FIRST THING EVERY MORNING
FOR INNER CLEANLINESS
A
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ENOS FRUIT SALT
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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1940.
George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay and Vincent Price in Universal's dramatisation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of Seven Gables," now at the King's Theatre.
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COPIED K OFFICIAL PASS
After a trial in camera, William
Gaskell Down-. ing, 32-years-old Air Min-. istry examiner, of Queen's Court Road, West Dids- bury, Manchester, was found guilty on three charges under the Official Secrets Act at Manches- ter Assizes.
Downing was convicted of mak- ing sketches useful to an enemy in the form of photographs of an acronautical inspection badge, an Air Ministry pass, and à permit to enter certain premises.
He was found not guilty of being in possession of two impres- sions of an official stamp.
Charges relating to possession of a key and making a model of an official stamp were not put to the jury.
Mr. Justice Oliver postponed
sentence,
Kept Secret Documents Arthur Jack Bradbury of Park Lane, Wembley, 25-year-old cleri- cal officer at a Paddington police station, was sentenced to three months imprisonment at Hendon 1or retaining a confidential do- cument and a confidential book issued from the office of the Com- missioner of Police.
Mr.. E. Clayton, prosecuting, jsaid that one of the documents dealt with the protection of A RESOLUTION CALLING on the Government Cabinet Ministers and the other various police to prepare plans for the future complete co-ordina- gave detalls of
stations, the addresses of certain tion of all forms of transport under public owner-courts in the Metropolitan ship and control was passed unanimously at the and certain other addresses. annual conference of the National Union of Rail- waymen at Morecambe.
It was claimed that reconstruction after the war will depend more on a sound transport system than on any other factor.
Mr. John Marchbank, the gen-{ eral secretary, said the resolution. visualised the taking over under public control of all transport by road, rail, sea or air.
SAY WOMAN HAD £1,500 HIDDEN
Peace Pledger
alea,
Detective Inspector Gagen said that Bradbury was a prominent member of the Peace Pledge Union, and had been in touch the war, and with people who had with people in Germany before
now been internedisince the war.
Mr. Dudley Collard, defend- ing, said that there was not a shadow of evidence that there was anything improper in Brad- bury's associations with Germany or that they were connected with the present charges.
Bradbury expressed his regret, and said that he had no ulterior
The financial structure of the railways was such that in the] A search revealed that a woman motive.
3 ship for the There was nothing whatever hands of private enterprise it could about to board
United States with two children in the list of Cabinet ---Ministers not be maintained, without Gov-had three £500 notes hidden on which could. not be obtained by ernment aid.
members of the public.
MAN ACQUITTED, JUDGE GLAD
[her.
That in itself was an indication This story was told at Liver- that the changes proposed in the pool when Mrs. Maria Hart, fifty- nine, of Albion Gate, Hyde Park, resolution, and proved to be ne-London, was accused of having cessary in time of war, would be attempted to take the notes out
of the United Kingdom without] "I am glad," said Mr. Justice essential at the end of the war.
permission.
Oliver at Manchester Assizes when After the search Mro. Harti George Albert Vincent, aged was alleged to have said "I am twenty-four, of Gladstone Road, sorry. I did it for the children. Seaforth, Liverpool, was acquitted It is my own money, and as on a charge of manslaughter. was not robbing anybody ..I Vincent was alleged to have did not think it was serious." struck a man who boasted that Mr. J. R. Bishop, prosecuting, he had taken Vincent's sweetheart said the police wished to make from him. The man hit his head be inquiries in London,
and Mrs. on the pavement and fractured Hart was remanded in custody, this skull.
The London Passenger Trans- port Board went a long way to- wards the unification and public ownership which had been advo- cated for many years.
First Task
A word of warning must given, however,
When the change did come, the taking over of transport must be on a fair basis and not a basie that would make it B lability on the taxpayers.
It must be based on the value of the undertakings according to the service that could be rendered by them.
"We look forward to a Socialist,
clared, "and when reconstruction
BIG PLOT BY ARMY DODGERS DISCLOSED
A WIDESPREAD plot to evade military service Government,” Mr. Marchbank de- was disclosed by Chief Inspector William Salisbury, takes places the bringing of all of Scotland Yard, when he gave evidence at the Old will be one of the first jobs to be transport under public ownership Bailey against nine men.
tackled."
Confusion
Five of the men admitted that two years' imprisonment. They they were impersonated by an are:
unfit man at their medical exam-Joseph Barnett, of Median-Road, inations and Chief Inspector, Hackney; Sydney Barnett, Lyn- Mr. E. G. Bowers (Bethnal Salisbury said:
ton, Road, West Acton; Samuel Green) gave some illustrations of "This matter is not limited to Rifkov, Old Hill Street, Stoke confusion under the present absen- these men. There is a more Newington; James Boulton; and ce of adequate transport co-serious and dangerous conspiracy." Maurico Kravis, of King's Road,.
It is understood that men in Brighton.
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ordination.
About 500 tons of sugar had to various parts of the country are Jack Brack, aged 20, salesman, be taken from point "A" to point, involved. Scotland Yard officers of Brick Lane, E., who carried "B".
(under Chief Inspector Salisbury out the impersonations, was sent First it was carried by barges are investigating their activities to Borstal for three years.
the provinces and in Two older men were given two then by railway truck, and then all over
the years' imprisonment, and by motor to three different places Greater London. altogether.
Big sums of money, as "fees" ninth man was given nine months. "What happened to it even- from those who want to dodge No evidence was offered against tually I don't know," said Mr. service are changing. hands. Bert Aaronberg, aged 40, of Gilda The Common Serjeant, Mr. Crescent, Stamford Hill. He was In another case 100 tons of Cecil Whiteley, K.C., · remarked discharged. foodstuffs for the troops had to that the two years' maximum sen- Mr. L. A. Byrne, prosecuting, be moved as an emergency job. tence he could impose seemed in- said that last November when It was found that only certain adequate for such a serious of Brack appeared, before a medical contractors must be called on lence in these critical times. board he was found to be suffering ' first because they were in the IN EARLY TWENTIES from advanced heart disease and [pool
The five men, all in their early was given an exemption certificate. After private sessions the con- twenties, who had been imper-as being totally unfit for military. Rference adjourned,
Isonated, were each sentenced to servico.
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Rescued Two Nazi Airmen While On Fishing Trip
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Kenneth Rice went fish- ing off the south-east coast in the motor-boat Golden Spray and came back with two German airmen he had helped rescue from the sea.
With Kenneth were fishermen Jack Pocock and Ben Richards. Suddenly, they heard machine-gun- fire. Ten miles off the coast they saw three Spit- fires chasing a Heinkel.
Afterwards Kenneth said: "The German 'plane twisted and dived to avoid the Spitfires, and was only a few feet over the water. Then it nose-dived,
Heads Appeared
"We hauled in
our nets and
HITCH-HIKED TO WEDDING
Before he left Lincolnshire re-
dashed at full speed towards it.jcently for an anti-aircraft station We had seven miles to cover, in the North of England, Sapper and it took over an hour.
Stanley Fox became engaged to "Seeing nothing, we had ai Miss Edith Ethel most given up when two heads teen, living near his home.
Welton, nine- appeared and WC hauled thei men aboard. They caid could not have kept afloat an- bride-to-be stating that he would only have the week-end free. He
other three minutes.'
they
Later,
Stanley wrote to his
Jack Pocock, skipper of the asked her to arrange the event boat, said: "There was an officer for Saturday.
with a badly shot elbow, and a mechanic with a gash on his leg and head injuries. I tore off my vest for bandages and we made: them mugs of cocoa.
"Kept Thanking Us”
to
Dusty But Happy
The time was fixed at 4 p.m. allow Stanley a day to travel. не arrived at the Trinity Methodist Church, Scunthorpe,j a few minutes before 4 pim... tired, dusty, but happy.
"They kept thanking us for for what we had done. Two men He had left the North of Eng- were trapped in the wreckage of land at 4.30 that morning. By the 'plane, and another was walking and asking for lifts from drowned while swimming about." Newcastle, he was in time for his
Kenneth has a souvenir of the wedding. a pair of sock sus-
rescue
penders given him by one of the Nazi airmen.
ALSACE FACING FOOD SHORTAGE
Repopulation of evacuated areas