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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1937.

Amelia Rehearsal

ALHAMBRA Earhart

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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

A MAMMOTH SHOW! THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT!

TOP

TO-

MORROW

DAILY AT 230

of

the TOWN

“A Few Universi Plasma-with İDORIS HOLAN • GEORGE MURPHY HUGH HERBERT - GREGORY

• GERTRUDE NIZIEN RATOFF

• · HENRY ARMETI ISCHA ADUE ELLA-LOGAN RAY MAYER*:•.

"THE MIGHTY TREVE” with Noah Beery, Jr. & Barbara Read

ISTAR

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THE

BEST PLAYI

and the stars

great made::l

HANKOW ROAD KOWLOON

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he ́screen Maxwell Anderson's

OF THE WINTERSET

YEAR

Directed by Alfréd Santill

WEDNESDAY

BURGESS MEREDITH

and MARGO

Clannelli » John Catradine · Edward'

Pandra S. Berman Prodi

"RAINBOW on the RIVER”

CENTRAL

QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL: CAR PARK—JERVOIS STREET

tus-No. 4 or

west,

min. from stop opposite Queen's

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW at 2.30, 5.15, 7:20 & 9.20 p.m.

EDDIE CANTOR

Strike Me Pink

SAMPEL BALRWEH

ITHE

SALLY HI

PAR

ALSO ON THE STAGE S CHINESE ACROBATIC ACTS

at Popular Prices

Ready For World Trip

́ ́FLYING THIS TIME

WEST TO EAST

Of Duke Of Windsor's Wedding

Paris, To-day.

The rehearsal of the Duke of Windsor's wedding, scheduled to take place on Thursday, was held in the Music Room of. Cande Castle, near Tours last Saturday.

Miami, To-day. Miss Amelia Earhart (Mrs. Putnam), the world famous |

.The Duke and his bride-to-be, American aviatrix, plans to take

Miss Wally Warfield, assisted by off early this week on a second attempt to fly round the world. Mayor Mercier, rehearsed all the formalities in the She intends to fly from the West necessary to the East, round the Equator, French language. The only differ- a total distance of about 28,000 ence from the actual ceremony was miles.

that the Mayor did not wear his

Miss Earhart expects to make robes of office, the scarlet sash a start as soon as the weather which will adorn him on the wed- permits, and explained that thejding day—Trans-Ocean.

change of direction from her

| original flight was due to the ad- vance of summer and consequent

changes in the weather condi- WOMAN KILLED

tions, especially in Africa.

Her first hop will be from Miami to San Juan în Porto-Rico, a distance of 1,033 miles.

The Atlantic ocean will be cross- ed from Port Natal to Dakar, and from there she hopes to fly across the Sahara Desert to Aden.

BY TRAM

Driver Held To Have Been Negligent

A verdict of accidental death with a rider that the driver of the tram Miss Earhart will again be accom-

car was guilty of negligence, was panied by Captain Fred Noonan. returned at the Coroner's inquest at Her Lockheed monoplane, the "Fly- the Central Magistracy into the ing Laboratory," has been rebuilt

since her Honolulu crash and will death of Sin Yung, an amah, aged carry no cargo except a few spare 44, who was knocked down on May parts and 8,000 stamp covers for 2 near Jubilee Street. philatelists-Reuter.

PASTORS NOT TOO OLD AT 45

Where Young Men Fail

1

Mr. K. Keen was the coroner and he was assisted by the following jurors, Messrs. I. M. Razack, (fore- man) Wu Shui-chi and Tam Pun- kee.

Dr. G. H. Thomas said deceased · was admitted to the G.C.H. at 5.35 p.m. on May 2 and died the next morning. When brought to hospi-- tal, the patient was conscious but completely paralysed from the neck A protest against the "foolish

downwards. `? *The post mortem preference" for young men, which

showed a seven inch wound on the was making ministers too old after left side of the head but the skull the middle forties, was made by was not fractured. The second bone the Rev. Ernest J. Price, presiding of the neck was dislocated, press- at the Spring Assembly of the Con-ing on the spinal cord. He attribut- gregational Union of England and ed the cause of death to the dis- Wales, in the City Temple, London. located neck and the pressure" on "In the ministry, above all voca- the spinal cord which caused tions," he said, “age ought to be an paralysis of the breathing organs asset rather than a handicap; and and heart failure. :

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a rich maturity of spiritual ex- Ng Kwok-hing, driver of tram perience ought to count for more car No. 51, said: he was travelling than youthful assurance and agil- from east to west. When near Jubi- ity.

lee Street, he saw deceased stand- "It is high time we abandoned ing in between the tram tracks. A the stupid notion that only young tram was travelling in the opposite men, fresh from college

direction. The woman stood station- or per- haps with two or three years' ex-ary in the tracks while the other

He continued his way- perience in the sowing of minister-car passed. ial wild oats mim. Can appeal to and she started to move back on youth.

his track. He applied his brakes but she was hit by the handle bar of the near side of the car.

"Some of the finest work that is being done among young people in our churches is being done by men over 50, and it is certainly true that some of our bright young min- isters have failed disastrously pre- cisely at this point.”

Questioned by Inspector “Saun- ders, witness admitted the other tram had passed before he reached deceased and that when he saw her standing he switched off the cur Among the things that struck he saw her step back he applied rent and proceeded slowly. When him most about many of the can- the electric brake but the tram con- didates who presented themselves tinued some distance. She had. to their college were their crude locked in the direction of the other notions about religion and their tram but not in his, and he had lamentable ignorance of the Bible sounded his bell-

The average marks in Scripture at The Inspector suggested that if the entrance examinations were witness had been proceeding more usually lower than in any other slowly he could have stopped at subject.

Two cases of diphtheria and one

'once.

The B. I. Steam Ship Talma will of dysentery were reported to the leave for Singapore Port Swetten- Health Department from Kowloon lham, Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta during the week-end.

on. Saturday at 10.80 a.m.