Falls 80 Feet From Balcony MISS RUTH PATTISON,
once one of Mr. C. B. Cochran's Young Ladies, walked into White House, a block of flats in Albany- .street, N.W., recently. She took a lift to the seventh floor and a few minutes later fell soft. from 21 balcony and was killed.
People in the street saw her crashing to the pavement, a reil fox cape still round her shoul ders.
Miss Pattison, who was twenty-six, and belleved to have been married, was taken to the Nallprint Tempur- ance Hospital.
She was able to talk to a nurse und asked for her mother. But the died Just before her mother arrived.
For some time Miss Pattison stay- ed
as a paying guest at Forge House, Aldermaston, a village near Reading She left the Inst Cochran show at the Trocadero in the middle of the run, without giving a rensen.
She came to town and dined with her mother at a Lancaster-gate, W., hotel.
"TOO STRENUOUS"
After she had gone her mother told friends that she was worried about Ruth, that she
been modelling, and the life WID3 too strenuous for her.
Miss Pattison stayed at the Savoy Court Hotel, Granville-place, W., on night. She left there, suiteuse,
Soon afterwards she was seen go- ing into White House.
Mrs. Gita Epstein, who has a flat on the first floor of White House, and heard Maa Pottison's screams as she fell, said: "I have seen her at the White House several times a week, visiting friends."
Pattison
It is believed that Miss went to White House to visit her married sister who lives there.
Mr. David Earle was in the ves-
bule when she went in.
He said: "She staggered past me
to the f. I realised that she was ill and run after her, but the lif went up.
I went up in the next lift, but could not find her. Two minutes later I heard what had happened,"
Racing Craft To Be Unsinkable THE popularity of small boat
sailing has forced the British Yacht Racing Association to re- frame their rules and insist upon the international 14ft. dinghy class and the national 12ft. dinghy class being made unsinkable.
These craft have appealed to the youth of the country and there are now over 900 racing dinghies in Great Britain registered with the Yacht Racing Association,
During the coastal regattas many of the craft cupsize in sudden squalls and throw their occupants into the water,
Now, however, there is no need for. loss of He as the new rule insists that every racing dinghy must be fitted with approved buoyancy ap- paratus.
New Gas-Mask Factory For Indies
Datavia.
"NEW gas-mask factory is to be established In the Netherlands Indies. There is already a factory at Bandoen.
Under a special distribution sys- dem, the new factory will sell gas- musks on the Instalment plan.
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