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Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1924, Page 1

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EX-WOMAN THIEF LEAVES £70,000. ■ NEW YORK. May 22. Sophie Lyons, the reformed thief anil philanthropist, whose married name was Burke, lias loft a will thoroughly in keeping with her career. When the administrator of her estate, Judge Ira Jayne, yesterday drilled open the safety deposit box containing her securities, the first object to attract his attention was a long black bag fastened with safety pins anil wrapped in the American flag, to which was attached tlie inscription. “.Cod ble-s this (lag. My dear father, brother, and only son died for it. That’s why it’s so precious to Sophie Lyons Burke.”

Emm the bag the judge lifted several Lixes containing diamonds of rare value and it miscellaneous collection of jewellery. The collection included an immense brooch of pearls, nine in number. surriiunileil by diamonds, a number of gold and silver-mesh bags studded with diamonds, many rings, and a blazing diamond cross worn in recentyears by Sophie after she became a friend of the underworld. Beneath the jewellery were several envelopes Qllod with securities and the last will and testament of the woman. The will provided for the establishment of it. Sophie Lyons memorial home for children of 2 to 1 years of age. one or both of whose parents are in prison. To Jesse Pomeroy, a celebrated criminal who is serving a life sentence in Charlestown State I’rison, Massachusetts, where he. has been incarcerated for 50 years. Sophie bequeathed £IBO. Pomeroy earned the friendship of Sophie in the early days of her career. The will directs that it. grand piano, not to exceed £2lO in price, lie acquired for the Detroit Home of Correction. £2.) a year is left to provide delicacies for the sick and for inmates condemned to death in Sing Sing. New York’s convict prison.

Sophie Brady Belmont, of London, described as a daughter of Sophie, is to receive L'-100. A similar amount is bequeathed to Lottie Lyons Burke, another daughter, of Geneva, Switzerland, while a third daughter. Mrs Florence Bower, gets it cottage,, the jewellery, and. lialf the not income of the estate, the vine of which is estimated at about JDrO.OOD. Tho will provides that the estate be kept intact for 50 years. TROTSKY’S JIBES. LONDON, July 12. In the new number of the Labour Monthly is it chapter from a forthcoming work by M. Trotsky, in which that Bolshevik leader indulges in some violent vituperation of Mr 11. G. Wells, whose description of. Lenin in a recent book, be says, “from the first to the last line stinks of unwarranted smug self-conceit.” The “English Labour Party” are also ridiculed: How hopelessly behind the times these people are, how burdened with heavy leaden weight of bourgeois prejudices! Thor arrogance prevents them front penetrating in a proper way into the life of other nations. Narrowminded followers of routine, they are careful not to notice anything around them hut only their own persons. Then Trotsky turns to sneer at -Mr .MacDonald :

Mr MacDonald, who represents a more solid and puritan variety of the same type, parities bourgeois opinion. We have fought against Moscow and vanquished Moscow. They have vanquished Moscow- These are indeed wretched “little nvil,” no mailer how tall physically! To-day, even alter all that has transpired, they know nothing whatever about their own tu-iimr-rnw;! The filial pi edict inn is delicious: We. venture to predict that in the uni distant future there will erected in London—in 'iVufalgar Square, lor example— two statues, standing side by side: Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. IIOW A PANIC, WAS STOPPED. LONDON, July 10. Col. Wedgwood is a brave officer and pugnacious politician. He is well entitled to record adventures—-“ Essays and Adventures of a Labour ALP.”—in war and his theories on the single tax, and probably most readers will vote the former the better part of his book. His study of mass panic in war is vivid. Here is an instance in Gallipoli : Greener and greener in the gills we went tin . . . and found tlie whole attack coining back, mil so much running as coming away. This was a perfectly good excuse for retiring also. There was under me a chief petty officer, a sort of sergeant, called John i,title, on the wrong side of 50, the bravest anil most modest gentleman T have ever met.

Oetimlly waving his revolver, lie held up nil who eaii'e huddling hack. ‘1 think, sir. we might net them lorward now —just another llltl yards, sir! ’ Our men had increased to 1.0(111, all lying down now hiding their faces, f wanted to lie too, but there was Little standing on the left, and I dare not. Somehow we got lorward. A Captain Churchill of the Hssex came down to us with halt, a down men still under control, lie saw Little, and put three stars on his shoulder strap with indelible pencil. "II it is my last act, you ought to bo an officer! Hut when be moved bis half-dozen to the rear, meaning to bring them along to my exposed right think, ti t* terrified men lying on their faces, looking over (heir shoulders, began to get up and move to the rear, too. and the new officer, addressing, his creator, shouted "Halt, d—— n you or the whole lot will stampede! ’ They didn't, and one man took panic from a thousand and many machine guns from the foe. NATCHAL COLOCH FILMS. LONDON, duly 10. A real advance in the taking ot natural colour photographs, especially for the kineiuatorgraph, has been achieved by Mr Aron Hamburger, an inventor and technician well-known lor his long association with the problem. Some excellent kinematograph films in colour have already been made in London by his process .some of which will shortly be shown in public. In these the colours are brilliant, remarkably true.to lilt*, and absolutely tree from blur, or colour " fringes, ’ and the extreme colours, such as deep violet and rich crimson and ruby, are admirably given. Air Hamburger’s method has already been applied to photographs taken in an ordinary snapshot camera; it is quite easy to print the pictures on paper in their natural colours. In his kilie-camera the inventor exposes two flhns simultaneously at right angles, the light being divided into two beams’ by means of a special prism. One film records the violet, blue and green in the picture; the other the other the yellow, orange and red. The negative films are printed simultaneously oil a positive film coated oil both sides.

The colour film takes practically no longer to produce than an ordinary motion picture, timl it can bo taken with the speed, sixteen pictures it second i