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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 29, 1941.
MAN MOVED A SHE LIVED
TIME BOMB --FINED £100
ONE-MAN-BOMB-SQUAD Frederick George Leighton-Morris, aged thirty, who carried a 1101b. unexploded bomb from the flat next door to his and got fined £100 for doing it, says he will go to gaol for three months rather than pay the fine.
He was in a club when wardens came in and asked if anyone lived at No. in a famous West End street because a delayed-action bomb had land- ed there.
"Good heavens!" cried Leigh- ton-Morris to his wife, "that's by us!" and rushed home.
He found the police preparing to evacuate the flats. He told them there was no need to do that. на would remove the bomb himself.
But the police didn't appreciate his offer a bit. They told him not to go in and said if he did J would be arrested.
awful
Having delivered this warning they went round to the back of the flats.
Leighton Morris promptly climbed up tne fire escape,
"There was the bomb, standing upright on the floor. So I picked it up and walked out with it into the street," he told a reporter. "I intended taking it to a park where it could explode harmless ly, but it was a damn sight hea- vier than I realised and I had to drop it when I got across the road, Incidentally, it fell on my foot and crushed a toe!"
He and the bomb were there caught in the act together when the police reappeared. Leighton- Morris protested he was taking to the park.
Had To Guard It
The police intimated coldly that he was not going to take the bomb anywhere. He was going to the police station... without it.
Unfortunately for the best In- tentions. the police now had to keep guard over the bomb In case anyone walked into it, and more people had to be evacuat. ed from surrounding premises. At Bow Street Police Court, Leighton-Morris discovered to the tune of £ 100 that heroism is not always appreciated. He had plead | ed guilty to contravening a police order by removing an unexploded bomb.
"I am afraid I lost my hend. I saw the bomb and just carried it out on the spur of the moment," be pleaded.
REJECTED
BY ARMY
---HERO
Rejected by the Army and registered as Grade III because he is stone deaf in one ear, a man has just been awarded one of the highest honours that can be won by a civilian.
He is Auxilary Fireman Lewis Jack Watts, aged twenty-icur, of Bath Road Bristol, who has been awarded the George Mcdal,
A GRAND LIFE
Once the highest paid showgirl in the world, Jessie Reed died penniless. and alone in Chicago.
"I've lived a grand life," she said on her last trip to the hos pital she was not unhappy in her poverty and did not regret the loss of fame and fortune.
Miss Reed, once most glamor- ous of the Ziegfeld Follies, was
43 whan she died.
Her last year with Ziegfeld was 1924, when she was earning £100 a week, Eleven years later, when the Ziegfeld Club of Chicago was organised, she was found destitute In a £1-a-week robm, ill, behind with her rent and applying for relief.
Newspaper accounts of her cir- cumstances brought her a chance to earn a few dollars with occas- ional night club engagements, but her long illness and poverty made her too weak to recoup her losses. Miss Reed, who Was married live times, received news before she died that her daughter, who has won two beauty contests, had already started on the road to fame that she herself had travelled.
HOW TO WIN THE
WAR
"THE ONLY WAY WE
ARE
GOING TO WIN THIS WAR IS TO HIT THE HUN AND ITALIAN
IN GERMANY AND IN ITALY HARDER THAN THEY CAN HIT U.S." LORD TRENCHARD SAID.
"Kill the Hun pnd the Italian in their own country and not 301 someone else's.
During a recent fire in which Bristol firemen were engaged. Watts lune held back an ad- | don. vancing wall of flome with one hose until more water could be brought up.
By staying at his post he gave his comrades time to save them selves by rushing back out ol
of the flames to reach fresh pupply of water.
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Felt Ashamed
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"I was rather ashamed when the Army turned me down, I always carry my medical card to show people, who tell me I ought to be a soldier," he told a re- porter.
"It seems funny that I should have won a decoration when I thought there was little hope of my making good owing to my disability."
"It is intolerable that any
While he was on duty at a fire private individual should be at his leg was injured and he was lowed to meddle with a bomb taken to hospital, where he re- in this way," rebuked the ma-mained for several weeks, under- gistrate, Mr. Fry, adding: "You going a minor operation, He did acted with extraordinary cour not know at the time that his age and coolness, but no person, wife, who is expecting her first other than those In authority, baby, had been bombed while can be allowed to decide in alone at their home. what part of London a delayed action bomb should go off."
"I'm Just Casual"
Inspector Blankin said Leigh- ton-Morris had been of assistance to the police on previous occa- sions. He tried to join the Police War Reserve but was rejected on health grounds.
Sald Leighton-Morris rueful- ly: "The A.R.P. wardens told me I had done a grand job-but the police thought otherwise.
"I'm not brave--just casual," he udded.
SIX-FOOT TUBE TIED TO GASSED WIDOW
Mrs. Helen Harriet Brown, fifty-one. widow, of Windsor- terrace, East Ham, who was found dead in her bedroom from gaa poisoning. had a paper tube Øft. long stitched and tied round her shoulders by tape.
At the other end was a 15in. -rubber tube leading to a gas jet,
which was turned on.
At the Walthamstow inquest a verdict was recorded that. Mrs. Brown took her life while tha balance of her mind was dis- turbed
IDENTITY DISCS
FOR ALL
"Lewis hopes our baby will be a boy and not a girl, as he thinks he will appreciate the medal more." Mrs. Watts said.
A CLOCK
IS MUCH NICER!
Kidderminster, Worces-
tershire, has a new school.
And because the school is to be. used by boys and girls, the archi- tects thought an appropriate sym- hol would be the figures of a boy and girl carved on the walls.
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And they decided to do the Joh proud. They put up two figures in the Epstein styla nude figures, too..
But the Education Committee weren't standing for that. The figures are to come down.
That was easy. It was more difficult to think of something to put in their place. Then someone had an Inspiration. Why not strike quite à' new note and have a big, clock? Much more.sultable.
Says the chairman of the com- mittee, Mr. Harry Cheshire: "I 'Mr. Herbert Morrison stated in see nothing wrong with the a written Parliamentary ·· reply | figures, and wish they could_co- that the issuing of identification | main."
Say the critics: “One
discs to the civilian population figure looks deformed, and the mwas already under, examination, « Jothen. Uike an imbecile" in vij maan pa
He was speaking at the Uni- lever "Bomber" Juncheon in Lon- A cheque for £20,000 has been sent to Lord Beaverbrook by th employees and management of Lever Brothers to provide at bomber. Lord Trenchard hand-
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Mr. R. B. Bennet, of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, a cheque for a further £16,000.
"BRITAIN