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QUEEN FARIDA AT CAIRO OFERA HOUSE: Her Majesty, seen with her ladies-in-waiting when she attended a recent performance given in aid of Egyptian Girl Guides.

Bride And Groom Bound With Chains

A NEWLY-WEDDED couple were chained together after their

wedding at Watchet Methodist Church, near- Somerset, recently.

Brokers Expelled

By 'Change' TWO members of the London Stock Exchange were expel- led recently for irregular con-

duct.

They were Mr. Frederick Joseph Yeardsley and Mr. John Houlden, who traded as Ritcher and Co. and were the only partners in the firm.

Mr. Houlden had been a member of the Stack Exchange since 1032, while his partner had operated there since 1933.

Son of a gardener at Lyne, neur Chertsey, Mr. Yeardsley became a Stock Exchange clerk in the offices of Mr. Kahn, later becoming as sociated with Messrs. Nitcher and Co.

HOME WEDDING GIFT

Minehead,

The children who bound them would not let them go until they had: puld "luck sliver to puss through the church gates.

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NAZI CHIEFS QUARREL

OVER JESTER "Robey" Of Germany

BERLIN.

WERNER Finck, Germany's George Robey, who was banned by Dr. Goebbels for "wise-cracking" about the Nazi Party and Dr. Goebbels, is causing trouble between party leaders.

Since 1933, Finck, with his breezy "gugging" and sly quips, has been convulsing German audiences. A new Finck joke sprends through the country like wildfire.

For one of his jokes he announced Field-Marshal Goring, who keeps a to his audience that the management file of jokes mude against himself, hnu regretted that "Old Germas Fairy regarded Finck as an unofficial couri Tales" had been taken from the pro-jester, geomme.

A political lecture would,! Dr. Goebbels has not power to send however, be

Finck to a concentration camp. This delivered in its place. Field-Marshal Goring and Count authority is held by Field-Marshul Helldorf, police chief of Berlin, are Goring, and It is understood he has piqued at Dr. Goebbels because he decided it will not be necessary. acted alone. They met to discuss the position recently,

Count Helldorf thinks the ban re- decks on him, for as Berita police chief it seems he should have closed down Herr Finck's show when it apened five weeks ago.

Meanwhile, Dr. Goebbels, in an at- tempt to justify his action, which the country and many high Nazia regard as absurd, has launched a "Humour Contest" in his paper Angri. The prize for a "true German joke" ism

£50.

UFS

Dr. Oswaldo Aranha; Foreign Minister of Brazil, who made an official visit recently as guest of the Federal government, Ho discussed with President Rouse- volt and the State Department better relations between the two governments.

Colonel's Legacy For Chorus Girl

Evening Dress Thieves Rob A GIRL who ten years ago had

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Mary Lawson

VENING DRESS THIEVES HAVE CARRIED OFF A £2,000 COUP IN THE CHELSEA FLAT OF MISS MARY LAW. SON, THE FILM STAR.

Slander Suit

After Party

This West Somerset custom is be-A WEST END party is said to lieved to bring good luck to a happy have been responsible for

eve married life.

a small part in the chorus of a Broadway show jumped into the ranks of New York's mil- lionaires recently by the filleg of the will of Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the famous Yankees baseball team and head of a large brewing combine.

They even used several silver hair Sho is Miss Helen W. Weyant and brushes treasured by. Miss Lawson she will receive £60,000 at once and to force locks, thus smashing them.

a Me Income from £2,000,000. Mr. Lionel C. Beaumont, the Alm

Colonel Huppert, the second largest director husband of Miss Lawson, real estate holder in New York, left said that the booty includes wedding | £10,000,000, on which £10,000,000 presents, furs, and jewellery worth inheritance tax is due,

£2,000.

AN OLD FRIEND

"Among the missing articles," he He left Miss Weyant one-third of said, "is a watch which I gave to my the residue, the remainder going to wife as a wedding present.

"This watch had the name 'Mary

of the usual one of twelve numerals."

The couple were Harold Gimblett.tivo auits for alleged slander Beaumont' set out on the dial Instead

cricketer, of which were heard recently in the Somerset county Blakes Farm, Bicknoller, Somerset, the King's Bench Division.

Burgess, only and Miss Marguerite daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bur-

of Knapp Coltage, Watches, Gimblett, who is 24, will be re- membered for his startling debut in first-class cricket in 1935.

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The plaintiff is Mrs. Meriel Knowl- ing, wife et Captain Harold Wilfred Knowling. She is otherwise known the Merlei Buchanan, Miss uuthoress, of Tedworth-square, Chel- sen.

is elsiming Ia fastest damages #goinst MIRS Marjorie Lawrence, of Belle Vue-gardens, Stockwell. In the other the defend ant is Miss Enid Kayll, of Warwick- square, Victoria..

Against Essex, at Frome. he hit century in 63 minutes, and so won the trophy given for the hundred of the season.

a wedding gitt from Mrs. Yeardsley's father.

While the House is disturbed by the necessity for the General Pur- poses Committee's strong disciplinary action It is not expected the affair will have any important financial

He married Miss Jean Hamilton, daughter of the late Mr. H. J. Hamil ton, manager-secretary of the Chert-effects. sey Gas Company.

Mr. Houlden lives in Belgrave-

Their home in Pretoria-rond was place, Belgraviu, S.W.

one clisc

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Countess Dead

In Thames

two nieces, Mrs. J. Holleran and Mrs. Basil Maguire.

Miss Weyant lives in the fashion-

Street, off Filth-avenue, with her mother and brother.

able residential district of $3th

She was born at Winthrop, Mass., of English-Irish barents.

"I had no idea that Colonel Rup- pert, an old family friend whom I had known from childhood, would [remember me in this way," she said. "The first information 1 get was Countess Mari Kageneck, the weal. when members of his family asked thy Austrian Jewess who vanished me to join them.

"It was a great shock and I hope I from a Knightsbridge hotel was found dead in the Thames off Green-shall be able to do enough good with wich recently.

the money to justify Colonel Rup- She was reported to have been [pert's kindness." The defence is a denial of the involved, as a pedestrian, In a rond accident on Westminster Bridge on allegations.

the night of her disappearance.

Mrs. Knowling's father was the late Sir George Buchanan, last Bri- tish Ambassador to the Russian Im- perial Court.

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A week later she was believed to have been seen riding in a tax at Maidstone, Kent,

The Countess, 45 years of age, was the former wife of Count Franz Kageneck, a member of the Viennese aristocracy.

IT'S MAGNIFICENT When toki she was now the owner of a third of the famous baseball team, she replied, "It's mugnificent."

It is more than six years ago since she appeared on the stage.

She was in the chorus of two Broadway successes—"Merry Mo- lone," starring George M. Colian; und Three Cheers," starring Will Rogers.

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Mrs. Brigid Hitler, who eloped with Herr Hitler's half-brother Alois when she was seventeen, appeared at Highgate, N., Police Court recently on a summons for non- payment of £9 13s. 10d, rates. She was given six weeks to pay.

She said afterwards: "I was expecting some money from Germany I can't tell you who was sending it but it got held up. "So there was nothing for it but to take the divil by his tail up the hill and go to the court."

Mrs. Hitler, forty-seven-year-old daughter of an Irish farmer, "takes 'in "boarders" at Priory-gardens, Highgate, N.

In her drawing-room are halt a dozen pictures of her twenty-seven- year-old son Willfe-Hitler's nephew -who works in a Berlin brewery.

"WON MY HEART" Mrs. Hitler's husband ́Alols-same name as Hitler's father-has a res taurant in Berlin, but he and his wife have been separated since 1014. She smiled and said: "You know, it seems funny for an obscure little Irish girl like I was to get mixed up in all these international matters.

"I was plain Brigid Dowling of Dublin, when I met Alois, who was A walter. I was seventeen and had just left a convent, and was very romantic. When I went to the hotel staff dance I met him.

"He was slim and about Sit. Dins, and he fairly won my heart with his sugary talk und, his foreign ways,

"My father-rest his soul-was a} real Irishman. He would not heari

BABY AND

THE LIVE WIRE

Mary Louise, a 10-month-old Ealing baby, has had a million-to- one escape from electrocution.

Invited to a friend's house, her mother took Mary Louise with her.

Baby crawled happily about the carpet until, suddenly, there was a crackling noise.

Mary Louise was found holding the flex of an electric standard lamp. Sparks were coming, from her mouth as she chewed the 'in. sulation cover of the. wire.

She was taken to hospital, with

her. the inside of her mouth. tongue and lips badly burned.

Now, she is making a good recovery.

In 1914 Mrs. Hitler's husband re-

me tell of a wedding to a foreigner. turned to Austrin. She did not hear

“Alois and I used to meet every from him until after the ormistice. afternoon in the museum and plan|

to clope.

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Sho said, "I was in a very poor "Four months later when Alois way when he went to the war with had saved enough money we went to: three-year-old Willie on my bands. I did the 'bert we England in, the night boat and came My mother and I did the to London. I wrote to my mother could,"

and said I would not return until Mrs. Hitler picked up a picture of we got permission to marry. She Willle-he looks like the dictator talked my father rou and he gave and said: "When Hitler came into his consent. RATES power poor Wille had a bad time "We were married at Marylebone because of his name, although he is Register Office in Juno 1010, I took a English as you are. him straight back to Dublin to meat! "He was out of a job for eighteen the family, and then we went toj months, so he went to see his father, Liverpool. He got a job in a res who by that time had a big restau- taurant as a walter and then became rant in Berlin. an agent for a razor firm, deta

"His aunt Angela took him to bee' Willie, our only, child, was born her brother Adolf, who received In March 101L

him in his office at the Chancellery My husband used to talle to me in Berlin,hul dumn No SVS about his family. He told me of his "Hitler offered him a job in a young brother Adolf, who was a derman bank, TETORSHA dreamy sort of lad, and was studyingHe was there for a year. Then architecture when we were married." he joined a German car company !!

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