1936-04-25 — Page 2

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INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Katori Maru (Air Mail

Apr.

ex

330

"KLM." Service)

Sarpedon

Chitral (via Suez)

FROM USA.

Apt.

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May

Pres. Jefferson

FROM SHANGHAI

Apr.

Ankiang

Pres. Cleveland

Achilles

Automedon

Pres. Jefferson

Carthage

Potsdam

FROM MANILA

Apr.

Tjizalak

Eip of Japan

30

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Sarpedon

Apr.

38

Katori Mars

Santhia

May

Protesilaus

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FROM JAPAN

Apt.

Mayebashi Maru

Pres. Cleveland

Tokushima Maru Nellore

May

Carthage

Pres. Jeferson

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1936°

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

PEAK HOTEL

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL,

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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping

Douglas Fairbanks, St. the American screen star, and Lady Ashley, the former actress Sylvia Hawkes, sign the register after their marriage in the gilded Cupid salon at the mairie of the Fighth Arrondissement, Paris. A battery of cameras clicked a record of the-scene.

IN

Mary Pickford, who played the role of Little Lord Fauntleroy in the first film production of the classic a' number of years ago, is visited by her successor to that role in ber New York hotel. He is Freddie Bartholomew, who will take the part in a forthcoming talkie.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho.

34

34

137

INO

S

S

16

15

17

20

23

26 127

XMMMAIN

10

112

13

129 130

Katori Maru (via Siberia)

Apr.

**

Conte Verde (EL.M. Service) 25

Closes: Beg. 3.30 p.m. Ord. 4 p.m. Bangalore (via Marseilles)

25

Katori Mary

Chitral (via Siberia)

FOR SHANGHAI

Apr.

Sarpedon Chitral

26

30

FOR JAPAN

Apr.

Chitral

30

FOR MANILA

Apr.

143

245 #47

152

15

149

50 151

With a murder indictment that had been filed against him nullified, George Hayes, aged 21, gives expression to his joy as he is released from the Tombs prison, New York, the victim of mistaken identity. Hayes was awaiting trial for the fatal shooting of a grocery clerk when John Farley, Hayes' double, arrested in another -hold-up, confessed to the crime.

Dr. J. F. Jaisie“ Condon, the famous intermediary in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, is snapped as he was questioned by reporters on his return to New York from an extended vacation in the Panama Canal Zone, Governor Hofman, of New Jersey, zaid he might question Condon again before the execution of Brano Richard Hauptmann, who was identified by Condon as the kidnapper.

58

HORIZONTAL

Turkish official 5-The choice part 10-A military title

{abbr.)

14-A flower

15-o meet an unex-

pected foe

16-Patron saint of

Norway 17-Bunch of willow

swiga

18-One time 19-Put emphasis upon 21-Sea-robber

23 Recline

24-Foot covering 25-Paper containing

blemishes 28-Rotating rods 21-Made a mistake 32-Metal money 33-Superlative suix

34m

15-Idle txik

36 Combining form.

Yesaci

37-Suffix to denots

nouns of agency 38-To run away and

marry

39-A number

42-Ustiers

59

HORIZONTAL (Cont), i42-Quiet

43-Possessive of Eva 144-Mineral springs

43-Elevated

148-A loosely woven fabric (pl.) 62-Combining form.

Fire 53-Loafer

(55-Kiln for drying |56-Charming

157-A number

58-Father 159-Open space in a

wood

60–Killed

VERTICAL

57

60

VERTICAL (COL) 11-Volcano in Italy 12-Receipt (abbr.) (1%-Surgical whetstone

20-Plant 22-Atoms 'dearing an

electric charge 24-Vex

|25-Places where sugar

le purified

hopsj26-Rub 'out

1-Greek god at love 2-To shed feathers 3-River in the Tyrol

and Bavaria 4-One who alludes 5-A lacrosse-stick 6-To set again 7-Girl's name

S-High card

9-Bitter narcotic

10-Breathed noisily

while sleep

127-Commen 28-Lathers

29 Depart |30-Prussian city 32-Out of humor 35-Begging 30-Translatione 38-Oid form of alf 39-Fissure 41-Wish

42-To scatter 44-To spring (Prov.

Eng.)

46-The god of Are

(Hind. Myth) 47-intrana!tive (abbe.) 48-Pen-name of

Charles Lerrib

49-A claw - 50-Serf 51-Bell slowly 54-5lx hundred fifty

The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzl

will appear in Monday's issue

Tjinegara Prés. Cleveland

FOR STRAITS AND INDIA

Conte Verde

Shirala Yuensang

Apr.

298

XXX

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post- cards for Earope and South America are forwarded "vin Siberia" if superscribed.

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ed

Bringing Up Father

WE MUST FIX UD. SONNYS ROOM, BEFORE HE GETS BACK FROM COLLEGE- HE'S SUCH A HOME BOY-

IWANT HIM TO FEEL

COMFY

David Wark Griffith, the veteran motion picture producer, awards Bette Davis the gold statuette emblematic of the best performance in a screen play during 1935, at Hollywood, Call- fornia. Miss. Davis was given the award, made annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for her performance in "Dangerous." Victor McLagien, left, received a similar award for his work in, “The Informer."

YES-HE'S ALWAYS

IN SOMEBODY'S

HOME

I'LL LOOK IN DADDY'S

ROOM AND SEE F THERE IS ANYTHING

IN THERE THAT SONNY WOULD LIKE-

Detectives have been assigned to guard Joan Hannah Dempsey, 19-months-old daughter of the former world champion heavy- weight boxer, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, following the re ceipt of a postcard warning that an attempt would be made kidnap the child.

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