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May 12, 1939:
„brary, Supreme Cour
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 vice" organised to protect key armament factories, shipping, and other vital industries against attempts by foreign agenta,
Squads 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,
Mayfair Marriage Mystery
"We would not tolerate any attempt to set up a spy organisa-MISS EVELYN "Moon" Wolseley tion in a factory," said an offiefal has been secretly married in of the Amalgamated Engineering Paris to M. de Garzuly, 15-years-old Union, "bal the men certainly do member of the Budapest Foreign not want to work alongside traitors. "They are us cager as any one to soo that nothing hampers produc tion and that there is no leakage of stereta."
PRECAUTONS
Office.
Sfte
was once engaged to John Lonsdale, Christopher Mainwaring sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment In February last year for his part in the Hyde Park jewel robbery,
Mian Wolseley broke off her on- Strict precautions are being takengagement to Lonsdale in June 1930,- to prevent unauthorised people from a week after he won an action for boarding British liners at home ports xiander. against Miss Pamela Blake, and the poris they serve abroad.
The Queen Mary is protected.by its own "secret service."
daughter of Lady Twysden.
Іл February this year
Mis Wolcelay announced that she was Some members of the crew-acting engaged to a "titled foreigner," but ng dock hands. stewards and refused to give his nume. stewardesses, fremen, kitchen AL the Hungarian Icgation in workers--are actually detectives Landon an amelal "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 is
On shore the service is represented (not £1 count. We knew of his by detectives working us stevedores engagement to Miss Wolseley, but not and other dock handā.
of his marrlage."
P.C. Spent Flying,
£2
A Week Killed
Edgar K. Smoot, 77, Virginian, recently jailed in Mexico City on a 17-year-old charge of import- ing more lumber thon Mexico allows. Congress will investi gate.
Rear Admiral's Funeral
The funeral of Rear-Admiral Edward C. Villiers took place re- cently at Halfold Health Church, Essex. The Rev. A.F. Gardiner offelated.
Members of the family and others present included:
Mrs. Villiers (widow); Mr. and Mrs. Michael Villiers (son and daughter-in-law); Capt. L A. Villers, Mr. William Villiers (sons); Miss N. Villers (daughter); Lt.-Coll and Lady Victoria Villlers, Mr. and Mrs. Nocl Villers (brothers and nister
in-law); Lt. Col. Evelyn Villiers (brother); Hon. Mrs. Robert Grimston (sister); Sir. Coeli and Lady Newman, Mr. Robert Grimston,
M.P.
Lady Bright, Mrs. Harry Broke, Mr. Philip Broke, Brig-Gen, C. G. Charlton, Mr. G. Gilber, Mr. John Ollbey, Mrs. Henry Nimmo, Rev. R. C. Ross, Mrs. Francis Scott, Mr. W. H. Scantlebury and Lt.-Cmdr. R. S. i 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,
P. C. Paul Uphiil, 29-years-old New Zealander, of the Abing- don Division of Berkshire Constabulary, was killed recently whan the aeroplano he was piloting crashed on the edge of Woodleyhands on them, but that you have Aerodrome, near Wokingham.
He had been a member of the Uphill went up regularly every week, Reading Acro Club for the last six Sometimes he used to go up twice a months, and was training for the week, and he usually arrived in his Civil Air Guard.
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An official of the club said that Uphill dovoted his spare ilme and money to ying.
GRANDFATHER'S LEGACY
A member of the club said, "We chargo, £2 an hour for flying, and
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Maitre Puntous, who cnicred 2) claim for £500 damages on behalf of local doctors, asked her: **sn't it true that, you not only claim to be! able to cure people by laying your healed people by touching photo- graphs of them?"
"That is perfectly true," replied Andree. "And
you accept muzey for that?" continued counsel..
P. C. Uphill was the elder son of "I should be stupid It 1.didn't," she the Rev. William Uphill, rector of replied, "And what I have done Stower Provost, near Gingham, with the money is no one's business
and his mother said but my own." Dorset,
recently benefited
SHE WAS ILL
that he had by the will of his grandfather.
"My son Intended to follow his father in the Church," she said, "but the 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,"
Modern Stone Age
Tribe Visited
Miss Beatrice Blackwood lectured
before recently
inc Geographient Society on her journey undertaken on behalf of the Pilt Rivers Museum, to collect data about a modern Stone Age people in the Merobe district of New Guinea
She said that a wealthy tribes- woman wore nine or 10 necklaces, mnde
up of shells, teeth, and other It was stated that she was paid as objects. Despite the total weight, much as £70 u week by persons she kept them on while performing whom she claimed to have cured. her daily duties,
In a long statement to the court
sald that she
discovered her healing power when she herself was taken ill. "At 14 I had nerve trouble. The doctor who attended me told my mother there was some kind of fluid in me which gave me the power to heal the sick.""
A stream of witness appeared throughout the proceedings, testifying
Judgment was postponed.
Khaki Dress Uniform that the girl had cured 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 evoly- 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 lines: of that worn by the R.A.., has an opening in front showing front, collar and tie. pockets at the sides, and a cloth belt.
There
shirt 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.
Strings of I teeth, from the dog, pig wallaby, or even from human beings, were regarded as signs of affluence.
Bables had no other cradle than a netbug, carried by the mother. When the bag was not being carried, it was slung, with the baby, from the roof of the hut.
The men, Instead of making their valuables into necklaces, formed them into baldrics. They also carried net-bags on the arm.
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.
Miss Lily Yatts, assistant matron, who has tooked after the boys for 27 years, veelves £200.
Col. Macdonald's personal maki, Mrs. Kate Male, is left £100,
Miss Yates snid: "Colonel Macdonald was, headmus- ter here for 20 years, nnd 1. served with him and his predecessor.
"I have no plans. The school has been
my life and I shall stay here. 1 have been very happy.
"Should I have stayed 27 years otherwise?
When
"We have 38 boys here. they are ill or hurt themselves at games, they come to slater or me for help.
'Sterilisation' Case Heiress Weds
New York...
Ann Cooper Hewill, the heiress who, three years ago, brought a "sterilisation" sult against her mother, was married at Rèno re- barinan, cently to a San Francisco Gene. Bradstreet, whom she met year ago.
In January 1930, Miss Hewitt, then £2,000,000, aged 21 and heiress to
sued her mother and two doctors for £100,000.
When the scheme is adopted the "It is sad when they leave us for British soldier will have three uni-public schools, but most of them pensation for losing them." forms-overalls to work in, battle corne to see us again, even when they Col. Macdonald left £27,407, with uniform, and ceremonial uniform. are grown-up. That is some com- net personalty £27,240.
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