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£10,000,000 FOR FLEET

1935 British

Naval

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MORE POWERFUL CRUISERS

UNDER the Admiralty's 1935 programme of construction contracts to the value of £10,000,000 will be! placed and work will be found for 60,000.

Several firms have already been invited to tender. Between now and February contracts will be placed for 19 vessels. They comprise:

2 cralsers

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1 depol ship

fotitin lender 4 shops and.

8 destroyers

2 submarines

I surveying ship.

Contracts will also be awarded for the propelling machinery and equipment of four other ships--a cruiser, R submarine, and two

the Royal dockyards.

The Avork

ELAINE AND

JOHN

£70,000 a year John "Caliban" Barrymore, with his nineteen-year-old protegee, Elaine Barrie, whom he planned to make his fourth bride. But the romance is off, and when Elaine broadcast a radio appeal to him to return be was locked in his hotel-room with a "Please do not disturb" notice on the door.

John Barrymore's Girl Friend Wants Him Back

SOBS HER APPEAL THROUGH RADIO

Kansas City, Oct. 10.

sloops--which are to be built in NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Elaine Barrie to-day sobbed over the air from a Kansas City radio station an should be in full swing seven or appeal to John Barrymore, the film star. '

eight months hence.

Hopes are entertained that, in view of the urgent necessity of strongthening the Navy, a sup- plementary estimate will be voted to enable the programme to bo accelerated.

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Table Decoration Spokane, Wash. Oct. 10-Col- oured bread will be the baker's answer to the current demand for colour

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The colouring may be applied to biscuits and cake as well. which will have golden-brown *erial with nice pastel shader

instead of white or brown.

"John, dear," she cried, "you know you need me now more than ever before. We love each other. That is all that matters. Oh, dear people, help me find my Caliban."

"Caliban" is her pet name for her fifty-year-old thrice- married actor friend. It was announced here last week that they had parted after a quarrel.

New Clues

But "Caliban" did not hear her broadcast.

He was on his way to Holly-

To Identity Of wood--and it is reported that a Lost Race

GRANITE RUINS OF GREAT CITY

IN AFRICA Johannesburg, Oct: 1. A new search is to be the It is understood that

made shortly for clues to the cruisers and destroyers of this

lost nation programme will be larger and identity of a more powerful than their pre-which inhabited Africa be- decessors. The imposing ton-fore the Bantu, the racial nage and armament of corres-type to which Zulus and ponding foreign types has many other African tribes compelled our naval authorities belong. .16 recast their new designs on! the basis of increased size andi extra gun-power.

£900,000 Refit

wife reconciliation with his Dolores Costello is still possible, despite her pending divorce suit.

Miss Barrie, who followed Barrymore to Chicago by air- plane, boarded the Santa Fe Chief, Hollywood-bound, expect- ing to find him on board.

But Barrymore had left the train and taken a taxicab to a Chicago suburb, where he spent the night.

Miss Barrio learned that Barry- more-was-not-in-tho-train during the night, and got off at Kansas City, the first stop, to await him.

While she was resting at the hotel Barrymore flew into Kansas City, and then drove in a taxicab to-Holliday, a few. miles, from Kansas,

He and his two bodyguards stopped the Santa Fe Chief with

a red flag.

Barrymore climbed aboard, and the train restarted for

Hollywood.

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7 Fabric for a holy man.

8 This happens when fighting men

get, cool at last.

10 Give up work and go back.

if it' 11 This resort sounds as

drink reversed, 12 Just in time. 14 River trin.

16 Little Violet took in this tribe, 18 This may come before the event. 20 No leech (unsg.). 22 Modern arrangement of an old Virgil looked back on this city in

20 Often seen in Madagascar. 20 Of racing, Newgate, or a Month. an Eastern 30 Descend to reach

warehouse (two words, 2, 4).

The key to the puzzle lies in the granite ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Southern Rhodesia's mystery city. Who bulli Great Zimbabwe and why its great civilisation perished Two other big naval contracts are two questions which have long are impending. One is for a new troubled the minds of anthropo-

When Miss Barrie was told that. logiats. machinery outfit for the battle-!

he had resumed his journey she cruiser Renown, which is shortly. The ruins, which form a walled telephoned to the broadcasting

IAUMR. asked if she might | to be modernised. This plant in fortress, were first explored in station and

1891. They comprise an irregular talk over the air. expected to cost at least £000,000.val, 831 feet in circuit, enclosed A further £100,000 is to be spent by a wall of unmortared granite on refitting the cruiser Suffolk. blocks. In part this wall is 31 This work is expected to go to af feet high and 15 feet thick. firm on the Tyne.

An inner parallel wall 180 feet long forms' a narrow passage lead- Preparations are going forwarding to a conical tower 31 foot high for putting in hand the big re- and 57 fect round the base, placement programme which will

Gold Objects

be submitted to Parliament at the first opportunity. It will cover a

Within the ruins were found term of several years, and aim at gold objects, an ingot mould of an anelent Phoenician type, carvings bringing the Navy up to that One-of hawk-like birds, bowls, and Power Standard which has now crucibles. been accepted as the irreducible minimum.

SALESMAN SAM

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Sono authorities explain that the city, a granite stronghold, was

IT'S A GOOD THING I DASHED IN HERE! PLAYIN' DEN- TIST SURE FOOLED THE COPS! BUT I'M STILL IN A

NIGHTGOWN!

CENT

OH, OH, SAMMY] ANOTHER COPI

But her Caliban was aleeping comfortably behind a compartment door, which bore the words "Please do not disturb."

built by a pre-Banta population, perhaps Hamitic, under Arabian direction.

Professor Raymond Dart, tho from Southern anthropologist, has returned to Johannesburg

made after having Rhodesia arrangements to begin an organis- ed scientific exploration of the ruins. The work will, it is esti- mated, take five years.--Reuter,

Is Sam Surprised?

love.

31 When we omit to do this we're late at the office (two words, 4, 5). 32 Cutting, isn't it?

Down

1 Hero's your protection,

2 Plant that provides a long- legged bird with such tangled cover.

3 Trickle greater in volume than

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10 She has heaps of time,

17 any men have both halves.

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27 This lets you down in Switzer- land, but it doesn't help you up, 28 The lady who took in Aliab.

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