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CITY. TERRORISED BY RACE GANGS.
WHOLESALE, BLACKMAIL OF PUBLICANS.
POLICE HELPLESS,
Many Birmingham bookmakers, publicans, and sportsmen are going about in fear of their lives because of the renewed activity of what is known as the Birmingham race A sensational attack on artificialng" light treatinent, in which there are The gang is composed of touts or strong comments on commercial bruisers, and the rift raff of the advocacy and popular eredu- racing fraternity. All the members lity is made in the annual report are known to the police. Most of them have served sentences of im of the Medical Research Council.
The report, which was issued as prisonment, and one of the leaders Loasts that he is the only man in Government document pours. Korn on the widespread popular England who has had two separate belief in the tonic effect of artifi-birchings with the cat in one year cial ultra-violet light, treatment.
for robbery with violence. and challenges its advocates in the radical profession to prove their daims.
"The use of artificial light to supply only what the right food enn give is merely wasteful, states the report.
It commonly cost thire or four shillings to give by light an effective supply of vitamin D that would cost less than a penny if given by the mouth in the form of codliver oil or otherwise
Beaction in the Skin. The council also question the value of the treatment for produc- ing a reaction in the skin.
"There is no present reason to know that artificial light can do more in this way than a mustard plaster, which is infinitely cheaper, It is admitted that some part of the new use of artificial fight has an indisputable scientific basis, but the council are of the opinion that great sums of private and public money that have been ex- pended on the treatment have often been wasted."
"Chalk It on the Slate." Since the night they had with a London race gang a few years ago when. armed with hatchets, lend pipes, and bottles, they anhushed the rival gangs the Birmingham men have been comparatively quiet until recently, but the members are becoming increasingly bold in their blackmailing activities.
The method is to swarni into a public house and order drinks. When payment is demanded, they tell the landlord to "chalk it on the slate, and in addition they herrow from him sums ranging from £2 to f): If he refuses, he is
threatened with violente.
Some of the landlords are so in timidated that they allow them selves to be regularly blackmailed in this way. Bookmakers and Prominent sportsmen, too, are the victims of these blackmailing thugs
A detective inspector stated that the police are aware of what is going on, but they can take no ac tion because none of the victims is to prefer a courageous enough charge against the gang.
MAY 4, 1929.
MAN'S WEDDING DAY PANIC.
EXCITEMENT CAUSES A
POSTPONEMENT.""
HAPPY MARRIAGE. :
AERIAL DEFENCE OF TOKYO,
MONACO REVOLT COMEDY.'
EIGHT PARTIES AND THEIR DEMANDS.
The situation in the tiny prin- cipality of Monaco, where a revolu tion has been brooding for some time, has again heconie tense, and it is reported that a fresh supply of cartridges has been issued to the Carabineers who form the State. militia.
Monaco outwardly is a dead city as far as political strife goes, but
The aerial defence of Tokyo will be the first project the War Depart- ment will undertake with the special appropriation for the air defence of Japar passed by the last session of the Diet. This appro- priation totals Y.3,000,000, to he The remarkable case of a solicitor spent during 'three consecutive The complete air defence who could not be induced to leave reara his bed on his wedding morning was programme of Japan will cost, it disclosed at an adjourned City iris estimated, between Y.10.000.00 quest on Mr. Frank Henry Chap-and Y.50,000,000 and will take ten the inhabitants are now so split man, aged sixty, a solicitor. of years to perfect. Army engineers
into groups that a local newspaper Santanita Road, Westcliff-on-Sea. at present are inspecting suitable in its leading article states that who fell in front of a train at localities the vicinity of Tokyo Cannon
Street District Railway for air bases and, when the Tokyo France must watch the situation Station.
ir defences have been erected, carefully in. view of its increasing The jury returned a verdict of similar works will be undertaken at gravity.. Accidental death." Mrs. Chap Osaka, Nagoya and other industrial man, the widow, who was in Court, centres, fainted in the arms of a friend when
The defence system will consist of a number of strategically placed Mrs. Chapman said in her evi-bases from which units of the air the verdict was announced. dence that their wedding five years forec will operate. These units ngo was postponed for four days will be equipped with the latest because her husband was depressed types of fighting planes, powerful anti aireraft guns, machine-guns, and his nerves were in a bad state.
Dr. Roger Neville Goodman, of special are lights, blockading bal Kingston-on-Thames, who was call-kons and audiphones, whereby the ed at the request of Mrs. Chapman, sound of approaching enemy acro- By fur said that he had known Mr. Chap- planes may be picked up. man for ten years. He sometimes the greater part of the neroplanes pains, will he combat craft, designed to suffered from lightning
The and had eyes sometimes suggestive engage the enemy at pa
anti-aircratf guns will have a maxi- of locometor ataxy. He recovered.
These Extraordinary" Attack." nitin range of 10,000 y.
Mr. F. Drbford are intended for use against 'planes Thomas: Did he consult you at all lying at high altitudes and the hower heights. The blockading bal about the advisability of a second machine guns for planes flying at marriage? Yes, I gave him some loons will work in pairs, each pair carrying net to trap enemy planes. They will be capable of operating at an altitude up to 14.000 it, and even in the teeth of a
stiff breeze.-Y.C.D.N... ·
The
coroner,
advice and he married.
You know it was postponed once. Can you tell me the trouble 1-Well, it was an extraordinary attack.
Was it the day before 1-He nounced on the morning of the day that he could not get up and they sent for me. I found him apparent-
he went.
reasonable enough. I told him! that he was going to be married and go in a day or two, and eventually must rise at once, but he said that i Dr. Goodman said that he did not he could not.
consider that Mr. Chapman was a Dr. Goodman added that there man who would be likely to commit Experiments made to,, test the
was no sign that Mr. Chapman had suicide. claim that ultra-violet light is
He seemed to be beneficial for children are describ The menace has become so alarm taken drugs. ed in the report. Careful observa- ing that authorities are contemplat-purely unreasonable owing to field Avenue, Kensington, tion was made of the effect of lighting adopting special measures to mental condition-suffering given by the mercury vapour lamp end it. upon the health of infants from the East End of London.
"No evidence could be found of any gain in weight, of lessened anamia, or of better resistance to infective illnesses."
STANDARDISED HUMANS.
HEADMASTER'S VIEW OF MODERN EDUCATION.
Another scientifically-controlled trial was arranged, and it was
The growth of bureaucracy in found that the results of the treat-public life, and particularly in the ment were wholly negative.
administration of education; was commented upon by Mr. C. B. Dodd in his presidental address to the annual conference of the National Association of Schoolmasters, at Leicester.
Fresh Air,
No chjeptive evidence is „pro- vided that results have been achiev. ed that could not have been far more cheaply gained by proper food, and if that be so it is ob vious that exercise, and fresh air are greatly preferable to indoor sessions around a lamp.
This new class of public adminis trators was quite diferent from. that made up of the many enthu siastic
the old workers under
direct School Boards, with their personal touch.
"It seems fair to suspect that in much of the present advocacy of light treatment there lie all the
"In some ways," he said, "it is possibilities of faith-healing and for the good of both teachers and suggestion. It would seem to be scholars, but I am still of the the duty of those who take the opinion that three-quarters of the responsibility of prescribing light ultimate success of education de- treatment not only to secure that pends upon the person who comes its known dangers shall be avoid into actual contact with the child. ed, but also to find and announce
Administration and organisation en- evidence of its benefits that do not deavour to reduce the problems of come from strong commercial ad education to a scientific basis. Tocacy on the one hand and popuEducational science is becoming too lar eredality on the other.
academic in its terms.
"It would seem also to be the.
"Possibly the root cause of the special duty of hospitals and trouble is that education is to-day schools or other clinics expending suffering from an incubus which is Jarge sums of public money or arrettling down on so many crafts incial light to use part of the ex- and professions-the demand for unditure to demonstrate by pro mass productïod. Organisation is perly controlled trials their justifi-secessary for any complicated en- cation for spending more."
termise, hut standardised instruc tion is a poor substitute for educa tion.
NEW RYE FUND 'PROPOSALS.
"Schools do not deal with baker's dough or potter's clay, nor with dehumanised units of child- Se bat with the individual child.
£2 104. A WEEK FOR WIDOWS. This association can have no part
or lot in the production of stan dardised children by standardised Details of a new scheme for ad instructors. It holds that the per- ministering the £35,000 fund sub-sonality of the teachers is the most scribed for the dependants of the important factor. .... Rye lifeboat disaster, drawn up by
"There were some who believed the Mayor and trustees, have been revealed to the dependants at Rye that the purpose of education was to give wisdom and understanding Harbour in a draft copy of a deed
to the masNES. They desired a which has been sent to Mr. Percy road, humanistic education Idle, the solicitor representing education for life and leisure and thent.
recognised that asthetic pleasure,"
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It is learned that the deed inartatic appreciation and effort is cludes a proposal to pay a weekly the right of all classes. pension of £2-108 to widows, with
an allowance of 108. for each child of school age.
Bereaved parents will get £1 a week each and 5s. for each child of school age.
"On the other hand," he went there exist in England come of. who say that education ahould he something other than humanistic Education is for a purpose, and The two sweethearts of drowned that purpose is the commercial in men are to have £20 a year until dustrial, and technical supremacy they are married. Then they will of the Empire. They would couple receive a dowry of £150.
It is also proposed to make the way to live with the means to
litie. dowries of £100 on marriage to
The beat we can hope for is the sisters of the drowned men, and brothers and sisters may he helped alliance of these two and the out of the fund in case of necessity, gradual permeation of ideas from We understand that there is no One to the other. Culture, busi provision for any capital payments, and labour will then be inter fused, making a real social and to dependants.
intellectual democracy.
A special allowance of £3 a week will be made to Mrs. Cutting, who lost three sons. She also receives a special pension of £1 58. from the Lifeboat Institution.
A special committee, including one or two prominent local people"," is being forided to discuss the pre- posals.
You
Solicitor at Southend: I suggest
art R quarrelsome woman Woman: I cannot be, because my husband in at work all day....
Teaching the boys and youth of the nation was a man's work," said It was a man's work Mr. Dodd in public schools, why not in elementary schools?"
FORDS IN GERMANY,
The capital of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd, Berlin, will shortly be raised from the present five to eight million marks.
from
War correspondents who are at- tempting to unravel the presen trouble will shortly be forced to buy adding machines in order to political number the different parties which appear daily.
Latest List.
The latest list renda:
Monegasque nationale who de- sire to run the Government with the prince at their head;
Monegasques who desire to run the Government with another;
Monegasques who desire to run the Government without prince;
any
The casino group who support M. Rene Leon (head of the casino):
The group who are contented with the present regime without Rene Léon:
Those who desire to become anexed to France;
Those who hope that Monaco will becaine Italian;
The economic group, whe are willing to back any party able to bring back prosperity to the prin- cipality
A good estimate shows that 00 prosperity, and are not materially per cent, desire only the return of interested in politics.
Local newspapers lay stress Qu the fact that under the French- Monaco Treaty, signed July 17, 1918. Mr. Heary W. Aston, of Court- which was recognised under the friend, Versailles Treaty, it is specified said that Mr. Chapman was not the that France can intervene any time kind of man to take his own life that it is made clear that Monaco
"He used to be a lonely man." cannet bandie her affairs alone... added Mr. Aston. "but since his This warning is taken here as an marriage he has struck me as being ultimaton to all parties to settle
their affairs immediately.
high tension and excitement.
The coroner: He recovered sut ficiently to go through the cere meny 1--Yes, he said that he would,
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