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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932.

"OLD MOORE” IN THE AIR TRIPS WITHOUT CRUELTY IN ANIMAL

FLESH.

Light on His Prophecies.

VEIL OF SECRECY.

- Who is "Old Moore"? And on what authority does he make his authoritative prophecles?

These questions are prompted by the optimistic forecasts in "Old Moore's Almanack" for 1932. They predict increased trade, the beginning of a new era of pros-

and the first signs of the over- throw of the Soviet regime in Rus- sla.

A representative of the Morning Post tried to proba these two myg- teries. Although baffled in his at- tempt to run "Old Moore" to earth, he made some interesting coveries in his researches.

A CREW.

Control by Means of Wireless Signals.

FILMS.

Attitude of Board of Censors.

A wireless invention by which it

A conference

ОП fims that

out a living person in any of them, by the Performance

THE

CHINA MAIL.

P. & O. PLANS. Building Programme Now Complete.

Speaking

new

on... board the P. and O. turbo, electric vessel,

MANSION HOUSE

«

GHOSTS."

Lady Mayoress Disturb By Strange Sounds.

night.

on.

AN ANTI NOISE SERUM.

Chocolates and Ice Cream.

BABY TARANTULAS PREFER TO RIDE

Carried 50 at a Time -on Mother's Back.

ZOO ARRIVALS.

rely on the cheapest, form of trad

There are babies at the Zoo that

sport known. They travel over where, perhaps fifty at a time, on the back of their mother, Until her children are of age the -And mother doesn't mind a bit.

vice.

Tarantulas are Wic that.

A co

signment of these spiders that ha Just arrived at Regent's Park de

mind.

the

would be possible to control, with-involved cruelty to animals called Strathaird, at Liverpool, the Hon. House were referred to by the Lorda prime evil of city life in the Ghostly noises at the Mansion The devastating effects of noise. a fleet of aeroplanes, or ships, is Animals' Defence League, and at- man of the P. and O. Company, said he distributed the regimental and can, it is said, be successfully over Captive Mr. Alexander Shaw, Deputy Chair Mayor (Sir Maurice Jenks) when United States-on hunian health claimed to have been made by

a tended by representatives of many that the Strathaird represented for other prizes to the members of the come by a scientifically selected diet. young wireless engineer.

societies, was held at Caxton Hall, the time being the end of a great/London Rifle Brigade at their head-] He also declares that by his London, recently, according to the effort by the Company. Since 1919 quarters in Banhill-row.

An anti-noise serum, according to Dr. Donald A. Llard, head of the device, radio signals cannot be Manchester Guardian. jammed-that even if another wire-

-they had constructed at various Sir Maurice was apologising for psychological laboratory of Colgate Mr. Robert H. Spurrier, the yards no fewer than 39 vessels, of who, he said, was feeling tired mankind needs to abate the harad the absence of the Lady Mayoress, University, is the correction which less station is operating on the Derity, more settled times in India, same wave length, it will not affect editor of "The Animals' Friend," which 23 were first class passenger and out of sorts after a disturbed ful mental and physical conss. are welcome to her transport s

the controlling Instrument.

who presided, said that widespread and mail ships. During this expen- but necessary building pro- These revolutionary claims in opposition to the use of animals in sive

quences of continuous dia. remote radio control, are made by im production had been caused by gramme they had kept a special eye he added, "takes some getting used serum in certain foods which he "Living at the Mansion House," He has discovered the necessary charges of cruelty brought against on the requirements of their friends Mr. Charles Keeling, who lives at several aims in which wild animals in India, who understood that the to, and we have not yet got accus has recommended to the Acoustical Buckhurst Hill, Essex.

This had convinced P. and Q. fleet had suffered perhaps

tomed to it. Strange noises

monstrates The system is so extensive that appeared.

go Society of America:

time-honoured many people that strong and con- more anything from

a typewriter to ansidered action should be taken marines during the War and who than any other from sub-

"They are, I think, due to the that the secretion of the saliva and always hurry back at ence.

His experiments showed, he said, characteristics of the species.

If the babies are brushed off they dis-aeroplano can be controlled by a

person miles away. Mr. Keeling without delay to combat the in- at the outset helped in a most sport-shrinkage of the woodwork through gastric juices essential to the proper:

Sonte old Moore," he was informed declares that he has tested it out creasing evil. The conference had ing way by putting up with older the introduction of radiators, but functioning of the digestive system times they climb on to the wrong at the editorial offices of W. Foul- completely.

been called to discuss what son- ships while the Company tackled the sometimes in the dark one could is appreciably diminished by noises. back, but mother tarantula does not certed steps should be taken. aham & Co., publishers of the Al-

Quite New,

A Gastric Chart,

She welcomes all conierd great task of replacement, No ad- easily imagine they are due to other!

less natural causes.”... manack, "is not in and he cannot He told a Daily Herald repre-

miration could be too great for the

The normal volume of salivaays a Special Correspondent to the Questions had been sent to the work that their friends in India

Traffic and Rat-Catchers. Fur-sentative some of the secrets of his Board of Film Censors, whose secre- were doing in their own sphere in

secreted from one saliva duct dur- be seen by appointment."

Evening Standard. A correspondent writes: ther inquiries, however, brought to new "radio-control,"

ing a period of comparative quiet tary replied that the Board's order to maintain Britain's prestige Mayoress who has found the un-five minutes (a thimble holds about had reputation. Its poisonous hift

Lady Jenks is not the first Lady averages 0.41 cubic centimetre every

Bad Reputation. light some interesting details con- "1 am guarding the technical)

The tarantula, of course, has a cerning this cryptic figure. He is secrets very closely," he said. "So examiners, who must not be direct-in Government and commerce.

ly or indirectly connected with the

familiar noises of the Mansion 2 centimetres); quiet conversation is greatly feared. an elderly man, who lives apart far they have not been patented. cinema trade, were appointed by

Severe Depression.

House a little disturbing during the cuts this flow to 0.84; moderate long bellef that the vleitm of a bite from the world "somewhere in the Before taking that step I am going the president, that the president

There is an age- to consult the Admiralty and the had rejected several firas in which was doing its best in the longest heavily-laden meat vans bound such as a busy section of Fifth-tive musician may, however, be

For its own

first few weeks of her occupancy. restaurant. `chatter part the Company

'Buses,

to 0.29; goes into a state of coma which w Office, and, possibly, the Air Minis- he felt convinced that there had and severest depression ever experi- for Smithfield, steam and other avenue, to 0.28; typewriter noise called after the bite.

cars, And

taxicabs, minimum noise in a crowded street lead to death If unchecked. A n Based on Astrology. He has spent his life studying try.

been cruelty or restraint amounting enced by British shipping to keep "My method is absolutely new to cruelty, and that all the members the flag flying. He believed that their fruit for astrology, and he is accounted one

On one wave length, high or low of the Board were lovers of animals. friends in

and also to 0.23; and loud radio or tube jumps up and begins to dance, with The victim of the wisest astrologers in the

realised the the East

and railway noise to 0.21. can transmit eight distinct Mr. Spurrier's comment was that strain of running in He rarely visits London, world.

these hard Spitalfields, and lorries

many contortions, until he falls er pro- The gastric secretion is propor-hausted." and, when he does, his movements signals.

the Board seemed to have a genuine times an absolutely regular weekly ceading to and from the docks, tionately inhibited.

When he wakens, "accord- are enshrouded with an air of "Two men in one aeroplane could desire to discountenance cruelty to service to and from India all the all pass the spot late at night and Dr. Laird das that the digestive he knows nothing of what has hap ing to this picturesque theory, mystery which even Mr. Montaguy a dozen or so craft carrying hun-

In the early morning. dreds of tens of freight or mail.)

year round, good season, or had;, win

Another somewhat disturbingly overcome by eating chocolates or has been sufficient to work the disorders thus created can be entire-pened, but the perspiration induce Norman might envy.

Mr. E. T. Macmichael, honorary or lose, without a single gap. it factor is probably provided by rats, ice-cream. Contrary to general belief, his With the new robot pilot, which the

would be extremely easy for the

poison out of his system. The aroma of a fresh 'cup of black astrological, research. There is, list, these machines could be landed Board had informed him that

If these new tarantulas at the with perfect safety and without a careful lookout was being taken, and

operations in the neighbourhood. it is claimed, no crystal-gazing, no

human hand touching their controls, that sympathetic notice would be palmistry, no table rapping.

The General Purposes Committee per cent. decrease caused by the themselves. They make a kind of vary flow suficiently to offset 1.40 will be well able to take care of mpathetipists from the

of the Corporation, which has noise of a crowded New York street. tunnel in the ground, and prevent "Old Moore," depends to a large

"Cargo boats could be controlled given

charge of the Mansion House, has Sweet tastes or aromatic bever-the rain from running in by bulle extent on a study of the planets either from the shore or, if in a League. and on the horoscopes of indivi- group, from one master shipThey

put rat-catchers on duty for some ages, he says, supply, with pleasant ing a parapet about 13% in. high. duals.

It may be that their scents, the ingredients of what he celestial bodies, together with a

country."

I

animals.

waggons with vegetables

Covent Garden

A number have been driven into

.'

prophecies are based entirely on Air Ministry still has on its secret secretary of the League, said the Company to ruah in merely to take the Mansion House by the building coffee, he says, increases the sali- Zoo meet much wet weather they?

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WHY ARE HALF CROWNS SO POPULAR?

2

Mr. Frederick Messer, former

the cream of trade during the busy season and have a spectacular ser- vice by one or two special ship especially if British lines were to receive the Suez Canal dues paid.

1932 would see the last of the

days past.

House are rat proof, and perhaps GERMANY'S 5,267 CINEMAS.

All the rooms in the! Mansion}*/ the efforts of the rats to enter those sealed chambers provide an addition

to the mysterious noise.

Thousand More Than Britain, Bit

His interpretation of the would require no crew, every opera-M.P. for South Tottenham, said he pre-War ships removed from the movements have awakened Lady describes as the anti-noise serum."

tion of the boat would be did not believe that people going to P. and O. service and its fleet would quality officially described as "in-chanical and would be controlled by see these animal pictures had any then consist of entirely up-to-date Jenks. telligent anticipation," enable him wireless."

thought of what the animals had to vessels. In carrying out their great to make his remarkable predic-

undergo,

They simply regarded bullding programme they had tried Hons.

the films as something spectacular and he believed with success, to that relieved the monotony of their make every new ship better than the lives. He was convinced that as last. They would continge to spare The popularity, both at home and soon as healthy-minded, individuals no effort in all departments to merit overseas, of the half-crown, is men realised that the spectacle involved public goodwill, on which the Com- tioned in his annual report by Sir suffering the movement to prevent pany's existence depended.

11, Saigon Street, second floor, on Robert Johnson, the Comptroller of such things being done would make

January 29, were formally remand- the Mint, but (writes the London progress, If the public could be So. Tak, L Ming and Ko Yated for one week, when charged at correspondent of the Liverpool persuaded not to go to see animals cho, three Chinese who are alleg. the Kowloon Magistracy this morn Post) one does not need to be in his in films such films would not be pro-ed to have participated in the arming. The complainante in the case commanding position to know that duced.

ed robbery which took place at No. are two Chthese women. this is so.

An official of W. Foulsham and Co. related the full story of "Old Moore's" dramatic forecast of the General Election and the estab- Jishment of a National Govern-

ment.

"In January last year," he said, Old Moore' walked into my office and told me about his prophecies

for 1931.

"There is one very striking fes- ture,' he explained, 'I have examin-

With men, perhaps, more

than

ed the horoscopes of Ramsay Mac-with women, the half crown is the Donald. Thomas, Snowden, Buld prime favourite coin. It is only win, Chamberlain, and other flead- with half-crowns considerably pre- ing politicians, and in every case sent that Jingling of a pocketful of there is an indication that in the coins produces the really satisfao- Autumn of 1981 goodwill will be tory sound and effect. And, then, at work, barriers will be broken with the half-crown plece one can do down, and there will be a general

so many of the smaller things that spirit of co-operation. From this make life tolerable. I presume that some sort of Na- tional Party will be formed".""

that Mars would be in the ascend- Only one star in the political ant. From this the astrology in- constellation caused "Old Moore"ferred that the Welsh "Wizard" any trouble, that of Mr. Lloyd | would be unwilling to "tread the George, whose horoscope showed sweet pathway of universal peace."

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A Large Range

of

VIYELLA &

VISYLKA

PLAIN AND FANCY

Theyre still the best

More than 50

COMBINING COLOURS

leads

ALSO

PASTEL SHADES

for

Kiddies' Wear

LANE CRAWFORD LTD.

Goods Dem

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·GINSRİLDİNİ

Virginia and no Three Castles.

THREE CASTLES

CIGARETTES.

FAMOUS TOR

An

REMARKABLE ESCAPE. Woman Falls Under Tram,

323,000 Fewer Seats.

elderly woman, Germany has 6,267 cinemas, Worley, of Danson Road, Wel Mrs. Britain, according to statistics. which is about 1,000 more than in worth, fel from a platform t

Waterloo Underground Statio The British cinema, however, and though a train ran over h accommodate 2,200,000, which is she dacaped injury 828,000 more than those in Ger-She was fortunate In Tallin many.

between the metals. The ca The average weekly attendance in rent was cat off till she was Britain is about 7,000,000, or brought to the platform. Her 1,000,000 more than to Germany. daughter: stated later that h

Taking into consideration the respective populations, the cinema has a greater hold on the British public:

mother was still terribly upse and had not been able to give full account of what happened. She said that she was rea There are in Europe (apart from ing a paper hear the edge of Russia) som: 24.000 cinema with platform, the daughter, accommodatiohor 11,000,000 wither a draught of wind

the

United States has 20,500 out of her hand, and in atte cinemas, providing 18,500300 seating to catell if the overfala

Exchange.

and fell in front of a train.

·CANADA: +

As from FEBRUARY 1, 1932 the Offices of the

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT

TRADE COMMISSIONER

will be situated in GLOUCESTER BUILDING (Second Floor),

NOTICE.

CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS

will be closed SATURDAY 6th Fel DAY 8th February

CO. LED

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