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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2007.
Secret Of Lady Houston's
HISTORICAL FILM Fortune Unsolved
FROM ITALY
An historical film is being produced In Italy, deating with the famous battle against Carthage. The picture above shows one of the scenes of the army of Hannibal and war elephants marching agalsist the army of Scipio,
Astrologer Claims
Foretold
£6,250,000
ESTIMATE
OF ESTATE
By A Special Reporter
London, Jan. 15. THROUGH the windows of Byron Cottage, Hampstead-open and uncurtained, as Lady Houston always had them-1, saw yesterday a search party go from room to room, from drawer to drawer, collecting masses of
A view from the famous Croydon aerodromoauislãe - London which may be abandoned owing to thu serious
which airplane celdenta
hare happened there lately.
documents in the hope of discovering DUKE SEES
her will.
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It is believed that Britain's riches woman, who died on Tuesday night, had estate amounting to £0,250,000. Her, third husband, shipowner Sir Robort Houston, left ber £7,000,000 in 1926.
PALACE OF ABDICATED
Her sister, Mrs. A. H. Wrey, of Chester- terrace, N.W., and Lady Palmer, a favourite niece, and wife of Sir Geoffrey Palmer, would, it is believed, be among the largest beneficiaries.
The search, which began in Byron Cottage,¦ extended to Jersey, where Sir Robert Houston was domiciled, and to the safe deposits of various banks with which Lady Houston had
Lady Palmer, a favourite EMPEROR
Stars
Abdication
"IT WAS WRITTEN
CENTURIES AGO"
*By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London, Jan. 15.
an eyelash was batted when a speaker at the first NOT
Congress of the new British Federation of Astrologers in London recently suggested that:
Ife and all other good astrologers had known, for years that King Edward was going to abdicate in 1936;
2-They knew even who would be his host when he left the Throne. The audience, occupying just 39 of the 425 seats in the softly-lighted Grotrian Holl, in Wigmore Street, W., showed women In an ascendancy -of-three-to-one, -----
They remained quite calm as they vibratory force which will chable nie listened applauded only at the end to select the harmonious gem to set of each address: laughed only when in properly alloyed gold--for gold
an unmistakable speaker made
must be used for this work." Joke.
IN DEMAND Nobody among them moved muscle when Dr. Isadore Kozminsky. discussing the magical action gems, said there was a great public intellectual demand for astrology.
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of
A brochure described how Dr. Kozminsky constructs and supplies, at not less than £2 2s, each, a përson- al talisman after he has judged from
No stir was caused by the state- ment of Mr. E. Bray, a Wembley accountant, that there is an influ- ence in the Universe which operates on the cut and shuffle of cards so that gamblers are given good or bad cards, according to the position of the moon in relation to their "horoscopic delineation."
E. W. Whitman, adding up the digita Nor was there any panic when Mr.
a map of the heavens at birth the In 1937, said that they came to 20 and
Toys do not always
indicaled that the will of the people in many countries will begin to express itself more strongly next year.
ABOUT BABIES
The audience, further, seemed-not- to be surprised to hear that favour able names for babies born on Christ- mas Day will be Arthur, Winifred and Noruh.
But more' fascinating than anyone.
dent of the British Institute of
quieten thee was Dr. Lionel Atherton, Presi-
cross baby
Graduate nurse, belli að Ematmeni sauð fer her www baby girl.
Medical Astrology and Metaphysical
Selence, who was described on the programme as the well-known West End osteopath,
SPELLING BEE
THE
Vienna, Jan. 15.
HE DUKE OF WIND- SOR spent this after- accounts, and where she left papers. noon among the "ghosts" A number of solicitors had acted of the abdicated Hapsburgs for her, and one of them said he of Austria. He drove on. was not aware of a will having
by ear for a few hours' been prepared. Solicitors in Jersey said they could sightseeing trip to Schoen-. find no trace of. 11. Mr. Vivion brunn, former Bailache, Jersey, solicitor for Lady Houston, said in London: "I am out
of touch with the matter. I can make no stalement at this juncture." BOXES OF PAPERS
The Hampstend papers, which filled two large deed boxes, were carried Into a malor-car in which Mr. A. H. Was Wrey, a London solicitor, and a woman secretary drove away. De- boys in a New York broadcast spell-tailed examination of them has not Ing-bee.
Eleven-year Edith Fenyes rumning neck-and-neck with two
got
Came silhouette." The boys by. Edith began. “8-1-1-I" The gong elanged.
Edith's father, listening, died of heart failure.
Sabre Duels
For Honourable
Germans Only
By A Special Correspondent.
Berlin, Jan. 15.
A new code of honour for German students, prescribing sabre duels to avengo insults, says:---
Any "honourable German" may challenge another German if he thinks he has been Insulted. The challenge must be accepted.
in
Drunken men have no right to challenge violators of their honour, CAD- because an intoxicated man not be considered "nionourable" the sense of the coue. Nor can a drunken man insult others. While Inebriated he has no tanour of hia out.
AUSTRALIAN STATE SHORT OF FAMILY DOCTORS
YOUNG MEDICOS ARE * SPECIALIZING MORE as he ex- He locked very grave plained to the 39 that he could not
The Australian State of New South It requires only a small Inner-dis-touch deeply on the subject of the
Wales le one of the few places in the turbance to make baby fretful and Duke of Windsor "for International
world where the medical profession But he said:
It is has ceased to be overcrowded. refuse to play. Remove this trouble reasons." and she soon plays happily again, or
"Go back to
now in need of reinforcements. the time when sleeps restfully. A Canadian nurne
Father Arminius wrote his great
There are a number of subsidized tells of the treatment she found suc-)
prophecy, and Van Ifelmont,
positions vacant for doctors, of which cessful for her own 'cross" baby girl:
worth £800 to the subsidies are
the "My little girl was a small delicate
2000 a year, but according to baby at birth, always constipated and
Minister for Health, they cannot be Biled. The Government la also find- crass. When she was a month old I bought a box of Baby's Own Tablets
"Why, did he not say that a Rolhs- ing It difficult to obtain junior and was so pleased with the results child should cover him? Isn't he medical officers, obtained I have used them constantly staying with a Rothschild now? The ever since, when baby has been cross, ex-King belongs to the Shepherd feverish, teething, or at the first sign 'Kings of the Plains. Follow their of a cold. She has had no serious, progress in the next 10. years." ideas and I now have a normal,
BOTH PROPHESIED healthy five-year-old who has had no
Events which have come about during the Crisis were written
-centuries ago..
corrective other than Baby's Own After the address I asked Dr. Tablets."---Mrs. Mary E. Crosth-Atherton: Which of the two, Father walle, Freeman, Ont.
Armintus or Van Helmont, mude this
Countless mothers have found remarkable prophecy? Baby's Own Tablets effectivo for
Dr. Atherton sald: Well, they both fretfulness, simple fevers, teething, had prophecies, but Van Helmont's colds, constipation, diarrhoea, upset was clearer. stomach, colle and other minor
allments of childhood. They are I asked: Did Van Helmont know sweat-tasting, correct in dosage, and about the Rothschilds (whose house are certified sato even for the most was founded only about 150 years delicate child. Obtafanblo at ago) and about King Edward? chemiste everywhere,
Baby's Own Tablets.
.
Dr. Atherton said: I should have
said that he used a Hebrew word
which incans "Rothschild."".
I asked: And King Edward?
Dr. Atherton sold: - Well, the line
of King David..
There are fewer general practi- tioners, says Austral News, because young medical men are speciálizing more and more,
summer
palace of the Hapsburgs.
He spent ten minutes in the famous blue room where Emperor Karl, Aus- tria's Jast emperar abdicated in 1018.
He examined the room where the unhappy Duke of Reichstadt, Napo- lcon's son, died in exile in 1832.
He visited the rooms of Francis Joseph, war-me Austrian --Em- peror, and look particular interest In the simple iron soldier'i bed on which the hardy old emperor died in 1916.
yet been possible.
While they were being collected three men, one a plain clothes He walked along the portrait gai- policeman, petrolled. the grounds, tery and stopped before the pertrait- guarded the gate, and turned away of the Empress Maria Theresa, Aus- callers.. Last night the gate was tria's Queen Elizabeth. locked and an ex-policeman acted He often questioned the gulde
as watchman,
about the Hapsburg family tree.
Two women who did not leave The Duke also visited the collec- their names motored to St. Maryle-tion of coronation coaches, and was bone Borough Cemetery at Finchley attracted by the child's wagen which yesterday to nsie about a site for Emperor Francis Joseph used as a
Hittle boy. grave for Lady Houston..
was
ar.
An official at the cemetery told me: "Nothing definite ranged, but the funeral will prob ably take place here on Saturday. The women said that aTM grave looking towards Hampstead was desired.
Relatives are returning
to-morrow
to complete arrange. raents and choose a site."
Lady Houston died of heart failure resulting from influenzal bronchitis. Two of her domestle staff are ill with influenza.
RAPID ILLNESS.
He drove back to Enzesfeld Castle for tea.
Secret New Speedplane For Ocean Mails QRITAIN'S hope
starting a two-day
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of
She fell i lost Saturday. She went to her bedroom, filled with flowers sent by admirers, and almost immediately become so weak that she was unable to practise her own famous cold cure, which is recited in the current issue of her weekly Transatlantic mail service magazine under the heading, "Lady to South America in 1937 Houston's
cold .cure has cured thousands-tet It cure you."
lies in a £25,000 'plane being
Iler magazine containing the completed for the Air Minis- eure was being sold yesterday on try behind locked doors at the London streets alongside news-
paper placards announcing her Hatfield, Herts. death. In it she wrote: "A cold is the forerunner of pneumonia and bronchitis, and very often ends in
death."
A close friend of Lady Houston told me last night:--
"Lady Houston's patriotic zeal for the welfare of her country burned her up and was responsible for her death.
18-HOUR DAY
Outsiders are not allowed even a glimpse of the eleven-ton 250-m.p.h. machine christened Albatross,
Engines of a new type going into the RAF. are being fitted. Some time this month it should make its first flight.
100 M.P.H. IN HAND
be Then a second Albatross will bullt. After these two have done their tests it is hoped to begin the "She has been working eighteen subsidised mail service in competi- hours a day lately, neglecting hertion with the French and German
now running.. meals and her health,
The British 'planes should be about
George V. earth death of King for the South-Atlantic crossing. De
"Lady Houston took the Con- stitutional crisis to heart. She was 100 m.ph. faster than either the a personal friend of the Duke of French or German flying boats used 'Windsor,
The
in the year also Havilland's Hio builders, affected her deeply.
tentative inquiries for about fifteen "I know people have said that Albatross machines from British and Lady Houston was not a sane woman. foreign airlines. That is entirely untrue.
have
We understand about six are provi- "Lady Houston was not an unsionally "booked" for British Air- balanced woman. She had a shrewd ways. The Air Ministry have ac-. business head, a lovable disposition cepted, in principle, this company's and was generous to a fault." tender for a South American éérvice.,
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