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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but -- our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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11
15
17 #8
13 14 15
1 12.
116
17
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114
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34 35 36
37 38 39
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50 151
52 53
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HORIZONTAL
1-Arrive at
6-Scattered rubbish
11-Mineral spring
12-Rules of poetry
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | 48-Adventurous 52-Charge for storing B-A vakiola 86-Abate
13-Another spelling of 57-Daughters of the
Noah
1B-Exause
16-Fruit (pl.)
17-River port in
Lancashire,
England
21-A red wine of Italy
24-Ever (poet.)
25-A meadow
26-Even (poet.) 27-The cage of an
elevator
28-Shrewd
29-A unit of work 20-A time period 31-Sooner than
32-It is, contracted
34 Corpulent
87-To come by
40-A totty mountain
42-A beverage 43-An American Indian 44-Hall (Latin)
45-A noted southern
generat
46-Confirmed
47-Outlaws
American Revolution (abbr.) 58-A priestess of
Apollo at Delphi 59-Pertaining to
yesterday
VERTICAL
1-Prefix. From B-Place where hides
are treated
3-The first Christian
missionary in any region
4-A unit of electriolty: &-Born
6-Edge of a wound 7-To fraczo
3-The wife of the Tear of Russla 9-To advance 10-The eggs of fish 11-Alme
14-To desire with eagerness 18-Narrates 119–Ovar (post.)
VERTICAL (Cont.) 20-To annoy by woolding A1-A latter of the alphabet 22-Porzonal pronoun E3-A emall tart 82-Pertaining to Italy 38-A large 8. African
antelope 34-Provide 35-Consumed 36-To spread for
drying 37~Prate 38-The heroina of "Uncle Tom's Gabin"
30-Tough cords uniting
muscles and other parts of the body 40-Part of a microscope 41-To annoy
|49-Govering for the
head 50-Mohammedan
proper name 51-Dial var. of "no" 52-The "uppar
atmosphere 53-A sand mound used
In golf
B4-A food fish
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle)
PRAYER BOOK
RATIFICATION" WITH ADDENDA
London, Saturday. The Lower House of the Convoca- tion at Canterbury has approved of the Bishops' Prayer Book policy with the addenda, firstly, that the concurrence of the Convocation should be obtained in any general régulation issued by the provinces and the concurrence of the Synod' of the diocese for local regulations
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
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PARLIAMENT
THE CHINA MAIL,
SOME NOTES ABOUT THE WOMEN IN IT
the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Has long been associated with the Socialist movement.
or-
Dr. Marion Phillips (Soc., Sun- derland) is a D.Sc. of London University and chief woman ganizer of the Socialist Party, in Women played a notable part in which she has been a full-time
PREDICTIONS WRONG
the election.
Millions of them were voting for the first time, and in some consti- tuencies their influence was bound to be decisive. A fair number of women candidates took the field, and the predictions of those who. said that they would be unpopular in the constituencies have been falsified.
There are 13 women M.P.B
..
worker since 1908. An expert in economics:
SIR
A. YAPP
· RESIGNS SECRETARYSHIP OF YMCA,
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GIVEN ANOTHER POST
London, Saturday. Sir Arthur Yapp has resigned the General Secretaryship of the In her post as chief woman or- gonizer she had much to do with.M.C.A. for reasons of health, and the selection of women candidates has been appointed Deputy Presid- ent of the National Council-Ren- for her party.
Lord Curzon's Daughter Stoke) joins her husband in the Lady Cynthia Mosley (Soc., House of Commons.
She is the
ter.
KENT DISASTER second daughter of the late Mar: DEATH ROLL NOW STANDS AT quess Curzon and is one of the most
FIFTEEN members aristocratic
Mrs.
of the
in the new Parliament-an unlucky number perhaps for the opposite sex. This is three more than in the Socialist Party. She is 31 years old
London, Saturday. last Parliament.
and married Sir Oswald Mosley in The death roll in the Gillingham There are four additions to the 1920. Both husband and wife are disaster is now 15.-Reuter. Socialist Party. which now includes members of the LLP.
[A cable on Thursday stated:--- Hamilton Mary
(Soc., There has been a terrible termination nine women M.P.s. The Conserva-
Gillingham (Kent) which tives lose one former woman mem-Blackburn) is a journalist who has to à fete ber in Mrs. Hilton Philipson, who written several novels and also awas being held on behalf of the local did not stand this time, and retain biography of Mr. Ramsay Mac-hospital. Crowds gathered at night their other three women members. Donald. She is the daughter of time to witness a demonstration by the Fire Brigade of life-saving, when the The Liberals lose Mrs. Runcimana professor of logic at Glasgow dummy house prematurely caught fre
The occupants, and gain Miss Megan Lloyd George. University and was herself educat- and collapsed.
ed at Newnham College, Cambridge.eadets, were incinerated.] Two other notable women Liberal candidates who were nar-A very able speaker and a very learned wontan whose hobby is rowly defeated were Mrs. Win- tringham, who only just failed to sketching. regain her old seat at Louth, and Mra. C. F. G. Masterman, widow of the former well known Liberal M.P., who put up a good fight at Salisbury.
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Its Reason and Why
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cure It.
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Miss Megan Lloyd George (Lib, Hot Weather Indigestion Anglesey), daughter of the Liberal leader, is 27 years old and inherits all her father's skill in speech, A "petite" person, but mosi per- suasive. The world's greatest men have been her friends since her Several Socialist women candi-early years, and at the Peace Con- The hot season of the year is dates only missed victories by ference in Paris so vivacious was the time when people find them- small minorities, and generally she that the Majestic Hotel which selves troubled host with indiges there were much larger polls for housed the British delegation was tion. The reason is that the de- Liberal and Socialist women than nicknamed the Hotel Megaztic..
Routed Communists
had been expected. Conservative women were less popular and the three Communist women shared the dregs of the utter rout of all mem-] bers of their party.
Conservatives had
women candidates; three were returned.
10
DIVORCE DECREE
UNDEFENDED SUIT AGAINST SIR E. HAMBRO
bilitating heat thins and weakens
the blood,, the source from which all parts of the body derive strength to carry on their work,. and thus the stomach and other digestive organs become starved and weakened,
Liberals bad 25, of whom one was In the Divorce Court the Presi- When the process of digestion, successful. Socialists had 30, of dent, Lord Merrivale, granted a de-goes wrong food begins to poison whom nine are now M.P.8.
eree nisi to Lady (Sybil Emily) the system instead of feeding it, Below will be
soon symptoms of ill- some Hambra, of Cadogan Square, Lon- and very biographical details of the old and don, on the ground of the adultery health. manifest themselves, in the
new women members:
found
of her husband, Sir Charles Eric form of headaches, vertigo, flatul- Lady Astor (C., Plymouth) was Hambro, who did not defend the ence, spots before the eyes, loss the first woman M.P. to take her sult.
of appetite, abdominal pains, de seat. Actually a Sinn Fein woman The marriage took place in July, M.P. had been previously elected 1894, and there are four children but did not come to the House of living. Commons. Lady Astor's majority In December, 1927, Lady Hambro fell this time to 211. compared obtained a decree of restitution of with 5,079 in 1924.
conjugal rights, but Sir Eric did not obey the order.
pression, nervousness, undue tired. ness, and in other ways.
To correct matters, and to get the health back to normal, the only proper method of treatment is to restore the blood to a rich, red healthy condition, and this Lady Hambro alleged that her can best be done by means of Dr. husband went to live with Mrs. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Estelle Elger, a sister of his step- People, the most perfect of all mother, at Upper Grosvenor Street, blood tonics. A short course of these Pills will not only tone up
Duchess of Atholl (C., Perth, Western) was Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Board of Education and the only wonan Conservative Minister. She has been a member since December 1923. Rarely London. speake in the House.but is a cap- able administrator.
Evidence was given by Lady the blood and banish digestive Hambro and Mrs. Lilian Sitton, a troubles, but it will also impart Lady Iveagh (C., Southend), widow in the employ of Mrs. Elger.new vitality to your whole system. like Lady Astor and the Duchess
of Atholl; succeeded in a consti- A HUSBAND'S QUEER LANGUAGE
[By Ursula Bloem.]
tuency held by her husband before accession to the Peerage. First elected, November 1927. The best
I have been spending a week with a woman speaker in the last Parlia-nautics! husband whose ship has just ment, but rarely used her gifts in brought him home after serving for this direction. Her husband, Lord two and a half years abroad. Iveagh, is the principal proprietor
of Guinness's Brewery.
"Maggie" Bondfeld Miss Margaret Bondfeld (Soc., Wallsend) was Parliamentary
We have talked long and eagerly. for there has been much to say. But
I find that he speaks an entirely dif ferent language from mine.
I wonder if all professions are like Secretary to the Ministry of Labour Navy? My husband says I am wrongi this, or whether it is peculiar to the in the Socialist Government of he assures me that he speaks English, 1924, when she sat for Northamp-and that it is merely my ignorance. ton. Defeated there at the last But I am not so sure. general election, she won Wallsend He seems never to look at anything, in a by-election in July 1926.
but has a "goof" at it, I am un Her adherence to the Blanes-acquainted with a "goof." I merely burgh report on unemployment look, which shows that I am ignorant. caused her much temporary an- He also has a "dekko, which is another. popularity among the Socialists, look, though whether it is the same but she regained prestige by hard sort of look as a "goof" or not I am not
quite sure.
research work and capable, though not brilliant, speeches.
He condemns the stupidity of wait- ere and shop assistants, and even our Miss Susan Lawrence (Soc., friends, with an amiable "Oh, he's East Ham North) was a member wet," whereas a real sportsman, he first in December 1928. She was assures me, is "red "et."
the ablest Socialist woman M.P.. But, why?
in the last Parliament, with a If anyone has got himself into a grasp of intricate details and mess and there, is trouble looming upon statistics that many men envied. the horizon my queer husband tells Born in 1871. Educated at Bewn-me airily, "Oh, he's in the ditch."
Anyone who turns up too early' for ham College, Cambridge. Graduat ed in public life on the London waiting is apparently "warming the an appointment and is hanging about
County Council,
-bell," Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Soc., He declares that the maiden aunt Middlesbrough) has been a mem- who so tactlessly forgot the cheque she ber since 1924. Formerly a school has always so far supplied for my mistress, then trade union or birthday was a "poor fish,” and when ganizer, and member of Manchester I declared that she had always been a City Council Ayburn haired, viva- dear far and done her best for me, cious, and known as "Miss Perky he told me I was "shooting the line." in the last Parliament. Has lately He appeared quite shocked when I told him I couldn't understand what on written her first novel,
earth he was talking about. T Miss Jenny Lee (Soc, North He calls my best frock the "rig of Lanark), the youngest woman the day" and alludes to a whiskey and M.P. 24 years old, who won o sen- sodo as "the other half sational victory just before the I think perhaps he is cracked. It is
by individual Bishops; secondly, FRANCS QUESTION end of the last Parliament. Daugh- all so very mystifying and I don't quite
recommending the appointment
of a joint committee of both Houses of the Convocation to consider the situation caused Parliament's rejection of the revised Prayer Book. TMAY NOT
GERMAN AGREEMENT
·WITH BELGIUM
by
27 ANNUITIES
Brussels, Saturday,
The Upper House accepted the ad- denda and finally ratified the previ ous decision. Reuter.
know where I am.
ter of a working miner,·· A good speaker.
In the Navy the only profession that The New Members 24. has patented a language entirely of its Miss E. Picton Türbervill (Soc., own which is quite unintelligible to the The Wrekin) is a member of an outside world?
- I can understand his allusion to my
old Conservative family who began bedroom as my cabin" and his warn
A Belgian German agreement has social work among, dock labourers ing to me not to upset sigarette ash. been reached on the francs question At Barry. She was prominently on "the deck but I cannot grasp A whereby Germany promises to pay identified with the women's "god" and a "dekko" and "warming The Upper House of the Convocation Belgium 87 annuities from Marca 31, suffrage movement; and after the bell"
[A cable of Friday's date stateds
of Canterbury has passed & reaolu 1980, on similar lines to the Young plan travelling extensively in India and Perhaps I am a poor fish, or slightly tion on the motion of the Archblehop annuities
tywne elsewhere jomed the Independent wetz
of Canterbury, sanctioning the use of The first annuity will consist of Labour Barty in 1918.
the Revised Prayer Book of 1928 by 186,709,000 Belgian francs and there Has previously fought Jälington, ES find the ditch lá a familiar Bishops and clergy in parishes, pro- vided any deviations from the book of after three annuities of 184,169,000 N., and Stroud as a Socialist cun- term for the sea-
1669 have been previously
siy approved francs; eight annuities of 22,716,000 didate. A good speaker But sayo.
by the parochial and church counsils, francs, anther eight of 172/176,000 that long cross country walks with Alain Gerbault, the former tennis The
Lower
House of the York Con- france; and 17 has annuities of vocation discussed the Bishops
Pro 79,003,000-Iranes, a silent companion is her favourite star, who started 4 years ago to posal regarding the conditional use In the event of a moratorium later recreation sail round the world in a 30ft. of the 1928 Prayer Book and passed vening in the Young payments Ger. Dr. Ethel Bentham (Soc., Isling yacht, was recently reported in the u resolution (which was subsequently many wid still pay the Belgian anton East) is a distinguished doctor Bay of Biscay, halfway between the
proved by the Upper House) ro cording its confidence in the adminis quities, but the latter may then be paid of medicine practising in Islington north-west point of Spain and
and is a Government nominee on FinisterreS trative discretion of the Bishops in kind,
So if your digestion is giving you trouble, or if you are feeling weak, depressed, run down, be wise and begin taking Dr. Wil- All Pink Pills at once. liams' chemists sell them. $1.50 per bottle, $8 for 6 bottles.
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