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ALL OUT FOR THE BIG SHOW!

DICK POWELL FRED WARING

When the meniskaart vë

oningers of Ptj-de-ki 44 than Varsity Bbout

TED HEALY WALTE ECATLETTPRISCI

ROS EM

BUCK and BUBBLESS Directed by WILLIAM KEIGHLEY

Warner Bros. Pictures

SATURDAY

AT THE

QUEEN'S

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1937.

Scientists Vote Quins Perfect

FORGOT ANALYSIS

AS THEY WATCHED

THEM PLAY GAMES

Two hundred Canadian and American scientists have fallen in love with the Dionne Quintuplets, who already hold strings to the hearts of a million visitors to their nursery.

With scientific analysis in mind the psychologists and biologists went from a conference in Toronto to Callan- der, Ont., the Quins' backwoods home. Then they forgot science.

Like average parents, they chuckled and beamed and gurgled,

Aren't BIGGEST 'PLANE they cute?" while they watched the IN THE WORLD

COMPLETING IN U.S. FOR THE SOVIET

Washington, Nov. 10.

The world's biggest plane was ready

little girls make sand pies, sweep the cement walic, play shopkeeping in their outdoor playground. Then the sclentists pronounced them perfect children.

YVONNE-Motherly

Now three, and n half years old,

at Baltimore to-day before delivery to the Quins rate second only to Niagara

the Soviet. Government.

Built by the Glenn Martin Com- pany, this four-motored plant mono- plane, weighing more than 20 tons, has a wing-spread of 27ft. greater than the huge China clippers. I with night- passengers, carries 40 berths for 20.

With a normal cruising speed of 150 miles an hour it has a radius sufficient to carry it non-stop from New York to London within 24 hours and still have fuel for 1,000 miles in

reserve.

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Falls attraction.

Canada's leading tourist

They have never gone outside their nursery and playground, but they have revolutionised the life of Cal- lander.

ANNETTE-Aggressive

The garage man makes more selling picture postcards of the nursery than he does selling petrol. Every house has a new coat of paint and a placard "Bed and Breakfast."

EMILIE-Independent

AIR RAID

RAID COSTS: BLUDGEONING LOCAL COUNCILS

By A Correspondent

London, Nov. 18. The Government has decided to make no more concessions to the local authorities on the cost of air raid precautions. So the fight is on.

A Government Bill compelling rate-levying auth- orities to bear a substantial part of the cost, and, in addition, forcing them by law to undertake the anti-air raid scheme, will be issued to-day,

FANS'RIOT, TRAMPLE ON LUPE VELEZ

New York, Nov. 19. Twenty thousand Mexicana waited to greet Alm actresa Lupe Velez when she arrived home on a visit to-day. When the star appeared her fans became so excited in their attempts to get near her that they started to fight each other.

The passenger accommodation in- corporates the latest amenities, such as healing, sound-proofing and air conditioning, a lounge and retiring rooms, a stewards' gulley and full-had a hard time telling one Quin gotten by the milling crowd.

vision windows.

The wings carry 4,000 gallons of fuel. For what purpose the Soviet ordered the new machine is un- known, but it is suspected that it may be intended for service on the Polar route.

Mr. Joseph Kennedy, chairman of the United States Maritime Commis- sion, addressing Congress this after

suggested that America should concentrate on a transatlantic air service rather than on the bulld- ing of a super-liner.

He urged that the Merchant Marine Act should be amended by extending the definition of the word "vessel" to include ocean-going aircraft. Air liners would then be eligible for con- struction by the operation of sub- aidles.

Like everybody else the scientists

from another. All five have the same wavy brown hair, brown eyes, stub 1105CS. They speak French with aimi- lar baby accent. Even their finger- prints are of the same general pattern. Their cars, the scientists discovered, are easlest points of Identification- they differ slightly. CECILIE-Unpredictable

Yvonne, who ranks highest In achievement, was catalogued the most motherly by Dr. W. E. Blantz, of the University of Toronto.

Annetto in the most aggressive. Emilie the most independent.

Ceelle the most unpredictable.

A rlot developed. Lupe was for-

She was knocked over, trampled underfool.

Now Lupe ta in hospital with Injured legs. Twenty of her excited fans are fellow inmules.

It will be hully contested in the House of Commons by local authority representatives irrespective of party, and even yet the Home Secretary may have to make concessions of detall in committee.

NEW BURDEN ON RATES Led by Mr. Herbert Morrison for the English authorities, and Mr. P. J. Dollan, for Scotland, they urged that the Government should pay 00 per cent. above a Id. rate and 100 per cent, over a 2d. rale.

This the Government refused to do, Sir Samuel Hoare argued that if the the authoritics local

shouldered suggested expense they would have a financial interest and administer the scheme with regard for economy and emelency.

The Bill contains the financial pro- visos in full, including the Govern- ment's new proposal, that the State shall pay 85 per cent. of the excess expenditure over a ld, rate for those authorities classed, under a grada- flon scheme, as poorer authorities.

CABINET'S PROPOSAL

The Bill will mean, sccording to Government estimates, that the Trea- sury will pay Just over 30 per cent. ¦ of the total expenditure.

pound,

Apparently the Home Secretary still believes that the scheme in the Marie, the smallest, under two country will not come to more than pounds at birth, is the most sym-a rate burden of one penny in the pathetic. MARIE-Sympathetic

Official correspondence issued re- Silver-haired old Dr. Allan Roycently disclosed that the Home Office Dafoe, who brought the Quins into estimates that in the next three or the world and has devoted himself four years the total expenditure, on to them ever since, told the scientists, air raid precautions will be about The scientine side is all very well, $32,000,000, and that during that but the human side in managing the period the average annual expendi- children is infinitely more important ture chargeable to local authorities so far as I am concerned."

will be "well below £1,000,000."

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The estimated expenditure for carrying out the Society's work among the children during the financial year ended 31st Octo- ber, 1038 is

$30,000,00

The Society is in urgent need of funds and asks for donations from the public towards this expenditure.

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