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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 19, 1937.

MISS EARHART IN HONOLULU

Miss Amelia Earheart, who has completed the first leg of her round the world flight in reconei

time, is shown above with Captain Harry Manning (left) who is accompanying her as navigator, as far as Port Darwin, obtaining instructions in the use of the new direction finder on her "Flying Laboratory."

More U.S. Strikes

WOMEN HOLD UP FISHER WORKS

Detroit, To-day.

snow,

In drizzling rain and Union patrols and picketers yes- terday watched for any attempt to eject 6,000 sit-down strikers in the Chrysler factories who, with high officials of the United Automobile Workers' of America are defying a legal injunction obtained against them by the company.

Earlier Independence In Philippines

Washington, To-day. President Manuel Quezon and

States United

Government officials have agreed to the terms of the proposal to ad- vance the date of complete in- dependence for the Philippines from 1946 to 1988/39.

A committee of experts will be appointed to work out de- tails of revision of the inde-

pendence programme enacted

in 1984-Reuter.

Woolworth

The Willys-Overland automobile Girls

factory at Toledo, Ohio, employing

4,200 men, closed yesterday until Strike

Monday owing to the shortage of material from Detroit, where the strike situation has led to a tem- porary lay-off by 6,000 other Toledo workers.

WOMEN. WALK OUT

New York, To-day. Fifty sales girls in one of the Woolworth establishments in New York are on strike.

to

The girls are demanding union One plant of the Fisher Body recognition, a minimum wage of Corporation in Flint, Michigan, $20 a week and a 40-hour week closed after strikes by hundreds of At present the girls only get women in the sewing department from $10 to $12 a week and sixty men. in the shipping de The girls have cabled Miss Bar- partment, which resulted in render-bara Hutton, the Woolworth heir ing 4,800 workers idle.

ess, asking her intervention The strike was later called off and grant an increase in wages. work is being resumed immediately ter

Meanwhile the Chrysler Corpora- tion has applied for a writ for ar- rest of the united automobile work- ers leaders and 6,000 sit-down strikers-Reuter.

King And Queen At Knowsley

London, T

The King and Queen left.

yesterday in the Royal

visit to Lord De

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LADY KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN ARRIVES

Among the passengerz

NEW TOKYO BUDGET

REDUCED BUT STILL SWOLLEN

Tokyo, To-day.

The Cabinet yesterday submitted to the Diet the Supplementary Es- timates Bill of 58,197,000 yen, mak ing the total of next year's Budget, |2,872,134,000 yen.

The supplementary estimates in- clude a small additional amount for the navy.

This total means that the Hirots

Budget, which caused a parliamen tary storm earlier in the year, has been cut by 166,447,000 yen but the total is still 560,617,000 yen

LEAVING EARLY FOR HOWLAND

HONOLULU, TO-DAY.

CROWD OF SEVERAL HUNDREDS, SOME OF THEM STILL IN EVENING DRESS, ENDURED. DRIZZLING RAIN TO SEE MISS AMELIA EAR- HART'S BIG LOCKHEED ELECTRA MONOPLANE MAKE A GRACEFUL LAND ING ON THE AIRPORT YES TERDAY

Miss Earhart has completed the first leg of her proposed 27,000-mile-flight round the world, the first time this has ever been attempted by a woman.

In spite of fatigue, the aviatrix announced that she would leave for Howland Island, her next stop," later in the day:

She claimed that her hop from Oakland, California, to Honolulu was the fastest ever made over the distance in a westerly direction.

The Hawaii Clipper arrived three hours after Miss Farhart and was followed

Pan-American Clipper

Miss Earhart had raced the giant planes across the long stretch of water The Clipper ships, which started first, are on their way to Manila and New Zealand, re tively-Reuter

Resumption Held Up By Weather

Honolulu, To-day." Miss Amelia Earhart is still here, having been compelled postpone taking off on the second stage of her flight by extremely bad weather conditions-Reuter.

above the present working Budget CAIRO STUDENTS

-Reuter.

ANTI-ITALIAN

INCIDENT

IN PARIS

Paris, To-day The Italian pavilion at the Paris World Fair has been occupied by workers and further work on the exhibits has been interrupted.

The demonstration, according to the papers, is anti-Fascist and has taken place in connexion with the recent riots at Clichy

The Italian Ambassador in Paris has lodged a protestTrans-Ocean

Forthcoming Wedding

The marriage between Mx. Robert Leslie Shepherd Webb,

this morning on the ss. Cartage were No. 16, Macdonnell Road, and Mist Lady Knatchbull-Hugessen and the Evelyn Winifred O'Hagan, of No. 2 Misses Knatchbull-Hagesse They Link Road, will shortly take place. were met by HLE's Private SecretarY

and taken by special launch in order

to catch the 8.30 train for Canton,

CLASH

WITH POLICE

Attack On Newspaper Offices

Cairo, To-day Students carrying out a political ustration clashed with the

police yesterday morning in the student quarters at Giza.

A number were injured in the

clash, which necessitated the des- patch of all the mounted police available in Cairo.

Meanwhile

lents attacked

sulting in some

the

The RMS Empress of Russia

Sir Hughe arrived in Canton by left Yokohama this morning, is due train yesterday and was warmly we at Hong Kong on Friday next

med by Chinese officials He i staying on Shameen with Mr. Ram and leaves Hong-Kong of Blunt, the Consul General

Manila on the same day at 5 på

heir

Today, he will play official calls on General Yu Hon-mau, General Huang

and the Mayor of Canton an.

will be returned.

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The RMS Empress of Ázi

Yokohama for Vancouver day at 3 pm.

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of stud ffices, re

Beuter.

MR LIN SEN TO VISIT CANTON