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Mrs. Gubbay Goes

Home to Dinner

She'll Be

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CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN limousince drove up to houses in Hertford-street.

YOUTH CAMP IN THE Mayfol, recently, setting down and

ROCKIES

MONTREAL, Plans for the construction of an Empire Youth canip at Banff, in the Canadian Rockles, as a permanent commemoration of their Mojestles' visit," were made known recently.

The Dominion Government has given a site on the side of Sulphur Mountains, overlooking Banff Springs and Bow Valley, the most beautiful spot in the Rockies. The cost of the Umber and construction is being covered by public subscripilon. The camp will bear the King's name.

It is revealed that the idea for un

·Empire camp was first suggested by the King during his Banff visit.

Government architects are now working out plans, which will be forwarded to the King for his op- proval at the earliest moment.

JAMAICA

UNEMPLOYED REFUSE

RELIEF WORK

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Of 162 unemployed who applied for tickets for Government relief work on swamp reclamation only nine attempted to work under police protection.

The remainder refused to work at the rate of 1s dd and a free lunch per day

picking up expensively dresser women and immaculate men. But- Inra, footmen, and maids went about their duties with the impeccable dignity of their kind,

A boy delivered a large bouquet of flowers; a Post Ofice mecsen- ger cycled up with a telegram.

Meanwhile, a frail woman, middle- aged and quietly dressed, hurried along the street from the direction of Hyde Park. She ran up the steps of No. 44; n butler closed the door behind her. She tracted little or no attention.

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But she was one of the richest of them all.

Mrs. David Gubbay, likely now to be one of the wealthiest women in Britain, lind been for her usual wallt before dinner.

FRIEND OF QUEEN MARY

She is the widowed cousin of the late Sir Philip Sassoon, who, it is: reported, has left her his £1,000,000 home, at Trent Park, Cuckfester,

Middlesex.

Mrs. Gubbny, heard reports of Sir Phillip Sassoon's wil, but she is, carrying on in her usual way.

Mrs. Gubbay was perhaps the closest of Sir Philip's friends, and often acted as hostess for him. She is also a great friend of Queen Mary. She shared Str Philip's interest in art, and arranged muny of the chows that were held, in lis houres.

Out-Seven Walk

Tuesday,

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July 18, 1939.

En route to Mount Vernon, where his lald a wreath on the tomb of George Washington, is King George with Queen Elizabeth, aboard the Presidential yacht Potomac, on the Potomac river. Left to right: Mrs. Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth, King George, President Roosevelt and Captain Neil J. Callaghan, Presidential naval alde.

Dr. Ingram Weeps At "Farewell"

DR. WINNINGTON INGRAM, 81-years-old retiring Bishop of London, recently sat in Church House, Westminster, at his last meeting of the Church Assembly ny n bishop-his hend bowed, tears on his cheeks. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, was saying "Good-bye and God speed" for the assembly.

Dr. Ingram leaves Fulham Palace this year after 38 years as bishop. He la going on three milssionary tours-"if my health stands it."

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The Assembly cheered as Dr. In-one lot or litle from the God-giving| Trent Park, one of the most bcouli-

year, to essentials. gram told his plans-this

"Why, because a man is a pacifist, elected members walked out of the ful houses and gardens in the country Canada, the United States, and the Legislative Council recently in pro- as a private nine-hule golf course, west Indles; next year to Africa; und should he object to an arrangement test against a measure introduced by an open-air swimming pool, and a the Government amending the mid-great lake stocked with rate wild-the year after to India. And then to being made for a spiritual adminis

Years in trailon to the wounded and dying it write A book, "Fifty wifery faw, which they claim would fowl, It la understood that Sir

a war should unhappily come? London."

"There not one word In this prevent a large number of success-Phillp has made provision for the ful practitioners from continuing their estate to be maintained by his cousin. Throughout the day scores of men measure to encourage war or to usk work.

His house in Park-tane, celebrated and women had approached Dr. In-anyone to 6ght in it."

talked for its art treasures, will probably ran to say good-bye. He KENYA

become the property of his sister, the animatedly all the time of the jour- Marchioness of Cholmondeley.

neys he proposes to make when he Palace, saying. "I teaves Fulham hope to salt in the Duchess of Beri- ford almost at once."

RECORD ENTRY FOR NAIROBI SHOW

NAIROBI.

There are reenrd entries for Ken- ya's biggest agricultural show, which is being held for three days at Nai- robl.

Exhibits are on show from all neighbouring British territories and Congo.

Sir Philip said that he would never marry unless he could find a woman us beautiful as Lady Cholmondeley,

He died a bachelor recently, aged; $0.

Clara Bow

There were loud cheers as, after his speech, he walked slowly back to his ceut in the Assembly and still when the Archbishop

Makesbury rose to pay tribute to Dr. Ingram, who has so faithfully attended the Church Assembly ever since it was established.

Eagle Breeding In Scotland

London.

GIVE THE ARMY THOSE PLUMS, SAYS M.P.

THERE is every prospect of a glut of plums and other fruit this year, according to Dr. S. J. Peters, M.P. (Lb. Nat.) for Huntingdonshire.

Dr. Peters is to ask Sir Regin- ald Dorman-Smith, Minister of Agriculture, whether he whit consider securing Jorge quan- tities of these fruits for preserv-. ing for the use of the armed forces.

Such a step, he contends, will ald growers to avoid the hard- ship of the impending break in prices. A collapse in prices, following on the disaster of last year, would mean ruin'for many of them.

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London.

The oldest telegraph "boy" in One of the most notable birds in the England will be 01 shortly and SHE

Zoo this year is a young golden will not hear of retiring. Mrs. Emily eagle from Scotland, hatched this!

year.

between

It was presented to the Society (Newman has delivered telegrams for by a landowner who was careful to the last 20 years in the village of Film Come-back

allow the other member of the brood Bovingdon, Herts. She is puld 1%d. LARA BOW, once famous red. Dr. Lang said, "We are all moved its freedom. Indeed, owing to the to Dd. a telegram, according to the haired "It" girl of the screen, by the thought that this will be the enlightened polley of landowners and distance she has to walk, it takes 2

last session of the Assembly in which cooperation

gamekeepers hours to reach the furthest point in plans n comeback.

we shall see the bishop in his familiar and police, the golden eagle to-day the district which she covers." Asked place.

Is breeding in parts of the North and if people mind the delay in delivery with considerable she said: "Good gracious, no, they "There is not one of us who does West Highlands

know I walk as fast as I can." not feel that next session there will success. be something locking. when his cheery presence will no longer be with us. Nor shall we hear his

Road Improvement. The refusal of the Colonial offer to sanction a re- quest by the Kenya Government for a loan of £150,000 for road improve ment purposes caused indignation Shortly she will start work on her

been first Ali for eight years. throughout Kenya. This has emphasised by the prompt deelston At present she is in hospital-the of the Secretary of State to order the result of over-zealous weight-reduc- Government to And £50,000 as air. contribution to the new native cduca- tiva_centre.al. Makerere, Uganda.

Clara Bow is the wife of Rex Bell cowboy actor. She has two children

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direct and racy speech or feel the Lord Dawson Tells Why

influence and example of his unabat=" ed and cager zeal."

While the archbishop spoke, the bishop's head sank slowly forward, and he brushed back the thin wisps of white hair nervously from his fore- head. He looked unsecing order paper in his lap.

Women

Fear Big Families

at the DURING a debate in the House of of employment do not realise that a Lords recently on fears of a de-decline in population deprives the clining birthrate, Viscount Dawson of country of producers, which will ulti- Penn, the King's Physiclan, dizeussed mately Increase unemployment." why women to-day do not have large families.

CHURCH AND WAR Then he breathed deeply, and tried to screw up his eyes. But bls emo- tions were too strong. He shut his

He said that the immediate cause eyes in the end, but on his checks of the diminution in the birth-rate there was the glisten of tears.

was birth control, which was extend- The lofty hall rang out with spon-ig in all classes and creeds. taneous appinuse.

Earlier the archbishops and bishops! hnd debated

High taxation exerted influence, this being reflected in the number of who continued their jobs women after marriage, in a London store 75 per cent. of the girl employees leaving to get married asked to be allowed to carry on their jobs after Women to-day had a larger outlook their honeymoons. This meant that the position of the than their predecessors, and were de-child-bearing was not to be an im- Church in wor. The assembly decid-termined that their matemity should mediate sequel to the marriages, ed that the archbishops and bishops be a matter of choice and not chance. shall enjoy wider powers than ever

before..

Postponement of parenthood was "Birth control," he continued, "has all right provided it was not extended The new measure gives the bishops come hand in hand with the growth too far, such as after the age of 25. power to require clergymen to leave of a greater value attaching to indi-There should not be too much cling- their normal work in time of war and vidual child life. The mothers of toing to the good time of the moment. proceed wherever they are ordered. day have never been beaten in the Sald the Rev. E. D. Merritt, Rural way they train their children. Why Dean of St. Pancras, Introducing the then, do they not have more? pion:

"I would rather be beaten in war.

"The chief reason in anxiety In

I would rather give my life and sec some form or other. The fear of un- my fellow countrymen do the same, employment

Parenthood instruction centres should be set up. Parents willing to bear their quota of children should not be financially penalised.

Lord Dawson criticised the building one; but those who of large blocks of tenements, which tan put my hand to anything which think that the smaller the population were totally unsuitable for the bring- would be responsible for departing the more chance their children have ing up of children.

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