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April 8, 1940.

By Walt Disney

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WIVES are an expensive hobby, for Tommy Manville, American playboy and asbests multi-millionaire.

Four of them have cost him £1,000,000, Now he's looking for a fifth, and permanent, wife.

He makes these confessions in his autobiography. He says he has so much close by to give a little consolation, money-£6,000,000-that if he though this form of soince costs 1,000 spent £200 daily until he is 80 dollars a week," says Manville, he would still have hundreds of thousands left.

He admits that he sleeps in white ilk pyjamas in a bed which has | scarlei sheets and pillows, and claims And he claims that he isn't oshat he has worked as a labourer in crazy as most people think, because" construction gang.

he turned the 12,000,000 dollars left

to him into 30,000,000 by skilful investment.

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Hin six gorgeous starry-eyed blonde secretaries cost £200 weekly.

THEY RETURN THE LAND OF

NAZIS' PRISONERS

TELL THEIR STORY

Billiards Champion possessed in the world, eight British women

Divorced

He has whisky for breakfast and his house, which cost £80,000, is! Mrs. Florence Enid Davis, of Chęs- guarded night and day by six armed terfield, has been granted decree men to keep away kidnappers. nisi at Derby Assizes, because of "My bitter moods always grow misconduct by her husband, Mr. Jac nellow when secretarles are Davis, the billards champion.

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London. PENNILESS, the clothes they wore all they and two children arrived at Gravesend last month in a Dutch boat, from Rotterdam.

For the last foor months they have been imprisoned in Ger- many and Nazi Poland since war broke out.

I saw them come off the boat, tired, with thin, drawn cheeks from Inck of proper food-and frightened.

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You have heard of the fear of the Gestapo. These women have met it. A rallway official came up to them for their passports. He was polite. He had a kindly face.

"Your passports, please," he suid in jan ordinary civil voice.

Without question their hands darted. to their purse-bags, Obediently they let him have their passports. And then one of them laughed, a nervous laugh that ended shakly in relief.

"We shall get

them back, of course? Yes, yes, of course. I was forgetting

-we are in England now,

Some of them have homes to go to, some have not. Mrs. M.

Peace,

Polish born, was being met by her son, who lives in Tanza-road, N.W., and whom she has not seen for nine years. Miss Mary Rundsteln and, her sister Sarah were born in England but have not lived here since they were babies. They have no relatives here.

But This Is England

"We shall and work," they said confidently.

M.es Maude Vickery knows no one in this country. And she will not bel able

to find work She is 70

Anu

Soldiers

RESERVES of Army wine being tapped for despatel in barrels to estimancts behind the lines in France. -French Official War Photograpií,

Soldier Wants

A Radio Wedding

LOVE that leaps the Atlantic may

paralysed. She was married from the be a bone of contention for lawyers and

boat in bath chair.

"I have not been in England for 30 years, but it is "home" "she said simply.

Miss Edith Allen, one of three Eng-. Esh women teachers in Cracow and known everywhere in Poland, told me what it was like to be interned in Germany.

Nuremberg Nightmare "We were in nine prisons al-

clergy.

It certainly-is-so-in-the-case-of-- Sergt. Charles Chevalier, French Canadian soldier now serving in England, who wants to be married

by radio telephone to Vicky Quesnel, aged 19, sergt, ciEVA- of Montreal.

LIER

Bishop Nelligan, Chief Roman Catholic. Chaplain to the Canadian Forces, says the long-hit the che gagement ring by distanze marriage can take place-but a man' air mail. must stand proxy for the Ser- laken from one place to anotnec.

"Nuremberg was like a nightmare. geant Chevalier. The beas were not clean,

Church law says that the physical

together." she said, "as we were

We had to

get rid of the bugs betorn we could presence of the bride

. down to sleep."

bride- groom before the priest is essential, "It was Here they stripped us. A although a proxy may be permitted woman wardress superintended the in certain circumstances.

search, but there were four male warners who were there all the time looking on."

He Wants Radio

But Sergeant Chevaller says, "No

Miss Edith Allen acted as inter-other man is going to take my place -

at my wedding ceremony. preter, Sue can speak four languages,

That is why he wants n radio French, English, German, and Kus-wedding. But here both lawyers

you."

sian.

Three Jewish girls of the party, and priests rise up with objections.

The Polly Eder and Surah and

province of Quebec, in which Mary

the bride lives, observes old-style Rundstela were told by Nuzi guarda) French law, which is quite different that they would be put up anst a from English law. wall.

A Quebec lawyer says:- "We shall then shoot you," ex-

"I have never heard of a marriage pla.ned the guards, "and when you by proxy taking place in Quebec, are dend we shall make soap out of and I seriously question whether it can be done. Quebec law requires marriages to be performed before a The girls were terrified, even when competent oflcial and in this pro- they came to understand that this vince a competent offeint means a was just the Nazi way of making Priest or Minister of Beligion. There little joke.

is no such thing in Quebec as a civil Yesterday, terrified still, they clung marriage. to Misa ida Dantels, who was

"In general, the Courts of Quebec mother of the parly. She had a will recognise as valid a marriage pack of cards and taught them

to which is recognized as vaild by the

Church to which the parties belong. play "Sevens."

How Nazis Joke

the

"It amused the children," she told ime.

"We did what we could to keep them happy."

If the Roman Catholic Church would recognize a proxy marriage by radio as valid there is just a pos- The two children are nine-year-old siblity that the Courts would also Richard and 12-year-old Alexander, recognise it as valid under Romen song of Mrs. Sophie Brown, a Polish Catholic law."

who married A South girl of 27, Airican in Cracow.

But Whore? Even if all these difcullies could

The The Colonel

Who Was

Unfit

LIEUT. - COL.

Patrick

John Reeves was 52.

But he still wanted to do his bit. Then a Medical Board decided that he was unfit for further service.

So Colonel Reeven shot himself.

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At the inquest in Northern Command station the verdict was that he the killed himself while state of his mind was un- balanced..

The coroner (Dr. F. R. Eddison) said: "Here we have an officer who, as far as age was concerned,, was beginning to turn the corn- er, and felt he was of no use."

She had a job as manicurist. She bo overcome, the radio-telephone TO ATTACK

has never been to England, before. wedding would still be a legal head- But as the train slid into London she ache. clutched her two children and painted | Would it have taken place in through the darkness.

"Lon-dont Lon-don." she cried. England, In Canada, or halfway across the 3,000 mile radio-beam And Richard and Alexander, both linking the two parties? sucking oranges, chrieked with excite- ment

Canada House legal experts will alt down to puzzle the miller out. "Lon-don." they echoed.

"If it can't be done we shall have Adventure was before them. Only to wait until

Wo enn meet," said fear, hunger, misery, lay behind.

Sergt. Chevalier. "But I want to be One member of the party, Miss married before I go further Joy Rogers, 21-year-old revue dancer, seas."

over-

of Westclift-on-Sea, did not return And black-haired Vickey told a with them.

Montreal correspondent:

She left them at Rotterdam, saying "I love Charles, and I am willing nomeone had promised to take her to to marry him by proxy or any other England by plane,

way."

-£28,400

FRANCE'S Armament Minister, M. Raoul Dautry, has worked out what it costs lo maintain, the Maginot Line with "Nothing to report."

A GIRL of seventeen was banned from going out with soldiers by Kirkby Lonschule

magistrates.

(Westmorland)

She was Nellie Rutter, of Team- Innie, who was found guilty of steal- ing a pound note.

Binding her over, the chairman, Mrs. F. Pearson, said that, the magistrates had decided to add these conditions: She must not en with soldiers; must not stay out after ten o'clock at night; must not Frequeni public-houses.

"THE

magistrates feel," added Mrs. Pearson, "that many young people are getting into loose ways. Not for years have we had cases of this kind, and we must protect you against temptations."

Seymours Were A Funny Lot

THE Seymours were a funny lot including the unfor- tunato Jane, who lost her head jin more than one way to Henry

VIII

It was excessive vanity, rather than undue ambition, which was to account for the unfavourable Impression minde by the later Seymours on their con- temporaries, Mr. Bernard Falle points out in his new book, "The Naughty Seymours" (Hutchincon, 189.).

Charles Scymour, the sixth Duke of Somerset, for example, "was pompous to the point of ridicule."

"77" Wed "15"

Once, when his second wife topped him coquettishly with her fan, he chided her for familiarity: "Modern, my first Duchess was a Ferey and ahe never took such a liberty!"

Matrimonially, they did well for themselves. "If they married for love," says Mr. Falk sceplically, "they were careful to see that their partners had substantial rentrolls or dowries.

Some of them married late. There was Henry Seymour, who was quite a "card." He married a 15-years-old girl when he was 77,

"Owd Sammy" Of Lancashire

SIR Samuel Brighouse, Britain's

oldest coroner, and affec- tionately known as "Owd Sammy," who died at the age of ninety at his home in Derby Street, Ormskirk, Lancashire, had been the Southwest Lan- cashire coroner for fifty-six

years.

For the past two years he had been confined to his bedroom, but carried. on his work up to the last.

Sir Samuel smoked no fewer than Some of his twenty cigars a day. sayings werc:

"I enjoy every minute of every day. "I've never gone out of my way to avold a pint of beer.

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To acquire happiness take Interest in your fellow creatures and they will take an interest in you."

Sir Samuel was born at Latham, Ormskirk He was the last coroner In England chosen by the votes of tho freeholders, being elected in January, 1084...

Baronet “Either Fool Or Rogue”

A baronet was 'described by Mr. Registrar can, at London Bankruptcy Court, us "either n tool or a rogue."

He refused an application for dis- charge by Sir John Corbin Chubb, of St. Mary's Abbott's Court, W.

Sir John was given liberty to apply In one hour of attack, he reckana,

ume, the an Infantry division uses £28,400 again in three years' in munitions and petrol cloneve might lead a decent, houent life.**.

Reglatear saying: "In the meantime,

"Slight artillery activity." minutes of that on a 1,000-yard front represents £1,700.

One burst from a 75mm. anti-air- craft gun blows up £23.

cost £6,800 per battery to buy.

And you enn send a battalion of heavy tanka clattering into action for

Seventy-five millimetre feld gimnaļa mero £080,000—Associated Press.

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