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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936.
KING'S SON PAWNS CROWN JEWELS
No War For Britain
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PRESIDENCY FIGHT
LEWIS EXPECTED TO LEAD LABOUR IN 1940
KING'S HOLIDAY
DRASTIC ECONOMIES AT BALMORAL CASTLE
London, Sept. 23. The King, who is on holiday at
He has
Milwaukee, Sept. 2. Mr. John P. Frey, President of the American Federation
of Labour's Balmoral Castle, is making notable Metal Trade Department, in a speech economies at the Castle. at the International Association of refused the bedroom formerly used Machinials Convention here to-day, by the late King George V, saying predicted that the Labour leader, the best bedrooms must be reserved ME.
John Lewis, would seek ulec- for the guests, He chose a small tion to the Presidency of Lie Unitert bedroom, adjoining a pantry, pre- States In 1940.
viously occupied by one of the upper
"Ile will use the machinery he has servants.
in order to establish n Little more than half the staff tour parly, and become its taken by their late Majesties accom- pauled King Edward to Bulmoral. candidate," said Me, Frey.
All the earringes with the royal greys were left behind. Only a few ponies for the hills are now in the Balmoral stables,
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Arriving at Balmoral, the King whose enthusiasm for the bagpipes is well-known, summoned the royal band of six pipers, which always plays at dinner. He superintended the rehearsal and instructed them what tunes to play.-Reuter.
Ile charged Mr. Lewis will de- siring to create a dictatorship over Labour.
It is worthy of note that Mr. Frey prosecuted the Committee for In- Organisation before the dustrial
of Labour's Federation American council.United Press.
Landon's Farm Policy
Des Moines, Sept. 22.
Presidential The Republican nominee, Governor Alfred Landon, seeking a farm vole in a speech here temporary surpluses; and the giving to-day, promised to protect and aid of attention to the crop Insurance
programme.--United Press.
the family type of farm.
He charged that the Administra- tion's farm policy had got nowhere and he advanced an eleven point substitute prograinme.
HIS programme included
Injured While Campaignier
New York, Sept. 22. America's only woman diplomat,
the Mrs. Ruth Owen Rohde, broke a legi guaranteeing of the prices of pre-while touring with her husband on ducts against foreign. competition; behalf of President Roosevelt's elec Federal co-operation with States in tlos campaign.
The Injury was received as the the soil conservation programme; tha use of Federal power in disaster and result of an accident when she at- relief meamurs; the working. with tempted to stop a runaway motor farm leaders towards preventing trailer on a steep hill-Reuter.
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'TOO SANE
SANE TO
FIGHT'
SPORT IS OUR
SAFETY VALVE
MR..
--MR. KELLOGG
But His Girl Friend Says-
He's Not Broke,
His Father Forgave Him'
New York, Sept. 10.
THE disclosure that frail but romantic Alfonso, once heir to the Spanish throne and now known as Court Covadonga, re-
[R. FRANK B. KELLOGG, creator of cently put some crown jewels in "pawn" was made in New York to-day in a court action.
non-
the famous Kellogg Pact of
that aggression between nations, says Britain will not experience war for at least twenty years.
He said this in the course of a fifteen minutes' talk on golf and politics, golf and physical fitness, golf and revolution in Spain-and golf.
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'During the whole time he was playing imaginary chip shots with his mashie niblick all over his drawing-room at Claridges as part of his policy of maintaining physical fitness.
Before I had been with him for two minutes he told me that he was 80, that he gets up at six o'clock every morning, walks seven miles a day and can touch his toes 29
times without effort.
Taking up his mashie niblick he said: "There's no need for anyone in Britain to worry about war. Britain will be at peace for at least 20 years.
You all go off "The people here are like me. and play golf and football. You don't worry about war-no, sir. And that's the only way to keep sane about it."
"If Britain is at peace won't the rest of Europe be at peace?" I asked,
answered, Europe's
He "Impossible." "the complexity of affatra won't be straightened out for at least 50 years."
CANNY BRITAIN
tract After 12 Imaginary bal! soared over the lamp standard and dropped dead within two yarda of an imaginary hole he answered my questions about Spain.
It was stated that the count, who was disinherited by his father when he married the beautiful Cuban commoner Senorita Edelmira San Pedro, "pawned" the jewels) when he failed to master high-pressure American salesmanship.
In three months as a salesman for British Motors Limited, of New York, car importers, he sold only one car. FİNANCIAL SECRETS
Squabbling officers of the company, who fought in the Supreme Court over a receivership petition, were responsible for secrets of the Covadonga finances becoming public.
Mr. Philip Donlin, attorney, declared that he had advanced the count an unspecified sum.
"There hasn't been any default in payments on the note," he said: "hut I still have the jewels."
Mr. Donin said he made the loan at the request of Mr. Pulme Woodbury, formerly president of British
Motors.
£25
CAKE AT
AN OUNCE! WHEN they eat their cake in
ounce.
China it costs them £25 art
made In Was This discovery
mast eosinopolitan Soho, London's quarter. welles a Sunday Chronicle
"In my view it is unimportant-reporter. this revolution. Spain's affairs are Here, Inn Chinese restaurant, the purely internal. The only thing to do is to let them fight it out among themselves and that is what every- ong is anxious to let them do.
"If Britain is at peace won't the rest of Europe be peace?" I asked,
"Britain is very canny in the way she is keeping quiet about It. Too much talk nuskes war," And when I asked him about re- parations and debts he shook his head and concentrated on a very difficult shot.
LINKED BY_GOLF_
"You know--golf is a grand game.
While Britnin 'and the States play
best cake that China con produce, which is similar in appearance to an English oatmeal cake, is priced at anything from 12s. to £25 per ounce.
It depends how concentrated it is, for this cake is made from pure einnamen mixed with milk, flour, water, and eggs.
an
During the heuring of the action. Count Covadonga presented affidavit in which he expressed him- self as favouring receivership,
He explained that he had not read the Orsi affidavit before signing it.
Maria Rocafurt, the beautiful Cuban girl whose name has been
Untied with consianity
Count Covadonga's since the annulment proceedings against the countess were instituted, declared at Hlavana to-day, "Count Covadonga is now' wealthy, Iles far from being broke."
She
snid that when he decided on the annulment his father re- stored him to good favour by giving him a handsome monthly cheque.
This Was Just ONE
Battle
golf we'll always be friends. We're STARK PICTURE OF THE
brothers under the vest, and we both
enjoy the wise-cracking digs we have at one another.
"No one has any fears about Anglo-American naval coni- petillon-they know that there Ja no rivalry between us."
"Do you think that, poets are going to prevent war, or must every nation fend for itself?" I asked.
"A pact to end war is not the work of one nation but of many nations," he said. "It springs from the very hearts of the people of the world who are longing for any step which will prevent another world calunity."
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other countries of Europe?" I asked.
SPANISH WAR
Here, in just one brief despatch tell- ing of an attack by miner-soldiers on a barracks. is the whole pitiless drama of the civil war in Spain:-
Madrid, Sept. 19.
MINERS, marching in columns and carrying sticks of dynamite which they fused and threw over the walls,
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NO CIVIL WAR ›
"Will there be any 'elvil war
"Not in Britain; anyway. manage your affairs too sensibly. "But ilsten. Let's talk about golf.į Just watch this. It's a good one
I get out on to the course."
You
with
and begrimed The storming party, taken sounded, ragged
Ing pitifully, came forward gosh, if only I could do that when from the mines of the As-soldiers of the rebel garrison, cry- turias, marched in perfect hands raised in token of surrender, And so I left him--still practlangorder towards the barracks They were surrounded by militia-
in face of machine-gun and while the people shouted for joy.
One hundred and forty prisoners rifle fire.
were the only survivors of a garri- Many of them were riddled son which had totailed 1,000 officers by bullets as they fused their und 500 men at the beginning of the
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met and taken through the streets,
APPLES IN sticks and flung the dynia siege. TWO HOURS
New York, Sept. 12. Tony de Laurentis, America's thirty-seven-year-old champion eater, has created a new record,
Ile fancied litle fruit Result: Ate 386 apples in two hours.
'mite.
The victors managed to salvage arms and ammunition from the gut- As the first column neared ted stronghold. They found three the walls, a second line set pleces of light artillery, twenty-five out, walking over the bodies machine guns, and three hundred
rines. of fallen comrades.
'PLANES READY WHITE FLAG
marching The miners are now Wave after wave of miners broke against the four walls of the bar from Gijon to Oviedo to join a force racks
until finally, with buildings of eight or nine thousand lie ate ziba. of spaghetti, a
Tony felt hungry afterwards. Solin flames; wrecked by explosions, niners who have been. Inying slege
couple the rebels hoisted the white fing of to Oviedo for eleven days.
Advance groups of reinforcements of loaves of bread, and drank two surrender. quarts of winc.
have already arrived and are now stated to be at the gates of the city. Unless the rebels surrender this morning the loyal coluinns will al tack.
Typical Iunch for Tony: Sh chickens, 4lbs. of spaghetil, two'l loaves of bread, two quarts of Ice cream, four gallons of beer, six quarts of wine.
The casualties are estimated to have run into thousands. Wit- nesses say that two-thirds of the for the Puerto Rican people, he said.
rebels must have been killed.. When the "cease
fire" Was
FOUND IN 1918
A wallet found on a Flanders battlefield 1918, by. Mr. R. Smith, of Milltary road, Chatham, has been restored to its owner, a former German Holdier, who is now a shoemaker in Hamburg,
Mr. Smith handed the wallet to Kerr Thimm, who brought a party of "German children to Chatham last year.
He has now been informed that Herr Thimm succeeded in tracing the owner. There were letters and photographs in the wallet.
other
Their leaders have announced their intention of fighting for the elty street by street. Government airplanes aro in readiness and will bombard the elty.
It is estimated that, with the miners, there are altogether 15,000 men in the Government colunins.
It Is believed in Madrid that Oviedo is certain to fall, but only after bloody and bitter Aghling comparable to that at Badajoz when the rebels took that city.
Surrender, it is tuld, would save
thousand lives.-- probably ten United Press.
DANGER
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