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Airliner Crashes

Here the wreck of the luxurious United Air Lines trans- port plan bring battered to pieces by the surf at the foot of a eld near San Franciren, Pilot Charles Sted and adore 1. Edelstein, a paszenter, were res- curd but five others perished in the surf. A maze of radio signals, which confused the pilot, was blamed.

Mystery of the reported mar- riage of Sir Onwald Mesicy, Bri- tish Fascist chief, and Mrs. Diana Guinness, above, was cleared re- cently when Mosley announced in London that they were married two years ago and that his wife recently gave birth to a son. Sho is a sister of Unity Freeman- Mitford, Hitler admirer, recently mobbed in London.

Child' Door Bangers' Cured

CHILDREN who

bang doors,

salk, and shnut defiance at their parents need trouble British homes no mere. -

Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld, of Lon-

workers

where speelally-trained play with delinquent children.

There are playrooms for children

of different ages. Colour of rooms and contents are directed to a special

corrective function,

Monday

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January 9, 1939.

JUDGE ON WHEN A BANK

D

Inside Germany

DO NAZI HENS LAY

EGGS?

Do

Riddle For Housewives

SHOULD TELL

Doctor's Wife Fails

In

Suit

SNATCHED 'PHONE

A DOCTOR'S wife who said

that a bank manager reveal- When his wife told him her cheque ed her betting deals to her had been dishonoured he told her to ring up the bank. As he was in a husband lost her Buit for hurry, he rather snatched the tele-

phone from her, damages recently.

Then the manager said: "Well, She was Mrs. Mary Sunderland, the account has been very low for wite, ul Dr. Arthur Sunderland, of some time and there has been no Hycle Park-mandons, Marylebone. regular amount paid into it. 1 W. and her action was against don't know whether I ought to tell Barclays Bank, Ltd., which was you this, but most of the chequea

have been going to bookmakers."

awarded costs.

Mr. F. W. Beney (for Mrs. Sunder- Mrr. Sunderland alleged that after land): Did he say anything about one of her cheques had been returned [Mrs. Sunderland having authorised marked "Refer to drawer" the him to say that?-No. I was rather imanager of the Edgware-road branch thunder struck and said, "what busi of the bank old her husband that is it of yours? she had been using the account to pay

Did you know about it?--No, I was twn bookmalters.

speaking wrongly; I Was rather confused.

NOT A STRANGER

Lord Justice du Pared, giving judgment, said it was plain that the bitak was under no obligation to meet the cheque, and the manager was not spreking to a stranger but to the customer's husband. He had been talking to the customer herself, who relinquished the phone in favour of her husband.

I know about

Dr. Sunderland added that the manager also said: "Sometimes ladies do these things and, if I let them have an overdraft, I get called over the coals by the husband.”

ONLY THING

Mr. Edwin Stephens, manager of Barclays Paddington branch, was nɛk- cannot think," said Lord Justice ed by Mr. H. F, Wallington, x.c. (for 4 Pareg, that in these circumstances the bank); Why did you dishonour the bank runager was not entitled to the cheque?-Seeing; the nature of the give him that piece of information transactions and that she which he offered us an explanation-married woman, the only thing to do be it good or bad-for what the bank was to return the cheque. had done."

Mr. Stephens said he did not think

was 17

Dr. Sunderland, giving evidence, that particular cheque was for bets. ald that he also had an account with He told Mrs. Sunderland that her Barclays at the Church-street branch,bulance had been depleted by book-

ae did not know his wife was usian teakers cheques, there was a lung

her Edgware-road account for pay-conversation, and then she said, "My ing betting debts, but he knew, up to husband is here, you had better give your reasons to him." And the telephone was handed over without any break.

point, that she was betting.

BERLIN. German hens lay eggs? This is the puzzle which Berlin housewives are trying to solve at present. Women stand in egg queues dozens of times in month. As a rule, at the end of a ten-minute to half an hour wait, they obtain two eggs, although sometimes the

"I knew she had the racing papers, stock gives out before they reach the head of the queue. he said, “and I knew she had a bet

Mr. Stephens said that Mrs. Sun- But they never get a German egg. They collect Finnish quite frequently, but I supposed the

amounts were mall. I thought Itderland definitely told him to give eggs, Dutch, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Argentine and Bulgarian would be up to 5s, perhaps. I didn't her husband the reasons he had given eggs, some alleged to be new laid, others frankly from cold stor-take any interest in it." age. If German hens lave noti gone on strike, what is being done with their eggs?

SHOPPING TRICKS

It is no light task keeping house in Berlin. Not only is there the long wait for eggs but there is the daily pilgrimage to the butter shop for the.

NEWS FROM HOME

BROKE HER HEART

day's ration--if you miss a day you HERR ORNSTEIN and his Jewish wife fled to England

cannot gel two days' supply the next time, it is lost for good.

in June from "Aryanised" Vienna-but recently he sat alone and silent, rocking himself in a chair in a flat shortages of all sorts of things. One in Shoot-up Hill, N.W. His wife had gassed herself when day there are no onions, another no she heard her two brothers had been arrested by Nazis.

Then there are bewildering

oranges. need visits to a

dozen shops or stalls to the in-

Already deaf, Herr Ornstein

her for returning the cheque, and he had given her the reason that she had been using the account to pay book-makers.

Mr. Beney: Are you really saying you stopped that cheque because she had been paying bookmakers?—That she would be using the bank's money in that way it there was an over- draft.

Golf Widow's

amets. It may feel, wet me to. Alretul ales f, ter pomst of Woman Drives Revenge

gredients of one dish.

seems to have lost power

There are all sorts of tricks to be speech since the funeral.

learned. You must know never to

For the Arst two or three months were

ask openly for eggs, butter, oranges in Englund he and his wife or onions if there are none on show.happy in their freedom. though he You must buy a few pounds of had had to leave behind him all lus apples or cabbage or something, and possessions after resigning a £1,000- then when no one is looking you-year post as sales manager of

fur company. open your mouth CKg wise and whisper.

A mysterious packet is bonded to you if you are lucky and you find when you get home that it has two

es in it.

PRICES STABLE Mysterious, signs must be learned

They stayed with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Veit.

For Herr Ornstein there was no- this much to do besides sit in the fat or go out for short walks.

LOST THEIR JOBS

News that her younger

Into Pond In Storm

LINDED by heavy rain,

woman motorist drove into the White Stone pond on Hamp stead Heath recently,

For half an hour the woman. Mrs. Diana Spearman, of Rools

Chigwell; Essex, brother, Park,

was

for other products which are short. Martin, an actor, was likely to leave marooned 12ft. from the bank. But there is one good thing. How Vienna for Hollywood through the Then two motor-cyclists, wear- ever great the shortage may be prices influence of his friend, Max Rein- ing waders, came to her aid, and do not vary.

hardt, the theatrical producer, cheer- Nor must one get the wrong Im-ed Frau Ornstein.

on the

carried her to the road.

THE TOO-BUSY HUSBAND

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LETTERS written by a town clerk's

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The action concerned the £43,000 estate of Mrs. Maria Annie White- hend. wife of Mr. John Whitehend, 0355 Says My Heart. town clerk of Tunbridge Wells.

Mrs. Whitehead, who died in Mny last year at the age of 51, had made

a will in favour of her husband in August 1927, She executed another

will in May 1930, in which site made

considerable bequests to chorities,. and left E300 a year for her husband for life or until he remarried.

Mr. Whlichead remorried Inst August. He asked the court to pro- Anunce against the 1930 will, and propounded the 1927 will, with a codicil of October 1935, which have been destroyed,

don, has established a Child Centre pression that the German people are Then she learned that her brother A lorry towed the car out of the at the Institute of Child Psychology, starving there is plenty of food to Theodore had been sent to

con- pond. be had, but one connet always have gentration camp at Dachau, that the A slipway to the water apparently

husbands of her two married sisters misled Mrs. Spearman. just what one wants at the time.

In Vienna bad lost their jobs and The quality of many goods is also that her widowed sister would lose

CROWDS DRENCHED extremely low. Apples, for instance, the two Vienna properties

London caught the full force of the are to be had in plenty--but small, interest of which she llved.

60 m.ph. gule which was sweeping scrubby looking fruit which would

Then she had more news hardly find a place in the "speckled Vienna.

from the Channel again late last night,

"LIVED WITH HIS JOB" Her other brother, Dr. fruit basket" in a London market Simon Berliner, had been arrested.

bringing torrential rain and thunder-

His case was that Mrs. Whlichend storms. are only to be obtained for from Od.

Frau Ornstein's fast words were:

was not of testamentary capacity to 7d. per pound.

Cars going along the Embankment when she executed the 1030 will. "I am too young for my life to be

were blown on to the wrong side of The explanation of this is simple, finished." She was forty-seven.

Mr. J. P. Eddy, K.C., appeared for the road. Germany cannot buy the perfect After her death came a letter from

the National Society for Prevention of In the West End. taxis were at Cruelty to Children and the All-Indin Canadian, American or South African her doctor brother. He has been re-premium, and when the theatres Society for the Prevention of Cruelty fruit as she has not the foreign cur- leased. tency needed, but she gets her fruit And now Herr Ornstein sits silent closed thousands were drenched in to Animals, both of which sought to It is a sister to the "water room," by bartering manufactured goods for and

making short Journeys to Tube set up the 1930 will. walts-for more news from where the children play, dressed in them, from the Balkan lands

stations. mackintoshes, rubber shoes, and oil-

The "mess room" is exactly that. It is not for eating, but for "reming about." Its walls and floors are of pale blue colour and of A washable material. Clay, earth, paints, mud, can all be "mested" with to the heart's content.

skin cap.

Dr. Lowenfeld

of

reports tha! by lving children a "free world" their

their own twists are corrected.

temperamental

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Vienna.

Beryl Fell' For Her

Skating

As

Instructor

He sold that the relations between Heavy rain fell for several hours. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehend were shown Rain ciriven by mile-a-minute by the correspondence. Mrs. White- gusts at Brighton made the cliff-top head wrote trom London inter rond between Brighton and New-husband. haven Impassable for walkers and cyclists.

Crossing the road at Eastbourne during one downpour, Miss Ada Elizabeth Farmer (70), of Orchard Road, Easibourne, was fatally Injured i

S Beryl Styles, pretty blonde schoolgirl of 14, stepped gingerly by a taxi.

on to the ice-rink for the first time she toppled over. Hand- Home Benny Lee, lee speed champion, caught her.

That was six years ago. Soon Beryl, now junlor Ice-skating | champion of Britain, will marry Benny Lee.

Since that first meeting at Streatham, South London, while Beryl has been growing up from a girl to a woman, Benny Lee

One Man Boosts

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"I suppose I have not realised the danger of marrying a man who lived with his job. What is the use of a house and garden for us when I am not fond enough of

it to be left in it alone?" Mr. S. J. Cuil, manager of a branch of the Midland Bakit, at Tunbridge Wells, where Mrs. Whitehead had had an account, said that she came to the branch fairly regularly between 1033 and the autumn of 1935. When he last saw her, in February 1938, she uppeared perfectly normaal.

has been training her. Every evening she has hurried from work nuthor and retired pubilsher, has hend consulted him for heart trouble to float over the ice with her tutor.

Sir Maurice Cassidy, the heart John Judison Hamilton, 84, noted specialist, said that when Mru, White-

launched a one-man campakn the League choten ni

ever,"

for

July 1835, he saw no sign of

To-day she is asked to give demonstrations all over Britain.

of Nations. He has mental derangement. He agreed that, logan: "Geneva For-it was possible to inherit a form of Benny Lee, 32, dark and muscular, says: "I fell in love with coples of a manifesto on behalf of did not tell him that her mother had has sent 130 original delusional insanity. Mrs. Whitehead Beryl directly I saw her. We have always had a sort of under the league to 100 libraries, and 30 been in an asylum for time. standing that we would be married.”

koy figures in world aæntre.

The hearing was adjourned,

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