The Love Affairs of Genji
Filled Five Thick Volumes
LONDON, Mar. 30—(AP)T h <
first volume of an ancient Japanese
novel, written by a woman namec
Murasaski in A. D. 1004, has jus
been translated by Arthu; Waley, o
the British Museum prints and draw
ing department. The novel consists
of 500,000 words and is said to b<
one of the great novels of the world
and the earliest long novel in an)
language. It has 800 characters, whc
have passed into legend, and t he
story tells of the iove affairs oi
Genji, a son of the emperor.
Mr. Waley commenced the first
volume last March and hopes to fin
f ish translating a vu.ume a year for
the next five yeats, when the work
will be complete.
WOMEN PREVAIL IN VIENNA
VIENNA, Mar. 30.—(AP).—T h e
fair sex is decidedly in the major
ity in Vienna, according to a census
taken by the city authorities on Jan
uary 1, 1925. The figures are 1,006,
290 women and $62,03^ men.
COLD SNAP KILLS ALFALFA
ELLENSBURG, Wn„ Mar. 28 —
The last few days’ cold weather
killed three-fourths of the alfalfa
crop in the Kittatas valley. The
land will be plowed and sown with
grain now.
RECAPTURE OF INDIAN GIRL
LEADS TO QUITE A FRACAS
BOMBAY, India, Mar. 28.—T h e
court here heard how four British
officers who encountered a party of
1 nine men armed with knives, attempt*
I ing to take Mumtaz Begum, a beau
tiful young India dancing girl from
' an automobile of a wealthy merch
■ ant of Malabar Hill on January 12,
i and in which encounter the officers
> fell to with golf clubs and rescued
the girl, after one of the assailants
was killed. The face of the Indian
, girl was wounded. Mumtaz had run
away from the powerful Maharaj of
Indore who, as the story runs, had
ordered her recapture.
SON FEARED KIDNAPPED
CHICAGO, Mar. 28.—Police thru
out the city and suburbs are making
a search for Robert V. Chapin, jr„
eight years old, the adopted son of
a wealthy feed merchant, who dis
appeared Wednesday. It is feared
he may have been kidnapped like
Bobby Franks, when on his way to
school in Evanston.
GAS EXPLODES—DIES
WATSONVILLE, Calif., Mar. 28.—
While Clarence C. Peterson was fill
ing a tractor with distillate yester
day, a few drops dripped on a hot
exhaust pipe resulting in the ex
I plosion of the can, covering him with
| blazing oil and he died of his in
; juries a few hours later.
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JERUSALEM, March 30.—Much in
terest has been aroused in Palestine
commercial circles by the recent an
nouncement that Jerusalem’s first
cigarette factory has been complet
ed and has begun manufacturing its
goods, not only for home consump
tion but for export as well. Samples
of the first cigarettes were sent to
British government officials in Lon
don through Sir Herbert L. Samuel
British high commissioner of Pales
tine, and to Nahum Sokolow, also of
London, who has been one of the
prime movers to create a national
home for Jews. Nearly half of the
tobacco used in the Jerusalem made
cigarettes is home grown, the re
mainder coming from Turkey.
Palestine’s wine industry as well
as its fruit output has shown an en
couraging increase within the last
few months, according to recent gov
ernment reports. The wine is be
ing made chiefly from the vines brot
from France about 20 years ago, but
last spring many hundreds of acres
were planted to new vineyards which
will soon be producing. The chief
exports of Palestine, which is about
the size of the state of Vermont, are
oranges, grapefruit, wines, melons,
apricots, port and almonds. The re
ceipts from exports last year are es
timated at about 36,000,000.
Palestine Population Grows
JERUSALEM, March 30.—Official
returns show that 11,852 Jews, 4,573
men, 3,836 women and 3,442 children
entered Palestine as immigrants dur
ing the 12 months ending December
last. During the same period the
Jewish emigrants numbered 2,037, so
the aet increase of the population
through immigration during the year
was 9,S15. The corresponding in
crease in 1923 was 3,788.
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STOCKHOLM, March 30.—King
Gustav of Sweden, despite his 67
years, is an ardent sportsman and in
the recent open amateur handicap,
won, with his partner, second place
in the doubles, being eliminated in
the finals by a score of 5 sets to 2.
His speed and sure playing created
astonishment among the spectators,
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DULUTH, March 30.—Although its
harbor is closed approximately lour
months of the year by ice, Duluth is
rated the second largest cargo-ship
ping port of the nation in the annual
report of marine commerce of the
Duluth-Superior harbor, issued here
under direction of Major E. H. Marks
of the U. S. Engineer’s office.
New York harbor only had more
shipping than Duluth last year, and
Los Angeles was third, according
to the report. Then came Buffalo,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Ashtabula,
O., and Boston Harbor, Mass.
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American Grapes Thrive
PLOVDIA, Bulgaria, March 30.—
American grapevine stock is doing
so well in this country, they produce
more and better fruit, that the Euro
pean vine is fast disappearing from
Bulgarian soil. Many thousand acres
have been planted with American
vines in the past few months.
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Turin Will Harbor Prince
During His College Days
TURIN, March 30.—The residents
of Turin, the capital of old Piedmont
which is bound by so many ties of
history and affection to the House ot
Savoy, of which King Victor Eman
uel is the present head, are awaiting
with pleasurable expectation Ihe ar
rival here in the near future of tin*
Crown Prince Humbert, who is t»
make Turin his home for several
years while he studies at the War
: School.
I Workmen are busying themselves
wi^i the task of preparing the ap
artment of the prince in the royal
palace, while committees are prepar
ing to welcome the heir to the Ital
ian throne.
Humbert’s matriculation in the
War School will be most regular, and
he will benefit by no special dispen
sations for royalty. He will submit
to the rigid discipline of the insti
tution and will attend all the class
es with the other students. He will
have a modest personal allowance* ana
will lead a relatively simple exis
tence. Already he has chosen as his
“court” a number of persons who
have attended him since he was a
chilcf.
The young prince, who is an ar
dents students of the history ot Pied
mont, has arranged a number of ex
ed by the fact that he will have at
cursions to the many famous castles
of the region, which vx ill be facilitat
his disposal two motor cars and i
number of horses.
WAR ROMANCES END
VIENNA, March 30.—It has be on
estimated that, of the marriages has
tily contracted during the war, 80
per cent have resulted in divorce
Many of these romances began, and
I culminated, when officers and men
I came home from the front on short
1 leaves of absence.
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