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fighting
British plane hovers over
H. M. 5. Furiosis,
Italian
cruisers,
Trieste and Zara.
British destroyers
Dritich submarine
While the Ethiopian army battles with the invaders along the Italian frontiers Great Britain and Italy fook to their naval power. Great Britain, at this stage, is decidedly interested but anxious spectator over Italy's fleet manoeuvres in the Mediterranean and near the Suez cannal. The British have sent their ships of war to various strategic places along the Arabian. const where strong British fortresses are maintained for protection of the Suez Canal.
Super-Slayer, or
Boasting Ananias?
SPATE OF "CONFESSIONS"
Twenty-one years old and a murderer twenty-seven times over. That's the self-accused record of a Californian lad, Earl Cramer. Either the world's most colossal liar or the world's most cold-blooded assassin. Which is he- Super Assassin or Super Ananias?
When arrested (August 25) || he proposed to tell two or three thrillers-a-day to the police until he had made a clean breast of his mania to kill.
The bodies of two men were found at- once 65-year-old James C. Kennett, of Chicago, whom Cramer said he killed in a quarrel over food, and John Thomas Mangan, aged 17, of Sacramento, whom he knifed and shot because the red-haired youth had borrowed his rifle.
The authorities appear to doubt the story of Baughman's death. They say he was not as certain of the details as he had been in con
British cruiser,
H. M. S. Duane.
Italian torpado speed boat
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$. S. Vulcania carries Italian troops to Africa
WOMAN SPENDS 27 Skeleton
YEARS
IN A HOSPITAL
A Bradford voman who had been in hospital for twenty-seven yours without a break'has died.
She waa Mra. Annie Lee and she was admilled to the St. Luke's Hospital in 1908 suffering from a prisiful Alness. With the except-
on of a short period during the war when the hospital was used for wounded soldiers and she was transferred to the Bowling In
•stitution, she remained there nati! her death.
Up till ten years ago her kun- haud visited her daily Then he died in the same hunpital.
Two years ago Mr. Lee sale a buta for the first time. She was being driven across the city for treatment at the Royal Epe and Ear Hospital
Husband
fessing to the murder of Kennett For Sale At
and Mangan and in telling where he had buried the bodies of Real- ing and Johnson.
Cramer's intimation that the list 1 of his victims will reach 27 was made to a deputy sheriff. The dis- trict attorney does not believe it.
In his cell after his confession
Cramer read eagerly every word published about his exploits in Then Cramer sent searchers every newspaper that was avail- back to the same spot, where a abic. He delighted in the stories giant former sailor had lived of his confessed cruelties.
as a hermit while seeking gold and radium, to hunt for the bodies of Fred Realing, mine watchman, who disappeared last November, and John Johnson, an aged prospector, who drop ..ped out of sight in July.
"I didn't like the people around me," Cramer told the find go authorities. "You these bodies, and then I'll tell you some more. If you look in old prospecting holes you'll find men buried everywhere."
Son Of A Barbor Unless this boastful young the Bluebeard gave searchers right directions their task of Anding Realing's and Johnson's bodies appear almost insurmount- able
The place (n mining district called Fulda Flats) is dotted with
: scores of abandoned mines.
In one of them Kennett's body lay since last July until Cramer's confession told where It could be found.
•
A Cattle Rustler This young man presents a Although puzzling personality. he professes to prefer his own company to that of his fellow-men, he often shared his cablas and his food, or their cabins and their food, with other prospectors for Californian gold.
Kennett he met on a freight train, and invited him, to scratch for gold with him. The red-haired Mangan he also met while wander- ing about.
His reasons for killing his friends are trivial. He says he shot Kennett and slashed the body with a knife in a dispute over the division of food after they had decided to separate.
Mangan died because he had borrowed Cramer's rifle with- out permission.
£300 Cash
women
THERE have been cases of who wanted to buy husbands, and men who have wanted to buy wives are fairly common.
But, surely, the strangest proposal is that of Mrs. Mary Ann Cordes, an Irish-woman, who is offering her "husband for sale at £300 cash down."
And, stranger still, Mr. Cordes is quite agreeable although he suys he is still in love with his wife!
The real trouble is that Mrs. Cordes is homesick. She is now in New York, states Reuter, but she wants to revisit her native Ireland to see her old mother.
If the "nie" should be effected, she means to spend the rest of her days in the Green Isle.
Up till now, however, all this has been only a dream.
The Cordes have been almost down and out for the last 10 years, and cannot raise the money for the third-class steamer fare.
Mr. Corden, who is 40, en- tirely sympathises with his wife's longing for her native land, So far, however, no woman has made a bid for him.
"I'll Get Divorce" "No young woman need apply," he stipulates. "She must be be-
Ho quarrelled with Realing tween thirty-five and forty-five, over a dog.
He accused Johnson and Realing of anooping around a radium and gold mine which he said he had-located. There are no known deposits of radium, however, in the area. The police place little credence Mangan's body was found acet-in the fantastic "werwolf" angle dentally by a cattle man in search to the youth's confession as to the killing of calves and drinking of rustlers.
their warm blood.
When telling of killing Healing
Cramer was arrested originally and Johnson, Cramer, the son of a for theft of cattle. It was while San Francisco barber, boasted of ranchera wore seeking missing 'alaying a man named Jeff Baugh- calves that Mangan's body was found, when the killing was traced man, at Loomis, California, in to Cramor. Then the astounding 1930, and a youth in a California confession began to flow from the C.C.C. camp last year,
braggart youth.
..
...
or even more.
"Young women are not worth their salt these days," he added.
"If I can find a woman, pro- ferably one with a farm, who wants a good, steady husband, I'll get a Mexican divorce from Mary and marry again. Then Mary can go to Ireland and see her poor old mother."-
"There must be plenty of lonely women who would ap. preciate a man like mine." Mrs. Cordes chimed in.
"I am doing this only for Mary," Mr. Cordes concluded:. "Sho de-. Borves a brank.
"We have been married soven- teen years, and somehow, after. you've been down a very long time, you feel you can't go on the same old way any longer."
May Solve
Great Controversy
COLLEGE FIND THEORY
Leicester, Sept. 30. THE discovery of a skeleton in an ancient load-lined coffin at Leicester may solve one of the great con- troversies of English history.
There is reasonable evidence for the belief that the. skeleton is that of Richard III, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
PHOTOS FOR "FANS"
Fredric March, the famous Ameri- can cinema star, who is spending a holiday in England before commenc ing his next work, "Anthony Ad-'
very verso", ie, con above, occupied at his hotel in London sign- ad- ing autographs for
mirers:
numeraSLA
NEW SCHEME ENDS THOSE WIFELY TEARS
HOW many tears has your
If it should be proved to be his remains it will decide whether his appellation "Crookback" was simply a term of reproach or due to his being truly a hunchback.
have Historians
crossed swords for years over this point.
Excavator Discovery-
A huge mechanical excavator was at work on the site' of the new wing at the Leicester College of Arts and Technology and this old coffin was suddenly revealed.
The Lolcester Archaeology Society intend to investigate the matter closely. Many other skeletons have been found in the past few years in this neighbour- hood during excavations on the college, but in each case the body had been buried without a coffin.
According to local theory, thono skeletons were most likely monks or members of a collegiate brother- hood who lived there some five or six hundred years ago.
Registrar's Theory
The registrar of the college, Mr. Drury told me to-day:
"I am prepared to laugh at our conjectures in this matter, but there are a good many grounds for this view that accepting the
that of skeleton may indeed be Richard III.
He was old.
"Richard was killed at Bosworth, which is very near to this place. in young man-35 years He was of repulsive ap pearance, fa understood to have been hunchbacked and to have a withered arm.
"Now the skull of this skele ton appears to be that of a man of repulsive appearance. He was obviously of low mentality, The forehead is low and the underjaw protrudes beyond the upper one by, about a quarter of an inch.
About 200 yards from the spot there is a bridge upon which a
wife shed because you for got the date of your wedding anniversary or her birthday?. Now, if you lived in London, you would need have no fur ther trouble in that direction. A London business man has formed an organisation which, for the sum of 68. a year, guaran- tena to remind you of all birth- days and wedding anniversarios.
"I formed this organisation, late records the fact: Near this he said, "because recently I forgotspot lie the remains of King
Richard III, who was the date of expiry of my motor Bosworth Field. licence, so I tried to doviso nicans of reminding people of the things that matter in their lives. Already I have 6,000 clients on my book, but I am alming at a million.
n.
"One of the queerest requests I had was from a woman who' wished to be reminded of 16 different appointments she had with her hairdresser,”
Remindera" is the name of the organisation, and its offices are in Bond-stract,
killed at
"It is generally understood by: historians that the King's body was brought on, horseback from Bosworth and flung Into the river here...
"Our conjecture to that the news of the fate of the King would cer tainly reach the members of the brotherhood toho lived here. They would very likely recover the body from the river and bury it within the precincts of the church,
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