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Shock tor Diplomat's Wife,

Mr. Skinner, wife of the Ameri- can-Minister in Greece, went up n an airplane at Athens (for a demonstration flight-and

Jour

Charlie Chaplin's Two Seas,

Mrs. Lita Grey Clinplin, the for- er wife of Charlie Chaplin, has found herself some hours inter in Sled the account for the expense Washington, December 7.-The of bringing up their two sons for bub-committee of the House appro priations committee today busied the your just closed. It amounts itself with further consideration of to £1,200, na compared with £1,480 the bill, asked for by President for 1929 and £1.188 for 1928. Hoover, which

would provide G.150,000,000 for unemployment relief,

The sub-committee reluced the appropriation suggested to G.8110, - 000,000 and then proceeded to draft its report on the measure to the House as whole. It is predictril that a favourable report on the 0.810,000,000 appropriation will be sent out on Tuesday and that the House will not on the bit within' a week.

Together, Lad

"My boy," he said seriously. "I'm getting old and will soon have to retire. I want you to take over the" business for me. What do you think " "Father," was the raply, "how would it bo if you worked a few years longer and

The reduction in the amount then we both retired together 7** originally desired, by President Hoover was made necessary, Houses

leadors said, in order to avoid a Mark Over!

Bucharest. She had arrived at the Athens areodrome when the do- monstration fights had ended, and the pilot, unaware of the fact that sho only intended to make a trial fight, set off with her for Buchar cst, where he was due to give fur- ther demonstrations.

The Bost Meal.

He

enesing the quation of the mast Home Landon dubmen were dis-

enjoyable meal that any of them. deal of revolt against the conven- euld remember. There was a good tions which prescribe what should eat at any given hour of the day, and several of the disputants spoke gloatingly of dining on trips and onions, or pressed. tripe, on cheese and onions, and on pig's for anexpectedness, was unanimous trottera. But the palm, at any rate

the man who said his ideal men It consisted (he that not long ago he had enjoyed

more serious defeit than the federal. The drive had been hooked into government in new facing. With the rough. Player and caddie hunt-ly awarded the slash in the suggested appro-ed for the ball for priation of today, committee con- Then the nintirned to the boy kideration of the nemploymorit

some time.

relief measure hins been completed and said: "Did you mark my averred) of dwe courses: the first,

and only the drafting of the formal report remains.

97-YEAR-OLD CORONER

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WOMAN OF 70 AS HIS THIRD WIFE

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Mr. John Graham, of Durham, the oldest coroner in England, who was ninety-seven last July, was married Inst month at All Saints' Church, Upper Norwood, London, Hin bride, Miss E. Ashton, of Shotley Bridge, Co. Durham, in nearly saventy years of age.

The ceremony had been kept a clore secret, and eveo Mr. Graliam's most intimate friends were unaware of it. Only the two witnesses were present, apart from the bridal couple and the vicar.

ago. hefore.

bull "Yes," was the answer, 1 marked it." "What by 7" asked the player. By a bird; buy it flew away."

caviare, served in the ordinary way the second, a potato baked in its skia and eaten with pepper, salt and enormous quantities of butter. Inder pressure, he admitted that, if he had been forced to choose he- tween them, he would have plumped for the seccaid course.. officer plumped firmly for beer, À naval

bread and butter and sardines after ten hours coaling abip."

Changing Ficcadilly,

The Chance of a Lifetime,

The Chanes of a Lifetime." written by George Kaufman, one of the authors of "Merton of the Movies," has created a sensation in New York, whore, although de scribed дя a natirë, it tells the truth about the follies of Holly wood. London managers who have read the script roar with laugh- the aspect of Picadilly will be The day is not far away when Ler, but it is doghtful if it will changed as completely as Regent over be staged in London, New York manager

Ogestreet has been changed during the stage "The Chance of a Lifetime,"

wanted to last quarter of a century, but he was afraid.

"I am so tied the south eide-and already many latest improvement to be effected on new buildings have made their ap- pearance between Arlington-street' and Piccadilly-circus-is the group f buildings which used to be known ns. Princes Hotel and Restaurant..

up with these picture guys," he said, "that I cannot make fun of them."

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In a pretty little villa-the pic-The work of transforming this well.. The bridegroom is not only the ture of innocence on the outskirts known London landmark has been oldest coroner in the country, but of Bentschen, the police have dis-carried on under the direction of is believed to be the oldest solicitor. covered the headquarters of Folish Clement D. Rich, the chairman He was the last coroner to in clect- spies in Germany. The suicide of "The old hotel and restaurant have

if the Piccadilly Development Co. P. O. Box 1, ed by a public vote fifty-seven years dorman postal sorter led to the

He has been married twice discovery. He had been betraying said to-day. Behind the hoord. completely disappeared," Mr. Birch "Mr. Graham lives' near Durham his country by lending to the spies ings workuen have built a mini- in a house which he has occupied Equipped with all modern business offices. An arcade is to connect important military docaraents.ture town, with its own shops and for sixty years. He is still actually coroner, although he does not at "ppiances, the villa was an ideal Piccadilly and Jermyn-street, thus centre for the spies. Thera tlio tend inquests, but carries out most

from the north to St. James'-quare, of the other duties connected with chief received his correspondence providing another means of access reports from agents' working in the office.

"In the now Princes House there various parts of Germany and, of

are modern suites of offices, while course, the treacherous sorter's

in the basement is a restaurant to misgives.

seat 300 people. At the same time the old Princes Galleries, the scene of so many sit exhibition, have Stirhem-been remodelled." berg, Austria's would-be Hitler, It was largely because of Mr; who, at thirty-one, is now Minister Graham's insistence on the need of the Interior, recently took a for firaguards in homes where there further step to advance the cause are children that legislation to en-of his Heimwehr (Fascist) party forco this was introduced into then the coming general election. He Children's Act. Mr. Graham, on rescinded the order oxiling his one occaion, publicly praised the part played by the Daily Express in bringing about the regulation of the sale of flannelette, after series of child tragedies caused by Annnelette clothing catching fire

He has held inquests on thirty one persons hanged in Durham Gool,, and has fong advocated aboli- tion of the death penalty. He aug- gested three years ago the alter-Austria's Hitler Busy. native of penal. servitude without Prince Rudiger von

hope of remission.

NEW WORK BY POET LAUREATE.

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contrade-in-arms, the Prussian Major Papst, chief of staff in the famous German Kapp putsch, and also ordered the police to search every Socialist head-quarters in Austria for stores of hidden arins. The Socialists, anticipating this move, were on guard, and fow arma were found.

A Man of Tue,

The Inte Colonol Fox was a vory LIFE STORY OF A "TALL SHIP.' well-known London personality. For thirty years Chief of the Lon- The Wanderer," the hitsory of den Salvage Corps, no one knew a four-masted barque told in prose which he enjoyed most-fires or and verse, the first work of Mr. parties. He was present at both John Masefield's to appear since with unfailing regularity, attend- he became Poet Laureate, has been ing the former with professional published (Heinemann, Bs. Od.). ecthusiasm and the latter with all Much of the verse is extremely the zest of a schoolboy out for a beautiful, as, for instance, the good time. Even when he poem on "Skysails,' beginning: rer seventy he would dance and I saw you often as the crown of talk amusingly well into the small Queone; As snow upon a moun-hours. His official duties taught

tain, as the rose

Red in the middeat summer's

many greens

You were the beauty's final grace,

A those.

Was

him the knack of going without sleep, and in the great Cripple- gate fire he was on duty for two and a half days without taking a

Nolas and Work,

This, however, is hardly the work that we were waiting from the Laureate.

Extracts from the ship's papers, red to write a great novel, and Mr. Henry Williamson, haj re builder's specifiostions, lists of

he has retired not, a you would crew,and so forth, are A

· poor- substitute for Mr. Masefield's poems think, to a country village bat of the sea, more especially as the to New York, because he likes poetic description of the storm re plenty of noise when he is work- veals all the vigour of his earlier ing. As a further aid to composi

tion bo proposes to buy a loud-

work.

The volume is illustrated with speaker. When he first gave up photography of the barque, which journalism in London for the writ- was the property of Messrs. Poting of novels, Mr. Williamson withdrew to the remotest and quiet- ter, of Liverpool.

est part of the West Country but be found it unsatisfactory, Mr. Keith Winter, whose "Other Man's 'A' campaign of terror by `gangs- Saucer" was perhaps the ters to extort tribute from owners striking first novel of the year, of Tom Thumb golf courses was adopts an even stranger procedure. revealed to-day by the murder of He is writing his now book amid Mr. Joseph Fuerman, part owner the roar of London, and his "best 6a a miniature links, who was shot - tours” are from four to seven, down in the Bronx, New York. when he seeks out the most crowd- The police believe the killing was ten-shop and scribblo, inspired the first indication of a plot to amid the din of plates, Clearly. force the proprietors of the new the saucer complex has bitten deep pusomnant to pay tax lo-the-make-ints. Mr. Winter's soul. Nor i teers in return. for the promise not this in any senso a póss upon thé. to molest them: Mr. Fuerzan up; part of the modern author. It m parently, declined, and was muryente since Cacar Wilde romark- dered to encourage, the others."ed that the romantic surroundinga He was known to have made large of the Basti Besuched endured it sums of money out of the new L. Biqveason to writing letters to UFAZO, NU W gorg, wort vowrous the fress npur Corman ”KELİVİTïda with diamond rings.

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