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Paris Refused Το British Troops Lost Her Throne Cheer King

Paris..

"MISS, PARIS. 1930" was accused in the Civil

Court here recently of en- dangering French' prestige by refusing to go to New! York as a representative of French beauty.

She is Mlle, Sonia Bessis, ú blonde dancer at the Opera- Comique, and the committee which elected her applied for an order preventing her from con- tinuing to use her title.

Maitre Valenti told the court:

is young woman efter signing a contract that she would carry out the coinmittee's wishes, refused tu klo 10. She had agreed to go to New! York, but at the lust minule she re- fused.

"Her contract stipulated that she) should have her hair done at a cer- Join hairdreamer's, and thing she should afterwards be photographed. She re-

fused to do so.

"She was to have been phulo- graphed in lingerie supplied by an- other well-known firm. Again she refused, saying, 'It was never intend- ed that I shoulli pore, seral-nude, be- fure enmero. "C,

RIVALS SHAKE HANDS

The conunfttee met again and de-

I posed her. They elected instead her! predecessor, "Miss" Parly 1930" for another year.

At this stage "MIs, Ports 1038" walked into the court. She shook hands with "Miss Paris 1039" and sat down next to her.

Maitre Paul Weill, for "Miss Paris

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deposed, "Why should she partly clothed before, a camera just because she is a beauty queen?"

Judgment was postponed.

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ERNST TOLLER, 46-years-old German author and play- wright, was found hanged by a dressing-gown cord in his hotel | here recently.

He had been depressed at failure

to get his works produced in Americu,

his funds were low, and he had sul-

The observance of the King's Birthday in Shanghai was marked with two milliary parades in addition to reception. The Royal Stan- dard was raised both at the East Surrey barracks and at those of the Seaforth Highlanders in the morning. At upper left, the First Datia- Hon, the Seaforth Highlanders are seen giving three chrers for The King, led by Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Wolfe-Murray, D.5.0., M.C., Lower plcture shows the East Surreys on parade, while at right, Major- General Frank Keith Simmons, BLV.Ö. O.B.G., MLC., Commanding Ofcer of British Troops in Shanghai, is seen cheering with the troops.

Labour Camps For War Objectors

ABOUR camps are to be set up in various parts of

Britain mostly far from large towns-where con- fered intense pain from ailments re-scientious objectors under the Military Training Bill will sulting from war service.

be given work of national importance.

He had often talked recently of ending his life as the only way out Town and Country Bureau Lid, of of "a world gone mad." Sluane Street, Chelien, · 5.W.; sued

The day before he Mrs. Anita Dudley, of Old Jeromes, St. Albans, for. CI 176. Gl. focs. The secretary, "I don't know how much

longer I can go on."

ense

was heard at West London County Court.

suld to his

In his play "Hinkemann," per- formed in London some years ago,

Mrs. Dudley sald that she gave the "elgarette addict" notice on the second day and paid her a week's by hanging. It was secretary found him.

the climax is the suleide of a moli thus that his

wages.

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Toller "the man the Nazis could "I complained to the registry not catch"-escaped to England when offler," she said, "und they sent an-hated by the Nazis as a "dangerous Hitler came into power. He was cther cook.

"This woman arrived in a towering Communist-Jew," and was one of rage, because she said she was not the first people to be deprived of told that the house was three miles German eftizénship. from St. Albans.

He was a prolific writer and first "She remained in a rage until she made his name in England by his left. The meals she served were, un-play "Massenmensch"-"Masses and catable,

Man. His life story. "I Was^a ̄Ger=" than," published in London In 1934, was a best-seller.

From 1919 16 1924 he was in prison serving a sentence for high trênson.

actress, at

When I once complained that tea had not been served she said: I am having mine now, your will get yours when I am ready,"

Licul-Culonel Ambrose Dudley, the In 1035 he married 18-years-old husband, said that he strongly ob- Miss Lil Grautof, an jected to finding cigarette nah in his Kensington Register Office.

She is the daughter of Dr. Otto Giving judgment for Mrs. Dudley, Gratitor, former president of the

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They are, as previously announced, to receive the same pay as men who are called up and their term of service is to be the same-six months,

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PLANE FLIES OFF ON ITS OWN An aeroplano took off on its own at Hanworth, Middle- BOX, recently.

The ongino was being started when the throttla was accidentally opened.

Tho machine climbed to 50ft. and then crashed on bomb-proof shelters at the Royal Army Service Corpa Depot adjoining the air park. The bomb-proof shelters withstood the crash without damage.

Honour Guest

11 has been decided that the conscientious objectors can most pro- fitably spend their time in increasing the long-tenn resources of the country such as aforestation of waste land, agriculture,, and the redemption of Jurid.

They will not be registered in the milltary register, but they will be called before tribunals which will decide the actual duties they are to perform.

Only in very exceptional circum- stances will any conscientious objec- for be totally exempted from military or other national service.

As a protest against the introduc- tion of conscription, the "Scottish Trades Union, Congress has deelded that it will no longer co-operale In the national service works,

This was decided in Glasgow re- cently at a special delegate meet- ing which instructed the General Council to withdraw its representa- tives from the Central National Ser- vice Committee for Scotland und to

withdraw their representatives from local committees.

Mr. Registrar Coutts said that there Franco-German Society in Berlin. Detained On Job recommend all affiliated Unions to

was an implied contract for the re-who also has made his home in Eng- gistry oflce to supply reasonably suit-land. able servants.

"am satisfied," he said, "that both these servants were thoroughly un- rutisfactory."

Medal For Haig Statue

The most fiercely criticised work

of sculpture in London in recent years has been voted the best of the year-the. Earl Haig memorial in Whitehall.

That is the decision of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, and they | have awarded their medal to the author, Mr. Alfred F. Hardiman.

Mr. Hardiman's triumph came after

u succession of storms.

His first model for the memorial in 1920 was

was greeted with an outburst

of criticism, especially on the ground of the massive size of the horse and The wrong position of the Sam Drowne belt.

and

STAYED AWAY Countess Haig was among the critics) of his second model in `1931. when the_third-model was unveiled. In Whitehall in November, 1937, the Countess declined to attend the cere- niony on the ground that her husband "would never have ridden" such a horse.

The statue cost over £10,000.

Students "Enjoin” Teacher

REDDING, Col. When students-of- Chusta high- school took over the city and county administration-for-a-day,their-frat. acts were to fine Superior Court Judga Albert F. Hoss $10 for 'con- tempt of court and to issue an Injunc- tion forbidding the assistant high school principal from giving exam- Inations for three weeks.

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Light Bulbs Collected

Brookline, Mass. Everything was set for the Kiwanis club dinner in honour of William D. Paine's 60th birthday. Gifts were heaped on the table, and more than 75 guests arrived. There was only one hitch: Paine, a stationer, failed appear-being, detained business.

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