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HABITS OF FISH

JOINT FISHERIES COMMISSION OF

U.S. & CANADA

Research Into Life Of Halibut

VALUABLE INDUSTRY SAVED FROM DECLINE

Victoria. B.C-In the winter the mother halibut goes out to sea, sinks to a depth of about 1,000 feet and lays from 300,000 to 3,500,000 eggs. In May, the to the surface and egg rises hatches out a tiny, colourless larval fish which swims upright. But at four months it begins to assume colour on the right side and the ere on the left side "misrates over the top of the -head to lie finally beside its fellow on the right. Then the fish, instead of swimming up- right, turns over and swims on its left side and its mouth ap- pears to be or the right.

These are some of the facts pub- lished for the first time in anj authoritative fashion by the Inter- national Fisheries Commission of the United which has been studying the hali- but intensively for six years In a definitely report, just released, the commission tells the life-story! of the halibut as it has never been known before--one of the most re- markable accomplishments in the? history of fishery research.

States and Canada

Result Of Research

D

No Hollywood summer ward- robe is complete these days with- out a dotted swiss dress. Olivia De Havilland, film starlet, wears one to advantage. Note the aa- usual vest and jacket-treatment

featuring five white buttons, all in a row with white piping on skirt, collar and cuffs,

EUCHARISTIC

CONGRESS IN

PHILIPPINES

To and out the habits of the halibut, experts of the commission tagged thousands of fish, dredgedį, for halibut eggs year after year and finally discovered facts about the ocean currents of the Pacific noti known before. It found, for ex- ample, that the Japanese Current separates into two major branches PROGRAMME OF PROCEEDINGS when it reaches the American ALREADY ARRANGED coast, one flowing south in the

Altar Used To Cost 80,000 Pesos

plan

the

direction of the California Trades. The altar to be used at the 33rd Con- the other passing north along the International Eucharistic shores of the Gulf of Alaska.gress from February 3 to 7 will ascertained by cost 80,000 pesos, while the broad- These facts were the release of thousands of bottles casting facilities will cost 70,000) containing post cards which were pesos, according to estimates made

engineers asked to returned from places thousands of by

out these two features of miles distant.

Knowing the ocean currents, the Congress. The plans have been commission could chart the flow of submitted to the office of the city the halibut exys and the distribu-engineer for opinion. tion of the fish. It is on such

Archbishop Michael O'Doherty, knowledge that it has based its regulation of halibut fishing. The in agreement with Mgr. Heylen, regulations already in force have bishop of Namur and president of halted the decline in the supply of the permanent committee of the

Eucharistic Cop fish noted some years ago and have international increased the fisherman's catch gresses, has approved the speakers per unit of gear from 36 pounds to for the three meetings of the 60 pounds, the new report says clergy and the hierarchy during Thus, by co-operating, the United the Manila Congress.

States and Canada are preserving

£400,000 LAWSUIT

ART DEALERS

AT VARIANCE

THE CHINA MAH., TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936`

FOUR EUROPEANS BECOME BUDDHIST MONKS

Ceremony At Ceylon Monastery

Colomba,- Foor Europeans were ordained Buddhist monks recently at the Island Hermitage,

IN NEW YORK Polgasduwa, in Dodanduwa.

Allegations Against

Lord Duveen

“CONSPIRACY” ALLEGED BY PLAINTIFF

New York.

SUMMER

Check

EVERY

ITEM/

SALE

Two of them are from South Germany, while the other two Dublin hail from

and East Prussia

CIRCUS ROMANCE - Armless Man Marries Giantess

FOUR-YEAR-OLD AFFAIR THAT BEGAN IN GERMANY

A sensational charge of plot- ting to prevent legitimate bid- ding at a sale of Old Masters in New York nearly seven years

is made ago

against Lord Duveen and Duveen Brothers Ins. in a suit for £400,000 filed . The armless man, Franz by Mr. Carl Hamilton, describ- Bernardt, 24, and Marie Joel- ed as a New York art dealer. son, 32, his 7ft.-6in bride,

A member of the Daveen firm

were married at Holy Trinity described this accusation as being Church, Ramsgate, recently. "absurd on the face of it, and

Their romance began in a circus added: "We cannot, of course, în Germany four years ago. prevent Mr. Hamilton or his law- yer from bringing a suit of character or from giving it

that licity, but we are confident when the case is tried in court, Mr. Hamilton's claims will be shown in their true colours."

For three day's they had been this rehearsing the ceremony in Eng- publish, and were word perfect when the rector, the Rev. B W. Bansall iconducted the ceremony.

The bride, who wore a gown of Among the paintings involved ivory satin and was attended by are a "Crucifixion" by Piero del-three bridesmaids, 30in. high, who la Francesca, and a "Madonna and were dressed in pale blue frocks.

She was given away by a com- Child," by Fra Filippo Lippi, both

of which Mr. Hamilton purchased panion-7ft. Sin. tall, and the best from Duveen Bros., and both of man was a sword swallower.

The bridegroom signed the re which were included in a group

Crowds showered confétti on the couple as they left the church.

of pictures which he put up auc-gister with the pen held between tion at Anderson Galleries in 1929. his teeth. Duveen Broe on that occasion bought back the Piero for £75,000. and subsequently they sold it to Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun.

Wealthy Clients

Mr. Hamilton asserts that these! pictures, together with six others worth in his possession, --were £600,000 and that purchasers could

be found only

among

persons of great wealth and among

museums, most of whom, as clients of the Daveen firm, were guided

RUMANIAN SCIENTIST FINDS NEW ELEMENT

Discovery Named "Moldavium"

Paris. The French Academy of Science announce

that M. Holubej, a Rumanian scientist of the University of Jassy, who works in France, has dis- covered Element 87 of the He named Mendeleef table.

it "Moldarium.”

LIVED FOR NEARLY

A CENTURY Woman Leaves 133 Descendants

The death

has occurred in

Perston, Cape Province, S., of Mrs. S. Lotter, who had about a fortnight to live to complete her ninety-eighth year. Born in the district, she was married eighty years ago. Her husband, Casper Lotter, died nearly forty years ago.

They had 13 children, of whom four are still living.

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CHINA EMPORIUM

ONE BIG FLAG DAY

FOR ALL THE HOSPITALS

PIECEMEAL BLACKMAIL DOES NOT PAY

A move is afoot to start a com- mon flag day for the big London

The old lady had 150 descer-hospitals.

A special committee has been dants, of whom 133 are living, the fifth

generation consisting of formed to consider the question, and an early announcement is ex- pected

eleven.

Mrs. Lotter owned the land-on

Started during the war, fag days which the town of Pearston now stands and saw the building of the have grown until they have had frst dwelling around which the to be rationed in most large cen-

tres town developed.

Every day would be a flag day if the police had not used their authority to limit them.

She is survived by her only sister, who is 83 years of age.

He

that

by Lord Duveer's advice. Mons. William Piani, apostolic goes on to say that before sale one of the world's most valuable delegate to the Philippines, will at the Anderson Galleries Lord! fisheries in perpetuity.

preach the Holly Hour for car-Duveen represented to him dinals, bishops, prelates and arrangements had been made for attend certain Duveen clients to priests on February 3.

inter the sale and that they had been At the first priests"

as the national meeting on February 4, advised that such works the report on the first theme of Piero and the Fra Filippo were

very valuable. the Congress

of programme

LAST DIARY ENTRY

OF SUICIDE

To Be Commiserated, Says Coroner

ruized his life.

WAR MEMORIAL AT

VIMY RIDGE To Be Unveiled By King Edward

PROMISE MADE AS PRINCE

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FRUTTS

It is not only the public which Pheasant objects to this method of polite Quil

and organised blackmail, but many

the

of those who take part in work have long since ceased to be enthusiastic.

The president of a national or ganisation in a town near London recently said: "Our local flag day is no unpopular that I am quite sure that on the balance we lose by LL

Strong Protests

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VEGETABLES

These representations, ME studies will be preached by Father

Hamilton holds, were part of aj Froman, C. 1 M.

conspiracy to prevent Mr. Hamil- Father John Ylla, OP. will ton kiself from arranging for the]

"Even the husbands of our men- The King will go to France A man's last thoughts in a preach the report on the second attendance of Daveen clients, and]

on July 26 to unveil the bers will not give to flag days and last theme, at the secondze diary before he gassed himself in and

further maintains that the

Canadian war memorial at dislike our taking part in them.” an hotel off the Strand recorded sacerdotal meeting which will be Duveen clients had neither been

There is no doubt that flag days Vimy Ridge. that he inherited a craving for held on February 6.

advised to attend the sabe-nor told

King, the Cana-in London do raise money. Last drink from his father, and it had Latin, the official language of that the two paintings in ques- Mr. Mackenzie erste in year a total of £242,302 was rain- Beetroot

the Catholic church, will be the tion were valuable.

Long The Westminster coroner, Mr. Jonty language used. All the sac-|

It is to be pointed out that this Beetroot In his statement the member of announcement in Parliament lasted in this way.

month. Ingleby Oddie, said the man, erdotal meetings will be conducted the Duveen firar said that Mr.

is understood It

that his is a somewhat expensive way of Brinjals, Green George Lork, aged 38, who came in Latin. Free and friendly dis-Hamilton purchased four pictures

Cabbare. Chines from the Midlands for an interview cussion of the themes will not only from the fame in 1917, including Majesty's acceptance of the Cana-raising money, as on a flag day regarding a resition, was an ob-lbe allowed but urged and encour-the two auctioned in 1929, and dian Government's invitation is in the expenses amount to 12% per that on the sale of these four accordance with a promise he made cent of the funds raised, and in some cases the percentages are pictures he realised a proft of when Prince of Wales.

A pilgrimage of 6,000 Canadians enormously high... more than 100,000. Each pic-

A London paper recently, u ture, this spokesman said, brought will leave Montreal in five liners.

Hamilton a

profit ranging on July 16 and 17. They wider the heading "Flag Days: A Celery. Chiness

Growing Nuisance," described the from 150 to nearly 500 per cent. Ireach French ports on July 25.

method adopted in the United States and Canada to replace flag days

ject of commiseration.

"He thought it was an undoubted

fact that the tendency was trans- mitted from father to son.

aged.

erdict. Suicide while of un-STRIKE HOLDS UP sound mind.

"BLUE TRAIN”

First Failure In Its History

£20,000 GIFT TO HOSPITAL

In Memory Of Wife

11

Italian Found Guilty In

NY. "Bath Murder"

The American authorities make

year! a concerted appeal once a for the local Community Chest. A

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Carrots"

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Red Curry Stuff, English Cacumbers

Green

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Old Horseradish, Shad

Case great effort is made, and the Indian Cor

money raised is allotted on a pro- portionate basis to all local chari

New York their verdict, being locked up all ties John Fiorenza, 24, the upholster- night. It is understood that the er's assistant charged with rar-long delay was caused by the ad- herence of one juror to the plea

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Lettuce Okras

Onions, Bombay

Greed Shanghai

ParaltyN Potato, sweet

Japanese

American

*Nice. For the first time since its in- Bristol-In memory of his auguration in 1922, the famous wife who died in London at Bas-Blue Train," from the Riviera to tex, Mr. Melville Wills, a member Paris, did not run one night last of the Wills tobacco family, has month. It is composed entirely of given £20,000 to the endowment coaches owned by the Wagons fund of the Bristol Homeopathi Lits Company, whose workers are dering Mrs. Nancy Titterton, wife for the defence that Fiorenza was

There are 375 morning and even- of an Englishman in the service of insane when he committed the Hospital, of which he is presid-on strike.

ing Chinese newspapers published Most of the passengers to. Eng-the National Broadcasting Com-crime. ent.

Mrs. Titterton was found in China, according to a survey land were wamed beforehand, but pany, has been found guilty of

strangled in the bath of her fat recently made. Kiangen, with 50 a number arrived of various murder in the first degree. Riviéra stations" unaware of the Under the laws of New York A piece of upholsterer's cord with newspapers, has more than any Watercress ME. cancellation and had to wait two State the verdict mean that sea-which she had been bound was other province while Peiping, with Vegetable Marrow

“'claims a larger number of Water Lily Boot

Apinach s the hours for the ordinary express to tence of death must be passed shown to have come from some

supplied to the factory at which newspapers than any other city.

"Tomatoes Paris The Blue Train from Paris upon him.

Shanghai comes escond with 20. The jury took 20 hours to resen Florenzas worked.

This was "amoraced"at"

nual meeting of the hospita

by the chairman.

giff was in grateful

one who has been so man

to me." to the Riviera ran: normally,

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