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May 12, 1939.
Arms Workers Form Their
Own
Secret Service
Detectives As Deck Hands In The Queen Mary Volunteers Look Out
For Sabotage
Workers are taking an active part in the special "secret ser- vico" organised to protect key armament factories, shipping, and other vital Industries against attempts by foreign agents.
Squnds of volunteers are on the look-out for sabotage in the big air- craft and munitions works.
They have been formed by the ap- proval of the trade, unions.
"We would not tolerate `any
attempt to set up a my organisa.
tion in a factory,” said an official of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, "but the men certainly do not want to work alongside trailors. "They are as çager 'ns any one to see that nothing hampers produc- tion and that there is no leakage of secrets."
PRECAUTONS
Strict precautions are being taken to prevent unauthorised people from boarding British liners at home ports and the ports they serve abroad.
The Queen Mary is protected by its owa "secret service."
Mayfair Marriage Mystery
MISS EVELYN "Moon" Wolseley
has been secretly married in Paris to M. de Garzuly, 43-yours-old member of the Budapest Foreign Offlec.
She was once engaged to John Christopher Mainwaring Lonsdale, sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment In February last year for hla part in the Hyde Park jewel robbery.
Miss Wolseley broke off her en- gagement to Lonsdale in June 1938,
this
week after he won an action for slander against Miss Pamela Blake, daughter of Lady Twysden.
In February
усак Miss Wolseley amounced that she was engaged to a "titled foreigner." but refused to give
Jun his name.
Some members of the crew-acting deck hands, stewards and stewardesses, firemen, kitchen At the Hungurlan Legation in workers are actually detectives London an offcial "M. de Garzuly selected for the company by the has no title, but he is permitted to police,
put the 'de before his name. He la not count. We knew of his
On shore the service is represented by detectives working as stevedores engagement to Miss Wolseley, but not and other dock hands.
of his marriage."
P.C. Spent £2 A Week £2 A Week Flying, Killed
P. C. Paul Uphill, 29-years-old New Zealander, of the Abing- don Division of Berkshire Constabulary, was killed recently when the acroplane he was piloting crashed on the edge of Woodley Aerodrome, near Wokingham.
Edgar K. Smoot, 77, Virginian, recently jailed in Mexico City on 17-year-old charge of import- ing more lumber than Mexico allows. Congress will investi- gute.
Rear Admiral's Funeral
The funeral of Rear-Admiral Edward C. Villiers took place re- cently ut Hatfield' Health Church, EBDCX. The Rev. A. F. Gardiner officluted,
Members of the family and others. present included:
Mrs. Villiers (widow); Mr. and Mrs. Michael Villiers (son and daughter-in-law): Capt. L. A. Villiers. Mr. William Villiers (sons); Miss N. Villiers (daughter); Lt. Col. and Lady Victorld Villiers, Mr. and Mrs. Noel Villiers (brothers and sister in law); L-Col. Evelyn Villiers (brother); Hon, Mrs. Robert Grimston (slater); Sir Cecil and Lady Newman, Mr. Robert Grimston, M.PTM
Lady Bright, Mrs. Harry Broke, Mr. Philly Broke, Brig-Gen. C. G. Charlton, Mr. C. Gilbey, Mr. John. Gilbey, Mrs. Henry Nimmo, Rev. R. C. Ross, Mrs. Francis Scott, Mr. W. H. Scantlebury and Lt.-Cmdr. R. S. Young,
Girl, 15, Earned £70 A Week As "Healer"
Paris.
Green-eyed, chestnut-haired Andree Maurel, aged 15,
described by scores of people as a "miracle worker," stood in the
dock at Albi, in the South of France, recently charged with illegally practising medicine.
Maitre Puntous, who entered à claim for 2500 damages on behalf of
local doctors, asked her: "sn't Modern Stone Age
true that, you not only claim to be hands on them, but that you have able to cure people by laying your
healed people by touching photo- graphs of them?"
That
Tribe Visited
He had been a member of the Uphill went up regularly every week. Bending Aero Club for the last six Sometimes he used to go up twice a months, and was training for Civil Air Guard.
theweek, and he usually arrived in his "perfectly true," replied recently before the
An official of the club sald that Uphill devoted his spare time and money to flying.
GRANDFATHER'S LEGACY A member of the club said, "We churgo £2 an hour for dying, and
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P. C. Uphill was the cider son of the Rev. William Uphill, rector of Stower Provost, near Gillingham,
and his Dorset,
mother spid he had thut
recently benefited by the will of his grandfather.
"My son intended to follow his father In the Church," she said, "but
he was desperately keen to join the Air Force. He joined the police against our wishes.
"I knew that he was taking flying lessons, and we helped to provide him with the money."
“And you accept money for that?" continued counsel.
"I should be stupid if I didn't," she replied. "And what I have done with the money is no one's business but my own."
SHE WAS ILL
much as £70 o
It was stated that she was paid as whom she claimed to have cured.
week by persons
Miss Beatrice Blackwood lectured Geographical Society on her journey, undertaken on behalf of the Pit Rivers Museum, to collect data about a modern Stone Age people in the Morobe district of New Guinea.
She sold that a wealthy tribes- woman wore nine or 10 necklaces, made up of shells, teeth, and other objects. Despite the total weight, she kept them on while performing her daily duties.
Bables had no other cradle than a
In a long statement to the court she said that she discovered her wallaby, or even from human beings, Strings of teeth, from the dog, Dig healing power when she herself was were regarded as signs of affluence. taken ill. "At 14 T
I had nerve trouble. The doctor who me told my mother there was some attended kind of fuld in me which gave me the power to heal the sick.""
the bag was not being carried, it was netbag, carried by the mother. When slung, with the baby, from the roof
of the hut.
A stream of witness appenred. The men, instead of making their throughout the proceedings, testifying valuables into necklaces, formed them into baldrics. They also carried Judgment was postponed.
net-bags on the arm.
Khaki Dress Uniform that the girl had sured them.
For Army
THE brilliant
cere-
monial uniforms of the various regiments of the British Army, are to be banished for ever if a plan evolved by the War Office secures the sanction of the Trea-
sury.
War Office experts have evolv- ed a design for a standard full-
dress uniform, to be worn by all regiments--in dark khaki,
It is good-bye to the busby and
gold braid.
COLLAR AND TIE
The new TUNIC, cut on the linės of that worn by the R.A.F., has an opening in front showing shirt front, collar und Ble. There pockets at the sides, and a cloth
belt,
are
The TROUSERS turn down over the boots.
The CAP is peaked, bearing the regimental crest.
Each regiment will be distinguished only by the crest on buttons and cap and by a distinctive colour on the cup. band..
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School "Head" Leaves Two Matrons £700
TWO matrons, "second mothers" to hundreds of boys who have passed through Amesbury Preparatory School, Hindhead, Surrey, learned recently they are to benefit under the will of the headmaster, Lieut.-Col. C. L Macdonald, who died last January.
The head matron, Miss Eva Lillian Keatings-she was once
a hospital sister, and is still called sister by masters and boys at the school-Is to receive £500,
Mrs Lily Yates, assistant matron, who has looked after the boys' for 27 years, receives £200.
Col. Macdonald's personal maid, Mrs. Kate Male, is left £100.
Miss Yates said: "Colonel Macdonald was headmas- ter here for 20 years, and I ̧ served with him and his predecessor,
"I have no plans. The school has been my life and I shall stay here, I have been very happy..
"Should I have slayed 27 years olherwise?
'Sterilisation' Case Heiress Weds
New York. Ann Couper Hewitt, the heiress who, three years ago, brought a "sterilisation" sult against her mother, was married at Reno re- cently to a Sun Francisco barman, Gene Bradstreet, whom she met a year ago.
In January 1938, Miss Hewitt, then aged 21 and heiress to £2,000,000, sued her mother, and two doctors for £100,000.
"We have 38. boys here. When they are ill or hurt themselves a1 games, they come to sister or me for help. When the scheme is adopted the "It is sad when they leave us for British soldier will have three uni-publle schools, but most of them pensation for losing them." forms-overalls to work in, baltie come to see us again, oven when they Į Col. Macdonald left £27,407, with uniform, and ceremonial uniform.
are grown-up. That is some com- nct personally: £27,249.
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