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December 23, 1938.

Girl Student Of 17 "Adopts" A Family

A 17-year-old art student, a girl living in Portland Place, London, whose name is not revealed, has "adopted" a needy couple in Durham and their five young children..

Her action was disclosed by the Rev. II. F. Pickering, Vicar of St. Nicholas Church, Durham City, recently, when he defended in the pulpit the effort that ho, with Lady Jana Legge, is making lo secure help for poor families in his parish.

"In Durham City alone there are 1,000 men on the dole, and there are Incredible thousands in the county, There are many brave souls fighting i against tremendous odds to themselves," he said.

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"I know of a man who risen ni

4 a.m. to ride bla cycle more than 20. miles to work, and then back again at night in order to keep his job and not go on the dole,

"That man has a brave wife and five young children living in two rooms. If the father nind mother have not tried to help themselves I don't know who has

"I thank God that I have been able to link that family up to a young art student in London who will take care of them."

Durham County's

problem ought

to be a national concern, he said, and the reluctant rich in the South ought to be educated to their responsi bility.

WON WORLD VOYAGE

Lucky American Girl In Hongkong

"Why I want to go to the China Seas?" was a question which Miss Dorothy M. Show, of New York, recently answered so well that her. reply won her an essay competition and

a trip round the world. She is

a through passenger by the President Adams, which reached Hongkong yesterday, and is the only passenger who is booked with the ship for its complete round-the-world voyage.

The competition won by Miss Shaw was sponsored by, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer In connection_with the Gable-Harlow film "China Seas." Mins Shaw, smartly-dressed

brunette, is in charge of the American Express Company's travel bureau in McCreery's Store, New York. Her tour gives her only a day in Hong- kong, for she sails with the President Adams at noon to-day.

Redrawing fie Czech-Ilungar- in frontier are German Foreign Minister Jozchim von Ribben- trop, left, and Colt Galenzzo Citino, Italian Foreign Minister, at Belvedere Palace, Vienna. By this draft Hungary gained more than 4,000 square miles of Czech

territory.

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In A Junk

Shanghai Russians To Return

As unostentatiously as it had sel

all from Shanghal round the world Russion-Imperial-ensign-flying junk Adventure returned recently its top-mast broken, but its crow elght, including two pretty young griis, undaunted and still hopeful."

of

The White Russlon junk, skipper- ed by a Briton, Captain A C, New- ton, set sail for Hängkong, the first port of call on its world-girdling therury. For a day all went well, but the Junk called Into stormy weather.

The junk, which was considered one of the most seaworthy vessels of its kind yet to embark upon such an adventure, weathered the ACAS well. But the topmost was old and cracked under the strain.

Approximately 70 miles out of Shanghai, the junk was turned back. The return trip was made with the remaining suit and the six-cylinder automobile engine

The crew includes Luba Schen!koff, Olga Alksner, Chief Officer Leó Tomashevsky, Engineer Leo Rud- chenko and Seamen Serge Mlursanoff, P. Pitakoff and V. Dzule. intends setting out again os coon S boot necessary repairs on the completed.

the

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The Adventure may not arrive in San Francisco in time for the open- ing of the Fair there next February, According to its Itinerary, the route to San Francisco was to be eta Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Java, Australia and New Zealand. The crew originally intended to re main in San Francisco' for the Fair and then to return to Shanghat via the

Panama Canal, British West indies,

Canary Islands Great Britain, Europe, Suez Canal, and from there across the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengol and through the Straits of Maineen Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai.

The unique feature of this ad- venture was the presence on board the junk of Luba Schenikn!! and Olga Alksner, both of whom gave up their jobs at a high class French- town restaurant to sail with the Adventure.

DIVORCE PETITION

The divorce petition of Dorothy Isabel Tan, a European

woman, against her Chinese husband, Mr. Peng Yong Tan, a Singapore lawyer,

| was withdraws without prejudice to her rights to making a fresh pelition when the matter was heard before Mr. Justice Pedlow in the Singapore High Court.

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