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FIGHT Smiths Have No

OF THE

Clan Chief

no

Edinburgh, Feb. 10. Mr. Hector M'Kechnie,

counsel: There is authority for there being a chief in any sense in the Lowlands. I do not think one could speak of the chief of the Smiths, the Joneses, or the Browns, and I do not think there is any chief of the Aitchi-

'Bons,

Lord Altchison (Lord Jusiles Clerk): Well, I am very glad of it. I can look on this case with a neutral

cyc.

THESE' exchanges enlivened the

THE

third day's hearing of the case

the

in the Court of Session here over the

disputed chieftainships of Ardgour Macleons.

Rival claimants are Miss Catriona Louise Maelcan, eldest daughter of the lato chieftain, and her cousin, Llout.-Commander H H. Maclean,] who is the heir male of the family.

The mailer had previously been considered by the Lyon Court, and it is against the decision of the Lord Lyon King of Arms that he hos power to decide the issue that the Commander is appealing to the Court of Session.

"START OF BIG FIGHT"

At one point Lord Aitchison said: These clan socletics just clect chiefs whether they are foreigners or High- Janders.""

Mr. M'Kechnie, counsel for Com- mander Macleon, contended that the chieftain of a clan must be a male.

He stated that there was a great deal of public and private correspon-

The wrinkled face of this old gipsy

woman is creased with joy as she puffs at her favourite plpe. A scene.

not far from London.

De Valera

Has No. 1

Sight'

Zurich, Jan. 30. Exact examination of Mr.de" Valera's eye that was operated upon gives the result that he now has No. 1 sight.

That means complete sharpness of viston if he wears adequate spectacles.

·Professor Alfred Vogl, to whom AIr. de Valera has gone for atten- tion, made this disclosure to-day.

"An operation,” he added, “Is unnecessary at the moment, and am glad to state that there does noi exist any fears for Mr. do Valera's eyesight In the immediate future."-United Press.

dence with mention of legal proceed- Scientist Teaches

ings. It was the start of a big fight, and the opposing counsel knew it,

Lord Aitchison: And you want the big fight to start all over again?

In a modified form.

The case was adjourned.

CORONATION EDITION

OF THE BIBLE The Home Omee has instructed authorised printers of the Bible not to include portraits of the King and Queen in the Coronation edition. It in understood that this instruction is his Majesty's own wish.

The ban does not apply, however, to Coronation Prayer Books, which will contain portraits of their Majesties.

Cat to Dive

Paris, Jan. 20.

In a laboratory at Montreuil a French professor, M. Hachet-Souplet, is maklag white rats alt up on their hind legs for food and hores jump over hurdles.

To-day he showed me one of his most remarkable achievements,

He took me to a corner of his live laboratory where there was a ash in a tank of water. As it swam the professor brought in a large black cat. which dlved into the water, caught the fish in its claws, and then began to devour Its prey.

cat to do this. He dives for all his "It took eight months to train that food," said M. Huchet-Souplet.

"After a certain time this cot will have developed its powers of diving and calching fish to such an extent

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Defends

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AX-MILLIONAIRESS, daughter of a nitrate king and onetime mistress of Sur- rey's most magnificent mansion, seventy-two-year-old Miss Susan Dora Cecilia Schintz faced public examination at Kingston Bankruptcy Court in London_Kist. month in a last bid to vindicate the honour of the man she hired дв chauffeur- secretary, who became her

trusted friend, and on whose Juckless inventions lavished a fortune.

she

He was alleged to have "started out us a merchant prince" on her money; to have had undue influence over her; to have persuaded her to part with great sums of money in connec- tion with his Rapson tyre com-. panics.

TEARFUL STORY

She told-sometimes in tears--the long, and complicated story of the bad luck of his ventures; admitted she had lost £250,000 in them: de- clared vehemently. "Mr. Hopson did not

the money, that I

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Schintz, wrapped in old that are remnants of her riches, was driven from Eastbourne, where she lives in an altio

nat, without servants, on funds provid- ed by a relative.

Rapson's twerty-ave-year-old son and Mrs. Rapson are now her closest friends. She carried 1 dossler, thousands of words long and the work of months, which Rapson jun. hnd typed at her dictation.

Thin, bent with age and illness, she wiped the tears from her eyes when she took the oath and prepared to deliver the speech of vindication she had rehearsed throughout six

yepts,

Sho left the court sobbing, deep- ly moved by the recalling of her early association with Rapson- Afterwards she told her story. She sold:

"Mr. Rapson was a genius. He was a great inventor.but he did not have a business mind. Neither have 1.

"Ir. Rapson did not have a penny of my money. He did not leave a penny when he died. That is proof, if any were needed, of his honesty.

"I hope that to-day I have cleared his name and lifted the shadow that has oppressed us all-myself, his wife and son-for years.

1. "Warry over the allegations that were made killed Mr. Rapson. The over my doctor said that worry affairs had broken his health,

"It was alleged that be had an undue influence: over me, that he dictated all I should do, It was sald that he wanted to be merchant It was all untrue. prince.

He was a most modest and unassuming man. "He died before he had the chance to clear himself. That is why I am here to-day,

1

"I do not care about the money that has gone... I want to seek peace. and quiet now. As soon as I am granted my discharge I sholl abroad. I shall go

pione. Where I do not yet know

go

Miss Schintz showed parts of her dossier, which fell how she en- chauffeur-secre- gaged Rapson 39 tary, how he suffered from malaria and a head injury, as a result of

Army, in 1910, and was liable to seizures.

A London newspaper represento- that it will have acquired the In-which he was invalided out of the live has been informed that permis-stincts of an otter. I maintain that sion had been granted for the use of after a time it will be possible to the Royal Cipher on the covers of breed from cats trained in this man- new ner a race of cats that seek their the Coronation edition. The

food in the water. Bibles and Prayer Books will appear during March.

The edition which was being pre- SLIMMING TRAGEDY

pared for the Coronation of King

опе

"He died from zolzures, caused by worry delby'in settling my affairs," she records in the dossier,

She describes how, in his spare:

Illness Of The

Pope

▲ recent photograph of Pope Pius XI. whose filness is causing grave concern throughout the Ca tholic world.

MAN WITH 6 WIVES?

FACED DEATH FOR

GIRL IN SPAIN

'He Rescued Me-1 Love. Him'

and the TORN between her love for her English "husband," who had rescued her from the Spanish civil war, and the revelation that he was a modern Casanova-having already had three legal and three bigamous wives- beautiful raven-haired, young Spanish Woman stood sob- bing at the Old Bailey recently.

ment kept him from dwelling on

his

time, she gave Rapson permission to make experimenta "as the employ Edward the Eighth included the Dwarf Who Insisted On his wax experiences and the terrible Royal portraits. Bibles and Prayer Eating Burned Bread Monsterk at the Arrowe Hall Books used at the Coronation and

BECAME THINNER AND conducted during the war at a

Military Hospital, Cheshire, which shc THINNER

of £30,000, she writes: could never have made such a suc- cess of running the hospital if it had not been for his kindly help and Interest in everything, even

Jublice of King George the Fifth also

contained portraits of the late King and of Queen Mary.

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The death of a dwarf who was sald to have taken to slimming when people told him his body, was too heavy for his legs was investigated by Dr. W. J. Lord, the East Surrey Coroner, at Mitcham, recently.

-The inquest was on Frank Edward Waplin (28), cycle repairer, of Manor Way, Mitcham, Surrey, who was found dead in bed,

"

After

Charles Sidney Woplin said his son had lived at home, and up to about three years ago he had been in good health. He then went off his food und I took a lot of salts to slim himself when people chided him. medical treatment he became better, but then he gradually become worse, and for the past two months had absolutely refused to take the food prepared for him,

He became thinner and thinner and only exlated on frult. He was very obstinate and they could do nothing with him. At times he would burn' brown bread to a cinder and then eat

Dr. Eric Gardner,, a pathologist, of Weybridge, said he made a post- mortem examinution 27 hours after death. The body was that of a dwarf 51 1hches in length. It was extreme- ly emaciated and the stomach coa- tained no food whatever.

"I did not find actual starvation." continued the doctor, "and I do now think he definitely died from starva- tion, but I am 6r the opinion that the cause of death was due to acute bronchitis accelerated by, voluntary starvation. · He had reduced himself to a state of extremo-thinness and it took very little bring about his death,

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whose matrimonial adventures had led him to the dock on other John Ainsworth Christian, aged 40, a technical translator, occasions, had just been sentenced to 20 months hard labour for bigamy and false pretences. MANY "MARRIAGES".

when he felt ill himself. I shall tory:

always remember this with Infinite gratitude."

She adds: "After the shock of Mr. Rapson's sudden death I was prostrated for some months."

PARENTS' LEGACIES

·

1932, when he came to Spain with his wife.. When the revolution broke Here is his remarkable his-out my brother escaped froth Barcelona, but'l·lost my nerve, My only hope was an English friend.

wrple "I John Imploring him to save me from the bloodshed"knd terror. He raked his life' to get me ont of the country, but he did it. It was splendid of him.

1918. Married a Miss Mary Smith, 1923. Bigamous marriage to Mixs Doreen Hedgecock at Portsmouth,

1025. Divorced by his wife, but before the proceedings had been completed he bigomously married Miss Evelyn Barry..

1928.—Married a Miss Marjorie

T

"He had no intention of 'marrying" In court Mss Schintz had borne up nell'in the 'same yeat committed me until it was found that while he with courage, She told with a shruf bigamy with another webion.

could get back to England as a re- of her shoulders of great gifts and

1920 Divorced by s second fugee, I could not accompany him. legacies from her parents, of trust

trust wife: funds worth £305,000, of a 212-acre estate in Warwickshire," a £240,000

"He went to

Sco a lawyer in 1932-Married his prètent legal Barcelona, who promised to arrange ranch and estancia in the Argentine. Umeted

wife, Miss Wilson, who, was in matters. We went through a form French shares worth £200,000, and

at court, ទេ Instituting of marriage. I was then looked on 960

acre Oltershaw Park with its divorce proceedings. munsion twenty-four cottages and 1036Went to Spain and bigam a British citizen.

married

Rivero.

four farms-all of which had once ously been hers.

Senorita

Rosita

the "John apparently realised trouble he would get into in this It was Senorita Rivero who, un country, but I was determined to The Official Receiver (Mr. C. Roy able to speak Engilsh; wept for her leave' Spalat at any cost. Waterer) suggested that in all her lover outside the court in which. Hegyhát will become of me now? estate provided £320,231 for the was sentenced.. benent of the Tapson' companies.

"I cannot agree that it went into the companies, sald Miss Sobintz.

"A lot of it was paid for me."

RISKED LIFE FOR ME"

Through an interpreter she said:

“I met John in 1930, and again in

Retrieves $3.87 During

Search for Sunken Gold

I love him Yör all Hé'han done. But I find I am not an Englishwoman according to the law; still an alien.

· I can't go back to Spain-I duro not ro back. What will they do with Ine?

"I do not blame John for anything he has done for anything..

Then, accompanied by a woman from the Spanish-Consulate, Senorita Rivero left the court to return to a Roman Catholic home in Kensing- ion, there to await the decision of

New-York, Jan. 30. lying twelve fathoms deep in the the authorities.

In quest of millions' in' sunken swirling currents of Hell Gatewatchristian's wife said: "After

gold, Simon Lake, seventy-year-old the bottom of New York's East

opecia.

wo

submarine Inventor, trickled half a River where the ship sunk in 1780. were married in 1932 we went to dozen corroded coins through his Reputedly, the Hasar went down Barcelona for our honeymoon. It Angers today and brooded wryly on with $4,800,000 in

Cupola manilver was there I met Rosita Rivero,

and.

We went on to South America, the profits or

or treasure. húnun Nicklesh

he murmured, nickles In cold cash, Lake has retrieved and while we were at Buenos Aires and dime

Lake in mystified about the my husband told me he had been Bund That's all he's got to show, so far, colns. They're just fairly modern married before But I did not fear. on his three-year search for the American spocio-the oldest being a the truth about him until I got back pol" "million a wreck of the British Trigata, Hunsar, Afty-cent piece dated 1914.

to England * left him in ibade

aDr. Amersville, an Engish anthro- poldgir estimates the number of

ters still living active

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