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62 YEARS, THEY
COULD NOT PART
Widow's
Broken Heart
THE 62nd wedding anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Shrubsall, of Charlotte-street, Sittingbourne, Kent, came round recently.
And that day they died within two hours of each other.
Mr. Shrubsall, who was 84, had been ill for two months, but his wife, a year younger, was, apparently in perfect health.
She was doing odd Jobs about the house to take her mind off her blu- hand's death when she collapse.
HER WISH
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"Mother died of a broken heart," a member of the family said, spid she had no further wish to live." The couple were known throughout the district as an example of married happiness.
They had nine children. When they were married Mr. Shrubsull's brother acled as best mun and Mrs. Shrubsall's sister was bridesmaid.
A few weeks afterwards the best mau 1 bridesmanid were n150
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Parishioners Howl Down New Rector
ANGRY parishioners in Mellis, Suffolk, recently shouted down the Rev. B. Appleyard, who has been put in charge of them by the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
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PROHIBITION PLANS FOR BOMBAY
BOMBAY,
It was announced recently
that
owing to the success of Prohibition in Ahmedabad City the Congress Government of the Presidency hope
to extend the system lo Bombay City and other districts.
Ministers have been busy in the
At a public meeting they accused the Bishop of over-riding last few days discussing details with their wishes and resolved to fight his decision.
Mr. Vatiablibhal Patel, chairman of the Parliamentary sub-Committee.
Mr. Appleyard is rector of Burgate, which parish the Bishop The Government is working out a wishes to merge with Mellis,
the.
Mellis wants to remain separate and to have it; own rector. *Church officials described Bishop's reply to their request as "curt and unbusinesslike."
It was when someone went on to describe it as "high-handed and an? insult that Mr. Appleyard tried to speak.
One of the officials said that the Mellis rectory was to be let to af woman with a number of Alsatian! dogs, which would upset the local
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Acrobat Falls
Into Orchestra
TRAPEZE artist,
Acharles Warren, lost
his hold while doing his act at the Holborn Em- pire, London, recently, and crashed on top of a violinist.
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three-year plan for complete Pro- hibition. It may
may be necess
necessary to ex- tend this by one year, but a majority is reported to be determined to make Bombay dry before the expiry of the life of the present regime.
How the resultant £750,000 de- feit will be found is not yet ex- plained,
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Large Areas Of Land And Roads Flooded
Naval Boat Capsizes In Gale
UNDREDS of acres in Wensley-
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A gale, accompanied by lightning, will not CREEP, CRACK or BLISTER
thunder and beavy rain, swept over South Caernarvonshire early one morning. Thousands of deres of low land were flooded. Farmers were early astir herding cattle and sheep into safety. A house in course of erection at Nevin was partly wrecked, NAVAL RAtings resCUED Twenty ralings were plunged into
the sen during the gale at Fortland, when a motor-launch belonging to rain and a H.M.S. Sharpshooter rapsized. The boat was making for Castletown Pier, and it stated that she struck a submerged wreck. A launch from H.M.S. Salamander was near and the men were pulled out of the rough
sco,
Hale, Forkshire, were flooded re- SYDNEY. cently; when, following a rapid thaw, A direct wireless telephone service accompanied by heavy between Australia and the United strong wind, the River Ure burst its States has been inaugurated. The banks. Many roads were under first conversation was between Sir water, but later in the day the wind Errest Fisk, from the Beam Wireless dropped and the floods receded to a Omec, Sydney, and the vice-prest-large extent. By nightfall all roads dent of the American Telephone and were passable with caution, but the Warren was rushed to hos-
Telegraph Co., New York.
water was still six inches deep in pital with serious head and legExternal Affairs, then spoke to Mr.
some parts.
There are tears for the safety of Mr. W. M. Hughes, Minister for i
leading telegraphist belonging to the injuries.
When the River Aire overflowed | Sharpshooter ns it is not known F. B. Sayre, Assistant Secretary of its banks at Kirkstall, Leeds, flood whether he was on the launch or not. State, Washington. Mr. Hughes sent water to a depth of nearly two feet When pulled out of the water the He message to America in apprecia- entered the engine-room basement of men were taken to a naval hospital.
tion of the closer bonds between the the city's power station. There was
Two of five Royal Air Force sea- American and Australian democra- danger of the plant being brought to planes moorest in Falmouth Harbour, eles. "On us people of the New hours pumping by the Fire Brigade, motor-coaster Polperro dragged an- standstill but, after about seven were slightly damaged when the World much of the future of civilisa- the water was almost cleared, No chor and became unmanageable dur- Mr. Hughes afterwards spoke to interference with the electricity sup- one of the aeroplanes, striking a wing damage was done and there was no ing the gate. The Pulperro fouled Mr. Stanley Bruce, Australian High ply. Commissioner in London, who is visiting the United States on his way
Warren does a solo comedy tum on a trapeze and horizontal bar. had reached a point in his act in which he was suspended in an in verted position from the trapeze, and about to take half of the horizontal bar by his feet.
Was
MISSED HIS HOLD
He missed his hold and tell with a resounding crash Into the orchestra, A violinist was knocked down and his instrument broken,
Mr. Berte Adams, the manager,
ition depends," he said.
to Austri New Zealand
said that it was some time before UNEMPLOYED
the audienez realised sident had happened.
that an ac-
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and damaged the wing of another machine. She was able to get clear Thic Hereford-Hay-Brecon road under her own steam and proceed to was Boodel to a depth of two feet a safe anchorage. and on the Leominster-Hay road, where the water was still rising,
DRIFTING TRAWLER Llandudno police received a mes-
there
were palties eighteen to twenty-four inches deep. In these from Rhyl coastguard station Midlands trouble was experienced at stating that a trawler, believed to be Kenilworth Ford and the road was direction, two or three miles off the unmanned, Is drifting in a northerly flooded to a depth of fourteen inches. Grent Ormic Head. The trawler is Mrs. Warren was in the theatre, Mr. P. C. Webb, Labour Minister. A landslide in North Wales com- although not in the audience.
announces the extension of the un-pletely blocked The Caernarvon stated to have passed Abergele and
Colwyn Bay, I heard sereatns and realised that employment relief scheme to Jan. 31, Beddgelert road. Traffle was divert,} something had gone wrong, Mrs. thereby giving an extra three weeksed, but after four hours. the debris layed the Fishguard-Rosslare mall A strong south-westerly gale de- Warren sald.
employment.
was sufficiently cleared to permit the steams. Consters and trawlers were Although official figures are not resumption of single-line traffic. "My husband Is an Ameclean, and available, the folal number of per-
Heavy rain on Saturday and thaw driven into Rossinre Bay, co. Wex- years, and this is the first time that ployment Promotion Fund is estim-along the forty miles from Caerws to has been doing trapeze stunts for 22 sons receiving income from the Eming of snow on highs ground causedford, for shelter.
the Severn to overflow Jis banks he has had an ocekien. He does ated at 35,000. It is not denied by Shrewsbury. Low-lying houses were not even use safely nets during his Cabinet Ministern that the weekly flooded. There were also foods in act,"
cost 15
is £ 125.000. The Social Security Scheme allo- cates only Her husband, who was known as ment rellet. The Inte of the unem- £1,000,000 to unemploy- the "American Swing Gangster." was ployed families from February on- Just reaching the most sensational wards presents the gravest problem
SWING GANGSTER
the valley of the Wye, the Dovey and
Revolver Shot At
part of his turn when he slipped. for the Government, which han effec- 4 a.m. Ends Party
"ffe managed to keep one heel on tively solved the unemployment pro-
even more serious,"
But al present every
Twenty stitches have been inserted Into Mr. Warren's leg, and he has over. also put a thumb out of, joint.
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the bar of the trapeze," she said, "and blem only while there is plenty of A REVOLVER shot abruptly that broke his fall. He actually fell money, on to the grand plano first. If he needed
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