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Mr. Harold Butler

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Scales Himalayan Giant

CONQUERED FOR FIRST TIME

Geneva, June 14. Improvement in the economic con- ditions of the world was noted here yesterday by Mr. Harold Butler, head of the International Labour Office, but he doubted the durability and stability of this recovery be-

A laconic message received cause of the existence of the arma-Calcutta from Mr. F. Spencer Chap-

ments race.

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man, the explorer, announces Mr. Butler's speech concluded gen- Chomolhari, the 29,930ft Himalayan eral discussion of the International

Labour Conference, held during the peak, about 150 miles east of Mount Everest, has been scaled for the past week during which 73 persons first time.

held the floor, half of whom were non-Europeans.

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Necessity for good economy

Mr. Spencer Chapman telegraphed to from Phari-Jong, on the Tibet bor-

improve the standard of living for der: "Summit reached. All. well." the workers, he said, is now; ad- Chomolhari, known to the natives mitted. Social progress has been as the "Divine Queen of the Moun- made in many countries and trade tains," present hazards sufficient to unionism has increased. World daunt the most experienced clim- economic recovery, he believed,, did bers. The ascent-made just before not take place by chance, for mea-the anniversary of

attempt sures taken by various governments on Everest in May and June had contributed to it. This

was last year—is regarded in India with demonstrated by the fact that econo-the greatest admiration. mic recovery coincided with mone- tary alignments.

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the

Lone Climb

Forty-Hour Week Hopes Regarding a decrease in work- It is believed that Mr. Spencer ing hours, Mr. Butler cited the ex-Chapman scaled the mountain alone. cellent results obtained in the Unit-He had recently returned from ed States, and emphasized that in Tibet, having visited Lhasa with accordance with the declarations of the British Mission headed by Mr. the Australian, New Zealand and B. J. Gould, political officer in Sik- French delegates, experience hadkim.

has peak of Simvu Massif.

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proved the excellence of the 40-hour Mr. Spencer Chapman, who is 30, week. To back these statements he is a climber of great experience. advanced statistics which tended to Last year he completed a remar- prove the social and technical ne-kable series of pioneer climbs during cessity for the 40-hour week.

an expedition to the north eastern "The industrial revolution

Two brought with it the idea that

hitherto unclimbed peaks were scal- reduction in the hours of work is ed, the Sphinx and the Fluted Peak. a necessity. This claim is not in-

He was a member of the Watkins spired by laziness, but by the need Greenland Survey expedition in 1931 for rest which has been created by and was one of those who rescued the speed and rhythm of modern

Mr. Augustine Courtauld. life," he said. "This need was mani-ceived the Polar Medal in 1932. fest by the extension of paid holi- days, which were the object of a convention last year, and by the hope that this year will begin an AFRICAN CHIEF era of the application on an inter- national scale of the 40-hour week."

WORST SADIST CHUCKLES AT HIS OWN TRIAL

Tells How Boy Was

Buried Alive:

TRIES

He re-

DRESS DESIGNING -

An evening dress in club, design- ed by a West African chief, was the most interesting item in three win- dow displays shown at the Depart |ment of Overseas Trade. The win- dows are to be shown in the Dress Section of the British Pavilion at

the Paris Exhibition. :

Alternately chuckling and sneer- ing, Adolf Stepanek, young artisan,

Mrs. Terence Maxwell, daughter described by alienists as the worst of the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, sadist they had. ever examined.

wears an evening gown in a house- watched young men and women file party scene, in which is also shown into the Assizes witness. box in the native chief's design, which Belgrade and describe how he fired consists of a rough "coat-of-arms,” at them as they walked along lanes including the chief's tree-stump near his village.

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Accused of killing two women and a boy in the vilage, Stepanek was alleged to have first slain a small boy who stood watching him digging in his garden.

throne, his crown and ring of State, and the tribal emblem of a god, half-man half-bear.

These three scenes will go to- gether with another of the same He has confessed he struck the size entitled "Coronation," showing boy with a spade, buried him, and a duchess in her robes and a Herald. at night exhumed the body, muti-They are all 10ft, high, 71⁄2ft, deep lated it savagely, and then reburied it.

"Perhaps he was still alive when I buried him," chuckled Stepanek, "but he didn't live for long."

His next victim was a fifty-year- old milk-woman; whom he shot while walking by the river.

Third victim was his cousin, a beautiful girl, much admired by the men in the village. He shot through the heart and stabbed her.

and 8ft..wide...

Apart from these there will be three larger pictorial groups with life-size figures and backgrounds representing “Hunting,” ““Shooting” and "Tenňíð.”

Miss Kathleen Marley's appoint- ment as a nursing sister is Inounced in the "Gazette."..

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