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Buddy Rogers Marian Nixon
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IDEA ALMOST REALISED
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933.
FIRE ENQUIRY.
CONCLUDES.
VERDICT OF DEATHS BY MISADVENTURE
The enquiry into the disastrous fire in Reclamation Street in the carly hours of August 10, in which soven people lost their lives, was concluded yesterday afternoon CONCENTRATED when the jury said they wero "satisfied that there was no proof that the fire
deliberately caused."
VITAMINES
Berlin.
The idea of taking a pill and calling it a meal approaches reality with the announcement of success. ful medical treatment with a highly nutritivo substance derived after five years' experiment from the common cotton-seed by Professor Kaspar Schmitt of Heidelberg.
The substance obtained by a pro. cess of extraction and evaporation, resembles yellowish flour and con- tains as does no other known pro- duct, the vitamines A, B, C and E altogether, The vitamine D, ac- cording to one analyst's report can easily be activated:
Containing 50 per cent albumen and the extremely high mineral content of 7.5 per cent., the cotton seed extract has been fed to hospital patients with results indicating a new method of enriching human nourishment that may revolutionise dietetics.
AID TO RECOVERY.
Physicians report that after three months feeding by the teaspoonful or na an addition to food, not only patients with "deflelency disenses" but also those suffering from such varied. ailments as physical debility, diabetes, kidney, heart, gall trouble and tuberculosis, put on weight, their condition showing unusual im
provement.
Was
The enquiry was conducted by Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magis tracy with the following jury Messrs. H. J. D. Lowa (foreman). William Saunders and Thomas Wong.
HONOUR AMONG CAN YOU DO THIS
THIEVES
SOME UNDERWORLD ETHICS
NO "BIG SHOT”
Chicago.. Scientists who study crime and its causes have learned "how the other half. lives," from "Frank Smith" other things, he told them in ox-pickpocket: Among effect that there was "honour among thieves."
aym-
for the
Evidence was given by Mr. L. P. is something else, is a professional "Frank Smith," whose real name Kwok, of the Wing On Fire and pickpocket on parole. He spoke on Marine Insurance Co., yesterday. "socfal relationships of the pro- He stated that the gunny bag shop fessional thief" before a on the ground floor of No. 893 posium on crimo sponsored by the Reclamation Street was insured American Association with his Company for $1,000. claim for $600 had been made but
AAdvancement of Science. on investigations being made, the Company had decided to award such as confidence mon and pick- Professional thievos, he said, $640. Witness was of the opinion pockets, had a higher code of that the claim was genuine. ethics among themselves than After further evidence of identi- | amateur criminals such as young fication, the Coroner said to the hoodlums who might hold up R Jury "Gentlemen, you have heard store the evidence of all the witnesses, crime. or commit Boma similar and I don'think there is nny doubt that the Deven Лессивей, The professionals usually work. into whose death you have beened in a "mob" of three or four, enquiring, except Poon Sam, mot one doing the stealing and the other their death by burns as the result of this fire at No. 303 and 395 Reclamation Street in the early hours of August 10. Poon Sam met his death by falling from a pipe while attempting to escape to another floor.
The Are originated, according to the evidence, in the gunny bag shop belonging to Tsang Choung, Physicians believe also the cot-who himself gave evidence. His ton seed extract will be highly im-evidence was given in a very un- portant in preventing cancer, many satisfactory manner. This might holding this to be a "deficiency have been caused by nervousness, discane" resulting from improper his stock for $1,000 knowing fully but he himself says that he insured nutrition.
well that it was worth only $600.
"You have heard, the evidence of the insurance agent, however, and he says that a claim for $600 was made to lifs Company, but after
investigations, they had decided to award $540. It was this witness' opinion that the claim was genuine.
In not a single case on record dig the cotton seed extract have an un- favourable effect upon a patient. The fact that the substance Is soluble in water is an advantage in feeding patients unable to take pilla,
Moreover the substance, accord- ing to physicians is valuable in skin therapeutics and the multitude of ways in which it can be "fed" re- yeuls possibilitles of a new gigantic Industry of health products in cot- ton growing countries.
Kerosene Lamps. "Evidence has also been given that there wore no electric lights in the building. The lamps used were lit by kerosene. There was also evidence that the bean-curd dealer used-an-open fire for cook ing, but there is no reason to be lieve that the fire started from that open fire place.".
acting as halpers, but all share alike in the proceeds. There is no "big shot" who gets more than the others. Even when a single member of the "mob" steals some- thing without aid of"
his Co- them. "Holding workers, ho still must share with others means instant diamulasal out" on the from the "mob."
pro-
On the other hand if a fessional thief gets in some kind of trouble that has no connection ethics of the profession do not with his business of thieving, require his partners to his afd.
come to
NO “SQUAWKING".
have to "squawk" on each other in Professional thloves seldom
court, he said, because when they are caught they usually con silence the victim by returning the money through a dishonest pollee- man or in some other way, and avoid being brought to trial. In one case a victim was persuaded to drop prosecution when the con- fidencomen who fleeced him agreed to give $5,000 to the victim's favourite hospital for crippled children.
ONLY THE
WITH YOUR TOOTHBRUSH
Tek
SHORT HEAD
CAN DO IT
THIS IS A TEST FOR A TOOTHBRUSH. The arch that your thumb and forefinger make is similar to the arch of your tooth. Only the brush that fits the one can fit the other. AND ONLY TEK'S CAN DO IT. Tek fits its full face into every curve of the arch—” upper and lower. Relieved of the usual load of useless bristles, Tek's short head reaches everywhere, cleans everywhere. In its rapid passes Tek gives the gums a mild massage-gentle to with, until
they
become firm and strong and of a healthy colour. But only Tek can do it, because of Its shape and size. Got used to Tek and you'll use no other. Sold surgically clean in a sealed carton. See that the carton. is unbroken. Six 'colours. Hard or medium, also extra hard (unbleached). Other famous Johnson & Johnson products are Johnson's Baby Powder, Johnson's Baby Soap, Johnson's Baby Croam,
Johnson's Prickly Heat Powder.
begin charity, a
TWO TABLETS-THREE MEALS.
The pulverized cotton seed ex- tract can be added...to overy con- ceivable food such as butter, cheese, bread, ive-cream, candy, and drinks including wine, beer, coffee, milk, and cocoa, increasing the nutritivs
The Coroner went on to say that tween "mobs" of thieves as well There are codes of ethics, be- value of these 20 to 30 per cent. this was not the first enquiry heag between thieves in a according to analysis. It aids the had held in respect of deaths caus- Smith went on. One mob is "mob," fermantation process and yeast ised by fire in Chinese tenement tolerant of the competing opera- improved by it.
houses, in which large quantities __Two_of_the_cotton-seed-tablets of imilammable goods were stored tons of another mob in the same day, according to Professor In this case, the Fire Brigade town. There is no "but throat Schmitt, suflee for thres meals a
had done everything possible to competition." day, and there is the likelihood of minimise the loss of lives. If the the cotton-seed pill becoming the jury were satisfled that the fire iron-ration" of the future for started by accident and not by in- Holdfers, explorers, ocean flors and tention, his Worship directed them also for civilians in times of food to bring in a verdict of death by shortage.
misadventure.
Very shortly the State of Baden will commence feeding its school children with cotton-seed tablets under strict observation
of the authorities. The Italian Govern-
"MOB" RESENTMENT.
On the other hand a local mob resents operations of an out-of- town mob that is passing through a town and makes it more dimeult After a short retirement, the for the local thieves by com- jury brought in the following mitting thefts that put local verdict. We find that all the de- people on their guard. If one ceased met their death by mob bas. "fixed" the police or misadventure. There is no proof guards so that it can work un- ment is showing a lively interest in that the fire was deliberately molested in a railroad station, for caused, and we express our example, other mobs which do view towards exploiting its colonialmpathy with the relatives of the el, have this protection will not cotton plantations. In Egypt, where deceased. We commend the work work there; for they will be Professor Schmitt completed his done by the Fire Brigade," experiments, the product has n
His Worship. Gentlemen, ready been placed on the market. agree with, your verdict and a Both the Chinese and the Japanese sion of sympathy with the relativea
sociate myself with your
expres Governmenta have inquired into of the deceased. Professor Schmitt's experiments- Reuter.
Professor Schmitt's work with
UNARMED ARMY OF 25,000
TO TAKE PART IN GREAT "SOKOL"
Belgrade. An army of 25,000 young mon, each a model of physical perfection and muscular development, is mobilised in Jugoslavia not far from the Italian frontier, for a great "Sokol" meeting.
BLUE SHIRTS RAIDED.
FUSION OF OPPOSITION PARTIES
Dublin, Aug. 31. The Blue Shirts Headquarters have beon twice raided by police officers within 12 hours and n quantity of documents has been removed. General O'Duffy's desk was burst open.
Behind the scenes, active work is proceeding with a view to bring- ing about a fusion of the principal Opposition parties Into one Na tional party.
The "Sokola", or Eagles, are a
Supporters of the policy feel purely gymnastical society, and that the adverse trade balance of the main object of the meeting in £10,000,000 for the last soven to carry through a programme of months will considerably help the gymnastic exercises for which the | idoq,—Router,
most coveted prize is a sword offered by King Alexander to the best team.
APPEALS FOR AID.
While the Sokola carry no arms and spend their time in perform- ing astonishing exercises on the
GOVERNOR OF HONAN various apparatus of their vant
REPORTS ON FLOOD open air gymnasiums, the allont discipline of their mass drill, the Liu Shih, Governor of Hohan,
Nanking, Aug. 31. magnificent show of muscle
and to-day appellad for relief on be control,
Jugoslavie dearly "Hands off half of the flood victims in his
Four thousand Sokola have
provinco HSBTEA Ho ortimates that 2,000 villages come also from Czechoslovakia, in Honan have been affected by whare the Sokol. movement the flood; and, of this numbor many. originated, to join their Blovene, have been completely ruined. Croatian and Serbian fellows in Ho Bhi-yuan, Commissioner of joint exercises, and to compete Education in Shantung, is on his for the prizes
way, to Nanking, ram, Tainan 58.
Another largo detach ordsents all the Bokö); groups Rhyr White Russian
day in order lo dell vor
red' sufferingatör the fõog vletimi
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blamed for the thefts of the first mob.
Other points about professional thieves:
To a thief all non-thieves "auckera.",
uro
On railroad trains thieves al ways ride in drawing rooms for protection and privacy.
Thloves never talk in their own alang or vernacular except anong themselves. In the presence of others it's a "dead giveaway."
Thieves often have honest friends who have no connection with their thieving operations and whom they will protect against | trouble oven at the cost of going [to jail-Router,
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