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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-cord puzzle has been made by an expert but our tenders are warned to look out for occasional phonetio spellings, such as hærlig, plow, and altho.)
PROHIBITION
SUGGESTED DIVISION OF
POWERS
MEDICINAL ALCOHOL
THE
The U.S. Treasury for the first
CHINA MAIL,
NO LOVE-MAKING
PRINCE OUT TO MAKE A FORTUNE FIRST
A "STAR" JUST A FRIEND
FIRST GRENADIER
NEW RESTING PLACE IN FRANCE
NAME STILL CALLED OUT
The silver casket containing the heart of La Tour d'Auvergne hus been transferred from the Cavenu
Meet a Prince who has turned time since Prohibition came into his back on romance, who prefers force has authorized the legal work to love-making, and who has manufacture of whisky to supple- taken off his coat, rolled up his des Gouverneurs in the Church of ment the reserves which are kept sleeves, and is making good as a Saint Louis to the Chapel of Saint for medicínal purposes. The law mechanic.
Gregory under the Dome_of_the_ imposes upon the Government the Prince Louis Ferdinand, son of Invalides. The casket was carried duty of deciding about the re- the ex-Crown Prince of Germany, to its final resting place by officers plenishment of the medicinal stocks whose reported engagement to Miss of the 46th Regiment of the Line, of liquor, and they have now fallen Liti Damita, the beautiful film in which La Tour d'Auvergne serv- to about 8,000,000 gallona. As the "vamp," is officially denied, has no ed as "Le Premier Grenadier de la rate of consumption is between place in his time-table for romance. Republique" after his refusal to ac- 1,300,000 and 1,500,000 gallons per He intends first of all to become cept promotion from the rank of annum and the liquor must be a millionaire by his own unaided Captain,
The annual Conference of Gov- eriors of States, at which 26 of them were present, opened on July 16 at Eastern Point, Connecticut. Weak Spots
JASPER PARK
BUILDING OF MOTOR ROAD PROMISED
now
matured for four years, the Trea. efforts. Perhaps then-but certain- La Tour d'Auvergne, upon whom sury has decided to replenish they not till then he will think Napoleon, is First Consul, has con- store and will probably give per-shout marriage.
ferred the title of Premier Grena- mission to distil to six or eight pri- "I am not in love with anybody," dier de la Republique on Florea 5, vate firms.
the Prince told a press representa- Year VIII (April 5, 1800) in recog- tive. "I have not the slightest idea nition of a long series of feats of when I shall marry. At present arms, acts of personal bravery and am too engrossed in my work to aelf-sacrifice of the most remark- consider even the possibility. Table desciption; was killed at the want to prove that a prince can Battle of Oberhausen in Bavaria, Mr. Roosevelt, the Governor of earn his living with his hand,”
June 27, 1800. A special order was New York, made public a letter ad-
Only Friende
issued to the French Army an- dressed to him by Mr. George W. The story of Prince Louis's re-nouncing and deploring his death. Wickersham, chairman of Mr.ported infatuation for Miss Damita To this day his name is always call- floover's Law Enforcement Com-larose from the fact that he chatted ed in the roll-call of the 46th mission, in which the writer point with her during a visit to Holly-Regiment ard is answered by a ed out the weaknesses inherent in wood longer than he did with other sous officer with the reply: "Mort the Prohibition Laws, and urged stars..
sur le champ d'Honneur." the calling of a conference to re- "Miss Danita and I are merely commend plans for strengthening good friends," he said. We like them. He suggested that it would each other, but there has certainly make the enforcement of the Vol-been no talk of marriage." stead Act easier and strike a blow Prince Louis, who has obtained a at bootlegging if the prevention of position with the Ford Company, the importation, manufacture, and leads a Spartan-like existence for a
Jaspe Pk., Alberta, Aug. 15. sale of liquer were kept under young gentleman of Royal blood.
Maligne Lake, the largest Federal control, and the State De lives in a tiny apartment in a glacial fed lake in the Rocky authorities became responsible for small hotel, and earns under £15 a Mountain and accessible jurisdiction over the retail end of week.
only to rail riders and hikers, the pecuniarily profitable crime of At eight o'clock every morning he may be reached by automobile goes to his work in a suit of grimy next summer. Hoo. Charles Mr. Wickersham's proposal has overalls. From then till knocking-Stewart, Minister of the Interior provoked widespread discussion, off time he is hard at his job. and, as the opinion prevails that it
in the Canadian Government, who Prince Louis was studying politi- would not have been made without cal economy at the Berlin Univer. has left Jasper for Vancouver and Mr. Hoover's approval, it is regard-sity in 1927 when he first met Lili Victoria efter several days in the National Park, stated before he ed as the most important develop. Damita. nient in the prohibition controversy When shortly after Miss Damita left that he would ask for an ap- since the present
Administration went to America the Prince follow-propriation for the building of a took office. The main support for d. it was said that he was madly the proposal comes from the "drys," in love with her. whose spokesmen claim always to have taken the position that it should not be the duty of the Federal authorities to act as police- men for closing "speakeasies" and "We need men more than ever, the ground as a result of a grave reunding up bootleggers, and that and what we especially need is men diggers' lot at Calvary cemetery, the responsibility for such work of middle life, or beyond it, who Brooklyn. should be shared by every State. are qualified to be leaders in educa- The grave diggers, who have They are doubtful, however, whe- tional, political, scientific, or artistic been on strike for a week, greet- ther certain notoriously "wet" fo Why are we lacking in men ed a lorry load of strike breakers States, such as New York, Wiscon-of that type to-day more than was with a volley of stones and sis, and Massachusetts, If enfrust-the case in earlier days? The rea- lumps of earth. One of the lat- ed with jurisdiction over the sale son is simply the war. Men who ter fired back and killed a strik-
not shirk their sight to now be in middle life ander.
liquor law violation.
:
LACK OF LEADERS
leading us, gave their lives for their country on the field of battle, and their places are difficult to fill.
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle).
TO RE-MARRY
ENGAGEMENT OF SIR HENRY CURTIS-BENNETT
The engagement is announced of Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, KC., of Boreham Lodge, Chelmsford, and Miss Lillian Mary Jefferies, of 1 Montpelier-place, London, S.W The date of the marriage has not yet been definitely announced, but it is understood that it will take place in the near future
Miss Jefferies is, it is stated, an old friend of the family, and has known Sir Henry for a number of years and d
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A bewitching music-hall artiste, Archbishop of Canterbury, in ad- Mlle. Edmonde. Guy, of the Guy dressing Sisters, has caused a typically School, Surrej.
the boys of Cranleigh His Lordship de- Parisian sensation by filing a suit dared open additional accommoda- for £800 damages against Kees Vantion at the school, including the Dongen, the artist, for painting and Connaught Buildings, the speech exposing an Eve-like representation hall, presented by Viscount Devon-
of her.
"I suppose that you are astonish-port (vice-chairman of the school council), the library, presented by
ed that it has taken me five years Mr. J. W. Wilinos, an old-Cranleig- to discover that Van Dongen made
an immoral painting of me which, and new entrance gates, pre- the talk of the twenty-five seated by Earl Midleton (chair salons," Mlle. Guy, who is noted for man of the school council).
WAS
"A Simple Study"
her sinuous nude dancing, said to Earl Midleton, presiding at the a Pressman.
prize distribution, said they had no reason to apologise for what "I posed only twice for what I Cranleigh had done
in the past. believed would be a simple artistic They believed that that day ushered study, but I was most surprised is a glorious future.
when I discovered a long time The headmaster, the Rev. H. A. afterwards that Van Dongen had Rhodes, stated that $1,375 had been actually made a full-length portrait received of 22,220 required for a of me. About that time I had to new organ in the chapel.
leave Paris on long tours and I did Lord Devonport, in thanking Lord not realise that Van Dongen was Davidson, mentioned that he went exhibiting the painting to the en-to Cranleigh school in 1867. tire world. He actually has the was due, he said, to Dr. Merriman, original in his studio for all his the first headmaster, that he entered frends to see, and the idea shocked commercial life. me."
Mlle. Guy recently demanded that Van Dongen should give her the work, claiming that portraits be- long to the persons painted, but he demanded that she should pay for ft as other sitters. She thereupon decided to file the suit
The disputed painting is to bel shown in court during the proceed-- ings.
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1931 is the date which, with the co-operation of the Colonies con- cerned would be feasible for the extension of London-India route to Australia, and the operation of a
Lord Devonport unveiled a portrait in oils of Dr. Merriman who was headmaster from 1865 to 1892.
regular service. The Doctor Knew
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Sir Henry was previously marri- The 1 Battalion the Lincoln- ed in 1903 to Miss Elsie Eleanor ahire Regiment left Dover for African route has been pushed surely feel 100 per cent. brighter, Dangar, daughter of Mr. A. A. London to take over guard duties ahead, and it is confidently believed better, and more efficient in the Dangar, of New South Wales. The with the Sherwood Foresters at that this will be running by the morning. Of chemists everywhere marriage was dissolved in 1927-
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