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COLLAPSE - Alphonse Capone, "once" _Chicago's most powerful gang leader, reported in a men- tal collapse and under observa- tion in the hospital at Alcatraz Federal prison, San Francisco Bay. It was indicated that i incurably insane he would be moved to Springfield, Mo. He js serving a 10-year sentence for violation of income tax laws.

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BY-GONE BUSINESS SECRETS

'I WON'T SAVE HIM'

AT

Boston, Mass.

T midnight Frank Di Stasio, 55-years-old sweets maker, and his 25- years-old son, Anthony, are due to be electrocuted in the first father-and-son execu- tion in the history of the State.

Innocent.

And the Bon Ja according to his father, who refuses to sign 2 document exonerating bln,

Frank replies to all the lawyers' pleadings: "My son is innocent. I know he is. But I won't sign the paper. I love my son so much I do not want to leave him behind. going to die happy."

i am

The father was sentenced to death for the murder of Daniel Crowley In 1935, and the son was convicted for being an accessory before the fact.

BODY. IN CAR

Crowley's burned body was found

greater than for the installation in a derelict car. Both legs and

of a good heater.

pany, this

were

arms were broken and pieces of the A compact Httle unit designed and skull

missing, indicating built by the Evans Products Com-possible fracture before death. The called the "Evanair," makes tongue was scorched, and smoke and possible.

fire had been inhaled into the lungs. 7 Hupmobile has adopted it as op- It was not long before the police tional equipment. At least two ma-e detained Anthony di Stasio, who jor United States automobile pro- made a statement implicating his ducers are making exhaustive tests father. This said that father and and probably will adopt it

soon.

500 went to Hudson, a suburb This new product brings to every Boston, and selected the scene for automobile owner the advantages of the crine. limited air-conditioning pioneered last fall by Nash, plus several new refinements. It can be installed in

few hours

on any car, new second-hand.-United Press.

Lepers Placed At

5 Million

or

of

ARREST BEFORE WEDDING Two days Inter, driving his car,! Anthony followed his father, who spoke to a shabbily dressed mun and drove him to the selected spa

Authony said he waited for his Lather, w

who joined him in 15 minutes. He denied hearing anybody scream for help.

The father was to have been married a few days after the crime, and was arrested within a few hours of the ceremony.

Toronto. Although the number of cures is) increasing, there are still 5,000,000 | lepers in the world, Emery Ross, general secretary of the American The police theory is that Crowley Mission to Lepers, told the African was killed so that Anthony should committee of the foreign mission collect insurance money conference here.

father's life.-British United Fress.

his

مان ما هم داره اول دور

Juris.

FOR SPRING-Looking toward nows in the fashion world for spring is the garb worn by this charming model at a recent fashion display in the Ritz- Carlton, New York. The hat. of rough straw, shows the influ- ence of the late Spanish painter Goya, Lizard-back gloves of navy are worn over pimento pollah. The coat slightly flares.

Bus Etiquette Taught

Hollister. Cal.

When Shops Sold Clothes That Never Wore Out

Introducing you to the Council for the Preservation of Business Archives.

In other words, the people who are making it their business to make what was nobody's business yesterday everybody's business to-

morrow.

You may not know, for example, that Macaulay in 1856 was paid £20,000 as a mere advance sum for his History of England; and that in 1817 Thomas Moore was given £3,000 for "Lalla Rookh."

Those

are two facts, chosen at

random from the knowledge store of

the council, an organisation which, MADE A PREFECT

In Its three-and-a-half years' exist

ence has sorted through the records

of hundreds of old-established firms 2 DAYS BEFORE

and collected a remarkable amount

of varied information.

This will be compiled into hand-

SUICIDE

books devoted to various trades and PUBLIC SCHOOL BOY

Industries.

WHO TOOK POISON

JOKE

FOR THE ECONOMIST "It has nol only an historical but on 'economic interest," Mr. A. V. LABORATORY Judges, the young brown-haired. ruddy-faced secretary, told the News Chronicle recently. "AR the economista who work on trade cycles and that sort of thing have to draw their fucts from Govern ment reports and Royal Commission reports.

ABOUT CYANIDE ·

Two days after he, had been made a prefect, Sumuci Felix Wilson, an 18-year-old pupl, of Felsted School, near Great Dunmow, Essex, climbed through the window of the locked "Now reports such as those are laboratory and drank poison.

This only Issued at times of crisis-they was revealed at the inquest at are doctor's diagnoses and doctors Braintree when a verdlet

that he are not called in unless the patient "came to his death by cyanide poison is sick. We hope to discover how self-administered while the balance the patient Ilved and how he grew of his mind was disturbed" was re- while he was well.".

corded.

Mr. Judges dived into a deep deed- Buses have become such an in-box packed with ancient tegral part of American life, it scripts written in copper-plate hand, manu- seems, that special etiquette is need-Ink gone brown with age. ed for them. The English class of

school,

~The boy was the son of Dr. Samuel

near Southend. Wilson, of Roche House, Rochford.

Evidence of identiäcation was given

ON OVERTURNED CHAIR Mr. J. F. Alston, a master, said that Wilson, who was found dead DIC

the junior college which is preparing "Look at this, for instance," he by Dr. W. J. C. Chevis, of London- to publish a book on modern etiquette said, "This is the order boolt of a road, Chelmsford, who said that the will cover such fields as good be-member of a Somerset clothing firm boy was his wife's nephew. haviour ot dances,

in the 1770's. Here are the samples re- staurants, and on trains and buses. of cloth he carried bout with him,"

GRANDPA'S SUITS Pinned to the pages were tiny Sunday night in the biology labora- snippets of blue and mulberry broad- tory, was discovered tying across an cloth, as lustrous In colour, as overturned chair. The room was in smoothly sulld in texture as they darkness. Wilson, he said, was last were 150 years ago.

seen at 2.30 that afternoon, when he went for

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You can trust Johnnie Walker. The specially clean. and refreshing taste which you enjoy so much also tells you of the purity and age of the fine whiskies from which it is blended.

Look for the famous square bottle at the club or hotel-and ask for Johnnie Walker by name.

JOHNNIE WALKER

Born 1820 – still going strong

DHECK MACGREGOR & CO.

*Things wore for ever in those

walk, J. E

days. To-day, although we could charge of

Everett, blology master in the laboratory, which

still make cloth like that, we don't stands apart from the ordinary school

I want it: we get bored with

clothes and want them to wear out laboratory

our buildings, sald that he locked the

about lunch-time

in two or three years!"

uncient

Sunday..

ол

All over the country people have

The master said that Wilson always been asked to send their

seemed cheerful. The only way he records to the Council's Headquar was through the window. It would could have got ino the laboratory lers: The Institute of Historical not be possible to make any distinc- tion between poisonous and harmless Although the Coune!! does not keep things in the laboratory. the documents, they take note of ne

Bickersteth,

Research, Malet Street, W.c.

The Rev. K. J. F.

them and what is in them. An headmaster of Felsied School, said extensive card-index is prepared, so that Wilson was admitted in Septem- that the writer of any given hand-ber, 1933, and during his whole school book can at once go to the source for any misdemeanour.

career had never been sent to him.

for his material.

"Franco

TO HAVE STUDIED AT GUYS

"His character was absolutely first

Attack" class," Mr. Bickersteth said. "He was

Message

In An Orange

Geneva.

A shopper in Bolc Neuchatel,

near

begen peeling 蘊

Spanish orange which

just bought.

he had

A

Inside the skin he found small card on which was written In Spanish

"Send reinforcements

will attack on 13.12.7."

5,000

men, Periala · di Sorte-Franco

If the orange was used by a Spanish Government spy to con- vey a message to headquarters, it is a mystery how i got to Switzerland.

'KING'S CHAMPION

ARRESTED

to have left at the end of this term to enter Guy's Hospital in April to study medicine. Only two days be- lore his death he had been made a house prefect."

Dr. Chevis: Had the boy ever consulted you in the matter of his career? Never with any Idea of pursuing any other career than that of medicine.

Did he appear to be happy and con- tented at the thought of taking up medicine?-On the whole, I think so. A fellow pupil, Peter John Suther- land, saith that he and Wilson were working together in the laboratory on Saturday when there was some talk with other boys about potassium cyanide.

"Wilson made a frivolous remark about 1," he said, "One of the boys said that he had found some polas-. slum cyanide and that it was gift in its

usual place. Wilson said: 'I think I'll have some of that. It was only a joke. Anybody might have

It."

and

Dr.

Replying to the coroner, Dr. J. F. MacDonald. Sutherland said that. Wilson did not take any of the polson Mr. Edward Miller, the Woking

away. draper, self-styled "Kirig's

Geoffrey O. Berber, who made people's champion," was arrested re- there was no doubt that Wilson had post-mortem examinationi, sald cently on a warrant and taken 10 Bled from the effects of potassium Brixton Prison:

cyanide, of which he must bave He had folled to comply with on tüken “a véry large order to pay 25 guineas costs arising said he was satisfied that Wilson's The coroner, recording his verdici,

quantly," from summanser which he brought ogainal two officers and the clerk and mental condition was disturbed. chairman of Woking Urban Council for assault,

His summonses were brought after

he had been forcibly ejected from

| the council chamber · last June, · He was committed to prison for a month,

[ but: allowed severî days in which to

pay

Letter Makes Fast Time

Peterborough, Ont

A letter mailed In Wollington,

When the seven days expired on NZ arrived here, completing the Tuesday evening. Mr. Miller again 9,000 mile trip" in sight days. It entered the council chamber, and lett apparently travelled, from Wailing after axolaiming: "Mr. Stollary you to Loke Adekindel. A tal-PRO V

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