1937-04-01 — Page 12

Deaf Child Learns Her ABC's

So that Joan Higgins, 4, blind, deaf and mute since birth, may have a chance to communicate with others, this unique device sends vibrations through the child's fingers in hope that she will learn to distinguish the difference in words and their meaning, Tertia Hart of Chicago is Joan's instructor.

THE CHINA MAIL,

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MR. MACDONALD TO CHAIRMAN NEW CONFERENCE

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") -

London, To-day.

Twenty-three nations will send delegates to attend the International Sugar Conference which opens in the Locarno room at the Foreign Office on Monday.

THE CHAIR WILL BE TAKEN BY MR. RAMSAY MAC- DONALD IN HIS CAPACITY OF PRESIDENT OF THE DEFUNCT WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE AT WHICH, BEFORE ITS ADJOURNMENT FOUR YEARS AGO, IT WAS DECIDED TO CONVENE AN INTERNATIONAL SUGAR CONFERENCE.

SOVIET'S HUGE GOLD SHIPMENT

Destined For The United States

London, To-day. The Soviet is shipping large quantities of gold to London, re- port the British newspapers.

One report places the amount now on its way as £40,000,000 worth of the metal.

*M. Beaudin, chief of the Bel- gian delegation to the Confer ence, left Brussels yesterday for England, where he will confer with English delegates on the agenda.

Sugar circles in Brussels declare that an agreement will be arrived at whereby production and sumption will be brought into line with stabilisation of prices.

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Difficulties are expected to arise, however, through the Japanese at- titude to the Chinese market.

the This might in turn affect of

position of Java and Cuba, with-, out whom international agreement is impossible.

The financial correspondent the "Daily Herald" says that the gold is only in transit through Britain, its ultimate destination being the United States.

From Paris it is announced that: The "Queen Mary," it is an- the French delegation to the con- nounced, will have on board over ference will be headed by the Min- £2,000,000 worth of gold on her next ister of Economics, M. Charles trip to the United States, and the Spinasse, and will include repre- correspondent says that this ship-sentatives of the Ministries of ment is part of the gold despatched Economics, Agriculture, Colonies: from Russia.--Trans-Ocean.

Land Trade-Trans-Ocean.

Burrounded by House Executiv Scouts of the co of his offles, the

Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of the former mayor of New York, is shown wwith Slemish Sweetheart, one of their Irish terriers which won a blue ribbon at the specialty terrier show preceding the opening of the national ́dog show in New York.

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Bringing Up Father

REMEMBER · MAGGIE-WHEN “SPIKE" HARRISON BROUGHT HIS HARP TO THE PARTY- BUT, NOBODY ASKED

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AND YOUR COUSIN *SNIFFY WAS ALWAYS PLAYING "SOLDIERY-- BUT WHEN TH’. BIG WAR STARTED-NO ONE COULD FIND...... HIM UNTIL ARMISTICE

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Dust masks, re of storage whe to envelop OK

HOW FUNNY YOUR UNCLE "HATCHET- FACE LOOKED A HISH BICYCLE AND HE LOOKED JUST AS FUNNY WHEN HE WASH

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