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1938.

ESCAPED BORSTALBOY WANDERS ABOUT

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To Swim

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WILLIAM LEWIS, the 18-

years-old Darlington boy who escaped from the Borstal Camp at Medham, near Cowes, Isle of Wight, was captured recently after he tried to swim to the mainland. lost his clothes,

and wandered about naked. At Cowes police station he told a vivid story of his adven- tures.

He said that when he escaped he was dressed only in a shirt, trou- sers, shoes and socks. He discarded his shirt on the railway line neur the field where good conduct Borstal boys are under canvas.

CURRENTS 700 STRONG Then he Bed through the flalds un- il he eventually reached Gurnard and decided to swim to the main- land, He took off the rest of his clothing, but when half a mile from the shore found the currents tou strong, and returned.

In the darkness he was unable to find his clothes and then wan- dered naked into e village of Gurnard, where he knocked at n

towel, coliage and saket for

A wontan threw him one out of the window, and he used this s Joincloth. Unseen, he made his way back to Cowes, where he boarded the Marquis of Camden's 357-tous yacht "Yarto."

FOUND BY SKIPPER Despite the fet that workmen were busy on the bout the whole day, he remained undiscovered, whats he was found by the skipper of the yacht.

After clothes had been found for him he was brought to Cowes police station and given a meal.

He was inter lunded over to the Borstal authorities.

SPELLING BEANO IN COMMONS

The Rev. T. B. Scrution, the vicar of All Saints, King- sion, son of the late Lord Justier Scrution, shakes hands with Mr. Justice Humphreys after the service held before the opening of Surrey Assizes at Kingston.

Jane Withers, the 11-year-old film actress, was badly burned when a bunch of squibs exploded in her hand during celebrations in Hollywood. She is seen here with her mother.

CURE CLAIMED FOR

INSANE WIFE

Husband Sought Divorce

HUSBAND who regarded his wife as a hope- lessly incurable mental case and contemplated Matrimonial divorce proceedings under the new Causes Act has now been told that his wife is show- ing every sign of making a good recovery.

The case is reported in the British Medical Journal, The woman, aged 34, was admitted to a mental hospital in She had suicidal ten- April 1931, suffering from "split mind."

dencies.

AN injustice was done to

the Lords in the Commons| recently. They were charged with not being able to spell.

Tho matter arose when Captain Crookshank (Seero- Seven years later, in March tury for Mines) moved the this year, she was reported to be acceptance of Lord's emaciated and "portraying little amendment to the Coal Bill evidence of mind."

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In April she had a spontaneous epileptic seizure, and during the next two days showed great mental improvement, She talked rationally, and sat up In bed knitting.

But in a few days the lapsed into her former state.

providing that the present coal owners should "refraini from any dealing... cal- culated to give a factitious or artificial value to a holding" between the passing of the

Act and the valuation day.

"We have no objection to the amendment," said the "hon. learned" Slr Stafford Cripps, for artificially

Labour Solicitor-General, epileptic seizures. "provided it in spelt correctly. presume factitious is meant to he *Пctitious. This

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to produce It was then decided and

by Injections further The drug used

Origin Of The American Indians

i was the new discovery "pentamethy- the 22nd annual convention of the

tenetetrazol."

continued und

Ad-

San Diego, Calif. Helief that the Amertem Indian originated in the western Hemisphere and did not einigeale from Asla was voiced by Dr. Anthony S, Zallio at

American Association for the should be put,

Immediate mental improvement | vancement of Science. right. Apparently the Lords can was shown. The treatinent has been

Dr Zallio, Anthropologist from not speil." (Opposition cheers.)

the patient shows Sacramento Junior College, based his Another hon, and learned mem-marked mental mad physical im- ber, Mr. W. P. Spens (Con.. provement. "being scarcely recognt-contention on recent discoveries in Ashford) observed that he had Sable as the same person." the curiosity at lunch time to The report continues: "She asks to consult the Oxford

ford dictionary and found that the two words meant be allowed to assist in the ward, con- verses brightly and rationally, and exactly the sine-artificial,

Captain Crookshank also ad-writes sensible letters to her rela- words in the dictionary, "The "She shows every promise of mak- word used by the Lords," he said, ing a good recovery, and her physical equally "Js correct. The dictionary gives improvement the meaning as 'designedly got up marked. She now takes pride in her -not natural.""

personal appearance.

mitted that he had looked up the

tions.

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almost

HAD NINE SEIZURES

But Sir Stafford returned to the attack. If factitious meant artificial why have "factitious or "So far she has had nine thera-

California and the southwest which he said Indicated it would have been impossible for the Indian to have crossed the Bering sea and gradually worked his way down the Pacific const us many theories claim.

"The idea has been implanted that the American Indian a descendunt of Mongolian races," Dr. Zallio said. "It has been taken for granted and no particular effort has ever been made to prove it, or disprove it. Tee formations were of such formidable size:

12,000 years ago would have been impossible for

artificial" in the amendment when peutic seizures, and treatment is still human to have passed them." "artincial" by itself was enough? being continued,

It was funtastic that words

should be put into Acts of Parlia "Her husband, regarding her ment of which nobody knew the hopeless, contemplated divorce pro- meaning ull it had been looked ceedings under the new Matrimonial up in a dictionary. They were Causes Act.

making tools of themselves if they "Within the short period of one

did that.

month the complexion of this case Turning to the Speaker, he has totally nitered, and it affords on asked solemnly whether there instance of the need for extreme cati- were no way of preventing the lon before finally adjudging an House from making a fool of it apparently hopeless case as incur- .self.

The Speaker rose in all nis dignity of long black coat, knee breeches, and wig. "There are many ways," he said, "that

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I really cannot enumerate them." (Laughter.)

The amendment was then ap- proved. No apology was made to the Lords for the unwarranted charge that they could not spell.

Police Badge 100 Years Öld

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WHAT A STEEL CORSET. DID

Cleveland, Ohio, June.

A woman villor walked between

O'Donnell

"Gaol For Me" Says Cruel Father

MR. STANLEY

Brighton,

PARRACK

was recently refused an ex- tension of lime in which to pay the £25 fine for burning his son's hands with live coala-as punishment.

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"It means I shall have to go to prison for three months, so I shall not be able to take charge of the boy," he told a correspondent.

The fine was imposed on June 2, and he was given a month in which to pay.

"LOST MY JOB"

"I have lost my job in the R.A.F..

another and I haven't got

one." added ex-Aircraftman Parcack. "I

don't know what other work I can do. I have been told that I can apply for unemployment beneßt, but I don't want that sort of money. have seen the inside of labour ex- changes before.

"I do not intend to change my name. It may be B barrier to getting a job at present, but I am not ashamed of it. One day I shall vindicate my eliaracter-- and it will be in the name of Parrack, and not Smith or some other assumed name,

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"Of course, I want the boy back, but I have no hope for him now ar in London, and my wife is with relatives in Hove. We have written regularly to each other.

"Perhaps they will fet me have my boy back later on, when all this is over and I am once more in a posi- tion to look after him."

Mrs.

the Gibbs,

Luy's Krand. mother, told me that she still intends

to try to have the bay returned to her.

"HE WAS HAPPY"

"He was quite happy with me, she said. "If I can't have him I would like the boy to stay where he Is at the Warren Farm School, be- cause I have been able to visit him. every fortnight there."

The fair-headed centre of this drama was at the school on top of the downa, on the outskirts of the Lown. He was celebrating his eighth birthday.

It is thought likely he will be taken care of by the Walfs and Strays Suclety,

Sonja Henie "Too Busy

For Love"

SONJA HENIE, the world's greatest ice skating star and tenth atar of the films in international box-office ranking, in hurry- ing home to Norway-without her skates. Sonja wants to rest.

When she broke, for a brief stay in London, her dash from Hollywood, she explained that she flew to New York from Call- fornia, within 12 hours of com- pleting her latest film, and then caught the first bont to South- ampton.

LEGS INSURED

two large concealed magnets which Sonja said how much she is longing Sherif Martin

installed for the quiet of the Oslo countryside, recently. ba a "gun detector" to make where she is to spend the next two the county jail escape-proof. The months, swimming, tennis, trout narrow green light over the magnets fishing. No sitating or hardly any. widened to a red glow, indicating the presence of iron or steel. The womati hind told Chief Jailer Michael Kilbone Mahanoy City, Pa.

that phe constable,

had no metal on her person. Harry Schatzleln,

Kuhane asked her to walk by "wears badgo more than 100 years

oki-made from the back of a silver again. The red light fleshed once watch case. Only one word-Con- more. "Well I do have on a steel-

'supported caract," she said. stable-la on the shield.

Her legs and feet are insured for £600,000, and one polley brings her £1,000 a week if she cannot skate.

Hollywood gossips have nug- gested that Sonja and Tyrone Power are likely to marry. There are whispers, too, linking her

that

nano romantically with of 22-years-old Englishman Richard Greene, her leading man la "My Lucky Siar." But Mrs. Selma Henle, Sonjo's mother, and Sonja herself ridiculed these rumours, said she had no love afors.

Big Trout Costs Plunge

New Haven, Vt. While shing here, Mrs. Albert Proctor, of Burlington, had to plunge Into the river to land her catch. But she emerged triumphantly clutching n 21-inch trout weighing three pounds.

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