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RDAY, JUNT

MAKING THE BAKERS TELL:

OUR CEOSSWORD PUZZLE.

Commons that unless traders gave Information voluntarily the Food Council would be given power to examine them on oath.

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY. COUNCIL'S PROTEST TO THE

FOOD COUNCIL GETS. Showing In Hongkong for tho HEALTH MINISTER, Inst time to-day, at the Queen's MORE INFORMATION. Theatre Twelve: Miles Out," Jchn The_Finchley Urban District Gibert's big picture, la på vivid:

Tha Government's ultimatum to Council, a considering a scheme drama of adventure on the Bigh traders who had refused to supply for the erection of 54 houses in seas in which Gibert is seen as the the Food Council with Information their area, proposed that British nemesis of ruler of a smuggling has already had, some effent, t tiles should be substituted for gung, headed by Ernest Torrence Mr. Baldwin stated in the House foreign tiles, as originally apoci-Joan Crawford plays the heroine :fied.

and is well supported by Elloon The Counell accordingly asked Percy, Tom O'Brien Giren Lea add the Ministry of Health to sancmany others of note, An exciting

Since then the Food Council has tion the necessary modification of a race between revenue officers the scheme.

add smugglers, a spectacular night4quired most of the information it At a meeting of the Council re club scene and Gilbert himself in requires on broad prices. cently the following Jetter, was highlights of the picture which is tion, which had previously failed to many thrilling episodes are the One provincial, bakera associa-- read from the Ministry of Health

With reference to the proposal,otion since "The Big Parado.

said to be the star's finest produc- reply to the questions addressed to it by the Food Council, has now an- substituting British tiles for for Miss Cherie Valentino and Mise owered them all, y jeign tiles in the construction of Tomasita Birdwell, the clover Another association, which is 54 houses to be erected in Sum Juvenile eccentric, dancers will ap-stated to have totally ignored the mor-inte, Finchley, the Minister pear at the 9.20 p.m. performanco of Health does not gather that' the Council has any reason to suppose that the tiles asked for in the specifications will not prove satisfactory.

heatre,

John Barrymore's romantic plc ture, "The Beloved, Rogue" will, on the information before him have its final screenings to-day at ho does not feel that, any case has the World Theatre. The story is been shown to justify, the issue of Francois Villon, famed poet of woven around the adventures of sanction to further expenditure reafteenth century France. Dramatle presenting approximately the, cost mements follow each other in such of the provision of an additional rapid succession that the produc house. He

will, however,betion affords a continual series of prepared to give consideration to thrills, building up to a surprising

further!

representation climax. The settings of the pic which the Council wish to make ture aro lavish while the supporting on the matter."

cast is all that could be desired.

Star Theatre,

any

Councillor Syrelt said that ho was sure that every member of |the Council would be disappointed with the reply of the Ministry. Foreign tiles were not nearly so satisfactory as English tiles.

BABES IN THE WOOD.

TWO CHILDREN KILLED AND BURIED.

Two children.

were recently found strangled in a thick wood known as Sandraw· Plantation, near Aaputria, Cumberland.

A boy aged about five, and a girl nged about three, the children had been engaged and hound and covered with thorns and dried grass.

Apparently the children had been strangled with strips of underclothing.

Council's demands in the past, has |(now notified the council; that it is calling a meeting of its members at an early date for the purpose of considering those demands,

Time Limit.

In some cases a time limit, has been set by the Food Council for quired. In no case does this time the provision of the information re- it expire until the middle of this

Horizontal

1 Which American city boars the 8 What title did the successors. Of nickname, the "Puritan City

11 Breaker.

Mohammed, use? 12 Sour.

month.

18. Abbreviation for "railroad." without fixing any date, has esk-17 Upon

In other cases the Food Council, 15 Plundered, ed for a definite undertaking that 18 Te nod. the information they require will be 21 The affirmative side. supplied.

20 Starting bar.

22 Opposite of aweather. It is probable, that unless there 24 Scarlet. has been a satisfactory response to 25 A person whose the Council's quest for information a Slavic language. by the end of this month they will go Approaches. ask the Government to fulfil ita pro-28 What large aquatic raammal is mise to obtain evidence by means of resolution under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act.

"The Canadian," Somerset Maugham's well known story of life in wide open spaces of Alberta, will also be shown to-day for the lasta time, at the Stor Theatre. Thomas Meighan is the leading player, and others appearing in the east are, Mona Palma, Dalo Fuller and Wil Ham Standing.

"ROOKIES.”

BIG COMEDY FOR THE

QUEEN'S.

Such a course would enable the Counell not only to examine traders themselves but also to examine their booka.

DEATH SHOTS AT DINNER.

́ ́CORSICAN BROTHERS' IN REAL LIFE.

If you want to laugh and thrill A real-lifo tragedy of "Corsican alternately, a good place to do both Brothers" and others is reported will be at the Queen's Theatre to- from Ajaccio, the capital of morrow, where "Hookies," a Metro-Napoleon's island. Strangers to the neighbour-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy will be "Vendetta" is the word applied hood, the children were seen in the shown, according to a special ad- locully to the crime. district on a Friday with a woman, vertisement in this issue. The. A family called Mancini Ilved in Later. It is sald, a woman was picture, which was made with the the hamlet of Lava, about eight Been leaving the wood, and two co-operation of the American miles from: Ajaccio... men who made a search found the government, is laid against a back. As they sat at dinner several riflo bodies.

ground of life at a military train-shots were red through the ing camp. Kurt Dane, one of the window. The father, aged 60, and, heroes of "The Big Parade," has two sons, aged 28 and 24, were the role of a rough diamond ser-killed. A woman named Phyllis Wood, geant, and George K Arthur, Another son fled, and has not aged 27, the children's mother, Lamous as a film comedion, is seen been seen since. It la belleved was afterwards detained by thens the greenest of recruits, Com- that the third Mancini son wAS police.

plications arise when both full in mortally wounded and ran into the love with a beautiful girl; u part woods to die.. played by Marceline Day, Louise Lorraine, Tom O'Brien and Frank Currier have prominent roles in the picture which is said to be one of Director Sam Wood's most thrilling It is an original story comedies.

Murderer's Escape. from the pen of Byron Morgan, By the time a neighbour had in- author of many pictures which formed the gendarmeric, the mur combine first class comedy with derer had taken refuge on the plenty of thrills. "Rookles," willmoors, which are thick with bramble be the chief attraction until Tues- and, whin, scrub and shrub. day.

LETTER GOLF.

If you SLIP, you're awfully close to a FALL Especially in letter golf, for par is a mere five

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DEAD BROTHERS IN BUNGALOW.

HANGING TRAGEDY REVEALS

'ELDER MAN'S DEATH,

Younger children and the, wives of the dead Mancinis were not hit; but two of the womenfolk were so affected by the tragedy that they became demented.

In previous reports of bandit operations in this district it bas been stated that the Mancinis were related to the notorious bandit Romanetti, who was shot dead two of the latest tragedy. years ago, not far from the scene

Before Romanetti was shot ho Two brothers, one aged 70 and of treachery..

had suspected some of his followers the other 61, were found dead in.) their bungalow at North Ascot re-ing him, sald he was killed by his

Gendarmes, who had been hunt cently.

The elder brother, Henry Wil- liam Weiler, had not been seen for a fortnight.

friends."

His younger brother, Sydney, WETEST VILLAGE RUNS

had said that Henry had gone to see his married daughter."

change one word to another and do it in par, á given number of I-The idea of letter golf is to strokes. Thus to change COW to EN, In three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN,

The younger brother was found can change only one hanging, and it was then dis- 2You letter at a time.

covered that Henry had been lying 8-You must have a complete | dend during the time that his bro- word, of common usage, for, cach ther had eaid he was away. Jump Slang worde and abbrevia. tions don't count.

14-The order of letters cannot be changed A

One solution is printed on another page of this issue.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS"

ONE WEEK AGO

! TODAY : FRECKLES AND HIS UNCLE HARRY SAILED

FOR AFRICA- AND THEIR DESTINATION

· IS STILL

A LONG WAY OFF U

WELL FRECKLES WHAT'S WRONG,?: "'YOU LOOK AS IF | YOU WEREN'T

ENJOYING THIS,,

OCEAN NOYAGE!

YES I AM ENJOYING 17:

BUT..I-IM A LITTLE ROMESICK!

DRY.

native tongue is

caught for its o!12 29. Covering of a building. 91 Chair

33 Commenced.

30 Indian tribe found in Oklahoma. 38 St. 19. To sup. 41 Wiso.

49 Bird similar to the ostrich. 44 Hodgepodge.

46 Which is the most important":

river in England?..

46 In what country is Vera Cras?

Vertical.

1 Who was called the "Plant

Wizard"?

2 Point of compass,

8 Sailor,

4 Egg-shaped...

5 At no time..

Imprisoned.

7 Maple tree.

8 Coveri

יי

9. Hypothetical structural unit. 10 In what elty is Dartmouth Col-

legol

14 Part in a drama,

16 To aflirm.

17-Vertial

19. To last under vse

21 Plot of ground.

28 God of love.

25 Fish

27 Drunkards.

28 Soven days.

30 What are the threa goddessos,

"Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos

called? 31 To thrum.

82 In what state is the Mormon

settlement?

34 Battering machine.

85 Secular

16 Hopo klin (variant).

87 Indian.

39 Prophet who trained Samuel 40 Also,

42 Standard of type measure..

44 Beast of burden of the cattle

family.

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fall of rain in 24 hours 30 ches which fell on November Seathwaite, Cumberland (at the 1897,

Foirs hare run. head of Borrowdale), the wettest At the moment the entire coundry and the lakes and rivers are It is thought that the younger place in: England, was in want of tryside is in urgent need of rafer do low that weeds are growing in tan was frightened because his water at the beginning of the and water has to be brought for the stagnant water. The hay is brother had died without a doc-month. tor being called.

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HOMESICK? WELL-WELL- NAJLAT IS IT THAT I CAN

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Fruit trees are withering,

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