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Show Prince Won't Marry Sister. San Francisco. The crown prince of Siam is adding gray hairs to the head of his royal father, King Chula-longkorn, Chula-longkorn, and has set the country by the ears in refusing to marry his sister. sis-ter. According to Rev. Will C. Dodd, a Presbyterian missionary, all Siam Is agog over the prince's announcement. From time immemorial, the missionary mission-ary says, it has been the Siamese custom cus-tom for the crown prince to wed his sister, or If he has none, then a half sister, the daughter of one of his father's fa-ther's numerous wives. The crown prince, though, has asserted as-serted his independence by publicly declaring he intends to have but one wife, and that one of his own choosing. |