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TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

17. SEPTEMBER ·

1938.

CABINET MINISTER'S £10,000 LOSS To put you in good shape

Burglars Cut Portrait From Frame

After inner doors had been found locked during the day it was discovered that burglars had made a big haul at the residence of Earl Winterton, Chancellor of the Du- chy of Lancaster, Shillinglee Park, near Horsham, Sus-

sex.

A maidservant who was unable to open one of the rooms sent for assistance; the door was forced, and it

Water(loo)

Light Infanty, but not light beer.

Sergeant Charles Frederick Jackson, 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamskira L.I.. found gully of reducing the strength of the beer in the sergeants' mess while caterer by the add- tion of water. has himself been reduced-to a private.

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The sentence of court- martial promulgated ensures the strength of the next draught.

was found that an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds MARRIED had been cut from its frame. This painting (1764) is of

the first Earl Winterton and is reputed to be worth WITHOUT

£10,000.

Also among the missing property is a miniature oil painting CONSENT

-only 2in. by 14in-stated to be very valuable, a diamond snuff box, and a six-sided silver plate a quarter of an inch thick.

Even the gold ferrule on Lord Winterton's walking-stick is missing.

· Lord and Lady Winterton were away at the time of the burglary, and only two or three members of the staff were in the house.

LIFTED WINDOW-CATCH. Entry was gained by forcing one of the shutters and lifting a window- catch.

Six feet three incites in height, Lurd Winterton, who has represented Horsham and Worthing since 1984 as: a Conservative, is one of the tallest: M.P.S.

A member of the Cabinet, he la the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- caster.

OTHER ART ROBBERIES

FASTEST,

LOST BANK'S SYMPATHY

A bank clerk who, said his soll- citor, had "forfelled the sympathy of the bank by marrying young" wis bound over at Wimbledon recently on a charge of falsifying nicedunts.

Arthur Leonard Hickwood (30), of Village Way, Pinner, Middlesex, wus

A

accused of falsely altering in SMALLEST,

ledger belonging to the Westminster Bank a credit of £20 in The deposit account of a customer to £120 with

HUSH, HUSH intent to defraud.

He was also summoned for making a false entry in a ledger by altering

London, Aug. 13. the amount of a deposit from £100

ALL last night the most to £200.

"hush-hush" speed-boat in Rickwood, in evidence, said that The most recent art theft until the world was on a secret jour-he married In 1932 on a salary of this was that at Chilham Castle, ney from London to the North, Between £100 and £200-without near Canterbury, the home of Sir Edmund and Lady Davis, from winca old masters valuest at about 100,- 000 were stolen in April.

closely guarded all the way. the consent of his employers.

WRS

Recent Insurgent air raids on Barcelona, Spain, caused this

Interior destruction in the celebrated cathedral square. striped of ornaments early in the war and sign was posted: "Building appropriated by the government for service of people's institutions,“

It Snowed

Last Month

In Britain

For five months the boat, which

A child was born in July, 1935, several Lowrence of Arabia helped to de- and he got into debt. On sign and which is the smallest of its occasions he was pressed for money, kind, hus

guardeti behind and to meet these payments went to locked doors in

a Slough (Bucks) money-lenders. When he factory.

repay them he committed the offence. SNOW AND HAIL lay 2 ft. deep, caused cars to stick

and stung children so that they cried.

had to

When he got on his feet again he

In November last, burglars who broke into Sundon Hall, Stafford, the residence of Lord Harrowby, stole 30 valuable miniatures, and in October,

£7,000

Not even the factory officials know were 1030, pictures worth stolen from Mrs. Alice Drapes, of by what route the att, wonder is was willing to make some offer ef Clifton Villa, Maida Vale, London, belig taken to Lake Windermere for restitution. He was carning £315 a

year when he left the bank and was LIGHTNING killed a man and a boy, caused a mill fire trials.

now free from the moneylenders.

in which a woman perished, stopped trams in the Other notable art robberies in com-

"EMPIRE DAY"

Mr. paratively recent years include the

(defending). Lefroy Owen

streets. fnmous Wert- With Edward Spure, 30-years-old paintings from the

after declaring that Rickwood lind heimer collection in Park Lane, in-London co-designer at the controls, forfeited the sympathy of the bank cluding Gainsborough's "Nancy Par-e boat, which was christened "Em- sold musters valued at £27,000 pire Day" by Lord Strabelgl, will at- by marrying apartin RAIN beat down crops, flooded streets to a depth of 3ft. to keep up а in Stratford- Place, tack Italy's 400-kilogramme record expected from offices

standard of living Oxford Street, and Van Dyck's "Fer- of 10 miles an hour, and later dinand the Cardinal from Titt 1,000 horsepower engine will be sub-suffered disgrace, lost a good job and

an attempt on Sir pension. His wife House, Hampstead, the home of the stituled for Earl of Clarendon.

Malcolm Campbell's unlimited class share in that disgrace, but is stand-

ing by him. record of 129.5 milley per hour.

MOTHER IS LOCKED OUT AS CHILD IS BEATEN

Mr. Spurr worked at one time with Lawrence. He recently said that there were several aspects of the boat and the attempts on the record which must be kept secret,

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has had

The Chairman of the Bench (Mr. F. S. Mallet) said: "It is with the hope of redemption, not punishment, that the Bench have taken the course

they have. We are going to give

you a chance."

HEAT caused a man to fall dead.

in towns and cities all over the country.

SUN sent temperatures to 82.

That was August 12 in Britain.

As the storm, which travelled the country from North-West Scotland to London in 15 hours, struck the East Yorkshire village of Wold Newton, near Bridling- ton, snow and hail blocked the roads to a depth of 2ft.

Mr. Grunville Smith (prosecuting) "Mr. Spurr seems to have become had stated that Rickwood had borne and cars had to be dug out. a mystery man. like his friend Lawrence of Arabia," factory officials) told the Sunday Dispatch,

The boat embodies Ideas formed)

when, as by Lawrence of Arobla He Alreraftman Shaw, he worked with her R.A.F. speedboats,

Anthony Bevan is five. His home is at Hlington, in Middlesex. is his mother's child--but not husband's

On a recent Bank Holiday Tony was at home with his mother. The husband-Martin King-came in.

He turned to his wife. "Bring the child upstairs," he demanded.

She obeyed. Half-way up the stairs the man suddenly thrust her aside.

He took a grip on Tony, hit him with his closed fat, then kicked him.

He thrust the

child into a room and locked the mother outside.

Lawrence

dreamed of a flert

of small, high-powered motor- boats, carb carrying a torpedo, which could sweep through the Ines of any flect and attack great battleships at close range. then darling away to safely. No feel would be safe against such craft, he believed.

are interested in

excellent character. The toinl defalcation was £200.

When the drivers sought | shelter in the village inn they in were marooned by water 12 inches deep which swept down chief the street.

"So far as I know he never ap-

when proached his employers

Meullies," said Mr. Smith. Miss Elsie Macnamara, woman officer of the Bank Officer's Guild,

to commented Chronicle recently:

the News Windows were broken by heavy hallstones: poultry and geese were

"Most bank clerks are forced to drowned; rabbits were washed from remain single until they are nearly their burrows. potatoes from the 30, unless helped by relatives or friends

rl who round. they marry bas honey.

Cabbages banks st have definite rules against marriage and a Scottish bank clerk was dismissed because

Were Stripped

'Leaves were torn off trees, turnips

he was receiving £20 a year under stripped, cabbage stalks left bare in the marriage miinimum.""

"The Guild regards as more im- the fields.

FOR NAVY? The Admiralty the boat and are sending officials to portant the fact that at the marrying Fields white with hall and snow to watch the trials. If these are 'sue-nge of 25 or 20, bank clerks to-day a depth of eight inches provided a cessful It is suggested that large-are not receiving a marrying wage. strange contrast to harvest opern- The mother heard the sound of scale production for the Navy of a The average clerk at 25 receives tions going on at Barford (Norfolk), blows. She heard her child scream-boat developed from the "Empire £100 a year in the Provinces and nine miles from Norwich. ing. She could do nothing.

Day" might follow.

Then the t came out. The mother went in to the sobbing child. His body was bruised from head to fool. She called the police.

The story was told at Uxbridge

recently Police Court

N.S.P.C.C. brought

against King for cruelty.

when the

summons

about £220 in London.

MAKE WAY FOR MOTHER

OF EIGHTEEN

Make room in the news for Mother of Eighteen, He was sentenced to six months' Eldest of Fifteen, One of Three Sets of Twins and Proud

of It.

hard labour.

Said the chairman: "We feel that we are not dealing with a man but with a brute,"

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Mr. W. Dans, of the Hil Farm, saw hallstones as large as marbles cut the tops from his sugar beet and ruin 300 out of his 500 combs of barley.

Snow and hail in the Wold district of Lincolnshire at Thorganby cover-

ed fields to a depth of several inches |

until it melted in the high tempera-

A BABY'S ‘RIGHT

TO CRY'

IS UPHELD

A baby has a legal right to

ers, according to the

Oak Park, Illinois,

court t

Mrs. Anna Robinson, of Oak Park.

accused her next-door

Mrs. neighbour.

Mary Bick- meyer, of disorderly conduct because her fifteen-monthis-old baby cried every night from nine to len,

The Judge dismissed the charge, said it was to crime for a baby to cry.

Why Mr. Attlee Gets Wrinkles

(In his Suits)

In London blinding hail caused o horse to bolt and Miss Goddard, a Mr. Attlee may be Leader of the nurse on holiday at Harrow, told the Opposition, but he is certainly not a Modest Family Man and Father of Five can stand aside while News Chronicle: "I saw children leader in sartorial circles, At least, theso champions go into action to contest recent claims for re-running to cover, holding their that is his wife's view. cords in big families,

hands and crying with pain."

He told guests at a lunch in Lon- don recently to Mr. D. 8. Senanayake, Ceylon's Minister of Agriculture, that Mira. Attice thinks he is far from be- for a rood "clothes-wearer."

he

They have been stung by the suggestion that Mrs. E. Full- Debris Blocks thorpe, aged 86, of Northampton, whose family now comprises 17 Main Lino children, has equalled a world record claimed by Mra. Dye,. of- On the Lancashire-Yorkshire bor- "If a sult flis me admirably when Vancouver, by giving birth to her third set of twins,

ider near Todmorden the River atand up," he said, "It wrinkles at AN EXAMPLE

And Mr. W. Prosser, of The Green, Calder rose 6. In three-quarters of the back when I sit down.

"At the end of a week or two it Wrlies Mrs. E. Smith, of Selby, Old Southgate, poluts out that his an hour and tons of earth washed

down on to the main LMS. line at does not look anything. But," Yorkshire: "What of my record? mother had three sets of twins-two Dobroyd blocked the way for 50yds.ded, "it is comfortable." was a mother of triplets at 21, and boys, o hoy and girl, and two girls-Trains in each direction had to be Mrs. Atlee said recently to a I have had threo sets of twins as and that he himself was one of the sent by an alternative route, and News Chronicle reporter: "The way well. I had 18 children, and tennrat set.

emergency bus services operated. are still living."

Except Lint Mrs. Fullthorpe's Another rends tells of a Baxmund- At Earlswood station (Surrey) on children are all living, that might ham (Buffolk) family. of 15, includ- the Southern line, passengers for give the "Stork Derby" victory to ing "six twins"

Brighton had to be carried across the Mrs. Smith.

With all the modern "family time permanent way when a subway was Then there is Mr. William McDer-light focussed on quins and quads,

flooded. mott, of Framwellgate Moor, Dur-twins hardly seem to be worth brag- Corn crops were wiped out by ging about. But if in the multitude tropical storms in Great Wilbraham ham:

"I am the eldest of 15, com- of twins there is rivalry, then look and Six-Mile-Bottom on the Cam- prising six single births (two are at the example of Signora Angela bridge-Suffolk borders, and there is dead), three sets of twins, and Duffin, bf Venice, who, at 37, has

At each one set of triplets,

had seven sets of twins (all alive talk of a rollet fund for farmers. birth the children weighed more than the average, especially the triplets."

my husband shrugs up his shoulders when he alts down gives no suit a chance,

"As he always does it, all his sulis look wrinkled and untidy in no time. "It's impossible blame the

fallor."

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London. The most Important plece of equip- ment in the Westminster City

and well) and was recently report- But on the South Coast tempera- Council's "model" gas-proof vir raid ext to be expecting' another happy❘tures reached 12 degrees, and shelter is made in Germany. It là | event..

Brighton had 12.8 hours of sunshine. I the air purifier.

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