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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 18, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
JEFF, YOU JUST GOT TO SQUARE ME WITH THE SWEET WOMAN!· I'M BROKE!
DON'T YOU
WORRY, MUTT! I'LL FIX EVERYTHING!
FINE! JUST KINDA BUILD ME UP! YOU KNOW-MAKE HER THINK THERE'S NOBODY IN THE WORLD LIKE MUTT!
SURE!
BUT, MRS. MUTT, MUTT'S REALLY NOT A BAD GUY! IN FACT, I THINK HE'S GREAT AND HE THINKS YOUR A SWELL WIFE! WHY DON'T YOU LET HIM COME HOME?
NIX!
·Ellware Site
WELL, WHAT DID. SHE SAY? IS SHE GONNA TAKE ME BACK? DID SHE FALL.
FOR YOUR LINE?
YEH,BUT NOT UNTIL I TOLD HER ABOUT
THE FUR COAT
YOURE GONNA
*~9) BUY FOR,
HER!
FUR COAT? I DIDN'T SAY I WAS GONNA
BUY HER
A FOR COAT!
I KNOW BUT I HAD TO
TELL HER
SOMETHING
TO MAKE HER GIVE IN!
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By BUD FISHER
YES, GENTLEMEN?
HE WANTS TO BUY A FUR
COAT FOR A
·LADY!
TIME PAYMENT ARRAN
BURROWED 20 PEOPLE BARGAINS
TO SAFETY
THIS CHAP WAS a one-man rescue party. He should have the George Cross, at least. have saved the lives of at least twenty people.”
He must
That is what they are saying in a West town about Corporal T. Einboden, a Canadian with the R.A.F., for his heroism when a row of houses was de- molished in a raid on this purely residential town.
Corporal Einboden
together by the weight of de structor at a camp in the North. bris, While
Corporal Einboden wriggled travelled to the West to see hus, free and tunnelled a narrow way fiancee, Doris Ford
on
week-end
#n
leave he
On the way he ran into the night blitz
Bristol. оп
so he halted there and spent the night tackling Incendiary bombs,
Next day he went on to meet hus flancre, who lives in another West town He had not been in her home long when a new bhlz began.
Squeezing seven membērs of the Ford
fiancee's) fundy, his friend, Iris Gundry, and him self into a small cavity under the stairs, he told them funny stories while bombs whistled overhead and tremendous explosions shook the house.
MADE BY BOMB
Bombed-out Londoners were busy buying "bomb bargains" when the win- ter sales started.
Women stormed Oxford Street to replenish homes and wardrobes ut cut prices with goods salvaged from shops which have also suf- fered in the blitz.
through the rubble.
Selfridge's has a special ser- vice for the bombed-out. An For nearly two hours he bur- rowed through the debris
worried custo. and
expert advises
lost their all eventually he
mers who have wormed his way into the open.
and have only a little money to make a fresh start with fur- nishing and clothes.
Then he crawled back, widen. ing his little tunnel here and there, and passed the cight trapped members of the party out to the rescue men. "Not one
of the women even whimpered,” he told a reporter.
Rescue party
said that when Einboden had seen his party safe he went back to the ruing and began looking for survivors from adjoining houses.
Inga
say.
If you bave,
£5 and nothing else in the world, you can tell this efficient adviser, who will do all your worrying for you.
Patchwork carpets. blankets or coats, seem to be the feature of this winter's rald bargains, While the regular rescue par-
One housewife bought a carpet ties were busy all round him.. And then came a big bomb. he continued to make his little which had a large hole burnt right unheralded by a whistle, and the tunnels throughout the night until, to patch it with a mat of contrast- through the centre. She is going
whole row of houses collapsed. as dawn was breaking. he was
ing colour. The party was trapped in the on the verge of collapse and had tiny space, all pressed tightly to be taken from the scene.
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Patch Frocks
Dress material, too. going cheap becaused it has been damaged, will see Miss 1941 dressed in bright gay patches.
Bargain hunters are thoughtful than they were.
more
"They nearly all bring their shopping baskets with them, which helps to save paper," said one shopkeeper. "Of course, in the old days this wasn't consider- ed good taste," and he smiled.
There was a bit of a scram- ble at stocking stalls, but there seemed to be plenty of stockings even at 16 11 d. There was a big demand for |make-up. too, and nail varnish. But it was the men who were buy- ing nail varnish-for their shoes.
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