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ROUND-UP OF

ENGLISH GIRLS NEED "GROOMING"

"ENGLISH dancing girls need

grooming bufore they wp- pear on the American stage. They have to be taught to be

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936.

6,000

¡To Save

VAGRANTS Duce's Daughter

PLAN TO REGISTER

A

TRAMPING SCOTS

REVOLUTIONARY plan to round up and register Scotland's 6,000 tramps is proposed by a Departmental Committee on vagrancy in that country.

Their report, published recently, after two years' work, proposes to bring under control the "great group who, for various quick and to be shown how to reasons, are either unable or unwilling to engage in the ordinary avocations of society, and who are living under conditions: that, dress."

.That is the opinion, given to aIn many respects, are indefensible." London reporter recently, of Dr. Dave! Apollon, the Ruso-American show- man, whose "International Varieties" vie with "George White's Scandals" and the "Ziegfeld Follies for mappi- ness in the United States.

Mr. Apollon is in London, slay- ing at the Savoy Hotel, on a 10- clays beauty hunt, in preparation for his autumn programme.

THE RARE TYPE "For me." he said, "there are only three types of girl: those who mườ beautiful and can wear clothes –they move slowly: those who are not pol beautiful and don't know how tea

wear clothes--they are quick; auf! those who combine the attraction of both types-they are rate.

"briteve there are some of thei Fire girls ovre here. 1 am going to; hunt them at anel whisk them nak to the United States,

"My fondest dreams is to produce a revnic, 100 players strait, in London.. You would Be my star, ilarvy Rich-5 3726121 He In tall strong, and hand-i some, and has a wonderful voice and: personality."

G-Men To Fight Paroles

Portland, Ore., July 20.

1

S. Africa Has

Quadruplets

Capetown, July 21.

A native woman, living on farm near Harrismith, has given birth to quadruplets- three boys, one girl--Ar-

change,

THE BEST

OF

ALL JOKES

Brussels, July 21.

MEET the first joke-collector

of the world-Mr. Borowski.

a Polish business man of about 35 living in Brussels.

"Why do you colleet jokes he was asked.

#

Many aged vagrants, including the infirm and physically and mentally afflicted, "should not be on the road, state the committee, and compulsory detention is sug- rested.

THE ENGLISH WAY

"The younger wayfarer should be enught ig und saved from continuing a life of vagrancy, state the con- mittee, who were favourably-im- pressed with the English system of hostels for young vagrants.

"Habitual vagrunts should be kab- Jected to an institutional regime,

Proposals include houses for inkers provided by local authori- į ties: shelter houses for those that} remain on the roads and bathing

THE SILENT

WITNESS

CHILD

his

GIVES SERUM

Ainm Snyder and wife were beaten to death in their beds in

Ogden,

Rome, July 24.

Utah, one day last month, A SMALL child, lying ill

while their eight-year-old grand-daughter looked on,

But police could obtain no help from the child. She la deaf, dumb and unable to write.

Pilgrim Ships For

Manila

in bed in Turin, Northern Italy, has given serum from her body which may save the life of six- year-old Anna Maria, daughter of Mussolini, who is seriously ill at Fivoli, near Rome.

Anna was taken ill on Friday with infantile paralysis. For two days and nights Mussolini took turns at her balside, while the chief physician, Professor Valagussa, telephoned to Berlin, Paris, and Munich for advice.

The only known anti-infantile- paralysis serum, made in Paris, was sent for. Horar slipped by, and Anna- grew worse. Still the serum did not come.

Then Professor Valagussa 'asked

Washington, July 22.

FLEET of "Pilgrim for a serum from the body of any Ships" in historie in Europe just recovering froth facilities at all poor-houses and Manila Bay is envisaged as Wires fushed and telephone bells

shelters,

One type of vagrant described by i

A

the same paralysis.

a novel feature of the 33rd rang. A child was found in Turin.

The serum was taken and brought Eucharistico Anna. To-day she is not out or

danger, but is n little better. isplay Congress to be held at the

capital of the

the unmittee, in the methylated International spirit or "ret Biddy" drinker,

"Addicts," they KILY, marked ingenuity in using or enu- corting a variety of vile beverages)

new-born Man With

that induce speedy and prolonged Commonwealth of the intoxiration.

These beverages have.

a base, Philippine Islands, February £80,000,000

to 7, 1937.

.

Four liners already have been

it may be, a cheap wine or aerated waters

Te the base is added such intoxienste as methylated spirit, sur- "Well," said Mr. Borowski, "begend spirit or ent-de-Cologne, rause hitmeur is playing Kreat "Sometimes chlorodyne mixine is chartered to social role in tu-diyla world,

"When they are not hariful but simply humorous, the Jokes put in the limelight the enyors, the in und often the virtues of people,

The United States Department of Justice having cleaned up the kidnapping racket for the present, is intensely interested in reform-of them. ing the hodge-podge parole sys- tema of the states to control criminal "repeaters," Justin Mil- ler recently told the North- Western Association of Sheriffs and Police convention.

ATA

Alt five years ago their great rat importance dawned on me, and, togother with a friend. Dr. Theodore Gulmans, I decided to collect the best

collection J1WW "My

includes about 2,000 jokes, which I dare say

the

of the cream

world's LETE. "First place 1 should award to the Scottish jokes, because they are short and clear. Here is the one I prefer. It is about an old maid who, after Miller. Department of Justice ving served 40 years in a Scottish member for two years and household, was told by her master she j

at would be rewarded. former professor of law

IRELAND ÖMITTED University of Oregon and other

From now on, satrl. the missus,

Has Arrived

Lake American In London

consumed, or milk with coul Kas added, and the spirit may also be pilgrims to Manila: round-the- obtained from liquid metal polish, world cruise steamers and The deplorable effects of such drink-

at the degeneracy brought but need noi un stressid,

They Deal

In Typhoons

Manila, July 21. The Manila weather bureau, founded by Fathers Federico Faura and Jose Algue, Jesuits,

vessels, from European ports will THE Maharajah of My- add to what is likely to prove sore, fifty-two-year-old the greatest concentration of possessor of £80,000,000, ships on peaceful mission ever sick man who drinks no to assemble in Far Eastern water but that from the holy Ganges, has arrived in Lon- don.

waters.

NO COMMODATION

his Sir

He took with him a party of As the attendance at the Con- thirty people, including his per- gress probably will exceed all sonat doctors, priests for available hotel accommodation; daily religious rites, and the marine aspect of the great Mirza Ismail, Premier of Mysore.

TO MEET MR. BALDWIN biennal Catholic devotional

The Maharajalt has never left his kingdom

before.

institutions, is chairman of the you are considered as a member of recently celebrated its 71st an- gathering will be notable.

U. S. Attorney General's ad- the family." visory committee on crime.

Within a year this committee will

10

10

niversary.

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Reports from many countries "The maid beamed with joy... Since its founding the weareceived by organisations, of the No more wages for you," added ther bureau has expanded its Catholic Church here attest the the master. relcase a report on its survey ́ot! Second place goes to the Jewish activities until it now employs mounting world interest in the paroles and pardons in the various jokes, third to the joltes of Marseilles, 11 persons in the civil service Manila meeting, which follows the states and recommend a unified and|

fourth English jokes, fifth of the Philippine government. efficient method which may be adopt-

American

and humour,

sixth ed by all penat institutions.

The director and assistant director 32nd Congress held in Russian.

are Jesuit fathers. Father Miguel Aires last year. "A1 present every state in the

"Strange as it may appear, I am Selge has been connected with tha Union has a diferent system." said

mot-nequainted-with- Irish-humour, bureau since 1915-and--has-been Miller. There are no set rules of pro-and I should be grateful to obtain in-director since 1928. cedure. In one state parole may formation about it."

The bureau is located at the Ateneo mean one thing and in another some- thing altogether different.

de Manila, Jesuit school, the Bite This is

being rented by the government to the same as calling mensies smallpox

day as in old Spanish times, in one state and pneumonia ir) another."

Many kidnappers and other major criminala served terms in prison and benefitted by liberal parole systems, Miller said.

TWO MALTA SPIES SENTENCED

SOLD NAVAL SECRETS TO ITALY

Sentences

R. E. Hall of the Federal Narcoties bureau told the police officers from Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Honolulu

Malta, July 21. and 11 Western states that 16 states

of three years hard have yet to adopt uniform legisln-labour for espionage were passed to tion proposed by the government to

tobac regulate the narcoties traffic United day upon a barrister), and Presa.

conist named Flores, who were found guilty of selling naval and military Information to Italy.

During the trial a declaration by OIL ON KING'S RANCH that he had been approached by the Delia was read, in which he stated: Italian Consul-General and asked to Calgary (Alberta), July 15,

oblain steret information Oil the Rich oil fields in the South Dockyard and Navy. Turner Valley of Alberta ure now He alleged that he had told the believed to extend to the "E.J" Halian Consul-General that he could

not carry out his wishes.--Reuter.

ranch owned by King Edward.

He took with him in the P. and O. mer Rampura his dearest possession- the family goddess Chamundeswari- which means far more to him than any of his millions.

Reason for bis viis, for hin breaking orthodox Hindu tradition In leaving his State, Is his desire to have heart-to-heart talk with Mr. Baldwin regarding the future of his State under federation. Mysore is No. 1 Indian State economically, industrially. It is rich in gold and coal mines.

receive the King Edward will Maharajah. He is entitled to the full royal salute of twenty-one guns.

He is one of the richest men ever visit England. The Nizam. of £100,000,000, has never left his Hyderabad, reputed to be worth

to

The Philippine Islands have been a stronghold of Catholicism for four centuries, and are considered the most Catholic nation in the entire Orient. Tradition says that the natives at Cebu already possessed a statue of The functions of the bureau were the Holy Child at the time when Ex devoted to a new purpose recently plorer Mugellan arrived there. The

Cathedral of the Immaculate when Pan-American Airways begin option in Manila is considered one of

Con Irans-Pacific service, as it supplies weather reparis at the Orientat the most beautiful Catholic edifices State," terminal.

in the world. Church officials thero- Owing to the fact that typhoons are fora feel that Manila is a fitting frequent in the vicinity of the Philip-scene for the first Eucharistic Con- pines several months in the year, the Kress to be held in the Orient. burenti's reports on these storms are vist to the safely of airplanes and shipping.--United Press.

JUDGE, AGED 92, RETIRES

Toronto, Ju : 20. Sir William Mulock, aged ninety two, the oldest presiding judge in the world, bas retired.--Reuter.

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THE LAST DAY OF OUR

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WE HAVE MADE A FURTHER TERRIBLE HASH OF OUR PRICES.

Sale Shoes Marked at $2.50 will be on Saturday Morning $1.75

+

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10.00

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PAPAL LEGATE

Preliminary ceremonies at Manila for the opening of the Congress will be held on arrival of the Papal 'Legato' in Manila harbour on February 2, and the formal opening will, occur February 3 at 5 p.m. in the famous Luneta Park, when the Legate will read the Papal Brief,

February A ig scheduled 15 Women's Day," February G As "Men's Day," and February 6 LA Mass "Children's Day", Pontifical will be celebrated at the Luueta on February 7.

An unique incidentul affair in con- | nection with the Congress will be n pilgrimage from Hongkong, starting February 13, to Sancian Island, 80 miles westward, whero died in 1652 St Francis Xavier, the "Pathfinier- Apostle."

MANY STEAMERS

to

Many of the Pilgrims from the United States will be carried Manila on steamers specially charter- ed for the purposes. These already include:

The President Pieree, from San! Francisco, January 8;

Empress of Japan, from Vanest- ver, January 5;

Tutsula' Mary, from San Fran eisco January 7

President Jefferson, from Seattle early in January. `

The

The Transylvania, leaving New York in December on a round-the- world eruise, will remain in "Manila Bay for the duration of the Congress.

Permanent Committed Eucharistic Congresses met at Paris in Aprü, with attendance of 30 from many countries, to make proparatións for the Congress in Manila.

on

Official estimates of the probablo't total attendance Bro yet lacking. Considering the great distance and exponse it is not likely that aliand- ance would be comparable to that of previous Eucharistic Congrossos in Chicago, Dublin, or Buenos Aires, butj In any case it will be very representa- |tive of Catholicism around the glober,

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