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SATURDAY MAY 6, 1933.

DERELICT

CRANK "CURES” FOR STAGE STARS

SPHINXES

OF WARK

Mystery Surrounds 24 Bearded Russians.

MYSTIC RITES IN CELL.

Aversa, near Naples.

Rome.

MAYOR CERMAK,

Wine And Divines Suggested.

THE CHINA MAIL.

PETITION TO

GOVERNMENT

Packed Room Greets. Deputation.

THEATRE- TAX REMISSION URGED.

To-Day's Short Story,

PURPLE CAP

THERE

By Rupert Grayson.

"MAGIC" SUNFLOWER SEED.

HERE is danger in a fire that caution in his eyes. There was an Miami, Florida.

smoulders. It may creep expression of stony indifference in All kinds of cures, from magic

forward to the persuasion of the the face, either obstinacy or deter An unfathomable tragedy of the healing to Gaxseed wine had been

London. wind and break into a devastat- mination. war lles behind the presence of 24 recommended by persons all over

Many and varied are the de-ing flame as it reachee new "Do you never smile, Purple sad-faced bearded Russian ex-the country for Mayor Cermak of

putations which Members of ground.

Cap? Is it only the smell of guni, prisoners in a lunatic asylum at Chicago, who was hit in the Parliament, Individually and col There was danger about Captain powder that will make you bare stomach by one of the bullets in lectively, are called upon to re-Bloodcross. It filled the air around your teeth? Did you ever see s Terror comes into the eyes of tended for President Roosevelt,ceive when Parliament is sitting him, invisible but insistent, like the sky as blue as this at Christmas these men when it is suggested to and who has since succumbed to but not for a long time have they premonition of misfortune. There time o'ed Bristol City, or a sea that them that they may be sent back his wounds.

A flower seed wrapped in tissue been visited by a more attractive was danger about his ship, the Day swept ships' sides like this, or i to Russia. Nothing will induce

group of suppliants than the de- Dream-man and ship each affect-sail so full? Take that to make them to divulge their

or paper was sent by a woman legation of actresses and actorsed by the following, wind and each you live, you silent deg!" With the their

origin. "We have

which has just visited Westmin-İ names and no country," they re- "Place this flower seed on Mayorster to urge that theatres should Prepared to burat into action at the quickly spoken words he swung hii

Cermak's chest for half an hour, be exempted from the entertain-*** peat.

The men were captured by the and his illness will be driven out. Austrians in Galicia during the He then will recover." war, and were sent to the Italian front to dig tranches.

war,

the men went

names

no Chicago who said:

ments tax.

and broken teeth,"

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slightest provocation. ⠀

fst across the helmsman's mouth. If there were those who sailed For one moment the man stag-|| the Caribbee and, called his ship gered, still "gripping the wheel, The "magic" power of the sced The fact that they included the Nightmare, they had good cause then recovered himself to the gen During a was not explained. She said the such present and old stage to name her so. Like a ferret, her the motion of the ship. sudden advance by the Italiana seed had belonged to her family favourites as Miss Gladys Cooper, favourite taste was blood, and like "What fool said you were made allied for 200 years, and that it had ac-Miss Julia Neilson, Miss Yvonne a ferret she could nose her way, of wood....or stone, either7 they again passed to the

an complished "remarkable remedies." Arnaud, and the veteran Dame guided by her master, where others There's blood la you, hungry one, side, and were working at

"Have Mayor Cermak placed on Madge Kendal, as well as Mr. would have hesitated. establishment for rearing horses

his left side, facing the east wall Fred Terry and Mr. Owen Nares, when the war ended.

There were her decks to tell her Bloodcross glanced slowly at his So far they had apparently been at 9 a.m., impress upon him the attracted over 200 M.P.'s to one story brown stains deep in the hand. "And teeth like broken

But they absolutely necessity of concentration, and I of the largest Committee Rooms wood; and quite normal.

scare about her sides, glass," he muttered. refused to be sent back to Russia, can care him," wrote another an- at the House of Commons and

jand lead embedded in her masts.. If Bloodcross had looked up and when their identity was nonymous well-wisher from Racine, the meeting was filled to overflow-

As Bloodcross ran his thin, dry quickly at that moment he would vestigated it was found that the Wisconsin. "If Mayor Cermak willing.

hand The case for an abatement of

along the gunwale his have surprised a look in Purple names they had given when cap-do this, I will concentrate here,

of and with a twist of my hand I can entertainment tax was effective- thoughts were running forward Cap's eyes that might have warned tured were false, being those

over the horizon to where the him to be on his guard, but he was! men who had been killed in the drive the illness out of his body."ly put by the actors, but it was Spanish trade route lay beyond his too busy musing upon his bleeding

"A woman who called at the hoa-the charming appeals of Miss

vision: rich galleons--the wealth fist In 1926, for no apparent reason, [pital begged doctors to allow her Julia Neilson and Dame Kendalli

of all the Indies-on their way to Purple Cap's lips were bloody "You on hunger strike. to 'place my right hand on Mayor which caught the ear. They were sent to the asylum Cermak's forehead for half an all look so sweet," was Miss Spain. His upper lip exposed his and muttering, but if he spoke it under the theory that they were hour. I am sure I can cure him Neilson's way of breaking down pointed teeth, as the desh curled must have been a whisper from the

back slowly like a discoloured flag dungeons of his soul. Buffering from "collective psychi-by the touch of magic healing."" the sceptcism of M.P.'s who

Two other "magic healere" also have probably become weary of man at the helm saw the line of

before the wind Behind him. the Forward, the crew had seen the up applied, but the attending physi-deputations by this time, and the

Bloodcross's bony nose and his the strike, but they have been kept clans would not allow them in the meeting cheered her sympatheti- beady eyes, peering, as he gazed in the asylum ever Bince. When froom.

cally when she added "What we the barber came to shave them, in "There is only one man in the want is the tax taken off and Ipwards, and smelling the air in

dog-like manner. accordance with asylum regula-world

Mayor know you will help us." wrote one man. He Dame Kendall, who is 84 years| "Two points west, you silent tions, they made such a scene that Cermak” they were allowed a special named a famous German chest of

age, has often inveighed swine! And hold her to it!" concession to keep their long flow-specialist as the man.

against modern customs and ing bearda.

From another part of the coun- particularly modern fashions, and new, his breadth recking from his try came a suggestion that doctors on this occasion ahe went one hellow stomach.

blow, and their talk was turned should give the Mayor half a pint better. Undeterred by the pre- "There's food ahead, my dearie, on Purple Cap. The men were lying To-day the mystery round them of blackberry wine twice a day sence of the women M.P.'s, she and other things....for those who stretched out on the deck arguing is as deep as ever.

They are Flaxseed wine was suggested by a fearlessly declared "I don't quite The man at his post remained st-pack of hungry wolves. la

love me," he sneered.........

and anarling at each other like à frightened of visitors, and at the farmer.

approve of women in Parlia- sight of a camera they smear their Many of the suggestions were ment," adding quickly "But I

lent, his mouth set and a look of shadow of the full-bellied sail a faces with mud, or throw them telegraphed.--Reuter.

know you will help us."

man was gazing dreamily up at the selves on the ground, to avoid

The case put by the deputation

masthead as it traced a circle In thei being photographed.

was that the entertainments tax

Jaky. He began speaking in a cur«

Hately the others were silent.

"He's watching, and when he's not watching he's waiting."

cal abnormality." After two days of forcible feeding they gave

as

Camera-Shy.

dis

Having na names they are tinguished by numbers. Careful observation, when they thought ey were unwatched, han shown that they obey implicitly the orders of one man-number in the asylum books. They now absolute- ly refuse to do any work.

When alone in their courtyard they huddle together and talk in an undertone. But at the approach of A stranger they scatter to their cells.

who can cure

WAGONS PLUNGE OVER PRECIPICE.

Train Crew's Narrow Escape From Death,

He was

beside the helmsman

MONDAY'S STORY.

Monday's story will be "The Garden," by Anthony “ Armstrong.

the

was keeping people away from THE ART OF MAORI jous, sing-song tone, and immed

the theatres, which were finding] ft difficult to pay their way. The ringing of the division bells for a division in the House of Com- ¡mons brought the meeting to an end, but everyone was agreed Madrid.

that the ladies of the deputation Seventeen loaded goods wagons knew better how to touch an were dragged over 117 feet high when a train was

a precipice M.P.'s heart than the actors.

With the present financial}

CARVING

Plans To Preserve Ancient Craft.

4

"Who's watching, and who's waiting?", knother cried. "You mean Purple Cap?”

SCHOOL AT ROTORUA.

Auckland, NZ. derailed by a fall of earth and stringency, it seems more than carving, often lamented as if in The precious art of Maori Two of them have shown hieratic frock which followed heavy rains doubtful whether the Chancellor danger of being lost, is being much, Dutchman?"

near Avila.

features,

graven

like

Russian

Ikons, pad it is noticed that they are always treated with particular reverence. They read the Gospel in Russian continuously.

Several times one of the men has heen heard to say to another while

the others listen sombrely, "Theu

art condemned to death with thy

wife and children."

"He was here with Bloodcross when I foined. He was old to the |skipper's ways when I was new, and I can give you six months before your time .....

"Does he love his master 10

hol workers at the Maori Arts and must do everything for jhis master. Crafts School at Rotorua.

He must cook for him; he must

Two guards were hurled over respond to the appeal. The preserved by the skilled native "So much, One Eye, that

the precipice with the wagons.

A

re-

of the Exchequer will be able to

cinemas are also carrying on Both were injured, but ropes vigorous propaganda for a were thrown to them, and they duction of the entertainments] were drawn up to safety.

tax on the cheapest class and three hundred men with the

When help came from Avila seats.-Reuter. help of a crane were on the point

of raising the smashed wagons,

there was a further fall of earth WANTED TO WITNESS and the crane crashed into the TRAIN WRECK.

"There are cases af collective insanity," said Professor Pegna, the Director of the Asylum, "and precipice dragging 5 more wagons perhaps this is one of them. But with it. the men do not seem to be insane..

...

...

A good example of present-day help him like a mother would her of achievement is the carving for child--so much that he must the meeting house, at Otaki, with watch him all the time, and wait which the school has been en- trusted. From solid blocks of

"Wait for what Dutchman?" totara, each specially, selected "Until his moment comes, my from trees on the sunny side of friend. We all have one supreme the forest, the skill of the native moment in our lives which we can has fashioned a hundred pieces, make immortal if it doesn't take us leach with its ornate and sym-unawares."..

bolical design. - The work is all There was muttering among the done by hand, for the only tools men. The man who spoke to them, to be seen in the school are the with his education, was better fitted adze, chisels of different sizes to be a landlubber, but he could THE MIGHTIEST ARAB

Volksrust, and shapes, and mallets of solid write and he was one to be res SINCE MAHOMET

When charged in the Magis-whalebone. Among the work-pected. (Continued from Poms 5.) trate's Court with attempting to ers is an old Maori, who carved And when Purple Cap's mo possible in their case. No hypo- The chief of the marauding tribes wreck a train, a native boy, aged at the Christchurch Exibition in ment, comes, what then?"5

was the Harb. When their repre- 14 years, blandly told the Magis- 1906-07. He has no superior By the convent of Sants Halda, Other competent observers are sentative came to make submission trate that he had always longed with the adze...

it will be the longest in his life and more definite. "They are certainly not mad," they say.-Reuter.

The men managed to save Who knows what tragedy lies be themselves in time.

hind their lives, what nameless horror from the days of the trenches, or what fear of some. terrible vendetta if they return

to their country? Nothing is im2

thesis can be excluded."

IVAN THE TERRIBLE GLUTTON.

surrender It."

"Take that m

Reuter.

Rail Trolley "Spoilt The Fun."

›

to the Wahhabi conqueror, he ex-to see a derailment of a train. Most of the pieces for the the shortest in someone else's.” plained that the tribe could not So he placed seven large boul meeting house at Otaki have “But surely he is faithful, to his forgo the privilege of levying ders on the railway line and been completed and now Bwait master?" "Aye, faithful, Square- tribute on the pilgrims. "This," he climbed a nearby peach tree to transport. The Ngati-Raukawa head; and faithful to his resolu- added, "is our right, and we would watch the result.

tribe at Otald can claim descent tion rather have our noses cut off than "But the fun was spoilt," he from every tribe in New Zealand, Bloodcross, seated in his cabin, said, "by the arrival of a motor the Arawas and the East Const turned over in his mind' the risks away "replied rail trolley, the occupants of Maoris predominating. Main- he ran with the Day Dream. Late- Prize-Eater's Appetite bn Saud Laconically, "and cut off which removed the boulders be- taining their ancient pride in ly he had been in danger of offend-

Not So Robust.

fore the train came. The trolley lineage, the carvers have eming the Brotherhood of Pirates. was damaged, but I am quite bodied this tradition in the de- There must be no further complica· Ibn Saud freely admits such agreeable, to pay the damage to sign for the house. It will be tions. He was two men short since Belgrade scientific inventions of the West as it, provided it is not more than what is known as ""universal," yesterday, and there would be work A baker of Chatchak, named Ivan he deems good for his people, His £11

*** The next big task will be the on the morrow," "The Novakovitch, has for the second administration has been yastly. He was found guilty and sea-carving for Te Aute College. The setting restlesst No year. running won the local eating strengthened, for instance, by the tenced to received 12 cute with wood is already seasoned for this Purple Cap had championship. He has broken bis introduction of wireless communica- the, care, Reuter. own record by consuming at one tions, for which he had com, of his-

mea]:

7 lbs. of cabbage, 5 lbs, of grus),

his nose."

It was done,

subjects trained in England.

Motorcars, also, have poured by

1 gallon of plum brandy, a gallon hundreds into the country, where

of sour cabbage juice

roads for the most part are ready- Although he is a baker, he ate nomade. Ibn Saud, in fact, does most bread with his dinner,

of his hunting, of which sport he Last year, his appetite was not passionately fond, in motorcars quite so robust and he was only able now. And, top, he has found the to consume a meal of 80 mast-stuff- airplane of great use in Increasing

ed cabbage leaves, five yards of the respect of his people,

sausages, and a gallon of wine, kai Arabia posamäen at the mons

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est hope of uniting

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the

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It is probable, too, that the bis watch and school will be entrusted with the carving for the meeting house at

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of 1940-

HEARING THE GRAS

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his

mca

Purple

Purple: Gap: ali

· Whỏ!" would, have guessed that? A silent bodyguard'

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