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A Paramount Picture starring
BOB HOPE. PAULETTE GODDARD was "Joker Boal-DouglassTM Montgomery - Gale Sondergaard- Elizabeth Patterson · George Zucco - Directed by Klett Kugont
SUNDAY
FRANK LLOYD'S
"RULERS OF THE SEA
Starring
Douglas FAIRBANKS,}. Margaret LOCKWOOD
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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
January 5, 1940.
Allied Blockade Cuts Reich from 6 of 7 Seas
DANUBE BECOMES THE
NAZI
LONDON, Jan. 3 (UP).—|— Confronted with an Allied blockade which is slowly and surely tightening, it is reported that Germany is turning increasingly to- wards the Danube as a means of obtaining supplies and shipping her exports.
The Allied blockade has cut Germany off from all but one of the seven seas.
The exception is the Baltic, through which Germany is re- portedly obtaining so far only Russian timber and Swedish iron ore.
Two-thirds of the latter have to) be shipped round Norway's Atlantic coust.
Russian ships almost all of her oll, wheat, fodder, and manganese are
from exporla
Black Sca wherefore increased German trade! with the South-east and Russia de pends upon an extension of Danube shipping.
There are. however, technical difficulties in the way of unlimited! expansion.
Waler Too Low
Firstly, below Vienna the Danube rushes downhill with increasing force, and upriver traffic is only pract
LIFE-LINE
King Orders Windsor Estate to Be Ploughed
LONDON, Jan. 3 (UP)~The King, has given orders that more land is to be put under the plough at his Windsor farms, No that extra crops of wheat and barley may be grown.
The vegetable production at Windsor Castle is also to be considerably increased,
The royal herds of pedigree cattle will be maintained, The King's three year old colt Cosmopolitan has been sold privately to the British Bloodstock Agency, Cosmopolitan who won a sprint handleny at Newmarket in July is by Sir Cosmo out of Papilin,
MERCY
SLAYER
FACED WITH
ELECTRIC CHAIR
NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UP).-Authorities indicate
cable by us convoys; secondly no that there will likely be little mercy for "Mercy" slayer
vessel larger than 600 tons can pase the Iron Gale.
In summer and autumn the water is often too low even for such ships,
|Lawrence Rougeau, 26.
Their investigation seemed to prove that five-year- whilst in winter the lower reaches, old James Fitzpatrick, his victim and step-son, had been a
sometimes as far as wholly closed to ice.
Vienna, are
The three German controlled com-
of
panies. Bonnu Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft, Bayrische Lloyd and Czech SDP, own together between 350,000 and 100,000 tons
Lugs, barges and lighters. In addition there are a further 375,000 tons of simlar vessels sailing under Hungar ian, Rumaniats, and Yugoslav Bags, as well as some British, Dutch, and French river tankers.
normal child in all respects.
Rougeau's case represented the worst fears of authorities
Cotton Price and social workers come true.
Control
LONDON, Jan. 4 (Reuler).—The new Ministry of Supply order docs ail were available to Germany, not contral Faw. cotton prices but.
He had read in detail of two fathers who had killed their hopelessly imbecile sons,
A person of no greal intelligence, i Rougeau heard his step son murmur and moun in his sleep:
it is stated that only half her pre- with certain exceptions, regulates the war trade could be carried by river. prices of single cuttos yarn of Ameri- This convinced him, he told police,
It is believed that Germany in-can and Egyptian type by prescribing that the child was "going crazy like tends tq transfer tugs and barges specific "margins" for each type and from the hire, where shipping is quality. almost paralyzed, but
Rhine- the
his mother," whose mind The controlled price of any yarn deranged after childbirth.
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George Bancall Montage Lave
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"THE CAT & THE CANARY"
PAULETTE GODDARD & BOB HOPE
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Maine-Danube canal will need at sold will be ascertained by adding an He awakened Jimmy, told him
least another year's labour before appropriate margin to the tuin re-
presenting the cost of Pow cotton they were going to play "cops and transfer will be possible.
robbers." bound his hands and feet Thus concentration on the Danube used.
The system follows on #4 general with neckties, then drowned him in as a means of evading the blockade is not expected to provide an imine the existing voluntary yarn price the bathtub, mediate solution to Germany's agreement,
In general, the margins Bxed are) dilemuna, despite starting upriver traffle at Turnu Severin, above the appreciably lower than those Iron Gate, with larger Rumanian valling, and it is hoped that one im- tugs plying the lower part of the portant result will be to assist export
trade. river from the Black Sea coast.
PORTUGAL HIT
BY FLOODS
LISBON, Jan. 4 (Reuter)The
floods which hit Portugal in the post two days are growing worac, and large areas are now under water.
submerged Some 50 villages are and hundreds of head of cattle have been lost.
NEW US. LEGAL APPOINTMENTS
pre-
HOSPITAL BURNT
DOWN
Shocking Action By Japanese Troops
Gave Himself Up
Rougeau then left the tenement and surrendered to the policeman on the beat. His attitude was that he deserved sympathy if not commenda- ilon. He received neither. Charged by police with humilde, prosecuting authorities indicated he would be in- dicted for first degree murder which is punishable by death.
Rougeau acknowledged to authori- ties that he had been impressed by the melancholy roles in which the other mercy slayers hud appeared. He wore, among other indications of British Consul-Ceneral alla strong sense of vanity, on Imita- Tsingtao has made representations, tion of a star sapphire of a size that to the Japanese following the burn- would be worth perhaps several
SHANGHAI, Jan. 4 (Reuter).
The
ing of the English Methodist Mission hundred thousand dollars if genuine
hospital at Chuchle, near Wulinglu, and flawless.
in Shantung on December 25 by
Japanese troops, in retaliation for al-
He knew even the names of his leged treatment of wounded gueril-two New York predecessors--Lous Greenfield, a miltiner, who killed his
WASHINGTON, Jan, 4 (Reuter).-las. Mr. Francia Biddle, at present a Judge) Before depurling, the Japanese are 17 year old imbecile son, and was in the Circuit Court of Appeals, has reported to have inade a threat to acquitted by n jury of manslaughter. been nominated Solicitor-General. burn the Church and foreign houses and Louls Repouille, who chloro- Mr. Frank Murphy replaces Judge in the Mission compound at a later formed his 13 year old imbecile son, Plerce Biller, who died in November, date.
on the Supreme Court,
He is the President's fifth nominee
to the nine-men Court.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 4 (UP).—A
few hours after attending the opening
Italian Envoy Returning
Raymond. Both these children had been imbecilic and physically de- Acient from birth and had been certified as hopeless by competent medical authority.
Repoullle was released on $5,000 bond provided by a surety company gratis. He was greeted in his tene
! the nessloh, Representative Wallace E. Fleree, New York, died from a heart attack. Ile was the MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (Reuter)-Thement flat by his wife, Florence, who
third Representative to succumb in Italian Ambassador left for Rome to-is sticking by him, and their four
1940.
night.
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