THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 6, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
HERES YOUR UNIFORM!
NEXT!
SIZE THIRTY ITWO! CAN I HAVE A PAIR OF BOOTS?
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HEY, YOU SHRIMP!. I SAID ATTENTION! YOU'RE STANDING
AT EASE!
OH, NOSIR!
I'M STANDIN AT
Bv BUD FISHER
IT'S MY UNIFORM THAT'S STANDING
AT EASE!
HUMAN "PROP" SAVES ELEVEN
ACTING AS A human pillar, a London air-raid warden stood for four hours supporting a beani which held up tons of debris. His courage and endurance enabled eleven people trapped in wreck- ed buildings to be rescued.
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Warden George William Smith, 6ft. 11⁄2in. tall his mates call him Lofty of Stoke Newington Common, N.16, has been awarded the British Empire Medal.
Though gas was escaping for treated until everyone else had hours he stayed in the one posi-[been made comfortable. tion. at the same time handing In the same hospital out bowlfuls of debris to make tioner space for rescuers.
When Lof'y isn't on duty as warden be's # -abourer, He 31, the father of three children,
Proba-
Nurse Veronica Agnes Clancy helped to find and carry injured children from the wreck aage although she was suffering is from a severe scalp wound. She gets the British Empire Medal.
Another woman doctor to re- Brave Woman Doctor ceive the George Medal is Dr.
Hannah Billig of Stepney.
The George Medal
goe: to 21 woman doctor, buried up to her neck in bomb wreckage, who continued to give medical treat- ment
injured patients and to casualties. She is Dr. Alison Jean McNairn, assistant medical; officer of Plymouth General Hos- pital.
She was working in the pital when it was hit. She fused to have her
LIFEBOAT FOUND A BULLOCK
The Royal National Institution has awarded
Lifeboat
£9 to
MISSED
A ROYAL
MATINEE
Real life Cinderella is Olivia Ford, pretty blonde London show girl. Olivia was the only one of the cast of "Black Vanities,” George Black's £50,000 re- vue, not to meet the King and Queen and the two princesses.
Four hundred soldiers saw the show with the royal party.
Olivia, convalescent after an appendix operation, returned to work at night—just too late for the Royal Command matinee. "I am terribly disappointed," she said, "but I do feel I played a little part by lending my stock- ings to a girl who had used up all her coupons."
Olivia's colleagues are to pre- the sent her with a picture of King and Queen.
Princesses Sing
The King asked the girls how clothing they managed about coupona. "It must be very dit. ficult to make your stockings las:," he told
them. one of "Much more difficult for you girls than wa men.”
each of the crew at Barra Island
"Our two little hos- for going out to what was thought
re-
to be an aeroplane in the sea. own injuries was the carcase of a bullock.
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girls enjoyed the show just as much as we did." The princesses -Joined with the soldiers in community singing and roared with laughter.
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A cabbage was one of the things the King got In a pro- duction number in which Fran- cis Day presents flowers and novelties to her audience. "The Royal Family shook hands and spoke to everyone in show," said Bud Flanagan, after his sixth Command performance with his partner, Chesney Allen. "None of the girls knew when we were going, for the manage- ment kept it a secret. Ches and I told them we were going to enter- tain Hess-Oi!"
The Queen asked Bud about his son, 16, who is also in the show. When told he was determined to join the R.A.F, on his next birth-. day, the Queen said, "Yes, they
all want to do that, don't they?"
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