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Only 12 Boys And Girls Out FILM STAR

Of 150 Admire

Admire Parents ADMITS THEFTS: ADULT

Police, say Mrs. Dorothy P. Quine, 27, ndmitted burglarizing Boven Beattle, Wash., homes, saying "I don't know why I did t" Her husband, a Blaté Tax Commission attorney, will defend her in court.

Japan Versus U.S. In Chinese Trade

Shanghal, Apr. 28,

JAPAN is steadily creeping up

on the

and

United States seems due in the near future to capture America's position an No. 1 Foreign Exporter to Chiau,

showing of

of latest trade figures made available here.

on a

Four nations-America, Japan, Germany and Great Britain- supply, among them, more than half of China's total Imports, Here is how their percentages have shifted during the past three years:

1933

1. America

2. Great Britain

HUMOUR

KILLS

IN NIGHT CLUB SCENE

Los Angeles, May 1, "Scene" last night at a Los| Angeles night club:

Miss Helen Twelvetrees, the

FRIENDSHIP film actress, and Mr. Edward

Forest, the San Francisco ship-

WHAT DO CHILDREN REALLY ping magnate, were leaving the

ABOUT THEIR club.

-THINK

PARENTS?

IF THE 1,000 ANSWERS OF 150 SENIOR

They met Mr. Frank Woody, hus-

BOYS AND GIRLS band of. Mlas. Twelvetress, from CHOSEN FOR A PSYCHOLOGY whom she la separated, TEST FROM THE HIGH SCHOOLS OF MISSOURI CITY ARE ANY IS "NOT GUIDE THE ANSWER MUCH."

THE test was carried out by

Mr. Woody hit Mr. Forest:

Two men scized Mr. Forest's

arma

Miss Twelvetreas then Inter-

Dr. H. Meltzer, of Washing-vened. ton University, and seven expert "Forest and I are just good assistants,

friends," she said afterwards.

It revealed that only twelve don't understand why Woody of the 150 children admired would do such a thing."

their parents, while more than Among films in which Miss half of them proved to be either Twelvetrees has starred are: "She neutral or actively hostile to Gets Her Man," "My Woman," and both their fathers and mothers. "King for a Night." Here are some of the causes which, according to Dr. Meltzer, lend to friction in the home:~

More than 100 of the children tested complained about their par- mennness in the matler of

cuts

pocket money.

were dis-

An equal number satisfled because they were for- bidden to drive or examine family motor-car.

the

One out of every live had a grudge they against their parents because disliked some of their children's friends and would not allow them to be invited to tea.

Many disliked being compelled to go to church and Sunday school.

UNCHAPERONED

Others said their parents did not dress them properly, and there was a general complaint that they were

unchaperoned forbidden to go

te

World's

Largest Mirror

Pasadena, Cal., May 10, The world's largest mirror, a 20-ton glass casting designed for the 200-inch telescope to be mounted on Mount Palomar, has arrived here where it will be ground to near perfection..

was

Arrival of the telescope mirror marks the midway point in erection of the most powerful telescope

The mirror ever designed. constructed at Corning, New York, the is mounted in and when it mammoth tubing at Mount Palomar, it is expected to double the radius of the visible universe.

partics.

One of the most general com

showed

distressing the plaints effect on many children of their parents' sense of humour. "Wisecracks and other forms of adult humour seem to be regarded

Crawling slowly over the desert at by a large majority of children," says Dr. Weitzer, "as lamentable rate of 25 miles an hour a signs of weakness or lack of charac-bearing the casting arrived at. Sun Bernardino, California, near here. the unde the journey neross

ter."

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BROADWAY GONDOLIER

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train Added Attraction: “LOONEY TUNES” Cartoon

The age-long bellef that children, It and especially girls, are fonder of country only by daylight, la jumps of their fathers than of their mothers! 150 to 200 miles.

3. Japan

21.86 11.33 9.71

4. Germany

7.95

was blown sky-high by the nouri inquiry.

1034

1. America

2. Japan

3. Great Britain

4. Germany

20.16 12.21 12.09 8.99

1935

1. America

2. Japan

3. Germany

15.03 15.03 11.09

4. Great Britain

10.48

Mis-

The mirror

Wa

to П

carried An overwhelining number ex-specially prepared optical shop, a pressed preference for their mo-barn-like laboratory three storeys grinding table thers and a surprising percentage high, fitted with 4 showed an active dislike to their which itself weighs nearly 60 tons. Pivoted on the grinding table, the gradually This, the inquiry showed, was 200-inch mirror will be mainly due to a belief that fathers smoothed until it is within a millionth

The neglected their children because they of an inch of

process will require spent so little time playing with and shape.

about four years. reading or talking to thein.

fathers.

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

WOULD BE FRUITLESS

BUT INEVITABLE

-PREDICTS PANCHAN LAMA

By A Special Correspondent

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY .

BETTE DAVIS

THE WINNER OF MOTION PICTURE academy award FOR THE BEST ACTING IN 1935

the required concave in "THE GIRL FROM 10th AVENUE”

ENORMOUS MOUNT

A 120-inch Mirror, larger than any ever built previously, already has boen Installed for checking purposes, to test "the accuracy-of-the-grinding of the 200-inch mirror.

After the mirror is ground to its proper shape, It will be mounted in a tube 60-feet long and 22 feet in diameter, with an observer's cage at the top. The tube itself will weigh nearly

260,000 pounds, mounted in a cradle huge

welding, of fabricated supported by 67-foot bearings.

The top

the tube will rest on n horseshoe 40 feet in diameter, and third of a weighing approximately

will be nearly million pounds. The overall weight of the entire structure And the three quarters of a million pounds.

Trained

For the past four years, the Panchan Lama, supreme ruler

of Tibet, has been preparing for the event of war between Japan and Russia. This war he has regarded as inevitable.

LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY battleground is to be laid upon the broad plateaus of Tibet and

THE POLICE

PERSECUTED THIS INNOCENT GIRL! They rail-roaded her to prison for fifteen years for à crime

she never committed.

THE MOST AMAZING CRIME. STORY' EVER SCREENED !

SYLVIA SIDNEY

dality of

alding the man the

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bat he was

"Mary Burns,

criminal! FUGITIVE"

SELVYN DOUGLAS

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"SO RED

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stools in the hugo dustless optical Mongolia, inhabited by Lamaist nomads, who regard him as their laboratory, will supervise the grind spiritual head.

ing which will be done by a huge bowl of sheet metal, studded with square

A year ago I visited with him they are -confirmed by documents which blocks of glass which form the grind- district where Japanese and Mongo-came into the possession of the Tibeing surface. lian outposts are now fighting. The tan government some time ago. The Grand Lama made his headquarters alliance between Ilitler and the Japan-

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Wallace Ford + Una O'Connor,

'STRANGE WIVES' with Roger Pryor

June Clayworth

Our visit was in connection with ler's chief of aken to become Hit Carborundum will be poured through! BUDGET LEAKAGE happen in the Budget and no dis-

the

MINISTER'S SON BUYS INSURANCE

closures of any kind were made by the Rt. Hon. Mr. J. H. Thomas. They word all of them ready to assist the tribunal-Reuter

This will be whirled on the cast- present size. at Peilingmino (the Temple of a cse militarist party was concluded at Ing, slowly wearing it down to ap Hundred Miracles), a city which is the time that General von Seekt re-proximately half its

turned to Germany now occupied by the Japanese.

after his tour of holes in the grinding cone, which the Grand Lama's plans for resisting duty as military adviser to the Chin-weighs four times as much as

Throughout ese. The terms of this alliance, a glass casting. the Japanese advance.

Tibetan Hsia, orders told by Denpen

Months of preparation have gone

Large Crowd Attends the whole Monogolian area,

the minister of war, provide that Ger- were issued which are Lo-day

London, May 11:

London, May 11. equipment. The cheese-shaped block background of the Monogolian resis many will go to the aid of Japan if into the laboratory and grinding tance to incursions from Manchukuo. the latter is attacked by Russia.

of glass will have a hole cut through

Opening his speech to the Judicial A big crowd of officials, counse Passive resistance was the method FORCE RUSSIA'S HAND employed by the Mongolian Lamaists The Japanese manoeuvres in Mongo. the centre, and when mounted, will

the King's Bench before Mr. Justic until about six months ago. But belia are designed, therefore, to force permit "case grain" reflections direct tribunal enquiring into the alleged and solicitors were present at the

eral. Sir Richard Somervell K., hind this musk of indifference, pre Russia to make the first open declara-ly back through the hole instead of Budget leakages, the Attorney Gen opening of the judicial enquiry a drew attention to the intelligent fore: Ferber, Into the alleged leakage of parations were being pushed forward tion of war. General Hela believes at right angles.

The value of the casting has been casts of the newspapers etc., and to Budget Berenay General in a spoce

Attornзу for a defensive stone wall which the that similar pacts have been made by Japanese forces are now testing with Japan with Poland, Esthenis, Li

well a Bories of tentative thrusts into the thuania, Latvia and Finland based sat at over $2,000,000, but according the fact that insurances were pinced

upon the traditional enmity of these to Dr. John A. Anderson of it against kinds of taxation which did reviewing the extent of busines Wilson Observatory, ite value cannot not even staat an increase of in- Alfred Bates, who is a member of th as heavy in-transacted at Lloyds, mentioned B Mongolian front.

be estimated.United Press, how countries toward Moscow.

tax and tea duty..

House of Commons and a Lloyd WORLD'S TINDERBOX

The Grand Lama has repeatedly Western bollet that Mongolia Is

He mentioned the strong probabill underwriter, and who insured the "inderbox" of the world is shared stated to his cabinot that Tibet wifi of the by the Grand Lama, watching the probably be the "Belgium"

CERTIFICATE FOR BOTH

:

LAND AND MARINE AIRCRAFT

Asiatic picture from his mountain coming Asiatic conflict, with the J FIRST MASTER-PILOT'S fastnesses in Himalayan Tibet. The panens invading the Tibetan corridor war between. Japan and Russia has, north of Lake Kokonor in their ef- in fact, already begun, and will confort to outflank the Russian armies in tinue until the Japanese offensive has the Altal Mountains. According to sretched in a lino 1,000 miles long this view, the decisive battles of the war will start at Lunchowfu, at the across Mongolia and Tibet.

The war, in the belief of the Grand western end of the Great Wall, and Lama, will follow exactly the lines continue across the Tibetan corridor laid down 700 years ago by Genghis to Ill of Kuldja in Turkestan

work United Press. Khan, greatest conqueror in history, who marched with his armies, from Manchuria to Budapest. The Japanese wedge into Central Asia wil march in Genghiz Khan's footsteps.

END IN REVOLT?

NOVELETTE

surances against come tax

Dates:

secreta.

ties that the Budget contents were favour of increase of taxation an stenographers In April.

The Attorney General also allude In the known to high, ometals and confidential inter against. The total involved we business course of a review of the

ho suld the first business to transactions on behalf of Sir Alfre was effected on April 16 through Bates totalling $11,600, three Messrs. Alfred

and three other which were carried out through M

the Colonial Secretary: transactions were placed on instrue Leslie Thomas, a stockbroker and so

M. Thomas, son of of

Sir Alfred Bates had been uneas tons of Mr. L.

"He added that Mr. Thomas was a about his gilt-edged investments ar the Colonial Secretary.

mentioned Insurance against risi Mr. Thomas advis partner in the stockbroking company of Belisha, with which the trans income tax.

the transaction,but and friend both of the tales. Was instructions he placed on anot J. II. Thomas, Secretary of State for behalf of Sir Alfred Bates and t

latter's lady secretary. He further sald that Mr. Bates, Mr. The Attorney General the Colonies, and of his son,

were made.

One of the pilots of Imperial Air ways, Capt. C L Powell, has just gained the distinction of being the first airman to be issued, with a Master Pilot's cortificato endorsed for both land and marino types of air craft.

Capt. Powell left the Royal Air A poor Jown couple named Yorboss Foter six years ago to join. Iniorial But the Grand Lams believes that a few weeks ago started west in un Airways, becoming one of the Com pany's pilota on the Africa route. it will spend itmelf eventually, in old car, bound for California and Turkestan. The victor, he predicta, fortune. They found fortune, but Ever since then he has been piloting a M. Thomas and the Rt. Hon. Mr. that Se Alfred Bates and both

occurredReute will be neither Japart nor Russia, they had brought it west with them, Hannibal" land-planes and "Selplo J. II. Thomus all stated that when Thomases repudiated that any d War will exhaust both countries, and In the lining of an old coat they sent flying-boats. This has enabled him they met at Easter weeks no reference closure had will end with a Japanese revolution to O. E. Kelifer, an Olympla (Wash), to put in enough night as well as was made with regard to what might Special. which will send the Japanese back to cleaner, was found sewed $8,000 in day flying on these land and murine their island kingdom, leaving Asin to old-fashioned large currency. The craft to be the first to have a Master mind its own affairs for a hundred arnali fortune apparently was hidden Pilot's ticket endorsed for both types. years. Recent suggestions of an al-there by Mra. Yurboss' mother, who Capt. Powell has now flown for a llance between Japan and Germany, died seven years ago,-United Preso total of approximately 7,000 hours.

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