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BARBARA STANWYCK-ROBERT TAYLOR in

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1936

EVIDENCE AT

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Child Heroine Who Died In Fire WITNESS CRITICISES REMARK BY HEADMASTER

WORKING DAY

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STEWARDS" TERMS :-

For the first time the hours of

ARTICLES ON ASTROLOGY Judges Hear About

"Fortune-Telling

“EVERYBODY TRIES TO READ THE FUTURE,” K. C. SAYS

A statement said to have been

The question whether the con- made by a headmaster concerning duty at sea of men engaged in the tents of an article in a Sunday a fire in which a girl died, was engine-room, stokehold and cater newspaper beaded **What the criticised at a Battersea inquesting departments of foreign-going Stars Foretell" came within See- last month on Baby Kathleen British merchant vessels are to betion 4 of the Vagrancy Act. 1824. Watkins, aged five. of

Orville-regulated. road, Battersea.

room at her home to

rescuc

was discussed before Lord Hewart This is the effect of agreements and Justices du Pareq and God- The girl ran into a blazing concluded between representatives dard in a King's Bench Divisional

a of shipowners and, seamen on the Court last month. younger sister and a three-year sailors" and firemen's and catering The article was written by Mr. old boy. Her clothes caught alight department panels of the National R. C. Naylor in the Sunday E-- and she died two hours later. Maritime Board.

press and against him a summons In the stakehold and engine had been issued by Mr. Maurice room there is to be an eight-Barbanell, editor of the Psychic

In port a Edward Didd, a neighbour, said hour day at sea.

45-News, alleging that he W*** that after the accident the head-hour week is already in force. person who pretended or professed

In the catering department of to tell fortunes." master at the boy's school called the classes together and told them cargo vessels there is to be a 10-

A verdiet of accidental death! was returned.

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death and that a little boy at the school had been responsible.

"I Think It Was Wrong"

Special Problems

A magistrate at the Mansion Honje dismissed the summons. jhaving come to the conclusion that] It is recognised that in pas-the matter in question was tool

regulation senger ships the

of vague and general in character to

Reading The Future

Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, KC, for

"I think that was wrong," Mr. hours presents special problems constitute an offence against the Didd said. “A statement like that The agreement provides that at sea Act could make narrow-minded par-all catering ratings-except high- than ents tell their children to keep jer ratings, receiving more away from this boy because hejf11 78 64 per month-shall have Mr. Barbanell, at the last bearing at least 12 hours off duty per day asked the court to hold that the has caused a child's death.”

The Coroner

(Dr. Edwin including at least seven consecu magistrate was wrong.

Mr. Justice du Pare asked whe Smith): It would be extremely tive hours. Two extra hours' rest

ther anybody had ever been pro- foolish if any parent did a thing are provided for boys. like that. I cannot believe that; In port the present arrange-secuted for forecasting the winner the beadmaster meant anything ments for an eight-hour day in of a horse race?

passenger vessels, and a nine-hour: Mr. Beyfus said he did not think! that could be taken that way.

that his day in cargo vessels, will continue. so. He explained that Mr. Naylor! Mr. Didd: He said statement was misconstrued. But Overtime in the catering depart-purported, by astrology. to tell All ment, at sea or in port, must be the fortunes of people whose how could that have been?

paid for in cash. The present birthdays he enumerated. the boys understood it as that.

"Of course," Mr. Beyfus said, The Coroner: This boy is far provision for time off in lieu is

"everybody tries to read the too young to understand. As he withdrawn.

future in some way The new agreements came into

or other. grows up the memory of this will

» Everybody who gambles on the fade. Anyway, we don't know force on October 1.

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the bed alight and I called for New York Cotton: Ruby. She came up and tried to put it out

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The coroner said that the room January was too badly damaged to see how March the fire was cansed, and the chil-May dren were too young to be called July as witnesses.

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Detective-Sergeant C. Smith

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Bond, that

week after week, what the stars foretell will happen to some of them от their birthday or thereabouts.

"He tells them what

may be their fortunes in finance or love affairs, which I suggest is the stock-in-trade of the ordinary [fortune-teller.

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"This Act was passed for the protection of foolish people who might pay attention to such things as this,” added Mr. Beyfus, who produced copies of the newspaper containing the article.

Quoting from the article Mr. Beyfus said that one passage in- cinded a birthday prediction which; ran: "The arrows of fate will whizz past your head this year." (Laughter),

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