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ENGLISHWOMAN

'GERMAN MYSTERY FOR.

SCOTLAND YARD..

Bramon-Unless Scotland Yard is

abling him the more easily. to jump } out with his parachute, the whole { of the ta piece at the same time breaking off. It was one of a numble, during the next day or two, her of cucurrence, which, compared together, pointed a romedy.

BAFFLING

PHANTOM

CRIME

FORMER LONDONER FOUND SHOT.

New Fark-The "phantom" mur-

to throw light upon her identity andor of a wealthy manufacturer of surgical instruments, Roderick Ro berts, a former Londoner, is balling the Brooklyn police.

agitated Englishwoman who has been a guest since February 2 of the police of Bremerhaven will be taken to a local home.

PHYSICAL STRAIN. The anuses of "flutter" are vari. aus, Eut "periodicity" is one of Engineers know that a (eritieni vibrational phase "at which

"I have completely lost my it is liable to break, and if certain relations between the explosions in memory," she told Inspector Rich the finders and the vibrations of ter, of the Bremerhaven police, the crankshaft are set up the rewhon she called at the police station ault is periodicity," or what the acidina would call a "harmonie. Apart from the violent stresses it imposes on the structure, there is a terrific physical strain on the pilot, who finds himself suddenly, as it were, in the grip of an invisible monster that tries to wrest the

controls out of his hand.

The control surfaces oscillating violently to this tune of perhaps. 800 por minute react on the controls.

Pandemonium in the rockpit; and the pilot's hands, knees, and wrists uro bruised and wrenched.

Laually instant stopping of the engine is a remedy, but there have been cases when the pilot. was. un- able to do this in time.

to seek assistance.

Inspector Richtur arranged for her accommodation in a coll at the station, and then got into touch with Scotland Yard. Shortly after waris the woman, who possessed neither identity papers por pérional effects, told the inspector that she believed her name was "Florence Dorothy Dale, and that she was 16 years of age.

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Lived in Surfey. She mentioned that she had lived near Englefield Green, Egham, in Surrey.

She has forwarded to Queen Mary two letters in which, after explain.

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The problem of "Autter" has benй. overcome, and its recurrence is no, longer unpreventable exerpt in on- tirely new types and at new stagesing that she is an English woman in the progress of speed. Thus, who was born in London, she asked recently as last September Squa her Majesty to request either the dron Leader Orlebar, who, besides being C.O., was test pilot of the Foreign Office or the Home Office to High Speed Flight, experienced arrange for her return. wing flutter" when flying one of Although the abolition of sub-the new racers at more than 360 marines has been repeatedly urged m.p.h. by Great Britain on humanitarian grounds, their value for war pur- poses is rated very high by the Admiralty, and it is no secret that

THE NATIONS.

SALT OF THE AIR.”

It was perhaps fortunate so ex- perienced a pilot was in the ma chine. He was immediately able to

in the post-war system of Empirestop the engine, and although ob defence these vessels are cast for servers below "gavo him up," he & most important" röle writes the made in successful descent, lucky in Daily Telegraph naval corresponding a clear space of water.

The testing of a new zeroplane

dont,

That being so, it is pertinent to call attention to the rapid decline in our submarine strength. Ten years ago we were the first sub- narine Power in the world; to-

day we have sunk to ath place, coming after France, the United States, Japan, and Italy, in that order.

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This morning the wife of the British Consul here called on her, but although the unlucky womun strove to recall her identity she failer to do so.

Inspector Richter told me this

afternoon that the case was one of the strangest of its kind within his

experience.

"Her language and her actions,"

relates to its rate of climb, its take- after preliminary and typo trials said the Inspector (who speaks Eng-

off and landing, its stalling speed, ish hiraself fluently), show our

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There is a vast amount of test |: fying, and I have hurriedly made a list of thirty men engaged solely un this work. Probably there are

A

Twelve years is the official life of a submarine” and at the end of

dozen more of them at least. Some this year we shall possess only

are Air Ministry pilots, some aru twenty-six bouts inside this age limit and therefore fully effective. permanently employed by manufac

The woman is 5ft, tall, of alender

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Mr: Roberts was found dead in his office by his wife, who supposed that he had died of heart failuro,. until the undertaker discovered a

minute but deadly wound on the body-the chemist had been shot. through the heart.

No revolver was found, and the theory of robbery ne a motivo for the crime had to be shelved when it was found that a large sum of money was lying in the open safe. manager of Mesers. Prosser, Ro- Mr. Reginald Roderick Roberts, berts and Co., chemists, Church- street, Camberwell, S.E.5, said: I. received a cable from New York" simply saying that my father bad: died suddenly."

Ho was a Welshman and started in business in this shop in Church- street, Camberwell, but 40 years"ago he decided to launch dut in America and went to New York.

WORKERS' WAGES IN

AMERICA.

INTERESTING COMPARISON WITH EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

Washington.-The International Labour Ofice at Geneva has found. that living costs in European.

Company plante; range, from a little cities, where there are. Ford Motor. over half to slightly more than

those at Detroit. Manchester is among the cheaper cities, 'cost of living" there being given as 70-74: per cent. of Detroit, compared with Stockholm's 99-104 per cent., Ber-. lin' 83-90 per cent and Paris's 80-87 per cant. Constantinople was histedint 65 per cent. and Barcelona at 68 per cent.

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facility will provide a fresh link between the Dominion and the Motherland, and do much to on- courage Empire trade. A service between. England and Egypt will also be available, it is expected, be fore the end of the year.

Making public a study originally, started as the request of the Ford Company, which jsought data on which it might ascertain what the its stability and manevrability in guest to be a person of education, company would have to pay Euro- all movements, its control at terhut how or why she has turned up pean workers to give them a wage minal velocity, and so on.

in Bremerhaven is a mystery. She comparable to that paid in Detroit, the Labour Jepartment also com- says she does not know German, but pared wages etually paid in Euro I fancy that before coming here she pean and Detbit plants. The study It takes must have stayed in other Germanis adjusted August 1.

the Detroit tige of 80.68 average towna."

per day for eight hours work as 100. It was bund that the cost of living in valous European cities was as follow: Stockholm, 90 to 104 per cent f Detroit; Frankfurt, (G'many) 88 þ 93; Cork (Irish Free-

While the General Post Office has State) 83; peuhagen, 83 to 91;

been devoting its energies to the Berlin, 8290; Helsinki, (Fio-

How great is mother love? Just

London-With referance to the establishment of new links with the land) 83; Pais, 80 to 87; Marseil- how great is the bond between a dabled announcement of the comEmpire, considerable advances have les, 75 to 81 Manchester, 70 to 74 mother and her children is convine munications to be opened with re-been made in European communica- Rotterdam Holland) 65 to 08; Antwerp, 610 65; Warsaw, 67 Isingly shown in "Seed," the Uni- mote parts of the world by tele- tions. Telephone communication is phone, on the occasion of the laying possible between every European tanbul, (Tarey) és and Barcelona versal problem drama which comes of the foundation-stone of the new country except Russia, Turkey, (Spain) sa.

The Bures of Labour Statistics to the Central Theatre on Saturday telephone building in London, it is Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania. secured fromthe Ford Company the

Some of the international lines,

In recent years the wastage in sub-turers, and there are free laneta."build, with blue-grey eyes The test pilots are the salt of the medium blonde hair mixed marine tonnage due to obsolescence

air." Flying owes almost every- has been enormous.

grey. thing to them, and the standard to- During the past two увать twenty-mine boats have become day, "except in the detail of per- over-age, and seven morn will fallout courago, which was always the

same, is higher than ever."

out in the coming year, making a "total" of "thirty-six in as many months. If these old craft are re-

tained on the hetive list it will simply be for "show purposes."

Here are

some of the duties which would be assigned to British submarines if a national emergency Patrolling the trade routes for commerce protection and anti-sub- marine work;

developed

Overseas

Defending home and ports against enemy raiders;

Co-operating with the battle feet;

POLICE ARRIVED TOO SOON.

and,

with

STORY OF PLOT TO ROB

• WAREHOUSE.

MOTHER AND FIVE CHILDREN.

NEXT LINK IN CHAIN OF COMMUNICATIONS."

OTHER IMPORTANT PLANS.

The test pilot must be no mean scientist. He is, of should be, consulted by the designer at every stage. He is the one man who knows what is wrong, and why it is. wrong. Ho is an authority on

A burglar alarm that went off at actual wag paid per hour in with John Boles, Genevieve Tobin, now stated that the development of design and on aerodynamics, on the the wrong time and upset the plans Europe and reduced the percen- Lois Wilson and Raymond Hackett further links is proceeding space. engine, on civil and military operuof the police was mentioned at the tages to dobrs and cents. Among in the prinsipal roles,

These plans will particularly affect notably those connecting London with Paris and Berlin, are stated tion, on tactics oven.

Old Bailey when the story was told others it fand that it would be

necessary increase Ford wages Even at the expense of losing her. Asia and India. of a plot to break into a City in Manchesir from 84.24 a day to husband, Lois Wilson, 隐挡 the. Telophone communication with to provide greater audibility than warehouse, containing fura valued $4.80 and Cork from $3.59 to mother, clings fondly to her five Siam via Berlin was established last many local lines in England.

children and manages to live month. Experimenta are being car- a life of comparative happiness as

CAUTION: WITH DARING.

He has to watch bis ten Or A dozen instruments. He must always

at £15,000.

$

fly largely by instrument, and in Isane Malakoff, 32, french polish. difficult circumstance he must take fer, and Walter Lowie, 34, traveller, accurate notes of all experiences were charged with attempting to Long-range scouting and "shaCaution must be his strong suit, for break and enter premises in Artil- dowing" in enemy water.

no tost pilot without that quality cry-lane, E. During the war we found 150 would long survive, and at any rate submarine inadequate for these his counsels would be valueless. duties, yet we have how only

An experienced test pilot will ox- twenty-six, and some of these will not be available for another year plain in ten minutes more of the hard labour, and recommended for now acroplane deportation. Lewis, was found not er, so. The position is causing peculiarities of

than an ordinary pilot could in ten guilty.. serious anxiety, the more view of the phenomenal growth of weeks. Ho is doctor chosen for accurate diagnosis. The wise foreign submarino flotillas,

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in

understood and overcome. In fact,

Malakoff was found guilty and sentenced to twenty-two months'

85.84.

WIFE WHO CONFESSED.

HUSBAN WHO COULD NOT

FORGIVE.

she rears them to young manhood ried out with a view to the opening. and womanhood. At least, she has of direct service between this her children with har,

country and Japan. Negotiationa But, ten years later, she meets for the inauguration of a similar her second great tragedy, and the service with India have, now reached way she solves it, proves anew just how deep in her love for her off-¡

an advanced stage and although Nottingim A Nottingham wo man's guide following the refusal spring.

final agreement has not yet arrived of her band to forgive her after she had ade a confession to him **Sead " was adapted for the between the Genersi Post Office and was the sect of an inquest here. screen from Charles G. Norris' the Tadian authorities, it is thought

The woan, Fanny Elizabeth Houghton,ged 28, of Bulwell, was popular novel, and the picture was likely that work on the installation found drohed in a pond at Bul- directed by John M. Stahl, who has well Hall ark...

achieved outstanding success in the of the necessary apparatus in India Frederic Charles Houghton said his wife bame a little strange infilming of domestic problem dramas.will begin in the course of the pre: manner lagsummer. Last Wednes

day he saido her, “You don't look

MỀ G. G. Raphael, 'prosecuting, In the past two years France has designer listens to him all the time. said that although only two men completed and laid down more sub- „One of the "beactting troubles of marines than our present effective aircraft has been that of spin- were before the Court at least five total, which is also exceeded by thening", which again, entirely owing men, were alleged to have been con number of new Italian boats now to the work of test pilota in now cerned. Ho described how, on Jan. on the stocks.

Britain's submarine navy is is there is no longer any excuse for 9, Dotective-aergeants Salisbury and appearing by "wastage from the designing an aeroplane which has a Greono were concealed on the ware bottom," and the measures so far tendency to spin, or which, if by house premisan. At the same time shall have tall you, Fred; I have the night of the tragedy she put taken to replace last tonange have any chance got into one, cannot Malakoff was hiding next door in a been wantik to for a long time, her youngest child into his arms, been quite inadequate.

quickly be got one of Bai By toy bazaar. At 10.30 in the morn-he struck rose the mouth and asking him to hold it until she z-

She made confession to him, and INDAVASircles the hope is pilot of average skill. chorishod that a large annual quota

Spinning has almost certainly ing Malakoff was seen to admit of submarines will be included in boen a more prolific cause of fatal two men to the bazaar Lowia and accidents even than flutter,'' and

the long-term programme which will probably be introduced next

in this eventual defeat the text another, man were seen about out.. pilot has played hir part

side.

very happy and she replied. "I

ran from house Next day he turned. He never saw here rejected appeal from his mother and his wis mother to forgive har.

again.

The wom father said that on :: A verdict of "Suicide by drown

(Continued t foot of neat column)wing!" was recorded.

sent. year.

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Gradual Progress,

The first, and in some respects tha most important, of all wireless tole phone services was that inaugurated in 1027 between London and New" York. This enables, subscribers in London to speak practically to every part of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. Later, In sorvica WAS established with the

Argentine, thus providing a link with Chile, Uruguay,

parts of South Amerion. It is alss

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possible to speak to Venezuela via Direct to Ganada-

Berlin. In May, 1930, a public tels, Within a few weeks direct, com

phone service was established over á. munication will be possible between | distenen (52.: 12,000 – miles betw England and Canade, thus elimi London, and Australis, last summer nating the necessity of using New this service was extended, to New

Tork ne an intermediary: Thil new