THE
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APRIL 27, 1936.
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HE CLAIMS 14
A
BUT
MILLIONS
HAS SUDDENLY DÍSAPPEARED
MAN who claims a £14,000,000 fortune walked out of his home in Earl's Court-road, London, one evening last month and since then has not been traced.
He was due to sail for New York to make legal application for the fortune,
He is Mr. Ulick Guy Hawkins Tourney, twin brother of Mr. Dernot Tourney and a great-. nephew of the late Alexander Stewart Tourney, of New York.
The fortune was-left by an uncle.
Mr. Dernot Tourney said: "Ulick had the tie- kets and passage arrangements in hand. I do not even know what boat we were to sail on."'
"On Monday evening he walked out of the house without elther cont or hat.
"If he doesn't return by Monday, I shall inform the police."
£370-TO MILLIONS
Mr. Tourney described his brother an tall and alim, with fair hair, blue eyes and pale complexion. When he left the housò he was dressed in a groy check suit and brown shoes.
He is a "rather strange, retiring
An American archaeologist, Prof. Gregory Mason, has found ruins of an old Indian elty in the Colombian jungle. According to Professor Mason the ruins date back to the 16th century. The picture shows a temple in the discovered town, which is now occupied by wild turkeys and pigs.
sort of fellow," and has often gone ATLANTIC AIR ACE TELLS HIS STORY away for days at a time in the past.
"The Tourney fortune was built up by Alexander Stewart Tourney, who went to Ireland with £370 left to him by my grandfather," said Mr. Dernot Tourney.
The claims for the millions first when 30 claims began in 1906, were filed.
Mr. Shaw's 80th Birthday
MALVERN FESTIVAL
CELEBRATION
Bernard Shaw's 80th birthday is on Sunday, July 26. The eclebrated at event is to be Malvern on Saturday, July 25, by a performance of his greatest play. "St. Joan," which is to
year's this
Malvern oper Festival. Other plays by Mr. Shaw in the festival programme are "Pygmalion" and "On the Rocks."
There is a special Branto interest in this year's festival. A new version of "Jane Eyre," by Helen Jerome fauthor of the successful version of St "Pride and Prejudice" at the
to be given, and also a James's),
of The Brontes of by John Davidson, the Yorkshire playwright. These will be
Programme,
played on consecutive evenings. is
other play in the
by
"The Clandestine
Garrick George Golman and David This link between the Restoration Sheridan ani ny's of period and the days Goldsmith will niford an interesting contrast to the Brontes and Shaw
Cyril The play was revived by at the Haymarket in 1903.
On Saturday, Aug. 1, there are to he two special performances of "Lady Precious Stream" by the company. The festival will run for a month.
nude
WIFE DIES IN GAOL
of
HUSBAND LOSES SON. AND MOTHER TRAGEDY has pursued for
month the family Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, prin- ter, Mr. James J. Pope, culminat- ing in the death of his wife in Holloway Prison, N.
On February 26 Mr. Pope's 11 John Douglas Pope, years-old son, was drowned in the River Ivel, at Biggleswade.
Three daya later his wife, Mrs. Amy Pope, was charged, with the boy's murder. She was plaeed in the hoa- pital at Holloway and was three times remanded, on account of illness.
Meanwhile Mr. Pope went to live with his mother, but sho died on Sunday..
An inquest was held on Mrs. Amy Pope at Holloway.
Wine In Radiator Saves
W
Mailplane
JALTER MITTELHOLZER, pilot, sat helpless in a German Transatlantic mailplane as it limped across Below 1,800 miles of open sea with a leaking radiator. him a German depot ship raced at full steam to make contact with the crippled 'plane if it fell.
PROSTRATE THRONG His mechanic pumped the
After a champagne lunch the spare water supply up to the damaged radiator, while the King of Kings strode through a pilot kept his eyes glued to the prostrate throng of worshipping thermometer gauge watching for natives to inspect his airplane before disappearing in his "big the least, ominous rise.
hend."
The hours passed desperately red Rolls-Royce with the never- slowly.
The mechanic pumped failing sunshade over his sacred the contents of their thermos! flasks and two bottles of wine into the thirsting radiator. Then at last "the African const into sight bathed in the
came
glimmering haze of the setting. sun." Safety,
"Flying Adventures," by Walter Mittelholzer, (Black and Son,) 10s. Gd.), tells this as one incident in a flying career that begun in 1914, and has taken the author to the Arctic Ocean, South America,
Capetown, Abyssinia, and Persin.
To-day grey, grizzled little Mit- telholzer flies the daily 160 m.p.b. Swissair 500-mile service from: London to Switzerland.
hus
"Abyssinian law," says Mit- telholzer, "h:18 been falsely described as cruel and gruc- some. Actually it is based on a mixture of archaic Biblical Hense. law-giving and common
NEW REX RECORDS
RECORDINGS BY:-
GRACIE FIELDS, CHARLIE KUNZ, REGINALD DIXON, JACK PAYNE AND HIS BAND, CASANI CLUB ORCHESTRA.. LARRY ADLER, MORTON DOWNEY AND MANY OTHERS. COMPLETE LIST ON REQUEST.
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9 Ice House Street.
11
Hongkong.
OUR BRITISH
CROSSWORDS
19
120
ACROSS
1 Once a cab-driver, but now a creator of revolutions wrong carpenters.
8 Putting on thus is very impres
sive 9 Waiting.
All cases are judged without delay in the courts held per- manently in the little huts erected by the roadside and in 11 There's nothing rough in simplo
Vengeance. the public squares. Thieves are iz Put down in black and white. as a rule beaten.
"Plaintiff and defendant are
13 The only certainty about it is that it takes a "short one."
chained together until the16 May be knitted with a minimum
of fabour.
magistrate has heard witnesses and pronouneed judgment..... On the whole, an eye for an eye! and a tooth for a tooth is the
10 In his since Solo- princible adopted
17 The only Shakespearean charac- ter who hnd an allernative to real estate, and nothing else.
patients' eyes to prob ably makes a good living. Credit this mark. -Defeat.
21
A ship is built on such errors. 26 A fairy is needed to make the
shape right.
"GRAND CAREER" Lord Beaverbrook, who
mon's time...." Mittelholzer illustrates his book. 23 own all over Europe-with-him, writes a foreword to the book:
with a vivid series of air photo-24 "One day a historian of the airgraphs of the Arctic, the Alps, mountaing will arise who will make his own South America, and name and fame by describing the land forests of Africa. grand career of Mittelholzer. In the meantime we are fortunate to words, коте have, in his own chapters from the life of this re- markable man."
AIR LINER ORDERS MISUNDERSTOOD
CITY OF KHARTOUM REVELATIONS
Alexandria, Apr. 15.
Mittelholzer learned his flying in flimsy war-time fighters among ......the south the Alps, where wind rages and roars through the
A mistake in the adjustment of the valleys and one may be sucked
carburettors of the City of Khartout, down at any moment."
After the war he was asked to the Imperial Airways flying boat fly in the Junkers Spitsbergen which crashed into the sea near here victims was re- expedition.
With one companion on Dec. 31, was revealed when the sumed here to-day, Major Cooper, he flew hundreds of miles into the inquest on the 12
Inspector of Ac- Arctic Circles, filming and mup the Air Ministry ping unknown wastes. He only cidents, has alrendy expressed the his view that the accident was caused by just managed to get back to base with a failing, engine that a shortage of petrol. meant the end of that expedition for Mittelholzer.
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To-day evidence was given by Mr. dent who gave orders for the adjust- In 1934 he made the first
carburettors. He in ment of the direct flight to Addis Ababa to dicated that the adjustment of the deliver a Folker Irimotor to the main jet was carried out by mistake.
big Emperor mun "with
"My impression," he said, "na Turnill enigmatical eyes and a gentle, that instructed the engineer, almost feminine, handshake lo alter the slow-running Jet,
Turnill is positive I said main Jet. I whose expression befrays R have no reason to doubt his word. peculiarly attractive mixture of did not examine the completed job. patriarchal benignity and since the procedure was entered in the Oriental ennning"
log book."-Neuter.
MeMeakin the engineer superinten-
but
1
28 General.
20 This always happens by chance. 30 Trite Claude (sing.).
DOWN
1 Taken for dinner by many
people.
2 Early Order of the U.S.S.R. 3 Here is hay, as indicated by the
letter in the window,
4 It's useless to be proud here.
5 Put ginger in the ruling.
6 Discloses a moving scene in the
dark.
18
102
1 were 12.5
7 Lets gipsy go to be entertained
by certain antiquarians.
10 His ups and downs have
effect upon this fellow.
14 Teddy?
no
15 In this spot much Indian money
may be found.
18 Often taken with salmon.. 20 Slant.
21 An optical arrangement.
22 Hang! It would seem to be the dangerous part of the bath.
26 Tako up
27 Dead in Ireland but worn in
Scotland.
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