Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 4 England Builds Largest Base ' At Singapore French Convicts Leave for Prison Isle Belgrade People Dream of Childless Husband Postman Covers Add English to Broken After Sixteen Years 275000 Miles in Serving Clients Language Study and demanded th Brazil to th BELLO BELGRADE June S (AT — Every' In Belgrade who wants to appear educated seems to b study lng English just as before the war people took up German and later French Course by an English-speakin- g club has 130 pupils with ten times that number on the waiting liat An English kindergarten has 44 children An English pubho school Is planned Institutions complain they cannot accept nearly all applicants for English course because Of lack of room Even private teachers cannot handle application for English studies on Japan Sees Aggressive Move in $75000000 Fortress for Pacific SettleSINGAPORE Strait ments June 6 CP)— Within eight years England has converted a vast waste area of jungle and swamp into the most powerful naval base in the world the cost of which Is put at $75000000 Japan ever suspicious says this naval base Is aggressive and is directed at Js pan’s interests in the far east and in' the Pacific While the general opinion is that the Singapore naval base Is intend' ed primarily to protect Australia and New Zealand against possible Japanese designs the British au thorities reply to Japanese fears of British aggression by saying that the great new fortress at Sings of the pore which is the cross-road- s oriental and occidental worlds Is purely defensive and that It will never be used as an Instrument of offensive warfare against any nation Outside Fighting Bangs British naval officials havs more than once pointed out that Singapore is as far from Tokyo or Yokohama as Gibraltar is from ths United States coast a distance of approximately 3000 miles which they declare is well outside the generally accepted naval fighting range “Would anybody say therefore" said Commodore W P Mark Ward-lanaval commander of the Singapore base to the Associated Press correspondent “that our bass at Gibraltar I a menace to the United States? That it seems to ms disposes of Japan’s argument that our naval base at Singapore might threaten Japanese Interests In th £ School Official Jailed At th same time Commodore Wardlaw failed to mention that the British fleet would b In a position from Singapore to steam through th Dutch East Indian seas to the east toward Arafura sea north of Australia and block any possible Japanese fleet with designs on Australia and New Zealand That indeed neutral naval experts say is th main object of basing England’s far eastern fleet upon Singapore which besides being powerfully fortified has docking and refitting facilities for th largest battleships in th world Edison Kin Dies CAN JUAN Puerto Rioo June S (A)—Mrs Robert A Miller 78 years old a sister-in-laof ths late Thomas Edison died hers Saturday Bh was the widow of the first American postmaster at Ponce 1 J HORIZONTE had bean married Juns tBV-Th- ey II years when buxom Evangeline Rltta 43 told Joss hsr husband that their dream of some day having a baby was te com true Joss had grown morbid through th long childless yean and when his wife gave kirn th news h was wild with happiness On twilight b returned from work in tbo fields rushed excitedly into th room whsr Evangeline lay and found a tiny bundle snuggled doss to hsr 8b said: “It Is a boy ItlsMano-lztnh- o for whom ws have prayed” Jm ran out to find tho priest When he returned breathless with th churchman his wif lay crying “H died” she said “Manoelzin-h- o was born— and now he is dead” Joe built s tiny coffin His wif with her own hands placed the bundle In it and took it to a grave Jos bad sadly dug But Jose’s sister told what had happened was suspicious So went cof- - police fin be opened When they lifted th was Msnoslzlnbo— a rag lid there dolL Commons Restaurant Fails to Pay Its Way DUBLIN Juns 8 MET — After trudglng273000 miles in 83 years Postman Thoms Slowsy of County Cavan has retired not to give his feet a rest he says but Justvbecause he's tired of delivering mail Slowey is the father of th Reverend James Slowey of Syracuse N Y Starting at the age of 13 he has walked 17 mile a day six days a week Today he is on of th town’s most vigorous figures and aays ho owes it all to walking June 8 CW— Th manIn th house restaurant of ths agers oPcommons haven't found a way yet to make th restaurant pay Its way Th committee on kitchen and refreshment rooms reported there was a deficit of about $3000 In 1938 and said tbo time was approaching when ths committee would hsvo to credit message facilities for govcall on th treasury for a ntw sub- ernment In three departments sidy— or discontinue th restaurant years the ministry of communications had to write off three million China Stops Credit dollara worth es bad debts all for telegrams sent by and to branches' Telegraph Messages of ths government ina’ Don’t be too meager with descripNANKING June I national telegraph administration tions in your Wants — tell all the ha had to put atop to collect and important facts LONDON UPT-Ch- C£y? ‘ Vf7 iA A f’ £’ lY fegfr'Sf- Kpr‘ - A ibr Wl These French convicts aro shown boarding a prison ship— leaving their native land for the last time The more than 000 In- - - China Gets 10 Million Bibles July I and other foreign Bible societies distributed more than 10000 000 copies of ths Scriptures in China last year Most of these were produced by th great presses of th British and Foreign Bible society' Th Scriptures art of Shanghai printed In 84 Chines dialects In th 130 years since th publication of tho first Chines New Testament th total number of Bible circulated In China exceed 100000000 eopitl Military and political aggression floods famines domestic misfortune and tragedy and sorrow gintrally arc Assigned as th rsssons for th inersss in th sal of Blblss In China SHANGHAI fofwtmch for Wedding Rings 3 Diamonds in the latest style Wedding Ring Mount- tog— CQ "7C Hundred t of Smart Netc Wedding Ring s at Reasonable Prices BEAUTIFUL WEDDING 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I here presented) By DEWITT MACKENZIE DEVIL’S ISLA ND French Guiana June 0 He Du Salut”— Diablo Royale and St Joseph— poke their hot noses above th green equatorial waters of the South Atlantic a mere ten miles from the low lying coast of French Guiana Only oh is the true ‘Tie Du Her it was that th late Captain Alfred Dreyfus condemned for treason hut later acquitted built with his own hands th great stone settee on which this account la composed But all three have become known through grim and awesome legend as “Dsvll’s island” Once it was reputed a hell on earth a place of chains of misery of physical torture Today all is not honey and flowers but hundred of convicted men seem to live and work on thee three isles in health and with a much contentment as is permitted to those who must pay th penalty for major transgression against society 8000 Prisoner There ar several pnltntlarls In Francb Guiana All told thr ar about 8000 prisontrt Including on the mainland th traglo "Legion of the Lost" th impovrishd semi free “libra” who must remain in th colony even after thlr actual penal term arc completed AU ths mn were brought from France and her possessions Insofar as attractiveness and healthful conditions aro concornsd Lea He Du Salut form a little spot of heaven as compared with th in' hospitable regions of the parent land to th west Despite their nearness howtvtr the trio might well be at tho south pole in point of accessibility for visitor Th Islands snuggle close together like young birds in a nest Royale and 8t Joseph lie inside next the mainland and Diable smallest of the three but most widely known of all the world’s places of punishment breasts the open waters of the ocean to the east Striking Contrast Devil's island is a striking contrast to the soft beauty of the other two It is the' black sheep of the family— handsome and having almost hypnotic fascination but with a hard Satanic face It is a solid rock which at its highest point is only 63 feet in altitude There is little soil on its 14 hectares (3414 acres) and plant life ia comparatively spars except for a multitude of lofty coconut palms which cling tenaciously to the thin earth in the face of rains and winds Over this lurks a spirit of the primitive Nowhere can one escape it It is so omnipresent that it seems a living thing On feels it brush one’s cheek or touch one’s shoulder a mystic something It Is the soul of lie Du Diable Presumably Devil’s island got its name because of this primeval presence coupled with the fact that the fierce currents and waves which lash the rock gives out a constant hiss and roar that—carries across the other twtf islands and beyond There are only a dozen small Dl-abl- JUNE SPECIALS June Special eluded In this shipment were bound for prison and hard labor at Devil’s island French Guiana penal settlement (AT-Am-irl-can See I JUAREZ Mex June I UP) — Ramon Espinoza Villanueva a fed ersl school official here was placed la Jail Saturday on charges he had 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