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EVERY SENSATION KNOWN TO
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FRANKENSTEIN
THE MAN WHO MADE A MONSTER
And he lived in misery and died in shame...à fiend or friend or fabled monster?...or a soulless wretch with mechanical brain ? ...hunted by a thousand men... the only thing he feared was fire!
CHEESE
a man-made monster with
the strength of a dozen men, he made no concession to life or love!
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PORTUGAL'S NEW CONSTITUTION -ཁཨ་
| TO BE SUBMITTED TO A PLEBISCITE
Lisbon, May 28,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1932.
CANAL ACROSS FRANCE
To Connect Atlantic and
Mediterranean
AGED NOVELIST'S "URGE"
HOUSE SET ON FIRE TO ACCQUIRE IDEAS
Berlin, May 29,
en-
Sweeping changes which herald
A project for the construction 'Herr Karl Strecker, a novellat, the end of the Dictatorship are of a canal across south-western nged 70, whose earlier work proposed in a new constitutional France, which would link the Joyed a considerable reputation, ex- law which in to be issued throug-Atlantic with the Mediterranean plained to a Potsdam Court yester- out the country to-day-the sixth and greatly reduce the distance day why he had tried to set a house anniversary of the establishment between western Europe and the on fire last year. of the Dictatorship of General Orient by sen, has been submitted Carmona.
He had already been sentenced to for the approval of the Ministry of
a frat Public Works by a company which a year's imprisonment at Referring to the new form of
desires to undertake its construe- trial, but a retrial was ordered for Democratic Government to
ketion.
an unusual reason; he had fainted adopted, the new law proposes that
It is estimated that the total while exercising his right to have the party system of Government shall be substituted by a National cost would be between 12,000,000,- the laat word, and the Court with- Assembly, the representatives of 000 and 15,000,000,000 francs out waiting for his recovery had which shall number 90. They work could be finished, if com- him. Since the first trial
$180,000,000-$600,000,000-and the withdrawn to pass judgment on would be elected for a term of fourced within the next 18 months, Strecker's health has notably im- years, but would be invested only
proved, so that he was able to make' with legislative powers.
by 1940.
his statement this time without dimenlty.
two
Herr
Like earlier projects for this so- The President of the Republic called Two-Sens Canal_the_pre- would be elected by direct suffrage seat plan would have as its foun-
His most popular novels, he said, for a term of seven yanra, woukl bedation the existing small had been on criminal themes, and invested with independent powers, channels, known as the Canal dut he became absorbed with the iden and be responsible for the forma-Midi and the Lateral Canal of the of experiencing the emotions of n tion of the Government. A Con- the Garonne River. Unlike earlier criminal. At the age of 70 he had sultative National Council would be i projects, the present scheme is to eximusted his ideas and felt the attached to the Presidency,
construct a waterway big enough need of some great new experience to accommodate merchant steam- The new law, states the Decree,ers. The plans call for a channel in order to write a masterpiece al- is submitted to the appreciation of 13 meturs (44 feet) deer. 150 contemporary misery. the public, and will be followed by meters wide at the surface and 60 a national plebiscite in order that meters wide at the bottom. The Wishes of the nation may be 1 consulted before the new constitu-1 tion comes into force.
22.
"SOVIET OFFICIAL IN BACKGROUND
ALLEGATION BY LINER
CAPTAIN
Great Saving in Milenge.
"I want to grow beyond myself in order to partray our times as none else has done," he declared. to He had not seriously wished burn the house, which did not be 1 Such a waterway neruas south-tông to him but to a woman for western France would reduce the whom he had no particular desire distances between Atlantic or to secure insurance money. - He Modilerranean | plended that the fantastic way in North Sea d puns as follows:
which he set about firing the house Saving the fre was successfully
Between
ex-
in Miles tinguished) proved that he had not
160 ha criminal intentions.
Bordeaux and Marseilles Bardents und Port Said Le Havre and Marseilpes Bordeaux and Tunis Hamburg and Marseille. London
and Marseilles
Soviet official, who could
and Barcelona French fluently and was the only Southampton and Port Said ....
Paris, May 28.
'Flav suggestion
that a bit and Genog
speak
127 1200
of
11665,000 tons each aminally. This 1160 | would mean about 56 ships a day 1100 through the canal in both dires's tions, making an nverAJZA *ཎྞtt*4 man on board who could havel Viewed from the standpoint under their own power of about 10 miles an hour. At a speed of eted as an interpreter, kept in trade with the Orient, the Hor; id knots, ships coull make thr the back-ground while the "erew | denux-Narbonne Canal would
passage from Bordeaux to Nar of the Sovietskala Neft were try-serve as a sort of prolongation or
than 21 ing to salvage the French liner supplement to the Suez Canal, and or back in less
hours. Georges Phillippar. which was would occupy a position of rrent
Fourteen locks, with an average | destroyed by fire in the Gulf of importance in world trade. It
elevation of about 20 meters, are Aden, is made by Captain Vicg, would permit of considerable sav-
projected. The rise would be List the Georges Phillippar. in aning in fiel and maritime insur- radual from the Atlantie to a interview with the Matin utance, na well as of economies inpoint east of Toulouse, where the Suez.
time.
summit would be reached at £11 From the
French viewpoint, elevation of 143.50 metres. Captain Vieg was among the ruch a waterway would tend to
The company which desires the 120 survivors rescued by the Rus-develop the seaports and Indus concession for this big enterprise slap tanker Sovietskaia Neft. tries of the south, which in recent proposes that it be granted, under None of the Soviet crew, he states, years have lagged somewhat be-State control, for a period of 75 spoke any langunge other than hind those of northern France.
his own except the captain, who The Two-Seas Canal would tender, At the conculsion of this knew a few words of English, to open up comparatively undeve-term, the cannt would become State property. The undertaking would Consequently Captain Vicq had loped regions in the Interior of he financed through bond issues of great difficulty in making him-southwestern France, Irrigation from 2,000,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 self understood during the sal projects in connexion with the
francs a year over a period of five vage operations, though the canal and electric power schemes
or ніх years. The company Russian officers and sailors were linked with it would stimulate estimates its probable receipts at as helpful as could be.
agriculture and industry through.
1,000,000,000 francs 11 year, out the area,
based on a toll charge of 10 francs a ton.
It was not until he was leaving the Soviet ship next day for the
Expect 100,000,000 Tons, Andre Lebon, which took off the survivors, that he caught sight] Promoters of the canal project of a man who, he understands, think they could count on an an was #people's Commissar who nual traffic of 100,000,000 tons or could speak French perfectly. the equivalent of 20,000 ships of
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Although the economic advant- ages of the scheme are principally emphasized, it is also realized that the waterway would have Kreat strategic advantages,
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She Couldn't Say No"
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WINNIE LIGHTNER CHESTER MORRIS
From the Play by Benjamin M. Kaye Screen Play by Robert Lord and Arthur Bacon
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SINS OF The children
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