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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936.

Sale Of Effects Of "The Screen's Perfect Lover"

Killed in Break

Thoman Baughn, convicted layer, ahot to death in an. attempted break from the Oregon State Fent- tentiary at Balem during a riot in prison yards,

Dr. Inge On Prayer v. The Microbe

IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE NATURE

PHYSICAL LAWS

SUPREME

DIETRICH'S BUY

AT ANY COST

KEENEST. competitors in the

sale at Hollywood of the effects of the late John Gilbert. once the "sereen's perfect lover," were his daughter Leatrice by his second wife, Leatrice Joy. and his widow, Virginia Bruce.

The child, areu 11, wat next to her mother, who obviously ap- proved her enthusiasm. The child bid vigorously for many of her father's possessions.

John Virginia Bruce, who was Gilbert's fourth wife, was not presimt. vri agent representing her. One et Leatrice Gilbert's most spirited-con-, tests was for a set of chess-men with which her father had taught her to her was phy. Bidding against Chandler Sprague, the film writer. who had used the same set. Leatrice won, at 2D 8x,

Another of the child's successes was

to secure her father's make-up box

OLYMPISCHE STEGE

LETE MANRE

for 3, but Virginia Bruce's agent At the Marathon Gafe on the Olympic outbid her for a copy of Shakespeare's Stadium in Berlin is a commemorn- tonnets. Leatrice, however,

Was

winners at the XI Olympic Games compensated by a book of Shelley's tion plate on which the name of ail

have been engraved for posterity.

poems.

At the sale was an agent from Mariene Dietrich, one of the dead star's closer friends, with an order to "buy these sheets at any price." She got them for £50-ordinary cotton sheets, whose original value was £0.

John Gilbert was married in-turn to four of the most beautiful women in the United States-Olive Burwell, Leatrice Joy, ina Claire, Virginia Bruce-but it was said that the "great love" of his life was for Greta Garbo, thwith whom he played in two silent films. "Flesh and the Devil" and "Love"

" and a talkie, "Queen Chris-

tin

"Jack was a fine maa," was Greta Garber's comment when she learntd

of his death.

Lord Bertie Finds

an Error

Puerto

Rico Warned

U.S.A. in Candid Mood

"SHUT UP OR GET "OUT"

Dr. W. R. lage, fornur Dean of St. Paul's, told the Modern Church- men's Conference at Oxford, "I once had a letter from a good lady who said. I am praying for your death. I have been very surerssful in twe other case).

bald there had been a Dr. Inge change in our. tone towards greater in petition. caution and dißlience We prayel now with less assertive ness than did our grandparents, and probably, on an average, we prayed less, at any rate for earthly favours, ment for the way he pores over ator Tydings, with the full ap Bills for any grammatical errors,proval of the President, propos- work wies

ing a referendum on the question The notion that th

red by

witch however slight. natural laws

According to a Blue Book dealing of independence. might be suspended or modified at

Ry time by Divine antervention, was with evidence taken about a new Bil, Sir Maurlee Gwyer, Purliamentary now fell in be one of the least satis factory

of philosophies, continued Counsel to the Treasury, mentioned a noble lord had found a mis- Even the prayers in the that Dr. Inge.

for

rafh and fine

talco Prayer Book

Instead of the local authority are weather were seldom used and were disilked by an educated congrego- | informed the correct form-it read,

"the local authority is informed." tion.

The Eart of Lucin guessed that the "The more we know about causes

con-error was discovered by Lord Burtio, of climatic phenomena," he tinued, "the less likely we are even who goes through all the Bills and

them by alters whom' into 'which"," to dream of changing prayer in order to save our hay crops Ul to secure a tine day for garden party.

Washington, Sept. 10. Puerto Rico has been told by the United States to shut up or get out. That, in plain, forceful ORD BERTIE OF THAME language, is the implication of has a reputation in Parlin-a resolution introduced by Sen-

or

it

For many months this troublesome its parent, infant, adopted after Spain, had been defeated in 1998, has been crying that it was old enough to stand on its own feet and nouncing is foster-parent as an auto- erit and a tyrant.

de.

Now the United States has dung "You are wide the door and sald: a nuisance, an expense and a dis-

want I shan't stop you." If you

10, grate to the rest of the family. Go Puerto Rico, a little taken aback Lord Bertio said at his home near Watlington, Oxfordshire, that was at its blut being called, now upbraids true that he had taken a certain the United States for its inhuman interest in the "graramar- of - Parila-conduct. in wishing to send it out into a hard, cold world, where it will "con-mentary Bills.

probably starve to death.

Dur

"I do, so he said, "in the cause

Puerto Rico is a nuisance because the constant agitation of its local of grammatical consistency. It was actually Lord Sankey who, when he was Lord Chancellor, Inld it down politicians against United States rule of multlude were has a bad effect throughout Latin that if a noun

States is anxious to be un referred to in the plural it should America at a time when the United continue in the plural, and that if i were in the singular it should re-friendly terms with its sister tits su

more

Re-

PRAYER FOR RAIN "But can we," he asked.. istently give up praying for rain, with the expectation of altering the weather for our benefit, and continue lo pray for the recovery of a relation We know friend in sickness? something about microbes; how can they be affected by our prayers?

publies. It is nu expense because the "We cannot say off-hand that

Puerto Ricans are continually asking there is no connection between the

for relief money and wasting it when course of the disease and the praye

In they get it. It is a disgrace because that the disease may take a favour-

*} x!! not believe which enneluded, A matter able turn. It is

miracles the political system is thoroughly and

held of corrupt, must be decitted by evidence mat special providences

The limit of the United States en

when the believe that the evidence is neg wrought by prayer in the

nature. But I certainly do not think

was reached tive.

American Chief of Police, Colonci that we need do violence to our durance

our Francis Riggs, was assassinated by natural instincts by refusing to pray

ur uthers or to doubt that

Nationalist funties. prayers may really help.'

Christianity is surely at one with science in holding that death is as natural and beneficent as life.

"As a matter of evidence." Dr. Inge

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Senator Tydings pointed out that there were a hundred more people registered on Puerto Rican election lists than there were people of both MEXOS over 21 years old. "The elee- tions of Puerto Rico." he said, "are disgraceful, corrupt, and fraudulent."

TOMORROW That was a circumstance which

BEWARE! THIS WOMAN IS DYNAMITE ! Loving her is like shaking hands with the devil-the worst kind of luck, she's all bad, she's the kind of woman who destroys, not builds. SHE HAS NO PITY FOR MEN !

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"makes us question the worth American institutions to Puerto Rico, and ask if they are adapted to the people of the island and the conti tions under which they live."

A reason why the United States would shed few tears if Pueria Rien censed to remain, one of its posses- sions was not mentioned by Senator Tydings, but all who heard his speech know of it without being told.

Like the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico produces commodities which compete with the products of Ameri- can farmers. If the island became American Tariff Independent the

would keep those commodities out, and the American farmer would make more money.

The Puerto Rican politicians also would know what Independence

mean from the economic point of view, and most of theni bitterly de- nounce the "eyelone Bill." as they

term It

"INGRATITUDE”

The Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, who has a right to speak

In the House of Representatives, de- clared that the Bill showed "tremend ous Ingratitude." It rigidly limited the people of Puerto Rico to a choice between complete independence and continued colonial status.

Puerto Ricans, sald the. Commils. sioner, hand, in 1917, been declared logical American citizens, and the development was for Puerto Rico to become a State of the Union. There. were groups in favour of independ- ence, just as there were Communist groups in the United States, but would Senator Tydings wish the United States to become part of the Soviet Union because of that?

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