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FAITH NOT

- ENOUGH

SNAKE-BITE

AS "CURE””.

OF PHTHISIS

Christian Scientist's Fatal Error

"YOUNG ENGLISHMAN'S DEATH IN SOUTH AFRICA

Beanfort West (Cape Province).

A belief that snake venom would -cure him of tuberculosis has led to the death of a 29-year-old Eng lish Christian Scientist, of Hill- side-road, Paignton, Devon, named Jack Valentine.

Hearing that there was a snake in the garden, Valentine, who bad -only recently arrived from Eng-

George Raft and Joan Bennett in "She Couldn't Take It" "I Columbia picture coming to the King's Theatre on Thursday.

land, went out and caught it with BREAK-UP OF

his bare hand.

The reptile, a deadly ringhals,"

the African Cobra, bit him in the arm. Friends rushed out to his assistance, but. Valentine kepti them at a distance with the writh- ing snake which he was, still hold- ing and asked them not to inter- dere as he wished to be cured.

FAMOUS NEGRO

PARTNERSHIP

Clarence Johnstone Goes Bankrupt

Shifting his grip away from the HAD NO ENGAGEMENTS SINCE

snake's head he allowed it to bite

him again five times' on the wrist,!

DISSOLUTION

CHINA-MAIL,

DNESDAY.

KRIMARY-26--1936-

To-day's Short Story

S

OVERDOING

IT!

By Phyllis

Hastings

UPERSTITION? Well, it's it before the day was out. It

all right in its place. I might only be little thing.!

understand alike finding his knives crossed at mean, you can man stepping into the road to the restaurant where he lunched. avoid walking under a ladder, or being served by a cross-eyed it was sufficient to and you can understand a man waitress, but who feels a bit hot round the plunge him collar when he sits at a table gloom. - laid for thirteen.

into the deepest

I think we must have been 3

we never

But Henry Hopps carried things fairly tolerant lot at our Bank, or to extremes

perhaps we hadn't much sense of

Anyway He had been working at our humour. Bank for about five years; had thought of ragging Hoppa about! his desk next to mine, in fact.his foible until Dunderdale came.

Dunderdale was one of those! You couldn't say that Hopps was Jone of these super-personality chaps who go round the world chaps. He was just small and labelled. "the life and soul of the short-sighted and ineffensive. Iparty." He hadn't been with us be found out was mildly friendly with him, but two days before only mildly, because he wasn't about Hopps. And then he start-

WEIGHT IN really my sort, though I felt sorry

GOLD

AGA KHANS

£25,125 GIFT-

FOR CHARITY Maybe it' TAS because he

Jubilee Cerebration In Bombay

TO-MORROW'S STORY

A

To-morrow's story will be "The Raffy Day," by Stuart Jackson.

for him; in a way He was mar- ried and I figured it out that his good salary wouldn't look so divided by wife, plus villa, plus charwoman, plus all those little responsibilities which wild, woolly! bachelors like myself and so! frightfully amusing.

ed. Oh, he didn't pull his leg openly, or criticise him, or any- couldn't afford other hobbies that thing like that. Quite the opposite. Hopps indulged in superstitions. He just talked to Hopps and sys And how he indulged!-

pathised, and said he'd always The funny thing was that this been mad on superstition himself. mania of his didn't seem to make You should have seen Hopps him particularly happy. You see, open out under his treatment. He human nature being what it is discontented and apprehensive at "All my life." be quavered, the best of times there have re wanted to find someone in- As he entered the house Valen Mansions, Maida Vale, N.W.

Thirty thousand of the millions always been more mens for bad terested in these important and

followers luck than for good, And Hoppe psychic matters. But people tine is reported to have remarked: Mr. S. W. Hood, Official Re-

the Aga Khan's.

so callous nowadays, so-so Teck- "You see I am quite all right. My ceiver, reported that Johnstonefof

Perhaps he'd pass a load of bay less. They don't realise how they faith in this and the Bible will presented his petition on January gathered in Bombay last month to mostly hit the bad ones. cure me." He refused medical aid, and had been adjudged - bank-see their spiritual head being

the on his way to the Bank, or have and made a statement completely rupt. exonerating. Goctors from all res- He ponsibility.

then nonchalantly he walked up! The first meeting of creditors the garden-path and threw the re-jwas held recently at London Bark- ptile, which measured four feet, ruptcy Buildings, under the fail- SPIRITUAL HEAD OF ISMAILI

into the street, where it was quick-jure of Clarence Nathaniel John- stone, entertainer, of Castellain ly killed by an excited crowd.

MOHAMMEDANS.

Bombay

weighed the weights in- stated in preliminary scales being bars of gold.. examinations that for some The result was that £25,125

he had brea

working the equivalent in money of his with joint terms

Turner weight-will be given by the Aga Layton as Layton and Johnstone.Khan- for charitable-and-educa

A little while later he became years unconscious and died.

on

absolutely blossomed.

are

lie

superhuman a black cat cross His path Well, are tempting those mysterious and

powers which that was fine. But, sure enough, around us."

Dunderdale nodded solemnly. something would happen to upset

"You are right, dead right. Every child should be taught from its

That engagement was terminated tional purposes. This is in cele AMERICANS SMOKING mother's knee to read the signs en November 18 last by his part-bration of the jubilee of his acces-

the leadership of WIFE IMPERSONATES her notifying through the Presssion of

that he proposed to break the part-Ismaili section of the Moslems. HER HUSBAND nership.

spread throughout India, Central

Served Three Weeks

Gaol Sentence ~

-tracts in existence.

the

MORE

sent 15 by Fate Think many accidents might be avoided if people only remembered not to open an umbrella in the house!"

"Are umbrella-makers exempt?" someone asked, cheekily,

glared at. the

Since then Johnstone had had Asia, the Middle East; and Africs Tobacco Exports Down no engagement, nor were any con- At function, at which he appear-

ed in purple rabes and a. green In 1934 Americans smoked 125,--Dunderdale Practically the only liability turban, he announced that in view 618,000,000 cigarettes, according heckler...

"I am-particularly sympathe- was £16,081, in respect of income of King George's illness he would to the index published by the New Berlin. and super-tax arrears, which had dispense with all but the religious Yerk Trust Company. This was a tie," he went on, "because my One of the most daring imper-gradually accumulated, and of ceremonies, which would include new high record in the United granmother was a gipsy. She was socations yet carried out has been which, Johnstone alleged, he was a prayer for his Majesty's re- States, the previous best being made by a young Hamburgh wojnot informed at the time. man who served a three weeks. No assets were disclosed, but sentence of imprisonment imposed something might be forthcoming

upon her husband.

from royalties.

Not only did the prison authori- The case was left in the hands ties fail to detect the deception, of the Official Receiver.

but the woman deceived nine_mer with whom she shared a cell

Vanity led to her undoing. She was photographed with other pri- soners at work during her stay in

DRESSES TAKEN FROM SHOP

gaol, and was so eager to obtain a Mother And Daughter

momento of

heri

permanent escapade that she applied for a

copy.

Charged

Icovery.

the seventh child of 3 seventh child, and I am the third child of a third child. You see? Seven

Hopps was impressed. and three. The mystic numbers" That's most interest- "Really!

ing.”.

- 119,640,000,000 in 1930.

increased, sales also Cigar The Aga Sultan Mahomed Shah, who acceded at the age of nine, is 4,868,000,000 being consumed. The to substitute a Privy Councillor and holds the general trend was rank of first class chief, with a cheaper cigars for the more ex- salute of 11 guns. in recognition pensive brands. More tobacco for of loyal services in the European pipes and chewing and more snuff war. He is well known in social also were sold. and sport circles in England and) on the Continent

WANTED TO MARRY AT 74 Asks Possession Of Premises

The suspicions of the photo, Kathleen Esme Grose, aged 30. yrapher were aroused, and her shop assistant, of Tring-avenue, Ealing Common, pleaded guilty at: identity was unmasked.

Police-court The woman was fined £4, and Marlborough-street

When a man of 74, Arthur Ling.! to stealing eight| proceedings

taken last month are to be

of Ecclesbourne-road, Islington, against the husband who, the wife dresses, worth £28 4s 6d., from declares, forced her by threats to Dickins and Jones Ltd.; Regent applied at Clerkenwell County street. Her mother. Mrs. Edith Court for possession of rooms in his house, occupied by F. Emmett,

take his place.

SOVIET UNION FILM *COLONY PLAN

Russian "Hollywood" In Caucasus

Mary Grose, aged 53, of the same address, pleaded guilty to receiv ing the dresses.

On the other hand, tobacco ex- ports have continued to fall. To- bacco remains one of the most im-l portant agricultural crops in both. home and export trade for the United States. Experts were ex- ceeded in value only by exports of cotton and motorcars.

SOME-RUDE SHOCKS FOR GERMAN FARMERS

Berlín: German farmers, who 'welcomed he explained that he had been in Nazi endeavours to make Gez- the house for 33 years and wanted many self-supporting.

are now

that floor so that he could get discovering that they are not en-|· It was stated that the younger

married.

tirely to have their own way.. woman was seen carrying dresses

Judge Earengey said that al- Several Hanover farmers have from a fitting-room, and that Mrs though the premises were controll-been fined up to £40 for charging

was carrying a suit-

Grose, who followed to another ed he regarded the application as excessive prices for pigs. The

case. was

shop. She dropped the case, ran one of special circumstance; the Gera court has fined two farmers order" of possession would be £17 and £3 respectively and sent into the street, and boarded an

dated so that the tenant would each to gaol for two weeks for. The Soviet Union is laying omnibus. The eight dresses were have five weeks' grace.

Tholding back milk. plans for a vast new Soviet Holly-found in the suitcase. wood, ezpable of producing from

130 to 200 motion films a year and!

Daughter's Statement Kathleen Grose was stated to

supporting a movie colony of 20-have said to a detective: “Leave

"I shall be only too pleased to help or advise you that is, of course, if you consider me com- petent."

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WRECKED

Don't Risk

..000 persons.

my take One of Russia's leading film the blame.” - executives has suggested using

Mr. R.G. Bankes, Chancellor of A faculty was granted for the The daughter was fined £10 Soukhoum, a town in the Cau-with-23 3x costs, and the the Dioceses of Manchester and removal of the reredos, the im casus," for the purpose. Some 40 mother £20, with £5 56 costs Blackburn, presiding at a Consis proverment of the proportions of}

the High Altar by slightly lighter- studios would be built, coveting The magistrate, Mr. J. B. Sandy Court at Read to-day, said;

ing and widening it, the re-tiling. an area of 2,300 square metres, bach, KC, said: "It was a "If you go through the churches of the chancel and the replacing while the city, and its suburbs deliberate fraud, and I am not of this country some of the things of the existing font by an older would be flung out over an area of sure that I ought not to send you that are in them really make one one. Plans to reglaze the east nearly 30 square miles.

both to prison."

blush There are many things window and to obliterate war which are certainly not beautiful paintings in the chancel were

We must see that improve withdrawn.

by mother out of it; I will face Churches That Make One Blush" WRECKING YOUR HEALTH

It is estimated that about 500) .actors would take up residence at Soukhoum and, that 9,000 work men and 220 film experts would bej employed in turning out Russian pictures.. The cost of the under taking has been put at more than :300,000,000 roubles,

FORTUNES OF TURKISH CUSTOMS OFFICERS

ments to charches are in the best Canon E. J. Norris, chairman of] {interest of the Church and the Diocesan Advisory Commit Angora people”

tee, gave his approval of the pro Following a debate in the Tuz The court was considering alposed alterations. The church kish National Assembly," the petition by the vicar, the. Rev. His early Victorian and was built at Minister of Customs has institut. Nash, the church-warden of St a bad time," he said. "The rere- ed a rigorous inquiry into the Peter Church, Earley, for a faculdas is' psendo-Gothic and has no source of the handsome fortunes ty to make altercations to the artistic value.”

MAC. J. Howlett opposing the amassed by.scores of Customs of church. Mr C. L. Story, of Alexandra-ficials not warranted by the sala Mr. Bankes sat in the absence petition on behalf of 186

of Sir William Hansell, Chancellor box, said: “These proposals street, Southend, was unhurt when aries they receive.

FLYING FLEA CRASHES

bis Flying Fies, which he had Many of the officers concerned of the Diocese of Oxford, who, in built in his spare time for £150, have acquired extates of consider-ill crashed at Southend Airport.

able value.

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ment in the pari

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