1939-07-20 — Page 3

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July 20, 1939.

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Woman with A Murder Clue Hides Herself

FEARS THE 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 justico.

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 a woman-there is no doubt about j that and bearing a Leeds post- mark, which was deilvered at Leeds police headquarters.

SEEKS PLEDGE

The writer intimated that she had; Important information to give, and asked for an assurance that, if the police obtained her name and ad- dress, they would never divulge them

Superintendent James Cralg, chief of the Leeds C.I.D., states that the police will interview the woman at any secret place she cares to choose. "Soon after the receipt of the letter Mr. F. Swnby, Chlef Constable of Leeds, announced the Watch Com- inittee'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

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In an cffort to clucidate queerest feature of the murder-the surgical bandages wound round the head of the giri apparently after death-the police have Consulted experts oriental customs.

They believe that this bandaging was connected with nome mystical custom

ritual observed by people of coloured breeds with their dead.

or

Muzeum authorities and coloured men living in and around Leeds hove been asked whether they can explain this weird last rlle performed by the Laurderer,

Four coloured men, wearing red ind white turbans, have already visited police headquarters.

Bogus Money Minimized

Little Rock, Ark. About $807,000 in "bogus" bills and coins is circulating through the nation, recording to Basil E. Newton, Aurret servico supervisor for Arkansas. He sald this figure was far below the prevailing idles which has been fostered by movies and fiction

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SHELL HOUSE

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., left, receives semi-annual payment on Finland's war debt to United States, from Halmar Procope, Finnish Minister, Check, given in Wa- shington, mounted to $100,603,

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

CANBERRA,

Camouflaged from observallon 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- Ulve querilia warfare.

Trade Union Hunt For Glamour Girl

(By A HOMESIDE REPORTER) ·

RANSPORT HOUSE are trying out an experiment

TRAN

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 union personality

"trade girl."

Tyneside trade union of- ficial have selected half a

Storks Dye For A Living

IF you see a stork with dozen good-looking girls brightly-coloured wings 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 don from Poland recently Six arrived by air at Croy- before cinema audiences for and to-day they will be re- leased at Haslemere to see

Poland or go elsewhere. whether they return

Kazimierz Wodzicki, of the War-

a ballot.

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a great trade union procession The winner will take part in

from the centre of Newcastle to Since the beginning of May shel the famous Town, Moor, where has Blied this post in a temporary the local race meeting is held. capacity.

Though competitors need not be The establishment committee of trade unionists the winner will be the borough council recently asked to join her trade union before tional Museum, Surrey, are co- pointed a man, Dr. H. A. Nathan, to

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receives her prize. Refusal will operating. the position.

mcan disqualification.

Their wings have been brightly One of the volunteers said: "A few

Headquarters officials say the idea dyed in different colours to help old fogeys on the council are bitter- has been submitted in connection identification and to offset the risk of ly opposed to married women

with a trade union recruiting weekpeople destroying them. ployees, and are jealous of Dr. for women, and If the Newcastle experiment is a success it will be tried in other cities.

Dobbie's success.'*

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Another said: "Dr. Dobbie swept Inj The Agricultural Council, meeting like a gate, and blew away all the here, has had brought before it six cobwebs of ineffeiency around the diferent plans to stabilise the wheat industry All involve heavy sub-

"AiealTMARP. ambulance driver sidies, in addition to the proceeds of said: "People are very indignant at the present Federal flow tax, and all the treatment of Dr. Dobbie. Volun-of are being discussed by the Counell. teers will puck the public gallery on Suggested subsidies range from Tuesday, and they do not get a about £750,000 to more than £3-satisfactory explanation there is gu 000,000 a year, according to the leveling to be sume fun."

at which it is proposed to stabilise

the price of wheat

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Skeleton In Cellophane

"DON'T SHOOT" APPEAL Mr. C. I. Blackburn, hon, secretary of the Museum, who took charge of the birds after their 1,100-mile flight, said.

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

"Most of the birds were shot down Sydney, Australla. usefulness here. A surgical house not known if any of them returned to Cellophune has reached new heights in different parts of Europe and it is

Is using it for wrapping skeletons, A six-foot bumun skeleton, each bone carefully wrapped in cellophane to keep it clean and free from dust, hangs in the company's show window,

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

wealth Government will propose that.

if any form of additional assistance

Is to be given the wheal industry,

Martinez; Cal. Howard Hawthorne, incrant get in jail for Jawhile. He applied for admission

the cast should be shared by the Negru, wanted to

Commonwealth Government and the but was told there were no charges

States.

Motorist

Challenge, Cal. Juckrabbits have become the latest

Governments of the wheat-growing against him. So he started in to call menace to motorists here. One jump- the officials names. He was arrested, ed into the windshield of Frank taken before the judge, sentenced to Odgers' automobile, crashing the glass; six months in jall-and the sentence and sending his wife to the emergency suspended.

forestry station with fncial cuts.

NEW ZEALAND

MR. NASH'S MISSION

TO LONDON

AUCKLAND. Referring to London reports that Mr. W. Nish, the Finance Minister. is needing additional loans for de. fence und general purposes. Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, sald people were only guessing and inak- ing their own figures to write articles,

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 rellef he could, so as to enable New Zealand to take more British goods present.

than sit Mr. Savage said 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

NAIROBI. Uniforms issued to the Kenya De- tener Force have buckles stamped "Made in Germany,"

Replying to protests, the Govern- ment explains that no British makes were obtainable when the buckles were needed in an emergency. A supply of German buckles was there ford bought locally. It is promised that in future uniforms.ahall be exclusively Brilish,

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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| rung. The stockings are of cobweb sheerness, trim at the ankle and supple at the knec.

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

Poland.

to

**This time 1 have written ornithologists in France, Germany, Holland and Russia asking them to warm people not to harm any storks seen with coloured wings. From them also we hope to get some idea of the birds' movements."

Ballet 'Baby' 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 Denissova, but her real name is Denise Meyers, and she comes from Canada.

HER LONGING Her father is Vancouver re- frigerator salesman. She joined the company last year when it visited Canada, and dunced in London in minor roles last summer.

This pretty, demure, folr-haired, grey-eyed girl is longing to see her mother and alster 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' quick. During the company's Aus- tralian four she understudied Baronova and Rinbouchinska once or twice with auch success that she was. kiven leading ports to dance regular- ly.

At the end of the year the public Allan, of the R.A.F. station, Finning Mayor About Faces

may be allowed to buy them as ley, Yorkshire, was granted a decree cheaply as a good silk stocking.

Nylon to said to be rayon's first Divorce Court recently against his nisi by Sir Boyd Merriman in the

Clyde, O. rest threat to silk stockings. So wife, Mrs. Gladys Rose Allan, on the children should be allowed to have Mayor William 'Blair thought that far rayon manufacturers have not been able to achieve the clasticity round of her desertion. of silk.

fun with bean-svinters, but ordered Mrs. Allan did not defend the sult.destroyed after a youthful mafkaman | all such","weapons · confiscated and Japan's raw silk exports to the Wing-Commander Allan's case was used the back of his honour's neck_for United States last year were valued that in October 1933 he was posted to a target. The mayor previously had at £17,000,000, or sixty-six per cent. Iraq and after that, his wife refused reprimanded his marshal for scolding of its total exports to that country, to live with him.

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