1934-02-10 — Page 9

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934.

BRITISH WOMEN

SEEN THROUGH·· BURMESE EYES

"Credit To Their Nation."

Woman Doctor Defends Use Of Lip-Stick

of Western women.

London.

REDUCING WINTER

FLYING PERIL

Silk Flag Inspires New Invention.

!

WILL PREVENT "ICE HAZARD”

New York.

THE CHINA MAIL

GAS CHAMBER FOR MURDERERS

IN COLORADO Replaces Strangling

Process.

GRUESOME EXECUTION ·

ABOLISHED

Mad Mag

To-day's Short Story.

YOU GOT TO ΤΟ LIVE

By Susan Ertz

Those water

ar-

NÆR, KEPPLER · was a much-er something of the sort.” DL travelled man; he knew] "Let her go. She could afford How a silk flag, whipping in the

Central Europe as few people double the price. I've already breeze after a slect storm, inspired

Canon City, Colorado. know it. for ever since his boy-knocked off sixty pounds, She an invention that may enable mail For 43 years condemned murhood he had spent his holidays must take it or leave it." There is one visitor to England passenger planes to keep on derers in Colorado have been ex- there, and as soon as he saw "I'll tell her so. land who is not enjoying the cold jfying next winter along the New ecuted at the State Penitentiary those two totally un-English colours of Gustav Frommel's weather-Dr. Mà Saw-s3, the York-Chicago-San Francisco air-in a machine known as one of the figures upon the Brighton Station rived this morning." only woman member of the Bur-way in weather that ordinarily crudest in the country. mese delegation which has come would ground them was disclosed by

platform, his mind at once con- "Good: I believe we'll do wall. The forty-fifth, and last man jured up a more suitable back-with them. to London to confer with

Did Vaudier send the W. A. Patterson, president of the to die by the machine, has been ground for them. Joint Select Committee on Indian various operating companies com- hanged. Henceforth all con-

everything he promised ?" He saw green pastures, distant "Yes, I went over the list this Constitutional Reform.

prising United Air Lines.

demned prisoners will be put to mountains, amall white farms, fields morning. There's a letter on your Dr. Ma Saw-sa dark magnetic The invention is a device to rid death in a lethal gas chamber, as of corn and rye. In imagination desk from Liebl, that chap whose. eyes twinkled gaily when she airplane wings of ice forming on the result of a law enacted by

ho tied a coloured

handkerchief work you exhibited three years ago, was asked her what she thought them in flight the dread "Ice the last session of the State Le- Fover the woman's head and left her just before 1 came. I'd barely

hazard" encountered at tempera- gislature, abolishing hanging.

shoeless and stockingless, while he finished reading it before he rang The gruesome "I admire them enormously," tures near the freezing point in bad

procedure of she said. "They are so clever weather flying.

the old system was as follows: iontally dressed the boy in a short through, to know if he could and self-reliant. Now, that they The new aeronautical "ice-brea The death house at the prison out of some checked material, and you

short green trousers. The woman "Johann Liebl. Oh dear, I have got their chance to take a ker" consists of an olled silk curtain was a small, bare chamber.

A black, circular spot was

he pictured raking hay under a thought he'd gone to America for part in the affairs of the country, which sheaths the leading edge of}

hot sun, the boy standing beside a good. We never sold one of his they are a credit to their nation. the wing, sliding back and forth painted on the floor.

What On this spot the condemned grazing cow, patient and watchful. pictures, you remember. "In Burma

the around it on ròllers countersunk in! women are

And though the two were dress-does he want now?" equal of men in everything. Bur-the all-metal wing so that the latter man stood, while a black hood

ed in the cheap and shoddy stuils *T think this is the letter," said ma is the only country in the still preserves its smooth contours, was slipped over his head.

The noose was then fastened worn by the poor in London streets, Swann, going through a pile on the East where men and women mix The rollers are actuated by an

Mr. Keppler's trained eye assured desk and extracting a yellowish together everywhere as equals, eccentric drive from the aeroplane over the hood.

The rope extended to the cell him that if he were to go up to sheet from the bottom. "Yes, here Education for women in Burma motor and are set in motion by the

Gott!" he it is. is of a very high standard.”

ing, and was conveyed by pulleys them and say "Gruss

He seems to be on his beam to a 500 pound weight which would get a startled "Gruss Gott!" ends." Dr. Ma Saw-an looked down at

worked in a slot rigged up in return. But the train came in her long. loose draperies and smiled.

against one wall.

"The main difference between Western and Burmese women is their fashions," she said. "Fas- hions change every five minutes in Europe, but in Burma-well look at this dress I am wearing. It is an exact copy of the dress that I came to England in 20 years ago that is what fashion

means

In

pilot.-Reuter.

ROMANS HAD "METAL FURNITURE"

Ancient Table Found

Yugo-Slavia.

then; the woman and the boy got At a nod from the Warden the into a third class compartment and executioner pressed

And as a trigger, Mr. Keppler into a first. the weight dropped in the slot he sat there, about to unfold his and the rope jerked the prisoner paper, it struck him that as far as Inlinto the air.

the boy was concerned the interest]

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Brothers," by John Lindsey.

"That's where he WEB

Bec

before,

The theory was that the im-had been mutual. From under 2 pact of the heavy knot against wide. full forehead those bright |

I don't know what's the side of the prisoner's head blue eyes had regarded him intelli-poor devil. Belgrade

wrong with Liebl He's got talent, Metal furniture may be "mo times it did not and, instead of

would fracture his neck. Some-gently and shrewdly.

"Something unusual about that lots of IL

He's quite as good a Burma. I seldom deri"-but the Romans also had dying instantly, the man strun-fad." he thought. And when, an painter as many who do sell their

the same ideu. changes.

A curious piece of work in lead gled to death. Reuter,

hour later, he saw them hurrying stuff. He simply doesn't catch on. "We Rever wear hats-per-and marble, which was used as a

atead of him out of Victoria Sta- I'm afraid he's unlucky. Let's see haps that accounts for it.

Hats table, has been discovered among BIG DEER BECOMES

BILLIARDS FAN

are the most fickle things in an a number of Roman remains at English-woman's wardrobe. If Chuntitcha, near Sisak.

she has not a new hat at fre-. The finds were first made by a quent intervals she is unhappy peasant digging a deep drain. He In Burma a parasol is all we came across a large amount of need.

lead piping, which he sold in Za-

"Burmese women will never greb. wear Europe's fashions. They Archaeologists working on the have a sense of humour and real-Įsite have since found the re- ise that Japanese. Chinese, and maine of an aqueduct which sup- other Eastern women who wear plied the Roman town of Siscia European clothes look ridiculous, with drinking water.--Reuter. Western hats and short skirts would not suit a Burmese woman

us her traditional dress doen.

"The most amazing thing to DEMANDED £175,000

me is how, business and profes- sional women in Europe manage|

to spend so much time on dress.!

FROM FILM STARS

Sometimes I think that if they Ex-Jockey Asks Police

spent less time on dress they would have more time to think

of serious matters.

use

Aid to Collect.

Attracted By Saloon Near Seattle

REFUSES TO STAY IN WOODS

Seattle.

A deer from the State Game Preserves has

tion, the boy dragged down by the what he says. 'Dear friend-hom

heavy suitcase he carried, he felt I am back in London more than sure that whatever there was to be year now-working always very known about them would have in-hard-sure you would like my new terested him, and that he

would style...... Poor fellow. I realy never see them again.

can't be bothered with him, Swann." "He's sure to ring up again.

About Afteen minutes later he was sitting at his desk in the Rep. Shall I tell him?”

"Tell him I can't see him. One's pler Gallery in Brook-street

"Mrs. Ballantyne has

If Liebl can't painti up got to live. rung again about the, Benoir. Mr. Kep-pictures that will sell, it's no fault Washington pler." Swann, his secrelary, tod of ours."

"Quite," said Swann. "I'd better been him. "She wants to know if you've) making a nuisance of himself by aid your last word on the subject go and see about hanging those hanging around a public billiards of price. She says she's going to Frommels now." room entrance despite the factly to Paris to see another one at

says, and more typical. The blues: The scene of the trouble is the are bluer or the browns browner, town of Langley, on Whidby Island near here.

that he has twice been forcibly Hoffenstein's. It's a later one, aho

removed.

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"He hadn't a moment ago." "And it takes him twenty minutes to get here from Pont-street," grumbled Mr. Keppler, "while I live on the Sussex Downs. Tell Miss Flood to come is now. will you,

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES please

He had just finished dictating bis letters to Miss Flood when Swann) There will be a tea dance at the came back with a smile on his long

face.

Placed on the island with seven! other deer for breeding purposes, the animal, a buge buck, first "But why shouldn't they

Los Angeles.

started to bother motorists on the lipstick and pluck their

Sought for more than a month main highway. eye- brows? Our women do not it--as the writer of letters to film cele-

Shooed back into the woods by Repulse Bay. Hatal on Sunday, but it is the Western custom and brities, in which he demanded a sum members of the Game Depart beginning at 4.80 p.m. Englishwomen are no worse for totalling $875,000 (£175,000) a man ment, the deer showed up three it. They are still fine women." walked into the district Attorney's days later at Langley and took up -Reuter.

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HINKLER'S ESTATE VALUED

£12,181,In War Bonds and Bank Deposits

FAMOUS AIRMAN LEAVES NO WILL

Brisbane, Queensland. Squadron-leader Bert Hinkler's estate has been valued at £12,181, made up almost entirely of bank deposits and War Bonda in Queensland. As there is no will the estate will be distributed ac- bording to English intestacy law. His widow, Mrs. Katherine Hink- ler, will receive £1,000, his person- al chattels, and a life interest in the whole of the residuary estate, On her death the residuary estate will pass to Hinkler's widowed mother, Mrs. Frances Atkins Hink- ler, of Bundaberg..

An application has been lodged In the Supreme Court of Queen- land for the reseal of jetters of ,administration granted by the Principal Probate Division of the High Court of Justice in England on June 25, 1988, to Mrs. Katherine Hinkler of the portion of the ostate in England £900. DRA

The personal-estate, in Queen=' land is made up as follows--Cur- -rent acconut, în' bank £825; fixed deposit: 45,155," interest on fixed de- norit, #70; War Bonds, £5,082; 'in» Lerest on War Bonds, 2160, #Bau-

the

billiard room.

"Liebl's here," he said, "and won't go,"

The ss. Deike Rickmers. of the

"Won't go? Nonsense. You Rickmers Line, is expected to ar-must get rid of him. Tell him I'm rive in Hong Kong on Friday. very busy arranging for an exhibi The Chief Investigator anid that Summoned again, Game Depart-February 16.

tion and can't possibly see him." men, who was identified as ment representatives arrived with

"I did, but he says he won't go Winfred Jerrell, 81, former a lorry, lifted the animal into It, At the meeting of the Mamak without seeing you." jockey, had been wanted in connec-¡drove him to the woods many miles Lodge of the Theosophical Society "Where is he.". tion with letters written to Charlie away and released him.

on Thursday evening Dr. K. L. Rei-

"In the hall, sitting there with Chaplin, Joan Blondell, Nancy Car- But a few miles apparently chelt, of the Tao Fong Shan Chris- his hat on his knees as if he meant roll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and meant nothing to the deer. Helian Institute, spoke on the subject to spend the day. Do you want me others.

was back ou the billiard room of "Some Important Aspects in to put him out? He's bigger than Was steps again within a week-Reu-Connection with Comparative Reli-I am

Irlon."

After a hearing the man placed in a State hospital.—Reuter. ter.

Lindbergh Argosy Plane in Last Hangar

The big plans, pamed

itson" by the Esguimaux, in which *tinde slufr.historie flight of: 80,000′ mlina; la nkown as WOTICKE

Ds. Museum of Natural Titsar » New York: The plane and

be,en exhibition Ju

"I don't want him to get round me again." said Mr. Keppler, frowning.

“I think you'd better have a word with him," urged Swann.

"There are other galleries in London," fumed Mr. Keppler "Why can't he go to them? Very well, Swann, send him in. · That) will be all for the present, Miss Flood. Please ring through to Hobbs and Rixon about those cata-1 logues. They ought to have been ready last Friday," "

'In the short interval before the appearance of the painter Mr. Keppler got up, glanced at his ru- flectionTM In the "glass, "assumed an expression of even greater penalin- jam, and once more seated himself at his desk. Then Liebl entered.

He was a big man with a fine, powerful-looking head set upon' à short, sirong neck. Is look was free and candid," and "his" small. bright blue eyes were alive und genist. His clothes hung loosely, on his powerful frame, suggesting that they had been bought in daya of greater prosperity and

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