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First Man to Diver Meets Shark

The Biggest Salvage

In History

By a Correspondent

Byfleet, Surrey, Mar. 1.

THE only man to sea the Cunard liner Lusitania since she was, torpedoed in 1915 with the loss of 1,198, lives told me to-day of the preparations for the biggest salvage task in history.

He is Mr. Jim Jarratt, the "man of Iron": diver, who first Ipeated the liner, and will be the chief diver in the salvage operations which will begin in the Spring..

I

"It, was a strange experience,” he told me,{ "secing the Lusitania for the first time. could not help thinking of the hundreds who died, many of them still Imprisoned between her decks.

Apparently

"While I was standing on the ship a shark circled 'round me, brushed its nose against my diving suit, then calmly went away. my all-metal diving suit was not appetising.

"In this cutt, which weighs 812, and in which I can scarcely move a muscle on the surface, 1 seemed to be wearing an ordinnry bathing sult."

OCEAN-BED FILM

After the Anding of the Luskonin stormy weather prevented further

work.

When the three-year salvage pro- gramme begins Mr. Jarratt will be- come a flim star.

Captain Jobin D. Craig, the under water photographer, is to make a complete Alm record of the

tions.

opera

will show Mr. Jarratt and his three assistant divers break- the into the purser's room and laying explosive charges for spiliting the hull,

whole vessel to the Raising the surface is impracticable. Her huli will be broken up Into small pieces, which will be raised to the surfacoi by powerful magnets, and shipped by lighters to Swansea as valuable;

scrup.

My first task when I o lowered | down will be to drill ur blust my way | to the purser's room in the vessel," Mr. Jarrett told me. "We hope to recover about £230,000 worth of valuables locked away in the sufes," EXCITING MOMENT

Mr. Jarrait, 5ft. 1lin, tall, wiry md 34 years old, has been a diver for six years.

Tho

།།་ར་

most exclling moment of his career was his inding of the fluer.

To the capton of the Orphir be gave the dramatic message: "I am standing on the plates of ship..... I can see her two-inch rivets.... There is amazingly little

corrosion

sign

covera h under the silme which!

of

For

many years

the

exact position the 31,500-ton liner was a mystery. Only after a-four months' search by the Orphir, the salvage vessel, was Mr. Jarralt saxcessful in finding her. 312 feet below the sarfuer of the Atlantic, about 11 miles from Kinsale Hend, Ireland,

On May 7, the 22nd anniversary of the tragedy, arrangements are to be made for a broadcast from the wrecked liner.

TOURISTS

STRANDED AMONG LIONS

that

NIGHT IN BIG GAME

PRESERVE

Nelspruits (Transvaal), Mar. 1. Surrounded by thousands of wild animals 120 American tourists from the liner Franconia are stranded for the night in the Kruger Nationul. Park

They are sitting in their cars on Pretorius Kop through the night, heavy rains having turned the sands into quagmires.

sufficiently

Table Tennis is

at sport which bos nde great pro- Bress, in the last len years. Great Interest In the | !!!!

game was shown

In

the United

States, from where this trio made the

long trip

GETOSS

the ocean in order to participate in the British cham- plonships.

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See the Lusitania After 21 Years

on ' Liner's

on Liner's Deck 300ft. Under the Sea

£2 A Minute Heart-Throbs

Binnie

Barnes

'Phones Love To

Ex-Husband

I

By A Special Correspondent

12-minute, heart-throb tatks, between. Iandon and Holly- wond arr doing a good deal behind the securs just now towards reconciling several estranged husbands,, wives, and lovers of the film world. For instance:

"AA

NOTHER three minutes" may reunite Miss Binnie Barnes, the British actress, with her husband, Mr. Samuel Joseph,

a London bookseller.

The marriage was dissolved last October, but since then Mr. Joseph has spoken from his office in Charing Cross-road in her in the Hollywood "studin, where she played in "The Private Life of Don Juan."

Playing Cupid in this life drama off the screen was a make-up expert. He threw a parly la Hollywood and bad I "inked-up” to London by Transatlantic telephone. Miss Barnes, among the guests, called for Mr. Joseph in London-seni her love to him.

ها

Sald Miss Barnes afterwards to a Margot Grahame from Hollywood correspondent: "A reconciliation is called for her estranged husband, likely. We had a long private talk by | Francis Lister, from whom she re- phone last week. We ure still unitedcently admitted contemplating divorce. Mr. Lister, also, wasn't present at mentally. The necessity of our liv ing apart for our respective careers is the other end. But Margot said: our only obstacle

remarriage. "We're still in love, I wanted Stories of my romantic associations much to tell him so with other people are

untrue. Said Mr. Joseph: TinԸ Transatlantic telephone con- versations with her. Binnie is right when she says the trouble is our werk. I cannot stand in the way of her and be just my wife's husband. career, and I cannot givé up my own

may have

But he could not be sure of the out- came of future phone talks. "It's not so easy to fix things up over 6,000

miles at 20 for three minutes, said, smiling

he

These, however, aren't the only heart-thrab talks which have been crackling through the ether.

The river is running strongly, and the tourists, who were due at White

Merle Oberon from London called River Camp this evening. not now for David Niven, from whom she was expected until to-morrow. They are recently reported to have broken her adequately protected against all don- jengagement, Niven wasn't "getable,"

Judge Decides Bug Was

A Guest

MR.

R. Justice Hawake dis- cussed at Liverpool

gers from lions and other animals but phoned later from Hollywood, Assizes recently the question

Reuter.

returning her love message,

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of whether a bug found by a woman in an hotel bed was

£2,000 Damages In resident or non-resident."

Divorce Suit

DAMAGES of £2,000 were awarded to a husband against an old friend of his wife in the Divorce Court in London recently,

The husband, who was granted a decree nisi with costs against the co-respondent, Is Mr. Frederick Scott Maxwell, a commercial_traveller, giving an address at an hotel in Montagu Street, W.C.

Miss Ada Bircher, of Denton- drive, Wallasey, Cheshire, claim- ed damages against the Castle Hotel (Bangor), Ltd., alleging that she had suffered from bug

bites while staying a night at the hotel.

Announcing judgment with costa for the hotel company, Mr. Justice Hawke sold:

my

по

"I am inclined to say the bug WAS non-resident. No-one has keen his father or mother and...lf ho was not an only child-his brothers and sisters. He charged his wife, Mrs, had lost his wife add, to same ex- "It has not been proved to Florence Emily Maxwell, with tent, his child,

satisfaction that the hotel company adultery with Isaac Edward Cherfas, Referring to Mr. Chertas having was harbouring a bug. I am at a

London hotel.

been

a friend of Mrs. Maxwell before Buying Miss Bircher brought it there. Mrs. Maxwell did not put to an the marriage, the judge observed that I am satisfied that the company took answer, and Mr. Cherfas, who had not infrequently it was the "old every precaution.” defended the suit, did not give friend" of bofore-murringe who came "BUGS MAY NOT BITE”,. evidence denying adultery.

In afterwords and did damage such Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell were as had been done in that case. married at Hammersmith in 1020, and He ordered £1,000 of the damages there was one child.

to be paid info court within 14 days and the remaining £1,000 within 28 days.

HOME BROKEN UP

Mr. Justice Bucknili sajd Mt., Mox- Mr. Maxwel was granted custedy well's home had been broken up; he of the child.

Miss Bircher said that the was bitten at least 40 times and was un- able to do her work as a demon- strator of hals for a month.

Mr. Justice Hawke: I suppose, a bug does not come within the prin clplo of the dog, which is entitled to only one bite.

Queer Tangle

Of Human Lives IN THE NAUGHTY 'EIGHTIES

LITTLE MORE THAN A STONE'S

THROW FROM THE SURGING TRAFFIC OF LONDON'S GREAT SHOP- PING MART OF OXFORD-ST., IN THE ARISTOCRATIC QUIETNESS OF MAN- CHESTER-SQUARE, STANDS A STATE- LY MANSION.

It houses one of the noblest collections of art treasures to be found in this country. Indeed, a collection unique in the world. But more than that.

The home of the famous Wallace Collection symbolises as strange and wayward a mystery of human lives as we may ever find in Action or in the musty pages of old records.

Why is this wonderful treasury of art caled the Wallace Collection? Who was this man whose name it so proudly perpetuates? From what stock did he spring? Was it. old, noble, illustrious?

SCANDALOUS NOTABILITIES

He was

Richard Wallace, this strange, enigmatical figure. But to explain his name, to trace his stock, brings us back to figures even more extraordinary than himself.

Churchgoer Speaks Up

And Amazes Minister

Pueblo. Mar. 1.

Dr. Will Gordon, pastor of the Park Baptist church. put this question to a male member of his congregailon; -

"If you enuld remove the one thing from the world that causes the most sadness, what would it be?"

The man answered, emplali. cally: "Women" —

Dr. Gordon concluded the man must be 17 bachelor. United Press.

Mr. Bevin

Next Labour

Prime Minister

MR. ERNEST BEVIN,

burly dockers' K.C. and chairman of the, Trades Union Congress, is planning to be dictator of Britain in everything but name,

He is already marked out as the next Prime Minister in. Lobour Government.

A few months ago he was offered peerage. He spurned it.

Hitherto he has kept fairly well aloof from Parliamentary politles. He has been content to pull the strings from Transport House.

MAN WITH VISION

Ile will be due to retire under the secretary of the Transport Workers age limit from his union post General Election. Just about the time of the

of

To the great, splendid, scandalous notabilities of London of the eighteenth

Earl century. The March-Old Q.." ond that Lord Hertford who was the prototype of Thackeray's Lord

Steyne; queer George Selwyn, who loved better than anything else to watch being hanged...

men

"Old Q.," the "Star of Piccadilly." is dead and gone more than a century. Yet British horse-racing as we know it to-day owes almost its existence to his efforts.

And the fourth Marquis of Herl- ford, a bigger ruke than "Old Q.," it that were possible, the husband of "Old Q.'" natural

Italian Marin Emily Fagnant-

long been in his grave.

has also

Yet he made his mark on the cul- tural life of Britain just as surely as "Old Q." made his on the annals of the Tur!!

My Lord of Hertford, Irish noble- man and cosinopolitan rake, had a passion greater than women, wine or song--an abiding, devouring love of

ari.

He formed in his lifetime a marvel- lous collection of glorious paintings and other artistic treasures. He filled his vast mansion of Bagatelle, near Taris, with these, and also his London home.

When he died he left his treasures to Richard Wallace, whom some iliought to be his half-brother, the natural child of his father's wife- herself in turn "Old Q's" illegitimate offspring and others recognised as his own son and that of a Scollish lady named

Wallace. This

Riches

Wallace became Sir Richard; his widow, a French- woman, bequeathed his priceless collection to the British nation.

To-day, You may see it in that stately mansion in Manchester- square.

re. Connoisseurs and act lovers travel from all the corners of the earth to feast their eyes upon it.

Now, a skilled unraveller of ro- manile mysteries of the past, Bernard Falk, in his latest book, "Old Q's

lins

Daughter" (Hutchinson, 18s. net), unhesitatingly follows: trait which led him to believe that Sir Richard Wallace was the son, not of "Mic Mic," "Old Q.'s" daughter and George Selwyn's adored ward, but of her son, the fourth Marquis of Hert- Lord.

Brilliantly, vividly, relentlessly, he reconstructs for DS

us the drame, the lives and loves, the 'vices and virtues, the splendours and the sordidness of all those old, old generations of reck- less men and light women,

next

He will then come forward as a Parliamentary candidate, und his election as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party is assured.

He is big man In bulk and vision, and he plany reorganisation on a big scale. The fact that he has amalgamated over 40 unions Into the organisation which he now He has

leads is proof of this. schemes ready for:

1. Nationalking and analgamating all the transport of this country......... road, rall, and water-under one hugo Stale trunk,“

2. Taking over the Bank of England. 3. Putting all the coal, gas, clce- frielly and oil resources of the country In the hands of a great publicly-owned coul.irust. Under his policy all the present owners of properties that he would take over for the State will bo properly compensated. There will be no confiscation.

Mr. A. B. Miller (for Miss Bircher): Bugs are not cftified to any bltes..

Miss Bircherjadded that when she saw the manager of the hotel ho said, "It is a good old Army bhg"

Mr. Justico Huwka: An ex-Servico bug,

Mr. Christopher

Harrison, the manager, denied-In evidence-that, he said this.

PICCADILLY VOLUPTUARY

even.

Reading through his scholarly pages, we see "Old Q." the Piccadilly voluptuary, avid of pleasure Into his old age, with his successions of mistresses, among whom, greatly favoured, were those of Hallón race.

The charming, unscrupulous, beau- tiful Marchesa Fagnani came to be entertained by the wicked and ad- miring Earl of March, and some time afterwards departed as gaily as she had come, leaving a pale-faced, dark- haired

mite of

child as the some. what embarrassing, carnest of her love.

This child, who provides Bernard Falk with the title of his book, was, strangely enough, brought up tender- ly. by another rake and man of fashion lovable George Selwyn.

She made a brilliant marriage, to Lord Yarmouth, later to become Lord Hertford, heir to a distin- guished family.

Followed a long and hectic life for each of this couple, Lord Yarmouth was no better than he should have been, and "Mle Mie" quite evidently was his match.

They lived in Paris and pursued multitude of amours; he was one of the bad companies whom many ne-; cused of loading astray, George IV.; then Prince of Wales,

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