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SHE'S HERE!

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

MARCH

20, 1936.

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A

The starlet

of "Top Hat"

sings, dances and to mancesina moontime adventure by the nu thor of "It Happened One Night"

GINGER ROGERS

In Person

WITH

GEORGE BRENT

ALAN MOWBRAY GRANT MITCHELL SAMUEL S. HINDS “Duected by William A. Selter v Chi fram the novel by h

Samint Hopkins Adama M

Hear her sing': "Don't Men sion Labe to Me," "I Got a New Lease On Life, ** **Out of Sight Out of Mind."

SHOWING SUNDAY

AT THE

RKO-RADIO PICTURE Pandro S. Beman Production

ALHAMBRA

THE

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RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.

CRAG HOTEL,

Penang Hill

(2,400 feet above menlevel).

·

Refreshment Rooms. (near summit station) Hill Railway.

"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE." RUNNYMEDE HOTEL

On Sea Front.

Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.

Caterers etc. to Imperial Alrways.

Moals are interchangeable, 1 extra cont wherever you havn your breakfast, Jancheon, tos, er dinner.

Rooms of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Runnymede each room has its wwn pablle telephone,

The Rannymede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among botels of the East with its enline, and justiz claima by ka association to offer the traveller much as Je not to be found elsewhere.

Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linderi and Ceellin Parker as they are keen in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film version of Eugene O'Neill's great American drama, "Ah Wilderness" filmed under the distinguished direc- tion of Clarence Brown, and opening on Sunday at the King's Theatre.

LORD READING LEFT Legend Links

ESTATE OF

OF £290,487

ESTATE of £290,487 gross, with net personalty £262,371, is understood to have been left by the late Marquis of Reading, whose will is in course of being proved. He died last December.

Widow Fights Death Decree As Vague Law

LOOPHOLE OFFERED BY JERSEY STATUTE'S OMISSION OF 'SHE' AND 'HER'

Salem, N. J., Mar. 11. New Jersey's so-called "one: sex" law may be the basis for a successful appeal to save Mar- guerite (Peggy) Dolbow from the electric chair.

The busom turm widow was con- virted with Norman Driscoll, her alleged paramour, of the murder of her husband, Harry Dolbow, well- to do Salem County farmer. They are in the death house at Trenton. Their electrocution first was, aut -for-next Monday_but_filing_of_ap_ peals automatically delays the date. The law in New Jersey's enpital punishment law first was discovered, five years

when ago Mrs. Huttle Evans was convicted of murder in the first degree and! sentenced to die.

Sentence Commuted To Life Failure of the law to use the words "she" and "her" in referringi to a convicted murderer resulted in Mrs. Evans having her sentence? commuted to life imprisonment.

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Attorneys revealed that all ferences to women were omitted in the law when the electric chair was substituted for the gullows in New Jersey in 1906,

Thomas G. Hillard, attorney for Mrs. Dolbow, already has indicated that the appeal for her will be based on the "one-sex" law. He is ex- pected to contend that New Jersey's the law makes no provision for electrocution of a woman.

Driscoll Sells Farm Attorneys for Driscoll also are. planning a determined fight to save his life. Within 24 hours after his; instruc- conviction, Driscoll gave

tions to sell his farm near here toi finance his appeal.

ייז!

Legacies

made 14 the Burristers" Benevolent Associa tion, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, the Jewish Board of Guardians, and the British Empire Cancer Campaign,

In addition, Lord Reading direct- ed that sums of money should be pal to every servant in his am- ployment for four yours before his death.

The remainder is apportioned between his widow and his son, the major part being subject to : trusts.

Besides planning roads behind the front in Abyssinia the Italians are also arranging telephone connections stations. the different Here two Italians are working with the wire.

between

her arrest, but she repudiated the confession in her trial.

The state charged that the couple kliled Dolbow so that they could continue an alleged icit romance and collect a $144,000 estate.

Driscall's cell in the death house is near Bruno Richard Hauptmann's, Mrs. Dolbow was placed in "Hattle Evans cell" in the prison hospital.

Air Crash And Lava Bombing

FIERY DEATH OF ARMY FLIERS PELE'S VENGEANCE, SAY HAWAIIANS

Honolulu, Mar. 13. To the army board of inquiry the mid-air collision of two. bombing planes over Luke Field which plunged six men to fiery death in January may have been due to "extenuating circum- stances" but old Hawaiians shake their heads and vow the men were victims of the wrath of Madame Pele, Polynesian god- desa of fire.

of The old woman myth who jealously guards Hawaii's vol cannes blasted those jilanes from the skies to revenge man's Viola- tion of her will in bombing the Mauna Loa lava flow just the month before, natives assert.

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Three of the fliers killed in the! worst disaster of island army avia- ! tion participated in the bombard- ment which is credited with halt- ing the bolling river of lava before it reached the water supply of the city of Ho. A fourth. Lieut. Charles Fisher, was one of the two men who escaped in the Luke Field crash,

Ilawatians when they learned-10-He's more likely to be caught

man-made mensures were to he takon in an effort to divert the crawling lava shook their heads, astonished and horrified that any one would dare challenge their sacred Pele.

1 The

crown of England

(two

words, 49).

They send people off for a quiet time.

napping, in Bengal than any- where else. ;;

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Island folk, who assembled little clusters as close as they dared to the lava to chant and pray, warn- ed that the bombing would be an #tomen:

When the crash came it only confirmed their superstitions.

Skeptical though they profess to be, haoles (white folk) have due respect for the baffling superstitions of old Hawnli.

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Search for this in the star-lit

heavens.

16 A great noise about a concealed

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right, though it sounds wrong. 20 One of thirteen playing whist. 22 A pull, right enough, but very

wenk.

23 This view is the subject of many

nowspaper articles, +25 but this would always be leas

Hilly.

When Pan-American Airways started to creet its Honolulu radio 26 Though the interrupted burglar had to leave. in a hurry, he base at Mokapu Point, workmen

lake this had time to

(two discovered the site was an ancient

words, 3, 1). Hawaiian burial ground. The se was moved to a less desirable point | 27 As Crude (ang.).

cleverness! Trust In deference to the tradition that 28 Hong

worthiness is what is wasted, the bones of the dead must not be

DOWN disturbed.

superstition,

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Disregarding

seven years Honolulu newspaper ago erected a new plant over Ilawallan graveyard. Shortly there- after an executive and two om- ployees of the paper died. Ifa- walians blamed the spirits of the Uniteddend, angered at being aroused

from their slumbers.

There are no accommodations in

Throughout the trial, Driscoll, the New Jersey death, house contended his innocence. Mrs. for a convicted murderes Dolbow "confessed" shortly after]Press.

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euls are grand,

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ur threaten it in a deserted lane (hyphen, 4, 9)..

10 Before filling, the hat you will note that it is not for forma -occasions:

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short journey, it holds comfortably.

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a battleship.

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