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DEEP-SEA MEASUREMENTS.
WORK OF THE SURVEY VESSEL "METEON",
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928.
FOUR YEARS FOR HOTEL THIEF.
"MOST GENTLEMANLY WAY
OF LAW-BREAKING.".
He pleaded guilty to stealing jewellery, etc., from Earle's Hotel, Grosvenor-street, W.; Shortlands House Hotel, Shortlands, Kent, and Embassy Hotel, Bayswater,
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The excellent comedy "Why Sailors Go Wrong", which was BO well received by local movie fans when it was shown recently at the Queen's will be screened at that Theatre for one day more, Tuesday next, according to a special ́an- nouncement In this issue.
"I am ashamed of my law-bronk- The temperature, the percentage of salt, and therefore also the dening, but I have never had a chance," sity of the water of the Atlantic declared Victor Carason, aged 24; Ocean were measured by the 8.8. who was sentenced to four years' "Molcor" at various depths ranging penal servitude at the Old Bailey from the surface to the bottom of recently for thefts at hotels. the sea. No less than, 310 "stations" were established for this purpose, the stay at cach "station"
Sammy Cohen and Ted Mc- averaging from eight to ten hours.
Namara, the incomparable comedy The vessel had to cross the Atlantic thirteen times. There was a dif It was slated for the prosecution team of "What Price Glory" and ference of from five to sever degrees that Carason's method was to en- The Gay Retreat" are reponsible of latitude between the tracks ago reont at a hotel and steal for the riot of fun which the pic any two consecutive crossings. from the bedrooms of guests. Hotures contains, The story is about two comical taxi drivers, who, These extended from Buenos Aires worked, alone. to Capetown, from Capetown 1
Sergeant Wheatley after a number of highly amusing. Punta Arenas (Magallanes), from proved seven convictions against and cleverly devised situations Rio Grande do Sul to Capetown, Carason, the sentences including find themselves being shanghaied from Pernambuco to Fernanda Po, one of two years' hard labour from a big city and marooned on ote. The work of survey also in-Once he escaped from prison, but a tropical island where lions, can- cluded the adjoining parts of the was at liberty only one day. Ila nibals and dark-skinned beauties Pacific and Indian Oceans,
mother was an actress, and at the One of the main results of the ex-age of four the boy was "farmed make things mighty warm for the pair. This cavironment proves a pedition is that additional in- out." formation has been obtained re- "Ile admits that he has done so unique background for the comedy Sailors Go! Intive to the depth chart of the work in, his life," he anid. "Ills touches and adds much to the gen. Atlantic. This Information, is father will have nothing to do with eral fun. "Why based on 67,300 soundings by means him, although he is very pros- Wrong" is quite the funniest comedy seen in Hongkong for somaj of acoustic appliances (so-called perous." "echo" soundings) and 533 ordinary Mr. Comyns Carr, K.C. (defend-time and those who have not al soundings. At one "station," for ing), sald that Carason gave some ready seen it should not miss this instance, where the vessel investi- of the proceeds of the robberies to final opportunity. Rated an area covering 600 square his mother to pay for an operation. kilometres by zigzag cruises, 336 As a bay he was sent to a train "echo" soundings were made in as ing ship and becante deputy band- short a period of time as eight muster. hours. n.46 different places with- in that area deptha exceeding 10,000 metres were ascertained. Expedi- flons Bout out previous to the "Meteor" could not make use of "echo" soundings, because this new method was still in its infancy at those Limes
Atlantic Ridge.
Detective Sergeant Wheatley said that in. Carason's bag at one hotel were found a jemmy, un air pistol and a life preserver.
Carason admitted 3 similar thefts and asked that they might
taken into consideration. The value of the property stolen by Carason in all these robberies was put at £5,000.
FORGED TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES.
GANG DISCOVERED BY
SOFIA POLICE.
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22
30
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
Horizontal
1 Lots a small bost down over
sido of a vessel.
the "Graf Zeppelin" repaired 6. In what type of building was
after landing In America?
10 Age.
12 The cry of a dove.
18 A CABUTO.'
15. Who is the commander of the
"Graf Zeppelin"?
18 Abbreviation for postscript
19 Sox eagle,
20 Largo sea duck.
21 Lawyer's charge.
22 Masculino pronoun.
24. Woolly surface of cloth.
20 Variant of "
27 What portion of the dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" was damaged in its transatlantic fight?. 'Sofia, Nov. 14, A gang of forgera of American 28 Who is the first woman to y in a dirigible across an ocean? travellers' cheques has been dis- 30 To countersink. covered by the Sofia police. The 34 Caterpillar hair. Bulgarinn subject, Sapoundjieff, so Sneaky.
The abundant material brought
First Offence at Eleven. to light by such "echo" soundings Mr. Comyns Carr remarked that enables us to increase our know-when he was 16 Carason was sen-who was recently deported from 37 Central part of an amphitheatre. ledge of the structure of the so- tenced to 12 months' hard labour, America for smuggling emigranta 40 Tree having tough wood. called "Atlantic lidge." The fel-notwithstanding that he had pre-cross the Canadian border into 41 Seventh note in a seale. lowing explanations are founded on viously committed, only a small of the United States, printed the 42 From what country did the forged cheques, with the assistance "Graf Zeppelin" start Its flight? the detalled account given by Pro- fonce at the age of eleven. fessor Defaut. The Ridge has now Carason-The reason I became'n of an officiul of the Anglo-Bulgarian 44 Morindin dye.
45 Expensive. been proved to constitute a com-hotel sneak thief was not because Chamber of Commerce in Sofia.
47 A rent. plicated "massif" greatly varying it is particularly clever, but be-
Travellers' cheques of various de 40 Seller. in its individual parts as regards cause it seemed to be the most nominations had been issued by a 50 To stop. their general character. It grad wholesome and gentlemanly way bank in Illinois under the protec unlly rises from an average depth of breaking the law. I am only tion of a large New York bank. of 6,000 metres below the level of thief, but I want to be otherwise. The forgera succeeded in selling the sea to some 2,500 metres below Be the first judge--to give me only a limited number of the forged surface and divides the Atlantic chance. Bind me over for ton cheques, as Sapoundjieff and his into two basins-an eastern and a western basin-both of which ears or afty years, but give me an- necomplices when arrested had on
them 100 unsold cheques.
other chance.
are entirely different in their struc-
Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.-My duty ture. The western basin more or is to protect people who stay in less resembles along groove, where hotels from what Carason calls is the eastern basin is subdivided menk thieves. Carason has de- into several "troughs" separated, seribed his form of law-breaking from each other by cross ridges as gentlemanly; I call it one of the rising to considerable heights. The most cowardly forms of crime. result is that the flow of water from one part to another is greatly im
peded thereby. There are three
The temperature measurements
of these transverse ridures, viz., the Current which has an extent of Gainen Ridge, the Walvis Ridge, about 2,000 metres. From a depth and the Atlantic-Indian Ridge. Sa'ef about 4,000 metres to the bottom far, only the Feend of these had of the sea conditions vary between been known in regard to its oceans the western and the eastern basina.
Temperature Taking. graphic importance; but it has now been ascertained that the other two ridges exercise a very similar in- taken by the expedition were car- fluence upon the flow of the fried out by means of the tilting I thermometer, the "Meteor" belig water. In addition 10 the three ridges already named, the Arst vessel making systematic ol and extensive use of this method are several stacles in the castern basin to the for oceanographic serien observa- circulation of the water from north itlons. It has been applied to about
thore
other
La south. There can be no doubt that this complicated configuration of the bottom of the Atlantic great ly. Interferes with the unimpeded movement of water throughout the Southern Atlantic.
Vertical
1 At what elty in America did the "Graf Zeppelin" end its fight? 2 You and I 1 Beforo.
NB
33
4 Contest of speed. 0 Maple tree.
7 Correlativa of neither."
8 To depart
Who is the commander of the dirigible, the "Los Angeles"
11 Part of a fortification,
14 Native metal.
16 Relatives collectively.
17 Knots of wool fibro.
Tiny
118
green vegetable. 23 Not bright.
26 Motor fuel.
27
Sprite.
29 Yes.
31 To cut out as a aylinblo..
32 To make a mistake.
30 Collection of facia,
35 Emperors.
37 Pertaining to nie.
108 Bird similar to an ostrich.
89 To put up a poker stake.
42 To wander about.
43 Affirmative.
40 Half an em.
48 Three-toed sloth,
Yesterday's Solution
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