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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind France's action last week lay persistent rumors buzzing in the Far East for the past month that Japan had eyes on the islands, planned to establish there a seaplane base to be used in a campaign against South China. So far no Japanese warships have been seen in the vicinity, but Japanese fishermen and workers have been shipped to the reefs in increasing numbers...
...Going to be Rich (Twentieth Century-Fox). Since a British comedienne named Gracie Fields has for the past few years been the reputedly highest paid cinemactress in the world, U. S. cinemaddicts may wonder: 1) why Fields pictures have never been exhibited in the U. S.; 2) why British audiences find her so funny. This first of three Fields pictures which Twentieth Century-Fox plans to make in its Pinewood studios, begs the first question but answers the second. An uproarious, rough & tumble comedy about life before the turn of the Century in the gold camps of South Africa...
...Husky, 40-year-old Reginald A. Whitcombe, youngest of Britain's three famed Whitcombe brothers who during the past 15 years have won almost every major golfing prize in the Empire: the British Open golf championship; defeating a predominantly British field; with a 72-hole score of 295, two strokes better than second-place Jim Adams of Scotland and three strokes better than the favorite, Defending Champion Henry Cotton, considered by many the world's No. 1 professional golfer; at Sandwich. To Brother Reggie went the distinction of being the first of the Whitcombes to win the Open...
Comparatively stable financially, only 126 have folded or merged during the past seven years. Their average circulation is nearly 2,000. They serve more than half the population of the U. S. While their columns now include many of the features found in dailies, and streamlined autos have joined the pills among the ads, they remain the most authentic expressions of U. S. rural life...
Died. Mabelle Horlick Sidley, 61, daughter of the late William Horlick (founder of the Horlick Malted Milk Corp.); of brain edema; in the home of rich and eccentric Toronto Attorney William Perkins Bull, where she had resided for the past year. Three days later died Widow Horlick, 88, from shock, in Racine...