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25,000 WEDDINGS
WEDDINGS DECLARED
NOT LEGAL
Girls Married Spain Soldiers At The Front
MADRID.
GENERAL FRANCO'S Government recently an- nounced that 45,000 civil marriages celebrated in the Madrid area during the Republican regime cannot be re- cognised as legal.
About 26,000 of these marriages were performed at the front, where the brides were married to their soldier- bridegrooms by the nearest available officer.
Civil marriages in the city were performed by a magistrate, before two witnesses.
1 Special Inspector Albert Can- ning Scotland Yard, as lin arrived in New York to make arrangements for · protection of Britain's sovereigns during their visit.
Lose $300 On Guess
CLEVELAND, O.
STRAY CAT IS
LEFT £500
ASTRAY eat prowled are
night four and a half years ogo into an Edinburgti nursing home-and became the world's richest cal.
Miss Janet Agnes Bell, of Edinburgh, has left £500 of her £8.212 to the cat, so that he may have comfort as long as he lives.
WAN
She wrote in her will as she lay 1 in the nursing home
"I аг desirous to make provision for the cat which here when I arrived In September 1934-this cat giving me very great pleasure, feeding out of my hand, sleeping at night on my bed, and being my great pleasure as friend and companion."
Miss
Bell
called the cat Desire because she desired his company.
Emu Leads Trapped
Sheep
MELBOURNE, Australia.
A large flock of sheep, huddled to- gether in a bushfire that was sweep- Thieves, confronted by two safes Ing through the Grampian mountains,
His Research Proved
Sir William
Bible True
Mitchell Ramsay, Bible, and the effect of his con- whose researches proved that parts clusions in this sphere stands to-day, of the Bible were eographically although there may be differences of correct, recently died at his home at opinion about certain detalls." Bournemouth.
Sir William, archaeologist, his- torian and author, was eighty-eight years old.
discoveries
Sir William's first wife, Miss A. D. Marshall, whom he married in 1978, was
a student of life in the Near East. She died in 1927.
Odd Violin
His
In Asia Minor
In 1028 he married secretly Missi confirmed the historical accuracy of Phyllis Eileen Thorowgood. whom some of the New Testament and he had met on a world tour. confounded those who doubted.
Inscriptions which he found prov- ed that the geographical detalis of the Acts of the Apostles were right. Statements In Luke which critics called "Incredible" and "false" wer shown to be correct by Sir William's discoveries.
WED IN SECRET
May 23, 1939.
GOLDEN
CROWN
Jane Charlion, model, holds the rolden Crown of Our Lady of the Andes, 10th century treasure fash lored by Spanish goldsmiths of Popayan, Colombia. on display in New York, to raise funds for the World's Fair Temple of Religion, The Crown, made from 100-pound block of gold, emerald encrusted, is Insured for U.S. $4,500,000..
Maid, 20, Dies In Embassy
Fashioned PRETTY Edith Diana Manning,
twenty-year-old kitchenmald em- ployed 01 the bassy, Belgrave-square, S.W., was Portuguese Em- found dead from gas-poisoning in the basement of the embussy recently.
EVERETT, Wash. Joseph Lamberi, who has been making violins in his spare time the lust 35 years, fashioned one of the in- in a grocery had time to open but was saved by an emu, a large ostrich-than
Sir Frederie Kenyon, for more struments out of a slab of Norway one. Their guess **s
bad. They like bird. The bird, rushing down principal librarian st
twenty years director and spruce with a jackknite and a few! A secretary at the embassy sald: opened the one which contained no from an adjacent hillside, spotted the Museum, said: "Sir William brought summer while he was working in the the staff here by our
the British pieces of broken window glass last "Miss Manning was introduced to money, neglected the other, which only break in the fire line and led the contained $300,
his clussical mind to beag woods near Everett. The vloin was months ago. It was her first position; on the problems created by the completed in five months.
as a domestic servant. Previously she had been a lift girl.
sheep through a hole in the fence.
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Driving Fines Scale Fixed
Cominou standard for frentment: of motoring offenders has been de- cided on for the Metropolitan Police Courts.
The scale, drawn up in collabora- tion withi all the Metropolitan stipendlary magistrates, imposes fixed fines for various speeds above the limit; fixed charges for obstruc- tsen, according to length of time: and fixed penalties for technical offences such as dirty number-plates or unlighted back lamps.
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