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WOMAN IN THE DOCK.

DOG WITH 179 PRIZES.

SEASIDE TRIP SEQUEL.

A Colonel's seaside trip with a married woINAN was disclosed t Westminster, when Violet Haines,

SAMOYED CARRIES OFF 16 MORE.

The Samoyed Siberian Chub his

· reason to congratulate itsalt on hav. or Peurer, aged 39, who was stylish- ing secured a record entry at the ly dressed, wax charged with ob- Jshow at Tattersalls, Knightsbridge, taining goods by false pretences 1.8.W. Irom Messrs, Harrods, Brumpton- road, S.W.

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It is a welcoming sign of incrons ing general interest in "a breed which, considering its delightful disposition and general beauty, has quite inexplicably never made, a very big hit with the general dog

Mrs. Haines pleaded that she had authority to order the goods in the She said name of Mrs. Davis. that she had assumed that name after an engagement so marry Col. William Northcote Davis; of Brook- side, Salt-hill, Slough, Buckingham-owning public. shiro.

Col. Davis, a widower, giving evi- dence, said he had an account at Harrods, but he denied that he had given the woman authority to use his name to obtain goods. Last Outonor he queried nu nocount ont him, but he paid it on the woman's pien that she ordered goods under mental distress. He informed her that she had been guilty of a criminal offence, and he only paid on condition that it would not be repeated:

But in some ways the show was rather disappointing. It is ob. vious that Samoyed breeders have to go warily. For years they have bean claiming the Samoyed as one of the very few importet varieties which, in our vastly different el mate, has.net deteriorated jo cont condition and general conformation

The 66 exhibits indicate that this claim oan no longer be fully just

Some of the old faults-short lega and cow hooks-seam to be less in evidenco, but there were far too many flat and uncharacteristic This points with some de-i conta. finiteness to errors in breeding or diffoulty in securing suitable breed ing stock.

Cross-examined by Mrs. Haines.fed. Col. Davis agreed that he took her to an hotel ht Selery. Sussex, last August, where she passed na "Mrs. Davis,

Mrs. Haines: And you took me to Harrods after that and bought ma quite a lot of things. We select ed your daughter's wedding pre

sent You came with me and I bought some things.

We were to be married, and you chose a dressing-ense for me with the initiais B.D. -Quite true, There was an idea that, we should he married, but it was broken off.

I was engaged to be married and you told me to order goods as for Mrs. Davis. My dear eclonel, you know you did I did nothing" of that sort. I gave no mandate to

sign my name,

And you told me you would allow me £300 dress money -No. I have not seen you since December, and after Orteber lass I made it dear that you had to authority whatever to pledge my credit.

Mr. Boyd, the Magistrate, said he shoukl tommit Haines for trial.

The husband of Mr. Hainer, who Anid they had been married for 18 years. was accepted as bail.

DECISION OF TWO JUDGES.

SHOPPING PROBLEM.

April - Motorist who puts parcels in his car when shopping. or carries in it his own luggage. may be breaking the law, accord ing to a majority decision of King's Bench divisional court,

it was the view of Mr. Justice Macnaghten, who, disagreeing with the views of the other judges (Lord Howart, the Lord Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Avory), said the other judges' decision would mean that any privaca car need for the con- veyance of goods in any circumstan ers would be liable to the higher rate of duty of a trade vehicle.

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SKY-WRITING OVER A CITY.

WORLD CONGRESS

SEARCHLIGHTS.

JUNE 2, 1932.

POLITICAL CRISIS DR. LEON WAS "THE

IN GERMANY.

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which has been shattered by post- war bardotis da opposed to the pad nationalism of Hitler.

The task of decorating Dublin The man's personality and sin- for the 21st International Eucharia.cerity have won ovar thone

who there from June 23 to 30, has bogus, to him, or to the Church of which tie Congress, which will be held have not always been kind or just

Tall stoot masta to carry flags and he is

A momber. The following atroamera are being set up along the estimate from the Daily Herald i banks of the River Liffey, and worth reproducing: massive wooden towers are to be į built at Morrión gates, to mark the city "boundary, There" Cardinal Lorenzo Lauri, the Papal Logate, will be welcomed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin and members of the cor- be set up at the main entrance to poration. A triumphal arch will

Phonix Park, and chains of flowers will he hung along the procossional route from this arch to the high altar in the park.

Half-Mile Loud Speakers.

will enable a million people to The broadcasting apparatus which follow the service will be the largest local system in Europe. Powerful of half a mile, will be mounted on loud speakers, each with a radius poles, and the amplifiers will be housed in a domed pavilion beside the high altar. Three microphones will be placed by the altar and athers among the choir. A special loud spanker will amplify the music of a full church organ. of a portable organ to the volume

The broadcasting system will ox- tend from the park along is milea of atrocta. More than 400 load speakers will operate along the route to be traversed by the proces Among the young animals, Mission of the Blessed Sacrament on E. G. Quinlan's Phanto of Iceland, Sunday, June 20 which carried off Arata in special Flood lighting will transform puppy, puppy, and jumior dog clasmid-night into noon in Dublin dur- nes, and Miss I. Crovold's "Alba ing the Congress, and the sky will Siberien, with firsts in junior bitch be illuminated by coloured search- and novien bitch classes, show xBghts. If experiments are success coptional promise.

ful these searchlights will write across the sky some such word as " Adoramus" (we praise).

But generally the exhibits were For from upprunching the quality of Mrs. Edwarda Champion Kara Sea, which at eight years old has been unbeaten in this breed for nearly five years. The biggest win nor the breed has over known, he came to the show the holder of 19 and specials, and left having gain- challenge certihentes and 160 Brack further six firsts and ten specials.

LIGHTED CANDLE "CAUSES DEATH.

A lighted candle on a chair at

BARRACKS TO BE

REOCCUPIED,

OLD PARK ESTATE, CANTERBURY,

The Cavalry Barracks at Old Park Estate, Canterbury, are to be reoccupied in the near future, probably by cavalry, and if not, by other troops,

This statement was made by Earl, Stanhope, Under-Secretary for War, to a deputation from Canter

the house of Mrs. Mary And buy which asked for the release of way, 88, widow, in Sunny Har road,

the southoris part of the estate for Streatham, S.W. ແລ້

get bedclothes on fire while Mrs. Rhouse development. way and her daughter wors alp Both mother and daughter were burned, and Mrs. Rodway died.

At the inquest on Mes away a vordiot of Accidental Death whs returned,

Lord Stanhope said the site which the Council desired to

acquire covered part of the area most suit- able for a parade ground and in- rluded a semi-permanent camping ground for Territorials at the east- It therefore represented the most valuable part of the train- ing ground from a military point GIRL'S 43 DAYS' FAST. of view, as well as commercially.

FOR £200 TO SAVE

MOTHER'S LIFE.

A Leicester girl who carried out what is claimed to be a record fast in a local amusement hall revealed to the doctor who forbade her to

The case was an appeal by the Automobile Association on bahalf of Mr. Theophilus Payne, a green grocer, of Glyn Neath, Glamorgan, who was fined 108 at Cardiff. It continue that she had done it for

fruit,

was alleged that, having paid £10 for the licence of a salcon motor. car, he carried vegetables, and flowers in the ear, and he should have paid duty_nt higher rate, £20.

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her mother's sake.

She was known as Miss X and was offered 2000 if she fasted, for

45 days. She fnated for 43 days,

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er end.

The Mayor of Canterbury ex- prossed satisfaction at learning that the barracks would again be fully occupied. The Council would consider what had been said regard- ing Old Park Estate, and submit alternative proposals.

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ENGINES NAMED AFTER FAMOUS HUNTS.

The first of a new series of fifteen has drinking only lemonade and sanok-L.N.E.R. express passenger sugines ing cigarettes, lying inside a glass which will work cross-country and cabinet where spectators could we main-line express train services has her Then a doctor said that is just been completed at Darlington, weak that she musi ne These locomotives will form a new group to be named after famous She begged to be allowed to con-hunts, each engine carrying a braas binue, saying that she had under nameplate of now design surmount- taken the fant to get money for ed_by_a fox, an operation on which her mother's life depended.

Mr. Justice Avory gard he thought the conviction should stand. The paragraph of the Finance Act of 1928 (under which the case was brought) might have far-reaching effects which the ordinary public would call absurditica,

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Each engine will be equipped with the latest refinements of loco- motive practice, including Lentz rotary valve gear. The first loco- fasted the motive is No. 201, the Bramham

Moer.

The procotera will present her Lord Hewart agreed with Mr. with the money which she would Justice Avery, and the appeal was have earned hid she

full period. diamigned.

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SHEIKH.

NAME CHANGE DUE TO WILL CLAUSE.

The mystery of Dr. Henri Marcel] Leou, Dean of the Landon School of Physiology, whose drach, has been.. announced, has been solved.

Struck off Rolla,

It was condrmed that he' was a "Pale, dreamy. almost immo-

former Liverpool wolicitor before he bile, you can see him more easily became Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam. in the scriptorium of a mediaeval Miss Harriet Quilliam, his dangh- monastery than as Chancellor ofter, who lives with her eldest bro the Corman Republic...... Hether. Mr. Robert Quilliam, in Fair- is intensely Catholic, and his re-field-erescent, Old Swan, Liverpool, ligion has been an immense aid to a reporter: source of sirength to him. It "Dr. Leon and my father wore gives him an inner fire and an the same man. There has never inner reserve of consolation. been any mystory to his family or

It steels him in the face of terrible to his close friends. My father burdens to go on with what he changed his name to Loon about Baliaves to be his duty...... 20 years ago to conforma with the laxation for him moans a change conditione laid down in a will un- of work. If he knew a holiday it der which he was the beneficiary. would be spent in spiritual res became a Moslem after a visit treat in some distant monastery ito Morocco." and he would draw from that. silont communion refreshment and consolationi he cannot draw from contact with the world..

"Io no sign in him of a man to whom political work is at all enjoyable. He would, I think, be happier in communion with his own soul. He could watch with contentment the spectacle ,,!

After beceraing à Moslem he went which fata has made him" one of to Persia in 1888, where he was on- the chief actors. As one tortained by the Shah, and on his watches him in his difficult road return to Liverpool acted as Per it seems almost too much to hope sinn Vice-Consul. that he can reach his goal. But He travelled extensively in the I am certain of two things: Eu-East before changing his name, and rope already owes much to his in 1803 and again in 1000 he was noderation. If he wins through entertained by the Sultan of for Germany, no honour we can Turkey. A number of Fastern pay him will be too great for his potentates conferred decorations achievement.".

upon him..

Mr Quilliam, who was a bril liant scholar, had one of the lar gess practices in the north of Eng- land until he was struck off the rolls in 1908, following, a divorca case in which it was alleged he had presented a false case.

On inquiey at Taviton-street, Gordon square, Holbern. W.C.. where Dr. Leon died, it was stated that Mine. Leon was too prostrate to answer any questions,

A little while 480, says to Catholic Timen, the citizens of the United States rejected a Presiden. tial candidate because ha professed the Faith which sustains the Ger man Chancellor. For the same rea- this son political candidates in country (England) have been de feated at the polls. In Spain men ATTACKED IN HER HOME. are being ahut cut of office because their fidelity to the Church which is Dr. Bruening's strength is "too conspicuous;

MAN WHO CALLED TO SEE THE METER.

Comment on these facts is need- less. The German people have esti mated the Catholie Chancellor at attacked in her home near Woking A woman is alleged to have been his true worth, The victory of by a man who posed as repre- President Von Hindenburg

Wasentative of the electric light com- Dr. even a greater triumph for

pany and who said he had bean for Bruening than for the man

sent to examine the meter. whom the votes were registered.

LAWN TENNIS

FRENCH CHAMPIONSHIPS

(MOVOH RECTER'S AGENCY.}

The woman is Mr. Green, of Rosemary, Victoria-road, Knaphill. The man, who was well-dreased, rang the front-door bell, and when ho explained why he had called Mra. Green showed him the meter.

Later she was found unconscious: on the floor.

She sny's that the man struck her a severe blow on the head, and that sum of money which was in the room is missing.

PARIS, May 31. In the final of the Mixed Doubles Perry and Miss Nuthall beat Woodra. and Mrs. Willa-Moody, 6-4, 6-2.

In the third round in the Bingles Championship, Lacoste bent Syd- ney Wood 6-4, 6-1, 3-6, 6-8, 7-5.

PRINTERS ON STRIKE

CHINESE PAPERS IN SHANGHALIDLE

(THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, June 1.

A printers strike, affecting the Tour leading Chiness nowapapors of Shanghai, including the Shum Pao and Sin Wen Pao, has been declared by the Newspaper Work ers' Laion.

The strike is a sequel to the re fusal of the China Timer to re state forty of its employees who were recently dismissed."

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GARAGE "FIRE. THRILL.

OWNER AND FAMILY ESCAPE FROM ADJOINING HOUSE.

Bagshot (Surrey).—The garage belonging to Mr. Alfred Oaman, on the London road at Bagshot, was destroyed by fire.

Mr. Daman and his family were sleeping in the house adjoining, and had to escape burriedly.

The outbreak we discovered by one of the villagers, who arcused the family. When it was found impossible to save the garage the fire brigade turned their attention to adjoining houses.

DIED ON HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE.

Mr. Eliza Hammerton, age 08, of Faraday street, Walworth, S.E., collapsed and died on her hus band's grave" at the Camberwell Council Cemetery, Honor Oak, S.E. At the inquest of Camberwell it was stated that death was from syncope following undue exertion in climbing the hill to the cerno tory,

A verdict of Denth from Natural Causes was returned.

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DEFIANCE.

LIVE WILL PLAY IN-SPITE-OF-

THE COUNCIL."

Little Southwick, Sussex, is not, after all, to have cricket on the historis green. The new council- have affirmed the old council's ban on adult eticket.

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BOY PULLS OUT PRINCE'S. Alan's head.

"TIE

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ANOTHER STEPS ON HIB FOOT...

A three-year-old boy toddled up to the Prince of Wales and pulled out the Prince's silk tie."

The Prince was visiting a school, near the Bensham-grovo Unemploy

men learn to do their own carpentry and cobbling.

The voting resulted in a tie of ment Settlement at "Gateshead where five all, and the chairman, gave his vote for the bin.

Councillor W. H. Griffin remain ed defiant. He said:

"We intend to play cricket on the green whatever the council may do. We defy your right to ban

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Alsu saw his chance to soirs the

While the Prince played and talk- ed with the children they clustered so closely round him that he trod on the toss of one.

"I am sorry, Patrick," said the Prince. Now, you can tread on. mine," and little Patrick solemanly stopped on the Prince's foot.

During a visit to the Hebbura play centre the Prince joined some of the 800 children in their games. helped the boys to make models and took part in a doll ten-party with some of the girls,

He

When the little boy, Alan, ap The Prince dined privately at the pronched him, saying "I have got Mogsfors House with the Lord afine-tie, the Prince replied: "60 and afterwards paid a surprise visit

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have-I," and stooping de pattad | to the Nowenatle Y-M.0.A.

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