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Czech Mother And
Sons Fall 13 Storeys
I
NEW YORK.
SHORTLY before the wife and two young sons of
a former Czech millionaire fell to their deaths from a skyscraper hotel in Chicago recently, a letter arrived with the news that the Canadian authorities had agreed to give the family permanent refuge.
The family's six-months' visa permitting them to stay in the United States had expired, and they feared that they would have to return to Prague.
The woman was Adele Lan-lodgings to give his wife the good
Her ger, aged 43.
sons were ews when the police arrived to tell; aged about six and four. Their of the tragedy.
The Langers arrived in Chiengo a father, Carl Langer, owned a few weeks ago with £300, all that £300,000 textile business in Pra-contained of their fortune. gue until the Germans marched in.
"PERSECUTION"
Mrs. Lunger felt their lodgings, telling her husband that she was Lamper was waiting, outside their taking the children to the 200.
Bargee Rip Van
Winkle WHEN Mr. Cecil Cooke,
mate of the sailing barge Reminder, retires to his hunk for a nap, he sleeps so sound. ly that the crew do not have
o walk-about on tiptoe.
Instead, she took them to the Con- ress Hotel. asked for a light and
the fry ropin, and registered in name of Della Frank.
Early next day she slashed, her wrist with a knife then, dinging up! the window, fell with the two boys to the street, 12 storeys below.
Al the inquest the jury found that Mr.. Langer omisited sulcide "whals a viețim of temporary - sanity due to persecution,"
It was stated that she was
His nap nearly cost him his; Jewish extraction.
life recently.
Smoke was seen pouring from the!
borge as it lay mosted at paich. The Blackboard Is
The miste wHE
known to be 481-
board and an alarm was given.
Police and Bremen tried again and gala to force their way down below.
The shouted and thinped on thei
Sanoke and flames drove them away from the steps of the complafonway.
ele:
Then firemen with oxygen-breath- ing outfits burst into the cabin. They sublued the blaze while more alonits
for the matr. encouragement
vent p
roared
Spectato s
from the quayside.
Then, as the smoke cleared, theyį saw Mr. Cooke. He was curled up.
in his hunk in a cornes, fast asleep,
He was tinbart.
Yellow Now
THE hundred children who went to the new infants' school at Addington, Surrcy. recently found that the black- boards are yellow and that the teachers write black chalk.
an them in
Of
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Miss Edith Hammond of Shrop- ahire, England, winner of 57 beauty prizes, arrives in New York for a visit. She claims to have a Venus aure. She is 5 feet 8 inches and weighs "eight slone ten," or 122 pounds.
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SHE WAS AFRAID. TO, SHAKE HANDS
Rheumatism in Joints Caused Her Intense Pain
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Secret Only G.B.S. Knows
Presiding at the annual meeting
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Shakespeare the
Theatre Com- Memorial National inittee, Lord Lytton congratulated Mr. Bernard Shaw, a member of the rommittee, on "being what you are at the age of 83,"
Mr. Shaw laughed.
"If only you knew what am as well as i know" he retorted, and broke off, laughing even more heartily.
Lord Lytton slated that £74,000 now available for building.
CHELMSFORD, Essex, Eng. (UP) The first steel radio mast ever. This innovation is planned built in the history of audio is being was
187 Seats enduwed numbered! 140. to help the children's eyesight.mantled here. The mast,
feet high, was built for Marconi's Several months would elapse before first experimental station here.
the final plans were approved.
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September 9, 1939.
What did the
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