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July 20, 1939.

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Woman with A Murder

Clue Hides Herself

FEARS THE

THE SAME

SAME FATE

SOMEWHERE in Leeds is a terror-stricken woman who wants to com municate to the police a secret which may bring the murderer of Ethel Wraithmell to justice.

But because she fears that! the fate which befell the 20-year-old waif, who was 'strangled and dismembered, may be meted out to her, she has remained silent.

This, the detectives think, is! the probable, explanation of an, anonymous letter, written by af woman-there is no doubt about) that and bearing n Leeds post- mark, which was delivered at! Leeds police headquarters.

SEEKS PLEDGE

The writer bitimated that she had important Information to give, and) asked for an assurance that, if the police obtained her Rame and ad- dress. they would never divulge them.

Superintendent James Craig, elief of the Leeds C.I.D., states that the poller will interiiew the woman a! any secret pince she cares to choose.

Soon after the receipt of the letter! Mr. F. Swaby, Chief Constable of Leeds, announced the Watch Com- mittee's decision to offer a reward of, £250 to the first person giving in-. formation leading to the conviction of the murderer or murderers.

LAST RITUAL

In an effort to elucidate the queerest feature of the murder-the surgical bandages wound round. the head of the girl apparently after. death-the police have consulted

experts on oriental custoins,

They believe that this bandaging was connected with some mystical custom or ritual observed by people of coloured breeds with their dead,

Museum authorities and coloured men living in and around Leeds have been asked whether they can explain this weird lust rite performed by the murderer,

Four coloured men, wearing red

and white turbane, have alrealy visited police headquarters.

Bogus Money Minimized

Little Rock, Ark. About $007,000 In "bogus" Ells and <plus is cleculating through the nation, according to Busil E. Newton, secret. service supervisor for Arkunsas. He said this gure was for below the prevailing idea which las been fostered by movies and fiction

sturies.

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SPIRAL

by

formflt

ELITE STYLES SHELL HOUSE

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Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau. Jr.. left, receives wemu-annual payment on Finland's war debt to United States. from Hjalmar Procope. Finnish Minister. Check, given in Wa- *hington, amounted to $169,693.

300 Threaten To

Quit A.R.P.

THREE HUNDRED A.R.P. volunteers at Epsom and Ewell, Surrey, threaten to resign be cause of the non-appointment of Dr. Edith Dobbie as A.R.P. assistant to the Medical Officer of Health for the borough.

EMPIRE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT SUBSIDY PLAN

CANDERRA.

Since the beginning of May she has Alled this post in a temporary capacity.

Campullaged from observation of Japanese airplane machine gunners is this fighting Chinese woman of Kwangs! Province.. With her sub-machine gun she is harassing the invaders in effec- tive guerilla warfare.

Trade Union Hunt For Glamour Girl

(By A HOMESIDE REPORTER)

TRANSPORT HOUSE are trying out an experiment in glamour. Officials at the London headquarters of the trade union movement recently approved a com- petition now being held in Newcastle-on-Tyne for a "trade union personality girl."

Storks Dye For

A Living

you see a stork with brightly-coloured wings

Tyneside trade union of- ficial have selected half a dozen good-looking girls from hundreds of photo-you will know that it is a graphs submitted, and these bird with a mission. six will be paraded to-night,

Six arrived by air at Croy- before cinema audiences for don from Poland recently a ballot.

and to-day they will be re- leased at Haslemere to see

Poland or go elsewhere. whether they return to

They were sent by Professor Kazimierz Wodzicki, of the War- saw Agricultural College, with whom the Haslemere Educa-

MUST JOIN FIRST a great trade union procession The winner will take part in

from the centre of Newcastle to the famous Town Moor, where the local race meeting is held.

Though competitors need not be The establishment committee of trade unionists the winner will be\tional Museum, Surrey, are co- the borough counell recently up she receives her prize. Refusni will usked to join her trade union before

mean disquailleation.

Their wings have been brightly Headquarters oftleints say the ideaf dyed in different colours to help old togeys on the council are bitter- has been submitted in connection identification and to offset the risk of ly opposed to married women em- with a trade union recruiting week people destroying them.

Newcastle ployees, and are jealous of Dr. for women, and if the Dobble's success."

experiment is a success it will be tried in other cities.

pointed a man, Dr. H. A. Nathan, to the position.

One of the volunteers said: "A few

LIKE A GALE

Another said: "Dr. Dobble swept in like a gule, and blew away all the cobwebs of inefficiency around the business

Skeleton In _Cellophane_

The Agricultural Council, meeting here, hus had brought before It six different plans to stabilise the wheat Industry. All involve heavy sub-

A locul ARP. ambulance driver sidies, in addition to the proceeds of said: "People are very indignant at

Sydney, Australia, the present Federal flour tax, and all the treatment of Dr. Dobble. Volun- of vistfulmone has surgical house Cellophane has reached new heights ure being discussed by the Council. teers will pack the public gallery on

Suggested subsidies range from Tuesday, and if they do not get n is using it for wrapping skeletons. about £750,000 to more than £3.- satisfactory explanation there is 80-tone carefully wrapped in cellophane A six-foot human skeleton, each to keep it clean and free from dust, hangs in the company's show window.

|000,000 a yen propose to the leveling to be some fun,"

at whleh it is

the price of wheat

to stabilist

It is understood that the Comman-Jail Seeker Unlucky Jackrabbit Injures

wealth Government will propose that,

If any form of additional assistance

Martinez, Cal.

la to be given the wheat industry, Howard Hawthorne, itinerant Negro, wanted to get in jail for awhile. He applied for admission

the cast should be shored by the Commonwealth Government and the Governments of the wheat-growing States.

NEW ZEALAND

MR. NASH'S MISSION TO LONDON

AUCKLAND. Referring to London reports that Mr. W. Nash, the Finance Minister, is needing additional loans for de- fence and general purposes, Mr.

Savage, the Prime Minister, sald people were only guessing and mak- ing Betr own figures to write urticles.

There were three reasons for Mr. Nash's trip to London:

.

To make arrangements for the £17,000,000 loan falling due for redemption on Jan. 1 next.

To discuss trade relations with Britain.

To

get whatever relief he could. so as to enable New Zealand to take more British goods than at present.

Mr. Savage sald he was not sure that any definite amounts were in question. It was simply a matter of negotiation between the representa- tive of this Government and the re- presentative of the authorities in Britain.

KENYA

GERMAN BUCKLES FOR DEFENCE FORCE

Motorist

operating.

"DON'T SHOOT" APPEAL Mr. C. I. Blackburn, hon, secretary of the Museum, who look charge of the birds after their 1,100-mlle fight. Bald.

"Similar experiments were made three years ago, but were unwatisfuc- tory

"Most of the birds were shot down

Poland.

not known if any of them returned to in different parts of Europe and it is

"This time have written to ornithologists in France. Germany, Holland und Russia asking them to warn people not to harm any storks with coloured wings. From them also we hope to get some Idea of the birds' movements."

Scen

Challenge Cal Ballet Baby'

but was told there were no charges Jackrabbits have become the latest against him. So he started in to call menace to motorists here. One jump- the officials numes. He was arrested, ed into the windshield of Frank taken before the judge, sentenced to Odgers' automobile, crushing the glass six months in jail-and the sentence and sending his wife to the emergency suspended.

forestry station with facial cuts.

A Rival To Silk Stockings

NEW stocking fabric, which may eventually ruin Japan's raw silk trade, has been evolved after years of experiment by the Du Pont Company of America. It is a synthetic yarn called nylon, looks like the finest silk but wears better, and is made from coal, air and water.

To test nylon, Miss Eileen Leonard, a Du Pont employee, has gone to work at the World's Fair of the past six weeks wearing the same pair of stockings made of the fabric.

So far there have been no runs. The stockings are of cobweb sheerness, trim at the ankle and supple at the knee.

Only Du Pont employees and wives of the firm's executives have so for been allowed to wear the stockings.

Wife Deserted

R.A.F. Officer

Wing-Commander David Stewart

At the end of the year the public Allan, of the R.A.F. station, Finning-

Aged 16

A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD

"baby ballerina" is one of the stars of this year's Russian Ballet season, which opened at Covent Garden recently,

They call her glamorously Alexandre Denissovn, but her real name is Denise Meyera, and (she comes from Canada.

HER LONGING

Her father is a Vancouver re- frigerator salesman. Sho joined the company last year when it visited Canada, and danced In London in minor roles last summer,

Tula pretty, demure, fair-haired, grey-eyed girl is longing to see her mother and sister for the first time for 14 months, when they come to London this summer to see her dance at Covent Garden,

Her rise to prominence has been quicks. During the company's Aus- trollan tour .she understudied Baronova and Riabouchinska once or twice with such success that she was given loading ports to dance regular- ly.

Uniforms Jasued to the Kenya De- may be allowed to buy them as fey, Yorkshire, was granted a decree Mayor About Faces

fence Force have buckdes stamped "Made in Germany

cheaply as a good silk stocking

Clyde, O. Nylon is said to be rayon's first nial by Sir Boyd Merriman in the

Mayor William Blair: thought that Replying to protests, the Govern-

· Divorce Court recently against his real threat to silk stockings. So wife, Mrs. Gladys Rose Allan, on the children should be allowed to have ment explains that no British makes far rayon manufacturers have not were obtainable when the buckles

fun with bean-shooters, but ordered been able to achieve the elasticity ground of her desertion.

Fall, auch weapons confiscated and were needed in an emergency. A

Mrs. Allan did not defend the suit, destroyed, after a youthful marksman supply of German buckles was there- Japan's raw silk exports to the Wing-Commander Allan's case was used the back of his honour's necks for fore bought locally. It is promised United States last year were valued that in October 1933 he was posted ton target. The mayor previously had that in future uniforms shall be at £17,000,000, or sixty-six per cent. Iraq and after that his wife refused reprimanded his marshal for scolding exclusively Britisht,

of its total exporte to that country, to live; with him,

children with bean-shooters,

of alk

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