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WOMAN AND OFFICER FORGING PLANT
"£5 Notes" Made in
Paris Factory
Paris.
A pretty, dark-haired woman, Gabrielle Fontenoy, and her lover, Jean Iliesco, aged 35, were arrested in Paris recently and accused of forging English £5 notes, which they are alleged to have passed in France.
According to the police statement, Ilicsco was running a forging factory with elaborate equipment, including copper plates of Bank of England notes, large quantities of paper with false water-marks, rubber stamps, and chemicals.
Among uther articles said to have been found in the "factory" were:
Plates for forging English, Bel- gian, French, German, and other postal stamps.
Forged signatures of leading statesmen in France and other European countries.
False certificates for degrees In somo of France's biggest univer-
xities.
Statements alleged to have been altow made by the arrested couple
in that they also employed agents the distribution of tolac French notes.
A nation-wide hunt to find the rest of the forgery gang hus now begun.
Iliesco posed as an artist concerned in designing animated cartoons for firms.
Medicine-Taking Craze Is Growing
London.
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The Minister has sent to all re- Two-and-a-half million more bot-gional medical officers a table show- ties of medicine and boxes of pillsing which are the districts that con- were handed out to panel patients in sume more medicine than the normal, Britain last year than in the yeur be and which are those that consume fore.
This is shown in a report pre- pared by the Ministry of Health for presentation to M.P.s when they re- turned from their summer Total number of prescriptions was 05,792,000.
recoRs.
Lancashire is one of the chief medicine-drinking counties. It takes twice as much as most of the Scot- Ush districts,
Oxfordshire, on the other hand, half of the rage quantity for the rest of Bel- Lain.
The Minister of Health warned panel doctors that much of this medi-drinks less than one cine is unnecessary, and asked them not to prescribe in future unless they are absolutely convinced that it is really needed,
In many cases Individual patients had £100 worth of medicine during the ycer.
Doctors in the areas where the thirst for medielne is greatest have asked to keep an especially been close watch on the requests of their patients
SATURDAY,
RAN
J. Richard (Dixle) Davis, wearing dark glasses in a police sqund ear, en route to a New York court where he pleaded gulity to 13 policy racket indictments. He was later called as state's witness against James J. Hines.
Painless Motherhood For Five Shillings
Every mother in Britain is to be able to have her baby without pain. Plans for bringing a new "twilight sleep" ap- paratus within the reach of every woman have been com- pleted by the National Birthday Trust Fund. And the mothers will have to pay only five shillings for the privilege.
The Fund wants to stop the toll off 45 mothers who die every week in childbirth.
The anacsicile is a gas and air mixed which deadens pain but does not render the woman unconsclous.
It is self-administered. When the
A new portable anaesthetic up- paratus costing £12 12s, is to be dis-[pain becomes stronger, more gas can tributed to every district nurse with- The Inhaled.
in the next few months.
local
The apparatus Is invaluable to The apparatus will Cost councils only £5 5s, as the Fundurse working in lonely country are contributing the extra £7 78. out districts, where special medleal nid is of funds which they are raising. difficult to get.
What'll the Neighbors Think?
WE'RE FOR COMFORT WHEN CLEANING THE CAR... STILL A LOT DEPENDS ON ONE'S
AGURE
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IF SHE ISN'T THE COOK
YOU HAD HOPED THERES NO USE ADVERTISING
THE FACT
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AFTER A FISHING TRIP IT'S BAD
I STUFF TO COME HOME SINGING AND
WAVING THE FISH ON HIGH ~*****
SEPTEMBER 17, 1938.
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OLYMPIC GAMES BROLIN 1938
Perfect Control
‘ASPIRIN'
Boyer MEANS Deit
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
By J. NORMAN LYND.
THE NEIGHBORS LIKELY GET THE IDEA THAT THERE'S MURDER BEING DONE... IT'S PROBABLY JUST SISTER OBJECTING TO WASHING BEHIND HER
EARS
WHEN THE FRIENDS DROP IN FOR AN HOUR. AND MAKE THE OLD OAK RAFTERS RING
WITH MIRTH AND SONG
THERE ARE STILL SOME OLD CONSERVATIVE AREAS WHERE THE ELDERS MOAN WHEN
THE YOUNG ONES, DRESS
FOR COMPORT
NORMAN VND
• Ledger Syndicate
F THE WIFE LIKÉS PUSHING THE LAWN MOWER, LET HER, BUT YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE WILL TALK.
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