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January 6, 1939,
INCREASE IN COURT HAIRDRESSING
BRITAIN'S TRADE
£2,700,000 Rise In
Exports
BRITISH export trade for Octo
Non-ferrous
Iron and steel..
Machinery
ber disclosed in Board of Trade returns while still showing a heavy decrease as against motale year ago, was better than in September, and registered the highest total for any month this year.
Cotton goods
misc. Sextiles... Chemicals
Woollen goods ..
Increase (+)
OF
Monin's
Total Decrease (-) £3,430,142 -£3,042,203 £1,200.288 £399.190
£34.133.0704119.001
4,213,300 -7.583,145 £7.200,502 £ 442,000 £1,20,436-449.340 +249.071
.42,345,331
Motors & Parts £1,243,938 -2 260,42 Compared with September Iron
This result suggests n halt in and steel exports last month were up trade recession, although the In- £440,020 and machinery showed a creases shown in various of the lead-rise of £307,132. Cotton goods ed- ing articles, while welcome, are still vanced £331,040 and chemicals were too email to suggest a general strong higher by £618,847. revival.
Vehicles, however, registered a drop of £2,091,354, the September figure having been swollen by the
Shipments of British goods and pro duce last month were up £2,731,030. an against Sepicniber, while Thürried delivery of new ships be- exports rose £1,408,031, making tolal exports £4,150,070 higher.
While exports were up imports also increased, compared with the previous month, by £4,033,880. The visible adverse balance, therefore, showed little change, being £31,028,077 Inst month, against £31,154,051 in Septem-
ber.
cause of the Infernational crisis.
Cool exports last month, while, £208,778 lower than a year ago, were £422,434 balter than In September.,
DECLINE IN COTTON
Of the large decrease in imports compared with October Inst year, £8,087,237 occurred in raw materials, £4,019,531 in the food, drink and tobacco section and £4,150,903 in manufactures,
In October last year the adverse balance way the large one of 243,- 204,070. For the ten months to date In raw material imports the prin- the balance of trade
ngainst this cipal declines weret
country is £320,086,004, compar.d
with £340,438,713,
b
BALANCE STILL HIGH
While n contraction is shown the year caused by the heavy drop in importa, due largely to lower prices, the balance is still high. The de- sirabuty of increasing exports to Improve the position is particularly apparent now because of the recent weakness of sterling.
Results for October compared with those of October last year, are:
Imports
Exports Belt.)
Ro-exports
Total exporta
Month's Decrease
Total
3
Iron ore and scrap Wood and timber
Raw cotton
Raw wool oil seeds tubber
Month's Decrease
Total
421,232 070,000 4.060,00 2,795,483 3,202,659 2.000.577 2,231,022 1,170.002 2,411,051 738 203 600,633 C37,608
Among foodstuffs, grain and four showed a drop of £3,183,728 at £5,360,326. Much of this fall is due! to the decline in prices. This is shown in wheat where, while the quantity received was down only $51,000 cwt, the value was lower by £2,071,090.
In manufactured imports, iron and steel and manufactures thereof de- 79,034,836 $7,103.730 clinet £1,533,584. Chemicals
4,054,932 up £623,580,
42,659,994
5,445.DRA
40,005,179
252,518 4.908,000
were
For the 10 months to the end of October British exports have totalled In British exporis, manufactured £349,103,406, decrease, compared
It'
goods showed a decline as against a with the results for the correspond- year ago of £4,400310, and
rawing period of 1937, of £43,093,125. materials were down £498,520. The food, drink, and tobacco section corded an Inercase of £201,045. CHEMICAL EXPORTS UP Changes shown in the principal|
industries were;
MERLE V.
MARLENE
Hollywood,
Britain's exotic flm star Merle Oberon had an uncomfortable hour on the witness stand in Los Angeles Court recently when counsel Intro- dured a letter drawing comparisons between Marlene Dietrich and her- self.
Lyle Rucker, an attorney, is suing Miss Oberon for £1,100 legal fees allegedly due to him, and opposing counsel the Case introduced lefter written by David Selznick re- garding the picture "The Garden of Allah," produced two years ago. The letter said:
"Dear Merle, I think it only right to advise you that we are negotiating with Marlene Diet- rich to play the lead in The Garden of Allah.
"It is not simply a case of my preferring one artist to another- the picture will cost £240,000, and this will require a gross of at least £400,000 to repay us.
Therefore I have these alter- natives: Proceed with the pic- ture with you in it and
probably lose up to £100,000; wait until you have progressed further on your meteoric rise and will really be a top star; or take ad- vantage of Miss Dietrich's desire to do this picture."
Spelling Bee
HOW many of these words are cor- rect and what is wrong with the others7
rowen-tree
semalina rutus
unachronism
antxalion
fricruste
English Orford Dictionary. spell-
inps of these words will be found on page 9.
MISS FREDA JAMES
MISS MARY HARDWICK
MISS NINA BROWN
MISS GEM HOAHING What's the best hairdressing for a lawn tennis star? Which style is least nuisance as she dashes over the court? It's a tople they discussed in the tournament at Torquay. The camera shows opinions differ.
WOMAN LEAPS 120 FEET TO HER DEATH
Tragedy
Carnera Is City Crowds Shocked By
In Love Again
Sydney.
Wed In Secret:
Divorce Plea
THE Hon. Mrs. Clive Martyn-be-
fore her marriage the
Phyllis Bethel, daughter of
Hon. Lord
Bethell-recently began divorce pro-
tain Clive II. Martyn; M.C.
ceedings against her husband, Cap-
Captain Martyn is defending the wife is twenty-nine, action. He la aged forty-two; his
Horrified eity crowds saw a 40-year-old New Zea- land masseuse hunted' Miss Muriel Hare jump 120 feet to her death from the roof of the Hotel Australia here. Primo Camera, the former heavy- weight boxer who is now Italy's! The tragedy occurred nt the newest screen star, has become en- busiest hour of the day, a little after can advance for the suicide is that the Hon. Vern Pearl Jessel, second The only molive which detectives In 1925 Captain Martyn married] peged 13 Signorina Josepping 5 p.in.
Miss Hare had been in ill-health. daughter of Lord Jessel. She Cavazzo, of Santa Luicia Isonzo.
died Miss Hare's body, shockingly She had recently been discharged in 1928. Signorina Cavazzo is a clerk in mutilated, fell on the tramline in, from hospital,
Captain Marlyn secretly married the Post Office.
of the hotel. Castlereagh street outside the door]
his present wife in March 1833.
"I am madly in love," he said. "She simply must marry me.”
In 1933 Miss Emilia Tcaini, a Soho waitress, was awarded £4,200 dam ages for breach of promise apainst Primo Carnera.
Miss Oberon declared that her 667 feelings were hurt by this, but not
to the point where she refused to make another Seizalek picture.
CONTINENTAL
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"Kissed" Maid
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Crowds in the street and the wire oghnst. Women vicity screamed and fainted, and many staggered into nearby shops and theatre foyera to recover,
Miss Hare, who had been in Aus- tralin
for a holiday, had booked u passage in the liner Awatea, which was due to sail for New Zealand at
I p.m.
Town Clerk Disputes Wife's £43,000 Will
At 4.45 p.m. she engaged a taxi MR. John Whitehead, Town Clerk of Tunbridge Wells, brought outside a big city store where she an action in the Probate Court recently to upset a will made had been doing some last-minute by his wife on May 8, 1936, leaving most of the income from her thopping. She drove to the Hotel £43,641 estate to charity.
Miss Marie Finegan, the Bath Australia, where she had been stay- housemaid who recently prosecuted ing, went to the lift and asked to her employer, a local doctor, for be taken to the top floor. assault by kissing her and putting his arm arutind her, has been married.
PIERCING SCREAM
Ho propounded another will of August 12, 1027, with a codicil of October, 1935, in favour of himself, claiming that when Mrs. Whitehead made the second she was not of sound mind, memory
The bridegroom Is Mr. Henry Shortly afterwards a piercing James Caincy, 21-years-old, a ear-arream from a bystander in Casile- or understanding, and that it was executed on a sudden impulse.
penter, son of the
a Bath policeman, reagh Street heralded the trageny. Defendants were the R.S.P.C.A.,! was to be paid to the three defendant
A moment later the woman's body, the N.S.P.C.C., the All-India Society societies. Mins Finegan has been living with the parents of her husband at Seymour-road, Bath. She was marri ed at Bath Register Onlce. The wit nesses of the marriage were sweethearl's parénta.
her
hit the street with a loud crash., for the Prevention of Cruelty to Mr. Eddy submitted that Mrs. Within ten minutes thousands of Animals, Albert Edward Teiley and Whitehead made her second will be- people packed the street, and re- Gladys May Telley (brother and cause she took the view that her quired police control."
slater
of Mrs. Whilchend) and husband was well provided for and The Central Ambulance arrived
the woman's bodylcholar Telley, an Infant (tho son did not need her money. The mar-1 and removed
of Mr. A. E. Tetley),:
ried life
life must have been unhappy. while Fire Brigade workers had the Mr. J. P. Eddy, K.U., for the There was no doubt that in the gruesome task of cleaning the street N.S.P.C.C. and the All-India nummer before the 1030 will Mrs. with hosts and buckets of sand..
Polles believe that the woman he represented were the only defend-health, but it was
S.P.C.A., stated that the twy delen. Whitehout was concerned about her that she was must have run and jumped, for the ants who sought to set up the 1836 highly intelligent and capable of fall so far into the street that she will. * His appeal, heard at Bath Quarter missed the verandah of the hotel,
managing her own affairs, Under It Mrs. Whitehead directed Sesalona, falled, but the costa were which extends across the footpath, the trustee to pay Mr. Whitehend out leave the bulk of my income to him Her view was: "Why should I reduced by 88, because the magis If she had stood on the side of the of the income of the residuary estate so that he trates were not empowered to impose roof and leapt, he would almost £300 a year for life, or until he re- second wife?".
can lavish it upon n a fina and costs excooditig £5. certainly have hit the verandah, married. The balance of the incomel, The hearing was adjourned,
At Bath Police Court, on August 20, Dr. C. Bernard Kelly, of Gay-street.. Bath....... was fined £2 and ordered to pay three rainoas costs for the amault upon Miss Finegan.
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