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Mistake hi SpeU h g
Meant A Hangdog
Through thedarkenedstreets
Of air -raided frondon, antler the
probing rays of the sentehlights,
pretty Front -Wu l:milienne
Gerard ran ha lately. Seeklug
the arias of the num She loved.
Shrapnel hissed down lila the
eluptn tetadways. Etvery now anti
then the shuddering crash of au
explosion drove . her Into the
shelter of a friendly doorway,
it wits a ttlglit of death , ,
and the singe was set fur milder.
The warning sounds had
driven most at the foreign pep.
laden of Soho to the deep safety
Of the Underground. Desperately,
Er:nil:time told herself that if
one of the bombs were marked
With her name elle would pre-
fer to die with her sweetheart,
Louis Voisin.
She little knew that L011ls was
deep in the passionate embrace
of another woman, She little
knew that slender, sultry -eyed
Berthe Bache was already her
rival,
In the turbulent, shifting sea
of war -time London, Bertha
Roche loved her man with the
swift hell -Ont intensity of a fiend,
She was playing a genie of
dangerous kisses with Louis
Voisin, ane kiss for every bark
Of an ack-ack gun .:. and love
41uddeniy turning to terrible hate
at the sound of Evntillenne•y
footsteps on the basement stairs.
Voices were raised in the Soho
nigbt. • Like a tigress, Berthe
sprang.at Emlienue, raining
blows On her head, The she
seized a poker and struck again,
till Emilienne sank in a sea of
blood.
Louis looked down at her
callously. •A butcher by trade,
he must have noticed that
Etnilienne still breathed, that
her heart still beat. But Berthe
whispered feverishly, insistently,
in his ear: "Kill her! Strangle
her!" Like a man in a trance
Louis' Voisin seized a twisted
towel ,
And With demoniac cruelty
Berthe Roche must have laughed
as she glimpsed the next grim
phase, A fake murder plotted
to hide a real murder! But first
the body of Emilienne Gerard
must be cut to pieces, dissected
with butcher's skill.
Next morning Berthe was up
early, busy with buckets of
water, telling a neighbour that
Voisin had killed a calf and
stained his clothes. It took a
day to interweave all the loose
threads of the plan she had con-
ceived in her evil brain. And
first a bottle of blood had to be
taken to Emilienne Gerard's flat
and smeared on the walls. The
head and hands of the unfortu-
nate woman were stowed in
bran in a cask in Lends Voisin's
coal -cellar,
tat
Oedi-Puss — Oedipus Wu, a Sia-
mese sealpoint kitten, poses pa-
tiently In •a brandy glass with
some of the awards he is buck-
ing for at the 37th Annual Em-
pire Cat Club Show.
o e Srainless Ste
BY EDNA MILES
IN a very short gine, etainiess steel, has ,c e e ceps re the /suchen.
and into the dining moue where it grapestl.e tabb;e in eempan7
With good chtaa and. crystal
Need every housewite has some st:nnless steep in her kietsbeg
which she uses for stirring or ether food Preparation- Ttr.1s, tbe.
wonders how the more erpenssee stainless' (selling for pentane19 a piece setting) differs teen tbc'cheaper varieties that offer
A set for four persons at a mere 110.
The answer, as always, lies in qualitty. Fi.-$1, there's a matter
of !lash. Unlike the inexpensive stainless, the wanly stainless
'has no rough edges and is buffed to bring eat the lasting, Meth
luster ot'the stainless itself.
Many brides-to-be are picking stainless. steel a3 their only
tableware in starting out. Later on, they can add sterling, &K
-
at the outset they have one geed quality set that still scree.
handsomely both Ser family and guests,
In shopping for stainless, then, watch -for ionic, handles on
knives and graded pieces. Graded pieces are those tapesin
thickness toward the edge of the sg�con bowl; bandies and tips
of fork tines, just as In the best stertice
Such grading improves the appeaance, feel and haleme of the
tableware. The woman buying stathiess should always loud a
piece in iter hand and inspect it carefullx for soth qualities.
Stainless as usually roast beautiful in very sfmpfe design, teat.
there are a number of patterns on the market today fon which
the housewife can choose.
design for the s'afnless knelno lenges t.late silver designs into Stafnles<; keel
beware Ca
ptiny
This bride-to-be csae1x13T bespeak ; etatalewa steed
epees: tea
finish and srsrilnr, tune twenties tree teen the difference trcirrees
abed tableware and the less expensive r+•riely. The netters she
et btaasecthee la tailed Baleen*
Then the less easily identifi-
able remains were parcelled and
carried easily through the desert-
ed dawn, Knowing that her
rival Was now safely out of the
way, Berthe turned to her lover
with a ferocity- of renewed de-
light.
Such was the crime that
startled London during the dos-
ing months of World War 1.
Ainld the fallen leaves is Re-
gent Square, a roadnran noticed
a bundle wrapped up in a meat
sack. It contained the ghastly
torso.
How could it be identified? I
To Chief Inspector Wensley of
Scotland Yard the problem pre-
sented no difficulties. Despite
her cunning, Berthe had over- I
looked three tiny threads of red
cotton on a sheet, threads form-
ing the laundry -mark "II H."
It took only a matter of hours
to inquire through all the local
laundries for two miles around
and trace the mark to Emilienne
Gerard. Her neighbours had still
not noticed her absence, for she
had a husband serving with the 000
French Army and was some-
times permitted to go to see him. 1
But a quick scrutiny of her flat
showed Wensley that Envilienne
had taken a longer journey.
He noticed the stains on the
walls with interest, for, to the
trained eyes of the police, there
was not enough blood for such
a murder. Emilienne's flat, at all
events. was not the scene of the
crime.
Inquiries began -into the
French -woman's known campan- 1
ions. A man came forward who j
had dined with her on the night
of the air-raid, and she had said
nothing of leaving London- This
was important, for as soon as
Voisin was traced the butcher j
swore that when he had last
seen Emilienne she had told him,
she was going to see her hus-
band.
The word "Belgiam' had been
detected on a piece of brown
paper found with the bods. Five
times Voisin was asked to write
"Belgium" ... and five tames he
misspelt it "Bel am" And with
a calm that nearly feseled the
police, Berthe Roche cad that
she knew nothing of any qua -rel,
that she had never set eyes on
Mme. Gerard.
Voisin too, spread hes hands
in bewilderment as the police
asked of crime. But when an 1
ar-ring, identified as Etnilier,ne;
was- found in his kitchen,. the
eteetives searched farther. In
he cask, in the semi -darkness
f the cellar, they found more
emains hidden in sawdust.
Berthe broke into screaming
buse of her companion. And
ow Voisin told a different tale,
e story he and Berthe had
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Pian For Peace — Bearded Albert S. Falk will than visit United
Nations members to urge them to try his plan for world peace.
Falk, 62, believes; that the elimination - of poverty would bring
peace to the globe. This, he says, can be accomplished by a 2 per
cent federal tax on all business and manufacturing transactions,
receipts to be givento adult citizens of the variouscountries at
the rate of $60 to .$100 a month regardless of income.
concocted together to mask their
guilt
Berthe professed to speak no
English and every word had to
be translated.
She heard the judge solemnly
pronounce the death sentence
over Louis Voisin in French.
But Mr. Justice Darling directed
the jury that she could not be
corn -Mind of wilful murder. Srntl-
ing secretly to herself, she heard
instead a sentence of seven years'
penal servitude as an accesseery.
But what dread nightmares
must have been hers in the pri-
on cell? Within two years she
died a raving madwoman. The
Devil had claimed her for his
oven.
From an article in "Tit -Bits"
by Mark .Priestley.
TIMM FRONT
�o,xl2�ll.
When Pearl White wet reels_
ing desperately to a cliff by her
finger nails over a pit of alliga-
tors and Wink S. art was
wiping out desperadoes in the
Wild West with blazing six
guns, few people predicted that
motion pictures would serve any
purpose other than entertain-
ment.
O a :
In recent years, however, the
motion picture industry has
been producing a new type of
film which is capturing public
attention, While some of these
itlnrs are produced in Holly-
wood, most are shot on location
— on a farm. in a factny, a
countre store, a newspaper of-
lice, a chemical laboratory or a
mine shaft.
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These are known as informa-
tional alms and tell the story of
an industry, a business, an or-
ganization or a product And
while thousands of dolltue are
spent annually in Canada to the
production of films of this na-
ture, they are usually available
to the public without charge.
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To the average Canadian far-
mar such filers are a key to a 1
new world. They not 'only show
him how to produce better crops
and increased yields through
scientific agriculture, hut take
hint ; back stage in industry
where he can see for himself
the complexities involved in the
manufacture of goods which
have contributed much towards
a better Canadian standard of
living. >
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Informational Olins are usual-
ly 16 millimeter productions
with sound, black and, white or
rotor (the trend is towarde col-
or and nava a runtime time
cfSOt
to 30 miirntes
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fFp Examples of the free dim Pare
, available to ru,ai and urban
j groups are several informational
dims depicting the diverse roles
of chemistry in farm. home, in-
dustry and recreation produced
by Canadian Industries Limited,
.Subjects range from how to pro-
duce a better erop of potatoes
by proper fertilization and pest
control to the training of hunt-
ing dog,,
Tire compares 1934 dim rata-
logue ra available t0 enyone
who writes C -I L Motion Pic-
ture Section. Box 111, 3Iontreal. s
Speedy Writer
1
Shorthand writer George Gal-
iosvay has just v,10 rated. that in r
the past twerty.five yeao he has
written two hundred million 1
words.
Mr. Galloway er2Ce, recorded in •
a single day 64,000 words in the
Central Criminal Court at the e
Old Bailey, knot only does he
write seven varieties of short- s
hand. but he once achieved the
wonderful speed of 050 w ords a 1
minute for twenty minute:.
The utterances of- judgee, bar-
resters and witnesses in many 01
Britain's most famous trials have I B
been taken down by this remark- ci
able man. Tose he's gene to the ' b
United States where, in a nen m
job, he will prove that machines s
will never effectively replace I el
skilled hien and womo't short- th
hand writers- he
When Mr, Galloway was ask sp
ed Why he took the trouble to th
learn seven different kinds of
shorthand, he explained that they Dr
enable him to switch from one p
to the other to relieve the mon-
otone of long and tedious trials. 1 RC.
Still Makes New
Suits For Caruso
It is 332 years stole rnrieo
Carlene .generai*t considered the
;greatest tenor the world has ever
produced, died and his body
was bronght hetne to Naples.
Caruso used to get his clothes
true one of London's see:
fashionable tailors. That tailor
did not lose the custom of the
great singer when lee died, fon
Grace, in his will, stipulat
that his tailor should, once every
year, come to Naples and dress
his embalmed both- is a ne
o strait cut actardiog to the latest
fashion of London's Savrte Bow
Recently- a member of the Lea
den tailoring tum went to Naples
and provided tis dsrnrg-,tened,
but dead client with another
impeccable specimen et its art.
by
human
nes, =1$"'”,,q -led
ba reetCred
it is bot bt=.-
of paaail:ilftf
zen to death
gad, cera bi revived
bey Dr. R,: arse -Gran t: s metas-
Thi vlould mat be t=a-'Rgertras
because mammoths were decree
eatures. One day, $awever,
the freren body of tyratrmO:saur-
us rex will be found and en-
thusiastic 5dentist may try to
revive ft. If that happens th'e,
whole world could be in grave
danger.
Fora e thing the naaa'ssmr
reproduced itself at a very last
rate. For another, neither bul-
lets rcr shells would penetrata,
IM armour.
"The Will To
Wolk"
.Edgar Andrew Collard, ad!tor
et the 3dontreal Gazette, per_'
formed :a atia: • seryica whaa h41
warned Canadians in a recent
speech that 'the, greatest present
dang+ar is that en* of ms ird°s
.greatest weekresses—his di-. n-
clination to work—is wadergoing
an "unprecedented exploitation."
He pointed out that imtead of
being coed/mined, deli a;.+neri.r -
tion to work is almost being
exalted Tato a social virtue and
ed a pregreethre aim. It is befrfg
suggested that work is. a aeees-
sary evil that the present society
w may render more and more un-
necessary, It Is not as -uprising,"
he said, 'haat converts are tante--
won to so attractive a p'kllCsa-
PhF„
The -•e is increasing evidence
that markt-4 are teeneneg
strongly ens-Teti/dee and no pro -
deter car. compel customers to
buy goadsor sentient at prices
higher than they are able or
m=ug ro pa'. The meter east
of any product is non labour
which gees it to it, hem the raw
malarial crate until it reaches
the hands of the ultiinare con-
sume:. If that cost continues to
rise without any compensatfnp I
incrasa_ee Meth* <nnmtwr of nniis
produced, a sales resistance Ix
developed which netted spell
disaster.
The formula at fett-e"i hours
and higher pap:, with no increase
Lee production per man hour, is
hardly one that can tontine.* in I
definitely if Canada is to remain c
in bustress as a name -sated core -
I petit -or. Mrt. Collard said, The
1 fate of Canada's mere.; ant marine
has been a grim warning. The ;
1 cast of operating this fleet has '
rendered it increa;,ingsv seeable
to comnete with deepsea shipping•
Yunder the reg'ctry of mea- other
nations. What has h p enee. '
r. here could also happen to man's
ether Canadia'i sr.dr:si~ies."
As he speaker pointed out.
the disernilinateen to week doses
not charaoterize may erre group
or elate of C•an a ane. but +-s its.
d fact becenung ge,.eralszeC as a '
way of :tie. Even the schools,
t at times. instead of resenting and
Q correcting this attitude, almost '
t seen: to reflect and etnfirm it,
Pleas s for
less homework, short -
i er hours. and longer holidays
certainly do not help to develop
the strength of character re- ,
quired its recognise ware as
something to be the e ed
rather than shunned. Mfr i:i -
coddiing at home and ;n ,lie '
schools does not help to temper
the steel of chart ce«,- 'Pro- The t
News Lettere' lowed be The Car -
adieu Chamber of Cotrsnseree.
May Bring Ancient
j Monsters To Life
Have you ever heard of Dr.
Buse Grawitz? Remember the
ram. because you will hear a
great deal about hits in the fu-
Lure- At his headquarters ie
l Cordon's. Spain, he has been
eo nducting --ret experiments
1 with br,rasn ness'es - .. and hie
++ latest results ars alarming.
1 One- of the doctor's early es-
periments was with a piece a
human tissue which had been
taken from a living person dur-
1 ing an operation and preserved
its. alcohol. It had bean in al-
cohol for eight years when Dr.
Bsssse-Grawitz treated it in his
Iaborator -
His methods are secret. But
the final result was that the
tissue revived; After further
treatment it began_ to grow.
Another ex-per:mient leas
'm de this time withtissues
taken from the mummy of ars
Americas/ Indian which had
been buried us . an Argentine
cave for 800 years. The tissues
ec uked as if on the point of
d. integration but, after being
paced e the dcetor's cultures
they not only revived beat actu-
ally multiplied!
Dr. Burse -Grawitz decided to
experiment with the oldest hu- 1
man tissue he could fed, ;from ;
mummyan Egyptian mummywhich had
been buried for 5,300 years. It I
also revived and began to nett-
tiply.
Experunents on the tissues of f
animals havo baern just as sun- 1
cessffud,
Tyrannociurus rex was prob-
^bly the mast terrible monster t
that has ever lived on this earth,
t
horrific nightmare 'creature
which, by brute force, became
king of all the animal life. From
si ctut to tip cf tail the monetar
measured forty-seven f e e 1.
Standing on two feet, it was
tweets feet high and swum: a
01014ed' tail of tt•emt<ndeus thick-
en..
Its teeth were six-inch dag-
gers and its head was four feet
long and three feet wide, It had
two short front legs with which
it fought. The razor-edged clans
on them were each longer than
a man's hand. Armour plating
was so thick and so strong that
no other prehistoric animal
Cveld even dent it.
One sweep of its monstrous
tail and the back of the: mighty
dinosaur would crack in two.
ecause of t+rannosauren fero-
he the forty -ton btvntusaueus
ecalne' extinct, and the decile
amenoth fled to inaccessible
pots. 'With one sweep of its
aw's the monster would catch
e pterodactyl the winged
rror with a twenty -foot wing
an — in mid-flight and crush
e life out of it,
What has all this. to do with
Bniss-Gra:yitz's tissue ex-
riteents?'
One of his findings was that
thing can kill tissue except a
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latch 1: tL S!l
fua¢iary Seleettlsn t?r
beats wber**s r aiagtN, i mts
r I nae. Jelin SAS;
B2i thei to bate of the mist
F'eviona afS'.fctio s. The h
of tells maul vvial beat
si9ttld have brought gratitude.
from all But the Pea* ^ees wrauld
not cceept 'this • plain sign: that
Jesus was the Chrfzt, the Sen of
God. The heeled man was, very
pedant answering the cues•
doming of the Pharisezr. What
they said that Jesus was a sinner,.
he replied, "Whether he be a sin-
ner or no I know not: one 'thirds
I know, tint, whereas. I was
blind, now I see," He sass net
in a position te argue in theologi-
cal tarrau hitt the experience Wax
to him a ,grand reality When. ht
had been cent out et the stas-
gieg'se by the. ht. -kering Pharisees
Jante met hiss; He revealed Hina.
self to this man, as. the Son of
Gad, lie man believed and wer-
Oa an Individual ,bas exper-
iancad the touch of God. in his
own life it s easy to believe the
record a nsiradee in the Bible Ii;
has experienced a miracle in hit
own life. He has turned front
darkt ess en light and from bond-
age to Uberhe In an instant he
has came to the knowledge of
sins forgiven and becese a new
t creature in Christ Jesus, Jesus
Gh- ss. is his personal Sar -our.
LTnbe:ief ne widespread today.
People believe those portions of
God's Ward that pleases their
fancy. Argument in the driest
1 terms will bat, dispel this incise-
- lien What we need is to beheld
1 the mira:le of changed lives.
1 Hera :s a denransn'ation that
everyone can underrstnd. Let
k 711 work and prgp for a gracious
rhesring et G„d's Holy Streit itLL,
the world ;s:dam Neither govern -
Imetes nor soientts can take us
to moral recovery. We need Gad
P and we need Hint desperately.
Whee we draw nigh to Him He
will draw nigh to us.
If yos re a windowsill erden-
er all wits'ter long.,decorate
your earthenware Sower pots by
painting them to match or ac-
cent the room's decor. The -
leaves
touching the rim of the
Hower pot need protection from
the corrosive action of eertain
soil elements which seep
through the clay pot, The an-
swer is to teat the rim with a
teal of parr'affel wax. First, melt
the wax to a large deubsa beil-
er. Ten. dip the rias o he pot
irxo the liquid until in to n aL'
coated.
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One -Track Mind — According to his owners, Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Dooley, Ch. Bachgen Glen of Harham, or "Manta`' to his friends,
is quite a thinkon And when he gets to thinking, the Welsh tare
rier walks in a circle. The more he thinks the faster he walks
until finally he's thinking so furiously that he's going full stectm
ahead. Oddity is that he makes o track that forms a circle as
perfect as a draftsman could draw, as seen above,
