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World News
$140,000 Customs Fine
THE CHINA MAIL.
In Pictures
Nerve Saved Her
Madam Curie Ill
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929.,
WITH ALL THE PEP
of a Jazz Band.
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(Left to right) Ann Storrs, Mrs. Frank V. Storrs and Carolyn Storrs, on the xa. "Berenguria" as they returned to New York from Furone. Mr Storra faces Customs fine and penalties of from $140,000 to $160,000 on undceinred clothing and jewels sized when they came to New York from Paris. The seizure is the largest made by Customs officials and involves allegedly undeclared jewellery worth $65,000 and clothing between $8,000 and $9,000.
New Ambassador To Italy
Fifeen-year-old Arveta Rogner. parachute jumper, who in a recent ex- hibition at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, leaped from a 'plane 2,200 feet in the air and fell 1,000 feet before her parachute could be opened. The girl's pluck finally saved her, for she dis entangled her foot from the pullcord and made a safe landing. Hor mother, who was in the horrified crowd who watched her dizzy descent through space, fainted.
The Policeman Pastor
- John Work Garrett, of Beltimore, famous diplomat (seated), conferring with his secretary as he assumes his new duties as U.S. Ambassador to Rome. He succeeds Mr. Henry P. Fletcher.
Swims River
Handcuffed
The Rev. R. R. Bach, of Wichita, Kan., who plays the dual role of pelice. man and pastor, His la six feet tall and weighs more than 200 pounds. During the week he pounds the pave ments as a patrolman on the Wichita force and on Sunday he occupies the pulpit of the Brown Memorial Reform- ed Church. He is liberal in his views and states that he does not mind girls smoking, as long as they do not court Lady Nicotine in public.
Colonel Roosevelt
All the Poise
of a
Drum Major
The Assurance
of a
Radio Announcer.
Dean of women scientists, Mme. Mario Curia, co-discoverer of tadiumi, arrived to visit President Hoover and Owen D. Young,. Photo shows her at the pier with one of the children who dressed in costumes of Poland, land of her birth, to present her with flowers.
Chestnut Tree Spouts Water-
The Attention that
a Manipulator Caught Short in the Market
Gives the Ticker
The Perseverance and Optimism of an Ancient Pedant learning to Play Ping Pong
"Believe it or not," but a tree in Grass Valley, California, sends out a stream of pure cool water. The tree, a chestnut, on the William Henderson ranch, sends out a stream of water from one of the limbs. No one, including scientists from the University of California, has so far been able to explain, the freak of nature. Miss Ann Stevenson-is shown taking a drink.js'
New Sculling Champion
and the Pride with which a
Bride Ties, Her New Hubby's
Tie.
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