1932-08-12 — Page 12

CENTRAL THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.00; 7,20 '& 9.40.

THE

(PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF TIME OWING TO THE

LENGTH OF THE PICTURE),

HONGKONG

MINERS'

TELEGRAPH, · FRIDAY, AUGUST 12. 1932.

GRIEVANCES

DEPUTATION GOING TO HOME OFFICE

Folkestone, July 14. Anomalies and hardships arising out of the workmen's Compensation and Unemployment Insurance Acts were discussed by the Minera' Coll: Terence to-day.

THIRD DEGREE SCANDAL

VICTIM DIES WITH BROKEN LARYNX

New York, July 17.

TRAPPED. IN · TUNNEL

100. FEARED DEAD AT

NICE

Nice, July 14. Trapped like rats in the main

A grim story of a Third De-sewer of Nice, between 50 and 100 homeless men, women and children, gree Inquisition on Long Island who were taking shelter there, which led to the death of a young perished last night when the liver prisoner named Hymna Stark Paillon, awollen by rain, washed after eight hours' police question- down the tunnels. ing was made public to-day.

beon Half-u-dozen bodies have Da a resolution proposing im-

It has given impetus to the agi-recovered so far, but it is impos- prayed conditions aid increased tation which seeks to end these sible to say, exactly how many A MASTER PICTURE MADE BY MASTER-CRAFTMEN, ENACTED rates of compensaton to Injured methods of extorting confession perished, as the number of those

workmen and increased allowances by torture.

who were alcoping, in the tunnel, BY A MASTER CAST, FILMED ON A MASTER-SET BY MASTER-

to the widows of men fatally in- The medical report showed that which runs for about a mile under bodies PHOTOGRAPHY. REALISM THAT THRILLS...BRAVERY THAT

It is feared that many jured. Mr. Newton, of Yorkshire, the man's death was caused by a the city, is unknown. IT'S AN AIR EPIC OF STIRS. BEAUTY THAT AWAKENS.

urged that the Act ought to have fractured larynx. There SYN-

the Labour other injuries suggesting brutal were washed out to sen.

ill-treatment, and District-Attor- People dancing in the streets to THE WAR "ACES," WITH REMARKABLE SOUND

ney Elvin Edwards, who has taken celebrate the 14th of July heard CHRONIZATION & SPLENDID MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT.Government was in offles.

cries at midnight last night coming Mr. Houghton (Lancashire), who charge of the ease, said:

from the entrance to the Paillon "Apparently some over-enthu-"

Orchestras stopped, was a Labour Member of Parllu-

his river tunnel. ment until last year, pleaded that slastic police officer broke

Paillon the Labour Government had done Adam's apple. The dead man did and while panic-stricken dancers all that Iny in their power, but not get the protection to which he led others

bridge. were defeated in committee by Con-was entitled, If I find that Third Fervative and Liberal objections Degree methods were used, the that the amendments proposed police will get no quarter." would be unfair to the employers | and the Insurance companies.

A tragic flood of icad

a

Madly be fired round after round into the

Garamount)

Picture

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of the guy.

How as be to know that the pilot was the pal he believed dead-the very pas he had been avenging!

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been amonded when

Menns Test Bitterness. Mr. Gilliland (Durham) said in some cases it had taken as much as three years to obtain a settlement of claims for compensation.

Mr. Lee, the chairman, intervened to state that a deputation from

he Federation was to be received at the Home Office next week to state the miners' grievances under the Act, and the resolution was then unanimously passed.

His Injuries.

Two

were

ran

to the

There several of the trapped vic- time were trying to escape from the swollen, muddy torrent.

Rescue Scenes,

In addition to a broken larynx.

Soven women, four men and the autopsy revealed a blackened three children were rescued, and eye, head lacerations and cerebral the alarm was given. hemorrhage.

policemen, The river had swollen with Deputy Chief Frank Tappan and dramatic suddenness. In no longer hnd Joseph Iizenski, have been sus than 10 minutes the water pended to await the inquiry which risen 12 feet. Army searchlights were, installed on both sides of the opens to-morrow.

Stark and three other men had tunnel, and rescuers, with ropes been arrested on a charge of bent-fastened round their waists, waded

and robbing Mrs. Valerians far in as possible. ing

After two hours, five men and Hizenski, mother of the suspended

Half a

by

policeman, and it is noteworthy two women were rescued. that she, too, had received brutal dozen more were recovered alive at hjuries to her head and face. the other end of the tunnel Another resolution called niten-izenski was reported as enraged soldiers. tion to various deficiencies and de-at the attack on his mother, but This morning rescuers found the fecis in unemployment insurance detectives stated that they dis-bodies of a man and a woman and and especially to the hardships and suaded him from seeing the pri-three men still alive. The latter, bitterness created by the means sondra. test.

Sister's Allegation.

with water up to their shoulders, had remained for hours clinging to a pipe on the tunnel's side, Mr. Wright (Derbyshire) cited

Early this morning four bodies Stark, who, although only 20,| cases where members of a family

fishermen had been turned against each other had a bad criminal record, was which had been washed away into by "the invidious and exuel" opern. questioned continuously for eight the sea were found by tion of the Act, and he supported hours by detectives in relays in an some distance from the Casino. the contention of the resolution attempt to get a confession from that the abnormal unemployment of him, and at the end of that time

be satis-he was rushed to Nassau County the face and head. recent years could not

Hospital with great secrecy,

Strong condemnation of the use factorily dealt with by insurance died 20 minutes after being ad-of third degree methods was made Committee's methods unlesa a far greater num-

in the Wickersham Įmitted. her of contributors was included.

Mrs. Fanny Trope, sister of report on law enforcement, but no The resolution was carried un-Stark, insisted that the police had action has been taken to alter

murdered him by beating him on the system. animously,

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