4 Brides MAN
Borrow A Ring To Wed
Colebester. Fasex.
FOUR brides were married at the register office here recently with one borrowed ring.
There was
The four couples are refugees, now living
at Clacton.
handsome Bernard Fleischer,, nged 30, and ft. tall. He is u plasterer, and a few months ago he and bla boyhood sweetheart, fair- haired Elka Shurmak, a 20-year-old Czech clerk, were married secretly in Czecho-Slovakia according to their Jewish faith.
Later they learned that the marri- uge wasn't legal,
Then there
were
33-year-old
Oldrick Blum and Josepha Helena, his 23-year-old britte. Oldrick is a Ger man, Josepha is n Czech,
They met in England two months ago.
Stefan Krezir, a 33-year-old clerk, and Elza Spitzer, 28, university
student, were engaged when they fled to this country from their homes.
Czecho-Slovakia,
Germa Czech.
The fourth couple were Kurt 39 year old Sudeten- clerk, and Anni har. 35, a None
the bridegrooms had ut enough money to buy a ring. so motherly Mes. E. Clark, of the Clue- ton Refugee Committee, solved their problem. She took her own wedding ring from her finger and presented it to the that couple. When she re- turned it to her lager half an hour Jater four brides had worn it for their | weddings.
Later
Thomas Barnshaw, secretary of the Clacton Unemploy- inent Committen, took the couples into a 6d. store and saw that each smiling bride had a wedding ring of her own.
Greyhounds Are Nose-Printed
grey-
LONDON. (UP) Racing hounds in England are now having their nose prints thiten by veterinary surgeons. The object of these ex- periments is to devise a system of ictentifleation for greyhounds.
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70 FIGHTS BANDITS
September 1, 1939.
Nuary, Supreme Court
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Government ordered Mrs. Madeline Buchols of Los Angeles, mother of eight, deported to Canada and strain raused husband, Fred, to run amuck. He's shown in straight jacket. Stay order
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U.S. Order Bear Hunt
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Spanners Used To
Fell Bank Clerk
Carrying £800
A
70-YEAR-OLD man put to flight three bandits armed with long steel spanners who attempted to snatch a bag containing £800 which a bank clerk was carrying at Cheam, Surrey, recently.
The man-George Jones, of Church Lane, Cheam-is. a bank guard employed at the Cheam branch of Barclays Bank. He was walking with a cashier, Mr. Norman Hill (35), of Stonecott Hill, Cheam to a sub-branch when three powerfully-built men leaped at them from a wooden hut.
Mr. Hill, who had the bag chained to his waist was felled by
a blow from one of the spanners.
While Mr. Hill was on the ground, Mr. Jones tackled the men single-handed and they fled down the street to a black saloon car and drove off in the direction of Banstead.
Mr. Jones then helped Mr. Hill-who is now in hospital with
a severe head wound-back to the bank with the money and gave the alarm. Mr. Jones also sustained head injuries. He said to the New Chronicle:
knocked
"The men must have been watch-1 ing our movements for some time. The fight lasted five minutes, and after Mr. 1 had been down threw my mackintosh over one of the men. While he was try- ing to free himself landed some
sti punches on
the other
The manager
of the bank said the
two men presented a terrible sight
as they staggered back after the at trek.
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Irene Meyrick Marries An Earl MISS Irene Meyrick, 23-
years-old daughter of recently to defend a case "in the
public interest."
Society. The younger, more than night-club life, was secretly claims to have been a pioneer of member of the American Button once "Queen" of London's St. claims she is the youngest charter the late Mrs. Kate Meyrick, He was Mr. Alan Nichols, a Brownle Girl Scout, has more
Dunstan's lecturer, married to the 22-years-old the household air-raid shelter. Earl of Craven in London four months ago.
The U.S. biological survey reported 16 hunters working on state and fed- eral funds killed 312 coyotes, one bobeat and one predatory bear in Washington in one month. the summer the hunters were directed During to concentrate, their efforts on dealing with beurs that committed depreda-0,000 buttons in a collection she start
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He was sued by a local Arm for the cost of removing several tous of earth from his former home nt Brooklyn-hifi. Golders Green, N.W.
"PUBLIC SERVICES" The plaintiff did not appearance, and the Registrar struck put in an out the case and awarded Mr. Nichols
The secret of their marriage, which took place on May 3 at St. Peter's, Eaton-square, S.W., has been known only to their closest relatives.
Miss Meyrick, dark and brout 3 costs. ful. Is the youngest of Mrs. Meyrick's daughters. Miss Dorothy Evelyn Meyrick married Lord de, Clifford in 1926. Her sister, Miss Mary Ethel Isabel Meyrick. married the Earl of when the Hume Office was appealing "Before the crists last September, Kinnoull in 1928, and died last De-to people to provide air-raid protec cember shortly after his death,
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It was as Miss Irene Holmes-her
And this is the story behind the |Case:
tion. I decided to show what could
be done in a suburban garden," Mr. Nichols said,
father Is Dr. Ferdinand Holmes "believe I was the frat private mar-individual to have a shelter built.
Meyrick that Miss Meyrlek
ried Lord Craven
At any rate, the Home Office was in-
"Irene used her second name to terested. avoid attracting publicity," a rela- tive of Miss Meyrick sald.
"I was informed that I had per- "There were only about six guests demand in several towns. Later, I formed a public service and was in
at the wedding, Including the bride's spent a week at Leeds preparing a two sisters, Lady de Cord and model for the council. ---
Miss Bobbie Meyrick After the ceremony they left for their honey- moon in the Isle of Wight, and have for some weeks been living quietly in the country,"
NEIGHBOURS OBJECT
"After I had done all this I was pastered by neighbours who objected Lord Craven, who is the sixth to the pile of earth that had been earl, succeeded his father, the fifthrown up. I applied to the Home curl. In 1032. He was educated at Office, and everyone to whom I was Downside, and, until his marriage, er
referred passed me on to somebody held a commission in Reserve of felte, so I finally decided to get the Oncers, Coldstream Guards, which work done and the bill sent to the he has resigned. His mother, Mary local authority and to the Home Of Countess of Craven, was not present flee.
"Whether or not anybody paid the
at the wedding.
Until last May Miss Irene Meyrick bl I do not know." tived with her unmarried sister, A few months ago Mr. Nichols sold Bobbie, in their mother's old house his house and went to live in Corn- near Regent's Park, N.W.
wall-and he still prepared shelters.
Navy Buy Trawlers For Minesweepers
THE Admiralty, it is said in Hull and Grimsby, have bought 86 modern steam trawlers, which will be converted into minesweepers.
But recently the Admiralty refused to confirm or deny this, after one Grimsby trawler owner had said, "We regret that the step is necessary, but it is in the national interest and we have no option."
Of the 86 trawlers, 54 will bej
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MEN WILL LOSE JOBS
from Hull and 32 from Grimsby. The ships, it is said, will be de- They are from 160 to 180ft. in livered as they return from the
length and represent about a the Admiralty.
Ashing grounds and after survey by
third of the deep-water fleet,
The effect on the market supplies and 50 per cent. of the larger of fish will be counterbalanced by trawlers of the two Humberting the present voluntary restric tions on landings at Hull and Grima porty.
by and by working remaining ships to their full capacity.
Blunder Turned To Use
NEW ORLEANS (UP)—A · con- struction' blunder will be turned into a recreation centre for New Orleans' youth. The city purchased an· Im- mense unused street `transli gorage from the Public Service, Inc. The atte will be made into a huge skating | rink and playground, one of The largest in the United States..
The purchases will probably result in unemployment among fishermen at both ports, and hundreds of peoplo in various branches of the Industry will be affected.
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