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MONDAY, JANUARY
1987.
TURNED DETECTIVE FOR SON'S SAKE
Widow Will Name Murder Rite
"Real Murderers”
New York, Jan. 10.
THE cold grey eyes of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, ex-
ecuted last April for the murder of the Lindbergh|| baby, have made his widow turn private detective to elear the family name.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann has
always protested her husband's
Of Damascus Sword-Makers
RELATED BY MAN WHO FOUND OLD FORMULA,
Worcester, Mass., Jan. 1. Discovery of the secret which produced the famouá Damascus blade of antiquity was announced
innocence. She returned to MRS. CLAUDE by an Ohio dentist to the Ameri-
New York to-day after spending several weeks at Hopewell, New Jersey, bergh's baby was kidnapped..
where Colonel Lind-
"Now I have proof," she stuttered in broken English, announcing that she had gather- ed evidence which will soon prove the Stato killed an in- nocent man when they executed Hauptmann.
"The guilty ones, we'll name them
soon," she went on. "Then all will know my husband was blameless. We tre near the end of things. What we are about to reveal will surprise the world. That I promise."
Mrs. Hauptmann had her arm round her three-year-old son Mann- tred while she talked. It was -obvious why she wanted in vindicate her dead husband's name. Her son has become his living image during the last eight months.
Its hair has changed from flaxen blond to the light brown colour of his father. stubborn
RAINS
GETS DECREE
Husband's Marriage
in the United States
SIR BOYD MERRIMAN has grant-
ed a decree nist to Mrs. William Claude Rains, wife of the actor, on the ground of his adultery with Misa whom he has Frances Propper, married in the U.S.A.
Mr.
The pelition of Mrs. Roins was not defended. Her address was given as Southwick-street, Marble Arch, W.
H. W. Barnard, Mrs. Ralnis's counsel, stated that in January last year her husband was granted a de- cree nist in the State of New Jersey, United States, on the ground of de
acrtion.
That decree was made absolute in His mouth is the same the following April and a few days
the mouth. But
most string liceness is in the eyes--the Inter Mr. Rains married Miss Prop- same round, unblinking, drey-blue per in the State of New York.
eyes.
'DISMAL', CORONATION
DECORATIONS BUTTER PAT DESIGN ON COINS
When Mrs. Rains's suit was begun he entered an appearance under pro- test and an issue was directed to be tried,
Mr. Rains, however, 'gave up his
elle of choice in the U.S.A., and the order regarding the issue was dis- missed.
claim that he land acquired a domi-
Mr. and Mrs. Rains were married In November 1924 at the register office at Windsor.
In 1020 they both went to the United States, where they were act- ing. They were not happy, and in
Professor W. C. Constable, Direc- tor of the Courtauld Institute of Art London University, condemned the King Edward VIII, stumps and spoke) Decemb of "dreadful rumours" of the new land King George VI stamps and coins at the annual dinner in London of the Design and Industries Association.
The King Edward stamp, he said. when examined under a glass, was crude. "I have no objection to photographic design, but no engra-i
can Society for Metals here.
W. S. Carnes told the society he had. obtained the formula from tablets recovered by archeologists in the Holy Land. He demonstrated metal strips of razor of such sharpness and
such flexibility that they could) be in a circle without breaking.
He related the legend of ancient Damascus sword manu- facture as follows:
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The sword-maker would take a giant Nubian slave on a midnight| desert trek, and then with charcoal fire and bellows manned by the slave would heat his already forged blade,
Slow heating unții sunrise gave the Proper tempering degree to the motal and this, the dentist explained, was reached exactly by comparing colour with the centre of the rising
sun.
the
through the slave's heart,
Then the artisan plunged the blade translated by Dr. Counts on suction cooling in a liquid with the correct chemical constituents to give the unique qualities.
Proper "air-tempering" followed as the maker swung the blade about
tion, the dentist said. According to the legend if the blade then would sever the slave's head without being nicked a true Damascus blade had been created,
his bend with a muttered incanta
Dr. Carnes, an amateur metallurg- recreation of the
1st, showed his famed blades, testing flexibility by 1928 she returned to Eng-temper by shaving huir from his arm touching point to hit then proving She saw her husband in London with the same blade. in the following summer, and they agreed to separate.
On
Charlie Chaplin is negotiating with the Russian Film Industry to produce
a film there. He is photographed above with his leading lady, Paulette Goddard, in the Californian sun.
EDWARD VIII IS 8TH OF LIVING ROYAL EXILES
LONDON, JAN. 1.
EDWARD VIII, WHO RULED FOR 324 DAYS AS MONARCH OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST EMPIRE, HAS BECOME THE EIGHTH MEMBER OF A VERY EXCLUSIVE SOCIETY, THE "KINGS WITHOUT CROWNS."
THESE FALLEN MONARCHS, ONLY ONE OF WHOM VOLUNTARILY LEFT HIS THRONE, ARE LIVING IN THE VARIOUS CAPITALS OF EUROPE.
THE RIVIERA, FAVOURITE PLAYGROUND OF EDWARD AND MRS. WALLIS SIMPSON, SEES THE MOST OF THEM.
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ONDON
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HAPPY MEMORIES
are recalled by the mellowness of Greys. Good times are lived again in the fragrance of the true Virginia. tobacco, carefully-blended and pro- served in the special airtight tin.
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TABAQUERIA FILIPINA
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NEW DRESS?
good
well, not exactly.. but almost as
It has just been
ZORIC CLEANED
He developed the modern and less "PLAYBOYS" THE OTHERS, OLD MEN WHO HAVE THE STEAM LAUNDRY Co.
process, Dr. Carnes said, the hearing of his re-marriage in by producing a tempering solution
she started proceedings.
with constituents similar to blood Evidence was given on affidavit and discovering the proper top-rcat from the Unlied States.
by comparison with the rising sun's (Mr. Rains began work as a call-intensity. ver of the last century would des boy. He is now well known on both cribe our new stamps as anything
and screen. He played the
stage
A COUPLE OF THESE ERSTWHILE MONARCHS HAVE ENOUGH MONEY AND ARE YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE
GIVEN UP ALL HOPE OF EVER REGAINING THEIR POMP
AND POWER, LIVE QUIETLY AND OBSCURELY.
Edward no doubt will take his place among them as their leader Further tests of the metal's hard for he will remain-at least for but crude," said Professor Consta-invisible man in the film version of ness included hammering pieces of
the H. G. Wells novel of that name. it through sheet steci and by cut-months-as colourful and dra- "There is a dreadful rumour that He was first married to Miss Isabel ting slices from steel spikes, without matic in the eyes of the world
Jenni and then 10 Mins Marie harming the blade's razor-edge.- Hemingway.]
United Press.
ble.
they are going to take out Edward's head and merely substitute that of George VI. Cannot we do something about it? Is there nobody who can influence the Postmaster-General in this matter?" .
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Speaking of the new coins, he said: "We have always suffered from the passion of taking sculpture on large scale, and then by machine bringing it down to a small scale, and the effect is a butter pat de-, sign. These things are done over our heads by people who are ignor-
HERE COMES THE BRIDE' ON THE RADIO-GRAM
:
Marseilles, Jan. 10. Civil marriages in Marseliles Town Hall will become more like the church ceremony.
A radio-gramophone installed in the registrar's office will play the Bridal March from "Lohengrin." followed by Mendelssohn's "Wedding
year.
complained
of his extravagance. Alfonso is reported to have between £400,000 and £1,000,000 in ready cash and several million more in in- vestments
Like Prajadhipok, the deposed Negus of Ethiopia lives with his as he has been for 20 years, family in England. The extent of his A marriage to the Baltimore-wealth is a mystery. Reports all born-Mra.-Simpson-and-his acti-circulate that he brought chesis of vities in any event would be money and Jewels with him when he fled from Addis Ababa before Mus- page-one news for a long time. solini's armies but the Negus main- He will have a tidy income, tains he is virtually penniless.
The Ex-Kaiser of Germany, living enough to make his life interest-quietly among his gardens, his library ing. His private income prob- and wood-chopping at Doorn, Hal- ably would be around £100,000 a land, need never worry about money although his wealth by no means is as great as Alfonso's. He has aban- doned hope of ever returning to power. He is an old man of 77. Ferdinand, lives in a modest two- The former King of Bulgaria,
Germany. His greatest pleasure-he storey house at Coburg, Thuringa, has only a modest amount of money and is a victim of cancer-is his col- lection of butterfies. He abdicated Oct. 3, 1018, in favour of his son Boris when the people of Bulgaria rose for leading them into the World War on the side of Germany. against him
Amanullah of Afghanistan, who The 24-year-old Archduke Otto, claimant to the throne of Austria, is fed the Palace at Kabul In January, 1920, when he was 30 years old, lives In the year 1940 the number of though still inferior to the United foremost of these.
States, Germany, is busy not only in The only recent precedent for the in Italy. He was ousted because he from that and try and make the new capital ships placed in commiss this but in every other direction as voluntary abdication of King Edward attempted to westernize his country.
regards her new naval construction, was established two years ago by
midget-size King Prajadhipok Sing.
ant."
FLAGS AND BUNTING
On the subject of the Coronation, he asked why no action was being taken to make
the
decorations worthy of the occasion. "Cannot we go back to 1635 and realise that when the Intante Ferdinand made his triumphant entry into Antwerp all the decorations were carried out
by Rubens," he said.
"Why cannot we take a pattern
March.""
ALL-WORLD
BIGGER
be
decorations for the Coronation same-lon by the leading Powers will thing worthy of this great city? As greater than at any time since 1916.
hear alla me with dismay.
it is, all
The number is not likely to be All these streamers, flags and bunting seem to me to be the most dismal less than a dozen. Each of these ships will cost £6,000,000 to £8,000,- things one could have,
He appealed, too, for a diversity of 000. So they give some index of the designs in the plaques for King George V. memorial parks, "I am told there is a design for those pla- ques which is literally of the butter pat order.
The world-famous \mouthwash
refreshes like a bath
amount which the bigger. Powers are spending on their fleets.
Nor is it only they who are busying themselves in renewing their navles, even a minor Power like Siam is em- barked on a programme of construc tion which will double the strength of her navy, Argentina, Poland and Greece have also been affected by the Impulse to rearm.
The members of the Kings With out Crowns" are:
Alfonso of Spain, Wilhelm of Ger- many, Prajadhlpok of Siam, Halle Selassie of Ethiopia, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Amanullah of Afghanistan and Abdel Medjid of Turkey.
There is an outer circle of this little band, composed of pretenders. throne they are hopefully waiting for a day when they will be so elevated by a return of inonarchical forms in their home lands.
RACE FOR
FOR Although they never have sat upon a NAVIES
First Breath 3 Hours After Birth
of
Prajadhipak, the same age as Edward but with none of his dashing spirit, lives quietly in England. His home at Cranleigh, Surrey, is only u short distance from. the core of the late istoric crisis.. He abdicated
His Queen, Souriya, tried to abolish. the ancient "Purdah," or seclusion of women.
Amanullah Aed by airplane, leaving the throne to his older brother, Prince Inayatulla Khan, who lasted only a few weeks. Then the military seized power.
His family receives nearly £200,-
Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 10. Oct, 27, 1834, because of a dispute 000 a year from Afghanistan. Claudette Scott, daughter of with his ministers over "royal pre-face of the rising might of Dictator Mrs. C. Scott, drew her first rogatives." breath three hours after she was born in Atlanta.
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ROYAL PREROGATIVES Edward's contention that one of his royal prerogatives was a right to marry a commoner, brought on his clash with Prime Minister Stanley
From 2.30 p.m. till 5.30 p.m. doctor was applying artificial respira- Baldwin.
Abdul Medjid, 08, who abdicated in Mustapha Kemel, has no desire to return to Turkey. He lives quietly and stylishly at Nice, spending his. time painting and playing the plane.
Kings The membership of the without a Crown" slumped Lew years ago when Sultan Ahmed Shab, Alfonso XIII, who abdicated in 1931 last of the Koja Monarcha of Persia, Finally the baby began to turn blue, and fled to escape rebels, is the "gay died in the American Hospital In and the doctor gave up hope. As he blade" of the royal exiles. A familiar Paris, King Carol returned to the stepped aside a nurse turned the in-ngure on the Riviera, he spends throne of Rumania, George II went font half-way on Its side. Claudette lavishly, dresses elegantly.
back to rule in Greece and the exiled gave a faint gasp, choked, and began He is estranged from his wife, Ex-King Manuel of Portugal died in to cry.-United Press,
Queen Victoria, who was cald to have England.
These are some of the striking faciaion. recorded in the new issue of Janc's Fighting Ships for 1930, edited by Francis E. McMurtrie and published by Messrs. Sampson Low at 428. In the prefuce it is pointed out ahlp able to withstand long-range shell fire of the plunging type should have little to fear from aircraft.
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There is also a hint that the bullding of a new type of -anti- aircraft ship is one of the surprises which the future has in store.
It is revealed that the Japanese battleship Hiel, of 20,000 tons, which was demilitarised for use as a train«. ing:ship under, the terms of the Lon- -don Naval Treaty of 1930, is to be re- converted into a capital ship now that the Treaty is expiring.
|_ Attention" is drawn to Italian aclivity, in building submarines, an arm in which she is now, in numbers at any rate, the equal of France,
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