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Here is the wreck of the luxurious United Air Lines trans- port plane being battered to pieces by the surf at the foot of a cliff near San Francisco. Pilot Charles Steal and Isadore H. Edelstein, a passenger, were res- rued but five others perished in the surf. A maze of radio signals. which confused the pilot, was blamed.
Mystery of the reported mar riage of Sir Oswald Mosley, Dri- tish Fascist chief, and Mrs. Diana Guinness, above, was cleared re- cently when Mosley announced in London that they were" married two years ago and that his wife recently gave birth to a son. She in sister of Unity Freeman- Mitford, Hiller admirer, recently mobbed in London,
Child'Door
Bangers' Cured
HILDREN who bang doors.
sulk, and shout deflance at their parents need trouble Brilish homes no more.
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where play with delinquent children.
Inside Germany
January 9, 1939.
WHEN A BANK SHOULD TELL Doctor's Wife
Wife Fails In Suit
DO NAZI HENS LAY
EGGS?
Do
Riddle For Housewives
BERLIN.
DOCTOR'S wife who said!
that a bank manager reveal-
SNATCHED 'PHONE
When his wife told him her cheque
phone from her.
ed her betting deals to her had been dishonoured he told her to ring up the bank. As he was in a husband lost her Hult for hurry, he rather snatched the tele- damages recently.
Then the manager sald: "Well, She was Mrs. Mary Sunderland. the account has been very low for wife of Dr. Arthur Sunderland, of same time and there has been no amount paid into it. I Hyde Park-mansions, Marylebone, regular W. und her action was against don't know whether I ought to tell why you this, but most of the cheques Barclays Bank, Ltd., which
have been going to bookmakers." awarded costs.
Mr. F. W. Beney (for Mrs. Sunder- Mrs. Sunderland alleged that after land): Did he say anything about one of her cheques had been returned Mrs. Sunderland having authorised marked
him to say that?-No, I was rather "Refer
drawer" 10 manager of the Edgware-road branch thunder struck and said, "what busi-
the
11.
of the bank old her husband that is it of yours? I know about she had been using the account to pay
wn bookmakers.
NOT A STRANGER Lord Justice du Parcq, giving judgment, said it was plain that the bank was under no obligation to meet the cheque, and the manager was not speaking to a stranger but to the He had been customer's husband. talking to the customer herself, who relinquished the phone in favour of her husband.
Did you know about 11?-No, I was rather speaking wrongly; I was confused.
Dr. Sunderland added that the manager also said: "Sometimes ladles do these things and, if I let them have an overdraft, I get called over the cool by the husband.”
ONLY THING
Was u
Mr. Edwin Stephens, manager of Barclays Paddington branch, was ask- "I cannot think," said Lord Justice ed by Mr. H. J. Wallington, K. (for Bu Pareq, that in these circumstances the bank): Why did you dishonour the honit manager was not entitled to the cheque?-Seeing the nature of the give him that piece of information transactions and that she which he offered as an explanation-married woman, the only thing to do be it good or bad-for what the bank was to return the cheque, had done."
Mr. Stephens sakl he did not think Dr. Sunderland, giving evidence, that particular cheque was for bets. said that he also bad an account with He told Mrs. Sunderland that her Barclays at the Church-street branch, balance had been depleted by book- her Edgware-road acent for pay-conversation, and then she said, "My had better give your reasons to him." And the
tle did not know his wife was using makers cheques, there was a long ing betting debits, but he knew, up to husband is here, you
point, that she was beiting.
German hens lay eggs? This is the puzzle which Berlin housewives are trying to solve at present. Women stand in egg queues dozens of times in a month. As a rule, at the end of a ten-minute to half an hour wait, they obtain two eggs, although sometimes the
"I knew she had the racing papers, telephone was handed over without stock gives out before they reach the head of the queue.he said, "and I knew the had a bet any break..
Mr. Stephens salt that Mrs. Sun- But they never get a German egg. They collect Finnish quite frequently, but I supposed the
amounts were small. I thought itderland definitely told him to give eggs, Dutch, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Argentine and Bulgarian would be up to 5s, perhaps. I didn't her husband the reasons he had given eggs, some alleged to be new laid, others frankly from cold stor-take any interest in it." age. If German hens have not gone on strike, what is being done with their eggs?
SHOPPING TRICKS
It is no light task keeping house in Berlin. Not only is there the long! wait for eggs but there is the daily pilgrimage to the butter shop for the day's ration-If you miss a day you Jeannot get two days' supply the next
time, it is lost for good.
there Then
ara
bewildering
shortages of all sorts of things. One day there are no onions, another no
cranges. It may need visits to a dozen shops or stalls to get the in- gredients of one dish..
There are all sorts of tricks to be Icarned. You must know never to
NEWS FROM HOME BROKE HER HEART
HERR ORNSTEIN and his Jewish wife fled to England
in June from "Aryanised" Vienna-but recently he sat alone and silent, rocking himself in a chair in a flat in Shoot-up Hill, N.W. His wife had gassed herself when she heard her two brothers had been arrested by Nazis.
Already deaf, Herr Ornstein | seems to have lost the power of speech since the funeral.
For the first two or three months usi: openly for eggs, butter, oranges in England he and his wife
were
or onions if there are none on show. happy in their freedom, though he of had had to leave behind him all his You must buy e few pounds apples or cabbage or something, and possessions after resigning a £1,000- then when no one is looking you 4-year post as sales manager of a open your moull wise and fur company. whisper.
egg
A mysterious packet is handed to Veit. you if you are lucky and you find when you get home that it has two Cues in it.
PRICES STABLE
Woman Drives Into Pond In Storm
her for returning the cheque, and he had given her the reason that she had been using the account to pay book-makers.
Mr. Beney: Are you really saying you stopped that cheque because she had been paying bookmakers?—That she would be using the bank's money In that way if there was an over- druft.
Golf Widow's Revenge
THE TOO-BUSY HUSBAND
LETTERS written by a town clerk's wife, who "dreaded loneliness." and said that her husband “spent his waking hours working, digging, and were read in the Probate golang."
They stayed with their daughter PLINDED by heavy rain, a and con-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul woman motorist drove into
Court recently. For Herr Ornstein there was no-the White Stone pond on Hamp-
The action concerned the £43,600 estate of Mrs. Maria Annie White- thing much to do besides sit in the stead Heath recently. Aut or go out for short walks.
For half an hour the woman, head, wife of Mr. John Whitehead, LOST THEIR JOBS
Mrs. Diana Spearman, of Rools town clerk of Tunbridge Wells.
Chigwell, Essex, was Mrs. Whitehead, who died in May Mysterious signs must be learned
News that her younger brother, Park, for other products which are short. Martin, an actor, was likely to leave marooned 12ft. from the bank. last year at the age of 51, had made But there is one good thing How-Vienna for Hollywood through the Then two motor-cyclists, wear-a will in favour of her husband in August 1927, She executed another ever great the shortage may be prices influence of his friend, Max Rein- ing waders, came to her aid, and wall in May 1930, in which she made do not vary.
hardt, the theatrical producer, cheer-
considerable carried her to the road. Nor must one get the wrong tm-ed Frau Ornstein.
Then she learned that her brother
Dr. Margarit Lowenfeld, of Lon- don, has established a Chlid Centre presalon that the German people are
a con- at the Institute of Child Psychology, starving-there is plenty of food to Theodore had been sent to
specially-trained
be had, but one cannot always have centration camp at Dachau, that the husbands of her two married sisters just what one wants at the time.
in Vienna had lost their jobs and The quality of many goods is also that her widowed sister would lose There are playrooms for children | of different ages. Colour of rooms extremely low. Apples, for instance, the two Vienna properties on the and contents are directed to a special are to be had in plenty-but small, interest of which she lived.
scrubby looking fruit which would! corrective function.
The "mes room” ~ is exactly that. It is not for eating, but for "messing about," Its walls and Boors are of pale blue colour and of a washable material. Clay, earth, paints, mud, can all be "messed" with to the heart's content,
A lorry towed the car out of the pond.
A slipway to the water apparently! misled Mrs. Spearman,
.
bequests to charities, and left £300 a year for her husband for life or until he remarried,
nounce
Mr. Whitchend remarried last August. He asked the court to pro- ngainst the 1930 will, and propounded the 1927 will, with a codlell of October, 1035, which have been destroyed.
CROWDS DRENCHED London caught the full force of the 60 m.p.h. gale which was aweeping
"LIVED WITH HIS JOB" Then she had more news from the Channel again late last night, hardly find a place in the "speckled Vienna. Her other brother, Dr.bringing torrential rain and thunder-
His case was that Mrs. Whitehead fruit basket" In a London market Simon Berliner, had been arrested.storms.
capacity testamentary was not of are only to be obtained for from 6d.
Frau Ornstein's last words were: Cars going along the Embankment when she executed the 1938 will. to 7d. per pound.
"I am too young for my life to be were blown on to the wrong side of The explanation of this is simple, finished." She was forty-seven.
the road. Germany cannot buy the perfect Alter her death came a letter from Conadian, American or South African her doctor brother. He has been re- fruit as she has not the foreign cur-lessed. rency needed, but she gets her fruit
And now Herr Omstein sits silent closed thousands were drenched it to Antrants, both of which sought to
by bartering manufactured goods for and waits for more
It is a sister to the "water room," where the children play, dressed in them, trom the Balkan lands nackintoshes, rubber shoes, and oil-
skin caps.
Dr. Lowenfeld reports that by giving children u "free work!" their
of
own their temperamental: wists are corrected.
Asthma Cause
Killed in 24 Hours
Thanks to the discovery of an American physician, ji now la possible to get rid of ihors terrible spolia of choking, gaping. coughing and whequing Asthma by kfiling the true cause which lederma in the blood. No more burning of powitara, no more liy-
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Vienna.
news from
Beryl Fell' For Her
Skating Instructor
AS Beryl Styles, pretty blonde schoolgirl of 14, stepped gingerly on to the lec-rink for the first time she toppled over. Hand- Home Benny Lee, ice speed champion, caught her.
That was six years ago, Soon Beryl, now junior ice-skating| champion of Britain, will marry Benny Lee.
Since that first meeting at Streatham, South Londen, while Beryl has been growing up from a girl to a woman, Benny Leo has been training her. Every evening she has hurried from work to float over the ice with her tutor.
To-day she is asked to give demonstrations all over Britain. Benny Lee, 32, dark and muscular, says: "I fell in love with Beryl directly I saw her. We have always had a sort of under standing that we would be married."
Journeys
Tube Lo
Mr. J. P. Eddy, K.C., appeared for the National Society for Prevention of In the West End, taxis were at Cruelty to Children and the All-India premium, and when the theatres Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
making short
set up the 1936 will. stations.
He said that the relations between Heavy rain fell for several hours. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead were shown Rain driven by mile-a-minuto by the correspondence. Mrs. White- gusts at Brighton made the cliff-top head wrote from London to her road between Brighton and New-husband. haven impassable for walkers and cyclists.
Crossing the road at Eastbourne during one downpour, Miss Ada Elizabeth Farmer (78), of Orchard Road, Eastbourne, was fatally injured by n taxi.
One Man Boosts
"I suppose I have not realised the danger of marrying a mon who lived with his job. What is the use of a house and garden, for us when I am not fond enough of
it to be left in it alone?" Mr. S. J. Cull, manager of a branch of the Midland Bank, at Tunbridge Wells, where Mrs. Whitehead had had na account, said that she came to the branch fairly regularly between 1933 and the autumn of 1935. When he last saw her, in February 1930, she appeared perfectly normal. Pasadena, Cal.
Maurice Cassidy, the heart John Judison Hamilton, 04, noted specialist, said that when Mrs. White- author and retired publisher, has head consulted him for heart trouble launched
for in July 1939, he saw no elan of a one-man campaligi the League of Nations. He has mental derangement. He agreed that: a slogan "Geneva For-1 was possible to inherit a form of ever.". Ila has sent 130 original delusional Insanity. Mrs. Whitehead copies of a manifesto on behalf of did not tell him that her mother had the league to 100 libraries and 20 been in an asylum for a time.
The hearing was adjourned.
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League
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