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Czech Mother And

Sons Fall 13 Storeys

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NEW YORK.

SHORTLY before the wife and two young sons of

a former Czech millionaire fell to their deaths from a skyscraper hotel in Chicago recently, a letter arrived with the news that the Canadian authorities had agreed to give the family permanent refuge.

The family's six-months' visa permitting them to stay in the United States had expired, and they feared that they would have to return to Prague.

The woman was Adele Lan-lodgings to give his wife the good

Her ger, aged 43.

sons were ews when the police arrived to tell; aged about six and four. Their of the tragedy.

The Langers arrived in Chiengo a father, Carl Langer, owned a few weeks ago with £300, all that £300,000 textile business in Pra-contained of their fortune. gue until the Germans marched in.

"PERSECUTION"

Mrs. Lunger felt their lodgings, telling her husband that she was Lamper was waiting, outside their taking the children to the 200.

Bargee Rip Van

Winkle WHEN Mr. Cecil Cooke,

mate of the sailing barge Reminder, retires to his hunk for a nap, he sleeps so sound. ly that the crew do not have

o walk-about on tiptoe.

Instead, she took them to the Con- ress Hotel. asked for a light and

the fry ropin, and registered in name of Della Frank.

Early next day she slashed, her wrist with a knife then, dinging up! the window, fell with the two boys to the street, 12 storeys below.

Al the inquest the jury found that Mr.. Langer omisited sulcide "whals a viețim of temporary - sanity due to persecution,"

It was stated that she was

His nap nearly cost him his; Jewish extraction.

life recently.

Smoke was seen pouring from the!

borge as it lay mosted at paich. The Blackboard Is

The miste wHE

known to be 481-

board and an alarm was given.

Police and Bremen tried again and gala to force their way down below.

The shouted and thinped on thei

Sanoke and flames drove them away from the steps of the complafonway.

ele:

Then firemen with oxygen-breath- ing outfits burst into the cabin. They sublued the blaze while more alonits

for the matr. encouragement

vent p

roared

Spectato s

from the quayside.

Then, as the smoke cleared, theyį saw Mr. Cooke. He was curled up.

in his hunk in a cornes, fast asleep,

He was tinbart.

Yellow Now

THE hundred children who went to the new infants' school at Addington, Surrcy. recently found that the black- boards are yellow and that the teachers write black chalk.

an them in

Of

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Miss Edith Hammond of Shrop- ahire, England, winner of 57 beauty prizes, arrives in New York for a visit. She claims to have a Venus aure. She is 5 feet 8 inches and weighs "eight slone ten," or 122 pounds.

First Radio

Mast Dismantled

SHE WAS AFRAID. TO, SHAKE HANDS

Rheumatism in Joints Caused Her Intense Pain

Rheumatism affects its victims in many curlour and Inconvenient ways. In the case of this woman, she dared not shake hands with people because of the pain it enused her as a result of rheumatism in the joints. This condition Insted for several years, until she hit on the right remedy- Kruschen Salts. Rend her latlet:-

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Secret Only G.B.S. Knows

Presiding at the annual meeting

of recently

Shakespeare the

Theatre Com- Memorial National inittee, Lord Lytton congratulated Mr. Bernard Shaw, a member of the rommittee, on "being what you are at the age of 83,"

Mr. Shaw laughed.

"If only you knew what am as well as i know" he retorted, and broke off, laughing even more heartily.

Lord Lytton slated that £74,000 now available for building.

CHELMSFORD, Essex, Eng. (UP) The first steel radio mast ever. This innovation is planned built in the history of audio is being was

187 Seats enduwed numbered! 140. to help the children's eyesight.mantled here. The mast,

feet high, was built for Marconi's Several months would elapse before first experimental station here.

the final plans were approved.

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September 9, 1939.

What did the

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