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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16,

1936.

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW'S PARENTS "VANISH" AFTER AMERICAN TRIP

NORMA SHEARER

FEARS SHE WILL NEVER ACT AGAIN

Hollywood, Nov. 5.

LAMOROUS NORMA SHEARER, recovering in her Californian home after a secret fight against bron- chial pneumonia--the illness that recently killed her producer husband, Irving Thalberg-has revealed to her friends a premonition that she will never act for the films again.

death The Juliet of millionaire Thal-1 side, then the shock of his berg's last production has fought towered her resistance,

She was so rus down that when so courageously against her ill-

she caught cold it almost inime- ness that her temperature has diately turned to pneumonia,

Dr. V. R. Mason ordered her now dropped to normal for the

Irving, aged four. children, first time for a fortnight.

Katherine, aged one, to be kept away from their mother because of the danger of their being infected.

To-day her children were admit- It was the strain of her husband'a last iness that undermined her led to her room again for the first health-wearing houra at his bed-time. Just for a few minutes.

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LONDON LAWYER WHERE are Freddie Bartholomew's parents? What

happened to them?

These questions are being asked with considerable anxiety by relatives and friends of the British boy film star's father and mother. Their anxiety arises from the fact that the recent movements of Mr. aud Mrs. Bartholomew are a complete mystery.

More than a month ago they left Hollywood to return 10 London via Mexico. Their two Hittle daughters, Elleen and Hilda, who are in a convent in London, received a postcard from them short- ly afterwards,

It was dated from Mexico, and tell the chitiren their parents were on their way to London, and would be see them soon.

THE LAST TRACE

The lawyer who has orted for the ' BartlanloniWS in New York ex- pected a visit from them on their hoaneward journey, but they did not appear, and he has not heard from | them.

Last week a telephone vali wat

| rreélved at the Lumen ollies of Mr

Alter Fletcher, the solleitor who

Its noted for Mr. Hartholomew oni

"BLACK ARTS IN FASHION

AGAIN

This ginnt camera obscura is em- played by the American Air Force to photograph bombers in order to mark their position in the alr

Madman's Seven

Mr. MacDonald Murders

Says So

| this sale, and who was given power! THAT young men

of attornies on behalf of the children, faleen and Ha

w

1wn

enme from Ceelt Llewellyn Bar- Freddie's father, act tholomew, the caller promised to visit the has offer, bat Mr. Bartholomew railed in person, amb

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further message has been received, At the Canadian Pensions offer

thability allowance I

WHIS

stated that he called one day last mustla to colleet perlon money, but

was post then sailudzko

women

!

The youth, who is aged eighteen, wrut mad yesterday afternoon, and the five- year-old son of wondeulier. after having shot down then that dead the woodcutter bim

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Marseilles, Nov. 8. Armed with two rifles a demented youth is roaming Edinburgh, Nov. 10.

the forests and gorges of and

the Basses Alpes, after hav- are believing The telephone call purported to more and more in the black ng shot seven persons dead. The gendarmerie of Saint arts-magic and witchcraft Etienne des Orgues and For- -was asserted by Mr. Ram- calquiere are searching the dis- say MacDonald when he triet where he is believed to be, while the terrified inhabitants spoke here this afternoon of this wild mountain region before a gathering of some have barred their doors and hele Mi Bartholomew is pakla of the most distinguished shuttered their windows,

scholars in Scotland,

who, whe Mr. MacDonald, opening a reconstructed Church of Scotland college library, re- ferred to the books on the black set and finally the woodcutter's arts which the library possegges i wife and two little girls who ran to At the Ministry of Agriculture and questioned where they were, the woodcutter's assistance,

The youth then walked oil, and and Fisheries, where he has been obtained.

hours spled 11 young for some years. employed as

"Did the people who presented after some clerk, nothing is known, of his re- them have a pre-vision of these shepherd named Pascal watching his rent movements. He was granted lays he asked. "I am told that fork in the duck with a gun beside leave of absence to visit America. the set arts are getting more pop- him. He killed Paseal with the feat Han bat this leave expired an October to-day than ever on account-of shot, picked up the shepherd's

aware of extraordinary eredulity and Emmunition, and continued his His relatives and friends, includ-among young and up-tiedate people, journey through the forest. armed ing those who helped to finance that who are turning more than ever to- Journey to America, which he made wards it."

The books to which Mr. MacDonald with the object of settling the pro-referred focus a callection of nearly blem of Freddie's guardianship, are naturally

anxious as to the health 3 volumes. Classified in the section and spiritualism." they include a and safety of the parents who have of the library devoted to "demonology the oecull so mysteriously disappeared.

variety of works on selences ranitha from the early 17th- century books of the Satanists to more Mr. Fletcher and other friends modern volumes on hypnotism and have matters--of--Immediate im-piritualism-... portance to discuss with Mr. Dar-į

"STAMPED OUT". tholomew.

This wine after the teleplume call This friends can find! of Mr. Bartholo

Mr. Fletcher, and is the las trace new.

3.

CHILDREN'S FUTURE

Not least of these is the question

it

They were prevented to the library

of the future maintenance and wel- many years ago from an unknown) fare of the two girls, Elleen and source: Hilda, who seem to be temporarily orphaned and are anxiously inquir Jug, "What has happened to Mummy and Dad?"

$100 A MONTH

UNDER

of

the settlement Freddie Bartholomew's af- fairs, the boy star will receive in trust 50 per cent, of his carn- Ings, estimated at £225 a week.

Of this his parents are to re- ceive 100 a month.

20-Years War

FRA

Views expressed afterwards about Mr. MacDonald's statement were:

The Rev. D. A. Mitchell Hunter. the brarian: I do not think the black arts are practised in Scotland: to-day.

with two guns.

He killed his seventh victim to- day, another shepherd, numed Paut Muggiani.

The district is some forty miles northwest of the region where terror was widespread some two years ago following the exploits of the "killer of the Var." who was guillotined last February for four murders-Renter.

LAW DEGREE FOR DUKE OF KENT

After a short tour of the colleges Jast month the Duke of Kent received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at St. Andrew's University;

He was entertained by the Univer sity at lunch, and left immediately The Rev. Dr. James Harvey, prin- afterwards for Leuchars Aerodrome, cipal clerk to the General Assembly whence he flew to an engagement in

the Church of Scotland: Some of the South.

the highfalulin sut seem inclined to dabble in the black arts in'a very amateurish sort of way. But black arts, as they were formerly known, have been amped out in Scotland, though there be still much super- stition in the Highlands.

Pose "Widow"

as

Ethel Ada McDermott, aged 52, and Francis Joseph McDermott, aged 40, jointly employed as munngeress and manager at a Chancery- lane licensed restaurant, were each sentenced to six months in the second division.

Don't Neglect Rheumatism!

Little Twinges Develop Into

Big Pains And Crippling Disease,

Rheumatism usually asserts itself first in small ways-by occasional darting pains, or by cramps in the joints and muscles. Later

the spasms become more frequent, in- tense and prolonged, and the sufferer dreads damp or cold weather as being certain 10 bring on on attack. If

is liable

The

to

FRAUDS totalling £2,611 on the Ministry of Pensions neglected, rheumatism

were disclosed at Westminster Police Court when it develop into disabling, and ultimate-

ly fatal, disease.

precize causes of was stated that the wife of an Army sergeant-who was

Whilst

ia a presumed to have been killed in 1917, but who, in fact, rheumatism are still uncertain, there

is positive evidence that deserted-had been drawing a widow's pension for nearly malady of the blood, and that tonic treatment through the blood is the right treatment to bring about relief 20 years while living with her husband.

and cure. This explains why Dr. Williams Pink Pills have proved so for rheumatism in all its forms and remarkably successful as a remedy even in its most severe and chronic These pills are pre-eminently a Blood Tonic; they purity and enrich Mrs. McDermolt, in her statement, the blood with Iron nutriment, and sald:

by rapidly increasing the red cor- I was almost forced into applying puscles they may be said to actually for a pension by a woman at Crow-makse new blood. And at the same borough, and having got it, I did not time they, strengthen the nerves, ald

unow what to do.

digestion, 'increase the appetite and "If I had given it up I should have build up the whole system. Mr. C. J. F. Gwalkin, prosecut-

1917❘ been asked the reason, and that

From chemists everywhere, but Ing, said that in Jenuery

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Mrs. McDermott pleaded guilty to after I hail been here about three stages. obtaining three sums of £2 18s. 10d. months, and we have lived together by false pretences from the Minis- since." try, and her husband to aiding and obetting.

It was alleged that the woman had been granted an additional 25 for

mourning.

McDermott was serving in France as would have meant 'the death' of my refuse substitutes and insist on having

a sergeant in the Royal Irish Rifles, husband.

On January 17 he disappeared and

was

MIB,

"I would have done anything short Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. was posted as a deserler. Later that of losing my husband to have drop-

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Mrs.ped the whole thing."

Mr. Norman Parkes, defending, McDermott was granted a pension with effect from October 14, 1918, in said that in the early stages respect to the death of her husband McDermott was quite properly in re-

ceipt of the pension. on active service.

She did not tell her husband at that time, but when she did they Acupunctury, Mognosis and Hano Retting were faced with the choice of either alder of Japanese and lonkkong Goterne Wrists. Lecommended for many yours. by the wife being charged with fraudent Licences. Cure Borsised Ankles and.

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When challenged after recent in- quiries McDermolt made a signed statement in which he said;

"In January 1917 I was blown up

by a shell and the next thing I licnew or the husband as a deserter

The husband now desired to ac was that I was in a ship in which I reached England. I found my wife cept full responsibility.

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