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The Nine Power Treaty
Thursday,
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June 29, 1939.
£100 TO MARRY UGLIEST
U.S. BOY OF 14 "BRANDED"
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Etghicen students at Gwynns Falls Junior High School, Bal- timore, were suspended from classes by the school board re- cently after an inquiry into an outbreak of anti-Semitism and Nazi violence.
Á 14-year-old Jewish boy is reported to have been beaten and "branded" by classmates wearing swastika armbands, A free fight is alleged to have been waged outside the school between pro-Nazi students and friends of the "branded" boy. and adults are sald to have Joined In
WOMAN
BLACKPOOL'S GREATEST STORM OF INDIGNATION
YET HAS BEEN AROUSED BY THE ANNOUNCE. MENT THAT A SIDE-SHOW "ATTRACTION,” THE “UGLI- EST WOMAN IN THE WORLD,” WILL PAY £100 TO ANY MAN WHO WILL MARRY HER.
The woman, Daisy Winterbottom, appeared in a booth at ' the Central Beach. An advertisement offering, the £100 re- ward for husband instructed applicants to apply at the booth.
Alderman W. R. Duckworth, Blackpool'a Mayor, said: "I think the idea is absolutely disgusting. It is difficult to speak calmly of such a thing. I shall consult the Town Clerk Immedi- ately and see If anything can be done to have this disgraceful exhibition stopped.
"Unfortunately, our powers for dealing with this sort of thing are limited, but every ounce of influence, wo have will be brought to bear to have this disgusting exhibition cancelled."
Canon F. B. Freshwater, of St. Stephen's, Blackpool, said he thought the proposed exhibition was a cruda travesty and "n ̈ prostitution of the sacrament of marriage."
Actor Writes Poem In Dressing-Room
MR.
JOHN HASSALL, 71-years-old poster artist, who confessed recently that he had only "4s. 4d. in the bank" and was given a civil pension of £110 a year, recently saw his poet son, Christopher, receive a cheque for £100--the Hawthornden Prize, awarded annually for the best work of imaginative literature by a writer under 41.
"However," he added, "it is a matter of public opinion. If people are foolish enough to puy to see n show of this description, that is their own look-aut."
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Before, Miss Winterbottom arrived Central Beach, showman "Ex- plorer Evans" was superintending the work at the booth. ile said she was organising the show and he was merely giving her the use of the site,
.
"I am quite aware that a fuss is being made over this show," he said. "But it will definitely go on. Daisy's offer is quite genuine.
"It was she who proposed the £100 wedding, present plan.
"She makes only two stipulations as to the character of her husband- to-be. He must be religious and he must not drink.
Hassall the father designed "Skegness is So Bracing," and many other well-known posters. He won fame long be fore his 27-years-old son was born. Only last week the son
"$10,000 DOWRY" won the silver medal of the Royal Society of Literature.
Dalsy is now between 49 and 52 He tried not to look too While white-haired women and years of age.
young nuthor-worshippers ardent
"Her lite story is pathetic. She lo. "spot the were trying
winner," crossed, in the front row. IInssa!! the son was sitting, legs wealthy parents
was the daughter of comparatively and was born in Wales.
THE Nine Power Treaty was referied to in a question in the House of obviously proud of Hassall the
Commons recently,
Mr. Day asked the Prime Minister whether any of the signatories to the
Nine-Power Treaty have in any way Prince Otto To Live
intimated their desire to either mo- dity or determine sume; and, if so,
will he give particulars?
Mr. Buller: As far as my Noble Friend is aware, the answer is in the negative..
In Hungary
BELGRADE.
son's success as he sat among several hundred people in the Eolian Hall, New Bond-street,
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Nobody but he and his son knew before John Masefield, Poet Laureate, announced that Christopher Hassall had won.
would marry her.
Now and again he smoothed his thick, black hair, gave a casual look time her father offered a dowry of "She says that during his ille- towards the platform, where, at a £10,000 little table strewn with red roses, sat
in voin to Buyone who a woman in a black and white dress
"She is not deformed in any way. Miss Allee Warrender, donor of the Her hair is an unheard-of shade, al- prize. This is the 20th time she has most pink. She has no eyelashes or given it.
eyebrows. Christopher Hussait had not, apart leopard skin in a pit, accompanied "Daisy appears in shorts and a be granted this does not necessarily striped grey suit, with rather a Prim key, and a huge python which she
Although such residence is likely to pearance of a
from his eyes, the conventional ap-by her favourite pets, a cal, a mon mean that Ollo should be linked with tie, and light brown shoes. People per-
the Hungarian throne. News of such probably took him to be an actor. a possibility, however, was sufficient He has been one. to create excltement in Europe.
●EPORTS received here state that Archduke Otto of Habs- Mr. Day: Has any communicationburg, Pretender to the now been received from the Imperial extinct Austrian throne, and his Government of Japan on the subject? mother, the former Empress
Mr. Butler: As the hon. Member Zita, have applied for a aware, we addressed a note to the: Japanese Government on this sub-manent residence in Hungary. ject, among others, to which there The news hus caused surprise In has not yet been a reply.
Yugo-Slav Government clrelės.
The information was stated to have come from semi-official italian sources.
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A question was asked in Parliament recently regarding the Japanese dis- regard of extra-territorial rights in "Soon after that," he went on, "I Shanghai.
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asked Mr. Hannahı company to Australia. It was there Minister whether he has
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THE DUKE OF NORFOLK has developed land, leaseholds, and the major portion of the residential part of the town.
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It is believed to have been bought by a private company. The purchase price is not known..
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It has always been a very popular
The sale is expected to be the pre-resort on account of its firm dry sands lude to the adoption of a vast deve- at low water, and extensive green- lopment scheme for the town.
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The 15th Duke of Norfolk, In com- ment of Lifehampton and he has memoration of Queen Victoria's decided that the general interests and Diamond Jublice, vested in trustees a progress of the town can best be served by the transference of his field called the Water Tower Field of ownership to those who can give un-over 11 acres, for the divided attention to the plans and are cricket, football, and other sports. able to carry out expansion on the The Duke of Norfolk is Lord of the best lines.
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HUNDREDS OF ACRES The property which has been sold consists of hundreds of acres of un-
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The estimated population of Little- hampton: Is 12,607, and the town! covers on area of 2,915 acres.
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