1934-03-19 — Page 12

THE

DANCE

TO SNAPPY TUNES

WITH CHARMING PARTNERS EVERY NIGHT.

THE A

YELLOW DRAGON

DANCING ACADEMY,

King' Theatre Bldg. (Top floor)

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NINETIETH YEAR OF PUBLICATIONS

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Will Rogers

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THE FAXCUS LONDON ACTOR

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'WHILE PARENTS SLEEP

"

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HOME OF SOUNDEST MONEY-

not all due to the personal virtue of Dictator Gomez Mousemat

In 1917 oil began to gush in Vane- zuela in unbelievable quantities.

Last year more oil than anywhere else outside the United States and ENERAL JUAN VICENTE Russia spouted from Vermuelan GENOMEZ, President of

tor of Venezuela, in just celebrating 17 per cent. to 10 per cent. royalty the twenty-fifth anniversary of his to the Government, seizure of power.

Citizens of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, de not see much of their President,

Dictator Gomes is not only the richest man in Venezuela, but for all practical purposes owns the country,

DEATH DUEL

Clyde Beatty Fails To Save Life.

ARENA IN UPROAR

Roaring with, rage, two lions Me fought a battle to the death in the public auditorium at Cleveland while Clyde Beatty, their trainer, who has been seen on the films at the Cen- tral Theatre, sought vainly to All attempts to overthrow his separate them. Two hours before He dislikes public functions, Government are instantly suppress the afternoon performance of the spends as much of his time as posed

circus Sammy, a huge male lion, at- tacked a young lioness while Beatty was putting the beasts through a Itraining session.

able at. Maracay, seventy-saven Venezuela's pride, her highway miles away, where, beside a lake on system, has been built largely by the his great model farm; he sits inbour of political prisoners. in a rocking chair under a giant rubber tree and holds court.

But his people are proud of him. Venezuela has a balanced: Budget and a surplus in the national trea- aury. Her money is the soundest in the world.

Not a single foreigner owns a Venezuelan Government bond. There is practically no employment.

Farmers pay no land taxes at all and may borrow up to 50 per cent. of the value of their land from a Government farm bank.

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The beasts lought fiercely in the centre of the big cage. The arena was in an uproar. Attendants turned streams from three fire-hoses on the battling lions. Beatty, arm- ed only, with a whip and a pistol loaded with blanks, sought to quiet four other male lions and four tigers in the cage.

Disregarding the pleas of atten

Beatty! The first air mall has arrived in dants to leave the cage, Canada's Arctic borderland. turned his back on the non-comba- From the Great Bear Lake the tants and dived into the thick of first airplane to link the Arctic seas the fight. He prodded with his pla with the South has arrived 'to break tol. His whip cracked. But the winter isolation of this little Sammy would not loosen the grip he had on the throat of the lioness. outpost.

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