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April 8, 1940. By Walt Disney
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WALT DISNEY
WIVES COST Eight British Women from Inside Germany GOOD THEY RETURN FROM FOR
HIM £1,000,000
WIVES are an expensive hobby for Tommy Manville, American playboy and asbests multi-millionaire.
Four of them have cost him £1,000,000. Now he's looking
for a fifth, and permanent, wife.
He makes these confessions in his autobiography.
He says he has so much close by to give a little consolation, money £6,000,000-that if he though this form of coluce costs 1,000 spent £200 dally until he is 80 dollars a week," says Manville. he would utill have hundreds of thousands left.
And he claims that he isn't as crazy as most people think, because he turned the 12,000,000 dollara leti to him into 30,000,000 by skilful investment.
HILU six gorgeous starry-eyed blonde secretaries cost £200 weekly,
fie admits that he sleeps in white
1 pyjamas in a bed which has scarlet sheets and pillows, and clnlms that he has worked as a labourer in
construction gang.
THE LAND OF
NAZIS' PRISONERS TELL THEIR STORY
London.
PENNILESS, the clothes they wore all they Billiards Champion possessed in the world, eight British women and two
Divorced
He has wisky for brenktast and
Mrs. Florence Enid Davis, of Ches- his house, which cost £60,000, guarded night and day by six armed terfield, has been granted a decrec men to keep away kidnappers. nisi at Derby Assizes, because of "My biter moods always grow misconduct by her husband. Mr. Joe mellow when
my secretaries are, Davis, the billiards champion.
children arrived at Gravesend last month in a Dutch boat, from Rotterdam.
For the last foor months they have been imprisoned in Ger- many and Nazi Poland since war broke out.
I saw them came off the bout, tired. with thin, drawn cheeks from lack of proper food-and frightened.
You have heard of the fear of the Gestapo. These women have met it. A railway official came up to them for their passports. He was polite.! He had a kindly face,
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"Your passports, please," he said in on ordinary civil voice.
Yes,
England Boty "
Without question their hands darted to their purse-bags. Obediently they let him have their passports. And then one of them laughed, a nervous laugh that ended shak.ly in relief.
"We shall get them back, of course? yes, of course. I was forgetting
are in Some of them have homes to go Lo, some have not. Mrs. M. Peace, Pollsliborn, was being met
met by her son, who lives in Tanza-road, N.W., anu whom she has not seen for nine years. Miss Mary Rundstein and her sister Sarah were born in England but have not lived here since they were babies. They have no relatives here.
but This is England
"We shall find work," they sald confidently,
Mss Maude Vickery knows no one
In this country. And she will not be
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Must
Not Meet
Soldiers
RESERVES of Army wie being tapped for despatch in barrels to estimanels belund the lines in France. French Official War Photograph,
Soldier Wants
A Radio Wedding
LOVE that leaps the Atlantic may
able to find work She is 70 anu be a bone of contention for lawyers and
paralysed. She was married from the bout in a bath chair,
"I have not been in England for 30 years but it is home," she suld simply.
Miss Edith Allen, one of three Eng- Esh women teachers In Cracow and known everywnere in Puinnd, told me what it was like to be interned in Germany.
"We
iuremborg Nightmare
nine prison15
were 113
al-
together." site sald, "as we were
taken from one plure to andier.
The
Deus werd not clean. We nad to
clergy...
It certainly, is so in the case of Sergt. Charles Chevalier, French Canadian soldier now serving in England, who wants to be married
by radio. telephone to Vicky Quesnel, aged 19, SERGT. CHEVA- of Montreal.
LIER
Ile sent the
ch-
A GIRL of seventeen was banned from going out with soldiers by Kirkby Lonsdale (Westmorland) magistrates.
She was Nellle Rutter, of Tram- lune, who was found guilty of steal- ing a pound note.
Binding her over, the chairman, Mrs. F
F. Pearson, said that the magistrales had decided to add these conditions: She must not ro
out with soldiers; must not stay out after ten o'clock at night; must not frequent
public-houses.
"The magistrates feel," added Mrs. Pearson, "that many young people are getting into loose ways. Not for years have we had cases of this kind, and we must protect you against temptations."
Seymours Were A Funny Lot
THE Seymours were a funny lot-including the unfor- tunate Jane, who lost her head in more than one way to Henry VIII.
'It was excessive vanity, rather than undue ambition, which was to account for the unfavourable Impression made by the later Seymours on their con- temporaries, Mr. Bernard Falk points out in his new book, "The Naughty Seymours" (Hutchinson, 189.):
Charles Seymour, the sixth Duke of Somerset, for example, "was pompous to the point of ridicule."
"77" Wed "15"
Once, when his second wife tapped him coquettishly with her fan, he chlded her for familiarity: "Madam, my first Duchess was n Percy and she never took such a Überty!"
Matrimonially, they did well for themselves. "If they married for love," says Mr. Falk sceptically, "they were careful to see that their partners
Bishop Nelligan, Chief Roman Catholic Chaplain to the Canadian Forces, says the long-gagement ring by had substantial rentrolls or dowries. distance marriage can take pince-but à man'
must stand proxy for the Ser-
"Nuremberg was like a nightmare, geant Chevalier.
Church Inw says that the physical and bride- itroom before the priest is essential "It was nere ney stripped us. Afalthough a proxy may be permitted woman wardress supermenact the in certain circumstances. scaten, but there were our male
got rid of the bugs besore we coute presence of the bride
e down to sitep.
Warders who were there all the Line
bukang on."
Miss Borth Allen acted as inter- pres.r. She can speak iour languages, Freien, English, German, and us
He Wants Radio
But Sergeant Chevaller says, "No other man is going to take my place at my wedding ceremony."
That is why he wants a radio wedding. But here hotli, Jawyers
Three Jewish girls of the party, and priests rise up with objections.
The province of Quebec, in which Polly Eder and Sarah and Alary the bride lives, observes old-style kundstein were told by Nazi guards French law, which is quite different that they would be put up against from Watli
"We shall then shoot you," ex- planed the guards, "and when you ure uend we shall make soup out of you."
How Nazis Joko
A Inw
lawyer says "I have never heard of a marriage by proxy
taking place in Quebec, ataci seriously question whether it can be done. Quebec law requires marriages to be performed before a The girls were terrified, even when competent, official and in this pro- they came to understand that this vince a competent official means n was just the Nazi way of making a Priest or Minister of Beligion. There bitti joke.
is no such thing in Quebec as a civil Yesterday, terrifed stili, they clung marriage. to Miss Ian Danicis, who was the "In general, the Courts of Quebec momner of the party. She had aj w recognise as valid a marriage pack of cards and taught them to play "Sevens."
"It amused the children," she told I m. we aid what we could to keep
them happy."
The two children are nine-year-old Rienara und 12-year-old Alexander, song of Mrs. Sophie Brown, a Polish gl
of 27, wha married a South Airlean in Cracow.
which is recognised an valid by the Church to which the parties belonst
"If the Roman Catholic Church would recognise a pry marriage by radio as valid thero la just ti pos- mibility that the Courts would also recognise it is valid under Roman Catholic law."
But Where? Even if all these difficulties could
air mail,
The Colonel Who Was
Unfit
LIEUT. - COL. Patrick John Reeves was 62,
But he still wanted to do his bit. Then a Medical Board decided that he was unfit for further service.
So Colonel Reeves shot himself.
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At the inquest in Northern Command station the verdict was that he killed himself while the state of his mind was un- balanced,
The coroner (Dr. F. R. Eddison) said: "Here wo have an officer who, as far as age was concerned, was beginning to turn the corn- er, and felt he was of no use."
She had a job as manicurist. She tie avercome, the radio-telephone TO ATTACK
has never been to England before. wedding would still be a legal head- But as the train slid into London she nehe. clutched her two children and pointed "Would it have taken place in through the darkness.
England. In Canada, or halfway. the 3,000 mile radio-beam ACTOES linking the two partien?
"Lon-dion! Lon-den," she cried. And Richard and Alexander, both sucking oranges, shrieked with excite-
un-don." they chord.
Canada House legal experta will alt down to puzzle the matter out.
It it can't be done we shall have Adventure was before them. Only to wait until we can meet," sald fear, hunger, misery, lay behind.
Sergt. Chevaller. "But I want to be ...One member of the party, Miss married before 1 go further over- Joy Rogers, 21-year-old revue dancer, sens."
of Westellit-on-Sea, did not return And black-haired Vicky told a with them.
Montreal correspondent:
"I love Charles, and 1 am willing She left tiem at Rotterdam, saying someone had promised to take her to to marry him by proxy or any other England by plane,
.way."
-£28,400
FRANCE'S Armament Minister, M. Raoul Dautry, has worked out what It costs to maintain the Maginot Line with "Nothing to report"
Some of them married late. There was Henry Seymour, who was quite a "card." He married a 15-year-old girl when he was 77.
"Owd Sammy" Of Lancashire
CIR Samuel Brighouse, Britain's
oldest coroner, and affec tionately known 1.8 "Owd Sammy," who died at the age of ninety at his home in Derby Street, Ormskirk, Lancashire, had been the Southwest Lan- cashire coroner for fifty-six years.
For the past two years he had been confined to his bedroom, but carried on his work up to the Inst.
Sir Samuel smoked no fewer than twenty cigars a day. Some of his suyings wore:
"I enjoy every minule of every day. "I've never gone out of my way to avold a pint of beer.
"To acquire happiness take Interest in your fellow creatures and' they will take an interest in you."
Sir Samuel was born at Latham, Ormskirk. He was the last coroner In England chosen by the votes of the freeholders, being elected in January, 1884.
Baronet "Either
Fool Or Rogue”
A baronet was described by Mr. Registrar can, at London Bankruptcy Court, as "either a fool or a rogue."
He refused an application for dis charge by Sir John Corbin Chubb, of St. Mary's Abbott's Court, W.
Sir John was given liberty to apply In one hour of attack, be reckons,
in three years' time, the an infantry division uses. £28,400 again
Registrar saying: "In the meantine, In munitions and petrol atone......
glicht arilllery
Activity Five he might lead a docent, honest ille. minutes of that on a 1,000-yard front represents £1,700. One burst from 78mm; anti-air- craft gun blows up £23.
Seventy-five millimetro field guns
cost £6,860 per battery to buy.
And you can send a battalion, of heavy tanks clattering into action for a mere 2080,000-Associated Press.
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