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| " asen. 4 WANS THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1929 NURDERESS GOFS IRSINE IN PRISON Kill Jailer and Herself 'Paris, Feb. 6.--Blanche Vabre, . ong.wof four women awaiting death on the guillotine here, was put in a straight-jacket in her cell at St. | 'St. Lazare prison last night after attempting to kill a jailer and her- self, The murderess, who was convic- ted of killing a child, went mad, it was learned, and paced her cell, screaming and erying, She attacked the jailer and then laceratéd her own face and arms and body with her fingernails, Madame Vabre was sentenced to die on the guillotine for the murder of her step-son. She was alleged to have been jealous of her husband's first wife, and to have sought ven- geance on the boy. - The three other women awaiting death under the knife for murders are also showing the strain as the President delays any indication of whether clemency will be granted. All the women have been refused appeals to high courts, and only President Doumergue may save thenr from death. Two of the women---Marie David and Madame Vabre-----quarreled and tore each other's hair last week. Junka Kuren, who strangled a child because he refused to steal as she commanded him spends much ot her time writing letters, Juliette Brucy, who killed her husband, sits in her cell and reads novels, U. S, TOBACCO CROP SHOWS BIG INCREASE Boston, Mass., Feb, 6.--The new nounces figures which show an increase in the the United States tobacco crop of no less than twenty-five million pounds. The togal production or tobacco in 1928 was 164,779,000 pounds, the Crop Reporting service estimat- ed, In 1927 it was 139,916,000 pounds, Price of cigar leaf is somewhat higher than last year, the report indicated. Th2 average price is 22.1 cents per pound, while last "| Washington year it was 21,7 cents per pound. HISTORIC TRUNK 15 LOGATED IN US. More Than 2,000 Documents 'Which Belonged to George Washington's Sister Found Washington, Feb, 6--A newly dis- covered trunk that. had belonged to George Washington's only sister, Betty, containing more than 2,000 or dginal papers of the first president family and contemporaries has been brought to the capitol by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University, historian 'of the George Bicentennial Compmis- sion, and Henry Woodhouse, presi- dent of the Aerial League of per ca, A preliminary examination of the documents showed that they range in dates from 1753 to a century later and include the accounts of the estates of Colonel Fielding - Lewis, husband of Betty. They also coms tained records kept during the revo lution, Professor Hart said the cols lection was a valuable addition to documents dealing with the first president. The trunk was found ncar Fred. ericksburg, Virginia, last Saturday at the home of Mrs, Frank Tayler, a descendant of Betty Washington, Fliving at Sealston, Virginia, "John Kemps, 10-year-old Toronto boy, is near death as the result of being run down by an automobile while playing tag in the street. RRR STAMP COLLECTORS WANT TARIFF CUT New York, Fep, 6,-- Several of the leading philatelle associations in the country have sent requests to the emmbers of the Ways and Means Committee in Washington, asking that ,in the tariff revision plans, the entry from abroad of us- ed United States postage stamps be allowed free from duty, No duty is axacted on the importation of for- eign stamps, used or unused, United States stamps if. unused the major- ity being avallable for postal use, and the earlier issues possessing a high intrinsic value among collec. tors, are admitted free. Postage stamps, therefore, what- ever their condition, from every country in the world, are admit. ted fyee duty to this country with the single exception of cancelled United States stamps. The Collec- tors' Club of 51 West Forty-eighth street has sent a letter to Clayton F. Moore, Clerk of the Committee on Ways and Means asking that the facts be lald before the members during the tariff hearings. - SNOWSHOERS TO MEET IN OTTAWA NEXT YEAR Lewiston, Me,, Feb, 6.--The In- ternational Convention of Snow- shoers has come to a close, when the 3,000 delegates of Canada and the United States chose the city of Ottawa as their meeting place in 1930, Willlam Tudor Gardiner, Governor of Maine; Robert Wise- man, Mayor of Lewiston, and pro- minent citizens from all New Eng- land gathered at Lewiston for the celebrations, which were very color- ful and elaborate. Asks Adjournment of Manitoba Case Winnipeg, Feb. 6.--~Request for the adjournment of the Royal Com- mission's inquiry into campaign' fund charges by Lt. Col. F, G. Tay- lor, Provinicial Congervative leader, against the Bracken Government, was made at the first session of the commission to-day by counsel for Col, Taylor, The request contained a demand for a complete audit of the books of the Winnipeg Electric Company and subsidiary companies, previous to the calling of witnesses. Rival counsel debated the application during a two hour session. EXTRAORDINARY VALUES IN JOHN S. 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