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Mystery Under The Microscope Mr. Ellery Queen, the writer of mystery stories, has evolved what he calls, a "review chart" for asgeas- ing the value of other writers' my-1 stery stories. He publishes it in "Mystery League," a new American magazine.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1933.
KING IBN SAUD INTERVIEWED
ARAB CONQUEROR TELLS OF HIS STORMY LIFE
•
By Captain Harold G. Armstrong,
Author of "Grey Wolf,". Mustapha Kemal's Biography.
dust-storm raced "I have many questions," I said, A monstrous A maximum of 10 marka is award-out of the Sudan, suffocating us, pointing to a sheaf of papers on ques- ed for each, of "the ten fundamen blacking out the sun and the sky, which I had prepared 300 tals."
These are: plot, suspense, lashing up, the waves so that our tions, "but first I would ask of your surprise solution, analysis of solu-little steamer pitched and tossed Majesty's life as a boy and tion, style, characters, setting, and corkscrewed her way painfully young man.” method of murder, clues, and fair-across the Red Sea until at last we found abelter behind the coral reefs
ness to the reader.
38 4
Training In War The King settled himself comfor-
Of six suthors analysed under the that form the harbour of Jidda. tably and ran a hand over his beard. Ellery Queen miscropcope, Edgar On the quay the Sub-Governor of Allan Poe passes the tests
the town received me with great
with
"Those were times of trouble and
and.
highest honours, scoring 86 per cent courtesy and many compliments. strife," he replied, "of wars
murders. My father brought me
for "Murders in the Rue Morgue."
He talked high-flown Turkish such!
&
As This, however takes into account! as was used in Constantinople in to endure hardships.
child I grew used to danger. When "Poe's pioneer position in detective the days of the Sultans.
I was but seven I was blooded in A slave came running to any I fiction," and Mr. Queen adds: "If,
war. Slung up on a camel in one this story were written to-day It was wanted on the telephone in the of the saddle-bags, I was taken on
my first raiding expedition."
would get a much lower rating." Customs House. It was the Under-
Space is thoughtfully provided Secretary of State for Foreign "When I was nine our rivals, the for renders to mark up the stories Affairs, Fuad Bey Hamza, speaking: Rashids, took Riad, our town.
published in the magazine's first number-which includes an Ellery Queen tale.
Noises Off
the
The
Thur-
"His Majesty," he said. "will
audience at eight Rashid governor would have grant you an
dered us all, but my father lald s o'clock to-morrow morning at
trap for them, and I stood in a Nizam Palace."
"From where are you speaking?" corner of the guest room and saw my father and uncles cut down the The reported decision of the I asked.
more the Swiss authorities to
"From the Ministry of Foreign Rovernor and his staff with their
#words. Geneva-Lausanne railway track so Affairs," he replied, “in Mecca."
"In those days all Arabia WAS
as to give the League peace and Mecca, the Holy City, sacrosanct) torn in pieces by wara, raids,
to
be and
me as an infidel quiet when its new Palace is ready and closed
to for occupation has come
It seemed odd as a Christian. surprise.
Italking into the Holy City. The League, in its present quar-almost as if its sacred isolation ters, has for 19 years worked to the being broken.
Geneva's accompanying din, of traments, compared with which the
of the electrified passage trains is a lullaby.
murders and the jealousy of the tribes. There was no strong man to keep the peace. Even in my own was family we fought, so that at last we were driven into exile, and escaped across the Dahna Desert into the Hasa only with difficulty.
"After much wandering we took
Iba Saud's Palace
Swiss
At night I was awakened by the sound of the guns announcing that
formed that the matter had been So postponed until next year.
temporise
At one time there was a project King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, King of refuge with the Sheik of Kuweit, the "wild men" can when they must, as well as the of running special railway line Nejd and the Heja, Imam of the and for many years we lived there
in the Holy in poverty, crowded moderates whom they look down right into the grounds of the Wahabis. Guardian upon.
of
1
small
"Often we were without money. Ay, verily, when the time came for
A permanent gulf divides League so that delegates could step Cities, and Lord of Arabia. had house in a mean street. the two wings, though professed-1 (or. BA the cynies suggested, be arrived from Mecca at his palace! ly in unison. More, the rank and earried) straight from their sleep-beyond Jidda. Ale, as Sir Oswald Mosley dis-ing-cars into the committee roams, In character and composition covered for himself. can never the British Labour party differs rfd itself of an innate suspicion
Your Daily Smile the Socialist of titled converts in search of a markedly from
When these. already Chicago Especially. parties in most countries where command. conspicuous extremists are, as a credited with a flavour of pa- rule, trade-union officials who tronage, are discovered as aspiraries from day to day,” says
"The population of a large manage to make it appear that ants toje role of Hitler, their wriler.
BOORD'S OLD TOM AND DRY GINS. they have their unions pretty chance le but slight of swaying a
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A car took me out by the Medina me to marry they brought me a Gate across a plain where there was Bedouin girl and I was ashamed, neither water nor tree, nor even alfor I had not even the money for blade of grass, and the plain and the the marriage celebrations."
As Ibn Saud talked, I studied hilla beyond it heaved in the heat,
him: an immense man thrown up city like a man gasping for breath.
Fund Bey Hamza met me on the by the desert, rugged, vital and as steps of the palace. He led me up hard as the desert, but with great a thick charm and a persuasive manner, a staircase overlaid with carpet. At the top, holding between He was sitting on the high divan their knees long curved swords with with his legs and bare feet curled the up under him, Round him was At lunch-time I saw this in the embossed handles, squatted
.
How We Do It
of
life.
"
stairhead
negro
I crossed the huge room
to
Faith In His Race
ད་
I
solidly behind them. In Britain, party in which not one man in it is from the party detached ten is a genuine and understand- "Intellectuals" that the wildest ing Socialist. As for Fascism. proposals emanate, and
very which they profess to fear, they window of a restaurant, "If your King's bodyguard, dark, lean Arabs drawn a brown Arab robe, with a
slaves. little gold work on the collar. trade-union leaders can themselves nullify that sub-wife cannot cook, don't shoot her of the desert an loften the
A scribe brought in an import- the WAS are inclined to regard with dis-ject in British communities by Feed here, and keep her as a pet." Beyond the
jant despatch. Ibn Saud read it such proposals and giving up talk of a left-wing That is an admirable example of audience chamber. trust both
an quickly, called one or two men to the men who put them forward.reign of violence. If they will Amerien humour, It has in it the
na peculiar qualities of the race that alcove which was shuttered against him, discussed it shortly, made up There is a little group of the nol, they must expect the
Do the little produced Mark Twain-a solemn the glare, and where the King sat his mind at once, and gave a deci- Ponsonby type - some of them tural reaction. seem a great deni more out of Robespierres imagine that their exaggeration coupled with a deep on a high divan dictating to a secre-sive answer.
tary. Waving away the secretary, place in the party than would destined victims would simply lie sense of ruefulness
The dis New York Letter in the London he stood to receive me--he stands
. Yea!" he continued, of thoge "associates" down and submit?
News-Chronicis.
to receive all who come to see him, turning to me. Then I was very whom Mr. Henderson's rejected covery that they would not has
But even in those daye I whether they be the Minister of a poor. scheme was devised to encour-been a very unpleasant shock
A foreign Power or penniless was never content to be still. age the members of which vie for many extremists. Let them Autres Temps
The ald-fashioned girl was Bedouin-and held out both hands. knew that, by the grace of God. with one another to create new apply the lesson, and cease their
An Arab Giant
once more they would unite to be sensations. Of some
Passing to thought considerable if she helped it is re-own threatenings. membered that during the war the subject of war and its pre-her mother get the dinner; the they formed what they called a vention, the conference showed a modern girl is thought considerate ing a foot above any other Arab in that there was no one more qualified Union of Democratic Control. It familiar lack of tact. It left the she is in time for it, contained several members of anti-war resolution in the hands Parliament, every one of whom of Sir Charles Trevelyan, a man Enough
Miriam: But why are you promptly refused, when lenged even by former ment has long been notorious, appointed in your fance! supporters,
Beryl: Oh, father and resign and Is this the way to enlist the sym- contest his scat. That was their pathies of sincere lovers of peace, think he's just fine. conception. in practice, of "de-numbers of whom have no desire mocratic control." To-day, even to associate themselves in any Worried.
The man who said his business, whatever with so bitter the pretence has been so entirely way
individual? was a great concern bellicose an dropped that democracy itself is and avowedly aftacked. The Social-Must everything be sponsored by 1st League has been feeling ita Sir Charles or Sir Stafford? Bold.
to
chal-whose intemperance of state
"And
someone “Trianda M
*
He was an immense giant, tower-great. I looked round and judged
the room, and he was immense not than myself to unite and rule them.
the So I-prepared." only in his height but in
Then he told me of years of con- fighting: how against dis-breadth of his shoulders and the
majesty of his carriage. Each of tinuous his hands was as large as my two, strong rivals and internal treachery mother Then, as he looked down at me, his he had slowly forced all Central face broke into a smile of delight, Arabia to accept him, and had-
pressed northwards, still conquer ful welcome.
Our
For a while he held my hands in ing. his as he hoped that I had travelled! well. After that he motioned me
to a chair and ́clapped, his bands.
A slave, who carried a revolver
(Continued on Page 11),
on his hip and came filently to as FORTUNE LOST FOR
on bare feet, brought as coffee, a
thimbleful, intensely bitter, in a small cup, as it is served in Cen- tral Arabia.
LOVE
Sculptor Sacrifices £10,000.
of me.”
added.
"I am not clear from your letter,"
said the King, "what it is you want
"I
WISH
way for weeks towards an un-There were many men present A judge told a woman in court to disguised dictatorship, to be car-whose names would have tent speak up and imagine that she was ried out under "emergency pow-greater weight to any expression talking to her husband. ers" established in perpetuity.of opinion. Yet even Mr. Hen-judges are absolutely fearless. Jack Cade, in short, was to be derson, when his turn came-a
All! made respectable. Plainly, in curiously belated turn, when one fact, he would come on the scene remembers his special experi- wrote for Uncle Joseph
"And epitaph which enda, bearing a title. Discussion wax-lence in connection with disarma-
"I have long studied the works MARRIED AGAINST FATHER'S ed hot within the party itself. ment said little of value,He always tried to do his best." It was freely foretold that the "Britain," he declared, "might
of your, Majesty," I replied. Labour conference at Hastings lead the world in. pesce activi-
wish to write an account of these would witness a bitter division. ties." Facts and figures abun
for the people of England, who are very ignorant; so I have come from! The conference met, but the bat-dantly proye, that she has done so tle of Hastings proved a sham to the utmost limit of her own
England to get first-hand know one. The Socialists ran away. safety, and men who are just as
ledge," The self-appointed dictator of the much in earnest on behalf of Driven by two gusaline motors at For a time there was silence. I recalls the fact that Mr. Sargent future, Sir Stafford Cripps. re that cause as any delegate at speeds up to 90 miles an hour, a car did not look up. I knew that Ibn sacrificed a fortune of £10,000 frained at the last moment from tending the Hastings conference for suburban travel with which a Saud was siting me up. Here in order to marry her putting the extremely compte are agreed that she cannot alone railroad near New York is experi. Arabia decisions were reached not She was formerly Miss Dorit or Keller, the daughter of a Berlin hensive resolution over which hot go further in that direction. The menting uses air filled rubber res by correspondence; notes, debate was expected a resolu-proofs of sincerity which Brincased in steel flanged rims that, despatches, but by personal contact professer
His father, Sir Percy Sargent, tion framed, to ginger up" So-tain has offered in
Way of
of man and man. And he WAS hold the wheels on the rails. cialism, overnight. Mr. Beyin, reduction of armaments. by, seG,
deciding whether he would speak the famous brain specialist, object- while not disposed to hand alland, and air, have been
Aall, combine that cuts and freely or send me back, empty. He ed to her nationality and left a co blank cheque either to Bir Staf-more substantial, and impressive threshes (RT% has been invented had called me to some 2.000 miles dicil disinheriting him if he mate
ford or to his friend Sir Charles than the passing of one or
Trevelyan; thought, the former's more piolls-resolutions as desire
refusal to propose, his motion was by Mr. Hen
a piece of "plevernasa. Some these uneasy people would
Lone syllable
Facts You Did Not Know.
London. The birth of a baby girl to the, young German wife of Mr. John Sargent, the 28-year-old sculptor,
+
pounds and so that he might decide for himself, ried her.
""You have done well," he said at Mr. Sargent was not deterred. apead of five
He said he had to choose. m, by, a last, others have written about me
incorrectly: What is it you would tween art and love and his fami
and he chose art and love, ask me!"
Ipolsed my opportunity ith both couple were married at
ever come again, bridge reglater once.
Their baby, who is to be Ibn Band hid Boula, was born in a'nursing
ugh the im
portat
this for
then every
Liht year, his moods,
in Bayawater
Renter