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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938,
BUCHAREST SLATED
TO BECOME CENTRE
VIRULENT HASHISH DRUG FANS
OF EASTERN EUROPE TERRORISM
King Carol to Reconstruct City In Bid for Position Once Held by Vienna
Bucharest, Rumania. Now that Vienna has ceased to be an independent metropolla, King Carol has embarked upon an ambitious plan to make Bucharest the centre of Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Rumania's gay and picturesque capital, which is known in these parts of the world as "Little Paris," is the geographic point of inter-section between the lines London-Paris-Vienna, Black Sea, Berlin-Istanbul, Warsaw-Sofin Athens, Prague-Ankara and Belgrade-Black Sen.
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coming an important tourist centre since two hours distance by car or train one can be in the midst of the Carpathian mountaina or On the Black Sea shore.
(By Jacob Simon) United Press Correspondent
Jerusalem.
The virulent drug Hashish is ap- parently playing a large part in keeping Arnb terrorism fanned to fever pitch.
been
Nearly all terrorists captured by the police and troops have found to be under the influence of the drug, whose increased smuggling into this country has presented the authorities with a problem almost as serious 03 the Arab-Jew disturb
ances.
Men of the East have used Hashish is derived from its name. And to- for centuries. The word "assassin" any, according to the authorities, the Arab bands swallow large doses be- fore they go out to ambush and kill in the hills around Jerusalem.
According to the Arab press in the Arab city of Juffa alone 10,000 Kashish addicts are known to the police out of population of 20,000.
The bandits go to extraordinary
To meet the requirements_of_the Increasing Importance Df Buchar est. King Carol has adopted Q scheme for the complete transforina- tion of the city. A great number of At present, Rumania's wapital is lengths to get the drug whose chief old buildings are to be torn down and o town of contrasts. An ultra-effects are aphrodisiac, and a sense of extreme courage and aggressive- replaced by ultra-modern structures, neighbour aky-scraper may have an
cher prison new roads are to
shabby. evil-smelling oficials in Palestine has told the be constructed,, neighbour a parks will be planted and no expense oriental hut. On the other hand, story of how Sheikh Farham. lender will be grudged to make Rumania'a; the central parts of the city have of the terrorist bands in, northern capital the most up to date elly in the aspect of a prosperous American Palestine, obtained the drug while Eastern Europe.
King, Carol himself will supervise, the reconstruction of the town.
Pinus are also being made build a cunni between Buchnrest and the Danube order that the capital may become in the near future a large river port,
fuelitate transports
of
town,
ilte nes. One of
CITY ALWAYS GAY
in Acre jail nwalting execution.
His four wives came to bid him incidentally Bucharest's reputation | farewell. All of them kissed him on of being o Little Paris is well the mouth. Now the warden knew deserved as regards its gately. The that it was not the Arab custom to recent political changes did not kiss their wives in public under any feet in the least the Rumanion's circumstances, and that in any case love for wine, women and son. At an Arab usually kisses a woman on two o'clock in the morning the streets the check. and cafes are sull crowded with good-humoured revellers.
כון?
BRIDGES BEING BUILT
Meanwhile, The ministruction two bridges over the Danube, one
There are in this town
less nt Turnu-Severin designed to
than sixty cinemas, eight theatres, shorten by eight hours the distance orchestras and unlierless enfes and une opera house, two philharmonic between Belgrade-Bucharest und Constantza and one n Giorgiu to cabarets. All are doing good busl- between Ru-ness became Bucharest has 700,000 mania, Bulgaria and Greece, is pro- nubilants and the Rumanian is an ceeding at full speed.
easy spender,
If war does not break out King Carol may see his
soon dream of making Bucharest one of the most important centres of Eastern Europe fulfilled.
Thus, Bucharest will shortly be come the tronation point between the Balkans and Central Europe. It also stands a good chance of be-
Gunman Barber Shaves
His Captor
POLICEMAN W. J. Ryan, of Denver, U.S., while visiting the State prison on business, went to the prison barber's shop for a shave.
The convict barber began to lather him. Ryan looked up, started to chat, gulped and forgot all about needing a shave,
in-
His suspicions aroused, he vestigated and found that each of the wives had transferred a dose of Hashish from her mouth to the sheikh's.
the same semi-religious ritual of the To-day the terrorists follow almost mysterious Order of Assassing form- ed originally in the 11th century to fight the Crusaders,
and
Neophytes were drugged taken to a luxurious harem
Alled with beautiful hours. They were told
they w
after several days testing its
were lo "Paradise," but
de-
lights, they were drugged again and taken back into ordinary life. Then they were told that in order to get back again they must commit a holy killing, then kill themselves and they would then return to Paradise. The word "Hashasheen" wna derived from this practice, and later corrupted into assassin.
ARC
When an act of terrorism is to be committed, the shelkh summons the band and lots are drawn to select those who are to carry it out. A special religious ritual is conducted, during which the shekh exhorts the chosen group on the bliss that awalta the true Moslem warrior in Paradise. Doses of Hashish are distributed and out they go to pillage, plunder and murder.
HER FACE WAS "A PERFECT SIGHT"
Eczema Sufferer's
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Eczema is frequently caused by impurities in the blood--irritant pol- sons which sluggishi body organs_pre- falling to expel from the system. Kruschen Salis Is Nature's recipe for maintaining a condition of internal cleanliness. The six salts in Krus chen stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels to function properly, so that all blood Impurities are regularly and completely eliminated.
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