1933-09-30 — Page 7

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1933.

BABY'S REMARKABLE AGENTS UNHAPPY

ESCAPE

Car Crashes Into Perambulator.

LIFE SAVED BY QUILT

SEIZURE

Nitro-Glycerine Which No One Wanted.

SECRET SERVICE PROBLEM

Chicago, Ilincia.

FAT CHORUS GIRLS IN LEAN DAYS

Paradoxical Fashion On Broadway.

PLUMP POPULARITY

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-Day's Short Story.

The Lighthouse On Shivering Sand

Sydney.

A baby in a perambulator had a

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other.

may

By J. S. Fletcher.

Los Angeles, California. Two United States Secret Service) However paradoxical it

THEN Mordecal Chiddock all we knew was that the September remarkable експре recently in agents here learned that it's one sound, Broadway's famous pro- came to join the lighthouse boat would bring a third keeper, off Liverpool near Sydney.

problem to seize a gallon of nitro-ducer, Lee Shubert, believes that staff on Shivering Sand, Jezreel with it. A woman left it sleeping in a glycerine and another to get rid of lean years bring plump ones, and Cornish was taking his allow It was a fine, bright morning perambulator outarde a shop. The it.

fat years willowy ones.

ance of sleep, and Chiddock, be- when he came, and I watched him perambulator moved off and ra They walked into the office of The New York showman

was ing new

to the place, did not narrowly as be came on to the plat down a slight gradient into the Lieutenant John Treacy at the De-speaking of economic conditions in know who it was he would meet form at the foot of the lighthouse, street. A Car coming round म tective Bureau with three jars of jone breath and chorus girls in an-when Cornish woke up. Other which you could only make at certain corner sharply swerved, but a hit the liquid.

wise, the boat which had brought times. He was a thick-set, swarthy the handle of the perambulator "Put that stuff down and do it) "Yes," he commented, "the thin him and a month's provisions man of middle age; he had, curling which increased in speed, and pass-quickly and lightly," said Treacy, chorus girl was popular when times over from the mainland would black hair and beard, and his eyes! ed between two cars coming in- "Why, that's enough nitro-glycerine were good, but the rotund blonde never have gone back without were shiftier than I cared about. the opposite direction.

to blow up all the Loop."

came back when the depression set him.

However, he bade me good morning And with that the Government in, and I believe the girl with the] Until Chiddock came we had never civilly enough, and when he had got men explained they'd been trying decided curves in back to stay for been more than two at the Shiver-his own things up from the boat, to give it away for four hours. severni seasons.

ing Sand. That was a bid arrange-gave me a ready hand with the They had visited Lieutenant Mike "Maybe the public feels that ment, of course, and it was I who month's stores. It was not till the baby was buried to the footpath, Mills, former head of the bomb spindly legs and wasp waists are too get the worst of it. Once Reuben boat was off again that he seemed still sleeping on the eiderdown quili squad, who ordered them out of his reminiscent of hard times, or may-Cleary fell sick, and had to take to disposed for conversation.

The perambulator continued its! progress, and crossed the street to wards the gutter on the opposite aide, siruck the pavement, and the

in which it had been wrapped. office. From there they wandered be the well-rounded-out figure is his bed. That was just after the "My name's Chiddock," he says.

The baby excuped unharmed, and over to the Northwestern Univer-fundamentally of greater appeal monthly boat had been, and until it "Mordecai Chiddock.” the mother, who was shopping at ity crime laboratory, and in addi-and deserving of its present popu-came again I had to work night and "Mine's John Graburn," I answer- the time, was not aware of the in-tion to being shown the door again larity."

day and nurse him into the bar-ed him. cident until the baby and peram-were warned that one of the jars Then, with a grin and a glance gain. Then there was Pharaoh He offered me a plug of tobacco, bulator were restored to her. Reu- was beginning to deteriorate and at an N.R.A. Blue Eagle:

Nanjulian; he was a melancholy sort and took a sort of comprehensive was liable to any moment.

"There's a possibility that the from his youth, and the loneliness glance all around him. Lt. Treacy went with them to the shorter hours and bigger pay and monotony affected his brain. county morgue, where they were cheques will occasion even heavier His wits gave out at last, and he invited to leave as quickly and heavyweights than in the past." quickly as possible and take their Reuter. jars with them. Finally. Lt. Treacy

ter.

FIRE AT NAVAL YARDS

Packing Store Gutted.

SAILORS AND FIREMEN SUBDUE FLAMES

A mysterious fire which threaten- ed several buildings occurred at the Naval Establishment Yards st night.

A packing sture, erected againal the wall dividing the Naval Yard from the Armament Depot and be hind the Electrical shops adjacent to the Battery Charging rooms, sud-

10.30 p.m.

used to spend the whole day in sing- ing psalms and hymns, and preach- ing to the sea-birds. We had great storms that autumn, and the

succeeded in getting rid of the TOO MANY EXCUSES monthly boat came a fortnight lata,

explosive after first warning them not to dump it in Lake Michigan.

He mixed 20 gallons of alcohol and 20 eans of lye with the explo! sive and poured it on the ground.

-Reuter.

WILD-WEST FILM PARTNERSHIP,

Zane Grey - Tom Mix Production.

Kansas City, Missouri.

IN BRITAIN

from! golf'

Continued from Page 6).

The gentleman returning his wholenume week-end of falaken his head over the way the Itrade amuonists cramp trade.

trade uniomst

The

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Stolen 'Papers," by Karel Capek.

and found me about done for, what with living day and night with a madman, and doing work for two. And it was because of what I said | =====

not mincing matters-that it was decided to send a third man, so thatị in such cases as those of Cleary and Nanjulian the other man should not be utterly and badly alone.

coming back оп Chiddock was the man who was Saturday afternoon frum seeing his' .sent.

home team defeated

has definite

Of course, neither Cornish

view what'll have to be done with! ¡nor myself knew who would be sent;

capital if the splendid British working man, the best in the world,

is going to have fairdos and not be

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denly burst into flames shortly after Tom Mix, the famous cowboy film treated like one of those down-

Juctor, announces that he and Zane trodden serfs in foreign parts. The alarm was raised by a watch Grey, the author, are planning to

In business,

in sport, the man, and astiors from H.M.S. Suf- form a partnership for the produc-tendency is to

believe we

Bre all folk and Tamor and the oil leader 100 of western motion pictures. right and that when affairs go carly in wrong it is because somebody else

Production

western stories

will start

Ebanol, and other war vessels were November, and Zane Grey's fund of has not played the game. quickly on the scene.

Lines were run from the basin to

will keep the new! I don't suppose there are many the scene of the fire, water being with Gim material. Tom Mix will who look across the way at a more production company well supplied not-so-successful heads of concerns pumped up by the Naval fug boats.

Although the Central Fire Brigade alar in moul

pictures.progressive firm wage-carners not were quickly on the watch wore ištektar.

helpless for fifteen minutes owing to.

the water restrictions, but when the

of the

full supply of water had been re- NAVAL VOLUNTEER

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RESERVE.

To Be Established

In Colony.

doing well, having a mate who is. better paid, and say, "That fellow a really more efficient than I am." Not many!

"This," he says, "is a Ioneller place than most of 'em."

"You'll make all the more com- pany, I says. "There'll be three of us now."

He gave a glance at the door at the top of the stone stairway, as if he expected to see the third man appear.

"Ah," he said, and what sort of

LIVED AFTER SHOT shipmate is the other partner?"

IN TEMPLE

War Victims Talk To Millions Club.

SHOCK VITALISES BRAIN

Sydney, N.S.W. Captain H. G. Nobbs, who lost his sight in the war as a result of being shot through the temple, has: thrown interesting light on the ques- tion of whether a man could live to shoot himself a second time in the temple.

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“Oh, he's all right," said I, off- hand. "He's only been here this last month, but he's a decent man, 18 Jezreel"

Chiddock turned round on me like flash, and I saw a queer look come into his eyes.

"Jezmel!" he said. short and sharp-like. "That's an uncommon name. I knew a man of that näme once. This man's other name, what

might it be, now, Graburn?"

"Cornish." I answered, "Jezreel Cornish."

ceived from the mains, the fire was

Others Errors Stressed

Then I knew that something was soon under control, not, however,

How bracingly refreshing it is

miss, for his cheeks lost all their until the building had been gutted.

occasionally to hear a fine fellow

dark colour and turned a strange At one stage before the water

say. "Well, I was wrong!"

pasty white, and I saw sweat burst Speaking to members of the from the mains was received, the

The majority of volumes written Millions Clubs, he said be

out on them. He came a step nearer; sailors and firemen were seriously

about the war by important soldiers greatly interested in an article on and his lips quivered under his black | was and looked at me with burning eyes, handicapped by the restricted area

and sailors had for their purpose the point in the "Sun" recently, between the electrical workshop and Hong Kong Yacht Club yesterdaying that mishaps were not, their temple and

At a meeting held at the Royal self-defence, justification, explain "A rifle bullet went through my

moustache. the battery charging room, the evening, at which the scheme for a fault, excusing themselves, but none You may think that with such a tallish, scraggy-built man with

"Jezreel Cornish!" he nays, almost sailors and firemen using the Naval Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer that I've heard of where the de-wound, one would be incapable of long, sharp nose and red hair and came out at my eye. in a whisper. "Jezreel Cornish! A and Civil hoses being unable to Reserve was fully discussed, it was claration was made, "There I made doing anything, but that is not so," ferrety eyes: is it a man like that 7′′ quench the flames which threatened made clear that there is useful work some adjacent-buildings,

to be done in Hong Kong by the though

grave error in judgment" he said. Four appliances from Central and civilian population as volunteers on have been errors of judgment by touch the brain you will live, for

we recognise there must

"And what if it is?" I said. "Provided the bullet- does not watching him. three from Wanchai were on the sea, as well as by land. scene, but only two were used.

Those whose hobby is waterman-But what a lot about the errors of possession of your senses.

hopourable and very brave men, a few minutes at any rate, in fulling, looked out across the bay after He drew a long breath, and, turn- ship are naturally looked to as re-others in commandi

the boat from the mainland, as if cruits for & Naval Volunteer Re- And those autobiographies by although dulling senses to a certain was already a speck in the distance.

"I will go so far as to say that he would call her back. serve, and the outcome of the distinguished statesmen and others extent, the brain seems to develop and he turned again to me, breath- meeting was that a large number of who directed the war from White-tremendous activity for a few in hard. those present expressed their readi halli ness to join a Hong Kong Royal famous men must have had in those

What spare time these moments as a result of the shock Naval Volunteer Reserve Division, thrilling days to write

"TY it in." he says. muttering his With assistance, I was able to d, "If it is. mister-well. then, when constituted under its own Or-diaries and to demonstrate at length, and give directions, as to the de- or on shore, or anywhere, that's all. up their move a few yards to a shell hole T wish I was in that craft out there. The Commodore of the Yacht colleagues were!

what purblind fools most of their struction of papers in my bag, and Jezreel Cornish-ah!" Club, Mr. A. L. Shields, presided Things went wrong.

the use of bandages I had.", over the meeting and was supported sible quiet-thinking man, wanting The sen-

I saw his face suddenly change) Mr. A. L. Shielda was elected by Commodore, Captain Frank El- to feel

"It was not until some minutes from white to red, and from red Chieftain and Mr. A. S. MacKlchan llott, O.B.E. Commander S. E. abllity was doing his best, would ness, and now I leave it to you to Cornish himself coming down the later that. I lapsed into unconscious-to: white, and turning, there was everyone according to as vice-president, at the annual Norfolk (H.M.S. Oswald) Lt rather appreciate than find fault, person to Are a second shot after his sleep. And quick as lightning general meeting of the St. An Comdr, G. C. P. Menzies (H.M.B. But what a scurry of scribbling having a bullet in the temple-Ben- the newcomer's hand went round to decide whether it is possible for a stairs, yawning and stretching after drew's Society, held at Mesars, Jar-Orpheus), and members of the Com-thera was by the explaining and dins Matheson's Board Room yes-mittee of the Yacht Club, terday evening.

LOCAL ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.

Annual Meeting.

MR. SHIELDS ELECTED

CHIEFTAIN

Mr. K. E. Greig, the returning Chieftain presided and was ported by Messra. A. L; Shields, J. W. C. Bonner, T. H. R. Shaw, R. M. McLay, K. S. Morrison, A. S. Mackichan, J. B. Ross, D, Gow, W.

Kay, H. R. Forsyth (committee) and Mr. E. M. Bryden (Hon. Secre tary),

Mesara. Bryden and Rob were re-

dinance.

were over 60 persons present.

There excusing statesmen, with perpetual

accentuation of the theme "Under atand, I'm not to blame"!

EXHIBITION OF ANTIMONY.

New Process Shown At

Komor And Komor.

And sometimes, it seems to me,

the British public has a more re- lishing smack of the lips in read- ing something spicy and derogatory: about a great man than to hell his nobility of character-that is if any great man has nobility of character, which strictly... modern debunking

ter.

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF HOLY ROSARY.

elected as joint secretaries, Messrs. mony will be Held at Mesars. If many of us had the

-An exhibition of modern: anti-¡kistoriana would make the idli WANS

Celebration Service At

But she

[his hit-pocket, and I guessed what

he bad there."

"“Te that's a pistol you've got," |kaye, sharp and quick. "you can

leave it where it is. I'm boss here, and Si

He seemed to give no more hood, and he lept his eyes on Corni [to me than If I had been a child |

Rosary Church, expocis a blow And I tur

| with the watchfulness of a dog thị

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was not. A

To morrow being the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Roary, A

the Rosary

seat of the Confrater

A. D. Lowson and W. H. P. Rigg as Komor and Komor's Art Hooms, attainning our objects which some special series of serv treasurers and the following were commencing on Wednesday, Octo- of us show in precisely explaining held elected to serve on the general ber 4, remaining opan for ten days, why we ought to have attained loon committes:

Messrs. H. R. Forsyth, D. Gow, Pewter and antimony have been mosphere would not be so zag:

from 9am to 5 pm. daily, them but didn't, the commercial at- W. Kay, K. S. Morrison, R. M. Mc-known and used for more than 200 Does anybody really believa bur gilb Lay, Ross and B. Wylle..

News In Brief.

Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham, deputy Clerk of Councils and 2nd Assistant Colonial Boerstary, leaves tis Colony on October 19, for England on fur

years but it is claimed that the excuses for failure?

goods to be shown in this, exhibi- purs

Hon are the result of a new and

secrat process, by which the mé

acquires and retaine a sbsen

of

dac

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