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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY,
MARCH 6, 1937.
Roumanian Crown Prince Michael Becomes Ford Apprentice
In Bucharest Plant, Earning 20 Cents An Hour
ONE MAN'S "FEAR
"I fear the electric light will not be installed in the prison by the end of 1938 unless we get more electricians in prison. "Very few electricians are coming into the jail."-Ex- tract from speech by Mr. W. Day Broughton, presenting the report of the Prison Visiting Committee to Birmingham Justices.
£3,000 DIAMONDS
IN
FOUND
£7 10s. DESK
Melbourne, Jan, 10.
,
Uncut diamonds worth £3,000 were found wrapped in cotion wool in a secret drawer of an old secretaire by a woman who bought it for £7 10. at an auction at Geelong. Victoria,
It is belleved the diamonds were hidden 200 years ago.
Of course. King Carol is careful
Bucharest, Feb. 20. When ho ho crossed the factory, Three times a week the former gate, Michael must forget all about to see that the factory work does not the interfere with the Crown Prince's king and present Crown Prince of royal prerogatives and obey Rumania becomes an ordinary fac- foreman. Without his permission the cultural education. tory worker, "No. 158" and, exactly prince, or, rather, "No. 158." is not
te the rest of the factory stair. is allowed to leave his workstand. subjected to the strict labour rules All his fellow workers have been prevailing at the local Ford Motor instructed-and net accordingly-to other any him just like Works.
trent employee.
At present, Michael is riveting frames and will have to continue to do so for some time.
When, upon King Carol's orders, his, only son and heir, 16-year-old Prince Michael, and his 13 class- mates had to choose a trade, the
Apparently he enjoys this manual is satisfied prince and two of his comrades work, and his foreman decided to become motor mechanics with the apprentice's application and The directors of Ford agreed to ability, and he feels certain that the employ the three boys on condition tall boy will eventually become that they receive the same treatment, full-fledged mechanic.
other workers.
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Michael and his two companions, therefore, go to the Ford plant only when school is over, but they manage to squeeze into their free time about three or four hours of factory work, three times a week.
Bad for the Rhino
Nairobi, Feb. 21. Arhinoceros, apparently an- noyed with the mall train from Like all other apprentices, Mi-Mombasa to Nairobi, charged chael earns 20 lel, 20 cents, an hour. the engine.
The engine won but the train was the In accordance with the Rumantan
laws, he also to insured by his em- delayed for half an hour while the ployer against accident: liness and earcase was being disentangled from
the cow-catcher, old age.
This corresponded exactly with
wishes, So the King's own prince became apprentice "No. 158" omong thany hundreda other workers in the large shop.
of
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Tragedy
To Two Old Maids
Lille, Feb. 28. Policemen often have hard jobs on their hands, but the police of Lambersart, a vill- age near here, had an exper- ience which they will never stop talking about for the Sent to rest of their lives. collect taxes long overdue from two mysterious old maidens, they found one of them dead for a month and the other mad.
the two For many years women, Maric and Gabrielle Cantraine, had lived a secluded life at Lambersart, living on the. income of a small investment in the steel industry of the North. When their income tell with the depression their tiny savings melled away and the two women decided to have a sit-down strike on their taxes. With-
in a short time the strike wes generaf, und none of the merchants of the dis- triet could get payment on their debts.
When, firmer measures were tried
TOO FAT FOR HER UNIFORM
www
Waitress Who Had to Reduce
or Lose Her Job
It was a serious, matter to this waltress when she put on weight. She had to get it,off. This is her own account of how she did it
"Last year I began to put on weight, and to Joolt my age-30. The manageress called my attention to the fact that my uniform did not at I tried dieting, with no result,
me.
and.
was getting desperate. Then 1-gaw Kruschen Salts advertised, and tried them, at the same time eating no potatoes or white bread. My weight, gradually went back to normal at, 7 b. I had put on 28 ibs. in a year, and I lost it in less than six months-thanks to Kru- chen Salts."(Mrs.) C. E.
Here's the recipe that banishes fat of -take one-half teaspoonful Kruschen Salts daily in a glass of hot water before breakfast.
The stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels are turned up, and the pure, fresh blood containing these slx salts is carried to every part of the body, and this is followed by "that Krus- chen feeling" of energelle health and activity.
WHEN YOU FEEL
like THIS
a "spot of
Beehive
the two women berang Parnost, will make
They lacked their doors and barricaded them, refused to take in the letters from the mall box. The house became silent, it almost seemed as if no one was left-alive-inside.- Renewed visits of the owner of the house to collect his rents were useless, Before the barricaded doors and windows, collectors went away quick- ly for they never knew how much further the two women would go. The mailbox overflowed with bills.
Finally, after more than a month of this state of siege, the angry creditors resorted to the law. Two the house. policemen approached
was
They lalocked and knocked, but not a sign of life was heard. The house seemed like a tomb. They felt like going home and putting the job off to the next day, but finally got thele
A locksmith courage again. called and finally fitted a key to the door.
WEIRD DISCOVERY They entered the silent, dusty hall, and suddenly heard frenzied shrieks next next room. The from the minute a woman threw herself at them shrieking, trying to beat them of with her hands. Curious, the police held her quietly and entered the dining room from which she had
come.
The tomblike silence of the house, the barricaded door, a screaming woman, all these the polleemen had bravely surmounted, but what they saw there was
little strongi Stretched on a table and covered with a sheet, was obviously the body of someone.
a
"What is that on that 'lable?" they asked the sister Marie.
"That's only my sister. She's been asleep for a month, I'm waiting for her to wake up."
Plied around the low table on which the woman iny were piles of cans and rubbish of all sorts. Stepping over this the police lifted the sheet and found a wizened, dried woman's body, without any traces of décomposition. "She'll wake up soon," said the sister as they let the sheet fall back on her face, "I've prayed so much for her that she'll surely come back to me."
The police doctor come quickly when he was called, examined the body and confirmed the sister's evidence. Gabrielle Cantralne had been dead for about a month. For the entire month her sister Marie had slept beside her, eating and living there all the day through hoping that her sister would awake. She had cater canned food, and not daring to leave the body for an instant had prepared her meals and thrown away the empty cans in the dining room.
At the morgue the autopsy revealed that Gabriella had died ʼn natarai: death. Still insisting that her sister would 'awaken soon, her sister Marle was led to the Insane asylum: The village treats its policemen to-day with respect, as befits heros who dared to go into the strange house,
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