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Scottish Marriages: All The Way From London The Scottish Route March: Spanish Grandee Of High-
land AncestryVisit To Madrid: J. McLe
Brilliant Golf
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Marriage "Before Sheriff")
A
Edinburgh, Aug. 1.
was the task of presiding over the meetings of the Spanish Academy' -the Spanish equivalent of the Academie Francaise. A
COTTON MILLS MAY BE
CLOSED
Washington, Aug. 20.
OWING to the persistent reserva-
tions and objection to the oil code drafted by the Recovery 'Ad- ministration and signed by Presi dent Roosevelt, an “effort is to be made to reach a satisfactory com- promise...
President Roosevelt has now "agreed to appoint a committee re- presentative of the industry, which will examine the code and suggest what modifications "they consider desirable:
Price-Fixing Policy.
A proposal for the virtual abolition of the custom of having
The President does not infer The Duke president of gal- that he will agree to all the the Scots. marriage ceremony con
leries including the Prado-and modifications suggested. The men cluded "before the Sheriff" is at societies innumerable. His work have agreed to abide by his recom. present being discussed by one of
for archaeological and historical mend .tions. the Scottish, organisations,
It 14 studies
Spain WES- TU contended that the marriage "cognised in this country in queues and hurried proceedings in May when he was elected a for the city Sherin Courts are to be eign corresponding member of the déplored, and that there should British Academy. be an extension of the right to order the registration of a civil marriage.
Magistrates And J.P.s
Amateur Golf Championship
It is understood that the Ad- ministration does not consider any code to be final. Mr. Roosevelt is projecting a three months' trial of codes like steel and oil and they may be altered according to the J. McLean (Hayston the hold-experience gathered in the first er, gave a brilliant display in ap three months of their operation. Neverthless, it seems clear that palling weather to finish six holes the Administration has now de One proposal is that there should ahead of K. Forbes Leven) after anitely embarked upon a price- be appointed marriage officials the first 18 holes in the Scottish
fixing policy. who would conduct the ceremony amateur championship Anal at with needful decorum. Another is Balgownie yesterday. that magistrates and J.P.s should McLean maintained his advant- be invested with the power to age in the afternoon play to re have marriages registered. A mar-tain the title by 6. and riage ceremony might be perform-
ed in a town hall, or a magistrate
Cotton Consumption In Peril
of the Administration's recovery Meanwhile, one of the dangers
programme is already becoming manifest in the cotton textile in- dustry. the first industry to draft an industrial code, setting the model for the rest.
Most of the morning play, took or JP. might attend at a hall, place in a heavy rainstorm Mc- hotel, or private house in which a Lean had a score of for the full marriage ceremony was to be per round, but Forbes rayed much
It is stated that the textile in formed.
It is also held that the below his best for Melenndustry has been compelled by the term "Irregular marriage" should after opening with win in ve
increased cost of production due be replaced by "civil marriage.”
Teeled DAIHours Touk 70TATA
to the code and the processing tax
•he was a UTUDATUS
Fleetcrease price to such an ex-
tent as to donsumption. -80′′-- London Scottish In Edinburgh
The London Scottish Territorials reached Edinburgh yesterday on makkjá the conclusion of their Scottish route march, and entrained in the evening for London.
During their fortnight to Scot- land the regiment has marched 160 mles, and, although the wea- ther was rather broken, the men all looked 'fit and bronzed as they marched through the Scottiab capital. Unfortunately rain fell heavily in Edinburgh, but that did not seem to damp their ardour, nor did it affect the rousing wel- come given to them by the citizens, who cheered thein all along the route from Granton to the Mound, where Lord Provost 'Thomson took the salute. ·
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GERMAN WAR PLAY
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London, Aug,). Rehearsals of "The Ace," a wari drama adapted from the German by Miles Malleson, are to begin very shortly The French leading lady, Ketti Gallion, took her first look at London to-day, and it has been arranged that Raymond Massey will play the title role. The scenes are laid near an aerodrome behind the enemy lines in Belgium during the war, and the central figure has been based upon the German ace flyer, Richtofen. Mile Gallion is an actress entirely new to British audiences, her Parisian career be- ing distinguished bub comparatively. brief. Her part in the forthcoming play is decidedly French, so the
international when the play opens
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The regiment arrived at Burn- tisland on Thursday and had a day's rest on Friday. They em barked on the ferry for Granton yesterday morning. After the march through the capital the men had lunch at the drill hall of the Royal Scots, while the officers were to entertained to lunch by the Cor-homeward journey, but did not company should be nothing if not poration. Afterwards a colour win a hole until McLean was bunn the West End a few weeks bence. party visited the Scottish war me- kered at the fifteenth. morial at the Castle, where Co- lonel Henderson, the officer com- 4, 4, 4:37.
McLean. Out; 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, manding laid a wreath.
Home: 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 435. Total 73.
Forbes, Out: 6, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 4, 4. 543. Home: 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 6.. 3,437 Total 80.
Mr. Fitzroy Stuart
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comes
The Duke of Alba has returned from a stay of over. two months in
The rain ceased after the morn Madrid. His name there now is ing round, but fell with resumed Mr James Fitzroy Stuart," a ferceness before the start of the name which, I presume,
second eighteen holes. The soli from his Bcottish ancestry..
was not of a high standard in the second round, McLean taking for They wanted him to call himself ty strokes for the first nine holes, "Mr. Alba." This the Duke, who against Forbes's forty-one: Forbes has a keen sense of humour, flatly had a chance of keeping the match refused to do, as if he was not alive on the thirteenth green the Duke he was not an Alba; and but he missed a yard putt. He "Mr. Alba" would be a ridiculous then knocked away McLean's ball name anyhow."
and walked over to congratulate the victor"
He was one of the six grandees, McLean Out. 4, 5, 3, 6, 4, 5, 4, and 'nineteen others, cited to ap-
6,5 equals 40. Home: 4, 5, 4, 5. pear, in Madrid within ten days. equals 18 for four holes, Total, He caused considerable astonish- ment by obeying the call with 58, for thirteen holes. only two others out of the twenty-five.
Forbes.-Outs 4, 7, 3, 4, 4, 674,
5, 4 equals 41. Home; 5, 4, 4-5 equals 18 for four holes. Total, 59
His passport, in common with for thirteen holes. those of a certain number of "Mon- archists and others "of an equal- ly criminal appearance," has to bear his finger-prints.
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