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MEMORABLE BURNS NIGHT TOAST

SIR ANDREW CALDECOTTS GRAND

TRIBUTE TO POET

EXPANSION OF RAF.

Retired Officers To Assist

Retired officers are going to play fan important role in the expansion programme of the Royal Air Force. Under the R.A.F. Substitution

Addressing one of the biggest assemblies of guests in local Scheme, retired officers may rejoin Burns Night dinner history, His Excellency the Governor, Sir civilians and occups certain Andrew Caldecott gave the toast of the "Immortal Memory in posts, thus relieving serving of- a brilliant after dinner speech.

ficers for more important duties.

SURPRISE OF DEATH BY POISON

NITRO-BENZINE IN OIL

TAKEN WITH GIN

As the result of discussions Mrs. Florence Caroline Howard, About 500 guests attended the dinner, which was held at which have taken place betwee: aged 31, of Oakfield-road, Hornsey, Matla Zilberazten is a problem. the Peninsula Hotel and at which the Chieftain of the Society, the Air Ministry and the Associa-took with gin a dose of what she Far more of a problem than most Mr. B. M. McLay, presided. He expressed regret at the impend-tion of Officers appointed under thought was oil of nutmeg.

ing departure or His Excellency and welcomed the Seaforth the Royal Air Force Substitution She became ill and, died Since she was arrested in & Highlanders to the Colony. Other speakers were Mr. W. Keith Scheme, the introduction of new hours later in hospital. Liverpool street for, it is alleged, Robinson and Mr. J. Farquharson Lers, who proposed and res-rates and scales of pay, as from At the inquest on Mrs. Howard trying to steal money from an ponded respectively to the toast of "The Lassies." other woman's handbag, she has. tald different stories, but declined to tell the ones the police are an- xious to hear.

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then left her.

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received from Sir Bernard

There was a remarkable tribute to His Excellency the GovNovember 1, has been approved. at St. Pancras it was revealed that Special Record Office posts will the liquid, which was bought at ernor, when he rose to leave the hall at the conciusion of the be the highest paid. A senior as a chemist's shop, was nitro-bewing. dinner. The whole gathering rose spontaneously and sang. istant-in-charge will

The coroner, Mr. W. Bentley "Wull ye no' come back again.”

£500 a year, and an assistant-in-Purchase, recorded a verdict of She has said: “I did not want to steal. I have been left in a The Rose Room of the Peninsula English, if ever they could be per-charge $400, rising to £450 by an-Death by Misadventure, and said he was not concerned with any strange country, and I did this to was gaily decorated with things suaded to subscribe to a dinner in Aual increments of £10.

The Stock Battle be arrested and sent back to my Scottish, with the customary, por-memory of a poet (they would of The other grades are adjutants, question of legal liability.

trait of Burns and the Chieftain's course infinitely prefer a cricketer) accountant officers, equipment of-

Dr. Gerald Roche-Lynch, Senior She has said, too, that she was escutcheon being prominent, and would choose for this honour not acers, recruiting officers, engineer Analyst of the Home Office, said smuggled into this country from the harris was piped in with due Shakespeare, he is too much of the officers, signals officers, armament Poland by a ship's cook who pat ceremony and the "barley bree" supernational Colossus, certainly officers, and photography officers-Spilsbury a chemist's stock bottle her ashore from his cabin, in dyesek in headitional style by the not Milton more certainly not The pay of these officers will containing firnid, a bottle labelled. which he had hidden her, and officísi guests after Pipe Majori Wordsworth, most certainly not range from £320 to $450, depend-oil of nutmeg, and other articles,

W. J. E. Mackie had delivered Browning, nor Shelley, nor Kests, ing upon their grade.

including certain of the woman's These scales apply to retired of- Three Children

Burns celebrated "Address to the nor Byron, nor Tennyson, but -

jorgans. ficers drawing retired pay, and ex- Burns.

The chemist's stock bottle was In the police court at Liverpool | Haggis."

The cynics among you will of officers who do not get retired pay found to contain nitro-benzine, it was said on her behalf that she Those seated at the official table

course say that the reason for will receive $30 a year more than had said that her home was in were His Excellency the Gorois would be twofold; hest that the rates quoted above. In each with a slight swell of oil of mut-- Warsaw, where she had left berjernor, the Chieftain, the Chief husband and three children. Justice (Sir Atholl MacGregor, second, that Burns wasn't an En-annual increment of £10 over a Englishmen never read Burns and, case, however, officers receive an She had not ran away from her the G.O.C. (Major-General A. W.

period of five years. glishman husband and family, but had been Bartholomew), the Consul-General

The Air Ministry have a large brought to this country by a re-for the United States - (Mr. Char- lative, the idea being to smuggle les L. Houver), Dr. G. D. R. Black, tially right and yet not. I sabbat the specialist jobs, such as That, I concede, would be par-waiting list for most of the grades, her ashore. When she was set-the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. mit, totally right. Because I can signals, armament, and photo-

led here she believed her hus-Mr. N. L. Smith), the Officer Com- quite well imagine that, if the St.graphy, have vacancies. band and children would be able manding the Seaforth Highlanders George's Society ever organized to join her.

(Lieat. Cal. Muirhead), Col. H. C. such a function, Englishmen Then she discovered from a Harrison, Mr. V. M. Grayburn, would gladly subscribe to a din- that she would the Colonial Treasurer (the Hon. ner given in the immense memory German, woman have to leave the country if she Mr. Edwin Taylor), Mr. M. T. of Dr. Johnson, a memory which,¦ had no money, and, therefore, she Johnson, the Puisse Judge (Mr. incidentally, Englishmen attempted to steal to attract the Justice Hayden), the Crown Soli- most entirely to the Scotsman attention of the police who, she citor (Mr. M. J. Abbott), Capt. Boswell hoped, would send her back to her w. J. R. Cragy, and Lieut J. P. husband.

The magistrates decided that Matla Zibersztein is not only a problem, but a problem which must be solved.

Howorth

Governor's Toast

Sir Andrew. Caldecott said:

Johnson And Boswell

owe al

I believe too that most Scotsmen „ would respond to an invitation to attend, and that in spite of the Doctor's infamous remark that

meg.

It would seem that the bottle originally held oil of nutmeg, and een filled with the nitro-benzine when it was nearly empty it had

which the woman was supplied by

The liquid in the bottle with

retail

was similar, and though there was no definite evidence ob-" İtained from the woman's argens that she died from nitro-benzine (poisoning, there was a smell of the

EARTHQUAKE IN poison.

KENT

Action Of The Gin The absorption of it would be very rapid as a result of the action

Rumbling Below The of the gin.

Surface

He was of opinion that the wo- man died

from nitro-bewine

An earth tremor, accompanied poisoning and not-cil of nutmeg. Mr. William Burgess Dow, of I am wondering to what possible the noblest prospect in your by a low rumbling noise, was felt qualification I owe the high honour Scotland, Sir, is the high road to in severi East Kent villages. ItHornsey-road, a chemist, said he So they remanded her...hoping of proposing the toast of the Im-England. And now I will pro-jiasted about 30 seconds, and was had inspected his documents and had been unable to establish which at Snowdown, Nonington,į mortal Memory of the poet Burns pound my reason for believing all feit

wholesale firm supplied the liquid Elvington, which this evening. Perhaps, however, I this I am convinced that if it Adisham and

for stock. The liquid was sup }am right in attributing my selec- within our power, sitting are about seven miles from Dover-plied to far woman from his firm's

these tables to-night, to People who were indoors-state tion to the fact that ancestry has round

shop at Green Lanes, Harringay. the houses seemed to produced in my single person a re-conjure up from the grave some that

The coroner said quite a Others who were walk quantity must have been already presentative gathering of British great figure in British literature tremble. James Gleason, the actor, was nationalities. My maternal great-to join us, it would be either Ro- ing say that they felt a tremor of used from the stock bottle without

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26-Disparage

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The solution of the above with a new arous-vét grade will appear in to-morrow's issue,

Bringing Up Father

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critically injured near Hollywood grandmother was- a pure-Scots-bert Barns or Samuel Johnson; the earth and heard a prolonged any ill effects.

Some people thought when an unlighted car crashed woman,-an Ogilvie; my paternal and if our choice were narrowed rumbling.

Mr: Glyn Jones, who, appeared into the one Gleason was driving. grandmother was Irish; and my down to the selection of a great that an explosion had occurred

for Messrs: Dow Brothers, said The driver of the car without English forebears lived for 2 con- poet, the Doctor would be dis-and ran into the streets.

Tremors have been felt in the there might have been confusion lights drove off, leaving Gleasonsiderable period of their history qualified.

Acid Test

Idistrict before, however, and badly hurt at his driving sent. in Wales: I am therefore a sort

on the part of the wholesalers be Now this criterion of a perfect there was little alarm

tween

abbreviations -. “OL. Mr. Gleason comes of an oid of peripatetic Union Jack ́and 'I

dinner guest is a crucial and acid At Timanstone colliery nothing Myrst written for oil of nutmeg - theatrical family, and first apam proud of, anti grateful for my] peared on the stage at the age of miscellaneous extraction. Grateful, who had artificiality, or finesse or Snowdown colliery, which is quite. It was stated that motor-benzine test; it rules out at once anybody was felt or heard, though at and "OL Myzb” for nitro-bearing.

two months. He gained his ex-because I feel that I have inherited} any undue refinement about him close, the tremor was felt on the is used in perfumes, soaps and perience in stock companies and from the Irish strain `a certain

boot polishes, but a chemist would had considerable success in New equability of temperament and should want for a companion surface.

a picin, flesh and blood, weak, The phenomenon is stated to be not stock it for ordinary medicinal clarity of thought, from the Eug-strong, kind, cruel, good, bad, due to faults in the chalk strata purposer. He appeared in London in "Is lish a characteristic lack of reserve happy, and human. And this is, 1 Heavy rain percolating many her. Dow said he did not stock Zat So?" at the Apollo Theatre in or insularity, and from the Scots think the secret of Burns appeal creds of feet washes out caverns nitro-benzine 1926

happy carelessness about domestic to all people that on earth doin the chalk, which then collapses Afterwards he returned to money matters.

dwell as distinct from his special with a violent rumbling which America and 'became a prođacing I hope, gentlemen, that you do racial appeal to Scotsmen. He is can be heard on the surface. manager, and in 1928 started his not deem me either vain or irreleif my memory serves me, about film career, appearing in many vant in claiming for myself. this the only poet whose lyrics I have trinity of national virtues; I am not been forced to dishonour, at He also wrote several films in- merely trying to justify, as best Uppingham or at Oxford, by za- cluding "The Broadway Melody." can, your Chieftain's selection of worthy translation into Greek or

me as a speaker this evening. And Latin verse. now to my privilege and task. I That is because they simply

Bagpipare all the talk of the wal begin, Gentlemen, by asking won't go into either Language: villager of Enzesfeld, below the you, as I have been recently asking there is no adjustable padding to castle where the Duke of Windsor Women are dangerous- myself why it is that all of us them; if you add an extra adjec-jis staying.

jopinion of Mr. John J. McElligott, respond with alacrity and spon-tive to a Burns lyric or if you' Employees coming down from the the Fire Commissioner of taneity to the idea of a Burns nightfomit one, the result is the same; castle tell how the Duke produced York They are dangerous dinner

you smash or spoil the hole isome strange-instrument and gave cause they don't knoW DOW The Scotsmen will of

course thing in the alphabetically ar-ja, concert of weird music in the smoke. A answer at mee that it is because ranged anthology which I keep at ättle alley.

Consequently Mr. McElligott is Barns for him spells, or rather my bedside Burns" lyrics are sand- They describe the Duke, dressed trying to persuade the shops and sings, his native Scotland and that wiched in between selections from fin a green pull-over and grey plus-department stores of New York to after all it is free food for the Browning and Byron; the arrange fours, maching up and down the forbid their customers to moke Sassenach. That answer is um-ment is like setting a fragrant skittles alley playing the bagpipes on the premises. doubtedly right, but not I think brake of wildroses in. betwem aŝto the vast entertainment" of a

successes.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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EX-KING PLAYS BAGPIPES

WOMEN & THEIR CIGARETTES

Do They Know How To Smoke?

He has just sent out a circular

| comprehensively or suficiently brave gorze-clump and a splendid number of employees of the state letter to the heads of department

right. I believe indeed that the cluster of passion flowers.

as well as his police guard.

By George McManus

DON ME,SIR-BUT IM

200 MOLLUS

ONLY FOR INTE

PEOPLE AN

OF YOU MIZJEES NATURALLY IKHOR" YOU

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BY: SOLLYS) DON'T: KNOW WHETHER THEY ARE PRINT ED IN CHIN OR LATIN

stores naking them to make's "no-

smoking" rule. In this letter he

62y2:

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"It is not a mere matter of drop- ping burning ashes. As you [know, shoppers will with one hand {inspect garments and with the

other hand holda

lighted tiga-

“Unin The inevitable

other

shop

well a mean some days that

a lighted cigarette will come in contact with some Infosminkble material.”

In Mr. McElligott's opinion, un-- Hil women learn to smoke ciga

rettes properly and intelligently fires in Americas shops and stores wis contime to be as numerous 28- they are

Men know how

Mr. McEdH

have nev

enjoyed