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giistening in fresh paint. = gen
erous list Of stores rigging and
gear al triR ana msn-o-Vsr
fashion
And sitting In the White
Clouds coy cabin with the
gang Of bon voyageurs shortly
before sailing time while Rad
spun a yam Of 'as. when he
was mate IN the coasting schoon-
ers-well. We weren't the. only
gink who had to grit his teeth
when it was time to so ashore
and let a man sail
TEMPUS DEPT.
Chronometers have never been
manufactured in this country.
and with ships building and
sinking faster than we can keep
score, enough of them 10 60
around has become q very real
maritime bottleneek.
Merchant vessels each carry
two. and until recently naval
vessels each had three: il Was
necessary more than a year ago
for the navy to recall one chro-
nometer from each warship for
reassignment.
And chronometers are precise
time keeping instruments that
cannot be made in quantity. The
craftsmanship involved Is tedi-
Gus and scarce. Like we say.
only a rare few places in Eng
land and Europe have neces-
sarily supplied the worlds ships.
However, a tiny but impor-
tant hit of history Is being made
rs YOU skim through this: The
first thermometers manufactured
In the new world are presently
being made by the Hamilton
Watch Go.
The order is for 100 chro-
nometers at a cost Of $500 each.
The company will lose money
on that-but it's looking toward
the future.
Mote: During World War ],
the Waltham Co. turned out a
mess of so-called "chronome-
ters." which were temporarily
serviceable up TO a blunt point,
but were in reality nothing more
than glorified big watches; rela-
lively crude for the purpose,
and entirely different mechani-
cally from a true chronometer.)
MEMORANDA
Guess we won't be bothered
any more with complaints about
the picture Of our homely phiz.
-. You'll just have to struggle
along without it, then. A new
booklet entitled Keeping Your
Boat Shipshape" can now be had
for the asking from the dupont
people. Plenty of good dope
contained therein. too. Ma
tional Outboard Motor Week is
set for June Is. We Ameri-
cans are sure the greatest Week
people in the world. . o. course
we can easily find il within our
hearts to be somewhat more en-
thusiastic about a week with a
nautical flavor than some of
the million or so other weeks.
=. Anyhow, the slogan is Lets
go boatingl" E. Harold Cakes
of Portland, whose little sail
boat Vulcan unofficially entered
the Trans-Pacific yacht race
two summers ago and thereupon
surprised many a wiser head
than ours, is sailing up the coast
to Puget Sound the first week
in June. T.. About 35 per cent of
the United States shipbuilding
program is scattered along the
Pacific coast. What with the
crowds of kibitzers and number
of boats present Sunday about
the Point Defiance pavilion and
environs, looked like a regular
preview of the water carnival.
. Avast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-28

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-28
MORAL ISSUES

R. A. KIEszLING.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-05-28
REMARKABLY DISCOVERIES
STILL BEING MADE

Even with their limited funds.
navy and army nnedicos and
scientists are making remark
aba sxps1ments and discoveries
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dollars would be TO prosperous business man
Then there is continually passing through
his mind the wonderful times he spent with
her. BY his earlier wives he had already had
five sons and one daughter thereby fulfilling
the duties Of the head Of a Rajput ROYAL
House. But when many years later Anita
herself bore him daughter, he looked upon
that babe with particular affection-whch is
all the more reason why he must be blaming
himself now for breaking solemn vow TO his
Maharani
1t was the breaking of that vow that final
ly lead to separation which in turn is partly
responsible for his present dilemma
When he first proposed marriage to Anita
she took very firm stand Although she
was being offered the riches of India and a
seat on throne, her Spanish blood demanded
that II should be all nothing. She would
share none of her responsibilities With rival
second wife, and she would not let her husband
share his favors with another rival of the
harem, In brief, she told him bluntly that
she would only become his Maharani if he
gave solemn promise neither TO have any
other wives or mistresses according to Orien-
tai style nor to permit any form of slavery in
his palace or his state or among his $4,000
subjects. So great was his love that he
readily agreed, even signing a legal document
giving such guarantees as she wanted
For many years this agreement was kept
And the love-match which started in a Madrid
cafe remained love-match in the Indian
palace
But eventually he broke his VOW Not only
did he refuse to frown on slavery, but a harem
once again appeared in his palace in India
All the pleadings of his wife failed to move
him So she promptly kept her side of the
agreement by demanding legal separation
Ihey parted quite good friends But Anita
would share her wifely responsibilities with
no one Far rather would she prefer TO live
life of loneliness, just with her small daugh-
ter TO remind her Of the days that were gone
There seems every reason 20 believe that
sooner or later the Maharajah will devise
some legal means whereby the ransom can be
paid. Throughout the State there is a strong
feeling of sympathy for the Maharani. who
has many staunch supporters but none more
loyal than the Crown Princess Of Kapurthala,
wife Of the Maharani's stepson.
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had heard Of his offer. Wurzel was reported
to the local Gostapo and sacked from his post
as Commandant
The Maharani and her daughter were put
in close confinement as dangerous political
prisoners convicted Of participating in a bid
for freedom
Then one day a high official OF the Gcstapo
paid a social call on her Again II was an
offer Of liberty that Colonel Kugge acting on
behalf Of Himmler himself made lin return
for small consideration"
You can obtain safe conduct 20 unoccupCd
France" the Colonel said, If you care TO get
your husband to pay us a ransom for you and
your daughter amounting TO 100000 francs"
For weeks the Maharani refused even to
consider such proposition. Then when they
began TO make her daughters life uncom-
Portable by making unsavory suggestions and
by limiting at many kinds of punishmexts she
at last decided 10 give her consent at least to
the Germans trying TO get into touch with her
husband, through neutral sources TO arrange
for the ransom to be paid
So away off here in India the Maharaiah
Is spending sleepless nights as he wonders
whether 10 pay the ransom.
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ted 70 take her daughter back to her own
camp
But then the police started TO work
First Of all. they again sought 10 give her
special facilities in return for information"
about Britain. about India and about other
matters concerning the British Empire When
she fatty refused 10 tell them anything they
slowly made her conditions Of life worse Food
became shorter. Her daughter was kept away
from her for long periods with occasional
threats that the girl would be transferred to
a concentration camp at the other end of the
country If the Maharani did not prove amen
able"
When this all failed 10 move her Captain
Heinrich WurZe the Commandant of this F. g.
Camp at Besancon, made quiet personal over
lures 10 his charming and wealthy prisoner.
One evening, with eloquent apology for
the mistakes that had been made in the
matter OF restricting her facilities Captain
Wurzel whispered that if she cared to arrange
for him 10 have the little sum Of 100000
francs, he could arrange for, her to escape"
in such way as 10 gain her complete freedom.
The Maharan laughed at him.
But hidden ears in that concentration camp
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So the Maharani continued as one of the
ordinary civilian prisoners, cleverly hiding
from all except a few very intimate friends
her great sorrow. For in the frenzied
flight from Paris she had lost her daugh-
ter. fine young girl Of twelve who was
her only solace in the disappointing Sc
quel 90 her marriage
Then one day Fate proved kind TO
hcr Her helpflLness TO those in her own
camp moved the authorities 10 invite her
TO undertake similar organizations In an
adjacent camp
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She gladly accepted
the invitation and
was rewarded when she
found h er daughter
there being cared for
by a young couple
whose own daughter
had been m achine-
gunned by aircraft on
the roads along which
they had been trying
TO escape.
After much beseech-
ing and wangling the
Maharani was permit
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with wife who no longer has any claims
upon his possessions.
So for long weary hours the Maharajah has
been consulting his ministers, his priests, his
astrologers his family Is there no way out
of such dilemma?
Up TO now there has been no way found
That SOS. from +. remains unanswered
although If the law OF his nationality would
permit II, the Maharajah would probably pay
the Nazis a hundred times the sum for which
they asking
There repeatedly comes to his mind the
memory of that night away back in 1908
when he saw Anita and her sister known as
the Sisters Camea dancing in a Madrid
cafe. The MaharaJah was one Of many foreign
Princes visiting Spain 10 participate in the
wedding celebrations of King Alfonso and his
English bride. True 20 his custom, the Indian
Ruler made a tour OF the night clubs and
popular cafes part of his method of seeing
all there was TO be seen. The Sisters Camela
had already become famous throughout Spain
as two Of the most beautiful women in that
country Of beautiful women so II was not
surprising that the Maharalah who had a fine
eye for real beauty, insisted on visiting that
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IcEdliN anu OlliCldlly Scpd-
rated from his wife. He
made an agreement whereby he
would allow her a certain income,
as well as certain property.
But beyond that agreement he
cannot go, according TO his religious
and social law. No Indian separated,
from his wife dare be more generous
than the legal agreement provides.
And for a Ruler TO break his word
in this respect would be to reveal
human frailties unworthy of a
Rajput Prince
SO day after day and night after
night this ageing NJ aharajah
puzzles over this great conundrum.
On the one hand is the fact that
his beloved one-the only woman he
ever really loved is appealing TO
him 10 perform a small favor
On the other hand. he has 10 face
the majesty of his Rajput law IN
der this law he dare not 60 back
uDOn a fixed agreement connected
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- IT'T1NG IN his wonderful blue-and-
white marble palace which was built
~ 20 resemble in many ways the great
French Palace Of Versailles His Highness
The Maharajah Sir Ragajit Singh, Ruler /
Of the state OF kapurthala is facing one
Of the most pulling Of the many prob
lens that has varied life has presented
20 him.
lie has had many loves many amor
Gus adventures many marital journey
nEs. But he has had only one real love
And today from that love OF former
years has come an urgent request for-onc
last expression Of ms crstwhilc affection
H. far-away Gcrman-occupicd France his
once beloved Anita is bcsecChing him
from that very uncomfortable corcentra-
ton camp F ?. to pay the ransom which
The Gcstapo are demanding 70 set her free
It's only little matter Of ? 500 600
francs or $4,000 they are asking for.
a mere nothing indeed compared with
the enormous sums he has lavished on
Anita. his beautiful Maharani in the past
Nor would such a ransom worry the
Maharajah's purse He has an income OF any
thing mp 20 $4,000 900 a year. He possesses
jewels valued at over $50 600 900 And not
for nothing ia he known throughout tho Orient
as The Emerald King
In fact the Maharajah of Kapurthala is
considered one Of the richest OF midas many
Croesus-like potentates so fabulously rich
that Il is doubtful If he even knows what his
fortune IS worth a man who can pay one
million dollars FOR jewel that he fancies
should not worry overmuch about a little bill
for two and half million francs especially
when the freedom and the safety and the hap
plness Of his loved one depends upon meeting
that bill with promptness.
-
Maharan are not on the best of terms In
deed, they have separated. She still retains
her title as senior Queen; and he still permits
her 10 live in quite lavish style. At least, he
did so until the Germans walked into France.
Now the Maharani has lost her home. her
fortune and her position as well as her free
dom When Paris fell. the Maharaiah who
was rather foolishy spending a holiday in
France managed 20 get away. His chariot
was donkey-cart his robes were rags 10 hide
his identity BY devious means he made his
way 20 England thence 10 India and compare
tive safety
But his once beautiful wife living almost
next door 10 his own particular suite (evcn
though they were not living "a man and wifo)
m his magnificent mansion in the Bots dc
BouloGnc was not quite SO lucky. She too
cndeavorcd to use disguise 10 escape into
Spain her homeland But she was betrayed
by a servant whom she had once reproved
AS the Maharani and her little party
humping along in an old wooden cart drawn
by and bullock yoked together passed
through village in which a group OF Nazis
were standing, the unfaithful servant rushed
out and shouted:
Here are some British subjects trying to
escaped"
And then disappeared into the evening
dusk
Seeing the game was up, the Maharani
alighted from her cart and admitted her
identity.
off they took her 20 Germany. but IL was
not until some months later that the Germans
realized her value TO them.
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Here Are Some British Subjects Trying
10 Escape" Shouted the Faithless Ser
want, Pointing Toward the Ok Garland
Thus the Proud, DiSdainfui Naharani ~
kapurthala Was Captured by the
AstOnished NaZiS.
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that Anita C a m e Of
very poor family, that
her father was only a
waiter at the very cafe
in which she was dane
ing, and that she had
neither education nor
social standing.
A few weeks later,
Anita went TO kapur-
thala to be married
and enthroned as the
Maharani of one of
India's leading Princes.
Many times in the
past few weeks the
NJ a h a a a h h a s
dreamed of that time
when he thought so
much of his Maharani,
Of how he was pre-
pared to face the ridi-
Guile of his people by
marrying not only a
dancing-girl. but a for
eigner at t h a I. In
those days he was pre-
pared TO trade his very
throne for his beloved:
now he finds he cannot
purchase her happiness
at the price of a sum
of money which to him
is no more than five
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Hear+breaking Dilemma Of The FabuIousIy
Rich Mahorajah of Kapur+haIo Whose
Fovori+e Wife Only N e d $4,000 to Buy
Her and Her Daughters Way Out of One Of
the Worst Concentration Comps
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II is a strange situation
a few years ago he
gallV and officially sepa-
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clon by American Weekly Great Britain Rights Reserve,
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BY H. GEORGE FRANKS.
Former Editor Of The Star of India
and Member of the Indian Historical
Records Commission
DELHI fndia

~ IT'TING IN his wonderful blue-and-
- white marble palace which was built
~ 20 resemble in many ways the great
L.. Il
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subjects heard that he was about to exalt
another white woman over them. So much
pressure was brought to bear ON His Highness
that though ne announced their engagement,
he never did quite get up courage to name the
DAY.
Though never a Sultana Lydia Cecily did
pretty well for herself as his fianeee or sweet
heart He took her and her mother around
the world on a triumphal tour thatNeXhaled
all the pomp of a Royal honeymoon. In May
fafrCQurt of her home town of Herne Bay he
placed \her and her mother, also himself as
star boarder in palatial residence
She had one of each of the four most
expensive cars in Europe and when a girl
driving a cheap one ran into her she told the
policeman that perhaps Miss Hill had signalled
a left hand turn but there were so many dia-
monds on the signalling hand that she could
not notice anything else.
It was because the Sultan had sent her
over to the city of Canterbury to buy herself
a new fur coat specially adapted to budding
in a cold bomb shelter that she met her
death. A German bomber aiming at the
ancient cathedral. which the Nazis consider a
military target because people who go to
church derive comfort and courage to carry
on the war. All but one of the stick of
bombs struck near the cathedral but this one
strangely detached itself and overshot the
mark so far that it landed in the towns bust
ness centre drove through the roof of the fur
riers shop and killed Lydia as she stood adj
miring herself in the coat.
The Sultan was deeply upset and blamed
himself because he had sent her there. He
had killed her with kindness, was his first
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love and stcker for propriety that he is, the
first person to whom he announced his en-
gagement TO Lydia was the Sultana Helen
Had he been enjoying the full legal quota
of four wives at the time this would have
necessitated saying "Talak' to one Of them
and if the new bride insisted perhaps 10 all or
them. Ibrahim had room to take on at least
one more Lydia said she didn't mind If Helen
stuck around for the rest of her days. She
had been satisfactory head wife He had
nothing against her. except that she was A,
and simply wished for fresher, younger and
more vivid blonde. This apparently indicated
that Helen would have to play second fiddle
to Lydia.
Therefore it was Helen herself who insisted
that he say the fatal words at her and
finally he did. with kisses, flowers and ali
mony of S25OOO0 down and $4,000 year.
The alimony was entirely gratutous because
there is no such word in the Koran. Never
theless the course of this latest one of the
aging Sultan's many true loves did not run
smooth.
British offcialdom as well as his own
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This is all there was to the official
j communique given opt by the Sultan OF
Johore 10 explain ms sudden marriage to
typst Marcel.a Merdl less than a-month after
a Nazi bomb killed his faneee Miss Lydia
Cecily Hi
Though slx-feet-four- inches tan. and de-
hghtfully rich Ibrahim Is oniy a small-sIzed
monarch. Sultans go. ruling over 10000
subjects scattered through coo square miles
Of mountainous territory on the Malay PENN
sula. near England's mighty naval base at
Singapore But Sultan is Oriental King
and a King can do no wrong, therefore his
subjects and the English reporters had to be
AContent.
However there were a few details they
wished that they dared mention Perhaps IL
was the proper conservative policy for a
monarch. 81 years old. after divorcing the last
previous wife and white one at that, to
remain merely engaged" to lovely, blonde
LYDIA Hill for nearly three years without
naming the day. If so why did he leap into
matrimony. only few days after the death Of
27-year-old Lydia. with a 25-year-old typst
he(met in a London bomb shelter Also why
just for a change. doesn't he pay a little at
tention TO some Of the unemployed Malay
Processes Of whom he could legally and
financially marry four?
Probably the most curious and exasperated
Of all. is Herr Adolf Hitler who knows better
than to ask Der Fuehrer isn't bothered by
the Sultan's romances but by ms continued
presence in London which Is a shocking mys-
terry and personal affront II is bad enough
that after bombing London and killing men,
women and children in the grandest totalita-
rian manner the rest of the population only
became that much angrier and determined TO
stay right there until they won the war.
The dictator could get some gmmering of
why people were stubborn about being driven
out of their homes especially If they had
others to go to. But this Sultan does not
belong in England.
He has spacious and gorgeous palaces at
Johore where he could be lolling IN peace and
luxury. without the slightest fear Of a bomb.
Why should such lucky man, insist on travel
ling half way around the world TO spend his
time in the very place which Hitler has been
telling the world he is making almost unn-
habitable. 1t is quite evident TO him that all
the world is crazy except the Nazis.
Some persons quite-understand-
able method in his supposed madness. For
Anstance the principality of JOhore is a small
but valiant and loyal ally of Britain. 1t is
only because the big partner does not wish it,
that the small one has not sent little
evolutionary force to help. Sultan Ibrahim
comes of warrior stock but he is much too
old to get into the personally.
The best he can do for himself and his
tions and does so by circulating constantly
around London, blazing with decorations IN the
respendent uniform of Colonel-Commandant
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WhereuPon DR. Wilson parted with his
lovely wife and his position. When Mrs. Will
son became Sultana Of Johore there was much
muttering among Ibrahim's subjects and, it is
said, big brotherly warnings not to do it
again. from his friends and councillors at
Singapore.
But what was done could not be undone
except by revolution or by the Sultan shout
ing "Talak!' (get OUT at her three times. in
the presence of witnesses and usually fourth
time so nobody could claim a short count.
In that case she would be divorced according
to Mohammedan law. Nothing like that hap
pened for seven years, then Ibrahim and his
Sultana travelled in state for the Coronation
of King George VI and there he met his fate.
Fate keeps turning up in the life of a rich
Sultan almost as frequently as an instalment-
collector in the lives of common people.
This fate was Lydia Cecily Hill, dancing in
a London cabaret. She was summoned to the
Royal table where she met both the Sultan
and his Sutsna Helen who did not know at
the time that this was to be the start OF
beautiful friendship which would last until
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death did them part in
a Canterbury fdrrier's
shop.
Ibrahim soon was con-
WINGED that he could not
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has never been easy
TO explain love. the
way of a maid with
a man. or a man with
a maid, especially the
way Of a Sultan. with
a whole flock Of
them.
Yet there is a GER
tain method. discern
ible even in the love-
madness. a reason for
the long engagement
and the short one.
Just as there was for
England's Z a m u s
Long Parliament and
Short one. A Moham-
medan Sultan. like
Ibrahim. is entitled
to four legal wives
at a time and as
many unofficial ones
AS his budget will
stand.
As long as the Sui
tan stuck TO the
slightly coppery-hred
Malay ladies. nobody
seems TO have criti-
cized his harem per-
sonnet. The first
complications c a m e
when he fell in love
with Mrs Helen Will
son. blonde and lovely
wife Of the Sultan's
court physician.