships in
war completed the artist's cutit, leaving near here, hunters report. will bo eMelently worked.
his arms completely free. Before Morehead of Bristow said an entire Tom diving he let down a weighted draw-covy of "white quail" recently was ing board to which a sheet of xylo flushed south of Mounds, Okla. hite was fastened, and to serve as a pencil a stick of graphite was en- closed in rubber tubing.
With these materials he made the sketches, afterwards touched up into the fish- ed drawings now brought together in this exhibition-peers at under-seu urdens and their inhabitants, visits of coral and of piles of pyrites and To give an ordinary individual other fascinating formations
slap on the cheek may be a productions of some of the drawings friendly gesture, but if it is given to have been used to illustrate the books his adventures on the reefs of Tahiti. Bermuda and the Red Sen,
11,000 Miles To Marry -Another Man
MISS Lily Theodorn Keen, of to marry a steward whom she first
Stockton, travelled 11,000 miles met on the outward voyage. to Australia to marry a man she Inst. saw 12 years ago, but changed her mind and returned in the same boat
When Miss Keen landed from the liner Jervis Bay at Port Darwin Mr. Jack Newcombe, the fance she went to marry, met her on the quayside and suggested that the wedding
But she refused and went back to the liner to return to England.
Woman Died Under should be that day.
New Anaesthetic
BACK TO AUSTRALIA
Cheek Slapping
Is Undignified
Ro-
Cyclo-propane, an anaesthetle de- scribed by a pathologist as "a great on the ship in Mr. Stuart Huxtable, may be an Insult.
The steward whom Miss Keen meta mayor, and a woman at that, Mr. Gibbings has written to describe discovery," was mentioned at an in- or lord. They were married at SL quest recently on Miss Beatrice Rosa Andrews
Such is the basis of a complaint by Leigh, nged 18, 'n Civil Servant, who after arriving back in England. Mr. Wood Green, which has been con- Church, Ilford, shortly Alderman Mrs. Bolster, Mayor of died while undergoing an operation in Huxtable in 34 and his wife 35. the Grosvenor Hospitat for Women,
S.W.
Dr. J. N. Cave said he gave Miss Leigh cycle-propane by ordinary mask intialation.
sidered by the Aldermanic Bench at "A few days after the wedding a private meeting. the bridegroom had to sail with his
ship to Australia," a friend said.
at
Mrs. Huxtable,
The member who administered the
siap
Spelling Bee
is unrepentant, declaring that How many of these words are
Barkingside, Eason while, is living it was a friendly one and Was meant correct and chai is wrong with
Mr. Newcombe, who left Stockton the Mayor received the Duke of
to signify his approval of the way the others!
self-judgment annointing amorplius
anoding soptennial
microcosmi English Oxford Dictionary spell-
Death by Misadventure was the verdict.
to take on Australian Government Kent at a hospital film show. Cyclo-propune 18 particularly post near Fort Darwin, had known valued for, operations on the heart Miss' Keen for 10 years. He is a slap was not only given with un- The Mayor's argument is that the and lungs, aluce it causes no disturb former well-known amateur crie necessary vigour but that it was annos of these words will be found on ance to the breathing.
indignity to her office.
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