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BLONDELL FARRELL
MISS PACIFIC FLEET
Buster Brun bel myth
Hugh Herbert-Allen Jenkins
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M. LEON BLUM'S
SPEECH
To Allay All Panic
In France
Paris. To-day.
An assurance that his speech
U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS
Cardinals Engaged In Grim Struggle
New York. To-day.
The following were the results
to the Socialist National Con-fof the League baseball matches gress to-morrow will give every played yesterday:-
appeasement to
the
and put an end to all shadow of
country
National League
R. HE
to have Cincinnatti
6
9
9 14
11 14
panic is understood been given by M. Leon Blum, Cuyler hit a home run. when he visited M. Sarra last: Pittsburgh
evening.
- Reuter. CONFERENCE HELD
¡St. Louis
homers.
and Medwick
9 15 {Chicago
Galan hit a home run.
Paris: The Premier. M. Sar- Mize (2) raut: had a conference of half an: hour with the Chairman of the: Radical-Socialist Party. M. Dala-, dier, and the Socialist leader. Leon Blum, yesterday. A Cabinet, Council, with President Lebrun in the chair, will be held this after- !noon-Trans-Ocean Service.
American League Philadelphia
$ 9 Puccinelli hit a home run. New York
"CHARLIE” LEAVING Boston
THIS EVENING
Bound For North
Among the passengers who are leaving Hong Kong this evening for Kobe by the 3.5. Maru are
Charlie Chaplin, the
world famous comedian (whose
all-star
production "Modern
SECRET OF BANK STRONG ROOM
Vain Search For Gold Worth $25,000
FOUR HOURS' WORK
ON LOCKS
Expert safe-breakers, working with an oxy-acetylene plant, at- Otacked for nearly four hours last: month a strong room in the vaults jof the head office of the Midland Bank in Poultry, EC., in search of 2gold bars and coin worth £25,000,
When at last the safes h
jopened neither gold nor anything 1 else of value.was found.
2
4
Cook and R. Ferrell
home run.
9 10 each hit
2
12 17
Washington
No other games were scheduled to be played.--Reuter.
were
The strong room was formed by an order of the Court of Appeal obtained by a Geneva firm who claimed the money supposed to be in there. The keys of the strong 1 room had been lost.
1
The operations were conducted
in the greatest secrecy. At half. a past three one afternoon, after the workmen had been admitted with
their plant, guards were placed atị the main entrance to prevent un-
authorised entry.
40-HOUR WEEK breaking were accompanied to the
PLEA
Four Solicitors Present Workmen engaged for the safe-
İvaults by four solicitors concern- jed in the case, the joint managers of the Midland Bank, a tipstaff,
Times" is now showing at the T.U.C. Urge It For All representing the judges, and 12
King's Theatre). Miss Paulette) Goddard, his leading lady.
Mrs. Goddard.
and
Mr. Chaplin and his party left for Canton yesterday morning and returned last night.
OXFORD BEER IS DIFFERENT
One College Still Brews Its Own
LINCOLN'S IVY DRINK RELIC OF FEUD
•LAST 4 TIMES TO▪DAY Most of the others have special ale
boom
A CONTINUOUS RIOT OF LAUGHTER.
Shock Mark
Bert
WHEELER
WOOLSEY
RAINMAKERS
They make hey hey
while the sun shines! There's a bowl in every
drop when it rainst
with
DOROTHY LEE
State Workers
LEAD WANTED
jother oficials.
The party descended by lifts to the third and bottom basement of¡ the bank, which is below thej
contains the
The General Council of the street level and Trades Union Congress decided boilers and other piant.
the strong room was last month to ask the Prime Min- Work on lister to discuss with them a 40-begun in the brilliant-lit vaults at hours week in all Government es-12 quarter past five. Every phase! was watched by the officials, who tablishments.
yards away from the At the Margate conference laat sat some September there was unanimous actual operations.
First the unpickable lock on the support for a resolution demand- ing this limitation of hours with-drill-proof door was tackled. The out reduction of weekly wages and workmen wore dark glasses to pro (instructing
intense glare of the council to ap-tect them from proach the Prime Minister with the oxy-acetylene flame applied to of the door. At last the suggestion that the State the metal should give a lead in its own De-it began to glow and then to melt.
Locks Burned Of Then the cutting flame partments.
Claim Rejected
was
Oxford-Since the earliest days of its foundation, Oxford has been noted for its drinks-particularly Recently the Postmaster Gen-turned on and the lock fell away. eral, Major G. C. Tryon, rejected Next began the task of forcing all its beer.
the claim of the Union of Post four safes inside the strong room, Only cre college -to-day,
Office Worker for a 40-hours week and the cutting open of six sepa-! Queen's, still brews its own beer.
The scope of the T.U.C decision rate locks.
At half-past seven, after the is much wider than the Civil Ser-; brewed for them by brewers.
vice It includes all dockyards, work had been in progress two and This beer is different from that! usually served to the public. It arsenals and workshops maintain a quarter hours, the secret of the strong room had yet to be reveal- costs no more, but it can be objed by the State.
Successive Ministers of Laboured, and there was an interval for tained only by undergraduates.
the tired safe 'breakers and the. have discussed with employers senior members of the colleges, ori
Chungry watchers. and trade unions the effect of the their guests.
shorter working week on · parti-
By nine o'clock all the locks had
Until recently New College and cular industries. The trade unions jbeen overcome. All that remain-
All Souls retained their brewers,
ап
ed was for
bei the doors to
this was done but to-day Queen's College, which take the view that a lead by the has a special brewers' permit, is Government contractors at
state would apply to employees of opened. Before
the workmen withdrew, leaving the only place in Oxford, apart early date and gradually make the
the Bank officials to investigate from a brewery, which brews its
the actual contents of the safes. new standard universal.
A brief examination was cufi- !own beer.
cient to establish the fact that there were no gold bars and no coins.
Is
Potent Chancellor Ale "Of course, the beer in colleges
that in different from
any or hotel," the ste ward of a famous college said re- cently.
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"It is a special ale, and much of the strength of Oxford college beer is due to the way in which it is kept. Those in charge are experts and the beer is served jonly at its best."
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ROAD TRAFFIC SIGNALS
Pedestrians Need Not Wait For Them
MINISTER'S OPINION
Mr. Hore Eelisha, the Minister
"GRAF ZEPPÉLIN” RETURNS
Next Trip Starts On Monday
- CHINA MAIL " SPECIAL
Friedrichshafen, To-day.
The airship Graf Zeppelin,|| which returned here yesterday from South America, will proceed
of Transport, does not agree that Some colleges have famona pedestrians should conform to the brews. There are, for instance. same observance of traffic light! Brascnose ale-served after din signals as is required from the ner on Shrove Tuesday with roast motorist. Replying in a letter to apples floating in it--the Chân-Viscount Elibank, the chairman, cellor Ale of Queen's College, tast-to recommendations presented to ed only by a few privileged people, the Ministry by the Company of on Monday to the new aerodrome of which one pint is said to make Veteran Motorists, he states: a man merry for the rest of the "It would be rather absurd, par- evening, and the famous ivy brew ticularly during the night hours, of Lincoln College.
Relic Of Fend
in Frankfurt, the construction of which has now been completed, and from where the dirigible will start.
at a junction where there is little on Monday evening for this year's for no traffic, if the pedestrian had third scheduled journey to South This special brew, in which to wait on the footpath until the America-Trans-Ocean Service. ground ivy is steeped, is made signals changed. from an old recipe. It is served!
Drivers' Advantage anaually on Ascension Day, and is "Drivers have a great advantage a relic of an old feud between Lin-lover pedestrians in one respect. coln and Brasenose.
They do not have to wait in such!
demanded it.
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN 6D, MOWILDOTI
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MISERABLES
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CENTURY PICTURE
Fredric MARCH
Charles
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"THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL”
With LESLIE HOWARD, MERLE OBERON
FOR CANCER RESEARCH Porter Leaves Whole 'Estate
THE- OVERLAND CHINA MAIL
A Brasenose man was killed by circumstances because, with the a Lincoln undergraduate, and as alvehícle-actuated system, an sp- penance Lincoln College was or-proaching car causes the signals dered to provide free beer on the to change if there is no CROES anniversary of the murder to any traffic. member of Brasenose College who "In the not infrequent cases! Sir Harold Mackintosh, bon. where signals are set for long secretary of the Yorkshire Council Owing to the capacity of Brase periods in favour of main road of the British Empire Cancer nose men, the steward of Lincoln trafic, and change only if traffic Campaign, reports the receipt of hit on the idea of steeping ground approaches from the side road, a legacy of over £100 to the cam- ivy in the beer to make it more pedestrians might have to wait a paign by a Leeds railway porter. potent. "The centuries old recipe matter of minutes before they The amount represented the whole is still used to-day.
could cross a deserted, read." lof his estate. Many other colleges have recipes With regard to complaints as When the Yorkshire campaign which have been handed down for to the endorsement of driving to raise money for cancer centuries.
licences for speed-limit offences, search was launched 10 years ago, In addition, there are scores of the Minister points out that it is this porter was one of the audi- jother Oxford drinks, including the offence and not the endorse-ence, and he was so impressed by
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