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April 10, 1940.

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DAUGHTER REFUSED

TO GIVE EVIDENCE

BRISTOL.

Major's wife

MONICA BENNETT, aged 22, of Lytton-grove, Horfield, Bristol, refused to] give evidence in her father's divorce suit.

While waiting for a train on Temple Meads Station she was arrested and taken in

to the court.

an-

When the case was called it was nounced that the girl had refused to attend: Mr. W. St. John Tayleur, for Mr. Clifford Henry Bennett, said, "I am sorry to say that this girl still steadfastly refuses to come to court.

"A policeman visited her home lust night and was obstructed in every way possible by her mother,

"He managed to locate her with difficulty, and told her that she must I understand, however, that

come.

she proposes leaving Bristol for Reading this morning, by train.

She

is a member of the A.T.S. and has a iravelling voucher."

Mr. Justice Lawrence issued 0 Bench warrant, and the girl was arrested as she was waiting for a train io Rending.

Judge Is Stern

in love with hunt

friend

MAJOR ROBERT ALBERT GLANVILLE BINGLEY was given £1,000 damages in the Divorce Court against Mr. Edward Catesby Paget, a stockbroker, who was # member of the same hunt as the major and his wife,

She hasn't

looked

in

a mirror

When the ease wat resumed offer for 12 years

lunch, Mr. Justice Lawrence said to Miss Bennett "Do you understand the English language. A subpoena com- mands you to attend the court."

Miss Bennett: Yes.-

Air, Justice Lawrence: You have caused great inconvenience and 'cx- pense, and if you do not want to see the inside of a prison you will obey the law in future.

Mas Bennett gave evidence. Mr. Bennett was granted a decree nisi against his wife. The girl was released from police custody after the

case.

THE PADRE

PRAYED

AN Archdeacon, who once saved his life by Jumping 2,000 feet out of a disabled alreraft, is the padre at an R.A.F. fighter station near the Fast

CORSE

Slate

i

MARKET RASEN (L/ncs).

IN beautiful house in the village of Owmby. near Market Rasen, you could have seen two pictures of a beautiful woman.

The name of the beautiful woman is Ellzo.

ne major, who is ndjutant at a military college in the south of Eng- land, was granted a decree nisi,

BARBS AT THE FRONT

ONCE

He and his wife, Sibyl Gladys the name of the man whom this Rodney, were married in 1934 at stary concerns was Sherborne Parish Church, Dorset, and lived finally at Newton Longe- ville, Bucks. They have two child-

reti.

BASIL PANAGHIOTI CHRYSSANTHOPOULOS

According to tlie London Gazette

The major's case was that he and he lives at Shepherd's Bush, W., and

his wife and Mr. Payet, the co-re-has changed his name. So that spundent, were friends.

Towards the end of 1938 be noticed

there was ingre than ordinary it is just friendship between his wife und Paget, und later she said she loved

After leaving her husband she stayed with Paget at an hotel Wiltby, Yorks.

at

The suit was not contested. Mr. Justice Jenn-Collins awarded costs against the co-respondent and also against Mrs. Bingley, who has a separate estate.

And if you had called at the beautiful house she would herself

He ordered the co-respondent, whe have shown you the two pictures,

You would have marvelled at her is now serving in the Army, to pay the damages into court within four- hair, at her complexion. And you

more teen days. would have marvelled st when she told you that-

Twelve years ago she gave away all her mirrors and has not şince looked in one.

"I don't want to see myself," she would have told you as you gazed at: the pictures.

collar.

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NOW

BASIL CHRYSS

A Nelson

STORK IS THE ONLY VISITOR

NOBODY visits a lonely cot tage on a bleak hill of the Island of Alderney, Nobody-except the

stork.

Mr. Chivvers, a lorry driver, earns only 275. Od. a week, but his frugal wife finds it enough to All eighteen

hungry mouths. Most of the food is produced at home.

d he comes once a year, almost Seven of the nine girls help in the thout fail, to bring another little garden to plant and gather the vege visitor to the Chivvers, family in the tables, while the seven boys go out

any white cottage on the hill.

and dish at the full moon for ormers, Sixteen bables has he brought to the island oyster, or help father Mrs. Chivvers in the twenty-two sure the rabbits that scumper out- years of her married life, and alio site the door of the collage. doesn't think he's been any 100

generous!

As she reads her family Bible every Sunday, Mra, Chivvers turns with pride to the fly-leaf, where the nuines and ages of her family are

A MEMBER of the Warwickshire w written: Regiment catches up on his wire, Gwenda work during inactive moments un Charles the Western Front.

aged 20 Edward

19 Rayınand 17 Rhoda

16 ina

Nona

Winnle

14 Marjory

He is stringing barbed wire en Helen tanglements in front of the trenches Lennard after a snowfall.

15 Fred

13 Ada Dawn

12 seven months

Dennis

Runny

10

9

Mrs. Chivvers cooks the meals. When they are piping hot she goes to the door and calls for the family. "Alphabet?" she yells, having nelther the time nor the energy to call the names of all her children. By the time they have all reached the table, the meal is rather less than Jukewarm.

But nobody cares a lot. Not for nothing are the Chivvers known as "the merriest family on the island," And their molto seems to be "The more, the merrier."

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The famous

Admira has no chil- One is a picture of her in a flowing message to Congress saying ha hus

the dren. black silk gown with a plain while vetoed the Bill providing for

Like the vietor of Trufalgar. Henry mandatory deportation of" alien in the only padre who can The other is a picture, standing saboteurs, sples and drug addicts, be- Nelson has always had a thirst for

adventure. membership of the Caterpillar near her bed, of her dressed in a enuse it might result in hardship not

When he was 18 he ran away In commensurate with the benefits Club, every man of whom has saved erinelle.

In 1014 he joined the derived from this his life by parachute Below his From this picture you would have which would be "dog-collar" he wars the tiny cater- turned to shake her hand and con- legislation by the community."

ifis unit was drafted to German plllar tic-pin.

gratulate her. While

KIRK He added that the Government New Guinea, but after a few month fying in the Egyptian desert

already has power to deal frmly be was out of the war for good. ten years ago, he had "abandon WAS 102.

Stricken with malaria he lay in hos- ship, dive headfirst over the side of And as you left her you might with spies and saboteurs, on which

ital wondering why he had joined the spinning nircraft. count ten have remembered Ovid's "The time it will be recalled, he recently signed slowly, and pull the rip-cord. will come when it will ver you to Bill increasing the penalehe Anzacs-and not the Navy.

United Press. look in your mirror."

He says that he "prayed hard."

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He vowed then that if he lived to ee another war he would be in the Navy, He joined the Merchant Ser- vice for a few years, then went home to Brighton to sellle down.

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