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EXPLANATION OF Here
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Armless Life-Saver.
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-To-day's Complete Short Stoce
THE FAKED SKID
THEN only years old, Lape Everywhere⚫ AND your theory is that he Why this year as
fell beneath a train and both his LOST JOKES
arms were severed at the should-
The Missing Dirt-Track Rider as expert could skid”” Hawke de-
theory-is-that bemanded of Benger.
"Absolutely!” Hazry Benger and shot over into the sea ?** wrinkled his narrow forehead. "I Dixon Hawke gazed through the understand how Gwyer feels, but gap in the fence at the crashing I've got to admit I don't hold out where seagulls much hope of poor Whirler being
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Notice To Contributors. " All communications intended for
Sir John Simon, who represent breakers below, publication should be addressed to
ers. Despite his great handicap, the Editor, and be accompanied by Lape has outshone his more for-ed the Government at. last skimmed the rocks in search of still alive. In our game we get. the Writer's Name and Address tunate fellowmen in swimming month's debate on the Licensing stranded fish.
rather careless at times. I've seen not necessary for insertion, but wrestling, and football. Three Bill kept throwing his head back
The shortest and slimiest of the (Whirler take this corner at sixty- as a guarantee of good faith.
times while swimming in the great and laughing heartily during M little group on the clifftop nodded. five, and I've seen him skid within irrigation canal near his home, A. P. Herbert's speech.
"It seems to me a certainty, Mr.jan inch of that fence before. Fm Lupe has saved many of his
Other members who were sitting Hawke. You see the gap in the afraid " pals by grabbing their bathing farther away did not joint in the fence and on this corner I found suits with his teeth and pulling merriment They were unable to his machine."
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Church And State
One remark which did float up
He left the rest unsaid, but his expression was enough.
to
Dixon Hawke walked over the powerful motor bike that was propped against the inside of the
them to abore. But the most out hear what Mr. Herbert was say The famous detective from standing of his rescues was in ing
Dover Street stroked his chin. Hong Kong. Thursday, April 9, 1936. West Springfield. Mass in July From the Galley it was very di- "It seems only too obvious. What
1994. He was with a crowd of ficult to follow the speech. Mr.| puzzles me is why you sent for bend. swimmers near the Agawam River Herbert has a jerky style, and me to come all this way to view when he heard a cry for help drops his voice when he comes to a spot where a young man died" Plunging in the water, he quickly the point of a joke.
"I do not believe he is dead!" The rejection of the Revisedreached the drowning youth, who
The speaker was a tall, lean man Prayer Book by the British grabbed Lupe in a choke hold and to the Gallery was that it is more with greying hair and deep-set Parliament in 1928 revealed pulled both of them down. Then difficult to become a publican than znew a somewhat anomalous
Lupe broke away and as they camela paraon--because a publican has “I cannot believe it possible, Mr. position in the relations of the to the surface, he was able to get to show proof of seven years' good Hawke. Loughran had climbed Church and State in England. the exhausted bor The rejection displayed the fact shoulders and bring him ashore. that in the respective clairns of what should be the two organs of the community engaged in a common spiritual task. the
State. with its claim to sove-
across his
character:
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JUDGED ON FACE VALUE
JEWISH RABBI'S®
VISIT
reignty within its own borders. Meeting With Leaders
takes precedence in law over the Established Church, claim- ing to control in its own manner and "all matters of doctrine
Desired
Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin [ritual uncontrolled by any family, of Los Angeles, will be ar
authority not based upon mem-riving in Hour Kong by the hers of the Church”-in other President Hoover to-morrow mom-j words, that the Church has not ing.
jeyes.
this hill so often, and was such
an expert. that he would never have skidded like that. For this
SATURDAY'S STORY
Another adventure of Dixon Hawke-The Third Generation--will appear in Saturday's editions.
It was the very machine the
"I judge my prospective tenants reason I bave sent for you. There
is something so mysterious about missing man had been riding when by their faces," said a house pro-the affair that I cannot bring my-flast seen. prietor in Clerkenwell County
İself to believe he is dead.”
Court recently.
know."
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Your Daily Smile!
The running-beard on the near Tommy Barke looked at Lovatjaide was grimed with dirt. "Good gracious!"* commented
One handle-grip was rubbed Mr. Registrar Friend. "On that Gyer in some surprise..
The words came vehemently, as through to the metal inside, and was suffering both hubs looked as though they though the and basis, I and a lot of other people will have a bad time, and there are quiet a number of crooks who from some pent-up emotion that had been scraped along the ground
"WE you show
exactly have the faces of bishops, you jangled his nerves
He remembered that Gwyer had where you found this, Mr. Ber been the missing man's very best ger?" he asked, and the diminu-
on tive rider and placed it.
ita friend, and saw some excuse spiritual freedom. Many will Rabbi Magnin is the most pro-
that score. But honestly Tommy side close to the hole in the fence. remember with regret the angry minent Jewish leader and radio passions aroused by the con-broadcaster in California, and is
could see no excuse for bringing "Just there! Here you can sen Complicated
Hawke and himself down from the marks of my own wheels when troversy at the time. Parlia in charge of the Wilshire Boule
The tram had stopped, and re-London in answer to an ment witnessed the unusual vard Tabernacle. Los Angeles.
argent I jammed on my brakes and skid- fused to budge.
ded. I came upon it suddenly. procedure of party affiliations He will remain in Hong Kong
"I think we should get on better telegram. being abandoned in favour of ajuntil the sailing of the ss Fre if we got of," said one passenger to If the motor cyclist went over a Only just had time to stop my- free vote according to consident Hayes on Saturday morn his neighbour. science in the division. Some
So they alighted and walked on sea washed him away, what could “H'mi Loughran had gone some ling at 8 o'clock. and during his very remarkable speeches, both
passed even the cleverest detective in the time before you thought to follow
{kira.?" for and against, were made, and stay here, he is desirous of meet-Two minutes later the tram
ing the leaders of the various the final result was the rejec-Jewish communities.
"Well," said the one who made the world do about it?
Whirler Loughran, the missing "About half an hour. I war suggestion, "I thought we should get tion of the proposed measure.
on better if we got off, but we should young man. was one of the most tuning my machine in the garage On February 6, 1930, when
have been better off if we had stay-famous dirt-track riders in Greatwe share at Mr. Gwyer's place. passions had been allowed to
Ted on."
Britain. He it was who had beaten He got away before me, and I told cool, the Church Assembly
the famous Australian trio at the him to wait for me at the top. passed a resolution as follows:
That whereas; in
Davidson, with the concurrence of
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE ARRANGEMENTS
ада
them.
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Fishermen Dream Of It
diff on the South Coast, and the self"
be who
S
An American was telling an Irish-Edinburgh track in early July, He said he'd probably make two London,' to-day.-It was the words
thejor three climbs before I came, as addressed to the Church Assembly nounced in the House of Commons zan: The fish are so numerous in and it was
one river in the States that the folks favourite for the forthcoming 'All-he wanted to improve his accelera on July 2nd, 1928. by Archbishop yesterday, in answer to a question there just drop a pail into the water, British Championship, to be held tion a bit. I came blinding round
at the Beeshampton Track.
this curve and nearly ran over his the whole body of Diocesan Bishops, put to the Dominions Secretary, and pull it out full of fish."
"Well, now," said Pat, "do you it is a fundamental principle that Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, that thef
The championship was to be de-back wheel.” the Church, that is, the Bishops to Government hoped it might be know that in the River Liffey, in Ire
Benger stepped back and nodded. cided in two days' time, and it land, if the people want a pail gether with the Clergy and Laity, possible to arrange for the Imperial water they have to push all the fish was while making a trial of his grimly to Tommy. He had not must in the last resort when its Conference to take place in Lon-out of the way before they can get machine on the tricky cliff path left much to their imagination. mind has been fully ascertained, retain its inalienable right, indon next year at the time of the the nail in.” loyalty to our Lord and Saviour the coronation.-British Wireless Jesus Christ, to formulate its faith Service.
in Him and to arrange the ex- pression of that Holy Faith in its form of worship';
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that Loughran had vanished.
Hawke walked around the pros- The accident had happened that trate machine, examining it from Nothing But The Truth
morning, and Harry Benger, the more than one angle, then turned Candidate: "Now, my friends, you
of his attention to the fence, which don't want to buy a pig in a pokey-weight rider, and partner sity for Parliamentary control Vote for me and you'll get the gen-, Loughran, had made the discovery. had been a stout wooden one.
"Is this the sort of corner where (Continued On Page 10)
"It is desirable that a Commis-or approval for all measures uine article." sion should be appointed to en-certified unanimously by the quire into the present relations of Lord Chancellor, the Speaker Church and State, and particular and two Archbishops, to be ly how far the principle stated
That Commission
To meet
The
above is able to receive effective specially appointed. application in present circumstances the possible objections of ex- in the Church of England, and tremists on both sides it is laid what legal and constitutional down, however, that "any such changes, if any, are needed in order measure must not only be pass- to secure its effective application, and that the Archbishops be reed by all three Houses of the quested to appoint a Commission Church Assembly, but also for this purpose.”
approved by resolutions passed was duly by the Convocations of Canter- appointed and bas recently bury and York, and twice issued its report, signed by all approved by resolutions passed! the Commissioners without re- by the Diocesan Conference of servation. It may therefore be not less that three-quarters of taken to represent the sober and the English: Dioceses.". considered opinion of the Archbishops must also certify Church, no less than of all those that in their opinion the mea- who have the welfare of the sure is "neither contrary to nor Church at heart.
indicative of any departure It is noteworthy that the from the fundamental doctrines Commission does not recom-land principles of the Church of mend Disestablishment-with England," as set forth in the which, no doubt, most laymen Thirty-Nine Articles and the will be in agreement. One of Book of Common Prayer. His Majesty the King's titles is The Archbishops appear to "Defender of the Faith," and it have done their work well. In is, surely desirable that the the above provisions, there is lancient Faith of the peoples of ample scope for the expression the land should continue to re- of lay opinion on any funda- present the State religion while mental changes in ritual or pro- conferring absolute freedom of cedure. Religious susceptibili- conscience on the individual ties are notoriously tender;: members of the lay masses. bigoted dogmas are not uncom- The nation as a whole was sure-mon.. There are many who ly enabled to give outward ex-vehemently oppose any change, pression to its loyalty to the just as there are influences in late King by the religious ser-the other camp, who would seek vices held throughout the to superimpose on the hallowed
thei length and breadth of the land doctrines of the Church no less than overseas; and that ritual practices of alien faiths. expression would undoubtedly The solution proposed would have lost much of its dignity enable the moderate opinion of and solemnity if it had been the Church to make its influence entirely divorced from official felt. From the legislative religious observances.
angle, therefore, the report of As far as the Legislative the Commission seems to offer Iproposals of the Commission a reasonable solution of the Jare concerned, a distinction is principles in dispute the most drawn between ordinary important of which undoubted- ļadministrative measures and ly is that the "Inalienable" right measures "relating substantially (of the Church to formulate and to the spiritual concerns of the arrange its form of worship Church of England.” A new should be subject to no secular procedure is proposed which authority but only to the heads! 'would do away with the neces- of the Church.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
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DR: WH.
LUPE
ZARATE
ARMLESS WRESTLER Featherweight Champion
of South Texas
"HE HAS
SAVED 4 PERSONS FROM DROWNING.
FICKEL-MAYOR of LAS ANIMAS;Colo HAS HOT WORN A HAT FOR 17 YEARS""