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CHARLIE CHAN
GILY IN DARKNESS
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SIDNEY TOLER
Lynn Sair Richord Clarke · Harald Huber
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ERROL FLYNN in "DODGE CITY "
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The CAT and the CANARY"
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SUNDAY
FRANK LLOYD'S
"RULERS OF THE SEA”
Semicing
Douglas FAIRBANKS, Jr. Margaret LOCKWOOD
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Walter
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Seven play by sheet Matkama, Albert Daly, Henry Beget
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LATEST UNIVERSAL WAR NEWSREEL: BOMBING OF HELSINKI
Direct aftor showing at the King's Theatre COMMENCING
SUNDAY
The Scroon's Greatest Actress in the Year's Greatest Drama! BETTE DAVIS in " DARK VICTORY
A Warner Bros. Pictura
Friday.
HONGKONG telegraph
January 5, 1940.
Allied Blockade Cuts Reich from 6 of 7 Seas
DANUBE BECOMES THE ALHAMBRA
NAZI LIFE-LINE
LONDON, Jan. 3 (UP).- Confronted with an Allied blockade which is slowly and surely tightening, it is reported that Germany is turning increasingly ́to- wards the Danube as means of obtaining supplies and shipping her exporis.
The Allied blockade has cut Germany oft from all but
of the seven seas.
Д
one
The exception is the Baltic, through which Germany is re- portedly obtaining so far only Russian timber and Swedish
iron ore.
Two-thirds of the latter have to be shipped round Norway's Atlantic coast.
Russia ships almost all of her oif.! wheat. fodder, and manganese ore exports from Black Sen
wherefore increased German trade with the South-east und Russia de pends upon an extension of Danube shipping.
There
technical ure, however. difficulties in the way of unlimited) expansion.
Water Too Low
Firstly, below Vienna the Danube rushes downhill with increasing force and upriver trame is only practi-
King Orders Windsor Estate to Be Ploughed
LONDON, Jan. 3 (UP),~The King has given orders that more land is to be put under the plough at his Windsor farmy, so that extra crops of wheat and barley may be grown.
The vegetable production at Windsor Castle is also to be considerably increased.
The royal herds of pedigree cattle will be maintained. The King's three year old colt Cosmopolitan has been sold privately to the fritsh Bloodstock Agency. Cosmopolitan who won a sprint handicap at Newmarket in July is by Sir Cosmo vut of Papilla.
MERCY
SLAYER
FACED WITH
ELECTRIC CHAIR
NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UP).-Authorities indicate
cable by tug convoys; secondly no that there will likely be little mercy for "Mercy" slayer
vessel larger than 000 tons enn pass the Iron Gate.
Lawrence Rougeau, 26.
In summer and autumn the water Their investigation seemed to prove that five-year-
is often too low even for such ships, whilst in winter the lower reaches, sometimes as far as wholly closed to ice.
Vienna, are old James Fitzpatrick, his victim and step-son, had been a
The three German controlled con-normal child in all respects. panies.. Donau Dampfschiffahrts) Gesellschaft. Bayrische Lloyd and! Czech SDP, own together between! of tugs, 350,000 and 400,000 tous
addition and lighters. similar vessels sathing under Hungar ian. Itumanlan, and Yugoslav flags,
GAS MASKS ARE
there are a further 375,000 tons of OLD INVENTION
LONDON, Jan. 2 (UP)—Over as well as some British, Dutch, and one hundred years ago, before French river tankers.
need
Rougean's case represented the worst fears of authorities
and social workers come true. fathers who had killed their hopelessly imbecile sons,
He had read in detail of two
A person of no great intelligence. Rougcan heard his step son murmur and moan in his sleep.
This convinced him, he told police. that the child was "going crazy like
another."
mind whose
was
If it were available to Germany. poison gas or any other methods it is stated that only half her pre-of modern warfare were thought war trade could be carried by river of, the gas mask was in exis
It is believed that Germany in-tence.
As long ago as in 1825 workman tends to transfer tugs and barges from the Rhine, where shipping is of the period had thought of the pos
Rhine-blies of
a gas which would kill deranged after childbirth, almost paralyzed, but the Maine-Danube canal will
at and had devised some sort of protec-]
awakened Jimmy. Iold him least andther year's labour before ion against it. transfer will be possible.
It consisted of a leather hood simi-they were going to play "cops and Thus concentration on the Danube far except in material to the modern robbers," bound his hands and feet as a means of evading the blockade mask and completely enveloping the with neckties, then drowned him in is not expected to provide an im-head, and rendered right at the the bathtub. mediate solution 10 Germany's neck by straps and a padding of wad- dilemma, despite starting upriver ding.
le
Gave Himself Up
traffic at Turnu Severin, above the The hood had vs eyeholes pro- Rougeau then left the tenement Iron Gate, with larger Rumanian teeted by glass or mica, and a breath- tus plying the lower part of the ing tube the orifice of which was and surrendered to the policeman un river from the Black Sea coast.
Biled with moist sponge and covered the beat. His attitude was that he cloth, the deserved sympathy If not commenda- over hy coarse woollen
to absorb tion. He received neither. Charged former being intended harmful gases and the latter eliminate solid particles such of those
LATE NEWS
of smoke.
to
The breathing?" tube was extended]. in a sort of trunk which hung down almost to the ground, air is alwaysj free from smoke.
WAR REDUCES CRIME RECORD
by police with homicide, prosecuting authorities indicated he would be in- dicted for first degree murder which is punishable by death.
Rougeau acknowledged to authori ties that he had been impressed by the melancholy roles in which the other mercy slayers had appeared. He wore, among other indications of a strong sense of vanity, an imith- tion of a star sapphire of a size that would be worth perips several hundred thousand dollars it genuine and flawless.
LONDON Jan. 2 (UP)-War has definitely reduced the crime:
He knew even the names of his record in England.
two New York predecessors-Louis Scotland Yard reports, that since Greenfeld, milliner, who killed his September, the crine record is the 17 year old imbecile son, and was acquitted by a Jury of manslaughter, lowest for 25 years.
hve definitely and Louis Repouille, who chloro- conditions Wor against crime. The number of extra formed his 13 year old Imbecile son, police and A.R.P. workers on the Raymond. Both these children had streets, the removal of most valu- been imbecile and physically ables, the dimeulty in the black-out ficient from birth and had
de-
been
of easy escape by car-possibly also, certified as hopeless by competent the number of nien who have enlist-medical authority.
ed either voluntarily or in the call-
In up, and have offer interests than crime.
Repouille was released on $5,000 bond provided by a surely company Sir Philip Game, Commissioner of gratis. He was greeted in his tenc- consequence. been mert at by his wife, Florence, who Police has, in able to grant annual leave to nearly is sticking by him, and their four
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THE MIGHTIEST SEA DRAMA EVER TO STORM THE SCREEN!
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FRANK LLOYD'S "
"RULERS
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Douglas FAIRBANKS, Ir: Margaret LOCKWOOD Will FYFFE
George Bancroft - Montagu Lore Fraided and DOKIEST FRANK SLOTO
"THE CAT & THE CANARY”
PAULETTE GODDARD & BOB HOPE
STAR
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Maureen O'SULLIVAN
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She Lies She Steals She Cheats AND SHE MIGHT BE YOUR KID SISTER!
From rich homes and poor, come hundreds of dangerous daughters. Will probation make these bad girls good or just give them another chance to be bad. YOU'LL SEE THE ANSWER IN THIS AMAZING PICTURE !
THE
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ARE THEY THE MARKED WOMEN OF TOMORROW?
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