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GANGSTER CRIME IN Question:

LUXURY SUITE

Masked Raiders Rouse

Victim From Sleep

Paris, April 24.

FOUR masked men burst into the luxurious home of M.

Should A Premier

Duel?

Prime Minister Of Hungary Docs So:

Vienna, Apr. 24. Louis Leples, the "King of the Paris Night Clubs,” Mr. Baldwin may have all this morning and shot him dead as he lay in his bed. ̈ sorts of problems to tackle The crime, which had the appearance of a well-as Premier of Britain, but planned "exccution" by a gang from the Paris under- not the sort that is now world, was committed in American gangster style. worrying General

M. Leplee, owner of one of the most fashionable cabarets in Goemboes the Champs Elysees quarters, had left his establishment at four Hungary. this morning and was still asleep in his apartment in the Avenue

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still asleep they pushed her into

the hall,

י

While one pointed a revolver at her, two of the intruders gagged her, bound her bonds and feet with cords,

ird her to a voľn,·

Envisages Air Expresses

Paris, Apr. 30.

took her into the drawing-room and The recent highly successful Laughingly, one of the gangsters tests in which an airplane towed Jelased the aged servant on the forefour gliders for a long distance hend. saying: "Don't he frightened, has caused an imaginative We shall do you no harm." Frenchman to conjure up a pic- ture of a future aerial .express train with as many cars as you plense.

old

dcar

Then they went to M. Lepler's

bedroom. The panic-stricken wo man heard one of the men shoul: “You got me. Well, you'll never get me any more." The noise of

shot rang out.

For twenty minutes the gangsters ransacked the apartment. At last they came to the woman, took off her tag and said. "Where is the money? Tell us."

She replied that M. Leplee kept all bls money and his jewels in the bank. Then the gongulers departed.

MADE A FORTUNE

I was only half an hour later that the woman managed to get rid of the cords which bound her feet and was able to call help.

The police found M. Leplee dead In his beil with a bullet in the head,

the Independent Farmers' Party,

to fight a duel in Budapest to. morrow morning.

As Premier of Hungary he should not aceept, because duelling la forbidden by. Hungarian law.

As General Julius Goemboes he is bound to accept in accordance with the army officers' code. Actually he has three choicen of action, or inaction:

1. To refuse the challenge.

2. To fight with pístols,

3. To fight with "sabres. JUST TWO WORDS

And all because of two words nid to have been uttered by him at The plane up in front would a secret meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committer called on Salur- be the locomotive, naturally, and in order to make it look like one day to discuss the new Rome Part it would have a fake smokestack signed by Italy, Austria, and

Hungary. emitting artificial smolte. This The two words were Would make travellers in the

"PERFIDIOUS IMPUDENCE" other ears feel at home. If necessary real smoke spreading Herr Eckhardt, who had erl- real soot throughout the train ticised General Goemboes' could even be aranged.

handling of the negotiations, did Next to the fender would be the not like such words being address- baggage car and the mail car, com-ed to him." The challenge follow- plete with clock distributing mail ed. throughout the voyage.

There would

At the Prime Minister's office

he a diner, of course, and like all entire ignorance of the affair is A sums of money had disappeared dining services in from his pocket-book.

walter

would go the the hend

the acrtal Professed-bat

Seconds are believed in have been The police are looking for a train a couple of hours before dinner- known in the Parla underworld who time distributing seat cheeks. At the appointeä. recently asked M. Leples for £250,

correct hour, nn aerodynamic bell which he refused to give.

(whatever that may be) would call the hungry flyers together.

M. Leplce, who was 52 years of age, was one of the first in Paris to start dancing balls. He was financial- ly interested in a number of night

clubs and had made a large fortune.

Sees Civilisation

The berths in the sleeping car (there would have to be a sleeping

car) would have special alr-pocket shock absorbera for light sleepers. In the day-time the air express would have uns great advantage in that pas- sengers wouldn't have to fight over who has to take the seat directly over the wheels. The conductor would have to wear duraluminum buttons be enuse brass buttons would be too

For First Time envy. The porter, instead of dusting

Perth, Western Australia,

Apr. 30. Miss Ellen Margaret Hobley, an eighteen-year-old girl, born in Lancashire, has visited Perth and made her first contect with civilisation.

She was only two when she arrived in Queensland with her father and mother, and for the next three years was travelling in a buggy to her future home on the Roper River, in far North Australia. There, unt few months ago, her only companions beside her father and mother were blacks, animals, birds and crocodiles, A tame cockatoo was her "friend," and all her education was by postal lessons from

school. Sydney Now

trains,

Д

correspoles "

she has

has been big electric light, wireless, huge shops with plate glass windows and other commonplace sights of civilised life of which she had hardly any idea,

Perth was amused to find that sho had a distinct Lancashire accent,

EUROPEAN STORK

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Capetown, Apr. 30. Storks, coming from Europe in great flocks, are solving South Africa's locust problems. The storks have acquired a taste for locusts, and this season they have destroyed so many that the Gov ernment's annual locust · cam- paign costing $10,000,000 a year -188 been AuЯpended,

The

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you off, would help you remove the rotton from your cats. The brake ntan would have an easy job, as he would have nothing to inspect, but a retractable landing carriage-United Preas.

PLAGUE OF BLACK CRICKETS CAUSINGTM GREAT ANNOYANCE

Melbourne, May, 1. Melbourne is Auffering from a plogue of black crickets, which are invading shops, offices and dwellings, and in some places causing an almost deafening dia throughout the night.

The National Broadcasting Station BAR was thrice compelled to close down because crickets entered the transmitter station settled on the 10,000-volt conduc- tor, short-circuiting the power supply. The plaguë is due to the prolonged hot and dry weather.

NIECE FOR THE DUCHESS OF KENT

Belgrade, May 1.

Princess Olga, sister of the Duchess of Kent and wife of

Open

Safety Pin

In A

Baby's Lung

2 OPERATIONS

น

15

=

19

F233-RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET,

MURDER IN THE MOONLIGHT. N76-1 GET A KICK OUT OF YOU.

YOU'RE THE TOP..

76

F225-ABOUT A QUARTER TO NINE,

GO INTO YOUR' DANCE. F409-EENY MEENY MINEY MO.

SWING.

F431-SHIRLEY TEMPLE SUCCESSES.

MEDLEY. Vocal.

F414-MAMA DON'T ALLOW IT.

WHO IS ME. -

8628-YOU ARE MY LUCKY STAR.

BROADWAY RHYTHM. 8633-ROLL ALONG PRAIRIE MOON.

WINTER DRAWS ON. 8707-EVERYTHING STOPS FOR TEA,

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OUR

BRITISH CROSSWORDS

26

20

21

ACROSS

The kind that a Scot employs to put right.

3 Takes away in deep thought. 10 Make apologies very precizely.

11 A deed that gives comfort. 12 Result.

13 Behold a boy in Joy.

15

The north way out for the dusky

one.

17 Joint.

10 12 again.

A SECOND operation to 21 Indicates a change of weather.

remove an open safety- pin from the lung of r twenty-one-month-old baby failed recently

The baby is Thomas Christy, of Crowley-lane, Oldham, Lancs.

A month ago he was taken to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital at Pendlebury suffer- ing from a bad cough.

His parents said he had had the cough for about two months, They had no idea he had swal- lowed anything.

DARE NOT MOVE IT An X-ray revealed the pin. An operation was performed.

The surgeon reached the pin, but did not dare move it as each tha movement would bring sharp polat nearer the wall of] the lung.

The operation proved that It Prince-Regent Paul of Yugo- would be possible to move the pin Slavin, gave birth to a daughter only if it were first closed while at 7 a.m. to-day. Both mother still In the lung. and daughter are doing well.

At the operation the surgeon The baby will probably be tried to close the pin but failed. christened Marle, after Queen Marie jof Yugo-Slavia.

The Duke and Duchess of Kent, who arrived in Belgrado on Sunday,

Afterwards the child was said to be "in a distressed state and very poorly."

No further attempt will be made will be godfather and godmother. to remove tho pla until ho has

Prince Paul and Princess Olga nlready have two sons.-Reuter and Exchange.

WHICH ONE IS THAT BIG BROWN HOSS, IN THE NEXT

STALL?

recovered strength.

These operations are among the most delicate known to surgery.

A Horse Laugh on Sam

22 Describes the labours

of tho

Vicar and the envelope address-

ET.

21 Tailors get the bird: this bird.

27 Thoso hosts do not entertain.

28

What the artist drow when row- ed out to R.MS.-Queen Mary 23 No, this is not a lady bittern.

30 The Inclination of certain grass

is to be eurved.

OH,THIS IS GALLOPINGUS! I'M COUNTIN' ON HIM. TA WIN TH' BIG RACE! HE'S A SMART'UN - AN' FRIENDLY, TOO! C'MON, GUS, GIVE SAMMY A

FRIENDLY GREETIN'!

SARATOGA

SPAR

DOWN

1 Still, kept asja rale, so we bear,

by newsagents.

2 Castles in the air sometimes. 4 These are better not crossed in

advance.

5 Vamps to the cobbler.

Ho took all for himself and some from Anne.

7 Provides great pleasure for the

troops,

8 Thelo sound very humld exac-

lions,

9 It might bo without hopa or

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without heart.

14 Not enough for an eleven, but

makes a decent-ten.

16 "Emu gos ill"overworked in crosswords, I expect (anag.).

18 Cut the top off the fruit, and

employ it again.

20 Where you require a longer

chain.

21 Apparently Bill is in debt for

the bats.

23 The high part of d.

26 Appetiser associated

with Cromwell.

mostly

26 Such attire is not at all swagger

quite the reverso.

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