1932-04-26 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFI.

TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932.

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A terrific explosion which shattered a gas tank at the Public Service Corporation plant in Camden, N.J.. had taken a toll of al least eight lives when this picture was taken, showing a crowd about the plant.

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Its apire like a huge, flaming match, the Baptist Church at Hampden, was being consumed by fire when this remarkable night photograph was taken.

A Communist demonstration in front of the Ford offices on Broadway, New York, was given the growing number of pickets no opportunity to assume menacing proportions. threatened to halt traffic on the busy throughfare, police broke up the gathering. The demonstra tion was made as protest against the killing of four workmen in a riot at the Ford automobile

, plant.

the dime-a-dance

girl

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

BV JOAN

CLAYTON

Ellen as she stood, słubi y and beautiful, in the doorway sudden-| ly understood everything. By: her chance" Molly had meant | Steven Barclay. It was not the time-though her mother, to doj her justice, could not have known that invite Steven Barelay as ja guest. I was indeed not thei

material futtered at the windows, place into which to introduce a Beautiful Ellen Rosetter, is untugirl It, Tare Now pewter ash trays twinkled millionaire. The makeshifts. clay's Department Store. 1,

mether, Molly (tavalter, her older sister. Fr

with For from the mantel cleared for once delightful to Molly, did not im-1. and her young brother, Mike Molty her dis of Mike's school books. A new prove the down-at-heel apartment; i alpated a fortune left by their father britve tamp bloomed reside the they succeeded only in emphasiz chair. Everywhere

were ing the essential poverty of ita; brace apuund. But hoan tal av, doeni

the girls support the trully. Mully foullehiy apenda mury saved to pay the rent. Ellen i asy

davides to work nights at Bronisland in a flowers.

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Kinduen when at Dreamland she meets hunde

kosten until the wan in smocly up. The What happened! As she run rooted and instinctive. Trumphed Elles a natie Steven Harelay, 57 and her into the dining room Ellen thought jover lesser con'den...DIES in employer, Irads her a dress, he forges confusedly that perhaps her Eng-Ellen's mind. sume Larry itarrowgate, an artist. Later lish grandfather had died and re-j Ellen stepped into the hall to Ellen acavere Larry, in engauel to be maze metabered them in his will. Perwarmly that he should never guess ried. Even thestab she thinks himsthitan haps the dreams that coloured her that he was not a welcome an

Myrn and Molly openly favour Barelaz childhood had at last come true. he was leaning against the balus- Ellen quarteia, with them. Then Mrs. Boudy,

store, rosalp, syrenda suvdalotas

trade exhausted by the long climb.)

derer she continues to him.

of Barclay' attentions to Eles and she d

termines to see him in more. Molly tel

does not supply the name of this goes. Elk

Bance.

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In the dining room a coloured His face was so white that for a

phones that a guest is coming to dinner, but taid polished heavy silver finger noment Ellen feared he would under- suppose it to be Bett Armstent, her bowls. The table, decked in new faint. She had enough

linen, flaunted a centrepiece made standing not to mention his pal- under- of Steven Barclay's roses, tall and pable weariness; enough Isplendid in a silver

New standing to keep silent until he vase. The made a gallant recovery.

CHAPTER XVi

That evening as Ellen entered rugs and curtain here, too.

apartment maid glanced at Ellen, exposed said at last, cxtending her slender "It's good of you to come," she the shabby Brooklyn house she felt a great peace steal-white teeth. ing over her. The lobby was un-'

"What are you doing here?" the brown hands.

Seeing him rally his forces for carpeted, the tiled floor was by no girl demanded in astonishment. means clean, the trends

a reply, she had a sudden flashing of the "I wuk here."

Ellen dashed into the kitchen, memory of Larry leaping up the feet. As usual Mrs. Clancy pop- The kitchen was not changed. stairs and shouting breathless and

around from the foolish nonsense. ped open her door to see who had Molly turned

"I'm glad you think so." Bar-any? come in. Surely there was noth-stove and smiled at her,

"Were you surprised, honey lelay said. ing visible here to induce hap- piness but the girl felt un odd ft she asked in a gale of merriment

stairs had been worn by many

of spirit. This was home. She and high spirits.

hours she need not think She had stepped out of the ugly

if it "piqront" beauty that you most admire, your atten- tion is directed to dark haired Mile. Maris Kramer, above. She recently won M contest to determine the most piquant haauty in France.

A Communist demonstration against the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, resulted in this scena al violence in Chicago. The riot was staged in front of the Japanese consulate.

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A whirlwind recently swirled up the Atlantic seaboard, leaving widespread properly damage in its wake. This picture shows how some of the famous trans near the Capitol building were uprooted and hurled to the snow-blanketed ground while the storm raged. It was Washington's fiercast gale in nearly ten years. There was no denying that nothing of the sort. He was in- Barclay seemed pleased.

deed thinking the he had never "Well," he was saying, "I hope been in such a charming, such a Ellen noticed then, hesitating they were all nice things,** friendly place. Melly's very wiles had left the store behind. For 12! "What in the world has hap-on the landing, a uniformed chau- "Of course they were," Ellen re-were too transparent to

vicious or grasping., feur laden with florist boxes, plled a shade stiffly. of It.pened anyhow?"

"We're giving you your chance three of them. As he caught his "Darling, could you get

"You'll just have to make your- and complicated life she led there that's what's happened." Molly employer's eye he came forward, for the flowers?" Molly interpos- self at home," Molly urged, rising. to return to a life of her, own. crowed. "I'd never have known "Oh, you shouldn't have," Ellen od, tossing aside layers of silky "We live so simply that I'm afraid She was tired and she was com- how to manage but Mrs. Clancy exclaimed helplessly. "We've so paper and filling her arms with I have to take my little girl away from you. She's the only good ing home.

She was glad even that told me how to borrow money on many roses now--"

sweet, purple lilaca. not that night she was

to see the insurance. I've had the most She stopped suddenly.

Ellen concealed her reluctance cook in the house." "Yes, I know I shouldn't have," at leaving her mother and her em- It took a long Larry Harrowgate. To-night she exhausting day. wanted only Myra and her mother time to get the money and since Barclay agreed. "But you've no ployer together and left the room. Audaciously Molly twined her iden how I enjoyed myself. There's When she returned she found Mol-arms about Ellen and drew the and baby Mike with loyal, stodgy then I've spun like a top." Bert serving as a comfortable "Have we both gone crazy? box for each of you-for your ly, her lap overflowing with flow girl's rigid body close. Ellon eister and your mother and the era, chattoring like mad to Bar know her mother expected her, to background. A leisurely supper, What are you talking about?" afterwards a bath and maybe a "You'll see." Molly was convul-pink roses are for you."

clay. She was talking about the say something pretty, something| And then they entered the lly- English Rossiters, direct, shampoo if she felt like ita de-sed with mysterious laughter.

con- deprecatory and graceful. But she lightful way to spend an evening,

From downstairs the doorbelling room and Molly fluttered in noxions of ours, you know." said nothing at all. thought Ellen.

rang Imparatively. Ellen in a from the kitchen and began ex- Ellon understood now the reason "Perhaps you'd like a magazine," She reached the fifth floor, un-confused duze answered its sum-claiming over the boxes and rock for the portrait in the dining Molly suggested hurriedly when lessly tearing them open until the room. She was both annoyed and Ellón's stubborn silence was be- locked the door and stopped into mons. the Rossiter living room. Sho "Go and see who it is," Melly room was a carnival of colour amused at her mother's childish ginning to be embarrassing. Then

There was a smudge of flour' on vanity.

she cried out, relieved, "But stopped at the threshold, gasped. commanded mysteriously. What had happened to that bolav As he ran back through the her pretty, tilted nose but she was Although Steven was interested, there's a key! It must be my older ed, familiar ream? Since mora- dining room Ellen noticed that far too excited to be conscious of Ellen was exceedingly cross. She daughter, Myra, and her flance. ing it had changed startlingly the painting of her grandfather, her appearance,

relieved Molly of the fragrant bur They'll keep you entertained." "I feel as though I don't need den and arranged the lilacs, the Myra and Bert, dusty and hot, miraculously. Everything about which had been stored since her It had been changed. The worn father's donth, was in place on the an introduction to you at all," she creamy camilline and the pink jame through the dining room and carpet was gone. The floor had wall. She reached the outer door bubbled, shaking hands with the roses in the already crowded room. Into the living room. Both were been polished and was covered and jerked it open.

guest. "Ellen has told us so much What would Steven Barclay think plainly Gabbergasted at Barclay's now with summer scatter rugs.) Coming up tho

was about you."

of thom? Surely he could see that prosonco. There were more in- Molly's eyes and her daughter's her mother was trying to impress troductions. Thoro The familiar contour of the fur-Steven Barclay.

"I'm afraid I'm carly," were finabed together. Ellen niture was lost beneath smart slip

did not him; aurely he could guess the exclamations over tho flowers. Arst Cur-Barclay's covers in grey and orange,

words. "Your know what to do; she felt com-reason. Ellon was too young to There was more of Molly's ecstatlo

plotoly helpless. What could shelknow that Stovon Was thinking (Continuad on Page 11.). tains of the same gray and orange mother said sovon."

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