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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 1, 1939.
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NOVELIST BUYS HAT WITH LAST "BOB"
She Says "I Needed It
AUBURN-HAIRED 'DOREEN WALLACE, THE NOVELIST—IN PRIVATE LIFE MRS. R. H. RASH, WIFE OF A SUFFOLK FARMER, OF WORTHAM MANOR, NEAR IPSWICH-HAS SPENT "HER LAST SHILLING" ... AND WITH IT SHE BOUGHT A NEW HAT.
She wore for the first time recently when she went out of her home without a penny in her pocket.
Because she refuses "on principle" to pay the £200 the owing on the itvo forms
OWIB. Dureen Wallace has been made bankrupt by the The Commission,
In August her furniture, even the beds, will be pilled up on the lawn of her beautiful country home and itnocked down to the highest bid- ders.
"I JUST HAD TO"
"I was feeling so depressed after the auctioneer had been round every room in the house making an inven- tory of all my possessions that I just; had to have something to cheer me up." she said
"But because I am not allowed to receive any money of my own, not even the earnings from my Looke, i until after the bankruptcy proceed- · ings are over, all that left was a shilling.
"What I needed to cheer me up was; a new hot, and I was lucky to get one)
from the bargain counter.
"It is a very attractive lille hat und
I am very pleased with it.
"But now I have no inoney at all! und shall hove depend on charity | until my bankruptcy proceedings are
TYPEWRITER TO GO
uver."
After the sale, Northam Manor will be left practically bare of furniture.
Even the typewriter with which Doreen Wallice has typed all her novels will be sold,
* "I shall be very sorry to see it go because after all this time I have be- come quite attached to it," he said.
HUGE "FAN MAIL"
Doreen Wallace has a huge postbag. from strangers in all parts of the country who support her in her stand for a repeal of the present the legislation, which, she says, is ruin-1
er the country. ing farmers all
get communications from fur- mers who are so hard up hot they have to write on labels, the back of handbills, and any odd paper they can get for nothing" she added.
ter preliminary statement of af! fairs shows a surplus of absets overj Habilities of £2,529.
Ceremonies by Latin American growers at the Venezuelan, Cu- ban and Brazilian pavilions, at the New York Fair and by Americans at the Court of l'exce opened Iced Coffee week. Here
Elvira Laior, air hostess, chosen Iced Coffee Queen,
EMPIRE NEWS
CANADIAN PREMIÉR AND ELECTION.
· OTTAWA.
Mr. Mackenzie King Federal Prime Minister, stated recently that the question of an autumnn general election in Canada had not been de- valed.
#I should wont to study carefully the situation bath f Europe and Asia," he said, "before deciding to launch this country. on General Election."
The Prime Minister indicated that if the international situation grew any worse during the next few weeks The would have to call a special session
of Parlament,
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN'S NEW. HARBOUR
CAPE TOWN, Almast one-third of the reclama- tion work on Cape Town's new bur- bour and foreshore scheme has been ¡completed.
It is estimates that 11,000,000 cubic yards of material will be required to A in the 303 neres ut sen Ünt with eventually form the new foreshore,
In the 13 months since the work started the. Dutch dredging .contrac- tors have deposited 3,800,000 cubic yards of material over the' area,
Here's a plant panda, ready to play in new home at SL Louis, 310.. 200, after purchase in New York. "Happy" weight 250 pounds and is four feet tall. "Happy" passed through Hongkong fant year on his way to London.
Deanna Durbin's Parents Re-Visit England
More 'Planes To Defend Empire
Two sides of Britain's strength in defence, revented in speeches recentiu.
AIR POWER
SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Air
Mr. and Mrs. James Durbin, father and mother of Deanna Durbin, have arrived in England for the first
me for 28 years for a holiday.
Mr. and Mrs. Durbin are English,
bat Mes. Durbin had never been to London before. When they left Idverpool so long ago to make their fortunes in the new country they little thought that they would be returning as the parents of one of the most famous of im stars.
New Union Stamps Recently Minister, said in London that in the
Mrs. Durbin, who is grey-hatred | stamps of three values-1d, 2d and next two years the Government now, saw the coast of England from 3d-were issued to celebrate the would increase the number of air the deck of the Normandie with eyes 250th anniversary of the landing of squadrons permanently atationed shining her daughter's. She She Huguenots in South Africa. The
and her husband are going to visit commemoration of the landing will
their relatives in Manchester and to take place corly in September.
They would include squadrons to pick up the threads of the family protect our vital trade interests.
life they left so many years ago, AUSTRALIA
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TINPLATE TARIFF
APPLICATION
overseas.
Their daughter is to them a wonder and a Joy. If it had not been for her, the Barbins-almple people would never have been able to minke this Journey, and
Deanna has been unable to come because of her work.
Training centres for pilots would be formed in the Middle East. in- cluding Egypt, Kenya, and Southern Thodesia, and in the Far East, in- cluding Hongkong, Singapore. Pen- SYDNEY. The Twriff Board is conducting an ang, and Ceylon. The possibility of fruqulry
by training volunteer reserves in West into an application
and Malta,
the Broken 1 Proprietary for
Channel tarift Africa,
"We are very fortunate-this sort protection against Imported British Islands was being examined. iinplate.
of thing does not happen to a family Suitable bases had been surveyed every day," Mrs. Durbin sald. She Broken Proprietary suggests for a civit air service from New described how Deanna works 14 that, given this protection, it would
Zealand to Canado. It would be the hours a day, sometimes with lessona be in a position to establish a tin-inst link in the chain of British air in French, singing and appreciation plate industry in Austenta at a cost services round the world.
of music. Mrs. Durbin fof more than £4,000,000,
stopped With the rapid development and Deanna singing on the radio. Contesting the application. ex- porters of tinned butter have told craft. Sir Kingsley added, the rein- more money," she said, "Deanna is the range and speed of modern air "I would rather have my girl than the Board that the proposed manuforcement of any part of the Empire even prettier off the screen than on. facture should be done only under within a matter of hours was rapidly She has fair hair and a very beauti- Isubsidy. or under conditions by becoming a definite possibility.
ful skin. She is always laughing. LIVERPOOL. drew £72. They were taught be-which exporters of produce in tins pre
never bad-tempered; plays pingpong. DURING sixteen years Hughese detectives in caps and mullers Pitted to import treely all special FOOD PROBLEMS
ilkes swimming, riding and playing with the dogs.
"She Is under contract with Uni- Then,
MEN DREW DOLE
AND WORKED
qualities, sizes und descriptions of
Burns, thirty-eight-year-old fixed with dockers night after night plate
Ustening in talk in dockside public, Tinners have given evidence that was in the Ministry of Food durinst!
versel for another five years. entail further lossen of trade to position to-day was worse than pertians when she is older she will
SIL HERBERT MATTHEWS, who labourer, of Owen-road, Liver- houses. "pool"worked at Liverpool-Docks What-puzzles-Ministry--of-Labour project was almost certain in the war, declared that Britain's food
under a false name so that he oficials is how the books get out on Australia and to raise further resent-1914,
go into opera." the exchanges. Every book is locked ment in Great Britain.
"Our population." he said. "Is could draw dole as well as wages, in a safe at night.
Mrs. Durbin thinks she has the Kain in the Desert.-The selentine much larger, and the number of most wonderful voice in the world. During ten years Christopher It is impossible for any one to
expedition led by Dr. C. T. Madigan merchant ships much smaller; cur Inquiries about the rumours of Sandison, aged forty, of have a blank book unless it is stolen has found both rain and water in the land is poor and half-starved owing Deanna falling in love were greeted Sessions-rond, Liverpool did the given way wrongly.
arid Simpson Desert in Central to a long period of low prices for with a mother's patience. same thing.
Australia, 'which the expedition is farm produce and the number of crossing on camels, The rain was farm workers is grently reduced." limited to a few drops, and the water Sir Herbert was speaking us presi- was 3ft. below ground in a "sonk" | dent of the Industrial Transport in the now dry watercourse known Association ut Norwich. officially as the Hale River.
Grent quantities of plication, forms, order forms, ond
"One day. I suppose, she will real- tickets of different sorts had been by fall in love." printed ready for distribution, he Mrs. Durbin saltl that her
Both men were sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Liverpool Quarter Sessions recently. They pleaded guilty assistance frauds.
to
unemployment
A Royal Labour
Experiment
London.
The old summer house in Bucking- NEW ZEALAND Patrick Abbati, nged thirty-three, ham Palace garden, which has now!
leaflets.
"Well, now she is soventeen ske goes out more, which, is only right," she said. ' "Bul there is
serious in anything
her
never
friendships.
-
cicek. Inbourer. of Gribble-road, made way for a bigger and more AIR AGREEMENT WITH Fald. They would not be much good daughter's acting is entirely natural.
Liverpool, was sent to prison for modern one, was an experiment in afteen months with hard labour. direct labour, in which King George Trafficking in dole books is so bad V was greatly interested. It has is
at Liverpool Docks that although the rigin in a conversation between the
BRITAIN
AUCKLAND. Congratulating the Government on pollee and Ministry of Labour ins-King and a member of the Victoria the air agreement with Britain the pectors have been trying to stop it for Club, a working man's institution. it "New Zealand Herald" says there is iwo years there are still between 300 was claimed that direct labour was at least the implied suggestion that and 400 books missing,
as economyleat as contract. "Well," sold the King, "build my a
New Zealand is undertaking service Summer Sandison Wis described
as house by direct labour," Expert overseas. The ultimate effect of the the ringleader at the trailleking. He artisans did the work, but it was arrangement is that in the event of sold unemployment cards to dockers, not quite the economic proposition or the Dumtulus is offering to pro- for as much as 30s, besides drawing claimed. Nevertheless the King said vide an air expeditionary force at benefit to which he was not entitled, he derived much interest from it and 1300 men annually.
In seventy-four weeks he wrongly "the fellows were extremely sincere" is an Inspiring example of drew 94. Burns, in 101 weeks over the job."
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Empire unity in which the Govern- ment is giving fitting expression to the spirit of the country."
Disputed Will: .
£30,000 For Daughter
BY the statement of a will dispute In the High Court, Dublin, recently, Mrs. Olive G. O'Grady, of Red Tiles. Uckfield (Sussex), s to receive £30,000,
Mrs. O'Grady is the only surviving
child of Mrs. Marie Georgina Duckett,
whose will was in dispute.
The settlement was reached, it was stated, providing, among other things, that Mrs. O'Grady received £30,000 jand that she withdrew her opposition to her mother's will of July, 1029.
£100,000 ESTATE
At a previous hearing the jury had found against a will of July, 1934, by which Mrs. Duckett left her £100,000 estate to various Protestant charlites
In the 1029 will Mrs. Duckett left egacles to the same charitles and bequeathed the residue in trust for the Church Association, Buckingham [Street, W.C., the Protestant Re
formation Society and the London City Mission in equal shares.
to hungry mobs if food were
not She never had any lessons before a there.
"alent scout spotted her singing at The
Government had announced
a recital orgānised by some teachers. purchases of wheat, whale oil. Had these commodities sugar, and been brought into the country were the Government satisfied with seaports and other vulnerable areas. De would be useless to store them In
"futures."
Enemy 'planes would bomb them out. If the food stocks were here, it of existence.
Slum Kids Win Fortune
From a Film
“CHICKEE DE COP!" shouted six poor boys from New York's East End, as a stranger, whom they took to be a detective, approached them.
Their cry, in slum jargon, meant: "Look out! Here's
a policeman."
The stranger was Sidney Kingsley, playwright, who was looking for genuine slum boys to appear in "Dead End,” his drania of waterfront hoodlums who are gangsters in the making
"Akey! Akey! Halfies!" they screamed with joy when they heard of his project. It meant that they had found something valuable and all would share equally. The "Dead End Kids" became Cinderella boys that day and have since marched on to fame and fortune.
And recently Leo Gorcey, eldest Sain Goldwyn brought Leo and the and toughest of the "kids," whú is sill other Ave "Kids", to Hollywood for in his teens, flew from California to the film version, which was hailed as Yuma, Arizona, to marry 17-year-old a masterpiece. dlm actress Katherine Movis,
Leo was about to become a plumber's assistant when Sidney Kingsley discovered him. His ambition to-day is to be a writer. Having had one short story published, he is now busy on his first novel,
Since then they have appeared in "Crime School," "Angeln with Dirly Faces," und "They Made Me Criminal."
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One of the "Kids," Gabriel Dell, wrote his own version of "Hamlet" when a boy in Brooklyn and hopes Following the great success of to become" a Shakespearoan actori "Dead End" on the New Yorit stage, when he's older,
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Begin The Beguine
MILDRED BAILEY & HER ORCH. 82071Caresses, Waltz,
.ORCHESTRA MASCOTTE,
Blue Like A Cornflower, Wallz R2673-Blue Blazes.
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
JIMMY LUNCEFORD & HIS ORCH. N2677-In The Bush & On The Prairie & The Veldt. Conile.
That's How Pd Wrile A Love Song
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