THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
AUGUST 15, MONDAY,
1938.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS
SAY "NO" TO ARMS DILUTION
Torquay.
Any attempt at dilution of labour in the Govern- ment's arms programme will be strongly opposed by the Electrical Trades Union, which is holding its biennial conference.
With only one diasentient, conference carried a resolution refusing to co-operate with the Government's arms programme, "in view of the policy adopted by them in assisting Fascist Governments in violation of their declared election programme of defence of the country through strenthening the League of Nations.
"We
convinced," il added, "that any attempt at dilution of labour would only lead to a state of anarchy that would retard the in- tention of the Government to expedite production.
are
allow the
"We refuse to
chnotic International position to be made an excuse for an attack on our standard of wages and conditions by introduc tion of any form of dilution."
"REAL ACTION"
Mr. J. Rowan, general secretary,
Sailors To See Talking Pictures On Board
Following the issue of a recent fleet declared that the Unlon would has order, Singapore's munitor Terror is nothing to do with tripartite com- to be equipped, along with most other mittees, which would operate dilution vesacis at Home and overseas as though they were on a war basis stations, with a modern sound film Mr. J. McCarthy, London, said they plant, a radio gramophone and n wanted real actlen and not pious public widress ajistem.
resolutions. They ought to say to the Although planned primarily for Government: "If you attempt to in- the screening of instructional films, troduce dilution, we shall withdraw the projector will be available for Jabour."
almost unlimited entertainment use. Mr. A. E. Stride, London, suld the
no- Ship's personnel will pay a workers were walking into a trap. minal mum cach week to receive The only solution to the problem of from the Royal Naval Film Cor- dilution
overthrow theporation, a semi-official body apon- National Government and the intro-sored by the Admiralty, a supply of duction of a Labour Government. A up-to-date American and English great percentage of workers did nut films. realise what was behind the Govern» inent's arms programmu,
Sramen will pay about a cent a head a week to the Corporation.
With the introduction of a public
He urged that the T.U.C. should dress system, an officer will just take up the question, place the facts have to whisper into a microphone. before the workers, and should not turn the volume control on to "loud" enter into tripartite negotiations until and his whisper will be heard all they knew what the arms were to be!
over the ship. used for.
CONSCRIPT LABOUR
Mr. H. H. Marton, London, declared that there was an insidious attempt,) beblud the dillution proposal to con- script labour,
Child Falls 40 Feet; Unhurt
A new field rich In fossils has been uncovered in Contra Costa County. Cal., and experts from the University of California are Above is senior assembling the animal bones into skeletal form. student Alice Goeisch Inspecting a mastodon Jaw from the Moraga quarry. Some of the specimens will be shown at the San Francisco World's Fair.
Court Tells Girl: "Keep Simone's Secrets'
New York.
A ten-year sentence of silence was imposed by a Los Angeles judge on Miss Sandra Martin, former secretary of Simone Simon, 24-year-old French film star.
for a term which would vary from three to forty-two years.
Miss Martin, who pleaded guilty to forging cheques for £132 belonging 10 her employer, was bound by
Said the judge: "You must never Scutt not
the reveal Judge identity of the man to whom Mile. tell the world of the knowledge you private à pair of golden keys to Kalned of your employer's Rive Simon Cleveland.
That knowledge must be kept Inviolate." Three-year-old Sheila Hahn fel her home. Resolutions were passed condemn-
Judge Scott gauled Miss
During the trial Mile. Simon months and ing the Government's assistance to 40 feet from the window of hier bed-| Fascist Powers and deploring the room, but suffered no injuries. She for nine heavy expenditure un armanents was sitting on the window sill swing-probation for ten years afterwards, mitted that other gifts to her friend He warned her that if she dis-included a gold watch made in the which "can only result in war of aing her heels when the screen gave
clused the name of Mlle. Simon's shape of a golf ball, gold hair brushes character than the way and she fell to a concrete drive more terrible
friend she would be sent to prison and a £40 dressing gown. below. jast,"
life.
Martin put her 071
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CEMENT COFFIN MURDER RIDDLE
YOUTH'S NEED OF LEADERSHIP
YOUTH'S need of leadership
Heiress's Husband
Accused After
Girls' Discovery
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To make the men of the British
in the world is the policy underlying
in a harassed world was The arrest and arraignment of John Paul Bathelt, 28-Navy into the most contented callors stressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, recently. year-old dapper husband of a reputed Park Avenue heiress, in the world is
For the first time the men them Speaking at the Canterbury 17io- launches a new and eerie murder mystery upon America's
of Youth. he attention. It is labelled "The Cement Coffin Murder selves are being allowed to play a
vital part in moulding their lives. Case," and the facts are these,
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2.15 Close Down. 6.0 For The Children Nursery Tunes...I
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"Glamorous ships are now being re-examined. Gipsy Played (From
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tied by necompanied be given to increasing the comfort of Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra con- leader, the Führer as they called
by the sailors, so that attention can Mary Elis Re
ducted by Charles Prentice, Mus. Bac. Vienna in Springtime (Harry Whatever Britons might think of
The police found the bundle contained the remains of a body
A new system, introduced quietly Leon-Dominic Pelosi); Your Heart his efforts and his policy.
(Edgar-Lewinnek-- doubt that Germany which, from the trousers belt bearing gold initials, they tenta-at the end of 1936 as the "Admiralty Called could be no
Inyon).
.Campoll and His Marimba showed to-day the inspiration and tively identified as Charles Morris, a racehorse owner, who dis- Review
was allows naval ratings to the place where the body
Su Tango Orchestra: Tango Habanera power that came to youth under an appeared last year. Close to
of Admiralty with the least (Fontenalles, arr. Crook)....Alfredo accepted leadership.
Could not they themselves and brought ushore the police observed an empty summer cottage, gestions and requests to the Lords (Payan, arr. Heartley); Obstination
locked and heavily boarded.
Pilgrimage ccsan asked what had most stirred the enthusiasm of the youth of Germany to the task of making their country strong and proud.
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It was beyond question the loyalty
there
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nobler cause? nabler leader for
Everywhere men's hearts falling them for fear of the things that were to come on the earth.
Young people, however, had the futare before them, and their hearts would not quall as they entered upon it
He thanked God that he believed
A group of girls on a church picnic were swimming
in a river not far from Northampton, Massachusetts, when they came hurriedly from the water and told of a floating bundle from which a skull was protruding.
traces
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The cellar
They broke in. On the kitchen floor
and were stains hurriedly mixed cement,
victed and garden
unthistable body of a man hud evidence that the been encased in concrete buried and later dug up, extracted from the con-
that, deep in the hearts of their gen-crete and taken away. eration, there was the desire that in the future they would not so much
themselves as better better world...
City Adopts Potunia
Kankakee, IL.
the
Part of a concrete block found by the police contained a right shoe which matched the left shoe on the body from the river.
ARRESTED
Inquiries of the cottage owner showed that Batheli had been in pos- session of keys to the place since 1936 and that he formerly associated race-track enter- The city of Kankakee to-day had with Morris in an official flower-the petunia--and prizes. also a new slogan, "two petunias in Bathelt, ignoring the advice of his j every pol." The city council adopted wife whom he married only a year the flower on request of the Garden ago and who is at present in bed in Department of the Kankake Woher Park Avenue apartment with a men's Club which threatened elec broken leg, voluntarily went tion day reprisals if their demand Northampton. He was arrested to- day after several hours' questioning. was not met.
'Hoppers Create Mystery Sniper Kills Sea Otter
Candiac, Sask.
to
Monterey, Cal. L Scott, farmer, Harry
One of the herd of extremely rare wondering to-day how thousands of
during the winter sea otters, which appeared off the grasshoppers entered its cellar, the windows and Monterey const, was shot by some ventilators of which were well screen- one with a powerful, long distance ed. Scott entered his closed cellar rifle. There is a law forbidding the one spring day and found the wall killing of otters, whose pelts are
I valued at $1,000 each. clustered with grasshoppers.
Robert Avery Gilbert, hypnotist known in vaudeville as "Gilbert the Great,'
life at sea.
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6.58 Closing local Stock Quota- པ་པས liong So far the Admiralty, experts have 7.0 Schmlit-"La considered 1,315 of 4,000 suggestions | Salome." received 1,315 of 4,000
Played by Orchestra Des Concerts received. On nearly half of them Straram sous la direction de Florent the Admiralty have agreed to take Schmitt nction.
suggestions
7.33 Songs by Ilerbert Janken (Baritone),
Steps are being taken to banish the
Die Beiden Grenadiere, Op. 19, No. two main causes of dissatisfaction (Heine Schumann); Standchen monotony and the sense
of being (Serenade)-(Relistab Schubert).
by Bolos cramped In confined spaces.
Joseph 7.43 Violin Requests for improved ventilation Szigeti, have resulted in the appointment of Adagio In E (Tartini-arr, committee which is studying the Ondrieck); The Fountain Of Arethusa question.
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(From "Mytha Szymanowsky-Op. 30); The Flight Of The Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Hartmann); Other requests granted have re-Pastorale (Stravinsky); Norwegian
Lic sulted in:-***
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Song-Show" (Sigurd hammocks Longer
Gavotte (From "Classical Szigeti); sailors;
Symphony"Prokofieff, Op. 25 arr.
Dansa Experimental tiled (stead of Grunes):
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8.03 Krainald Foort at the Orran, Clolster Shadows (Ilope); Lost Chord (Sullivan); Curtain Up Ballerina Sulte (Wood); Manhaltan Electric toasters for petty Moonlight (Alter).
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Padded stools and cushions for mess seats; held in Glendale, Cal., in the death of Mrs. Marle Colombos, an expectant mother. Kaid George Colombos, husband, he had heard Unt Gilbert had, another by hypnosis, aided woman in an almost painless birth and had asked Gilbert to trent Mrs, Colombos, who died suddenly.
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Full-size baths for petty officers
8.15 London Relay-Empire Ex- Points of view of travellers from the Dominions and Colonies,
8.30 Studio Concert by Toby
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and hot and cold water taps.
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