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May 2, 1939.
CUP OF MAJESTY FOR THE U.S. EMPIRE
Silver Treasures For World's Fair
FIFTY HISTORIC silverware pieces, so precious that plaster casts, engravings, rubbings and other records. have been made of them for purposes of duplication should they be lost, are leaving Britain shortly for the first time.
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Taken from the vaults of the Government, they will be shown in the British Pavilion in the New York World's Fair, together with 35 examples of the best work of mo- dern silversmiths.
The King is lending the massive sculptured Cup of Majesty -presented to the Crown to commemorate the Coronation and pre-
served for the nation at the palace of Holyroodhouse.
Transport and safeguarding have; been arranged for with the, co- operation of the Government.
PEPYS'S PARTING GIFT
Most valuable plece is a foot-high ewer elaborately chased in heraldic patterns, which was the parting gift of Pepys, the dinrist, to the Cloth- workers' Company when he retired s their Master in 1877,
It has never been outside the Cloth-workers' Hall before, and hus been seen only by the few lucky people who have dined in state guests of the company at their ancient ball in Mincing Lane.
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Records of the inside as well ile outside were mude during the past weeks, so that It could be duplicated in thickness at every point. Even scrutch and a dent made over 100 years ago" could exactly reproduced,
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An eighteenth century French re- fugee, Paul Lamerle,
the one of greatest sliversmiths on record, made' the second most Important pleee-a spectacular gil! over covered in high | relict with human und fantastic i figures, the handle itself benrded
god.
It is dated 1741 and belongs to the Goldsmith Company.
All the antique silver is older than the earlicht American silver-must of it by over 200 years.
Rhapsody In Blue Wedding March
MISS PAMELA PHILLI- MORE. twenty-one years-old heiress, was recently married at St. James's Church, Spanish- place W., to Mr. Glibert Alistair Cockburn, who is twenty-four.
Only forty guests were at the wedding. It was intended that 500 should attend, but four days before printed cards were sent to friends saying that the marriage, fixed for March 14, was cancelled "owing to the sudden indisposi- tion of the bride's sunt."
The wedding, it was added, would
lako place very qudelly
at some future date."
Miss Phillimore was a ward In Chancery until she came of hge recently. She then gave a party to announce the date of her marriage to Mr. Cockburn- her third flaner,
After an earlier engagement had been broken, she said she would never marry.
She wore a loose while Greck gown and headdress for her wed- ding, and carried a Prayer-book. She had long. heavy carrings. The organist played Gershwin's thapsody in Blue" as she en- tered the church.
Grocers' Company as a gift in 1881 is going in its stead,
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Mexico City's "Red Square" jammed with peasants and union members in a mass demonstration of loyally to President Cardenas, on the first anniversary of the oil expropriations. Banners read: "Not One Step Backward in the Oil Expropriation," halling "economic independence."
PEER'S RELATIVE
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Joins The "Firm" By Marriage
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The Leigh Cup, dated 1400, two years before Columbus discovered
WALES, A 20-in, silver gilt rosewater dish Amerien, was nt the last noment weighing 112oz. is to be presented to considered too fragile to remove from the City of New York by the Cor- the vaults of the Mercers" Company, puration and 12 chief Livery Com- and a replica made by them for the panics of London.
OFFICE BOY WHO MADE A FORTUNE
A MAN who started work as an office-boy, and be cause he hated the drudgery of copying letters, revolu- tionised office work with an invention which brought him à fortune, has died at Nice, aged 85.
ΤΟ HER FATHER, BANKER EDMUND HENRY BEVAN, OF HILSTON, MISS WINEFREDA BEVAN, GRAND-DAUGHTER OF LORD GRANTLEY, WAS
RECENTIOR
Y BY MARRIED DECLARATION, ACCORDING TO SCOTTISH LAW, IN JED- BURGH, ROXBURGHSIARE,
Bridegroom was Wilhelm Otto von Stanz. 36-years-old son Baron von Stant. He Is a British subject. After a motoring honeymoon in Scotland they
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NEWS
TRADE OPTIMISM · IN SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town.
The offcial Journal of the Slate Department of Commerce and In- dustries is quietly optimistic about tinde prospects In 1030. It considers that trade in 1939, alihough_lower than that of the peale year of 1937, and possibly slightly lower than that of Inst year, witt maintain the more moderate 1936 level.
It emplissines that the undiminish- ed prosperity of the gold mining in- dustry, will conthiue to net as n stabilising influence in the future as in the past.
The article takes the view that the downward trend of employment in secondary industry seems to have spent much of its force. It has been falling steadily since February, 1938, and last August was 2,7 per cent. below the 1937 average, but still' 5.7 per cent, above the 1930 average.
Premiler
and Raciallsm The imes" says that the letter of Hertzog, the Prime Minster re- jecting the suggestion of his son, Dr. Alber! Hertzog for a political al- lance with the Malamites on 'racial lines, is a logical statement for which English-speaking South Africa will be sincerely grateurses-An acule
Shortage of
scurcity of trained nurses is at pre- sent being experienced In Cape Town. The Cape Hospital Board has already Imported 40 trained nurses from Britain and Canada. AUSTRALIA
LOANS FOR HOME BUILDING
Sydney. Investigations into bullding societies' schemes in England and Scotland have convinced the New South Wales Treasurer, Mr. Mair, that the facilities afforded to home- seekers in New South Wales compare and
Surably with the British
schemes.
He admits that the Commonwealth Loan operations have affected the market to a certain extent, but he
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A MICRO-WAVE transmitter loans sanctioned by them have
operating a beam service to police headquarters on the Em- bankment has been installed at Scotland Yard's broadcasting station пелг West Wickham, Kent.
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If every telephone exchange in London were put out of action by bombs the beam, which employs o wave-length of between four and five metres, could maintain an uninter- rupted and secret channel of com- return to Jed-munication with little risk of inter-
burgh. There they will work to-ception or jamming.
gether to build-up a hand laundry
Ordinary Post Omee lines now business which Mr. von Stanz is starting in Jedburgh,
carry the morse messages tapped out Miss Bevan met Mr. Stanz some in the Yard's information room to months ago, but had never been to West Wickham, where two trans- Jedburgh until her wedding day.
ONE DAY'S NOTICE made when Mr. Stanz called to see a Arrangements for the wedding were
He was Hungarian-born David Gestetner, inventor of the famous duplicating machine which bears his name..
Gestetner's first invention, patented in 1880, was a cyclostyle pen In the next year he began to make his duplienting-machines land, in small premises in Cross Street, E.C.
mitters (three on important occasions like the Coronation) flash the coded warnings and crime news to patrol- ing Flying Squad cars day and
night
CORRUPTION PROVED IN BIHAR
Calcutta. Corruption in the Bihar public services has been proved by evidence before the commlitee of inquiry.
The committee slates that such the practices are not confined to Ministerial and other subordinate staff, but that some members of the Provincial and even of the all-India services had descended to taking bribes.
BRITISH GUIANA .
CAUSE OF LABOUR DISPUTES
Georgetown. The Royal Commission on labour conditions in the West Indies took evidence recently from the Churches and the Salvation Army.
Jedburgh solleltor. He brought-Thus-in the event-of-war-four- proof of 21 days' residence in Scot- separate transmitters could be put on the air at a moment's notice. The A petition was drawn up and sub- "beam" is intended to operate a tele-
Sir Walter Citrine asked whether mitted to Hon. Sherif Substitute phone service not morsc.
It was true, as suggested, that labour To-day the Gestetner Company has He found that it
disputes in the Colony were caused warrant because Anderson, who granted a was an authorised capital of a million papers were short-fibred that they that the marriage should be
The Home Omee has already made by Communist rc-1
propaganda rather pounds, hundreds of branches and made bad stencil papers
plans to link and dis-gistered.
up radio-cquipped
than by working conditions. depots all over the world, employs covered a long-fibred one now known So carefully were their plans forces in the provinces with this ser- Nine witnesses strongly denied the about 5,000 men and women, and has as Japanese stencil paper.
suggestion. guarded that Mr. Stonz's landlady, vice to form à national network of Jarge factory at Tottenham.
Miss Briggs, of Ellerway House, Jed-Junbroken communication. An early discovery by Gestetner Mr. Gestetner started
in a very burgh, did not know he was not com- in-small way in 1881, but as early as ing home as usual to lunch. vent a long way to perfect his vention.
Mr. Stanz went to Jedburgh last The efficiency of a duplicator de tenham where Gesteiners are lande. November, and took over the pre- pends upon the use of a good stencil| "He never retired and worked un-mises now being changed inte paper, which Gestetner found dimeult til lust Christmas, when he went to laundry. to procure.
1900 he had taken the works at Tot-
Nice."
LONDON'S CHIEF WARDEN
London's Chlef Air Raid Warden under the new regional civil defence aplan will be the Hon. Arthur Howard, brother of Lord Strathcona and son- in-law of Lord Baldwin.
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He plans "something new in laun. dries to cater for the big house the district."
Mr. Howard, who is 43, was Mayor of Westminster In 1937 and has been Chief Air Raid Warden of West-
Ship That Can Move are on
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SOUTHAMPTON.
The Church delegates roundly con- deaned the system of unpaid volun- teer work in urban centres, which they described as "fairly general."
CANADA
VISIT OF BRITISH TIMBER TRADE
VANCOUVER.
Egg 8.1/2 Inches minster for several months. During lumbla Minister of Trade and Indus-
Long
SUFFIELD, Conn. It may have been a matter of pride with Karl C. Kulle's hen, but the THE ship that can move sideways-the new "Red Funnel" 1,800 day after a, Groton hen laid an egg
measuring 8 Inches In circum h.p. motor-ship Vecta, recently made trial runs in the Solent.ference and 6% inches long, the local Propellers of the Voith-Schneider type enable her not only to hen produced one 8%1⁄2 by 7 inches,
turn practically within her own length, but also to dispense with
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a rudder. She steers as readily
at low speeds as at a normal rate, ahead or astern.
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She will carry passengers motor-cara dally between Southamp- ton and the Isle of Wight. Qyer the measured mile to-day she averaged 15.0 knots.m
STEERED LIKE A CAR
Mr. Norman
Cannot Dirty £1 Notes
Abide Dirty
He said that one of the duties of) The ship has been built by John the Bunk, as agents for the Govern- 1. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., at theirment, was "to keep clean and tidy" Woolston shipyard, Southampton, a circulation of about 500,000,000) and engined by the English Electric notes. Co., Ltd., with two sets of Blx- And he added, "I cannot abide a cylinder Diesels.
dirty note myself.""
the he served with the Scots Guards,
His job will be to co-ordinate the |work of wardens in London.
A scheme for closer co-operation between local authorities and the chairman of Traffle Commissioners in the earmarking of goods vehicles for A.R.P. services in war time is pro- vided in a circular issued by the A.R.P. Department,
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Mr. W. J. Asseistine, British Co-
try, announces that members of the British timber trades delegation which came to Canada last summer were so Impressed by their visit that they intended to repeat the trip next
year.
delegation of 40 British and Continental timber merchants toured British Columbia last August as guests of the Provincial Government.
It was indicated that next year the delegation will be much larger, and will include representatives pf the RAMSGATE POPULAR
building Industry and architects. British Columbia has sent most of its The announcement that the Gov- timber exports during the past few emment has sanctioned the construc- years to the United Kingdom. Con- tion of a three-mile A.RP. tunnelsiderable importance is therefore round Ramsgate has brought a flood attached to the proposed tour. of applications for house accommo- dation
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The suggestion has even been made }! MR. MONTAGU NORMAN, head of the Bank of England
that the Council should consider the "the place where they keep all the gold” (old song)
construction of a subterranean town
If you want to live to be 100, "take -broadcast recently about banknotes.
with permanent underground dwel-
it easy, watch yourself, and don't lings, schools and hospitals. Local
Jacob speeches then seldom exceed one engineers any that this would be
"Burn the candle at both ends." Nable, of Cleveland, should know-- hundred words. To hear them it feasible. is necessary to be a shareholder-ar and Bank of England shares cost man A. B. C. Kempo) told the News
The Mayor of Ramsgate (Aider-having been born 103 years ago. £325 ench.
Chronicle" recently: "The Counell Mr. Norman's broadcast was rather have not had the matter before them like an indulgent uncle telling yet, but if anyone made an applica- The B.B.C. made Mr. Norman late bedtime story, Hela a potion for permission to construct an The propellers conslet of two for an appointment for the first time with A confiding, easy style, groups of six verileni :bindes in the in his life that night.
resonant, almost theatrical volee.
we underground dwelling should #torn. Each blade revolves around Millions at home, in the Empire His English la so meticulous that have to give it very serious h drum housed within the hall. Dure and the United States latened in he leaves you wondering: "Is Mr. sideration," ing motion, the pitch and angle of because it was the first broadcast of Norman a foreigner?”
£250,000 SCHEME these blades can be altered at will the world's No. 1 banker. But he
Glasgow a contemplating the cors- while maintaining a constant engine kept them waiting five minutes be- AUSTRALIA HUNTS OIL struction of an underground shelter speed.
cause a corn merchant and his friend
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Canberra, Australia, All movements, including steering. (the previous item) exceeded their Oll prospecting conducted with and with first-aid and decontamina are controlled by a wheel on the time ilmilt. bridge, resembling that of a inotor“ Normally it costs a lot of money new rotary drilling plants, just im-ion stations at an estimated cost of
to hear Mr. Norman speak. His parted from the United States, is £250,000. only public utterances are when under way in West Australia. The
car. Four complete revolutions are required to put the helm, or rather
the propellers, from hard over to hard, over,
Part of the scheme would include
thoroughfares.
he presides at the half-yearly Federal government has appropriated two traffle tunnels linking up busy court of the Bank of England. His 307,000 for the quest.
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