THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940
MUTT AND JEFF
OH, THIS DESERT HEAT IS ENOUGH
TO DRIVE ANYBODY
MAD!
LOOK, MUTT! A GLASS OF ICE WATER!
WHEREUPON THAT ROOF! AND LOOK AT THE
STAIRS. IM GONNA
CLIMB UP AND GET THE ICE
WATER!
STOP THAT, YOU BOOB, OR YOU'LL HAVE US BOTH SEEING THINGS!
PUFF-PUFF-
•PUFF-PUFF! ONLY A FEW MORE FLIGHTS NOW AND I'LL HAVE · THAT GLASS-.
MUTT! YOU UP
HERE, TOO?.. HOW'D YOU! BEAT ME UP ON, THE ROOF!!
·By:BUD FISHER
I'M NOT AS NUTTY. AS YOU! I TOOK THE ELEVATOR! GULP! GULP!
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LAND ARMY ENTICED HUSBAND FINED £40
FULL UP
REPORTED MISSING FOR LIGHT QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
Second Lieutenant Bertic Por-
The Women's Land Army ha: er, husband of Mrs. Valerie Por Forty pounds was the fine im- now enrolled sufficient volunteers, er, who became known as the posed on a man at Bow Street for AT 230-5-15:7:20-9:30 TEL 31453 - AT 230 520-720 930 TEL 56856 to meet the immediate labour de-spanked wife" during the case a black-out offerice. He was re- mand.
Land girls will be paid at least 20s. a week as beginners-22s. 6d. if under eighteen.
he successfully brought against fused an allowance of time to pay, his parents for enticement,
ficially reported missing.
is
be of
At the same court one man and one woman were remanded in His father, Mr. Albert Renfrew custody on similar charges. Porter, of Grosvenor Square, Lon-1 · Another man and woman were They will be paid 10 per cent. don, W., appealing for informa- required to find sureties of £50 Jess than the county minimum tion about his son, knows only and £20 respectively to 'rates for the first month, not that he was last seen at Calais good behaviour for six months, or counting training, if they are be-on May 217
six weeks' imprisonment. ginners.
Mrs. Peggy Came, mother of The Chief Magistrate had stated These rates have been fixed by Mrs. Valerie Porter, said: "Val is that the time had come when im the Agricultural Wages Board un-feeling gad and anxions about prisonment instead of fines would der an Order in Council.
him. She feels he has been have to be considered. Mr. Mc
Kenna said he proposed to con- sider that question."
Wages for men coming into wounded. agriculture for the first time are also fixed.
"We hope he is safe in a pri- soners' camp. Val is still in love with him."
Royal
For men, the modified minimum
The missing man, Mr. A. R. wage is 38s. a week (as compar- Porter, junior, is in the ed with the national minimum of Artillery. 48s.), with lower rates for young-
er workers,
Farmers employing these work- ers on piece work will have
pay the same weekly wage.
HE TRIED TO JOIN THE R.A.F.
to
BIG TIMBER YARD FIRE
а
Houses in Malt Street, Old Kent Road, London, S.E. and district were evacuated when timber yard on the banks of the Surrey Canal caught fire. Flames George Earle, son of the U.S.150ft. high cast a livid glow over Minister to Sofia, tried to join the district. the R.A.F., reports Associated So great was the number of Press from Cairo, but after a fire engines in Old Kent Road the that at one time traffic had to be ap-diverted. After nearly two hours
the fire was well under control.
cable was received - from U.S. State Department his plication was rejected.
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Mirror Shone-£1 Finé
At Yarmouth a woman who de clared that the only light showing from her house was the reflection in her mirror of a light from a ship
was fined £1 with 3s. Gal costs.
She was fold by the clerk, Mr. G. Bracey: "If you had blacked out there would have been no re- flection."
The woman, Mrs. Katherine Murphy, of Pavilion Road, Gorles ton, called the evidence of her husband and a neighbour to sup port her statement that there was no light in the room-an attic.
War Reserve Constable Wads- ley, who gave evidence of seeing the light, admitted that he re- fused Mrs. Murphy's invitation to go up to the attic and test, her statement. It wasn't necessary as the light was plainly visible," he said.
MINERS WANT £3 MINIMUM
Miners are to "negotiate for £3-a-week minimum wage for men and to ask the Government to exploit the scientific develop-, ment of coal for the production of ofl:
These points were the subject of resolutions passed at the Mineworkers' Federation Great Britain at Blackpool.
of
Mr. J. Bowman said: "In the production of oil from coul lies the country's salvation. Not only would this solve the problem of unemployment in the mines, but it would confer a tremendous economic benefit upon the coun- try."
WOMAN M.P. BEATS MEN
Firing for the first time using a. 121b; rifle, Dr. Edith Summerskill, M.P.; scored seven |"bulls" with her first ten shots
a feat which: few men" "could accomplish. ♪ Four of them were scored in consecutive” shots./
Dr. Summerskill was shooting in the range in the vaults under the House of Lords, where the Parliamentary L.D.Vs practice:
·She had come to establish her claim as a woman M.P. to: Joln the Parliamentary LDVs and she was the first woman member ever to shoot on the range:
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