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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cron-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our renders are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and gltho,)
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טון
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нь
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KORIZONTAL
1-A head covering
4-Grazed
7-Arrow
12-Poles with brzad
barc
14-Sooner than
16-Mammal with flex Ible proboscia 17-Waves brakan
against rocks
13-E pancake 20-A dessert (pl.) 21-Rightful
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↑ MORGUNTAL (Cont}|| VERTICAL (Cont.)
43-Edible plant seed 18-Solution 46-Lavel portion of a. 22-A fish
24-Convulalve sigh 25-Hint
stair step
་་
43-Grievously 40-Secures or captures 50-Rough frolle
51-Steck in reserve
(pl.){$2-Long painted teath
23-Etruscan household
god
24-Covered with small
bony plates 28-Command 27-Order of mammals,
including whales 28-Belonging to you
and ma 29-Buffaon -30-Timid rodent (pl.)
31-Bocial meeting for
work 32-Extremely
33-Coop 34-A degree (abbr.) 38-Abundance 37-Two-wheeled con
veyance (pl.) ・・ 39-Channel of travel
(abbr)
41-Familiar name for
type of coffee
42-Domineer
33-Unfasten (poet.) 64-Sovereign
55-Wet
56-Become sapless 58–Maka forceful and
etive G2-Heirs j83-Descendant-
64-Vulgar upstart 65-Run hastily 165–Make effort 67-Ballor lad
VERTICAL 1-8trong short-legged
hored 2-8wiss river 3-Makes ready 4-Charges for profe»
sional work B-Commit mistake 6-Fate 7-Resoluta 8-Curved bar an
26-Price of a rallway
ticket
27-Hypocritical use of
szered words 29-Nothing
30-Crowd
32-Empty
33-Paol 36-Snare 137-Measure of firewood 138-Dashing
30-Archaic form of
verb meaning to scatter loosely
LABOUR'S QUIET YEAR
POLITICAL WEAPON NOW BEING: GIVEN TRIAL
MINERS AND GOVERNMENT
THE CHINA
G.$250,000 THEFT AT DINNER PARTY
INTERESTING STUDY OF VARIOUS REACTIONS
LEADER KEEPS SILENT
MAIL.
up in Buffalo. Their names indic
ate their European derivation--- Eddio Przybyl. Theodore Rogacki and William Solner. A fifth man, accused but not captured, is Stanley Przbyl, known to his familiars, on' account of his free-spending habits, as "the millionaire kid." All have police or prison records, and all ex- hibited the same good judgment as This year there have been no Nation-wide as is the crime wave, their chief in clothes and automo- | "revolutionary" strikes. For the the robbery hy gunmen of a dinner biles.
time being Labour, in general, has party ta a private fiome in Buffalo, Thieves Themselves Surprised turned away from the industrial U.S., is still exceptional enough to It appears from palice informa- weapon, and proposes to give the deserve some special attention, tion that these men undertook a rob- political weapon a trial, writes the particularly when it involves the bery, invalving possible loss of life; Marning Post Labour correspond-loss of jewels and furs to the value with the expectation of only such ent in a review of 1929. Such of $250,000. Such a crime occurred loot as an ordinary small dinner strikes as occurred during the year in 11 suburb of Buffalo about a party might provide. They are said. have been non-political in charac-munth ago. The dinner party was to have had no ather knowledge of ter. and were due, as in the cotton given by Mr. and Mrs. John L.the Carsons' entertainment than [dispute, to bad trade forcing the Carson Jr. in their home in Snyder, they had read in newspapers, and employers to impose wage reduc-a short distance outside the city. they were surprised to find them- tions.
To entertainment was In honour of selves in possession of a $200,000
In the main the Labour leaders Miss Eleanor Cameron and Court-necklace. That might seem incredi have faced the facts, and the move-land Van Clief, who were soon to ble if modern police records did meat for greater co-operation be-, be married, It was a small private not show so many equally desperate |tween employers and employed has party--a group of friends meeting crimes committed merely to renew made good progress. The events in the seclusion of a home. Nine supplies of drink and gambling of 1926 taught Labour a lesson men and nine women were present. money. Doubtless this suggests the which it has not been slow to learn, There were seated in the dining only problem in criminal paycho-. The miners, who were at the front room when at front and rear door-logy that the case presents. of the 1926 trouble, are at the ways appeared five men with hand- That marvellous string of pearls, moment awaiting the redemption (kerchiefs tied over their faces and however, has not been recovered. of the pledge of the Labour leaders, guns in their hands. The harsh Duke is alleged to have taken it who are now the Government, to voice of the leader gave the conven- to New York, returning a few days restore them to the pre-1926 positional command of crookdom:later and removing his woman com- tion. The thing can't be done, but stick 'em #p!" the miners will make matters un. comfortable for the Government if)
it is not done before long.
Coming Home to Roost
panion from a flat to an hotel. The Joke Soon Dissipated disposal of the jewels remains the The diners at first thought they chief mystery in the case..... wore being entertained by a practi- |
Victims on Their
Honeymoon
cal joke. A woman tried to snatch AIR FATALITY It is too often forgotten that the the handkerchief from the face of pledges of the Government cover all jone robber and was felled by n industry, and that the case of the blow. Hamiltn Gardner, a guest, Two miners is being dealt with first be-jsprang at one of the intrudera butį cause they are the biggest crowd another bandit struck him from be- and can about the loudest. But hind and sent him to the floor! State regulation of ladustry is in senseless. Mrs. Carson, with n the blood of the Labour Party, and mother instinct that defied revol as soon as the miners have been vers, rushed upstairs to the room dealt with, the clamant calls of where her infant son was sleeping other sections will have to be at One of the robbers followed, but as }tended to, - It is this sort of thing she fainted beside her baby he did
that is the greatest abatacle in the not. harm her. way to that co-operation between employers and employed.
Kough hands seized necklaces, brooches and rings from the women
London, Yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Hodge had been married al Sheerness only five days ago..aut were returning from
honeymoon in Paris. The hus- band was aged twenty-eight, and waз a naval schoolmaster. Hig wife was twenty-one years of age.
Reuter.
Emir
The political shadow has hing and rifled pockets of the men. Fur Criticisms on five points are over some industrial negotiations conts were grabbed from the levelled at Mr. Scullin's reply to the both before and since the General rooms where wraps had been left. British Government's representa- Election Take the engineers as an The diners were compelled to lie tions on the new Australian tariff example, Early in the year they down on the floor and remain quiet.schedulca. He ignores the fact asked for an increase of 8s, a week. Meanwhile, a maid in the house of that a large proportion of them are This had to be considered by the Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Gardner, invalid because certain of the new various districts of the employers" next door, seeing through a window duties were not reported on by the organization, und when the answer that something was wrong at the Tariff Board. came to be given in June it was Carsons, telephoned for the police. something like this: "A Labour The robbers had been gone only a
The story of how Government has just been returned. few minutes when officers arrived. Habibullah of Afghanistan secretly We employers must wait and see Not the least startling part of the promised the British Government what extra burdens that Govern-information given them was that
neutral during the war ment proposes to put on industrya pear! necklace, torn from Mrs. was told by Sir Hamilton Grant at before we can give you an answer. Raymond Allan Van Clief, was
a meeting of the Royal Come again in six months,"
valued at more than $200,000.
Society. The men went again last month. This was the feature of the affair By that time it had become clear that invited speculation. How could that the Labour Government were any ordinary hold-up men have out to increase unemployment bene-known who owned a necklace of t. to extend the range of widows' such value, or that it would be pensions, and to pile up other bur-worn, with unsuspecting fearless- dens on industry, so that the en-ness, by a guest at this private din- gineers had to be told that they ner party in an unguarded subur- could not have it both ways; that ban home? Bandit gangs easily
you can only take as much out of may ascertain where payrolls, are industry as is put into it, and that to be delivered or when cash is to if. the Government insist on in-be transferred between banks. creasing their proportion of what Locating with such accuracy a is taken out, so much the less re-$200,000 string of pearls was a dif- mains for wagen..
ferent matter.
Shipyard Agreement
Arrested Men's Records Shipyard workers have been more
When the arrests came, those fortunate. They have had a bad identified as the thieves were found time ever since the indemnity ships to be aristocrats of the criminal were taken over, while the slow world. They offered no opportunity ing down of naval construction also for the acntimentality which visions hits them. On the whole they have lawbreakers as wretched outcasts, borne their misfortunes with a good driven desperate by unfeeling law. deal of patience, They thought So far from being what some they saw an improvement in trade theorists describe as victims of a and asked for an advance of 55.wealth-seeking social system, they They did not get this, but they did appear to be exponents of a social get an offer from the employers, idea which makes luxulous self-in- which was eventually accepted, to delgence, without toil or respon-: standardize the rates of skilled ability, the one motive in life. workers, which meant a substantial They were excellently dressed, soft- advance to some workers, a smaller speaking. well-mannered young advance of others, and no reduction men, who looked more as if they for anybody.
might be eligible guests After a stoppage lasting three than as robbers of a fashion- weeks the cotton trouble was set able dinner party. The capture of tled by arbitration. The employers the alleged leader was as worthy of asked for a reduction of about 121⁄2 la detective story as was the crime per cent. in wages. The arbitrators Itself. Just before Thanksgiving, agreed that a reduction was necos a refined-looking young couple took sary, and awarded the employers a room at a high-grade apartment 16% per cent.
hotel. One morning, a few days Two Labour leaders-Mr. A. G. later, their telephone began to play Walkden, M.P., and Mr. C. T. Cramp the exasperating antics characteris
were members of the Court of tic of telephones. It would ring, Arbitration and signed the award and when answered the connection For weeks afterwards they were would break. That happened sev subjected to torrents of abuse from eral tirnes. Finally, a bellboy came some. extremist Labour politicians to the door. The management was but not, be it noted, from say very sorry, but the telephone to that cotton operatives' leaders-for dar- ing to agree to any reduction in room must be out of order; a very Insistent call had come in; would wages, which dhows how difficult it the gentleman step down the ball in for Labour leaders to consider to another phone? The gentleman only the evidence in such cases. complied. As he turned the angle Railwaymen during the year have: of the corridor, he was confronted succeeded in putting a time-limit by the chief of police and an order to the reduction of 24 per cent in his own kind of language which was agreed to last year. "Stick 'em up The telephone trick This will definitely end in May had Jured him into a position where Such are the main events in what he could have no chance shoot
it out." has been, on the industrial side of
It was in keeping with a $250,000 The largest church bell In Labour, a quiet year.
jewel robbery, that this aristocratic Russia,
which the Empress
looking young man should be called Elizabeth placed · In the ⠀ Traitz- Officials in India are seriously Duke. There may even have been kosergiev Monastery in 1748-it considering the possibility of taking some appropriateness in making weighs glmost 150,000 pounds-criminal action against Dr. Kitch him "Red" Duke. He used the do- has been torn down from the few, whose speech at the Congress signation, however, as a name, not church and will be melted down, suggested the revival of the old as a title. He was booked as Clin its copper and bronze being ap-"killing no murder" "doctrine.. ton Duke, a Canadian, who was tried pifed to the needs, of Industry.
and acquitted in Toronto last year This la a characteristic incident A ban on Sunday races imposed on a charge of bank robbery, e of the widespread campaign for by the recent Roman Catholle Synod Three others, taken by usual rémoving- and utilising Russian is causing anxiety among owners police methods, with the aid of church bells.
and broeders in Ireland.
tips, were youths who have grown
40-Balt of extreme
hoat 42-Dr greatest duration |44-inalte
45-Stupid person 47-Medicins used after
poltoning 149-Warm in naturall
heat 49-False har forging
tringo (pl.) 81-Faremost 32-Remate 64-Game of chance 65-Contradict 87-Hunting ory. 59-And not |13-8hip's canvass (pl){®-Park for animals
korea collaṛ
-Billy mimic 10-Body of a cigar 11-Discussed
18-Emphasis -
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