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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, MARCH

1937.

TWO MEN IN AN

FRIENDS WHO DIED

TOGETHER

Curse on Girl in Man's

Last Letter

"I hope you will always have this on your mind for breaking up my and Jim's friendship. I curse you until your dying day."

This passage from a letter written by one of two men found dead in a gas-filled room was read at a Friern Barnet (Middlesex). inquest recently..

The men were Albert George Grimes (26), whose parents live at Mays Lane, Barnet, and James Thomas Rich (21), of Aveton Road, East Finchley.

The Jury returned a verdict that { "Grimes committed suicide while of unsound mind, but found there was not enough evidence to show how Rich died,

Grimes's mother said that her son, yho

was unemployed, had been stay- .ing at the house in Station Hload, Church End, Finchley, where was found dead.

FRIENDS SINCE CHILDHOOD Her son had known, Miss Bonner since he was a schoolboy. He was with Rich and Miss Bonner at a birthday party three weeks ago.

Rich did not talk to the girl very -much

towards the end of the evening. Her son and Rich, auld Mrs. Grimes, were devoled.

Miss Bonner, a slimm, fair-haired wenting a green coat with a fur collar, said she had known Grimes

for some years, but had seen him

Did ho frighten you?-He did at the time. It seemed as though he wanted me to promise I would not go with Rich. He followed me to work.

Did he threaten you in any way?— No.

Did he say that he might do any thing to himself?--No, he was just very upset.

Roland Araabaldi, of Station Road, Church End, Finchley, said that Grimes had A room there. Rich used to stay there at week-ends.

On Sunday morning he went to call Grimes and found the room full of gas. Both men were dead.

NO EVIDENCE OF SUICIDE The coroner mentioned that in one note Grimes had written: "We both think we are better off out of the

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Ex-Nurse Shrinks 72 Inches In 12 Years In U.S.

By MRS. LEONARD DAHLQUIST

way, tave no evidence, that Rich a complainer which I had not been before.

Wolf Point, Mar. 1-Twelve years ago I gradually became

very little lately. She was not contemplated committing suicide," 'walking out with him and there was he added. nothing between them.

After the party Rich took her home and then asked if she would go out with him.

"I said I would let him know," Miss Bonner added. "He wrote to me asking if I would go out with "him and telling me not to forget,"

PROMISED TO MEET She handed the cornner a letter, After glancing at

1L the coroner com- mented. "A very affectionate letter, Isn't it?"

The coroner said that Miss Bonner had been very helpful.

"What happened at the party was this," he said. "This young man and his friend Rich went there and Rich evidently fell desperately in love with Miss Bonner,

"Rich wasted to meet her, and she promised to meet him on the night he was found dead. Itich possibly told Grimes because Grimes knew about it.

"I think you can be certain of one

Miss Bonner said: "I replied thank-thing, that Grimes took his own life. Ing him for his letter, and in the end It is quite possible that the escape of I promised to meet him.

I was go-gas night have poisoned Rich, who ing to do so on Sunday night."

was a very sound sleeper." -Grimes knew that Rich wanted-to meet her, but she did not know how ho knew.

Later she met Grimes and he seemed very upset.

"He talked about taking his friends away, and begged me not to," she said.

The Coroner: Did he ever tell you he loved you?-No.

-Did-you-think-lia did? No. I have. no reason to belleve he did..

ODDEST JOB WITH

COOK'S

CARDINAL

RAPS NAZIS

his career here to-day,

CHICAGO'S

"SLEEPING BEAUTY"

SEMI-CONSCIOUS FIVE YEARS

Oak Park, Ill., Feb. 28.

I visited our local doctor whe advised me to have my teeth pulled and later had my tonsils removed

also. I believe it was the removal of my tonsils which caused a gall bladder tumor. All of these 12 years I was suffering and usually under a doctor's care. I was afflicted with swollen feet and my eyes became so weak I was forced to wear glasses.

I lost strength and Anally went to

TO CHURCHI-Cathiolles of Ort- zaba, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, barred from their churches for 12

years, were joyous when they were permitted recently to wor ship without fear of police breaking up their devotions. Permission came after many demonstrations like the one above, held after the killing of young girl in a police raid. Banners ask reopening of the churches.

Australia Invents

Seaweed

Food

Research To Be Made In Canberra To Discover

a clinic in Minot, N. D. The x-rays showed a gall stone but not the tumor. An operation was performed Decem- Edible Possibilities ber 4, 1935. I remained in the hos pital five weeks but I could not gain

Frenchmen ent snails and strength. Later I returned to Minot frogs' legs, and Australians have because I suffered painful back aches, been known to eat disguised

all

and angles PATRICIA C. MAGUIRE, I was x-rayed from

deeters found that my spine was shark. Kangaroo tails go into whose case of lethargia | shrinking and the vertebrae were the soup pot, and caviare, after encephalitis is the longest in slipping. They found the calcium all, is only pickied sturgeon's roe. medical history, enters her the base in ragged patches. The thigh So why should

ness to-day.

gone on both sides of my skull near

sixth year of semi-conscious-bones of both legs have spals, where seaweed?

palns being in the back of my neck,

forgetful.

milk. When

we

•

not cat

calcium is gone and both of my According to.the Australian Prime arms are affected in a like manner Minister's Department, hostesses moy at some future date serve their guests "Treaty Breakers”.

The "Sleeping Beauty" of above the elbow,

Here is how his disease effects with seaweed soup, follow it by roast Munich, Mar Oak Park, as the pretty 31-me. I am tired all the time. I am

maintain the diet by adding a dash Cardinni Faulhauber, broad-shoul-year-old Irish girl is called, in pain all the time, the most acute ey with seaweed vegetables, and of seaweed flavour to the jelly dered champion of Germany's Roman Catholics, attacked Nazi "treaty has failed to respond to This pain causes me to be dull and dessert.

NEW IN AUSTRALIA breaking" in the sharpest speech of every treatment known to I am taking calcium all the time. In Japanese soups, jeilles,.confec- His catalogue of violence against science for "sleeping sick-bread or meat I feet jogy for days. the seaweed flavour, but in Australia I eat white tionery and vegetables may all have Shipping--Expert Of New. the Concordat (Hitler's 1933 treaty ness

Overeating also affects me this way. with the Pope) sot St. Michael's Patricia's condition has varied My heart is in good condition but this-basis-of-Oriental nutrition is re- garded merels 03 11 hazard for York Office Gets Stagger-cathedral ringing. The building was

bathers. packed with: 8,000 listeners.

during the past five years. At sometimes for weeks I do not go to ing Assignments

sleep until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morn- The Cardinal revealed that his times she has appeared to Ing but seem quite rested just lying

The possibilities are outlined by the Government in announcing a be New York, Feb. 20.

speech had been seized for censor-recognize visitors, but on other in bed.

Every doctor I have tallied with quest of 3,000 specimens of Australian Anyone desiring to have an elephant ship "like that of a schoolboy."

He transported by airplane will find J. E. pussfunately described the occasions her oyes close wearily

I have a desire sometimes when late A. H. S. Lucas, of Sydney. These town office, not even batting an eyelash foul. "They say," he cried, "that if those about her. She is able to the pain is so bad I would rather will be preserved in Canberra for re- Lowis, shipping expert at Cook's down-desperation of some church circles as and she shows no interest Intells me I will never be well again. marine algae from the estate of the search into the edible and commercial so accustomed is he to performing we defend the Concordat we shall masticate her food and answers pass on to escape the suffering.

our heads. Without we shall be

How much more I am going to possibilities, of seaweed.-Australian one of the oddest jobs in the far-flung loaded and dragged through the simple questions in

by raising her fingers. Other shrink I do not know.-United Press. Press Bureau. than these actions, she is unable

organization of Thos. Cook & Son- Wagons-Lits Inc.

Since the firm, in addition to its

tourist business, does a large amount

streets. What is the difference?"

of banking and shipping, many are "TOO TRAGIC FILM

to

who

them from escaping.

ALTERED

BALLOT TEST

arithmetic

to control the muscles of her

body.

The sleeping girl, has retained her natural colour, and has gained twenty pounds. Her left leg. however, has shortened

On Fightly.

13, 1932, Patricia re- turned home after mailing a Valen- tine greeting card. She complained

NAZI CRITIC OF OUR COOKING

to her mother that she was seeing PAIN and roast beef, the English- Inoaths and never produce the same "double and immediately retired man's background of which he sauce two days running. to her bed. One week later, follow-boasts in moments of uncontrollable

a

drowsiness, motion.

Are

the staggering assignments (ie, slag- gering to the average man) which come Mr. Lewis' way. He apparent- ly. takes them in his stride. There was that elephant, for example, yes, a baby elephant, but just try hoisting (By A Flim Correspondent)

An alternative was substituted for anc, trumpeling with rage and ex- asperation, from the s.s. Exochorda the previous ending of "Beloved aseaplane walling to transport it to Enerny," which is running at the Lei- Bridgeport, Conn. The imperturbable cester Square Theatre, in Landon.

"My basic recipe is three penny- Mr. Lewis superintended that feat for This is the first time that such an ex-

ing a famous African explorer; also giving periment has been carried out of a

twis nightmares of worth of cream, two ounces of butler

the United States Government

West End cinema. A ballot is to be she said, "kiss me. band а for the

London correspondent of the Berliner household of eight people on £4 per alone taken from the audience to gauge the lapsed into a deep sleep. servant native

week. was able to talk the elephant's langu popularit yof the new ending, and 10 Blood transfusions were employed Tageblatt.

"My husband's good temper is en- age. Incidentally, there were other see how much it affects the success of by physicians in frantic efforts to

Brillsh cooking is "unpleasant but tirely due to the fact that I do my own animals aboard the ship, and the two the film.

restore the girl back to health. Even

with Boulestin's intrepid girl stenographers who accom "Beloved Enemy" will be continued blood from a former victim of en-healthy like the British climate," he cooking. I agree

maxim that the best materials should- panted Mr. Lewis were obliged to hold at the Leicester Square Theatre for cephalitis was used, without effect, says,

be used and that the good housewife a pair of cheetahs, amid caged array another ten days. At the end of that Serums, ultra-violet ray treatments, "Cooking may either be an art or economises by using the left-overs of tigers and other ferocious animals, time it will be decided whether to psychoanalysis and a fever machine a craft," he adds, "but the English with imagination."

show the film in the provinces with were tried unsuccessfully. However, kitchen is a factory in which dishes event escapes, Mr. Lewis has the first or the second ending.

in the face of all these failures, Mrs. are prepared as though they were a vivid memory of two crates of ct-

The picture tells the story of the Salde Miley, the girl's mother, still nails and screws according to a 1xed Europe. Irish troubles of 1921. Brian Aherne retains hope for her daughter's re-system which leaves no possible room NAME OF TROTSKY narles which arrived from with boards loosened from the orig-

and Merle Oberon take the chief covery.

creativeness.' 'Equally inal packing. En route from the docks parts. Following the history upon

poor. in Mrs. Miley has kept a scrap book ideas is the eternal monotonous round to Cook's, the boards gave way with-

for the past five years containing of multion, beef and fish.". out warning-resulting in the merriest which the picture was based, the hero, who le leader of the Irish party, dies

all of the important happenings canary-chase that West Street has at the end of the Alm. The alterna-

English tea, fish, cheese, butter, CHANGED BY RUSSIANS in the United States, in the worki seen in many a day. At present, more tive version shows him opening his

By A Correspondent than one proud householder in Brook-eyes, after being shot, and saying

and the girl's immediate family. In milk and our crowning glory" of beet this diary she also keeps all of the and mutton get good marks as to their

Moscow, Mar. 1. lyn or Queens probably boasts his sweetheart, "An Irishman never

Three Soviet citizens called Trotsky Interesting fan letters saved from quality. His summing up, damping English roller" In her bird cage.

does what is expected of him. I shall ONLY A BEGINNING

the many bushels received yearly. but courteous, "best when simple." live."

From time to time a number of Frau von Stutterheim, who should have already changed that evil name Elephants and canaries, however,

Isvestia. Recent and Pare only a beginning that Cook's from people who have seen the film caso comes from some sympathetic agrees with her husband. She is the

There have been many complaints. "sure" cures for Patricia's rare dis- be inured, being an Engilshwoman, by deed poll declaration in the oficial Two take the clerical-sounding very lively assignments.

which hind.

name "Troitaie, to deal with that the first ending was too tragic. person. This past year a letter came sister-in-law of Nr. Anthony Eden, shipping expert

means of the were sixty-five foxhounds Imported If the experiment of substituting to the home. It said that Patricia and was before her marriage, Miss

Trinity

Leo Trotsky's real name is Bron- for Detroit; two zebras, also im-different ending is successful, It may would wake on New Year's day. Cynthia Beckett. ported; and

Although little hope was felt that two newly-purchased be followed in other films.

she would waken at that time, many "Our food lacks Imagination and stein, but I see no sign as yet of any Arab stallions exported, New Hamp shiro to Shanghal, Mr. Lowls must

thought that it might be symbolic. sauces, she says. "Cooks will throw stampede by the numerous Bronsteins same monotonous sauce on to adopt politically more cuphonious sometimes wonder whether he is really

Patricia, however, slept through New the

*names. every dish, have done my own Year's day and is still, sleeping working for a

travel-agency

cooking for, the last two and a half the little town of Gatchina-where A few years after the revolution United Press..~~.

half-mad Tear Paul-used to make his young guardsmen goose stop for hours on end in skin-tight breechos was renamed Trotsky in : hobour of

rapidly Increer." and col~ monotony of Dr. Kurt von Stutterheim, and so ounce of flour, and I feed a

circus.

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MONUMENT.TO HEROES- STRATOSPHERE FLIERS

Moscow, Mar, 1.

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THE STREET OF GOLD

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Some assignments, of course, aro simple, such as the time he merely solemn ceremony of laying the had to got Capt. Fitzmaurice's 8,000-lb. foundation stone of a monument fo Bellanca plane off the top dock of the heroes,stratosphere fiers: the Majestic and convey it.to Mineola Fedossenko, A. Vassenko and L for a projected long-distance fight. Ussykin, who perished on January 30, The only people able to do this file 1934, tools place a few days ago on the chore were the lighterage firm territory of the Central Aero Club of Merritt, Chapman & Scott, but they of the U.S.S.R. Having ascended on accomplished it for Cook's on schedule, the strathsphere Ossonvlakhim-1" the Chandul Chonk in Delhi Whether it'el shipping: gold burger to make saclen the researches of the

er, or seeing an emerald said to stratosphere, these tiers reached a rish and their wives and children have stacks of gold and diamonds Its desination for all in the player record height of 22,000 metres and work for CoOKE

X/ICH the richest street in the world? Fifth Avenue, New York; famous Leo. Nearly eight years ago

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