MAN MADE
WHISKY
In
Dustbins
ERNEST RILEY, fifty-
six-year-old decora- tor, of Kepler-road, Clap- ham, S.W., was fined
£1,230 at South Western Police Court recently af- ter the story of a dust- bin "distillery" had been told.
The magistrate, Mr.. Claud Mullins, told Riley that as he had no chance of paying the fine the maximum-he would go to prison for six months.
Riley was alleged to have said to Flying Squad unil Exclse officers: "I was short of money and was trying to make a few coppers for Christ 11348,"
He appeared on remand, nectised
of making spirits maid keeping a still
Mr. B. M. Stephenson, for the Customs and Excise, said that at six; A.m. on December 19 Excise and Scotland-yard Dying squad officers watched A
Aristotle-row), Hal in Clapham,
Riley went to the Sat, and aftur four minutes left with a suitense.j In the suitense were thirteen bottles of spirits. In the fat were! three complete stills made from dustbins and thirty-seven bottles and Jars Alled with spirit.
Mr.
USED FALSE NAME "There is no doubt," said Stephenson, "that Riley tool; the flat for the purpose of running the stills. He took it in a false name for three years at a rent of 27s. f. a week."
A statement alleged to have beeni mode by Riley, but which he was! aald to havé refused to sign, was rend: "I took the premises about) six weeks ago nt 27s. 6d. per week. I have made the spirit you foumit bere in the stills which are here. 1 made the stills myself. started: making spirits here roughly ten days: ago. I have not disposed of any so
far.
"I used sugar. alsins, potators,
Monday,
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
February 20, 1939.
Giant Panda's Dinner Treat
The panda's Chrisimas dinner was-bamboo shoot,
She Will Be
Pet Of
The Populace
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
66 AND what do you think of our London climate?" I should have asked the little lady from China who made her first appearance before the British public. But she looked so tired.
I saw mysterious Miss Giant Panda In her luxurious new quarters in Regent's Park, where she rests after her journey from Asia. Her admirers and protectors are hoping that shé will make London her permanent home, for nothing la more certain tin that she will become the pet of the populace..
BLACK GOGGLES
Already she has set a new Insition in fur-some- thing quite original, my dear--a broad splash of black across a white background of short woolly hale. Then the cutest iden-the eyes almost hidden behind black goggles of the sanie material.
It was her positively frst appearance before any audience but the weather was so uninviting that barely half a dozen people turned up for the reception. Miss Panda took hardly any notice of them.
w and apala her manager (or attendant, if you i ampoke softly to her and gently caressed her out
WAKES AT NIGHT
I suggested that she was bored.
"Not really," said the keeper. "She's Just sleepy. She is always sleepy during the day. But when night falls the be
malted barley, and yeast, of course.gins to wake up."
"1 distilled the spirit
I have been decorating these pre- ** What about food?" I asked. mises with a view to lying in them.! She cats twice a day. A mixture of and have been working the stils.inked oats, flour and sugar baked hard during the same period."
t her staple diet. But what she likes Twice and best are bamboo tʊps. flavoured it with the essences you "Of course, she is just a baby yet. have done at this: Nine months old. belleve, but we are myself, I understand the business. not sure. But already she weighs Goll). I acquired the knowledge from
and is 28. GU, tall. When she gets older reading.
she will weigh about 4001ы.”
found here. 1
"I was trying to get five bob bottle for the spirit but I haven't und
a chance to sell any; you got me for; quick.
1 COLOURED IT'
"I have just bought a car for £5, I was going to use it to run the spirit round. I coluttred the whisky with burnt sugar."
The Giant Panda is the Zoo's test and rarest acquisition.
Plunged Hands In Boiling Lead
PROFESSOR James Kendall pick- Mr. Stephensan continued: "Riley ed out a pretty dark-haired girl took the fat in the name of Ernest during his lecture at the Royal In- Hall, and he wrote out his own restitution recently and said to her: ference a very flattering one.
"The officers found the hall of the flat was being decorated, but sung- gest that it was purely a blind in cose any one came,
"This is an extremely serious case.) There is a certain amount of dangeri to the health of any one drinking this spirit, as it is extremely raw and vicious."
cighteen
!"Have you any faith in science?"
"Yes. Professor, I have." "Then follow me and I will show you how to wash your hands in il enuldron of molten lead,"
ORDEAL OF THE FLESH Jean. The Professor put the sume
The girl was his own daughter! question to a small boy named Jolm Most of the spirit was fifteen to demonstrators, and all three rolled Green, son of one of the technical; per vent. under proof, whereas ordinary spirit was thirty up their sleeves and prepared for a
great ordeal of the flesh.
per cent. under proof.
Mr. W. G. Bunday, of the Excise"
This was the Professor's Inst ap-1 special inquiry staff, said that pearance this season as a wizard of Riley was associated with a man modern chemistry and he made the they wanted to linda man who dream of the old alchemists Ind expert knowledge of distil- true. iing.
'DIABOLICAL'
come
It was a laboratory telek that was done by Edward Vil when he was Prince of Wales in Edinburgh In
Riley said to the magistrate: "The prosecution have magufled my of 1859. fence and make it out that
The words "Have you any faith in I was! running a large concern.
science?" were supposed to have been "As-u master of feet if I had spoken to the young Prince by Lord attenled 03 brewers' exhibition Playfair when they stood before a and seen the huge equipment cauldron of boiling jead. The Prince which is necessary for making put his hand-so the story runs-in spirtis I would have had a different stream of boiling metal without point of view, and yet they point the slightest hurt. to me with my sixpenny-halfpenny dust-bins, which are more sulta- ble for a Laurel and Hardy im.
The Professor showed the audience of boys and girls how the trick was "The Customis ofcials opinion done.
them was thui they were diabolical,
SIMPLE IF YOU KNOW
It is
But a lttle kicking exercise in her keeper's arms soon put things
Pht.
And here is the cuddlesome baby, apparently feel
ing the after effects more than somewhat.
Chased At 70 M.P.H. Had
Never Driven Before
AN
Loughborough (Leices).
N 16-year-old plumber's appren- tice, who had never driven be
outside an from fore. took a car hotel.
This, in the words ofleer, is what followed:
of a police
"I stopped a faxi and chased the
car.
We had le 'keep' up between 60 and 70 miles an hour and could not overtake, because the driver was go- ing from side to side of the road.
"Two miles outside the town the car stopped und the driver was perested."
Loughborough magistrates imposed fines and costs totaling 12 10s. on the speedster. Reginald Gelsthorpe,
married man with one child.
"I am thankful to the police for having stopped me," Gelsthorpe snit.) He explained that he had had 100 much to drink.
Engaged To Three Girls
Breaks 2 Feet At Same Time
Of Ice To Swim "DON JUAN" exploits of tall,
dark-haired Walter Evans, described by a detective at the Old Bailey recently, were:
Engaged to three girls ut the satge time.
"Married" three times (once legally).
EDMONTON, Alberta. THOUSANDS of people are paying good money to see Krikor Hekemtan, 21-year-old Canadian of Armenia descent, perform his Human Seat act
water 55 degrees below zero.
Suspected of a third bigamy. Sentencing Evans, thirty-nine-year- Hekemian is Impervious to cold.old Welsh intner, to fifteen months While fur-conted spectators watch nprisonment for fraud, the Recorder, him, he will walk on to the ice clad Mr. Gerald Dodson, said: "I have
about my spirits when they tasted can do quite simple. Anyone only in bathing trunks, sit down to nothing to do with your eccentrici- it, if proper care is taken. eat a couple of ice creams, and then ties with regard to women, nor can "Bring in
in the cauldron," said the cut through two feet of ice with an follow the various complexities of quoting Gilbert's "Mikado," axe to make himself a bathing pool. your twisted life."
He will nwim for more than ten
a complete failure."
spirit.
Invest
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and that no sane person would have Profing with bolling oil and mol- called it whisky or gin,
"My efforts at manufacture were ten lead in it and let the tormentors micutes, and then, blue and dripping £240 given to him by Miss Florence Evans pleaded guilty to converting ***Duty on whisky in charged
prepare for the agony." according to the standard strength, went behind a screen and
The Professor with Jean and John signing autographs and watching the domestle servant, to
fcy water, walks round cheerfully Amy Flint. a Pimlico (London) chiled
"proof." Spirit
washed results of the silver collection that restaurant venture ut Peckham for when at a temperature of 51 detaining a
which, their hands well in a glass bowl con- is made for him. Brees Fahr, weighs 12-13 parts of hydroxide, which cleanses the flesh solution of ammonium|
the pale to run together after mar- an equal bulk of water is "proof" perfectly of any dirt and grease,
· ICY-BUT WARMI
riage. Miss Flint parted with more than £300 to Evans-practically the PLAYED WITH SPARKS
He discovered his uncanny resis- whole of her Bite savings. tance to cold by accident. Six years) They reappeared In the spotlight ago he was crossing a frozen bay in Scotland-yard, said that while Evans Detective Sergeant Dampton, of before the audience and as a stream Lake Ontario, when the lee crumbled was planning to marry Miss Flint he of boiling lead flowed from a red-hot and Ifekemian fell into the water... crucible they put their hands in it
was arranging to marry a girl in and played with the flying sparks to the ice sheet. Slowly, he wormed marry a girl at Lancaster,
He came up and clung barchanded Harrogate. He had also promised to None of them was
He was. his way, to heavier ler and sulaty. legally married in March 1920, had committed bigamy in 1932 at laling. The day was cold, 35 degrees ton, and again at Paddington in 1834 below zero. I clothes thick black hair frose silffie. But the sergent added that Scotland- quickly entere. with Teleles, bis months imprisonment.ge
were for which he was sentenced to sk
to his amazement, he felt quite
Flying Booms In
Australia
Melbourne.
hurt; none, sul-
fered the slightest injury.
When fi was over and the Pro- Australia is growing air-conscious Jean rose in her seat and sold:
fessor bowed his acknowledgments. faster than in any other direction. should like you to give my father During 1938, commercial companies three hearty elicerata Increased their flights bydd per cont
The great hall where many historic
the number of passengers increased experiments of this kind have been › by more than 100 per cent, and repeated, rang with a chorus of theot
reight was almost doubled.
{"Hip-hip-hin hürrahd ".
greyond were sepahing for a third woman he is kinected of bigemously.
mi koorssal thame, was isoid" lo
Supremom
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Dancer Feared She Was Too
Old At 33
MIDHURST (Sussex).
TITIAN-HAIRED Grace Phyllis Willmore, 33-year- old London dancer who took her life in the little flat where she lived over a garage in this country town, feared she was too old to go back to the stage.
Mr. William Abbs, a Canadian Army pensioner, who was her
Safety Only In friend and had been staying
Deep Shelters
liere with her, told at the flat
recently of her life.
ife had given evidence af the in- quest whop a verdict was recorded that Miss Willmore, who had been suicide
DEEP bomb-proof shelters found gassed, committed
without which morale could while of unsound inInd.
not be kept up during ralde-
were advocated by Professor Jhad at one time been a well-known' Mr. Abbe said that Miss Willmore B. S. Haldane, addressing 500 dancer in the West End of London. London air-raid wardens at Lin- coln's Inn recently.
"She had been receiving an allow- ance for a few years," said Mr. Abbs. "It came from a man whose nume I
know and who is a London theatrical
In many towns in Spain, he said, there were substantial producer, bomb-proof shelters for a large fraction and sometimes for alleve was £10 a week, but it had "The allowance at one time I be- the population.
bcen reduced and she had "Provision of such shelters is much received a letter from frm of more important than any organisa- solicitors saying that the allowance tional measure," he added.
would cease altogether.
SOMEWHERE TO RUN
"It was given to her through the "The knowledge that you have got generosity of this man who, I under- within 100 yards a place to which stand, had been a friend of hers. you can run is more cffcetive #1 "Arst met her about two years. keeping up your morale
than any ago in London. number of air-raid wardens or any shaky state then as
She was in a pretty amount of propaganda."
regards her health, and it is unfortunately true It would be necessary to differen- that at times she took a little too tiate between ralds by three or four much to drink. planes, where people doing work would not shelter, and large raids by thousands of aircraft where all but A.R.P, workers and anti-air- craft gunners would take cover.
Undoubtedly the letter about her "People would soon begin not to allowance worried her treinendously, worry at the news that there were a especially in view of her health. few planes somewhere in the vicinity. She told me she was afraid she would They would go on with their work." Inot be able to get back to the stage
las a dancer because of her age."
TRENCH TRAP
vital "I brought her down here to Mid- hurst thinking that living in the country would help to make her well again.
Professor Haldane said he had seen one trench 80ft. long in a straight. Inc. Any bomb falling within that trench would wipe out all the people in it,
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A long stretch of trench was death trap: "You have to have traverses and corners to limit the area where shell bursis would kill all the people,
"The Government communication laying down the standard pattern for trenches takes no cognisance of this fact, which was known to every in- fantry soldier."
Asthma Cause Killed in 24 Hours
Thanks to the discovery of an American physician, it now ta patalble to get rid of town terrible ngells of choking, gusping. coughing and wheering Asthing by killing the true caiuse which is Garmin in the blood. No more burning of powders, no more hy- Kranaco, starts to work in 3 minutes, hill- padermio injections. This now discovery,
the Cerm cause of Asilima, aine puri- gylng the blood and rostoring, vitality so think you can risŋp soundly all night,"vat- Anything and work and atijny Ita. Mendaco The meeting passed resolution ta no muccessful it is guaranteed to give you urging the Government tu provide fres, easy breathing in 24 houræ and to stop without delay ample bomb-proof back on return of empty, package. Get your Antina completely in Adaya or inoney shelters as a permanent part of fondneo from your comiat today. The Inational defence,
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