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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH“ MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1935.

BRITAIN GREETS A BRAVE

Parliament To Be Broadcast

NEW ZEALAND LEAD TO BRITAIN

New Zealand has decided to allow the broadcasting of all im- portant Parliamentary debates.

This announcement

Was made recently days Reuter, by the Promier-elect, Mr. M. J. Savage, leader of the Labour Party, which returned with a large majority.

New Zealand thus gives a lead to the Mother Country where for years the Govern- ment has been pressed to allow the B.B.C. to broadcast parta of the proceedings of the House of Commons.

The reply has always been that there was a "grdat preponderance of opinion against such broad- chata."

Is there?

New South Wales has been broadcasting proceedings of its Legislative Assembly for .8%

year..

MAN

Soviet Sailor-Scientist Who Beat Terrific Odds

Hero No. 1-

PROFESSOR SCHMIDT

Saw crowd., Bail "Dear, Dear"

HOLLYWOOD ROMANCE

THIS IS THE REAL

THING"

MOTHER

New York, Dec. 20.

A beautiful diamond engagement ring flashing to-day on the finger of Miss Betty Grable, the 18-years-old film actress, known on the screen. as Frances. Dean, tells the story of her romantic engagement to Mr. Jackie Coogan, announced at a banquet to celebrate it last night.

asked.

"This is the real thing," Mrs. Within a week Betty and Jackie Coogan, Jackie's mother was will begin a vaudeville tour which will tearry them across the con- "Betty is the most beautiful tinent,

months "They met about nine Ittle thing alive. She has the fairest of fate hair, and dark blue jago," said Mrs. Coogan in conclu- sion, "and you may say that Jackie "She is as modest as a violet and is very, very happy." really very clever."

eyes,

Although Jackie Coogan, who is "MY TWO GOOD

21, recently came into his £200,000 fortune accumulated us A child star, his mother says that it will bo at least a year, or perhaps two, before the young couple get marri Charles ed.

From

WIVES"

the will of Alderman Arthur Longbottom, of this Worksop, Notts, published Miss Grable is the daughter of month:

Mr. Conn Grable, a well-known St. "I desire to place on record

ก

Mrs.

Louis stockbroker, who is on visit to Hollywood, where Grable lives with her daughter.

A film executive who happened to meet Betty in her home town was so struck with her beauty and intelligence that he offered her a chance in films, thus setting her on the road to stardom and marriage with one of the most famous stars.

When Mrs. Coogan was asked about other reported engagements

manner

my sincerest gratitude for the

in

which I have throughout the whole of my happy married life been helped and blessed by the care and devotion of two exceptionally devout and virtuous women in the persons of my first wife Bessie Longbottom and my present wife,

bottom."

Rene Long-

Alderman Longbottom left £1,000 and £500 a year to his wife during

of her son, mentioning Patricia widowhood, or a life annuity, of Ellis and Toby Wing, both screen £150 if she remarries. Total value actresses, she answered, "Thereof his estate=£128;000,- never was anything in live re poris,"

Purity

For

British Screen?

CINEMA CENSOR IS A ROMAN CATHOLIC

THE

HE British film trade bave chosen a Roman Catholic to be their new censor. The op-| pointment of Lord Tyrrell, form- er British Ambassador in Paris, was confirmed at a meeting of the consultativò committee of the film trade this month.

film

The fact that he is a member of the Roman Catholic Church is significant.

The recent purity campaign which swept the studios of Hollywood and changed the whole trend of making throughout the world Was initiated by the Vatican. The Roman Catholic blehops of America organised public, social and religious opinion to bring pressure to bear on the studios.

The famous Bays Purity Code was; framed to their approval. The cam- paign spread rapidly through Britain.

The lays organisation now have New York offices to which British pro- ducers submit their stories before

WAS

shooting ON-PARTY MAN

Another significant fact is that Lord Tyrrell is strictly a non-party man, He is a diplomat. Before he went to Paris ho permanent Under- Secretary at the Foreign Ofes.

Leaders of the film industry believe that one of the greatest dangers focing them to-day la propaganda on the screen. The political situation at home and the international stress made it imporative that a man should

chosen

en who, by his evident im- partiality as a diplomat and permanent official, would command the confidence of the whole country.. Lord Tyrrell said noon after: "Even from the very early days 1. have been interested in films. 1 always look on films as one of to- day's great factors for the education of the public, for the promotion of good relations all over the world, and for the purpose of getting People botter acquainted,”

bu

Ex-

PROFESSOR SCHMIDT ON VISIT TO LONDON

HERO OF CHELYUSKIN EPIC DROFESSOR OTTO SCHMIDT, one of the bravest men alive is in London. His life is one long story of heroic struggles against nature in the Arctic.

He commanded the Soviet ship Chelyuskin, which was sunk In the icefloes in the Behring Sea in February of last year.

For two months he and his 103 companions lived on the ice in tents. He had rescued the wireless gear from the ship, and the messages he sent out when there appeared no hope that he or any of his party would ever sco civilisation agnin are among the herole

classics like those Scott left behind him.

"

"It all sounds very impressive,' he said, referring to the exploit, "but the facts are simple. The ship stranded. I got my people on the icc.

"We made tents, took off all the food we could-it lasted for two months-and settled down to live as long as we could. There were men, women, and even babies in the party.

"It was cold-forty below Fahrenheit. With the zero radio we did our best to keep life amusing, While life lasted there was hope.

"The Government, we knew, was doing its utmost to devise a means of rescuing us.

THE RESCUE "After two months a band of in utterly fearless aviators flew dreadful old airplanes from the mainland and began to rescue us. it was a tremendous fight over the frozen Ben. Each airplane took away five of our party. I sent the women and the sick first."

The sickest member of the party was Professor Schmidt. When the fact

was mentioned be shrugged his

shoulders.

had "I great

pneumonin. It was cold. You do

have that sort of thing in that sort of place.

"Naturally, I insisted on be- ing the last, as captain of the ship or ice or teht-town, but I am afraid I let myself down. Pleurisy began, and I became unconscious,

"I

in

was taken to hospital Nome, Alaska, as they thought I would die on the way to Siberia. I had no intention of dying." He smiled. "Why dle?"

"Eventually I had.to make my way home from Alaska via Call- fornia, Chicago and New York. That's all."

The train pulled into London. He stepped out of the carriage. He saw a crowd obviously waiting to greet him. "Dear, dear!" he muttered "and I'm just a simple

Then professor."

he Was rounded

VENISELOS PARDONED

Bur-

OLD MAN OF GREECE WILL RETURN FROM EXILE

Paris, Dec. 20.

Venizelos, the exiled Greek statesman, is determined to return

home

"I will certainly return, but my decision to remain nui uf politi is irrevocable," he said.

"The proof of my determination is that I shall not return for at least six months or after the next elections and when calm has been restored throughout the country.

"Furthermore, I shall not go to Athens, but to my native villago of Halepa, in Crete,

"I know very well if I returned to Greece before the political situation had cooled down my friends and the politicians would tirge me to change my decision."

M. Veniselos predicted that the King will succeed in imposing.

in Greece.

will

his own

"The King," M., Veniselos resumed, "appears to be making an excellent choice in M. Demerdjis (the new Prenifer). I can say nothing about the relationship between the King and General Kondy lis because I have learned from the newspapers that they are already in conflict.

"The great mass of the country is solidly behind the King. They want him to heal the political hatreds which have torn the country, and if he succeeds in doing this, which I believe he will, we will also forget the irregular and abnormal way his restoratina was brought about."

PORTRAIT

A OF

MAN

THEY SHOT AT DAWN

It was not so much that they shot James Connolly for a rebel

as that they took him from bed, carried him on a stretcher and

sat him up in a chair while they fired at him-that was what stirred the world when British rifles rang out after Easter 1916, and six- teen Irishmen, sentenced by court martial, were shot at dawn.

The last to kiss him before he daughter from the time she was died was his young daughter, Nora child, through years of poverty -Nono, they called her at home. and privation and dauntless strug- When she and her mother had gle, until, as a young woman, she said good-bye to him, just before played her part in the Insurrection he was shot, and a nurse was lead-of Easter 1916.

ing Mrs. Connolly from the room. Mr. Lynd says that among the Nora ran back from the door and sixteen men condemned by court kissed him again.

martial and shot as robela "there

Bow

He held her in his arms for was no nobler and more heroic a moment. "I'm proud of you. figure than James Connolly, Nono girl," he said.

And when it became Nora,

Mrs.

Connolly known that the man about to die," O'Brien, tells the story In a on being asked by the priest who book just attended him: 'Will you say a pra- beautifully written published: "Portrait of a Rabel yer for the men about to shoot. Father" to which Mr. Robert Lyndyou?' replied: I will say a prayor contributes a perfect preface. for all bravo men who do their

The book is the pictura of James] duty, Connolly's heroic end Connolly, revolutionary Socialiat, came a legend to be treasured for. as seen through the eyes of his all time."

be-

MARRIED MAN WHO KIDNAPPED HER

Three chapters in the life of a girl of fourteen:-

-And No. 2

Wladimor Kokkinaki, the Russian aviator, photographed after he had recently created a new world height record of 14,575_metres.

1. Kidnapped at the age of MINERS KEEP eight from her parents.

2. Married, at the age of twelve, the man who kid- napped her,

3. Prayed yesterday-for the acquittal of her husband on a charge of abducting her.

The girl is Mrs. Dorothy Evelyn Roman. Her hus- band, William Roman faced his accusers at Lewisberg, West Virginia.

Dorothy told the court: "I love him. I want him back." She declared that abe ran away with him willingly.

Lord Howart Calls—

"TONED' ON

SALT WATER Some miners drink twelve pints of salted water in a day at their work-so that they shall be bright and active in their spare time at home.

So Professor K. Noville Moss, who has had the miner under the microscope, told Institution of Civil Engineers in London. He added:-

"The addition of salt to the water not only cures cramp, but it banishes acute fatigue

and inertia after working hours by toning up the body."

OF

AMERICA A LAND

PURITAN TRADITION

Enough Mayflower "Pilgrims" To Fill World's Largest Ship AMERICA, more than any other country, is the depository of the Puritan tradition; a country that has failed to advertise its own merits.

Lord Hewart, Lord Chief Justice, voiced that opinion of the United States at this year's Thanksgiving Day dinner of the American Society in London at the Dorchester Hotel.

Epoch-making experiments are at preacut being mado in the Technolo gical Institute of California, Pued dena, where success has been obtained in producing a new hormone that promotes the growing power of treca and bushes to a great extent, and which in expected to be of the greatest importance. One of the assistunts examining the roots of the treca which are treated with the new hormone.

Skeleton Reveals

.an

"The most harmful caricaturas of American life are offered to jolder civilisation for its anusement. "The filins which are 'export- ed from Hollywood, for ox- ample, seek to convey the im- pression that the American people are a hectic community who never tire of disporting themselves at gatherings of a daring and audacious kind. The reverse is true.

"So ineffectual do the Americans seem to be in the art of self-adver- tisement that a mere Englishman might expect the castern States to be a hive of armed and masked gangsters, emerging from ancient timber houses which had been transplanted bodily from Devon.

Here again he would bo sadly wrong. If Cromwell were alive' to-day, secking to find the company most con- genial to him, he would prob- ably find it in the fortioth storey of an apartment build- ing in New York, equipped with the most modern aids to comfort.

FOR PEACE

"In 1918 America sent her armics across the sea to fight in the war that was to end war. She can cer- tainly be trusted to be vigilant in ensuring that that historic Journey was not made' in vain. Within her own boundarion she contains a pro- cept and an example for European

Child Sacrifice statesmen. Of 200 B.C.

"It is the hope of many people in England and, I be- lieve, in the United States that the two countries mayfully co-operate in advancing the great cause of peace, "We live at a time when peace is once again endangered. At such timo must we not remember our great common traditions? wisdom of Jefferson and Chatham, of Washington und Burke are our common heritage?"

The skeleton of a child, be- lieved to have been sacrificed to some pagan god two thou- sand years before Chris-a tianity, has been found on a plot of land at Whitehawk, Brighton.

"May we not now reflect that the

the Sussex

Tho discovery was made during the construction of a road from White- hawk to the top of the Race Hill by of Dr. Mortimer Wheeler and Miss L.

Scolt. Brighton racecourse.

Dr. Cecil Curwen, The skeleton

discovered in a WAR hole in

It archaeologist, said: a position which suggested It

As yet it la only a surmise that bad placed there with

been

the child was made a human suorifico, ceremony. Apparently a large pole or block of stone had been forced into hole was discovered nearby

trenchment or defensive kitch, and the holo on top of the child.

Exenvation work is being connected not far from it was a much larger with the assistance of London Uni- and deeper hole where, thus skeleton

lay. versity students under the guidance

some

en-*

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