1932-08-16 — Page 7

TUESDAY AUGUST 16, 1932.

HE CHINA

CINEMA STARS FEEL

BRITAIN AND GOLD Britain Improves Public ECONOMY'S PINCH SHADOWS BEFORE

STANDARD.

No Return Without

A Remedy.

OTTAWA CONFERENCE.

The

"Ottawa, Yesterday. Canadian newspapers publish a full summary of Rt. Hon. Mr. Neville Chamberlain's opening speech to the Monetary Committee of the Ottawa "confer- ence. It appears that the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer submit-

He stated

Health

National Hygiene Is New Departure

MACHINE AGE CHILD

"Doug" Fairbanks, Jr., Much Surprised.

VISITING IN LONDON.

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED

IN. CHINA. MAILANDE Social Functions,

To-day Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; New York, July 16

Dinner Dances at]; Miss Joan Crawford and her hus

King's Restaurant and Hong Kong hand, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-now

and Peninsula 'Hotels

Entertainments. on holiday in London are among To-day King's the film stars affected by a salary "She Wanted„A Millionaire."

Theatre; reduction plan "announced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation.he Champ."

To-day Queen's Theatre; The salaries of all their ployees receiving more than £300 avings." S

"Today Central Theatre:

Theatre;

tent...

自

em.

recommended. the wholesale re-Miss Crawford and Mr. Fairbanks, Among those affected, besides

Lionel Barrymore.

Norma Shearer,

Marion Davies, Buster Keaton, Maric Dressler, John Gilbert, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper

ted that supplies of staple com- By far the most important quacy of the powers granted by week are to be reduced by 35 per modities should be regulated ac-aspect of the progress of civilisa- the Act of 1848. cording to the absorption capa-tion is that concerned with the city of the market.

In 1871 a Royal Commission that Britain had no intention of health of the community. returning to the gold standard Britons are by nature averse vision and recasting of sanitary are: unless assured that remedy had to official intervention in their legislation, and advised that John Barrymore, heen found for conditions which private affairs, and the activities the laws be strengthened, the had led to the breakdown of the of those various bodies concerned system of administration simpli- gold standard last year.

with the administration of sani-fect and the control of local The curtain will fall on the con-tary legislation have not always health authorities vested in a central department, the Local ference on Thursday when the been favourably regarded. plenary session will be held. Although this attitude is Government Board. Most of the United Kingdom de-nderstandable, it cannot he The Public Health Acts of 1872 legates will leave immediately justified in regard to matters of und 1874 followed, culminating after, but Lord Hailsham, and hygiene. Whilst the health of in Disraeli's great Public Health Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister will be the individual must depend to Act of 1875, which consolidated available for consultation if some extent on his own actions regularised ́ ́all previous necessary during the subsequent and on his regard for obvious legislation, and, with the Food inter-dominion negotiations,

hygienic principles, each member and Drugs Acts of the same year of the community has, in this and the Factory and Workshops Reuter

connection, very important res-Acts of 1878, laid the foundations ponsibilities towards his fellows. of the present administrative the news. We both expected salary Furthermore, there must be pro- system.

cuts, but nothing so drastic as this. Combating Diseases.

"Pretty Careful”

HITLER

ASECOND. MUSSOLINI?

Plays Same Part As Italy's Chief,

William Haines, Robert Montgomery. Ramon Novarro, Clark Gable.

Jr. was told of the "cut" he said:

When Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, "Neither my wife nor I has heard

TE

To-day-Majestic

"Heartbreak."

Today Star Theatre;

World Theatre;

Trader Horn."

To-day

"Marianne."

To-day Garden Theatre; "Dirigible."

Today Oriental Theatre; "Goldie."

FICTITIOUS POSTS IN

FAR EAST.

Young Men At Home Are Duped.

cor-

Writing from Java, "a respondent calls attention to continued publication in at home of mis-

vision for the dissemination of advice and of Information in re- By way of illustrating the pro- "My wife and I each earn a salary the gard to new discoveries, so that gress that has been made, it is of approximately $400 a week. I newspapers the State and the municipalities useful to compare the incidence really don't know on what we shall leading advertisements have very important duties to of deaths from infectious seconomisc now.

I re- discharge in guarding the health eases prior to the passing of the pretty careful, anyway. My wifeing and trading companies and Joan and I are ference to employment, by plant- of the people.

Public Health Acts with similar Berlin, Yesterday,

The Middle Ages.

figures of recent years.

spends comparatively little on firms in the East. The advertise- Herr Adolf Hitler saw himself Remarkable as it may seem. it Scarlet fever accounted for a

clothes.

ments, emanate from shady agents in the role of a Mussolini when is none the less true that little death rate of 72 per 1,000 living short our stay in London.".

"At all events we will hot" eut who, while much too careful to he conferred with President Hin- or nothing was done by the com- in the years 1871-1880 (aver-

give any definite undertaking, hold] denburg on Saturday, and de-munity as a whole in the causeage). By 1929 this figure bad of the Hollywood film companies to the required fee for their services Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the last out the hope that in return for" clared to the Reich's President: of public health "a century ago. been reduced to 018 per 1,000. bow before the wave of depression a well-paid appointment may be "I claim for myself the position People of the middle ages knew Tuberculosis, affecting the respi- which has overtaken the American secured. The which Mussolini gained after little or nothing of what are now ratory system was responsible film industry.

fee. is an exorbi his famous march to Rome.” accepted as the most elementary for 2.13 deaths per 1,000 giving

tant charge for duplicated copies of It is semi-officially announced principles of hygiene and sanita on the average of the same de towards

Drastic salary cuta began a typed letter of application which that the Government did, every-tion. Of sense of responsibility cade, but

the end of 1980. the dupe is told to post to. com- thing to give the Nazis a com towards others in these matters scourge, although it still occaixe."

even this terrible The first star to feel the panies and firms whose names have mensurate share in the Govern there was none. Upon reading sions the gravest anxiety, has Fox Film Company His salary of frem directories. Even in pros WAN Tom Mix, of the been taken, more or less haphazard ment and the failure of Satur- of the conditions prevailing in been so far reduced in severity 3000 a week was reduced to £1000. perous times it was practically day's conference must be solely mediaeval times one is astonish-that the Registrar General's re- ascribed to Hitler and his ad-ed, not so much at the incidence port for 1929 shows deaths from National stars were the next to sus-without any kind of introduction, Warner Brothers. and First futile to make auch, applications visers.

of infectious diseases, as at the this cause to have been reduced tain drastic cuts of 20 and 30 per and in these dismal days, when so The Reichstag will be con- survival of any to tell the tale. vened within the time provided Even among primitive races,

to .798 per 1,000.

The figures for small-pox are,

many staffs are being reduced and in the Constitution. 'Reuter.

Miss Constance Bennett who re-experienced men on the spot afe of course, there have been some respectively. 0.75 and 0.166, for ceived £6000 a week, has to content secking jobs, the trick practised by instances of hygienic prevision, measles 0.38 and 0.086. There herself for the future with £4500. embodied mainly in the creeds, is no doubt that much has still

these agents at the expense of cre- superstitions and taboos of the to be done, but these few in-

dulous young fellows here is ancient tribes... One of the ear stances serye

doubly reprehensible. to demonstrate liest legislative enactments in how vital a part legislation and England relative to public health education have played in the appears to have been a law pais-building up of a healthy conte ed in 1888, which made it a pun-munity. ishable offence to cast animal Infant mortality under the age filth and refuse into streets and of one year has been halved in The political crisis arising out ditches.

the last sixty years, and thei hf the resignation of Mr. Wang This statute does not appear death rate generally has been re- Ching-wel is now regarded as to have had much effect. For duced very considerably. settled.

many generations afterwards.

YOUNG MARSHAL

RESIGNS.

Position Filled By Committee.

Nanking, Yesterday.

A meeting of the Central Execu-the sanitary conditions of Eng tive Council this morning accepted lish towns were, according to Chang Hsueh-liang's resignation present standards, truly appall as Pacification Commissioner for ing; and it is not surprising that the Peking area and decided to the population was constantly replace him with a Military Com-suffering from the ravages of mittee of 18 members.

one infectious disease or another. The standing committee of this Industrial Revolution." buy will be Messrs. Wan Fu-lin, j With the development of me- Tung Then and Chiang Po-cheng. chanical industries towards the. --Reuter.

NO

DISCUSSIONS ON RUBBER.

Indies Government Sees No Need.

NO

5+

WORD OF LOST

AVIATORS.

Vanished Suddenly Over Burma.

Rangoon, Yesterday.

cent.

CIVIL WAR THREAT IN IRELAND.

(Continued from Page 1.)

JAPANESE SLAVE TRADERS

Osaka

Girls Sent To Shanghai.

The Third Army.

Dublin, Yesterday, "All who "feel the need for the existence of a powerful steadying. body of opinion in the country" are invited to enrol in the new The Abenobashi police, Osaka, Volunteer Division, which is be have under examination, two ring- ing organised by the National leaders of a gang of kidnappers, Executive of the Army Comrades Noboru Matsuura and Toshi!

Association.

Matsuura, his wife.

The document announcing that In June last, accused are alleged recruiting to the new "volunteer to have kidnapped six young Osaka army" is open is signed by T. girls and taken them to Shanghai O'Higgins,, a former Colonel and where they were sold to a house of Director of Army Medical Ser- of ill-fame. Two of the girls end of the eighteenth century

vices.

managed to escape, and were sent new problems, of greater com-

He is a brother of the late Mr. back to Kobe by the Japanese Con- No information is yet avail- Kevin O'Higgins, who plexity and intensity than anyable regarding the

was nesas-sulate General. that had been encountered planters. Salt and Taylor, who it is the general opinion that women known as the Bar Madam in

Malayan sinated five years ago,

Toshi is said to be a notorious hitherto, had to be faced. Me. chanisation of industries mennt from Malaya to England. The hostile to the de Valera Government,

disappeared while on a flight the new organisation is largely the Shanghai underworld. the concentration of scattered

Government is making

The Japanese police suspect that populations previously employed

en-particularly in regard to its policy many girls have been victimised. in small communities,.or even in

quiries.

regarding the LR.A. which" was their own homes, and with the Kuala Lumpur on July 2 and ment

Salt, and Taylor started from banned, by the Cosgrave Govern- inception, of every new industry The Government of the Dutch the urgency of public health ad. damaged their machine landing With the official Free State Army at Moulmein. They resumed and the Irish Republican Army, it Indies does not consider the pre- ministration was emphasised,

their fight on August 4 but dis-will make the third military During the first thirty years sent moment opportune for the re opening of international discus of the nineteenth century the appeared while flying over Burganisation in Ireland

ma Reuter. alons on the rubber situation, ac population of England and cording to a ministerial statement Whales rose by 47 per cent., and made to day by the People's Coun public-spirited people, recognis DE

Ell...

Batavia, Yesterday.

ing how this accretion would in-

In regard to suggestions that tensify the dangers of insanitary steps might be taken to develop conditions, began to press for cotton growing in Java the Govern legislative action to protect the ment thinks that such development inhabitants of these new urban- would be attended by considerable ised districts against themselves; risks without offering any great promise for the future-Reuter,

HUGE COFFEE STOCK

DESTROYED.

Oficial Sneer.

Dublin, Yesterday.

or-

VALERA TO OUST Mr. Frank Aitken, the Minister

THE SENATE.

Minister Announces

Plan Públic Health Laws. After one or two unsuccessful

London, Yesterday." attempts, the first effective en- The latest development of the actment of this kind became law Irish discord is that the Free in 1846. It was called the Nui-State Senate because it blocks sance Removal and Diseases Pre Mr. de Valera's plans is to be vention Act, and was followed abolished.

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