1939-04-03 — Page 27

New Trumpets For State Occasions

London.

THERE cannot be many people in London (or in the Empire for that matter, if they have visited England), who have not seen the magnificently caparisoned trumpeters of the House- hold Cavalry--the Life Guards and the Royal House Guards ("The Blues") and heard their thrilling fanfares on this or that State occasion.

These Stalo Trumpeters have, an unlawful gume within the mean- blown and polished their heraldic ing of the statute."

trumpets so long that a new set of The court, with regard to stud eight has been made.

poker, adopted the words of Hawitins Not since the '80s have new ones with regard to buccurut and repeate

that been called for, but since then they words to say that it-stud poker-

it would be perversion of have, of course, been repaired and was in any sense a game of mere reconditioned and polished so many hundreds of times that the silver skill.

worn

has

that you coure so thin thi almost put your finger through it in places. Half a century's use had inade the old instruments ns thin as

It probably won't matt difference. Whist drives this paper and in the process the any and so lost weight that they were held all-over the country under the but half their original weight; this must respectable-even ecclesiastical was about thirty ounces each-which-nuspices and they are Megal. means that about £100 worth of silver has been polished away.

could Which miny, be so as looked at from the bench but probably not as lonket at from the card table.

Anyhow

CONTEMPT OF COURT

Not very often nowadays do we The new trumpets will be worth get a really good "popular" case of between £35 and £40 each. They are tuned to an exact F fint. The contempt of court. Most of thes

ttises turn on the indiscreet com- tuning has had to be tested for ab-ment of newspapers on cases pend- by a scientifle gading. The editor usually appears in solute accuracy

This passes get called

sses suck cloth and ashes, apologizes, per- resonusCupe. the note of the trumpet through hops pays a fine, and that's that, zay, and the ray, being pro- The contempt is usually exemplifted and held on to a glass dial, by words rather than deeds. But

Co se zigzag line, whienot always.

showed it was accurate. If sharp. the ray would have sheered of the left, if flat It would have veered the right. After all this away to and other things are done, the trum- pets have to go away to the Assay

Office

An-

The other day a case came before III. An appellant, Appeal Court

ducting his own case, asked for new trial, it was refused. The ppellant left the court, apparently so that every part of them resigned. Shortly afterwards he re- turned

and sat down in court. As may be "hall-marked."

the two Lord Justices were leaving UNLAWFUL GAMING

the court he stood up and hurled to- Not long ago the proprietors of a matoes at their lordships. His nisl a better club were charged before one of the Was untrue ("A pity I wasn't London magistrates with allowing mate fell on the clerk's table.

chat," he remarked later). One to- the club premises to be used for the

other whizzed between the judges' purpose of unlawful gaming contrary

door of the heads through

they 10 section Gaming Houses Act of 1854. The leaving, and squashed on the wail. was The third, owing to force majeure, magistrate held that stud poker was

no chance to deliver. He not an illegal game and dismissed he had

isse was the "formation." The

sent to Brixton Jall for SIX pealed to the High Court and there weeks, but was released by permis the judges sent the case back to the son of the court for Christmas. magistrate with orders to convict. So, unless a yet higher court ultim- ately and appropriately "takes hand" stud poker is in this country an illegal game.

so-and-so

police

.:

This particular case turned on the meaning of the act of 1854 and precedent case of that year (a bac-| carnt care) in which the Judge-the famous Hawkins-said. "The unlaw ful games, then, are ace of hearts, Pharaoh, basset. hazard,

passage,

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were

Well, we enn always find a pre- redent in our law.

It is not recorded in the "Year Books" of centuries ago (the ances tors of present day Law Reports) in the quaint Norman-French-Englisa legal language of the time that an offender Jettait a brickbat at the dit judge“?

A.R.P. Workers

Monday,

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April 3, 1939.

Group photograph taken after the recent wedding of the Rev. W. J. Williams, R.N., and Mrs. O, M. Jago at St..

Andrew's Church.-Ming Yuen,

Medium Loses Case, Spirit Tells Her "Fight On"

7 Women Hold Armchair Seance In Seaside Villa

THE

LEIGH-ON-SEA, ESSEX.

spirit of a Red Indian chief recently advised Mrs. M. Bruce, a 48-years-old Leigh-on-Sea widow, to appeal against a judgment for £400 entered against her in the King's Bench Division earlier in the day.

The chief, mentioned as Mrs. Bruce's spirit guide, "Grey Feather," in the action, gave his advice in my presence, while Mrs. Bruce, in a trance, held a sitting of her "circle."

Six middle-aged women were sit-

roulet every Raine of dice exvent To Get 60/- A Week and a blazing fire in a small

backgammon, and every game vi cards which is not a game of merel

skill; and, I incline to add, every. All A. volunteers and auxiliary other game of mete chance. Docs Bremen doing whole-thne service m baccarat come within this category?¦ war will, receive 009. a week for men The description of the game

make one

mare

and 40s. for women.

Sir John Anderson, Minister for Civilian Defence, announcing this in the House

recently of Commons adrled:-

villa in Leigh-on-Sea.

SURGEON'S COAT

Ms. Bruce put on a white mur geon's coat and notioned the "circle."! to rise and k hands,

War's Two

The Umbrella

Dance

France's latest dunce la "Lu Chain- berlaine," In which, as is to be ex- pected, the umbrella plays a big pari.

This is how to do H

The orchestra strikes up a one-step or tango. A male dancer, umbrella over his left arm, walks alone among the dancers.

He'selcets the girl with whom he would like to dance. With the um- brella he hooks her partner's arm, The girl at once leaves her partner and begins dancing with him.

The former partner, left alone with

the umbrella, in turn tooke round

for a partner, and so on.

Worst Terrors

Beaten By Scientists!

satisfles me that it does, It ai

The Lord's Prayer was sald and a game of cards. It is a game

Mrs. Bruce. closing her eyes. chance; though, as in most other

tightly grasped the hands of the TWO of war's greatest horrors-death from the air things, experience and Judginunt may

two member's next to her. player or banker

"It will be understood that this

sheby mustard gas and incendiary bombs---have been broken Rocking gently to atsch fro successful than another, it would be proposal must be subject to any later oke. Her voice. normally high, at last. a perversion of words to say that it decisions of the Government of the beanie a deep-throated rumble. The was in any sense a game of mere day should the occasion for whole-volee announced that Grey Feather skill. It is therefore, in my opinion, tline service arise."

was among the "circle" and asked: if there were any questions. "CAN YOU TELL US?"

First Walk For 7 Years

FOURTEEN

-

YEAR

OLD Bridget Grave- ling, of King's Lynn, Nor- folk, recently went out

Crowd Storms

for a walk for the first 'Vision Cinema

time since she was six and a half years old.

Crowls waiting admission at the Monseigneur News Theatre. Marble Arch, to which the Boon- Danshar. Bght was relayed by television recently, suddenly sformed the doors

It was pretty, blue-eyed Brid- get's first glimpse for seven years of the world outside the walls of a hospital, and there]

About 20 men and women forced were all sorts of new wonders to their way in and mixed with the

audience. see and talk about.

The manager called for nid. More

Scientists in England and America have discovered chemicals that greatly reduce the power of mustard gas to kill, and of incendiary bombs to set fire easily to Mrs. Barnes, a member-of-the property. "Circle," said:

"Can you tell us, Grey Feather, if your medium should appen against the judgment entered at the King's Bench Division to-day?"

There was a pause, and a long in- drawn breath from the medium be- fore the deep voice answered:

must be strong. fight hard. "Shie and ht on. Help is forthcoming. She must fight,"

Professor Bullard, of Hobart College, New York,, has the antidote to mustard gas-dreadful oily liquid that is dropped in bombs upon towns in wartime, or sprayed from aeroplanes.

MUSTARD GAS NOT ONLY KILLS IN ITS GAS FORM. IT EATS THROUGH THE CLOTHES, AND IF ONLY A DROP FALLS UPON YOU, SHOCKING BURNS CAN RESULT.

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But now the professor has discovered a chemical that, when Mrs. Bruce, with her eyes tightly closed, stnad in turn before each soaked into clothing, turns mustard gas in liquid form into a member of the "free" and made harmless powder. nosses with her hands. In sentences:

Wonderful relief inleid!

found mixture of

Better, that their experts had which were e peculiar

recently Also, ordinary English she beenuse

Imperial powder that robs Incendiary bombs broken and

Chemical Industries, Ltd.-world's of much of their terror. advice or "blessed" them. This over, Mrs. Bruce opened her biggest chemical combine-announcedi eyes and sat down heavily in a chair.

"What happened?" she asked. Eagerly the members of

Their powder, dissolved in water the villa, where there is a bust of Grey designed. to prevent fire even when and sprayed on to woodwork is IN PLASTER

said: "Grey Feather than 50 policemen answered. Only circle" told her that "Grey Feather" Feather, she

has been ins spirit guide for 12 an Incendiary bomb bursts fifteen Bridget was the victim of a bone a few of the "gale-crashers" werend advised her to fight on. disease caused by rheumatism, and traced,

Mrs. Bruce was alleged to have years.

Inches away. Miss obtained £400 from for as long as she can remember the

Both these discoveries should soon

Important tesis of experiments will be made.

"I have a small income, and 1

Spiritualist activities."

has been encased in plaster of paris. whole of the lower part of her body! Tailer News Theatre also sereencd not appear in court, but entered a have never made profit from my be available to Britain and further

television relays of the fight.

Dodd The Marble Arch Pavilion and the who atlanted her seances. She did

plea that the money was a gift.

•

GUINEA SEATS

She had been an inmsle of five | hospitals before. at the Royal į Northern Hospital in Holloway,Į At the Marble Arch Pavilion, the North London, the surgeons sue- excitement was intense and, with 11 cessfully performed a rare opera- the comfort of the cinema, the tion on the bone of her leg, which audience followed the fight with the she had broken by turning over in bed.

Discose had prevented the bane from developing properly, and this was the cause of the fracture.

Things Bridget had never seen or heard before were Balisha crossings and talking-films.

verve of ringside spectators.

In the drawing room of her nodest

Police Use Plane As Black Maria

For the Brst time on aeroplane was ured us a Black Maria recently when two prisoners were flown from Jersey to Southampton.

Mr. Bruce has three chikiren.

Palm Oldest

Living Thing

BRISBANE.

Extends Aid For Cancer Victims

LONDON.

A government grant, provided for in Great Britain's new cancer bill, Wil enable al curable cancer The oldest living thing on earth, sufferers to avail themselves of giant palm which is believed to be modern methods of treatment. 16,000 years old, has just been re- Cancer now causes 70,000 deaths planted by 200 botany students of in England yearly, and at present

Women shrieked, men shouted, As each blow found its mark there were gasps.

Loud cheers greeted Danahur's

courageous recoveries from counts of nine.

Twice there were technical hitches, "I can only diinly remember ever

B.B.C. commentator. T. 1. having been to a cinema at all," Woodrooffe. apologised from

thegular service. ringside for the breakdowns, which Three Bournemouth C.I.D. offers the University of Cleveland. The only one case in four which might "After the talkie was over I was were due to the transmitting end, and the two prisoners were the only tree was uprooted by vandals recent- hopefully be treated is receving st taken by Nurse Coopland, my dearest and not to the apparatus n

ly. friend, to meet Tan Mix.

she said.

"BRAVE GIRL"

bui

elnemo,

ALWAYS CLEAR

The michine was one used on the

Bournemouth: to

the passengers.

Taken charged with sufs-breaking the men .very nervous, but he Not once did the audience lose will appear before Bournemouth laughed and shook my hand, and sight of the boxers, and every blow magistrates, said, I'm honoured to meet such awas seen and heard. "brave Kitle

was

well for goon, hope you will get |

The screen mensured 200 sq. It

ARRESTED AT LUNCH

Peter." "Grandfather as

fention, Known รถ

Finns for the campaign will include its age was verified in 1912 by Pro-provision of cancer centres in all essor Chamberlain, of Chicago, the large towns, and hospital beds for world authority on the Macrozamla. advanced cases. Surgery na these palms are called. He was and X-ray will be available for ell surprised to-find the largest and Local authorities will be empowered oldest living specimens in the world to pay, when necessary, the travelling

radium

the largest in the world. It was light unching at a Jersey hotel. A third state on the Tamborine Mountain in centre.

The nen were arrested while growing in their wild and natural expenses of a patient to the nearest

+

"I had been practising walking for times ns bign the "American nearly four days when Nurse Coop Miracle," about which they have been mon escaped through a window, Queensland. land asked me I would like to go boasting In the United States,

Prisoners and their luggage, which The professor

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estimated

The measure also enables the Mini- that ster of Health to lend up to £500,- to the pictures.”

Mr. Isidore Ostrer, chairman of included four large suitcases and a "Grandfather Peter, the largest of 000 to the National Radium Trust for Bridget's parents have never seen Gaumont-British, who was respon-big box, were driven, 30 miles in a the trees, was 15.000 years old. It the purpose of radium and equip. her walk since the first entered asible for the show, said afterwards "Black Marta" to Bournemouth stande twenty-five feet high. The ment. hospital seven years ago, but in a that they had given a demonstratlan

ngo few weeks they will come to London of what could be done with television police station from Eastleigh air-others in the grove varied. In

from 3,000 to 8,000

In the cinema,

port.

to take her back to King's Lynn.

years. These feet long, fifteen inches wide, rigid palms-they are not strictly speak and beautifully areen and glossy, "Whenever anybody mentions the It was the Corporation's intention, Police guarded all entrances to the ing trees, are a cross between a fern The plam bears a huge. seed cone, -word "home" I get so exclled I enn he said, lo install televisors in all it hangar when the change-over from and palm-grow, exceedingly slowly, not unlike a pine-apple, and one was hardly breathe," she said.

cinemas throughout the country." Iplane to car was mode.

The fern-like leaves are six to seven found to weigh eighty-five pounds.

Supp

Court

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Scientist Explains How New Discovery Makes Men Feel Years Younger

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