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THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934.

CHAMPION

Overtaken by Past NATIONAL

THEATRE

PHILATELIST

OF AMERICA

Honour Accorded New

York Lawyer.

"WINGED MERCURY"

AWARDED

New York.

Mr. Charles Curie, a New York. lawyer. has been adjudged the champion philatelist of the United States, for his exhibit in the National Stamp Exhibition.

He received, as his trophy, a bronze figure of the Winged Mer- cury presented to him by the American Philatelic Society.

His exhibit was a stamp collec.| tion covering the nineteenth cen- tury.

In addition, 33 gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded andi all were presented by Mr. Alfred Lichtenstein, chairman of the board of judges.

Among the speakers at the dinner at which the presenta- | tions were made, was Mr. Clinton B. Eilenberger. Third Assistant Postmaster General.

berger announced

United States Post

year would issue

Mr. Eilen-

that the Office this in LL stamp honour of Mother's Day, which is observed on the second Sun- day in May.

Mother's Day in America is ni day set aside for remembrance of Mothers by all sons and

daughters. Flowers are sent by

children living away from home, and other gifts are offered with appropriate cards of endearment.

Some children wear

carnations

on Mother's Day, a red flower if the Mother is dead and a white one if she is still living. In ad-1 dition, special church services. are held. Reuter.

Frank GrigwATS

Convicted of a mali robbery in 1910, Frank Grigware, alias James Fa- hey, made a daring escape from the Federal Penitentiary at Leaven- worth, Kan., by stealing locomo tive. He remained at large until identified by his fingerprints in Ed- monton, Canada, recently, where he Bad been regarded as a highly re- He is shown after spected exisin.

arrest, awaiting pztradition.

GAY SPINSTER

Hits Out When Accused Of Love Affair.

J

BUT IT COST HER $10

ONlting Sin Hop, a

P.I. DELEGATES

QUEZON MISSION,

(Continued from page 1.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-day's Short Story.

IN BRITAIN

Lord Strabolgi Latest Advocate.

DANGER OF COMPLACENCY

INGRATE ISLAND

By Frederick Boutet.

TT was in latitude 52 deg. S. "How far are we from land?” Pluyinage, speaking -nnd longitude 47 deg. W. that asked M London. M. Pluvinage, the distinguished Chinese,

"About sixty metres," replied Every now and again some sociologist, hygienist, philoso prominent person urges the four-pher and statistician was ship the Chinaman. dation of a National Theatre in wrecked. He was a member of Great Britain. Not that we many learned and scientific so- fever get any nearer to having cieties and had lectured at most

of them.

one......

"In which direction?" asked smiling M. Pluvinage.

"Straight down. I took sound-i ings just before the ship sank."

M. Pluvinage thought this an in- different joke.

For two days, they suffered from M. Pluvinage hunger and thirst.

The latest advocate of a Na- No one knew better than he how tional Theatre is Lord Strabolgi, to discourage his contemporaries, who was Lieutenant-Commander and to inform them of unnumbered Kenworthy, MP. until the death things they did not want to know of his father recently, and the anything about in order to im was insuficiently nourished by reasons for his advocacy are un-prove their morals. No one knew liquorice. Then the Chinaman, usual. Here is what he said to better than he how to make declaring he had had more than the Gallery First Nighters' statistics prove anything that he enough, dived into the sea. M. Club:-

wanted to prove or disprove,

Pluvinage clung to life and the "The great duty of the then-: Now about forty, and gorged boat. tre should be to arouse people, with honours and burning with en- The next day he learned that the The danger to-day is complacthusiasm, he had gone on a way-Chinaman had been wrong. For ency. People are too easily age round the world to hold con- the current deposited the boat on satisfied. As long as they have ferences and obtain information. a stretch of black sand. enough to eat, can have muslin In Asia, and in 'Africa and in curtains for their windows and America, he had obtained invaluable; can keep a maidservant, they statistics. Oceana, however, had let think everything is all right. him down.

"Among the younger genera Storms had driven the ship that tion, as long as a toy has a girl carried him out of her course, and and a small car, and they can go finally she had been wrecked on a to the pictures cnce a week and coral island. see Hollywood at its worst, they Jare happy.

And after divers distressing emo- tions, M. Pluvinage found himself

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Peace Of Lavasina," by Michael Kent.

Compassionate

human beings

"But at least 70 per cent. take in a boat that was tossed by angry lifted the philosopher from the no interest in politics at all be-scas. He Was wearing garish boat. Seeing he wae more dead tween general elections,

pyjamas and carpet slippers. He than alive, they did their utmost "That is where the theatre had saved his photographic ap-to save his life. can help us. I agree with Shaw paratus, several plates, and three After eating like a boa con- that democracy will not work large books containing statistics. strictor, M. Fluvinage slept for unless people take more interest. He had also a box of liquorice. two days. He awoke feeling more If they leave the whole of the His only companion was a Chinese like himself, and then took his work of the country to a small sailor. The rest of the passengers bearings. minority of interested people, itland crew had been drowned.

is only a dictatorship in another form,

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Fan Mui. a spinster, was fined $5, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-

"If the theatre can shake peo- tral Magistracy this morning, forple out of this complacency and married make them think it will be of tre- woman, at Yuen Fook Lane, West mendous value to the country. The R.M.S. Empress of Russia is "I would rather men were leaving for Manila at 9 p.m. to-day, arguing in a public house than instead of 7 pm, as previously ad- being duped by the worst Holly-vised. wood films."

Point, yesterday.

It was alleged that Sin Hop, who appeared in court with a bandaged head, socused defendant of carrying on a love affair with her husband.

COCOANUT OIL TAX "The proposed Cocoanut Oil Tax.) Fan Mui was also ordered to pay mooted in America before we loft, complainant $5 compensation. will have a detrimentul effect on the

Philippine Islands, as the export of

cocoanut oil to the U.S.A. is one of} our chief industries.

"We expect there will be tariff) harriers against us when we gain our independence," be continued "and one of the big tasks ahead of us will be to find new markets for our goode to make up for the loss

of the American market.

CAPTAIN. EDEN TO FLY TO PARIS.

Leaving For Geneva On Saturday.

London, To-day. Captain Anthony Eden, the Lord) Privy Sent, will fly to Paris Saturday afternoon proceeding to

on

He was on an island hundreds of miles from anywhere. There were penguins, seals, wild goats, im- ported pigs, cabbages, potatoes, and onions in plenty. There were a few trees and a brook. There were fourteen inhabitants; nine men (three of whom were colour- ed), three women from Tahiti, two children. Lord Strabolgi said he was

They had nothing to do with the Four cases of meningitis, three rest of the world, and did not strongly in favour of National cases of small-pox, one case

of theatres in London and large diphtheria, and a case of entericit. A ship

want to have anything to do with. towns. He advocated the grant-fever, were reported in the Colony three years, and exchanged barrela called every two Or ing to theatres of small subsidies during the 24 hours ending Tues-of rum for seal-skins, water for from the Exchequer and the day. rates.-Reuter,

CUBAN RAW SUGAR TARIFF REDUCTION

(Continued from Page 1)..

Mr. Wallace told the "United

"We are looking forward to visit from the Congressional Com-Geneva by raft on the same night Press" hat it will probably be mittee, which, under the leader to attend the meeting of

arrived!

and pork. This rum was drunk only on Sundays in honour of day. Thei rest of the week the islanders culti-

The dredger "Karang," in the Colony from Amsterdam,vated vegetables, fished for eod, and yesterday, and will shortly begin looked after the pige. The wo- dredging in the harbour. The men made clothes from skins. "Karang" has & tonnage of 112

They had forgotten the meaning. tons, and is now lying at the W. B.

of money, morals and crime, Bailey's Shipyard.

and so were quite happy. They were always laughing, care-free At this evening's public meating and gay.

the several days before the insular of the Manuk Lodge of The Theoso- They came M. Pluvinage with phical Society, the speaker will be his theories, atatistics and convic-

ship of Senator Tydings, is expect Council of the League of Nations quotas are announced. ed to leave America some time this

un Monday, month or early next month.

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CHINA YEAR BOOK

(Fifteenth Edition) 1933,

An old copy of the Year Book is almost as out of date

as an old almanac, changes take place so quickly in China. The current edition contains:

The The New Customs Tarifi,

Who's Who of the 1,000 principal Chinese Consular Regulations for Importers,

The Latest Treaties with Foreign Countries, articles on the Chinese Government, the Kuomintang, labour conditions, railways and rivers, wireless and telegraph developments, and a mass of other necessary information. to the newspaper reader and the business office.

Price $20 nel, China postage 50 cents Publishers:

North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., 17 The Bund, Shanghai.

Local Selling Agents:

Mesars, Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Hong Kong.

It is doubted if the continental Mr. W. C. Felshow, Acting-Presi- tions. In return for saving his CHORUS GIRLS It is anticipated that the For-beet growers can produce the quo his lecture will be the President for ha rescuers.

dent of the Lodge. The subject of life he wanted to do all he could eign Secretary, Sir John Simon, ta on account of the drought-Founder of the Society, "Henry "This Committee is going to de-will arrive at Geneva towards the United Press, per S.C. Gold Bar Steel Olcott."

FINAL DECISION

vide finally how long it will be end of next week-British Wire-Co. before independence is granted to less Service.

UN.

We will know definitely when we shall become Independent after they have made their report to congress.

"The Legislature at Manila has already invited come," Mr. Melencio concluded.

MOTHER'S TRAGIC

DEATH

the Commitee to 9-Mile Tramp Through

Blizzard.

SACRIFICE FOR CHILD

Mr. Melencio was for many years director of the Philippine Press Bureau in Washington, D.C. Later: he became representative from Cotabato, Mindanao, during the re-

Elkina, W. Virgins. gime of Governor Wood. He is

Mrs. T. C. Leary's child (one of), considered one of the beat orators}five) was ill, and lay in bed in the in the Philippines. He once was little, cheap mountain dwelling spokesman for the Philippines be which the family occupied.

Democratic convention at

fore a

Outside the temperature was al which the late Jennings Bryan was most at zero. present, and his speech was warmly praised by the Great Commoner.

LADY MEMBER

Medicine was

needed for the child, and Mrs. Leary, 37 years of lage, set out on the nine mile tramp

to town to procure it.

A

The most colourful figure in the Quezon Minaion is Mrs. Carmen blinding anowatorm broke Aguinaldo Melencio, the only lady shortly after she started the tradge member of the delegation. She is back, but she plodded on until she the eldest daughter of General reached the cottage of a "neigh- Aguinaldo, President of the first]bour,” three miles from her house; Philippine Republic. She was edu-j There she rested awhile, but was cated at Illinois University, and deaf to the suggestions of the Inter at Wellesley, Massachusetts, owners that she remain until the The presence and activities of Mr. storm had abated. She must go and Mra. Melencio in Washington on, she said, and went out again while the. Tydinge-McDuffie Bill was into the icy blast, being discussed, left no doubt in She never reached home. A

the minds of Congressinen and the band of searchers, headed by her American people that the Quezon husband, found her the next day. roission had the full support of frozen to death half a mile from Aguinaldo and the Veterans of the the house and her sick child. Philippine Revolution,

NANKING CENSUS

The trail showed that she had! walked in circles in the storm. In her hand she clutched a bag con taining the medicine/Router.

The latest census taken for the city of Naniding, China's capital, | Two cases of small-pox, and ca revealed its population to be 750,- case of meningitis, were reported 112. comprising 645,800 males, and in the Colony during the 24 hours 284,812 femalon,

anding yesterday,

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

The first thing he did for them (and, incidentally, the only inof- fensive thing) was to take their A solemn Requiem High Mass photograph. They posed in all WEB celebrated in St. Tereas their best things. It delighted the Church yesterday for the repose of philosopher to see these Islanders the soul of the late Bro. Adrien, radiant with happiness and health. A Chinese woman, Tse Kiu, at- Superior General of the Brothers of They were tempted to commit suicide last the Christian Schools, whose sudden philosopher told them he was go- enchanted when the night by hanging herself from the death has caused much sorrowing to improve their minds and their roof of her flat at No. 67 Reclama-among the members of his world-morals. tion Street, Yaumati. She

was wide Institute, as well as taken to the. Kowloon Hospital.

their friends.

Martin Insull in U. S. Net

-one turing je yet him into the country by ARIST

she other, trying to keep him out as na tMEWANDO

brother of the alta ve Sanitelerie shown: at: Detroit with fimm

(who hold him as the borders) Be was later returned

among

STABILISED

IN AMERICA

"Greatest Thing That Ever Happened.”

N.R.A. CODE'S SUCCESS

Foreign exchanges

New York.

may

con

WOMEN WALK

MILES

1.000

From Rand To Cape In Three Weeks.

WINDICATION OF SEX

Cape Town.

"We have walked 1,000 miles be- tween Johannesburg and Cape Town, not because we believe in Marathon

He began by telling them that tinue to fluctuate but the chorus hikes. for women or because we they had got Sundays all wrong-

wanted publicity, but simply be- What they thought Sundays were girl has been stabilised. ·

cause we were put on our mettle by Wednesdays. This news Borely

of After nearly two months

men who said that the modern troubled the islanders. They had operation, the N.R.A. code for the women was useless and could not drank rum on the days they ladies of the ensemble is hailed walk the length of the street, sald

shouldn't have drunk it. And then

he set about putting them in the by Mrs. Dorothy Bryant, Executive Miss P, Thorburn, the English- of the Chorus Equity Association, woman who, with a younger South way of progress and conferences.

It was not long before he ob-as "the greatest thing that ever African girl companion, Mr. J. Johnson completed her walk by road tained a

considerable influence happened to these girls." over these islanders. He told them "It has been a complete sue-from the, Rand to the Cape.

It It took them three weeks and in so many things that they went cess," declared Mrs, Bryant.. without sleep to listen to him. He has stabilised the profession and the whole distance they accepted lectured on hygiene, digestion, we are going to fight to keep it even car lifts.

"We made no special preparations calories, functional gymnastics, intact." the education of children, warts, Mrs. Bryant and Eddie Cantor for the trip," Miss Thorburn said. "We decided to walk unarmed and intensive and extensive agriculture, are up in arms over what they con- with the Hghtest equipment. guano, curhythmica, leprosy, the elder as attempt by producers to differential calculus, the diseases of "stymie" the code, that gave the carried no first aid outat and no bees and inflammation of the girls a 40-hour week together with blankets. Our packs contained only stomach.

a minimum salary scale, and "send writing material for letters home.

and a few tollet requisites.. He proved that their method of them back. to their 85 hour! "We each had £1.86.. Hving was degrading and contrary slavery.” to the teachings of civilisation. Mrs. Bryant, who is a memebr had only a few coopers between us.

We

When we arrived in Cape Town to-day we

He disgusted the islanders with of the fourth generation of a

"It has been a great experience,” themselves and their surroundings. family connected with show busi- said Miss Thorburn, "and I would He was always telling them what ness, declared chorus girls are willingly do it again. Mrs. John- they had missed. He humiliated real scrappers, and while her son and I may walk back to the them by comparing their candi-won't always fight for something Rand after we have rested here." tions with those obtaining in tipy haveže got the will fight to Router

Europe. And all his assertions keep what they have got.”

were accompanied by quotations, They may be beautiful, but they

facts and frightening statistles.›. are "decidedly not dumb," she

He warned them against resist- said, “and when any manager tries|been amoothed out with little

ing, the amaliorating, advantager to circumvent the code they may trouble, she said.,

he offered them, M. Pluvinage|amile, at him sweetly butten The code, which set" a minimum

was regarded as their teacher and minutes later they come storming salary of 25, 26, and fï a wank, benefactor

affects approximately 6,000 chorus Bo far, the differences, have girls in the country-Reuter.

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