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September 30, 1939.
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First of six gigantio iires built for huge snow cruiser to be taken on Admirał Byrd's Antare lo expedition is removed from mould at Akron, Ohla. Tire is 10 feet in diameter and welglis 700 pounds, world's largest.
Five Hundred Farewells Without A Sound
FIVE HUNDRED people waved
silent farewella when 117 deaf mutes left Liverpool-street Station recently to attend the desf and dumb "Olympic Games" in Stockholm.
The only sound to be heard was the faint pust of the engine.
Pretty girls thumbed and palmed
"They are very keen un football," Mr. Perry said. "The referee has a whistle and a white handkerchief. when they don't see him blow the whistle, he waves the handkerchief." The secretary of the association is 62-year-old deaf-mute Mr. William Baird, who founded the first clubs for dent and dumb people 45 years
ngo.
His son, Mr. W. Baird, Junior,
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BATTLE OF THE ROADS is the new trend in styles
·BRIDE · WAS THREE
· HOURS LATE
Guests waited thróo hour In a synagogue at Stepney, E., recently for the wodding of Harry Mixler, former light-
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weight boxing champion of THE battle of the roads, in which the villagers of Chalfont St. Peter fought Buckinghamshire County Council, ended at Beaconsfield recently with a victory for the villagers, the magistrates giving a verdict in their favour.
Britain, and Miss Batty Groon- field. Mixfer was ons and three-quarter hours late and the bride threo hours läta.
Crowds outside went away thinking the wedding had been postponed.
Residents of Commons Down Estate, Chalfont St. Peter, had appealed against the County Council's deci-
At the reception in a Piccasion to make up the roads on the estate at a cost of £14,- dilly restaurant, Harry Mixlar000, which the residents were expected to pay.
said: "There was a misundor- standing with the car-hiring fire. The cars took all the guests to the wedding but for somo reason the bride and bridegroom ware overlooked."
Franco Blow To Nazis
PARIS.
IT IS LEARNED HERE THAT SPAIN HAS -CANCELLED GERMAN CONTRACTS FOR RE- CONSTRUCTIVE WORK ΤΟ THE VALUE OF £1,500,000, AND THESE CONTRACTS ARE NOW BE OFFERED IN GREAT BRITAIN.
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They are all working-class people, living in cottages ranging
in value from £50 to £150 "in the most exclusive street" (Coun
cil's description).
To fight the Council they pooled their slender resources, briefed Mr. W. A. Fearnley- Whittingstall, the barrister, and produced an alternative scheme costing only £7,000, which they were willing to pay.
BILL FOR £129
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One villager, Mrs. Tom Allen, who
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NEWS
has a bed-ridden husband lying in MINERAL SURVEY OF
one end of a converted furnituro van, had a demand note for £120, julthough she is so poor that she lives on parish relief. Another, living in a £100 cottage, received a bill for
L100.
EAST AFRICA
NAIROBI. Further details of the mineral survey in East Africa, which is to be undertaken with a grant of £30,000 At the hearing Mrs. Mitchell sail from the Imperial Government, her husband earned only 506, yet through the Colonial Development they were being asked to pay £39 Fund, show that over 15,000 square miles of the most promising land in Kenya will be explored.
road charges.
Mr. Thomas Springett, living in a hut costing £35 und receiving only 175. Od. weekly, said he received
bill for £73.
"EXTRAVAGANT"
All the areas are comparatively easy of access. This will reduce the costs of their economile exploitation made. in the event of discoveries being
The Franco Government, in stoner. who has a £300 mortgage
Mrs. Francis, 70-year-old pen its anxiety to maintain neutra-fon her house, had a bill for £00.
In some of the car-marked dis- "Don't forget to wrlie" messages, said: "He wanted to take these lonely may decide to issue
tricts traces have been, found of gold, The train was a minute tale leav-ly people from off street corners and formal denial of any special After ing because one of the 117 could not out of puble-houses. They rely on friendship with Germany,
the magistrates had in mercury, capper, lead, manganese, spected the site the chairman, Mr. asbestos, barytes, corundum, dlato- hear the guard's frantle whistling.
"We mite, tin, beryl, mica, yanite, mag- T. Hollis-Walker, K.C., Bald; Mr. T. Perry, a normal member of him because he is cool-hended and
Moreover, as a sequel to recent adaptable."
diplomatic conversations, it is une come to the conclusion that neslie, optical quartz, vermiculie derstood that direct action may be this rond is unnecessarily costly, and and marble.
Bilbao, In northern extravagant, and we have resolved,
A large party of experts is now Spain, where the Nazis are believed therefore, that this objection must
being recruited for the three years' to have stored suppiles
succeed." fer their
exploration. An appeal has been submarines,
Outside the court Mr. Fearnley-made by the Department of Mining The Oxford Croup. Dr. Frank
In the last war the U-Boats were Whitingstaf was surrounded by and Geology in Kenya for any in- mineral vectrrences Buchanan's movement, has been re-understood to refuel in various hid- dozens of village who wished to formation on gistered as a company "not for pro- den inlets on that const, and a siml- congratulate him. Eventually hef which may be in the possession of
cheers of his private Individuals. it"; Its objects: "The advancement iar plan would seem to be a natural drove off umid the
clients. probability in the present conflict. of the Christian religion, ...”
the British Dent Amuleur Sports Association, travelled with the party.
He said: "Thirty-two of our ment- bers are taking part in the sports. which will last for a week. Ther saved up for years, to allend.
"Special rangements are made for us by the Workers Travel Association."
These dent and dumb people make -excallent cyclists and rife shote.
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KINGSTON, Jomales. To prevent Inrge private Imports of cornmeal before the Governinent cornineal factory is started, towards the close of the year, the Governor of Jamatra, Sir Arthur Richards, re- cently mude a proclamation probi- biting Its importation under the Customs Consolidation Law.
Permlia for imports, however, will be granted in limited quantities un- til the factory is in full operation. NEW-ZEALAND ---
FALL IN BUTTER EXPORTS
AUCKLAND.
In the dairy export season ended on July 31 butter exports decreased by 10,375 tons to 122,305 tons, a fall of 13.7 per cent. Cheese declined by 4,110 tons to 80,873 tons.
AUSTRALIA
MILITARY PLEASED BY NEW COMMANDS
MELBOURNE. Military circles are satisfied with the new personnel of the higher commands, acclaiming the combina- tion of comparative youth, practical experience and distinguished war service.
The new command system will
far-reaching alterations military administration, enabling quicker and more effective training of recruits,
National Register Success. — In spile of the fact that the trade unions' boycott of the national re- gister was only abandoned in the middle of the census period, only about 80,000 men falled to return their man-power cards. The Cabinet will Inter eonalder the question of tracing and punishing defaultera. INDIA
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JUDGES OPPOSE A BOMBAY PROPOSAL
BOMBAY.
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Mr. Murah, the Home Minister. time ingo announced some Government's intentions.
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