Wally Pack, the famous boxer who has just turned pro, has ก His huge following in Hoxton. crowd of hero-worshippers includes dozens of small boys, whom he is teaching to box at a penny per head per week. The proceeds of Pack's teaching go to the funds of the junior section of ""The Lion"
Would-be amatour boxing club, boxing champs line up with their pennies at Hoxton.
PRESENTED FROM: COURT
Domestic. bliss via London courts:-
"Engine driver of the
Husband at Tottenham: My wife Class," Zinaida Troitskaya, one of and I were quite happy together the best engine-drivers in Russia, until I tried to teach her to drive. has been made chief of the Moscow Woman (same court): My hus- Ring Railway. Aged twenty-five, band is always unpleasant to me especially when he is in a she was recently awarded the Order of Lenin for exceptional knowledge good temper. of railway engineering.
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RAIL LURE TO CAR-OWNERS
Wife: He said, "While you are waiting for daughter I will put He wound you on a record." up the gramophone for five minutes then threw the record at me.
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KING OF HUNGARY?
A report from Budapest in a Warsaw paper says that Hungary.
preparing is
to restore the
Free car parking to stimulate rail travel is a Southern Railway Com- paay experiment to be tried out for a month at Woking (Surrey), Travellers who live some distance from the station will not lose the usual car parking fee of 1s. a day monarchy. The Hungarian regent, (season ticket 2s. 6d. a week). The Armiral Horthy, would be the first
title car park ticket will be accepted at ruler of a new dynasty, taking the of Nicholas the First. Ad- miral Horthy, who
be would crowned with the traditional Crown of St. Stephen, is said to have re- nounced his Protestant faith two months ago.
the booking office and will count as
PENSIONS GO ON
still
"This charming present was cash. Lord Mayor of Birmingham appeal- ed for girls to correspond with shown to the Princess on her return three lonely soldiers on the North- from Scotland, and every afternoon West frontier, Miss Elcock volun- since the toy shop has been for both
but not her and Princess Elizabeth a teered. She got a reply from the soldier to whom she had stant source of pleasure and amuse- first written. Her letter had been ment.” passed on to Lance-Corporal Aus-
"I have at the moment-twenty tin Kittrick, aged twenty-four, with the 2nd Prince of Wales Volun- BOOTS
years after the Great War teers. Later Kittrick in one of his
on the books of my Ministry 420,000 500,000 pensioners, besides about weekly letters asked her to be his wife. Miss Elcock accepted
dependants", said Minister of Pen- now he goes home in February for ford, near Cardiff, relic of the Great sions Ramsbotham at the British War, is to be sold as scrap to benefit Legion's Surrey Conference. "I am eight weeks' leave.
the towns poor. The Rev. Tegson still paying out in pensions about Davies suggested to the council that
£39,000,000 a year, and the "its brass be converted into boots, expenditure on war pensions from its bolts into blankets.”
1914 to March 31, 1938, amounts of £1,275,000,000."
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TREASURE TROVE
The Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal was told recently that in 1937 Post Office sorters found £1,538 in bank notes and cash among loose articles and in let- ters and packets posted without addresses.
Sir Harold Morris, K.C. (chair- man): is that treasure trove for the Government?
Mr. G. H. Taylor, chairman of the Guild of Postal Sorters: No, It was sent back to the address
inside the packet.
MOUTH
An old German gun în Amman-
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AT SEA
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Two thousand birds, mostly HER NINTH “PETER PAN” canaries, took refuge in the liner. Santa Rosa during a heavy gale off
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Jean Forbes-Robertson is to play
the West Indies. They flow into the name part in "Peter Pan" at the staterooms, dining rooms and beauty London Palladium this Christmas By so doing parlour. When the storm subsided for the ninth time.
after "travel- she will break the record of Pauline Chase, who played Peter eight times.
flew back: ashore
ling" 200 miles.
OFFICIAL AT HIS
OWN WEDDING
A
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married in man who was Bath not only did not have to leave the house he lived in, but acted as an official at his own wedding. Before his ceremony, he arranged the rom, placed bowls automatic anti-aircraft gun can- table. When the guests arrived he showed them to their seats!
He was ex-Lancer Cyril Sharpe, thirty-year-old official of Bath re- gister office, who lives on the pre- mises above the wedding room. He has attended 2,000 other wed- dings, and he was married (by his own chief) to Miss Brenda Viola Jones, a nursing sister.
Hiss dilemma was: Could he tip himself?. One could hardly ima- gine him, saying: "Thank you, sir I hope you and Mrs. Sharpe will be very, very happy"
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