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Lowered 100 ft. To Save Dog
LOWERED by rope down the frost-crumbled face of a 180 fert deep gravel pit at Plumstead, Mr. Joc Fox is seen in the pre- ture on the right, approaching a dog which had fallen on to a tedne. Top picture shows Mr. Fez (left) with the reintră dog, Prince, and Mr. R. A. Davica, who helped him.
Girl in
trance
sings-in Egyptain
LIVING a quiet, cultured life in Blackpool is a hand- sone young woman who is said to be the reincarnation
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Not only does she speak under trance in ancient Egyp- Linn, but she also sings the lost melodies of a bygone era.
These melodies have been jotted) down, and listeners have heard them over the radio' in the organ recitals of Dr. Frederic H. Wood.
"Writing Medium'
The story is told by Dr. Wood in Tels Egyptian Miracle. Just published: by Rider (8x. 6d.).
Dr. Wood writes: "Lale in 1927) Rosemary's hand began to write un- expectedly by itself.... I realised at once that here was what is called a writing medium!"
Dr. Wood claims that Rosemary's; mediumship has given Egyptian scholars a guide to the pronunciation)
I known only in writ
ten
Under test conditions, Rosemary, while in trance. hus recorded the
ZULU
CHIEF CHARGED
"Witch" Trial In London
YOU' wen't remember this
speech of ancient Egypt on gramo-murder because probably
phone discs.
you never read about it. This week in London-the
From The Past
Records of Rosemary's speech were made at the International Institute story will be told, although for Psychten. Research, London, and
scholar.
"In her normal siale Rosemary does not know a word of Egyp- tlan, and she steadfastly refuses to discuss it, even with me," Dr. Wood writes.
May 20, 1940.
The End of a Tragic Story Father of this Girl Shocked All the
World
THE youngest daughter of the late ex- rector of Stiffkey, Pamela Davidson, Is working in a West End of London night club, to earn money to keep her mother.
Everybody will wish her luck.
Every night, at 11 o'clock, she arrives at the club, off the Charing Cross-road, and takes up her tray of cigarettes and choco-j Intes.
Till dawn she moves round the -crowded club, selling cigarettes (o, the gay throng of officers on leave and their girl friends.
Pamela Davidson now, in her curly twenties, in alim and attractive, and wonder many of the club patrona
who she la,
Few know.
has
The youngest of the Rev. Harold
she Davidson's five children, always stood by her parents.
When her father died, three years ago, her mother, Mrs. Moira David- non, said:
"Pam is my only consolation. Shef is the only one of my children living at home, and she is all I have."
the days after his sensational trial and unfrucking, when Harold Davidson was a "star" in fairground sideshows, Pamela then aged sixteen, went with him..
Five years ago the ex-rector staged his most notorious publicity stunt by Tasting" publicly in a barrel on ex-
In a Blackpool sideshow. Pamela occupied a barrel along- side him.
libitions
She had always cherished an on- bition for a stage career, Three ngo she landed a job and ancest in the chorus of a West End phow.
For a Ume she was the sole sup-i port of herself and ker widowed) inother.
The case of the "Rector of S11 key" staggered the world sight. years ago.
Double Life
He Chose
To Be. A Stretcher Case
Whole famillea worked in co- operation with A.R.P. workers, during
EXIT.
cises at Eriili, This incident wan staged in
house, and Have tho rescue 'pariy training In loweringa stretcher case from the lop
floor.
Baby elephant joins
(ELLERMAN'S OWN
fire (ELLERM
RAPHAEL, #
) brigade
SUNNINGDALE (Berks). baby elephant, has been put on the strength of a private fire brigade formed by Sir John Eller- man, thirty-year-old millionaire, to protect his Airth estate, near Sunningdale.
tank.
The Rev. Harold Franels Davidson was the unknown vicar of the tiny parish of Stiftkey, in Norfolk, when in 1932 he was brought before the A special saddle has been made!**** Consistory Court accused on several for, the elephant, to carry a water counts of immoral conduct.
Raphael Alls his trunk from The trial lasted three months and the tank, and squirts the, water caused a first-class sensation. Crowds wherever it is needed. stormed the court to listen to the amazing evidence,
nee, and watch the "howmanship"
He puts out practice Ares every
surrounded the estate,
ip" of the #ttle inan of day, behind the niue-foot walls that sixty, whose double life was being revealed..
Raphael, who is valued at £500,
On Sundays the rector preached at was a birthday present to Sir Jalin ittle church. The rest of the last December from his brother-in- his Hillc week spent in London.
law, Mr. Raphael de Sola.
"Its main nccupation seemed to have been associating with quite-When-the-elephant arrived at it was in- ago young women, from the age of six- Airth two months teen upwards, sald courasel at the tended that he should give free rides trial,
10 evacuated children
A girl named Barbara Harris was one of the principal witnesses. Death Sensation, Too
He has been made a fremin since! a fire broke out in an estate garage: last month and the private brigade! helped-the-Anol-brigade-to-put-It
Harold Davidson was found guilty out. en five counts, and in due course was
have been translated by an Egyptian the murder-a triple mur- unfrocked.
- Then he embarked on his astonish- der-was committed two ing career as a showman.
After his "fasting" feat at Black- and a half years ago.
pool he was arrested and charged A piece of rope woven and with attempted suicide by starving. "treated" by a witch-doctor, the Through Rosemary's mediumship, contents of a witch-doctor's bag Dr. Wood claims, the forgotten and a broken piece of a clay pot music of ancient Egypt has been re-
come into the story. captured.
Words and music of a "Nile Bont- And it will be told to the Judicial Song," "A Hymn to Osiris," "A Committee of the Privy Council-the Invocation to Baal," "Trumpet-Call highest tribunal of the Empire. to Amon," and fragments of dance tunes have been brought back from the past, he says.
Denmark Asset
To Germany More Yards For Shipbuilding
..
Germany's
He took action in court for maile-
was eus prosecution and
awarded heavy darnnges.
His death was as sensational asi his life.
Scout V.C. For
Boy Who Dying, Said "I'm O.K."
In July, 1937, he was appearing ini ee show where he entered a lon's den and addressed the public.
One night a lion mauled him, and The committee will hear the up-Davidson died from his injuries,
death of peal against sentence of
Chief Fakisandhia Nkambule, a sub- ordinate chief of Swaziland, in far- away East Africa.
SOUTHWOLD.
́NEARLY eight months ago HARBOUR DEPT. CRAFT 17-year-old Scout Patrol Leader George Alfred Stannard, of Vic- The Government is calling for toria Street, Southwold, Was This dusky, many times married. tenders for the supply of steam taken to hospital here with Zulu chief was sentenced for procur-launch and a motor bant for the Ing the murder of one of his wives, Harbour Department. his brother, and the wife of his brother.
Gave Them Poison
While at No. 10, Downing-street, the Cabinet may be meeting to make war plans, a few steps further down
a
Tenders are also invited for the launch purchase of the old slcam
heart disease after pneumonia.
Soon he became known to the stat
1.D. 4, which is lying at the Govern-and patients as the "O.K. boy," ment slipway at Yaumall,
the street this picture will be recon- Vol. X No. 1 complete control of Denmark has an effect on the naval
structed:
situation that Is not generally On the night of September 11, realised. There n large and well- 1837, a score of Zulus sat in a semi- equipped shipbuilding industry in clrele round a camp fire at Busclent, Denmark which can be switched in the district of Mankalana. over to help the German yards.
Denmnik ore:
The principal shipbuilding yards in Then, It is alleged, Nhloko Hintsh- wako, a native doctor, handed round Oraving some harmless mediche until he came decks to the three people who were to be kuled. He gave them polson, under
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slips.
1
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3
the guise of medicine.
1
Nakskov Skibsvaerii ............ng ត
Chief Fakisandhla Nitambule was
There are other smaller yards at not present at the ceremony, but it Odense, Aarthus and Fredricsund.is alleged that afterwards he got in Apart-from-the-private-yards, thero touch with the witch-doctor to re- is, of course, the Royal dockyard at word him with money and eattle for Copenhagen, which is fully equipped what he had done.
for building ships up to 4,000 tons
and his skilled workers in submarine
'Cure For Drams
construction, since all Denmark's un- The trial, In October 1930, lasted derwater craft have been bulit three days, and the Zulu chief was
there.
sentenced to death.
Another asset to Germany will be
It was alleged at the chief's trial the control of the great Diesel motor, works of Burmeister and Wain, that he instigated a 'medicine mon" This firm's yearly production of to administer poison to the three marine motor engines il at least people, because he suspected them of 230,000 h.p.
killing his daughter, who had died: The much more raplá rate of des- some Ume previously truction of U-boats in this war chlet Fakisandhis Nkambule' how- eight a month, as against three to ever, maintained that he had nothing four a month has added to German to do with procuring the murders. dimeullies In: maintaining pressure -Agminel-our-mout the add the samediainsforlashich he bad tion of the Danish resotices must Be asked; he declared, was the perform- very welcome to the Nazl author linge of the ceremony of "Lutego, tien.
to cure him of dreams.
THE
January, 1940]
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When he was desperately 11 he answered questions with: "I'm` O.K.,{ thank you.",
Governess Leaves £1,000 To Princess
Was
FOR years Miss Jane Polis, of
Eastbourne, Meads-street, governess to Princess Alice Coun tess of Athlune. 80 greatly wan sho esteemed by the Royal Family that when Princess Alice's mother, the Duchess of Albany. died, she left Miss Patis a legacy of £1,000.
Last September Miss Potts died, and in her will, which was published recently she left £1,- 000 to her old pupil. Her total estate was £10,244, net personal- ty £14.952 D. 10d.
*Miss
Potis was extremely attached to Princess Alice' and her mother," Mr. William Dold. her nephew, sald. "I expect the felt she would, like, the money to go back to the family:"
*The announcement
that tho Drake
of Athlone has been Ap- pointed
Governor-General of Canada and that she will have to leave this country has naturally made her a little sad to feel she must leave so many friends, a member of the house- hold sald.
soon
RACED SON ON CLIFF
WHILE racing with his seventeen- When in pain he always sakt: "I'm year-old son on Great Orme Head, Llandudno, a research chemist fell O.K., thank you."
over the clift into the pleasure gar→ When he knew, he was dying hefdens known as Happy Valley and
was killed. still said: "I'm O.K., thank you.""
He has been posthumously award-
The victim was Mr, Harry Whit
ed the Scout Victoria Cross for pluck ham of Church-road, Upton Bicken- and determination while inhos-head. pital.
The matron at the hospital said: "t never knew a boy like him. He suffered terribly but always had a smile until the last. He Impressed. every patient in the hospital. Even in intense puin he never when grumbled."
WENT BACK TO
MINESWEEPER
*Racing with his son," Billy, was typical of him,” a friend said, "They both loved sport, and the father- was young enough in spirit to be. a real pal to his boy,”\/
Recently, Mr. Whitham had a 'nor- vous breakdown. He had been off work two months, and with his wife |decided to visit Torquay, to recupe-
rate. Billy who to go with them"for- the last week of the school holiday.
Changed Flan
They left home on a Thursday, but at the last moment changed, their
SURVIVORS of the 710-ton mine-minds and went to Llandudno. With sweeper Duncoil, sunk by a minen forty-eight hours the father was told of the bravery of one of the offleers Lleut. Donald Swift.:
dead.
the They both watched sports to
Three officers, Including the cap- tain, Llcut-Com. H. A. Barclay, and 24 ratings were killed by the explo-!
Lieut. Swift returned to the |tion.
inking ship to make sure that no Injured men were left on board.
to--
and both father and · som Rether played in tennis tournament,?, kald the friend. "For twenty years Mr. Whliham had been chairman of Upton Tennis Club 'ină the night. before his death he ww re-elected. "He was an omeinl of Upton Foot- Forty men, including out, Swiftball Club and chairman of Upton and-ar-engines offices, word landed Victory Hull the
by another warship with seven memorial. No one in the village was wounded, four seriously.
better likod.”.
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