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CAR BANDITS ROB JACKIE COOGAN

N'APRIL27, 1936

Here There and D Everywhere

Betty Grable Also Victimised

$1,000 WORTH OF JEWELS AND CASH TAKEN

TWO-BREATH NAME

FUTURE EVENTS IN SPAIN

MENACE OF EXTREMIST DISORDERS

CAN AZANA'S STATESMANSHIP PASS THE COMING TEST?

(By Bertram Willmore)

SENOA Azana's Government has the recent excesses they will a guid

Hong Kong, Monday, April 27, 1936-the car, which pursued him down Samuel B. Cahan.

Mr. Cahan, one of the Counsel to use both firmness and tolerance Government's "suspension" of the

Revising Ministerial

Salaries

Lame

sense

For length and intricacy of Jackie Coogan and his fiancee, the Editor, and be accompanied by Miss Betty Grable were held up name. M. Lev Vladimirovich Ant- the Writer's Name and Address by car bandits in Chicago late atsipo-Chikunski is easily the lead not necessarily for insertion, but night recently and robbed offer of the diplomats presented at

the King's Levee. jewellery worth £1,000 and some as a guaranise of good faith.

He is the new Naval Attache at $50 in cash

Jackie said that he and Miss the Soviet Embassy.. Even there Grable were returning to the hotel his name is easily the most in- by car after dining out when antricate. Russians themselves take

not yet succceded in restor-be able to bring their rank and other car attempted to force them fit in two breaths. The only truly

Hing-rormal-conditions-in-troubled file to order. simple and un-Russian name

to- big contribution into the kerb.

the Embassy staff. is Spam. There are stormy weeks Another For a time he managed to avoid among

ahead, and Senor Azana will have wards keeping the peace is the

the street and finally forced him

a statesmanlike

of Fascist party, the closing of its lors, attended the Levee with his with to stop.

Ambassador. His

is a of balance if he is to guide the headquarter throughout the coun- A masked and armed bandit

Russian nation to democratic peace and try and the arrest of its leaders,

Jose including Senor

Antonio poked his head through the win transliteration of the

"" being pro-propsperity. dew and forced him and his "Cagan"-the

The censorship Doas Anas-Primo de Rivera, the fiery son of A natural but perhaps over-fiancee to hand over their jewels.nounced something like "h"

Owing to this peculiarity the tasia it is nicknamed in Spain-the former Dictator, Gen. Primo

stimulated the birth and de Rivera. delicate sense of punctilio has Miss Grable dropped her engage-

During the last few days this restrained successive Government ring on to the floor of the Russian for The Hague is "Gaga."has

As a rule, az Ambassador at a growth of numberless rumours!

within the party has been offering armed de- ments since the War from re-car in an effort to hide it.

Levee is attended by a Counselor and exaggerations

to the Socialists, Syndi- vising the scale of Ministerial The hold-up man, however, no- salaries upon the lines suggest-ticed the action and seized Miss and secretaries. Soviet Russia is country. But it has recently de- fiance ed by the Select Committee of Grable by the ear, shouting, "Hand unique among the great Powers layed or suppressed a good deal of calists and Communists--an at- and arson until the events have some of the worst excesses com- the House of Commons in 1920. over, or I'll blow your brains out in sending no secretaries to its the news of incidents of violence titude which has led directly to The debate initiated by a pri-

become "old," and the situation mitted by the Left extremists. vate Member last month is a

has often been more serious than reminder that the anomalies re- marked upon in 1920 still exist, and that the temporary condi tions which a second Select Committee in 1930 felt to mili- tate against any general revi-i

A statement of his gospel of unemployed-of the Left, much masses by acts of almost incredi- sion no longer stand in the

of

Damages Government action.

of £10,000 were vibration and responsiveness is damage has been done to property, ble folly, including spectacular at- men and women have been mur-tempts on the lives of two of the Formulated at different periods awarded at Manchester Assizes contained in a letter he wrote to dered and others threatened with Left leaders, one of them the great from the 17th century onwards, last month

Largo Caballero himself. to Lawrence Heaps, his editors' on his 70th birthday.

murder, Chorley.

In this he declared that editors.! the salaries upon the present aged 18, of Moor-road.

Casual reading of the recent Senor Azana's Government has above all people, should be inter- scale certainly offer some re-for the loss of both hands. markable contrasts. The Prime While employed at the rubberested in-indeed, excited by the shown tolerance towards such ex-iews from Spain may have given tolerance which some many people in England the im- Ferrite Ltd news. He illustrated his Minister, who receives nothing works of Messrs. as Leader of the Government, wellbank, Chorley, Heaps slipped by quoting one of his earliest observers have taken for weak-pression that the Spanish Fascists has a salary of £5,000 as First! and caught his hands in machin-leditorial writers, a Scot, Arthur Dess. The State of Alarm, which are a strong party, more or less

way

BOY'S £10,000

FOR HANDS

Result Of Slip While At Work

Embassy.

oce

MR. HEARST AMERICAN

Folly Of Fascists Mr. W. R. Hearst is now, as he British Press reports have sug

With Two Socialists for says, growing old. In a life of gested.

Churches all over the country Fascist" as their slogan, armed him that has just been published

of this party, mostly The belies his own confession. He have been buint to the ground by members

the extremists-pink, red or mere youths, have been provoking the is still wary of tranquillity.

In ancient

point

cesses--a

Senor Azana assured me on Feb. numerically equal with the Socia- Lord of the Treasury, and is

The Lord. They had to be amputated. McEwen,

time McEwen said 22 would soon be lifted, has now lists.

Actually they are insignificant. given no pension.

"If I were to award him the Chancellor, who receives $5,000 whole wealth of the Bank of Eng- that be looked at the first page of been prolonged for two months.

In the recent general elections the paper

and remarked: "Gee

Time For Discipline

they ran $0 Candidates in eight for this office and an additional Hand I could never give him back;

whiz!" At the second page he On the other and it is signi-) £4.000 as Speaker of the House his hands." said Mr. Justice Swift.

provinces. Not one was elected. said: "Holy Moses!" At the third.

ificant

that the Government re-and their total poll of votes was of Lords, retires with a pension "He will have to go through life page "God Almighty!" of £5,000. The Lord Advocate

absolutely helpless." receives £5,000 and is allowed to undertake private

practice at

"LEAVE THAT ALONE

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To excite be yourself excited, is fused recently to allow the huge small

demonstrations to Mr. Hearst's motto. But he wrote "Red Sunday”

The great Conservative-Catholic which take place. Friends of the GOT-CE.DA party. of A model of a portion of the a poem quite recently in

Senor Gil the Bar in addition; should he machine in which Heaps caught he said that "life ends in a peace-jernment, aware of the delicacy of

Monarchists under Robles, the its position, were gratified and re-Senor Calvo Sotelo, and the other be promoted to Secretary of his hands was fixed on the soliciful dream.”

lieved to find that the ban was ef-Right parties all seem to have de- State for Scotland he will be tors' table, and several times while

fective. The demonstrations were rided on a Brer Rabbit-like policy paid £2,000 and have to resign counsel was demonstrating Mr. his outside work. The Minis-Justice Swift warned him to be

quietly abandoned.

after the elections. As if fearful During the first two weeks after of what may happen, they have ter of Agriculture, with large careful

the elections the Left leaders took several times shown willingness their followers during all demon-the mere moderate points in the strations. It is Koped that after policy of the Left.

Your Daily Smile!

Revised Version

A man is known by the company

Departmental duties, is paid When one witness was going to £2,000 a year; a Minister With- show how the accident happened. he keeps trying to explain away to great pride in the discipline of to co-operate to some extent with

out Portfolio, not thus incom- the judge said. "I cannot see the his wife. moded, receives $3,000.

sense of these demonstrations. Someone is going to get hurt. It is so stupid. Leave that machine alone."

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WANDERLUST

1

For the first time in his fe Welsh farmer of 83 has travelled 15 miles from his home. It must be the gipsy in him.

In his evidence before the 1980 Select Committee, Mr. Baldwin commented on the dif- ficulties which faced a Prime Mr. Noel B. Goldie, for Heaps, Minister when he wished to of fer a holder or former holder said that since the accident a guard had been provided and a of a £5,000 a year post an equally or more responsible of-rubber mat placed on the floor. Sure, I love the new Marcel that

fice on the £2,000 scale. What no Premier or ex-Premier cares to emphasise of his own initia- tive is the difficulty the Prime Minister himself may have in keeping up a position with large social duties. In these days wealthy Prime Ministers are more likely to be the exception than the rule, and it is univer- sally agreed that a former

Alterations had also been made so that the machine could be stopped immediately.

ROYAL MONOGRAM ON MAIL-VANS

*

ER." Not To Appear For Some Time

Prime Minister, unlike his col- It will be some months before leagues, should not be allowed London sees its first freshly-paint- to return to commercial or pro-jed mail-van with the letters "ER": fessional pursuits. To increase on its sides instead of "G.R.” the scale of the Premier's sa- Sir Gerald Wollaston, Garter lary and to provide for the fu-King of Arms, and other experts ture of an ex-Prime Minister is are still considering the design a matter of clear justice. It is Sir Gerald's secretary said: the simplest but not the only "It may seem simple matter. readjustment that must be but it is really highly technical, made in the Ministerial scale. and it will be some time before

jany announcement can be made.”

There are about 750 mail-vans in London, and 15,000 in the pro-

Lord Linlithgow's Task

Recently Lord Willingdon re- vinces. linquished the Viceroyalty of The "G.R." on pillar-boxes will India, and left that great coun-not be changed. A Post Office of try, in his own words, "more ficial explained that the letters peaceful than it has been for a are cast in the metal.

good many years." To his suc-i "It would be diffenit, if not im-] cessor, Lord Linlithgow, it falls possible, to change them. New to guide the incoming of the pillar-boxes will be cast with new Constitution bestowed on E.R. on them," he said. India by the Government of

India Act: Bitterly and sin- tivator, to which Lord Linlith- cerely as that measure was op-gow then devoted his great posed by a minority of critics powers, will remain a principal in England, it has now been ac-factor in the working out of the cepted, and its former: oppon- great changes which he has ents were represented at a now begun to supervise. Many economic difficulties gathering in London last month of the among those who desired to which clouded the future of the wish Lord Linlithgow farewell reforms have already been The Viceroy-Designate has cleared away, and much of the the unusual qualification of political obstruction. in India. first-hand knowledge of the has been quietly dissipated. country, acquired not merely as Great as are the problems still Chairman of the Joint Select ahead, Lord Linlithgow has be- Committee which drafted the gun his duties with the know- constitutional reforms, but as ledge that abundant goodwill Chairman of the Royal Com-exists in India as well as in mission on Indian Agriculture. England - to forward the new The welfare of the Indian cul-Constitution.

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1935 VERSION

glints in your hair,

Irresponsible Madness

And the eyebrows all plucked out and The irresponsible madness of

pencilled with care.

the Fascists seems, however, to rentralised much of the

I kiss the red lipstick you've put on have

for me.

Mother Machree.

You're a wow still at seventy good effect of this mild Conserva-

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