1939-03-15 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1939

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MAGISTRATES URGE BAN ON RED BIDDY

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Licensing Justices at Newington (London)

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have decided to ask the Government to ban the sale of Red Biddy. This was announced by Mr. T. Cox, the chairman, when he opened the annual Brewster Sessions.

He drew attention to the number of deaths, and to prosecutions of parents for neglecting their children, arising out of the consumption of Red Biddy.

R.A.F. GET 1,000 IN WEEK

R.A.F. rocraiting set up a re- cord when in a single week, over à thousand men joined. Actual Aguro was 1,089 (fifty-five pilots and observers and 1,025 airmem),

AUSTRALIA SPENDS

£25,000 FOR DUKE.

Consumption has increased from less than two and a half million gallons in 1927-28 to six and a quarter million gallons in 1936-37, :

"We are told," Mr. Cox added, "that the alcoholic strength of half-pint of Red Biddy is equal to ten-half-pints of beer,"

HE INVENTED COIN MAKING MACHINE, -- Crooks would give a fortune to possess the secret of a coin-making machine in- vented by a Brighton man. He is Mr. Albert Fitness, à 47 year old "clockmaker. He has shown his invention to the Mint. At the Mint they employ several processes before they get the final die but Mr. Filtness claims to do the same thing in one process,

Red Biddy is cheap wine costing FIRST WOMAN AVIATOR DIES only a few pennies a bottle. In its Reported to be first woman in the

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BIRDS OF A FEATHER

When K. W. Pickthorn, Cam-

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self it does little harm, but addicts world to fly, Mrs. Leila Marie Cody, bridge University's M.P., tripped on "strengthen" it with methylated aged eighty-seven, widow of the the steps of Westminster Hall and ́ spirit (which can be bought at most general stores). People drink pioneer aviator, Colonel Cody, died badly cut his forehead, not a doc-

at her home at Ash Vale (Surrey), tor M.P. could be found ing Red Biddy and meth" go "mad Her husband, S. F. Cody, was kill- House. Then, after a hunt, ten drunk."

ed twenty-five years ago in an air doctor M.P.s were discovered at- crash at Aldershot.

tending a medical group meeting. Colonel Cody was an American, Sir Henry Morris-Jones, National ly bought for 1s. 8d. a bottle... born in Texas in 1861, and so he Liberal member for Denbigh, gave So for 1d, a man may obtain a qar was often confused with the earlier first aid and saw Mr. Pickthorn off ter of a glass of surgical sirit and more famous Colonel "Buffalo to Westminster Hospital. (equal in strength to a full glass Bill" Cody, to whom he was not new Governor-General, the of whisky) and give it flavour and even related. Mrs. Cody, at the

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Nursery accommodation is

in ceiving careful attention work that has already begun Canberra of extending and altering Government House, in readiness for

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Duke of Kent and his family.

The Duke and Duchess, with

Surgical spirit to-day, five times stronger than whisky, can be wide-

colour with cheap wine.

their childr A, Prince Edward and PRESENTED FROM COURT Princess Alexandra, will arrive in Australia towards the end of this year.

The reconstruction, which will cost £25,000, includes the-installa- tion of a special kitchenette next to the rooms which are being prepar- ed as nurseries. for the children.

A large reception room and eight extra bedrooms are also being in- stalled.

SHE LIVED IN SIX REIGNS

Mrs. J. J. Hay Brown, grand- daughter of a former Provost of Haddington (Scotland), daughter of an intimate friend of Jane Welsh, wife of Thomas Carlyle, has died în Montreal, aged 103.

She had lived in six reigns, those of William IV, Victoria, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI.

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Crystal Palace in 1901, made a ten- minute flight in a man-lifting kite.

In 1908 she made her first power- ONLY 3,989 BRITONS flight in a 'plane designed and pl-

FOR CANADA

loted by her husband,

year

Migration to Canada last was 17,244,"" compared with 15,101 in 1937, The migration from the British Isles Increased by 18 per cent. to 8,889. -

Heard in Highgate Police Court: Rate Defaulter: I. have gone to extremes to try and meet this debt. In fact, it's a wonder I'm not inside the dock instead of just in front of £4,500,000 WAR FACTORIES

Woman Motorists: It is true that The cost to the French Govern there were no actual lights on my ment of nationalising a number of car, but there was quite a bright industries manufacturing war ma- reflection from some street lamps. torial was £4,500,000 up to the end

Defendant: I said, "You are a of January. This information was ANOTHER DESTROYER policeman, aren't you?”. He given to the Finance Committee of turned his back on me and bowed the Chamber. his head.

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LEFT BUSINESS TO EMPLOYEE

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Mr. Joshua William Cranfield Scholey, member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, left £1,000 and - the goodwill of his business in Rangoon-street, City of London, to his employee, Headley Farndon. His gross estate was £20,874.

LAUNCHED

Destroyer Khartoum, 1,700 tons, was hunched by Lady Maffey at Wallsend (Tyne).

CHAINED MEN ON FORM.

Two men who were found chain- ed to a form were taken from a polf- tical meeting in Dundee last night to the police station, still fastened to the form. W

The men were found when police were called to a Dundee Unionist. Association, meeting addressed, by Mr. J. Scrymguour Wedderburn, M.P., Under-Secretary for Scotland, and Miss Florence Horsburgh, M.P.

THE KING'S B.L.F. VISIT

The Prime Minister will be Min- istar in attendance on the King when he visite, the Birmingham Beation of t British Industries

Agriculture

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HIS DANCING'S CHAMPION

Mr. John Wells, of Kensington, and Miss Renee Sissons, of Peck- ham, London, successfully defend- ed their world amateur- ballroom dancing title at the international dancing championship meeting at Munich. They defeated the Ger man couple, Herr and Frau Teypel. Seventeen nations competed.

TO DIE 10 YEARS

AFTER CRIME

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