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CHINA MAIL.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18 1923

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Harry Lacelle, prominent publicity and advertising director, of Seattle, Wash., was fatally shot in a road- house near that city by Wini- fred Gibbons, a pretty 21-year- old divorcee, while his bride of two months was in another part of the inn, Lacelle, in his dying statement, fold the

police he had never seen Miss Gibbons until he encountered her in the roadhouse. Miss Gibbons, who is a stenogra- pher, insisted that she had known Lacelle for years under the name of "Bill Williams."

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For 25 years Mrs. William C,

Arnold, wife of Brigadier Arnold.

of the New York branch of the

Salvation Army, has been affec tionately known as the "Poet Laureate of the Salvation Army," She has written 'verses that have inspired her co-workers, and, at their request, they have just been issued in book form.

Henry arte

Hon. Henry Lane Wilson, formerly United States Ambassa dor to Turkey, and mentioned as the possible Minister to Turkey, was a recent caller on President Coolidge in Washington.

Theodora Poole, a 13-year-old

girl, of Lansing, triumphed over

Įmore than 400,000 pupils in the

second National Safety First ¦ Essay Contest conducted by the Highway Educational Board, of Washington, D. C. The title of her prize winning essay was "My Share in Making the Highways Safe." As a reward she will receive a gold watch and expense money for a visit to Washington.

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The Duke de Camastra and Jacques Richopin, French poet and playwright, luve fought a duet near Faris as the result of an argument over a theatre admission 13x. Tae Duke was handed a ficket by a friend and tried to got into the Lapar efie Theatre, M. Richepin, hus- “band of Mme. Cora Laparcerie, who now manages the theatre, asked the Duke to pay a stite tax on his "Annie Dikley." The Duke. To fusing to pay, abused M. Richepin, who struck the nobleman. The

duel followed.

Lord Mayor

This is a new and exclusive photograph of the Lord Mayor of London, Colonel and Alderman Sir Louis A. Newton, with his wife and their daughter, Winifred, taken in the drawing-room of their home at St. Aubin, Beckham.

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HALLOWEEN

Youthful celebrants of Hallowe'en

This photograph shows the famous Commander-in-Chief and now President of the Angora Assembly, Mustapha Kemal, in civilian clothes, with his wife and Ismet Pasha, his right-hand man. Mustapha Kemal recently has become the "Pussyfoot" of Turkey because of his advocacy of prohibition.

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W. H. Ford, a New York real estate broker, is held on a charge

of arson and murder in connection

with the deaths of six persoas in a

Arthur Covell, 46, a cripple, is under arrest in Mansfield, Ore after

fire which destroyed a frame having confessed, the police assert, that he planned the death of his dwelling house in Brooklyn, James R. Lynch, 25, an accountant

sister-in-law, Mrs. Elba Covell. While the actual murder wis con-

was held as a material witness. mitted by Mrs. Covell's 16-year-old stepson, Alton, Arthur Covell The police charge a diabolical acknowledges he planned the death and used this astrological chart to crine, alleging, Ford,sought only.

|the death of George F. Keim; his hoodwink the boy into believing the stars hid orderded the crime com- wealthy father-in-law, who board-mitted., Covell, an astologer and mystic, is well educated. Evidence ed there. Ford and Keim, whose fortune was estimated at $500,000,

in the hands of the police indicate that he planned many other crimes. had quarrelled over business trans The "death sign" is shown at the bottom of the chart he used in per- actions. To kill Kelm, the police allege Ford killed five others.

suading the boy to murder his step mother.

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that takes the place of a human' eardrum, holds out happiness for the A new invention of Marconi, the Otophone, with a bone vibrator

small leather case, weighing ten pounds. By means of a bone vibrator, deaf. Módelled on the lines of a 'wireless receiver, it is contained in a a person without eardrums, or with defective cardrums, can hear any conversation by placing the bone vibrator to any part of the hoad. Two deaf persons in London are shown carrying on a conversation with the Otophone.

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BE DONE

UN HUM!!!

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reading by lamplight will be

a pleasure, not an infliction,

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