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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935

NOVELTY PICTURE OIL STRUCK BY OLD To-day's Short Story,

CONTEST

Third Composite Photo

Of Star Puzzle

No, this is not a photograph ofa mouse with a strip of sticking plaster across her nose; one of the strips belongs to a picture of beautiful Grace: Moore..

To-day the China Mait publishes the third in the series of com-

CHINA HAND

William Hughes Opens California Field

EXCEPTIONAL YIELD. AT

FAIR ACRES

CASH CARGO

George Denver

THE bright red-armoured car The bank guard, startled by the Mr. William Hughes, an old stood in front of the bank, abrupt attack, raised, his gun to China-hand, has recently come doors closed, engine running. Its fire. Before he could pull the trig into prominence on the West oblong steel turret stuck up like xer, four bullets from the slowing Coast as one of its newest and a small fort in which narrow, black touring car crashed through

were him. He fell on his face. most successful oil producers.heavily riveted windows

Butler, shielded and hidden by Captain "Billy," who is well re-cut. The slip loop-holes in the membered in Shanghai's ship-sides of the car looked out like the truck, got to Its rear as two ping and club circles, retired menacing eyes. One of them men began to disgorge from the touring car. He fired immediately, from China about seven years peered over the shoulder of a ago when he sold his business, strongly-built man uniformed in hitting both of them, making them the Shanghai Disinfecting Com- dark green, who stood on the fall back into the tonneau. A third pany, to

the Chinese Govern-sidewalk near the car. long auto-man shot at him, the bullets whiz- ment, who now carry on the matic in hand.

zing closely past him but finding no

MONDAY'S STORY

work of fumigating and disin- Fred Butler liked this moment of lodging-place. He squeezed his fecting the incoming shins of standing guard', over the truck trigger again. The third man the Whangpoo River. With the while his partner, Art Keaton, was howled and clutched his arm. exception of occasional trips getting a cargo from the bank. It back to China to renew old reminded him of the days when he friendships and to indulge in and Art were in the Marines to his favourite recreation. duck gether, made it seem like old times, and pheasant shooting. Mr. It was good, standing there, with Hughes with his wife has been his big feet planted wide, gun in living in retirement at their hand, glaring up and down the home in Santa Barbara.

street," square jaw jutting out in a When they first took up their challenge to the world. home in California, Mr. and Mrs. Butler turned and faced the bank Hughes acquired certain tracts as the stocky figure of his partner of land in the Fair Acres and La appeared at the doors. Over one Mesa districts of Santa Barbara, shoulder Keaton carried. a stout

Monday's story will be "Swedish Panopticon," by Albert Engstrom,

He saw the writhing

The driver glanced swiftly back. men in the rear seat, ground his gcars into

which they believed to be poten-brown bag protruding with rolls of hurried mesh. The touring car posite photographs of the Star Puzzle Contest, sponsored by the Queen's tially rich with veins of the li-coin. He held this with one band, jumped forward and then lurched

Theatre.

It may be her posograph features a part of Grace Moore's lovely face. smiling eyes; it may be her pert nose; or it may be her strong, "feminine chin!

But whatever it is, at the end of the five day period, you are to cut up the published photographs and assemble the parts together, to make up the countenance of Miss Moore. Get busy now, and see if you have any definite clue in the three that have been published now. And watch to-morrow's China Mail for the fourth photograph.

with his own staff of drillers set

down the street.

quid "Black Gold." and true to while from the other dangled a their convictions the precious large white bag bulging with pac "Have you followed the Contest to date? Each day, for five days, sand is now yielding them thou-,kets' of bills. Behind him loomed

Butler ran after it a few yardą, a composite photograph is being published. And each day, the comlands of gallons of oil per day.

the bank guard In blue uniform firing as he went. He was joined Mr. Hughes turn from the diver-

Only last year, however did The guard pulled his own automatic by Keaton, who began emptying his

as they reached the doors.

own. automatic after the fleeing car. slon of his flower gardens: to plunge seriously into off produc- the armoured car

Butler jerked open the door of Butler glanced around. "Where's Keaton began our motor-cycle cover?" he mutter- tion. He engaged an expert geo- crossing the allewalk, the bank ed. logist and surveyor, purchased;

As if in answer, the sudden and the best equipment possible and guard at his heels.

They were half way across when loud rat-a-tat of a machine-gun Save these compasographs as they are published, and when all forth in all earnestness to bring a black, open touring car screamed began from up the street. A com- pany armourod motor-cycle and five have appeared, clip the pieces apart and try to assemble the face in a well. After several months the street. Without warning, a of Miss Moore. The six lucky people sending in a correctly-assem-of concentrated efforts, he shot burst from the rear of the car sidecar roared in pursuit of the and Keaton's hat flew off. He escaping car, one of its occupants bled portrait of the stor, and whose solutions are the first six to be achieved his signal success

past opened, will each receive two complimentary tickets for the Queen's an oll operator. last August ducked. Six bullets, fired in rapid firing as it went. It sang Theatre.

when he brought in his first well succession, sang over him at an Butler and Keaton, the man in the in La Mesa with a flow of 2,000 angle, ricochetting off the granite sidecar spitting continuous fire barrels of clean oil per day, Pillars of the bank and zinging from his machine-gun. which was immediately run into away up the street, scattering the tanks of the Seaside Oil pedestrians, Keaton, crouching low, Company with whom he had con-made the door of the armoured car tracted for its possible output. and threw his bags in.

Success At Fair Acres Immediately follow this ac- complishment he removed als drilling machinery, having the only steel derrick in the oil fields of Santa Barbara, to a tract

COMING CONCERT IN KOWLOON

For Benevolent Society Of St. Andrew's EXCELLENT PROGRAMME

The Concert to be given at St. Andrew's Hall next Thursday even-

sion in a concert programme.

Anderson Of the artistes, Mrs. Miller, Captain O. P. Joce and Mr. A. W. Lorena are well known Z.B.W. listeners, while Mrs. E.

CINEMA SUGGESTED FOR ZOO Biological And Nature

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PROFESSOR J. HUXLEY'S BRIGHT IDEA

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to those in the British Museum. while other anxious operators ers Ltd., the Hop Yick Company,

"I shall certainly look into it were endeavouring to sign leases. Schroeder and Mrs. J. A. Riach have when I get to Regent's Park," ho in these two heavy production Pany, Ltd.

to their added, and said another possibil-areas. given great pleasure audiences on frequent occasions.

ity was a 'museum on the lines of Notwithstanding the success children's gallery at the he has lately achieved after years of retirement, Mr. Hughes Science Museum.

is continuing his new vocation and is at work drilling into other potential veins in his Santa Bar~ bara properties..*...

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The touring car was three-quar- ters of a long block away. The motor-cycle gained on it rapidly with every chance of a capture. The car arrived at the end of the block, made an abrupt turn, and disappeared around the corner. The motor-cycle followed.

"That was Skid and Ahern, wasn't It?" Keaton asked.

"Yeh," Butler. replied. He seem-1

in Fair Acres and commenced Three Local Companies

ed aceptical, rather than impressed, further. operations. In October Professor Julian Huxley, secre last, only a few months later, he

by: Skid and Abern.

almost insorganised by the Women's tary-designate of the Zoological had the sensational succes

The street had become It is notified in the Government deserted during the gun battle. Fellowship, promises to be one of Society, hinted at educational in bringing in a well with an initial Gazette that at the expiration of People had taken to hasty cover In Freal interest. All the items have novations at Regent's at low of 4,500 barrels a day. This three months from January 28 neighbouring buildings and door- a Whipsnade In an address at Unexceptional yield aroused the the name of the Ning Yeung Land ways. They began now to emerge been specially selected to make wide appeal; they are essentially versity College.

terest of several major all com- Investment Co. Ltd, will, unless cautiously.. Several of the person- more popular He suggested, among other

panies, including the Consolidat cause is shown to the contrary, be tuneful and of, the type, though all are of auch merit things, that a cinema of the news ed Oil Company of which Mr. struck of the Register, and the nel of the bank appeared excitedly, that not even the most fastidious theatre type for showing, biologi-Harry F. Sinclair is chairman

to stare at the prone" body of the company will be dissolved. highbrow could cavil at their inclu-cal and nature films in the Zoo Mr. Sinclair, lost no time in ar

the man guard. Butler went to The names of the following and turned him over. He was dead. would be very educative.

riving at Santa Barbara and ac-| Lectures to ordinary visitors quiring a lease of 37 acres in the companies have been struck off

Police arrived belatedly, to push and Fair Acres tracts,|

the Register: could possibly be aranged like Mess

The Canton Trad-

the crowd back. A sergeant bustled up, bringing more men with him. Ltd., and Messrs. Lyon and Com-Butler and Keaton outlined briefly what had happened, gave the best descriptions they could of the men in the touring car. The chief teller of the bank pushed his way In and breathed a sigh of relief! when he was assured that the ship ment of money was safe in the armoured car. Butler told him to call his company's office and tell -Instructions as to applications for them everything was O.K., and then certificates of naturalisation by he and Keaton went through the aliens in the Service of the Crown careful process of gelting in the or resident in Hong Kong, are con; truck and

A tained in the current issue of the

Keaton got in first and Butler- Government Gazettel vyi (US closed the door after him." Then FIRST CASTING PROVED

These are contained in two parts, Butler, gun re-filled and still drawn A FAILURE

viz., Instructions as to applications even If there was now a circle of for certificates of naturalisation of police around the car, went to the Thirty-one days were required

allens resident in Hong Kong, and driver's door, which was opened by to prepare the liquid glass for a 200-inch mirror for the largest te-

A royal portrait gallery will be Instructions as to an application for Keaton from the inside... Butler lescope in the world. Ten days provided by the new notes to be a certificate of Naturalisation by stepped in, slammed the door.

The two men were silent as, the were occupied in heating up the issued by the Bank of Canada woman resident in Hong Kong who

being a British subject before her police opened a lane through the tank in which the glass "soup for early this year. Sonata in G minor for violin and the mirror was made, and 21 days! There are nine denominations, marriage to an allen, and whose hus crowd and the truck, with a power- for feeding info it for cooking ranging from $1 to $1,000. The band is dead or whose marriage has ful jerk, got under way. But when Butler had completed....hla » gear- such ingredients as sand, alkali, King's portrait will be on the $1 been dissolved

shifting, he asked: "What's the borax, and other constituents of notes, that of the Queen on the

cargo ? boro-silicate glass the Prince of Wales on the Raw materials were fed into it 55, the Princess Royal on the Schumann at the rate of 400 Ibs, an hour, $10, Princess Elizabeth on the

It is hoped that there will be a the really good attendance not only be- cause the concert will be one of the type rarely given in Kowloon, but also on account of the excellent ob- ject of which the concert is in aid, the St. Andrew's Benevolent Fund. The concert begins at 9 p.m. and the prices of admission are, $1.50, $1 and fifty cents.

The programme is as follows:

Songs-

When Dull Care

Ah Willow...arr. Lane Wilson Some Rival has Stolen my True

Love away

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piano....

Tartini Mrs. E. Schroeder, and Mrs. J. A. Riach

Pianoforte Solos

Why

Whims

Song

One fine day

(Madame Butterfly)

Mrs. Anderson Miller

Pianoforte Solos

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