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At cotton-plek'ng time in Dixie the economists were concerned over the Rust mechanical picker, abown at work near Mempli's, Tenn. The machine picks about 1,500 pounds of int and seed an hour at a cont of 24 cents for 100 pounds. Field hands, lower panel, are paid 75 cents to $1 for 100 pounds. The machine costs $5,000, but factory production is expected to reduce that figure. The machine is no longer. in the experimentul atage.
Woman's
11 Dogs
To Firing Squad'
Lewes.
Eleven prize-winning setters worth hundreds of pounds are to be taken from their home in the Sussex vilinge of Framfleld, and shot.
This is the order of the Uckfield "When I returned they had torn magistrates. The dogs1 alleged down some wire netting and eleven offence in sheep worrying.
of them were missing. I have many cats and kittens, two goats, horses, and the dogs are on the best of terms with them all."
Their owner, beautiful countrybred Miss Kathleen Slattery, said: "I am doing everything in my Dower to
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their lives.
Miss Slattery spends all her time with her pels. She has an aviary with lovebirds, and large lled with white parrot.
Sentenced
ORCHESTRAS
MAY LOSE THEIR CONDUCTORS
Orchestras may soon be playing without a conductor, Mr. Adolph Busch and his colleagues have been showing how well a conductorless orchestra can play.
It has not yet been attempted on a large scale and no one, apparently, can say with certainty at what stage a conductor becomes indispensable or whether there is a definite limit to the number of musicians who can play without a baton to hold them together.
Scott Goddard writes:
It is curious that no impresario has produced one of the conductor- less orchestras. from Russin for London to hear.
We are deluged with star per- formers on every known instrument, volce included, and within the last half-century the maestro conductor hing rben to untold heights of glory.
HOW IS IT DONE?
It is on intriguing problem, how these conductorless archestras do the trick. They can never be leaderless, however much they may be conduc- torless. Rehearsals (where all the reat work is done) must have some central authority.
Elephants Routed-By
A Slipper!
Armed with only a carpet slipper, Councillor J. C. Dempsey, of Roth- well, Northants, recently drove two circus clephants from his, cabbage patch.
The Idea seems to be, in essence, The elephants escaped from a clr- return to what went on before cus which was about to leave the Beethoven's thay. Then there was town, roamed across a neid, and
entered the cabbage patch. no conductor,
performances
"The Orst I knew about it was
but
Thief In Abbey As were controlled by the man sitting at
Woman Prayed
"I ran out and, with a slipper a one hone TEA cabbage 1 pulled out in the other, managed to hold up the elephants, who were having a fine time.
the harpsichord-the leader in fact. when a man ran into my factory and told me two large elephants were my cabbages," Mr. Younst Beethoven appears to have busy eating done that job at rehearsals (unpaid) Dempsey said. in the orchestra of the Elector of "I am particularly anxious to stop
At the end of his life, Cologne. this form of crime," Bald the Bow- street magistrate, Mr. Fry, when when the Ninth Symphony was per- Walter Barcley, 50, described as informed, the orchestra was to all 'n- tents and purposes conductorless, for dependent, of Queen's-crescent, N.W.,
though Beethoven was amelally In pleaded guilty recently to stealing a
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command he was by then completely handbag
denf.
VIOLIN LEADER Westminster Abbey.
movements Since his
no which he guide to the orchestra could not heat, the first violinist, Duport, kept the players together.
Miss Joan Louise Kiy, a Clyli Ser- vant, of Manor Park, said that on missing her bag che noticed that Bar- cley, who had been sitting behind her,
disappeared. had'
The National Farmers' Union have pressed for the dogs' destruction, al- though the farmers concerned have
"I shall try to form ♫ petition She hurried from the chapel and not asked for them to be punished.
Miss Slattery told how it hap-among dog lovers. Dogs are my found him walking away, with the pened. " had not taken them out hobby, although many people think bag under his coat. He for their usual morning walk. I went I am mad to keep so many. I should tained by a verger. away in my car and the dogs were be broken-hearted to lose any one of afraid had forgotten them.
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"They were pulling up cabbages with their trunks, eating them, and spitting out the stalks and roots.
"By the time I got there there were plenty of spectators but no helpers. "I waved my slipper and cabbage, and after a few tense moments the truants ambled off back to the circus. "The fun was well worth the cab-
Brunu Walter has recently shown (in a set of gramophone records) that the trick can be done with bages I lost," he added with a unile, Mozart pianoforte concerto. 122-
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FRED BARNES,
ONCE
£150-WEEK STAR,
DIES IN POVERTY
Onco " £150-a-week musichall; Later, when Barnes appeared in star, Fred Bames, the comedian, was the County Court, a solletter said recently found dead at his lodging in that he was a very rich man, having St. Anno Road, Southend-on-Sea,
received a fortune of several thou- sonds.
He was lying fully clothed in front of a gas-ring in an upstairs sitting- room, but the tap had not been turn- rd on, and a seizure is beloved to have caused death.
Barnes, who was 53, had fallen on hard times. Yet for 25 years he had; topped the bill wherever he appear-
ed.
Yet last year he was telling of his terrible plight-with a stomach that was "an acting chasm" and hardly # sound pair of shors to his feet..
PHOTO ON CHEQUES
For years Barnes kept a marmoset monkey as a pet. The monkey sat Eighteen months ago he was told on his shoulder when he toured the that with care he might live six West End hotels. He had a big months, "I'm not scared." he told yellow car with the name "Fred the doctor. "Out with it."
Barnes" painted on it in large letters, He went to Southend for his He even had his photograph on his
cheques.
health.
Five months ago he said: "Better
a merry three months than a miser- For a bet of £100 he once stood able six," adding that he had been for an hour in Leicester Square in smoking and drinking what he liked evening dress and wearing a mask trying to sell golden sovereigns for and felt perfectly t
His health was failing, neverthe-od. No one purchased; he won the less, and as he became worse bla wager.. means diminished.
Then he perpetrated a great hoax He received an allowance from a. friend of the old days, but he be by announcing that he had married on Australian heiress by special came unable to supplement this, as licenco in a fot. He afterwards he had done for some time, by play- apologised to the Archbishop of ing the piano and singing his old Canterbury for the hoax, which, ne numbers in public-house.
In a He complained bitterly that no one said, had cost him £150. seemed to care. He had shared ap-) plause with glants of the past like
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The New Zealand Covernment hpa 40 years stated that the comedian's father had a prosperous business but Imported and stored huge quantities left him nothing in his will. This of petrol for use in the event of war. Inspired Barnes to write his most This tact was made known by the popular song, "The Black Sheep of Minister of Mince, Mr. P. C. Webb, who added that in an emergency the Family"
would call to its In 1027 Barnes claimed that he the Government had been left £04,000 by an Ameri- aid all practical means for producing can woman, Mrs. Gordon Browne, oll from coal.
It was hoped, said Mr. Webb, that for naslating her in a London air| guld. When it was pointed out that the prospecting for oil that was how ich a woman was not known in the coing on would reveal supplies auf- U.S.A one of his friends insisted ficient to remove the danger" of a that the story was true; **
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