TURTLES MAY
MYSTERIES
TURTLES may give scientists a vital clue to the, mysterious life of the ocean.
In a fortnight four tropical turtles were found stranded on the South Coast one at Tenby, two at Bognor, and one at Selsey Bill. A fifth was reported at Plymouth. This is the first time so many have been dis- covered in such a brief period.
"During my 14 years' experience only two stranded turtles from foreign waters have come to the Natural History Museum," the assistant keeper said.
"The stranding of turtles recently would indicate unusual movements of oceanic walere," he added.
"A large body of Atlantle water of a different chemical constituency and our enasia) temperature invading
waters would have a profound effect on animals and plants. It would in- troduce new ones and drive away others,
ONE IN THE SOUP
"Alreudy there are numerous indi- cations that in recent years there has of been a considerable movement marine fauna up the West Coast.
"We should be grateful for any reports of large turtles seen at any point along the coast."
The museum has only six speel- mens of tropical turtles washed up on the British coast. One, caught, in a submarine net off the Selliy Islands during the war, was Sit, long and weinlied 1,000lb.
V. C. SAYS 'NO' WAR TILL 2021'
THERE WH not be another great war for "elglity-two
years,
says Lieut.-Colonci P. H. Hansen. V.C., commanding the 2nd Lincoln Regiment.
lie told
Legion:-
Dorchester
"I say eighty-two years because if you look back into history you
w see that great wars have
occurred every 100 years.
"You don't get them until the children who lost their fathers in the last war have died-when you not gel a generation that does know what war is and wants i for its own sake."
Lleut, Colonel Ilausen won the V.C. at Gallipoli for rescuing six men under terrife Bre.
Gen. Eva Booth's Sister, 82, To Make New Start
One of the most remarkable women|bourine, because the French people of our time is, al 82, planning to be didn't like it, and I also did away gin life in London ofresh as an with the Army uniform because the evangelical preacher In a misston in French people thought it ugly.
"I was painted singing in a French some crowded area.
Mother of ten children, wife of an cafe to a murderer, a thlef and a
sister invalid
eldest
of drunkard, and the picture is now! author.
In Stockholm gallery. General Eva Booth of the Salvation
Three times French artists wanted i Army, friend and confidante of kings, queens, dukes, duchesses, washer-to paint me, and I refused permis. | wamen und farm labourers, she is slon, because I thought it would be fool. humble way in worldly. My father said I was living to-day in a Victorian house in
in Highbury-hill, for it would have been good for the planning a come-back in England.
Cause," To-day she has no money. "All my life I have lived by faith," she said, "and "all my life
faith has been ewarded.
"THE DEAR GIRL"
my
"One day when I was in a pitiable; predicament owing to poverty a box alled with 50 golden sovereigns and 50 £1 notes was handed in at my lodgings."
theeks when she recalled some of the Incidents in her life.
She has been preaching salvation for 65 years, and her chestnut hair. bound with a black velvet ribbon, has few grey hairs mixed with the brown. Four times she was arrested in the curly days. Twice she went to prison.
hungry "I have been
und many a time, and have
coming where the next meal was from for my family of ten children. I preached sucrifice and so I had to her frugal tea and the remains of a home-made Christmas cake.
wondered
Friday,
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February 17,
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SEA Wife Who CONCERNING
Dictator Joseph Stalin of Russia, foreground, as pallbenter of the urn containing the ashes of Valery Chkaloif, pilot of the first- transpofar fight to America, killed in an aviation accident near Mos- cow. At left is Premler Vyachesla M. Motoloff and at right is Ra Commissar Lazar M. Kaganovitch. Ashes were placed near Lenin's tomb.
Woman Scholar And Master, Say
Teaching "Hopeless"
"Ruled Family" Vanished
"AWAY from home she was per- fectly charming. At home she tried to dominate everybody. She seemei to treat her children un if they were Ove years old...
This description was given recently by Dr. Roy Douglas "Aylward, of Bretland-rond, Runthall, Tunbridge Well, of his wife, Grace Mary Otway ylward, who was found dead in the mmer-house at her home.
It was stated at the inquest that cald during she died of exposure to
sleep Induced by the taking of some hypnotic drug, and a verdict of Death
by Misadventure was recorded.
Mr. J. H. Soady, the earoner, sald he ruled out any question of suicide. Dr. Aylward said his wife always insisted that she was right in every She would not be content way. merely to go her own way, but insist- ed on trying to arrange everything for everybody else.
KNOWLEDGE OF DRUG
"My wife handed me an envelope and said she was making all her final arrangements,"
sold
Dr. Aylward.
"She said, 'Here is my will."
"She was a trained nurse and hud knowledge of drugs for above the average. She was in the habit of taking sleeping doses."
That night he found his wife and the car had gone. He reported her disappearance to the police, and two the days later found her dead in saimmer-house. No one had seen her return to the house.
General Shot Crossing Brook MAJOR-GENERAL
Sir Charles Edward Corkran, found shot in the grounds of his home, Fritzharrys Manor, Abingdon (Berks), met his death through an accident while pigeon shoot- ing.
A verdlet of "Accidental death" was returned at the inquest recently when it was established that Sir
while crossing a stream,
The gun he was
THERE is a lot of fun in figures-if you have a Charles slipped and fel! from a plank domed brow packed with expert knowledge.
hand he was
Two hundred dons, teachers, and students went to the annual charged. In the othing was dis-
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TWICE WOUNDED general meeting of the Mathematical Association at King's Col-currying a decay pigeon, lege, Strand, recently and they had as hilarious an afternoon as Lady Corkron described to
coroner how she and her daughter a music-hall audience,
found Sir Charles lying on his back The comedian of the day was the of the Institute of Education, the, in the stream with both legs resting
on the plank.
Iler young secretary Kaid that haired
had just returned
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Tears run down her pink and white practice it," she said as she shared association's retiring president, Mr. teachers' training college.
WE STILL SHOW THE BEST PRODUCT W. Hupe-Jones, deep-voleed, curly "Figures have always fascinated Dr. A.B. Preston said the shot was
"maths." master at Elon me since I wan a small child. I agree undoubtedly an accident. If it had | FROM THE WORLD'S LEADING MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERSI
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two black-boards, with Mr. Hope-Jones that most of been directed only a little further out to see me, the dear girl (Generat three months' tour of Scandinavia. Places of chailt and a caustically witty the teaching methods in this country it would have missed altogther.
They had to with the King and tongue, he brought the house down are hopelessly wrong." Queen of Norway a few weeks before the Queen's death.
She dried her eyes as she said proudly, "My sister Evangeline wants they
Eva is 73), wants to talk to me about our girlhood."
Yet she has many bitter memories twined round her family ties.
More than 50 years ago she split with the Salvation Army because her! husband, a determined and Idealistic;
was also 4+ young Irishman who Quaker, could not agree with her father, the old General.
TWICE IN PRISON
Coincidence In Death
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Exactly 28 years-to the day, hour
a minuute-after her marriage,
same
jas
he dashed off mathematical problems, Arst as the average school- boy tackles them, and then as he does by, as he sald, "Simplicity and Truth in Arithmetic."
TEACHERS BLAMED
But he blames the teachers for bad
Drunkometer Is All Hot Air
New York, Police and medical authorities, on
Pearls Found In Roadway
Bristol. £500 pearl necklace reported methods, "Boys," he said, "have not enough ingenuity to invent their own. Long laland tested a "Drunkometer" stolen with other jewellery from "They arrive at Eton crammed full on 100 motorists driving along the The Chantry, Abbot's Leigh, home-of funeral services were held for Ars of rules about putting some figure and 4 mm, and found that 48 had on a road near the house recently by ute main roads recently between 11 p.m. Sir John and Lady Inskip, was found They
fa laundryman when he stopped to "No one will ever know what 1Maymie L. Swann with the
hael per-over some other figure, suffered," he said. "It was one long minister oficiating who
Thirty-four of them had drunk pick up laundry which had dropped
to FuMclent theoretelally struggle between the two men, my formed the marriage ceremony. Both suffer from this cancelling out disease. been drinking.
hamper from his van. services also fell on the same day of My own progress In arithmetic has
been largely by husband and my father."
The necklace, a string of 119 gradu- forgetting dodges to complete
The co-ordination.
tests "In Paris I did away with the tum-the week.
make easy things dimeult."
were voluntary and no names were ated pearls with diamond and plati- Fleeted one of the vice-presidents recorded,
num clasp, was identified by Lady was white-haired, bespectacled Miss The drivers were asked to blow Inskip and restored to her by the M. Punnett, who since 1912 has been up toy balloons with a capacity_of police.
The
MORE MISSING an hon. secretary of the association. 2,000 cubic centimetres of air.
Other missing jewellery, a pair of "Wasn't it an amusing address," said air in the balloons was then passed
Cairngorm Mira Punnett,
through potassium permanganate and diamond clips and "I have been a member of the sulphuric acid, the amount of alcohol brooch surrounded with large pearls association since 1910, and until a beint determined by changes in the in all worth more than £100, have
not yet been recovered. few years ago I was vice-principal chemicals content.
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