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$2,500 HAUL OF

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DIRECTOR OF BANK OF ENGLAND ROBBED.

PEARL NECKLACE.

Burglars who raided the London house of Mr. G. M. Booth, a direc- tor of the Bank of England, got away with jewellery worth £2,500. After the raid they polished the furniture with oil so that no in- criminating finger prints should

remain.

Despite this, detectives have discovered certain marks which they believe to be finger prints, and Scotland Yard experts photo- graphed a decanter.

The robbery took place when Mr. and Mrs. Booth were away for Easter.

The staff of their house in Chester-street, Grosvenor-aquare, W., was depleted owing to the holidays, and for about an hour the house was left unattended.

Two maids who were insole charge returned from a walk to find the basement door bolted after the lock had been forced with a jemmy.

Entering the house by the front door, the parlourmaid found that Mrs. Booth's bedroom had been ransacked.

It would appear that the thieves had an extensive knowledge of the house, for they went straight into the room where the most valuablə jewellery is usually kept.

Fortunately, Mrs. Booth wat wearing a good deal of it.

Valuable Necklace.

The greatest loss is a very fine necklace of graduated pearls with a daimond clasp, valued at £1,500. Mr. Booth, who returned to London immediately he was not fied of the burglary, made a com- plete inventory of the 24 missing articles, and said they included costly rings, pendants, and bracelets.

Describing what happened, parlourmaid told a reporter she thought she must have turbed the burglars when went in.

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1930.

EINSTEIN'S NEW THEORIES.

LAWS OF GRAVITY AND ELECTRICITY.

ONE FORMULA.

Can Man ever find the "First

Principle," the "Primary Ele ment, the beginning of all things material?

Now Professor Albert Einstein, the originator of the theory of "relativity" is trying to discuss the problem in a new work on the beginnings of which he has been engaged for two years.

state-

In a cautious exclusive ment to me, Professor Einstein has written:

"It is true that I have been working for two years on a new foundation for the general theory of relativity.

"That thesis would treat gravitation and electricity as a uniform condition of space.

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GIGANTIC MANOEUVRING IN【CRIMELESS RECORD NEARLY

AMERICA.

LEGAL QUESTIONS,

Efforts are being made to obtain the approval of the United States Government to gigantic conces- sions and financial arrangements that will enable television to be put to everyday use.

BLEMISHED.

NARROW SHAVE.

Crime, that horrible, unheard of thing in Wavendon, Bucks, which claims to be the world's most innocent spot, a modern Eden in England, has crept a step nearer. Waven on is the village that The consent of the U. S. Govern-knows no crime. For fifteen years ment is stated to be the only thing its unblemished reputation has necessary to enable television to be been upheld. So peaceful, indead, brought to the masses.

are its occupants and its houses, that the county constabulary re- cently refused the village's request for a local policeman.

The concessionaires would re- quire the right to control four wireless wavelengths and to in- crease the power used in tele- phonic transmissions 30 times.

It is stated that the American

Telephone and Telegraph Co. onis awaits the settling of the legal questions to inaugurate a tele vision service between principal cities to determine whether or not the public will make use of the system.

"But the calculation of the consequences of this theory have

30 Times the Cast. not progressed sufficiently as yet

One problem is the high cost of to permit comparison of the theory with practical experi-running the televisors. It is es- timated that a telephone plus ments."

television call will cost at least 30 times as much as a present-day telephone call.

To friends, Professor Einstein went further and admitted that the "new foundation" is turn- ing into "a practically new theory,"

the

But there were shudders in the village one day,

In the three shops and the three) inns around which the country cottages nestle; the terrible atory of. What Happened at Fenny Stratford was being whispered.

Motor Bandits!

For Fenny Stratford is the next village, and the people of Waven- don believe that three motor bandits who raided a factory and then felled a policeman, actually drove away from their crime through Wavendon!

It certainly was a terrible thing to happen in such peaceful sur- At present the American Tele-roundings, and it was in awe-i phone and Telegraph Co, is stated struck whispers that the story to be concentrating purely on tele- was unfolded by `the villagers of phonic or telegraphic television, Wavendon. that is television over wires, and

His latest work, submitted to

Prussian Academy of Science, hints at least at a re-is formation of the theory to square it with the results of his new cal- culations.

Abroad, it is has been wrongly suggested that Einstein maintains that gravity and electricity are one and the same thing.

"Quadridimensional,"

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It all happened, they said, when Police-constable Doughty ("John- leaving the problem of wireless | Doughty, you know 'im; nice feller, television to the Radio Corpora- too"). walked through Fenny tion of America.

Stratford early one morning and At present, it is understood, wire- noticed a man walking out of B) less television is not so far ad- brush factory carrying a type- vanced in technical detail as the writer. other type.

Knocked Out. Talkie Broadcasts.

Police-constable Doughty decid- With telephonic television, it ised that people who carry type- proposed to project only the faces writers out of offices at 4 o'clock of the speakers. With wireless in the morning are hardly working television, however, it would be with good intent. possible to send out talking plc- But here It should be remem-tures over the ether.

Einstein himself characterisas the the relation between gravitation that and electricity as a "uniform con- dis-dition of space.”...

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"I am almost certain that they were still in the house," she added. "My coming down the staircase gave the thieves plenty of time to let themselves out of the front door."

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ary dimensions of "length," "breadth," and "depth."

He closed with the man and they fought for a few seconds before bered that Einstein's "Space" is Such a development, it is thought two other men came up out of the a space in which time has been would not injure the cinemas. or darkness, struck him on the head added to the three ordin-theatres, since the high cost of and knocked him unconscious.

The men made their escape in film making would set a prohibi- tive price upon the broadcasting a car, taking with them a cash of a picture which could take box containing £10 stolen from almost any sum in a series of runs the factory and a typewriter. at different theatres, but the whole As soon as he recovered, Dough cost of which would have to be metty ran to the police station and that the Einstein theory has al-by the broadcasting company for gave the alarm. But the men had ready reduced nature to two

a single performance.

escaped in their car. "fields."

Professor Freundlich, of the Einstein Tower at Potsdam (where Einstein theories are tested) holds

Some day, he believes, science will get beyond these two fields," and will discover the one primary principle from which gravitation and electricity and all this material world originated.

So far, all is theory and re- search; but Einstein's method, as he himself has explained, is to search for the "logically simplest law to which a structure can be submitted."

CINEMA NOTES.

WILLIAM DE MILLE SCORES IN

"THE IDLE RICH."

"The Idle Rich," which opens to-day at the Queen's Theatre as a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talkie fenture, is William de Mille's third all-dialogue pictura.

The noted director's first sound picture was "The Doctor's Secret." His next was a picturization of his own dramatic sketch, "The Man Higher Up," in which the late Theodore Roberts. starred on the stage.

In the present film, which is taken from the famous stage comedy hit, "White Collars," de Mille has facluded many novel sound effects and technical advances. Sounds which have never before issued from the screen have been crowded with lavish hand into this one. They include all the familiar noises of a busy, average home, a ted kettle boiling, a door- bell ringing, a cat purring, coffee perking, and an old-fashioned phonograph, wheezing out an old- fashioned tune.

Conrad Nagel, Bessie Love and Lella Hyams, all experienced on the talking screen, are in the leading roles. Miss Love' plays the main comedy role and Mr. Nagel and Miss Hyams have the Ober, romantic leads. Robert. Edythe Chapman, James Nelll, Faul Kruger and Kenneth Gibson are in the supporting cast. Clara Beranger made the screen" adaptation.

"Puttin' on the Ritz.” Harry Richman, who makes his bow as a screen star. In "Puttin' on the Ritz," the big United AT-: tists' musical sensation which opens at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday, has introduced many of the, biggest song hits of the last three years including "Muddy Waters," for which he wrote the lyrics, "Blue Skies." It All Depends on You," "Ain't She Sweet," „and; "Laugh, Clown, Laugh."

Richman sings a number of.ori ginal songs written by Irving Ber lintospecially for "Puttin' on the Ritz..

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"And would you believe it?". said one of the Wavendan gossips, "just after 4 o'clock a car went through our village. Perhaps cri- minals have passed through...

And Wavendon shuddered at the thought of it

Yes; England's Eden has had a very close shave:

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