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Death of the "Fighting Quaker'
Nairobi, Apr. 10. CAREER of adventure and fighting
ended to-day with the death here of Major Walter Kirton, who has been coffee-farming in Kenyu since 1917. Major Kirion's first exploit was when he led a group of young men
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uncle's factory near Birmingham to break up.
political
The es-
meeting that was to be addressed by Lord Randolph Churchill capade became known as the Aston rict, and Major Kirton was fined £25. For the next 40 years he carried his life in his hands in many parts of the world.
He served throughout the South African war, and was the man selec- ted to carry the flag of truco into Johannesburg when Lord Roberts demanded the surrender of the town, He was known as the Fighting Quaker."
Scientist Upholds
Man Against Flea
In Broadjumping
London Apr. 13. Man is a ten time better jumper than the flen, Dr. George P. Bidder, noted British scientist, believes.
The theory that a 19-inch jump
of a fica is equal to a 300-vard jump
of a 6 foot man la a fallacy,
he said,
The height and distance which animals can jump is not propor- tional to the length of body, he explained. Naturalists who gave the jumping prize to the flea over- looked such questions as weight and the resistance to the air of Increased body surface air re-
Because there is
sistance its tiny body, the flen enn mako its Jong Jump. but the distance which other insects and animals can leap is governed by the weight behind each unit of skin area,
Man weighs nine pounds for each square foot of body sur- face. against the flea's 1.89.- pounds per square foot of sur- face, he said.-United Press.
24,
1987.
The General OMeer Commanding, Major General A. W. Bartholomew, entering the Queen's Theatro for Philharmonic's presentation of "Street
Singer."-Ming Yuen,
Murderer Marries Victim's Relative
Sofin, Apr. 10. LEXANDER KRUSTEFF, un- der sentence of death, has
Carnegie Fund Farce
LONDON, APR. 10,
DUNFERMLINE, THE BIRTHPLACE OF CARNEGIE, ENJOYS LUXU-
RIES WORTHI ALMOST £50,000 À YEAR FROM MONEY GIVEN TO THEM BY THIS WORLD-FAMOUS BENEFACTOR,
Yet they cannot raise £3,000 for o memorial to him. Eighteen months ago a special committee was set up to appeal for contributions to the memorial fund.
To-day only £1,100 has been raised by the townspeople by door-to- door collections, whist drives, dances and open-air 'sports, leaving the fund still £2.000 short.
Carnegie and United Kingdom Trust said: "The a failure and a farce.
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to think that the people who enjoy such privileges should not be spontaneous In subscribing money to the fund.
→We-are-very-disappointed, and what-is-so disheartening-is-that-the- people who benent most from the privileges have subscribed the smallest sums."
married in prison, a week before his execution, Marla Spiridonoff, granddaughter of the man he killed,
Krusteff, aged twenty-two, and his friend Atanass Gheorghiel (also sentenced to death) murder- cd ninety-eight-year-old Ivan Spiridonaff in his cottage at Plov- dly, South Bulgaria, last year.
They robbed him first of his £150 hoard.
Krusteff appealed to Boris to be allowed to marry Maria before he was hanged,
Witnesses at the wedding in the gnal chapel were Gheorghieff "and" Mie.”“Glicörghfeff, a sister of“
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