Law: Sheik's Friend

While traveling in Arabia several years ago Lytle White, a student from Howard College at Birmingham, Ala.,* became chummy with Sheik Farced J. Imam. After his return home White received a letter from his friend, who "in his usual sparkling way suggested that I (White) befriend him by being on the alert for a beautiful and competent girl, who might be purchased to honor the position as chief wife of his harem."

White told this story in the summer of 1935 to Miss Ellen Ansley, Howard College correspondent of the Scripps-Howard Birmingham Post. Another...

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