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TUESDAY

NOTES OF THE DAY

LOUISIANA REVOLT

To British people, report of a "revolt" against the State adminis tration in Louisiana by mon who call themselves the "Square Dealers," When seems an incredible thing.

JANUARY

1935.

TO BARROW BY

SLED DEER

By ELIZABETH FORREST (In The Christian Science Monitor)

The Very Idea!

OUR SILLY SYMPHONY

By Horatio Borg, Millionaire This pointed allusion by owners of missing dogs to an unorthodox diat being practised in Hongkong. has given us the very idea-and a dreadful one,”

Ringing the boil in our palatial Peak mansion we send for the chef whom we brought back from ou last pleasure trip to Paris.

"Alphonse," we ask "have you

Ing dogs?

He deprecates the Buggestion with a characteristic shrug of his shoulders.

"Rien de tout," he replies. "All right, Alphonse; you are acquitted."

two hundred citizens of a city the

MIVE o'clock of a morning early a huddle of sleepera. Near by a size of Baton Rouge arm themselves

in May found us toiling up Lapp reindeer dog growled omin with shotguns and threaten to fight F in order to put an end to the "arroga gontic incline before the clusterously above her litter of pups, ant dictatorship" of the faction led ed igloon of the Nokluk reindeer And in the centre, of the floor, a by Senator Huey Long, it would herd. All night we had been freshly netted seal, its-hide-strip- seem that there must be something labouring across the level, snow-ped back to expose the creamy blub very wrong with the political struc-cloaked tundra under the chill bar underneath, awaited the next ture of Louisiana, Imagino two brilliance of the circling sun. At meal.

The sleepers breathed heavily on, hundred fellows from Manchester each step my sealskin boots broke threatening the Council with shot through the thin, deceptive, crust, undisturbed, while, stooping in the gune! If it had occurred anywhere Bank knee-deep in soft show. low space, we dragged our sleep-get anything to do with these miss also in the United Staten it would Wearily I drew them out, only to ing bags to one corner of the igloo. have been called "revolution." thrust them in again, over and Although we had not eaten in many hours, sleep was the paramount But apparently that sort of thing is ever-endlessly. NCREASINGLY Popular Cars expected in Senator Long's part of At my alde, Kitook, my sturdy need. Stripping of outer garments,

- at Popular Prices.

the country. As a matter of fact little sled his head wriggled into the THE FINEST SALOON MODELS one cannot be surprised at anything under the weight of great branch depths of our bags. The floor was

Light Six

that happens there. Only recently ing antlers, mouth wide, snatching hard and very irregular. The rein- Senator Long was at war with the bite, of snow from time to time, deer hair of my bag prickled body. Standard £220. Do Luxo £240.

The and sunburned face; but I fell im- wallowed through soft drifts. Now Orleans administration, alle- Big Six

gedly because his party machine's horizon line awept around us in a mediately into deep sleep. £325.

bounding workings were interrupted by great, unbroken circle,

Hours later I was awakened by officials who felt that the game of the vast expanse of white. Not political patronage was being push-sound broke the silence set the the odour of boiling seal ment, and phonse, the best cook it is possible ed too far. But in New Orleans, pant of Kitook's loud breathing,

peep. Squatting about a pan on are going on home leave--a word

out, there

such a the fetlock. Nothing was visible the igloo floor were some dozen thing with the best of intentions, from you to

demonstration as this at Baton upon the great white plain except men, women and children, conver- but there have boon times when. ACQUAINT US OF YOUR Rouge. The New Dealers are our three reindeer tennw, strung ging in low,

reached over mont. fellows, and it will be a pity if their from the home village of Wain-an, with the Ivory-handled knife demonstration does not around a wright to pay a friendly call upon that he carried always in his belt, higher authority than Senator Long our nearest white neighboura atspeared a chunk of seal meat from and put a stop to his foolery.

Barrow, 100 miles away.

the pan. Sevek's wife rafacd a We had left Wainwright in the muted outery, forced the portion evening in order to give our sled back into the common pot, and TO-MORROW'S TRAVEL

deer, in their shaggy winter coats, carefully chose a choicer portion

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Take, for instance, the dinner we gave on our last birthday.

Having the previous day ac- cumulated another cool million on a favourable turn of the exchange;

wheeled into it in a 3 coolie-power rickaha, we thought the occasion a jolly good one for boosting our luck and the sumptuous appoint-

favoured also with the cream of Hongkong society--talpangand Civil Servants.

therefore, we sent for Alphonse.

The morning of the banquet,

"I want you to make to-night's

When the chairman of Imperiat the benefit of the cooler hours of for her guest. Tautuk raised the this with no other effort than being Airways announced that the con- night. We should not have set piece of half-raw meat, seized it structional possibilities of civil air. But at all; for snow had recently in his teeth and, with a deft stroke craft go far beyond anything that covered the tundra to a depth of of his short knife, slashed off a has been realised hitherto, he made several inches, and neither blizzard suitable bite.

An exclamation from the shrivel- it plain that the limits to-day are nor freeze had yet packed it to determined only by what the public good sledding. But we had noted old grandmother turned my eycements of our table. We were to bo scan a whito face in many months, in her direction. She had risen is prepared to pay. 11 vorm for School was over for the year, and stiffly to her feet and hurried to were prepared to pay more for the date long set for our Harrow the ocal oil lamp against the wall. ground services and in subsidies, visit had arrived. Our grub box Its flame was burning low with the and passengers to pay higher fares, then quicker regular air services as packed to overflowing with yellowish tinge that indicated lack frozen beans, bread sliced and but-of oxygen. Sevck's wife, Anga, Mrs. J. D. Lloyd wishes to thank her could easily be provided hetween tered before freezing, chunks of reached over and pulled the rage friends for their great kindness England and Australia and a safe roast reindeer, cookies, and dough from the lower end of the two during her husband's Illness, and

service

between

and England

nuts. Our sled deer had been inch ventilating pipe, and the old for their lettere of sympathy America. This sequel indicates after his death. Thoro are no that the recent dramatic air, race the ley Cape herd. All

brought in two days' journey from grandmother skilfully built up the was in wick along the rim of the oval numerous that she regrets she is from England to Australia provided readiness. In spite of a trail that stone basin. Soon the flame leapest your very best effort," we told him. unable to answer them at one of those turning points which present. She also wishes

should have kept us at home, there- up afresh and the lump of scal to

If anything, Alphonse is a master have marked the history of air fore, my husband and I, with our blubbor above it began dripping in his own line. You may prate of thank all those who attended the

travel. If that funeral, for the donations to the

transcontinental Eskimo guide, Tautuk, had set out rapidly Into the bowl. Light, Benevolent Society, and for the and transmarine Journey to the and regretted it for eight ex- warmth and the fumes of burning your portrait masterpieces, and beautiful flowers and wreaths, Antipodes could be made in three hausting hours.

sen oli filed the igloo.

your Frimls may keep the best they days, why cannot the ordinary time

of the enchanting for air mail be reduced by 50 or

Unable longer with my empty can composo Never was sight more, welcome stomach to endure the mingled beauties of Hongkong, but Alphonse more per cent.? The answer seems DEATH.

to be that it can, if the cost will than the Nekluk igloos-shapeless odours, I drew myself to a sitting has his own artistic conceptions of HIGGINS.--On Tuesday, January 29, ❘ be met..

mounds of white from which black posture. At once all eyes turned the more substantial delights of 1035,

Hospital,

stove-pipca thrust

in at the Canossa

aslant. my direction. Then all faces Susan Higgins, of Messrs. Buiter.

Along a near-by snow ridge stretch-broke into smiles and a chorus of cuisine.

delight ed the herd, a mass of hundreds of guttural field and Swire. Funeral passes NEW EXPERIMENTS

greeted 18. In his hands an ordinary enough' the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day. The race stirred public opinion in dun, brown and spotted deer, their Eagerly they crowded about the steak is transformed into some- Britain. At once It became evident antlers silhouetted against the sky sleeping bags to shake our hands. thing surpassingly sublime-a per. that the British people were define like a tangle of winter bran manding much faster and batches. No human life was visible, Anga hurried to a sealskin line ter Inter-Imperial, communications, but out from the igloo entrances above the stove and took from it And swiftly in answer to this de- dashed a bevy of short-legged, my fur garments. Mittens, socks mand came the announcement that aharp-eared little reindeer dogs and boots had been turned inside

disputing our approach.

•out, carefully dried of melting Imperial-Airways-was--ready to supply a regular seven-day service "You go in here, Sevck's igloo," snow and perspiration, and rubbed from England to Australia for said Tautuk, as he unloaded our soft and pliable as velvet. A rip passengers and mails. But that dunnage before the largest mound. In one fawnskin sock had been AVIATION

was not all. It had become appar "I look moss-atake out sled deer." mended with tiny parallel stitches ent that Britain was not willing to form the Arctic equivalent of car sleeve had been

As Tautuk trudged away to per- of sinow, and a tear in the parka PROSPECTS

be behind hand in preparing for a

neatly patched. regular transatlantic service. Imparking, we turned to the Iglou Thus, from our earliest recorded Fresh, hopes of an understand-portal Airways is already expari indicated. Bent nearly double, we history has the igloo hostess cared

of dragged our grub box and sleeping for her transient guest. types ing being reached between the menting with

An hour later, fed, warmed, aeroplanes and also with. com- bugs in through a long hallway of Hongkong and Nanking Govern- posite

heavy rested, with fresh deer, we were perfect of snow blocks, pushed under Vessels, consisting menta in regard to mutual flying a flying boat capable of lift-dogskin curtain, and entered the once more on our way to Burrow. Alphonse, the fact that we left. rights have been engendered by in

ing and launching into the air igloo. Coming from the glare of Travel was now slightly better, their entire selection to him, with a honvily laden seaplane. But it on snow outside into the dim 30-below-zero temperature and a the visit to the Colony of Mr. seems more likely that the solution light filtering through seal intest- strong wind having packed, the only the proviso that they must In Tai En-ki, the managing direc-of the problem of regular services Ine window overhead, nt first we loose snow and tightened the cruat. any event be substantial.

Pre-We travelled, too, for a great part tor of the China National Avia- between England and the United could distinguish nothing.

States will be found in the use of sently, however, we made out cell of the night upon the frozen aca. tion Corporation. It is known Roating, anchored scadromes. Suching, walls and floor of landhewa Here the deer stretched out their that Mr. Tai has conferred with

(Continued on Pago 11.) the local authorities on the economic difficulties. It can become a success as soon as the subject, but, according to statement which he made in Canton, nothing definite tran- spired from the conversations,

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as the subject is at present en-the same time there have been gaging the attention both of the indications that it might be pre- Colonial Offee and the Hongpared to work in with any kong Government. The latter, substantially British concern. however, is said to be anxious It remains to be seen whether to come to an agreement on there are local interests willing mutually satisfactory lines and to come into the scheme. There thus open up the Colony to is, at any rate, guarantee of a aerial contact with China. It subsidy by the focal Government has long been known that the if satisfactory arrangements authorities here and in London can be reached. 'But whatever are desirous of overcoming the the eventual procedure may be, present obstacles, and if Mr. it is essential that definito stops Tai's statement of the quid pro be taken, without further delay, quo which the Nanking Govern in linking up this Colony with ment would be prepared to offer other aviation services. In- for the right to extend the cidentally, the C.N.A.C. is sald C.N.A.C. service to Hongkong to have no knowledge of the correctly represents the situa-American plans for a service tion, it is reasonable to expect from San Francisco to Canton; an early adjustment of the out-Indeed, there is some doubt standing issues. According to whether China would be propar-

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lucting those eggs you borrowed

owe you 80 cents."

fect symphony of culinary perfec tion, to be approached with rever- ence rather than with gusto.

For this our birthday banquet wo gave him carte blanche, and he promised us a whole opera.

What the nature of the various compositions were we had then not. the foggiest notion as they were to be shown in French.on the this and a la that, you know. But it was evidence of our

trust and

menu-a

faith

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The banquet turned out to be a signal success. The wines wore good, and Alphonse's well-varled collations were all enjoyed, the more so, we take it, because every- thing was a surprise. If they could do so without breaking good form, we believe the guests would have been loud in their praise.

The newspapers, in reporting it, I also did us the honour of including It amongst the most brilliant social functions of the season, and wo wondered what the Smiths and Joneses, who

not- invited. would think of it.

were

The next day we sent for Alphonse to congratulate him on his masterpiece, Pointing to "grenouille" in the previous night's dinner card, we remarked that the chicken was particularly good.

"But M'sfeur," he Interjected, "that was not chicken: It was zoe ah-

Not here getting the right word, Alphonse gave a spasmodio leap to demonstrate what he wished to convey.

FROOST You have not been feeding us with frogs, have you, Alphonso?" we asked indlamay.

Alphonso spread,

out his extend- lod härida. "Mais oid,” he asserted.

Ever since that day we have In- sisted on these symphonies being explained to us before allowing Alphonse to compose them.