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ACROBATICS:

IS AMUSING HIMSELF WITH VARIOUS ACROBATIC EXPERI- -

MENTS

HE'S, NOT SURE THAT HE LIKES THUMPING HIS HEAD, IN FACT HE'S SURE HE DOES N'T

6ORG OVER UNEXPECTEDLY THUMPING HIS HEAD

HERE COME MOTHER AND AUNT EMMY, RUNNING ASKING IS

HE BADLY HURTI

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

WELL, "THAT WAS KIND OF SURPRISING, TO SAY THE LEAST.

THE WAY THEY FUSS OVER HIM AND FEEL HIS HEAD MAKE HIM TEEL KIND OF SORRY FOR HIMSELF

HE MUST BE HURT MUCH WORSE THAN HE THOUGHT. ANYWAY "THEY SEEM TO EX-

PECT HIM TO CRY

WELL NOW THAT THEY'VE GONE HE SEEMS TO FEEL

A LOT BETTER

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50, HE MIGHT AS WELL 60 RIGHT ON WHERE HE LEFT

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DIVINER OF HIDDEN bis power to the directors and staff SOVIET NAVY SEES

TREASURE.

A CLOCK SPRING GUIDE TO GOLD.

"MAGIC POWER" OF FARMER'S SON.

Mr. Frederick Stone, the gold diviner, has just returned to his home near Holsworthy, Devoon shiro, from Rhodesia, where he gave a successful demonstration of

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The oficiala, who ware, at' first; inclined to be scoptical, tosted MI Stone with six sacks of sand, three of which also contained gold.

Ho indicated unhesitatingly those which contained gold, and, though the order of the sacks was changed,

TOO RED.

COMMUNIST FLAG IN BRITISH WARSHIP.

and the test repeated many times, A MEDITERRANEAN COMEDY. ho never failed.

Mr. Stone used an ordinary 'steol· slock spring as his wand." He approached each gack in turn, with the spring held as an are between his hands. If the sack contained gold the spring writhed in his grasp and the centre of the twisted abruptly, upwards.

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He gave another demonstration in six prospecting pits owned by a Rhodesian mining company. These pits had be aunk without AL 2.90, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. disclosing anything in the natura

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The British battleship Queon Elizabeth (27,500 tona, length 600ft, benin 10ft, eight 15-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns, four 21- inch torpedo tubes, complement of 1,124) hoisted the red flag, com- plete with design of inmer and sickle, the badge of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republica. ship's band played the "Interna- tionale," and all the ship's company was ripe for red revolution.

The

That, at least, was the belief of of veins or golibbaring materials, but gold had been hidden there tocort innocent members of the crews of the Soviet Black Soa fleet, test him.

which has now returned to its base after a Mediterranean cruise,

In each case he sensed the gold, and gave the depth accurately.

Overcharged Body,

He also "found gold, of which the company had no knowledge, in one pit, and at a lower depth than the bidden metal. It is proposed now to sink another shaft at the point which ha indicated.

His power is said to be due to an overcharge of electricity in his body.

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The Soviet Botilla steamed into the historie harbour of Pirmue, where the Queen Elizabeth lay at anchor. The Russian warships were recognised, and the invariable dis cipline of the British Navy was em ployed to deal faithfully with the

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"NAVY BLUES" AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.

William Haines plays the role of "Jack Kelly" in Navy Blues,”

· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 'U.S. Navy romance to be shown at the Queen's. Theatre from Sunday. This is his first all-talking picture in this play. Haines, who was born in Staunton, Virginia, and "Brown of Harvard,” “Slido Kelly, Slide," "Spring" Favor," "Excess Baggage," "A! Man's Man," "Alias Jimmy Valen- the "and"The Duke Stops Out are some of his outstanding roles.

"DEVIL-MAY-CARE.”

"

In Devil-May-Care," which is running at the Queen's Theatre, Roman Navarro plays

John

· Miljan, "villain" of over a hiin-" dred photoplaya. He has been shot to death, clubbed, dropped in burn ing oil vats, trampled by elephants, clawed by tigera, poisoned, shoved off cliffs, strangled, ele, simbet without end. Devil-May-Care- lets him off a little easier. He doesn't die, but he has a terrific. duel with the star."Devil-May- Care" was directed by Sidney Franklin, with Clifford Brooks as dialogue adviser. Other players in.

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WIVES MUST GIVE EVIDENCE.

CHARGES AGAINST

HUSBANDS.

APPEAL COURT. DECISION.

A wife may be compelled by a judge to give evidence against her husband.

This was the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal when an appeal was heard with the sole object of securing a decision on the question whether or not a wife, being a com petent witness at common law, was of necessity a compellable witness.

Henry Lapworth, who was bound, over at the Warwick Assizes on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm to his wife, appealed against his conviction.

The Court of Criminal Appeal día- missed the appeal,

Mr. Douglas Jenkins, for Lap- worth, anid that at the assizon Mr. Justice Rowlatt warned Mrs. Lap. worth that she need not give evi dees unless she wishes. She said that she would rather not, and an argument ensued. Mr. Justice Row- Iaft, in the result, directed Mrs. Lapworth to give evidence.

World's Worst Tune.

Mr. Jenkins said that the hus The crows of the Soviet ships band volunteered to help his wife could scarcely believe their eyes-to prepare dinner, and later, for no or their cars. Their cherished en. apparent reason, assaulted her, and

happily married, and at the trial he was instructed that the wife was not to be in any way annoyed. There never was a case in which

He comes from a family of farm- era, and has long been known as a water diviner. Last year he re-sign appeared at a masthead, and tied her up with a cord. They were alised that his power extended to the splendid band of the British metals, and he was tested by Mr. battleship set to work to play what A. J. Caddo, curator of the Ply-ly musicians, but no. Commu- mouth Municipal Museum, who hid nista, consider, the world's worst nuggets of gold and jowellery in the grounds. Mr. Stone easily "At the moment," writes a

Soviet journalist who

ly as a motor-driver, but it is pos Bible that he will now be in re- quasit as a gold diviner.

tune.

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wife was less like an ordinary witness.

Mr. Juatico Acton absorved that

found them.

He has earned his living reconi-querading as an able-scaman aboard Lord Halsbury and Lord Atkinson one of the Tussing boats, "every had said in one case that it was á red sailor felt the growing power fundamental principle of common of the Soviets, which had forced law that a wife was not a compell.. the raprescatatives of British Inable witness. Perialism to hoist the bated red Mr. Jenkina replied that one of! flag, and had forced the band the arguments against compelling a which is accustomed to blare glori wife to give evidence was that it fication of British rule of the seas," would break up the unity of the to play the hymn which rouses all home.

One native Indian ruler, he says, has already invited him to India to look for hidden treasure:

ARREST IN EMPTY

COTTAGE.

SERGEANTS ENTER WITH PISTOL.

iem,"

Mr. Justice Swift: Assaulting a

oppressed peoples to fight capital wife is calculated to break up her This hymn of joy over the might she is able to say to her husband unity. You might make for unity of the red flag has been printed in the Moscow newspapers. It was afterwards, "Well, I was bound to presented to the British Admiralty give evidenco. I did not want to, For consideration and comment.

but they made me," The Admiralty was used.

Usual Compliments, "The battleship Queen Elizabeth, like all other British warships, says the customary compliments to any foroigs warships," said the Ad miralty.

Douglas. (Isle of Man),-After an intensive search, which began at dawn and was carried on over moun tain and vale, through log and rain, the escaped Isle of Man lunatic who Every British warship carries was believed to be armed, was cap-in its signal locker the flag of every tored in dramatic fashion at 4 p.m.

Later he was charged with the nurder of Mr. Percy Broake, the farmer who was shot dead at Sulby, Isle of Man..

The man,...Thomas Edward Kissack, was traced to a disused, tumbledown cottage, on the moun tain side. Through the window searchers saw him, standing before the fireplace.

...

Mr. Justice Swift added that he could not see how the State could

allow a woman to be called and then say that her story, which was the only relevant matter, need not bo told if she did not want to tell it.

.... It was'n crime against the State that was being considered, not a quarrel between husband and wife. other nation, so that it can reader Mr. Hawke, for the Crown, sub- the salute ordered by the regula-mitted that in an action involving toms. If the ship has a band it is personal violence on herself a wife prepared to play any and avery was. s competent and compellable national anthem....

witness, just like any other witness concerned called.

"The Navy is mot with the colour or design of any national flag, or with the favourite, tune of say nation. We just carry out our regulations. If it caused nt least understand discipline." nement we do not mind. We

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Mr. Justice Avory, giving judg ment, observed that the point raised husband had been bound over in the TO-DAY & TO-MORROW was inerely an academic one, as the

sum of £10 to keep tho-peace-for

twelve months. The parties socmed; :: At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,20. to have composed their differences.

Sergeant Wetterson, of Douglas, Decompanied by sovoral-Armod -AL tendants from the Mental Asylum, entered the cottage, where Kissnok, taken by surprise, and obviously for Kissack, whose capture followed Regarding the point of ins Interpreter at All Performances. suffering from the effects of his ex-areport that a man, carrying a raised." he added, "there is no posure, offered little resistanco,

The attendants closed in on him, culvert. near a bridge search dif husband, and I think it fallows that gun, had been seen hiding in a question that at common law a wife is a competent witness against her

and he was handcuffed.. He was taken to Douglas Police Station.

A gun and 20 cartridges were found in the passage of the house.

Man in a Calvort.

no

Bad weather mado: a ficult for thick fog hung over the she is compelable at common law." mountains and rain fell heavily, “M Ho doubled if the point had ever Strong cordons of police ware been raised before in such a direct drawn all round the island, it being form in order to obtain a decision the intention to search every part on it. He thought that the judge until the fugitive was found. at the trial was right in talling Mrs. sotiggs in which Kissack was Lapworth that she was bound to

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Over 100 armed men, including polise, megtal hasiital, fosters, and

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