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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 02, 1934
Page
3
Dan's advertises LADIES' PLAIN HATBCORD FROCKS in Lemon Apricot Blue Green with various sizes, LADIES' FLORAL POPLIN FROCKS and FLORAL VOILE FROCKS, plus PANAMA and GLAZED LACE PANAMA HATS in multiple colors. Also presents 26x48 and 28x48 towels, damask, sheeting, calico, and many exemplary garments and undergarments for women, children, and men with price tags.
Reports detail widespread pilfering of hotel silverware in Melbourne and London. Spoons, forks, salt and pepper shakers vanish at numerous establishments, with thefts ranging from dozens to hundreds of pieces yearly. A London ad warned American diners not to souvenir silver following a fatal incident, while Melbourne losses include salt spoons, butter knives, and even linens and towels.
At a Melbourne suburb charity ball attended by about 900 people, an entrée dish and ashtrays were missing along with nearly 500 glasses and many silver spoons and forks. One catering firm estimates annual losses on silver and glass amount to over £400.
Britain sees a renewed drive against property receivers led by Scotland Yard after key discoveries and the conviction of George Tucker, a 16 year old called king of receivers. Police target high IQ fences who cloak thefts in ordinary jobs, with 147 open air schools now in Britain and British light civil aircraft leading Europe.
A U S war romance told by a British battlefield correspondent centers on Marthe Cnorkaert and Captain McKenna. He honors her spy work and married life after the war, recalling their meeting near ruins in Westroosebeke. The couple describe mutual bravery and forgiveness between a spy and her husband. Also notes high dress costs in Britain and cheaper foodstuffs in Stockton-on-Tees.
Restoration plans for Longwood House on St Helena, where Napoleon lived and died, include bringing 80 tons of tiles and 55 tons of cement by ship. French experts and the French Society of Friends of St Helena will oversee three months of work, with relics such as a billiard table and mirrors forming a core collection.
In one of the oldest Federal buildings sits the most hated man in Washington. He combs through the nation’s accounts, once ruling a porter tip to a shilling and winning a months-long battle with railway authorities over 1860. Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl wields vast Treasury power, with prohibition enforcement costing 100 agents’ lives, 600 wounded, and 800,000 arrests.
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