1935-12-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1935.

BRITAIN GREETS A BRAVE MAN

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 says Renter, by the Premier-olect, Mr. M. J. Savage, leader of the Labour Party, which returned with a large majority.

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

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

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New South Wales has been broadcasting proceedings of its Legislative Assembly for 31⁄4 years.

Soviet Sailor Scientist Who Beat Terrific Odds

Hero No. 1-

PROFESSOR SCHMIDT

Saw crowd enk? "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.

"This is the real thing," Mrs. Within a week Betty and Jackie Coogan, Jackie's mother was will begin a vaudevillé tour which naked

will carry

them across the con- "Betty is the most beautiful tinent, little thing alive, She has the fairest of fair hair, and dark blue eyes.

"She is as modest as a violet and really very clover."

Although Coogan, who is

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"They met about nine months age," said Mrs. Coogun in conclu sion, "and you may say that Jackie is very, very happy."

21, recougly Jacide to g200,000 MY TWO GOOD

fortune accumulated no n child star, his mother says that it will be at least a year, or perhaps two,

WIVES"

From the will of Alderman

before the young couple get marri-Charles Arthur Longbottom, of

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Worksop, Notts, published this

Miss Grable in the daughter of (month:

Mr. Gonn Grable, a well-known St. "I desire to place on record Louis stockbroker, who is on A my sincerest gratitude for the visit to Hollywood; where Mrs.

manner in which I 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,

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

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 Cholyuskin, 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 see civilisation again are among the heroic

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 lee.

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

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

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

THE RESCUE

"After two months a band of utterly fearless aviators flew in the dreadful old airplanes from mainland and began to rescue ur. it was a tremendous flight over the frozen sea. Each alplane took jaway five of our party. I sent the

women and the sick first.'

The sickest member of the party was Professor Schmidt. When the fnet was mention he shrugged his

had great shoulders. "I

You do

neurons. It was cold that sort

of place.

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

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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 die?"

MARRIED MAN WHO KIDNAPPED HER

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

1. Kidnapped at the age of 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 Raman. 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 she ran Away

with him willingly.

Lord Howart Calls-

-And No. 2

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

"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. Neville 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."

AMERICA A LAND OF PURITAN TRADITION

Enough Mayflower. "Pilgrims" To Fill World's Largest Ship

AM York.

"Eventually I had to make_my way home from Alaska via Cali- fornia, Chicago and New That's all."

The train pulled into, London.

present wife, Rene LongHe stepped out of the carriage. He saw a crowd obviously waiting

bottom."

Alderman Longbottom left £1,000

When Mrs. Coogan was naked about other reported-engagements. of her son, mentioning Patricia and £600 a year to his wife during greet him. "Dear, dear!" he

Ellis and Toby Wing, both screen actresses, she answered, "There nover was anything in those re- ports."

Purity For

British Screen?

CINEMA CENSOR

IS A ROMAN CATHOLIC

THE British film trade have

Those 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 consultative committee of the film trade this month.

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

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

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The famous Hays Purity Code was framed to their approval. The cam- paign spread rapidly through Britain. have The Hays organisation_now New York offices to which British pro- ducors submit their stories, before "shootinON-PARTY MAN

Another significant fact is that Lord Tyrrell, is africtly a non-party man.) He is a diplomat. Before he went to Paris he was permanent Under- Secretary at the Foreign Office.

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Leadors of the film industry believe that one of the greatest dangers facing them to-day is propaganda on The political situation at the screen. honio and the international stress made it imparative that a man should be chosen who, by his evident im- partiality as a-diplomat and permanent official, would command the confidence of the whole country. Lord Tyrrell said soon after: "Even from the very early days I have been interested in films. I 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 better acquainted.".

widowhood, or a life annuity

of

£150 if she remarrica. Total value of his estate-£128,000,

muttered "and I'm just a Bimple professor." Then he rounded

VENISELOS PARDONED

was

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OLD MAN OF GREECE WILL RETURN FROM EXILE

Paris, Dec. 20.

Veniselos, the exiled Greek statesman, is determined to return

home.

"I will certainly return, hat my decision to reminin out of politics is irrevocable," he said.

"The proof of my determination in thai I shall not return for aí least six months or after the next elections and when calm has beca restored throughout the country.

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

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

him

M.

Veniseton predicted that the King will suceced in imposing own will in Greece.

The King." My Veniselos resumed, "appears to be muking an excellent choice in M. Demerdjis (the new Premier). I enn 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 muns 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 restoration was : brought about."

PORTRAIT

OF A

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 hodaughter from the time she was a 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, sha Bald 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 rebels "there

He held her in his arms for was no nobler and more heroic

And

Mrs.

a moment. "I'm proud of you. figure than James Connolly,

when it becamo Nono girl," he said. Nora, now

Connolly known that the man about to die, O'Brien. tells the story in ajon being asked by the priest who book just attended him: Will you say a pro- beautifully written published: "Portrait of a Rebel yor for the men about to shoot Father to which Mr. Robert Lynd you? replied: 'I will say a prayer for all brave men who do their contributes a perfect proface.

The book is the picture of Jamea duty. Connolly's herole and ba- Connolly, revolutionary Sociallat, came a legend to be treasured for as seen through the eyes of his all time."

MERICA, 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 Socisty in London at the Dorchester Hotel.

Epoch-making experiments are at present being made in the Technolo gical Institute of California, Pasa- dena, where success has been obtained in producing a new hormone that promotes the growing power of treen and bushes to a great extent, and which is expected to be of the

greatont importance. One of the assistants examining the roots of the trees which are treated with the new hormone.

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"The most harmful caricatures of American life are offered เอ older civilisation for its amusement, "The films which are export- ed from Hollywood, for 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 ineffectuat do the Americans seem to be in the art of self-adver- tisement that a mere Englishman might expect the eastern States to be a hive of armed and masked gangsters, emerging from ancient timber houses which had bean transplanted bodily from Devon.

"Here again he would be sadly wrong. If Cromwell were alive to-day, seeking to find the company most con- genial to him, he would prob- ably find it in the fortieth storey of an apartment build- ing in New York, equipped

with the most modern aids to comfort.

FOR PEACE

"In 1918 America sent her armies 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 madà, in vain. Within her: own boundaries sho contains a pre- cept and an example for European

Skeleton Reveals Child Sacrifice statesmen Of 200 B.C.

The skeleton of a child, be- lieved to have been sacrificed

to some pagan god two thou-

"It is the hope of many people in England and, I be- lieve, in the United States that the two countries may fully co-operate in advancing the great cause of peace. "We live at a time when pence is once again endangered. At such sand years before Chris-a time must we not remember our tianity, has been found on a great common. traditions?

"May, wo not now reflect that tho plot of land at Whitehawk, wisdom of Jefferson and Chatham, Brighton.

of Washington and Burke are our The d'scovery was made during the common. heritage?" construction of a road from White- hawk to the ton of the Race Hill by of Dr. Mortimer Wheeler and Miss L. Brighton: raceCOUTSO,

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Sussex Curwen, the Dr. Ocell The skeleton was discovered in a hole In position which surrosted it archaeologist, said: hat been placed thero with some | As yet it is only a surmise that large pole the child was made a Human sacrifico. Ausarently a ceremony. or black of stone had been forced into a hole, was, discovered, nearby the hole on top of the child.

trenchment or defensive kitch, and Excavation work in being connected from it was a much larger with the assistance of London Uni- and deeper hole where thus skeleton versity students under the guidance lay

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