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DEADLY TUBES STOLEN.

TWO THEFTS FROM THE

SAME DOCTOR.

EIGHTH THIS YEAR.

BEAUTY QUEEN'S

SUIT.

OBJECTS TO ULTRA- MODERN GOWN.

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A MODEST THEATRICAL STAR.

{"D.P." Special Service.}

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Is a beauty Queen justified in breaking a stage contract because she does not wish to parade before the eyes of the curious in a state which she describes

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semi-

Another case of the supposed theft of dangerous drugs from a doctor's motor-car occurred in London a few days ago. It was the eighth similar incident report. ed in Great Britain this year, and the twenty-seventh since last June.

Dr. Fawekner Langridge, of Har | nudity 1 The Prud'homme-the rington Gardens, South Kensington, Industrial Court of Paris-will after making a call in Redcliffe shortly have to decide this when. Gardens, found that an attache an action is brought against Mlle. case containing instruments and Simone Gabard, a beautiful man. dangerous drugs had disappeared neking who was last year was elect from his motor car.

ed Beauty Queen of Faris. The suit is to be brought by the Manager of the Vaudeville, where she had contracted to appear."

The attache case contained three tubes of atrychnine, three of mor phine and other poisons, with a number of medical instruments.

Motor-car Theft,

Mlle. Gabard has all along

maintained the attitude that she is not a prude, but that because Dr. Langridge's motor car, with a

other Beauty Queens may be will bag containing dangerous drugs,ing to exhibit themselves on the was stolen near Marylebone Station Paris stage in the "altogether" it about a month ago. The bag on

is not to be taken for granted that she will be sc immodest. this occasion was rided of every thing but the drugs and then thrown into a stationary car in North London. The owner of the second, car, finding the hag, hand-appear. ed it over to the police, who return- ed it to the doctor.

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COGNAC DRINKING.

HOW TO ENJOY YOUR "TOT."

FRENCH WINETÁSTER'S

ADVICE.

[United Press.).

*OLD IRONSIDES" LAUNCHED AGAIN.

FAMOUS FRIGATE TO SAIL

IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS.»

132 YEARS OLD.

According to Lieutenant John A. 'Lord, U.S.N., in charge of re- construction of the frigate Charle- ston in Charlestown Navy Yard.

Paris. In spite of the French men's love of wine which would seem to render hopeless any at Old Ironsides" will be entirely tempt to bring about prohibition reconditioned #within eighteen in the country, "dry" movements months and will again be ready to from time to time gain ground sail the SCAS, She will be and cause something like panic stauncher than ever before during among liquor interests.

her career.

The recent municipal elections gave quite a shock to the wine growers and distributers in this respect, since the core or so of "dry" candidates gained bigger votes than ever before.

Fear of Prohibition. Any attempt to rob the French,

France.

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"Already about 8500,000 has been collected toward the cost of re- building the famous warrior of "the scas, while about 9250,000 more has been pledged. A great deal of mis- cellaneous material, including canvas and oakum, representing many thousands of dollars, bas

been contributed by business con-

cerns,

Mighty History.

About 1,000,000 coloured pictures of the frigate have been sold at 23 vents each to increase the fund. Most of these pictures have been bought by school children through- out the

country. But adulta, too, have done their share toward

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particularly the labouring and peasant clauses, of their light wines is foredoomed to failure, but the liquor interests fear that the "arys" might manage to squeeze Waistcoat Pocket Dress. thicugh a measure probibiting The dispute began the first night hard drinks like brandy. It is of the show in which she was to

not forgotten that just before the She was told that the dresses would be arranged for her war the "drys" secured an im and she visited a fashionable portaut auccess by obtaining pro- couturier. sented at the theatre with the

When she was pre-hibition of the sale of absinthe in placing the historic man-of-war on the seas again by contributing to "gown" she was to wear in the first act, she was dumbfounded. The prohibitionists secured their the purchase of pictures. Recent Used though she was wearing Success during the Great War ly the commander of a airy feminine dresses, she was period, since the law was made warship sent 50 cents from the shocked by the scantiness of the effective in March, 1815.

The costume given to her, since, ac- claim made by the "drys" was that

Pacific Coast for two of the pic cording to her description, it absinthe was impairing the war: tures. could have been put in a man's time efficiency of the nation and waistcoat pocket with room to brought statistics to show how its spare!"

excessive use was undermining the I can't wear that in public!" health of millions of citizens." er

she told the manager. "I'd sooner To-day, a milder subatitate of sive up the job and go! It is this subtle drink, which is manu- quite incompatible with my dig-factured from flowers, is sold in nity."

the hars and cafes and while it is highly intoxicating if drunk to cxcess, it does not produce the

Dr. Langridge, after the latest theft, remembered having acen a man with a heavy black moustache near his motor-car, and also that he had seen a man of similar ap- pearance at the time of the first theft.

It was not, however, unt. the discovery of his loss that

realised the coincidence.

Other Tosses reported this rea: were:

March 11-Tablets of heroia and

morphire lost by a doctor's rand boy near Richmond, Surrey Maren Tablels of strychnine and hyoicine and bottle of ether stolen from an Edinburgh

doctor's motor-car.

February 14-Tubes of morphia, strychnine an bercin stolen fron a docter's muvor car in Hamp stead, N.W.

The manager reminded her of her contract and, when the modest

theatre decided to take legal ac-

star insisted that she would not wear the dress, he demanded the customary forfeit. This was refus- January -A quantity of stryched, wherefore the directors of the

nine taken from the motor car of a police surgeon in Pimlico, S.W. The strychnine was found two days later in the women's cloak. room at Streatham Station, S.W. January 3.-Five tubes of germ cu!. tures missing from a doctor's car in Brook Street, W.

January -Doctor's hag stolen

from his motor car at New Wan stead, Essex.

Cocaine Stolan... There was an epidemic of these thefts during the second half of lant

year.

The most sensational war the disappearance of forty two ounces of cocaing, valued at £40, and suf- Scient to kill 5,000 people, on its way in a van from a chemica stores in Battersea to the Londos. docks.

The tins of cocaine were found a few days later in a rubbish heap in a yard at Canning Town, E. Two men were found guilty of this theft at the Old Bailey..

Dr. Dorothy Logan, the famous swimmer, was victim of drug thieves in December last, whet

These two cases appear to

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tion for the surf of 5,000 francs.

There is some speculation as to the decision, the Court will take. and by what means the learned Prudhommes will decide what is proper and what is improper in a stage costume. They will perhaps lay down a rule which will help to guide other theatres in dressing their attractive young ladies in the future..

Since Mlle. Gabard refuses to wear the costume, & substitute has been provided to enable the mem- bers of the Court to see just how shocking the dress really is..

WHO WAS "JACK THE RIPPER"?

DOCTOR'S REVENGE.

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THEORY.

same violent effects,

Harmful Substitutes. Of recent years, the prohibition campaigners have turned their at tention mainly to brandy, which has brought a counter-attack from the liquor interests extolling, the virtues of the fiue liquor which comes from the Cognac district in the sunny south of France.

The Cognac dealers are the first

sold as

to admit that much of the stuff brandy nowadays in France is harmful, but they point out that this is not real cognac, but a debased mixture which is an insult both to the palate and stomach. They insist that French people should get out of their

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RED RASH ITCHED DREADFULLY

On Face, Neck, Arms and Hands. Lost Rest. Cuticura Healed..

**A rod raah came out on my face and spread to my nock, arma and handa. It was of a dry nature and liched and burned dreadfully, I could not rest night or day, and could hardly keep from scratching. I ncf- fered with it for five weeks and evuld not do any work during that time.

** I read an advertisement for Gud. cam Soap and Ointment so decided to send for a bee sample. I pur chased more, and in thiên wecks was healed." (Signed) Mes. Annie Stone, 5. Rose & Crown Passage, High Bt., Cheltenham, Glos., Eng.

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EFFORT TO INTEREST FILIPINOS,

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[United Press.).

Zamboanga, P.L-Filipinos lead- ers and legislators are deeply con- cerned with the problems of the island of Mindanao and especially the problem of populating the island as speedily as possible with ritish Filipinos. Mindanao is more than three times the area of Belgium but it has few good roads and its population is not more than 300,000. There are few Filipinos engaged in agriculture yet the agricultural potentialities of the island are grent.

The work of reconstructing Old Ironsides is now about half done. Surprising as it may

In the province of Davao, one of seem, considering that the frigate the most fertile regions in the world. i 132 years old and has been se there are 12 agricultural corpora- built or extensively repaired four tions. Of these 75 are Japanese, times prior to the present time, 15 are American, 7 are Chinese and per cent. of the timber and plank 1 is German. Rare is the Filipino ing in the hull will be live oak planters in any of the provinces of that has been in her since she was the island. The immense pineapple originally built. That original timber is all below the waterline plantations of Bukidnon, which and within eight feet of the keel. Hawaii, belong to Americans. The soon will compete with those of

vast lumber concession at Kolam- bugan, Lanao, with gigantic saw- mills and a large export business to England and America, is owned by English' capital. The rubber planta- tions of Basilan belong to Swiss and Ameriçin capitalists.

America's "Victory,”

Of the forty tons of copper bolts to be put into the hull, sixteen tons have been in her from the be ginning and were very likely furnished by Paul Revere, who furnished much of that metal for the ship in 1796.

Lieutenant Lord, who was rear- ed in a shipbuilding port in Maine, declared the Constitution "the most scientifically planned and built wooden war vessel" he has ever seen.

Great Natural Basources. Benito "Soliven,

representative from Ilocos Sur, in the Insular legia- lature, recently visited Mindanao and launched a movement to in teresa Filipinos in island.

"It is of the greatest importance

tion, "Why didn't Congress apas rapidly as possible with Filipinos In answer to the frequent ques-that Mindanao should be populated halit of ordering a "wine" when propriate the money necessary to and that Filipino espital takes bold they really want a cognac, and rebuild the Constitution" he ex- of the island," said Representative proceed to remind the French that plained that Congress was not ask- Soliven. there are certain ways in which this brandy should be drunk.

"The enormous natural resources

ed for an appropriation because Secretary Wilbur of the Navy De of this wonderful land, the fertility partment believed the children of of its soil which bas attracted the the nation ought to raise the attention of the great trusts of the

a means necessary funds as

United States and Japan, the 'vast forests which have caused English- men to invest millions of pesos in-

of

"The tasting and drinking of cognac should be done very slow- ly." it is enjoined. "First it is necessary to warm the glass with the palm of the hand and time stimulating their patriotic spirit. The years of the frigate's recon- and again to smell the liquor and atruction in the past were 1333, lumber mills, and the great mines" taste it lightly.

1857, 1872 and 1907, according to awaiting exploitation must be for

Lord. Lieutenant

The orginal Filipinos and not for Americans and

One is thus able to appreciate, both by odour and taste, the ex-

The Mystery of Jack the Rip-cellent qualities of the wine. If builder of the ship was Colonel foreigners.

Revolutionary

three men were sent to gaol for per," published in London this taking a box of drugs and other month clears up the fate of this things from her motor-car.

master criminal. The author de- heclares that Jack the Ripper was a the only ones in the long series well-known doctor, whose son was which were brought home to the done to death by a woman of the culprits.

DEATH LEAP FROM AN " AIRPLANE.

TRAGEDY OF A YOUNG AIRCRAFTSMAN.

streets.

This woman be eventually mur- dered. He knew she resided in the East End," and therefore there was no need to change the locality of bis operations for revenge. After the murder of his son's destroyer; he went to Buenos Aires, where he died in hospital after making L confession to a surgeon whose name is not disclosed and to whom Aircraftsman Mason, of Henlow he whispered just before death. Aerodrome, who was only nineteen

"Have you heard of Jack the years of age, jumped to his death Ripper? I am he."

most Probably the when an R.A.F. machine struck criminal of modern times, "Jack skilful some telegraph wires at Rignall's Corner, on the main arterial Lon-the Ripper" terrorized London to- don to Bedförd-road.

wards the end of last century by The airplane was going to Hen a series of murders, in which the low Aerodrome, when it developed victims were invariably women of engine trouble at a height of about a certain clasz. 300ft

It descended rapidly and of the crimes caused an immense The peculiarly revolting nature struck some telegraph wires. The pilot succeeded in righting the outery for the capture of "Jack the machine, when the aircraftsmar Ripper," but, in spite of the apparently jumped out and fell in efforts of the police, the murderer afield. The airplane afterwards was never traced landed in another field, and the pilot escaped unhurt, a

The only man to witness the tragedy was night watchman named George Maan, who wás em- ployed, op some road repairs on the arterial road,

EIGHT YEARS WITH BROKEN NECK.

George Alfred Hyatt, aged sixty-

veteran.

the alaas is properly warmed by Claghorne,, the hand. the flavour of the cognac should remain in the glass an hour

consumed.

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of

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the

A great-great-grandnephew and a half after the wine has been his, David Claghorne, a member of

the Reciprocity Club, gave resumé. of the details of launching 132 years ago, taken from contemporary accounts, "

YOUNG EARL REMOVED

FROM THE ARMY.

"ABSENT WITHUT LEAVE.”

LORD AYLESFORD,

A brief announcement in the Lendan Gazette has ended the

1920.

ELEPHANT UPSETS A BANDSTAND.

PANIC AT NEW YORK CIRCUS.

old Earl of Aylesford. It stated: an elephant during a circus per military career of the twenty-year- A small boy who threw a stone at Irish Guards: Second-Lieu-formance in New York started more tenant the Earl of Aylesford is excitement than he had expected. removed from the Army for ab- The store hit the trunk of Dolly, sence without leave, March 9, the prize elephant of the collection, and at the same moment a railway The carl, who will not come of train, which happened to be pass

until next October, joined the ing outside, whistled. Irish Guards from Sandhurst last The combination of circumstances August. He succeeded his grand- was too much for Dolly, and with father in the earldom in 1924, hisz squeal of indignation she ran father, Lord Quernsey, having wild. Twelve thousand men, wo been killed in action ten years premen, and children who were watch viously.

ing the performance were horror Lord Aylesford has two Beats

Stricken as the huge animal threw near Coventry-Packington Hall over the bandstand and wrecked and Diddington Hall-and a Ken several rows of unoccupied seats. tish residence--The Friars, Ayles- ford:

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Circus attendants at this point "I was trimming my lampe three, a labourer, of Gladstone- He is the ninth earl, the peerage succeeded in getting hold of the about half-past seven," he said, street, Kensington, lived for eight dating back to 1714, the first holder frantic animal with books and pre venting her nearer approach to the famous lawyer, who ap- Iyears in hospital with a broken being looked up and saw the machine Teck caused by fall from a peared for the defence in the his coming down. It seemed to strike ladder.

"when I heard a loud noise.

the telegraph wires. Then it seem- Dr. Hobbs, medical superinten- ed to right itself and pass over the dent of the hospital, said at an top of a lorry, It missed the lorry inquest recently on Hyatt that he by a few inches. The plane then had been bed-ridden ever since the glided to earth on to a field. accident, and both his arms and

"I ran over to the machine and legs were paralysed. said to the pilot,

'la anybody Jurt

had a passenger with me, but I do not know where he is.

The coroner: It is an astonish- ing thing that be should have lived A verist of "Accidental death?' was recorded.

Filipinos leaders recently have re- called that because Mindanao is chiefly Moro and, therefore Moham- medan there have been movements to separate the island from the rest. of the Philippine archipelago. Now they declare that the reason for the movements has been to keep deve- lopment of the island in the hands of foreigners so that if ever inde- pendence is granted to the Filipinos Mindanao: will remain in the bands of the foreigners.

Legislative leaders believe that if Filipinos will populate Mindanao, invest their capital there and deve- lop the island's vast resources, they will be able to wrest control of the island from the foreigners and make certain that always it will be an archipelago. integral part of the Philippines

YOUNG, WIDOW'S APPEAL.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE OF

HER MISSING'

JEWELLERY.

"If only he would get me back the jewellery belonging to my late husband I would be content," said Mrs. Annie Price, a young widow, at Shouldham-strect,. living Marylebone, when she prosecuted Edward James Hough, a mezzen-· er, at Marylebone Police Court cash, and jewellery worth £20, for the alleged theft of £31 108. from her house.

"Hough was formerly a lodger at terrified spectators, but Dolly had the house, and it was-alleged that- not quite finished, Throwing dishe had broken into it on two oc- toric trial of the seven bishops.

Lord Guernsey, the present cretion to the winds she dashed casions and stolen the money and earl's father, was also in the Irish into the side of the tent, and this jewellery. He admitted the thefts, Guards, and married a daughter proved-her undoing, for she got so and said that he had spent all the tied up in the ropes and canvas money except threepence, and had of the scound Baron De Ramsey.

Removal from the Army is that her capture was a comparative given the jewellery to a

amate, who offered to find a "fence." not such, a severe punishment as y easy matter.

Mrs. Price urged that the jewel- cashiering, which must be the sen By that time scores of women had

others who tense of a court martial. It will fainted and

were lary was of great, sentimental value De moved in to

totodat de Hough offered t order does not mention à court and bruises for which they had to assist the police to recover it, be martial.

be treated by doctors.

was remanded on bail.

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