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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1938
£3,000 HEROIN IN COVERS OF SACRED BOOKS
"Rabbi" Seized By
Paris Police
Paris.
DRUGS valued at over £3,000 and weighing 401b, have been seized by the Paris police following the arrest of two men.
One, bearded und bespectacled, a naturalised Ameri- can, posed as "chief Rabbi of Brooklyn."
Ho is belleved to be the brain behind an ingenious schemo 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, Д 15-year-old Hungarian, 18 alleged to have as alsted the "Rabbi" in the traffic.
office.
ANTI-TRUST TEST CASE AGAINST DOCTORS
FAR-REACHING problems
concerning the future of the United States national health programme are in- volved in a suit which the Department of Justice is bringing against the or- gunised medical profession for employing monopolistic practices,
The test case chosen by Mr. Thurman Arnold, Assistant At-
TRACED TO DOOKSHOPS Following information received in- spectors of the Surete shadowed the "Rabbl" to a bookshop in the Latin quarter of Paris, saw him emerge with a large number parcels and drive in n n tax] to the Bourse post torney-General, in charge of
On THE British Medical Assoela him. At the post office the
the way another man anti-trust legislation, is simple. tion recently voted recogni- marcel
Many individuals, finding doc- tion to approved chiropodists,rce was despatched to New York.
The "Rabbl" returned to the book-tors' fees too high, have found thus roveraing a B.M.A. decision seller, collected another parcel. met four years ago.
the mhh on the way again. Pinin groups to seeure medical atten- clothes men arrested them.
tion at lower rates. Although the move, with certain
"I am the chief Rabbl of Brook-
One
formed by of these safeguards, was sponsored by the lyn," protested the older man.
Washington Civil Ser- than 2,000 Council of the Association, the pro- The parcel in the taxl was opened. posal was accepted only after o
It contained some artistically bound vants, had difficulty in hiring doc. sharp divergence of views, severni ayer books with embossed covers, tors because the American Medical and 118 amliated speakers declaring that it was the The stuffing of the covers had been Association "beginning of recognition for all un-very carefully removed and replaced Washington Metical Society threaten- qualified practitioners."
expel any members by little sachets of heroin. Each cd Dr. Peter Macdonald (York), book contained 160 grammes of hero assisted in the scheme, chairman of the Association's Hos-in.
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION pitals Committee, sald the plan was! The parcel at the post office con- aimed to overcome "barefaced ex- ploitation" of the public, and it was tuned similar books.
proposed to give recognition to mem- bers of the Incorporated Society of Chiropodists and the British Associa iton of Chiropodists.
few years.
SENT TO JERUSALEM
It was learned that several other parecis had been sent in the same way from other Paris post offices to an address in Jerusalem.
"The demand for the services of chiropodists," said Dr. Mocdonald,
A suitcase containing 20 of the "has greatly increased 11 the last "Rabbi's" prayer books stuffed with herois 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.
The call themselves chiropodists, and by)
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 tuenail to asured him that the sachets contained awelled head.
soli from the Holy Land."
"But part of the demand is owing to increasing disabilities of the feet, caused largely by the absurd foot- wear which women now seem firmly addicted to.
to
more
who
A Grand Jury Investigation has
discover ordered to been
which omeials of these two organisations were responsible for threatening the doctors belonging to the Washington
In
British society racket custom- ary for years has been stymied by the Earl of Clarendon, above, new Lord Chamberlain. poverished pecresses who used their social standing by charging debutants for introducing them ut court have been notified their presence at court is "no longer required."
Religion's
"Group Health Association." with a Part In
view to their possible prosecution.
Armed World
fluenced by the great material pro- Kress of armed forces in Europe and the Fur East, but we had to realise that the spirit of Christ was still to be reckoned with in a material world.
The big question hanging over the Industrial future of the United States is whether the Government should
Speaking to the Cromer Conven- permit nonopolies to grow, but con- trol and regulate them, or whether tion delegates recently, Dr. Wilson Secretary of the it should, oppose such growth and Cash, General
Church Missionary Society, said we insist on competition.
and even in- Any inclusion of organised medi-might be Impressed eine as a monopoly within the field of anti-trust legislation is interest- ing, because the profession is much like a "closed shop" frade more union than a big industry.
The action taken to safeguard free competition within the profession, though opposed by the majority of doctors, is not д step Government control, and may clear the way for the development of a type of medical practice which will avert what the doctors consider #Public Interest is concerned be-j
This spiritual alienation Prohibition of the sale of "cuffs, to be the far greater evil of political cause some chiropodists, and some of the bodies who organise them, have collars, shirt frouts, side combs and control. purely commercial interests, and are hair ornaments consisting solely or most chiefly of celluloid," is recommended exploiting the public in the bare-faced way, and your council by the Departmental Committer have the view that the public ought the Use of Celluloid. to be protected."
"This dimeulty has manifested t- self at hospitals, and there have been take requests by chiropodists to their places in the out-patients' de- partment.
"HUMAN VANITY"
CELLULOID CUFFS MAY
BE BANNED
#
A large part of the Western world had developed on the lines of "might is right." Communism and Fascism towards and Nazism had grown up with il
based on new selfish nationalism, self-sufficiency and hatred of others. Each sought to be strong at the ex- pense of someone else.
would
never be broken down by the Church until we captured u conception of NOT A CRUSADER
life that could take in world cof- of ditions. On Nevertheless,
be Federal health Insurance appears to History to-day must Interpreted world Tie
of religion. The inevitable.
question is in terms
measure come
"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 extended much further than this.
M Thurman Arnold is rapidly bomini: one of the most important men in the Government,
The proposal was strongly oppos-properties of celluloid." ed by Dr. Charles Oliver Hawthorne, MILLION ARTICLES A DAY
London physician, who urged that
it
was
masseurs, to
trent discuses
0
the
If chiropodists were to be recognised Some 3,000 tons are used yearly in
only
logical that the profes-manufactures in this country. slon should grant the same conces- Sheffield produces every working
sight-testing day sions
7,000 dozen cellulold knife opticians, and hairdressers who handles or hafls; claimed 10 scalp.
"I don't wish to depreciate the chi- ropodlat. We recognise him as an artist and a craftsman making some contribution to the grace and charm here in 1938, of which
He does not regard his job ns n crusade, but as method of shaping the country's economic development. Or 25,000,000 tooth brushes sold ite is opposed to demagogle attacks yearly, 80 per cent. have celluloid on business as immoral or definitely wicked. Moral turpitude, in his handles;
21,500,000 celluloid toys were soldview, is not more involved in anti-
of the social scene by the removal 13,750,000 were celluloid dolis. of abnormalities which are partly A trade witness declared that the result of human vaulty and part-1,000,000 celluluid articles were sold ly due to the efforts of his brother fevery working day.
Glostora
That woll-groomed op. pearance can be ruined by a fow unruly hain.
Glostora conquers unruly hair-koops every strand in its placa-brings out the natural lustro of your hair,
Glostora
trust cases as a general rule than In prosecutions for reckless driving. Mr. Arnold makes it clear that his is the general outlook which he has adopted in the present action against the Medical Association.
There was a clash of creed and Interest between world forces and Christian faith
10-day because Christianity demanded supreme allegiance to Our Lord.
The convention which Dr. Cash was addressing consists of members of the Anglican Evangelical Group movement.
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DATTLESNAKE,
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finite lines laid down by the anti-and soon
shoes.**
It tastes like turbot. K In spite of other criticism the pro-trust laws and brings cases to make is already on the U.S. market, can- posal to grant recognition was en- clear by court rulings where these ned in sauce supreme and sells al dorsed by in overwhelming majority. Hines are drawn.
73. 64. for a five ounce fin.
KEEPS HAIR NEAT
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27th August, 1938 Funds Urgently Needed
To help War Orphans
To aid Refugee Centres
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Instruments.
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