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SATURDAY,
The Musical Magistrate
There are many musical instruments that can be rightly termed
"nalny."
But the plano?
"Certainly not," said Mr. Dummett,
recently,
Blow tre
Street magistrate,
Around the streets of London, playing his portable plano, goca 21- year-old Thomas William Lyns, of Grove Crescent, Woodford (Essex), Ho faced Mr. Dummeli, accused of playing a noisy Instrument—a plano→→ for the purpose of gathering alms.
A police constable saki Lyns' instrument was a very good one and ho played it extremely well, but complaints had been received from a Weat End hotel at the music was annoying the guests.
"Do you call n plano a noisy instrument?" Mr. Dummett asked. He went on
I have
"I regret that there are people with no music in their souls. not heard you play, but I should rather like to do so.
"Some people have complained, however, and 1 should advise you
to keep away from the vicinity of the holek, which seems to have guesta lacking in some of the finer senses,"
The planist went away, charge dismissed.
WAR MAKING
CAVE-MEN
(By Keith Scott-Watson)
Ciudad Real, Southern Spain.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1938.
AWAKE ALL NIGHT WITH INDIGESTION
Now Sleeps Like a Top --Thanks to Kruschen
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half-heartedly will admit-but
after the first few doses my attacks grew less and less, I kept on, and they completely disappeared, and I have been a regular Kruschenite ever since. 1 am now 60 years of age, and I can eat anything at any time without any ill effects. I sleep like a top-thanks to Kruschen."-- J.H.C.
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Rebels and Republicans alike are rushing troops and Retire At Sixty'
material into the wild Estremadura country.
For Almaden, centre of the world's richest mercury mines, has become Fascist Objective Number One-though it looks like being a receding objective now.
I was the first foreign correspon- dent allowed to enter this savage mountain front..
The narrow road twists like a crazy ribbon for a hundred miles; Africa may "begin at the Pyrenees,'
Screaming. turbaned Moorish horsemen bore down on the Republi- ean foot-soldiers, who appeared to itec.
But the Moors got the shock of their lives when they found more
Demand
MEDICAL COUNCIL
Doctors Also Want An Appeal Court
The council of the Medical Practitioners' Union, represent-
next month to
consider
but Estremadura is another Abys-cavalry, Government cavalry, clasing 6,000 doctors in Britain, ing in on them from behind, and Water costs as much as wine in few escaped from the trap. the sun-baited villages.
sinia.
RAILWAY BLOCKED Troop-laden lorries, guns and tanks move in a tunnel of yellow dlust towards the front. Peasants who had never seen a plane a month ago cheer or dash for cover Loyalist or Fascist squadrons roar overhead.
The prisoners rode into Almatien escorted by a tank. Among them was Captain Francisco Llosen, Seville.
of
The captain, who was most an- xious to have his Hitler moustache shaved off, told me the loyalist re- assistance was a great surprise to him; Almaden was expected to fall three weeks ago.
caves
GERMAN MINERS WAIT Indeed, German experts are stil! repeat watting at Merida, behind the rebel lines, to take over the mines.
Villagers are moving back from
the their white cottages to they abandoned only generation ngu as Mussolini's their Abyssinian clics.
а
airmen
attacked through
the
With the rebel attack transform- -The rebel troops for the offensive ed, since last week, into a slow re- had been brought from the Madrid treat, Government batteries are now front and pounding Cabeza del Buey, insur-Toledo mountains.
This this gent-held key position front.
on
Its single railway line was blocked by a lucky hit on a munition train and the lines are now mere twisted эегар.
CAVALRY CLASH
Moorish and Republican cavalry clashed when the rebels attempted) to dislodge the loyal infantry closing round Cabeza,
the Government expected, and a length of the narrow moun- tain road near the river Tagus trad been heavily mined.
And waiting sappers touched the mines off when the road was crowd- el with troops and material.
"We have not been paid for two months," Jaime Rivas, unshaven Galician conscript prisoner stated.
"Our officers said: "Your
Day in Almaden. Go and get (1,'**
Girl Plans Wedding To Man On Deathbed
New York.
Is
Twenty-six-year-old George Burke left New York for his home in Cleveland, Ohio, recently, to be married—and to die.
He does not know he is going to die. His sweetheart, Betty Luchansky, does know. The best doctors in the United States have pronounced sentence of death.
Riding home in the ambulance beside her sweetheart, Betty sald, as he smiled at her:
burst
"We'll get married right away. | Detty's mother, however, There is a beautiful married life into tears when she heard of the ahead of us,"
proposed marriage,
meet
bringing in the Trades Union Congress to back their appeal to the Privy Council for drastic changes in the medical pro- fession.
The union want the Privy Counelt to purge the General Medical Council, They demand:
The council's present average age of 68 to be dropped by a relire-at- GO law;
A court of appeal for doctors struck off the register by the council;;
A.5 per cent. increase in the num- ber of general practitioners on the council;
Special doctor-teachers for stud- ents.
An age limit of 00 would sweep most of the present members off the council. Secretary Dr. Alfred Welply's comment is, "Men of 70 should not governi 1 profession. They cannot keep up with modern Ideas; besides, we all get a little cranky in the sixties."
NO APPEAL
Of the court of appeal he said, "Even a murderer can appeal; but a coctor cannot. The council bave only two alternatives-le strike a man of the register, or not to strike him off.
"We suggest An intermediate punishment. A doctor off the register is unfitted for any other profession. He has no means to support his family."
Of the council reshuffle he said, "There are 40 members. We want at least a third to be general practi- tioners. At present it includes seven. Nobody can guide the profession us well as the general practitioner."
Dr. Welply is bitter about student teaching "Because a man joins a hospital staff he automatically be comes a teacher of students," he said.
Then she slipped away to get the "It's the unhappiest thing that's "Most of these men are incapable of marriage licence and, out of the ever happened to us.
dying man's hearing, explained:— "It is all wrong to marry-you
"I want bis last hours to be as might say to marry a dead man, happy as possible. I know this will The other way she would still be a make him happy."
Miss. This way she'll be a widow."
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"They may be brillant as doctors' but they just make the students yawn. We want doctors qualified as teachers."
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