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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

May 10, 1939..

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The Table They Don't Have To Wait At

It Takes Orders, Stands On

And Even Counts

One Leg,

Neighbours Have All Tried It

PEOPLE FROM various parts of Scotland are visit- ing a miner's home in Bowhill, Fife, to see a small table which, it is claimed, can balance itself on one leg, waltz about the floor, and correctly answer certain questions.

"We haven't had a minute's peace since the antics of the table became known a week ago," said William Dryburgh, the

owner.

"We shall have to turn away all know how many elgarettes were in the visitors, or start a museum. the packet. want to make it known that my wife |

and I are not spiritualiste.

"How many cigarettes are in the

"A spiritualist came from Glasgow packet?" asked Mr. Dryburgh.

to carry out experiments with the table, but we would not allow him in the house."

ON ONE LEG

Mrs. Dryburgh drew out the table, which she uses for holding a radio sot, and set it in the middle of the living-room.

She placed her hands on it, her palms fightly touching the surface.

"Rise, table, rise on two legs, she repeated for eight minutes, The table creaked and rose slightly, "Faster, faster," said Mrs. Dry- burgh.

Two of the table's lens rose six inches from the floor.

"On one leg now," she said. Slowly the table rose and balanced itself on one leg.,

"Down now," said Mrs. Dry- burgh.

And the table slowly resumed its normal position.

The table tapped seven times on

the floor.

We opened the packet, and there were seven cigareties in it.

A stranger, who had been walching the demonstration, took a bunch of keys from his pocket.

He placed them on the table, his hand covering them. No one in the house except the stranger knew how many keys there were.

The table tapped, three times on the stranger's hand. the floor. Three keys were under

"Often the table gives a wrong answer, but it is seldom much sald Mr. Dryburgh.

He Barred Women From His Funeral

Four neighbours came Into the house. They succeeded in raising the, H. G. Vine, 74-years-old under- table on one leg.

One of the neighbours succeeded alone in making the table balance on one leg.

"Move to the budgie's cage," he shouted four times.

Slowly the table moved towards a enge which stood near the living room window.

table

Mr. Dryburgh then carried out another experiment. The balanced Itself on two legs.

SEVEN TAPS

A

cigarette packet was

on the table. No one in the

When the funeral cortege of Mr. taker, arrived at All Saints' Church, the mourners Hastings, recently, were divided into two groups-men and women. The men will the coffin into the church; the women will return to their homes.

follow

Mr. Vine's last wish was no women should undergo the ordeal of his funeral..

Mrs. A. Butcher, his mother-In-

Back from their hurried wedding at Kingman, Ariz., and their 750-mile trip, here are Chirk Gable and his bride, 'Carole Lombard, both of the Alms, as they enjoyed a brief honeymoon at the bride's home at Bel-Air, Col. Later they will live ni Clark's raneb In the San Fernando Valley,

Sister Of Peer Tells Of £400 Bet

Glasgow. Mrs. Elizabeth Finlay, 59-years-old sister of

law, said: "My son-in-law had seen THE Hon.

so much cáûness at funerals that he

placed was anxious that his own should not Baron Glenarthur, and mother

room upset any woman."

See Who's Coming!!!

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(of three children, told Glasgow's

Sheriff Court recently.

"I have dealt with bookmakers ali my life. Some years I was a winner and sometimes a loser. During the past year I certainly was a wlaner, but did not get the money.

The only two I won from-to the extent of £400-were warned off the Turf, and I got nothing. I was left with those who had not been warned off.".

£20,798 LIABILITIES

At her examination in bankruptcy, her Hobllities were said to be £28,700 and her assets £174. But she said: "I have never bet heavily, and there is no great loss to my creditors because of gambling transactions."

And last night, sliting by a log fire in her Highland home, Loch Nell Lodge, Taynuilt, Berwickshire, --she told me:

"It is ridiculous to say that my assets are only £174. I have an estate in Berwickshire worth at least £10,000, and there are also three trusts in which I am interested,

"I intend within the next two or three days to put a definite proposal before my creditors. My Bnancial position is very much better than would appear in the present circum- stances. I have never lived ex- travagantly."

TOOK ON DEBTS

And in court she said that she attributed her bankruptcy to several causes.

"One of these is that I belleved when my husband died I would be well off, and somewhat foolishly took his debis on my shoulders.

These included debla to a number of moneylenders, and I have tried my

+ best to pay them off. In addition, when my father, Baron Glenarthur, died in 1928. instead of receiving any from his estato, I actually lost. This was because shares in Messrs. Arthur and Co., Ginsgow, were overdrawn. I expected to be left about £3,000 £4,000 a year."

TOWN'S PRIDE

NOW COOP

Bolton Notch, Conn. Time marchies on! Once the pride of the community, the one and one- half story building that once housed the railroad. station для postoffice has been dismantled and "converted Into a chickencoop and garage.

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NEWS

“BOYCOTT CONGRESS' CRY IN BOMBAY

BOMBAY. Thousands of Parsis demonstrated In Bombay streets recently to pro- test against the Prohibition policy of the Provincial Congress Government.) The demonstrators carried large Union Jacks and shouted "Boycott Congress."

The procession resembled thoso formerly organised by Congress. Women participated, The boycott] call is reminiscent of the elvit dis-) obedience movement.

Before the procesalon a masa meet- Inst. convened by the Parsi commu- nity, was held.

The community is hard hit by the Prohibition policy, as it holds the majority of licences for toddy palm lands The Parni Press daily con- tains threata of foreign Gandhian weapons against Congress, such as fasts and non-co-operation.

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When your youngster is out-of-sorts --obviously in need of a thorough in- testinal cleansing -- and stiil " fights" taking a laxative, don't set it down as stubbornness, Mayboy

you are guilty- of thoughtlessness. For when a child

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good cause. The taste may be offensive or the action harsh and unpleasant.

So is it over fair, or even kind, to force such remedies your youngster, thus taxing his upset condition still further?

RIOT AT A MEETING

CALCUTTA. Iloters broke up a meeting at

Fortunately, there's no need to resort Lucknow recently convened by non- to such measures. You can get a real Congressmen to protest against the child's laxative, "California Syrup of financial policy of the United Pro-Figs," made primarily for children- vinces Government. There were a and thoroughly pleasant both in tasto number of injured,

and action. including -Sir Jwala Prosod Srivastava and a Euro-

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charges demonstrators ther took lutions supporting the Government. Five Europeans held them at bay for

In flavour, "California Syrup of Figs Callig' - is as delicious as pure fruit syrup. And, because of its gentle vegetable ingredients, is mild and agreeable in effect. Doctors recommend It. And in thousands of homes where it is used, "California Syrup of Figs has proved an equally suitable laxative for others in the famliy either young or old, especially for women with whom it is important to avoid the shock of stronger, harsher drums.

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quarter of an hour, enabling those who had called the meeting to dis- perse.

South Africa

GEN. SMUTS · DEFENDS POLICE

'CAPE TOWN.

The coloured rioting in Cape Town against segregation had a sequel in the House of Assembly yesterday when Dr. Malan, Nationalist leader, moved the adjournment of the House on a matter of urgent public impor- tance.

Dr. Malan alleged that the leaders! of the mass meeting which preceded the march on Parliament were Com- munists.

In replying, Gen. Smuts, Minister of Justice,, declared that the meeting was orderly. Subsequently criminal elements had started disorders. He denied that the police had cruelly attacked innocent people.

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sary to prohibit mixed marriages and to enforce separate dwelling arcos for European and non-Europeans."

Battalion for Semi-Fit-A batta- Bon 011 the lines of the Special Ser- vice Battalion has been formed for semi-ft youths by the Department) of Social Welfare. The battalion will be administered by the Defence

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procceding for the amalgamation of the police of South- West Afrien with those of the Union, according to a statement made by the Administrator in the South-West! Assembly at Windhoek.

Petrified Man Puzzles

SAN FRANCISCO, It took U. S. customs officials here two weeks to decide whether a pur- ported "petrified man" sliculd bel admitted free of duty from Australia for exhibition purpose. Both sculp- tors and geologists wero called in to) establish whether it was a marble] statue of a fossilized human being. No one could agree, so customs off cials marked it "of no commercial value."

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