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Atlantic City, New Jersey- Even the death-rate is declining in the United States as a result of the depression, and the under- takers are beginning to feel the pinch, it was stated at the annual) convention of the "national select-1 ed morticians,"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933.
FAITH IN MACHINE
SOVIET PINS HOPE
ADDS
ON TRACTORS
TO INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
OF URALS
Chellabinsk, U. S. S. R.
atruction, Mr. Lovin, was iso ful From Magnitogorsk, where the minating in the press against Stal-
The lowest mortality rate in largest steel plant in Europe, is most, an organization which was the United States since the federal growing up on the bare steppe, to supposed to set up equipment and bureau of vital statistice was open: Cheliabinsk, where the largest was apparently doing its job rather ed in 1880," declared the Secretary heavy tractor plant in the world badly.
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of this organization of under-expects to commence oporations in However, despite all these handi- takers, "can be attributed to the the beginning of 1933, is a slow caps and difficulties, which are dis- depression."
and tedious rail journey of 14 cussed quite frankly and openly, "Saner living undoubtedly has hours, indefinitely extensible if the Chellablnak, like Magnitogorsk, Is lowered the death rate," he added. train happens to be running behind striking by virtue of the mare scope "People are not eating and drink scheduled time, writes W. H. Cham-and roach of the project. ing as much as they did in more borlin in
When the Christian Science the factory is functioning it will prosperous days. All of which has Monitor. been happily unfortunate' for our
consume 1,200,000 tons of metal and The intervening country between other building materials, and 268 business."
these two giants of modern indus-carloads of material, designed ex try makes the impression of being clusively for the plant, will pour in- sparsely settled and undeveloped, to Cheliabinsk every day. affording a vivid contrast: to the Big In Military Sense. spacious size and modern equip- There is some difference of oplu- be.ment of the factories.
ion as to whether the factory will At Troitzk, the largest statlon be- produce 10,000 or 20,000 tractors tween Magnitogorsk and Chelín- during its first year of operation, binsk, one had to pay three rubles, 1933. Judging from the experience nominally $1.50, for a wheaten roll, of other plants and from present less than a pound in weight, and building difficulties, the output eggs were priced at 80 kopecks, no-will not be greater than this total. minally 40 cents spiece: significant The machines are of the utmost indications of the food shortage value to an army, and can be that prevails throughout the Ural readily adapted to winter use. The region.
mechanised modern corps Cheliabinsk, which before the with much greater facility and World War must have been a sleepy swiftness in this present day. and log houses, has been selected as provincial town, with mostly frame
the site of the largest plaat of its kind in the world. The factory,
I read that when a film comes fore your eyes it's a sign of indiges- tion. Or, of course, a sign that you are at the plectures.
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WORKHOUSE, NEXT A writer asks: "Is England los, Ing her soul?" Gosh, I never knew we owed that to America, too..
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Another Joke About Scotland.
A Glasgow taxicab was wrecked [recently. The nine occupants are doing as well as can be expect
ed.
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BUSINESS INSTINCT
The suggestion Is regarded as "Amassing a fortune" declares impracticable by his colleagues financier, "is largely a matter of from the town and is now in the and is not likely to be adopted; pluck." Especially of choosing the but he has put it before the right people to pluck. Government, offering his own company's £7,000,000 even if the
Recovery In Australia. others refuse to co-operate.
Africa to the Rescue.
A missionary visited President
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STRAY THOUGHT. -
A NEW
TYPHOON
move
SHELTER
Junkmen Oppose Proposal.
a which is located three miles away
latter stages of completion, is be ing equipped to produce 40,000 trac tors of the heavy 10-ton, 60. horse- power caterpillar type every year. model that is being followed, some. YAUMATI TO CHEUNG SHA While the caterpillar tractor is the
the Soviet design, which employs a changes have been introduced in
There is nothing so wonderful 18 a mother's love. To appreciate this, look at a photograph of your self at the age of ten.
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SOLVED
Diesel motor.
WAN.
Strong opposition to the abolition Orders Switched to Germany. of the Taumati Typhoon anchorage, The main buildings of the plant which will be replaced by a similar
The Australian Governments are as determined,as ever to face their difficulties and to overcome them as far as possible by their Hoover the other day and own exertions. At the recent lightened his many troubles with drinks like a fish is that he does not are laid out on a lavish scale and refuge at Cheung Sha Wan if the Premiers' Conference, it was a gift. The natives of his parti drink what a fish drinks.
shown that all the Governments cular mission field in West in their Budgets had kept well Africa, he explained, had heard, within the limits of the no- of the sorrows of the United called Premiers' Plan, which had States, and had held a voluntary been worked out to restore Bud-collection. for "the unfortunate
The trouble with the man who
Facts You Did Not Know.
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occupy a total area of 55 acres. Es Government's "proposed reclamation pecially impressive is the huge as-iproject in carried out, is being made sembly department, which stretches by the boat population of Hong out for a third of a mile.
Russia Kong.
has already constructed two fac The distance from the central dis- tories, in Stalingrad and in Khar-tilet is one of the main objections get equilibrium throughout the Americans." The sum amountry 400 pounds although It weighs 000 two and a half ton tractors a state that a swiftly moving typhoon A sectional rowboat that can car-kov, each capable of producing 50, to the now alte, and the boat people Commonwealth in three years ed, when exchanged, to some only 30 pounds is being made from year. after it was adopted. Whereas forty dollars, which the natives an aluminium alloy.
would give them no time to gain. the Plan-contemplated an aggre- requested should be handed to
Construction of the Chellabinsk shelter. They also state that the gate deficit of £9,000,000 this the American headman, an office The United Kingdom imports partly because of difficulties in sup launches in the harbour are not plant has proceeded more slowly number of mechanically propelled year, the actual aggregate is well which President Hoover can fair-seven eights of its needs in refined ply with high quality steel and sufficient to tow the junks In the within that figure and will pos-ly claim to hold. That the copper and almost one half of its other necessary materials partly case of necessity. sibly not exceed £8,000,000. Lit-Americans should be going hun-copper products.
because there, have been some tle doubt is now felt that equili-gry when there was plenty toj
Another objection put forward, changes in the ordering of foreign is that Cheung Sha Wan is not a brium will be regained before eat in West Africa struck the Exports of radio sets and parts material, which involved delay in suitable site for a typhoon shelter, the end of the contemplated three native imagination, and they were from the United States have ex-installation.
Some orders which since it is more open to the gales, years. So marked is the restora- not puzzled by simultaneous ceeded $22,000,000 annually for the were
originally designed tion of confidence that the Con- descriptions of glut and emphatic last three years,
for than the present shelter. America were ultimately switched ference has decided to issue an declarations that there was plen-
to England and Germany, where more favorable credit conditions
PRISONER SENT were available.
FOR TRIAL.
Malicious Attack On Compatriot.
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internal loan of £8,000,000, of ty of food in America as well. Within an area about equal to which three-quarters of the pro- Their kindly gesture should at the combined areas of Texas and ceeds will be devoted to funding any rate secure these natives and New Mexico Ethiopia has a popu the floating short-term debt, the their fellows from the ridicule of lation estimated at 10,000,000. other quarter to public works. the white man for their fondness The loan is to be for ten years at for top hals. It is, plainly, but
The local factory newspaper Our Tractor, daily reckons how many days remain till the opening of the. plant, which has been set for Jan.
Two privates of the South
A fire which broke out at 10.45
84 per cent. interest. There is one step from wearing a top hatjon, presumably in part exchange 1, 1983. However, a great deal re- no doubt that it will be readily to going round with it to solicit for Marie Loulae, and only mains to be done, especially in the subscribed. Conditions are now offerings, and nobody can com- somewhat subdued by the nine-equipment of the foundry and of the Wales Borderers, who are at pre- much more favourable than they pute the loss that charities have teenth century as a whole, would boiler plant; and it is tbis corressent serving gave sentences for were a year ago, when the great sustained from the absence, at have zest for the task of compondent's impression that unless burglary, appeared in the Central internal conversion loan reduced large and generous native gather-pletely obliterating cities which, construction is rushed more effec Police Court yesterday as witnesses the interest burden of the public ings, of any headgear or article like nearly all those of the New tively Cheliabinsk may repeat. the of an armed nasault which took debt by some £6,000,000 a year; of clothing with which a collee World, were altogether unknown experience of the Stalingrad trac-place in the Victorla Goal on De and the Australian. investor is tion. could be made. Al- in his high youth, a well-known tor factory and of The Nizhni Noy-cember 7 last. 2 on just as patriotic as he then most at the same showed himself to be:
time passage in the legal records of gorod automobile plant, both of The accused, Tao Kau, was The the prestige of the jungle has the thirteenth century, which which were proclaimed "inished" charged with maliciously wounding original proposal was for a been enhanced in another direc-directs that a certain heretic's long before they were fully equip. Tam Tak, with intent to main him 220,000,000 loan at four per cent, tion with the engagement by a houer shall be carried outside the ped and functioned very badly in The accused offered no defence, but the amount was lowered in Seattle housebreaking firm of town and burnt, shows how the the beginning as a result.
and was committed to stand his order to meet the objections of Tusko, an elephant with a pen- problem of demolition has grown Pushing Hard To Reach Goal
trial at the next Criminal Sessions. the New South Wales Govern- chant, to use no stronger term, more formidable with the years, One sensed in Chellablask'an im ment, who considered that the for smashing things. American and the worst crescents of Vic-patient effort to mobilize all the
KOWLOON FIRE, time was not opportune for a admiration, if it goes out with torian speculative builders take a strength of the engineere and work- transaction of this magnitude particular readiness to those who good deal of pulling down, The ers for the last pull to make the en
Canton Road Build and the banks, which have real build things quickly, is not stint-elephant, it may, confidently be terprise fit for operation by Jan. ised the necessity of keeping ed towards those who are even said, was never more necessary, 1 The director of construction,
Damaged. down the rate of interest, were more prompt în pulling buildings If Africans, even after the col-Mr. Lovin, was warning his subor insistent that the state of the down. It is work for which lection, still look backward and dinates that it was entirely too market made it possible to issue elephants have a particular primitive to the eyes of the New soon to pack their tranke, that much a 94 per cent. loan with every aptitude, and that firm must look World, it is mainly because of responsible work remained to be confidence of success. A striking very out of date which still relles their rudimentary domestic done, that it was necessary not illustration of the prevailing on men with picks when these architecture. But few people will only to obtain more workers short- The Kowloon Fire Brigade ar eagerness to support the Govern rampageous elephants are avail- deny that they are lucky or wise age of labor is an almost chronic ved promptly on the scene, and ment has been given by the chair able for the work. The future to have waited as they have complaint at the large Soviet con- prevented the blaze from spreading man of one of the most import of elephants in the New World Just as the Spaniards, through an struction enterprises-but to ati to an adjoining four storied build- ant Sydney insurance companies, seems assured, for there are al-ingrained disinclination to hustle, lize them Intelligently.
Ing. The Brigade found the flames who suggests that all the insur ways plenty of buildings to come were enabled, when they did Division of authority seemed to had already taken a firm 'hold on ance companies should combine down, and moralisers have abestir themselves, to go straight play some part in the difficulties of stream of water had been applied, to the premises, but after a steady together to lend to the Federal pretty subject to their hand in from of lamps to the very latest the Chellabinsk plant. Some de the flames were extinguished Government the £200,000,000 contrasting the great age which designs in electricity and gas, so partments of the factory which are The ground floor was occupied by which is now held by them and elephants take as a matter of have Africans escaped the build- already operating on a small scale a pawnbroker, the 1st floor being ay which they draw three per course with the brief life of the ing styles of the last century. It-the tool department, the forge, used as a residence. cent interest, carrying on in the modera office building. To the has been more through luck than the little experimental factory meantime with their annual in elephant a ten-year-old building wisdom, and the luck has con- which endeavors to tram workers come, which amounts to about must seems the merest temporary sisted in the constant proximity by turning out a small number of £10,000,000. He proposes to structure Napoleon's elephant, of elephants, who never forget, tractors by hand processes, etc charge the Government only one who goes quietly on in the and who could be expected to are under per cent, until the situation in Budapest Zoo, untamed alike by remove, promptly and completely, constr proves when the two per cent. Napoleon and by the Emperor of any structure of which they disagree loss would be refunded to them. Austria, to whom he was handed disapprdvěd.
last night at 2, Canton Road, badly damaged the ground and first ficers of the building.
RIZAL DAY CELEBRATION,
"The local Filipino Community will celebrate the Rizal Day with a is under another, and musical concert at the Peninsula enta sometimes, arise, in
"on Sunday 8th January, com- nection The chief of con monell
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