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JULY
1938.
BILL TO MAKE NINE WEDDINGS VALID
MINISTER'S MISTAKE
(By Edwin Tellow)
had been married before, and
hud
as church workers," sald Mr. Bluck- "My wife's son, Mr. Clarence Ed-
Nine London couples who known each other for about 25 years were married at the Wesleman. yan Methodist Church in win Surgeant, of Chadwell Heath. Cassland-road, Hackney, E. Essex, is also affected by to-day's between July 1934 and De-move in Parlament, because he was married in September 1934 by Mr. cember 1936 were, strictly Browning at the church.” speaking, not married at all.
"AN OVERSIGHT"
gestion of Hegality armo Lucinase, by
BIBLICAL
CITY NEAR RED SEA
An Astonishing Discovery
This position was reveal- An offleli of the church told 173
A SUR- ed recently when a special that the only reason for any Bill to clear up any question an oversight, Mr. Browning had not of the validity of the marri-been technieally certified as entitled
to perform marriages, ages was approved by awas never any question of his right House of Commons com- to ometate at the church, y mittee.
A representative of the Home Omco told the committee that doubts arose from the fact that the marriages were solenmised by a minister who was not an authorised person.
4 IN ONE FAMILY
ges, although there
The omission won noticed by the Registror-General's Department when the documents were lodged.
The Rev. J. W. Sawyer, Superin- tendent of the distelet, fold nie last night: "A minister is authorized Tu conduct marriages by Somerset House
two by
Dr three on application trustees in whom the church
bulld- ings
and and are vested. should imagine that this youngt man was not an authorised person in
The Home Secretary's atten- the sense that the proper firm of tion had been drawn to the mat-application had not been filled in and ter and it was found that the sent to Somerset House, by had been!
minister had come straight from college to the church and
AL
under the impression that he
was entitled to solemnise ringes.
mar-
have
The couples affected never known that there was any official question about their
"wedding" lines" and are now living in various parts of Lon- don.
the
The minister concerned, Rev. Headley C. Browning, has also left the district and is now at Belvedere, Kent,
"I do not think that the mar riages were in any way illegal." Mr. Browning told me at his home in Picardy-road, Belvedere. "I am afraid I know nothing about the details of this matter." Within a stone's throw
the church in Cassland-rond, I found unte of the couples, Mr. and Mrs. A. O Blackman, last night.
گرده
"We were married in the autumn of 1935 by Mr. Browning. Bolia of us
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The tragic story of two lovers. who, unable to marry, made a suicide pact, ended when in als hour of release from prison, Thomas Albert Clay died from tuberculosis.
Phyllis Brace, 24, nurse, was found dead in Epping Forest in 1936, Clay, 27, stated in his trial that ho met Phyllis when she was aged 15 and he was a patient in Papworkliy village settlement for consumptives.
"We loved each piher and dis- cussed marriage, bút knew it was Inipossible because of the risk of
chlidren having
who might Inherit my illness," he said,
Phyllis suggested that both take drug tablets, She died and he recovered, and was sentented to imprisonment for Ilfe,
prison und was released from collapsed while being rushed by ambulavec
his dying father.
JJA
1911 PLANE
New York, MERICAN archaeologists ex- cavating near the shore of the Red Sea, have discovered the aite of a scaport which flourished from 1,000 B.C. to 800 11.C. Even ropes used to mvor
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King Solomon's
ships have been found buried in the desert m. The seaport is that mentioned in the first Book of Kings, chapter 9, verses 20, 27 and 20. The verses are:
And king Solomon made d many of ships in Ezton-peber, which is beside Eluth, on the share of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom,
And Iftram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had lenon- ledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.
This city
IN
elty. Ezlon-geber, which now known to the Arabis us Tel el Kheleifel, is at the nur- thern end of the Gulf of Akaba. To-lay, owing to the unceasing drift of xand. It is half a mile
the sea. from Its discovery is due to the efforts of Dr. Nelson Glueck, Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, From this seaport as the Bible states, Solomon, with the help of Hirman, King of Tyre, built Beel th abips which traded with Southern Arabia,
in the hauses uncovered during the recent excavations were found many enpaper implements, such as apear- heads, fish-hooks and nails
Further excavation of this impor tant ite will be undertaken next iyrar.
Adam or Ape?
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Honourable Unity Freeman- Mitford, 23-year-old British girl frlend of Chancellor Hitler of Germany, held temporarily by Czech oMelals in Prague after she had driven her automobile through
a military protection zone. Three
cameras, 14 films and a notebook were taken from her and confiscated. She re- cently was ooed in London for wearing a swastika.
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IN CRASH Dogs Buried With
Crashing bi his 27-year-old Berlot monoplane, race driver
R. G. J. Nash escaped with bruises at Brooklands aerodrome, Surrey.
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Their Mistress MR. ALBERT SIMMONDS, retired
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The funeral was that of Mrs. J. H.acrept a bet rom him. peroplanes and cars, decided to take Butler, wife of Wing Commander Mr. Simmonds says he has been app a 1911 Merlot plane to see whe| Butler.
Borris, backing horses for ther It would be possible to give a
County Chlow, Eire. Mrs. Buller winning! demonstration with it.
of "In 1836." he told the Sunday He took off successfully, but when dropped dead is the lince City
which she was Chronicic, "I placed bets for more the machine was about 50 feet up a Canterbury,
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Her husband and 12-years-old sonį race.
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