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TO-DAYS CARTOON

On Eight Championship Teams In 10 Years

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now playing CURTAILED, NAMES

Hadleigh, in Essex, has decid-|·

Molenda, Bwith the pro. New York

VETERANS BONUS BILL PASSED

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publication should be addressed to Giant football team is a true ed not to revert to its anciens SWEEPING FINANCIAL MEASURES

the Editor, and be accompanied by champ of the gridiron. In his 10 name, Hadleigh ad Castrum.

the Writer's Name and Address years of 'varsity and professional Names with a similar metrical] not necessarily for insertion, but playing, he has been or eight appeal, in which Essex is rich, are

championship teams Formerly with seldom used in full except onl as a guarantee of good faith.

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the University of Michigan squad maps and documents. Havering-f he played for them when they won atte-Bower, not without honour as

CARRIED BY CONGRESS

(By Wilfred Hindle)

· MERICAN industries which,sumed to have fought, in the

the Big Ten titles in 1925 and 26 a word-picture, sheds its sylvan Alive by hire purchase pay-wars, and their presumed de- In 1929-30-31, he starred on the syllables in local usage, Green Bay Packers team when

People approaching Eradwell-ments are feeling hopeful now. pendants. they won

the National · Profes-

juxta-Mare by tortuous narrow The United States House off At the close of the last fiscal sional titles at those years. Then roads find, when they lose their Representatives last month year in the United States there (in 1933 and 1994 the New York- Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 27, 1936 Giants won the Eastern Pro title, rather uncertain proktimity to the reto

way, no references to the village's overrode President Roosevelt's were still pensioners of the war on the latest Veterans of 1812. They were widows.

·with “Bo” on the team, and in the

Bonus Bill

As young girls they had mar- flatter year they won the National sea.

Pro. Title

Military Coup

In Japan

At the time of writing-the

Lived In 3 Cities Yet Never Moved

SAVOYARD SURVIVORS

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By an Act passed in 1924-ried men, then over. 80, who had overriding President Coolidge's served in the war of 1812 as veto every American who drummers Survivors of the old guard" served in the World War was Along with them were of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas given a bonus certificate, en-widows of veterans of the are few. Mise Jessie Bond, who cashable in 1945, of roughly Mexican War of 1847, of the news of the military coup in

For 30 years Horace Clark has was 83 recently, made her debut one dollar for every day of his Civil War of 1866, of the Japan is meagre and unreliable.

been living in the same house in "Pinafore" as long ago as 1978. service, and the privilege of Spanish-American War of 1898, In the face of the strong chat has never been moved, and Salaries in those days were modest, raising loans on the certificate, and of other smaller wars at sorship which has been estab- fret he has lived in three cities, for she received for leading roles The object of the present various dates in American his lished, the truth of the whole when be built his home, it was in 33, rising to £6, a week, and it Bonus Bill is to enable the tory. business will probably not be Ocean Park, but the vicinity was was long before she touched double veterans to obtain a partion of Tender Conscience known for a long time, if ever-later incorporated into the city of figures.

the cash due on their certifi- Towards war veterans and But its political consequences, Venice Shortly after that.. In her book of reminiscences cates at once instead of wait-war veterans' dependents the

became ** part of Las Miss Bond exploded—and she had ing for '1945.

American conscience has ever The Senate later followed the been tender. Whenever it has the generally accepted theory that House's example. The Bill shown signs of not being so, Gilbert was the peppery autocrat thereby became law and a sum the veterans organisations and Sullivan merely an easy-going estimated at £400,000,000 will have" pricked it. musician.

be put into immediate circula- They have been able to do. The original Casilda of "The [tion...

so raore easily than would be. Gondoliers" survives - in Miss American ex-Servicemen will the case in Britain partly be Decima Moore (Lady Guggis- then be able to pay for their cause of a constitutional pecu- berg); but that was one of the old motor-cars and buy new: toliarity which the United States later operas, produced in 1889. wipe off arrears of house-pur-shares with France In the And. Lady Gilbert still lives, chase or to build new homes: United States a Congressman aged $8.

to save a little and to spend a-as we should say, private lot

member-may introduce a Bil requiring expenditure of

Fenice

whatever its extent or by whomever it was originated, are sure to be of enormous im-Angeles, though it is still known plenty of first-hand experience-

as Venice.- portance to the politics of the Far East. It has been known; for a long time that the mili- tarist circles in Japan have chafed at the so-called "moderation” towards China shown by the civil authorities. The militarists, throughout, have stood for something which | was never clearly defined, but certainly included more definite ideas of expansion, backed by

KINDERGARTEN GAMES military action if need be The

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Outside Discussions Continue

London, To-day,"

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Your Daily Smile!

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In the U.S.A: "You can't hang"about_here,”

Peep Into 1945

as

The announcement is made: political dictatorship. of the

that Signor Grandi, Italian Am- East, so marked goal in

2 Japan's foreign policy of late bassador in London, has arrang- years. has been allied, in the ed, to visit the Foreign Office in the sheriff said to the lynching party minds of the militarists, with order to examine with Mr. An "How many more instalments be something approaching a mili-thony Eden the political pro-fore the aeroplane's paid off?" tary hegemony over as much blems which would follow upon

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The number of such Bus

Severe Critici.. The Bonus Bills-there have national money. been many of them have been more severely criticised the introduced into the United almost any American legisla-States Congress on behalf of ex-servicemen since the Civil tive proposals.

In a century and a half of over 10,000 were introduced War is literally thousands independent existence the United States has waged a between 1893 and 1917 alone. of China's and anybody else's the technical questions coming Two pretty girls met in the streetdozen wars. Only one of these

Some of these Bills were in- territory that they can get hold within the agenda of the Naval and kissed each other rapturously wars has been paid for in full. tended to relieve genuinely de- of and hold by force. What Conference The German Ambas-Two young men watched the meet-

That is the War of Indepen-serving cases. Others were ..restraining influences there ador, accompanied by Prince ng

dence of 1786.

for local consumption, elec- have been--and that is not say-Bismarck and the Naval Attache,

From all the others

tioneering gestures by there

parti- ing much-have been formu- called at the Foreign Office yester-

hangs a load, now lightened in both kinds, were

cular Congressmen. Bills of lated by the tight rein kept by day afternoon "and were received

some cases by time, of pendirectly or indirectly, by the spariscred, Mr. Takahashi on the purse by the Foreign Secretary, the

sioners who fought, or are pre-veterans "lobby.”. strings. With his assassina First Lord of the Admiralty and

The Week's Nasty Knock tion that restraint presumably the First Sea Lord. It is under- The profundities of speech lost

Special Interests ends, and the outlook for the stood that a discussion took place their depth in the light of the phone-Day at the University.

Congressional "obby" is an Far East is. indeed grim.

the means whereby the ice department, and in ten minates It is understood, however, that

the visitor learned what would take none of the visitors will be capped American term for the kind of The possibilities of trouble possible accession, of Germany to the student many years. Local for their intensive ten minates on-body which exists in most ad with the rest of the world are sult from the Naval Conference

agreement that, may re-paper in describing Commemoration lege career.

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There

If this is a fair indication of local opinion on the matter, the Trade Fair Project sponsors of the idea at Home,

whoever they are, would best advised to drop it. Whatever may have been the seems to be considerable doubt response to the idea in England, in presumably well-informed it is fairly evident, from the local opinion as to whether any survey of opinion among local sort of fair at all would be a business houses conducted by paying, or even an attractive, the General Chamber of Com-proposition for those partici- merce, that the proposal for pating in it. But it is perfect- the holding of a Trade Fair in ly safe to say that any such Hong Kong is, to say the least venture, forced through with- of it, not encouraged by local out the active enthusiasm of interests. The General Cham- those participating and for ber of Commerce performed a that reason representative useful duty in sending its and generally lackadaisical in questionnaire to the merchant concept, would be a complete firms in Hong Kong, and it is failure and of absolutely no use surely significant that only 76 to anybody. out of the 114 houses approach-

ed on the matter saw fit to Some of the comments, ex- reply at all. An analysis of the pressed by the firms circularis. detailed voting makes it evened are pertinent and to the more certain that local business point. The unequivocal opinion men do not as a whole favour that "a Trade Fair is not, in the idea. In answer to the China a suitable medium-of question of whether the firms propaganda, nor "an effective addressed would participate in means of promoting or develop- such a Fair, 41 refused to doing business must carry some so point blank; four Hong Kong weight. The statement is un- Chinese factories would part qualified and obviously firmly cipate; four large British con- held. Altogether, we are cerns marketing a special pro-strongly of the opinion that the duct, who, however, added that matter should be dropped, it they did not expect to derive indeed it has gone any further benefit from a Fair, agreed to than the stage of being a pious take part in a generally sup-hope or a proposed stunt.

"There's another of these things that are so unfair" said one...

"What's that?" said his friend "Women doing men's work.”

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT? by Robert L. Ripley

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ENGLISH

Dizay MARILYN

MILLER

THE TENANT SAYS:

I WISH TO RELEASE, THIS HOUSE

DRUGLESS DRUG STORE"

Joe CHASONE

DRUG STORE THAT DOES AGT

SELL DRICS OR MEDI ONLY TOBACCO-COS

Sedalia, Mo

BAS LINED IN THE CAPIE HOUSE #Z DIFFERENT CITIES- ENTJOET,

Bo

MOLENDA

(FORMERLY OF MINIONÚ NEW YORK GIANTS

PLAYED & CHAMPIONSHIP. TEAMS IN 10 YEARS