1930-06-07 — Page 3

HONG KONG DAILY. PRESS, SATURDAY,

JUNE 7, 1930.

SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY GETTING OUT TO PLAY

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

·HUMOUR:" ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Little Boy (impressed by milk- ing process): "Now, put it all back, and do it again, please.".

"Saxophones are really quita harmless."

Yes, if one would only leave them alone,"

He (awkward dancer): "It was nice of you to give me this dance.' She faweetly): "Not at all-this is a charity ball."

Grill: 'Do you know that only one person out of six can drive an antomobile"

Grump: Maybe so, but the other five can qualify as expert in- structors!!

"Isn't it nice to have a husband who spends all his evenings at home?'

"Yes; I enjoy myself so much better when I know he's there with the children."

I heard a new story the other day. I wonder if I've told it to you?"

"Is it funny?" "Yes,"

"Then you haven't."

"I suppose this rain will do thự Crops a lot of good "

"Ye're right, sir. An hour of it will do more good in five minutes than a month of it would do in a werk at any other time."

don't know,"

"What letter comes after demanded the teacher. Please, misa, I answered Toinmy.

"Well, what have I on each side of my nose pressed the teacher.

"Looks like powder, miss," said Tommy.

It is reported from Barcelona that a Spanish industrialist has offered to build a motor road from Encamp to Soldeu, in the little Re public of Andorra, between France and Spain, in exchange for the right to exploit the country's water-power

resources.

"So your husband is letting his heard grow ?"

"He is not letting it grow--I am letting him grow it."

"I tell you I am giving you at least 100 marks if I sell the car- pet for 300 marks"

"Then give me 50 marks and keep the carpet.'

"We are now passing the only genuine American" ice cream parl our in Paris," explained the guide. "We are not!" chorused three girl tourists.

She: "Did you know Jean has opened a beauty parlour and is do ing well!"

He Living off the fat, of, the land, is she

Mother (to Ernall daughter who is tying a knot in the corner of her tiny handkerchief): "What are you doing that for, darling?"

Daughter: Ob. Mummie. I do want to remember that pretty. tune!!

Native: "How is it that you were able to visit Paris in two days 7''

The American: "My daughter.. visited the monuments and the museums, my wife the stores, while visited the theatres and cafés."

First Motorist: "I drove 80

"fast that the trees appeared like a fence."

Second Ditto: "I drove so that the milestones made a stone wall."

Third Ditto: "I went so feat that I could see, the number on the back of my car."

After a long address, the speaker said he had been requested to an- nounce that at the conclusion of the lecture there would be a meeting of the board. When the audience dispersed and the five members of the board were about to go into session it was noticed that a strani ger had stayed, showing no signs of departing.

A few moments of embarrassed The municipal authorities of Oak-silence ensued, after which the land, California, USA, have at chairman addressed the stranger tached to posts at the principal awkwardly and said, "Possibly you street intersections steel-covered didn't understand this was to be books, mensuring ein. by Bin, in just a meeting of the board." which are city maps and directions for reaching points of interest in the district.

"Yas, indeed," replied the other. genially. "Go ahead; no one was more so this evening than I."

GLUTAS DUBLATANTS

SEES THE GAME OUT "AT PLAN/

SIGHS, GETS HIS GEO- GRAPHY BOOK AND EDES TO WINDOW TO MAKE SURE GANG IS

STILL THERE

CALLS UP TO MOTHER HES ONLY GOT. HIS 600- GRAPHY TO DO, CANT. HE 60 OUT NOW AND DO IT AFTER

RAISES WINDOW TO TELL THEM HIS IDEA FOR IMPROVING THE CLUB-HOUSE....."

Aspiring Poet: "Have you re- ceived any expression of public opinion on my new volume 77

Publisher: "Well, one man with the same name as yours has asked. us to announce that he is not the author."

On the first day of school' the teacher asked the boys for their names. The first boy said his name was Sie

"No," said the teacher, "you mustn't say Si, Say Silas.'

The next boy said his name was Tom. "No," the teacher corrected,

your name is Thomas.

"And now,she inquired of a lad in,

the end row

what is you name"

Anxious to please, the lad res- pended, Jackass."

CENTRAL THEATRE

Built Specially For Sound Pictures

WILL OPEN SOON

with

PARAMOUNT

1930

ALL TALKING PICTURES

Reproduced on

WESTERN ELECTRIC

Latest Model Sound Equipment.

Queen's Road (Westward) Buses

Stop At The Theatre.

Park Your Motor Car In Jervois Street.

Bookings At Anderson's Music Store.

Paremaunt

RAISES WINDOW AND TEUS (GANS HE'LL BE "RIGHT" OUT AS SOON AS

HE'S DONE HIS BED --.

GRAPHY

60ES UPSTAIRS TO SEE IF A PERSONAL VISIT WONT PERSUADE" MOTHER TO LET HIM GO OUT NOW

(Copyright, 1930, By The Bell Syndicate, Toc>

FRENCH DISQUIET ABOUT BIRTHRATE.

COUNTRY'S SHRINKING

POPULATION.

excess

RETURNS "TO FOOT OF STAIRS WITH NEW AND LENGTHY ARGUMENTS WHY IT WOULD BE BETH TER TO GO OUT NOW

AND SO, HAVING SPENT HALF AN HOUR IN PRE~|. UMINARIES, DOES HIS GEOGRAPHY IN FIVE MINUTES, AND GOES OUT

EMPEROR OF THE

UNDERWORLD.

AL CAPONE HAS ONLY £40,000 A YEAR.

in-

The National Alliance for the Poor Al Capone, the "Emperor" Increase of the French Population of Chicago's underworld, is a and and weary man in spite of the fact published recently in Paris a com- mentary on the recently-published that he has proved crime can be statistics, which show an

made to pay by obtaining an amounting to 12,564 of deaths overcome estimated by the revenue su

thorities at £40,000 a year. births.

This commentary does not adopt Ever since he was released from the explanation that the chief Philadelphia prison, where he serv trouble is the heavy infant mortal-ed a short sentence for carrying a ity, although this is certainly part gun, the heartless police have been of the explanation, for it is higher worrying Al. He sits in his than in most other countries. While | palatis) headquarters, composed of admitting that deaths have heavily four suites in a Chicago hotel, increased and births only moderate virtually a prisoner, for the police ly diminished, the National, Alli- ance points out that until 1909 the say that if he appears on the street total of deaths was always greater he will be arrested as a vagabond. than 741,000, the figure of last year,

Also he fears that his beautiful but was nevertheless always examansion at Palm Beach, Florida, ceeded by births, except during four years, when the deaths reached 800,000. The births, on the other hand, have been steadily declining since 1883, when they where `more than one million. They had fallen to 879,000 in 1000, to 790,000 in 1913; and 728,000 in 1929. The increase in deaths last year was due to the exceptionally cold winter but the decrease in births to deliberate limitation.

Moreover, 10 percent. of last

with its classical facade and its rich treasures-Gobelin'. tapestries, old furniture and fine paintings may be a lost Eden to him. The Governor of Florida has told all the 67 sherills in his State to arrest Al and run him to the State border, should he attempt to take up his residence.

Harassed Gang Leader. Capone secured from the courts year's births are those of the child-4 temporary writ restraining the ren of foreigners, and marriages, which are already decreasing, will

sheriffs from molesting him, but this at best only postpones the evil

be still less from 1935 onwards in day. Toe much-harassed gang- consequence of the email number of leader even contemplated socking Insanctuary under the Union Jack, persons born during the war, fact, in a few years the loss of but inquiries as to whether he population in France will be 200,000 would be an acceptable resident in the British West Indies met with a year, if not more.

e discouraging response. Meanwhile the annual increase of Italy is 375,000, of Germany 360,000, And Spain 200,000. That of Great Britain is not mentioned, perhaps because it is not very useful to the French argument, for the excess of births, which had 492,000 in 1910 to 593,000 in 1920, had fallen in 1995 to 284,000.

risen

GABY DESLYS' TOMB

·RAIDED.

fromi

and

She Danced Into the Hearts of Men!"

BEAUTIFUL Joan Crawford

sever made a more thrilling appearance than in this picture of Flaming Youth?

Gey, glorious, adventure, fulkbloodezi fa, Gery love beckon to her! Then tanpa drama stalks into the party? A section I

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The Flaming Successor to "Our Dancing Daughters"

JOAN

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RONALD

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TheRescue

FROM FARM BOY TO BISHOP.

THE POPE AND A SCANDI- NAVIAN APPOINTMENT.

Meanwhile, seated beneath, pic-

"I do not believe in attempts to tures of his two heroes, George

unite all Churches and creeds. They Washington

"Biz Bill"

may further internationalism, but Thompson, Capone seeks to win public favour by signing cheques are of no value to religious life, because everything of importance for charity with a gold pen dipped in Christianity is eliminated. It in a gold encrusted inkwell. The is like building a fabric without Income Tax Bureau is also prying cerdent between the bricks. into the liquor traffic. At 31 Al is the acknowledged lord of gang- laad, but no grave crime has been traced to him.

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MURDER REVEALED BY QUARREL.

SISTERS ACCUSE EACH OTHER IN COURT.

"You murdered your son!" "Yes, but it was you who made. me do it. You put the rope round his neck!"

Two women, speaking with angry voices to each other in the Breslau The magistrates' court, provided "this sensational climax to an ordinary summons and counter-summons for slander and assault, .

only salvation for Christianity is to revert to the medieval Church, even if some of the outer forms may remain modern." "On the day of his being made a Roman Catholic bishop of Norway,

THIEVES BAFFLED BY 6-INCH BOYS' MISADVENTURE IN A Mr. Olav Offordahl made this ebal

DOOR

Thieves made an attempt last month to rob the tomb of Mlle. Gaby Deslys, the famous dancer, who died in 1830.

The wardeas of the St. Pierre cemetery at. Marseilles discovered that the masonry surrounding the vaults containing her remains had been broken open. A hole 9ft. long and ft. wide had been made in the wall of the chapel.

When the door of the chapel was opened it was obvious that an at tempt had been made to raise the slab of granite covering the vaults. The huge stone, had been lifted, but the desecratora had been foiled by a calid steel door protecting the dancer's coffin...

HOME-MADE BOAT.

"OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE" ON LAKE WINDERMERE.

lenging statement to the Norwegian Press, thereby underlining his jo tention not to accept the invitation for co-operation between the Pro- testant and Catholic Church, issued by Archbishop Nathan Boederblom of Sweden

The sequel was the arrest of both. women, who are married sisters, named Deus and Blum. They are to be tried on charges of having committed one murder by hanging and having attempted two others by poisoning.

They seemed so worked up dur ing the hearing of their unimport- ant quarrel that each one made statements in which she accused the

other of crimes never suspected by the astonished police,

Two boys, who were found hang- Though such a statement is not ing on to an overturned boat on likely to make the Catholic Church Lake Windermere recently told more popular in a country so John Atkinson, a boat proprietor, strongly, bent towards Protestant appears that the sixteen-year- who rescued them, that they were tism As Norway, Mr. Offer old son of Frau Blum three months playing at the Oxford and Cam-dahl's appointment as bishop has ago was found hanging from a bridge boat race. They bad been been received with more than usual in the water some time and were interest, as this is the first instance chattering with cold,

since the Reformation that a man of Scandinavian origin has been entrusted with such a post. Bishop. Offerdahl is the son of a poor, far mer in Western Norway, and was converted to the Roman Catholic

hook in the attic of his mother's home. The police put it down as clear; case of suicide, and no further questions were asked,

But in the court that day Frau Deus accused her sister, of having hanged her own son, and Frau Blum did not attempt to deny the

Their story to Mr. Atkinson wns that they had seen collapsible beats on the screen at cinemas, and de- cided to make one and launch it on boat race day. They carried the Signs of the use of the most moboat down to the lake and launched Church when twenty years old. He charge, but in turn accused Frau dern house-breaking implements it before breakfast and set out to is now seventy-three years old, and Deus of being her accomplice, and were visible on the surface of the row round Belle Isle, When in deep would have been disqualified by of having attempted to poison-some steel, which is om in thickness, water something went wrong and age had not the Pope expressed a of her relatives. but the raiders had not had suff the trail craft capsized ad cathing personal wish to see him "The police state that they have

It is possible that they were searching for jewels or were at tempting in criminal fashion to gather evidence to prove or die prove the dead woman's identity which has been the subject of recent litigation.

Bendz found oxidenga corzcharat became an intimate 18 the women's testimony,

A dramatic trint

trial for murder will friend of Pius XI, and the latter has frequently called him to Rome shortly be staged in the same, court, for consultation. He is proceeding where the two angry, sisters faced to Rome immediately to be conse each other in the quarrel which may crated by the Pope personally have sealed their doom.

canvas stretched on struts, and too boys had also made a sort of canoe Offerdahl paddles. The boat had been made with great secrecy and the boys chief concern on being landed was to keep their escapade from the knowledge of their parents."