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HONGKONG, * TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2

At cotton-picking time in Dixie the cconomists were concerned over the Rust mechanical picker, shown at work near Memphis, Tenn.. The machine plekts about 1,500 pounds of lint and seed an hour at a cost of 24 cents for 100 pounds. Field hands, lower panel, are poid 75 cents to $1 for 100 pounds. The machine costs $5,000, but factory production is expected to reduce that figure. The machlue is no longer In the experimental stage.

Woman's

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Dogs Sentenced

To 'Firing Squad'

Lewes.

Eleven prize-winning getters worth hundreds of pounds are to be taken from their home in the Sussex village of Framfield, and shot.

ORCHESTRAS MAY LOSE THEIR CONDUCTORS

Orchestras may soon be playing without a conductor, Mr. Adolph Busch and his colleagues have been showing how well a conductorless orchestra can play.

It has not yet been attempted on a large scale and no one, apparently, can say with certainty at what stage a conductor becomes Indispensable or whether there is a definite limit to the number of musicians who can play without a baton to hold them together.

Scott: Goddard writes; ..

It is curious that no 'Impresario has produced one of the conductor- lesa orchestras from Russia for London to hear.

We are deluged with star per- formers an every known instrument, voice included, and within the last half-century the maestro conductor has risen to untold heights of glory.

HOW IS IT DONE?

Elephants Routed-By

A Slipper!

It is an intriguing problem, how these conductorless orchestras do thei trick. They can never be leaderless, however.much they may be conduc- Councillor J. C. Dempsey, of Roth- Armed with only a carpet slipper, torless, Rehearsals (where all the well, Northants, recently drove two real work is done) must have some circus elephants from his cabbage central authority.

patch.

Thief In Abbey As were controlled by the man sitting at

Woman Prayed

"I am particularly anxious to stop this form of crime," said the Bow- street magistrate, Mr. Fry, when This is the order of the Uckfield "When I returned they had torn Waller Barcley, 50, described as in-

The magistrates.

dogs' alleged down some wire netting and eleven dependent, of Queen's-crescent, N.W., offence is sheep worrying.

of them were missing. I have many pleaded guilty recently to stealing a Their owner, beautiful countrybred cats and kitens, two goats, herses, handbag from a woman praying" in Miss Kathleen Slattery, said: "I am and the dogs are on the best of terms Westminster Abbey.

Mias doing everything in my power to with them all." save their lives.

Miss Slattery spends all her times Joan Louise Kly, a Civil Ser-

of Manor Park, sald that

on

The National Farmers' Union have with her pets. She has an aylary missing her bag she noticed that Bar- pressed for the dogs' destruction, al-filled with lovebirds, and a large cley, who had been sitting behind her, though the farmers concerned have white parrot.

had disappeared. not asked for them to be punished. "I shall try to form

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from the chapel and Miss Slattery told how it hap-among dog lovers. Dogs are my found him walking away, with the pened. "I had not taken them out hobby, although many people think bag under his coat.

He was de- for their usual morning walk. I went am mad to keep so many. ~ I should {tained by a verger.

in- Barcicy was away in my cer and the dogs were be broken-hearted to lose any one of

remanded for them." afraid I had forgotten them.

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The elephants escaped from a cir-

The idea seems to be, in essence, a return to what went on before cus which was about to leave the Beethoven's day. Then there was town, roamed across a field, and по conductor, but performances entered the cabbage patch,

"The first I knew about it was the harpsichord-the lender in fact, when a man ran into my factory and told me two large elephants were Young Beethoven appears to have busy cating my cabbages," Mr. done that job at rehearsals (unpaid) Dempsey said. In the orchestra of the Elector of Cologne.

At the end of his life. when the Ninth Symphony was per-. formed, the orchestra was to all 'n- lents and purposes conductorless, for though Beetlioven was officially in command he was by then completely deat.

VIOLIN LEADER

Since his movements were no guide to the orchestra which he could not hear, the first violinist, Duport, kept the players together.

"I ran out and, with a slipper In ons hand and a cabhure I pulled out in the other, managed to hold up the elephanta, who were having a fine time.

EATING CABBAGES

"They were pulling up cabbages with their trunks, eating them, and spitting out the stalks and roots.

"By the time I got there there were plenty of spectators but no helpers. "I waved my slipper and cabbage, Bruno Walter has recently shown truants ambled off back to the circus.

and after a few tense moments (in a set of gramophone records) that the trick can be done with bages I lost," he added with a anile. "The fun was well worth the cab- But Mozart planoforte concerto. how such a method could possibly succeed with a complicated modern score remains to be seen.

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One of the problems of every mental hospital is how to interest the "shut in" type of patient. In the most recent report of the Lunacy and Mental Deficiency Board of Control, Just published, it is revealed

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FRED BARNES, ONCE £150-WEEK STAR, DIES IN POVERTY

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Once a star, Fred Barnes, the comedian. was the County Court, a solicitor said

Later, when Barnes appeared in 5 recently found dead at his lodging in that he was a very rich man, having St. Anne Road, Southend-on-Sea, received a fortune of several thou-

He was lying fully clothed in front sands. of a gas-ring in an upstairs sitting- room, but the top had not been turn- cd on, and a seizure is believed to have caused death.

Barnes, who was 53, had fallen on hard times. Yet for 25 years he had, topped the bill wherever he appear-

ed.

Eighteen months ago he was told that with care he might live six months. "I'm not scared," he told

the doctor. "Out with It."

He went to Southend for his health..

Five months ago he said: "Better

11 merry three months than a miser- able six," adding that he had been smoking and drinking what he liked and felt perfectly At.

His health was failing, neverili less,

and he became worse his neans diminished.

'He received an allowance from friend of the old days, but he be came unable to, supplement this, as he had done for some time, by play ing the piano and singing his old numbers in public-house.

He complained bitterly that no one seemed to care. He had shared plause with giants of the past like

Yet last year he was telling of his terrible plight-with a stomach that was "an aching chasm" and hardly a sound pair of shoes to his feet.

PHOTO ON CHEQUES

For years Barnes kept a marmoset on his shoulder when he toured the monkey as a pet. The monkey sat West End hotels. He had a big yellow car with the name "Fred Barnes" painted on It In large letters. He even had his photograph on his cheques,

For a bet of £100 he once stood for an hour in Leicester Square in evening dress and wearing a mak trying to sell golden sovereigns for sd. No one purchased; he won the woker.

Then he perpetrated a great hoax announcing that he had married Australian heiress by special apologised to the Archbishop of Licence in a ffat. Ho afterwards Canterbury for the hoax, which, ho said, had cost him £150.

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40 years; stated; that the comedian's The New Zealand Government hus father Had a prosperous business but imported and stored huge quantities left him nothing in his will, This of petrol for use in the event of war. Inspired Barnes to write his most This fact was made known by the popular song, "The Black Sheep of Minister of Miner, Mr. P. C. Webb, who added that in an emergency In Barnes claimed that he the Government would call to its had been left £84,000 by an Ameri- aid all practical means for producing Mecan woman, Mrs. Gordon Browne, oft from coal

for assisting her in a London aft It was hoped, said Mr. Webb, that Grid: When It was pointed out that the prospecting for git that was now mich, à, woman was not known in the going 'on' would reveal supplies suť- |:U.S.A., one of his friends insisted ficient to remove the danger of a

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