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TWO NURSES who were lowered in pitch dark- ness through a grating only eighteen inches wide into a cellar where six people lay buried in wreckage have been recommended for decorations.
They are Sister Elsie Stevens and Sister V. Frampton, of a Bristol hospital. They hurried through the blitz in their starched aprons and tin hats.
They braved bombs and Shrapnel to reach their patients. but their only fear was rata among the wreckage.
The house had come down on the cellar.
The marses, Jowered feet first) through the grating, found two mall children with their grand- mother buried under the rubble.
Helped by the rescue sqund, they freed them alive, although bumbs were falling near.
MONTAGU
NORMAN TO RETIRE?
Forecasting the pro- bable retirement next
JUST TWO year of Mr. Montagu
-2
LADs
The doctor at the medical ex- anali poked his head round the waiting-room. “L. Daviess next," he calfed And ng men in the waiting- sood up:
A
A. DAVIES and L. A. DAVIES
So the doctor louked at his list. "All right." he said. "It's Leo- And the Then crawled over the head of hard Arthur I want.” a bed to reach a woman,
two young men took one pare for- ward-
Only a piece of her coat was
•howing, but they managed to eut this away and give her an in- jection,
A Woman's Job "We were there for about four hours," Sister Stevens told "only Coming up at intervals for airi and to send messages to the hospital for tea, torches and mor- phia.
reporter,
"It was difficult to work in the darkness and with choking dust and gas about."
.
LEONARD ARTHUR DAVIES
LEONARD ARTHUR DAVIES it out," said "Let's sort
the doctor. "Which of you was born in 19212
and
LEONARD
"That's me," said two young men together: - LEONARD ARTHUR DAVIES BORN 1921.
and
ARTHUR DAVIES BORN 1921.
It was decided to call them by their addresses.
Now these "twin namesakes" want to fight Hitler side by side. Both want to go into the Army.
L.A.D. No. 1, who was twenty
Norman as Governor of the Bank of Eng- land, "The Economist" states: "There is noth- ing in the Charter of the bank or in the low of the land that com- pels a Governor to re- tire on reaching seventy; nevertheless the probability is that in less than twelve months a new name will
in appear
the Court's nomination."
IN LOCKED
BATHROOM
A young soldier cited as on April 1, lives and works with co-respondent in a divorce no job his mother in a doctor's house in suit recently, was said to
At daybreak a woman doctor took over from the nurses. "We told her it was for women, but she would nut let us call a man." said a worker. "We rigged up a piece of cor- rugated iron over the buried woman's head to protect her as we triext to free her legs and the Worriak doctor crawled in and gave her an anesthetic.
"We got the
woman out alive after several hours, during which the doctor waited beside under our improvised shelter with rubble falling all round.'
POLICE SEEK "VAMPIRE"
A
her
Devonshire-place, W.1.
in
LA.D. No. 2, who will be have been in a locked
in October, lives twenty
bathroom with a woman Creighton Road, N.W., and works at a West-End store.
twenty years his senior.
WIPED OUT
IMMORALITY
a
He was Mr. Robert A, Walker, aged twenty-one, now Lon- lagce.corporal in the don Scottish, of Elmfield Road, Gosforth, Newcastle, and of the petitioner's former honorary colonel. Lieutenant-Colonel
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William Swales, formerly a timber importer. of Framlington- Newcastle, charged his Dorothy Jane Graham, with committing adultery with Mr. Walker at Bywell Castle, Bywell, near Newcastle.
Conduct offending Anderson against morals and pro- place. priety has almost ceased wife, in air raid shelters, says the annual report of the Public Morality Council.
.
in cooperation the Press.
alert
The allegations were denied.
Mrs. Lieutenant-Colonel and Swales were married in February, 1920, and have six children.
Mr. Justice Henn Collins said he had no doubt that Mr. Walker his bathroom in was in the
Mrs. Swales pyjamas and that
a nightdress with was there in her coat over it.
an
mind.
"In the early days of bomb- ing," the report goes on, "a pro- blem was developing which might have had calamitous consequen- ces if steps had not been taken to deal with it. Frequently, in som" districts, shelters were being, used homicidal maniac, for immoral purposes during the
But these things, when inter- like the Dusseldorf "Vam-all-clear periods.
could "The Council,
and added to, changed pire", whose crimes with the police and
which the ser- make up that vants deposed to, prompted by stirred Germany some ten helped to secure the appointment
Inordinately suspicious years ago, or a terrorist of men and women police to sup-
the ervise shelters during
The evidence of Mrs. Swales gang is thought to be at and all-clear periods, and offen-
carried the co-respondent work in the district of sive conduct has almost ceased to and
conviction. exist." Abbeville, in northern
The Judge dismissed the peti- During the past year the Coun-
night clubs or tion and the to-respondent from France, where death in cil reported 87
"bottle parties" to the police and the sult, with costs. mysterious circumstances there were 61 convictions. has claimed 13 victims, Greatly due to their efforts, bot- tle parties and gambling clubs had according to a dispatch to largely disappeared. The police the Vichy news agency. and the military authorities clos- A flying squad of the police is ed large numbers of them in one husy investigating the latest de- short period of most Intensive velopments in a remarkable action, adds the report,
drama of crime which culminated
in the disappearance of a middle-
aged workman from his home PRIVATE INQUEST ON
Abbeville.
in
The first victims of this series
.
of crimes were two young people AMBASSADOR'S SON
whose bodies were found in the
POLICE MAY FLY TO DEFEND LONDON
London policemen who join the
RAF may be formed into an air
sqund of their own solely for the defence of London.
Hundreds of them, uniformed and plain-clothed, have volunteer- river last November; an autopsy An inquest was held in private ed since Sir Philip Game, Com- revealed that they had been murat Oxford recently on North missioner of the Metropolitan dered before being thrown into Knatchbull - Hugessen, whose Follce, announced that he would releasing those who death was reported at Oxford on consider
wished to join the R.AF Another couple were found dead) March 26..
the river.
in their flat, where the table had Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen was Police volunteers wishing to been laid for a meal.
the only son of Sir Hughe Knatchbecome pilots must be under thirty-one, observers under thirty- A few days later the body of an bull-Hugessen, British Ambase. For the Fleet Air Arm the elderly man was found in a well, andor to Turkey. and later a young postal employee He was with his father for a age limit is twenty-eight. was found dead in the rivor. time when Sir Hughe was "Am- The men who have already Another possible victim was a bassador to China. He left for applied as air crew, for the RAF. woman who died of a mysterious England Just before his father was want to be formed into an air illness while on the way to a hos- seriously wounded by bullets squad of their own to be trained |gital Bouter hull bollente from a Japanese plane for the defence of London.