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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

LOST BOY TRIED FOR

FILM PART

'HID' BY LOOKING OUT OF WINDOW

SOUTHEND. THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD song-writer Ronald Ernest

Crafer

who ran away from his home in Dalmatia-road, Southend, recenty, returned home three days later.

His face was black with the smuts from the engine. He had travelled by train from London-standing with his head out of the window so that the people in the carriage would not recognise him from the description in their evening papers.

Ronald's parents thought he had gone to the B.B.C. in London to try: to get music he had composed played

on the radio.

After ho had been well scrubbed, Ronald said he went to Kensington because he did not think he was getting an equal break with others, and he wanted to go to an audition for a flim where boys of thirteen were wanted.

He found the audition was to be hold at a later date and wandered round the museums tili they closed.

"I drew out the 14s. I had in the bank before I left," he said. "After the museums closed I wandered to Battersea and slept the night on board a motor-baat in the river.

"All yesterday wandered about mostly in Kensington and slept in the boat again last night. To-day I wandered along the river until came to Shadwell, where I caught a train for Southend.

GOERING BANS THE

LAMBETH WALK

Members of the German Air Forco are forbidden by a special decree, signed by Field-Marshal Goering, to dance the Lambeth Walk

This dance is sald to present an "undimified pleture not in keeping with the serious tasks of the Air Force."

Air Force bands in uniform may not play the tune.

Despite this, and similar bans, the Lambeth Walk remains wildly popular throughout Ger- many.

The last of my 14s. went in buying

ticket home."

Mra. Crater sald: "Ronald has

"I knew to-day won half term at been trying to get music publishers school and I intended to be back in or the B.B.C. to take up his songs. time for my lessons in the morning. He is a radio fan."

Actress's 6-Storey Death-Leap

NEW YORK.

Melancholy and tired of a life which brought her four hus bands and four divorces, beautiful Gladys Frazin Banks, actress and former wife of Monty Banks, producer of Gracic Fields's films, sat by the window of her Now York apartment all night recently contemplating suicide-and at dawn made the jump that killed her.

Spanish Children

Large families--that's what Generalissimo Franco, Spanish dictator, likes. Hero, at Burgos, he is being cheered after pre- senting subsidies to parents having the largest number of children under 14 years of age. Subsidies were given to 30 famliles in the area.

They Call Them Sardine Tins Down In Clarkson-St., E.

May 2, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

INDIAN FINANCE BILL'S FATE

New Delhi,

Mr. Jinnah sealed the fate of the Finance Bill in the Central Assembly recently by declaring non-co-opera- tion.

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The Mosiem League party, which Mr. Jinnah is the head, is deeply concerned over the recent meetings between the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, and Mr. Gandhi. The party suspects. that these meetings are designed to reach an understanding on Federation over the head of the Moslem opposition.

Mr. Jinnah charged the Paramount Power in the States and the Gover nors in Congress-governed Provinces with falling in the protection minorities. He equally. condemned Congress for the treatment of Mos- lems.

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He sald that in both cases Moslems would fight to their last breath, but meanwhile to oppose the Government on detalls of the Finance Bill-meant helping Congress, since the League. held the balance of power. There- fore he refused to vote.

This leaves Congress and Ita sup- porters outnumbering the Govern ment, so that the bill, which includes the enhanced import duty on raw cotton, will have to be certified by the Viceroy.

BRITISH GUIANA

JEWISH INQUIRY

ENDING

Georgetown. Tile members of the Commission investigating the possibilities Jewish immigration in British Gulang of will all return from the Rupununi

district shortly.

STANDING or sitting, which way do you take up least room?

they were asking recently across the front fences in Beth-expert, recently flew to New York. nal Green, E.

All along Clarkson-street women

and children were waiting at front the only one in all the back-yards The Pattens have a cherry trec, doors, having half-hour holiday of their street and the next one. from work while delivery mon heaved A.R.P. shelter parts back-yards.

or

"It's been here eighty years into more," she said. "In May you can smell it from way down at the other

They don't look big enough to end of the row." hold all of us," said the women.

Mrs. Edith Stewart, who lives

MUST WE PAY?

a few doors away from the Pattens.

PROBLEM No. 1: Mr. Wright wants to know Can a man really put up the shelter by him-

upstairs at No. 27 with her husblems to Mr. and Mrs. Percy Wright, The new shelter brought two pro- band and baby, said: "We'll be live sardines, tin and all." Below the Stewarts live Mrs. Cordelia Cable, her husband, their three children. altogether in this house, if they don't "That's eight get the children away in time."

is

and

Each shelter, according to officials, supposed to hold four people. But that brings little comfort to Mr. and Mrs. Patton, at 23, Clark

son-street.

cubic

self?

"If we can't," said Mr. Wright, "we will have extra rates to pay."

Daniel J. King, lown clerk of Bethnal Green, in a circular letter, says: "The more people who get the A taxl-driver cruising along West, ond she was broken-hearted because

council to erect and sink shelters, End-avenue saw her body, dressed she could not make a come-back."

"We are small eaters; really," said

the more will be the cost of your in cerise pyjamas, fall to the pave

Mrs. Banks, who made her name big people.

Mrs. Patten. "We're just naturally rates; but this is better than having ment from a sixth storey window. in London by one line in an Ameri-stone, my husband. And look at me.

He's about seventeen structed."

the shelters not properly con- can play, "FORGIVE ME'

"The Trial of Mary I'm fourteen stone and six feet tall |Dugan" "You can't ride to hell in

PROBLEM No. 2: Mrs. Wright Beside her bed, which had nota wheelbarrow"-tried to retain hom without high heels."

wants to know-How am I going JUST ROOM

to get the family into the shel- Mrs. Patten worked out

ter "We've five of us here, all adults," "Then there is Oscar, the rabbit, two cages and live canaries). and Freda tos.""

Freda is the cat. And just to give Mrs. Wright an extra problem there was a smear of It's-from-these girders, lady, the red along the wallpaper in the hall delivery man sald. "They're drip broad-ping wet with paint."

Oh,

been slept in, the police found association with the stage by train- note which read: "Dear mother ending her nineteen-year-old son Leo. dad-Please forgive me for what But lately even that task did not capacities and decided there would she said. am doing.

I cannot suffer any satisfy her yearning for the foot-Just be room for them in their longer. Lave, Gladys."

According to Raplinel Sacks, almarried Monly Banks, her

lights,

hts, make-up and, above all, the shelter. But not much left over for and the birds [four budgerigars in tique dealer, who lived opposite,

the young couple who live upstairs. Mrs. Banks climbed from the win fourth husband, secretly in America 6ins, wide, oft, high, would have 170.4 The shelters, Oft. Gins. long, 4ft. dow the previous evening, looked up in 1929. They first met in a London cubic feet of space inside them-i and down the street, then climbed hotel lift. Three years later they the roof didn't curve. back.

The curve, Banks accusing her of cruelty and wall, cuts off about thirty cubic feet were divorced in Hollywood, Mr. beginning about four feet up the frequent disappearances from home of the space."

He saw her later staring moodily out of the window.

Mrs. Banks had been depressed for He claimed that she was often in- months. Each evening, according to toxicated. her brother, she went to bed dream- ing of repeating the success she made in the part of Tondelayo in "White Cargo."

And each dawn she

awoke, just another actress out of work.

This morning's dawn was the last she could face,"

SHE NEVER FORGOT

Con Men Lose To

Their Elder

Cleveland, O.

Assuming the Pattens, shouldered and broad-hipped, to be cylindrical with diameters of twenty

inches, they alone, without bulity

coats, boots, chairs or benches, will Hat Valued At $500

space.

take up twenty-six cuble fect of But human beings need more than their own cubic capacity to live In.

Philadelphia.

When two confidence men asked 78-

A man's Panama straw hat valued at $500 was exibited here at the year-old Adolph Schand to withdraw "I wonder if there will be any room convention of the Merchant Tailor "She was grief-stricken at being citizen," he agreed, but insisted that "And I wonder if we can get the woven of braid thread-like in tex- $1,200 to prove himself a "substantial for air to breathe," said Mrs. Patten. Designers' Association, The hat was unable to Ket

a job," Bald her they accompany him to the bank, shelter into the garden without up-ture and resembled a brother, Louis Franzin. "She could They walked off rather than never forget her success on the stage, the bank, he said.

enter rooting our tree."

Germans Object To British Cantata

THE GERMAN Kulturgemeinde have objected to the performance of Vaughan Williams's cantata, "Dona Nobis Pacem," at Baden Baden International Music Festival.

Worke by Italian, Hungarian, French, Dutch and other com- posers were given at the Festival.

It was the original intention of the

festival authorities that a concert of Luise Rainer As Star

should

music by English composers have formed part of the scheme, and among the items suggested by the English promoters of this concert was the caplata."Dona Nobla Pacem."

thorities, is not clear..

In Deval Comedy

The title has not yet!

kerchief.

Iinen hand-

Quinine First Line Of Defence Against Malaria

Mr. E C. Bataille, the Anancial Two other American members, Dr. J. A. Rosen, left later. E. C. Ernst, ie chairman, and Dr.

The members will reunite in New York or London to draft their report.

It is generally believed here that the Commission Is Impressed by the wide variety of raw materials, con- vertible into industrial manufactures, such as ginasware, pottery, textiles, needs. population is supplying agricultural and paper. At present the 'coastal

The commission consists of experts who were sent out to British Guiana by the American Advisory Commit- tee on Refugees.

Rice Harte Mut Plan-A report by Mr. Parker, manager

of the Government rice mill' at Perak, re- commends that the British Guiana

Government should close privately- pwned rice mills and take over the industry. The Government. erect modern central units. CANADA

would

FOREIGN POLICY TO BE OUTLINED

Ottawa.

A broad interpretation of Canada's, foreign policy will be presented in the House of Commons when the De- the Department of External Affairs, fence Estimates or the Estimates of are brought down.

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This was stated by the Prime Min- ister, Mr. Mackenzie King, replying member for Toronto, who declared to Mr. Thomas Church, Conservative it was time the Government gave a detailed report on ito foreign policy:

Mr. Mackenzie King safd thought the appropriate time to dis- cuss the matter was when the Estim ales were introduced, which will be as soon as current Government legis- letion is disposed of. SOUTHERN RHODESIA FARMERS' SCHEME FOR MANUFACTURES

advocating

Salisbury. Farmers are taking the lead in the establishment of secondary industries to manufacture primary products and to improve the Iocal market for agricultural prices. A memorandum from the Mata- beleland Farmers' Union to Economic Development Committee suggests a textile factory, a tinned meat factory, the production of power alcohol from maize, the manufacture of sisal Abre, pepaln from papaws and starch from sweet potatoes.

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The Committee's attention is also drawn to the possibility of sugar, rice, tea, coffee and hemp growing on a larger scale.

Model of Victoria Falls-Good progress is being made with the con struction of the large model of the Victoria Falls which will be the main World's Fair, New York. The model feature of the Colony's exhibit at the

"QUININE retains its place as the wanted. Drainage and irrigation in Arst line of defence against malarla," the countryside, where food and M.C.S. officer, in the Asiatic Review Earth, are writes Mr. A. S. Haynes, former wealth are produced from Mother in an article on Malaria and Quinine large buildings in towns,

more important than in the East.

"Neglect brings a long chain of Mr. Haynes was chairman of the evils-soil erosion, gradual silting up Commission on Rural Hygiene which of rivers and other watercources the inter-governmental conference in poverty and apathy. By these and will be 1881 long and 22ft. high, toured Asia in 1936 preparatory to raised river beds, floods, malaria Java in 1037,

other means we must There are, of course, other contri-source, butory defences which the individual Jercas and intensively at frat perhaps. can undertake, such as the regular "There is great value in a demon-

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use of mosquito nets, better sanita-stration of some successful scheme. tion, cleanliness in and around houses. There is also great value in small. But in spite of the pre-eminent place units of administration, which are Luise Rainer, the Hollywood fim that the eradication of malaria by ly. To them it is more quickly dear occupied by quinine, the fact remains Rexible and can decide and act rapid- Whether the objection raised by the some weeks recently signed a con-

star, who has been in London for drugs is impossible. German Kulturgemeinde applies to tract with Henry Sherek to make her about this; a planter friend of mine creating the right nallonat habits.

that the conquest of malaria is a good modern English music in general or first stage appearance in England un-has not forgotten talking 40 grains of

"Planters could tell us something investment. There is value, too, in enly to works by Dr. Vaughan der his management. Williams (who lately received the Shakespeare, prize in Hamburg) or is to take the lending part in a is not enough,

By her express desire Misa Rainer Drugs are a defensive polley. That

quinine a day for threo

"In Malayo the Chinese drink months. wilether the sentiments expressed in comedy, and a play by Jacques Deval,

boiled water (weak tea) and use the text of this work are looked upon the French author of "Tovarich," has

zoosquito nets. I don't know who in the dim past established among with disfavour by the German

them must have a policy of

these national habits,

but attack; we must aim at nothing less

he was certalaly no doubter or than the conquest of malaria Wo

Waverer. must attack the mosquito self.

"And doubling and wavering are Such a polley is good business; the things we have got to get rid of. rubber Industry Malaya, the Also we must get rid of the bricks- fishponds and rico-fields in Java and-mortar mentality, put first things prove that. It is also good huma-first and subsilute attention to, for Old Testament, from lines by John

nity.

neglect of, tho Bright and by Walt Whitman. In Diat message, coming from one of the with it the economic condition and tion. By this means we shall get a There never has been a time when "Agriculture must be improved, and aims on a policy of rural reconstruc- these the relative values of war and greatest living.

So in the countryside.

end we must base our peace are keenly and strlicingly con-would be more signifcant, and there already seen that better husbandry administration and of all methods

English trasted.

musicians, the nutrition of the people. We have combination of all departments of the In no work written by an English out the hand of friendship to the maintial work

are many those who wish to hold goes hand-in-hand composer within the last decade has people of Germany who will bitterly

with anti-suitable to the problem whether land the longing for peace been

Improvement and reclamation, or passionately expressed.

regret the decision that has been that water can be got on to

There must be water control, so subsoll or other drainage, or oiling taken,

when wanted and got off it when not methods" adds Mr. Haynes,

land and spraying, or naturalistic

WAR AND PEACE

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been fixed.

Rehearsals havo started. There will be a short tour of the provinces "Dona Nobis Pacem" is one of the before the production goes to London. latest and most impressive

Luise Rainer is the wife of the Vaughan Williams's choral composi-Amertean dramatist, Clifford Odeta, tions. The words are taken from the

of

more

every minute.

Own Funeral. Arranged

PITTSFIELD, Mass. what her own funeral will be like. Here is one person who knows A Pittsfield woman has selected her casket, engaged the clergyman, set- tied with the undertaker, and la now making the dress she wishes to wear at her funeral.

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