Scot's Tragic
Love Idyll
GUILTY OF RAIDING A HAREM
EPORTS PREPARED FOR THE FRENCHI
R GOVERNMENT HAVE THROWN NEW
LIGHT-ON THE FATE OF A YOUNG SCOT NAMED ALEXANDER CAIRNS, WHOSE MUR- DERED AND MUTILATED BODY WAS FOUND IN THE DESERT SOME MILES FROM ALEPPO, SYRIA.
It is now established that he fell a victim to a harcm vengeance plol.
Cairna arrived at Aleppo to take up an en- gineering appointment last summer and showed intense interest in native life.
He was particularly attracted by the glumour of the
harems and their dark-eyed inmates..
In some way he managed to get into touch with ʼn girl
In one of these establishment girl who passed for a
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TELEGRAPH.
Cirenasion, but is said to have more European than East- Berlin ico-sailing competition held on the Rangsdorfer Sen, attracted ern blood in her veins.
RECKLESS VISIT
Apparently she was ng much Interested in him' as he in her, and the young Sent conceived the dan- gerous idea of forcing his way into the harem by night.
He was surprised in the course
of a clandestine visit.
Native custom knows only опе punishment for persons so exught- death.
Exactly where the penalty was carried out on Cairos is not known.
He had been "executed" with The) special marks that denote the nature of his crime for those familiar withị the East.
TEACHING
FATHER HIS JOB
One million young mothers and fathers throughout the king- dom are fearning their duty asi parents from a sixpenny booklet.
The Association of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, Plecadilly, has Just announced the issue of the millionth copy of "To Mothers and Fathers" (04. post free), compiled by: hundreds of the nation's greatest ex- perta.
Here are some-of-the-recommenalty tions for fuller:
Take your wife for short. gentle !
evening walks.
Although you cannot help with baby, clothes, you might make a cat for baby, or other useful baby furniture..
Show your interest by regularly asking what baby gained n weight.
Requests come from fathers all over the world for this bookigt. Borougli councils buy thousands 10 give to prospective parents.
Laurel On New Honeymoon
Divorce To Be Erased
ST
¡A
record number of entries this year.
LEGAL RELATIVES FOR
FRANCE'S FORGOTTEN
SOLDIER
Paris, Mar. 1.
The mystery of France's "forgotten man," known as Anthelme Mangin because amnesia resulting from war experiences caused him to forget his identity, roon may be cleared up by medlent experts and paychiatricts.
The case of the "forgotten man" has received much attention, with the result that two sympathetle families have claimed him as their own and have even gone to court over the dispute.
never
Twenty years ago, a soldier, minus any identification marks, was found wandering about a railroad station suffering from amne- sta. He has never recovered his memory and has been called Mangin because this was the first word he muttered when questioned by French authorities. He couldn't remember his first name, so he chose that of Anthelme,
Since then identifying the am
then, women have come from all over France hopeful of amnesia victim as a husband, brother, son or rela- tive lost in the war. The Monijoin family in Nantes identifled and claimed him. Similarity of the names-Montjoln and Mangin-
bears a certain
conmod plzonounced almost silke and also he
soldier could not
to other members of the family. The the Montjoins, but was willing to join them when Mme. J. Lemary stepped forward and said that this man was her husband who had been reported missing since the war
and had never been heard of since.
familles
Both
seem sure of the "forgotten man's" identity ahit both have furnished sets of photographs which are not unlike the amnesia victim. Mme. Lemary went so far as to bring suit for the return of her husband, but no one was able to decide the identity of the soldier....
Mangin, anxloùs to have the question of bis identity settled and to have a fixed civil status, is submitting himself to expert physi- elans and scientists who, after thorough examination of the vietim and the so-called families, will decide whether he is a Montjoin or the lost husband of Mme. Lemary-United Press.
Paper Cap May Give
Man His Freedom
DESIGN for a cap sent by a man in Broadmoor Asylum to social service centre has led to efforts being made for his release.
Scot Paid £10,000 To Quarrel With Wife
So that he and his wife f Alderman J. Ritson, Labour M.P. could quarrel, if they New York, Mar. 1. for Durham, is to be asked by mom-wanted to, without inter- CITAN LAUREL (of Laurel and bers of the Framwellgate Moor
Hardy) has gone on his second Social Service Centre to help secure ference from neighbours, a honeymoon.
.Stan and
man bought the houses on wite Virginia have who has been at Broadmoor for 34 settled the differences that resulted years.
each side of his. from the maintenance sult filed by
the freedom of Itorace H. Fidler,
Laurel, who alleged that she Fidler, then 10 years old, was sent was the common law wife of the to the asylum from Durham Assizes comedian, and the reunited couple on a charge of attacking a colliery have lett Hollywood by car for a manager, now dead, lefaurely journey to New York.
"All our troubles are forgotten,"
aurel before leaving. Laurci
sala
HIS LETTER
Nothing had bech heard of him at
The divorce secured on the day Framwellgate Moor until he sent a before Christmas will be erased. letter to Mr. C. Dent #1 the Before marrying Virginia in 1933, centre stating that he had been Sten had been divorced from Mrs. reading in a local newspaper of their Lola Laurel, whom he married in pctivities. 1026.
WHEAT
WITHOUT WORK
STRAIN of wheat which does
He wondered why they did not undertake eap-making.
He enclosed in his letter a paper design of a cap and full instrue tions.
The members were so Impressed, that the secretary wrote to him say-
tion.
Since then there has been à move-
perennial, like grass, is being de- veloped and tested on Canada's Dominion Experimental Farms,
The farmer of the future may be ment In the village to secure his able to sow a field of wheat and release, and a committee has been harvest crops of grain from it year appointed. after year, without all the labour of He is remembered in the vilinge annual ploughing, harrowing and for his interest in designing and sowing.
painting.
£10,000
They cost him between and £15,000,
Mr. F. A. Maequisten, M.P. fold
the Commons that this happened in Glasgow. The man was wealthy,! and had gone to live in the city's "Carlton House-terrace."
He romplained to Mr. Macquis- ten that his aristocratic neighbours were very interfering, "Ale and my wife," he said, "had a bit of a lofsle (a row), and they sent for the police."
The story came out while the House was discussing Mr. Petherick's Bill to separate matrimonial question from the ordinary procedure of police courts. The Government promised its support, and it was given a second rending.
"TOO MANY'
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937.
Success After
4 Years Research
DRUG TO KILL PNEUMONIA
Washington, Mar, 1.
ISCOVERY of a new drug which will kill the
DISCO
germs of pneumonia in mice is announced by Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal, of the National Institute of Healiḥ in Washington,,
Because of the 'large dosage required It cannot be applled at present to human beings, "but it is a big advance in the right direction, sald Dr. Rosenthal.
THE EFFECTIVE DRUG HAS THE TECHNICAL NAME OF 'PAMINO-BENZENE SULPHONAMIDE."
· IT IS REASONABLY. CHEAP AND AVAILABLE COMMERCIALLY.
FOUR YEARS' WORK
"Now we have the drug to do the work, the ques- tion is to make it practical for human application," the doctor added.
Discovery of the drug was the result of four years' research by Dr. Rosenthal, who treated more than 300 mice before he found I-United Press.
'Tipperary' Host To
Won't Die
TUPPERARY" is twenty-five years
old this month. No, it wasn't written during. the war, and it wasn't composed for the benefit of thousands of tramping feet.
Empire's Premiers
London, Mar. 1.
It was written in a public-house THE King is to attend a
As the result of a bet by its author, Mr. J. Judge of Oldbury, Worcester shire.
"I was with a man in a theatre bar and he be me I couldn't write
song and produce it in one day," Mr. Judge said.
accepted the bet, went to an inn
and wrote the words and music of
Tipperary. The same night I sang
luncheon of the Empire Parliamentary Association in Westminster Hall оп May 7-the Friday before Coronation Day.
Ministers and members of the The guests will be the Prime
it in the Stalybridge Theatre. In a Legislatures of the Empire who few minutes everybody was. singing will be in London for the Corona-
It,
of
"It has earned thousands tion, the Imperial Conference, pounds. I myself have made £s and an Empire Parliamentary a week out of it since 1015, and Conference.
expect shall continue to do so." At the Empire Parliamentary Con- ference the Dominion Parliament will But Mr. Judge is not the only one
A
tablet at
to claim authorship of "Tipperary.be represented by delegations head- a public-house at led by a Cabinet Minister and in- Balsall Conimon, Warwickshire, states cluding Speakers, leaders of the the song was written there. Mr. Opposition and of other principal Judge doesn't think so, anyway. He parties in the Parliaments, makes the money out of lit
There will be a delegati
delegation, from
www.
Engaged To His Half-Sister
'Paris, Mar. 1. SCHWEIZ met a girl
ARMAND Jct. They fell in love,
became engaged. But-
Armand had not been home for many years, so he did not know that his father had married again.
He wrote to his father, telling him of his
romance, mentioning the name of the girl be had chosen. The father replied:
"My dear boy: It is your own sister whom you propose to marry." Juliet's mother hack married Armand's father.
Indian Central Legislatur Invitations have been sent to the Premiers of the Australian States and the provinces of Canada.
Delegates are also expected from the Irish Free State, and from the Parliament of Northern Ireland as on the occasion of the Empire Par-
·lamentury Conference of 1035.
SEVEN PREMIERS' ACCEPT Colonies which have reached a certain stage of self-government are also sending representatives, includ- ing Ceylon, Bermuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Jamaica, Hongkong and Mauritius...
Acceptances have 50 for been
received from about 60 of the In- viled delegates, including five Speakers, while seven Premiers of States or Provinces have up to the present accepted the invitation to be the guests of the Empire Parliamen- tary Association for the Coronation Parliamentary
Conference.
In recent years a number of func- tions arranged by the Empire Par liumentary Association have taken place in Westminster Hall. When the present King, then Duke of The half-brother and the half-York, returned from his Australian according to law. tour in 1927, he attended a reception But the President of the Republie given by the Association to visiting Is expected to grant them a special members of the Parilaments of the dispensation.
Empire.
sister cannot wed.
ROMANCE OF
URSULA JEANS
URSULA JEANS, THE ACTRESS, HAS MARRIED IN NEW
'YORK ROGER LIVESEY, THE ACTOR. "NOTHING COULD HAVE PLEASED MÉ MORE,” WAS THE COM- MENT OF MRS. McMINN, HER MOTHER.
Ursula hnd cabled her mother: holiday a fortnight ago and went to "Just to say we were married this America, morning. my darling." The cable "Ursula's last play was "The Coin- added that they were very happy.
try Wife' at the Old Vic, and it was
Gorilla
A not need sowing annually but is they would follow his sugges- there is no imit to the number of bert Miller's company, "The Country Livesey
At present; said Mr. Petherlcic, Roger Livesey is playing with G at the Did Vie that she first met Mr.
three
Mrs. years ago," magistrates who hear these cases: Wife," in New York. Ursula took a McMinn said.
"He is thirty and she is twenty-. sometimes as many as thirty are on ment of the parties. He proposed the Bench, to the great embarrass-
nine and they are an ideal couple.. Theirs is a perfectly happy marriage," the maximum should be three,
said Mrs. McMinn. “They are fright- fully in love with each other. He in while it was wrong to have the court Mr. Pritt, on the Sociallat side, sald
a_grand_man." cluttered up with busybodies and nosy parkers, litigation involving the status of individuals and large sums of money should not be held without public ventilation. If. there was
SWISS BUILD FORTS
Defence Drive Will Aid Workless
Berne, Mar. 1.
ITTLE Switzerland (her population is 4,100,000, compared with * Britain's 47,000,000) will this year spend £4,800,000 on building frontier fortresses and underground air rald shelters, said Ministér
of Boy Of 20,000 will be al
Altogether £25,000,000 will be allotted to public works and Government-subsidised private works. Sums of £4,500,000 will go ón (1) work for the unemployed, (2) subsidies to house-owners who undertāko to spend the money on repairs.
I
no publicly thero
Battles With Flying Squad
Paris, Mar. 1, might be casual misbehaviour in the A FULL-GROWN gorilla belonging courts, and dishonesty on the part of this afternoon six members of the to Mine. Lecomte, kept at bay witnesses, who might believe they Paris flying squad sent to capture would nover be discovered.
Fit.
Trouble. began when the gorilla, In a fit of temper, broke its chain,
મ. smashed Ils cage, and attacked Mme, Lecomte.
Miss Jeans made her West End stage debut at Wyndham's as Angela in "The Firebrand," in 1820,
In 1931 sho married Robin Irvine, the actor, but it was three months
before the news of the marriage be-
came known.
the death of Mr. Irvine from pleurlay The romance ended in tragedy with in Bermuda while on holiday.
In Lives, both Miss Jeans and Mr. denied rumours of their 30 PINS IN HER EAR
capagement, i but bir. Livesey added: people never get engaged, Ipswich (Massachusetts), Mar. 1.
But they
often get married." For thirty years Miss Nelllo Gwinn, When the flying squad arrived the Mr. Livesey is the
of the Inte of Ipswich, Massachusetts, suffered gorilla had barricaded itself behind Sam Livesey. He was educated at from Intermittent earache. X-rays a pile of broken furniture, and a Westminster City School and made have just revented the presence of half-hour battle occurred with his stage debut at the St., James's thirty corroded pins and needles, pokers and iron bars as defence Theatre in 1017. apparently pushed In while she was against flying chairs before it' could a child. They have been safely, re- bo captured, moved.
Then it was sent to the Parle zoo.
800
Like his wife, Mr. Livesey has ap- peared in many. Dlms as well as West End shows.
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