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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1933.

IDENTIFIED AFTER Booked for a Year-In Jail

56 YEARS

Brothers United By

Tell-Tale Scar.

"WHERE I CUT YOUR THROAT”

Perth, West Australia. George Gunning. prospector of Widgiemooltha, aged 83, recently Bent a message to a friend in Perth to come. and insoport his gold show.

On his way the friend stopped hotel at Coolgardie and in an mentioned that he was going to Bee Gunning.

A man standing near him at bar said: "My name is Gunning. oo. I have a brother somewhere

In the world, if he is alive, but I haven't seen or heard of him for

men

went

to

65 years. Two

Wid- giemooltha, Neither George nori Erasmus Gunning recognised each: other. and George was frankly Incredulous.

"Brother he blowed," he said. "Why, if you were my brother. you would carry a sear where I tried to cut your throat when we were kids!"

He

jerked back man's head and the

there.-Router.

the

other

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WOMEN TO COLLECT INCOME-TAX.

Chance Of Promotion For Typists.

BRITAIN'S INNOVATION,

London.

In future women are to play a part, and by no mean An in- Important one, in the collection of Income-tax.

Collection

This innovation is part of the re- organisation of the collection ser- vice at Somerset House was the last branch of the income- tax organisation to which WOTNOTE were admitted.

Noy scaredly s week passes without the announcement of at least one womah to the select band of the collectors, or assistani-col- Tectors,

A whole batch of women "writ- ing assistants" have been chosen to undergo triala at doing the work of assistant collectors.

Bally Band, whose fan dance made her famous, has sixty days in which to appeal the verdict of a year in jail and 1200 fine which was handed down when the dance she did in Chicago was judged "obscene."

Lurid Fame Follows

Fan Dancer

Famous Act Brings Police Action

UNCLAD HIPS SHOCK CHICAGO

THE CHINA "MAIL.

FREED AFTER TEN YEAR'S SLAVERY ·

Legionaries'. Ordeal In Desert.

HELD BY REBEL ARABS

Tangier.

Members of a colony of captive legionaries, who have laboured un- der Arab task masters in the burn- ing heat of the desert and were for- gotten by the world for many years, are now beginning to find their way back to civilisation.

of their The first intimation existence was three

months ago, when an ex-legionary. Lopez Ex posito, given up many years ago as dend, staggered into the town of Villa Cisneros and told a curious story.

Villa Cisneros is the Spanish

garrison town

coast of Morocco.

NEW ERA INS

BUILDING MAY ·

SOON START

Electrical Welding Tests In Britain.

DISPENSING WITH RIVETS

London.

Experiments which may revolu- tionise building construction are being undertaken at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington.

The object is to examine the value i of electrical welding as a means of holding a steel-framework building together,

Electrical welding is not general- permitted at present, but it is hoped as a result of the present experiments that authorities who building construction supervise

on the south-west everywhere will be assured of the safety of the new method, the first advantage of which would be that The exhausted ex-legionary pour- ed forth a tale of captivity among the noise of ordinary riveted con- rebel Arab tribes on the fringe of ritation in numerous cities, would struction, which is a source of ir-

the Sahere.

American experts estimate that

Not only himself, he said, but be diapenses with. also legionaries belonging to all na- tionalities, were captive there and engineers would be saved between 6 and 10 per cent, of the cost of working under conditions of virtual

construction of steal framework. slavery.

Shortly after this, a Jew named Aron Cohen arrived from Tablete in the French zone, with the same

atory,

To obtain reliable data, the La- oratory is systematically record- ing the strain to which joints can be exposed by pulling, twisting and 'fatigue testa. It will take two A Spanish Commission took up

years before these experiments may matter and now after much be said to be justified and before it negotiation and the help of friendly will be possible to issue a safety Sheiks in the Sahara, the first party certificate.

the

of ex-legionaries is expected to ar Tive at Can Juby, near Villa Claneros in a few days time.- Reuter.

In welded construction, there is an absolutely rigid connection, the metal in the neighbourhood of the joint being melted by a strong electric current. The iron terminals

MAYAN CITY RUINS themselves provide the 'solder'

DISCOVERED.

1,800-Year Old Find In Yucatan.

THIRTY-FIVE BUILDINGS.

Mexico, D.F.

near

which holds the construction to- gether. Design of buildings is also affected, since it is not neces- sary with welding to leave roomTM for rivets, and a cleaner, sharper line is possible.

A great deal, of course, dependa upon the skill of the individual worker where welding le concerned.

tor

The discovery of new ruins of an The results of bad welding would ancient Mayan city

the not be visible on the surface and Pomuch railway station, in Cam-real care would have to be exer- peche State was reported by a mem-cised by those responsible ber of an archaelogical expedition making the connection.

Progress is also being made with into Yucatan.

He said the ruins resembled welded joints in the construction of others found in south Yucatan and boilers, and one British firm which than 1,800 has spent two years in perfecting probably were more

Ita technique is now completing its years old. What he described as apparent evidence of the passing of first orders-one of which comes the Toltec Indians through the re-from abroad.

Here pure science plays Its part, gion about 700 years ago was found

for every inch of the welded joints.

New York, the United States and many places In a pair of ruffled pants with abroad. But to one man she still is the shy, demure girl of her blue ribbons here and there. Sally teens, striving to realise an ambi- Typists and shorthand-typists Rand. Chicago's celebrated fan tion that was with her every mo-

dancer, has saved the morals of ment of her day.

The man is Col. William F.in a statue.

are among the number. It is the first time that typists have ever re-

ceived such a chance of promotion. New Yorks and strutted her stuff Beck, Sally's father. So far ELA Only about 10 Indians living in of such boilers have to be tested by

--- Reuter,

TREE IN MEMORY OF HINKLER.

Every School Ground To Have One.

AUSTRALIA'S TRIBUTE.

Sydney, N.S.W.

S. Levine, but went him one bet- ter.

"Wows" World's Fair

RELIABLE PRINTING

no order too small

on the Paramount Theatre stage Sally and her father are concerned, the vicinity had knowledge of the X-rays-Reuter. displaying plenty of modesty. her fan dance and her ride astride ruins, which, he belleves, are a part white horse at the Chicago of a temple. They were afraid to Made of batiste, the panties not only measured up to a stern order Artists' Ball, undraped except for approach, fearing the spirit of the

her blond tresses and a pair of Mayana. for more decency from the new alippers, are only evidences of an

The members of the expedition Commissioner of Licences, Sidney outcropping of Bally's creative art also studied remains of the City of Palenque. They found more than Colonel Beck has returned to his 35 buildings, including a temple of home in Kansas City after service the sun and a government building.

a government investigator. Sally's-Reuter. mother, divorced from Colonel Beck, has moved to California, where sho remarried. Before acquiring fame as a Wampas Baby in 1927, Sally kept to her original name, Billle Beck,

"I was practically caught with my pants down, so to speak, when the cominissioner told me to put on some more clothes," said Sally, in a Imodert little curtain speech "and

À Bert Hinkler memorial tree her they are" will be planted in every ochool ground in the Commonwealth.

Pulls Bloomers

The added raiment was of the The suggestion was made origin- ally to the Minister for Commerce stuff grandma used to wear in the

Hundreds of thousands of vis- days when showing the ankles was itors at the Chicago World's Fair (Mr. Stewart)) by a constituent,

Immoral. Technically they ended gated upon the alluring form of Mr. Percy Field, of Canley Vale.

Mr. Stewart recommended the fast above the knee, where two Sally Rand and her fame spread baby blue ribbons were bound with prairie fire rapidity. Four who communicated with the vari-around and tied in trig little bows, arrests and a prison sentence of a But flouncy ruffles extended a full year, held up by appeal, failed to ious State Premiers.

Itwo inches below the knee.

Įdaunt the dancer.

scheme to the Prime Minister,

N.S.W. has replied that the In a vértical direction, the pants] The way paved by her Chicago planting of the memorial tree will branched off into a sort of chemise."wow," Sally has gone to New York be made a feature of the next They ran well above Bally's bust, and now thousands of "art lovers" Arbor Day celebrations.

where another blue ribbon peaked mill and jostle at the theatre doors Victoria has replied in similar terms, and reports from the others coyly from the interstices of a to glimpse the charms that won needle-worked bit of alluring lin- the thunderous plaudits of exposi- States suggest that the scheme will gerie, and were held up by two tion visitors, and evoked a storm be adopted.Iteuter.

of criticism that swept from const Sally'a show of unclad hips, toto coast, (which Chicago moralists objected to the point of getting a year's

FOOTBALL "WIDOW" SEEKS DIVORCE. Husband Dreams of Game At Night.

more blue straps.

Bird Is Her Inspiration "The fan dance I do was created fall sentence for her, was no more as she went through her dance-In 1929, when I was attempt. the same old routine. But she ing to invent a number which

emitted her final climax of mount bird." Bally says, "After many ex- {would resemble the movement of a Ing a stairway and then displaying her body in a blinding flash, In-periments, I decided that the fans stead she walked to one side of the used as i manipulate them now Mrs. Ethel Sanford, complain-stage, threw her fans over her save the best effect ing that she had been a football head, and displayed her modesty widow too long, asked the court and ran off.

Chicago, Illinois.

Lurid Fame

“I have done this"dance" to get money to get back to, Hollywood, |Ɛ hrve no dubt that what is before for a divorce,

me will be the most difficult job Her Husband, Clyde Banford, Out from behind her ̧-awaying 1 ever have undertagan, Inasmuch coaches a professional football fans comes an evangelist to convert as I must reconcile an already team in California during the an unbelieving, scofing world to prejudiced company to my own day and dreams football at her art.

ideas and ambitions, which dat

night, she said, Discussion of And Bally Band, surveying the urally are dramatic paas, household affairs always turned mountains that tower in her path, "This will require tact, from_griddle (stove) to gridiron speaks confidently of the day when and a great deal of hard wi (football field) and once, Mrs. she will stand on the peaks and So Miss Rand, who BAY "Sanford said, he gave her a the world will acclaim her net as "art"" la covered, wills mal dollar for groceries and then pure dramatic expression,

and a heavy cost of ade the pun “I gave you a Fame, lurid In hué has come costa, her $42 dollar. I want my half-back.” the fan dancer whose name Is ramatically Hollywood on Router.

** household-word in aviry corner" of coedi

fan dance,

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