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Thursday,
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Star Dies
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Gassed Man Identified As Midshipman
A MAN who
was found gassed in a Yeovil boarding- Lombard, Marie Dressler, died in a London identified.
England's house last December has been snatched a half-day honey-nursing home, nearly four months moon at their Hollywood after she had been found lying un-Rutter) sald recently:
The district coroner (Mr. John home.
conscious on the floor of her London- fot.
The couple arrived here, after their wedding in Mr. Gable's white roadster.
They said they were tired after their 750-mites drive from Kingman, Arizona.
Otto Winkler, publicity man, who accompanied the two on their trip. sat awkwardly in the cur between them. He got out, shook hands with them both and watched them run up the steps.
From then, guards and police, dogs kept the crowd's from the doorbell.
BACK TO WORK
"On January 10 1 held an inquest on a man who was found to have died from carbon monoxide polsen-
The discovery was made by no- other member of the cast a few hours at Pitney House, Yeovil. At that time there was not sufficient evidence before Miss Vie was due to play a
to show the state of his mind, or to leading comedy part in "Call it n
the deceased. Day" at the Q Theatre, Kew, on Jan-banks to the efficient organlux- wary 12,
Miss Vie had been taken il sud- denly and had apparently fallen into She had been under treatment ever a come before she could call for help.
since.
of the police throughout the country, it has now been possible to establish this man's identity. He is Brian John Webster, aged 20, a midshipman."
The coroner added that the reason Webster went to Yeovil to take his Miss Vie, who was about 60, reach-life was to avoid causing embarrass- ed the height of her career during the ment to his parents, and he had suc- Late that night Mr. Gable was ex-war period. She appeared in leading eceded. pected on the set. He is Blming in roles in mony famous produciloni. "Gone With the Wind. His wife, She tang in 000 performances of too, will start work almost imme- "Line -Time," diately.
Mrs. Gable has told close friends ahe will be un "old-fashioned" wife. "I shall work for a few years," she said, and then I want a family, 1 shall let Pa (Mr. Guble to you) be the plar while I stay at home, darn socks and look after the Eids."
Later
the day she told 300 dis-
gruntled with, "Clark and I
both adore
The couple plan to move into their new ranch home in San Fernando Vaticy soon. Their motto will be "Privacy."
Chief witness at the ceremony, Mr. Howard Gate, wus so confused that be forgot to kiss the bride.
Cicely Courtneidge's Father Dies
Duke Of Kent
Is Godfather
The Duke and Duchess of Kent were godparents at the christening at St. Margaret's, Westminster, recently, of the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs, Geoffrey Kennedy, of Woking.
MISSED-HIS, EXAMINATION
It is understood that recently Webster's father went to Yeovil to make inquiries about his son, who left home last November to go to London for an examination.
Ho 110 failed to appear
at the examination and had not been seen since. The father
WOS
shown a photograph of his son at Yeovil and which were in the room in which he various effects of a naval character
assed.
it is understood the father came from a sma
om a small town in Sussex, and after taking the photograph home to his wife, the identity was established. A number of £1 notes which their
Before her marriage last year, Mrs. Kennedy was Miss Dashika Banaz, step-daughter of the Jugoslav son drew from a local bank were millionaire and shipowner, Mr. Bozo found hidden underneath the carpet Banaz. In her native country she of the bedroom which the zon had was called the Pearl of Dubrovniki used, because of her striking beauty.
She is an intimate friend of the Duchess of Kent, and in 1038 the Duke and Duchess cruised off the Dalmatian coast in a yacht owned by
Robert Courtneidge. theatrical manager and father of Cicely Court- neidge, the actress, died recently at his flat in Marine-parade, Brigliton.her stepfather. at the age of 79.
Born of humble Scottish parents, Mr. Courtneidge gave up his job as OR errand
rand boy and ran away from
home to
RESPONSIBILITIES
Bride Dies In
Fear Of War
The twin girls were christened FEAR that war would separate
Alexandra and Teresa (Tesso).
his first theatrical appointment--the rolling up of u By undertaking the office of "Kum" stage carpet at Prince's Theatre, Jugoslay for godfatherthe Duke Manchester, for a shllling a night. assumed wide responsibilities to-
In time he was appointed manag-wards his twin god-daughters. ing-director of the theatre.
ifis first great success as an actor-
If their parents were to die, he manager was with the pantomime would automalleally have to act as "Cinderella." Later he produced and their father, and in any event is re- collaborated in "The Arcadians,sponsible, by Jugoslay custom, for which ran in London for two years, their moral and material welfare and
upbringing.
from April of 1900.
British Ambassadors To China and Japan
her from the man she was about to marry, is believed to have been the cause of a girl's suicide.
The bride-to-be was Miss Edith Helen Child, aged 24, of Histon, near Cambridge. Her once is
Bantamweight champion boxer, Sixto Escobar, presented championship belt by Puerto Rican Sports Commission, after win- aing 18-round tfile bout with Kayo Morgan, at Ban Juan, Is trainer, Whitey Bimstein, left, examines the belt,
Palace Of A Homer Hero Discovered
Believed Home of The Immortal King Nestor
PYLOS, Bay of Navarino.
The remains of a 3,000-year-old palace, claimed to be that of the sage King Nestor, immortalised by Homer, have been found on a hill top at the north end of this historie bay of Navarino.
·
The discoverer, Professor Karl William Blegen, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cin- cinnati, will not guarantee that this building is King Nestor's palace, but he thinks it "very likely."
More important still as a means of throwing fresh light on the Homeric age, Professor Blegen has discovered 620 clay tablets covered with writing.
of Nestor is at Kakovatos, 50 miles further up the coast. Homer in the "Odyssey"
how Telemachus, tired of the presence of his mother's to ask Nesior if he knew what had sultors in his palace, came to Pylos
These are records of the 13th century before Christ and the first of their kind to be found on the Greek mainland.
Only the first traces of this Inrold Whitehead, aged 28, of Oak-remarkable palace have been shore. Ington, a blacksmith.
unearthed. It will take two When she left home Miss Child
Later her brother Gordon found her dead in the kitchen of the house which was to have been her home, Her head was near the gas stove.
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been that the palace of Nestor was The presumption, therefore, has told her parents that she was going Years of work to uncover the uise at the edge of the stb. But the to have her wedding dress fitted area of 170 yards by 80 yards great argument now in favour of But she did not go to the dress-on which it stands.
Prof. Blegen, is that he has, after all,| makers.
The palace, as revealed by a fow found a Mycenian palace at Pylos. walls and remains of pillars,
Prof. Blogen lives in a house which contain great treasures: but it is stands just above the picturesque more Ukely that these have been re-small town of Pylos, moved in earlier ages.
TEN YEARS' WAIT Two hundred yards lower down the Prof. Blegen, who is one-armed, is hillside Professor Blegan has disa modest, retiring American in the cavered a "bechivo" tomb in which files, 1 come here on the invita- the ancients buried their kings. So tion of Dr. Kourouniotis, Director of far he has not excavated to any great the National Museum of Athens, and depth.
we have collaborated," he said. Professor Blegen has crowned 30 "Ten years ago I noticed the elle, but years of patient investigations in I have been busy in Troy up to this. Greece by this discovery which may year. throw much new light on Greek his-
"I cannot say yet that this is King tory.
Nestor's palace. I can only say that It is a Mycenian palace, probably of the 18th century, B.C. It will prob ably be two years before the excava tion is finished. We do not know if the person who wrote the records on Prof. Blegen Bald that one of the the clay tablets was Greek. There are some signs on them which are not tablets, when unearthed, was wet usually found in the Minoan form, Mr. Butler: I think that the general The Tyler brothers-four of them and had to be dried with great care The excavations have been in-
on a wire frame and swaddled in The Under-Secretary of State for attitude of His Majesty's Government -met ngain after 15 years of separa-cotto Foreign Affülru (Mr. Butler): His is well known,"
cottonwool, It was about fin. by 3in. anced by Prof. and Mre. W. T. tlon, at the convention of the Amert and perhaps half an inch thick.
Semple, Mr. Semple is head of the Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo made Mr. Thorne: Does the Ambassador | con' Association of School Adminis-
classical department of the Univer The his recent trip to Shanghai With the make any report as to the way in trators here. All four are college
cight rows of hieroglyphies| primary object of taking
to America shortly and to come back short which the Chinese are pushing back faculty members-and in college cannot be read. But they are of the sity of Cincinnati, I expect to return type described by the famous student here next spring to continue the work ferent states.
of Cretan archaeology, Sir Arthur of excavation." Evans, "Linear B." This is Migoan writing, and so far no one "OF FIRST IMPORTANCE” has succeeded in deciphering the Prof. A. J. B. Wace, Professor of alphabet.
Classical Archacology at Cambridge The tablet had many numbers and University, said that Prof. Blegen's appeared to be a record of some kind, discoveries were "of flest Importing the possibly of the number of cattle he discovery of the palace shows,
ance." He adder
added: possessed by King Nestor.
question was asked in the House days that he spent there he took the of Commons recently "regarding opportunity to compare-notes--on- the recent visit of the British number of questions of common in- forest with His Majesty's Ambassador Ambassador to Tokyo to Shanghal to China. The latter is at present taken from me. What you have and the subsequent visit of the paying one of its regular routine given to me I cannot give you." Ambassador to China to Marshal visits to the headquarters of the
The coroner returned a verdict Government to which he is accredited, that she gassed herself while the Chiang Kal Stick:--
Mr. Gallacher asked the Prime and no special significance need be balance of her mind was diaturbed.
attached to this. Minister what was the subject of dis- cussion between the British Ambassa- Mr. Gallacher: Are not the Govern- cent meeting at Shanghai; and what declaration in support of the herole was the object of the subsequent visit Chinese in their fight against the of the Ambassador to China to Mure Japanese invasion?
dors to China and Japan in their re-ment prepared to make an open Education Separates
shal Chiang Kai-shek at Chungking."
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CATTLE INVENTORY The tablets were found, at a depth of only four feet They were placed flat on the top of a low wall in a small room, as if this wall were the shelf of a library.
the excavation#
There will be arguments about the as was to have been expected, that belief that this palace is that of the there was an important centre of cul- great Nestor, whom Homer described ture and civilisation at this spot in the 13th century B.C. Some years as "Nestor sweet of speech, the clear. voiced orator of the men of Pylos, he ago Dr. Kourouniotis found two "bee- from whose tongue flowed speech ver tambs near sweeter than honey. Two generations where Prof. Blegen has now found a of mortal men had he ere, now seen third. The presence here of a palace pass away, who of old had been born und Royal tombs means that people and reared with him in sacred Pylos, who care to think that this is the and he was king in the third genera-famous palace of Nestor have very
good reasons for their bellsl."
Nestor was the husband of Eury- dice, and among his sons was Perseus. Since his character was drawn by Humor he has for over 2,000 years stood as personification of the elder statesman, ripe in wisdom and ex-- perience:
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