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Mystery Under The Microscope
Mr. Ellery Queen, the writer of] mystery stories, has evolved what! he calls. a "review chart" for assess-} ing the value of other writers' my- stery stories. He publishes it in "Mystery League," a new American magazine.
account
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1933.
KING IBN SAUD INTERVIEWED
ARAB CONQUEROR TELLS OF HIS STORMY LIFE
By Captain Harold G. Armstrong,
murders.
•
My father brought me
Ая
•
Author of "Grey Wolf," Mustapha Kemal's Biography.
"i have many questions," I anid, dust-storm raced A monstrous A maximum of 10 marka is award-out of the Sudan, suffocating us, pointing to a sheaf of papers on ed for each of "the ten fundamen-blacking out the sun and the sky, which I had prepared 300 ques tals,"
These are: plot. suspense,ashing up, the waves so that our tions, "but first I would ask of your surprise solution, analysis of solu-little steamer pitched and tossed Majesty's life as a boy and
style, characters, tion,
setting, and corkscrewed her way painfully young man."
Training In War method of murder, clues, and fair-scross the Red Sea until at last we found shelter-behind the coral reefs
The King settled himself comfor ness to the reader.
Of six authors analysed under the that form the harbour of Fidda,
"Those were times of troublé and Ellery Queen miscropcope. EdgarOn the quay the Sub-Governor of tably and ran a hand over his board.. the town received me with great strife," he replied, "of wars and Allan Poe passes the tests with
courtesy and many compliments. highest honours, scoring 86 per cent. for "Murders in the Rue Morgue.”; He talked high-flown Turkish such
child I grew used to danger. When This, however takes into
as was used in Constantinople in up to endure hardships. "Poe's pioneer position in detective the days of the Sultans.
I was but seven I was blooded in fiction," and Mr. Queen adds: "If A slave came running to say I
war. Slung up on a camel in one this story were written to-day it was wanted on the telephone in the of the saddle-bags, I was taken on would get a much lower rating." Customs House. It was the Under-
my first raiding expedition.
"When I was nine our rivals, the Space is thoughtfully provided Secretary of State for Foreign
The for readers to mark up the stories Affairs, Fuad Bey Hamza, speaking. Rashids, took Riad, our town. published in the magazine's first "His Majesty," he said, "will
Rashid governor would have mur- audience at eight dered us all, but my father laid a number-which includes an Ellery grant you an
the Queen tale.
o'clock to-morrow morning at
trap for them, and I stood in a Nizam Palace," Noises Off
"From where are you speaking?" corner of the guest room and saw my father and uncles cut down the The reported decision of the I asked.
move the
"From the Ministry of Foreign governor and his staff with their Swiss authorities to
"In those days all Arabia was Geneva-Lausanne railway track' so' Affairs." he replied, "in Mecca."
torn in pieces by WETS. raids, as to give the League peace and Mecca, the Holy City, sacrosanct
infidel! as an
murders and the jealousy of the quiet when its new Palace is ready and closed to me
as a Christian. It seemed odd to
tribes. There was no strong man for occupation surprise.
|to keep the peace. Even in my own talking into the Holy City. The League, in its present quar-almost as if its sacred isolation was family we fought, so that at last we were driven into exile, and ters, has for. 18 years worked to the being broken.
din, of Geneva's
escaped across the Dalina Desert accompanying tramcars, compared with which the
of the electrified passage So trains is a lullaby.
can never
has come
Your Daily Smile
Chicago Especially.
be
and
Ibn Saud's Palace Swiss At night I was awakened by the sound of the guns announcing that
"The population of a large city aries from day to day," says
writer.
+
How We Do It.
•
•
a
negro
stairhead WAS
swords.
into the Hasa only with difficulty.
"After much wandering we took refuge with the Sheik of Kuweit,
once more they would unite to be I looked round and judged He was an immense giant, tower-great.
I
formed that the matter had been) postponed until next year.
can temporise At one time there was a project King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, King of
in A smal of the Holy in poverty, crowded the "wild men" when they must, as well as the of running a special railway line Nejd and the Hejaz, Imam of the and for many years we lived there
Arabia, had house in a mean street. moderates whom they look down right into the grounds of the Wahabis, Guardian
"Often we were without money. jupon. A permanent gulf divides League so that delegates could step Cities, and Lord of
Ay, verily, when the time came for the two wings, though professed-tor as the cynics suggested, be arrived from Mecca at his palace ly in unison. More, the rank and carried) straight from their sleep-beyond Jidda.
A car took me out by the Medina me to marry they brought me a file, as Str Oswald Mosley dis-ing-cars into the committee roems.
Gate across a plain where there was Bedouin girl and I was ashamed, In character and composition covered for himself,
neither water nor tres, nor even a for I had not even the money for the British Labour party differs rid itself of an innate suspicion
blade of grass, and the plain and the the marriage celebrations."
As Ibn Saad talked, studied the Socialist of titled converts in search of a
hills beyond it heaved in the heat,
him; an immense man thrown up markedly from perties in most countries where command. When these, already Iconspicuous extremists are, as a credited with a flavour of pa-
like a man gasping for breath.
Fuad Bey Hamza met me on the by the desert, rugged, vital and as rule, trade-union officials who tronage, are discovered as aspir-
steps of the palace. He led me up hard as the desert, but with great a thick charm and a persuasive manner. a stair-case overlaid with manage to make it appear that ants to le role of Hitler, their they have their unions pretty chance is but slight of swaying a
carpet. At the top, holding befween He Vas sitting on the high divan In Britain. party in which not one man in
their knees long curved swords with with his legs and bare feet curled Round him WAS solidly behind them.
the up under him. it is from the party detached ten is a genuine and understand-
At lunch-time I saw this is the embossed handles, squatted Fascism. the wildesting Socialist. As for "intellectuals" that
slaves. little gold work on the collar.
the very which they profess to fear, they window of a restaurant. "If your King's bodyguard, dark, lean Arabs drawn a brown Arab robe, with a proposals emanate,
A reribe brought in an import- often the trade-union leaders can themselves nullify that sub-wife cannot cook, don't shoot her. of the desert an
ant despatch. Ibn Saud read it are inclined to regard with dis-jeet in British communities by Feed here, and keep her as a pet." Beyond the
an quickly, called one or two men to trust both such proposals and giving up talk of a left-wing That is an admirable example of audience chamber.
I crossed the huge room to the men who put them forward. reign of violence. If they will Americn humour. It has in it the
must expect the na-peculiar qualities of the race that alcove which was shuttered against him, discussed it shortly, made up There is a little group of the not, they
Do the little produced Mark Twain-a solemn the glare, and where the King at his imind at once, and gave a deci-
on a high divan dictating to a secre-sive anawer. Ponsonby type some of them tural reaction.
Faith In His Race of ruefulness of life.tary. Waving away the accretary,
Yea!" he continued, seem a great deal more out of Robespierres imagine that their exaggeration coupled with a deep
New York Letter in the London he stood to receive me he stands! place in the party than would destined victims would simply lie sense
The dis- "associates" down and submit?
to receive all who come to see him, turning to me. "Then I was very many of those
But even in those days I whether they be the Minister of a poor. whom Mr. Henderson's rejected covery that they would not has News-Chroniels.
a. penniless was never content to be still. was devised to encour-been a very unpleasant shock
foreign Power or The old-fashioned girl was Bedouin-and held out both hands. knew that, by the grace of God, age the members of which vie for many extremists. Let them Autres Temps
An Arab Giant with one another to create new apply the lesson, and cease their
Passing to thought considerable if ake helped it is re-own threatenings. rensations. Of some membered that during the war the subject of war and its pre-her mother get the dinner; the they formed what they called a vention, the conference showed a modern girl is thought considerate ing a foot above any other Arab in that there was no one more qualified the room, and he was immense not than myself to unite and rule them. Union of Democratic Control. It familiar lack of tact. It left the if she is in time for it,
only in his height but in the So I prepared."
Then he told me of years of con- contained several members of anti-war resolution in the hands!
how against Each of tinuous fighting: Parliament, every one of whom of Sir Charles Trevelyan, a man Enough
Miriam: But why are you breadth of his shoulders and the
majesty of his carriage, when promptly refused,
chal-whose intemperance of state-j
his hands was as large as my two. strong rivals and internal treachery lenged even by former ment has long been notorious, appointed in your fancet
Beryl: Oh, father and mother Then, as he looked down at me, his he had slowly forced all Central supporters, to rexign and Is this the way to enlist the sym-
face broke into a smile of delight, Arabia to accept him, and had pressed northwards, still conquer contest his seat. That was their pathies of sincere lovers of peace, think he's just fine.
ful welcome. conception. In practice, of "de-numbers of whom have no desire
Worried.
For a while he held my hande in Ing:
(Continued on Page 113. ¡mocratle control." To-day, even to associate themselves in any
bitter The man who said his business hie as he hoped that I had travelled the pretence has been so entirely way whatever with so
After that he motioned me an individual? was a great concern. dropped that democracy itself is and bellicose
to a chair and clapped his hands. avowedly attacked. The Social-Must everything be sponsored by
A slave, who carried a revolver ist League has been feeling its Sir Charles or Sir Stafford? Bold, way for weeks towards an un-There were many men present A judge told a woman in court to disguised dictatorship, to be car-whose names would have lent speak up and imagine that she was ried out under "emergency pow-greater weight to any expression talking to her husband. ers" established in perpetuity of opinion. Yet even Mr. Hon-judges are absolutely fearless. Jack Cade, in short, was to be derson, when his turn came a made respectable. Plainly, in curiously belated turn when one Alas!
And epitaph which ends, fact, he would come on the scene remembers his special experi- wrote for Uncle Joseph. bearing a title. Discussion wax-ence in connection with disarma "He always tried to do his best," ed hot within the party itself, ment It was freely foretold that the "Britain," he declared, "might Labour conference at Hastings lead the world in peace activi would witness a bitter division.ties." Facts and figures abun
The birth of a baby girl to the The conference met, but the bat-dantly prove, that she has done so
young German wife of Mr. John tle of Hastings proved a sham to the utmost limit of her...
Sargent, the 28-year-old sculptor, one. The Socialists ran sway, safety, and men who are just as The self-appointed dictator of the much in earnest on behalf of Driven by two gasoline motors at For a time there was silence. I recalls the fact that Mr. Sargent frained at the last moment from tending the Hastings conference or suburban travel with which a Saud was alzing me up. Here in order to marry her. putting the extremely compre-jare agreed that she cannot alone road near New York, la exparl- Arabla decisions were reached not She was formerly Miss Dorit hensive resolution over which hot go further in that direction. The menting uses air filled rubber tires debate was expected a resolu- proofs of sincerity which Bri-cased, in aicei, nanged, Fims that tion framed, to "ginger up. Sotain has offered in the way of hold the wheels on the rall cfallam overnight Mr. Beyin reduction of armaments by, se2, while not disposed to hand a land, and air have been much blank cheque either to Sir Staf more substantial and impressive throshes ford or to his friend Bir Charles than the sing of one or two Trevelyan, thought the former's more pious resolutions as desi [refusel to propose his, motion was by Mr. He
said little of value.
own
din.
Our
added.
And someone
*Triends.” Facts You Did Not Know.
well.
on bare feet, brought us coffee, a thimbleful, intensely bitter, in a small cup, as it is served in Cen tral Arabia.
on his hip and came silently to us
"I am not clear from your letter," aald the King, "what it is you want of me.
FORTUNE LOST FOR LOVE
Sculptor Sacrifices,
£10,000.00
ATHER'S
WISH
London,
have long studied the works MARRIED · AGAINST of your Majesty," "Treplied. wish to write an account of these for the people of England, who are very ignorant; so I have come from England to get hirst-hand know ||ledge.***
future, Sir Stafford Cripps, re- that cause as any delegate at speeds up to 90 miles an hour, a car did not look up. I knew that Ibn escrificed a fortune of: £10,000, 210
rson, Stud
Inge, one real- a piece of "cleverness. Some these uneasy Ski people would call it by word of ises more than ever how difficult
Black of one-gy
Liter:
desultory
combine
to
in the comparábi
40 per
lof man and man
or Keller, the daughter of a Berli by correspondence notes,
His father, Sir Percy Bargent, despatches, but, by personal, contact professor. deciding whether he would renk the famous brain specialist, object- that cuts, and freely, or send me back empty Ile led to her nationality and left a
Invented had called me to obras 2,000 miles diell disinheriting him if he maY- blinds and so that he might decide for himself, ried her.
For ve You have dons well," he said at others have written about me would you
the im
Hid
fire than divery 'absolu The year; hin, mooda.
Mr. Bargent was not deterre He said he and to tween "art and love and and he chose STC EN both couple were
bridge register ompa.
their baby, who: là toi
and had Bonte, was born
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