1939-05-17 — Page 27

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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) Verney receive at least £12,000 each 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 puss- at her death to certain classes of next-of-kin and half to Aus- tralian charities.

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

Many were found to be false. They were reduced first to 370, then to 33 second cousins.

JUDGE'S DECISION

was

150 Offers To

Marry

Soldiers

EVERY post brings letters to thei Mayor of Walsall, Alderman Collins, This final decision

made from girls all over Britain offering recently in a judgment given into marry two soldiers serving with Sydney by the Master in Equity,

the 2nd South Staffs in Indio, who wrote asking the Mayor to find them a wife,

The second cousins include 10 British people. Among the 10 who receive at least £12,000 are

Sir Thomas Bell, a director of John Brown and Company, Ltd., of Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire Lady Vemer, wife of Jeut-

Col.

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

"If I get un introduction to our

Sir Ralph Verney, Examiner.tonely soldier pais," writes one, "I

of Private Bills and Taxing Master, House of Commons

Lady Devonshire, wife of Sir James Devonshire, a prominent figure in the electrical 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 á 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. alnce 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

the trusices of her estate,

of

can assure you cupid's arrow will not have been thrown in vain,"

lice "I don't lipstick and rouge some girls of my age, who look us

they have escaped from a wax- {works" show," says noother, while a third writes: "It is nice to know two fellows who want their wives | to be good cooks, because so many inowadays go in for the painted and

slim type."

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

"Mr. Walker died long before I was bora, but I know his daughter very well during my childhood in Sydney,"

the said. "She led a most noble life

of philanthropy."

Committee of artists seeking perfect physical man and wo- man of this age chose Joan Blondell and Charles Atlas Statues of them, scaled to size, will be placed in Civilisation Crypt at Oglethorpe University and opened 5,000 years hence. Joon is screen star and Atlas a physical culturist.

He Explains What

Hitler

Means

A NEW Nazi theory, claiming for Germany the vast territories of the old Holy Roman Empire, has been expounded by the leading authority on Nazi philosophy, Herr Alfred. Resenberg.

Herr Rosenberg is Hitler's trusted adviser, and in the past now developments in German foreign policy have usually been heralded by his explanation of the theory involved

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Without Trace

FORWARD Sherlock Holmes, Philo Vance and you other stars of the Crime Detection Firmament. Here's a real-life mystery” for you to solve.

"

A room at Stonehouso (Ply mouth) is loft with the door locked, barrad and bolted. The only other way in is by the windows. These are bolted on the Insido.

There is a robbery. A desk has been forced open and 12*. has bean stólèn."

The police are called. They find the door as it was loft: the windows still bolted,

How did the raider `entor' and leave? Give it up, Shor

·lock? And you, Philo? Well, horo's how.

He scraped the putty off a window frame, removed the glass and draw back the bolt.

On leaving he robolted tho window, replaced the glass with fresh putty and painted it so that no traco remained.

Tho work of a master crook, you say? Not at all,

*

A 13-year-old schoolboy was the raidor. Ho was bound over at Plymouth Juvenile Court recently.

Capt. Euan Wallace Minister Of Transport

CAT

EUAN

WALLACE, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, will be appointed Minister of Transport in succes- sion to Mr. Leslie Burgin, the new Minister of Supply,

Capt. Crookshank. Secretary for Mines, will succeed Capt. Wallace at

the Treasury.

At Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), the town in which Charlemagne and the old German Emperors were crowned, 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 Bill through the Commona. ever belonged to Germany in her thousand years of history."

ONE JOB MR. BURGIN, WILL FINISH

A new epoch. be sald, had opened It is understood that Mr. Burgin for the German people. The Nazl wij complete his work on the pro- slogan, "One People, One Country," posed Railway Bill before handing was now overruled. Henceforili, as over to his successor. had been demonstrated by the occupation of Bohemla and Moravia, the German Reich must embrace all the peoples of the old German Empire.--

Charlemagne was the new symbol of Nazi philosophy and Adolf Hitler his first real successor.

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NEWCOMER TO BE CHOSEN

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, M.P., at present Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs, will sucezed Capt. Crook- shank as Secretary of Mines.

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

Law Forbids Job's Duties

NEWTON, Mass.

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

the won't full his new duties During the past 1,000 years German frontier also included half slaughtering inspector: the law specl- of what is now Poland.

fcally bans slaughtering in Newton.

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