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ORDERS THE EARTH TO STOP ROTATING !!

H. G. WELLS' comedy riot "THE MAN WHO COULD

WORK MIRACLES"

with ROLAND YOUNG

United Artists Release

JOAN GARDNER – RALPH RICHARDSON

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1936.

Anti-tax Brotherhood Among The Beehives LIVING BY GOD'S LAWS,'

Two

THEY AWAIT

Pontefract, Nov. 20.

ARREST

VO men who do not believe in profits, rent, interest, taxes or tithes, who declare it is impossible to be a Christian and at the same time recognise a power that can throw people into jail or destroy life in war, are waiting here for the police to call for them next Saturday.

They are survivors, of the Beeston Brotherhood, a" colony founded among market gardens and beehives by a little group of enthusiasts from Leeds about ten years ago. Mest of the others have drifted away to become tramp preschers,

The two left, Thomas Overbury ́and Alfréd Higgins, still uphold the brotherhood's consistent refusal, on principle, to pay rates. They declare that Pontefrnct Council is not entitled to them, because it pulled down the houses the colony originally built, on the ground that the plans had not been submitted first.

Overbury, an ex-postman, has already been committed to prison for 13 days if his rates are not paid. He has pledged himself to hungerstrike in jail.

Rudolph van Ribbentrop, 15-year-

Higgins is an ex-teacher. He was summoned to court last Saturday, too, but refused to go. He was found to-day in the wooden hut where he lives, making jerseys on a knitting machine,

Overbury was busy on his potato patch in a rainstorm. "Weld son of Herrn Joachim von Lib- bentrop, new German Ambassador in "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS” shall not pay the rates whatever happens." he said." "We" live London, has begun his studies

according to the laws of God, not of man. We will not submit Westminster School, London. The with RANDOLPH SCOTT

photo shows Ribbentrop on his way to tyranny.

to schoul.

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"I shall go to prison, I expret, but I she refuse toed, As a Christian cannot stomacha fruar pel for by un- Just taxation. They may subject ine in forced feeding, as they have done in the past, or release me if y condition becomes too surious,

SOMEBODY PAID

"Last time I was sent to jail an unknown person sent the money for the rates. When I was told I was ja be released I said that if the money When From Governinent source I would refuse to leave, and they would have to throw me out

Jan

When, earlier this year, Overbury

and glos were distrained on for

thes at the balls took away their

Stay-Home Husband Demands Alimony

A

FAILED AS COOK

New York, Nov. 20. HOUSEKEEPING husband who looked after three children while his wife worked has applied in a

horse the local vicur paid the tithes Los Angeles divorce suit for alimony of £12 a month for them and returned the horse. for the children and £8 a month for himself.

The veteran of the eulony, Tom

Ferris, has Just died. Alfred Huntins

his:

B educating his children with own and Overbury's: It is just as

Mrs. Helen Wheat filed al divorce suit alleging cruelty.]

much against the brotherhood's prin- Her husband, Harry, has now Crusts Lost a

ciples to send them to a council school

to pay rates,

$200 Million Lost To Kreuger

New York, Nov, 20. Lawyers who have been dely- ing into the financial tangle left by Ivar Kreuger when he killed

filed a cross-petition claiming alimony.

He states that when, ill-health kept hini at home he look over the housekeeping, but says that, Mrs. Wheat erillelsed tils cooking and housework, and refused to take him to places of entertain ment with her.

She often was angry, he declared, hermes he bad not darned, beri jstockings or mended her clothes.

War

GERMANS THREW THEM AWAY

"Food, the most important thing in the world--one of the four basic pleasures-ls responsible for practi- cally all the wars and a great deal of misery apart from wi

wars." With its declaration Sir

Bruer Druce-Porter, the phystelun, opened an address on "ignorance and Pre-

Hip Flasks and ice in Nutrition Questions, t

Football

SAN FRANCISCO -

himself four years ago have un- RIOT AFTER MATCH AT ravelled enough of the threads to estimate that the American public | will recover only between $45,- 000,000 and $50,000,000 out of the

New York, Nov, 10.. With the American football

the

annual conterence of the Wine and Food Society at the Vinters" Hall, EC. recently.

Countries fighting for territory did not ght for the land simply," but

cause the land could product-food-

the

he said. So far as the miseries were concerned, an investigation In London Hospital showed that great number of patients occupied beris, through digestive troubles, most of

were entirely preventible,

$250,000,000 it invested into the season at its height the conduct which Sir Bruce added, "so long

Kreuger enterprises.

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Princeton

the

It was remarkable thing that most

of our greatest chefs had been

Food experts of the past had been

their

meant

One was that red red blood. The were

of spectators is now overshadow- ing the old question of commers such a large part of our women look upon cooking as nothing but a Another thing which has cialism in this college sport.

degrading occupation, we must ex- shall suffer from Emphasis is laid on spectators peet that we been made clear is the contempt

all its forms and in which Kreuger held American actions by a riot which occurred indigestion in

Heat San Francisco yesterday fol- varieties." bankers and investors..

lowing a game between St.; realised as fully as any tinancier in the world's history that the Mary's College and San Fran- men. bankers and investors in the cisco University and the action

declared, adding "The Germans owe United States become as giddy of President Harold Dodds, of blind leaders of the blind, Sir Bruce defeat very largely to the fact in contemplation of foreign Princeton, in trying to pul

that they believed the teaching of one food expert, Professor Itubie, monopolies as do American de-stop to drinking at

of games. presence butantes in the

The San Francisco riot was preetpl who said they could not digest bran princes, counts or barons,

tated when exuberant spectators or the harder part of bread, and so

away all that. One of the typical Kreuger invesi-started to scramble for

hall.

they threw

RED MEAT FALLACY ment transactions will reach another which had been used in playing a

"If they had known that the pro- nilestone on October 27th in the game, in which neither side scored. Vesey Street auction rooms here.between the rival schools. They also per use of grain was to mill the lot, There the collateral underlying t tried to tear down the goal posts, us was done in Denmark, they would $50,000,000 issue of Kreuger and Tolland for more than half an hour the not necessarily have lost the war, 5 per cent, secured debentures will police were forced to swing their because privation did a lot to bring go to the highest bidders.

clubs, breaking up the impromptu about this defcat."

There were a good many fallacies The court has Axed reserve price nights which started all over the field. ot $8,500,000 which means that at It was nearly an hour after the in regard to food. least this sum must be realized be gume before the Deld was cleared, meat fore the sale may be regarded and many persons were nursing black strongest people he had met oficial.

eyes, cracked pates, and broken hill coolies on the frontier of India who never ale meat at any time in Recently a representative of the teeth.

their existence. Kreuger trustee sellled an account

TOY BALLOON FIRE

The agricultural worker, with more with the government of Ecuador for

Earlier the game had been marred vegetable diet and milk, was stronger $760,313 which represented a pay-

the dollar for when at half-lime a large number of than the town dweller. In the war ment of 23 cents

toy balicons filed with gas were let the A1 people come from the some 8 per cent. bonds of the govern loose in the stadium in un attempt country and the C3's from the towns, ment and 7 per cent. bonds of State

to float political literature through Mortgage Bank.

field, and in the interests of the vast These Ecuador bonds were part of the crowd,

Apparently unaware of the danger, majority of spectators, to whom such the security behind the Kreuger alone exuberant spectator touched one drinicing is offence, Princeton Toll issue when it was sold to the of the balloons with

to cigarette. University requests all persons American public in March, 1929. This caused an explosion, which fired refrain from the use of alcoholic about 50 other balloons, burning liquors while attending athletic con- jeighteen persons, three of them tests under. Its auspices.** seriously.

STUDENTS' BAD MANNERS President Dodds's

action

Was to "NOBODY HAS To what extent, if any, drinking a part in this riot is not played

extent foreshadowed when, in OFFERED ME A known at the practice shall cease for his text Chesterfield's assertion but President Dodds, in his opening the College year, he took in the Princeton Stadium, Issues that "Manners must adorn know- warning that the use of liquor "bas ledge," and told the undergraduates: 68sumed proportions which seriously "In the realm of sports American

much to

be mass manners leave menace the future of football." THE Duke of Brunswick denied Finsk-telling the practice of desired For the most painful

to-day rumou that he has carrying a

a hip flask at football games exhibition of bad manners one must been offered the throne of Germany become general during prohibition, turn to, inter-collegiate football games by Herr Hitler.

and has since continued.

and the flask-totters and alcoholic The rumour was published in a

In a notice sent to purchasers of participants who attend," French paper,

tickets for next Saturday's game be- Other college presidents hastened to foundation tween Princeton and the U.S. Naval endorse President Dodds' action, but "No-Academy, President Dodds says: "On, some of them pointed out that it won behalf of the friendly rivals of the only in connection with football that have not seen Herr Hitler for some day, who strive to maintain high drinking of college contests was really

standards of sportsmanship on the a problem,

THRONE”

Gruenau (Austria), Nov, 20.

"The story hoa no whatever," the Duke sold. body has offered me a throne.

time."

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