1939-02-18 — Page 6

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February 18, 1939.

Scientist, 89, Defends Miracles, Prophecies

GULF BETWEEN MAN

AND ANIMAL

AT the age of 89, Sir Ambrose Fleming, the eminent scientist, recently emerged from retirement to defend the

Bible.

In the begin

ning God crea-

ted the heaven

and the earth,

-GEN. 1, 1.

Three years ago Sir Ambrose appeared as the leading champion of the Bible against the

BENCH WERE

►

GRATEFUL

The Earl of Bective appeared with a solicitor at Kingston'county police court to answer a summons accusing him of exceeding the speed Itml In his car. Io admit- led the offence.

After hearing that the carl had been driving for 24 years and had only one previous conviction, the magistrates dismissed the case on

payment of 4s, costs.

The chairman (Mr. G. A. Isaacs)

Beelive's record and appreciated the courtesy shown by his appear- -ance k person and with a solicitor.

Darwinian theory of evolution, which he de-sald the Bench took notice of Lord clared to be the product of imagination. Recently he made this vigorous assertion: "There is a gulf between animal and man that no evolution hypothesis has been able to bridge."

Sir Ambrose la President of truth of much of the Bible history the Victoria Institute, and in and disproved some of the confident assertions of the so-called Higher

Ran Into Fire

paper read on his behalf he criticism formerly made." For Her Baby

affirmed his belief in miracles and prophecy.

He claimed that the

The

STUMBLING through flames and smoke which filled the nursery of her home in Chapel Street. Delgravia, recently, Mrs. Harry P. Gisborne, wife of a well-known London solicitor, carried her 13-month-old daughter

Old Testament contains pre- dictions of the downfall of great record of empires and elties made when they were at the height of their power, Christ's teaching was substantially and this could not have been done by And there shall correct and said the light of any merely human know

that the report of edge." be a fine of the Archbishop's

Sir Ambrose also attacked the trouble, such na Comuniston

(op-

Commission's observation that no Zara to safety. never was since pointed in 1922 lo objection to the theory of evolution

examine Christian there was a

could be drawn from the two Crea- doctrine) would

tion narratives In Genesis. nation, Daniel. emploslae

dif

xil., I.

ferences in the Church of England and,

Mr. Gisborne said: "The screen around my daughter's cot must have fallen on the electric fre, with the result that the clothes on it burst into flames.

Increase the uncertainty in some Twins Rare In Town When my wife, smelling smoke,

minds about the digs that should certainly be believed.

CONFIRMATION

"We can now say with confidence," he anid, "that the orchaeological ex- plorations in the Near East in recent umes have confirmed in general the

Mashpee, Mass.

reached the nursery the whole room, For the drst time in 10 years, twins except the cot, serined to be on Bre. "My wife just inanaged to gel have been added to the population here. The father is Ellsworth Oak-through and carry Zara out. ley, or Chief Drifting Goose of the Wampanoag Tribe. The sons have arrived immediately, and by the time and the brigade came the fire was well in been named John Hiawatha

hand;" Wesley Coombs.

The butler and the chauffeur

THE SHANGHAILANDER

An animal that comes swooping down occasionally from the north on pretext of cricket, bowls, golf or rugger, but actually to wallow in the delights of H. B. BEER.

Jan Masuryk, son of the first President of Czecho-Slovakin, and former Czech Minister to London, as he arrived in New York for n lecture tour of Ameries. He hailed the United States as the strongest moral that asserting force in the world, "the greater half of Europe is not safe for the principles of freedom and individual liberty." He resigned as Minister the day Germany took over. Sudetenland.

Mr. Smith Buys A Gipsy Bride

PARIS.

A 19-YEAR-OLD mining

engineer from South Africa and a 17-year-old Spanish gipsy whom he had bought" for £250 were married recently in a camp on the waste land north of Paris.

They were John Smith and Valentina Valdes.

Their wedding took place according to gipsy ritual: there was the mere signing of a con- tract.

The couple went to the "Zone," a belt of wasteland where, in huddled shacks and caravans, the poorest of the poor jostle with Ripsies from abroad.

SINGING, DANCING

No. 5, Avenue Picolo. First a narrow, dirty

street, a communal pump, a few cheap cafes. Then e narrow yard.

In a tent filled with a laughing, singing dancing crowd round a camp fre are sitting groups of guests, gipsies from different lands.

The bride, raven-haired, smiling, sits there surrounded by her re- latives.

Lat Senorita Valdes, who 1135 changed her name to Mrs. John Smith, wears a necklace of golden coins, the gift of her father-in-law.

TO SOUTH AFRICA

"1. have been in Paris for only eight months," she says in Spanish. "Now I go away with my husband to his home in South Afrien. To your very good health . . ." She raises

a glass of beer.

Standing by is dark-haired, cop- per-skimmed Jolm Smith, who is him- self of Hipsy extraction.

canic over

He earns £20 a week as engineer at Johannesburg gold mine.

to France two months ago on holiday," he says. "I visited my fellow gipsies in the "Zone,' and 'met Valentina Valdes at a party. We fell in love at first sight.

"But, according to custom, our parents alone had to decide about the marriage and settle ferma." According to the contract Mr. Smith has paid £50 to the "mar- riage maker" for the privilege of marrying Senorita Valdes, The money will eventually be made over to the bride's father.

NAME LION CUBS

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The Philadelphia Zoo's new Hon cubs have been named Wynken, Blanken and Nod. Faith, Hope and Charity ran a close second in a recent ketter poll of the city's children.

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