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POLISH BEAUTY

BEAUTY CAT

EXPERT BLINDS

RACING

HIS YOUNG WIFE

Then Commits Suicide

EVENINGS SPENT WITH

CAVALRY OFFICER

Warsaw, July 21.

SARA STRASMAN, pretty, dark-haired twenty-four-year-old wife of Abraham Strasman, fashionable beauty salon proprietor in Warsaw, became tired of watching permanent waves being set and faces lifted.

spend

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began She evenings with a smart young

officer in Polish cavalry Pluck

regiment..

A

Last night she went out withi him and returned early this: marning, writes a correspondent.

In P. I.

Her husband walted for her Missions

at the door. "You shall look sol horrible that only shall love you," he erlad, as he threw n glass neid In her face.

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NEWEST SPORT

London, July 27. While cat racing may never dis place the "sport of Kings" in Eng- land, a determined effort is to be made next month.

At the little village of Portesham, In Dorset, a cat racing course is be ing built. The course, which will have four "traps", will be 440 yards! long and the encouragement for die chase will be an electric mouse.

Fifty out of the 150 pets in the village are already in strict trait-

ing.

There are na listed' age limita nor classes. But careful observation has proven that the best racers age be- iween two and three years.

bas One experimental inceting already been held In which there meet, 31 At this were six races. dummy mouer which was run on an 01 which endless rope worked by proved too slow for the "puss in

seven league boats”.

by red. Identification is made white, blue and yellow ribbons tie about the racer's neeks.

Manila, Aug. 1. Nothing has yet been done about runners, Cobras and crocodiles, and seeking scientifigally 'brod

man, leaving the new Then, appalled us he saw her primitive tribesmen of Centralut doe

| race-course, expressed himself as agung, Strasman Mindanao, have no blinded and in

terrors for interested in training brend of rushed

sts rey fourth window, jumped out and killed two Michigan young women, mier to chase an electrie cheese.--

Misa Rhoda Little of Grand United Press. Rapids and Miss Beatrice Keur of Muskegon, who recently re- turned to the scene of their mis-

himself.

"HUSBANDS" sionary activities at Malaybalay,

FOR THE

HEWITT HEIRESS

SHE CAN TAKE HER PICK

Bukidnon, glad to be back after a vacation at home.

DOUBLE PAY FOR FRENCH TROOPS

Paris, July 15. The French Council of Ministers They are beginning a second. tour of duty after five years to-day approved dverees presented: spent there on their initial tour, by M. Daladier, the Defence Minis ter, to double the pay of all Miss Little is a nurse, whose soldiers and sailors and to increase duties include mounting a horse their rations, "

and riding along mountain trails At present

French soldier or up tiny streams which affordrets only 25 centimes (d) a day, the only passage through the but this will now be raised to 50 {thick jungles.

| rentimen (1.16d.) He also gets n

wine and a tobacco ration. pay of sailors is complicated by

PERFORMS OPERATIONS

The

Although she is not a doctor, Miss various allowances,--United Press, Little is called upon to perform surgery, set bones, pull teeth and numerous other miniatrations with the

higher school

for lack

nf

San Francisco, July 21. Ann Cooper Hewitt, young heiress whose sterilization preci-native huts of thatch and bamboo as chaperonage. pitated a half dozen court bat-her cintes. Surrounding Malaybaliy la rough country peopled by pagans tles, can have a husband from ukims, Manobos, Bagobos, Atas and Marayan-Gome of whom, far-off Palestine if she wants him notably the Manobos at Ragobos, are, or can pick one from as close to home as around the corner.

For offers of marriage have been flooding the mail of the dark-haired daughter of Peter Cooper Hewitt, inventor of the Mercury vapour lamp, ever sined her story was told to the world, Russell P. Taylor, her attorney, has disclosed,

MAN IN PALESTINE

The man in Palestine who wants

to marry her has competition from a youth who would do anything to get

я Sua

tree dwellers.

Despite their primitive ways, siue 19 not afraid of them, and birds because of her aid that they hold iter in the highest esteem.

TROUBLE WITH GIRLS

S the Bethet Mission of Bukidnon established a dormitory, in which the tribesmen have absolute confidence. Although pagans, and primitive be- ease of long mountain isolation, the people of Bukidnon are the same racial stock as the Christian Filipinos and Mohammedan Moros.

Miss Keur Sometimes has her As for the snakes, crocodiles and trouble in watching over her girls other threats in the jungle, she trusts when youthful Bukidnon swains no to her horse. If there is, a snake on serenading to the soft funes of Ruitars. She usually can put the the Foil, the 14 se won't go through:-

Miss Keur is head of a dormitory serenaders to fight, however, Iler dark cupo, and for girls, where 37 daughters of tribes-method is to don.

then sweep down upon them, catch- men reside while attending governing them unprepared, with a flash- munt sehool, Children in the out- lying villages have an opportunity to There are six Americans at the go only to the primary grades.

mission, all from Michigan. The Reg

are

amil

trom

It is the custom of the people to and Mrs. J. W. DeVries are from be very watchful of the young girls, Grand Rapids while the Rev. out of the navy," from a Sacramento and parents were unwilling to let Mrs. D. J. Anderson widower who asked her to look for their daughters go to Malaybalay to Muskegon.--United Press. him at a certain table in Francisco restaurant;, from Ferry lowa, mar who knows only that

retired soldier love you;" and from a

of Lowden, and former Washington, who would "like to change your naine to mine," adding, that he has a small income from u army pension.

doctor

Then there are the boy in San Francisco who didn't know how to say he loved but promised that if she accepted his proposal she would be the happiest girl in the world; a Jersey City swain who has o vices" and who was offering Ann "a bar-

which I think is Kain

sporting enough if you are interested;"

who old Los Angeles youth year likes to swim, dance, play golf and "party" and Lakeland, Fla., home- owner who offers her a quiet home with his wilowed mother and him on the provision she gives away or otherwise disposes, of all, the money she has.

ENGLISH POET

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Londuri, A blissful poet from England, compared her to Aphrodite! arising from the waves al expressed his love in verse.

Not all her mail is about marriage. If she wishes she can invest her fortane in a peanut-vending machine; whleh an Eldorado, Oklahoma, man says will return an income of at least. $50 a week. Sho can have an interest for $500 le said. Another youth offered to be her bodyguard for $25 a week and a woman offered to sell

her a ennary,

Tyler, Ann's attorney, said that the heiress has read only a few of the lottera and that she expressed little of interest in any

them. She is Living in soclusion here, awaiting to obtain outcome of court action control of her father's

fortune, estimated at in excess of $2,000,000 and settlement of the $500,000 euit mother, the instituted against her Mrs. Maryon McCarter and two dec tors as a result of the operation.

Recently the girl received a settle- ment of around $150,000 from a bonding company in one of the court actions

started. sterilization Tyler, expects tho mall will be. in- creased once that information -gets Bround.

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on Sunday morning by steamer from Kaling. He will be returning short- ly to Kiangshan on the Chekiang Klangs border.--Rontor.

Kan Chia-hou's Post

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Canton, a is Mr. Liu Lu-yin, Chairman in con-in

Foreign Ministry iral of the Publicity Committee of spokesman explained that Mr. Kun the Nanking Kuomintang, who is at Chia-hou will continue his work, in présent

in Nanning. Meanwhile

ment 15 not necessary United Percy Chen, son of Mr. Eugene Chen, Canton and therefore his reappoint- the former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Nanking in 1931, in a statement lasued here vigorously denies & report that his father has arrived at Nanning-Reuter.

Canton Ofelals

Shanghai, Aug. 3.

Prean.

Change Over

Nanking, Aug. 3. Mr. Lim Yun-kat, formerly Chair- Tann of the Kwanglung Provincial Government and now Chairman of the Tibetan and Mongolian Affairs Mr. Llu Wei-tze, the newly Committee arrived in Shanghal from appointed Reconstruction Commis- South at noon, to-dny. It is expect- sioner of Kwangtung, has arrived ed that he will be here to-morrow here, to declared in an interview morning by the train from Shanghai. that he will be proceeding to Kwang-

General Wong Mu-sung, the new- tung with General Iluang Mo-sung

The Chairman of appointed

is now Kwangtung Government, Tseng Yang-fu, the Mayor of Can-waiting for Mr. Lim's arrival in or- tot

Wednesday on

aboard

tholder to hand over the office of the Tibetan and Mongolian Affairs Com- President Grant-Reuter. |

mittee.

(now Chairman of the Kwangling

and Provincial Government)

Fakten Commander's Visit

Mr.

Nanking, Aug. 3.

General Wong is expected to leave for Canton by acroplane on the oth

General Chung Fah-kwel arrived | Inst-Wah Kiu Yat Per

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