THE .HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938
Superstitious: Refuses To Marry Girl Who Narrowly Escaped Bigamy at Christmas
-Man With Two Hearts
Perth, Western Australia. DOCTORS here are examining the case of James Alvara, 57,
an Italian timber clearer living at Mount Barker, who has two hearts.
"Normal" beart is larger than the average, and is on his right side. On the left side, in the usual position for the heart, is a smaller organ with a subsidiary beat.
An offer by Italian doctors of £2,000 for Alvaro's bady at death was declined adme years ago Exchange.
Sonja Henie To Fly The Atlantic
Merrill Said
"YOU GO?"
I Said "O.K.
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"Bare. I'm going to fly the Atlantic. I am going to start off from New York on July 1 and fly straight over to London with Dick Merrill, and then go on to Norway."
EMPIRE NEWS
PARTY REVOLT
IN ALBERTA
Ollawn. The former rebels in the Social Credit party are now virtually in This was Sonja Hente speaking at command of the Aberhart Govern- Miami, Florida.
Her mother, she ment in Alberta, They have won sald, despite other reports, is not fly-their point, and the Cabinet
will ing with her.
shortly introduce a scheme for taxa- No, mother doesn't want to, 1
thon of securities which is expected .guess,"
said Sonja. "She will go over to bring in a revenue of £500,000 to Europe, but by liner ahead of us this year,
"How did I decide on the trip? Well, it was all very sudden.
Mr. Merrill was flying me down
and I
I was saying how much Ilked it He told me he was taking this
trip across the Atlantic in the summer, and I said 'How marvellous," "He said, "Why don't you come alang, too? and I told him 'O.K. and that was that."
here,
Girl In Breach
Case Seeks Job
Bradford.
There will be a heavy levy on
mortgages, and the ultimate object of the scheme will be virtually con- fiscation of private loans.
The plan originated in the rebel ranks of the Government party last year, but Mr. Aberhart would not accept it. This session, when the party caucus refused to allow the sales tox to be re-established, short- age of revenue forced his capitula
tion.
The securities tax dovetails into another debt reduction scheme which will clamp a permanent moratorium On mortgages now held on statutory This "homestead" exemptions.
Was
on the
WINIFRED WILSON wond scheme is suld to involve contracts year old blonde In the province amounting to chotas girl, awarded £1,000 £24,000,000. damages in her breach of pro- "The Blue Fledge."-it is reported miso action against Dr. Eric that the "blue pledge," which was Dansie, was busy packing to practically forced by the Govern- day for the close of the "Babes ment on back benchers
at collapse of last year's rebellion, will in the Wood" pantomimo be repudlated by the party caucus. Bradford to-morrow.
The pledge
brought into: Half h dozen of the twenty-six existence by G. F. Powell, the Social chorus girls in the show, including Credit expert now in prison for de Winifred's best friend Lydia Price, famatory libel On his arrival in are to join the "Kiss Me, Sergeant" Alberta from London last June the company in Plymouth. Most of the insurrection against Mr.
Abechari others are returning to London to was in full blast, but Mr. Powell hunt for jobs.
an undertaking of support secured Winifred has higher hopes. She is for the Government froin all but five negotiating for an engagement in members. solo Binging London theatre.
and dancing act at a This undertaking, the "blue! She is bringing with her to London pledge," gave blind allegiance to the out of the 250 letters she received in Bradford Government. With it during the past few days from peo- way, a more candid discussion in the
House will
ensue.
ple in
many parts of the country.
New Slamp Issue-The Canadian Winifred said to a reporter of the
"Of the Government will shortly issue four London Dally Express! scores I have read there are only new stamps described by philatelists two which are not congratulations as the most beautiful in the world. will be two-cent, 10-cent, 50- They "One is a really horrible letter cent and dollar issues.
or sympathy.
from somebody in Bingley (Yorks), Toronto Butter War. The Toronto
hiding under the name of Mr. X Housewives' Union, which was form
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Because she is superstitious, Cynthia Graham, the 21-years-old High Wycombe, Buckingham- shire, girl who narrowly escaped a bigamous marriage on New Year's Eve, will not marry Mr. Leonard Laming, a 47-years-old Winchester fitter, who has been writing love letters to her on blue paper ever since.
Mr. Laming is a widower with four children, the eldest of whom is 22 and the youngest three, and at his invitation Cynthia and her mother went to visit the family.
In several letters Mr. Laming had begged Cynthia to take the place of his wife who died last September. He knew she is expecting a baby in May and offered to become the legal father of her child, He wanted to marry her as the banns could be called.
For nearly an hour Cynthia and her suitor sat alone upstairs discussing their future.
When they came downstairs Mr. Laming's
eyes were sad. "Cynthia will not marry me," he
said. "I can give you no reason.”
Later Cynthia told me the real reason why she rejected Leonard Laming, says a correspondent. SUITOR'S TWO WIVES
"I thought he had only been married once, but he told me two of his wives had died. Deaths always go in threes, so they say, and I should always be nervous that I was going to die if I married him," she said.
There is another reason, too, why Cynthia said "No." When she walked into the house Elsie, the eldest child, walked out.
"She would not even look at me," said Cynthia. "Leonard told me not to worry about that because Elsie is going to marry soon,
rough,
"He said he wanted to marry me in spite of her cutting up When I found Tom Haddon, whom I had arranged to marry, was already married, my only thought was to find another man who would be the legal father of our child.
"Now mother says I am not to worry.
She has promised
to look after my child, and I can leave High Wycombe and find domestic work away from home, where people know me and might talk unkindly. I cannot believe in men or love any more after the things which have happened to me."
Mrs. Graham is glad her daughter has turned down the offer of marriage.
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Plane Disaster
Set A Problem
HALF Lady Punket's fortune
may be wiped out in double death duties if she left her money to her husband and medical evidence shows that she died first when their airplane crashed in California.
The question may be cleared up by Mr. James Lawrence, the son of Sir Walter Lawrence, the bullding contractor, who was the sole survivor of the accident. He cannot yet be questioned.
Mr. Jack Barnato. Lady Plunket's £000,000. first husband, left her The personal estate of Lord Plunket's father was proved at £12,468.
Lord and Lady Plunket are found to have died "Instantane ously the law provides that death shali be presumed to have occurred in order of
and according- Senior
the
be deemed to
thirty- Lord
ly the younger have survived Plunket was months older than his
A
few
If Lord and Lady Plunket had left their money to cach other, and presumption of death applies, duty will be payable twice on Lord Plunket's estate but only once on his wife's,
But if their estates were left to each other for life, with remainder
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their children, estate duty will be payable only once in each case.
On landed property there are safe- guardis prevent
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Iped out by double
estates
death
being
dutles
within a brief time. That does not apply to personal estate.
The ashes of Lord Plunket and his wife will
be burled in the probably eim-shaded churchyard of the four- teenth century St. Mary's Church, in Denham. Bucks, where, sixteen years ago, they were married.
The new Lord Plunket, who is fourteen, was told of his parents* death by his aunt, the Hon. Mrs. Smith-his father's sister recently, He was terribly distressed: there has always been a very close bond be- tween him and his parents,
But he will return probably to Elon after the present half-term. holiday.
GIRL'S HEART SCRAPED
Nine-year-old Kathleen Man- ger, of Chiswick, Iles in West London Hospital after undergo- Ing the most delicate kind of operation-the scraping of the heart.
Her parents had both given some of their blood to help her to fight for life.
They
had stood by anxiously while the operation was completed, ready
every
to give their transfusions,
Now their little girl has chance of completely recovering.
She has been taken from the oxygen tent into which she had been put following the operation, but the tent will be kept con- stantly ready.*
Kathleen would not have Ilved long it the surgeons had not operat ed. The mac containing, her heart had
become hardened; every known treatment fallad.
Last August. a. London waller lett St. Mary Abbot Hospital, Kensing- ton, completely ht again after having This heart scraped.
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DRAMATICI ROMANTIC! JOAN'S TRIUMPH!
JOAN
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FRANCHOT TONE ROBERT YOUNG
BILLIE BURKE REGINALD OWEN
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She's a "2-week Cinder-
ella" who wants to marry and it's tonight or never!
Gorgeous Joan needs only ONE chance for ro- mance... but try and guess whether it'll be lucky Franchot or lucky Bob,
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