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February 24, 1939.

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"ONCE ON DOLE AND CONCERNING

A TRAMP WITHOUT HOPE"

UPS This picture shows London babbles urging along a demonstrator who made too much noise when Prime Minister Chamberlain and leave Victoria Station for Itome. The Lord Halifax were about man was one of the Unemployed Workers Movement members who rioted, shouting, "Feed the unemployed, not Mussolini."

Prison Singers

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NEWS

SABOTAGE CAUSES

RAIL DISASTER

CALCUTTA.

Seven persons were killed and 60 injured in the derailment recently

of Life On Roads

COLLIER, SHIP'S RIGGER, TRAMP, AND NOW

this morning of the Calcutta-Dehraman

Dun exprcas, 210 milca from Colentta. Sabotage is suspected.

METHODIST MINISTER.

Such has been the colourful career of the Rev. Nor- Burns, aged 33, a Dundee man, who has charge of a church at Tilehurst, near Reading.

Mr. Burns said recently that 10 years ago he was at his wit's end.

The first and fast conches escaped, but the centre dve were derulled and over-turned. Fire broke out and rescue work was carried out in the light of the burning coaches. Only Time after time he had been the iron framework was left. Most thrown on the dole by a shortage of of the Injured are burned.

work and finally decided take to the road;

The driver is safe. He reported that he saw rails missing from the line. The engine Jumped the Rap,

but the tender was derailed,

This is the fifth derailment on the East Indian Railway in 18 months,

SOUTH AFRICA

£700,000 FORTUNE OF RAND PIONEER

CAPE TOWN.

A fortune of £710,000 has beca left by Mr. J. P. Koster, who died, aged $1, at Cape Town on Nov. 24. A German by birth, Koster came to South Africa as a young man. be- coming one of the early ploneers of

For months he tramped the coun-

try doing odd jobs, sleeping in usual wards and sometimes in the open air,

WAS WITHOUT HOPE "Life

meant nothing to me. There did not seem to be anything worth living for," he said.

To-day he is looking forward riel whom he met lo marrying a after his arrival at Tilehurst two years ago,

Daughter For Noted] Expert On Malaria

London.

IXTY-FIVE-YEARS-OLD, Sir Mal-

colm Watson, world famous malaria expert who spent many years in Malaya and who last year married his assistant, Miss Constance Evelyn Loring, recently hecame the father of a daughter.

Miss Loring joined the Ross In- | stitute of Tropical Hygiene, of which Sir Malcolm is director, at its open-

Malcolm Watson

"After I had wandered through-in in 1928, was an assistant in the put almost every county in England Department of Bacteriology and was I returned to my senses to some assistant to Sir extent and went back to Newcastle," since 1029.

She accompanied him on his visit His main mining Interest was in

"There I attended a religious to Malaya in 1937 with Dr. George the New Modderfontein Gold Mine.mecting in a cottage, and was con- MacDonald, Assistant-Director of the BURMA

the land.

STUDENTS' STRIKE

SPREADS

RANGOON. The students' strike has spread to industrial workers. Omnibus ser- vices are not running. Columnus of marceliers

are parading through streets darkened by the smashing of street lamps. Buddhist priests are active, and the tone of the Burmese Press is extremely violent.

It is generally felt that Government assertion of authority is needed. As yel, however, only a few arrests have been made among the leaders. The was release of these has been promptly I included among the strikers' demands.

singing and

musical Heins emanating from within prison walls, Sydney, N. S. W. A concert given by the Inmates of

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Mr. Burns disclosed.

verted.

"Later I met Mr. Jack Graham, former chairman of Newcastle United FC, and a local preacher.

"He introduced me to the late Rev. D. L. Pawson, who persuaded some local business men interested in the Jchurch to advance money for my instruction as a Methodist minister at CHAT College, Derbyshire.

SMASHES SNOBBERY

Institute.

in

A son of Sir Malcolm's Arst ma vlage, Mr. M. J. T. Watson, is Singapore, being manager of Printers, Limited.

Cat On Campus Payroll

BURLINGTON, VI.

After his training Mr. Burns spent five and a half adventurous years working among the fisherfolk and lumberjacks of Labrador and Newmont payroll at $16 a year. His duty foundland.

A cat is on the University of Ver-

Mr. Burns confesses that he Isis to catch mice that may invade the Anding it difficult to adjust himself University greenhou Frightened to church routine after his rough life of children, the nameless black feline

the West.

prefers to associate with faculty members.

in the

ins

myself am my worst pro- blem,” he said.

"But my experience as a tramp me a deep understanding: problems.

for human

#1 know how terrible the effect of unemployment can be,

"It makes a man unemployable: and kills his hope and self-respect.

It

"To be down ond out armashes) every spot of snobbery in you. maken you accept men as men.”

A Mauve Dress Made Him Famous

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Two women and a young man sal recently in a lecture theatre at the Royal Institution, W., and watch- ed n professor show how one of their angcatora made a mistake That brought him prosperity,

James Henry

The lecturer. Professor Kendall, told how William Perklas discovered aniline dye.

in the audience were Perkin's daughters, Miss Perkins, of Notting Hill Gate, W., and Mrs. Kirkpatick, of Ealing, W., and a grandson. Mr. Peter Kirkpatrick.

Perkins

was trying to prepare quinine artificially when he found the dye instead.

His dye was mauve, not a popular colour for women's dresses in Britain nearly a century ago.

But in 1862 Queen Victoria changed all that. In half-mourning for the Prince Consort, she bought a mauve at the Royal Exhibition.

dress

The colour became immediately fashionable. The dye industry Per king had founded flourished. He was knighted.

Professor Kendall showed a plece

of the actual material from which the mauve mourning dress was made.

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