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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.

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The wreckage in the Lyone landslide dienster, showing Gremen and rescuers at work among the ruins of the fallon boussa

the foot of Croix-roussa Hill.

The centenary of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the famous telegraph code, was celebrated on May 14.

Ismet Pasha, the Premier of Tur- key, with M. Molatoff, during his recent visit to Moscow.

MAN HUNTERS

BY MABEL MċELLIOTT

BEGIS HERE TODAY

shoppers on the trail of juicy bar-

Susan Cary, 19 and jets ports a talis, the girl felt suddenly up

Jag stemperate at a Pilary Jones fintel. Mr. Block's lectures, listen-

Here

mpete Robert Danlır, o 15

matemáte, win pk

Chew of a whim at Tam

420.0

tuls i ho chud be ed to an wearily for so many days, Iakes Susan to tub and star were junkaled together in her brain Lampman, deck, pul y sin a muddled fashion.

One thing

thet are ad a party, takes fun to ne metten, was certain, she must But seem Picture 016

Susan de

ruit makes ber modelingest und sory stri

quinnred

The timid

She must appear sure of Jeste, hogself at all costs.

The facade of the building hous- ing the Mela company was anything let appealing. Huddled under the

CHAPTER V The weeks wore on and soon it elevated tracks, smoke stained and was June. .} 1¢{1}}} | hot and weather warm, it seemed to the job breathless summer bronded over the sesker to have a slightly sinister

the ity. The lake burned under afair. Susan consulted

slip summer sun and girls began to wear again. Yes, it was the right mura- their thinnest Trocks and shadiest brf. Mentally girding herself for hats even in the downtown district, baffle, she swing the heavy, dirty

To Susan, young and radiantly res dour inward, healthy, it was a pleasant enough|

Lum She looked her best in the A red-headed office toy, chewing summer heat, her hair curled in, gum, aut behind an ancient parli little ringlefs around her delicate- tion near the loor, Behind him by Buished face. She had a new loomed stoves of all sizes and aweater uit of lune knitted stul ouality. Susan shudered. After dndi felt very much th young the heat of the street the place had in fetid coolness that reminded her

busines woman wenria. !!

Still there sentred no chces of jol an manised cellar. her securing a juh. Calls camer She advanced and said to the in, dribbled into the office, where red-haired boy in what she hoped superior your women in white were the proper tones, "I wish to linen received there and passed | sen Mr. Petterman. { ant from them along to the super stenog-Block's institute,” raphers of Mr. Claude Block's up-1 With a cynical gaze the youth per elass. Susen waited in vain¦ rose and shambled toward the to be called. At last there arrived ¦ rear of the alore. Susan's eyes, a day when Mr. Block himself stoodį gradually accustoming themselves In the doorway and beckoned to her. to the grey light, could just make "You-Miss Carey. Win you out in the far corner the gure of come here, please?"

at a large, old-fashioned Trembling with pleasurable ex-roll top desk. A single bulb, ocitement, she complied. Mr. Block shaded by a folded sheet of letter fingered a penciled slip on his paper, burned abeye his head. desk. With decp-sct block eyes be "Ugh, what a dismal place!" looked her over, hend to fout, and she murmured to herself. Some- seemed to find the results satis-how in her dreams of crisp, efli- factory.

cient offices there had been noth-

Ja man

Jatien Duncan, the former Olympic discus thrower, who attempted suicide at Boulogne recently.

Th Kreuger Palace at Stockholm which it is proposed to convert into A museum. Pictures show the front of the palace and the pillared court. yard.

A remarkable picture depicting the incident at the San Diego when the giant airship Akron suddenly shot up in the air carrying 200 men on the end of her ropes. Three failed to reloase their hold soon enough and were carried high in the air. One had been killed before the photo was taken. Another of the two men shown clinging to the rope also fell to his death, but the third. Robert Cowert, somehow fashioned a cradle and two hours lator was pulled to safety.

Thirteen were believed to have been killed when thla train was wrecked and burned in California But careful search of the ruins by railroad and county officials failed to disclose any bodies.

out

Russian officers who fled to Paris after the Revolution carry variety of jobs. Our photo show I an ex-General. cutting the hair of

another ex-General..

Mr. Barney Oldfield, and Mr. Harry Millar studying a model of the special racing car to be used in an effort to set a

world's speed record.

He said, "We've a cull for a seere-ing like this. tary at the Melo Iron Manufactur- The boy shumed toward her and ing Company. West Lake streel.pointing vaguely in the direction of watering undergandy brows, re-earn. You won't," here he smirked me a hard Go up there and do your darndest." the swinging electric bulb mumbled, pelled the shrinking girl. She re- horribly again, "Sind

minded herself sternly of, her obli-taskmaster." Susan accepted the slip from "Mist' Petterman'll ece ya.”

gation to Aunt Jessie, of Mr. Suunn shrank into the farthest his fingers. Ho rapped out, after Susan passed through the gate her, as she turned to leave, "Re- and picked her way fastidiously Block's probably disappointment if corner of the oaken chair,

she failed, and only by the exer- "I hope not." member all I've been telling you over the unbelievably dirty floor these months. Chin up, walk like to the desk where the man ant. cise of will power was she enabled

to endure another moment of the Petterman hitched his own chair a soldier, smile"

She heard an olly volca say, in-

several inches nearer. man's company. Susun gave a very feeble imita- gratiatingly, "Sit down, young tion of the military manner as she lady."

"Experience?' barked the man, "Salary's $18 to. start and we afternoons. No took leave of the school martinot

inwardly, Susan suddenly harah-voiced after the oili-work Saturday

ness of his approach.

nonsense about us. Eight to 6:30. but her knees were shaking under slipped into the armchair beside

Susan called Petterman

shook her head. "Expect punctuality." her. She wna" not sure the auto-him. The man cratic Mr. Block of the super-had a long sharp nose and al- haven't any. I'm a beginner." The pale blue eyes bulged at her. super business methods would no low nkin. His dark suit was The man smiled and his smile The nan seemed to be waiting for prova of her just then so she did crumpled and spotted. He wore a was, curiously enough, uglier than an answer. Susan murmured, "Of

high starched collar that should his frown. not wait to find out.

He said unctuously, course." Jostling through the State street have gone to the laundry soveral crowds, through hordes of women days ago. His pale blue eyes,

Shuddering

"Well, well, we can't all be cx- Potterman nodded, "You'll do. perienced. We'll teach you. You'l! You'll do. How old are you?".

now

"I'll be 20 in October," Susan faltered. The answer seemed to please him. He leaned toward her and she caught the repellant oder of old cigars.

(Continued on Page 12.)

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