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PREMATURE BURIAL

The Society for the Prevention of Premature Barial met at the Cax- ton Hall recently once Tore to Large: a reform of the law which allows doctors to give à death cer- tificate without first examining the body.

LOUISIANA'S STORMY

PETREL

INTIMATE STUDY OF

HUEY LONG

"HIGH PRESSURE SALESMAN”

OF AMERICA

(By Harrison Brown)

Premature burial must be ex-❝TTE 'won't even be nominated."(now he is selling himself ceedingly rare nowadays, though Hound Senter Huey P. American people.

ret

to

cases have occurred of people being Long, screwing at my top waistcoat

His Career prepared for burial and afterwards button. "Or; if he does

By sheer energy and persistence waking from a trance.

nominated" be added as an after he got to Tulane University, in

A certain Mrs. Holden of Lan-thought a trifle more quietly, "well New Orleans, and by sheer brains cashire. suffered from this experi-lick the light and shade out of passed a three-year course in law ence three times, and lived to be him." Then, with a final roar as in nine months. 11 come the mother of seven children. He flounced off, “There won't be Soon afterwards he turned to any more left of him than a gor-politics, always a racket in the damn hiss

Southern States, and at that be bas

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CHANGES IN THE LAW

Many people are obsessed with the fear of being buried alive and leave instructions in their wills for veins! to be opened or for their heads to be cut off before they are buried.

The society wants two changes in the law. Doctors, it says, should

Your Daily Smile!.

Preparing For The Valley

This talk took place in a Senate outwitted them all. On his second lobby in Washington, DC. and the attempt he ousted the old "aristo- "be" Mr. Roosevelt, of course.cracy" of New Orleans from the might almost have heard the ir-post of State Governor. revent Senator from his office in To-day he is senior Senator from the White House.

his State in Washington, and is re- Huey Long very often expresses puted to have brought to the capi-

A

be forbidden to grant a death car.../opinions at the top of his voice, evenital the finest private library of tificate until they have examined then the floor of the Senate. It is legal books the city has ever seen. only fair to say, however, that on His argument of cases before the body. All bodies should be kept in

this occasion he was in a state of, Federal Supreme Court has more mortuaries for a number of days)

jubilation.

than once won him the respect of before burial.

Not only was he engaged in a that august body. "libuster" to obstruct passage of But much of the time continues the huge Money Bill for Public to play the buffoon. “Hy advertis-- Works when I saw him. In addi-ing medin,” he calls it tion, the previous evening he hadj A few days after my talk with - broken into the Republican strong-the Senator I came to New Or hold of Philadelphia.

leans, determined to hear what his Twenty-five thousand people own State had to say about him.. had packed Convention Hall in the It was more easily said than done. a Quaker City and had cheered him Louisiana is under dictatorship. to the echo. Huer was creeping"We can no longer call ourselves northward.

ja member of the Great Republic,

said one prominent member bitter-

The song of the cert:

Solomon In 1935

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A man is as sold as he feels. Where there's a frill, there's

Youth is stranger than fiction. Every crowd has a silver lining.

Attorney-General swept

two- fray- thirds of the amendments away; some drafting amendents.

dis- Hong Kong. Saturday, June 1, 1935. posed of most of the rest, and

the remaining balance was met Catty by concession

Indian Federation

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Nice suit that! Yes, only $30 made to measure, Made to measure whom?

The biggest danger was from the other side. Од second Our anticipation of the pro-thoughts the democrats of the gress of the India Constitution National Congress began to rea

LOCAL NEWS Bill in Parliament has so far been lise that their demands for a

Totalitarian India

BREVITIES Бееп had very closely followed by the rather too sweeping. The States event. These enormous bits of to be federated to British India Wong Tai, unemployed, was yes legislation, which

are really are loyal and conservative-any terday committed to stand his trial

First-Rate Showman.

Ly

No Dictatorship

codes, are never introduced until thing but democratic. It was at the next Criminal Sessions, by they have been submitted to solvery noticeable that a section of Mr. Q:A. A. MacFadyen at the wards the Roosevelt Administra of campaign funds, simply, paid ac-

of

Long is of medium height and unprepossessing appearance, but

Huey's henchmen pooh-pooh all he is a boon to caricaturists. Even

this stuff" about dictatorship, and now that they have given up porthen remark carelessly that he traying him as a clown in cap and knows how to get things done." bells his prominent balbous nose His campaign manager is president and pop eyes are an easy mark.

of one of the big hotels in New Huey has no objection. His sole

Orleans, just a plain innkeeper," business is politics, and, as a first-

he calls himself. rate showman, his aim is publicity.

no politician at all It was the innkeeper who told I inquired concerning the reason for his violent change of front to that he kept no books or records a Federal Investigation Committee

3 the Press which is in close touch Central Magistracy, on mach preliminary criticism that with the Congress began sud-of wounding with

charge tion. His manner changed me counts in cash. And with fine con- intent to do!diately. For a moment he became speeches made in Parliament arejdenly to suggest that the Princes grievous bodily harm to Yu Sze his other and quite charming self tempt he added that "it was no very much

the class of criticisms should be made

business of their anyway.” the mui concubize of a mán named I was true that he had made the

The Goebbels of the outfit is a orations addressed to "Bunkum,joccasion of leaving them out Chan Shing-shun, at No. 225 Jaffe big Convention speech at Chicago. for everything has been said altogether. Still later thoughts Road on March 27.

“I did as much to elect Roosevelt parson, the Rev. Gerald L. convinced them that this, would

Smith, an orator of mark, and as before, and the draft submitted be worse than the status quo; for

jas any man," he said. "Roosevelt

a human dynamo of energy almost Cross-summonses between Aran on my Shares the Wealth plat- represents the final compromise. it would throw more anfettered Alves of 141 Waterloo Road, and form Then he did

a match for his chief Mr. Smith a Ramsay on

recently exceeded Anyone who is likely to be in power more than ever into the C. B. Easterbrook, of 106 Waterloo us

even the little. opposition, or who has been hands of the Viceroy, and leave Road each accusing the other of "A what?" I asked in astonish-German's record for Loquacity by making a hundred speeches in ten Jopposed at any time, is free to the whole of the military power dangerous driving, were yesterday ment.

idays. make a speech which will either outside the influence of the elect-ladjourned sine die by Mr. Thom- Did a Ramsay MacDonald on save his reputation for consised Parliament and Government json at the Kowloon Magistracy, a us" be repeated, resuming his I got a glimpse of Huey's power It was in a backwoods area that tency or enable him, in the case Somewhat disappointed at the material witness being absent shouting. Tapping my waistcoatThis land." said a lumber man,

again, he bellowed.. "Ain't it true will be unproductive MacDonald ran on one ticket and but we must have it for later. Tar enormous work over again Is quite enough to prevent

silence, and "save face" by stat-

mean He done a Ramsay on us." (fairly reasonable, but, you see,

at present are- being given against the Bill ing that though the Bill was very

Six months ago almost anywhere they might be any division which might carise.

defective-in ways unspecified-

made suddenly north of his native Louisiana the it to be rejected or abandoned they would do their best to work

higher and then we might have to mention of Long's name would Only one Act holds the record of it One point only is definite in

go out of business.” being longer and more intricate,sion of a Preamble including the

talked-about man bring a laugh of derision. the general remarks the omis-

That particular whip is one that To-day Huey Long is the most-Eney likes to the Land Act, which swept away words "Dominion Status." which

in the United he does he gets his way.

crack. And when so many relics of feudalism.

States. Editorially almost every commonly known as the "Birkenwould give the electors the power

him as 2 head Act," though the draft em-

newpsaper denounces of electing or appointing the bodied some

The death occurred yesterday at menace.

they cannot keep years of arduous Viceroy himself.

It has been the Kowloon Hospital, after a long him out of their headlines. labour by Lord Haldane

The replied that the "Morley-Minto" illness, of Captain Frank Tasman where several times a week, often India Act has four hundred and Reform Act contains the phrase, Fisher, a well-known figure on the over a national "hook-up," he is on fifty clauses, with various appen- and is not repealed.

straightforward answer It is safe have been better that in the The late Captain Fisher was 54audiences. to say that all the Members who intervening years the words have years old, and is survived by his.

of failure, to say "I told you so."y reasonable spirit of the from the Colony.

Princes. there was nothing to be

But the prospect of begimming the done but to subside into a puzzled | WELL-KNOWN CHINA then switched. That's what assessments on it

dices; the Land Act hundred and eighty.

votes

had five

COASTER PASSES

Captain F. T. Fisher FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON

A more would

China, Coast

the air

But

Some-

addressing enormous

"Tooning" In

for years,

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pay close attention to business acquired a meaning both more wife, two daughters, Kathleen and His technique is perfect--for are heartily glad to see the last definite and less suitable to the Allison; and two step-sons. He those whom he wishes to reach, of these codes, whatever their India of our generation.

was born in Tasmania.

that great amorphous mass which LONDON INSURERS INTERESTED private opinion may be of such There is no doubt that

He had a long experience in the

is known as "Main Street". "Now, of the clauses as they are able scheme will be accepted and an several ships. Ee was captain of States Senator Huey Pierce Long, cent. of the reported loss, has been

these waters, being in command of folks" he begins, "this is United

A reward of $20,000, or ten per to understand. 4

elective Government will get to The section of opponents who work There will be some creak the ss Victoria, which was oper- of Louisiana. I'm just going to offered to solve the mystery started out under the leadership ing of the machinery at first.ated by a Chinese company bejog along for a few minutes and rounding the robbery at Messrs.. of Mr. Winston Churchil has and the Parliament will undoubtween Hong Kong and Australian tell some stories.

Sennet Freze jewellery shop, 75 Supposin' you gradually faded away to less than edly take on an Indian character ports about 15 years ago. Later phone up a friend or two and Nanking Road, Shanghai, recently Loot estimated at $200,000 was half, and even he has been called probably quite different from commanded the s.s. Venezia on tell 'em to toon in and hear me. to order by his constituents, who anything in the West. That is the Macao run and afterwards Then we'll get going" Very many taken by three foreigners, who told him that he was not repre-only to be expected, and will not; joined the Texaco Oil Company-do call up friends, and so his 3-

bound the assistant manager and senting their views. nor the pro-be anything to the bad. It wille had only recently taken one ofdience grows..

three Chinese clerks with wire gramme on which he had been be fulfilling the purpose for their ships to Shanghai. He was I have seen him talk into the before they escaped through the able to win their votes.. Only which it has been devised. Most to have proceeded to Australis on microphone in a steady stream for rear of the shop. one moment of triumph did they likely one of the big Princes hit leave with his family this year.

The exact terms of the reward have, when the semi-independent the nail on the head the other!

45 minutes on end, without a note. The funeral takes place this and even while he is still speaking have not been announced. It was Princes, in Council assembled, day when interviewed by one of afternoon, arriving at the Stubbe they bring in baskets full of tele-stated, however, by Mr. S. Lord, drew up a large number of the dissentiert newspapers. He Road entrance to the Protestant amendments and submitted them said he did not care much what Cemetery at 5.15 p.m.

At frequent intervals he secretary and general manager of with the statement that they sort of constitution was granted:

will pause to announce himself Messrs. L. Moore & Co., Shanghai. could not accept the Bill unless one seemed to him as good as

over again, for der benefit of those that the London office of Lloyd's had authorized $20,000 to help to they had been satisfied on these another. "Most of the agitators

who happened to toon in late." CHOW DYNASTY RELICS

bring the criminals to justice and points. It was rumoured that known nothing about constitu

Huey Long 128 more brains and UNEARTHED they had definitely revoked their tions; what they want is social

personality than Massolini: to recover the stolen property. All the loot was insured with Lloyd's.." previous favourable vote. But equality, and they demanded a

compare him with Hitler, who has when the actual document con- constitution because it seemed value was made in Tainan several no early education. He comes

discovery of great historical neither, would be absurd. He had About 400 pieces of jewellery, in-

cluding diamond rings, diamond. taining their conditions arrived the shortest way to get it days 120, when four iron, articles poor white stock, and in his boy-brooches, bracelets and watches, it was found that most of them Treat them as equals and they were unearthed at Shau Nan Xing, hood peddled soap and tracts were taken by the robbers. were based on misunderstanding will work any constituti

of legal terms A conference of give them Fail to their own legal advisers with the any constitution will fails

you about 80 li from the Tainan City-through the Louisiana swamplands and The articles were believed to be of He early became a "high pressure"

the Chow Dynasty.

One case of meningitis was report alesman. He still is one Righted in the Colony during the 24 hours

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