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Wednesday,

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Knight's Wife, Shipbuilder

Get £12,000

18 Britons Share In

£850,000 Fortune

AFTER MORE than a year's legal investigation into the fortune of Thomas Walker, Scots boy who became Australian millionaire and died 53 years ago, 15 relatives in Great Britain (among them Sir Thomas Bell, the ship- builder, and Lady (Ralph) Verncy receive at least £12,000 cach from his estate under a decision in Sydney recently. Thomas Walker, a native of Leith, who lived in Concord, New South Wales, directed in his will that if his daughter, Dame Eadith Walker, died unmarried, half of his £850,000 should pass at her death to certain classes of next-of-kin and half to Aus- tralian charitics.

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His daughter died, unmarried, 1937. More than 600 claims to the £425,000 have since been received from England, Scotland, the United States, and many parts of Australin.

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Many were found to be false. They

were reduced first to 370, then to 33 second cousina,

JUDGE'S DECISION This final decision was made recently in a judgment given in Sydney by the Master in Equity.

The arcond cousina Include 18 British people. Among the 15 who receive at least £12,000 are-

Sir Thomas Bell, a director of John Brown and Company, Ltd., of Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire; Lady Verney, wife of Lieut- Col. Sir Ralph Verney, Examiner of Private Bills and Taxing Master, House of

Commona;

Lady Devonshire, wife of Sir James Devonshire, a prominent figure in the cicctrical and trans- port world; and

Colonel Charles Lyon Sidey. Lady Devonshire and Lady Verney had not heard of their new fortunes when I spoke to them yesterday.

For Lady Devonshire it comes as a golden wedding gift, for she was mar- ried 50 years ago. She was formerly Miss Wilhelmina Walker,

"Fancy that!" she declared when she heard the news. "It is so long since I first got into touch with the trustees in Australia."

Lady Verney is a daughter of Senator the Hon. J. T. Walker, first cousin of Thomas Walker and one of

the trusices of her estate.

150 Offers To

Marry Soldiers

EVERY post brings letters to the Mayor of Walsall, Alderman Collins, from airis oil over Britain offering to marry two soldiers serving with the 2nd South Staffs in India, who And wrote asking the Mayor to them a wife.

Over 150 letters have been re- ceived, and practically all writers enclose their photographs, claim to be of the homely type and good cooks who hate lipstick and rouge,

"If I get an introduction to our lonely soldier pals," writes one, "I can assure you cupid's arrow will not have been thrown in vain."

"I don't lipstick and rouge Jike some girls et, my age, who look as they have escaped from a WAX- works show," says another, while a third writes: "It is nice, to know two fellows who want their wives to be good cooks, because so many nowadays go in for the painted and slim type."

A girl enclosing a photograph which shows her in bathing costume says: " hope, Mr. Mayor, you will not consider me vulgar. This is the only photo I have."

"Mr. Walker died long before I was born, but I knew his daughter very well during my childhood in trdney," she sald. She led a must noble life of philanthropy."

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He Explains What Hitler Means

NEW Nazi theory, claiming for Germany the vast territories

May 17, 1939.

Without Trace

FORWARD Sherlock Holmes, Philo Vanco and you other stars of the Crime Detection Firmament, Here's a real-life mystery "for you to solvo:

A room at Stonchouso (Ply- mouth), is loft with the door locked, barred and bolted. Tha only other way in is by the windows. These are bolted on the insido

There is a robbery. A dosk has been forced opon and 12. has been stolen.

The police are called. They find the door as it was left: tho windows still bolted; ;

How did the ralder entor and leave? Give it up, Sher- lock? And you, Philo? Well, hore's how.

He scraped the putty off a window frame, removed tho glass and drow back the bolti.

On leaving he rebolted the window, replaced the gla with fresh putty and painted it so that no trace remained.

The work of a master crock, you say? Not at all.

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A 13-year-old schoolboy was the valder. He was bound

over

at Plymouth juvenile Court recently.

Capt. Euan Wallace Minister Of Transport

CAPT

EUAN WALLACE, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, will be appointed Minister of Transport in succes-

of the old Holy Roman Empire, has been expounded by the leading authority on Nazi philosophy, Herr Alfred Rosenberg.

Herr Rosenberg is Hitler's trusted adviser, and in the past

developments in German foreign policy have usually beension to Mr. Leslie Burgin, the heralded by his explanation of the theory involved,

"HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE”

new Minister of Supply.

Capt. Crookshank, Secretary for At Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), the town in which Charlemagne and the Mines, will succeed Capt. Wallace at old German Emperors were crowned, the Treasury, Herr Rosenberg declared:

"Under Capt. Crookshank will then be Sir the roof of Adolf Hitler's Germany John Simon's assistant in piloting the must be gathered everything that has Finance Bl through the Commons. ever belonged to Germany in her

ONE JOB MR. BURGIN WILL FINISH

thousand years of history"

A new epoch. he said, had opened

It is understood that Mr, Burgin

for the German people. The Nazi wll complete his work on the pro- slogan, "One People, One Country,"posed Ralltray Bill before handing was now overruled. Henceforth, as jöver to his succéside. had. been demonstrated by...the. occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, the German Reich must embrace all the peoples of the old German Empire.

Charlemagne was the new symbol of Nuzi philosophy and Adolf Hitler his Arst real successor.

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`NEWCOMER TO BE CHOSEN-

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, M.P., ut present Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs, will succeed. Capt. Crooks- shonk ne Secretary of Mines.

A newcomer to office will be chosent to succeed Mr. Lloyd..

Law Forbids Job's Duties

NEWTON, Mass.

The Empire of Charlemagne in- cluded the whole of France, Swlizer- land, Holland, Belgium, half of Italy (including Rome), part of Jugoslavia and Hungary and roughly There's a good reason why Dr. C. two-thirds of what is now Germany. Arthur Boutelle, city veterinarian,

duties During the post 1,000 years the won't fuld his new German frontier also included half slaughtering inspector: the law speel- of what is now Poland,

Acally. bans slaughtering in Newión.

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