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All Your Favorite

Bance Orchestras

You simply cannot go wrong in choosing any of the selections in this list, for they have every ro quisite for dancing. There's a difference of style too. that dancers who like a short, syncopated rhythm, well as thosewho prefer smooth, even measures, will find their preferenco here. Ask to hear these popular tunes

we will be more than glad to play them for you! Little White Lies-Fox Trot

Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy-Fox Trot

WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS

No. 22492, 10-inch

I'd Like to Find the Guy That Wrote the Stein Song-F. T. What's the Use-Fox Trot JoHNNY JOHNSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 22493, 10-incha

When Love Comes in the Moonlight-Fox Trot We're On the Highway to leaven-Fox Trot

JACKIE TAYLOR and flis ORCHESTRA No. 22500, 10-inch -'

RUDY VALLÉE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES

Good Evenin'-Fox Trot Just a Little Cloner-Fox Trut

No. 22409, 10-inch My Baby Just Cares for Me-Fox Trot A Girl Friend of a Boy Friend of Mine-Fox Trot

No. 22159, 10-inch

TED WEEMS AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Tomorrow Is Another Day-Fox Trot

TED FIORITO AND HIS ORCHESTRA Looking for the Lovelight in the Dork-Fox Trot

No. 22301, 10-inch

JACKIE TAYLOR AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Go Home and Tell Your Mother-Fox Trot I'm Doin' That Thing-Fox Trot

GUS ARNHEIM AND Is CocUANET GUEYE ORCHESTRA

No. 22305, 10-inch

Lonely-Fox Trut

F'r Instance-Fox Trot

BERNIE CUMMINS AND HIS NEW YORKER HOTEL ORCHESTRA No. 22491, 10-inch Confessin' (That I Love You)-Fox Trot My Bluebird Was Caught in the Rain-For Trot

RUDY VALLEE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES

No. 22506, 10-inch

On a Little Street in Honolulu-Waltz All Through the Night-Waltz HILO HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA

No. 22504, 10-inch **

Hullabaloo-Fox Trot

Baby Won't You Please Come Home-Fox Trot

N22511, 10-luch

Okay, Baby-Fex Trot

MCKINNEY COTTON PICKENS

I Want a Little Girl-Fox Trot MCKINNEY'S COTTON PICKERS Ne, 23000, 10-inch

Jda, Sweet as Apple Cider-Fox Trot Dinah-Fox Trot

FESS WILLIAMS AND HIS ROYAL FLUSH ORCHESTRA

No. 23005, 10-inch

Just to Be With You To-night-Fox Trot Everything's O. K. With Me-Fox Trot

FESS WILLIAMS AND HIS ROYAL FLUSH ORCHESTRA

Nu. 23003, 10-inch

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EX-RULER'S BID FOR £35,000,000 IN GOLD..

FORMER LORD OF 110 WIVES.

ARE NOBILE'S MEN STILL ALIVE?

A HEIDELBERG “SOUVENIR.” HEAVY FINE ON AN AMERI - CAN GIRL.

Owing to the fondness of tourists

THEIR CHANCE OF LIFE IN for souvenirs, the students of

THE ICY WASTE.

LESSON OF ANDREE,

Saiyid Mir Alam Khan, once Emir of Bokhara, lord of a harem of 110 beautiful women, a Cræsus

The recovery of the reamins of whoso fortune was £35,000,000 in gold coin, and a man who ruled Andróo and his companions after 1,250,000 people with absolute lapse of 33 years, and especial.

Heidelberg havo issued warnings to local shops selling studʊnta' caps and ribbons, declaring that they will patronise them no longer if they sell anything so "personal" to foreignors. Already the fear of local inn-keepers from marauding chalaughts is greater than their natural pleasure at selling drink to the thirsty Ancient tankards' and mugs, either pewter of earth- houses have often great historical value in Germany.

power, is noir a poor exile on the ly the discovery of thoir dwelling anwars, displayed in these old bear-

outskirts of Kabul,

He has despatched an envoy to the League at Genova pleading for help to regain his kingdom, and revenge against the Bolsheviks who drove him from his domain, and

stole his treasurers,

A Soviet commissar now rulea over Bokhara, and the hoords in the mighty treasurers have long

since been sent to Russia.

The Emir's story reads like the history of a militant baron of the Middle Ages.

Treasure Chambora,

He is fifty years of age, a well. built man with a great black beard, n ruler of whom it has been said that he had the most ominous sense of humour in India,"

house and camp, where they had ben able to support life for a con- viderable. period, suggests inevitab- Recently young American girl ly the possibility that other victims who removed a so-called "Luther of disaster are still living in the tankard" from its shelf failed to Arelic wastes hoping against hopeThe party of which she was a mum eckon with the Heidelberg spirit.

for resouv.

It was as recently as 1928 that Gongral Nobile's Airship, the Italias crashed near Danes Island, and while he and other members of the expedition to the Polo

ter

was traced all down the Riino, and the police awaited them Not only did the culprit have to re- on the landing-alage at Coblenz.

fund the "sonvæmir,” but she was farend to pay a heavy fine to escapé rought out later, alx men

rigorous judicial proceedings which snatched away in the body of the were to be opened against her if airship and wore over afterwardsize of the indemnity had not pro- the plen of losing her boat and the heard of.

vailed.

were were

Numerous aeroplanes sought for them, and last year Signor Alber- tini, with a well-equipped expedi tion, including members of the He dwelt in his capital of Bek Italian University Alpine Club. hara, a city surrounded by a stone spent two months in the region of wall, eight miles long and twenty the dienster, but returned just a eight feet high. Eleven gates (year ago to" report their failure. guarded the city, and semi-circular towers protected the walls,

The city has a population of 100,000 and is the greatest trading centre of Central Asia. In a giant citadel in the heart of the city were the Emir's treasure chambers

He is known to have possessed £35,000,000 in, gold coin and ingots, apart from his superb jewellery, stated by experts to be the most magnificent collection of precious stones in all Asia.

Column of Smoke.

The last trace of the Italia, and its six occupants, was seen when Nobile and his companions, lying braised and crippled on the ice, at a distance east of them ustimat noticed a column of smoke rising ed at between 12 and 20 miles.

It did not come from an explo fallen, possibly some of the party sion in the air. If the airship had

on board survived.

petrol tanks had fallen out and Or possibly a number of the exploded on striking the ice, and in that ease the Italin may have wind and descended with survivors else continued to fly before the

where.

The gates of the treasure cham, bers were opened at sunlight and closed at sundown, and were guard. ed by sentries. The Emir inspected his treasury twice daily,' V

He ruled in the wild way of these Eastern monarchs. Four brothers and twenty-five relations with

Such conjectures are more or less claims to the throne were slangh-vain, and the mystery may never tered indiscriminately shortly after te solved. It is, novertheless, his accession, Political agitators werth while recalling that if Pro and recalcitrant nobles were either fessor Pontremoli and his five com- massacred wholesale or left to die panions ever came to earth alive in the dungeons,

resources. they would not be entirely without

Ilis barem consisted of 140 peer less women. He had been a major-

general in the old Russian Army and aide-de-cump of the Czar. It seemed he was supreme.

And then in August 1920 the bomb-shell burst!

General Nobile in his book re

A similar sack was inside the air.

ship, whore also, it is believed, were the sporting rifles taken with the expedition.

lates that when he and the other metabors of the expedition who fell with the gondola had recovered from the shock, they found they For many months the Soviet, in had with them a waterproof suck the guise of

rontaining stores. emancipators," had been financing the Young Bokharan Party, urging them to revolt and smash the rule of a tyrannical Emir. The unrest grew rapidly to a storm. Saiyid saw his danger.

He sent envoys post hasto to Delhi offering

confide his £35,000,000 to the care of the British Government, and moreover undertaking to incorporate his State unconditionally within the British Empire I

to

The failure of repeated efforts to trace the missing men maken wit new difficult to hope for their safety.

It may be, nevertheless, that oner or lator, in a season like the present when the weather has been particularly open, a discovery Sai-as dramatic as that of the Andrée Expedition will lay bare the suret of their fate.

The Governmvent refused. yid was left to face the Russian Onslaught.

On August 3, 1920, the attack came!

Bribery had done its work well. The gates were open, troops were apathetic. The Emir awoke to and his capital in the hands of Soviet infantry.

The Emir disguised himself as a carter, and was actually passing

THE LEAGUE'S NEW PALACE.

TO BE READY IN 1933.

The 1933 Assembly of the Leaguo

the main gateway of his capital of Nations should be held in the whent the frat enemy files brake

in!

new Penco Palace, according to the

the

Two of Saiyid's sons were export-surprising announcement of ed to Moscow by the invaders and League Building Committee. After placed in a Government university more than three years of planning, to be "educated." Seores of the during which time the money for more literate youth of Bokhara were available, work has actually start- the new League buildings has been placed in similar institutions at the ed. Gangs are clearing the grounds, propaganda centre of Tashkent, and building roads, and levelling off they have since gone forth into Bokhara to spread the Soviet cause. structural contracts.

preliminary to the awarding of The situation to-day is politie

delicate. Iuania is not a mem-

ally

ber of the League of Nations,

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The first batch of tenders, com prising work to cost £400,000, is to

The Emir's appeal is not sobe issued at once. Tenders must be hopeless as it seems at first hand,' in by October 13. The Building

said a Foreign Office official.

"Although a nation is not a member she can be invited by the League to send representatives to a conference,"

CHINESE CONSUL INSULTED

STRANGE INCIDENT IN-

SYDNEY.

Committee, which is composed of Messrs. Bianchi (Rome), Markham London), Feycelon (Paris), and Baron-Streit of Geneva, aftor a meeting with the architects, an nounced that contracts will awarded on November 1.

be

The new League Palace is to coat- about £2,000,0000, and the new Library building, a gift of John D. Rockefeller, about £400,000. The bronzo doors to the Pence Prince are to be designed by an American, as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation regard my treatment by awarded the 1929 pesos prize of officials on board the steanser Tai- 925,000 to the League for that pur ping last Sunday as an insult to the office I hold, said the Chinese pose. The mosaic work in the en- Consul-General in Australia, Mr. German Government..

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E. Sung, recently. • No other country would permit the diplomin- tic representative of another coun- try to be treated as I was trented,” romplained to the hoarding inspec On the arrival of the steamer Tai-tor, but was not allowed to land ping from Japan and China, said immediately.

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