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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, · FRIDAY,
AUGUST
26,
1938.
£3,000 HEROIN IN COVERS OF SACRED BOOKS
"Rabbi" Seized By
DRUGS
Paris Police
Paris.
RUGS valued at over £3,000 and weighing 401b. have been seized by the Paris police following the arrest of two men.
One, bearded and bespectacled, a naturalised Ameri- can, posed as "chief Rabbi of Brooklyn."
Io la believed to be the brain behind an ingenious scheme for sending heroin stuffed in special hollow bindings of the Tal- mud and other sacred Jewish works by post to foreign countries.
Fashion Makes
The B.M.A.
Climb Down
The other man, П 35-year-old Hungarian, in alleged to have us alsted the "Rabbl" in the traffic.
ANTI - TRUST TEST CASE AGAINST DOCTORS
FAR-REACHING problems
concerning the future of the United States national health programme are in. volved in a sult which the Department of Justice is bringing against the or- ganised medical profession for employing monopolistic practices.
TRACED TO BOOKSHOPS
Following information received in- spectors of the Surete shadowed the, "Rabbi" to a bookshop in the Latin
The test case chosen by Mr. quarter of Paris, saw him emerge Thurman Arnold, Assistant Al- with a large number of parcels and torney-General, in charge of drive in a taxi to the Bourse post
On the
way another man anti-trust legislation, is simple. him. At the post office the
Many individuals, tinding doc-
HE British Medical Associa-in was despatched to New York.
tion recently voted recogni-
tion to approved chiropodists, The "Rabb!" returned to the book-tors' fees too high, have found thus reversing a B.M.A. decision seller, collected another parcel, met
the man on the way again. Plain-groups to secure medical atten- clothes men arrested them.
four years ago.
"I am the chief Rabbi of Brook-
more
tion at lower rates. Although the move, with certain safeguards, was sponsored by the lyn." protested the older man.
One of these formed by Council of the Association, the pro-f
Washington Civil Ser- poral was accepted only after The parcel in the taxi was opened.than 2,000 sharp divergence of views, several
It contained some artistically bound vants, had dimeulty in hiring doc- speakers declaring that it was the prayer books with embossed covers, tors because the American Medical and Its amlated The stung of the covers had been Association "beginning of recognition for all un-very carefully removed and replaced Washington Metical Society threaten- qualified practitioners,"
by ti sachets of heroin, Eached to expel any members Macdonald (York), book contained 100 grammes of hero, assisted in the scheme.
Dr. Peler chairman of the Association's Hos- In. pitals Committee, said the plan was aimed to overcome "barefaced ex-
The parcel at the post office con-
ploitation" of the public, and it was tained similar books.
proposed to give recognition to mem- of the Incorporated Society of bers Chiropodists and the British Associa- tion of Chiropodists.
few years.
SENT TO JERUSALEM
I was learned that several other parcels had been sent in the same way from other Parls post offices to "The demand for the services of an address in Jerusalem. chiropodista," said Dr. Macdonald, λ uitense containing 20 of the "has greatly increased the last "Rabbi's" prayer books stuffed with heroin was found at the left luggage "One reason is the most blatant deposit of a cafe near the Gare de advertising by certain persons who Lyon, left there by the Hungarian. call themselves, chiropodists, and by, The bookbinder told the police certain bodies who organise them, that he had been instructed by the professing not only to diagnose but to "Rabbi" to do the work, who as- treat everything from a toenail to asured bin that the sachets contained
swelled head.
"But part of the demand is owing! to increasing disabilities of the feet, caused largely by the absurd foot- wear which women now seem my addicted to.
"This dißlculty has manifested it- self at hospitals, and there have been requesta by chiropodists to take their places in the out-patients' de- partment.
"soil from the Holy Land.”
CELLULOID CUFFS MAY
BE BANNED
"Public Interest is concerned be-
Prohibition of the sale of "cuffs, cause some chiropodists, and some of the bodies who organise them, have collars, shirt fronts, side combs and purely commercial interests, and are air ornaments consisting solely or exploiting the public in the most chiefly of celluloid," is recommended council by the Departmental Committee on bare-faced way, and have the view that the public ought the Use of Celluloid.
your
to be protected."
"HUMAN VANITY"
who
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION
A Grand Jury investigation has been ordered to discover which uficials of these two organisations were responsible for threatening the doctors belonging to the Washington "Group Health Association." with a view to their possible prosecution.
The big question hanging over the industrial future of the United States is whether the Government should permit monopolies to grew, but con- irol and regulate them, or whether should oppose such growth and insist on competition.
Ursi
British society racket custom- ary for years has been stymied by the Earl of Clarendon, above, In- Lord Chamberlain, new poverished peercsses who used their social standing by charging
debutants for introducing them at court have been notified their presence pt court is "no longer
required."
Religion's Part In
..
Armed World
Speaking to the Cromer Conven- tion delegates recently, Dr. Wilson Secretary of the Cash, General Church Missionary Society, sald we and even In- Any inclusion of organised medi- might be impressed eine as a monopoly within the field fluenced by the great material pro- of anti-trust legislation is interest-gress of armed forces in Europe and Ing. because the profession is much the Far East, but we had to realise that the spirit of Christ was still more like a "closed shop" trade
to be reckoned with in a material union than a big industry.
world.
a
The action taken to safeguard free
A large part of the Western world competition within the profession, had developed on the lines of "might though opposed by the majority of is right." Communism und Fascism
not doctors, is
☐ step towards and Nazism had grown up with Government control, and li may new selfish nationalism, based on clear the way for the development self-sufficiency and hatred of others. of a type of medical practice which Euch sought to be strong at the ex- will avert what the doctors consider pense of someone else. to be the far greater evil of political control.
some
This spiritual allenatlott would never be broken down by the Church
until we captured a conception of
NOT A CRUSADER
ilfe that could take in world con- Nevertheless,
measure ofditions. Federal health insurance appears to History to-day must be interpreted
inevitable. The question is in terms of religion. The
world "There is no other plastic material, be at present," says the committee's re- whether the intrusion of the Govern-was in desperate need, but refused port, "that possesses all the desirablement into a sphere hitherto const- to accept things as they were.
dered to be the doctors' own will be There was a clash of creed and extended much further than this. Interest between world forces and Christian faith 10-day because Christianity demanded supreme allegiance to Our Lord.
The proposal was strongly oppos-properties of cellulold," ed by Dr. Charles Oliver Hawthorne, a London physician, who urged that
it
if chiropodists were to be recognised was only logical that the profes- sion should grant the same conces sions to
masseurs,
MILLION ARTICLES A DAY Some 3,000 tons are used yearly in manufactures in this country.
Sheffield produces every working knife
sight-testing dny 7,000 dozen celluloid opticians, and hairdressers who handles or hafts; claimed to treat distakes of the
scalp.
"I don't wish to depreciate the chi-yearly, 80 per cent. have ropodist. We recognise him as an
Jandies;
celluloid
Mr. Thurman Arnold is rapidly becoming one of the most important men in the Government.
artist and a craftsman making some 21,500,000 celluloid toys were sold View, is not more involved in anti-
contribution to the grace and charm here in 1936, of which
of the social scene by the removal
of abnormalities which are partly
ly due to the efforts of his brother
13,750,000 were celluloid dolls.
The convention which Dr. Cash
was addressing consists of members: of the Anglican Evangelical Group
movement.
Rattlesnake For Lunch! RATTLESNAKE, dried, smoked
He does not regard his job as a crusade, but as a method of shaping the country's economic development. of 25,000,000 tooth brushes sold He is opposed to demagogic attacks on business as Immoral or definitely wicked. Moral turpitude, in his
trust cases as a general rule than in prosecutions for reckless driving. Mr. Arnold makes it clear that this is the general outlook which he
against the Medleat Association.
beer, is one of the most popular He desires the co-operation of meals In America to-day, and Miss and the professions and Janet Bond, a home economics ex- craftsmen--the makers of boots and business
trades in keeping within certain de- pert. is to introduce the meat in Eng. shoes."
finite lines laid down by the anti-land suon. It tastes like turbot. It In spite of other criticism the pro-trust laws and brings cases to make is already on the U.8, market, can- posal to grant recognition was en- clear by court rulings where these | ned in sauce supreme and, snelis aff dorsed by an overwhelming majority. lines are drawn.
78. Gd, for a five ounce tin.
A trade witness declared that
every working day.
the result of human vanity and part-1,000,000 celluloid articles were soldus adopted in the present action and seasoned, and served with
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27th August, 1938
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