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B.B.C. GENERAL TOOK HIS LIFE Sulride While the Balance of his Disturbed was the verdict Mind Warnih inquest recent-] ly on Major-General Alan Geoffrey Charles Dawnay, aged 60), of Lennox- gardens, Chelsea, Director of Public Itelutions at the War Office, who was found gussed at his home,

at the

25-Years-Old Earl To Marry

Young Master Cupid must be ruefully contemplating a very blunted set of arrows in that famous quiver of his.

For crisis week has produced a crop of engagements beating all records for many autumns. Nearly 70 engagements were publicly announced.

And who have beeen the easiest targets? Soldiers, of course. Cupid has made a special attack on them, perhaps because those uniforms they had to wear during the crisis weeks made it hard for the fair sex to resist a proposal,

But what of the romantic; Navy? Of the announcements only two proclaimed the forth- coming marriage of a man of the sea.

Even the Marines did better with three.

of the caftige-

Most important ment was that of the Earl of Ran- furly, 25-year-old son of the Inte Mrs. Elizabeth Dawney said that Viscount Northland, who was killed her husband went to bed about 120 in action in 1915 at the age of 32. am, and at four o'clock come in to Handsome Lurd Ranfurly is

nothing marry speak to her. There was

Miss Hermione Llewellyn. unusual about him. In the morning daughter of Mr. G. R. P. Llewellyn, the maid found him lying in the sit-of Princetown, Devon,

bi head in with

the ting room fireplace and the gas turned on.

insomnia since tast month. He was a little depressed.

to

At least 75 per rent. of the cou-

this

Dr. Michael Leahy, a retired major plus who proudly revealed their en- in the R.A.M.C., said that he had been Kagements will be married before treating Major-General Dawnay for Christinas. For, judging by prevl

long year, OUS rumances engagements belong to the past.

A year used to be considered an average perlod between pro- posal and marriage; nowadays six months at the most is suf- ficient.

WORK HARD

"He was a man of extraordinarily high principles and had worked very hard," he added.

Major-General Downny took charge|

Three prospective bridegrooms-

4 Don'ts for Women Diners

Southport.

Delegates attending the conference in Southport re-

cently of the Hotels and

Restaurants Association in- terjected hearty "Hear. hears!" when a speaker gave a list of "Don'ts" for diners.

Kensuke Horinouchi, 52, who recently replaced the popular Hiros Saito ng Japanese Am- bassador to Washington. Mr. Salto, who had been in 111 health several months, was recalled to Tokyo. From 1931 to 1934 Mr. Horinouch was consul general In New York und before that had been counsellor of the tm- bassy in Washington. He was converted to Christianity in boy- hood. His wile, who studied music, is also a Christian.

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The man who was said by P.C. Sedgwick to have been found crouch- ing beneath a desk in an office at the Admiralty George Arthur Cooper, 19, a seaman--was committed Dr. J. N. trial at the Old Batley by Mr. Fry, The speaker was

He is charged with breaking and minster Technical Institute, and

1 Long, principal of the West-the Bow-street magistrate, recently.

addressed, entering with intent to commit

Coll After an engagement of less than his remarks were

25 callbre platol and automatic two months the Hon. David Fellding mainly to women-"the hotel felony, and with having a

[house-breaking implements, From 1933 to 1935 he was Control- and Miss Elizabeth Fletcher were ier's chief problem."

of Programmen at the B.B.C. married at Brompton Oratory and During the Great War he was men-Lord Montgomerie, who became en- tioned in despatches eight times and gaged to Miss Ursula Watson on awarded the D.S.0.

August 2, marries her soon.

of the Public Relations Department. Lord Loval, Lord Montgomerie, and new appointment, in October last the lion. David Feilding-consider year. Its aim was to promote closer even this too long. mutual understanding between the Army and all sections of civil life.

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Professor Attacks "Parasites'

Wolfville, N. S. Canudian mothers 49707 Preating "parnsites" by sending boys to col lege against their wishes, Prof. E. W. Robinson, professor of education at Acadia University, said in an adders before the Nova Scotia Federation of Home School Associations here.

Thousands of London "wedding

fans" will see Lord Lovat and his bride, Miss Rosamund Broughton, leave Brompton Rosamund

four months after they became engaged. Lord Lovat is the chief of the Clan Fraser.

The engagement is also announced the of Miss Rence du Plessis and

elder son Hon. Langton Iliffe, Lord life. Miss du Plessis is the duughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merandon du Plessis, of Mauritius, and Bryans ton Court, W.

Girl Burglar Began Crime Career at 16

Nottingham.

Twenty-four-years-old Zella Grey, of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, listened un- moved and with a slight smile as her record from the age of 16 was read at the County Sessions here recently.

She was placed on probation for three years for attempting to break Into a cinema at Sutton-in-Ashfield. Two other charges were dropped.

When Zella Grey was committed for trial by the Mansfield Justices in; July she was wearing blue trousers, but to-day she wore a blue jumper, long trey coal and skirt, veil, white gloves, and spectacles.

SENTENCE AFTER SENTENCE

For the prosecution it was stated that at 3 am. she was seen by two policemen in a passage at the back of but they shop. She ran away,

on her caught, her and found chisel, glass-cutter, und an electric torch.

next

Supt. Buritett snid the woman frst came under the notice of the police at the age of 16 when she was bound

£30. Her over for stealing appearance was at the Tower Bridge was sen- Poller Court where she

month's imprisonment tenced to a for wandering and sleeping out.

In 1932 she was sent to Borstal for three years for larceny, but was re- leased on leenee. Two years later. for wandering abroad, she was put

To Pay Up, Shops Won't

Let Them

Women of Brixham (Devon) are lying in the housewives' paradise and they don't ke it. που Local tradesmen

press them to pay their accounts. and insist on giving extended eredit.

While wives in big neighbour- ing towns struggle to make ends meet, Brixham women complain that they have to wait for de- mands for their money.

"When I came here a few months ago I got furniture, gar- den equipment, fond and all soris of household goods, and I am still waiting for the bills," a woman, who moved to Brix- ham from a big Midlands town sald." is very annoying.

the "I have asked

shop- keepers many times to send their accounts, but they don't seem to their worry

about getting

money,"

Boy With Side

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in a home, her Borstal cence being Whiskers Reprimanded

revoked. The remainder of the Bor-

stal sentence was served at Hello-

way.

PREVIOUS CASES

in

for having hausebreaking tools

London.

Here are some of his pleas:

DON'T consider that your Fido

is so lovely that everyone would like him in a rustaurant, Dogs should stay outside.

DON'T take up an extra chair to accommodate your fur wrap. DON'T use your handbag as a juggage case and insist on yel another chair.

DON'T expect always to be served by your favourite waiter. Te men diners, Dr. Long had just one request-"Don't smoke a pipe in restaurant."

"All these

"DASH IT-1"

P.C. Sedgwick said that he found The pistol on the desk. Two drawers were open, and a window in the area had apparently been forced.

Routley, night George Thumas watchman said the door of the room which was usually unfastened had bern bolted on the insidr.

Cooper, replying to the magistrate, said: "I am guilty."

11 DOCS TO DIE

London.

11 out of 30 dogs belonging to Miss Kathleen Slattery of Uckfield, have There is prespect of a for Miss

faults have to be re-been condemned to be shot for worry- medied by suggestions rather thing sheep. complaints," he said. "Dash have been irritated myself when head walter asked me, ever so kind- entered ly. to put my pipe away.

it, I respite for them, however, tor had

"It is amazing how difficult it is to marshal peopic," Dr. Long said. "Everybody wants a table to him-

Asparagus 6,000 Feet Up

cyclists

Twenty-one British have returned home after a 800- miles Continental tour, with vivid memories of mountains-and meal.

a

Arriving nt a lonely hospice Swiss Alps, 6,000lt. up

on the they asked for a meal, says their leader, Mr. Neville Hall, and were given:

Vegetable soup (with real vegetables);

Omelettes with asparagus

tips;

Veat cutlets, aute potatoes, peas, and tomatoes;

Vanilla and strawberry ice, crowned with nuts, and—

Two helpings of everything. Cost, including Ups, for dinner, bed and breakfast, was 10s, G. each.

It

self or wishes to sit near or far away from the band to suil a mood. requires a good psychologist to make everybody happy in a restaurant.

"The secret of feeding women is to fuss over then-hence the success of foreign waiters, who are adept at just that kind of

gentlemanly fussing that pleases

the women,"

Slattery said that her solici

an appeal against the Uckfield mugistrale's decision, MIAS Slattery, 11 smali, athletic-looking brunette, has made "Slattery's Swifl- foot Setters" well known in the dog world. "I have been breeding sel- They ters for ten years" she said, are a constant source of trouble and anxiety, but they're worth it. have been blamed for not keeping my dogs always penned up, but Ï behind Balmals can't bear to see bars; would these beauties be in such good condition if they did not have plenty of freedom and exercise?"

She Kidnapped His Teeth

two

I

London. -A man recently summoned his housekeeper for having his false teeth. He falled, and was told by the Stipendiary that his correct pro- A police cedure was by civil court. officer told the Magistrate that the man complained that

sels teeth had gone. The man consider- ed that the woman was just being awkward. The Magistrate said "It appears that the woman is holding them as hostngo". The Clerk sug- gested that, as the woman was not using the teeth, it could not be called "conversion".

of the most valuable assets of free and cultured men and women."

Miss Barbara Coutts, the only wo- man speaker at the conference, will the deal with hotel-keeping from women's point of view.

She is an assistant hotel manageri

The at Broadway, Worcester, and

Dr. Long told of a new develop-niece of Mr. D. G. Russell, who to- A bay of 16 who was accused of ment, approved by the L.C.C. Educa-day intrigued the conference by ex-

tion Committee, ni the hotel and posing a minor "racket." theft at Thames Police Court recently restaurant techulcal school attached

being

completed, will

Sir

Walters, he said, were paid for returning corks from the bottles On condition that she entered ahad very long fair wavy hair, brush-to the Westminster Technical Instl-

of certain makes of wines, and so hunc, she was bound over for twoed right back and almost touching tute.

they recommended these wines yours in 1935 for wandering, but was the collar of his coat. He also had "A training hotel is now

to customers. Soon afterwards charged with steal-side-whiskern. Mr. John Harris, the built which, when ing an overcoal. For this she was magistrate asked "What is he doing make the school the only one of its

George Reeves-Smith, the champagne corks sent to prison for two months.

At the London Scasions 1936 with his hair permanently waved kind in the United States or Europe," chairman, sald

The he said. "Senior students will have were worth a penny each ns there she was bound over for burglary and and wearing side-whiskers?

real, live guests on whom to practice, was a shortage of them. at boy's mother sald

Was

and all hotel work, except chamber- Last year natural. Mr. Harris: "Side whiskers maids' duties, will be included." she was again bound over for two are not. What Is he trying to be?

M. Andre Simon, president of the by Mr. F. L. Chaplin, of Manchester. years for having housebreaking imA Man?" The Mother: "Well, you plements at night and was later on know what boys are to-day. If you wine and Food Society, deplored the wito sald: "These people can only do bound over for another offence and tell them anything for their own good falling consumption of wine in Eng-it by giving inferior quality, service,

and equipment." subsequently received two months' they say it is the fashion or some land and declared, "Civilisation with- imprisonment for larceny.

thing." Mr. Harris: "Boys of 10 talk- Lust October she was sentenced to ing about fashions! Getting himself out wine is unthinkable. six months' imprisonment at Derby up to look like a lounge lizard." The

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PASSING OF WINE

"It will mean the decay of civil

"NOSEBACCERS" · Hotel price-cutters were, criticised

He agreed, also, that meals offered were often in excess of modern re- quirements and purses, and raid this an buy was remanded to a Juvenile sation, the passing at our gradual had produced the motoring "nose-

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