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NOTES OF THE DAY DID LAMSON SLAY

BRITAIN CARRIES ON

Japan has endeavoured to 'delay the presentation of formal notice of the Washington Treaty'a abroga- tion until after the United States delegates to the naval conversations have left London; and the United States delegates have delayed their departure from Britain In order that it should not seem that they were responsible for the breakdown of the converantions. Actually the United States could have recalled her delegates ten days ago, when it was admitted that the Japanese policy nilowed of no compromiso with American demands. All this delay about quitting the conference and about the presentation of the abrogation notice Romewhat childish. The mere closing of the conference is not what matters. It in the ending of naval armament restrictions that worries the world. However, Britain is once again taking the lead and endeavouring to work out with Japan a pro- gramme which may be acceptable to the United States. Equality of security, or whatever it is that they will endeavour to achieve, is far from realisation, but the mere fact that the naval experts of Grent Britain have not yet abandoned the hope that a remedy is to be found in continued conversationa

HIS WIFE?

By R., J. CRUIKSHANK

ETTING into your bath le thousand times more dangerous than getting into n train."

The fate of David Lammon hinges on this assertion.

The Very Idea!

AUNT EMMA, AGAIN DISAPPOINTS

By fieorge

DEAR George

Of course you all

was perfectly normal in his be haviour, and showed no hesitation expect me to write about In offering to show them over the New Year's Eve but I don't house. On his way through the

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house to open the front door to care adam if you are dis- the visitors, he looked in at the appointed. bathroom and to his horror dis- covered his wife hanging helpless-

I am going out to a party to- ly over the edge of the tub with night and shall have to work blood oozing from her head. hard and early before my re- TN a dreary death cell in San

solutions come into effect." - Quentin Prison, California. The women waiting at the door It's too bad about this shipping site David Larson, a young man heard his cry of anguish, and when trouble-strike nie pink-because of high character and cultured he admitted them they saw that understand that if the men get background, who appears to be the within a period of a few minutes their wages raised, the girl ateno- victim of one of the worst mia- his appearance had completely graphers are going to demand an carriages of criminal justice in this changed. He was now a man over-increase too. On the level. country's history.

come with shock and grief. He I went down to watch the Press Lamson, formerly sales manager showed 'overy sign consistent with XI fall gloriously to Cralgengower for the Stanford University Press, the behaviour of an innocent man Al First Senior XI by five wickela, has been sentenced to be hanged suddenly confronted with an ap- two missed catches and one over for murdering his wife, Allene, palling personal tragedy,

the six. with whom he had lived happily In his efforts to lift up his wife's for six years.

body blond had become smeared on There is every ground for behle shirt, and great play was made lieving that Mrs. Lamson while with this fact by the prosecution, taking a bath slipped, struck her though it is obviously susceptible to chiki-boom-boom-boom; num-cum- head on the projecting corner of the simplest possible explanation. a wash-basin and bled to death. It Within 15 minutes of the ghastly vas one of those accidents in the discovery, a country sheriff and his However the silence is apt to be gives cause, if not for optimism, home which cost the lives of thirty deputies had hurried to the house, most cutting if one slips up on the at least for conviction that nothousand Americans annually. By and they appear to have made up Chinese version. effort will be spared to bring about hideous combination of spite and their minds on the spot that Lam- We had a refreshing Interview an amicable settlement of this vital stupidity, innocent and trivial cir-son was guilty of murder, and at to do the other day when we were problem. Unfortunately the dele- cumstances were twisted to sustain once set to work to prove their told to meet a rich American gates have come to a dead-end, as ↑n charge of murder.

hypothesis, rejecting everything widow and get her Impressions of the Americans put it: a complete

that did not fit in with it.

Hongkong. Impase. But by diplomacy and

Lamson struggled like a trapped

As we knew what the interview by the grace of God,, Britain may bird in a mesh of prejudice and which this crime had been com- took it along for her to confirm. But where was the weapon with would be like, we wrote it up and yet accomplish the apparently im- malice. What gives his story its possible, and effect a compromise. nightmare quality of horror is the nitted? Raking amid the rubbish Something after this style: "The.

feeling that a like fate might over-which Lamson had been harning in lights of the Peak at night take any ordinary, respectable, fu- discovered a piece of lead pipe. what a figure!

his garden fire, the deputy sheriffs beautifull

nocent citizen.

Lamson and his wife were both

They

had

J

nursemaid. Doris Roberts.

At the time of Mrs. Lamson's

By the way } rather like their new war cry. It goes thuswise: Boom - chikiboom, chiki Lom- boom-boom; Boom-chiki-boom,

ra, cha-more-far; Hongkong Press- men, ri-en-ra!

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the Chinese girl

I should The widow took out her lor

nught our breath as the rebound. She was turnlag away when we "But Madam, the Peak lights

the

"But the beautiful Chinese girls their figures?" we moaned. "Ask my son. He speaks highly And so saying she satt. Of course I didn't agree with

It is a stern struggle but, on the Į subject for unch experiments. His daughter, and, according to the iSorenson. The Lamson family are Mr. Walter Damrosch

realisation was

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Your single.

Aunt Emma.

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES By Juliet Lowell Hold Your Ears. Dear Mr. Damrosch: Yet sufficient had been hinted to to the Opera Saturday night I en- Why is it that when I went husband,steep the case in a minama of pre-joyed everything but the music?

Sarah Trome (signed)

REDISCOVERING HANDEL

August Vollmer, the distinguish. That, must have been the weapon, love to retire here Formal centenary and quarter- millenary celebrations are usually ed professor of criminology at the aid the prosecution, although all somewhat perfunctory, but the two University of California, has des- the plain probalities in the rase nettes or whatever rich widows U

were against

to defend themselves, and study- THE DRUG TRAFFIC hundred and fiftieth anniversary cribed the Lamson case as "the What WAS

the motive? The ing us intently said: "I think of the birth of Haralel prontises to most amazing situation

that hus State invented a theory, unsupport Hongkong is lousy," Whenever the Advisory Com-be an event of unusual interest. ever arisen

in American, juris led by any evidence--for the couple A determined effort is to be made prudence, a man sentenced to hand were alone in the house at the time mittee on the Drug Traffic meets to approach certain of the works for a crime never committed, that Mrs. Lamson had repulsed at the League of Nations head of landei in a new way which may the evidence itself proving his in her husband's love-making the

lead to rediscovery of that great nocence," quarters in Geneva, matters of composer,

Bight before, and that in'a fury of One fact appears inescapable, rage he killed her

"The place is badly lit and the Sys the Christian

the following Peak should be treated according is that Lamson coal morning? There was also an alto its lights. Blow It down-t intense interest never fall

Science Anitor. This searching and that is typical of the contemporary at never have been brought to trialternative suggestion that Lamson doesn't even stop the draught!" arise.. This business of fighting titude toward classical works of at all in a British court on such had been in love with his child's the dope evil on a

world-wide art. The same cast of thought is flimsy, evidence. seale is a battle of wits. Both recent attempt to reinterpret in graduates of Stanford University. death this girl was discovered to them."

revealed in Mr. Robert Graves's sides do their best to anticipate twentieth century terms Churles they lived on the university cam be expecting a baby. This news, ed away. the next move on the part of Dickens's "David Copperfield." It pus, and were the average type of blazoned in the yellow Press of

is seen in the current Russian pre-well-read and intelligent ang California, did Lamaun great dam-what she said, but all the same, their opponents. As fast as the sentation, after two years of pre-couple that one finds in American re, although Mian Roberts strena-1 wish I was a rich widow. League takes somo step to paration, of an amalgam of Shake Lamson had been the secretary of a young man named

communities of this kind. Mrs.ously asserted that her lover was tighten up restrictions, so the speare's "Antony and Cleopatra.

Sorenson. traffickers try to get past civili. Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" the local Young Women's Christian Sorenson admitted paternity, and sation's defences. Then it is the It will be generally admitted that

Immediately married Mas Roberts, and Pushkin's "Egyptian Nights." Association.

When the baby was born it had League's turn to act once more. | Handel is a peculiarly suitable

two-year-old red hair. in this reuembing- dramatic oratorios (not the testimony of friends and neigh all dark. whole, the forces of law and "Messiah") were really written for ours, were happlly married. order are winning. Clandestino an ideal theatre whose practical Lamson was described as a very

and considerato denied him. The kind drug factories are now engaging dramatic presentation which he abounding in those amall attentions Juice and small-town gossip. the attention of the League's himself was unable to get the which women appreciate.

There is no scrap of direct evidence Mrs. Lamson was not a strong linking the man “Opium Committee." The steady London Handel Society proposes to

with his wife's! woman, and on the night before she death, the web has been give him. Experiments in Cam flow of dangerous drugs from bridge and Munster have Indicated diod-she had suffered an acute atentirely of circumstantial evidence licensed factories into the illicit that this method of approach leads k of indigestion. Because of of the oddest kind, plus the 'sus- traffic has been stopped. In to rich cultural rewards, and the this her husband did not sleep with piclon instilled in ignorant minds desperation, the traffickers have

Handel Society's proceedings will her that night, but it four in the by sensational newspapers. "Lam- be watched with interest by music-morning took her a glass of lemon son was the victim of an accident, been driven to many shifts.ians all over the world.

julee aid some other food.

and of the irreducible ugliness and Cases have been reported of

At nine he began to prepare his irrationality of the human mind," wife's breakfast, He then went to writes Yvor Winters, part author their robbing consignments for medical and scientific purposes in

are not suffering from lack of work in the garden, hocing and of The Case of David Lamson

burning rubbish, which was one of support. There is, first of all, his normal holiday, wccupations. the defence is the

One interesting point made by tránsit. Then they have set up

admitted fre- secret factorles, which are often the manufacture of dangerous callers who were thinking of rent that when you step into your bath- the 1931 convention for limiting At ten o'clock Lamson went into money of bath tub accidents in the

the house to admit two women United States, "It is difficult to detect. To meet this drugs, so that the amounts pro-ing the place for the season. menace, the League is studying

tub you are running a thousand These wonien, who took Lamson times more risk of injury than when duced shall not greatly exceed the institution of specialised police forces for the purpose of ments. Considering the leisure-burning rubbish, testified that he you climb into a licensed airplano."

medical and scientific require quite unawares and spoke to him you board a railroad train, and two fixat when he was in the garden hundred times more risk than when dealing with the clandestine

ly methods of most Govern- drug factories. Another item of interest at the recent session was time for them to have taken to ments, three years is not a long the question of the issue of pass-make up their minds about this ports and visas to notorious traffickers.. As a method of pre-measure. Yet, with the latest venting the entry of undesirable number of States now parties to. ratification from Austria, the

criminals into a country, the

ropes.

to

passport system has signally the convention has been brought failed. It is usually the lesser up to 48. Other countries are fry whose movements are check- known to be taking steps to ed in consequence. The really ratify, eg, in Greece, Parliament big game

has recently accepted the agree seem to have little difficulty in moving about from

ment: Still more, nations are country to country. Everybody

bound by the 1925 convention, connected_with_the drug traffic tighten up restrictions against

which has done so much and the white slave traffic knows that forged documents of iden- have accepted its provisions, and traffickers. Fifty-two States tity can be obtained in great variety by those who know the are co-operating through the There is a definite trade Geneva machinery to suppress in passports, visas, birth-certi- an evil which knows no national ficates and marriage certificates.

frontiers. The application of these conventions from the inter- Notorious drug traffickers are known to be going about their national end is in the hands of illicit business with considerable The Supervisory Body, which special expert bodles at Geneva.. freedom; and in many cases the authorities can do nothing but

acts as a watchdog over the 1931 watch them helplessly. Only estimates of drug requirements agreement, has been dealing with international co-operation can for 73 countries and 117 terri- stop up these loopholes, and it tories (colonies, protectorates is abundantly clear from the and mandated areas). Little report of the Opium Committee, wonder that the last League which has been meeting at Assembly described this as the Geneva that the international only piece of international machinery as yet set up which agreements against the traffic, which is truly universal.

Woven

calculated

"May I let him play with it a while, just to see if he will tire

I enjoyed everything but the mikic?

Hats Of To France Again Loud laughter. (for once genuine and not the hollow and insincere laughter of disillusionment) rang through Nat's Nest. the other morning when the author of this amazingly clever satire, which is a weekly mystery to half the renders of the Sunday Express, amounting to more than 2,000,000 bemused Britons, to say nothing of thousands of puzzled foreigners ike Hitler, who tries to translate it every Monday thinking it is of some political significance, and a baker's dozen of Indignant

matrons in Birmingham who think it is Communist propaganda, and a lot of other people who think It is slightly improper whatever It

meana... '*

As we any

but where were we? Oh, yes. We was discussing laughter..

We was laughing for once be- Cause we had just read that an alleged member of the terrorist gang held responsible for the: murder of King Alexander aroused" auspicion in a French cafe because he gave the walter an eightpenny tip for twopenny beer.

"This recklessness in the eyes of the thrifty, French stamped him as a suspicious foreigner, so the waiter had him arrested," says the report:

There is no evidence.that the walter réturbed the tip. If he had he would probably have been mis fuken for a suspicious/fordlgner Phimself, and thrown im