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Drama, comedy and romahce centre. around Warner Baxtor and Andrea Laeds In the 20th Century Fox motion picture "Earthbound," which comes to the King's Theatre to-day. Through spectacular motion picture magic, Baxter is projected on the screen as a ghost in this amazing, film.
RAIDERS
GUNNED
FIRE
FIGHTERS
second houses at the theatres and
GERMAN THREAT UNWORKABLE
A New York economist
HOME GUARD
In normal times it is not en easy matter to enter the portals of the British Broadcasting Cor- poration. Now that the British Broadcasting Corporation has its own staff of keen-eyed Home Guardmen it is almost as easy to go through the proverbial eye of a needle as to invade the precincts of a British Broadcasting station!
An announcer, whose tones please you as he reads the news bulletin, puts a. sterner. ring into his voice, when, dressed in uniform and holding his rifle at the ready, he protects the temples.
There are about one thousand members of the Home Guard protecting by day and by night the 26 stations of the British Broadcasting Corporation in various parts of Britain and there is little danger of a studio being invaded by Nazi agents as occurred in Vienna when Dollfuss was assassinated.
Immediately the Local Defence Volunteer movement was started there was a rush of applicants and the Home Guard is now represen- tative of every section of the Cor- poration's staff.
No visitor is immune from <crutiny and even Miss Elizabeth Cowell, the woman announcer, whose features were so familiar in the days of television, has to show her pass.
Rifle Instruction
The Home Guard of the B.B.C.
who give drill
When Nazi raiders made their told representatives of take their duties very seriously, first daylight attack on a large North-West town one evening America's mining indus- The Corporation employs many people were just going in for the try they have little to ex-Service men
and rifle instruction and in the the centre of the town was packed. fear from "the threat of provinces especially the military.
Some hours later the Nazis came Germany to outlaw gold in the event of her victory This acted as a beacon for suc- in the present conflict,' cessive waves of bombers, who states the "Christian the British Broadcasting Corpora made it their target.
again and set on fire a big build- ing.
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authorities have lent their aid.
Drilling is done in the studios and shooting experience is gained. on rifle ranges, some. of which were used by the rifle section of
tion before the war. The work is Bombs were dropped. all round, Science Monitor."
engendering a happy spirit of and firemen working on the blaze Barter cannot be used as a sub-comradeship. and people near by were ma-stitute for gold and Germany does chine-gunned.
not prefer barter regardless of
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of work
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The raids continued until early statements by leaders whose word countries," the New Yorker de- the following morning. Seven peo-has failed in the past, economist claréd: ple were killed in one shelter, but Thomas M. McNiece declared at
barter can not unless We reyert to nigh calibre bnbs dropped near the Metal Mining Convention others without damaging them." the American Mining Congress, living standards of many centur
Two planes were believed shot The present or eventual effects of ies ago. Thus in itself would pro- all over: the down by heavy anti-aircraft fire. war conditions on several metals mote revolucions were discussed in Longest Raid
a symposium world. recently.
Even if it could be made to work, barter would--- ·require -*-- complete and unqualified multi- lateral, cocperation throughout the world a condition Im- possible to realise.
In one industrial area several centres had their worst and long- est air raid of the war, when peo- ple were in shelters during the night and early the next morning. Raiders came over in waves drop- ping a large number of high-ex- plosive and incendiary bombs in many districts, where several fires were caused:
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Threat Discounted Discounting what he called a German threat to demonetise gold and establish a world-wide sys- The free operation of foreign
markets provides tem of barter Mr. McNiece said exchange Germany's barter efforts to date place. where international debtors were undertaken as "a last resort and creditors meet, barter. their when her gold and foreign, ex-obligations and settle the differ-. change reserves were exhausted:"ences with gold. The only reason
As she has taken
over one for differences is that obligations country, after another, Germany cannot be made to balance by has reached for nothing more this barter if balances are to dis- quickly than for the gold and appear somebody has to take less' In another town a high-ex-other financial assets of those goods. plosive bomb fell on to a gas main and caused a fire, which brought other raiders to the spot and several other bombs wère drop- ped nearby.
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In one town' a delayed-action bomb exploded several hours after the raiders had passed and caused casualties.
Seven Hour Visit
A few people were killed and a number injured, many of item seriously, in another industrial town in the North-West,' 'which had its most intensive and pro- longed raid lasting about seven hours.
One of the victims, a man, was driving his car when the car was hit by an incendiary bomb, The car was burned out and the man himself was burned to death. A few yards away a high-explosive bomb landed in the roadway and killed a girl.
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People on their way home from places of entertainment late, that night spent more than four hours in the public shelters when a North-West town had its fourth successive, night raid. There, was a small number of casualties.
At one theatre back-stage work- ers were still clearing up when á
· light-calibre bomb struck a ten- storey, commercial building next door
P. A bomb fell in a street of:houses. In a working-class district. · Three of the houses were demolished. The tomilies in two of these were safe in shelters, but a man" and his wife in the third house werd buried beneath, brickworke... and other debris and had to be dug out..
They were both taken to hos- pital suffering from shock, but were discharged later.
The, love triangle in: "Earthbound,'' - the 20th-Century Fox film at the Kingla Theatre Androa ̈ Leeds (left), Warnor Dax- tor and Lyan. Barl. Baxter, do the "man who len't! thera,” for he appeara no a ghost in this film, thanks to cleven Hollywood- trick photography.