1936-10-12 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. 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 uttered by Mr. Greaves-Lord at the Old Bailey, summing up in the Epping Forest murder case.

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

The Judge pointed out that

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

arc over.

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

EX-QUEEN FORGETS

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 murtier.

may "Our

Inw, wizely, us you think, does not recognise the right of any person to deal with life in that way.

"MARRIAGE IMPOSSIBLE" Clay in the witness-box said he hud been suffering from tuberculosis for ten years. Mian Brace, whom he hod known since the was 15, be- came a nurse so that she might help Itim.

In a statement put in by the pro- they secution, Ciny described how went to Epping Forest and began to take tableta,

"I slept., and when I woke up Phyills was lying in a swamp trying to get out, I tried to help her, but could not get her out. There was a razor in the case,

out to use an myself. Kot

on

"I could not do it, and I used i

her.

At the request of Mr. J. D. Cas-

sels, K.C. (for the defence), a note

left by Miss Brace was readi

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

He

him.

I will not let him bear any more and I cannot live without has fought bravely for ten years. Cheerie, Phy!.

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-i bered, however, that she had forgotten to say good-bye to two members of her domestic staff.) and she hastened back to do so, shaking them warmly by hand. The

making

the

the

“EXCESSIVE'

Army School Student Costs £1,151 A Year

The Select Committer of Estimates ex-queen voyage accompanied by her others a critic of Government business daughter, the Princess Torlonta, the brains in its report. princess's husband, and their baby.

1

A nid:

Here are some examples of "busi- met does not ke: JUST TO SEE HIM

party the royal

Cost of training student to member of the

queen is merely going cavalry and artillery Instructor in The to see her son, (who is

with horse-riding and skill at arins; £1,- excessive," hemorrhage). I do not know any-151

year. Clearly thing about the rumours connecting states report.

be

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her visit with her son's matrimonial! The Sentor Offlcers School where uffairs."

the number of students averused

A few minutes after the ex-queen between

and gone on board, the liner pul out numbers Bond 50 and the staff

The estimates of new Hongkong to sea, while in n whirl of spray thei

1934 £1,700,000; In Prince and Princess Marin Chris-barracks--11 tina circled round her in a powerful 1035 £2,200,000, in 1036 £1,100,000. Closer estimates are wanted in fu- motor-boat-Reuter,

tire.

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.

Such a course,, adds the report, more should embrace gunnery, anti-

report

pb- thorough. The serves: "The men who perished; aircraft methods, depth charges, tallantly have not died in vain.”

smoke screening, and especially

keeping and

alation

organisation.

Convoy Woman Lived Years

The federation suggest that the With Half-A-Brain-

authorities in churge of Britain's defence programme seemed to over- Inak the importance of merchant shipping in defence of the Empire.

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

..

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

The case, regarded as unique in medical history, is Vast numbers of British ships, journal of the reported in thei

American Medieni

It nddu. ELTO Bailafactory, but Association. in which Dr. John D. others escape, disaster merely by O'Brien, a neuro-psychiatrist, asserts thai the cause of death was an accl- the mercy of providence.

dent which had no connection with a bruin operation the woman under-

A modern ship should survive the fury of the sea In every part of the world. Surveys have now become went in 1031.—Reuter,

NASTORIA

MEDIMAL IMP

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A balki mandy bar

Compton, Khabar and

DOCTORS remind us

that it's never nafe to give a baby any but the very mildest laxative. The way to avoid taking chances is to U80 only Castoria ·Mil- lions of mothers give Castoria to their bables to keep their little systems regular the safe and pleasant why.

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WERIENHOM

of State Two general managera liquor-selling businesses within

a

few miles of each other-Glasgow and Carlisle. "Most imbusinesslike" states report.

STRIKE LEADER

Instead of casing the strike situation in France is becoming aggravneted. Our picture shows the leader of the French trades-union, Leon Joulaux, on his way to a meeting.

A MAN

STILL ALIVE

FURTHER ACTION

HINT

PIQUANT developments

are likely in connection with the ease 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 Newcastle 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 graph of a man to Mr. W. G. Smith,. father of the supposed bride.

He said:

London newspaper showed the photo-

"That the man my daughter! nald she is going to marry. I will say no more. There might be for ther action"

The man whose photograph was Identified by the father is not dead, has not been in hospital, and has

A picture from the scene of War in North Spain showing loyalist Kunners preparing streils which be fred against the positions of the rebels.

Powerful Weapon For R.

A. F.

London, Oct. I. Installation of a rotatable gun

I never taken part in a marriage cereturret and use of sleeve-valred

Inony with Misa Smith.

engines in bombers are latest

There is, in fact, no doubt that no developments in the Royal Air marriage ceremony—In fact, no cerez | Force.

place any nature-took mony of under the circumstances related by Miss Smith,

home.

The gun

turret, operating similarly to a naval turret, is Mias Smith is now ill in a nursing mechanically operated and is jclaimed to be the first of its kind ever installed in an airplane. The gunner is freed by the device from training the gun on a fast-moving target at high nir ¡speeds. Physical strain is like-

wise reduced.

SOLAR SYSTEM

ORIGIN

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

with An egg-shaped structure trassparent sides by the nose of the fuselige houses the gun and its operator.

NEW THEORY

The

Sir James Jeans in opening a dis- cussion In the Mathematical and

maiorly of new multi-stater Physics Section of the British As- types of British military planes, It sociation meetings at Blackpool ist is understood, embody some type of month regarding the origin of the protective turret. Solar system said that the problem

A new type of torpedo bomber is of how the solar system came into belag Alte with sleeve-valved existence had long provided a happy engine, following experiments under- hunting ground for the cranks, who taken 12 years ago.

roam free, un-j

let their fancies

Maintenance is considerably re- checked by scientific knowledge or duced. Fuel consumption also is re- dynamical principle.

perted to be lowered. Tests under-

the RAF

He referred to a new theory by Dr. Laten by the R.A.F., indicate sleeve- volved airplane engines produce more H. Jeffreys. He described how, involved

than the ordinary types. of power 1916, he proposed his theory

state the engineers raised tides of great height in sun caused by a passing star with engines aro.carler to manufacture and the use of a lower grade fuel is the result that the whole structure became unstable. A long

filament possible.

of gas was shot out towards the pass-

new

New units are expected to include

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 rotaion of the outer planets. These had short and strangely uniform periods of about ten hours.

sleeve-valved engines.

He Has World's Worst Job

Hollywood, Oct. 1. Professional hero John Beal

"Jeffreys," said Sir James, "has proposed replacing distant tidal action by un actual colision of a looked a chump and felt like one grazing kind. The gas at the sun's when he tried his hand at real surface is then twirled between the life-saving and the "fear dam. upper and nether millstones formed

by the sun and the second star and ael in distress"

hora laugh. all goes well."

NOT MERE CHANCE

gave him the

Result is he's off, amateur heroics for life, und future fair damsels want-

Feeling of Guilt systems of the larger planets were in patit with his wife, Helen

May Prolong Illness

DR. WILLIAM

-Dr. William Brown BROWN, Wilde reader in mental philosophy al Oxford University, lecturing to the British psychology section, of the Association meeting Just mon.h described how a sense of mors) guin can prolong physical illness.

He quoted the case of a patient suffering from kidney trouble which dated from an Imagined neglect of filal duty.

had

In another case a patient suffering from recurrent corneal ulcers labour ed under

the idea that he blasphamed ond that blindness was the penalty for blasphemy.

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

"Such cases show how.carefully methods like faith-healing should be approached. The indiscriminato use Ich methods will often intensify of such the sub-conscious sense of guilt which made the person 1."

some

New

Crale.

when came

Sir James summarised sallent facts in rescue will have to get an okay that had to be remembered when from the casting director.

with new theories. The Hero Beal was cantering a bridle

York stage actress, all essentials small-scale replicas of New

the damsel, (Circa 15), the main system,

whizzing by on or about n nag There was П very marked re that was apparently running away ularity in the arrangement of the with her. The girl had lost her planets, the most massive being in stirrups, was hanging on by the he middle of the system and the mane, and bouncing a foot off the zasi massive at the edge. There saddle at every leap.

vas the same régularity in the num

Bical is only a fuir rider, but he

ers of their satellites and masses new his role by heart. Script called if satellites relative to those of their for him to gallop alongside and lift. primaries.

the loss out of the saddle, which

"It is stroining the probabilities he tried vallatly to de

Somehow, however, he couldn

too much to postulate that all this is quite catch up, and when he did e result of mere chance," ruid Sir make it, the girl twisted away from Jumes.

him, found her stirrups with a thru 1. Evidenco 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. If 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 this period we increased its mass

as much as this.

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 its mass could have changed by eveneene in with a 18-millimeter comert. They were making an amateur movie. Beal went away from there so fast Professor Arthur Hólmes, of Dur- he didn't learn their names, but ham University, showed from the thinks they recognized him. The study of ancient rocks, 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 less) than 2,000 million to 2,000 million on the chin six times for scenes la years, and that the weather con- "Go West Young Men," and didn't dillons of those times were within pull a single punch, long-nosed the range of climatic conditions of Warren William thought that was ap to-day.

proximately enough.

that

"Go easy, Mac" he pleaded, when the seventh take was ordered, "I got

stiff neck."

Dr. Brown suggested that people who pay "conscience monny" to the Chancellor of the. Exchequer ase really sslving their consciences not for some fraud on the tax- gatherer but for some other fault.. They suffer from a false conscience, see their moral nature in a distorted, ¡turg and other relations between the authorized smack on the other sido Imirror.

Geplouical evidence further show ed that for nearly 2,000 million years there had been no important as- tronomical changes in the tempera-

isun and the earth,

"This'll be good for it," promised Mac, and let him have a wholly un-

of the head-United Press.

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