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Baby Susan Was A Shop Lifter

MRS YAXLEY

SECONDARY EDUCATION FOR ALL

Detroit. Feb, 25.

The Minister of Education Mr Geoffrey Loyd, in a speech al Wayne University today said:

"By the mid-1980s secondary education for all will be reality in Britain. There wilt be nearly 50 per cent more university places."

The British education system

Mother Takes

Child Of 2 Shop Raiding

London, Feb. 25.. Two-year-old Suran could resist_purses—they wore like dolls to her,

not

So her mother used to take

THE CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER'S

WILL OF 1838

TIES THE LAWYERS IN KNOTS

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

London, Feb. 25. Ann Wrangle, a carpenter's daughter, made her will in 1838 (a year after Victoria became Queen, a year before- Blooms- bury won the Derby in a snowstorm) and the legal tangle she bequeathed has not been unravelled yet. Now, 117 years after she died, lawyers all

her out "shopping" and It

hold her near the baskot of any woman who hap- pened to be near the counter.

over, the world are still involved in sorting out an ever more complicated problem. Who gets what from an estate that has grown to £100,000? is 32 years since a Chancery judge was first faced with finding a solution to the key con dition of her baffling will. In that time 560 possible heirs have been traced,

If there was a purse in the

Many of the original claimants "In 1932 it was basket, Susan would pick it up have died. Their deaths, in-that the amount to be shareu and hand it to her mother, 21- stead of simplifying the issue, out was £56,283, but Interest is year-old Mrs Maureen Yaxicy, have added to the complica making the figure larger all the of Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Surrey. 10.

"It is," a solicitor said yester- With te Susan tucked unday, "likely to be the lengest der one arm Mrs Yaxley would ease of its kind in legal is- then walk out of the shop, take

tory," the money out and throw the empty purse away.

Stretched

time."

estimated

'Ridiculous'

The Lancashire solicitor 15 All those who will hopefully ecting for members of the

Cercendants of family in

in 1950 are the Jolin Wrangle, a carpenter in Baston, Lines in tho carly neteenth century, father of two sous and live daughters,

When Susan was spotted stretching her arm into a basket He died in 1837. A year later her mother chided her gently, his daughter Ann willed the

her apologised for

"naughty income from her estate to 27 child, exchanged alles with specified descendants of her the near-victim, and passed on father, to another likely looking buny shopper.

With this proviso: When the Inst of the 27 died the capital

So many purses disappeared) should go to all their heirs,

police thought a big- that the scale gang was

at work. And

a team of detectives was oc-

asised to smash "the gang."

cont,

The Last One

Accrington, Black- burn, Liverpool, Great Harwood. Darwen, and Preston. There are others in Bournemouth, Boston, and London.

One of those who have waited through the years is 70-year-old Mr Sam Langtree, of Blackbart. "My mother dled before she got ahy monty and now I have walled so long that I have written t off," he said.

"I have a bundle of letters from solicitors as thick up my arm So have my sisters, cousins," And brothers, and

Wo over

It they can't find all those in America why can't those in England be pald

The last of them was John Henry Chasmor, who died in AL Richmond Magistratus

In 1927 (the year he wondered: "WI Mrs Yaxley, in a neat America

Lindbergh flew the Atlantie and get any money? swagger

Call Boy won the Derby).

It was ruled then that every descendant living at Miss Ann's death, or born between then and the time Mr Chasmar died, and their heirs, were entitled to share in the fortune.

in the next Avc Year's "will place mill more emphasis on court specialised Institutions than furquoise blue you do here in America," he told the police she had been

sald,

stenling purses regularly ever Mr Lloyd explained that the since-Christmas, "It all started British públic rebools "did per- when the baby took o purse form an extremely valuable from a bag and gave it to me

despite

she had

social function privileged position."

Fusion

their

She told the court taken 14 other purses.

There were two previous con- "Just дя your commons schools welded Immigrant victions against Mrs. Yaxley. It war said she was now living

communities to one nailon, BO

our public schools throughout with a man not her husband by The 19th century fuscil the whom she had an eight-month- old Innded zylstneracy and old son.

the rising industrial class," he continued,

middle

This more then anything also recounts for the stability of British life at a time when acute conflict was raging else- where, in Europe between the old governing classes and the new midele classes"

Mr Lloyd added: "What has stuck me most on my tour of American schools and colleges is not so much the differences between the American and British systems as the way in which we are growing together."--U.P.I.

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"That started the fum," of the solicitore who thenbe came involved sale yesterday.

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Thousands of letters have been written; birth, marriage of -and death each known descendant have jof Defence, said today that East been produced to a court of Suez, where naval

certificates

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Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister

80 could play a very important

Onc man, now a solicitor la Lancashire town, first worked

arabicia na droga i teratai manga, se manta sig on the claline of 45 people-when-

Landladies

Budapest, Feb. 25.

landladies

he left school 25 years ago, "This was my apt it when 7 chme to the hail ata 1 chùir beg lucky If I see the end of it," he said recently,

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at

He was speaking in a House of Commons debate on defence,

Reuter.

Dog. Cancer.

Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 25. A study Rapacious

of cancer in dogs "We would find a descendant in

only to told: 'I had mean now

for humans hope Hungary are making for cousin who went to Autrella in suffering from the dread killer. tunes by crowding lodgers | the middle of the century, but Dr Svend W. Nielson, in five to a room.

I haven't heard from him Danish velerinary pathologist

working under an $8,000 grant | One landlady was reported

State University, to have let three beds and twe

brought at Ohio

about new names-and more trying to learn more sofas ail in one zoom for about other

by cancer

studying more nutrum searching of pedigrees, £3 (HK$48) each a month.

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animals.-UP.I.

This gave her a monthly in-yellowing documents tied with malignant tissues in domestic

of £15 (HK$240) al-pink tape. though her rent for the whole flut was less than nine shillings (HK$8) month,

"All members of the family

Koreans Protest

Toltyo, Feb. 25, Thousands of Korean

Ite

in England have been traced now." he added, "but the Asked where the occupants overseas search still goes on, - all girls could wash, thỏ landlady, who greeted hor "Ono dificulty has been to visitor lying in bed beneath an prove what claimants who died elderdown, replied: "In the were entitled to before passing aldents of Japan staged rallies today kitchen."

it on to their descendants | throughout the country She said her rentals covered Another has been that

to oppose the Japanese

to repatriato heating, but said that so far became entitled to a share in ernment's plan this winier there had been do their own right and stils further Koreans to Communist North need for it,China Mall Special, shares from their predecessors. Korea-Uri.

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