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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12,

1936.

The Curious Case Of The Death-Bed Bride

Father And Photograph: "That Is The Man My Daughter Said..."

JUDGE ON RIGHT-TO. DIE THEORY DEATH SENTENCE AFTER 10 YEARS' ILLNESS

A WARNING against the right-to-die theory was Justice Mr. uttered by Greaves-Lord at the Old Bauley, summing up in the.

Juliana Buys-

A Bicycle Built For Two

.

Amsterdam, Oct. 5. PRINCESS JULIANA has instructed the superin tendent of the Queen's summer residence at Apeldoorn to buy a tandem bicycle for her.

She intends cycling with Prince Benno in the woods near Apeldoorn after the festivals in celebration of her engagement Dre over,

Some days before her engagement was made públle she hired a tandem at Apeldoorn and made several trips to be come acquainted with, the ways of tandems.

Epping Forest murder case. EX-QUEEN FORGETS

Thomas Albert Clay (27), ol Nuneaton Road, Dagenham, was found guilty of the murder of his sweetheart, Phylis Brace (24). #nurse, of Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, and sentenced to death. The jury added a strong recommendation to mercy.

The Judge out that

the

TO BID SERVANTS

GOOD-BYE, RETURNS

Villefranche-sur-mer (Nice), Oct. 1.

survivor of a suicide pact was guilty EX-QUEEN ENA OF SPAIN, bound for New York in

of murder.

may

"Our law, wisely, as you think, does not recognise the right of any person to deal with life in that way.

"MARRIAGE IMpossible"

Clay

Iny in the witness-box said he had. been ruttering from tuberculosis for ten years. Miss Brace, whom he had known since she was 15, be- came a nurse so that she might help lum.

In a statement put in by the pro- they secution, Clay described how went to Epping Forest und began to take tablets.

her,

. and when i woke

slept up Phyllis was lying in a swamp trying to get out, I tried to help but could not get her out. There was a razor in the case, got it out to use on myself.

“1

could not do 14, and I used it on her.

At the request of Mr. J. D. Cas- sela, K.C. (for the defence), a note left by Miss Brace was read.

I

"We are sorry to leave you like: this, In it is not Tom's fault.

He

I will not let him bear any more klmn. and I cannot live without hus fought bravely far ten years. Cheerio, Phyl.

the Italian liner Conte di Savoia (48,502 tons), to visit her eldest son, the Count of Covadonga, bade farewell on the quayside to her daughter Princess Maria Christina and her son the Prince of the Asturias and his wife.

She then walked to a waiting...

launch. She suddenly remem-

bered, however, that she had 66 EXCESSIVE”

forgotten to say good-bye to two) members of her domestic staff,!

and she hastened back to do so, Army School Student shaking them warmly by

hand. The

#1

the

making: the CA-queen voyage arrampanted by her other daughter, the Princess Torlonia, the princess's husband, and thele baby.

A

party

is

Costs £1,151 A Year

The Selvet Committee of Estimates eritic if Government business brains in its report.

Here are some examples of "bust- ness" it does not like: JUST TO SEE HIM

bu of training student to member of the royal

Cost sold: "The queen is merely going cavalry and artery instructor in with horse-riding and skill at arms: £1,- twho is ill to see her son,

"Clearly n year. hemorrhage). I do not know any- 151

The Senior

Excessive,"

thing about the rumours connecting) states rep officers School where

her visit with her sun's matrimonial

tairs."

the number of students averages .40 und 50 and the staff A few minutes after the ex-queen between had gone on board, the liner put out numbers 69,

The estimates of new Hongkong in to sea, while in a whirl of spray the Prince and Pelneers Maria Chris-barracks--In 1934 £1.700,000; Una circled round her in a powerful 1935 £2,200,000, in 1930 £1,100,000. are wanted in fu- Closer estimates motor-boat.-eurer.

ture.

MERCHANT SAILORS SHOULD LEARN DEFENCE EVERY mercantile marine officer should go through a thorough course in the self-defence of merchant ships, suggests the annual report of the Officers' (Merchant Navy) Federation.

report ob- thorough. The Such a course, adds the report, more

"The then who perished should embrace gunnery, anti- serves

gallantly have not died in valo." aircraft methods, depth charges, smoke screening, and especially station

convoy keeping and organisalion.

The federation suggest that the authorities in churge of Britain's defence programme seemed to over

the importance of merchant look shipping in defence of the Empire.

The report also comments on dis- closures during inquiries into the foundering of four steamers.

Vast numbers of British ships,

adds. Et

are satisfactory, but others escape disaster merely by the mercy of providence. A modern ship should survive the fury of the sea in every part of the world. Surveys have now become

CASTORIA

MEDIONAL SYRE Fra semaking die found

TIMANIS À CHE DEI MI

PLATANT LAI UTITIVE

Campeter, Chris suf

Woman Lived Years. With Half A Brain

Chiengo (Illinois), Sept. 30, Death has revealed how a woman lived for five years with only halt a brain--and yet was able to con- tinue her household duties.

the

The case, regarded as unique in medical history, Is

ry, is reported in the Journal of American Medical Association, in which Dr. John, D. O'Brien, a neuro-psychiatrist, asserts. that the cause of death was an accl dent which had no connection with a brain operation the woman under- went in 1931.-Reuter.

DOCTORS REMIND US that it's never safe to give a baby any but the very mildest laxative: The way to avoid taking chances is to use only Castoria. Mil- lions of mothers give Cantoria to their babies to keep their

little systems regular

the safe and pleasant

way.

THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE

CASTORIA

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of State Two general managers liquor-selling businesses 'within few miles of each other-Glasgow and Carlisle. "Most unbusinesslike" states report.

STRIKE LEADER

Instead of

strike casing the situation in France is becoming aggravacted. Our plcture shows the leader of the French trades-union, Leon Jouhaux, on his way to B

merung.

Feeling of Guilt May Prolong Illness

D

-Dr. William Brown WILLIAM BROWN, Wilde reader in mental philosophy at Oxford University, lecturing to the British psychology section, of the Association

mon.h meeting last described how a sense of moral guik can prolong physicul illness.

Ho quoted the case of a patient suffering from kidney trouble which dated from an imagined neglect of allal duty..

In

another cose

patient suffering from recurrent corneal ulcers labour

had ed under the idea that he blaspliomed and that blindness was the penalty for blasphemy.

"In both cases," said Dr. Brown, "the condition disappeared after the matter had been talked out thorough-

with a sympathetic physician. "Such cases show how carefully methods like faith-healing should be approached, The indiscriminate use of such methods will often intensify the sub-conscious sense of gulit which made the person 11."

some

Dr. Brown suggested that people who pay "conscience money" to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and really salving their consciences not for some fraud on. the tax- gatherer but for some other fault. They suffer from a false conscience, seo their moral nature in a distorted Imirror.

A MAN

STILL ALIVE

FURTHER ACTION

HINT

PIQUANT developments

are likely in connection with the case of the girl and man who were reported to have been married in a Lon-. don hospital when the man was dying.

The woman, Miss Muriel C. Smith, 25-year-old daughter of a Newcastio insurance broker, said that she went through the marriage ceremony in the hope of saving the life of the man.

"SAY NO MORE"

The Newcastle correspondent of a London newspaper showed the photo- graph of a man to Mr. W. G. Smith, father of the supposed bride.

He said:

daughter!

"That the man my said she is going to marry. I wil say no mort. There might be fur- ther action."

The man whose photograph was Identified by the father is not dead, has not been in hospital, and has never taken part in a marriage cere- imony with Miss Smith.

There is, in fact, no doubt that no marriage ceremony-in fact, no cere-

any nature-took mony of

place under the circumstances related by Miss Smith.

Miss Smith is now ill in a nursing home.

SOLAR SYSTEM

ORIGIN

A picture from the scene of Wor North Spain showing loyalist in gunners preparing shells which he fred against the positions of the rebels.

Powerful Weapon For R. A. F.

Lendon, Oct. 1. Installation of a rotatable gun turret and use of sleeve-valved engines in bombers are latest developments in the Royal Air Force. The

turret, operating Run similarly to a naval túrrel is mechanically operated and is elaimed to be the first of its kind ever installed in. an airplane. The gunner is freed by the device from training the gun on in fast-moving target at high air speeds. Physical strain is like- wise reduced.

bu Greater accuracy is said to produced by the turret A wide SIR JAMĖS JEANS ON A range is afforded.

NEW THEORY

with An egg-shaped structure Aransparent sicles in the nose of the the run and 115 fuselage houses operator.

The malority of new multi-seater types of British military planes, it

protective

turret.

Sir James Jeans in opening a dis- cussion in the Mathematicnt and Physics Section of the British As- sociation meetings at blackpool last month regarding the origin of the is understood, embody some type of Solar system said that the problem

A new type of torpedo bomber is of how the solar system came into being Alted with sleeve-valved existence had long provided a huppy

engines, following experiments under- hunting ground for the cranks, who taken 12 years ago. Ict their fancies room tree, un-

Maintenance is considerably re- checked by scientifle knowledge or duend. Fuel consumption also is re- dynamical principle.

ported to be lowered. Tesla under-

He referred to a new theory by Dr. taken by the RAF, indicate sleeve- H. Jeffreys. He described how, invalved airplane engines produce more

Chun 1910, իր proposed his theory of power raised tides of grent-height in the RAF. sun caused by a passing star with engines are easier

the engineers

ordinary types. the state

new to manufacture

the result-that-the-whole structure and the use of a lower grade fuel is became unstable. A long filament possible.

New units are expected to Include

of gas was shot out towards the pass- ing star and thus ultimately con- large numbers of planes fitted with densed Into planets.

At the time this, theory seemed to Sir James proof against mathemati- cal criticism, but Dr. Jeffreys had recently worked out that the theory could not account for the rapid rotalon of the outer planets. These had short and strangely uniform periods of about ten hours.

"Jeffreys," said Sir James, "has

tidal! proposed replacing .distant action by an actual collision of a grazing kind. The gas at the sun's surface is then twirled between the upper and nether millstones formed by the sun and the second star and all goes well."

sleeve-valved engines.

He Has World's Worst Job

Hollywood, Oct. 1, Professional hero John Beat looked a chump and felt like one when he tried his hand at rent life-saving and the "fear dam- gave him the sel in distress" horse laugh.

Result is he's off amateur heroics for life, and mure alr damsels want- in rescue wilt to get an olcay from the casting director.

NOT MERE CHANCE Sir James summarised salient facts, that had to be remembered when

Huro Beal was cantering a bridle dealing with new theories. The systems of the larger planets were in path with his wife, Helen Craig, New York stage actress, when all essentials small-scule replicas of | NEW

damsel,

(Circa the

15). came the main system.

whizzing by on or about a nag

There was

very marked

Te that was apparently running away

had lost gularity in the arrangement of the with her. The girl

her

I planets, the most massive being in stirrups, was hanging on by the he middle of the system and the mane, and bouncing a foot of the 20st massive at the edge. There saddle at every leap.

vus the same regularity in the num- Benl is only a fair rider, but he sers of their sutellites and masses itnew his role by heart. Script called it satellites relative to those of their for him to gallop alongside and litt

rimaries.

the loss out of the saddle, which

"It is straining the probabilities he tried valiantly to do. too much to postulate that all this Je result of mere chance," said Sir

James.

Somehow, however, he couldn't quite catch up, and when he did make it, the girl twisted away from him, found her siirrups with a thru Evidence of very varied kinds of wiry legs, and brought her steed showed that the age of the system to a standstill with a flourish like must

be well below ten thousand Tom Mix making his grand entry. million years. It we put back. Into Then she laughed and laughed and the sun all the energy it had radiated laughed.

It was only then the embarrassed

in tile period we increased its mass

a

by less than one-tenth per cent., and actor looked around and spotted a we knew of no other way in which couple of young fellows taking, the

scene

18-millimeter camera. in welth its mass could have changed by even

They were making an amateur movie. as much as this.

Beal went away from there so fast Professor Arthur Hohnes, of Dur- he didn't learn their names, but ham University, showed from the, thinks they recognized him. The that study of ancient rocka, principally youngsters yelled after him In South Dakota and Manitoba, that he'd be invited to the preview.

When husky Mae West popped him the age of the earth was not leas than 1,000 million to 2,000 million on the chin six times for scenes years, and that the weather con- "Go West Young Man," and didn't ditions of those times were within pull single punch, long-nosed the range of climatic conditions of Warren William thought that was up- to-day.

proximately enough.

"Go easy, Mac" he pleaded, when Geological evidence further show the seventh take was ordered, “I got ed that for nearly 2,000 million years a stiff neck." there had been no important as- tronomical changes in the tempera- Mag, and let him have a wholly un- ture and other relations between the authorized smack on the other side run and the earth.

of the head-United Press.

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