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£1,000,000 WILL.
MR. LEVINE'S DRAMATIC '
SURPRISE.
WIFE'S "HE MUSTN'T.GO!"
Dramatic as WOS
the start of
quickly. "He's all right; he will get there. You should be proud of him."
SOLID RESULTS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The crowd cheered as the "plane MR. AMERY & THE COLONIAL
drove toward the sun, a great ball of fire above the hills, and dis- appeared. Mr. Levine had rehabl- litated himself gloriously with thei pubile.
CONFERENCE.
"LIGHTING A CANDLE."
general conditions are similar, has made no little progress during our discussions, and I shall look for- ment of the idea, either through ward with interest to the develop
group conferences of the special services or otherwise, in the near future,
The members of the Conference were received recently by the Prime Minister at No. 10, Downing-street,
A WOMAN SPY.
3,000 WORDS ON A PAIR OF EYE-GLASSES.
POSTHUMOUS HONOURS.
Louise De Bettignies, a young
Lindbergh for Paris, that of the several million dollars by shrewd ter relationship between ourselves, when Mr. Baldwin expressed his Frenchwoman, who became one of
Beliance monoplane Columbia for either Rome or Berlin
still more dramatic.
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At the lust moment its owner, Mr. Charles A. Lovine, the target
A man now of 30, he made
"We have created a new and bet- business methods after the war. between colony and colony, as well He is a hard, matter-of-fact man
as between the Colonies, collective with only a limited education. But
and the Central Office here," ly he had ambitions which could not said Mr. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, at the final sitting of the Colonial Office Conference recently,
be satisfied by business success, and he went into flying.
He bought the Columbia and en-
for weeks past of vicious criticism tered it for a Tran-Atlantic flight. "It is not only a personal rela- and a man convicted in popular But he became involved in dis-lonship; that was good before. It estimation of "sor sportsman-putes, financial and otherwise, with ship," took his sent beside Mr. Clar- the designer. One of his friends ence Chamberlin, the pilot, and de said to him. "You have commer- parted as the first passenger on a cinlised a splendid sport. You have cross Atlantic flight.
fallen short in the eyes of the world. You must redeem yourself."
Secret Plans And a Will. Mr. Levine, utterly puzzled, ask- ed himself, "How?" He made his plans secretty. He spent the night before the fight in Mr. Chamber-
is a new intellectual relationship, a sense that we are emerging from the merely negative conception of control and direction by the Colon- ial Office to a more positive concep- tion that we are all partners to- gether in a great creative cater- prise, fascinating in its interest and transcendent in its importance.
"We have achieved solid results in more than one direction. Cor- tain things stand out. We have
Air, Levine's beautiful wife could not believe her eyes when she saw her husband a short and partly bald man, emerge from the mass of peo ple whom he had been con-
among sealed and climb quickly into his place as if afraid of being stopped He was bare hended and wore orlin's room. He wrote a letter to endorsed whole-heartedly the prin dinary clothes, with a leather vest his wife, to be delivered after hisciple of collective action, of collec- Instead of a roat.
Looking neither at the crowd nor departure, telling her why he had tive finance, and of an efficient cen- at his wife, who stood a little in decided to take the same risk astral organisation in the field of front and to one side of the plane his pilot. He wrote to his lawyer scientific research." he crouched down beside the pilot. instructing him to continue certain charities. He made will dispes- Mrs. Levine stared incredulously
ing of an estate worth £1,000,000. and shouted: "Stop him! He's go- ihg along. ile mustn't Ko!" the motors rared and the Columbia atarted down the run-way,
is
Research.
In agricultural research, he de- All night he worked. But his let-clured, they had crystallised that ters were not desperate ones. He had principle in their acceptance of the supreme confidence in the pilot who main outlines of the proposals em- Then she uttered a shriek of re-a few weeks ago, when the Colum-bodied in the report of the Commit Bef: "Oh! He's not going? He's not bia lost its landing wheels while his tee, which owed so much to the ac- going!" as the plane came to a sud-ttle daughter was aboard, effect cumulated experience in this sub den stop and taxied back to the safe landing with magnificent jeet and infectious enthusiasm of starting point.
its Chuirman, Lard Lovat,
The Crowd Sneers..
skill.
to
And so keeping secret the iden- tity of Mr. Chamberlin's companion As a smatter of fact, it had been and allowing the public to believe halted by the crowd of sightseers that Mrs. Chamberlin was scattered over the course. But the company her husband across the public knew nothing of this; they Atlantic because he knew his own sneered. They have been sneering wife would not allow him to go if ever since a long series of unedify-she were acquainted with his plans, ing disputes broke out between Mr. he waited catil the last second und Levine and his pilots and the de-thera shrinkingly climbed into the signer of the 'plane, Giuseppy. Bel- | Columbia. lanca, who finally washed his hands of the whole affair. It was openly stated that the Columbia would never attempt a Trans-Atlantic flight.
Mussolini or Hindenburg.
Mr. Levine, though only a senger, knows how to fly. He can
handle the "joy stick," and Mr.
He had every confidence that when these proposals had been fur- ther worked out and submitted to the various Governments they would commend themselves for gen- eral concurrence and co-operation. if so, they would,
Latimer's a cardie" and words, have "lit established far-reaching and vital precedent for future action, not only in the Colonial sphere, but beyond.
a
in
The Conference had definitely in- structed the new joint Medical Re- pasearch Council to work out and submit to the Government's pro- Hence when it returned to the Chamberlin says if he has a con- search which would inevitably be
posal for scheme of medical re starting point one of the engineers panion who can take his place for on no less brand a basis than the ran to Mrs. Levine and reassured brief intervals and who can empty scheme of agricultural research. her. "It's all right,” he said, "it's only, a test run. But Mr. Levine cans of petrol into the tanks, and and they had, at any rate, visualis did not descend. A moment later then throw the cans away, that led the prospect of both veterinary
all he requires of him. the pilot opened the throttle wide, The Columbia ran 2,600 feet, and then, despite its immense weight, left the ground ensily, rose high
above the crowds, and was off.
A Glorious "Come-Back." Mrs. Levin staggered, and ap peared about to faint, but a friend caught her in his arms and shouted
All this Mr. Levine can do, and his wife to-day is quite cheerful, having received his letter telling her to "hop aboard the next steamer and join him in greeting Mussolini or lindenburg as the ease may be, fur at the moment of departure Mr. Chamberlin had not decided where he would land.
of
sense of the value of the work that the most formidable British secret was being done by the Colonial aer-agents during the great war, is to vices to the Empire as a whole. have a memorial unveiled in her report of the conference proceed in the latter part of June.
It is anticipated that the official honour by Marshal Foch at Lilis Ings will be issued.
SAWMILLINE MAINDER
Miss Gladys M. Pyle, who has the distinction of being the first woman to hold the position of Secretary of State. Miss Pyle, was the first woman elected to the legislature of South Dakota and has now been elevated to the position of Secretary of State of South Dakota.
always infinitely the more beauti- The male in all species is ful.-Mr. St. John Ervine.
Mle, de Bettignies, under the direction of the British military intelligence service, organised in the Lille district in the early part of 1915 a vast net-work of spies, who furnished a complete report of
German troop movements, munition dumps, battery emplacements, and other military information.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1927.
The Information this organisa-| tion supplied was no accurate that the Allies were able to destroy the German batterios in the Little dis- trlot three times between May and August 1915, but Mllo. Vanhoutte, who is a native of Roubaix, waa finally trapped and arrested in Brussels in September, and Mlle. a few de Bettignies in Tournai weeks later.
They both denied being aples, and German police kept them in Saint Gilles prison until March 1916, when a court-martial condemned
them to death for espionage.
FORD LEADS.
LATEST LIST OF THE WORLD'S MILLIONAIRES.
BRITAIN'S RICH SEVENTEEN.
Great Britain's 17 wealthiest
men, should they combine their fer- tunes to-day, could not equal the fortune of the world's reputed wealthiest man-Henry Ford, ac- cording to unofficial statistics made The German authorities, on the publie recently.
intervention of the The 17 wealthiest men in Great prossing Spanish consul in Brussels, com- Britain, according to the statistics, 1 combined wealth of muted Mile, de Bettignies sentence have Vanhoutte's to Afteen years, Mile. to life imprisonment, and Mlle. $900,000,000, (gold). de Bettingnies dying in a German prison at Cologne to July 1918 and her companion being released after
She had more than a hundred the armistice.
In class one of the statisties are
placed the well-known ship owner, Sir John Ellerman, Lord Iveagh and possibly the Duke of West- minster, although the latter's for- tune is claimed to be mostly in in- tangible properties. It is claimed that Sir John Ellerman is the
The British Government decorat- trustworthy informers, including priests, doctors, policemen, schooled Mlle. de Bettignies posthumous- ly, and the British Army of Occu- teachers, and railwaymen, and unpation at Cologne rendered full wealthiest of the three so far as der the name of Alise Dubois, a pretended lace or cheese merchant, she risked her life day after day in going from one village to an- other to gather her reports.
Forged.
It was extremely difficult for par- sons in occupied territory to travel, and she had continually to use forged safe-conducts, which might have been discovered at any mo- ment,
She and Mile. Léonie Vanhoutte, her principal lieutenant, in spite of the close German surveillance, car: ried these reports daily for almost a year without being caught.
military honours when the body actual income is concerned, while the Duke of Westminster, if rated was moved to Lille in 1920.*
A few months ago Mme, Wey- by Income, would not fall within gand, the wife of Marshal Foch's this group. The combined fortunes former chief of staff, formed a of the group is estimated around committee to erect a monument to $300,000,000. this heroine, and chose Maxime Real del Surte, the French sculptor, to make the design.
Barney Barnato's Nephews.
Class two, comprised of those millionaires with estimated for- tunes of $75,000,000 or over, con- tains a larger number. In this group come Lord Rothermere, the holder of the most extensive newa- paper interests in the world; S. B. Joel and Solly Joel, both of whom owe something to heredity from their famous uncle, Barney Bar- nato, who founded some of the greatest diamond interests over known in South Africa,
WONDERS OF THE DEEP.
Mr. William Beebe, who has re- turned from an expedition to the coral reefs of Haiti, reports that he aaw 280 new species of fishes, They hid the messages in balls which, by wearing a helmet with a of yarn, umbrella handles, shoe glass front, he observed on the sea laces, corsets, and in. lighted bottom. A telephone attachment candles in cart lanterns. Some-enabled him to dictate to steno times the message was rolled into graphers aboard a schooner a des- In tiny ball and attached to a black cription of the fishes. A fish, one thread. If they became frightened foot wide, harboured upwards of as they approached a German sen-300 smaller living fish on its tune, but greatly increased it try they paid out the thread and stomach and ropelled larger fish then drew it in again after they with a poison to which smaller fiah had safely passed the danger.
were immune. Another fish effect. Sometimes the
final messageed a complete change of colour in ready for England was photograph-a few hours. Observations were ed on a small transparent film made at night by means of a power which was pasted on an eyeglass. ful searchlight.
They could put 3,000 words on a Mr. Beebe was clad only in a intelligence officers had to do to pair of glasses, and all the British bathing suit, and declared that he was never attacked, but moved read them was to throw the mes-about in the utmost safety.. sages on a big screen.
Sir David Yule, the philanth- ropiat, is also in this class. Sir David inherited much of his for-
through careful business tránsne- tions in India.
The late Lord Cowdray, one of the possessors of the few English "oil fortunes," is also placed in this class.
In the next class, consisting of possessors of fortunes below the $75,000,000 mark, are placed Lord Ashton, who made his fortune out of linoleum; Lord Woolavington, a distillery millionaire; Lord Dewar,
distillery millionaire; Lord Bearated, who inherited much of. his wealth and later more than doubled through shrewd invest- ments; Sir George Wils, the to-
owner of another large tobacco
Barbed Wire.
I think that the British Medi-a After walking about all day cal Association is the most tyran- gathering their reports the two nical trade union we have. Mr. young women often eat up all night Macquisten, M.P. In some hospitable tavern to com- Good Industrial relations start pile them, and the next night ran the gauntlet of the German sentries in the workshop and not in the and the electrically charged barbed House of Commons. Mr. Ber-wire along the frontier to deliver tram Austin.
research and forestry research be- Theft, lying, bribery, und cor ing included at a not toe distant ruption exist in every Foreign future. Mr. Amery added:
Office and Chancellery through- "The idea of unification, either out the world. Mr. Ponsonby. of actual services or at least terms of service, in order to facili- late transfers and offer a better career, if not over the general field of Colonial service at any rate, over wide groups of Colonies whose
them in Holland,
'The British people have kept baeco magnate, Bernhard Baron, the faithfully every promise made to combine. Lord Derby. the famous the Boers at Vereeniging-Gen.racing owner, and the Duke of Port- Smuts,
Jand.
Unusual'nersplane view of one of the Canadian Pacific's Pacific coast atramera, “Princess Patricia,” speeding through the Narrows at Vancenter.
The death of Inspector Wilfred Man- any of the C.P.R. Investimation De- partment recently, semaveď piene
of St. John Ambulance work in
Juliette Gautier de In Verendrye,
of the prominent artists at
folk song, and handleraft festival, to be held at the Chateau Fenalinac, Quebec, May 20 to 27.
Canadian Pacilic 2. Bu
Assiniboja.
| *ftowing through the "w" locks.
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Curious two-story Badoula dwelle Ing. situated on the shores of the Dead Sm., 1412 feel below sea Jevel
Over the top with the Prince of Wales. His Royal High- nem on Cark Courtler during the Brigade of Guards point to point race at Chipping Narton.
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Carefrak,m the Canadian Paciile meatser malanteista,
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Off to the Justgies, Berez' Polluxıl, photographer,, and Andy Buchanan, cruise repunitive, from Chicago, on the
· round the world ervice of the Canadian Pacific, “Empreau of Brothanud,” emulating (a couple of Ringling performern.